# An open mind. A critical eye. [View on uap.fun]() There’s room for wonder without surrendering your judgment. That’s the idea behind uap.fun. ## For the curious among us This is a growing field guide to UFO encounters and the culture around them. We collect notable reports, explain their context, and point you to the material you can read for yourself. ## What we mean by UFO and UAP UFO means unidentified flying object. NASA uses UAP for unidentified anomalous phenomena: observations that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena with the available information. Both terms describe an identification problem. Neither means alien. Unidentified describes a limit of the available information. It doesn’t identify an origin. [NASA’s UAP research and independent study]() ## The record and the story Encounter files distinguish witness reports, documentary evidence, and unresolved questions. Lore articles explore the histories and claims that gather around those events. Dedicated people profiles examine the lives, work, and accounts of the figures behind the research, reporting, and stories. A report being genuine does not mean its interpretation is correct. ## Sources before certainty We favor original documents, official archives, firsthand statements, and useful measurements over dramatic retellings. Official sources can still have limitations; their value is that readers can inspect what they actually say. Every case, field note, and person’s profile links to its sources. ## Images set the scene The UFO and landscape artwork sets the scene and does not depict the reported events. Each illustration is labeled “Not a real photo.” Historical photographs and documents are identified and credited beside each image. ## How the archive is made uap.fun is made with AI. Research agents search archives, newspapers, and official records for sources; the case files, field notes, and profiles are drafted with AI; and separate fact-checking passes test each substantive claim against the sources it cites. Translations are produced the same way. Tyler sets the editorial direction and spot-checks finished pages, but not every page is read by a person before it goes live. Mistakes can slip through, which is why every claim links to something you can check. ## About the author uap.fun is the work of Tyler Saballus, a software engineer who lives in the Chicago suburbs. He grew up on The X-Files and never quite shook the suspicion that the truth is out there. That curiosity sharpened after December 2017, when the Nimitz encounter became public and Navy pilots described, on the record, an object they could not explain. Jeremy Corbell’s documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers pulled him in deeper. What keeps him hooked is the overwhelming number of cases, one after another, piling up across decades and continents. One that especially fascinates him is Travis Walton, the Arizona logger who vanished for five days in 1975 after his crewmates said they saw a beam of light strike him down. His favorite of all is Varginha, the Brazilian town where, in January 1996, three young women reported a crouching creature with red eyes and townspeople said the army took something away. He recommends James Fox’s documentary Moment of Contact to anyone who wants the full story. This archive is his attempt to follow all of those threads. [tysabs.com]() ## Write to us Spotted an error, a missing source, or a better reading of a document? Email hello@uap.fun. If you’ve seen something in the sky yourself, you can write to the same address: tell us when and where it happened and what you saw. [hello@uap.fun]() ## An archive that can grow Our growing collection includes 87 encounters, 9 field notes, and 22 people. The aim is to build carefully: useful context, traceable sources, and space to revise a conclusion when the evidence changes. The case files and their sources are also free to download as an open dataset, for anyone who wants to map, count, or dig further. [Start with a case file]() [Download the open data]()