UAP Resources

Video:
May 16, 2021, 60 Minutes
Navy Pilots Describe Encounters with UFOs

Brief Introduction to the US Government's response to UFO reports. Includes UAP encounter videos.

Article:
December 7, 2021, www.military.com
Pentagon UFO Rapid Response Teams Ordered Up by Congress
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“Lawmakers also want scientific and technical experts to analyze data about the objects, or what the military calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, as well as any recovered materials or medical effects, according to the text of the annual defense authorization bill released Tuesday.”

Video:
May 17, 2022, US House Intelligence
Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

“On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman André Carson (D-Ind.), will hold an open hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena. Following the open portion of the hearing, the subcommittee will hold a closed, classified briefing.”

Report:
June 25, 2021, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
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“This report provides an overview for policymakers of the challenges associated with characterizing the potential threat posed by UAP while also providing a means to develop relevant processes, policies, technologies, and training for the U.S. military and other U.S. Government (USG) personnel if and when they encounter UAP, so as to enhance the Intelligence Community’s (IC) ability to understand the threat. The Director, UAPTF, is the accountable official for ensuring the timely collection and consolidation of data on UAP. The dataset described in this report is currently limited primarily to U.S. Government reporting of incidents occurring from November 2004 to March 2021. Data continues to be collected and analyzed.”

Article:
02/28/2023. Politico. 
We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons.
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“America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain. And that’s a problem. Advanced objects demonstrating cutting-edge technology that we cannot explain are routinely flying over our military bases or entering restricted airspace.”

Author:
Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot, and engineer, chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ UAP Integration & Outreach Committee and is the founder of the new non-profit Americans for Safe Aerospace (www.safeaerospace.org).

Recommended Reading and Media

UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
by Leslie Kean

From the Publisher:
“Kean reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data, and case studies with corroborating physical evidence. She carefully examined scientifically analyzed photographs and interviewed dozens of high-level officials and aviation witnesses from around the world. With the support of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Kean draws on her research to separate fact from fiction and to lift the veil on decades of U.S. government misinformation. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics—actually exist.”

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Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program
by Colm A. Kelleher

From the Publisher:
“Skinwalkers at the Pentagon unmasks the massive scope of the Pentagon’s landmark UFO study that ran from the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP investigated the 'Tic Tac' and other 'nuts and bolts' UFO events, analyzed intrusions of UFOs onto US military bases, as well as probed the plethora of bizarre phenomena that government investigators encountered on Skinwalker Ranch. Written by two program insiders and a respected journalist, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon comes to a conclusion that has never before been revealed!”

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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
by D.W. Pasulka

From the Publisher:
“More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D.W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences, and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.”

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FORBIDDEN SCIENCE 2: California Hermetica, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1970-1979 
by Jacques Vallee

From the Publisher:
“With the end game in Vietnam and the turpitudes of Watergate in the background, the major topic of this second volume in the journals of Jacques Vallee is paranormal research. Vallee relates his behind-the-scenes experiences in California during the 1970s as the Human Potential Movement emerged, the Internet developed, and parapsychology secretly entered the physics laboratory. And all the while, as Vallee continued his examination of UFO encounters, the links to older mysteries became increasingly clear.”

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The Phenomenon (2020, Film)

From the Publisher:
“This explosive documentary is the most credible examination of the global mystery and cover-up involving UFOs. With shocking testimony from high-ranking government officials, and NASA Astronauts, Senator Harry Reid calls it 'meritorious.'”

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UFOs: Investigating the Unknown (2023, 5 Part Series)
National Geographic / Leslie Kean

“The truth behind the U.S. Government's secret Pentagon program on UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, otherwise known as UFO's, is exposed.”

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[Space.com Review Article and interviews]

Related Article:
New York Times Contributor Leslie Kean of ‘UFOs: Investigating the Unknown’ from National Geographic Films On The Message She Hopes Viewers Take From The Docuseries
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Selected Research

Yingling, M.E., Yingling, C.W. & Bell, B.A. Faculty perceptions of unidentified aerial phenomena. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 246 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01746-3

“Results demonstrated that faculty think the academic evaluation of UAP information and more academic research on this topic is important. Curiosity outweighed skepticism or indifference. Overwhelmingly and regardless of discipline, faculty were aware of reports but not legislation. Faculty varied in personal explanations for UAP, and nearly one-fifth reported UAP observations. We discuss the implications of these results for the future of the academic study of UAP.”

Mossbridge, J.A. (2022, Sept. 12). What’s UAPS? The UAP Science ecosystem — United States. Medium. https://tinyurl.com/WhatsUAPS

“With support from the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), I’ve provided a map of the ecosystem for interested academics, government agencies, investors, donors, and others who are hoping for an organized introduction to UAP science in the United States. After the tables, I’m happy to share my more subjective observations — and maybe have a little fun.”

Eghigian G. (2017). Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust. Public understanding of science (Bristol, England), 26(5), 612–626. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515617706

From the abstract:
“This study examines the historical sources of the mutual mistrust between ufologists and scientists. It demonstrates that any science doubt surrounding unidentified flying objects and aliens was not primarily due to the ignorance of ufologists about science, but rather a product of the respective research practices of and relations between ufology, the sciences, and government investigative bodies.”

Knowing Others: The New UFO Esotericism of D. W. Pasulka’s American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology. Hussein
Ali Agrama, Greg Bishop, David Metcalfe. 2022. Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism
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“As we hope will become clear, the bewildering complexity of the UFO phenomenon is not only impossible to capture from within a single academic discipline, but also seems to transcend all of them combined. Any deeper understanding seems to have been found only within realms that stand between the academic disciplines and currents of thought that have long lain outside of, or at least unspoken within, the academy.”

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology. 2023-2032. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26522.
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“…highlights key science questions, identifies priority missions and presents a comprehensive research strategy that includes both planetary defense and human exploration. This report also recommends ways to support the profession as well as the technologies and infrastructure needed to carry out the science.”

UAPs In the News: DuckDuckGo News Search
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List of current UAP related news headlines as assembled by the DuckDuckGo search engine.

US Government Reports

2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
January 12, 2023, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
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“The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 required the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to submit an annual report to Congress on unidentified aerial phenomena. ODNI submitted the classified annual report to Congress and published the unclassified annual report.” (Published in Reports and Publications 2023)

Video:
April 19, 2023

SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGING THREATS AND CAPABILITIES TO RECEIVE TESTIMONY ON THE MISSION, ACTIVITIES, OVERSIGHT, AND BUDGET OF THE ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE

“Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the recently formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, will appear as the sole witness in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. He is slated to discuss the 'mission, activities, oversight, and budget' of the office created by the Pentagon in 2022, whose goal is identifying and attributing 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' or UAPs, more commonly known as unidentified flying objects.”

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