Programs &amp; Orgs

AARO — All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

The Pentagon's current, congressionally mandated UAP office — the single front door for reports across air, sea, and space. The institutional answer to decades of ad-hoc secrecy.
AATIP — Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

The shadowy, Reid-era Pentagon program whose 2017 exposure launched the modern UAP era. Small, secret, and — depending on whom you ask — either a serious threat study or a fringe research line item.
AAWSAP — Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program

The Defense Intelligence Agency program that actually did the work everyone credits to AATIP — including the study of Skinwalker Ranch. The predecessor nobody talks about.
NUFORC — National UFO Reporting Center

The civilian hotline that has been quietly logging American sky-watching for half a century. Not a government body — a clearinghouse — and the backbone of nearly every sightings dataset, including this site's map.
Project Blue Book

The U.S. Air Force's longest-running public UFO study — 17 years, more than 12,000 cases, and a final verdict the believers never accepted and the skeptics never doubted.
Project Grudge

The Air Force's second UFO study, set up with its conclusion already decided: explain everything away. The name fit, and it became the template for institutional denial.
Project Sign

The Air Force's first official UFO study — and the one whose analysts reportedly concluded the objects were interplanetary, in a report that was promptly ordered destroyed.
The Galileo Project

Avi Loeb's Harvard effort to do the one thing the field rarely does — build dedicated instruments, collect calibrated data, and publish. A systematic scientific search for physical evidence.
The NASA UAP Independent Study

NASA convened a panel of scientists, ran it in the open, published a report calling for rigor and data — and named a research director whose name it then declined to release. The cautious civilian entry.
The Sol Foundation

The Stanford-adjacent think tank where the serious academic and policy work on UAP gets done — less interested in proving the phenomenon than in thinking through what its reality would mean.
The UAP Disclosure Act

The most ambitious UFO transparency law ever attempted in the U.S. — a Schumer-led push for a records review board modeled on the JFK Act. Much of it was stripped before passage, but it redrew the boundary of what's politically possible.
The UAP Task Force

The Navy-led group that bridged denial and acknowledgment — formalized in 2020, it produced the 2021 report that admitted the government couldn't explain most of what it tracked. The transition program.
To The Stars Academy

The rock star's company that released the three Navy videos and forced the Pentagon to respond. Part research venture, part media operation, entirely consequential.