Reading trails
One file leads to the next. Every file is open to everyone; at Level 2 your progress is kept and a finished trail earns a stamp on your card.
You are at Level 1: the trails work, progress is not kept yet.
From the Nimitz to AARO
Draft — pending editor review Trail completeHow three Navy infrared videos went from a leak to an official release, and into the files of a Pentagon office that still lists most of them as unresolved.
- 01 USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” FILE #002
November 2004: Navy aircrew investigate radar contacts off California and one crew records the FLIR1 video.
- 02 Gimbal and GoFast FILE #015
January 2015: the two other Navy clips, Gimbal and GoFast, both filmed by F/A-18 crews; AARO places GoFast off the coast of Florida.
- 03 Pentagon release 2020 FILE #016
April 2020: the Department of Defense formally releases all three videos and keeps the objects classified as unidentified.
- 04 AARO FILE #014
The office that now handles them: AARO lists FLIR and Gimbal as unresolved and has published a case resolution for GoFast.
From Roswell to AARO
Draft — pending editor review Trail completeSeventy-five years of the US government looking into flying saucers, in four files: a balloon in 1947, a long Air Force project, a university study that said further study was not justified, and the Pentagon office that took up the question again.
- 01 Roswell FILE #001
July 1947: the Army announces a ‘flying disc’ near Roswell and retracts it a day later. The story every later investigation has to deal with.
- 02 Project Blue Book FILE #012
The Air Force's UFO project, March 1952 to December 1969. Roswell does not appear in its records, as Congressman Schiff later learned.
- 03 The Condon Report FILE #013
An Air Force-funded study at the University of Colorado: nothing from 21 years of UFO study had added to science. Blue Book closed the next year.
- 04 AARO FILE #014
The Pentagon's current UAP office. Its 2024 historical review went back over Roswell and restated the Project Mogul finding.