Organisations
Organisations
Agencies, programmes and groups connected to anomalous phenomena.
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Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
The United States Air Force's criminal investigative and counterintelligence service, which has repeatedly appeared in UFO-related episodes from 1949 Cold War-era fireball sightings to the internal review of Luis Elizondo's Pentagon conduct.
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is a United States Department of Defense component, established in July 2022, that investigates reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena and has found no empirical evidence that any government programme has recovered or is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
Americans for Safe Aerospace
American nonprofit organisation founded by Ryan Graves that supports military and civilian pilots and aerospace workers who report unidentified aerial phenomena and campaigns for greater government transparency on the subject.
Australian Department of Defence
The Australian Department of Defence is the federal government body responsible for Australia's military and national security, which has accumulated thousands of UFO sighting reports over decades and whose personnel have been linked to observations of anomalous phenomena, particularly at Northwest Cape near Exmouth, Western Australia.
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Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace is a space technology company founded by Robert Bigelow in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1998, which the Defense Intelligence Agency contracted to run its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program investigating UFOs.
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American rock band whose former lead singer, Tom DeLonge, left in 2015 partly to focus on researching unidentified aerial phenomena.
Boeing
Boeing is a major American aerospace, defence, and space manufacturer whose aircraft, engineers, and contractors recur in accounts of unidentified aerial phenomena, from a 1989 NASA-themed poster to fighter jet production and defence-industry counterintelligence.
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Cable News Network (CNN)
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American cable television news network whose coverage has included NASA Mars mission reporting since the early 1990s and, from 2017, interviews with former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo on UAP.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States' foreign intelligence service, which conducted early Cold War studies of UFO reports, ran classified psychic-research programmes such as Stargate, and has featured repeatedly in testimony and declassified records about UAP.
Church of Scientology
A religious organisation founded by L. Ron Hubbard, whose early life has been linked by various writers to rocket engineer Jack Parsons and the occult Ordo Templi Orientis in Pasadena, California, an association the Church itself has contested.
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Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
The Defense Intelligence Agency is a United States Department of Defense intelligence agency that administered several government programmes examining unidentified anomalous phenomena, including AAWSAP and the early years of AATIP.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a US federal department whose personnel and assets have repeatedly featured in accounts of UAP sightings, video-release decisions, and a failed bid to revive a cancelled Pentagon research programme.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the United States' domestic security and law-enforcement agency, which has repeatedly intersected with UFO and UAP matters, from the 1950 Guy Hottel memo to cattle mutilation investigations and modern task forces.
Fox News
Fox News is an American cable television news network whose on-air coverage has included a 2000 report on George W. Bush's decades-old drunk-driving arrest and, later, interviews and segments touching on unidentified anomalous phenomena, including a 2019 conversation with Luis Elizondo about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private research university whose faculty and affiliated researchers have studied alien abduction reports and unidentified anomalous phenomena, and with which the Galileo Project is associated.
History Channel
An American cable television network that has produced documentaries and factual programming on UFOs and UAP, including collaborations with UAP researchers and investigators.
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Janet Airlines
Janet Airlines is an unmarked private charter airline that has flown personnel between Las Vegas, Nevada and the Area 51 test facility.
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KLAS-TV
KLAS-TV is a Las Vegas, Nevada television station whose investigative journalist George Knapp broke several UAP-related stories, including the 1989 broadcast interview in which Bob Lazar first went public with claims about his purported work on a recovered craft.
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LLC Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC (BAASS) was a private company owned by Robert Bigelow that served as the primary contractor for the Pentagon-funded Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program and related Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program work studying unidentified aerial phenomena.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is a major American aerospace and defence contractor whose Skunk Works division, spacecraft programmes, and UAP-adjacent projects have repeatedly surfaced in accounts of anomalous phenomena and advanced technology.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
Lockheed Martin's secretive Advanced Development Programs division, responsible for a lineage of classified US aircraft and a recurring point of contact in accounts of UAP-related outreach.
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Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 (VMFA-232)
A US Marine Corps strike fighter squadron whose commanding officer investigated an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle during the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a research university whose physicists, engineers and alumni appear repeatedly across accounts of UAP-related research and testimony, from a 1992 abduction study conference held on its campus to Pentagon and NASA-linked investigation of concepts such as warp drive.
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA field centre in Pasadena, California, managed by the California Institute of Technology, whose spacecraft, cameras and image releases have been at the centre of decades of dispute over the Face on Mars and the Cydonia region.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
The United States' civilian space agency, which the US government has at various points asked to serve as its point of contact on UFO inquiries, and whose handling of the Mars Observer mission and the Cydonia region of Mars has drawn sustained scrutiny from researchers.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a US defence intelligence agency that processes, exploits, and disseminates satellite imagery, and the agency where whistleblower David Charles Grusch held several senior UAP-related roles.
National Institute for Discovery Science
The National Institute for Discovery Science was a private research organisation founded by Robert Bigelow in the mid-1990s to investigate UFOs, cattle mutilations, and paranormal phenomena, including a long-running study of Skinwalker Ranch.
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
The National Reconnaissance Office is a US intelligence agency that designs, builds and operates the country's reconnaissance satellites, and has been named in connection with several UAP-related claims and personnel.
National Security Agency (NSA)
The National Security Agency is a US intelligence agency whose historical document holdings, personnel connections, and interagency cooperation have repeatedly featured in accounts of official UFO and UAP-related activity.
National Security Council
The National Security Council is the body within the White House that advises the President of the United States on national security, and appears in accounts ranging from the 1953 Robertson Panel review of UFO reports to the 2023 shoot-down of unidentified objects over US airspace.
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a joint United States-Canada military command that monitors North American airspace for anomalous aircraft and space objects, and which used armed force to bring down unidentified objects over American airspace for the first time in its history in February 2023.
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is a major United States aerospace and defence contractor that competed for NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle contract, builds the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system, and has been named in accounts alleging classified programmes to retrieve and study anomalous crash materials.
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Office of Naval Intelligence
The Office of Naval Intelligence is the intelligence arm of the United States Navy, whose personnel and records have repeatedly surfaced in accounts of the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter and in earlier reporting on figures such as Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
US federal agency that oversees and coordinates the intelligence community and, since 2020, has been named in legislation as a co-recipient and co-author of government reports on unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG)
The Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General is a US federal oversight body that received and evaluated David Grusch's 2022 whistleblower complaint alleging inappropriate withholding of UFO-related information from Congress.
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI)
A former component of the Office of the Secretary of Defense that served as principal staff to the US Department of Defense on sensitive intelligence matters, at the centre of disputed accounts of Luis Elizondo's role in the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and later the parent office for the task forces that became the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
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Politico
Politico is a news outlet whose defense editor, Bryan Bender, reported extensively on the Pentagon's UAP investigations, and which broke the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) story alongside the New York Times and Washington Post in December 2017.
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Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force is Australia's national air force, whose declassified sighting-report files document unidentified aerial phenomena reports made by service personnel and the public from 1930 into the 1990s.
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Securities and Exchange Commission is a US federal agency that regulates public companies, including disclosure filings made by To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science as a public benefit corporation.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was a Cold War-era sovereign state and global superpower whose military, aerospace and intelligence activities repeatedly intersected with reported UFO and UAP incidents, including Soviet pilot encounters examined in the United Kingdom's Project Condign study.
SRI International
SRI International, formerly the Stanford Research Institute, is a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, whose Cognitive Sciences Laboratory conducted remote-viewing research that later fed into the US government's classified Stargate programme.
Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is a research institute in Menlo Park, California, that the Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded from the early 1970s to research psychic phenomena, including remote viewing.
Stanford University
Stanford University is a research university in Stanford, California, whose faculty, researchers and alumni have been connected to UFO-related sociological studies, remote viewing research, and analysis of UAP-related testimony and materials.
Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41)
Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41), nicknamed the Black Aces, is a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet squadron whose pilots intercepted the Anomalous Aerial Vehicle during the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter.
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The Monroe Institute
The Monroe Institute is a research and educational organisation in Nelliesford, Virginia, known for its work on sound wave forms and consciousness-exploration programmes such as the Gateway Voyage and Gateway Experience.
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American newspaper whose reporting, most notably a December 2017 front-page story on the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has featured prominently in the history of UAP journalism.
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia, and the building from which the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program investigated unidentified aerial phenomena from the mid-2000s onward.
The White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States, and accounts spanning from a 1952 sighting over Washington, D.C., to congressional testimony in 2024 describe it as one of several federal offices that has held a role in the US government's handling of unidentified anomalous phenomena, without any single entity in charge.
To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA)
To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA) is a US public benefit corporation founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 to pursue research, education and entertainment work on unidentified anomalous phenomena, later known for releasing Pentagon UAP videos and pursuing a metamaterials research partnership with the US Army.
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United Nations (UN)
The United Nations (UN) is the international organisation whose Secretary-General mediated the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and whose General Assembly and committees have, at various points since the 1960s, been approached with UFO testimony, formal statements on the subject, and a 1992 presentation on the Face on Mars.
United States Air Force (USAF)
The United States Air Force is the branch of the US armed forces responsible for air and space operations, and the agency most directly tied to America's postwar investigations of unidentified flying objects, from Project Sign through Project Blue Book.
United States Army
The United States Army is the land warfare branch of the US military, whose personnel, laboratories and classified programmes have repeatedly featured in the documented history of UAP investigation, from the 1947 Roswell incident to recent material analysis for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral national legislature of the United States, which has used the annual National Defense Authorization Act to direct Pentagon and intelligence-community reporting on unidentified anomalous phenomena and to receive testimony from officials including whistleblower David Grusch.
United States Department of Defense (DoD)
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is the federal executive department responsible for the US armed forces, and the object of decades of congressional and press scrutiny over its shifting, at times informal, investigations into unidentified aerial and anomalous phenomena.
United States Department of the Navy
The United States Department of the Navy is a US government department that led the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force under the oversight of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy is the U.S. Navy's service academy, from which naval aviator David Fravor graduated after being recommended for admission by the United States Marine Corps.
United States Navy (USN)
The United States Navy is the sea-based branch of the US armed forces whose aircraft carriers, fighter squadrons and personnel have featured repeatedly in reported UAP encounters, including the 2004 USS Nimitz incident and the release of the Gimbal, Go-Fast and Tic Tac videos.
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the US Congress, whose senators have funded, investigated, and legislated on unidentified anomalous phenomena since at least 1989.
United States Space Force (USSF)
The United States Space Force is the sixth branch of the US military, established in December 2019, whose personnel have included a contractor supporting Pentagon UAP investigations.
University of Colorado
An American university contracted by the United States Air Force from 1966 to conduct a scientific investigation into UFOs, whose findings were published as the Condon Report.
US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is a standing committee of the US Senate that oversees the US intelligence community and has repeatedly pressed for government reporting on unidentified anomalous phenomena.
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Vatican
The Vatican is the government of the Holy See and the central institution of the Catholic Church, which figures in UAP research chiefly through decades of secrecy surrounding the Third Secret of Fatima and through claims by researchers such as Luis Elizondo and Jason Samosa about its broader intelligence-gathering and influence on the UFO subject.
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