Resources

Updated: 29 January 2023

Below is a list of resources we use as UFO investigation tools at API. If you have suggestions for additions or deletions to this page, please use our contact form.

Please visit our Field Investigator Training video playlist, as well as our Supplemental Training video playlist.

RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATORS:

Reference Documents

General Research Resources

Investigator Education

Photography and Videography

Satellites

Natural Phenomena

Weather and Atmosphere

Meteors and Space Debris

Astronomy and Space Physics

Aviation

Drones/UAVs

Balloons

Maps

Sky Surveillance

Freedom of Information Act Requests

Government Archives

Private Archives

Useful Software:

Source Code

Desktop Applications

  • Google Earth – a powerful free app we use a lot at API for mapping sighting locations and measuring directions and distances.
  • Sky Safari – astronomy. Also available as a mobile app.
  • Radar Beacon Analysis Tool (RBAT)
  • EXIF Tool for reading metadata from a wide variety of files
  • Raw Therapee – a free application for sophisticated display and processing of RAW image files from a wide variety of cameras. Also does an excellent job of displaying metadata.
  • Davinci Resolve – a free app from Blackmagic for importing a wide variety of video and audio formats and performing powerful editing and processing on them. The free version is not significantly underpowered, although there are some extra features on the Pro (“Studio”) version.
  • Cartes du Ciel – free software to draw sky charts
  • Tracker – free video analysis software
  • MedaiInfo – Mac software that can give you the encoding date and time for a video clip.

Mobile Apps

Web Apps and Pages

Good Blogs:

UFO/UAP Reporting and Investigation Organizations:

 

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