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Scientific
38 entries in the archive on this topic.
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The Numbers That Refuted Their Own Conclusion
In 1955, the Air Force published a 312-page statistical analysis of 3,201 UFO reports. The chi-square tests showed the unknowns were a distinct population at better than 99 percent...
NARCAP: Twenty-Five Years of Aviation Safety and UAP
The only organisation in the world dedicated exclusively to the aviation safety dimension of unidentified aerial phenomena, founded in 1999 by a retired NASA Ames Research Center...
CIHS: The First Accredited University for Anomalous Studies
A regionally accredited graduate university offering the first formal academic programme with a concentration in anomalous studies, including extraordinary experiences and...
'Oumuamua: The First Interstellar Object
On 19 October 2017, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii detected the first confirmed interstellar object passing through the solar system. Its anomalous properties generated four...
The Galileo Project: Harvard's Systematic Search for Extraterrestrial Artefacts
The first academic research programme to apply calibrated scientific instrumentation and peer-reviewed methodology to the search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological...
The Sol Foundation: Academic Research and Policy at the Frontier of UAP
The first academic think tank to combine materials science, policy analysis, and anthropological inquiry at the intersection of UAP research and institutional governance, founded...
FREE: Edgar Mitchell's Experiencer Research Foundation
Co-founded by an Apollo 14 astronaut seven months before his death, FREE conducted the first comprehensive international academic survey of people reporting contact with non-human...
The Institute of Noetic Sciences: Edgar Mitchell's Consciousness Legacy
Founded in 1973 by an Apollo 14 astronaut after his experience of cosmic interconnectedness on the return flight from the Moon, IONS has spent five decades at the intersection of...
The Society for UAP Studies and Limina: Building the Academic Field
The first dedicated academic learned society for UAP Studies, publishing the field's first double-blind peer-reviewed journal, developing university-level curriculum, and...
The SETI Institute: The Mainstream Search and the UAP Tension
The world's most established organisation searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, operating since 1984 with NASA and NSF funding. Its institutional position on UAP represents...
UAPx: From the Nimitz Encounter to Scientific Field Research
Founded by three USS Princeton crew members who tracked the 2004 'Tic Tac' objects on radar, UAPx conducts instrumented scientific field expeditions and holds over two terabytes of...
Case files (2)
1968 Congressional UFO Symposium | Exhibition
The full record of the 1968 House Science Committee UFO Symposium: twelve scientists, six hours of testimony, and the hearing that Congress buried for fifty years.
NASA UAP Independent Study Team | September 14, 2023
David Spergel chaired a sixteen-member independent panel commissioned by NASA to assess whether the agency could contribute to UAP research. The September 2023 final report...
Biographies (22)
Bruce Maccabee | Biography
Bruce S. Maccabee, optical physicist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center for thirty-six years who applied photographic and video analysis methods to UAP cases including...
Colm Kelleher | Biography
Dr. Colm Kelleher, Irish-American biochemist. Former Deputy Administrator of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) during the 2008 to 2010 AAWSAP contract with the...
Eric Davis | Biography
Dr. Eric W. Davis, theoretical physicist and aerospace consultant. Senior contractor at EarthTech International under Hal Puthoff. Co-author of multiple AAWSAP Defense Intelligence...
George Van Tassel | Biography
George Van Tassel, aircraft engineer turned 1950s contactee, founder of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention and builder of the Integratron at Landers, California.
Hal Puthoff | Biography
Harold E. Puthoff, American physicist and electrical engineer. Scientific director of the SRI remote-viewing programme 1972 to 1985. President of EarthTech International and the...
Jack Parsons | Biography
Jack Parsons, the self-taught rocket chemist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ran an occult lodge out of his Pasadena house. JATO inventor, OTO magus, FBI file...
Jacques Vallée | Biography
Jacques Fabrice Vallée, the Pontoise-born French-American computer scientist, astronomer, and UFO investigator who collaborated with J. Allen Hynek across the 1960s and 1970s,...
Jon Kosloski
NSA quantum optics researcher appointed to direct the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office in August 2024, bringing a scientific and technical framework to the...
Jim Lorenzen | Biography
Leslie James 'Jim' Lorenzen, WWII US Army Air Forces combat radio operator, civilian engineer at Holloman Air Force Base and the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and co-founder in...
Joseph Rodes Buchanan | Biography
Joseph Rodes Buchanan, the Kentucky-born physician who founded psychometry in 1841 through experiments with a sensitive who described the properties of metals and chemicals from...
Jules Verne | Biography
Jules Verne, the Nantes-born French writer whose Voyages Extraordinaires across the 1863 to 1905 period are the substantive cultural-grammar source of three documented...
Lonnie Zamora | Biography
Dionicio Eduardo 'Lonnie' Zamora, Socorro Police Department officer whose 24 April 1964 encounter south of Socorro, New Mexico, became Project Blue Book Case 8766 and one of fewer...
Lynne Kitei | Biography
Lynne D. Kitei MD, Phoenix physician who recorded the 13 March 1997 V-formation on video and 35mm film, operated anonymously as 'Dr X' for seven years to protect her medical...
Marie Curie | Biography
Marie Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born French physicist and chemist who co-discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie in 1898, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, won...
Nikola Tesla | Biography
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil. The wireless-power years at Wardenclyffe, the 1899 Colorado Springs Mars...
Sir Oliver Lodge | Biography
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the Liverpool and Birmingham physicist who built the Lodge coherer in 1894 and transmitted wireless signals across an Oxford lecture-theatre before...
Pierre Curie | Biography
Pierre Curie, the Paris physicist who co-discovered piezoelectricity in 1880 with his brother Jacques, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel...
Sean Kirkpatrick | Biography
Sean Kirkpatrick, physicist and founding Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), July 2022 to December 2023. Federal science and intelligence career across the...
Stanton Friedman | Biography
Stanton Terry Friedman, nuclear physicist who spent fourteen years on classified nuclear propulsion programmes before lecturing publicly on UFOs from 1967. His February 1978...
Tim Gallaudet | Biography
Retired Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, United States Navy. Former Oceanographer of the Navy, former acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
Travis Taylor | Biography
Dr. Travis S. Taylor, American aerospace engineer, physicist and author. Former Chief Scientist for the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, the Department of Defense body...
Sir William Crookes | Biography
Sir William Crookes, the chemist who discovered thallium in 1861, invented the Radiometer in 1872, gave his name to the vacuum tube Wilhelm Roentgen used to discover X-rays in...
