Wide-field detection
Fixed cameras monitor large areas of sky and detect moving targets.
MISSION
The goal isn't to find UFOs.
The goal is to eliminate them.
A UFO is not an explanation. It is an observation that has not yet been identified.
UFO → IFO is built around a simple idea: better evidence produces better answers. The project seeks to collect enough reliable information to identify observed aerial objects whenever the evidence allows. Aircraft, satellites, drones, balloons, meteors and other explainable objects should become IFOs. Anything that cannot be reliably identified remains unidentified—a question, not an answer.
THE SYSTEM
Wide finds narrow.
Coordinate the observation
UFODAP receives observations, combines information and coordinates target handoff.
Narrow-field acquisition
A steerable camera can be directed toward a Scout target for a closer observation.
Detect
Measure
Triangulate
Track
Image
Identify
CURRENT STATUS
Building the system one test at a time.
Tower A — Online
Tower A is now running the publicly released version of UFODAP Master Control following completion of our preliminary testing and submission of our test report. The corresponding updated OTDAU public release is still pending. Scout-to-Interceptor handoff behavior has been tested as development continues. The next major phase is expansion toward multi-station operation and triangulation.
Capabilities described as planned or under development should not be read as completed demonstrations. Project status will be updated as testing establishes what the system can reliably do.
EVENT ARCHIVE
The evidence will live here.
COMING SOON
Documented observation reports
As events are captured, each case can include the available camera video, still images, track information, relevant sensor data, analysis, competing explanations and a conclusion supported by the evidence.
A conclusion may be an identification, a ranked set of plausible explanations, or simply unidentified when the available evidence is insufficient.
Open event archiveFuture event image / track map / video preview
EVIDENCE STANDARD
Preserve first.
Interpret second.
Conclude last.
We do not begin with an answer and search for evidence to support it. We preserve what the instruments captured, examine the available data, compare plausible explanations and allow the conclusion to change when better evidence becomes available.
Don't manufacture detail the instruments didn't capture. Don't manufacture facts the evidence didn't establish.
PROJECT PRINCIPLES
Evidence before conclusion
Observations are evaluated according to what the data establishes, not what we hope an object will turn out to be.
Unidentified is valid
Insufficient evidence is not an invitation to invent an answer. Some observations may remain unidentified.
Conclusions can change
New evidence can strengthen, weaken or eliminate an explanation. The project will document those changes rather than defend an outdated conclusion.