The contact
landscape.

A central directory for human-initiated contact groups, events, websites, and educational resources across multiple traditions and countries.

Organizes peaceful human-initiated contact activity, group skywatches, community discussion, and support for people who describe contact experiences.

A self-described network of activists and practitioners who organize Human Initiated Contact Events and publish reflections on contact-oriented consciousness practices.

A long-running Spanish-language spiritual and contact network that shares teachings, gatherings, and participant accounts within the Rahma tradition.

A community media project collecting CE-5 stories, interviews, practical guides, and resources for people interested in contact protocols.

An app-based collection of instructions, meditations, reference materials, and optional networking tools for CE-5 practice.

A multimedia and research project that documents structured field operations, observational logs, interviews, and experiments involving anomalous experience.

A nonprofit research organization spanning SETI, astrobiology, planetary science, education, and public outreach, including radio and optical searches for technosignatures.

A large-scale scientific search using major radio and optical facilities to survey nearby stars, the Milky Way, and distant galaxies for technosignatures.

Develops searches and instrumentation across radio and visible wavelengths, supports Breakthrough Listen, and created the public-distributed SETI@home project.

An organization focused on designing and transmitting messages intended for possible extraterrestrial civilizations, alongside research and public discussion about that work.

Connects UK researchers working on searches, messaging, signal interpretation, and the legal, ethical, and social questions surrounding possible contact.

A committee of the International Academy of Astronautics that convenes scientific SETI work and maintains discussions and declarations concerning discovery and post-detection conduct.

A University of St Andrews initiative bringing sciences and humanities together on message analysis, law, governance, risk communication, and societal response after a detection.

A pioneering membership network for amateur radio astronomy and citizen SETI. Operations ended in 2024, but its technical and educational site remains available as an archive.

A Harvard-led research project building calibrated observatories and classification systems to examine aerial phenomena with transparent scientific methods.

A volunteer coalition of scientists, engineers, academics, and analysts producing case studies and promoting rigorous public examination of UAP data.

A nonprofit research organization conducting instrumented field expeditions and applying multiple sensor and intelligence disciplines to anomalous observations.

An academic-facing foundation supporting UAP research, policy analysis, conferences, and interdisciplinary discussion. Some of its framing goes beyond currently established evidence.

The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena studies pilot and aviation reports, with an emphasis on investigation standards and flight safety.

A volunteer citizen-science project operating sensors and publishing data on recurring unexplained lights in Norway's Hessdalen valley, without prescribing a single explanation.

An open-source citizen-science effort developing autonomous, multi-sensor stations for continuous sky observation and a potential global data network.

A nonprofit project proposing automated, multi-instrument monitoring stations to collect standardized physical data on UAP reports.

A unit of the French space agency CNES that collects, investigates, and publishes reports of unidentified aerospace phenomena. It explicitly does not treat those reports as proof of extraterrestrial activity.

A long-running civilian center accepting sighting reports and maintaining a public, searchable database. Entries are witness submissions and vary in evidentiary quality.

A member-supported civilian network that accepts reports, assigns volunteer field investigators, maintains case data, and publishes research and educational material.

An organization dedicated to scientific interest in UFOs, original investigation, and stewardship of reports, documents, publications, and historical research collections.

A military-pilot-led nonprofit offering a confidential reporting channel, supporting aircrew witnesses, and advocating for aviation safety, research, and government transparency.