Explainers

AARO’s 2024 Historical Record Review finds no verified evidence of non-human craft, linking UAP myths to misidentification and disinformation.

“Abduction studies” sits at the crossroads of UAP research, clinical psychology, folklore, and law. Since the 1960s, investigators have proposed...

Explore how ancient flood myths may preserve real memories of sea-level rise, tsunamis, and megafloods through geology and cultural history.

Explore the origins, evidence, and controversy surrounding the Alien Reproduction Vehicle (ARV), also known as the Fluxliner, in UAP history.

Near-death experiences reveal vivid patterns of light, presence, and altered consciousness- raising striking parallels with UAP encounters.

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s 18 anomalies of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS explore its strange orbit, chemistry, and physics - fueling debate over an artificial origin.

Los Angeles has always lived with the idea of spectacle, but the early hours of February 25, 1942 delivered a spectacle nobody wanted. A blackout dropped across the city. Sirens rose and fell. Searchlights swept the sky in disciplined arcs, then began to converge. Anti-aircraft guns followed with a rolling, metallic thunder that seemed to come from every direction at once. For hours, residents watched the night overhead behave as if it contained a target.

Explore Belgium’s 1989–1991 UAP wave, from triangle sightings and the F-16 scramble to radar controversy, hoaxes, and enduring debate.

Near-death experiences, altered states, and UAP encounters reveal striking shared patterns, suggesting a deeper architecture of consciousness.

Explore Bradshaw Ranch in Sedona: its documented history, federal research role, and enduring UAP lore of lights, portals, and high strangeness.

Explore the ethics of human-initiated extraterrestrial contact, from CE-5 fieldwork and METI to aviation safety, evidence standards and witness care.

A balanced, evidence-focused explainer on CE-5, exploring its protocols, origins, claims, controversies, and the debate over consciousness and UAP contact.

Explore channeling and psychic contact in UAP history, separating NHI claims, altered states, evidence, and scientific tests from belief.

Explore the mysterious 1492 “wax candle” light seen by Christopher Columbus: an enduring maritime anomaly debated in UAP history and landfall reconstructions.

Learn how citizen scientists can build data-first UAP observation stations using open-source tools, standardized formats, and ethical practices.