Stories

Seven US presidents have spoken publicly about UFOs. One was allegedly briefed on Roswell, another demanded congressional hearings as a congressman, a third saw something himself. Together a pattern emerges - and a question that can no longer be ignored.

The astronomer hired by the U.S. Air Force to debunk UFO sightings - and who along the way became their most important critic.

In 1989 Bob Lazar claimed he had worked on reverse-engineering projects involving extraterrestrial craft at S-4. His story has split the UFO community ever since - and shapes the disclosure wave more than any other.

How a secret Pentagon program launched modern UAP disclosure — from Senator Reid's initiative to congressional hearings.

How an intelligence officer challenged the Pentagon — and informed the world about hidden UAP programs.

The first globally known abduction story — how a couple from New Hampshire experienced an encounter in 1961 that changed UFO research forever.

December 1980, a British forest, US soldiers at a NATO nuclear weapons base encounter an unknown object. Three nights, official memos, binary code, 16 years of silence — Europe's best-documented military case.

On September 16, 1994, 62 schoolchildren in Zimbabwe saw the same object at the edge of their playground. No adult was present. A BBC team filmed the same day, an African UFO researcher came over the weekend, a Harvard psychiatrist flew in from Boston. What did the children say?

On January 20, 1996, three young women in the small Brazilian town of Varginha see a brown creature in the undergrowth. What follows is Latin America's most disputed military UFO retrieval - including the mysterious death of a soldier involved.

In January 1953 the CIA convened five scientists to assess UFO sightings. After five days they issued a recommendation that shaped seventy years of secrecy policy: the phenomenon was no threat — but public discussion of it was. UFOs should be systematically debunked. The report became the foundation of the cover-up.

From November 1989 through April 1990, thousands of Belgians reported triangular craft in the sky - among them dozens of police officers. The Belgian Air Force scrambled F-16s, captured radar contacts, and did something unprecedented: publicly stood by what it could not explain.

In Montana, March 1967, ten Minuteman missiles lose launch readiness simultaneously while security personnel reports a red light above the base. The episode stays classified for three decades - until veterans speak up.