Using the Timeline

The Timeline gives you a scrollable, chronological view of events across the entire UAP disclosure record — from the late 19th century through the present day. Every event is linked to its source documents and the entities involved.

What the Timeline Shows

The Timeline displays events extracted from library documents: sightings, official investigations, government actions, witness testimonies, program milestones, and more. The record currently spans from 1897 to the present. Each event card shows a date, a title, a short description, the source tier, and the entities involved. Click any card to expand it and see the full description, the source document reference, and a list of participating entities with links to their profiles.

Era Filter Buttons

A row of decade buttons runs across the top of the Timeline. Click any decade button to jump directly to that period in the chronology without scrolling manually. This is the fastest way to orient yourself in a specific historical era — for example, jumping to the 1940s to explore early post-war activity, or the 2000s to look at the buildup toward congressional hearings.

Tier Filter Buttons

Three filter buttons let you control which events are visible:

ALL — every event in the timeline, across all sources
T1 GOV — only events sourced from US government documents; the highest-confidence primary record
T2 RESEARCH — only events sourced from research materials and witness testimony

There is also a separate AI BG toggle. AI Background events are supplementary biographical and contextual events — things like career appointments, organizational founding dates, and background facts — generated by the AI to fill gaps in the primary record. They are hidden by default because they are supplementary rather than primary source evidence. Toggle AI BG on if you want the fuller biographical context for entities appearing in events.

Incident Groups

Some events are grouped under a parent incident. When you see an event card with an expand indicator, that card represents a multi-event incident. Click the parent card to expand it and reveal all the child events beneath it — for example, a case investigation that unfolded over several weeks might be represented as a parent event with individual sub-events for each documented development. This keeps the main timeline readable while preserving the full detail for cases that warrant it.

Loading a Specific Case

The global Timeline shows the full library. To see only events related to a specific case — Roswell, the Tic Tac encounter, Foo Fighters, and so on — navigate to that case in the Explorer, open its profile, and click the Timeline tab. The case Timeline shows all events scoped to that incident, in the same format with the same filter controls.

Tip: Start with ALL to get the full picture, then switch to T1 GOV to see which events are grounded in official records. The difference between those two views tells you a lot about where the evidentiary gaps are.