Searchable
Browse canonical incidents without digging through one giant lore swamp.
The archive starts with the current canonical incident index and is structured to expand into deeper case pages, filters, and cross-case pattern work.
Public archive and research program
Search the record on serious UAP events.
UAP Observatory is building a searchable, downloadable, evidence-first archive for serious UAP / UFO incidents so patterns can be studied without the usual stigma, lore drift, or sourcing collapse.
Downloadable
Public outputs should be portable, inspectable, and reusable.
The site already publishes downloadable CSV snapshots so other researchers, journalists, and developers can inspect the current public layer directly.
AI-Ready
Ask-the-archive workflows come after source structure, not before it.
The long-term goal is a queryable research surface for pattern detection, clustering, and correlation work grounded in real source records.
Featured cases
Initial benchmark cases on the public surface
Nimitz / Tic Tac
INC-US-2004-NIMITZ-TIC-TAC is the flagship U.S. Navy case centered on the 2004-11-14 intercept launched from the USS Nimitz battle group after radar contacts tracked by the USS Princeton. The current local source base combines David Fravor's official congressional statement with NAVAIR FOIA custody records for the later public FLIR1 release.
- Date
- 2004-11-14
- Location
- Pacific Ocean off Southern California
Gimbal
INC-US-2014-2015-GIMBAL is the public U.S. Navy East Coast case family associated with the released GIMBAL video and recurring UAP reporting from Navy aviators operating near Virginia Beach in 2014-2015. The current local source base is strongest on squadron linkage, release provenance, and congressional witness context rather than on a complete incident dossier.
- Date
- 2014-2015
- Location
- U.S. East Coast training areas near Virginia Beach
GoFast
INC-US-2015-GOFAST is the public U.S. Navy East Coast case family associated with the released GOFAST video and the safety-of-flight concerns described in Ryan Graves's testimony about repeated UAP encounters near Virginia Beach in 2015. The current local source base is strongest on official release provenance and congressional witness framing.
- Date
- 2015
- Location
- U.S. East Coast training areas near Virginia Beach
Belgian Wave
INC-BE-1989-1990-BELGIAN-WAVE is a high-signal European case cluster centered on repeated sightings in Belgian airspace, with the March 30-31, 1990 event standing out for combined gendarmerie reporting, radar correlation, and an F-16 scramble described in a report attributed to the Belgian Air Force. That March 30-31, 1990 night is now preserved separately as the child incident INC-BE-1990-03-30-31-INTERCEPT, while this parent record remains the broader continuity and context node for the 1989-1990 wave.
- Date
- 1989-1990
- Location
Hessdalen Phenomenon
INC-NO-1981-HESSDALEN-PHENOMENON is the first promoted Norway phenomenon record in the repo. The current source base is municipality-backed rather than military, but it is strong enough to support a canonical node because the official Hessdalsfenomenet site states that strong lights and objects have been observed in Hessdalen since 1981 and remain unexplained.
- Date
- 1981-01-01
- Location
- Hessdalen, Trondelag, Norway
Trans-en-Provence Case
INC-FR-1981-TRANS-EN-PROVENCE is one of the strongest official French UAP cases currently in the repo, combining an official archive entry, physical trace investigation, and technical analysis.
- Date
- 1981-01-08
- Location
- France
Method
Keep research separate from analysis.
The operating rule is simple: source-backed facts in one layer, interpretation in another. That keeps the archive usable by both skeptics and believers without forcing a conclusion.
See the research modelActive country benches
- Italy55
- Spain40
- France35
- New Zealand25
- Brazil24
- Sweden23
- Argentina20
- United States16