This site is built around one rule: every claim gets a credibility score, argued case by case, never templated. That's the part worth understanding before you dive in — so here's how it works, and a few places worth starting.
How the Scoring Works
Every case file on this site carries a numeric score out of 100 and one of six credibility stamps. The stamp isn't assigned by a formula — each case has its own "Why this stamp" section explaining the reasoning, weighing witness count, physical evidence, official corroboration, and how well mundane explanations hold up.
Officially confirmed by a government body, sensor data, or multiple independent institutional sources.
Strong witness testimony and/or physical evidence, without full official confirmation.
Genuinely contested — real evidence exists on more than one side of the explanation.
Unresolved. Not enough evidence yet to lean toward any explanation.
A conventional explanation accounts for the case well enough to close it.
First-person accounts, including the founder's own sighting — evaluated with the same honesty about limitations.
Most cases are also run through the Five Observables framework — the same set of anomalous performance characteristics popularized by AATIP's Luis Elizondo: anti-gravity lift, instant acceleration, hypersonic velocity without a heat/sonic signature, low observability, and trans-medium travel. A case doesn't need to show all five to be credible; most show one or two, if any.
Start With a Case File
The five cases with the highest scores on the site — a mix of official confirmation, radar/gun-camera data, and multi-witness corroboration.
USS Nimitz / Tic Tac Encounter
Multi-sensor Navy encounter, 2004. Radar, FLIR, and multiple trained pilot witnesses.
96 / 100 VERIFIEDUAP Task Force Formation
The Pentagon's own official acknowledgment that the phenomenon warrants formal investigation.
96 / 100 VERIFIEDBelgian UFO Wave
Thousands of witnesses, 1989–1990, including F-16 intercepts confirmed by the Belgian Air Force.
91 / 100 VERIFIEDTehran UFO Incident
An Iranian Air Force jet lost instrumentation while intercepting an object over Tehran — declassified in a DIA report.
88 / 100 VERIFIEDThe Phoenix Lights
A mass sighting over Arizona in 1997, witnessed by thousands including the sitting governor.
72 / 100Meet a Key Figure
Four researchers whose work threads through much of the rest of the site.
J. Allen Hynek
Project Blue Book consultant, 1952–1969
Went from official skeptic to the field's most credible advocate. Created the Close Encounter classification system still used today.
Jacques Vallée
Astronomer, computer scientist, UAP theorist
Co-developed the interdimensional hypothesis. Widely regarded as one of the most intellectually rigorous researchers in the field.
Luis Elizondo
Former AATIP Director
Led the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program from 2007 until resigning in 2017. Popularized the Five Observables.
Bob Lazar
Whistleblower; S-4 claimed researcher
Broke the S-4/Area 51 story in 1989. Highly controversial, but the reason Area 51 entered global pop culture.
Read a Book Breakdown
Four Essential Reading articles that pair directly with the figures above — full breakdowns of each book's core arguments, reception, and legacy.
Explore the Data
Three ways to move through the whole site at once, instead of one page at a time.
The Constellation
Every case, figure, location, and book — 2,546 nodes and 7,159 connections — as one explorable relationship graph.
Open the graph →The Timeline
295 dated cases from 1566 to 2025, grouped by decade, filterable by credibility stamp.
Open the timeline →The Interactive Map
297 curated cases layered over 168,000+ raw civilian and government sighting reports.
Open the map →Want to know why this site exists in the first place? Read the founder's story.