UFO INTENTIONS: DID THE PHENOMENON CHANGE ITS APPROACH? A new book asks whether decades of UFO encounters reveal an evolving set of priorities, and whether the attention once directed toward military installations gradually shifted toward studying people. Released today, September 29, 2026, UFO Intentions: Decoding the Patterns brings together six years of research by Larry Hancock, Ian Porritt, Sean Grosvenor and Joshua Pierson. The authors apply structured intelligence-analysis methods to h...

Four nuclear-UFO stories are now routinely folded into one: Starfish Prime, the July 1962 high-altitude nuclear test that produced an unexpectedly powerful electromagnetic pulse. Bluegill Triple Prime, the October 1962 test whose declassified films show an object falling below the fireball. Big Sur, the 1964 case in which two Air Force officers said a disc disabled a dummy nuclear reentry vehicle in flight. Malmstrom, the 1967 missile shutdowns later associated with UFO reports near the silos...

Catch up with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies via our most recent quarterly newsletter. It features a mix of news, interviews, sci-fi short stories, and insights from our organization and the UAP studies field. In this issue: 2026 SCU Conference Announcements Letter to the Editor, Jennifer E., The profound effect of a UAP encounter Academia: Brenda Denzler, Ph.D., The ETH in the New Era of UFO Studies; Part II UAP and Government: A Call to AARO Action by Larry Hancock, Ian Porritt, S...

Catch up with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies via our most recent quarterly newsletter. It features a mix of news, interviews, sci-fi short stories, and insights from our organization and the UAP studies field. In this issue: 2026 SCU Conference Announcements Letter to the Editor, Jennifer E., The profound effect of a UAP encounter Academia: Brenda Denzler, Ph.D., The ETH in the New Era of UFO Studies; Part II UAP and Government: A Call to AARO Action by Larry Hancock, Ian Porritt, S...