ʻOumuamua was real—but was it an alien probe? Explore its strange acceleration, uncertain shape, natural explanations and links to 3I/ATLAS and the Black Knight legend.
Examine the Black Knight satellite evidence: Tesla’s signals, radio echoes, the 13,000-year claim and NASA’s STS-88 photographs versus space debris.
A newly reported military sighting puts a black triangular object back in the headlines. The research question is not just what was seen, but what the released evidence allows us to establish.
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a polymath whose career spans astronomy, computer science, venture capital, and ufology — and one of the most influential theorists of UFOs.
Kathleen Marden is an author, experiencer advocate, and certified hypnosis practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of archival research, social science, and contact studies.
George T. Knapp is an investigative journalist whose four‑decade career helped bring UFOs/UAP into serious, mainstream discussion without losing journalistic rigor.
Budd Hopkins was an American abstract expressionist artist who became one of the most influential figures in modern ufology, popularizing the UFO abduction narrative through casework and bestselling books.
Jenny Randles is a British ufologist and author whose rigorous, psychologically attuned approach helped define a distinctly UK voice in the study of anomalous phenomena.
José Jaime Maussan Flota is a Mexican journalist, television personality, and ufologist whose name is synonymous with UFO coverage in the Spanish-speaking world.
Luis Elizondo is a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program who became a central figure in modern UAP disclosure.
J. Allen Hynek began as a cautious skeptic and ended as the scholar who gave UFO research a credible vocabulary, formalizing the Close Encounter classification system and founding CUFOS.
Jeremy Corbell is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and ufologist whose multidisciplinary practice has helped move UAP discourse into mainstream culture through collaboration with George Knapp.
Abraham 'Avi' Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard who became a central public figure in debates about interstellar visitors and the search for technosignatures.
Stanton Friedman was a nuclear physicist who left full-time physics to investigate flying saucers, becoming the first civilian investigator of the Roswell incident and a tireless advocate for evidence-based ufology.
Erich von Däniken was the Swiss popularizer who turned 'ancient astronauts' from a fringe conjecture into a cultural juggernaut with his 1968 breakout Chariots of the Gods?
Harold E. Puthoff is one of the most unusual figures bridging mainstream engineering, boundary-pushing physics, and controversial mind-science, from remote viewing at SRI to modern UAP discourse.
Leslie Kean is an American investigative journalist known for meticulous, source-driven reporting on UFOs, most notably through her 2017 New York Times story revealing the Pentagon's secret UAP program.
Richard M. Dolan is one of the most recognizable researchers in contemporary ufology, known for his source-driven archival work on the interface between anomalous phenomena and national security.
David Michael Jacobs, Ph.D., is an American historian whose legacy in ufology centers on one of the field's most contentious claims: a multi-decade, covert alien abduction and hybridization program.
Frank Drake was an American astrophysicist whose curiosity lit the fuse for modern SETI, from the first targeted radio search to co-founding the institutional backbone of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Whitley Strieber is a prolific and enigmatic author who has captivated readers worldwide with riveting accounts of paranormal and extraterrestrial experiences, most notably in his breakthrough book Communion.
Jim and Coral Lorenzen founded the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, shaping the course of UFO investigation in the 20th century with rigor, vision, and lasting impact.
Garry P. Nolan is a Professor at Stanford University who has emerged as a trailblazer in applying rigorous scientific methodology to UFO-related materials and phenomena.
Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her investigation of cattle mutilations and government secrecy around UFOs.
Few modern figures in ufology have pushed the subject of contact as aggressively—or as controversially—as Dr. Steven Greer, from founding CSETI and the Disclosure Project to pioneering CE-5 protocols.
Timothy Good (born 28 July 1942) is a British author whose books and media appearances helped mainstream late-20th-century UFO discourse in the UK and beyond. Best known for Above Top Secret, Alien Liaison/Alien…
Raymond Eveleth “Ray” Fowler (born November 11, 1933, Salem, Massachusetts) is an American author and veteran UFO researcher whose rigor in field investigation set a practical standard for the discipline. Educated at…
Nick Pope (born 19 September 1965 - April 6 2026) was a freelance British journalist and media commentator. He was an employee at the British Government's Ministry of Defense (MoD) from 1985 to 2006 and is best known…
John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor and the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer…
Ross Coulthart is an award-winning Australian investigative journalist known for hard‑hitting reporting across politics, corruption, national security, and corporate malfeasance—most prominently on 60 Minutes (Nine…
Aimé Michel turned UFO reports into a spatial research question. His disputed straight-line hypothesis, and his willingness to reassess it, offer enduring lessons for computational UFO analytics.
There is a particular kind of science fiction that does not age. Not because it predicted the future accurately, though sometimes it did, but because it identified something true about human nature and dressed it in a costume that made it easier to look at…
I have been covering this subject for a long time. Long enough to have learned not to get my hopes up. Long enough to have watched promising moments dissolve into carefully worded non-answers. Long enough to know that in the world of UFO disclosure, the…
On a quiet night, 124 light-years away in the constellation Leo, a world orbits a dim red sun. This planet, K2-18b, has recently electrified the scientific community and captured the public’s imagination. Why? Because astronomers have found tantalizing hints…
Written: December 18, 2024. Includes late-breaking updates where available.
The third confirmed interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, ignited a scientific and public controversy in mid–late 2025. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb highlighted a cluster of unusual properties—size, trajectory alignment, weak gas detections at first, odd…
The search for the unknown has always been at the heart of astronomy. In her latest paper, On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey , Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and her team take a bold step into this frontier, examining mysterious transient…
If you’ve been following the ongoing conversation about UFOs and UAPs, you might have seen the recent Wall Street Journal piece suggesting that the phenomenon is little more than a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the Pentagon and other government…
In recent years, the world has been captivated by the baffling world of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or UFOs . The issue has garnered widespread attention, not only from the public but also from Congress, as several video recordings of encounters with…
A recently surfaced, reconstructed US military video—colloquially dubbed “The Baghdad Phantom”—shows an anomalous object recorded from an active conflict zone by a USAF MQ-9 Reaper drone. According to briefings shared with independent researchers, the object…
High-altitude objects and UFOs shot down in North America since Feb. 4, 2023, have caused a diplomatic crisis between the US and China. The US military has shot down three unidentified flying objects over three days, which followed the shooting down of a…
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb , a believer in the possibility of alien probes visiting our solar system, and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), have collaborated on a scientific paper that is still…
Timeline: June 4/2021
To the Stars... Academy of Arts & Sciences (often referred to as To the Stars or TTSA ) is a San Diego -based company co-founded by Tom DeLonge , guitarist of Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves ; Harold E. Puthoff ; and Jim Semivan. It is composed of aerospace,…
On December 16th 2017 the NEW YORK TIMES published their article revealing that the government has studied the UFO "problem" after Blue Book . WOW.
Explore Alderney Island UFO 2007 (2007) in Near Alderney Island, UK. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Catalan Cup Race UFO 1910 (1910) in France. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Charles River Boston UFO 1639 (1639) in Charles River Boston, MA. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 UFO Over Alaska 1986 (1628) in Over Alaska, United Satates. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Socorro UFO Case 1964 (1964) in outside Socorro, New Mexico. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident 1980 (1980) in Near Dayton, Texas U.S.A. 30.0926°N 95.1109°W (Texas state highway FM 1485/2100 just south of Inland Road). Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore The Father Gill UFO Sighting 1959: A Close Encounter of the Third Kind in Papua New Guinea (1959) in Papua New Guinea. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore The Voronezh UFO Landing Case 1989 (1989) in South Park Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Travis Walton UFO Case 1975 (1975) in Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Trindade Island UFO 1958 (1958) in Trindade Island, Brazil. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Westall UFO Case 1966 (1966) in Westall High School (now Westall Secondary College) Clayton South, Victoria, Australia. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore the 1944 WWII American Beaufighter foo fighter reports in the Rhine region of Europe. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Alan Godfrey's Abduction 1980 (1980) in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Aurora Texas UFO Crash 1897 (1897) in Aurora, TX 76078. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Betty and Barney Hill Case Abduction Case 1961 (1961) in Upstate New York, USA and Canada. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Captain Thomas Mantell P-51 Crash 1948 (1948) in Godman Air Force Base, P-51 Crash Site (see Map below) Kentucky, United States. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
The January 1, 1931 Cobden UFO report: NICAP’s early-morning account, illuminated treetops, source limitations and a provisional VCM review. Artwork is an AI recreation.
Paul and Evelyn Trent’s 1950 UFO photographs: the original Oregon report, photographic analyses, witness credibility, the suspended-model debate and a provisional VCM review.
Explore Miracle of the Sun UFO Case 1917 (1917) in Cova da Iria, near Fátima, Portugal. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Rendlesham UFO incident 1980 (1980) in Rendlesham Forest Tangham IP12 3NF, UK. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Space Shuttle STS-48 Space UFO Sighting (1991) in In Orbit. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore The Mystery Airships of the 1800s (1896) in California USA. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore The Pascagoula Abduction Incident (1973) in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Vancouver UFO Case 1937 (1937) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Incident at The Ward Sawmill 1929 (1929) in Ward, Colorado. USA. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
Explore Roswell UFO Crash and Retrieval 1947 (1947) in Roswell, NM. Review the reported encounter, witness accounts, and available historical evidence.
An introductory dossier on the July 1952 Washington radar and visual sightings, interceptor responses and disputed temperature-inversion explanation.
An introductory dossier separating Navy witness accounts, reported radar observations and the officially released FLIR1 footage from claims about alien origin.
Atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald interviewed hundreds of witnesses, challenged Project Blue Book, and testified before Congress in 1968 that UFOs were the greatest scientific problem of our time.
Filmmaker James Fox has spent nearly three decades putting military, pilot and civilian witnesses on camera, from Out of the Blue to The Phenomenon and Moment of Contact.
Retired Marine aviator Donald Keyhoe wrote the first bestselling UFO books, led NICAP, and spent two decades pressing Congress to end Air Force secrecy.
William L. Moore co-wrote the first Roswell book, helped surface the MJ-12 documents, and in 1989 admitted he had cooperated with intelligence operatives spreading disinformation.
Television producer Jaime Shandera received the anonymous film roll that introduced the world to Majestic-12, and partnered with William Moore in contacts with intelligence insiders.
David Grusch’s June 2023 whistleblower allegations, calls for congressional oversight, and the Ross Coulthart / NewsNation interview. Original UTP reporting and commentary.
The original May 2025 UTP profile of Matthew Brown and his claims concerning the alleged Immaculate Constellation UAP program, secrecy and congressional oversight.
A look at UFO Top Secret: The Bob Lazar Interview (2003), covering his disputed S-4, Area 51, exotic propulsion and Element 115 claims.
The disputed Tulli Papyrus account of fiery discs over ancient Egypt, preserved from the original UTP Blogger archive with provenance and a provisional VCM pilot assessment.
Micha Verg’s 2017 review of Circular Evidence, preserved with the original five-star Goodreads rating and book-cover images.
Micha Verg’s 2017 review of An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871, with context identifying David Langford’s literary fiction.
