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Timeline of Ufology

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This is a timeline of key events in the ostensible study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Note that ufology is not an academic subject and what constitutes the "study" of UFOs can vary from serious inquiry into the social, political, and religious phenomena which surround the belief in UFOs to pseudoscientific pronouncements and the fraudulent claims of hoaxers.

20th century

2000s

  • 2002 April - David Clarke and Andy Roberts published their book Out of the Shadows: UFOs, the Establishment and Official Cover-Up, where they claimed that the belief in UFOs is a form of mass hysteria.[28]
  • 2004 May - A former head of GEIPAN Jean-Jacques Velasco and journalist Nicolas Montigiani published their book Ovnis: L'Evidence (UFOs: The Evidence).
  • 2007 March - The French agency GEIPAN publishes its UFO database online.[29][30][31]
  • 2007 - The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was established by the United States Department of Defense. The information was only made public in 2017.
  • 2008 January - Robert L. Hastings published the first edition of his work UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.
  • 2008 May - UK National Archives started releasing past files on UFO investigations.[32][33]
  • 2009 December - The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence closed its UFO desk.[34]

2010s

  • 2010 January - Richard M. Dolan and Bryce Zabel published their book A.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact.
  • 2010 August - Leslie Kean published her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.[35]
  • 2010 September - A press conference involving first-hand UFO witnesses was organized by Leslie Kean and others at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C..[36]
  • 2012 July - Michael D. Swords and Robert Powell published the book UFOs and Governments: A Historical Inquiry.
  • 2014 April - Nick Pope, Jim Penniston, and John Burroughs published the book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World's Best-Documented UFO Incident.
  • 2014 July - The first edition of the CAIPAN (Collecte et l’Analyse des Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, or Collection and Analysis of Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena) international conference organized by the French Space Agency and GEIPAN took place in Paris.[37]
  • 2015 January - John Greenewald Jr. released over 130,000 pages of declassified United States Air Force documents relating to UFOs.[38]
  • 2015 October - The UFODATA project was announced.[39]
  • 2017 October - To the Stars Academy was founded by Jim Semivan, Harold E. Puthoff, and Tom DeLonge.[40]
  • 2017 December - The New York Times published an article written by Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, and Helene Cooper on the front page to expose the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.[41]
  • 2019 February - Religious scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka published her book American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology.[42]
  • 2019 May - The History Channel aired the first season of its documentary series Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation, featuring Luis Elizondo as a main narrator and Tom DeLonge as one of the producers. In one episode, Elizondo introduced to the public the five observables of UFOs (or UAPs).[43]

2020 - 2025

See also

Further reading

General information

UFO/UAP databases

UFO/UAP astronomy

UFO/UAP encounters

UFO/UAP policy

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