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"We are not going to remember what it was like to live during these years. An epochal earthquake shakes a culture to its core, it exposes the foundations, it remakes who we are and what we value. It jostles and jumbles our memories as well. We will be looking back at these years from a future that we cannot now imagine. The light will be different there, either brighter or darker, none can say. Occasionally we will turn from that light and gaze across the vast chasm riven through history and all our lives by the earthquake, and we will wonder at ourselves, who we were, what we did, what we were thinking. Some of it will be clear enough. Some of it we barely notice even now as it is happening. For other things, it will be mighty tempting to misremember, to reinterpret, and to misrepresent. We do not know who in those years will write the history of these years, but it will be written. It’s a rare thing to be able to record for posterity who said what, what they meant, and what they did, to put it all down before the earthquake but knowing it will come."
Why have so many elements of the US government--from the Pentagon to Congress to NASA--been talking about UFOs in recent years? As you will read in these pages, it’s more than just talk. Serious efforts are underway at the highest levels of government to solve the UFO mystery once and for all. Those efforts accelerated in 2023. This book chronicles all of the historic actions regarding UFOs that the US Congress, NASA, and the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) took in 2023. It posits a social theory called the disclosure bind that explains the schizoid nature of these officials’ reactions as they toggle between UFO skepticism and UFO acceptance. And it recounts how mainstream thought leaders are wrestling with the implications that the government seems to be on the cusp of revealing its UFO secrets.
The UFO Disclosure Yearbook 2023 is written as a reference guide and oral history, with fact-based analysis, twelve reference tables, and a curated set of primary source documents. All information in the book is based solely on what is in the public record--no speculation or guesswork or shadowy sources. The revelations and developments for this long-standing mystery that entered the public record in 2023 are shocking enough. And with this book you can have them all in one place for easy reference. This is an essential first draft of history for this historic era of UFO disclosure.
2023
Table of Contents:
Part 1: UFOs in Congress
1.1 | The February Balloon Shootdowns
1.2 | Congress Up in the Air
1.3 | Failing Score on a Disclosure Test Run
1.4 | The Showdown at Eglin Air Force Base
1.5 | The Inevitable David Grusch
Table 1a: David Grusch Timeline
1.6 | Burchett’s Charge
Table 1b: The UAP Freshman Class of 2023
The July 26 Oversight Subcommittee Hearing
The Push for a UAP Select Committee
The October 26 SCIF Briefing
1.7 | The Schumer/Rounds UAP Disclosure Act
UAPDA Language & Provisions
Table 1c: Legal Definitions of the UFO Phenomenon from the UAPDA
1.8 | UAP Provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024
Table 1d: UAP Provisions in the NDAA & IAA for 2024
1.9 | The Start of Formal Opposition to Disclosure
The Burchett Amendment Push
The Schumer/Rounds Colloquy
Part 2: UFOs in the Executive Branch
2.1 | AARO’s 2022 UAP Report
Table 2a: AARO’s Annual Reporting Requirements Report from the 2022 NDAA
2.2 | AARO’s Presentation to the Transportation Research Board
Table 2b: AARO slides presented to the Transportation Research Board
2.3 | Kirkpatrick’s April 19 Senate Testimony
Table 2c: AARO Reporting Trends infographic
Table 2d: Declension of IC/DoD statements regarding the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis for UAP
2.4 | AARO, Congress, & Grusch
Table 2e: Sean Kirkpatrick’s rebuttal to the July 26 House Oversight Subcommittee hearing on UAP
2.5 | AARO’s Six Mandates
Table 2f: AARO Core Functions
2.6 | AARO’s Methodology
Table 2g: AARO’s UAP case count over time
2.7 | AARO & Aliens: AARO’s Unsettled Purpose
The Hayden Center Discussion
AARO’s Contradictions
2.8 | AARO’s 2023 UAP Report
2.9 | AARO’s Bureaucratic Shuffle & Kirkpatrick’s Exit
2.10 | Waiting for AARO
2.11 | NASA Ready to Launch: The UAP Study Team
Table 2h: NASA UAP Study Team Timeline & Membership
2.12 | The NASA UAP Study Team Report
2.13 | Sensationalism vs. Science: NASA’s Curious Solution for UFO Stigma
2.14 | The UFO-in-a-Box Fallacy
Part 3: UFOs in Mainstream Thought
3.1 | Wrestling with the Implications
The Incompetent Government Argument
Against Conspiracism
3.2 | Skeptical Astronomers
What a Scientist Would Do
A Historian’s Perspective: Garrett Graff’s Odd Book
3.3 | Catastrophic Disclosure
2024
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