7/ A new conversation recorded at Contact in the Desert and released by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp on September 8 2026 tells us what Wiggins says happened after the hearing. AARO contacted him and asked him to enter a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, to tell the story again. Wiggins declined. He was on active duty, studying at college and raising 3 children. He had also just given the account publicly before Congress with the support of the Navy.

Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 pilot, testified before Congress in 2023 that UAP sightings were routine during his active-duty years (2012–2015) off the Virginia Beach coast — so frequent among his squadron that they became part of daily flight briefs. His most cited incident occurred in Warning Area W-72, ten miles east of Virginia Beach: two jets crossing a fixed entry point encountered a motionless dark gray cube inside a clear sphere, forcing evasive action and an aborted mission. No o...

We hit 50,000 reports and published a full analysis of the dataset. Every submission is read by a human before it goes live and 70% pass. Here is some of what we found... The numbers: 51,984 reports. 80 years. 255 countries. In 2025, nearly 60% of submissions included photo or video media. Who is reporting: Among submitters who disclosed a profession (~16%), the breakdown skews toward trained observation backgrounds: Veterans 43% · Scientists 22% · Law enforcement 10% · Pilots 9% · Active dut...