CIVILIAN UAP RESEARCH — EST. 2023
India needs someone watching the sky.
UAP-I is India's first civilian centre for reporting and researching unidentified anomalous phenomena. We exist because no Indian institution does this — and the absence is itself the problem.
THE PROBLEM
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INDIAN REPORTING FRAMEWORKS
The phenomenon is no longer fringe. India's response still is.
The US Congress has held open hearings. The Pentagon runs a dedicated office. France has operated a state UAP body inside its space agency since 1977. Japan has a cross-party parliamentary caucus.
India has scrambled fighter jets, locked down the Prime Minister's residence and filed over a hundred border reports to the PMO — and has no framework to make sense of any of it. RTI requests come back with a national security exception, no record, or no mandate.
That gap is what UAP-I was built to close. We collect sighting reports from across India, analyse the policy and security implications, and publish research an Indian reader can actually use.
FOUNDER
Amog Nair
Researcher and advocate. Three years of UAP research, including academic work during an MA in Space and Telecom Law at NALSAR University — one of the few Indian qualifications that touches this subject at all.
His paper Technological Developments in the Space Domain: The Challenges for India was published in the India Foundation Journal (January–February 2024). He also writes for India Foundation's Chintan, where he argued that India must establish a permanent UAP research body under the Defence Ministry or ISRO.
HOW WE WORK
Sources over speculation
Every claim we publish carries a citation you can check. Where the evidence is contested, we say so rather than pick a side.
Policy, not folklore
The interesting question is not whether you believe. It is what a state does about objects it cannot identify in its own airspace.
India first
Plenty of people cover the American disclosure story. Almost nobody covers what it means for Indian airspace, Indian doctrine and Indian strategic autonomy.
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