2020 to today
2020 to today
Section 702 searches, license plate cameras, data center deals, private equity in housing, deaths in ICE custody, and the Epstein files.
Key facts
- The FBI made 278,000 improper searches of Americans' communications under Section 702.
- Cities and counties sign nondisclosure agreements before voting on data centers.
- 269 of the 469 entries on the site fall in this period.
Timeline
38 events in CIA, War & Covert Operations, oldest first
- 2020April 27, 2020CIA, War & Covert Operations
The Defense Department releases the Navy's three videos and says the phenomena remain characterized as unidentified
The 2004 Nimitz video and two from 2015; the office later resolved one as parallax and lists the other two as unresolved.
- May 6, 2020CIA, War & Covert Operations
Congress votes to bar war with Iran; vetoed
Override fails the next day.
- 2021June 25, 2021CIA, War & Covert Operations
The Director of National Intelligence reports 144 UAP reports and explains one
Eighteen incidents with objects stationary in winds aloft, against the wind, or at speed without discernable means of propulsion.
- August 2021CIA, War & Covert Operations
SIGAR: we didn't know what we were doing
$145 billion in reconstruction, $837 billion in war; 2,443 American troops dead.
- 2023March 1, 2023CIA, War & Covert Operations
Intelligence agencies call a foreign attack on injured officers very unlikely
Two agencies dissented with low confidence. The government's own panels had pointed to pulsed microwaves.
- July 26, 2023CIA, War & Covert Operations
A former intelligence officer tells the House under oath of a crash retrieval program and nonhuman biologics he did not see himself
David Grusch; the Pentagon: no verifiable information to substantiate the claims.
- December 22, 2023CIA, War & Covert Operations
The defense law keeps the UAP records collection and drops the review board and the eminent domain clause
The Schumer-Rounds act as filed would have claimed recovered technology and biological evidence of non-human intelligence for the government.
- 2024March 8, 2024CIA, War & Covert Operations
The Pentagon's review of the historical record finds no evidence that any investigation ever confirmed a sighting as extraterrestrial technology
The alleged programs do not exist, are misidentified sensitive programs, or resolve to the rejected Kona Blue proposal.
- December 5, 2024CIA, War & Covert Operations
House subcommittee: increasingly likely a foreign adversary is behind some injuries
And the agencies hindered the inquiry.
- 2025June 27, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Senate declines to require authorization after the Iran strikes
Three nuclear sites bombed June 21 to 22.
- July 7, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Justice Department: no Epstein client list, no further disclosure warranted
Five months after the attorney general said it was on her desk.
- August 28, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Judge lets the 9/11 families' case against Saudi Arabia go to trial
Evidence that two Saudi employees helped the hijackers within the scope of their jobs.
- September 2, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
First boat strike; two survivors killed by a second missile
69 strikes and 227 killed by August 2026.
- October 21, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Arizona sues the Speaker to seat the member whose signature completes the Epstein petition
Johnson: it has zero to do with Epstein.
- November 12, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Grijalva sworn in fifty days after her election; the petition reaches 218
No signer could withdraw; the vote could not be stopped.
- November 16, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
The president reverses: House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files
Two days before the vote, after four months of calling it a hoax.
- November 18, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
House votes 427 to 1 to release the Epstein files
Signed the next day. Deadline December 19.
- December 19, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Deadline day: 3,965 files released, at least 550 pages blacked out in full
The department says the rest will follow.
- December 22, 2025CIA, War & Covert Operations
Redactions in the Epstein release undone with copy and paste; files taken down without notice
One photograph removed and restored the same day.
- 2026January 3, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Venezuela bombed; its president seized
47 Venezuelan soldiers and 32 Cubans reported killed. No authorization.
- January 4, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Review protocol: redact every federal employee's name below Senate confirmation and every woman's face
Categories the law does not contain.
- January 8, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
The Epstein law's sponsors ask for a special master
125,575 pages released; two million documents said to remain.
- January 14, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Venezuela war powers resolution fails 51 to 50
Two senators reverse; the vice president breaks the tie.
- January 21, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Judge declines to put the Epstein release under a special master
The department keeps the review.
- January 30, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Justice Department releases 3.5 million records and declares compliance
Six weeks after the deadline.
- February 14, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
The list of officials and politically exposed persons arrives, without saying who did what
Omissions unintentional given the volume and speed.
- February 28, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
United States and Israel go to war with Iran
The supreme leader killed in the first strikes. No declaration.
- March 4, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Senate rejects an Iran war powers resolution 47 to 53
Six Americans had been killed in Kuwait on March 1.
- March 8, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
60 Minutes: a former CIA officer says the agency's injury inquiry was told to bring down the temperature
And sources describe a microwave weapon bought from a Russian network in 2024.
- April 2, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Attorney general removed
The Epstein files among the reasons reported.
- May 1, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
The 60 days run out; the president declares the Iran action terminated
The fighting continues.
- May 8, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
The War Department posts its first release of UAP files under the President's February order
Six releases and 447 records by September 18, 2026, 78 of them titled Unresolved UAP Report; all of them are on this site.
- May 13, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
CIA officer tells Senate the agency took back 40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra files
Luna gives the agency 24 hours. The DNI's office says there was no raid.
- June 5, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
The Pentagon's office writes that 40 percent of what six federal agents saw near a nuclear site in 2023 has no plausible explanation
A red orb stationary for hours is physically incompatible with any known flare; Unrecognized Technology (Pending); unsubstantiated by technical data.
- June 14, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
John Stockwell dies at 88
Found near his home in Austin after being reported missing the day before.
- June 23, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Both houses vote to end the Iran war
A concurrent resolution; it does not bind the president.
- July 8, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
Iran ceasefire declared over; 90 targets struck that night
Three Americans killed in Jordan two weeks later.
- July 21, 2026CIA, War & Covert Operations
The office's report for fiscal 2025 finds nine cases meriting further analysis and sends 191 to an archive for lack of data
319 reports; 238 resolved as satellite flaring; a Navy report of about 100 airborne objects off Virginia still under investigation.
Stories (10)
- 2025Former CIA Officers Andrew and Jihi Bustamante on Prepublication CensorshipAndrew and Jihi Bustamante met on their first day at the CIA and worked together on an operation to expose a mole inside the agency. The CIA approved their account of it in 2019, reclassified all of it in 2022, and approved it again when they threatened a First Amendment suit. Asked about the country, they describe an executive that has grown stronger for sixteen years, a Congress that does not act, and a distrust of government they consider dangerous in the richest and best armed country in the world. He plans to leave before 2026. She has wanted to for years.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- February 2025 to April 2026How the Justice Department, the White House, and the House Speaker Tried to Block the Epstein Files ReleaseThe attorney general said in February 2025 that the client list was on her desk. In July her department said there was no list and that no further disclosure would be appropriate. The president called the matter a hoax in July and again in November, and announced a primary challenge against the congressman who filed the petition to force a vote. The Speaker of the House kept the House out of session for six weeks and did not swear in the newly elected member whose signature would complete the petition, and said it had zero to do with Epstein. When the law passed anyway, 427 to 1, the department missed its deadline, claimed privileges the law does not mention, took files down after posting them, and declared itself in compliance six weeks late.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- 2025 to 2026The Epstein Files Transparency Act: How Congress Forced a 427–1 Vote and the DOJ Missed the DeadlineIn February 2025 the attorney general said the Epstein client list was sitting on her desk. In July 2025 her department said there was no such list and that no further disclosure would be appropriate. Two members of the House, one from each party, filed a petition to force a vote, and when it reached 218 signatures the House voted 427 to 1 to order every unclassified record released within 30 days, with redactions only to protect victims, and to forbid withholding for embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. The president signed it on November 19, 2025. The department missed the deadline, released about 125,000 pages while saying two million documents remained, was asked by the bill's sponsors to be placed under a special master, and on January 30, 2026 released 3.5 million records and declared itself in compliance. The attorney general was removed on April 2, 2026.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- 1865 to 2026Seven Government Conspiracy Claims Checked Against Declassified RecordsSeven widely circulated claims about secret government operations—a Bulgarian army dig for an alien object, a CIA time-travel program, a treaty between President Eisenhower and aliens, a chamber in Chaco Canyon seized by the NSA, the 1947 Maury Island flying saucer incident, a physicist called by a computer from the future, and John Wilkes Booth's escape—checked against declassified archives and historical records.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- December 2025 to March 2026How the Justice Department Redacted and Withheld 200,000 Pages of the Epstein FilesThe law allowed four kinds of redaction: victims' personal information, child abuse images, material that would jeopardize an active investigation, and images of death or injury. It forbade withholding anything for embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. The Justice Department's first release, on the day of the deadline, had at least 550 pages blacked out in full, among them a 119 page grand jury file. Its final letter said about 200,000 pages had been redacted or withheld under privileges the law does not mention. Its review instructions told staff to redact the names of every government employee below the rank of Senate confirmation and the face of every woman except Maxwell. Some of the redactions could be undone with copy and paste.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- 1950 to 2026Undeclared US Wars from Korea to the 2026 Strikes on Venezuela and IranCongress has declared war eleven times, in five wars, the last in 1942. Since then presidents have sent the country to war in Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Libya, Yemen, and twice against Iran without one, and Congress has tried and failed, by tie vote, by veto, and by one vote, to stop them. Since September 2, 2025 the military has struck 69 boats in the Caribbean and Pacific and killed 227 people, including two survivors clinging to wreckage. On January 3, 2026 it bombed Venezuela and took its president. On February 28, 2026 it went to war with Iran, a war that has killed at least 13 American service members and, by one count, 1,701 Iranian civilians, and that both houses of Congress voted in June to end. The president said the war had already ended and kept fighting it.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- 2016 to 2026Havana Syndrome: Brain Injuries Among US Personnel and the CIA's InvestigationSince 2016 American diplomats, spies, and officers have reported being struck by something that damaged their hearing, balance, and memory. Two government panels found the most plausible cause was pulsed microwave energy. The intelligence agencies concluded in 2023 that a foreign attack was very unlikely. A CIA officer who joined the agency's investigation told 60 Minutes his unit's job was to bring down the temperature and to prove the cases were psychosomatic, and that in 2024 federal agents bought a portable microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- May to June 2026The 40 Boxes of JFK Assassination and MKULTRA Files Taken Back by the CIA in 2026In May 2026 a CIA officer told a Senate committee that the agency had taken back about 40 boxes of JFK assassination and MKUltra records that the Director of National Intelligence was preparing to declassify. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna called it an internal coup and gave the agency 24 hours to return them. The DNI's office said no raid had happened. By the end of June the CIA said it was declassifying newly found MKUltra documents.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- 1947 to 2026What Declassified US Government Files Actually Show About UFOs (1947–2026)The Air Force took 12,618 reports of unidentified flying objects between 1947 and 1969 and could not explain 701 of them. Its own contractor found in 1955 that the better the witness, the more often the object stayed unknown. A CIA panel in 1953 recommended a public campaign of debunking, and the CIA wrote in 1997 that over half the reports of the late 1950s and 1960s were its own U-2 and OXCART flights, which the Air Force covered with misleading explanations. The Navy said in 2019 that the objects in its three videos were unidentified, the Director of National Intelligence told Congress in 2021 that it could explain one report in 144, and the Pentagon's office has since reported 757 cases in one year with 21 worth further study. A witness told a House committee under oath in 2023 that the government held recovered craft and non-human biologics; the Pentagon's 2024 review found no evidence that any investigation had ever confirmed a sighting as extraterrestrial. Congress wrote a disclosure law with eminent domain over recovered technology and passed only the part about records. In 2026 the War Department began posting its files, 447 records in six releases so far.CIA, War & Covert Operations
- 1947 to 2026The Unexplained UFO and UAP Cases in Air Force, CIA, DIA, and Pentagon RecordsThe Air Force closed 701 of its 12,618 cases as unidentified. The study it paid for in 1968 wrote that the McMinnville photographs were consistent with "an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial," and left four other cases unexplained. The Defense Intelligence Agency rated a 1976 report from Tehran, in which an F-4 lost its instruments and its weapons panel as it closed on an object, as confirmed by other sources and of major significance. An Air Force deputy base commander reported "unexplained lights" and a triangular metallic object in an English forest in 1980. The Navy has said since 2019 that the objects in its videos are unidentified. The War Department has released 78 records it titles "Unresolved UAP Report," and its office wrote in June 2026 that a red light six federal agents watched sit over a ridge for hours near a nuclear site "is physically incompatible with the burn-time and descent rate of any known military flare."CIA, War & Covert Operations