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Alexander Wendt

Alexander Wendt

Political theorist and co-author of 'Sovereignty and the UFO'

Alexander Wendt is Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University and one of t...

André Carson

André Carson

U.S. Representative

U.S. Representative who chaired the May 2022 House Intelligence UAP hearing, the first public congressional UFO hearing in over fifty years.

Anita Goel

Anita Goel

Physicist-physician, nanobiophysics researcher and UAPSAC member

Anita Goel is a physicist, physician and biotechnology entrepreneur whose scientific work sits at the intersection of physics, nanotechnolo...

Anna Paulina Luna

Anna Paulina Luna

U.S. Representative

U.S. Representative and active House advocate for UAP oversight, bipartisan hearings, and transparency on government programs.

Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb

Astrophysicist

Harvard astrophysicist and White House-appointed chair of a UAP scientific advisory council, advocating for rigorous, data-driven investiga...

Bob Lazar

Claimant and Public Figure

Controversial UAP claimant whose Area 51-era allegations about reverse-engineering non-human craft had major cultural influence on modern d...

Carol E. Cleland

Carol E. Cleland

Philosopher of science, astrobiology researcher and UAPSAC anomaly-identification adviser

Carol E. Cleland is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research concerns philosophy of science, historic...

Christopher Mellon

Christopher Mellon

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and influential civilian policy advocate for UAP transparency and oversight.

Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer

U.S. Senator and co-author of the UAP Disclosure Act

Charles E. "Chuck" Schumer is a United States Senator from New York and a central legislative figure in the modern UAP disclosure debate. H...

Dan Farah

Film Producer, Director, and Founder of Farah Films

Dan Farah is an American film producer, director, entrepreneur, and founder of Farah Films. In the UAP field, his role is primarily that of...

David Clarke

Investigative journalist, folklorist and UK UFO archive researcher

David Clarke is a British investigative journalist, academic and folklorist whose UAP-related work centres on the United Kingdom's official...

David Fravor

David Fravor

Retired U.S. Navy Commander

Retired U.S. Navy Commander and principal firsthand witness in the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac incident, one of the most cited military UAP enc...

David Grusch

David Grusch

Former Intelligence Officer

Former U.S. intelligence officer whose 2023 whistleblower allegations became a major catalyst in modern congressional UAP disclosure effort...

David Spergel

David Spergel

Astrophysicist and chair of NASA's UAP Independent Study Team

David N. Spergel is an astrophysicist, President of the Simons Foundation and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University whose mainstream s...

Devesh Nandal

Astrophysicist and UAPSAC numerical-analysis researcher

Devesh Nandal is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian whose mainstream research concerns massive and su...

Diana Walsh Pasulka (Diana Heath)

Professor of religion, technology and culture

Diana Walsh Pasulka, now listed by the University of North Carolina Wilmington as Diana Heath, is a professor whose scholarship examines re...

Donald E. Keyhoe

Donald E. Keyhoe

Former Marine aviator, author and NICAP director

Donald Edward Keyhoe (1897–1988) was a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, aviation writer and long-serving director of the National Investig...

Dylan Borland

Dylan Borland

Former U.S. Air Force Geospatial Intelligence Specialist

Former U.S. Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist and federal whistleblower who has become a public witness in the modern UAP disclo...

Edward J. Ruppelt

Former head of Project Blue Book

Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) was a U.S. Air Force officer who led the reorganised Air Force UFO investigation that became Project Blue Boo...

Eric Burlison

Eric Burlison

U.S. Representative

Eric Burlison is a U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th district and an active congressional advocate for UAP transparency, oversight, an...

Eric W. Davis

Astrophysicist and Advanced Propulsion Researcher

Eric W. Davis is an American astrophysicist and aerospace researcher specializing in advanced propulsion physics, general relativity, and c...

Garry Nolan

Professor of Pathology and Immunology

Stanford immunologist and biotechnology innovator who advocates rigorous, multidisciplinary scientific investigation of UAP claims and asso...

George Knapp

George Knapp

Investigative Reporter

Award-winning investigative reporter whose decades-long UAP journalism spans Area 51, Bob Lazar, Skinwalker Ranch, and modern disclosure-er...

Harold E. Puthoff

Harold E. Puthoff

Electrical Engineer and Researcher

Physicist and engineer whose work connects historical intelligence programs and modern UAP-related advisory efforts.

Harry Reid

Harry Reid

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and sponsor of AAWSAP funding

Harry Mason Reid (1939–2021) was a U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017 and served as Democratic leader in the Senate from 2005 until...

J. Allen Hynek

J. Allen Hynek

Astronomer and UAP Researcher

Astronomer and astrophysicist who evolved from U.S. Air Force UFO skeptic to a leading advocate for systematic scientific investigation of...

Jacob Haqq Misra

Astrobiologist and UAP sensor-data analyst

Jacob Haqq Misra is an astrobiologist, meteorologist and senior research investigator at Blue Marble Space whose work concerns planetary ha...

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Vallée

Researcher and Author

French-born computer scientist and long-running UAP researcher known for historical case databases, field investigations, and the interdime...

James E. McDonald

James E. McDonald

Atmospheric physicist and scientific UFO investigator

James E. McDonald (1920–1971) was an atmospheric physicist at the University of Arizona who became one of the most prominent scientifically...

James Fox

James Fox

Documentary filmmaker and long-running UFO/UAP interviewer

James Fox is a documentary filmmaker whose career has been dominated by long-form films about UFO/UAP witnesses, government records, allege...

James T. Lacatski

Former DIA programme manager associated with AAWSAP

James T. Lacatski is a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) scientist and programme official whose work is central to the documented hi...

Jared Moskowitz

Jared Moskowitz

U.S. Representative

Jared Moskowitz is a U.S. Representative for Florida's 23rd district and a leading bipartisan congressional voice advocating UAP transparen...

Jeffrey Nuccetelli

Jeffrey Nuccetelli

U.S. Air Force Veteran

Former U.S. Air Force military police officer who testified about alleged 2003-2005 UAP incursions around Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Jennice Vilhauer

Clinical psychologist and UAPSAC quantitative-psychology adviser

Jennice Vilhauer is a clinical psychologist, author and developer of Future Directed Therapy whose recent UAP work concerns psychological p...

Jeremy Corbell

Jeremy Corbell

Filmmaker and Podcaster

American investigative filmmaker and journalist known for publishing UAP-related military media and co-hosting the Weaponized podcast.

Jesse Michels

Entrepreneur, Investor, and Host of American Alchemy

Jesse Michels is an entrepreneur, investor, documentary producer, and host of American Alchemy, a long-form platform covering UAPs, advance...

John F. "Jay" Stratton Jr.

Former Director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force

John F. "Jay" Stratton Jr. is a former U.S. intelligence official best known publicly as the first Director of the Department of Defense's...

John Greenewald Jr.

John Greenewald Jr.

FOIA researcher and founder of The Black Vault

John Greenewald Jr. is an American Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) researcher and founder of The Black Vault, a privately maintained onli...

Jon T. Kosloski

Jon T. Kosloski

Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

Jon T. Kosloski is the Director of the U.S. Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the organisation assigned...

Karl Nell

Retired Army Colonel and Executive

Retired U.S. Army Colonel and defense executive associated with calls for disciplined national-security treatment of UAP investigations.

Kevin H. Knuth

Professor of Physics and UAP instrumentation researcher

Kevin H. Knuth is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY) whose conventional research spans information physics, Bayesian...

Kirsten Gillibrand

Kirsten Gillibrand

U.S. Senator

U.S. Senator and principal architect of modern bipartisan UAP legislation establishing durable reporting and oversight structures.

Leslie Kean

Investigative Journalist

Investigative journalist whose reporting helped move UAP coverage into mainstream media and policy discussion through document-driven, witn...

Luis Elizondo

Luis Elizondo

Former U.S. Counterintelligence Officer

Former U.S. defense counterintelligence official widely associated with AATIP-era UAP attention and public transparency advocacy.

Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio

U.S. Senator

Former U.S. Senator and key bipartisan UAP policy figure who helped drive intelligence-focused oversight, reporting mandates, and instituti...

Matthew Brown

Immaculate Constellation Whistleblower

Public whistleblower who identified himself as the author of the Immaculate Constellation report alleging a hidden UAP collection and compa...

Matthew Szydagis

Experimental physicist and UAP instrumentation researcher

Matthew Szydagis is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University at Albany whose principal conventional research concerns experiment...

Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer

Science writer, historian of science and UAPSAC sceptical adviser

Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science and long-running advocate of scientific skepticism. He co-founded the Skeptics So...

Mick West

Mick West

Author and Investigator

Skeptical open-source investigator known for technical analyses of high-profile UAP videos using optics, geometry, and flight-data reconstr...

Mike Rounds

U.S. Senator

Mike Rounds is a U.S. Senator and Senate Intelligence Committee member who has played a major role in UAP legislation focused on transparen...

Nick Pope

Nick Pope

Former UK Ministry of Defence UAP Desk Officer

British former Ministry of Defence civil servant who handled UAP reports (1991-1994) and later became a leading public commentator on UAP t...

Omer Eldadi

Psychologist and UAPSAC data/human-factors researcher

Omer Eldadi is a psychologist whose research spans team cognition, communication, decision-making under pressure and the performance of exp...

Peter A. Sturrock

Stanford applied physicist and organiser of the 1997 scientific UFO review

Peter Andrew Sturrock (1924–2024) was a Stanford University applied physicist whose conventional scientific career spanned electron optics,...

Peter Skafish

Anthropologist, Sol Foundation co-founder and UAPSAC member

Peter Skafish is a sociocultural anthropologist whose UAP-related significance derives primarily from institution-building, anthropology an...

Ralph Blumenthal

Journalist and Author

Veteran investigative journalist and former New York Times reporter who helped bring UAP reporting into mainstream news through high-impact...

Ravi Kumar Kopparapu

Ravi Kumar Kopparapu

NASA Goddard planetary scientist and UAP sensor-data analyst

Ravi Kumar Kopparapu is a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center whose primary research concerns exoplanet habitability,...

Raymond Duvall

Political scientist and co-author of 'Sovereignty and the UFO'

Raymond Duvall is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Minnesota whose academic work spans critical international r...

Richard Cloete

Computer scientist, Galileo Project researcher and UAPSAC data-analysis adviser

Richard Cloete is a computer scientist and Laukien-Oumuamua Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithso...

Richard F. Haines

Former NASA human-factors scientist and aviation UAP researcher

Richard F. Haines is a psychologist, former NASA Ames research scientist and long-running researcher of pilot and aviation-related reports...

Robert Salas

Former U.S. Air Force Captain

Retired U.S. Air Force Captain known for accounts linking UAP reports to the 1967 Malmstrom missile shutdown incident.

Ronald Moultrie

Ronald Moultrie

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security

Former senior DoD intelligence official who oversaw policy and organizational responses during a key phase of modern UAP oversight.

Ross Coulthart

Ross Coulthart

Investigative Journalist

Australian investigative journalist known for high-profile UAP disclosure reporting, including interviews with military and intelligence-li...

Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves

Former U.S. Navy Pilot

Former naval aviator and UAP safety advocate.

Scott W. Bray

Former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence

Scott W. Bray is a U.S. intelligence official who served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence from January 2020 to November 2023 and ap...

Sean M. Kirkpatrick

Sean M. Kirkpatrick

Former Director of AARO

Physicist and intelligence official who served as the first Director of AARO and led the Pentagon's formal UAP investigation framework from...

Stanton Friedman

Stanton Friedman

Nuclear Physicist and UAP Author

Nuclear physicist and influential civilian UFO researcher known for Roswell-era archival work, public debates, and long-form advocacy of ev...

Tim Burchett

Tim Burchett

U.S. Representative

U.S. Representative and prominent House advocate for UAP transparency, hearings, and whistleblower protections.

Tim Gallaudet

Tim Gallaudet

Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and Oceanographer

Tim Gallaudet is an American oceanographer, retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, former NOAA leader, and a prominent advocate for scientific inv...

Tom DeLonge

Tom DeLonge

Founder, To The Stars Academy

Musician, author, and media entrepreneur whose To The Stars initiative helped move UAP topics into mainstream public and congressional disc...

Travis Walton

Travis Walton

Forestry Worker and Claimant

Forestry worker and alleged experiencer at the center of the 1975 Travis Walton incident, one of the most debated and documented abduction-...

Institutions in the record

Notable organisations

Explore government offices, archives, research projects and civil organisations that shape how UAP reports are collected, studied and debated.

Directory note: Inclusion records an organisation's significance to the public UAP record. It is not an endorsement of its conclusions, methods or reported cases.

Government investigative office All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office The U.S. government office coordinating the identification, attribution and mitigation of UAP near national-security areas. ActivePublishes case files Official archive or records collection National Archives and Records Administration The U.S. federal archive responsible for preserving government records and administering the statutory UAP Records Collection, Record Group 615. ActivePublishes reports University research project The Galileo Project A Harvard-led project developing instruments and analysis methods to search for physical evidence of UAP and possible technological objects. ActivePublishes methods Policy and research foundation The Sol Foundation A nonprofit research institute and policy organisation examining the scientific, social, legal and governmental implications of UAP. ActivePublishes reports Independent advocacy organisation Americans for Safe Aerospace A military-pilot-led nonprofit that treats UAP reporting as an aviation-safety and national-security issue and advocates protections for witnesses. ActiveAccepts reportsPublishes case files Reporting or case-database organisation Mutual UFO Network A longstanding civilian membership organisation that receives UFO reports, assigns field investigators and maintains a case-management database. ActiveAccepts reportsPublishes case files Government advisory body UAP Science Advisory Council A government-linked science advisory council described publicly in 2026 as providing independent technical advice to the U.S. UAP governance structure. ActivePublic data limited Government department or coordinating agency Office of the Director of National Intelligence The U.S. intelligence-community coordinating office that co-produces statutory UAP reporting and supports interagency governance. ActivePublic data limited Government advisory body NASA UAP Independent Study Team A 16-member external study team commissioned by NASA to recommend how the agency could support rigorous future UAP research. CompletedPublishes reports Government investigative office Study and Information Group on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena The CNES unit that receives, investigates, classifies and publishes civilian reports of unidentified aerospace phenomena in France. ActiveAccepts reportsPublishes case files Government advisory body Sky Canada Project A Canadian government review of how public UAP reports are received, managed and communicated across the country. CompletedPublishes reports University research project UAlbany Project X A University at Albany collaboration developing instrument-led, reproducible research into unidentified aerial phenomena. ActivePublishes methods Independent scientific organisation Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies A member-based nonprofit that applies scientific and technical analysis to UAP cases, datasets and research questions. ActiveAccepts reportsPublishes case files Reporting or case-database organisation National UFO Reporting Center A long-running civilian reporting centre that receives public sightings and publishes a searchable database of witness accounts. ActiveAccepts reportsPublishes case files