Below is a comprehensive list of New York Times articles addressing the extraterrestrial presence issue from the years 2008 to 2018 plus some articles from 1947 to 2007.
- December 30, 2017 – Dad Believed in U.F.O.s. Turns Out He Wasn’t Alone – Dan Barry, New York Times
- December 18, 2017 – ‘Look at That Thing!’ U.S. Navy Jet Encounters Unknown Object – New York Times
- December 18, 2017 – On the Trail of a Secret Pentagon U.F.O. Program – Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times
- December 16, 2017 – 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’ – Helene Cooper, Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times
- December 16, 2017 – Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program – Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, New York Times
- July 21, 2017 – Don’t Believe in God? Maybe You’ll Try U.F.O.s – Clay Routledge, New York Times
- April 25, 2016 – People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It – Ralph Bluenthal, New York Times
- February 15, 2017 – Winston Churchill Wrote of Alien Life in a Lost Essay – Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, New York Times
- May 13, 2016 – Why We Keep Dreaming of Little Green Men – George Johnson, New York Times
- May 10, 2016 – Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in Thrall – Amy Chozick, New York Times
- February 5, 2016 – Edgar D. Mitchell, Sixth Moonwalking Astronaut, Dies at 85 – Richard Goldstein, New York Times
- November 12, 2015 – Bright Lights, Strange Shapes and Talk of U.F.O.’s – Jonah Bromwich, New York Times
- September 29, 2015 – Ionel Talpazan, Whose UFO Art Had Sightings All Over, Dies at 60 – New York Times
- October 11, 2014 – U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist – Esther B Fein, New York Times
- August 22, 2013 – C.I.A. Acknowledges Area 51 Exists, but What About Those Little Green Men? – Adam Nagourney, New York Times
- May 3, 2013 – Visitors From Outer Space, Real or Not, Are Focus of Discussion in Washington – Andrew Siddons, New York Times
- March 30, 2013 – About Those Visitors From Other Planets – Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
- August 24, 2011 – Budd Hopkins, Abstract Expressionist and U.F.O. Author, Dies at 80 – Margalit Fox, New York Times
- May 15, 2011 – A Military Post’s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens – Janet Maslin, New York Times
- April 21, 2011 – ‘What on Earth? Probes Mysteries of Crop Circles – Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
- March 3, 2011 – Behold the Sky: Full of Such Mischief, British U.F.O. Files Say – Sarah Lyall, New York Times
- December 10, 2010 – In Archive, New Light on Evolution of Eisenhower Speech – Sam Roberts, New York Times
- November 25, 2010 – Pit Stop for U.F.O.’s, and Humans Who Love Them – Kirk Johnson, New York Times
- October 8, 2010 – U.N. Weighs How to Answer a Knock on Earth’s Doo – Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times
- July 3, 2010 – Out of This World, Out of Our Minds – John Schwartz, New York Times
- February 18, 2010 – Keep Calm and Never Mind, Britain Says in Its X-Files – Sam Roberts, New York Times
- December 21, 2009 – U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25 – Scott Shane, New York Times
- December 4, 2009 – Ex-Files: British Military Ends Its UFO Hot Line – New York Times
- December 1, 2009 – Attention All ETs, Denver May Be the Place for You – Kirk Johnson, New York Times
- June 22, 2009 – Ideas Online, Yes, but Some Not So Presidential – Saul Hansell, New York Times
- May 14, 2009 – A climate solution that’s out of this world – Anne C. Mulkern, New York Times
- July 30, 2008 – British Hacker Closer to Facing Trial in America – Mike Nizza, New York Times
- July 29, 2008 – Unidentified Flying Threats – Nick Pope, New York Times (editorial)
- July 24, 2008 – When an Astronaut Believes in Aliens – Mike Nizza, New York Times
- May 26, 2008 – British U.F.O. Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth – Sarah Lyall, New York Times
- February 6, 2008 – Otherworldly Phenomena: Explainable? You Decide – Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
- December 22, 2007 – Former Pilots And Officials Call For New U.S. UFO Probe – Martin Fackler, New York Times
- June 26, 2007 – Trove of C.I.A. documents released – New York Times
- April 13, 2007 – Lonesome Highway to Another World? – Stephen Regenold, New York Times
- January 1, 2007 – A UFO at O’Hare? Some Pilots Thought So – New York Times
- August 9, 2005 – Explaining Those Vivid Memories Of Martian Kidnappers – Benedict Carey, New York Times
- February 24, 2005 – TV Review – ‘Peter Jennings Reporting’: An ABC Documentary Lands in UFO Territory – Alessandra Stanley, New York Times
- October 23, 2004 – Betty Hill, 85, Figure in Alien Abduction Case – Margalit Fox, New York Times
- July 27, 2003 – A Bad Trip Down Memory Lane – Bruce Grierson, New York Times
- July 6, 2002 – The C.I.A.’s Cover Has Been Blown? Just Make Up Something About UFOs – Stephen Kinzer, New York Times
- January 11, 2000 – UFO Boom Doesn’t Worry Officials – Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times
- July 6, 1999 – Sleep Disorder May Explain Alien Abduction Stories Brain-body ‘disconnect’ can cause terror – Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times
- February 17, 1999 – NBC’s ‘Aliens’ riddled with questions – John Martin, New York Times
- February 15, 1998 – Politics: The X-Plank – New York Times
- June 30, 1997 – U.F.O. Believers and Debunkers Thrive on the Web – Patrick J. Lyons, New York Times
- June 25, 1997 – We’re Not Alone – Maureen Dowd, New York Times
- June 14, 1997 – Flying Saucer Buffs to Mark Half Century of Hazy History – Amy Harmon, New York Times
- August 29, 1995 – Reporter’s Notebook; Night Under the Stars for the Clintons – Todd S. Purdum, New York Times
- May 4, 1995 – Harvard Investigates a Professor Who Wrote of Space Aliens – William H. Honan, New York Times
- October 28, 1992 – Campus Journal; Taking U.F.O.’s for Credit, and for Real – Michael Decourcy Hinds, New York Times
- August 25, 1984 – Strange Sights Brighten The Night Skies Upstate – Schmalz, Jeffrey, New York Times
- December 18, 1969 – Air Force closes study of UFO’s – New York Times
- February 27, 1960 – AIR FORGE ORDER ON ‘SAUCERS’ CITED; Pamphlet by the Inspector General Called Objects a ‘Serious Business’ – New York Times
- April 11, 1952 – Balloon Project Men See Strange Aerial Objects – New York Times
- April 11, 1952 – The Saucers are Back – New York Times
- July 9, 1947 – ‘Disk’ Near Bomb Test Site Is Just a Weather Balloon; Warrant Officer Solves a Puzzle That Baffled His Superiors; ‘Flying Saucer’ Tales Pour in From Round the World – Murray Schumach, New York Times