1990s: declassified UAP incidents — timeline.
7 UAP cases
The 1990s account for 7 UAP cases in this archive — 1 video, 3 documents, and 3 images — released by Department of State, Department of War, NASA, and 1 more agency under the PURSUE program. Reported locations from the decade include Low-Earth Orbit, Western United States, and Kazakhstan, among others; some incidents carry no usable location and are excluded from the map. Every year below links to the cases reported in it, and years with enough declassified material get their own dedicated timeline page, linked from the heading. Use the interactive map to see where these incidents cluster, or the knowledge graph to follow a witness, mission or aircraft type across the rest of the archive.
1998 — 1 UAP case
USG-UAP-D001, Congressional, White House, UFO-related Constituent Correspondence, 1998
This is a 1998 NASA Headquarters Office of Legislative Affairs case file (Headquarters Action Tracking System / HATS logs) documenting how NASA handled constituent correspondence about UFOs that had been forwarded through members of Congres
1996 — 5 UAP cases
▶ 176sDOW-UAP-PR113, Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 1996
Black-and-white infrared sensor footage looking down at mountainous desert terrain in the western United States. A tactical HUD overlay shows distance-ring range markers (5 through 30), a central crosshair, and a small circular tracking ret
NASA-UAP-D030, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 1, 1996
Photograph taken through a Space Shuttle window looking down at Earth. Bright white cloud cover fills the left half, with the dark silhouette of the window frame and orbiter structure on the right. A small thin elongated white object is vis
NASA-UAP-D031, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 2, 1996
View from a Space Shuttle window over a bright white cloud-covered Earth, with the orbiter window frame and interior hardware dark against the right side. A small white speck sits below the center of the frame above the cloud deck. Red tele
NASA-UAP-D032, STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 3, 1996
Orbital photograph showing the curved limb of Earth capped with white cloud against the black of space. The Space Shuttle window frame and cabin hardware occupy the lower right, catching greenish reflections. Small red telemetry marks are v
DOW-UAP-D048, Department of the Air Force Report, 1996
This document is NOT a UAP encounter report. It is 'Modeling Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations' (RTI Report No. RTI/5180/77-43F), a 181-page technical study dated 10 September 1996, prepared by Research Triangle Institute
1994 — 1 UAP case
State Department UAP Cable 002, Kazakhstan, January 31, 1994
Declassified U.S. State Department cable (CSP-2025-00040, from AMEMBASSY Dushanbe, dated January 31, 1994), subject 'Tajik Air Pilots Report Unidentified Flying Object.' Tajik Air's American Chief Pilot, Ed Rhodes, and his two American pilo