Organizations

Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)

Politicians & Government

Name widely used for a DIA-managed Pentagon UAP study (officially AAWSAP, 2009-2012), revealed in Dec. 2017; its funding, dates and leadership are disputed.

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)

Politicians & Government

AARO is the Department of Defense office established in July 2022 to investigate UAP reports across all domains — air, sea, space, and transmedium. Created by the Gillibrand amendment to the FY2022 NDAA, AARO replaced th…

Americans for Safe Aerospace

Advocacy

Pilot-led UAP advocacy nonprofit co-founded by former Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves, launched in June 2023 to push for safe UAP reporting and disclosure.

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)

Research

Cincinnati-based civilian nonprofit of volunteer UFO investigators, founded in 1969 as the Midwest UFO Network; Guinness lists it as the largest such group.

Project Blue Book

Politicians & Government

U.S. Air Force UFO investigation program (1952-1969) at Wright-Patterson AFB; 701 of 12,618 logged sightings remained unidentified.

To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences (TTSA)

Research

Company co-founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 (now To The Stars Inc.) that first published Navy UAP videos in 2017-2018 and employed ex-Pentagon official Luis Elizondo.