National Aviation Reporting Center
on Anomalous Phenomena
"To Improve Aviation Safety and Enhance Scientific Knowledge"
Founded in 2000
Spring 2012
Report an Aviation-Related UAP Incident or Observation

If you are a pilot, air traffic controller, radar operator or other aviation professional and
you would like to report an observation or incident involving unidentified aerial
phenomena please click here.
NARCAP is interested in both current and historical UAP incidents and observations.
We are specifically interested in those cases involving concerns for aviation safety.
Reporter Confidentiality:
We maintain confidentiality for all reporters unless they specifically authorize           
the release of their name.
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                                              UAP?

An unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) is the visual stimulus that
provokes a sighting report of an object or light seen in the sky, the
appearance and/or flight dynamics of which do not suggest a logical,
conventional flying object and which remains unidentified after close
scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable
of making both a full technical identification as well as a common-sense
identification, if one is possible. (Haines, Pp. 13-22, 1980)

The term "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" or UAP is an attempt to address the fact that
not all UAP are described as unidentified flying objects or UFO. Many are simply
described as unusual lights. NARCAP feels the term "UAP" more accurately reflects the
broad scope of descriptions in aviation reports as well as the possibility that these
phenomena may arise from several different sources.

The answers to the questions regarding the existence, source and nature of the
subcategory of UAP referred to as UFO will be found in the data. Given that pilots do
report aerial phenomena that they describe as structured objects, NARCAP feels it is
appropriate to give attention to the witness' description of what was seen or detected and
engage it objectively.
International Air Safety Report:
NARCAP  IR-2, 2010 ~ Photoanalysis of Digital Images Taken
on February 14, 2010 at 1717 Hours above the Andes Mountains
in Central Chile (CEFAA - El Yeso)
Dr. Richard F. Haines, NARCAP Chief Scientist
International Air Safety Report:
NARCAP  IR-3, 2011 ~ Photoanalysis of Digital Images of
Anomalous Aerial Object Taken Sept. 17, 2010 Above Santiago
Chile (CEFAA - Banderas)
Dr. Richard F. Haines, NARCAP Chief Scientist
Technical Report
Project Sphere ~ Spheres in Airborne Imagery
Revised Oct. 2011
Vincent Juan Ballester Olmos and Martin Shough
International Air Safety Report:  Aviation Safety and
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena:A Preliminary Study of 600 cases of
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)Reported by Military and Civilian
Pilots
Dominique F. Weinstein NARCAP International Technical Specialist - France
GEIPAN/CNES College of experts - France~ March 2012