NUFORC: A Decades-Old Public Archive of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Its Modernization Challenges

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NUFORC is a long-running nonprofit that collects and preserves publicly submitted sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) dating back to 1974, maintains a 1995 searchable archive with metadata and transcripts, standardizes and anonymizes entries with limited verification, highlights trained-observer reports for potential follow-up, and presents selected cases on a text-based site with a Mapbox map showing sightings (mostly in the United States), all run by a small anonymous team, a setup that raises transparency concerns but serves as a participatory memory archive that fuels a growing UFO mythology and offers collaboration and modernization opportunities such as API access and broader international outreach.