UFO Document Provenance and Disclosure Claims

Disclosure claims rise or fall on provenance. This hub tracks whether a document, image, witness, or artifact has a chain of custody strong enough to carry the claim attached to it.

AARO reports, MJ-12, alien autopsy media, crash retrieval claims, secret programs, and provenance checks.

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79% published

Draft readiness counts pages over the 1,200-word body floor only; source, evidence, timeline, figure, FAQ, reading, relation, and safeguard gates still decide publication.

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Space & ExtraterrestrialDebunked

Majestic 12 / MJ-12 Documents

The claim, based on a 1984 packet of allegedly leaked documents, that President Truman in 1947 established a secret committee (Majestic 12 or MJ-12) of 12 scientists and military officers to study recovered UFO craft from Roswell.

Fact-checked Apr 202696% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialPartially True

Roswell UFO Incident

The 1947 crash of a high-altitude Project Mogul balloon near Roswell, New Mexico that was briefly described by the US Army as a recovered "flying disc" before being reclassified as a weather balloon — and later, in 1994, as a classified Soviet nuclear-test surveillance balloon.

Fact-checked Apr 202680% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialUnsubstantiated

Area 51 and Extraterrestrial Technology

The theory that the classified US Air Force facility known as Area 51 in Nevada houses recovered extraterrestrial spacecraft and alien remains, and that the government has been reverse-engineering alien technology for decades.

Fact-checked Mar 202625% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialUnder Investigation

UAP & the Grusch Whistleblower Claims

US Air Force veteran and former NGA intelligence officer David Grusch's 2023 whistleblower testimony to Congress alleging a decades-long, classified US crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program involving "non-human" craft and biologics.

Fact-checked Apr 202635% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialUnsubstantiated

Rendlesham Forest Incident

The December 26-28, 1980 incidents near RAF Woodbridge (a US-operated base in Suffolk, England) when USAF personnel reported unusual lights and an "illuminated triangular craft" in the adjacent Rendlesham Forest.

Fact-checked Apr 202635% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialDebunked

Alien Autopsy Media Provenance

A media-provenance page tracing alien-autopsy film and image claims.

Fact-checked Apr 202688% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialUnder Investigation

AARO Historical Report Tracker

Tracker for claims about official UAP historical reports and what they do or do not establish.

Fact-checked Apr 202660% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialUnsubstantiated

Secret Space Program Claims

Claims that governments run hidden breakaway space fleets or off-world bases.

Fact-checked Apr 202662% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialDebunked

Project Blue Beam

Claims that NASA or governments will fake an alien or religious event using holograms to create world government.

Fact-checked Apr 202690% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialDebunked

Nazca Alien Mummy Claims

Claims that mummified remains promoted from Peru are non-human alien bodies.

Fact-checked Apr 202690% confidence

Space & ExtraterrestrialDebunked

Artemis II Staged / AI-Image Claims

Claims that Artemis II mission photos, videos, or broadcasts prove the lunar flyby was staged or AI-generated.

Fact-checked Apr 202685% confidence

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Crash-retrieval document provenance tracker
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Editorial Notes

Use AARO, NASA, congressional records, Air Force reports, national archives, and original document scans.
Treat unexplained, classified, hoaxed, and extraterrestrial as separate statuses.

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