UAP Timeline
The following timeline—last updated on July 27, 2023—attempts to chronicle major UAP/UFO-related events in the United States from 1947 to the present. Event summaries are likely to be updated or revised pending further research. New entries may be added to reflect the unfolding of current events.
1947JUN24
American aviator and later politician Kenneth Albert Arnold reports the first post-World War II sighting of an "unidentified flying object" (UFO) in the U.S., claiming to have observed nine "shiny" objects flying in tandem at speeds of approximately 1,932 km/h near Mount Rainier, Washington. [Ref.]
1947JUL08–1947JUL09
United States Air Force (USAF) personnel contacts the Associated Press on July 8th to report that they recovered debris from a crashed "flying disc" near Roswell, New Mexico. The U.S. Army retracts the press release on July 9th and publicly announces that the debris recovered were pieces of a weather balloon kite. [Ref.]
1948JAN01–1949APR27
The USAF initiates "Project SIGN" for the purpose of systematically studying UFO phenomena to assess their threat to national security—entailing the collection, evaluation, and dissemination within the government of related data. [Ref.]
1949AUG10–1949DEC27
The USAF initiates "Project GRUDGE" for the purpose of alleviating public fears concerning UFO phenomena. [Ref.]
1952MAR01–1969DEC17
The USAF conducts a systematic study of UFO phenomena under the code name "Project BLUEBOOK", primarily to determine their threat to national security and to scientifically analyze the associated data. [Ref.]
1952JUL12–1952JUL29
A series of UFO sightings in Washington, D.C. are reported by air traffic controllers, airline pilots, and radar center personnel at the Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base. Following these events, USAF directors hold a press conference at the Pentagon and announce that the visual sightings were misidentified aerial phenomena (e.g., stars, meteors, and unknown radar targets) caused by "temperature inversion". [Ref.]
1952JAN01–1988DEC31
The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) is founded by Jim and Coral Lorenzen for the purpose of conducting scientific field investigations of UFO incidents, largely directed by University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald and University of California, Berkeley professor James Harder. [Ref.]
1956OCT24–Present
The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) is founded by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown, USMC Maj. (Ret.) Donald Keyhoe, and USN RADM Chief (Ret.) Delmer S. Fahrney in response to a series of nationally publicized UFO incidents in the 1960s, and to conduct transparent scientific investigations of UFO phenomena while serving as an informational depository for civilian Americans and governmental agencies. [Ref.]
1966SEP
Ten intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota) are temporarily rendered unlaunchable by a bright flashing UFO hovering near the perimeter of the base, an incident that was reported by the Minot Daily News on December 6, 1966, and which was later recounted in detail by retired USAF Capt. and Minuteman ICBM launch crew commander David D. Schindele during a press conference in September 2010. [Ref. 1, Ref. 2]
1967MAR24
Ten intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the Malmstrom Air Force Base (Montana) are temporarily rendered inoperable by a glowing red UFO hovering high above the base, an incident that was reported by former USAF Capt. Robert Salas, retired USAF nuclear missile targeting officer Robert Jamison, and other former personnel during a press conference in September 2010. [Ref.]
1975OCT28–1975NOV11
The North American Air Defense Combat Operations Center (NORAD COC) receives numerous reports of bright, fast-moving UFOs hovering over nuclear missile launch sites and bomber bases, primarily from military personnel, security alert teams, and air defense staff at the Loring Air Force Base (Maine), Wurtsmith AFB (Michigan), Malmstrom AFB (Montana), Minot AFB (North Dakota), and Canadian Forces Station (Falconbridge, Ontario). The UAPs reportedly evade all pursuit efforts by USAF F‐106 interceptors. [Ref. 1, Ref. 2]
2004NOV14
USAF fighter pilots Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group attempt to engage a white Tic-Tac-shaped UFO off the coast of Southern California, which the USS Princeton (CG-59) had been tracking for two weeks prior. Fravor and Dietrich discuss the incident in detail during a 2021 interview on 60 Minutes. [Ref. 1, Ref. 2]
2007JAN01–2012DEC31
The Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) is established within The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency for the purpose of studying unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). [Ref.]
2015JAN01
NASA provides $1.1 million in funding to the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) to study the societal implications of astrobiology and how humans might react to an announcement of the discovery of life beyond Earth, the results of which were published in CTI's magazine Fresh Thinking (Issue No. 1, 2018, pages 32-45; Issue No. 2, 2019, pages 6 to 15). [Ref.]
2017JAN01–2020DEC31
The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) is established within the Office of Naval Intelligence for the purpose of standardizing, collecting, and reporting UAP sightings. [Ref.]
2020APR27
The Pentagon formally releases three videos—"FLIR", "GIMBAL", and "GOFAST"—containing footage of UAPs that were captured by infrared cockpit instrumentation displays from United States Navy (USN) fighter jets, which also records audio communications between the pursuing pilots. [Ref.]
2021APR16
The Pentagon confirms that publicly-leaked video footage and photographs of triangular and spherical UAPs were captured by USN personnel aboard the USS Russell in 2019. [Ref.]
2021JUN25
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) releases its Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which details its assessment of 144 unexplained military reports of UAP encounters between 2004 and 2021, the majority of which were registered across radar, infrared, and electro-optical sensors. [Ref.]
2021JUL26–Present
Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb launches the Galileo Project, an international scientific research effort "to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research". [Ref.]
2022JUL01–Present
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is established within the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense for the purpose of studying UAP. [Ref.]
2022OCT01–Present
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) establishes NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Independent Study Team, a panel of sixteen experts assembled for the purpose of making recommendations concerning the analysis of UAP-related data. [Ref.]
2022DEC23
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signs and enacts House bill H.R. 7776—the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA 2023)—which introduces provisions for whistleblowers reporting information concerning covert UAP programs within the U.S. government, as well as protections and exemptions to their nondisclosure orders or agreements (i.e., 50 U.S.C. § 3373b). [Ref.]
2023APR19
The Pentagon releases video footage of a metallic, spherical UAP that was captured by an MQ-9 drone in the Middle East. [Ref.]
2023JUN05
David Charles Grusch—a USAF officer and former intelligence official within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)—publically claims that (1) he was a representative to the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2021 and served as NGA’s co-liaison for UAP analysis, and (2) that he submitted extensive classified information to Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General concerning a highly secretive UAP recovery program that is in possession of "non-human" craft and "dead pilots". [Ref.]
2023JUN27
In an exclusive interview with NewsNation Washington correspondent Joe Khalil, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio states that most of the individuals who have come forward to share their first-hand knowledge of an alleged secret UAP retrieval program within the U.S. government "have held very high clearances and high positions within our government", but are "fearful of their jobs, fearful of their clearances, fearful of their career", and in some cases, "fearful of harm coming to them". [Ref.]
2023JUL15
The U.S. Senate approves the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act, which declares that "All federal government records concerning Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (government-derived word for UFO) should carry a presumption of immediate disclosure", and which is intended to expedite the disclosure of UAP-related records being held by governmental agencies. [Ref.]
2023JUL26
The U.S. Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hold a hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency", during which former USN pilot Ryan Graves, retired USN Cmdr. David Fravor, and retired USAF Maj. David Grusch testify under oath to their encounters with UAP and their knowledge of an alleged covert UAP-retrieval program being funded by the U.S. government. [Ref.]
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The main worker of the prize corner and local reptile/Gatorland fanatic, Tammi Chevrolet! She's so fun 2 dress up 2.
MAIN REF:
Tammi is an Afro-French woman who's transfem, genderfluid, aceflux and pan. She uses she/her, they/them, and pep/peps pronouns. Pep is 31 years old, being born March 9, 1993. She's 6'1"/185 cm.
Noted as "COC" on all arcade machines (has all the high scores)
Memorized all OSHA books for fun and can recite them word-for-word
Can inexplicably move between different buildings and rooms through unrelated doors
Oldest (twin) of 5+ siblings!
Sometimes sneaks in free prizes for the kiddins
Has some kind of healing aura!
Head of the Lost-and-Found
Encyclopedic knowledge of reptiles, ESPECIALLY crocodiles and alligators
OUTFIT REF:
Tammi looks to her left with their arms swayed to their sides. Their vitiligo patches are more visible, persisting on her face, arms, and torso.
[Base]
Their hair is dyed yellow, but their roots still show!
This is all one big poof
Wears different hairstyles, btw! Usually if put up, she has it in a big ponytail/bun
Likes painting their nails different colors
Tammi has segmental vitiligo, only persisting on peps face, torso, and arms
[Underwear]
Tammi wears Michaelangelo-themed boxers, with the band reading "MICHAELANGELO - TMNT". the main parts show the nunchuck, with the middle being a pizza slice.
Will sometimes grow scruff out. Likes it!
Not on E and doesn't wear a bra. Just underwear
TMNT briefs ftw <3 god bless.
[Casual 1]
Tammi wears a crop-top with green bands and a decal on it that reads "Gator" with a simple alligator to the side. Peps shorts have splatter patterns in pink, orange, and light blue. Pep also wears pink sandals with rainbow bands. Their accessories are shark tooth earrings and a green band bracelet with a hook.
Tammi wears quirky jewelry!!! Mostly matches with her outfit, but not always
Pep likes to get silly with it!! Common theme for some are reptiles
Usually wears shorts more than skirts
[Casual 2]
Tammi wears a collared, blue shirt with a yellow collar, cloud pattern on the bottom, and a sun decal. They also wear a green, tasselled skirt, worm-patterned legging, and dirt patterned boots. Peps jewelry are egg earrings and a flamingo slap bracelet.
Their clothes are comfy and free! Very colorful as well
Shoewear is rarely plain- usually has some kind of design on it
[Work]
Tammi wears peps shirt tucked in
Soda tab bracelet!!!!
Alternates between shorts and skirt
Seatbelt belt!
These can light up by the way
[PJs]
Tammi wears a blue bonnet with bubble patterns, as well as a long shirt that reads, "Is it Sexy? Osha compliant? Petty?"
Usually wears (patterned) bonnets! Also wears it casually sometimes
Sleepwear consists of night gowns and graphic t-shirts with boxers
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Something That's Ours
written for the carry on countdown, day 6: vine/meme reference
Rating: T
Word Count: 1665
Summary: Baz takes Simon to his family estate so he can stretch his wings. Simon wants to show Baz the stars.
Snippet:
SIMON
We’re walking the grounds of Baz’s family estate when we see them.
I almost think they’re birds at first, but then they’re fluttering above us in the dusk and I realize they aren’t birds at all.
I point to the sky. “It’s freakin’ bats!”
Baz nearly jumps out of his skin. I snort at him; I can’t help it. He’s trying to sneer—I’d know that look anywhere after sharing a room with it for seven years—but it slowly turns up at the corners of his mouth until he’s smiling at me proper.
“Vine quotes aren’t a personality, Snow,” he says, but there’s no venom in it. No venom, and he’s reaching down to lace our fingers together.
It’s good, to hold hands with Baz. To be here together. To be together, full stop. It’s easy again, being with him, and getting easier by the day, now that everything’s behind us.
I squeeze his hand with mine. “It’d be sort of funny, wouldn’t it? If you turned into a bat? Y’know, like in Normal films.”
“Funny is a way to put it.”
“Bet you’d make a cute bat, Baz. Also I could carry you ‘round in my pocket—”
“You’d likely forget I was in there—”
“I could put on one of those shirts you’re always trying to get me to wear—the ones with the chest pockets and the buttons—”
“A button-up—?”
“—You could take a nap in there. In the pocket. Or. Baz. We could fly together, you and me. If you were a bat, y’know?” When I glance at him, his lips are quirked up at the side. It makes me smile, too.
“That’s completely preposterous, Snow,” he says, but he’s still smiling. He’s soft, Baz is, underneath it all. I love it. I love being the one who gets to see it.
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