THE KNOWLEDGE CENTRE
Research on unidentified anomalous phenomena written for an Indian reader. Every claim carries a citation you can open and check. Where the evidence is contested, we say so rather than pick the more exciting side.
MOST RECENT
Newest first, updating itself as posts go live. The curated sections below are grouped by subject so you can go straight to what you need.
START HERE
Two explainers that assume nothing. Read these first if the subject is unfamiliar.
INDIA SERIES
The reason this site exists. What India has on record, and what it still has no framework to do about it.
US POLICY
The disclosure story everyone follows, told from the legislative record rather than the rumour mill.
ANALYSIS
Why states behave the way they do about this, and what the phenomenon does to strategy.
HOW WE WRITE
This subject is unusually easy to get wrong, and unusually costly to get wrong in public. Most UAP writing fails in one of two directions: it either repeats claims without checking them, or it dismisses the whole field without engaging the evidence. Both are lazy. These are the standards that keep us out of each ditch.
MORE ABOUT UAP-I →If a statement of fact appears here, there is a link next to it you can open. Where a source could not be verified, the claim was cut rather than softened. Several figures that circulate widely in UAP writing did not survive that test and are absent from these articles deliberately.
AARO and ODNI reports, congressional records, hearing transcripts and published testimony, read directly rather than through secondary retelling. Where we rely on press reporting for a causal claim, we say so in the text instead of presenting it as established.
Some well-known cases have official resolutions that independent researchers dispute. We present both and let the disagreement stand. Picking the more dramatic reading would make for better copy and worse research.
Plenty of outlets cover the American disclosure story. Almost nobody asks what it means for Indian airspace, Indian doctrine or Indian strategic autonomy. That gap is the whole reason this archive exists.
When something here turns out to be wrong, it gets fixed and the correction stays visible. An archive that quietly edits its own history is not a record, and this is meant to be a record.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RECORD
MAKE A SUBMISSION
Footage, photographs, radar plots, RTI responses, documents, or a sighting you have never reported anywhere. Indian material especially — that is the gap this archive exists to close, and almost none of it reaches the international databases.
Read the standards below before you send. They exist because a submission that meets them can actually be assessed, and one that does not usually cannot.
Straight off the camera or phone, uncropped and unedited. A screenshot of a video, or a re-upload from social media, strips the metadata that makes analysis possible. If you have already compressed it, send that too, but send the original as well.
Approximate is fine, but say so. Where you were standing, which way you were facing, and roughly how high above the horizon. Without these, almost nothing can be checked against flight paths, satellite passes or astronomical data.
What you saw, how long it lasted, whether it made noise, what else was in the sky. Write it the way you would tell a friend. Do not reach for a conclusion — that is our job, and a plain description is far more useful than an interpretation.
Did you consider aircraft, drones, Starlink trains, balloons, Venus, lens flare? Saying what you already dismissed and why makes a report considerably stronger, not weaker. Most submissions resolve to something ordinary and that is a useful result.
Anyone else present, and whether they saw the same thing. Independent accounts of the same event are the single most valuable thing a submission can carry. Their contact details only with their permission.
Nothing is published without your explicit permission, and you can ask to stay anonymous. We read everything but cannot reply to all of it. If we cannot resolve something we will say so rather than pad it into a story.
A live sighting you want on the record should go through the sighting report form instead — it captures the fields we need in a structured way. Use the form below for documents, media, corrections, or anything that does not fit a report.
THE FORM
Attachments welcome — images, video, audio, PDFs. Large files are better shared as a link.
HOW WE WRITE
This subject is unusually easy to get wrong, and unusually costly to get wrong in public. Most UAP writing fails in one of two directions: it either repeats claims without checking them, or it dismisses the whole field without engaging the evidence. Both are lazy. These are the standards that keep us out of each ditch.
MORE ABOUT UAP-I →If a statement of fact appears here, there is a link next to it you can open. Where a source could not be verified, the claim was cut rather than softened. Several figures that circulate widely in UAP writing did not survive that test and are absent from these articles deliberately.
AARO and ODNI reports, congressional records, hearing transcripts and published testimony, read directly rather than through secondary retelling. Where we rely on press reporting for a causal claim, we say so in the text instead of presenting it as established.
Some well-known cases have official resolutions that independent researchers dispute. We present both and let the disagreement stand. Picking the more dramatic reading would make for better copy and worse research.
Plenty of outlets cover the American disclosure story. Almost nobody asks what it means for Indian airspace, Indian doctrine or Indian strategic autonomy. That gap is the whole reason this archive exists.
When something here turns out to be wrong, it gets fixed and the correction stays visible. An archive that quietly edits its own history is not a record, and this is meant to be a record.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RECORD
MAKE A SUBMISSION
Footage, photographs, radar plots, RTI responses, documents, or a sighting you have never reported anywhere. Indian material especially — that is the gap this archive exists to close, and almost none of it reaches the international databases.
Read the standards below before you send. They exist because a submission that meets them can actually be assessed, and one that does not usually cannot.
Straight off the camera or phone, uncropped and unedited. A screenshot of a video, or a re-upload from social media, strips the metadata that makes analysis possible. If you have already compressed it, send that too, but send the original as well.
Approximate is fine, but say so. Where you were standing, which way you were facing, and roughly how high above the horizon. Without these, almost nothing can be checked against flight paths, satellite passes or astronomical data.
What you saw, how long it lasted, whether it made noise, what else was in the sky. Write it the way you would tell a friend. Do not reach for a conclusion — that is our job, and a plain description is far more useful than an interpretation.
Did you consider aircraft, drones, Starlink trains, balloons, Venus, lens flare? Saying what you already dismissed and why makes a report considerably stronger, not weaker. Most submissions resolve to something ordinary and that is a useful result.
Anyone else present, and whether they saw the same thing. Independent accounts of the same event are the single most valuable thing a submission can carry. Their contact details only with their permission.
Nothing is published without your explicit permission, and you can ask to stay anonymous. We read everything but cannot reply to all of it. If we cannot resolve something we will say so rather than pad it into a story.
A live sighting you want on the record should go through the sighting report form instead — it captures the fields we need in a structured way. Use the form below for documents, media, corrections, or anything that does not fit a report.
THE FORM
Send a link to your files rather than attaching them — Google Drive, WeTransfer, Dropbox, anything that keeps the original intact. Links avoid upload limits entirely, and mean nothing gets recompressed on the way to us.
If you would rather not use a form, email uapforindia@gmail.com directly and attach whatever you have.