Epistemology & method
How UAP research should be done. Assessment matrices, field-study methodology, scientific-practice standards, ufology's terminological hygiene, and the question of how much time disclosure has.
7 papers · sorted newest first
Gress
Philosophy-of-science treatment of the field's own terminology. Argues that the slippage between 'UFO', 'UAP', and 'NHI' obscures otherwise tractable claims.
Szydagis
Models the policy-and-public-trust window remaining before a hypothetical 'catastrophic' (i.e., unstructured) disclosure event. Pure thought experiment, peer-reviewed.
Exploring UAP Through Instrumented Field Studies: Historical Insights, Current Challenges, and Future Directions
Limina · 2024Ailleris
Methodological survey of instrumented UAP fieldwork from Hessdalen onward. Identifies the recurring failure modes and what a modern field campaign would have to do differently.
Development, Dissemination, and Revision of Good Scientific Practice for Research on UAP
Limina · 2024Ammon
Argues that UAP research needs an explicit, codified standard of good scientific practice — analogous to the codes governing biomedical or forensics research.
Cifone
Editorial framing Limina's UAP issue. A useful map of the field's open problems, contested claims, and the criteria the journal applies to submissions.
Teodorani
Teodorani's methodological argument that UAP observation should be assimilated to astronomical practice — calibrated instruments, archival comparison, replication.
The UFO Taboo Is What IR Theorists Make of It: Sovereignty and the UFO in Citational Perspective
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political · 2024Murphy
Citational-analysis follow-up to Wendt & Duvall's 'Sovereignty and the UFO'. Maps how international-relations theory has actually used (and avoided using) the UFO question.
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