The Site Visit Plan

  By Gear, Training, Videos

The most important thing to have with you when you go into the field is information. Take a moment to consider all the factors from road access to moon phase. Write down the essential information. Hopefully, it all fits on a 4 x 6 card you can slip into your bag.

For ethical reasons, we don’t want to draw attention to your witness, their family, or their property as a result of the site visit. Plan to keep a low profile and blend in. Leave non-essential gear at home and take a minimum size team.

This video goes over the basics:

Our new page on Identified Flying Objects

  By Front Page

Taken right from API’s own case files, we show many examples of common IFOs on this new page. The more you and everyone else knows about these misidentifications, the more we can reduce the noise level in the field. Please review the page and let us know what would make it more useful to you. We intend to update it frequently.

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Case 21-023 (Isle of Man) closed as low strangeness Unidentified

  By Investigations

Case 21-023 were three objects of highly variable brightness observed and recorded on video by two witnesses in Douglas, Isle of Man. They chased the objects in a car until they were no longer visible. Since we were unable to confirm that the objects were moving with the wind, we can’t conclude that they were balloons, although the movement is not anomalous and is consistent with balloons. Furthermore, assuming they remained near where they were when they last disappeared, they would have to be very large. Birds were also considered as a possible explanation. although the identification wasn’t clear.

Read our Report of Investigation.