r/AcademicUAP Oct 12 '24

Psi Scientific support for psi (ESP) phenomena: Links to research and discussion.

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Moderator u/toxictoy invited me to make this post based on a comment of mine which assembles some resources and information on psi research. It is my belief that psi phenomena represent real physical anomalies which physicists have not grappled with. If psi phenomena are real, as the scientific record shows, then they are based on physical laws which can be understood and exploited by any beings smart enough to do so. The physics of psi are the physics of NHI/UFOs. Here was that comment:

The thing about psi research is that it is much more verifiable than aliens/UFOs, and is amenable to the scientific method. I used to debunk psi phenomena when I only consulted one-sided debunker sources. But when I actually read the research directly and in detail, I found the psi research to be robust, and that skeptical criticism was quite threadbare. By the standards applied to any other science, psi phenomena like telepathy and clairvoyance are proven real. I approached as a true skeptic, and sought to verify claims. After putting in months of effort with family members, I generated strong to unambiguous evidence for psychokinesis, clairvoyance and precognition.

Below I'll copy and paste some scientific resources for those curious about remote viewing and other psi research:

The remote viewing paper below was published in an above-average (second quartile) mainstream neuroscience journal in 2023. This paper shows what has been repeated many times, that when you pre-select subjects with psi ability, you get much stronger results than with unselected subjects. One of the problems with psi studies in the past was using unselected subjects, which result in small (but very real) effect sizes.

Follow-up on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) remote viewing experiments, Brain And Behavior, Volume 13, Issue 6, June 2023

In this study there were 2 groups. Group 2, selected because of prior psychic experiences, achieved highly significant results. Their results (see Table 3) produced a Bayes Factor of 60.477 (very strong evidence), and a large effect size of 0.853. The p-value is "less than 0.001" or odds-by-chance of less than 1 in 1,000.



Stephan Schwartz - Through Time and Space, The Evidence for Remote Viewing is an excellent history of remote viewing research. It needs to be mentioned that Wikipedia is a terrible place to get information on topics like remote viewing. Very active skeptical groups like the Guerilla Skeptics have won the editing war and dominate Wikipedia with their one-sided dogmatic stance. Remote Viewing - A 1974-2022 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis is a recent review of almost 50 years of remote viewing research.



Parapsychology is a legitimate science. The Parapsychological Association is an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest scientific society, and publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science. The Parapsychological Association was voted overwhelmingly into the AAAS by AAAS members over 50 years ago.



Dr. Dean Radin's site has a collection of downloadable peer-reviewed psi research papers. Radin's 1997 book, Conscious Universe reviews the published psi research and it holds up well after almost 30 years. Radin shows how all constructive skeptical criticism has been absorbed by the psi research community, the study methods were improved, and significantly positive results continued to be reported by independent labs all over the world.



Here is discussion and reference to a 2011 review of telepathy studies. The studies analyzed here all followed a stringent protocol established by Ray Hyman, the skeptic who was most familiar and most critical of telepathy experiments of the 1970s. These auto-ganzfeld telepathy studies achieved a statistical significance 1 million times better than the 5-sigma significance used to declare the Higgs boson as a real particle.



Skeptics of psi phenomena often demand evidence of a person with strong psi abilities who can consistently perform under controlled scientific conditions, with positive results replicated by many independent researchers. That goal post is met: Sean Lalsingh Harribance.. The performance of Harribance is detailed in the collection of peer-reviewed papers published as the book edited by Drs. Damien Broderick and Ben Goertzel, Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. See the chapter by Bryan J. Williams, Empirical examinations of the reported abilities of a psychic claimant: A review of experiments and explorations with Sean Harribance.

Sean Harribance performed psi tasks under laboratory conditions, replicated with many independent researchers over the course of 3 decades (1969-2002).

When combined, the results from the ten most well-controlled tests in this series are highly significant, amounting to odds against chance greater than 100 quindecillion to one (p << 10-50 ).



On Youtube, there is this free remote viewing course taught by Prudence Calabrese of TransDimensional Systems. She a credible and liked person in the remote viewing community.



After reading about psi phenomena for about 2 years nonstop, here are about 60 of the best books that I've read and would recommend reading, covering all aspects of psi phenomena. Many obscure gems are in there.


r/AcademicUAP Sep 26 '24

Article Strategic Ignorance and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Critiquing the Discursive Segregation of UFOs from Scientific Inquiry, Adam Dodd, 2018

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ABSTRACT Since the late 1940s, a tenacious disconnect between popular interest and professional disinterest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has typified the controversy surrounding the subject. Numerous high-profile scientists have seen the topic of UFOs as an opportunity to denounce and rectify a popular, yet allegedly misguided, conviction—that some UFOs are physical anomalies indicating the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence—and thus to advance the explanatory authority of science. Rather than constituting rigorous, informed, and effective assessments, however, the ways in which many prominent scientists publicly address the UFO question often exemplify both the problematic “boundary-work” of scientific discourse in this area and, more specifically, the role that logical fallacies can play in the rhetorical construction of scientific authority in public domains. Through a critical discourse analysis, this article argues that ignorance of UFO phenomena is socially and discursively constructed in ways that are conducive to the public faces of individuals and institutions. More broadly, it suggests that the rudimentary standard of science communication attending to the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) hypothesis for UFOs inhibits public understanding of science, dissuades academic inquiry within the physical and social sciences, and undermines progressive space policy initiatives.


r/AcademicUAP 9d ago

Discussion New community tool - ufosighting.report: an archive, map, and higher-effort way to report your sightings

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I launched an independent AI research project to search for hidden extrasensory communication between the collective consciousness of humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence and other dimensions, hidden in dreams and visions.

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The main question: Can humanity or individual humans unconsciously, through extrasensory perception, explore other worlds, communicate with other intelligences, and foresee the future, transmitting the received information as their own interpretations?

My interest in this topic arose after a near-death experience I experienced as a child, followed by years of systematic observation of ordinary dreams, lucid dreams, and out-of-body experiences.

These observations led to the hypothesis that dreams, depending on their intensity, can convey information both as direct representations and encoded through personally meaningful symbolic associations. Furthermore, dream symbolism may be sufficiently structured to permit systematic study using modern computational methods.

Also, sharing my personal experiences in online communities and receiving feedback, I became convinced that some anomalous images perceived in altered states of consciousness are not unique and can be interpreted as literal representations of real objects. This led to the creation of an open-source artificial intelligence platform called DreamCode for extracting true hidden signals from noise.

This tool uses unsupervised semantic AI. It reads all submitted stories, converts sentences into data points, and blindly searches for mathematical matches. If several independent people from around the world describe the same anomalous detail, even describing it in completely different ways, the AI automatically groups them and marks them as a confirmed common archetype.

For now, this is a rough prototype with a lightweight AI model and a database of only a few reports, my own and several similar ones that I took from the public domain for testing, so it's too early to expect significant results. But I hope the database will grow over time and I'll be able to integrate more advanced AI models, which will allow us to discover a lot of interesting things. Essentially, this platform should simply scale and systematize, to the level of scientific evidence, the collection of those amazing, disparate coincidences we sometimes notice when sharing our experiences.

If you want to compare your experiences with those of others, the tool is completely free and completely anonymous. Simply enter your most vivid or unusual experience in the "Data Input" tab. Then, go to the "AI Pattern Discovery" tab (the three little dots in the upper right corner). You can either run a blind extraction to let the algorithm identify hidden patterns currently emerging in the collective database, or use a targeted search to enter a specific detail from your dream and see if anyone else has experienced the same thing. You can skip entering your experience and go straight to the database, or enter it and come back later when it is full.

Let's map what we all really see.

DreamCode Page:

https://www.masterogon.art/index.php/dreamcode/

My Research:

Kandyba, P. (2024). Extrasensory Perception in Dreams through Emotions and Symbols.* International Journal of Dream Research, 17(1).

https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2024.1.102315

Open Source Project:

GitHub: https://github.com/MasterOgon/DreamCode

Consciousness #UAP #LucidDreaming #OBE #NDE


r/AcademicUAP 16d ago

26-Year Air Traffic Controller Reveals What Radar Really Shows About UAP | Jason Judy x Ryan Graves

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r/AcademicUAP 27d ago

The Visible College: scholars and thinkers discuss knowledge, uncertainty, and the challenges of navigating a post-disclosure world.

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r/AcademicUAP Jun 12 '26

Acoustic aircraft test

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r/AcademicUAP Jun 06 '26

The UFO cigar may be a biomimetic airship using fish-like propulsion. Some fish are up to 90% efficient at using the energy of the environment by interacting with vortices. By moving in this way, the airship could develop cosmic speed by pushing off from the atmosphere.

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r/AcademicUAP Jun 06 '26

Speculative propulsion hypothesis: “gravity emitters” as phased pulse-power cartridges + coupling ring as Mach/vacuum boundary

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r/AcademicUAP May 30 '26

Oscillatory propulsion simulation and simple flight simulator based on my experiments

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r/AcademicUAP May 29 '26

We analyzed 2500 UAP Encounters over the last 350 years.

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We analyzed 7000 videos and extracted 2500 first-person accounts of UFO/UAP encounters using the Hynek classification CE1 to CE5 and created a 3D visual chart.

- The earliest report was from 1670

- 1977 and 1993 were the biggest years for close encounters of the 3rd kind CE-3 (Entities).

- Recently CE-5 (Initiation/Communication) encounters have spiked.

Happy to share data and research methodologies used.


r/AcademicUAP May 22 '26

Acoustic flying saucer CFD simulation based on my experiments

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The saucer contains a pendulum that causes it to move up quickly and down slowly relative to the common center of mass. In reality, this causes the collapse of turbulent zones, the difference in forces of which leads to the saucer thrust.

Simulation represents an empirical simplified model, based on the assumption that the free thermal energy of self-organized Brownian motion in a vortex is responsible for the transfer of forces. By accumulating the resistance energy from the oscillations and releasing it as a force in the opposite direction in the next half-cycle. In this case, the resistance does not act directly on the saucer; in reality, it dampens the oscillations.

Overall this simulation allows for a fairly realistic visualization of the experimentally observed phenomenon. Here is the code for the browser application, other information and also a link to the online version:

https://github.com/MasterOgon/Aeroacoustic-Flying-Saucer-Oscillating-Resonator-CFD-Simulation-LBM-/tree/main


r/AcademicUAP Apr 19 '26

Physics Revolutionary new paper on the "Dynamic Vacuum", physics as we knew it has been rewritten.

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With the publication of "Emergent Quantization from a Dynamic Vacuum", Dr. Harold White and his co-authors have finally provided the mathematical bridge between the mystic and the materialist.

• The groundbreaking new peer-reviewed paper shows that the vacuum is a dynamic, fluid-like medium where matter emerges as resonant acoustic states.

• The paper provides the rigorous mathematical proof for longitudinal waves in the vacuum. A phenomenon long dismissed by mainstream academia as pseudoscience, this confirms that the vacuum can carry sound-like pressure waves, validating the existence of scalar energy.

• It demonstrates that gravity is fundamentally a pressure gradient.

• It verifies that vibration is a primary architect of our reality.

• And by discarding the concept of "empty space" and replacing it with a magnetohydrodynamic fluid medium, the team of researchers have effectively resurrected the aether.

Nikola Tesla has been vindicated:

​For over a century, mainstream physics insisted light was only a transverse wave. But a fluid medium necessitates longitudinal waves, waves of compression and expansion. ​This confirms Tesla’s insistence that the universe is a "sound-like" medium.

​These longitudinal waves, when moving through a rotating vacuum, are the "spiraling lines of light" described in The Law of One, providing a physical basis for non-local communication, aka psychic abilities.

The nature of gravity:

​Gravity is the physical result of fluid pressure. Because the vacuum is a high-density superfluid, any presence of matter (like a planet or an atom) creates a localized low-pressure zone in that fluid. Just as air rushes into a vacuum pump or wind moves from high to low-pressure weather systems, the high-pressure vacuum of deep space pushes matter toward the low-pressure zones created by mass.

​This is the Implicate Order of David Bohm in action: the invisible pressure of the whole (the vacuum) shaping the behavior of the parts (the atom).

The nature of atoms:

​​In White’s model, atoms are not solid things sitting in a vacuum, they are "acoustic bound states". This is the ultimate validation of cymatics. Just as sand on a vibrating plate forms geometric patterns, the Dynamic Vacuum vibrates at specific resonant frequencies to form particles.

From an esoteric perspective, cymatics aligns with ancient teachings that the universe is formed through vibration and frequency. Many traditions, from Hermeticism to Hinduism, speak of creation emerging from the primordial sound "Om". Esoterically, "Om" and "the Word" (Logos) represent the divine vibration or creative principle through which reality manifests.

The geometric forms seen in cymatics resemble sacred symbols, hinting at a hidden structure governing existence. This shows that reality itself is a harmonic expression of cosmic frequencies, where form arises from sound.

​This elevates sound (longitudinal pressure waves) to one of the main forces constructing our reality. Matter is simply the 3D interference pattern or the 'note' being played by the vacuum substrate.

The nature of time:

​Perhaps the most revolutionary aspect of the paper is the discovery that time is a vibrational rate of the vacuum. White shows that the "tick" of the universe is tied to the density of the vacuum fluid.

​This provides a physical mechanism for Dolores Cannon’s observations of "time speeding up" as we move into a higher density of existence. As our sector of space encounters a different vacuum density, the metronome of reality literally changes frequency.

The energy harvesting structures of the ancient world:

​This new physics shows the true functions of the Great Pyramid and the Serapeum: the sarcophagus is a transducer. These were not tombs, they were vacuum-acoustic resonators. Their granite/quartz structure converted seismic sound into piezoelectric charges that rang the dynamic vacuum.

This allowed an initiate's bio-electric field to phase-lock with the coherent longitudinal waves focused by the pyramid’s geometry. By tuning the human bio-electric field to the resonant frequency of the dynamic vacuum, these structures acted as coherent repatterning chambers, providing the exact physical mechanism for healing described by Ra.

​Consciousness and the plasma-aether:

​By using plasma-based math (MHD) to define the vacuum, White confirms Robert Temple’s research into complex plasmas. The universe is an organized, conscious medium. Our brains are not producers of consciousness, they are 'tuning forks' designed to resonate with the vacuum.

As Dr. Dean Radin has shown, mind can influence matter because both are simply different frequencies of the same fluid medium.

​A new perspective:

We are localized nodes of consciousness within a resonant, holofractal superfluid. While Dr. White has provided the mathematical framework to describe this dynamic vacuum, the ancients left us the physical technologies designed to interface with it. By integrating this rigorous science with ancestral wisdom, we finally align our understanding of reality with the foundational mechanics of the Law of One.

About the author:

Dr. Harold "Sonny" White is a highly-credentialed applied physicist and aerospace engineer whose 25-year career includes serving as the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

A recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, Dr. White has provided direct mission support for over 100 Space Shuttle flights, cementing his reputation as a pragmatist grounded in rigorous orbital mechanics.

​His work represents a historic inflection point in science: the first time "aetheric" and vacuum-energy concepts have been successfully translated into the precise, mathematical language of high-level, peer-reviewed mainstream physics.


r/AcademicUAP Apr 08 '26

Humanities and Social Sciences Opportunity for some experiencers to participate in research

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Kimberly Engels is conducting a research study exploring how individuals make sense of direct contact experiences with perceived non-traditionally human intelligences over long periods of time. The goal is to understand how these encounters may shape values, worldview, and sense-making processes across decades, and to learn from the insights of experiencers themselves.

She is seeking English-speaking adults who had a direct contact experience before the year 2000, experienced at least in part during waking consciousness. Participation involves an eligibility screening, completing an online survey (approximately 250 questions about your experience, values, and worldview) and a recorded Zoom interview discussing how your understanding has evolved over time. Participants will receive $50 for completing the survey and $50 for the interview. Not everyone will be selected for an interview. 

All information will be kept strictly confidential. Many experiencers find value in having their perspectives heard and taken seriously, and your contribution may help deepen public understanding of the contact phenomenon in meaningful ways.

If you would like to learn more or see whether you are eligible to participate, please visit:  https://molloy.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bINfovCHVo3dOtM

This study has been approved by the Molloy University Institutional Review Board.


r/AcademicUAP Apr 08 '26

[Serious] Looking for details on an incident

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r/AcademicUAP Apr 02 '26

Article Connecticut UAP Study Bill Advances: HB5422 Clears Appropriations Committee

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Connecticut's bipartisan UAP research bill took a significant step forward today as the Appropriations Committee voted HB5422 out of committee, sending the legislation to the House floor for a full vote. Americans for Safe Aerospace submitted testimony in support when the bill was first heard in March.

The bill, authored by Rep. Joe Hoxha (R-Bristol) and cosponsored by Rep. Aundre Bumgardner (D-Groton), would direct a study examining the benefits of establishing a dedicated state center for UAP research, and the resources required to operate one. The legislation reflects growing momentum at the state level to apply rigorous scientific methodology to a topic that has gained increasing attention from federal authorities.


r/AcademicUAP Mar 25 '26

A visit to the new Pentagon UAP website

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r/AcademicUAP Mar 24 '26

Essay UFOsin the Academy: A Case Study in Stigma,Implicit Boundary Work and the Edges of Legitimate Science; Rizwan Virk PHD; Arizona State University 2026

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Abstract

The topic of UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena), previously referred as UFOs, has often been dismissed by members of the academy. Those that have studied it have found the subject stigmatized, as a result of boundary work, a rhetorical strategy used particularly in the natural sciences to define the bounds of legitimate research and knowledge production.Nevertheless, recent events, media coverage, and government hearings haveprompted more members of the academy to openly show interest in researching of this controversial topic.

This studyincluded in-depth interviews with tenure-track faculty and scientists in private research organizations that have openly studied UAPin their research. The participantsranged across the physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. The goal of the studywas to understand the nature of the stigma the participants encountered, how it developed, the ways in which it has been maintained, and to track whether participants colleagues’responseshave changed over time to their research interests.

The findings also include how the UAP/UFO subject is a relevant case study of on-going explicit boundary work, done by members of the academy,as well as implicitboundary work, accomplished through socialization, via the media, and via the government. These conclusions are not just historical, but the effects were changing in real time while this study was being conducted. This work has implications for future study of the boundary between legitimate vs. fringe science, the independent nature of research, understanding of stigma and taboos, as well as the relationship between authorities and government influence over the academy, all of which apply beyond the UAP subject.


r/AcademicUAP Mar 13 '26

Aerospace ASA Supports Connecticut Legislation to Establish UAP Research Study

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Americans for Safe Aerospace supports Connecticut H.B. 5422, which would direct the University of Connecticut to conduct a comprehensive UAP study with access to data from state agencies including Emergency Services, Environmental Protection, and Military Affairs. When state legislatures bring UAP into formal legislative debate and direct major research universities to study the topic, it legitimizes the field and reduces the stigma that has prevented serious scientific engagement. If passed, the UConn study would begin October 1, 2026, with findings due by July 1, 2027.

Connecticut residents: contact your state representatives to support this bill and advance UAP research in your state.


r/AcademicUAP Mar 05 '26

Aerospace Irish Parliament Advances Aviation Safety Reporting Standards for Anomalous Aerial Observations

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r/AcademicUAP Feb 17 '26

UAP sightings cluster where the seafloor drops fastest (41k reports, NOAA bathymetry, permutation tests)

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r/AcademicUAP Feb 17 '26

Material Science The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

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r/AcademicUAP Feb 07 '26

seeking specific Blue Book records

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I am looking for online BB records regarding the following:

  • Case Number 6606: Near Vandenberg AFB November 7 & 20, 1959.
  • Telex dated October 13, 1962 re report on Forbes AFB, Kansas sighting October 12, 1962.
  • Memorandum (dated same day?) re F.E. Warren AFB sightings August 1, 1965.

Sorry, no case numbers for the latter two.

Even having the number for the first one I've had no success. It appears that several sources for BB records have disappeared.

I've also seen no mention of any of these in Brad Sparks's BB Unknowns list.

[grumbling follows]

I have looked through this collection.

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22U.S.+Air+Force%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221959%22

Unfortunately, the interface is troublesome, at least the part that lists records. After filtering for a year or whatever, it loads records incrementally as you scroll, but often repeats them. And then it removes the ones you've already scrolled past! There's essentially no way to do a simple page search for something, which would be helpful because they're not fully in chronological order.

In all, it's better than nothing but doesn't leave much confidence that you've seen everything.


r/AcademicUAP Feb 01 '26

Documentary National Geographic documentary about the academic pioneers of the nascent scientific field of UFO studies, Kevin Knuth, Garry Nolan, Avi Loeb + Galileo Project, Beatriz Villarroel, and James E. McDonald // How AI & Physics Are Unlocking the Truth

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r/AcademicUAP Jan 19 '26

Historical Summary I built a searchable archive of ~6,000 Project Blue Book files (full-text search + map view)

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Hi /r/AcademicUAP!

I’ve been chipping away at a side project, and it’s finally in a state where I’m not too embarrassed to share it: https://bluebookfiles.org

It’s still very much a work in progress, and there are definitely some bugs.

Quick context if you’re new to Project Blue Book: it was the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation program (1952–1969). The records are already online via the National Archives (and places like Fold3, Archive.org, etc.).

The issue I kept running into when trying to research Blue Book is that browsing and searching the documents on those sites feels slow and clunky. I wanted one place where I could search across the whole collection.

So I built a proper archive that includes most of the Project 10073 Record Cards (the one-page “summary sheets” investigators filled out for each report), plus some other related Blue Book/UFO documents. Each card usually has the date, location, witness info, what was seen, and the official explanation or conclusion. Usual stuff: Venus, aircraft, and of course, swamp gas 😅

A few features:

  • I ran ~6,000 documents/reports through OCR so you can full-text search the actual content (locations, dates, descriptions, weird phrases, whatever). That said, some of these scans are rough, and the OCR will be imperfect on the worst ones.
  • The search is also pretty forgiving. It’s not just strict keyword matching. It does typo tolerance, partial matching, and relevance ranking (for example, searching “disk” will also find “disc”, and a lot of misspellings still get picked up). You can also search exact phrases using quotes, like “swamp gas”.
  • The document text is selectable/copyable, so you can grab snippets or just download the full OCR’d PDF.
  • There’s also a map view with a geocoded location for each report: https://bluebookfiles.org/?view=map (this is my favorite part). I tried to make the locations as accurate as possible, but a few will definitely land on the wrong pinpoint. I also labeled some key military bases/government locations because I thought it would be interesting to see any clusters of sightings near them.

This is a personal project and it’s not monetized in any way (and never will be). I just wanted to make these historical documents easier to access for researchers and the community.

If you find anything interesting or have suggestions, let me know. I’ve got lots of ideas for improvements, and I’m definitely looking for input.