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Resources & Reading

Welcome to your launchpad for going deep, across science, history, and high strangeness. This page has three parts.

Quick starts, core collections, and tools for doing your own research.

How to use this page

  • Pick a Starter Path if you want a guided route.
  • Explore Core Collections when you are ready for primary sources and canon texts.
  • Use Research Tools to collect, cite, and preserve what you find.

Tip, Save this page. Most links are to primary archives and longform references.

Starter paths

1) The careful skeptic, data first

  • Pentagon UAP overview and official imagery releases, concise and current. AARO+1
  • AARO Historical Record Report, the government’s long review of UAP claims and history. Skim the executive summary, then dip into annexes. U.S. Department of Defense
  • PRISMA 2020 checklist for evaluating reviews, helps you spot weak evidence. PRISMA statement
  • P-hacking and false positives, why shaky methods fool smart people. Institute of Ecology and EvolutionWIRED

2) The open-minded investigator

  • Hynek’s The UFO Experience, origin of Close Encounter typology, readable and foundational. AmazonInternet Archive
  • Leslie Kean’s UFOs, Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, curated cases with official witnesses. Barnes & Noble
  • NUFORC and MUFON case databases, public sighting data and investigator reports. NUFORCMUFON

3) The cosmic philosopher

Core collections

Official UAP, government, and aviation sources

  • AARO portal, reports, imagery, congressional press products, reporting pathways. AARO+2AARO+2
  • AARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1. A long review across decades of claims. U.S. Department of Defense
  • DNI, NASA context. NASA’s independent study emphasizes data quality and transparency. WIRED
  • FAA guidance on UFO/UAP reporting for the public and controllers. FAA
  • NTSB databases for correlating incidents and flight safety. NTSB+1

Open archives and FOIA

  • FOIA.gov guide, how to request records efficiently. FOIA.gov
  • CIA Reading Room UAP collection, declassified documents. CIA
  • The Black Vault FOIA repository, decades of releases in one place. The Black Vault

Classic UFO studies and critical inquiry

  • Hynek, The UFO Experience. Origin story for scientific treatment of sightings. Amazon
  • Kean, UFOs, Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials. High-credibility cases, official testimony. Barnes & Noble
  • Condon Report, University of Colorado. The historical skeptical benchmark to understand. Internet Archive
  • Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, media literacy and methodology pieces on UAP. Skeptical Inquirer
  • Metabunk forum, case-by-case instrument effects, sky IDs, and reconstructions. Metabunk+1

Databases and field reports

  • NUFORC national sighting database, updated logs, raw reports. NUFORC
  • MUFON CMS search portal, broad case catalog, deeper files for members. MUFON+1
  • NARCAP aviation safety studies, pilot reports, technical advisories. narcap.org+1

Science, astronomy, and space

Consciousness, psychedelics, and extraordinary experience

  • Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research updates on clinical work. secure.jhu.edu
  • MAPS for policy and science context around psychedelic therapy. Facebook
  • Methodology primers you will actually use, reading scientific papers, avoiding false positives. RedditInstitute of Ecology and Evolution
  • News context, MDMA-assisted therapy faced FDA rejection in 2024, the field continues with further trials. Vox

Ancient tech, myth, and the human imagination

  • Antikythera Mechanism research, inscriptions, and reconstructions. Start with the official project pages and Nature papers. The A. G. Leventis FoundationNature
  • Perseus Digital Library, classical texts and tools.
  • Theoi Project for Greek myth primary passages. Internet Sacred Text Archive for global traditions. TheoiInternet Sacred Text Archive

Philosophy and “big frame” thinking

Research tools you will actually use

Collect, cite, and sync

Preserve pages before they vanish

Find the literature fast

Method, not dogma

Before you add a claim to your mental map, ask,

  1. What is the primary source. Is there raw data, or only retellings.
  2. What is the instrument. Camera, radar, eyeballs, each has failure modes.
  3. What are the alternative explanations, listed plainly.
  4. Can it be replicated or triangulated by independent observers.
  5. Are you seeing p-hacking or selective reporting. Preregistered methods are stronger. Institute of Ecology and Evolution

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Update cadence

This page is reviewed quarterly, new official releases and major studies are added first. AARO and NASA updates land here within that cycle. AAROWIRED

Credits

This guide draws on primary archives, government portals, and recognized research repositories listed above.

Knowledge is consciousness reaching outward as the universe learns itself