National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) is a longstanding civilian clearinghouse for UFO/UAP sighting reports. NUFORC was a participant in aaro’s August 2025 UAP narrative-data workshop (src-aaro-uap-data-collection-whitepaper-2026-03), represented by CTO Christian Stepien, who presented on NUFORC’s history on Day 2 and served on a panel addressing the harmonization of qualitative and quantitative UAP data.
NUFORC also published a public recap of the workshop.
See also: scu, galileo-project, uapx, uap-reporting-infrastructure.
Meteoritic-dust orb study (July 2026)
NUFORC’s sighting database (508 orb reports) was the dataset john-birks statistically correlated with American Meteor Society fireball data (>99% confidence) in a preprint proposing UAP orbs are meteoritic-dust ionized plasma clouds, shared via avi-loeb with the uap-science-advisory-council. See src-loeb-meteoritic-dust-orbs-2026-07.
Sources
- src-loeb-meteoritic-dust-orbs-2026-07 — Jul 6 2026: Birks orb/fireball correlation study
- src-aaro-uap-data-collection-whitepaper-2026-03