Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Across Air, Sea, and Space: A Data-Driven Path from Blue Book to Modern Sensor Analytics
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena are treated as a data-driven, cross-domain problem across air, sea, and space, reflecting a shift from UFO to UAP to reduce stigma and tracing back to Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting and Captain Edward J. Ruppelt’s work, now supported by official programs such as AATIP, UAPTF, and AARO and by civilian archives, with geographic and temporal patterns, the five observables for rare high-tech cases, and the central challenge of separating misidentification and biases from genuine anomalies, while future efforts aim to standardize data pipelines, collect sensor data, add NASA environmental context, promote crowdsourced observations, and apply AI and NLP to turn anecdotes into usable data.