What's New
Recently added and updated profiles, cases, documents, and programs.
April 2026
Teodorani 2004 — A Long-Term Scientific Survey of the Hessdalen Phenomenon (Journal of Scientific Exploration)
Foundational Hessdalen field investigation paper covering 1984-2001 instrument-based data (spectroscopy, photometry, radar) documenting anomalous luminous phenomena that resist conventional atmospheric explanation.
De la Torre 2024 — Psychological Aspects in UAP Witnesses (International Journal of Astrobiology)
Survey of 245 participants identifying a UAP deep psychological engagement triad in direct witnesses, published in Cambridge University Press's International Journal of Astrobiology.
Hernandez et al. 2018 — Contact with Non-Human Intelligence: FREE Study (Journal of Scientific Exploration)
The FREE survey — the largest structured experiencer study ever conducted (N=3,256), documenting phenomenology of reported NHI contact published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Moscote-Salazar et al. 2025 — Neurological Effects of Encounters with UAP (Matrix Science Medica)
First peer-reviewed neurology journal paper to document neurological sequelae of UAP close encounters, treating biological effects of UAP experiences as a legitimate clinical topic within mainstream medical literature.
Greyson 1983 — The Near-Death Experience Scale (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease)
Foundational 16-item NDE measurement instrument that has served as the standard research tool since 1983, cited in every major clinical NDE study including van Lommel 2001 and Parnia 2014.
Beauregard et al. 2014 — Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science (EXPLORE)
Eight-author scientific manifesto calling for paradigm expansion beyond materialism — the foundational citable document for the post-materialist science movement that underlies the catalog's consciousness research thread.
Puthoff 2010 — Spacetime Metric Engineering for Advanced Propulsion (JBIS)
Solo follow-up to the 2002 ZPF paper, directly cited in AAWSAP DIRD reports — one of the few catalog papers with a confirmed classified government program connection.
Puthoff, Little & Ibison 2002 — Zero-Point Field Propulsion (JBIS)
Foundational metric engineering propulsion paper proposing quantum vacuum manipulation for interstellar flight — direct antecedent to the AAWSAP propulsion physics program and davis-2009-warp-metrics.
Watters, Loeb et al. 2023 — Multimodal UAP Observatories (JAI)
Galileo Project technical blueprint for integrated multimodal UAP observatories with machine learning classification, from the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation special issue.
Loeb & Laukien 2023 — Overview of the Galileo Project (JAI)
First peer-reviewed journal paper formally establishing the Galileo Project's scientific program — distinct from Loeb's 2021 book entry in the catalog.
Lomas et al. 2025 — UAP Assessment Matrix (Acta Astronautica)
Proposes a 2D evidence-quality vs. understanding matrix for UAP evaluation, published in Acta Astronautica (IAA flagship, CiteScore 7.3) — Tim Lomas's third paper in the DECUR catalog.
Yingling & Yingling 2024 — Academic Freedom and UAP Research (Nature/Palgrave)
Follow-up survey documenting near-universal awareness of professional repercussions for faculty who conduct UAP research, including tenure and promotion risks.
Yingling & Yingling 2023 — Faculty Perceptions of UAP (Nature/Palgrave)
First national survey of academic faculty UAP attitudes across 144 US universities (N=1,460): 19% personally observed UAP, 37% interested in researching it, fewer than 1% had done so.
Bruehl & Villarroel 2025 — POSS-I Transients / Nuclear Correlation (Scientific Reports)
Nature Publishing Group paper finding statistically significant correlation (p=0.008) between POSS-I photographic plate transients and nuclear test dates, with spatial association to UAP sighting density — highest-prestige journal in the catalog.
Platzer 2025 — On the Need for Rigorous UAP Research (PrAeS)
Companion to platzer-2025-uap-outlook; makes the affirmative case for why aerospace science must institutionalize UAP research, published in the landmark June 2025 Progress in Aerospace Sciences special issue.
Platzer 2025 — UAP Status and Outlook (PrAeS)
Overview paper by Naval Postgraduate School emeritus professor situating UAP investigation within mainstream aerospace science, part of the landmark June 2025 Progress in Aerospace Sciences special issue.
Vallee, Dini & Mestchersky 2025 — UAP Radiative Energy Analysis (PrAeS)
First paper in Progress in Aerospace Sciences to physically analyze a specific UAP case, estimating 500-900 MW radiative output from the 1966 Haynesville, Louisiana incident.
Loeb et al. 2024 — IM1 Spherule Chemical Classification (Chemical Geology)
Peer-reviewed journal publication of the Galileo Project IM1 spherule analysis in Chemical Geology, identifying the anomalous BeLaU compositional group with no match in known terrestrial, meteoritic, or industrial alloy databases.
Vallee, Nolan, Jiang & Lemke 2022 — UAP Materials Characterization Methods
Foundational ICP-MS/SIMS methods paper for UAP materials analysis, published in Progress in Aerospace Sciences — the analytical infrastructure underpinning all subsequent anomalous materials studies.
Knuth et al. 2025 — The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena
Landmark 140-author comprehensive review published in Progress in Aerospace Sciences — the most extensively co-authored peer-reviewed UAP paper to date, surveying 20 government investigation programs across 1933-2025.
Schulze-Makuch 2025 — Reliability Scale for UAP Sighting Reports
TU Berlin astrobiologist proposes a systematic 5-factor reliability scale for evaluating UAP reports, enabling triage between credible signals and noise in open-access Universe journal.
Jahn & Dunne 1986 — On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness (PEAR)
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research flagship paper: quantum mechanical consciousness framework and 2.5 million trials showing statistically significant mind-matter interaction with random event generators.
Dumsday 2025 — Understanding UAPs: Surveying the Nature-Spirits Hypothesis
Philosopher Travis Dumsday surveys the animism/nature-spirits hypothesis as a non-naturalist ontological framework for UAP phenomena, grounded in analytic metaphysics and comparative religion.
Szydagis 2025 — How Much Time Before Catastrophic Disclosure?
SUNY Albany particle physicist applies statistical modeling to smartphone ownership and population data to project a mean 'catastrophic disclosure' timeline of 2040 +/- 20 years.
Ailleris 2024 — Instrumented Field Studies for UAP Investigation
ESA-affiliated engineer surveys 1950-2023 instrumented UAP investigations and outlines a rigorous multi-sensor field study framework leveraging modern AI analytics and satellite imagery.
Engels 2025 — The Importance of Phenomenology for UAP Studies
Engels argues phenomenological methodology is an essential supplement to empirical UAP research, enabling first-person experiencer analysis and distinguishing ordinary from non-ordinary perception.
Peters 2025 — One Science for Both UFOlogists and Astrobiologists?
Ted Peters examines why astrobiologists and UFOlogists remain separate despite both operating with scientific frameworks and the ETI hypothesis, arguing for methodological convergence.
Ammon 2024 — Good Scientific Practice for UAP Research
Framework of scientific practice standards tailored for citizen-science UAP investigation, developed through German research community review and addressing the methodological gap between credentialed science and lay fieldwork.
Meheust 2025 — The Mystery of Elusiveness
Meheust's philosophical analysis of UAP elusiveness as a simultaneous display-and-concealment signature, proposing poltergeist research methodology as a precedent for non-reproducible phenomena.
Teodorani 2024 — Investigating UAP Events Using Astronomical Techniques
By the Project Hessdalen lead physicist: spectroscopy, photometry, and magnetometry methodology for systematic UAP field investigation, with past campaign results and a global monitoring station proposal.
Grosvenor, Hancock & Porritt 2025 — UAP Indications Analysis: U.S. Atomic Warfare Complex
Quantitative analysis of 874 UAP incidents at U.S. nuclear facilities 1945-1975 finds elevated activity at atomic sites versus conventional installations, with Atomic Weapons Survey as most probable scenario.
Radin et al. 2012 — Consciousness and the Double-Slit Interference Pattern
Six experiments with 250+ participants found directed mental attention reduces double-slit interference (z=4.37, p<0.0001), proposing consciousness acts as a quantum observer.
Lomas 2024 — History of Scientific Approaches to UAP (JSE)
JSE systematic review tracing UAP's marginalization from legitimate science since the Condon Report and arguing for academic rehabilitation based on recent institutional re-engagement.
Loeb et al. 2023 — IM1 Spherules: Extrasolar Composition
Galileo Project ocean-floor expedition recovered ~700 spherules from the IM1 bolide site with anomalous BeLaU elemental signatures inconsistent with any known terrestrial or meteoric material.
Hameroff & Penrose 2014 — Consciousness in the Universe: Orch OR
Definitive 2014 review of Orchestrated Objective Reduction - the leading physics-grounded consciousness theory - connecting neuronal microtubule quantum processes to fundamental spacetime geometry.
Mashour 2024 — Consciousness and the Dying Brain
Comprehensive review by University of Michigan's Chair of Anesthesiology synthesizing NDE epidemiology and the neurophysiology of gamma oscillation surges at cardiac death.
Xu et al. 2023 — Gamma Surge in the Dying Human Brain
PNAS study documenting a surge of gamma oscillations in the posterior cortical 'hot zone' of dying patients at cardiac death — a neural correlate candidate for near-death experiences.
Kastrup 2017 — An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
Kastrup's peer-reviewed case for analytic idealism: consciousness as nature's sole ontological primitive, avoiding both the hard problem and the subject combination problem.
Chalmers 1995 — Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
The paper that coined 'the hard problem of consciousness' — foundational reference for the platform's entire consciousness science thread.
Targ & Puthoff 1974 — Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding
The foundational SRI remote viewing paper published in Nature — the study that established peer-reviewed scientific legitimacy for the program that became STARGATE.
Bem 2011 — Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences
Landmark JPSP paper: 9 experiments, 1000+ participants, d=0.22 for precognition effects — the paper that ignited the replication crisis debate in psychology.
Parnia et al. 2014 — AWARE: AWAreness during REsuscitation
The AWARE I study: 2060 cardiac arrest patients, one verified veridical out-of-body experience during resuscitation — the most rigorous clinical OBE case in the literature.
Van Lommel et al. 2001 — Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest
Foundational Lancet prospective NDE study: 344 cardiac arrest patients, 18% NDEs, ruling out physiological confounds — the most-cited clinical NDE paper.
Research Hub
New Research Hub section launches with 25 indexed papers and reports, 15 research organizations, and 10 events - a centralized academic infrastructure layer connecting papers, organizations, and events across the UAP research field.
1997 Pucallpa UFO Crash - Jonathan Weygandt
U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Weygandt claims to have observed a massive iridescent egg-shaped craft embedded in a cliff face during Operation Laser Strike in the Peruvian Amazon, followed by an on-site DoE MOPP team and coercive interrogation; a tier-3 case due to sole-witness status and active contradiction from named fellow marines.
1980 La Joya UFO Engagement - Oscar Santa Maria Huerta
The only documented case of a military pilot firing on a UAP with confirmed hits and no effect - Peruvian Air Force Lt. Santa Maria Huerta fired 64 rounds of 30mm cannon at the object before a 22-minute supersonic pursuit ending at 63,000 ft, witnessed by 1,800 personnel on the ground and registered by the U.S. DoD.
1978 Tarija UFO Crash
May 1978 mass-witness crash event in Bolivia confirmed by five declassified U.S. State Department documents and a Cyrus Vance telex ruling out all known re-entering space objects; U.S. Air Force officers dispatched under Project Moon Dust but no wreckage was ever publicly recovered.
Coyame UFO Crash / Chihuahua Disk
The 1974 Coyame, Chihuahua alleged UAP-Cessna mid-air collision and cross-border retrieval - sourced entirely from the anonymous 1992 'Deneb Report' (signed 'J.S.'), first published by Leonard Stringfield with explicit reservations; case documented honestly as tier-3 with zero corroborating official records from FAA, NTSB, NORAD, or SEDENA.
1971 UAP Crash North of Edwards AFB
The 1971 Mojave Desert crash claim north of Edwards AFB - documents the YF-12A classified aircraft crash (June 24, 1971) as the most probable mundane explanation, with honest framing of the shape descriptor inconsistency and Cordini's contaminated abductee testimony.
Operation Bluegill Triple Prime - Johnston Atoll UAP Recovery
The 1962 Operation Fishbowl high-altitude nuclear test anomaly - based on Harald Malmgren's 2025 firsthand account of handling non-human material, corroborated by the Kettle 1 footage white-triangle redaction by DSWA's Dr. Ristvet and Wright-Patterson's official notation of an unexplained second thermal source.
Kingman UFO Crash
The 1953 Kingman, Arizona crash - based on the signed affidavit of verified AMC engineer Arthur Stansel ('Fritz Werner'); includes Stringfield's independent anonymous corroboration, the 2024 Christopher Mellon Signal text development, and Operation Upshot-Knothole context.
Aztec UFO Crash
The 1948 Aztec, New Mexico crash claim - originated by convicted con men Newton and GeBauer, exposed by J.P. Cahn in 1952, and revived by Scott Ramsey in 2012; includes full treatment of the Guy Hottel FBI memo, the Sarbacher letter, and the fraud-vs-real-information debate.
Plains of San Agustin Incident
The 1947 Plains of San Agustin claim - a heavily investigated and largely discredited crash-recovery narrative; documents the secondhand Barnett account, Gerald Anderson's proven fabrications, and Kevin Randle's systematic investigation concluding the event did not occur.
Magenta UFO Crash - Italy 1933
The 1933 Magenta, Italy crash - Italy's pre-Roswell crash retrieval claim; documents Mussolini's alleged RS/33 cabinet under Marconi, the anonymous-source Italian document set, and David Grusch's 2023 sworn congressional testimony naming it as the earliest U.S.-acquired non-human craft.
Aurora Airship Crash
The 1897 Aurora, Texas airship crash - the earliest claimed crash-recovery event in the DECUR database, based on S.E. Haydon's Dallas Morning News dispatch; thoroughly documented with MUFON 1973 investigation findings, 2008 GPR survey results, and full hoax-vs-genuine competing hypotheses analysis.
Monica Jacinto Reza
JPL rocket scientist and Mondaloy superalloy co-inventor who disappeared June 2025; her institutional connection to Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland through AFRL-funded Mondaloy development - and McCasland's own February 2026 disappearance - places her at the center of the White House investigation into missing advanced aerospace researchers.
Amy Eskridge
Anti-gravity researcher and Institute for Exotic Science co-founder who died in June 2022; the only figure in the 2022-2026 missing scientists cluster named directly in congressional UAP testimony, with journalist Michael Shellenberger asserting she was murdered by a private aerospace company due to her involvement in UAP research.
Boyd Bushman
Senior Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin whose 2014 deathbed interview claimed knowledge of alien beings at Area 51; notable for genuine aerospace credentials alongside the debunking of his alien photographs as commercially available toy figurines.
Technology of Unknown Origins
New glossary entry for TUO - the institutional term for recovered hardware of unattributable origin, used in Congressional hearings and DoD contexts as an epistemically neutral alternative to extraterrestrial or non-human framing.
Die Glocke
New glossary entry for Die Glocke - the alleged Nazi Bell device described by Igor Witkowski and popularized by Nick Cook, frequently cited in UAP reverse-engineering literature as a potential precursor to post-war anti-gravity programs.
Slowwalker
New glossary entry for Slowwalker - the NORAD counterpart to Fastwalker, designating anomalous objects moving too slowly at altitude to be explained by conventional orbital mechanics.
Alien Reproduction Vehicle
New glossary entry for the ARV - Mark McCandlish's term for alleged human-built reverse-engineered craft, with updated ARV abbreviation entry cross-referencing the full term.
Lubbock Lights
August-September 1951 multi-witness case featuring authenticated photographs by Carl Hart Jr., corroborating radar evidence from Reese AFB, testimony from four Texas Tech professors, and an official Project Blue Book Unknown classification.
Voronezh UFO Incident
September 1989 Soviet mass-witness landing case notable for being officially reported by TASS state news agency, with physical trace evidence documented by militia and scientists at Comintern Park in Voronezh.
John Podesta
Former White House Chief of Staff to Clinton and Counselor to Obama, notable for publicly stating his biggest failure of 2014 was not securing UAP file disclosure and for writing the foreword to Leslie Kean's landmark 2010 UAP book.
Leonard Stringfield
Pioneering crash retrieval researcher who compiled testimony from over 100 anonymous military and medical sources across seven Status Reports (1978-1994), establishing the foundational archive for all subsequent crash retrieval investigation.
Ralph Blumenthal
Veteran New York Times investigative reporter who co-authored the landmark December 2017 AATIP article with Leslie Kean and Helene Cooper, widely credited with launching the modern UAP disclosure era.
Dr. Robert Sarbacher
MIT-trained physicist and R&D Board consultant whose 1950 meeting with Wilbert Smith and 1983 written letter to researcher William Steinman make him one of the few credentialed U.S. scientists to leave a documented record corroborating crash recovery program knowledge.
Ben Rich
Second director of Lockheed Skunk Works and F-117 program lead; notable for a documented 1986 letter and reported 1993 UCLA speech suggesting classified U.S. programs possessed interstellar-capable propulsion technology.
UAP Sightings Database
New /sightings page integrating 614,505 UFOSINT community reports with interactive heatmap, temporal chart, breakdown charts, and case cross-references.
Nick Cook
Aviation journalist and Jane's Defence Weekly editor; investigated classified aerospace programs and their UAP connections.
Charles Hall
Former U.S. Air Force weather observer at Nellis AFB; author of the Millennial Hospitality series describing alleged contact with 'Tall White' extraterrestrials.
Dan Sherman
Former NSA signals intelligence specialist who claims to have served as an 'intuitive communicator' in a classified program called Project Preserve Destiny.
Dr. Salvatore Pais
Naval Air Station Patuxent River aerospace engineer behind controversial patents for a 'hybrid aerospace-underwater craft' using high-energy electromagnetic fields.
Donna Hare
Former NASA contractor at Johnson Space Center who testified to witnessing UFO photographs being airbrushed out of official NASA imagery.
Jonathan Weygandt
Former U.S. Marine who testified to encountering a crashed non-human craft in Peru in 1997 and being subsequently intimidated into silence.
Bob Jacobs
Former U.S. Air Force lieutenant who filmed a UFO disabling a test warhead over Vandenberg AFB in 1964 before being ordered to deny the incident.
Mark McCandlish
Technical illustrator and aerospace researcher who claimed to have detailed knowledge of a classified anti-gravity vehicle called the Alien Reproduction Vehicle.
Parviz Jafari
Iranian Air Force general who piloted the F-4 interceptor during the landmark 1976 Tehran UFO Incident, where weapons systems failed on approach.
Oscar Santa Maria Huerta
Peruvian Air Force pilot who engaged a UAP with 30mm cannon fire over La Joya Air Base in 1980; rounds had no effect on the object.
Clifford Stone
Retired U.S. Army sergeant who testified to participating in UFO crash retrieval operations over a 22-year career and claimed knowledge of a 57-species catalogue.
John Ramirez
Retired CIA analyst (GS-15) who worked in the Directorate of Science and Technology; has spoken publicly about UAP-related information compartmentalization.
Foo Fighters - WWII Aerial Phenomena
Documented reports of luminous objects observed by Allied and Axis pilots from 1944-1945; investigated post-war by multiple governments.
Trans-en-Provence Landing
Investigated by GEPAN; physical trace evidence confirmed by laboratory analysis - one of the most rigorously studied ground-trace cases on record.
Cash-Landrum Incident
Two civilians and a child suffered acute radiation injuries after a close encounter in Texas; subsequently sued the U.S. government for damages.
Travis Walton Abduction
Seven-man logging crew witnessed Walton struck by a beam of light and taken; he reappeared five days later. Six crew members passed polygraph examinations.
Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
First widely-reported alien abduction case in the U.S.; hypnotic regression produced consistent corroborating accounts between the two witnesses.
Travis Walton
Arizona logger and central figure in the 1975 Snowflake abduction; passed multiple polygraph tests and authored Fire in the Sky.
Budd Hopkins
Pioneering abduction researcher and artist who documented hundreds of experiencer accounts and founded the Intruders Foundation.
Michael Herrera
Former U.S. Marine who testified to encountering a massive octagonal craft during a 2009 humanitarian mission in Indonesia, operated by private military personnel.
Gov. Fife Symington
Former Governor of Arizona who initially mocked the 1997 Phoenix Lights publicly, then recanted in 2007 and confirmed witnessing an enormous structured craft.
James Fox
Documentary filmmaker behind I Know What I Saw and The Phenomenon; produced some of the most credible witness-testimony footage in the UAP genre.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
Florida congresswoman and vocal advocate for UAP transparency; co-sponsored legislation requiring government disclosure of non-human intelligence data.
Dr. Lynne Kitei
Phoenix physician and researcher who personally witnessed and photographed the 1997 Phoenix Lights; produced documentary on the incident.
Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland
Former head of Air Force Research Laboratory; reportedly confirmed to Tom DeLonge that U.S. government has recovered non-human craft.
Ingo Swann
Psychic and artist whose early remote viewing demonstrations led directly to the CIA's development of the Stargate Program.
Joseph McMoneagle
Stargate Program remote viewer (RV001); widely considered the most accurate operational viewer in the program's history.
Dr. Beatriz Villarroel
Swedish astrophysicist leading the VASCO project, which searches archival astronomical data for anomalous transient objects of potential non-natural origin.
Dr. Kevin Knuth
Former NASA researcher and University of Albany physics professor who has published peer-reviewed analysis estimating UAP performance characteristics.
Jake Barber
Former special operations officer and contractor who testified to participating in UAP crash retrieval operations and claims direct knowledge of NHI programs.