Night Ledger

Record 059 · 13 August 2024 (open session)

Senate Armed Services UAP hearing

U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services · United States

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HearingUnclassified

On 13 August 2024 a Senate Armed Services subcommittee held an open hearing on UAP. AARO leadership and other officials testified in unclassified session about reporting, the historical review, and claims of crash retrieval. In open session the office again said it had not verified extraterrestrial technology or non-human biologics.

Closed session followed, as it often does. This catalogue files the open transcript: what was said on the record about alleged entities, including the official denial. Testimony is not a recovered being.

Public file: U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing record

Related paper

FOIA / archiveUnclassified

2023–2025

Records from the Office of the Secretary of Defense Relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, October 1, 2023–2025

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) / Office of the Secretary of Defense · United States

This Record Group 615 collection at the National Archives aggregates declassified and unclassified U.S. government records on UAP, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence (explicitly excluding ordinary non-attributed objects), produced in response to the 2024 NDAA.

FOIA / archiveDeclassified

August 2026

PURSUE Release 05: Declassified UAP Files (August 2026 tranche)

Department of Defense / Department of War · United States

Fifth tranche of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), releasing 41 additional files including historical documents from 1953 onward, videos of orbs and spheres, digital renderings, and investigative PDFs from FBI, DoD, and other agencies. Materials cover global sightings and analyses but attribute most to explainable phenomena or unresolved due to limited da

FOIA / archiveDeclassified

August 2026

PURSUE Release 05 (August 2026 UAP Files)

Department of Defense · United States

This tranche of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) releases additional historical and modern UAP-related documents, imagery, and sensor data from multiple agencies as part of a rolling declassification effort. Materials include reports of orb-like phenomena, sensor data from military platforms, and archival records. Consistent with other PURSUE releases and