Search 75 years of UAP evidence with AI
Ask questions across 700,000+ documented sightings, 275,000+ pages of primary sources, and 90,000+ documents from 20+ archives worldwide — every answer cites the originals.
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Chart the whole archive by era, agency, and collection — then open the connection graph and walk the paths between investigators, airbases, and cases. No account needed.
Explore the data — free →CIA · FBI · NSA · Project Blue Book · AARO · UK Ministry of Defence · GEIPAN (France) · SEFAA (Chile) · AFU (Sweden) · NICAP · NUFORC · The Black Vault — and more
In a dark forest, the safest move is silence — which may be why the universe seems empty.
we catalog the exceptions.
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A research assistant reads the archive for you — every answer cites the documents it drew from.
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Every citation opens the underlying record — the scan, the case file, the report — not a summary.
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Records from separate archives, cross-referenced at last — map hotspots, trace waves, filter by place, period, and shape.
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About the archive
The Dark Forest Archive is an independent research project that gathers the world's publicly released UAP records — government case files, inquiry documents, and civilian investigation archives — into one searchable corpus.
Every document is digitized, OCR'd, enriched with dates, places, and case metadata, then cross-referenced against sighting databases. Every research answer cites its primary sources, and every citation opens the original record.
Independent and not affiliated with any government agency. Documents remain the property of their original custodians; we preserve, index, and connect them.
The corpus in numbers
- Documents indexed
- 91,409
- Pages OCR'd
- 278,096
- Searchable passages
- 272,087
- Documented sighting events
- 713,916
- Source archives
- 22
- Raw source material
- 102 GB · 56,000+ files
Snapshot from July 2026 — the corpus grows as ingestion continues. Largest holdings: AFU (Sweden), Internet Archive collections, SEFAA (Chile), The Black Vault, the CIA reading room, NICAP, and Project Blue Book via NARA.
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