Sector:USA/DoD_Intelligence_UAP_Programs

## Metadata

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**Incident ID:** INC-2026-0412

**Date:** 2019–2022 (range of referenced statements and documents)

**Location:** Multiple United States Department of Defense and Intelligence Community sites (Los Alamos National Laboratory; DARPA-affiliated laboratories; Congressional committee locations; undisclosed military training ranges)

**Reporting Agency:** Compiled from public-domain witness statements and declassified/archival documents; primary sources include former DoD/intelligence personnel statements, archived documents, and investigative journalism records

**Status:** UNRESOLVED

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## Executive Summary

A series of internally consistent claims and documentary references were reported to have connected activities within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and associated intelligence entities to the study, transfer, and restricted briefing of anomalous aerial/underwater phenomena (hereafter UAP/USO). The sequence of events was described in multiple venue-specific statements and archived materials. Activities were reported to have been carried out both in sanctioned program contexts and in unofficial or informal study contexts. Materials and witness testimony were reported to have been transferred among personnel associated with the DoD, DARPA-affiliated laboratories, and national laboratory staff. Congressional committees were reported to have received classified briefings that were not publicly disclosed in full. At least one material sample and at least one observational event were reported that lacked a logical explanation based on currently available open-source technical and forensic methods.



## Purpose and Scope

This record was compiled for archival and investigative reference. Only information derived from the cited public-domain sources and contemporaneous archival records was included. Interpretive statements were minimized. Where statements from witnesses provided observational detail, those details were transcribed or paraphrased and attributed. No inference was made beyond the direct linkages and procedural descriptions that were provided in source material.

## Background and Documentary Context

It was documented that historical intelligence-era records and contemporary oral statements have overlapped in subject matter regarding anomalous phenomena. Archived materials related to senior intelligence officials (including calendaring and briefing notes) were produced in independent repositories and were reviewed. Classified program names and operational shorthand were referenced in several archival files that were publicly available. Investigative journalists and former intelligence personnel provided corroborative statement threads indicating that multiple discrete internal efforts (described in sources as "legacy programs") had existed to collect and analyze UAP/USO-related data. It was reported that these programs had been both formally chartered and informally pursued by individual elements within la