Claims

The key claims in the UAP / NHI debate, each with everyone on file who has said it, in order, how they know, and the evidence for and against.

• The U.S. government has deliberately spread false or misleading information about UFOs (Supported by records, 37 statements)
• The U.S. holds recovered craft of non-human origin and runs a secret program to reverse-engineer them (Disputed, 75 statements)
• The 2004 Nimitz “Tic Tac” flew in ways no known aircraft can (Open, 23 statements)
• The objects Navy F/A-18 crews tracked off the U.S. East Coast in 2014–15 were not conventional aircraft, drones or balloons (Disputed, 20 statements)
• Brazilian firefighters and soldiers captured non-human beings in Varginha in January 1996, and the U.S. flew them out of Brazil (Disputed, 24 statements)
• A craft of non-human origin crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, and the military recovered it (Disputed, 35 statements)
• A UFO shut down nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in March 1967 (Disputed, 23 statements)
• UAP show a recurring interest in nuclear weapons sites, at times interfering with the weapons (Open, 13 statements)
• A craft of unknown origin landed in Rendlesham Forest, beside RAF Woodbridge, in December 1980 (Open, 15 statements)
• The U.S. has recovered the bodies of non-human beings from crashed craft (Disputed, 42 statements)
• Close encounters with UAP have physically injured people (Open, 16 statements)
• Programs dealing with UAP have been hidden from congressional oversight (Disputed, 30 statements)
• Recovered alien craft were studied at Area 51, at a site called S-4 near Groom Lake in Nevada (Disputed, 13 statements)
• The Brazilian Air Force's Operação Prato team saw and photographed structured craft of unknown origin over Colares in 1977 (Open, 12 statements)
• An object of unknown origin disabled the weapons and instruments of Iranian F-4 jets over Tehran in September 1976 (Open, 9 statements)
• A huge craft of unknown origin paced Japan Airlines flight 1628 over Alaska in November 1986 (Disputed, 8 statements)
• Large silent triangular craft of unknown origin flew over Belgium in 1989–90, tracked by Air Force radar and F-16s (Disputed, 9 statements)
• Betty and Barney Hill were taken aboard a non-human craft in New Hampshire in September 1961 (Open, 8 statements)
• A craft of unknown origin came down near Westall High School in Melbourne in April 1966, watched by some 200 students and teachers (Open, 8 statements)
• The targets tracked by radar and seen over RAF Lakenheath and Bentwaters in August 1956 were craft of unknown origin (Open, 7 statements)
• AATIP was an official Pentagon UAP program, and Luis Elizondo ran it (Disputed, 6 statements)
• The objects a pilot met over the Eglin range in January 2023 were craft no human could have built (Disputed, 6 statements)
• The U.S. government's official UAP investigations have found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial or non-human technology (Supported by records, 3 statements)
• Unidentified drones or craft entered the airspace over Langley Air Force Base night after night in December 2023, and the military has not identified them (Supported by records, 8 statements)
• Children at Ariel School in Zimbabwe saw a craft land and non-human beings in September 1994 (Open, 7 statements)
• The Calvine photographs of August 1990 show a large craft of unknown origin (Open, 6 statements)
• An unacknowledged special access program called Immaculate Constellation collects UAP imagery and sensor data (Disputed, 4 statements)
• A craft of non-human origin came down near Magenta, Italy, in 1933, and Mussolini's government recovered it (Open, 3 statements)