Earth's Cosmic Newspaper
The government efforts, alleged programs, and civilian groups.
The government's standing UAP office since 2022. It resolves cases, runs sensors, publishes reports, and found no evidence for crash retrieval claims. Congress made it, and Congress fights over it.
ORG / PROGRAMThe secret Pentagon UAP effort revealed by The New York Times in 2017. Its exposure restarted official U.S. government investigation of UAP and led to today's AARO and PURSUE.
ORG / PROGRAMThe $22 million Defense Intelligence Agency program that studied advanced aerospace threats, paranormal claims, and Skinwalker Ranch from 2008 to 2010. AATIP grew out of it.
ORG / PROGRAMRyan Graves's pilot-founded nonprofit that reframed UAP as an aviation-safety issue and became the intake point for hundreds of aircrew reports.
ORG / PROGRAMThe first enduring civilian UFO organization, run by an Arizona couple for 36 years, strong on science advisors and Latin American cases, and buried by its rivals' rise.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Bigelow company that held the government's $22 million AAWSAP contract, fielding dozens of investigators and building databases whose contents mostly never became public.
ORG / PROGRAMChile's official aerial-phenomena committee, run from the civil aviation authority with military cooperation, famous for transparency and for one airliner it failed to spot.
ORG / PROGRAMThe research center J. Allen Hynek founded in 1973 to give UFO study a scientific home. It holds the field's best archives, including the NICAP files.
ORG / PROGRAMThe venture-backed app that turned UFO reporting into consumer software: a million-plus reports, machine-learning triage, and the era's cleanest public sighting database.
ORG / PROGRAMFrance's space agency has run an official UFO office since 1977, publishing its case files and classifying a stubborn few percent as unexplained after real investigation.
ORG / PROGRAMJapan moved from official silence to defense-ministry reporting rules and, in 2026, steps toward a formal UAP investigation function, driven by a cross-party parliamentary league.
ORG / PROGRAMThe largest civilian UFO organization in the world, running a volunteer investigator network and public case database since 1969, with a reputation that swings between indispensable and troubled.
ORG / PROGRAMThe civilian investigation committee that fought the Air Force through the 1950s and 60s with an admiral on its letterhead and case files still mined today.
ORG / PROGRAMRobert Bigelow's 1990s science team for the paranormal: PhDs on staff, Skinwalker Ranch as the field site, and a decade of investigations that ended in publishable frustration.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Air Force's 17-year UFO investigation logged 12,618 cases and closed in 1969 with 701 still unexplained. Its files remain the foundation of the historical record.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Air Force's second UFO project, remembered mainly for treating debunking as the mission. Even the officer who later ran Blue Book called it the "dark ages.
ORG / PROGRAMCanada's 1950s UFO studies: a true-believing radio engineer with a government station watching for saucers, and the sober committee that quietly outlived him.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Air Force's first UFO investigation, whose analysts reportedly concluded in 1948 that the saucers were interplanetary, in a document the chief of staff rejected and had destroyed.
ORG / PROGRAMThe government's 23-year psychic espionage program: remote viewers at SRI and Fort Meade, CIA and DIA money, and a 1995 review that ended it while the arguments continued.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Department of War's rolling declassification of UAP records at war.gov/UFO, launched May 2026 under a presidential directive. The files are unresolved cases by definition.
ORG / PROGRAMThe volunteer scientists and engineers who write 100-page technical reports on cases like Aguadilla and the Nimitz encounter, and host the field's most data-driven conference.
ORG / PROGRAMThe private venture that debuted in 2025 claiming it could detect and even summon UAP, fronted by a named retrieval whistleblower and a former task force chief. Then it went quiet.
ORG / PROGRAMThe alleged decades-long crash retrieval and reverse engineering effort at the center of David Grusch's testimony. Congress keeps asking. AARO says it found nothing. Nothing public proves it exists.
ORG / PROGRAMThe alleged circle of intelligence and defense scientists with bird code names who worked the UFO problem from inside government in the 1980s. Real people, disputed purpose.
ORG / PROGRAMAn alleged informal government group said to have concluded UFOs are demonic rather than extraterrestrial. Its existence rests on one researcher's sources and its afterlife on everyone else's fascination.
ORG / PROGRAMThe University of Colorado study whose 1969 report ended Project Blue Book. Its conclusion said science had nothing to gain. A third of its own cases stayed unexplained.
ORG / PROGRAMThe channeled "Nine" who spoke through Andrija Puharich's mediums from 1952, claimed to be the Ennead of Egypt, and left fingerprints on SRI-era research and Star Trek alike.
ORG / PROGRAMSteven Greer's twin vehicles: the witness-assembly operation that foreshadowed the 2023 hearings, and the meditation-contact enterprise that keeps the movement's mystical wing in the field.
ORG / PROGRAMThe channeled sky-government of New Age cosmology, and the phrase a former Israeli space security chief made global news with in 2020 by saying it was real and Trump knew.
ORG / PROGRAMAvi Loeb's Harvard-based effort to hunt for extraterrestrial technology with calibrated instruments instead of testimony: sky observatories, interstellar-object studies, and an ocean expedition.
ORG / PROGRAMSixteen scientists spent a year on NASA's behalf asking how to study UAP properly. Their 2023 answer: better data, open science, and no evidence of anything extraterrestrial so far.
ORG / PROGRAMDanny Sheehan's legal-advocacy shop for disclosure: whistleblower counsel, draft legislation, and a law-school-adjacent push to restore the gutted UAP Disclosure Act.
ORG / PROGRAMThe CIA-convened scientific panel of 1953 that spent four days on UFOs, found no threat, and recommended a public debunking campaign whose effects shaped decades of stigma.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Stanford-adjacent think tank trying to make UAP a subject universities can touch: symposia, policy papers, and former officials sharing stages with professors.
ORG / PROGRAMThe Navy-led group that formalized UAP investigation in 2020, produced the material behind the 2021 ODNI report, and bridged AATIP's ashes to AARO's creation.
ORG / PROGRAMFor 59 years Britain logged UFO reports through a small ministry office, concluded none mattered to defence, released the files, and closed the desk in 2009.
ORG / PROGRAMThe rock-star-founded venture that hired Pentagon insiders, released the Navy videos, and detonated the modern disclosure era before refocusing on entertainment.
ORG / PROGRAMThe veteran-founded nonprofit that takes physics instruments on field expeditions, featured in the documentary A Tear in the Sky, publishing methods while chasing signal.
ORG / PROGRAMThe faiths built on visitor belief: Raëlism's alien creators, the Aetherius Society's cosmic transmissions, Unarius's past-life starships, and Heaven's Gate's catastrophe.