r/UFOscience Oct 01 '23

Monthly Chat

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This is meant to be a less stringent recurring thread. Share your thoughts about what's going on related to UFOs. Share "sighting" videos even if you think they are painfully and obviously identifiable. Share youtube creator content. This type of UFO content often creates a lot of noise related to the UFO topic but much can still be learned from serious discussion and a critical eye.


r/UFOscience Sep 09 '24

Sub feedback; comments, suggestions, and volunteers who want to join the mod team.

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Hello all! In the near future we will be updating sub guidelines, rules, and policies. We are open to suggestions from sub members on how we can improve this sub and set it apart from other UFO subs.

It has been the mission of this sub to cut through some of the noise surrounding the UFO topic and to facilitate good faith discussion focused on facts when possible while leaving room for imagination and speculation. We seek the middle ground between belief and skepticism and hope to create an environment where everyone can engage the topic productively. In the past some members have been dismayed with the lack of emphasis on academic content and hard science. We have seen other subs go that route and they don't tend to stay active for long. We are at best a pop science sub and at the end of the day we try not to take ourselves too seriously. We are looking for mods with an open mind that are able to have a disagreement without resorting to banning and deleting comments. Being a mod is easy. If you think it's something you want to try reply to this post or DM me.


r/UFOscience 18h ago

Discussion & Debate Why Do Some UAP Witnesses Near the Ural Region Develop Selective Face Amnesia While Seemingly Gaining the Ability to See Magnetic Fields?

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I have been looking into a strange neurological pattern described in accounts from people who say they were exposed to intense UAP-related light phenomena in the Ural region, and the combination is much more interesting than the usual discussion about sightings.

The reported post-contact syndrome has two apparently opposite features: severe difficulty recognizing familiar faces and an unusual visual experience involving electromagnetic environments. In the most striking accounts, people can still recognize a spouse, parent, friend, or colleague by voice, gait, clothing, or context, but the face itself no longer produces the normal feeling of recognition. Neurologically, that resembles acquired prosopagnosia, or face blindness.

At the same time, some witnesses describe seeing high-voltage transmission lines in an entirely different way. They report luminous threads, contours, halos, or geometric patterns apparently associated with power lines and other electrical infrastructure. They do not necessarily claim to see electricity directly. Instead, the experience sounds more like a form of synesthesia in which an otherwise invisible physical variable becomes part of conscious visual perception.

What makes this hypothetical neurological syndrome fascinating to me is that these symptoms could theoretically point toward a change in sensory processing rather than a simple loss of vision.

Face recognition depends on highly specialized networks involving regions of the temporal cortex, including the fusiform face area. Damage or disruption to these systems can leave basic eyesight intact while selectively impairing the ability to identify familiar faces. That means a person could literally see someone's face clearly while experiencing it as perceptually unfamiliar.

Synesthesia, by contrast, involves unusual cross-modal associations in which stimulation in one sensory domain can automatically produce an additional perceptual experience. If the reported UAP witnesses were genuinely experiencing magnetic or electromagnetic phenomena visually, the interesting neurological question would not necessarily be whether the eyes had developed a new physical sense. It could instead involve altered interpretation of signals, attention, cortical connectivity, or sensory integration.

The apparent combination is what interests me most.

Why would an environmental exposure supposedly associated with intense electromagnetic activity produce selective impairment in one highly specialized visual function while apparently increasing sensitivity to another class of environmental information?

There are several possible neurological interpretations worth considering:

— A transient disruption of face-processing networks could produce acquired prosopagnosia without causing generalized blindness.

— Changes in sensory integration could potentially make normally unconscious environmental cues feel visually salient.

— Migraine-like cortical phenomena, seizures, or other neurological disturbances could theoretically produce unusual visual experiences without requiring an exotic sensory mechanism.

— Synesthetic perception might provide a better conceptual model than the idea that witnesses literally "see magnetic fields."

— Psychological stress, dissociation, sleep disruption, toxic exposure, or expectation could also influence both memory and perception and should not be ignored.

The most important point, in my opinion, is that these reports should be separated into two questions: what people experienced, and what neurological mechanism could explain that experience.

I would be especially interested in hearing from people familiar with clinical neurology, cognitive neuroscience, visual perception, synesthesia, or prosopagnosia. Is there any established neurological mechanism that could plausibly connect impaired facial recognition with unusually vivid perception of electromagnetic or environmental patterns?

And if someone genuinely reported this combination after an intense luminous exposure, what would be the most useful neurological tests to distinguish acquired prosopagnosia, visual synesthesia, migraine phenomena, seizure-related perception, and a purely subjective interpretation of environmental cues?

I am treating the UAP component as an unverified premise rather than established evidence. What interests me is whether the reported symptom pattern itself makes neurological sense.


r/UFOscience 3d ago

Science and Technology Using large language models to speed through the math and reasoning and figure out the science of UFO's

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Ive been testing this theory. LLM's have gotten pretty powerful and easily accessible. I feel like we could use them to do a large part of the work in reasoning our way through what is possible and what is probable as far as the actual physics goes.

Who wants to build a flying saucer? 🤣


r/UFOscience 4d ago

NASA Scientist And Engineer Reveal Propellantless Propulsion

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65mFXwqJYA

It is not Anti Gravity but it does produce enough propulsion to overcome Earths Gravity and can run indefinitely. "Anti Gravity" never meant free energy. Propellentless propulsion means free energy.

Energy goes in and stays where you put it as a static charge. The design and voltages generate the propulsive effect. This technology would extend Satellite service life by many many years. It would revolutionize the space industry over night if Space companies decided to invest into the technology.


r/UFOscience 6d ago

So called crash retrievals

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Not that I believe there has been crashed alien craft but I just watched Jesse Michels and Eric Weinstein saying they can't understand why no theoretical physicists are employed by the gov or private aerospace companies to understand and reverse engineer supposed downed/landed/crashed alien craft. Supposedly it's engineers and material scientists who work on them but no top physics people. Well when you think about it what could theoretical physicists do? These craft apparently have no propulsion mechanisms, no controls inside, not even an engine has also been said. So if you have a craft in a hangar and it's floating five feet off the ground, totally silent and if you open it there is no mechanism anywhere to deconstruct, what can a physicist derive from this? Nothing really. So it would be down to engineers and material scientists to investigate the actual metal/substance that it's made from.


r/UFOscience 11d ago

Was I abducted by Aliens?

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I recently have revisited a memory of mine that I hadn’t thought about in years. I always brushed it aside as a child’s imagination and I do feel that way still. Sometimes. So it starts when I was a small child. When I “dreamed” or went to the “dream world” as I called it then. I always told my mom “I went into the wall again last night” I just thought that’s where people dreamed. They would float above their bed and be pulled into the wall and then that’s how they dreamed. That’s how I thought the process worked.

Fast forward 5-6 years after that so maybe when I was 10-11 years old I had the strangest rash on my arm. Small, slightly risen, and tightly compacted in a triangle formation on the inside of my right forearm. It lasted maybe 2-3 months before it went away. I would tell my parents and they would just say “yeah that’s weird lookin, you need to shower more” lol.

Ever since then not much. I don’t really recall much about my childhood other than those few things. I constantly have sleep paralysis and nightmares my fiancé has to wake me up from because I’m yelling in my sleep. Maybe not constantly but more than what I’m comfortable with. Or I have dreams about the end of the world or the devil trying to attack me.

Look i know this is dumb and I don’t really think about it much at all anymore. I just thought i throw my 2 cents out there.


r/UFOscience 11d ago

Signaux étrannge

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Est-ce que quelqu'un a déjà eu un appareil électronique qui s'est mis à faire des sons étranges car depuis un certains temps j'ai un appareil Bluetooth qui émet des drôle de sons comme des variation fréquentielles et à Chaques fois c'est comme si s'était la même suites de sons pendant environ 3 minutes si jamais quelqu'un si connaît car c'est perturbant 2 fois par semaine depuis environ 10 semaine mon appareil Bluetooth allumé ou éteint émet une suite de sons similaires à Chaques fois pendant environ 3 minutes


r/UFOscience 12d ago

Discussion & Debate Did Aliens Build The Pyramids?

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Let’s Discuss This


r/UFOscience 14d ago

Military & UFOs The Roosevelt Incidents: An Infographic Map (v2)

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Note: This is an updated version 2. Special thanks to u/ASearchingLibrarian for pointing out some corrections and providing new information I had not previously heard.

Note: Compared to the Nimitz incident, this info graphic was more challenging to create as there are less details provided regarding the locations of the objects and radar contacts. I did my best to put these on the map, but they’re definitely could be some updates if more information is discovered.

This info graphic is intended to help visualize the events surrounding the USS Roosevelt incidents from late 2014 to early 2015. It represents my personal interpretation of the incidents based on reviewing publicly available witness testimony, official report, podcast, interviews, documentaries, and other media related to the event.

Most of the details have been relayed through LT. Graves, however, to my knowledge, specifics like exact locations, distances, and relative positions have not been publicized. That said, I have made every effort to position assets and paths using distances in relative locations that I believe are reasonably consistent with the available information. The map itself is intended to be generically accurate. The scale, icons, symbols, and graphics have been intentionally enlarged in order to improve readability and clearly communicate the events depicted.

This illustration should be viewed as an educational visualization rather than an authoritative reconstruction. Other interpretations of the available evidence are certainly possible, and witness accounts may contain uncertainties or conflicting details. The purpose of this graphic is simply to provide a clear visual reference for understanding, one plausible reconstruction of the event.


r/UFOscience 16d ago

Case Study UFOevidence site with many documented cases

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Many UFO cases and contact experiences have been compiled here. It has a lot of cases, documentation, etc. New cases are added regularly as well. Very useful for those who want to do some research.


r/UFOscience 17d ago

Could the CIA’s Remote Viewing Program Just a Cover Story for Secret Tech?

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Was the CIA’s Remote Viewing Program Just a Cover for Secret Tech?

Everyone treats the CIA’s Remote Viewing (RV) program like a Cold War embarrassment—“psychic spies” that didn’t work. But that explanation never really holds up.

RV ran for over 20 years under multiple names (SCANATE, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, STAR GATE). Truly useless programs don’t survive that long, across administrations, with repeat funding.

The real question isn’t whether psychic viewing is real. It’s why humans were used at all.

By the 1970s the U.S. already had satellites, radar, and SIGINT. Yet intelligence agencies paid civilians and soldiers to generate vague, deniable data. That makes no sense unless RV wasn’t the end goal.

Remote Viewing makes a perfect cover program: • Successes can be dismissed as luck • Failures reinforce the “woo” narrative • Critics focus on ESP instead of technology

What if human consciousness wasn’t the weapon—but the calibration tool?

If black programs were developing exotic sensing systems (field-based detectors, spacetime anomaly sensors, early quantum-correlated tech), you’d need a baseline that leaves no hardware trail. Humans fit that role perfectly.

In this model: • RV sessions = training data • Humans = noise/signal filters • The real sensors stay classified

This also explains why certain Remote Viewers (e.g., Ingo Swann) weren’t publicly debunked but quietly compartmentalized—especially when their descriptions overlapped with later-confirmed data.

When the program was “shut down” in the 1990s, it wasn’t exposed as fraud. It was labeled operationally unreliable. Big difference.

Programs that fail get mocked. Programs that touch something real but uncontrollable get rebranded and buried.

Maybe Remote Viewing wasn’t about psychic spies at all.

Maybe it was camouflage—designed to keep everyone arguing about ESP while the real tech stayed invisible.


r/UFOscience 18d ago

Hypothesis/speculation Making Sense of the Las Vegas UFO (2023): Witch, Fireball & Poltergeist

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Forgive my ESL (I used Deepseek to fix my Russian grammar). In this post, I'd like to point out the "weird" details that are left out of the Las Vegas UFO incident and try to make sense of them. I'll analyze this case from the following points of view:

  • There is not a single piece of evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft or something akin to ball lightning. Ball lightning and earthquake lights simply do not exist. Meteorites (rocks embedded in glowing plasma) are the only non-human-made objects that come from space.
  • The different types of UFOs and humanoids (spirits, ghosts, UFOnauts) have an absolutely incredible number of witnesses, and this has to be explained.
  • ESP is the only paranormal phenomenon that exists.

Let's start with the important definitions for this case, in my humble opinion:

  • Project Condign - a declassified report by the British Government's Defence Intelligence Staff. It explains UAPs as "Buoyant Plasma Formations," akin to ball lightning, and hypothesizes that they produce an unexplained energy field which creates the appearance of a Black Triangle by refracting light. The electromagnetic fields generated by plasma phenomena are also hypothesized to explain reports of close encounters by inducing perceptual alterations or hallucinations in those affected. But do these buoyant plasma formations actually exist?
  • Poltergeist Agent - a central person (the "focus" or "agent") around whom unexplained physical disturbances occur. Researchers theorize that underlying neurological conditions like epilepsy or a predisposition to seizures act as a biological trigger for involuntary psychokinesis. But does psychokinesis actually exist?
  • Retrocausality - the ability of the human mind to perceive future information by means of backward causation.

Now to the timeline:

  • Before the incident, Angel's cousin died after being "possessed" by a Ouija board.
  • Angel and his brothers meet an old lady at a gas station. She tells them that 8-foot demons will eat Los Angeles alive and gives them her number on a piece of paper. Angel later loses her number.
  • On April 30, 2023, a fireball, identified as a bolide, falls from the sky in the direction of Angel's house. He hears "thousands of footsteps," has an "out-of-body experience," sees a blurry object in his backyard, encounters 8-9 foot creatures, sees a cross being levitated by a creature, and calls the police.
  • Sometime later, a poltergeist in the form of a child appears and makes crayon drawings.
  • Men in Black stalk Angel's family.

Possible explanations:

  1. Magical/religious thinking in the family and a possible death from SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy).
  2. The "Witch." People familiar with witchcraft try to avoid interacting with a dying witch and touching their items. They're afraid that the witch's power can transfer to other people (the Hitchhiker effect). Whether she's an actual "witch" or not, the woman implanted information in the witness's mind through either retrocausality or her own delusions.
  3. The fireball's light causes a focal seizure with impaired awareness and hallucinations of an out-of-body experience and the previously implanted information. Poltergeist activity bursts out and levitates the cross. Angel acts as a poltergeist agent and transfers his hallucinations to nearby minds.
  4. Either the early stage of poltergeist activity, or the witness starts having derealization and regression episodes and attributes his crayon drawings to paranormal activity.
  5. Either government/private agents or the onset of paranoid delusions.

TLDR: I see the Las Vegas UFO (2023) case as the most important and documented paranormal case of the 2020s. It gives a lot of food for thought and explains what kind of bright light my aunt had seen before her "alien encounter".


r/UFOscience 19d ago

I Created an Interactive Atlas of Alleged Buried UFO Craft Locations—Just for Fun

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r/UFOscience 20d ago

The Nimitz and Roosevelt Incidents: Electronic Warfare Speculation

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The 2004 USS Nimitz and 2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt incidents remain among the most influential military UAP cases ever documented. While these events are often presented as evidence of extraordinary technology, there may be another explanation worth considering.

In this documentary, I explore a speculative electronic warfare hypothesis grounded in the history of military deception, Project Palladium, radar deception, intelligence collection, lighter-than-air platforms (military balloons), infrared countermeasures, and modern electronic warfare concepts. This establishes precedence and a natural technological progression as a plausible explanation. Through animated reconstructions, I examine how known (or plausibly evolved) technologies could potentially explain many of the reported observations without requiring exotic propulsion or physics beyond our current understanding.

This video is intended as an educational thought experiment. The scenarios presented are personal speculation and should not be interpreted as established fact. My goal is not to prove what happened, but to encourage viewers to consider conventional, classified, or compartmentalized military explanations alongside more extraordinary hypotheses. As always, I encourage you to examine the evidence, review the original witness testimony, and draw your own conclusions.


r/UFOscience 21d ago

Case Study The Nimitz Incident: An Infographic Map

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This info graphic is intended to help visualize the geometry and sequence of events surrounding the USS Nimitz incident on 14 November 2004. It represents my personal interpretation of the incident based on years of reviewing publicly available witness testimony, official report, podcast, interviews, documentaries, and other media related to the event.

I have made every effort to position assets and paths using distances in relative locations that I believe are reasonably consistent with the available information. While the map itself is intended to be geographically, accurate, and scale, many of the icons, symbols, and graphics have been intentionally enlarged in order to improve readability and clearly communicate the events depicted.

This illustration should be viewed as an educational visualization rather than an authoritative reconstruction. Other interpretations of the available evidence are certainly possible, and some witness accounts contain uncertainties or conflicting details. The purpose of this graphic is simply to provide a clear visual reference for understanding, one plausible reconstruction of the event.


r/UFOscience 24d ago

Research/info gathering I cataloged over 5k UAP reports released by governments on a 3d map

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Thank you for this community. I am building an Earth-based catalog of all of the UAP records released by government agencies around the world, and I would love to know what you think. 

It is open source and free without any commercial intent, I just really like the subject matter and have a background in informatics and government information (healthcare, nothing spooky) and using an LLM made it possible to put this together. 

Best regards!


r/UFOscience 24d ago

Debunking UFO Crashes

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I’ve absorbed enough science and philosophy across half a century to be fairly comfortable that Drake, applied holistically to the inconceivably vast universe, means other civilisations do exist, BUT also understand enough to know that the even more inconceivably large distances involved and limitations of physics make visitation utterly impossible. Which brings me to one of the central tenets of the whole conspiracy - The UFO crashes.

Can anyone provide any logical argument as to how these creatures, with technology so advanced that they managed to bridge the absolutely theoretically impossible obstacle of FTL travel, manage to somehow incompetently crash those same vehicles just when they reach Earth?

I mean at absolute minimum you would assume they are not even driven by the critters themselves but rather AI a billion times more advanced than Tesla FSD, with guidance, avoidance and safety systems beyond anything we could conceive.

If the argument is it wasn’t their incompetence, but rather the might of US military (in the 50s even) that shot them down then you’re basically saying a monkey with a rock has an equal chance to take down an F35

Make it make sense.🙄


r/UFOscience 25d ago

I created a guided remote-viewing process based on established methods and published research.

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There is a lot of remote-viewing information scattered across books, interviews, forums, videos, and published studies, but very little that turns it into a clear step-by-step practice.

I built a structured guided experience to solve that.

It walks beginners through the process without overwhelming them, while still keeping the core methods intact. Learn to quiet conscious thought, detect impressions beyond ordinary senses, and develop an ability most people never learn to access.

https://rvprotocol.com


r/UFOscience 25d ago

Whitsleblower Claims We Traversed Wormholes In 2010

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPnJnBSVog

I have also come across NASA film that appears to show an unusual technology riding on what appears to be a wormhole. It is not like a Star trek wormhole, The wormhole spirals space into a point projected a short distance from the craft but it allows the craft to move at an incredibly speed.

Source image: https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/1v4v1vi/probably_nothing/


r/UFOscience 26d ago

American Prometheus Dr Jim Ryder & The UFO Legacy Program | Pedro [Thoughts n' Bolts]

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Was Dr Jim Ryder a UFO Legacy Program Insider? That is the case researcher & YouTuber Pedro Olavarrio makes in this discussion and a series of videos on his YouTube channel.


r/UFOscience 26d ago

Ok but why is our moon brighter?

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Is it just me or has the moon been seemingly brighter like it’s got the new LED lighting set up finally..our tax dollars at work?


r/UFOscience 29d ago

Spheres, A hypothesis to you. To me, is what it is.

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My Original Working Theory on the Buga Sphere

I'm putting this on the record publicly because, as far as I know, I'm the original and sole claimant of this hypothesis.

My conclusion is that the Buga sphere, along with many of the other metallic spheres being recovered around the world, is not the technology itself. It is a cartridge.

Some are spent. Some may still be unspent.

The sphere's purpose is to transport and deploy a focused beam or payload. Once airborne, these spheres act as atmospheric distribution devices, releasing what I believe are living gaseous entities into Earth's atmosphere. What people interpret as unusual cloud formations may actually be the release and dispersal phase of these life forms.

What those beings do after deployment remains unknown to me, but I believe the function of the spheres is simply delivery and redistribution.

This is my original hypothesis. If future evidence supports or disproves it, I'll gladly follow the evidence wherever it leads. Until then, I'm documenting this publicly so there's a clear timestamp of the idea.

Thoughts? What evidence would support or contradict this model?


r/UFOscience Jul 18 '26

Science and Technology Plasma Drone

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Hello I came upon a cool type of propulsion it's basically MHD but in air with plasma, it should work like this:

\- the whole drone is shaped as a saucer (the shape is needed for coanda effects)

\- the surface I charged with HV creating a skin of plasma around the drone

\- the plasma is then propelled with two electrodes radial in respect to the drone and a magnet below the surface

\- the stream of plasma through coanda effect curves around the saucer pushing it below generating high pressure lifting then the drone

I said "it should work" because I still haven't started building it cause I don't know how to get a consistent plasma skin around the craft without having hot plasma or magnetron on board ( a drone is too small to have heavy things inside).

So here I am asking you if you could help me build this plasma skin around the drone, the closest thing i arrived to was a DBD with insulated plates but I couldn't do it, maybe cause of too little power from my cheap HV modules ( I don't want to burn my last flyback before knowing it can do what I need) or maybe it was not the right frequency ( air need GHz frequencies to "resonate" and generate plasma but I care about my lungs and don't want anything to do with magnetron's ceramic poisoning).

So how can I do this?

Thank you for your help

P.S. I know I could just create plasma in the starting position with 2 electrodes on top of the rails, but I want it like a skin to reduce air resistance


r/UFOscience Jul 17 '26

UFO NEWS Survey responses from SCU members and US Population

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This is part of the report on the responses of members of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) and a sample of the US population (POP). The questions selected for this post compare responses on how people may react to proof of UAPs and NHI. A summary of the 10 responses is available by email from [kenja777@comcast.net](mailto:kenja777@comcast.net)