UAP tools & primary docs & Aviation Safety

AARO Official UAP Imagery & Case Resolution Reports.

Public case materials (mix of resolved and unresolved), with notes and linked media. Case Resolution Reports add official case-by-case resolution summaries with methodological context and resolution verdicts.

AARO — Submit a report (official channel; eligibility-limited).

For current or former U.S. Government employees, service members, or contractor personnel with direct knowledge of U.S. Government programs/activities related to UAP (not a public sighting channel).

Current flow: fillable PDF + email submission (no general public web form). Open/save the blank form locally and use Adobe Acrobat to avoid browsers failing to preserve form data.

AARO — Reporting Trends & UAP Records.

Reporting Trends: official dashboard covering UAP reports Jan 1, 1996 – Jan 15, 2026. UAP Records: official document hub with links to primary-source entry points incl. NARA and AARO information papers.

NASA — UAP (Independent Study hub).

Official NASA page with primary materials and updates on NASA's UAP Independent Study (incl. Independent Study Team final report and public-meeting materials).

FAA (ATC Handbook) — UAP reports.

Very short reminder: inform ops supervisor/CIC; points to FAA Order JO 7210.3 for facility procedures.

FAA — NOTAM Search.

Search active U.S. NOTAMs (time-critical aviation notices); useful for checking restrictions, hazards, events, and airspace changes near a location or along a route.

FAA — Graphic TFRs.

Official map-based view of Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs); useful for quickly checking if an area had active flight restrictions at the time of a report.

NASA ASRS Aviation Safety Reporting System.

Confidential voluntary safety reporting system and public database for aviation safety lessons learned.

NASA ASRS — Submit a report (ERS).

Direct entry point for filing an Aviation Safety Reporting System report. Use operational/aviation safety channels first if there is immediate risk.

EASA Occurrence Reporting.

European Union aviation safety reporting system for air operators, pilots, and maintenance organizations. Covers all EU member states; mandatory for certain incidents.

ECCAIRS 2 — Occurrence Reporting Portal.

Centralized reporting portal used by multiple national aviation authorities. Useful when you need an official occurrence reporting route for a country and want to start from the competent aviation authority path.

UK CAA — Occurrence reporting (ECCAIRS 2 route).

UK Civil Aviation Authority publication related to occurrence reporting and ECCAIRS 2 routing.

ICAO Global Reporting Framework.

International standards for aviation safety reporting; national authorities implement locally. ICAO is migrating some legacy pages, so this URL may intermittently return migration/404 responses.

Argentina (Fuerza Aérea) — CEFAE.

Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial. Official Argentine Air Force department analyzing aerospace phenomena, publishing annual case resolution reports.

Brazil (COMAER) — Arquivo Nacional.

Historical UAP records held by Brazil's National Archives. Documents transferred from the Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB) cover observations from 1952–2023. SIOANI (Sistema de Investigação de Objetos Aéreos Não Identificados) was the original investigative body.

Canada (OCSA) — Sky Canada Project.

Official government project by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor evaluating how UAP reports are managed in Canada.

Canada (Transport Canada) — CADORS.

Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System. Public database of Canadian aviation incidents, routinely containing official pilot UAP/balloon reports. Search by keyword, date, or region; national and regional views available.

Chile (DGAC) — SEFAA.

Official unit exclusively focused on safeguarding air operations safety. Evaluates reports technically and scientifically. Note: Submission of original images is mandatory for investigation.

Status: Verified via Official Response (Expediente 2774).

France (CNES) — GEIPAN.

CNES's official UAP unit. Collects, analyses and archives eyewitness accounts; informs the public.

Germany (JMU Wuerzburg) — IFEX.

Academic research hub for Extraterrestrics. Since 2025, IFEX officially cooperates with the Federal Aviation Office (LBA) to provide a reporting channel for pilots.

Germany — GEP e.V.

IFEX Partner
Associated partner of IFEX. Civilian organization (est. 1974) specialized in the scientific investigation of citizen reports.

Peru (FAP) — DIFAA.

Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos. Official Peruvian Air Force unit for investigating anomalous aerial phenomena. Citizens can submit reports via the FAP.

Uruguay (Fuerza Aérea) — CRIDOVNI.

Comisión Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados. Official Uruguayan Air Force commission (est. 1979) investigating citizen reports of aerial phenomena.

ADS-B Exchange — Flight tracking.

Unfiltered global flight data. Helpful for checking military, police, or private aircraft that are often hidden on commercial trackers.

OpenSky Network — air traffic data.

Research network and dataset for ADS-B / Mode S. Useful as a second-source cross-check and for historical context.

American Meteor Society (AMS) — Fireball logs.

Public reports grouped into fireball events; useful for ruling in/out bright-meteor cases.

International Meteor Organization (IMO) — Fireball program.

International fireball reporting/program overview; complements AMS.

CelesTrak — NORAD GP element sets (TLEs) & Supplemental GP.

Primary orbital element sets for satellites; useful for satellite-pass cross-checks. The supplemental set adds owner/operator-supplied orbital data for commercial constellations (Starlink, OneWeb, etc.) — closes the gap left by radar-only NORAD data for dense LEO passes.

RocketLaunch.Live — launch schedule (secondary cross-check).

Useful to quickly rule in/out rocket-launch windows when a sky sighting could be a launch plume. Treat as a convenience layer: RocketLaunch.Live states that data is manually curated from many sources and should be verified against official provider pages.

NOAA / NESDIS / STAR — GOES Imagery Viewer.

Near real-time GOES-East/West satellite imagery; useful for checking cloud cover, haze/smoke, and lighting conditions that can affect sky observations.

NOAA NCEI — NEXRAD radar archive.

U.S. weather radar archive entry point (NEXRAD) for reconstructing storms and precipitation structure near the time/location of an observation.

Heavens-Above — Satellite pass predictions (explanatory notes).

Explains its satellite pass prediction pages and underlying approach/models.

SondeHub — Weather Balloon Tracker.

Live tracking and flight path predictions for radiosondes (weather balloons). A primary source of high-altitude misidentifications.

Stellarium Web — Online Planetarium.

Accurate night sky simulation based on time and location. Essential for ruling out bright planets (Venus, Jupiter) or stars misidentified as UAPs.

Enigma Labs — UAP Database & Analytics.

A large-scale, machine-learning-assisted UAP reporting platform and sighting database. It aggregates over 200,000 historical and recent civilian/aviation reports. Note: This is heavily crowdsourced data; treat as raw reports requiring individual cross-referencing with official flight/satellite trackers.

SCU (Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies).

Independent research org / think tank (publications). Not an official reporting channel.

About / mission · Publications

The Galileo Project (Harvard University).

Academic research program searching for physical signatures of UAP and potential technological equipment. The project utilizes multimodal ground-based observatories and acoustic monitoring to gather open-source, scientific-quality data, avoiding reliance on classified military sensors.

Harvard University · Publications

Global Meteor Network (GMN).

Distributed citizen-science network of low-cost video cameras observing the night sky globally and producing publicly available meteor trajectories, orbits, and flux data under CC BY 4.0.

Useful for cross-checking bright, transient sky events against independently recorded meteor tracks. Not a UAP reporting channel.

AAVSO – variable star observations.

International non-profit with an archive of over 80 million variable star observations contributed by amateur and professional astronomers worldwide since 1911.

While not UAP-focused, the open light-curve database and transient alerts help distinguish astronomical variability from anomalies. Not a UAP reporting channel.

ODNI / DoD — FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (PDF).

Unclassified consolidated annual report to Congress (FY2024).

Summarizes U.S. Government UAP data collection and analysis for FY2024, including case statistics and interagency coordination. Provides context for oversight and transparency efforts.

DoD / AARO — FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (PDF mirror).

Identical unclassified FY2024 report mirrored on Defense.gov for redundancy and public access. Confirms consistency with the ODNI release and ensures archival availability.

DoD / AARO — FY2023 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (PDF).

Prior-year unclassified consolidated annual report.

Documents FY2023 UAP reporting and analysis under the same framework as later reports, showing year-to-year data continuity and methodology evolution.

ODNI — 2022 Annual Report on UAP (PDF).

Unclassified annual report (2022).

First ODNI public release under the new UAP reporting mandate, summarizing early data integration and interagency coordination efforts for 2022.

AARO — Historical Record Report (Vol. 1) (PDF).

AARO unclassified historical record report (Volume 1).

Provides a structured historical overview of U.S. Government UAP-related programs and documentation, consolidating declassified material for public reference.

AARO — 2025 UAP Workshop: Narrative Data, Infrastructures, and Analysis (PDF).

AARO-sponsored workshop synthesis and recommendations paper (August 5-6, 2025).

Focuses on UAP reporting systems, metadata standards, data integration, analytical methods, and infrastructure design. Useful as a methodological reference for how official and scientific stakeholders frame UAP data quality and reporting workflows.

NASA — UAP Independent Study Team: Final Report (PDF).

Final report of NASA's independent study team, outlining research recommendations and data transparency measures. Focuses on scientific methodology rather than case evaluation.

U.S. CIA — FOIA Reading Room (Historical UFO Records).

Curated collection of declassified CIA documents. Note: National archives retain the historical term "UFO" for legacy collections.

UK — The National Archives: UFO reports.

Curated entry points into declassified UK government UFO files released by The National Archives. Includes postwar Ministry of Defence case reports and correspondence (1950s–2009).

U.S. National Archives (NARA) — Records related to UFOs/UAPs.

NARA hub page pointing into catalog holdings across record groups/collections.

The Black Vault — Document Archive.

Privately run FOIA document archive (non-official); useful as an aggregator, still verify originals.