Resources

The institute's new website is up and running, and this is it. The research hub is live and working, with project material from the earlier platform still being migrated across.

The hub is where the research happens. Every project carries its goal, its abstract, and its task list, and each task is tagged with the skills it calls for, so you can search for work that fits what you already know or a skill you want to pick up.

Findings go into electronic lab books, timestamped and written to a verifiable ledger. Every project has its own discussion channel, alongside institute-wide discussion and direct messages. Shared document editing, file storage, and analysis notebooks sit next to a wiki and a whiteboard.

Video meetings, motions, and recorded votes keep decisions on the record, which matters in an organization where every member has an equal vote.

Taken together, that is what lets a distributed team hold a line of research steady. A result can be traced back to the day it was recorded and checked by someone who was not there. Working notes stay with the project rather than in one person's inbox, and you can do all of it under a self-chosen pseudonym.

Institute announcements, project milestones, and publication releases are posted here. Building

Membership is free. Apply, and within a day or two you can pick up a task on a project already under way or start organizing your own.

Foundational papers, official findings, methods, and journals for those starting rigorous research into anomalous phenomena and frontier science. We note where the science is established and where it is still debated.

Official reviews and findings

• NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report Official
  NASA, September 2023. A sixteen-member expert panel chaired by David Spergel sets out how to study unidentified anomalous phenomena with calibrated sensors, open data, and scientific method.
• Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Official
  Office of the Director of National Intelligence, June 2021. The assessment that made government study of the subject official; most of its 144 cases could not be explained with the data available.

Peer-reviewed research

• The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP) Peer-reviewed
  Knuth and colleagues, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2025. A large multi-author review of how to study UAP scientifically, built around synchronized imaging, magnetometry, spectroscopy, and standardized instrumentation. Open-access preprint on arXiv.
• Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles Peer-reviewed
  Knuth, Powell and Reali, Entropy, 2019. A quantitative analysis of the 2004 Nimitz "Tic Tac" radar and pilot data. Open access.
• First Field Expedition of UAPx Peer-reviewed
  Szydagis and colleagues, 2023. Physicists run an instrumented field study and report their methods and results in full.
• Faculty perceptions of unidentified aerial phenomena Peer-reviewed
  Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023. A survey of 1,460 academics finds that witnessing UAP is more common, and less fringe, than assumed.
• A History of Scientific Approaches to UAP Academic essay
  Tim Lomas, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024. The case for serious scientific engagement with the subject rather than dismissal.

Methods and instrumentation

• The Galileo Project Peer-reviewed
  Avi Loeb and colleagues, Harvard. An effort to catch the phenomenon on calibrated, all-sky instruments rather than blurry phone video, with its observatory design and methods published in the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation.
• Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) Technical guidance
  A nonprofit of scientists and engineers focused on structured data collection, calibrated sensor systems, and analytic rigor, with methodological guidance and an annual conference.
• AIAA UAP Integration and Outreach Committee Technical work
  A committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics publishing technical work on detecting and characterizing UAP.

Journals and scientific societies

• Limina: The Journal of UAP Studies Peer-reviewed
  The field's first peer-reviewed academic journal, spanning the sciences and humanities. Free to read.
• Journal of Scientific Exploration Academic journal
  A peer-reviewed journal for rigorous study of topics at the edge of science, including UAP and consciousness.
• Society for UAP Studies Academic society
  An academic society convening researchers across disciplines, with an annual conference and the Limina journal.

Foundations: emergence and the limits of known frameworks

• More Is Different Academic work
  Philip W. Anderson, Science, 1972. The foundational argument that new properties emerge at each level of complexity and cannot be reduced to the parts. The idea the institute is named for.
• Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems Academic work
  Grégoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine, 1977. A Nobel-winning framework for how order and complexity arise far from equilibrium, relevant to modeling anomalous phenomena as self-organizing systems.
• Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness Academic paper
  Jacques Vallée and Eric Davis, 2003. A widely cited framework for why the phenomenon resists easy study, and how to approach it rigorously anyway.
• Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds Book
  Jacques Vallée, 1969. A foundational cross-disciplinary analysis connecting modern reports with historical accounts of anomalous phenomena across cultures.

Training follows what the current projects actually need, so you can pick up a skill for the task in front of you. Building

Self-paced introductions for members new to the field, drawn from the standards the projects already work to: reproducible research practice, registered reports and study registries, statistical power, systematic review reporting, informed consent in minimal-risk research, and the fundamentals of sensor measurement. Building