Who we are
Our website address is: https://uapsightings.org.
What we do
This website is designed as an online resource for the collection of sightings of unidentified aerial/anomalous phenomena (UAP), or what have traditionally been called unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Information we collect is stored and made freely available as a public service, in the furtherance of making potentially significant data accessible to the scientific community and the general public.
By submitting reports to this website, you acknowledge that a summary of your report may appear publicly on this website to aid scientific research into UAP. Prior to submitting a report through our “Report a Sighting” page, all users are required to accept our Terms & Conditions, which can be found here.
What information we collect
We collect data from users who voluntarily submit information about their UAP sightings through the “Submit a Report” form on this website, or through similar functions like the comments form on individual posts on this site. This information is collected only when visitors to this website voluntarily submit this content. Examples of the personal information we may collect can include the following:
- Names of individuals
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Physical addresses
- Geolocation information
- Online identifiers like IP address
- Photos submitted to this site
- Metadata or sensor data collected by smartphones or other devices
- Contact or authentication data
All users who voluntarily share information through the “Submit a Report form on this site are asked to agree to this site’s Terms and Conditions before they are allowed to submit such information. Additional information that this website may collect can be found in the sections included below.
Comments
When visitors submit UAP sightings reports, comments, or other content to the site, we collect the data shown in the report submission form or comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it when posting comments. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images or other media to this website as part of a UAP report you submit to this site, you should avoid uploading any images or other media that may contain personal identifying information (such as images of individuals, residences, or other recognizable features) with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able download and extract location data from images that are shared on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What we do with data you share
Information you share through the “Report a Sighting” collection form featured on this site will be collected as a report, and a summary of your report may thereafter be shared publicly on this website. Any personal identifying information will be removed from summaries of reports submitted by users before being shared publicly on this site. By submitting a UAP sighting report to this site, you acknowledge that you accept our Terms and Conditions, and you agree to allow a summary of your sighting to be featured publicly on this website once it has been submitted, at the discretion of the site administrator.
Who we share your data with
We collect data from users who voluntarily submit information about their UAP sightings through the “Submit a Report” form on this website, or through similar functions like the comments form on individual posts on this site, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we may also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Any user can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you submit a UAP sighting to this website, you must agree to our our Terms and Conditions, which provides detailed information about how we use the information you provide, what rights you maintain over that information, and also our usage rights with that information after you have agreed to submit it to https://uapsightings.org.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, research, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.