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This white paper, sponsored by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and hosted with Associated Universities, Inc. and Florida State University, synthesizes a workshop held August 5 and 6, 2025, that brought together 40 participants. The workshop examined how to collect, standardize, link and analyze UAP narrative reports. It calls for standard metadata templates, human oversight of AI tools, triage of reports, preservation of historical records, better public reporting portals and further workshops.
11 Appendix A: Invitation Letter Subject: Invitation to participate in workshop on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) narrative data integration and analysis We are writing to invite you to participate in the upcoming “2025 UAP Workshop: Narrative Data, Infrastructures, and Analysis”, which will be held August 5-6, 2025, in the Washington, DC area. This in-person, two-day event will bring together experts, researchers, and stakeholders to discuss best practices for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) narrative data collection, management, interoperability, and analysis methodologies to enhance transparency and scientific rigor in UAP research. Analyzing reports of UAP related sightings and experiences presents unique challenges due to the large-scale, heterogeneous, and qualitative nature of the reports originating from military and civilian sources. These reports typically lack standardized metadata, formatting, or nomenclature, making comparative analysis difficult. Additionally, the integration of UAP reports from disparate sources—such as military databases, online reporting systems, digital and digitized archival records, and social media—poses significant challenges for harmonization and verification of data and construction of evidence. The complexity of these datasets requires innovative data infrastructure solutions to enhance reliability, accessibility, and interoperability. The workshop will explore these challenges and seek strategies to improve UAP data standardization, integration, and analytical approaches. The workshop builds upon a previous NSF-funded workshop held in 2024, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP): A Dialogue on Science, Public Engagement and Communication”. A new collaboration between the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), and Florida State University (FSU) has convened to host the upcoming event on the topic of narrative data. Given your experience and expertise in areas such as UAP studies, data collection, management, interoperability, and/or analysis methodologies, we believe that you can make significant contributions to this gathering and its outcomes. If you choose to participate, you will have an opportunity to interact and collaborate with a small group of 25-30 experts, including information and data science researchers and practitioners, and government stakeholders focused on proposing a roadmap for the design and implementation of tools that will advance science, improve data management practice, and inform investments for UAP research. While we are unable to compensate you for travel costs to/from the Washington, DC area, we will cover lodging expenses and most meals for the duration of the event. We expect this to be a groundbreaking workshop and meaningful gathering of minds that will help to shape the future of UAP research. If you are interested and can attend the event in person, we kindly ask that you fill out this form by June x, 2025:
Report, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.