2026 UAP Detection and Tracking Summit
Data-first methods, field findings & policy implications
A two-day online conference with leading experts, researchers, and citizen scientists to advance the science, technology, and policies surrounding the detection and monitoring of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)—without sensationalism.
ONLINE
February 7-8
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Tickets $75
34
Speakers
14
Sessions
3
Panels
Get key information on the forefront of UAP:
Watch the 2-minute introduction
Program Highlights
Homeland Security & First Responders
How public safety frameworks intersect with UAP reporting.
Public Safety
Incident Reporting
Infrastructure
Aviation Safety & Pilot Reporting
What pilots report—and how safety context changes the conversation.
Airspace
Documentation
Incursions
Current Capabilities in UAP Detection and Tracking
What’s feasible today: sensors, constraints, and false positive realities.
Data Fusion
Sensor Platforms
Signals
Detectable Signatures of UAP
What “signatures” mean in practice and how they’re measured or inferred.
Multi-sensor
Spectrum Analysis
Calibration
On the Frontlines of UAP Detection
Field realities: documentation, interference claims, and competing explanations.
Methods
Field Observations
Analysis
International Developments in UAP Reporting & Investigation
How reporting and posture differ across countries—and what that implies.
Standards
Comparative Policy
Interoperability
Who this Summit is For
This summit is for people who want a serious, grounded view of UAP detection and tracking—whether you work in adjacent domains or follow the topic as an informed member of the public.
Especially relevant if you work in:
Welcoming:
This is an international civilian-led event and is not affiliated with any government agency.
What You’ll Gain from Attending
The summit provides a data-driven forum for examining UAP detection technologies, field observations, and the evolving landscape around UAP oversight, science and public engagement.
Participants will leave with a clearer picture of the current state of UAP in the atmospheric, marine and near-space domains, what frontline field teams and pilots are reporting, how public safety and first-responder responses intersect with public data, and how international developments, media coverage, and oversight debates are shaping the public landscape around UAP.
Access original field media and on-the-ground insights
- View original UAP footage and sensor data presented live, alongside capture conditions, observational context, and known constraints.
- Hear directly from field teams about what they’re discovering, what they can and cannot determine, and how to address persistent ambiguity.
- Understand the difference between compelling media and actionable data—what can be inferred, and what cannot.
Understand how anomalies are evaluated (without sensationalism)
- Learn how practitioners separate prosaic aerial phenomena and misidentifications from unresolved anomalies using key methods of measurement, corroboration, and competing hypotheses.
- See how “validation” is undertaken systematically: what counts as evidence, and why many cases remain indeterminate.
- Gain a working language for discussing uncertainty, confidence levels, and limitations—useful across technical and public conversations.
Survey the detection and tracking landscape for realistic capabilities
- Get an overview of sensing capabilities relevant to UAP and UAS detection across air and maritime contexts (EO/IR, RF considerations, passive/active methods, and practical constraints).
- Understand how civilian efforts can generate breakthrough findings and where capabilities begin to break down (coverage gaps, calibration issues, data hygiene, funding and staffing limitations).
- Hear informed perspectives on civilian-accessible technologies and lower-cost approaches—without implying “silver bullet” solutions.
Clarify aviation, maritime, and public-safety realities
- Examine pilot and aviation reports and a growing pattern of high-risk activity around civil aviation.
- Explore maritime and USO-related cases with an emphasis on documentation, historical continuity, and potential pathways for effective maritime detection and monitoring.
- Learn how aerospace reporting pathways and flight-safety issues intersect with federal aviation policies and governance of sovereign air and maritime domains.
Make sense of oversight, transparency, and the international picture
- Gain a grounded view of how oversight and transparency debates are evolving—what is established, what is disputed, and what remains opaque.
- Hear how UAP reporting and investigative posture differs across countries and institutions, and what that implies for interpreting “global patterns.”
- Understand the role—and limits—of public disclosure, media narratives, and institutional incentives.
Identify responsible pathways for participation and collaboration
- Network with hundreds of registrants working in science, research and public engagement—emphasizing restraint, clarity, and data quality.
- Understand new pathways for collaboration among civilian groups and coalition-style frameworks can clarify goals and amplify impact.
- Leave with practical next steps for citizen science and public advocacy: clarity on how to evaluate claims and evidence, and how to participate constructively in advancing domestic and international responses to UAP.
What Your Registration Includes
Registration includes live access to the full Summit program, plus tools for participation and review—so you can engage real time and revisit sessions afterward.
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Be part of the forefront of UAP science, technology, and public engagement.
This summit reflects a growing civilian capacity to detect aerospace and marine anomalies and contribute meaningfully to the emerging discourse on UAP. By strengthening methods, data collection, and international collaboration, the civilian ecosystem can play a constructive role in the broader human response to a phenomenon with growing national and global implications.
Why this Matters
The UAP Summit is underscored by the following critical issues confronting society, the private sector, government and the international community
Building Momentum Beyond the Summit
This summit is part of a broader civilian-led effort to improve clarity, credibility, and coordination around UAP detection, tracking, and public engagement over time.
The UAP Summit is designed to do more than circulate insights and information. It aims to strengthen the connectivity between researchers, technologists, field teams, aviation/public safety professionals and the engaged public—so that serious coalition can form acting in the public interest with greater coordination, credibility, and impact in 2026 and beyond.
This is a civilian-led international effort focused on improving public understanding, documentation, and collaboration around UAP.
Strengthen access to credible information on UAP
- Help meet public demand for understanding and action regarding the activity of UAP and other anomalous “drone-like” craft.
- Improve public-facing clarity around what is being reported, what is documented, and what remains unresolved.
Advance scientific standards and methodologies
- Elevate discussion of measurement context, corroboration, and limitations when assessing anomalous reports.
- Encourage more consistent ways of talking about confidence levels, misidentification risk, and competing hypotheses.
Improve detection and identification capabilities
- Accelerate the development and adoption of practical detection approaches—including multi-sensor thinking, instrumentation discipline, and realistic deployment constraints.
- Review emerging approaches in sensing, analysis, and signal interpretation, including their realistic constraints.
Strengthen responsible collaboration across fragmented efforts
- Unite diverse organizations in UAP research and academia to share data, methods, and technologies.
- Establish standardized protocols for UAP measurement and signature detection, reporting, and analysis.
Catalyze sustained investment and infrastructure resources
- Showcase current and future technologies for UAP detection and tracking to enable investment and deployment at scale.
- Advocate for sustained private-sector investment in UAP research and technology.
Integrate UAP Research into National and Global Capabilities
- Promote partnerships between scientific, governmental, and citizen-driven initiatives.
- Advocate for the development of national and international UAP research programs.
Program
The 2026 Theme of the UAP Summit is the Detection and Tracking of Unidentified Aerospace-undersea Phenomena (UAP)
February 7, Day 1: Science and Technology of UAP Detection and Tracking
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February 8, Day 2: Collaboration and Action
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12:00 PM MST | Lunch Break |
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3:45 PM MST | Break |
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