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UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. This is the term used by AARO, the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and in US law. The word is Anomalous, not Aerial: older material, including many of the podcasts here, uses “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or the older term UFO.

In this usage, “unidentified” means only that a report has not been identified. It does not mean extraterrestrial. AARO reports that many investigated cases resolve to ordinary objects such as balloons, drones and aircraft, and that a smaller set remain unresolved, often because the data is limited.

You will see both official records (the PURSUE Files) and podcast discussion of them in the same search results. They are labeled by type.

Each episode carries a Fringe Score (shown as FS) from 1 to 10. It is assigned by an AI model and describes how unconventional the subject matter is, roughly like this:

• FS 1-2: mainstream science and history.
• FS 3-4: alternative but grounded.
• FS 5-6: conspiracy adjacent.
• FS 7-8: deep conspiracy.
• FS 9-10: interdimensional or paranormal extremes.

The score is not a measure of whether any claim is true or false, and it says nothing about a host's credibility. It is a way to filter, for example to find the more grounded episodes first. Government documents are not scored. The methodology page explains how scores are produced and where they can be wrong.

Episodes. New episodes are collected from the public RSS feeds and YouTube channels of the listed sources. A language model reads each episode's published description (or a video's captions) and writes a short summary, key takeaways, topic tags and a Fringe Score. Every episode page links back to the original so you can listen at the source. Details are on the methodology page.

Documents. The PURSUE Files are catalogued from the US government's published UAP release at war.gov/ufo. Official descriptions are reproduced as published, and each record links to the original file.

AI labels. Anything written by a model (summaries, takeaways, tags, scores, and the AI summaries on document pages) is labeled as AI-generated. It can be incomplete or wrong, so check the original before relying on it. This site indexes and links; it does not verify the claims made in episodes.

Terms that come up often are defined in the glossary, and common questions are answered in the FAQ. Spotted a mistake? Use the contact page.