About Strange Skies

Strange Skies is the most complete public map of reported US UFO/UAP sightings, plus a selection of notable incidents worldwide. The bulk of the data is from the United States (the National UFO Reporting Center). France is well covered via GEIPAN, the French government’s official UFO study, and notable global cases come from Wikidata. Coverage outside the US is sparse by nature: there is no comprehensive open dataset of international sightings, so the map is dense over the US and thins out elsewhere.

It is a curiosity-driven atlas of reported phenomena. Records are aggregated from electronic sources and preserve what was reported by those sources. Inclusion in the registry does not mean that a claim is verified, scientifically established, or endorsed by the project. Each record should be evaluated in light of its source, documentation level, and review status.

UAP and UFO records are reports of observations or claims. “Unidentified” does not imply extraterrestrial origin.

Storage policy

For NUFORC-derived records, this project stores structured fields and the short summary excerpt only. The full narrative body is never stored. Every case detail page links to the original NUFORC report so that readers can review the report on the source site.

Sources

See the Sources page for attribution and license notes.