AARO White Paper: 2025 UAP Workshop — Narrative Data, Infrastructures, and Analysis
Dr. Voss's Analysis
The August 2025 UAP Workshop brought together 40 participants from government agencies, academic institutions, and independent research organizations. Organized around the challenges and opportunities of working with narrative UAP report data — eyewitness accounts, written incident reports, and related qualitative sources — the workshop examined data standardization, infrastructure for narrative data analysis, natural language processing approaches, and the limitations of current UAP report databases. The resulting white paper summarizes participant findings and recommendations for improving how narrative UAP data is collected, stored, and analyzed by the government.
Overview
AARO sponsored a workshop in August 2025 in partnership with Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) focused on the challenges of working with UAP narrative report data. Forty participants from government, academia, and independent research organizations contributed findings summarized in a published white paper.
Key Facts
- ◆Workshop held in August 2025, co-sponsored by AARO and Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI)
- ◆40 participants from government, academia, and independent research organizations
- ◆Focused on narrative (non-sensor) UAP report data and its analytical challenges
- ◆White paper published publicly on aaro.mil/UAP-Records
What Remains Unresolved
- ?What specific data infrastructure improvements were recommended by workshop participants?
- ?Will AARO implement a standardized narrative data collection system based on these findings?
- ?How will AI and NLP tools be integrated into AARO's narrative data analysis workflow?
