Workshop Agenda
The workshop agenda identifies an unusually mixed research table
Physicists, archivists, machine-learning specialists, social scientists, civilian UAP organizations, and AARO shared the two-day program.
Briefed September 26, 2026 · Aliens in the Clouds
Named Program · Participation Contextualized
The released working agenda names AARO Director Jon Kosloski and Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies researcher Robert Powell for the opening keynote on the importance of good UAP data. It lists an artificial-intelligence panel with machine-learning and information-science specialists plus physicist Matthew Szydagis, and a second panel combining an archivist, a behavioral researcher, the Society for UAP Studies, and the National UFO Reporting Center.
Those names make the event's interdisciplinary design more concrete than the anonymous roles in AARO's public synthesis. Participation shows that AARO convened people with different kinds of expertise; it does not imply that every participant endorsed the same UAP interpretation, that the government adopted their work, or that the meeting validated any individual sighting or experiencer account.
Why it matters
Methods for heterogeneous witness reports improve only when database design, archival provenance, statistics, physical measurement, and human context can be challenged in the same room.
What the source establishes
Confirmed working agenda marked tentative and subject to change. Scheduled participation is documented; attendance at every session and agreement on conclusions are not established by the agenda alone.
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