Civilian Reporting Database
NUFORC's public databank separates raw reports from staff assessments
Worth Revisiting: the civilian archive can be browsed by event date, location, shape, posting date, pilot status, and review tier.
Briefed August 16, 2026 · Aliens in the Clouds
Worth Revisiting
The National UFO Reporting Center publishes a large independently collected archive of first-person UFO and UAP reports. Its databank supports browsing by event date, state or country, reported shape, and posting date, with separate indexes for pilot reports, recent investigations, and cases staff place in the highest-interest tier.
NUFORC says staff review reports received since March 2023 and assign four tiers, ranging from dramatic close observations or unusual performance to cases considered possibly, probably, or certainly explainable by human or natural phenomena. Those ratings are editorial assessments, not laboratory findings, and the self-reported narratives still require corroboration before they can support strong conclusions.
Why it matters
A live civilian archive is useful for finding witnesses, recurring descriptions, dates, and possible clusters—especially when investigators treat it as a lead generator rather than a census of verified craft.
What the source establishes
Reports are submitted by members of the public and vary widely in evidence quality. Database counts measure reports received, not confirmed objects, unique causes, or extraterrestrial events.
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