Vandenberg UAP Incursions (2003-2005)
A series of five reported UAP incidents at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, between 2003 and 2005, described to Congress under oath on 9 September 2025 by Jeffrey Nuccetelli, then a base military police officer, who says he witnessed one of them and investigated others as they occurred and drew on six other servicemembers for the rest. The first, on 14 October 2003, was a glowing red square reported by Boeing contractors hovering over two missile defence sites. Later the same night five witnesses at a launch site reported a triangular craft larger than a football field, silent, holding position over their entry control point for about 45 seconds before departing at speed; Nuccetelli responded to that call. A week later an object was reported to have descended to the flightline, and Nuccetelli testified that the witnesses to it were told to keep quiet. Two further incidents are placed in 2005, one of them his own sighting of a thirty-foot sphere of light. He testified that the base was flying launches the National Reconnaissance Office had assessed as the most important in 25 years. The accounts are a mixture of first-hand, investigative and second-hand, and the node says which is which because the hearing does. The Air Force police records that would corroborate them are gone: he testified that AARO told him they could not be located, having been destroyed on the service's three-year schedule.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aaro", "uap". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
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personally witnessed one of the five and investigated others as they occurredRestoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protectionprinted p. 7 · PDF p. 11
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described incident by incident under oath at this hearingsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 7 · PDF p. 11
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relayed the October 2003 red square to Congress two years earlier, second-hand, from a witness who came to his organisation
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the launches the base was flying at the time were assessed by it as the most important in 25 years, per the same sworn testimonyRestoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protectionprinted p. 7 · PDF p. 11
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→ AAROtold the witness the Air Force records of these events had been destroyed and could not be locatedsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 26 · PDF p. 30
Notes on this record
THE DATE IS THE FIRST INCIDENT, NOT THE SERIES. Jeffrey Nuccetelli testified on 9 September 2025 that five UAP incidents occurred at the base "between 2003 and 2005" and gave one calendar date for one of them: 14 October 2003, the glowing red square reported by Boeing contractors. The rest are dated only in relation to it - "later that night", "about a week later", "about 2005". This node carries the one date the record states and no end date, because no end date is stated. Anyone drawing a span here would be inventing its right-hand edge.
Five reported UAP incidents at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 2003 and 2005, described under oath in 2025.