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Reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), often referred to as UFOs, span decades and come from every corner of the globe. Several organizations and researchers have collected and cataloged these sightings and encounters in various databases.

Below is an overview of key information and sources of data along with the most credible and impactful testimony indicating UAP are a real phenomenon requiring further study and analysis.

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UAP Data and Databases

1. CUFOS Database

Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
CUFOS UFOCAT Database
Highlights:

Over 300,000 entries worldwide, spanning 55 years.
Includes Dr. Jacques Vallee’s 6,000 cases.
400+ cases involving mutilation (mostly animal, some human).
1,800+ cases involving abduction.
600+ cases involving paralysis of the victim(s).
100+ cases involving sexual activity.

2. MUFON Database

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
MUFON Project Aquarius
Highlights:

Over 135,000 cases worldwide, with some reports dating back to the 1800s.
Nearly 9,000 well-documented cases of sightings, abductions, and other phenomena.
Over 7,000 eyewitness drawings of craft, beings, and related phenomena.

3. Rosales Database

The Humanoid Contact Database
Compiled by Albert Rosales
Rosales Database
Highlights:

Over 4,000 cases reported from around the world.
Focus primarily on reports from 1990 to 2008, with some older cases included.
300+ abduction cases, with nearly 20 involving fatalities.
350+ cases involving physical injury, some including sexual assault.

4. HUMCAT Database

The Humanoid Catalog (HUMCAT)
HUMCAT on CUFOS.org
Highlights:

1,648 lines of data from 1790 to 1997.
Focuses specifically on humanoid encounter reports.

5. NUFORC Database

National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)
NUFORC Databank
Highlights:

Over 153,000 lines of data – predominantly sightings.
~250 cases involving abduction.

Key UAP Documents

Books

The Dawn of a New Age – Col. Philip J. Corso

Reports

The COMETA Report: UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?

Papers

Key UAP Testimony

World Leaders Speaking About UFOs

2024 – President Donald Trump

“There is a lot of interest in uh people coming from space.”

Rogan: “How much did they tell you about that?”
Trump: “A lot.”

He went on to say he couldn’t reveal more due to secrecy but mentioned personal interviews with “solid beautiful people” (pilots) who reported seeing objects far out-performing Air Force jets. He stated, “There is something there.”

— President Trump, Interview on the Joe Rogan Show (2024)

2021 – President Barack Obama

“When it comes to aliens, there are just some things I can’t tell you on air. The truth is, when I came into office—I asked: ‘Is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the aliens and spaceships?’ And they did a little bit of research and the answer was ‘no.’ What is true—and I’m actually being serious here—is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.”

— President Obama, Interview on The Late Late Show (2021)

1990 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev

“The phenomenon of UFOs is real. I know that there are scientific organisations which study the problem. It must be treated seriously.”

— Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (1990)

1987 – President Ronald Reagan

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world.”

— President Ronald Reagan (1987)

1976 – President Jimmy Carter

“I don’t laugh at people any more when they say they’ve seen UFOs. It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure—I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.”

— President Jimmy Carter (1976)

1974 – President Ronald Reagan

“I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, ‘Have you ever seen anything like that?’ He was shocked and he said, ‘Nope.’ And I said to him: ‘Let’s follow it!’ We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.”

— President Ronald Reagan, Describing a Personal Sighting (1974)

1966 – President Gerald Ford

“…I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.”

— President Gerald Ford (1966)

1950 – President Harry S. Truman

“I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.”

— President Harry S. Truman (1950)

Former Government & Military Officials Speaking About UFOs

2025 – Brig. General Blaine Holt (USAF)

“I absolutely do not refute that there are extraterrestrials and that more will be coming out.”

— Brig. General Blaine Holt, USAF (2025)

2025 – Jay Stratton

“I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft, and non-human beings.”

— Jay Stratton, Former Director of US DoD UAP Task Force (2025)

2024 – Luis Elizondo

“UAP are real. Advanced technologies not made by our Government – or any other government – are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries. I believe we are in the midst of a multi-decade, secretive arms race—one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies.”

— Luis Elizondo, Fmr. DoD Intelligence Officer & Head of AATIP (2024)

2023, 2024 – Adm. Tim Gallaudet (US Navy, NOAA)

“The fact that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering US water space and the DOD is not raising a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows about all-domain anomalous phenomena.”

“We’re being visited by non-human intelligence with technology we really don’t understand and with intentions we don’t understand either,”

— Adm. Tim Gallaudet, US Navy Rear Admiral & Head of NOAA (2023, 2024)

2023, 2024 – Col Karl Nell

“Non-human intelligence exists. Non-human intelligence has been interacting with humanity. This interaction is not new and has been ongoing.”

“His [Grusch] assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence.”

— Col Karl Nell (2023, 2024)

2023 – Dr. James Lacatski

“[…] the United States was in possession of a craft of unknown origin and had successfully gained access to its interior. […] This craft had a streamlined configuration suitable for aerodynamic flight but no intakes, exhaust, wings, or control surfaces. In fact, it appeared not to have an engine, fuel tanks, or fuel.”

— Dr. James Lacatski, Fmr. Head of AAWSAP (2023)

2023 – David Grusch

“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access.”

— David Grusch, USAF Intelligence Officer, Testimony to Congress (2023)

2023 – Senator Marco Rubio

“Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security.”

— Sen. Marco Rubio (2023)

2023 & 2021 – Senator Marco Rubio

“Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security.”

“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours…”

— Sen. Marco Rubio, US Senator & Member of the “Gang of 8” (2023 & 2021)

2023 – Ryan Graves (Fmr. Lt. US Navy)

“I have witnessed advanced UAP on multiple sensor systems firsthand, and I’m here to voice the concerns of countless commercial aircrew and military veterans who have confided their similar encounters with me.

I can tell you that advanced UAP are a national security and an aviation safety problem.”

— Ryan Graves, Fmr. Lt. US Navy & F/A-18F Pilot, Testimony to Congress (2023)

2021 – John Ratcliffe

“Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things… Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom… Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.”

— John Ratcliffe, Former Director of National Intelligence (2021)

1998 – Col. Philip Corso

“Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fibre optic technologies, particle beams, electromagnetic propulsion systems, depleted uranium projectiles, stealth capabilities, and many others.

How do I know? I was in charge! I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.”

— Col. Philip Corso, Former Head of the Foreign Technology Desk, US Army R&D, Eisenhower Administration (1998)

1995 – Ben Rich

“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.”

— Ben Rich, Former Head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works (1995)

1960 – Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter

“Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control… It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is…”

“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.”

— Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1st CIA Director (1960)

1958 – Major Donald E. Keyhoe (US Marine Corps)

“The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent control.”

— Major Donald E. Keyhoe (1958)

1956 – Rear Admiral Delmar Fahrney (USNR)

“Unidentified Flying Objects are entering our atmosphere at very high speeds and obviously under intelligent control. We must solve this riddle without delay.”

— Rear Admiral Delmar Fahrney (1956)

1955 – General Douglas MacArthur

“You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy. The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets.”

— General Douglas MacArthur (1955)

1954 – Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding (RAF)

“Of course UFOs are real, and they are interplanetary. The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.”

— Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding, Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force during WWII (1954)

1947 – General Nathan Twining (USAF)

“This ‘flying saucer’ situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.”

— General Nathan Twining, USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1955-1958)

Conclusion

Collectively, these databases, statements by world leaders, and testimonies from former government and military officials amount to a substantial body of data—ranging from simple sightings of anomalous lights to more dramatic claims of abduction, physical harm, and firsthand testimonies of craft and beings. Their breadth and consistent collection over many decades underscores a significant phenomenon that warrants rigorous investigation, open discussion, and transparent research. While the exact nature of these UAP/UFO encounters remains elusive, the sheer volume and persistency of reports point to an ongoing mystery that science and society cannot afford to ignore.