Living Contact Timeline · 1947 — Present

One record of the contact era.

Every major signal — declassified, historical, witnessed, channeled, or forecast — placed on a single intelligence timeline. Toggle the layers to see where the source classes converge, and where they don’t.

Layers
19471968198820092029
Official Record
1969 · Project Blue Book closes
1976 · Tehran incident
2004 · Nimitz Tic Tac
2015 · GIMBAL / GO FAST
2017 · NYT 'Glowing Auras' story
2019 · Navy formalizes UAP reporting
2021 · ODNI preliminary assessment
2022 · AARO established
2023 · Grusch Congressional testimony
2024 · AARO Historical Report Vol. I
2024 · Second House UAP hearing
2025 · AARO Historical Report Vol. II
2025 · Grusch follow-up testimony
2026 · WH / Department of War UAP files release
Historical Cases
1947 · Roswell incident
1952 · Washington D.C. overflights
1997 · Phoenix Lights
Witness / Pilot
1961 · Betty & Barney Hill
1980 · Rendlesham Forest
1986 · JAL 1628 over Alaska
Consciousness Sources
1966 · Ra Material begins
1984 · Bashar transmissions begin
Forecast Signals
2027 · Forecast: disclosure inflection
2029 · Forecast: contact window closes
  1. 1947JulHistorical Cases

    Roswell incident

    Debris recovery near Roswell Army Air Field. Reclassified within 24 hours.

  2. 1952JulHistorical Cases

    Washington D.C. overflights

    Radar-visual events over the Capitol on consecutive weekends.

  3. 1961SepWitness / Pilot

    Betty & Barney Hill

    First widely reported abduction case in the U.S. record.

  4. 1966Consciousness Sources

    Ra Material begins

    Earliest sessions of what becomes the Ra channeled corpus.

  5. 1969Official Record

    Project Blue Book closes

    USAF terminates public UAP investigation. 701 cases unresolved.

  6. 1976SepOfficial Record

    Tehran incident

    Iranian F-4 weapons systems disabled near an unknown object. DIA cable.

  7. 1980DecWitness / Pilot

    Rendlesham Forest

    Multi-night incident at twin UK/US airbases. Halt memo declassified 1983.

  8. 1984Consciousness Sources

    Bashar transmissions begin

    Darryl Anka begins channeling. Earliest mentions of a contact window.

  9. 1986NovWitness / Pilot

    JAL 1628 over Alaska

    Captain Terauchi's 50-minute radar-tracked encounter.

  10. 1997MarHistorical Cases

    Phoenix Lights

    Mass-witnessed formation over Arizona; Governor Symington later confirms.

  11. 2004NovOfficial Record

    Nimitz Tic Tac

    USS Nimitz strike group encounter. FLIR1 video later declassified.

  12. 2015Official Record

    GIMBAL / GO FAST

    Navy F/A-18 sensor footage of unidentified objects off the East Coast.

  13. 2017DecOfficial Record

    NYT 'Glowing Auras' story

    AATIP revealed. End of the post-Blue Book official silence.

  14. 2019Official Record

    Navy formalizes UAP reporting

    Reporting guidelines issued to remove stigma for aviators.

  15. 2021JunOfficial Record

    ODNI preliminary assessment

    144 reports reviewed. Only one explained.

  16. 2022Official Record

    AARO established

    All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office stood up at DoD.

  17. 2023JulOfficial Record

    Grusch Congressional testimony

    Former intel officer testifies to non-human biologics under oath.

  18. 2024Official Record

    AARO Historical Report Vol. I

    Reviews USG involvement with UAP from 1945 to the late 1960s.

  19. 2024NovOfficial Record

    Second House UAP hearing

    Gallagher, Phillips, Gallaudet, and Shellenberger testify. Cadence shifts from years to months.

  20. 2025JulOfficial Record

    AARO Historical Report Vol. II

    Long-pending second volume extends the official audit through the modern era.

  21. 2025NovOfficial Record

    Grusch follow-up testimony

    Supplemental on-the-record statements expand the 2023 testimony.

  22. 2026MayOfficial Record

    WH / Department of War UAP files release

    Second tranche of declassified imagery and sensor records — Iran 2022 formation, East Coast 2019 track.

  23. 2027Forecast Signals

    Forecast: disclosure inflection

    Most cited window across channeled traditions. Tracked, not endorsed.

  24. 2029Forecast Signals

    Forecast: contact window closes

    Trailing edge of the convergence window across source classes.