Sources
Every record in this registry is sourced from a public dataset. The list below shows each source, its license notes, and a link to its terms.
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GEIPAN / CNES
GEIPAN/CNES is the French national UAP investigation agency. Their legal notice restricts reproduction/derivative works but permits private and educational use with attribution. This site is non-commercial and educational/hobby in nature. Storage policy: structured fields only (id, date, classification, zone, lat/lon, witness count). Summary text is limited to GEIPAN's own short public web summary (cas_resume_web) and truncated to 300 characters. The full case narrative (cas_resume) is never stored or displayed. Every case detail page links back to the canonical GEIPAN page and displays "Source: GEIPAN / CNES" attribution. To remove all GEIPAN data, delete from this source: DELETE FROM Occurrences WHERE PrimarySourceId = (SELECT Id FROM Sources WHERE Code = 'geipan').
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NUFORC sightings (timothyrenner mirror)
https://github.com/timothyrenner/nuforc_sightings_data
Repository is MIT-licensed. Underlying NUFORC reports are subject to NUFORC's terms of service. Storage policy: structured fields and short summary excerpt only; full narrative text is never stored. Attribution and a link to the NUFORC report are displayed on every case detail page.
Terms: https://nuforc.org/
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Wikidata (notable UFO incidents)
Wikidata structured data is released under Creative Commons CC0 (public domain dedication). Items imported by SPARQL query for instances of "UFO sighting" (Q40728071) with coordinates. Source attribution links to the case's English Wikipedia article when available, else to the Wikidata item page. To remove all Wikidata data: DELETE FROM Occurrences WHERE PrimarySourceId = (SELECT Id FROM Sources WHERE Code = 'wikidata_ufo').