In His Own Words
"A UFO case is not real or fake — I give it a grade. A percentage of how much it may be true, and a separate percentage on how believable the debunking explanation could be. This is the best way to gain real new insights. I could not have done this without AI — so this work is for both humankind and machine kind."
— Micha Verg, Curator
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The Curator
Micha Verg is the pen name and sole public identity of the creator and curator of the UFO Timeline Project. He began the archive in 2017 as a Blogger site of the same name, assembling UFO cases, maps and timelines long before the current platform existed. What started as a personal research journal has grown into a multi-platform archive spanning this website, YouTube, Rumble, Dailymotion, the Internet Archive and a podcast.
Encounters with Researchers and Authors
Alongside his reading and archival work, Micha recalls meeting Bruce Maccabee, Budd Hopkins, Kathleen Marden, Richard Dolan, George Knapp, Stanton Friedman, Luis Elizondo, Timothy Good, Whitley Strieber and Yvonne Smith, among other researchers and authors. He owns a signed book by Maccabee and signed books by Hopkins. These are personal recollections and part of his journey into UFO research—not claims of collaboration or endorsement, and not evidence used to raise a case’s credibility score.
The Research Approach
- Chronology first: cases are organized on timelines so patterns across decades become visible, rather than as isolated stories.
- Provenance matters: every document, photo and claim carries its source, chain of custody and status — official record, sourced reporting, testimony, interpretation or illustration.
- Competing explanations stay on the page: a case is never simply "real" or "fake"; conventional explanations are weighed alongside the anomalous evidence.
- Honest labeling: archival photographs are credited; AI-generated imagery is marked as editorial illustration and is never presented as evidence.
The Verg Matrices
Frustrated by the binary "believer vs. debunker" framing that dominates UFO discourse, Micha developed two original assessment instruments. The Verg Credibility Matrix (VCM) scores each case on two independent axes — how anomalous it appears, and how plausible a conventional explanation remains. The Verg Abduction Matrix (VAM) applies the same dual-score logic to abduction accounts, honoring the investigative tradition of researchers like Dr. John E. Mack, Budd Hopkins and Kathleen Marden. Both are openly labeled editorial judgments, with reasoning stated — never fabricated precision.
Micha's Dream
Years ago, on the original Blogger site, Micha imagined an archive that could hold every case at once and reveal the patterns no single researcher could see. With the computers of the day it seemed a lifetime's labour. AI-assisted analysis makes that dream practical — and the UFO AI Analytics and AI UFO Pattern Lab pages are where it begins. The goal is genuine new insight: statistical patterns, geographic clusters and chronological waves, built on curated historical data in the tradition of Aimé Michel and Jacques Vallée.
Independence
The project is independent and reader-supported. Shop purchases, Patreon supporters and channel revenue fund hosting and archival work — they never influence editorial decisions, scores or conclusions. Corrections are welcomed through the contact page and handled under the Editorial & Corrections Policy.