Record 058 · April 2019 (publicly confirmed)
U.S. Navy UAP reporting guidelines
U.S. Navy · United States
Ledger illustration of the record — not a scan of the original paper. — Night Ledger illustration of the file
MemoUnclassified
In 2019 the U.S. Navy stated that it had updated unclassified reporting guidelines for unidentified aerial phenomena. The point, as the service put it, was that pilots should file what they saw. The guidelines did not say the objects were extraterrestrial. They said the reports should exist.
That paper sits behind the later Pentagon videos and the ODNI preliminary assessment. It is procedure, unclassified, and a decision that silence was no longer the rule.
Public file: U.S. Navy public affairs / later DoD confirmation
