Chronology

19692026

Every dated incident in the archive, plotted in sequence. Move from Apollo's lunar anomalies to last year's Western US field investigations along a single thread of declassified time.

Decades
  1. 19691960s
    1969
    mission transcript·NASA

    Apollo 12 Mission Transcript

    Real-time Apollo 12 transcript excerpts covering reported lights and drifting particles in the dark quadrant, alongside an onboard display anomaly later discussed with mission control as a likely EMI-related event.

    NASA Apollo & Skylab Missions1 files
  2. 1969
    mission imagery·NASA

    Apollo 12 Anomalous Light Stills (1969)

    Annotated Apollo 12 still images highlighting bright points, streaks, and clustered lights against black sky and above the lunar horizon. The visuals align with transcript references to drifting particles, flashes, and other luminous objects seen during the mission.

    NASA Apollo & Skylab Missions5 files
  3. 19721970s
    1972
    mission transcript·NASA

    Apollo 17 Mission Transcript

    Operational Apollo 17 communications discussing bright tumbling fragments after separation and a distant object that appeared to flash or rotate, preserving the observation in raw mission chatter rather than a later interpretive debrief.

    NASA Apollo & Skylab Missions1 files
  4. 1972
    mission imagery·NASA

    Apollo 17 Annotated Lunar-Sky Still (1972)

    Annotated Apollo 17 imagery focusing on a single bright object above the lunar horizon. Unlike the denser Apollo 12 image group, this still isolates one luminous target and pairs it with mission-transcript context about flashing or rotating objects observed during flight.

    NASA Apollo & Skylab Missions1 files
  5. 19731970s
    1973
    crew debriefing·NASA

    Skylab 1/2 and 1/3 Technical Crew Debriefings

    Skylab debriefings recording recurring light flashes, streaks, and visual spots that crews compared against cosmic-particle effects and conditions such as the South Atlantic Anomaly. The same document also preserves a longer visual track of a bright reddish object in a similar orbit that was tentatively described as satellite-like but never fully explained in the debrief.

    NASA Apollo & Skylab Missions1 files
  6. 19851980s
    Jan 1985
    diplomatic cable·Papua New Guinea·State Department

    Papua New Guinea Incident (January 1985)

    Cold War Era Diplomatic Cables2 files
  7. 19941990s
    Jan 1994
    diplomatic cable·Kazakhstan·State Department

    Kazakhstan Incident (January 1994)

    Post-Soviet era incident near Kazakhstan

    Cold War Era Diplomatic Cables2 files
  8. 20002000s
    Feb 2000
    operation summary·DOW - CENTCOM

    Launch Summary (2000)

    Middle East Operations Campaign1 files
  9. 20162010s
    Nov 2016
    mission report·Syria·DOW - CENTCOM

    Syria Operations (November 2016)

    Middle East Operations Campaign1 files
  10. 20202020s
    Jul 2020
    mission report·Arabian Gulf·DOW - CENTCOM

    Arabian Gulf Operations (July 2020)

    Middle East Operations Campaign4 files
  11. Aug 2020
    mission report·Persian Gulf·DOW - CENTCOM

    Persian Gulf Region (August 2020)

    Middle East Operations Campaign4 files
  12. Sep 2020
    mission report·Strait of Hormuz·DOW - CENTCOM

    Strait of Hormuz Incidents (Sept-Oct 2020)

    Middle East Operations Campaign4 files
  13. Nov 2020
    mission report·Iran·DOW - CENTCOM

    Iran Border Incident (November 2020)

    Middle East Operations Campaign2 files
  14. 20242020s
    2024
    report·Various·DOW

    Initial Report 11

    Initial UAP Assessment & Composites2 files
  15. 2024
    report·Various·DOW

    Initial Report 12

    Initial UAP Assessment & Composites2 files
  16. 2024
    report·Various·DOW

    Initial Report 13

    Initial UAP Assessment & Composites2 files
  17. 2024
    visual composite·Various·DOW

    Composite Sketch (April 2024)

    Visual representation from April 30, 2024 sighting

    Initial UAP Assessment & Composites2 files
  18. 20252020s
    Dec 2025
    field photographs·Western United States·FBI

    Photographic Evidence Series (December 2025)

    Infrared and thermal imaging of unidentified objects

    Western United States Field Investigation16 files
  19. 20262020s
    May 2026
    presentation slides·Western United States·DOW

    Event Slides & Summary Presentation

    Western US Regional Event Summary2 files