Five Eyes Nations Formalized UAP Intelligence Network at Pentagon in 2023, Records Show

The U.S. military provided classified UAP analysis to Australia and other allies at a May 2023 Pentagon meeting where Five Eyes partners established formal protocols for detecting, sharing, and analyzing unidentified anomalous phenomena, Defense Department records confirm.

The U.S. military provided classified UAP analysis to Australia during a May 24, 2023 Pentagon meeting where Five Eyes partners established a formal intelligence-sharing framework for detecting and analyzing unidentified anomalous phenomena, according to Defense Department records obtained under FOIA.

The meeting was not a briefing. It was a working group. There is a difference. The official agenda described it as the "FVEY Inaugural UAP Caucus Working Group," with a mandate to build shared awareness of allied UAP issues and develop a framework for future collaboration. Representatives from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand joined U.S. officials from AARO (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon's dedicated UAP analysis body), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, NASA, and the FAA. The room was cleared for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.

That last detail matters. TS/SCI is not a precaution you take for a routine interagency status update.

The agenda proposed four concrete deliverables: networks for sharing Five Eyes UAP reporting at both unclassified and classified levels, shared databases of known objects detected using different sensors, coordinated UAP collection planning, and a schedule for future meetings. It also flagged potential connections with Five Eyes working groups already focused on emerging and disruptive technologies.

Australia's role was not passive. The AARO records confirm that Australia was scheduled to provide a national UAP update. Australian Defence records, released through Senate Estimates and Freedom of Information processes, confirm that a Defence representative at the Australian Embassy in Washington attended the forum. They also confirm that Australia's Air Commander provided a classified summary of relevant Air Force capabilities, and that existing RAAF intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems provide pathways for observations to be communicated and analyzed.

Then there is the plainest sentence in the Australian government's own documentation: "Yes. The United States military released classified analysis to Defence."

One sentence. Unambiguous. Worth sitting with for a moment.

What the records do not reveal is what that classified analysis contained. No document in the public record establishes that the material concerned extraterrestrial technology, non-human intelligence, or recovered craft. Classified analysis could involve sensitive sensor capabilities, foreign surveillance platforms, collection methods, or military threat assessments. The distinction matters, and the documents are careful not to make claims they cannot support.

What the records do establish is that UAP detection, reporting, and data sharing have entered the formal Five Eyes intelligence framework. That is a different kind of disclosure than a congressional hearing or a whistleblower testimony. It is structural. It is documented. And it happened two years ago.

While officials discuss the maturation of allied UAP cooperation, the National Archives already contains records that show how long allied intelligence coordination has operated in parallel channels without public acknowledgment.

The National Archives holds the Pentagon's own FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, now part of Record Group 615, the dedicated UAP records collection. That report documents AARO's ongoing analysis work but makes no mention of the Five Eyes caucus framework established the previous year. Two bureaucratic processes, same subject, apparently not cross-referencing each other in the public record.

The Archives also hold the transcript from a 2023 Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on emerging threats and capabilities, filed under the same record group. That transcript, also from 2023, covers the period when the Five Eyes working group was being stood up. Whether the committee was briefed on the allied coordination framework is not established by the public record.

And then there is a 346-page correspondence file in the Clinton Presidential Library catalogued simply as "[UFO] [2]," sitting in the National Archives right now. It spans the mid-1990s, a period when the government's public posture on UAP was firmly dismissive. Somebody was writing enough letters about this subject to fill a folder that thick, and somebody in the White House was keeping them. The coordination instinct, it seems, has a longer history than the current framework suggests.

UFO correspondence file from the Clinton White House, now held at the National Archives
Clinton-era UFO correspondence, now part of the public record. Source: National Archives correspondence files. Credit: National Archives, NAID 297910574. Public Domain.

Here is the detail that deserves more attention than it has received.

Australia confirmed formal participation in a classified UAP intelligence exchange. Australia also confirmed, in the same set of records, that the Defence Aviation Safety Authority has no specific UAP reporting protocol. Pilots and operators route unusual observations through existing aviation safety and intelligence mechanisms "where appropriate."

Read that again. A nation that received classified U.S. UAP analysis, that deployed its Air Commander to brief Five Eyes allies on RAAF sensor capabilities, that sent a representative to a TS/SCI-cleared working group at the Pentagon, has no dedicated channel for its own people to formally report what they see.

That is not a gap in the record. That is a gap in the policy.

The Liberation Times has separately reported on Australia's lack of transparency and accountability on the UAP issue, a pattern that the newly confirmed Five Eyes framework now throws into sharper relief. Participating in a classified allied network while maintaining no domestic reporting structure is a position that will become harder to defend publicly.

The timing adds another layer. The Five Eyes working group met in May 2023. Less than two years later, in March 2025, a journalist was accidentally included in a Signal group chat where senior U.S. officials discussed classified military strike plans against Yemeni rebels. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called it "a serious, serious issue" and said allied nations must increasingly "look out for ourselves," according to The Guardian. The UK said it retained confidence in shared security measures. Australia called it "a matter for the United States."

The Five Eyes relationship has weathered breaches before. In 2017, the UK briefly suspended intelligence sharing with the U.S. after American officials leaked details of the Manchester bombing investigation to the press, a remarkable rupture between two partners who share "the deepest of intelligence relationships," as CNN reported at the time. The alliance recovered. It tends to.

But the question of whether allies will continue feeding sensitive UAP data into a shared framework with an American partner that has demonstrated recent lapses in classified information handling is now a live policy question, not a theoretical one.

Watch for two things. First, whether Australia moves to formalize a domestic UAP reporting structure, something its own defence officials have said would require demonstrating that existing mechanisms are insufficient. The Five Eyes participation makes that bar harder to maintain as a neutral standard. Second, watch for whether the Five Eyes caucus framework produced a second meeting. The May 2023 agenda explicitly called for scheduling future sessions. No public record of a follow-on meeting has surfaced. Either the meetings continued under tighter classification, or the framework stalled. Both possibilities are worth pursuing.

The documents that answer that question exist somewhere. They may already be sitting in a filing cabinet in College Park, waiting for the right FOIA request.

Stay curious.

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Further Reading

- AARO FOIA 24-F-1426, FVEY Inaugural UAP Caucus Working Group (primary source for this article)
- FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, National Archives, NAID 493470289
- FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (OSD version), National Archives, NAID 499915939
- Senate Armed Services Committee Emerging Threats and Capabilities Briefing 2023, National Archives, NAID 499915954
- Clinton White House UFO Correspondence UFO] [2], National Archives, [NAID 297910574