AP PRESSCivilian channels
File with NUFORC (nuforc.org) or MUFON; both maintain public databases investigators actually use. In France, report to GEIPAN, the state UAP office.
The record on unidentified anomalous phenomena
File with NUFORC (nuforc.org) or MUFON; both maintain public databases investigators actually use. In France, report to GEIPAN, the state UAP office.
U.S. military personnel and aircrews now have official UAP reporting channels feeding AARO — created by Congress precisely so reports stop dying in squadron bars.
Time to the minute, location, compass bearing, elevation angle, duration, apparent size against a known object, weather, and what it did — plus unedited photos or video with metadata intact.
Starlink trains, aircraft with unusual lighting, planets low on the horizon, drones, and balloons account for the majority of reports — checking a flight-tracker and a sky app first makes your report stronger.
The single biggest reason cases die is not ridicule — it's vagueness. “A light moving weird last night” cannot be investigated. A bearing, a time, a duration, and a size estimate can be checked against flight logs, satellite passes, and weather in minutes.
Write everything down immediately, before you talk to anyone: memory begins editing within hours, and every case file in our archive shows what accounts gain and lose over decades. Keep original files — a screenshot of a photo strips the metadata that makes it evidence.
And report even if you think it was probably a drone. The residue of unexplained cases only means something because thousands of explained reports built the baseline around it. The record is the point. That is true for governments, and it is true for you.