About

An open, auditable index of how much attention UAP, UFO and related topics attract — in the press and among the public — and how that changes over time.

It is an instrument, not a claim about the phenomena. It measures what is being reported and read, not whether any of it is true. The interesting questions it can actually answer are about attention: when it rises, where, in which of the three strands, and whether the press or the public moves first.

Principles

• Every figure traceable to the query that produced it.
• Denominators published alongside counts, so a rise in coverage can be told apart from a rise in monitoring.
• The underlying data downloadable and openly licensed.
• Changes to how anything is measured recorded in a public changelog.
• Sources chosen for quality over quantity — a noisy source is worse than no source.

Sources

Built on GDELT (news), arXiv (science preprints), GovInfo (US government), and Wikimedia pageviews (public readership). Each is credited with the citation its licence requires.

Contact

hello@uapnewstracker.com. Operators of services this project queries: see the automated client page.