The threads that run through the cases
What connects many cases, when, and who says so — 13 narratives, each drawn as a tree over time.
The legacy program
UAP Gerb's central story: from 1947 one national effort, modelled on the Manhattan Project and run by a control group hidden inside the NSC's covert-action chain, recovered and studied non-human craft. At his turning points (Carter's 1978 order, the 1993 'Last Supper' mergers, the 1994 hand-over to a committee of 27, the IRAD breakaway of the 2000s) it split into branches held by the Air Force, the Navy, the CIA and NRO, FFRDCs and the prime contractors. The framework is his; the dates it hangs on are checkable, and each event below carries its own grade.
The squeeze
The technology slipped out of government hands, the companies kept it, rivals caught up, and disclosure is the squeeze to get it back.
The nuclear connection
Craft drawn to the bomb: from Trinity and the green fireballs to missiles going offline and the bait runs of 2020-26.
The price of contact
What contact costs people: burns, illness, disappearances and threats, from records to anonymous claims.
Ordered to fire
Sixty years of air forces chasing these objects and trying to shoot them down, with no effect until 2023.
Split by service
There is no single legacy program: the Air Force, the Army, the Navy and the labs each keep their own, and barely talk.
The cover layer
Deception as a branch of its own, growing after every wave: Robertson, Kirtland, MJ-12, Wilson-Davis, Kona Blue.
The undersea program
Craft seen going in and out of the sea, the Navy offices that watch them, and Gerb's "tic-tac factory" in a trench off the Bahamas.
The mirror
Every state that tracks these objects decides they belong to its rival. In the Gulf, Iran and the US have watched the same skies for 20 years.
The recovery teams
From Stringfield's Blue Berets to JSOC and privatised teams that shoot at each other: who goes out to get the craft.
One corner of New Mexico
Most of the history happens within about 300 km of Albuquerque, from Trinity to the White Sands lure.
The closed airport
Lights closed airports in Asia from 2010, long before Europe's wave of 2025; the official word changed to "drone" on the way.
The helicopters
Helicopters keep turning up beside the objects: encounters, escorts, and the retrieval flights.