UAP Science, Technology and Policy Summit

Understanding UAP Begins With Detecting What’s In Our Skies

2025 Focus: UAP Detection and Tracking

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November 8-9, 2025

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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.

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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.

Strategic Takeaways

The UAP Detection and Tracking Summit seeks to generate forward progress on new and existing scientific and technical efforts and to advance the following key capabilities:

Scientific Rigor & Standardization

  • Introduce standardized protocols for UAP measurement and tracking, ensuring data consistency across different research groups and governmental agencies.
  • Develop methodologies for integrating disparate tracking efforts and technologies into a cohesive strategy, using precision instruments to analyze hot spots of UAP activity detected by broader mesh networks.
  • Establish a peer-review framework for submitted research and data to ensure credibility.

Cross-Domain Detection & Technological Integration

  • Expand the scope of multi-sensor signature detection by integrating data from a full suite of radar, infrared, optical, acoustics, LIDAR and Earth-observing satellites.
  • Encourage research on interoperability between civilian and private-sector tracking systems.
  • Implement data-sharing and hosting strategies that allow data from different instruments to converge and be layered for multi-sensor corroboration of findings.

Policy & Federal Engagement

  • Recommend the development of a National UAP Detection Strategy, including federal funding mechanisms to support long-term research initiatives.
  • Consider organizing a closed-door policy roundtable with legislators and intelligence officials to address national security implications.
  • Establish legislative recommendations to integrate UAP detection efforts within existing airspace and maritime monitoring policies.
  • Lay the groundwork for an international framework to safeguard territorial sovereignty against incursions by anomalous craft of potential non-human origin.

International Collaboration

  • Work towards a UN-led initiative for global cooperation on UAP tracking.
  • Encourage data-sharing agreements between national observatories, satellite operators, and civilian organizations.
  • Begin establishing an international capability to monitor and undertake coordinated response to UAP incursions that may impact national security and sovereign international air and sea-space.

Private Sector & Investment

  • Highlight venture capital opportunities in emerging UAP detection technologies.
  • Stimulate significant financial investment in detection and tracking technologies to advance research, sensor deployment, and data analysis.

Public Engagement & Media Transparency

  • Lay the foundations for a new, credible public resource on UAP activity, providing verified UAP sightings captured through authenticated sensing platforms.
  • Ensure differentiation between verified UAP sightings and AI-generated hoaxes or misidentified conventional aircraft through authentication protocols.
  • Establish best practices for media engagement on the UAP topic, ensuring public awareness is guided by verified data rather than speculation or misinformation.
LOOKING FORWARD

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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