AURA/UPWARD: A Structured Governance Framework for Cross-Disciplinary UAP Research

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AURA/UPWARD is a durable, transparent framework that standardizes and coordinates UAP research across sciences and humanities, guiding projects through nine research readiness levels and a seven‑phase lifecycle, built on field legitimacy, a speculation–stringency balance, and tailored oversight, while UPWARD weaves findings into an institutional knowledge map for cross‑disciplinary theory, collaboration, and public engagement, with proposals invited by 1 October 2025.

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Introducing AURA/UPWARD: A Structured Future for UAP Research

For decades, attempts to understand Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) have surgedwith curiosity and urgency, but rarely with consistency, methodological rigor, or institutionalsupport. The field has been fragmented from the start: split between ad hoc investigations,amateur analysis, speculative claims, and disconnected pockets of serious academic interest. Efforts that aimed to observe and measure the phenomena often lacked scientific infrastructure,while humanistic and sociocultural inqui