Source Explorer
Every archive, agency and repository this evidence network draws from — what it produces, how often we check it, and whether it creates the record or merely hosts it.
Evidence, not hype
A source's typical grade describes the strength of its chain of custody, not the strangeness of what it recorded. An impeccably sourced Grade A military video can depict a balloon, and a Grade C witness clip can stay genuinely unexplained. We grade where a file came from and state separately what it shows.
United States government
- IngestingTypical grade ACreates the record
PURSUE
United States · Daily
The federal unsealing system for UAP encounter records. Releases arrive in batches, without warning, and the number of them is never hard-coded here — the ingestor re-reads the release index and queues anything it has not seen.
No records indexed from this source yet
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AARO
United States · Daily
Military sensor footage published with a case reference and, sometimes, a stated resolution. We record the assessment AARO actually made and never infer one from a description.
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AARO Resolutions
United States · Weekly
The imagery page states a conclusion. The resolution reports state the reasoning. Both belong on the case, because a conclusion without evidence is a press release.
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AARO Papers
United States · Weekly
Methodology papers, historical studies and technical explanations, attached to the cases they actually bear on.
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DVIDS
United States · Daily
The Defense Department's distribution platform. When the same recording appears on AARO and DVIDS it stays one canonical media object with two source records.
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NARA RG 615
United States · Weekly
The federal UAP Records Collection, which keeps growing as agencies transfer material. New transferring agencies are discovered by the monitor rather than added by hand.
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NARA Bulk
United States · Weekly
Bulk packages are parsed asset by asset into metadata rows. We index the archive; we do not mirror it.
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NARA Film
United States · Weekly
Blue Book motion pictures, Air Force film, CIA- and NASA-originated material. The creating agency and the holding archive are shown as two different facts.
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NARA Photos
United States · Weekly
Individual photographs and series, each with its NAID, caption and creating agency.
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NARA Historical
United States · Weekly
Most historical UFO material predates RG 615 and sits in older record groups. Searches cover the period vocabulary: flying disc, flying saucer, unknown aircraft, aerial phenomenon.
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Blue Book
United States · Weekly
Sign to Grudge to Blue Book to closure in 1969. Each case keeps its investigator, its location, its stated conclusion and every media asset independently searchable.
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NASA
United States · Weekly
Only material legitimately connected to UAP study. Ordinary mission imagery does not become evidence because somebody drew a circle on a pixel.
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FAA
United States · Weekly
Pilot reports, controller records and released audio. Radar detection is only ever stated when an underlying record establishes it.
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DHS / CBP
United States · Weekly
Surveillance-aircraft sensor footage and border-security imagery. Media reproductions are traced back to the originating DHS or CBP record whenever a record can be established.
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FBI
United States · Weekly
Mostly paper, and that is fine. Document evidence is evidence — correspondence, field reports and the Roswell-related file series.
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CIA
United States · Weekly
Declassified UAP and UFO records. Where CIA-created film now sits at the National Archives, the creator stays CIA and the custodian is NARA.
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NSA
United States · Monthly
Declassified and FOIA-released material. Intelligence provenance says nothing about the flight performance of the object.
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ODNI
United States · Monthly
Annual UAP reports and intelligence-community assessments, connected to the reporting period they cover.
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State
United States · Monthly
Cables and foreign-government correspondence, which is often the only US record of an international case.
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USAF
United States · Weekly
Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, plus later Air Force film and radar reporting held at NARA and released through PURSUE.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Navy
United States · Weekly
FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST each get exactly one canonical media object with every distribution attached. The internet does not need a fourth copy.
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FOIA
United States · Weekly
Agency reading rooms searched on the standing UAP vocabulary, with per-agency adapters added as each reading room proves stable enough to parse.
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International government archives
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GEIPAN
France · Weekly
The investigative UAP unit of the French space agency, and the most methodologically transparent national programme in the world. The French original is stored alongside any translation and never overwritten.
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UK MoD
United Kingdom · Monthly
The surviving MoD UFO Desk files, including the Rendlesham material. Mostly paper, comprehensively referenced.
No records indexed from this source yet
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NAA / RAAF
Australia · Monthly
Commonwealth and RAAF UFO files, including the Woomera and Maralinga series.
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Canada
Canada · Monthly
Official Canadian holdings only. Where a primary record cannot be established, the case stays out of the archive rather than in as folklore.
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Brazil
Brazil · Monthly
Officially released Brazilian Air Force investigations. The Portuguese original is preserved.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Other states
Multiple · Monthly
Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Japan and others. An adapter is only built once a genuine government repository is established — we do not claim every country runs a UAP programme.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Scientific observation network
- Adapter plannedTypical grade A+Creates the record
Observatories
Global · Weekly
Time-stamped instrument observations of the same sky, which is the fastest way to find out whether anything unusual was actually overhead.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Meteor networks
Global · Weekly
A documented bolide at the same time and place raises a possible correlation flag. A flag is not a resolution and never closes a case on its own.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Orbital
Global · Weekly
Starlink trains, the ISS, spent stages and debris reentries — the objects that explain a large share of night-sky reports.
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Launches
Global · Weekly
Cases are checked against launch windows so a plume can be identified as a plume rather than argued about for a decade.
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Weather
Global · Weekly
Cloud, wind, inversions, storms and balloon launches. Atmospheric conditions decide what a camera could possibly have seen.
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Air traffic
Global · On demand
A correlation requires time, position, bearing, altitude and motion to agree. An airliner somewhere within fifty miles is not a match.
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Science projects
Global · Monthly
Published methodology, named researchers, stated instruments. Peer-reviewed work, preprints and conference talks are labelled as the different things they are.
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Known objects
Global · On demand
What the ordinary actually looks like: birds in infrared, balloons, Starlink trains, lanterns, lens flare, rolling shutter, hot pixels. Half of the archive's explanatory power lives here.
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Institutional and law enforcement
- Adapter plannedTypical grade BCreates the record
ATC audio
Global · On demand
Authentic recordings with facility, frequency and transcript. Narrated recreations are never presented as original audio.
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Law enforcement
Global · On demand
Footage is accepted only with a verifiable originating agency and release record.
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Airport cameras
Global · On demand
Institutional cameras with a known location, a known field of view and a known clock. That combination is worth more than resolution.
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Secondary and discovery indexes
- Discovery onlyTypical grade DIndexes the record
Black Vault
United States · Weekly
An outstanding FOIA discovery index and a valuable one. It is not the creator of the records it hosts, and the archive always shows discovered-through separately from original-source.
No records indexed from this source yet
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News
Global · On demand
Reproduced footage is traced back to the original release wherever a trace exists, and stays Grade D when it does not.
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Social discovery
- Discovery onlyTypical grade EIndexes the record
YouTube
Global · On demand
Used to find material, never to publish it. Uploaders are classified — government, news, researcher, original witness, commentator, reposter — and the original is pursued.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Reddit
Global · On demand
Discovery index only. Everything enters as unverified and stays that way until traced.
No records indexed from this source yet
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X
Global · On demand
Searched for the earliest known post. Engagement counts are not evidence of anything except engagement.
No records indexed from this source yet
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TikTok
Global · On demand
Discovery only, unless original-file provenance can be established with the creator.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Meta
Global · On demand
Discovery only, unless the uploader can be authenticated as the original witness.
No records indexed from this source yet
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Community and witness
- IngestingTypical grade CCreates the record
Witness
Global · On demand
Readers submit the original file, not a screen recording of it. The original is preserved unmodified, derivatives are generated separately, and private details are removed before anything is published.
No records indexed from this source yet
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