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Cette page recense les déclarations publiques récentes, les publications officielles et les développements importants. « Non résolu » décrit l’état actuel des informations disponibles ; ce n’est pas une conclusion sur l’origine.

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Résumé du briefing

This briefing examines recent institutional and policy developments in the United Kingdom and United States. They include Clive Lewis MP’s discussion of UK UAP policy and Five Eyes cooperation, Scottish Government correspondence on administrative responsibility for UAP enquiries, and Daryl Johnson’s account of reported drone and UAP flyovers at commercial nuclear facilities.

The Sol Foundation has also outlined a prospective study of public responses to UAP disclosure and published a policy paper on the implications of a hypothetical competition to exploit non-human technology. Taken together, these materials extend the public record on government handling, attribution, research and policy. They do not provide new publicly testable evidence establishing the origin of unresolved UAP.

Clive Lewis MP and the Sol Foundation — UK UAP Policy and Five Eyes Questions (28 Aug 2026)

  • Labour MP Clive Lewis, who represents Norwich South, joined Sol Foundation executive director Peter Skafish for an on-record discussion of UAP disclosure in the United Kingdom.
  • Lewis’s earlier parliamentary questions provide the relevant policy context. In September 2025, the Ministry of Defence stated that it had ended its UAP investigation function in 2009 because more than 50 years of reported sightings had not indicated a military threat to the UK. It stated that historical material up to 2009 had been transferred to The National Archives.
  • In separate answers, the MOD said it had neither conducted nor commissioned UAP studies since 2013, and had not participated in a grouping specifically focused on UAP since May 2023.
  • AARO’s FOIA reading room contains material referring to a May 2023 “FVEY Inaugural UAP Caucus Working Group.” The record demonstrates that a Five Eyes UAP-specific forum existed. It does not identify the partners represented at that forum.
  • These materials show sustained parliamentary scrutiny of UK UAP policy and document the existence of a Five Eyes forum. They do not show that Lewis spoke for the Government or that the UK maintains an undisclosed UAP investigation programme.

UK Parliament — MOD information held on UAPUK Parliament — international UAP groupingsAARO EFOIA Reading Room

Scottish Government Releases UAP Correspondence (18 Aug 2026)

  • The Scottish Government released records under FOI reference FOI/202600520032 in response to a request for material held since 2015 on UAP, UFOs, unexplained aerial activity and unusual observations in Scottish airspace.
  • The release consists principally of administrative correspondence from July 2025, rather than material documenting a new UAP incident.
  • Officials stated that they were unaware of a Scottish Government team responsible for UAP and considered whether the matter fell within responsibilities reserved to the UK Government.
  • The records therefore clarify how an enquiry about institutional responsibility was handled. They do not evidence a Scottish UAP programme, previously undisclosed sightings or a change in UK defence policy.

Scottish Government — UAP FOI release

Former NRC Security Specialist Describes Nearly 300 Nuclear-Facility Flyover Reports (25 Aug 2026)

  • Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission senior security specialist Daryl Johnson told Ross Coulthart that close to 300 reported drone or UAP flyovers were logged across the U.S. commercial reactor fleet between 2014 and 2025.
  • Johnson stated that fewer than one percent were ultimately traced to an operator and described continuing limitations in aerial detection and attribution around nuclear facilities. Those totals are attributable to Johnson; this review has not identified a complete public NRC dataset that independently reproduces them.
  • NRC records independently place Johnson within UAP/UAS reporting activity. A 2023 communication records him supplying flyover data in response to an AARO request, and later correspondence sought AARO reporting guidance for NRC instructions to nuclear licensees.
  • The available documentation supports Johnson’s institutional role and an NRC-AARO exchange of UAP/UAS information. It does not independently verify every reported event or establish that unattributed flyovers represented a single phenomenon.

Listen to the Daryl Johnson interviewNRC FOIA response — UAP/UAS data supplied to AARO

Sol Foundation Details Disclosure Response Study (Aug 2026)

  • The Sol Foundation describes a prospective research project on how Americans may respond to different forms of UAP disclosure.
  • The proposed study, led by epidemiologist Christian Salazar and Sol executive director Peter Skafish, would use a nationally representative discrete-choice experiment.
  • Participants would compare scenarios that vary the source of an announcement, the evidence presented, its verification and its framing. The researchers also propose examining differences associated with demographic characteristics, prior UAP interest, and trust in government and science.
  • This is a research design rather than a published finding. The project page does not yet report results.

Sol Foundation — Disclosure Response Study

Sol Foundation Publishes UAP Technology Arms-Race Policy Paper (Aug 2026)

  • Sol Foundation fellow Marik von Rennenkampff published The Civilizational Risks of a UAP Technology Arms Race: Nonhuman Technology and Global Security, Volume 2 No. 3.
  • The paper examines possible geopolitical consequences if allegations that states possess and seek to exploit technology of non-human origin are correct. Its executive summary expressly qualifies that premise with the formulation “should it indeed exist.”
  • It compares an uncontrolled arms race, open scientific exchange and closed international scientific exchange, and proposes an international Advanced Technology Development Authority with research, inspection and verification functions.
  • The paper is conditional policy analysis. It does not independently establish that recovered non-human technology exists or that a UAP technology arms race is underway.

Read the Sol Foundation policy paper

Prochaines étapes

Nouvelles publications PURSUE

Department of War Release 05, published on 7 August, remains the latest PURSUE tranche at the time of this briefing. The Department states that further material will be released on a rolling basis, but it has not announced a date for Release 06. Department of War — PURSUE.

Archives nationales — nouveaux dossiers UAP

Federal agencies continue transferring UAP records to National Archives Record Group 615. NARA says additional records will be added to the collection on an ongoing, rolling basis as they are transferred by federal agencies. NARA UAP Records Collection.

FY2027 NDAA

The Senate motion to invoke cloture on proceeding to S. 4784, the Senate FY2027 NDAA, failed 50–46 on 14 July. The Senate returns for regular business on 14 September. The House provision for a UAP Records Review Board remains pending within the wider NDAA process and has not been enacted. U.S. Senate — floor activity, 14 July 2026U.S. Senate Daily Press.

Sol Disclosure Response Study

Sol states that the Disclosure Response Study should launch quickly if it is to inform policymakers while federal UAP initiatives are developing. Its public page sets out objectives and methodology, but provides neither results nor a confirmed completion date. Sol Foundation — Disclosure Response Study.

Ce que le dossier permet d’établir

  • The principal development in this update is institutional rather than evidential. The materials make UK parliamentary scrutiny more visible, clarify Scottish administrative handling, document NRC-AARO reporting exchanges, and extend Sol’s policy and social-science work.
  • Johnson’s figures raise substantive questions about attribution around critical infrastructure, but the reported totals remain partly dependent on his account.

Evidence position

None of these developments supplies new publicly testable evidence capable of establishing the nature or origin of unresolved UAP. The briefing therefore supports conclusions about institutional activity, reported figures and proposed research, rather than conclusions about the underlying phenomenon.

Briefings précédents

Past editions are preserved by their UAPRAD publication date.

26 Aug 2026

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Résumé du briefing

This four-day update recorded no new official document release, hearing or statutory action. The public record moved through statements by Avi Loeb, chair of the UAP Science Advisory Council, offering competing interpretations of already-released orb reports. Neither claim was supported by new sensor data.

Avi Loeb — Competing Interpretations of Released Orb Reports (24–25 Aug 2026)

  • On 24 August, Loeb restated a hypothesis from his preprint with Shaun Fell that some reported Pentagon orbs could be explained by tiny spacetime bubbles.
  • On 25 August he recirculated a separate assessment that the majority of low-speed, formation-flying, radar-quiet orbs could be human-made drones, while high-speed or high-radar-cross-section outliers could reflect measurement or attribution error.
  • Both statements were interpretations of existing PURSUE and AARO material. They did not add range, telemetry, recovered material or a new official case resolution.
  • Loeb said none of the five PURSUE tranches released to date demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that they were non-human-made, and advocated new unclassified sensors at sites of prior reports.

Avi Loeb — 24 August statementAvi Loeb — 25 August statementFell & Loeb preprintAARO Western U.S. event memorandum

Evidence position

Current public evidence did not support a firm conclusion about the nature or origin of unresolved UAP. Interpretations concerning drones, spacetime bubbles or any other explanation remained hypotheses unless supported by underlying records, sensor data, imagery, physical material or independently testable evidence.

22 Aug 2026

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This edition recorded new public positions from the UAP Science Advisory Council, implementation activity around UAP NDA assistance, planned government-linked field research, and uncorroborated claims from Rep. Eric Burlison concerning an alleged multi-agency UAP observation effort.

UAP Science Advisory Council — Legal Assurances and Historical Records (19 Aug 2026)

  • The council publicly supported legal assurances, including immunity where necessary, for current or former government and military personnel wishing to provide information concerning alleged non-human technology.
  • It also said it was pursuing historical UAP records and legacy data through the PURSUE process for scientific evaluation. These steps concerned evidence-gathering and did not establish that alleged technology exists.

Avi Loeb’s original statement

Rep. Eric Burlison — UAP NDA Assistance (20 Aug 2026)

  • Burlison’s office stated that it was assisting qualified individuals seeking waivers from UAP-related nondisclosure agreements.
  • No accompanying public information identified applicant totals, approved waivers, or newly authorised disclosures.

Burlison’s original statement

Evidence position

The developments concerned access to evidence, witness permissions and plans to collect better data, rather than newly released evidence establishing the nature or origin of UAP. Burlison’s statements about a multi-agency observation remained attributable but uncorroborated claims, without a public incident report, dataset, imagery or agency confirmation.

18 Aug 2026

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This edition follows new technical analysis of the PURSUE sensor-video releases, European institutional handling of UAP reporting and new public claims from former intelligence officer David Grusch.

PURSUE Sensor Videos — Velocity Analysis (12 Aug 2026)

  • Researchers Jacob Haqq-Misra and Ravi Kopparapu analysed all 112 sensor videos released through the Department of War’s PURSUE programme.
  • They found that no video provides the complete set of information needed to derive an object’s physical velocity: range, observing-aircraft velocity, aspect angle and camera field angle.
  • For DOW-UAP-PR113, the available data cannot distinguish between substantially different combinations of object size, distance and velocity.
  • For DOW-UAP-PR149, using a vessel in the frame as a scale reference produced an estimated upper bound of approximately Mach 0.4 for relative velocity.
  • The authors conclude that the released videos, in their present form, cannot establish anomalous velocities or fully resolve the unidentified cases.
  • The analysis is an arXiv preprint; no peer-reviewed publication is currently listed.

Read the technical analysisView the PURSUE archive

European Commission and EASA — UAP Reporting (17 Aug 2026)

  • Euronews reported on correspondence from the European Commission’s defence department dating from at least 2023 that discussed improving capabilities to detect objects in the space environment, including some reported as UAP.
  • The Commission told Euronews that UAP remain the responsibility of individual EU member states, handled according to national-security and defence priorities.
  • The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said its existing occurrence-reporting framework can accommodate reports involving UAP.
  • EASA said it has not identified evidence that UAP reports represent a systemic aviation-safety issue requiring additional measures.
  • The underlying Commission correspondence was seen by Euronews and was not published with the article.

Read the Euronews report

Prochaines étapes

Nouvelles publications PURSUE

The Department of War states that additional UAP material will be released on a rolling basis, with tranches posted every few weeks. Release 05, published on 7 August, remains the latest tranche and no date for Release 06 has been announced. Follow PURSUE releases.

Archives nationales — nouveaux dossiers UAP

Federal agencies continue transferring UAP records to National Archives Record Group 615. NARA says additional records will be added to the collection on an ongoing, rolling basis as they are transferred by federal agencies. NARA UAP Records Collection.

NDAA FY2027 — action du Sénat

The House-passed FY2027 NDAA includes Rep. Eric Burlison’s amendment creating an independent Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Review Board. The Senate’s motion to invoke cloture on proceeding to its FY2027 NDAA, S. 4784, failed on 14 July. The Senate is scheduled to return for regular business on 14 September. No confirmed date for further NDAA floor consideration has been announced. The House UAP Review Board provision is not yet law and remains subject to the wider congressional NDAA process. House FY27 NDAA Amendment TrackerSenate roll-call recordSenate schedule.

Briefings UAP de l’AARO au Congrès

AARO remains subject to statutory congressional briefing requirements. No public date for the next classified UAP briefing has been announced. Monitor AARO Congressional and Press Products.

Prochain rapport annuel de l’AARO sur les UAP

Federal law continues to require annual AARO reporting on UAP. The FY2025 report was published on 20 July 2026; no publication date for the next annual report is currently listed by AARO. Monitor AARO Congressional Reports.

Ce que le dossier permet d’établir

  • New technical analysis of the public PURSUE sensor-video corpus finds that missing range, platform-motion and camera information prevents firm conclusions about physical velocity in the released footage.
  • European institutions acknowledge that UAP reports can fall within existing space, aviation-safety and national-security frameworks, while Grusch’s additional allegations remain unsupported by publicly testable evidence released with the interview.

Evidence position

The growing PURSUE archive provides substantially more government-released material for independent examination. The new analysis of its sensor videos also demonstrates a central evidential limitation: imagery alone cannot establish unusual speed or performance where range, platform motion, viewing geometry and other necessary data are unavailable.

The European reporting broadens the documented institutional discussion of UAP beyond the United States. New public allegations from individual witnesses remain a separate category of evidence and require independent documentation, data or physical material before stronger conclusions can be drawn.

12 août 2026

Cinquième tranche — PURSUE du département de la Guerre (07 août 2026)

Official PURSUE Release 05 digital rendering of a triangular object
Imagerie officielle de la publication PURSUE 05. Source : département de la Guerre des États-Unis.
  • 41 fichiers documentant des phénomènes non résolus.
  • Plusieurs vidéos de 2021 dans le golfe d’Oman associées à un AC-130J des forces d’opérations spéciales américaines, y compris une vidéo de téléphone montrant un affichage infrarouge.
  • Un engin triangulaire rendu numériquement à partir de signalements.

Watch the Gulf of Oman videoView PURSUE Release 05

Représentant Eric Burlison — mémorandum NDA sur les UAP (01 août 2026)

  • Le représentant Eric Burlison a publié des orientations de l’administration concernant la directive du président Trump sur les accords de non-divulgation liés aux UAP.
  • Ces orientations concernent les employés et sous-traitants actuels ou anciens du gouvernement détenant des informations sur les UAP potentiellement couvertes par des accords de non-divulgation.

Read the announcement and memorandumUAPRAD Member Deep Dive — Eric Burlison

Rapport annuel FY2025 de l’AARO (20 juil. 2026)

  • 319 signalements d’UAP reçus.
  • 114 de ces cas résolus, en plus de 256 cas provenant de périodes de signalement antérieures.
  • Les 370 cas résolus ont tous été attribués à des objets ou événements ordinaires.
  • 238 signalements résolus comme des reflets de satellites.
  • Neuf signalements transmis pour une analyse complémentaire du renseignement ou des sciences et technologies.
  • 191 signalements placés dans une archive active dans l’attente de données corroborantes supplémentaires.

Read the AARO FY2025 Annual ReportAARO Congressional Reports

La Chambre adopte un amendement sur un comité d’examen des dossiers UAP (22 juil. 2026)

  • La Chambre a adopté l’amendement bipartisan du représentant Eric Burlison sur les UAP au National Defense Authorization Act FY2027.
  • L’amendement créerait un comité indépendant d’examen des dossiers sur les phénomènes anormaux non identifiés afin d’examiner et de faciliter la divulgation publique des dossiers UAP.
  • Il exige que les agences fédérales identifient, organisent et transmettent les dossiers pertinents.
  • La Chambre a ensuite adopté H.R. 8800 par 216 voix contre 212.
  • The provision is not yet law and remains subject to the Senate and final NDAA process.

House UAP Amendment TrackerRep. Burlison — UAP Disclosure FrameworkHouse Passage of H.R. 8800

Allemagne — centre de signalement CENAP (09 août 2026)

  • Le Central Research Network for Extraordinary Celestial Phenomena (CENAP) allemand indique avoir examiné environ 14 000 cas.
  • Les identifications signalées comprennent des avions, hélicoptères, satellites, météores, planètes, étoiles, ballons, étages de fusée et lasers.
  • Certains cas restent non résolus faute d’informations suffisantes.

Read the Euronews report

Prochaines étapes

Nouvelles publications PURSUE

Le département de la Guerre indique que du matériel UAP supplémentaire sera publié progressivement, avec des tranches mises en ligne toutes les quelques semaines. Aucune date n’a encore été annoncée pour la publication 06. Suivre les publications PURSUE.

Archives nationales — nouveaux dossiers UAP

Les agences fédérales continuent de transférer des dossiers UAP au Record Group 615 des Archives nationales. La NARA indique que de nouveaux dossiers seront ajoutés en ligne au fil de l’eau et que les jeux de données UAP téléchargeables seront actualisés au moins trois fois par an. Collection de dossiers UAP de la NARA · Téléchargements groupés de la NARA.

Briefings UAP de l’AARO au Congrès

L’AARO est légalement tenue de fournir, au moins tous les six mois jusqu’au 31 décembre 2026, des briefings UAP classifiés aux commissions compétentes du Congrès. Aucune date publique n’a été annoncée pour le prochain briefing. Lire les dispositions UAP promulguées dans la NDAA FY2026.

Prochain rapport annuel de l’AARO sur les UAP

La loi fédérale continue d’exiger de l’AARO un rapport annuel sur les UAP. Le rapport FY2025 a été publié le 20 juillet 2026 ; l’AARO n’indique actuellement aucune date de publication pour le prochain rapport annuel. Suivre les rapports de l’AARO au Congrès.

Ce que le dossier permet d’établir

  • La divulgation officielle sur les UAP s’étend par l’intermédiaire de PURSUE, de la NARA et de l’action du Congrès.
  • La publication d’un dossier par le gouvernement ne vérifie pas en elle-même le phénomène qui y est décrit.
  • L’AARO continue de résoudre de nombreux cas de manière conventionnelle, tandis que d’autres restent non résolus faute de données suffisantes.
  • Les éléments publics actuels ne permettent pas de conclure fermement sur la nature ou l’origine des cas non résolus.

Evidence position

There is now a substantial and growing body of UAP-related data, testimony and documented material in the public record. Taken collectively, this evidence is indicative, compelling and, for many, highly persuasive. However, when assessed against the narrower standard of scientifically analysable, independently verifiable data, the position is more measured: the needle of conclusive evidence has not yet moved very far, and significant questions regarding the nature and origin of unresolved phenomena remain open.