Draft:National Archives Release of UAP/UFO Records

1. Cigar shaped UAP by Air Force Office of Special Investigations released on October 23, 2024.

The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) is a series of bipartisan bills passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Biden on December 22, 2023. This legislation mandated the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to assemble a comprehensive UAP Collection consisting of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) data. The UAPDA was introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (NDAA FY24).

The long title of the NDAA FY24 is:

An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

The UAPDA was enacted by the 118th United States Congress and became Public Law 118-31.

Image 1. is a Cigar Shaped UAP object that was one of the good Images released by the National Recently on October 23.

Deadline for UAP Record Release

The current deadline for the release of all publicly releasable UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) records by U.S. federal agencies is September 30, 2025. These records, identified by October 2024, must be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in digital format. This requirement comes from the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which mandated the creation of a UAP Records Collection to store and provide public access to such data. NARA encourages agencies to submit these records as early as possible, rather than waiting until the final deadline.

Some Good Quality UAP Photos

2. Close Image of An UAP by Air Force Office of Special Investigations

On October 23, an overwhelming amount of images of UAPs/UFOs records were released for years 1948 – 1968 from Air Force Office of Special Investigations. It consisted of various ungrainy images, close images, and some crashed recovered metallic debris was on it. [These are part of the files of Records of Investigations of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) Relating to the Office of Special Investigations, 1948–1968, link: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45484701] These black and white images are available on these website:

1. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/446391567
2. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/330788875
3. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/330788969
4. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/446392145
5. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/446393146

3. Close Image of Flying Saucer by Air Force Office of Special Investigations

The good quality close up image (image 3.) of Flying Saucer was captured October 21, 1949 on Roswell, NM. It was one out of 2 images captured that day.

4. October 16, 1958 on Newark, Ohio.

Some Recovered Materials

Along with the good quality UAP images, there were also some images of recovered metallic debris.

Image 4. shows one of the three images of metallic derbies recovered on October 16, 1958 on Newark, Ohio. More images of this are available on https://catalog.archives.gov/id/330788969?objectPage=69.