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#UAP

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People (15)

  • Alex Klokus Venture investor and former chief executive of Futurism, managing member with Alexander Scaramucci of the SALT Fund adviser, and authorized member of ENNEA LLC, the owner of the SKYWATCHER trademark application.
  • Avi Loeb Avi Loeb is Harvard's Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and head of the Galileo Project, co-founded with Frank Laukien in 2021, and led the 2023 IM1 expedition funded by Charles Hoskinson.
  • Diana Walsh Pasulka Professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, author of American Cosmic (2019) and Encounters (2023), who said on September 11, 2023 that she was joining the Sol Foundation board.
  • J. Allen Hynek Astronomer who served as scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO projects from 1948 to 1969, attended the Robertson Panel as an associate member, and in 1973 founded the Center for UFO Studies.
  • Jake Barber Former Air Force airman and self-described contractor helicopter pilot who told NewsNation in January 2025 that he recovered non-human craft for a covert program, and who founded the Skywatcher group.
  • James Fox (filmmaker) Documentary filmmaker who directed UFOs: 50 Years of Denial?, Out of the Blue, I Know What I Saw, The Phenomenon (2020), Moment of Contact (2022) and The Program (2024).
  • Jesse Michels Investor listed as employed by Thiel Capital on a March 30, 2022 federal campaign contribution and creator of the American Alchemy YouTube channel.
  • Karl Nell Retired U.S. Army colonel and aerospace executive named as the Army's liaison to the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022, vouched for David Grusch in 2023 and spoke at both Sol Foundation symposia.
  • Kit Green Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, handled Uri Geller's tests, and later contributed to AATIP.
  • Leslie Kean Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010), and a co-author of the New York Times AATIP report of December 16, 2017.
  • Peter Skafish Anthropologist (PhD, Berkeley) who co-founded the Sol Foundation with Garry Nolan in 2023, signed its 2024 Form 990 as secretary, and was named to Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council in June 2026.
  • Ross Coulthart Australian investigative journalist and author of In Plain Sight (2021) who joined NewsNation as special correspondent on November 14, 2023 and reported on David Grusch, Jake Barber and Skywatcher.
  • Ryan Graves Former Navy F/A-18F pilot of Strike Fighter Squadron 11 who founded Americans for Safe Aerospace and testified before a House Oversight subcommittee on July 26, 2023.
  • Sean Kirkpatrick Physicist and intelligence officer, first director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office from July 2022 to December 2023, who later said the Pentagon and AARO convinced Congress not to enact a review board.
  • Tim Gallaudet Retired Navy rear admiral and oceanographer who served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and acting NOAA head, testified to the House Oversight Committee on UAP on November 13, 2024 and advises several UAP groups.

Organizations (15)

  • All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official office within the United States Department of Defense tasked with investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
  • Americans for Safe Aerospace Washington, D.C. nonprofit founded by Ryan Graves, recognized as a 501(c)(3) in January 2024, which collects pilot and witness reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena and filed Forms 990-EZ for 2024 and 2025.
  • Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) was the primary DIA contractor for the AAWSAP/AATIP program (2008-2010), employing hundreds of investigators to study UAP and anomalous phenomena including at Skinwalker Ranch.
  • Collins Elite The Collins Elite is the name given by Luis Elizondo to a powerful, shadowy group of religious fundamentalists within the Department of Defense (DoD) who allegedly worked to sabotage the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and...
  • Director of National Intelligence Post and supporting office created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to head the Intelligence Community, replacing the Director of Central Intelligence in that role.
  • EarthTech International Austin, Texas physics research company headed since 1985 by Hal Puthoff, paid under two statements of work totaling 60,000 dollars by To The Stars Academy in August 2018 while Puthoff sat on that company's board.
  • Enigma Labs Venture-funded UAP sightings app company whose founder Alex Smith was named by Fortune in July 2022 and whose correspondence with Pentagon officials from May to October 2022 was released under FOIA case 23-F-0711.
  • ENNEA LLC Delaware LLC (file 2861775, certificate date of formation January 1, 2024) that owns the SKYWATCHER, ENNEA and PSIONIC trademark applications and is registered in Florida under Alex Klokus.
  • Galileo Project The Galileo Project is a Harvard-hosted, privately funded research program announced July 26, 2021 by Avi Loeb and Frank Laukien to search for extraterrestrial technological artifacts and study unidentified aerial phenomena with its own instruments.
  • Mile High Resources Texas limited liability company chartered February 26, 2014 at Sierra Blanca; the name appears in Raytheon's October 2015 Pike munition release and in 2025 and 2026 FCC filings for a range on Skunk Canyon Road.
  • National Institute for Discovery Science The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) was a privately funded research organization founded by billionaire Robert Bigelow in 1995.
  • Sky Watcher Private UAP detection group announced in January 2025 by Jake Barber, James Fowler and Alex Klokus, which reported 'dog whistle' and psionic summoning operations at Sierra Blanca, Texas, and stopped posting in December 2025.
  • Sol Foundation California public benefit corporation launched August 15, 2023 by Garry Nolan and Peter Skafish to study unidentified anomalous phenomena, with a 2024 Form 990 showing $937,625 in revenue and one $10,000 white paper grant.
  • To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) was a public benefit corporation founded by musician Tom DeLonge of the band Blink-182.
  • UAP Task Force The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was a program within the United States Office of Naval Intelligence that was established to standardize the collection and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Programs (5)

  • Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program Defense Intelligence Agency program, formally AAWSAP, funded from fiscal 2008 with 22 million dollars at Harry Reid's direction and contracted to Robert Bigelow's BAASS, whose UFO and paranormal work AARO later reviewed.
  • Immaculate Constellation Name of an alleged unacknowledged special access program for UAP imagery intelligence, first published in October 2024, described in a 12-page document in the House Oversight record and denied by the Defense Department.
  • KONA BLUE Prospective special access program opened in July 2011 by the Department of Homeland Security's science directorate to continue the Defense Intelligence Agency's AAWSAP research, terminated by Deputy Secretary Jane Lute in December 2011.
  • Legacy Program The Legacy Program is the name given to a deeply hidden, decades-long U.S. government and private contractor effort to retrieve and reverse-engineer technology from crashed or landed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) of non-human origin.
  • Project Blue Book U.S. Air Force program, run from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, that collected and evaluated unidentified flying object reports from 1952 to 1969 and was terminated on 17 December 1969 with 701 of 12,618 cases unidentified.

Events (10)

  • 2024 AUI UAP Workshop Two invitation-only UAP workshops at Associated Universities, Inc. in Vienna, Virginia: May 15-17, 2024, paid by a $25,000 National Science Foundation supplement, and August 5-6, 2025, sponsored by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
  • Colares Incidents Wave of UAP encounters in 1977 on the island of Colares, Brazil, where residents reported being attacked by beams of radiation from unknown craft.
  • Condon Committee University of Colorado study of unidentified flying objects under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract (1966 to 1968), directed by Edward Condon, whose report preceded the termination of Project Blue Book.
  • Cybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing On January 1, 2025, active duty Army Special Operations soldier Matthew Livelsberger detonated an explosive-laden Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, injuring seven, leaving a manifesto claiming knowledge of covered-up war crimes and UAP/antigravitic technology programs.
  • December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report On December 16, 2017 the New York Times and Politico published separate accounts of a Pentagon program funded at Harry Reid's request, the Times piece credited to Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean.
  • GoFast Unclassified Navy video of an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew's encounter with an object moving at extreme speed low over the ocean, first published in March 2018 and authorized for release April 27, 2020.
  • Majestic-12 Documents describing a 1947 presidential committee on flying discs, received by Jaime Shandera in 1984 and reported found at the National Archives in 1985; the FBI wrote in 1988 that the briefing document was bogus.
  • Robertson Panel CIA-convened panel of five scientists (January 1953) that found no threat in unidentified flying objects and recommended a training and debunking program and the watching of civilian UFO groups.
  • Roswell Incident Alleged crash of a UAP in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, considered the foundational event of modern UFO lore and government secrecy.
  • Tic Tac UAP encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004 and captured on video as 'Tic Tac'; the FLIR1 video was published in December 2017 and authorized for release April 27, 2020.

Concepts (8)

  • New Jersey UAP Research Law New Jersey law approved January 12, 2026 that pairs an air traffic controller loan redemption program with aviation grants supporting a Center for the Study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which Kean University is to house.
  • Special Access Programs Special Access Programs (SAPs) are the most highly classified category of U.S. national security programs, requiring separate authorization beyond standard security clearances; they are referenced throughout this vault in connection with unacknowledged intelligence operations, black budget programs, and classified UAP research programs.
  • The Five Observables The Five Observables are a set of key performance characteristics identified by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program to categorize the behavior of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
  • THE PHENOMENON The phenomenon refers to the multi-thousand-year history of apparent interactions between humanity and non-human intelligence - recorded as gods, demons, and spirits in earlier eras and as UFOs and UAPs in the 20th and 21st centuries - which this vault approaches through government coverups and declassified sensor data.
  • Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is the official designation used by the U.S. government to refer to objects or phenomena in the atmosphere, in space, or underwater that cannot be immediately identified.
  • Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act Senate amendment of July 2023 by Schumer and Rounds, modeled on the JFK records law, passed with the 2024 defense bill and cut in conference to a National Archives records collection with no review board.
  • USS Nimitz The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose F/A-18 pilots made the November 2004 'Tic Tac' encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off San Diego - corroborated by USS Princeton radar data - considered the most technically documented UAP case in U.S. military history.
  • USS Roosevelt The USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose 2014-2015 pre-deployment workups produced twenty-two documented encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off the southeastern U.S. coast, prompting Navy policy changes on UAP reporting.

Places (4)

  • New Mexico Southwestern state of Los Alamos and the first atomic test, of Roswell, of Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, and of an FBI counterintelligence file on Robert Maxwell that INSLAW tied to PROMIS.
  • Sierra Blanca, Texas Hudspeth County seat inside the seven-point national defense airspace polygon of FAA notice 5/3497 (November 2025), with the Mile High Resources Range and Skywatcher's 2025 field operations.
  • Skinwalker Ranch Skinwalker Ranch is a 480-acre property in Utah known for a long history of paranormal and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-related events.
  • USS Princeton USS Princeton (CG-59) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser whose SPY-1B radar system tracked unidentified aerial objects during November 2004 training exercises off the California coast, producing the sensor data that corroborated the visual accounts of F/A-18 pilots in the Nimitz UAP encounter - the most technically documented unidentified aerial phenomenon case in U.S. military history.