2026 UAP Detection and Tracking Summit

Understanding UAP Begins With Detecting What’s In Our Skies

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February 7-8, 2026

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Welcome to the New Frontiers of UAP Detection and Tracking

Join leading experts, researchers, policymakers, and technology innovators at the 2025 UAP Tracking Summit, a premier two-day event dedicated to advancing the science, technology, and policy roadmaps surrounding the detection and tracking of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). 

The UAP Detection and Tracking Summit will explore the tools, methods, and collaborative efforts needed to understand and track UAPs by society and the private sector, offering attendees a comprehensive look at the intersection of technology, research and innovation.

Through presentations, expert panels and interactive workshops, we will address the key challenges of detecting and tracking UAP activity across air, land, sea, and space domains and coalesce key insights from science, technology and policy to enable increased federal management of UAP tracking across domains.

Key Issues

This summit is underscored by several critical issues in UAP research and tracking, societal interest and federal oversight, including:

  • Fragmented Detection and Data Silos: Current UAP detection and tracking efforts are highly fragmented, with limited data sharing among independent researchers, government entities, and private organizations, preventing comprehensive analysis and corroboration of findings.
  • Deficiencies in Data Analysis and Multi-Mode Integration: Many detection efforts lack structured methodologies for analyzing collected data, and there is no unified approach to integrating data between different tracking systems and making this data available to open research.
  • Need for Frequency/Spectrum Analysis: UAP detection must account for potential interference with commercial aviation, drones, and other airspace operations. Ensuring responsible monitoring requires new standards of spectrum analysis.
  • Lack of Standardization: There is no cohesive strategy for addressing the detection and tracking of anomalous craft, and no widely accepted technical standards for instrumentation, calibration, or measurement validation.
  • Addressing Public Trust: UAP claims from government entities or private defense corporations may be incomplete, inaccurate, or intentionally obfuscated. Advancing technological capabilities and data-driven analysis is crucial to verifying such claims, promoting transparency, and empowering public disclosure.
  • Emergence of AI-Generated Fakes: The increasing presence of AI-generated UAP hoaxes on social media complicates public awareness and education efforts and demands new standards for video/photo evidence corroborated by multi-sensor detection.
  • Insufficient Sustained Funding: Precise velocity, acceleration and trajectory measurements demand widespread sensor networks and dedicated technical personnel, requiring sustained annual investments of tens of millions of dollars to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Summit Goals

The 2025 Summit will be focused on achieving the following key goals in order to advance the field of UAP detection and tracking

1

Meet Societal Demand for Information on UAP

  • Meet public demand for understanding and action regarding the activity of UAP and other anomalous “drone-like” craft.
  • Provide transparency and accessible information on UAP research and findings.
2

Establish Scientific Standards and Methodologies

  • Develop rigorous methodologies for studying and characterizing UAP behavior and trajectories.
  • Standardize sensor data collection and analysis to enhance tracking reliability.
3

Enhance UAP Detection and Identification Technologies

  • Review the latest advancements in sensor networks, AI-enhanced data analysis, and radar tracking.
  • Develop best practices for distinguishing UAP from conventional aerial phenomena.
4

Foster Collaboration for Research and Development

  • Establish standardized protocols for UAP measurement and signature detection, reporting, and analysis.
  • Unite diverse organizations in UAP research and academia to share data, methods, and technologies.
5

Secure Dedicated Funding Streams 

  • Showcase current and future technologies for UAP detection and tracking to attract investment and deployment at scale.
  • Advocate for sustained government and private investment in UAP research and technology.
6

Integrate UAP Research into National and Global Capabilities

  • Promote partnerships between scientific, governmental, and citizen-driven initiatives.
  • Advocate for the development of national and international UAP research programs.

Summit Agenda

The 2026 UAP Detection and Tracking Summit is a premier two-day virtual conference featuring the key researchers, technologists and policy makers shaping the public/private efforts to track unidentified anomalous phenomena.

Day 1: Science and Technology of UAP Detection and Tracking

  • Session 1: In Our Skies: The Current State of UAP
  • Session 2: In Our Oceans: The Current State of Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs)
  • Session 3: Emerging Platforms in UAP Detection
  • Session 4: Establishing Scientific Protocols for UAP Detection and Tracking
  • Session 5: Multimodal UAP Detection
  • Session 6: On the Frontlines of UAP Detection

Day 2: Collaboration and Action

  • Session 7: International UAP Detection
  • Session 8: Citizen Reporting Networks
  • Session 9: Emerging Platforms in UAP Detection
  • Session 10: UAP Detection Policy and Tracking Oversight
  • Session 11: Scaling UAP Solutions: Innovation, Investment & Partnerships
  • Session 12: Strategic Solutions Roadmap

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Advancing Citizen and Public Sector Disclosure of UAP and Potential NHI

To foster greater public understanding and engagement, it is essential to encourage the open dissemination of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) findings to both the public and the press. Establishing citizen-driven platforms for transparent reporting and collaborative analysis can enhance credibility and trust in the investigative process.

Additionally, providing accessible resources for citizen education—alongside tools designed to assess and interpret UAP intentions—will empower communities to contribute meaningfully to the growing body of knowledge surrounding these phenomena.

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