Primary sources, documents, references, and the research behind everything else on this site. The Record tells the stories. This is where the underlying paper trail lives.
Where these documents are genuinely public, we link to them directly rather than just describing them secondhand.
The Pentagon's own review of historical U.S. government involvement with UAPs, including its finding of no empirical evidence for reverse-engineering claims.
The University of Colorado's federally commissioned scientific review of UFO evidence, whose closure of Project Blue Book remains contested to this day.
The U.S. Air Force's own 1952–1969 investigative archive, digitized and searchable, including the Socorro and Kelly-Hopkinsville case files.
Kennedy's genuine, verified national security memorandum on Soviet space cooperation — often confused with a separate, disputed document about UFO files.
The books and researchers cited throughout the main record — a starting bibliography, not an exhaustive one.
This is an informational project, not a reporting one — so if you've seen something you want documented, these are the legitimate, established channels, not us.
Accepts reports online, by phone, or by email. Fully anonymous reporting is allowed. The largest continuously running public sighting database in the U.S.
nuforc.org →Founded in 1969. Assigns trained field investigators to cases considered investigation-worthy, following a standardized protocol.
mufon.com →The Pentagon's official reporting channel. Currently limited to current or former U.S. government employees, service members, and contractors with firsthand knowledge. Public reporting is planned but not yet open.
aaro.mil →Pilots observing something unusual in flight should report it to air traffic control, where it's logged as a Pilot Report (PIREP) and forwarded to AARO — currently one of the most direct civilian-to-government reporting pipelines that exists.
Sky Watch Group's own case record draws on independently verified, already-published material — not new intake. If you're a researcher looking for large-scale raw sighting data for legitimate study, NUFORC's own historical dataset is available; contact them directly for proper access rather than relying on third-party copies.