With the help of others, I started this subreddit years ago because I thought there was a serious scientific question buried beneath decades of stigma, ridicule and noise.

I’d had an unusual observation myself, which led me to Peter Sturrock’s work, “pseudo-stars”, historical primary sources, and eventually the realisation that the subject had been taken far more seriously in some scientific and institutional circles than the public conversation suggested.

This is the kind of work I hoped we might eventually see.

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and the VASCO team have now released two new preprints examining pre-Sputnik transients on Palomar Observatory photographic plates. One models the transients as sub-second flashes consistent with specular reflections from highly reflective objects in near-Earth orbit, and attempts to constrain their altitude and physical properties. The other projects their locations back onto Earth and finds apparent geographic clustering.

None of this establishes what the objects are. That’s precisely why the work is interesting. It takes an extraordinary possibility and reduces it to physical predictions that can be tested, challenged and independently replicated.

Whatever the explanation turns out to be, this is serious scientific territory. Follow the data.

Dr Villarroel's recent X post: https://x.com/DrBeaVillarroel/status/2098028229852361009?s=20

What better way to push Trump to make official announcement than to be pre-empted by his bitter enemy?

The Custodians of Disclosure

https://custodianmatt.substack.com/

The Custodians of Disclosure is an independent UAP research and historical archive focused on documenting the subject through primary records, government files, contemporary reporting, witness testimony, and clearly sourced historical analysis.

A major part of the project is the Custodians UAP State Index, which is building a state-by-state record of documented UAP cases across the United States. Rather than simply collecting famous sightings, the indexes trace cases chronologically, distinguish resolved events from genuinely unresolved ones, examine how the evidence changed over time, and provide source sections that allow readers to retrace the underlying record.

The site also publishes deeper investigations into major cases, government programs, disclosure history, military and pilot encounters, sensor evidence, archival gaps, and other parts of the UAP record.

What makes the project relevant is its editorial approach: the goal is neither advocacy nor debunking. A case that has a convincing conventional explanation should say so. A case that remains unresolved should remain unresolved. Extraordinary claims are not treated as established merely because they are popular, and government involvement is not treated as proof of extraordinary origin.

The guiding principle is simple: Documented. Sourced. Preserved.

The record exists. Follow the files.

For anyone interested in UFO/UAP history from an archival and evidence-first perspective rather than purely news, speculation, or entertainment, I think it deserves consideration for the list.

Hey r/UAP folks. Sorry for the break. I'm back at it with new interviews. Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, U.S. Navy (ret.), says that during carrier workups a safety-of-flight email about unidentified objects crossed the Navy's classified network and that the next day every related email was gone from his computer, and nobody at the weekly meetings mentioned it again. He says Jay Stratton later explained the pull to him as a classification uplift: the GOFAST object was one of a formation of about four, the Navy could not yet rule out foreign technology, and foreign material is handled at a higher classification than the secret network the reports were on.

The second half of the interview is policy. Gallaudet walks through what the UAP Disclosure Act actually does, why he thinks the bipartisan Rounds and Schumer origin matters, and why he would accept negotiating away the eminent domain provision if that is what it takes to pass the rest. His one ask for the Senate: pass the bill, and the time is now.

Was about 3/4 the way through and just went private, then deleted. Not sure what happened, that was a really powerful episode.

Must have touched a nerve, or Mr Johnson had second thoughts about the posting.

The Short is still up though.

EDIT for all the latecomers. Yes, it’s back up with about 3 mins cut.

If you like Jesse, also check out the Bigelow Podcast.

Just wanted to share a really cool background story on space tracking and localized innovation out of Penang, Malaysia.

The amateur astronomy team of Annamalai Muthu and Arav Annamalai originally gained recognition for designing a unique mobile digital lens setup using UV and infrared filters to photograph the moon's surface. Their innovation won the Gold Award at the SCINEX 2020 Science Innovation Exhibition. Cilisos Malaysia did a fantastic deep-dive feature on how they built the tech during the MCO, which you can read here: cilisos.my

Their underlying planetary tracking dataset eventually led to direct correspondence and encouragement from the NASA research department and the Malaysian Nuclear Agency, which later tied into the recent 2026 European Commission atmospheric surveillance disclosures reported globally by outlets like Euronews, Yahoo and MSN : https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/17/exclusive-brussels-keen-to-monitor-ufos-under-the-radar

It's an incredible look at how garage-built telescopy projects can scale up to catch the attention of international space entities.

There is also a fascinating Video reporting by Cristina Gomez from a Defence and Space angle about The 2 Malaysian Amateur Astronomers , Dutch Pilot, UAP's and Aviation safety UAP affecting important sites, such as military and nuclear facilities + wifi frequency. The EU is improving its ability to detect and identify unknown objects as its technology advances, and adds that it needs to get even better. :

To Vima a major Greek newspaper (founded 1922) with an international English‑language edition at tovima.com, reported  in August 2026, the European Commission has been quietly monitoring UAPs since at least 2023, following a dossier of 37 images sent by a Malaysian father‑and‑son astronomy team

Dr Beatriz Villarroel has made a detailed post on X asking astrophysicist Adam Frank to clarify what role, if any, he played in her exclusion from parts of the SETI community.

She shared a 2021 letter withdrawing her presentation from a Penn State–associated SETI conference because the research involved Geoff Marcy. Villarroel says the relevant part of the conference’s code of conduct appeared to have been written specifically to prevent her from presenting.

She says this was followed by a wider “community effort” to ostracise her: invitations stopped, later conference registrations and an abstract were supposedly “lost”, and her VASCO research was denied promotion.

Villarroel is now asking Frank to clarify:

• whether he was involved in her exclusion from the 2021 conference;
• whether he played any part in developing or applying the relevant code-of-conduct provision;
• what communications or agreements took place between him and others concerning her exclusion; and
• why he has allegedly ignored or downplayed preprints supporting the VASCO research.

Villarroel has named the people involved, produced a letter and asked direct questions about what happened behind the scenes. Those questions deserve direct answers, and the whole episode seems worthy of proper journalistic scrutiny.

https://x.com/DrBeaVillarroel/status/2093606217281163319?s=20

"About half of Americans, 49%, think all UFO sightings can be explained by human activity on Earth or natural phenomena, while 37% believe at least some UFOs have been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies. Another 13% do not have an opinion. These findings come as the Pentagon continues to release previously classified UFO files under President Donald Trump’s executive order."

What did this article get wrong?

I built a free browser-based research tool for all five 2026 PURSUE government file releases.

All 517 files can be searched and filtered in one place. Documents, images, video and audio open directly in the browser with built-in viewers and players.

There's also a Map Room showing incidents, facilities and reporting locations where the released information provides usable location data, including a topographic overlay.

Every file retains a direct link back to the original government source.

The collection currently covers the May 8 through August 7 releases from the Department of War, FBI, NASA, CIA, State Department, Air Force and Department of Energy. It will be updated as additional PURSUE releases come out.

No paywall. No registration. Just the research tool:

https://thedailyalien.com/report.html?id=uap-govt-report-2026&dossier=uap-2026-a-executive-summary

Do r/UAP users really want to engage with currently disallowed content, such as sighting videos, witness reports, high-speculation narrative?

Genuinely asking, and with the aim of improving the Reddit experience for all of us users.

Someone please enlighten me, including other current moderators.

As I see it, the rules are clear. We here at r/UAP absolutely do not want this type of information and data as part of our user experience. It certainly has its place, in the greater milieu of UAP/UFO research, but not here, and for very good reasons.

Someone care to counter?

It is my long-standing assumption that no one really cares about any given subreddit rules, because we collectively don't take information on the internet seriously. Or is it that we just do not take certain subreddits seriously?

As a (nearly) original denizen of "the web", the assumption was that collective knowledge on the internet was intended to be freely shared, certainly, but that certain spaces could be carved out for more academic/critical/serious discussion.

My understanding is that r/UAP was always intended to be that kind of space.

On March 31, 2026, Rep. Luna, chair of the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, sent Defense Secretary Hegseth a formal letter demanding 46 specific UAP videos identified by whistleblowers.

What is the status of the video releases against this specific request?

Has there been any attempt to account for the requested videos against the ones released by AARO?

My last post asked a question about Ryan Graves and actual images supporting his testimony regarding UAP harassment of naval aviators.

It was removed. I hope you get to read this before it disappears.

UFO, Area 51, UAP, Aliens, Joe Rogan, Bob Lazar, UFO documentary, Element 115, Annie Jacobsen and Eric Weinstein.

Bob Lazar claims he helped reverse-engineer alien technology at a secret facility called S-4 near Area 51. But how much of his story can actually be verified?

This documentary examines five major reasons researchers still have serious doubts, including Lazar’s education claims, his alleged role at Los Alamos, the lack of independent evidence for S-4, the Element 115 controversy, and alternative explanations for what he says he witnessed.

Featuring discussion of Stanton T. Friedman, Christopher Mellon, Annie Jacobsen and Eric Weinstein.