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advancing the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena through interdisciplinary dialogue
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CURRENT ISSUE
Volume 3, Number 1
2026 · NINE PIECES
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 · 2026
Boundary Conditions: Evidence, Experience, and Method in UAP Studies
Nine pieces asking what UAP Studies must become if it is to handle phenomena that strain inherited categories of evidence, method, experience, interpretation, law and political thought. The issue opens on demarcation and terminology, turns to the infrastructures of knowledge, and ends in law and political theory. It does not force the phenomena into a single explanatory frame; it sets the conditions under which responsible inquiry can proceed.
EDITORIAL
Boundary Conditions - Evidence, Experience and Method
Dr Michael Cifone
Frames UAP Studies as an emerging field whose maturity depends on boundary-work across evidence, method, experience, interpretation, law, politics, and the not-yet-known.
ESSAY
The Demarcation Problem of UAP Studies
Dr Danny Ammon
Argues that UAP Studies needs boundary-work, conceptual demarcation and differentiated subdisciplines before it can become a rigorous academic field rather than a mythically unified domain.
PERSPECTIVE
Forging a Procedural Roadmap for Scientific Studies of Government-Sourced UAP Data
Dr James Houran
Proposes enforceable metadata, custody and archival standards to turn government-sourced material from episodic disclosures into reproducible research objects.
NEW METHOLOGY
Magnetoplasmadynamic Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Basic Physics, Diagnostics and Research Methodology
Dr Massimo Teodorani
Develops a physics-grounded framework for investigating luminous UAP through plasma diagnostics, spectroscopy, radar response and magnetometry, with protocols for separating anomalous from conventional sources in the field.
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Structured Patterns in Anomalous Experience: A Longitudinal Developmental Analysis of a UAP Experiencer Dataset
Andrew Morgan
Analyses five decades of experiencer narratives, showing how anomalous encounters may develop as structured, quantifiable and symbolically mediated systems rather than isolated anecdotal episodes.
ESSAY
Beyond Nuts and Bolts: High Strangeness, Absurdity, and Vallée’s Control-System Hypothesis in UAP Research
Michaela Heidi Robson
Revisits Jacques Vallée’s control-system hypothesis, arguing that absurdity and high strangeness are not evidential noise but signs of the phenomena’s physical, experiential and symbolic complexity.
ESSAY
Trauma, UAP, and the Phenomenon in the sagas of Vínland: Tales from the Uncanny Vallée
Dr Yoav Tirosh
Reads the Vínland sagas through trauma and UAP studies, showing how frontier encounters, paranormal motifs and collective memory become interpretive mechanisms for failed settlement.
ESSAY
NHI in the Legal Context: The Earth as a Condominium—Grounds for Distant Contact Without Relevant Exchange of Information
Klaus Stähle
Advances a speculative legal model in which Earth’s condominium-like status explains distant contact, human institutional immaturity and the avoidance of open information exchange.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Political Theory Needs the Alien (and Vice Versa)
Dr Michael Uhall
Argues that political theory must pass through the alien to rethink humanity, planetary politics, spacepower and the institutional boundaries of knowledge.
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VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 · 2025
Boundary Conditions: Evidence, Experience, and Method in UAP Studies
Fifteen pieces, weighted toward philosophy and theology. At its center is a three-part exchange on the elusiveness of the phenomena: an essay by Dr Bertrand Méheust, a critical note from Dr Thibaut Gress, and Méheust’s reply. Around it sit essays on phenomenology, on ufological vocabulary, on the nature-spirits hypothesis and on what a single science of UAP would require, a research article on United States atomic-warfare sites between 1945 and 1975, and three book reviews.
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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 · 2024
Boundary Conditions: Evidence, Experience, and Method in UAP Studies
The first issue, and a practical one. Two editorials, one by Dr Michael C. Cifone and one by Dr Mark Rodeghier of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, set out why a journal of this kind was needed at all. The three research articles that follow are all about method: instrumented field studies by Philippe Ailleris, good scientific practice for UAP research by Dr Danny Ammon, and astronomical techniques by Dr Massimo Teodorani. A book review and a letter on a seventeenth-century academic witness close the issue.
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About the journal
ISSN, ONLINE
2995-0384
ISSN, PRINT
2995-0376
ACCESS
Open access, free to read
LICENSE
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0
PLATFORM
Scholastica
EDITOR
Dr. Michael C. Cifone
PUBLISHED BY
SUAPS
FIRST ISSUE
Spring 2024
CURRENT VOLUME
3
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