Convergence scores span 9 independent layers weighted by specificity. Live data is fetched from USGS, NASA CMR, and meteorite APIs when a site card is opened. Scores ≥ 5 indicate field investigation priority.
Dig site analytics
convergence across all sites
Convergence heatmap
9 layers overlaid

Each anomaly layer plotted independently. Brighter zones indicate multi-layer convergence — the primary signal of a site warranting ground investigation. Toggle layers to isolate specific signal types.

Events by age
geological to modern

Sites ordered chronologically. Clustering in certain epochs may indicate bombardment cycles or active periods of unknown causation.

Side-by-side comparison
Statistical confidence scoring

Confidence weights data quality, source independence, publication volume, and recency. A site can have high convergence but lower confidence if it relies on few primary sources or outdated surveys.

High convergence (7–9)
Medium (4–6)
Low (1–3)
Unexplained origin
Submarine canyon (BAI analysis)
Hover a site marker for details — click to view full record. Toggle submarine canyons to overlay the BAI analysis layer.
Primary data sources
13 databases

Live API feeds are fetched client-side when site cards are opened. Cached data supplements live feeds for sites outside observatory coverage zones. All anomaly descriptions are cross-referenced against peer-reviewed publications.

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Scoring methodology
LayerTypeWeightWhat we look for
Ancient text cross-reference
20 sources indexed

Historical and mythological accounts georeferenced and cross-matched against known geological anomaly zones. Independent cultural convergence on the same region is treated as a supporting data layer.

Documented incidents

Witnessed events with official investigations, physical evidence, and geographic coordinates. These cases are distinct from the geological anomaly sites — they represent documented incidents with known or estimated impact locations, investigated by military, government, or scientific bodies.

Cases are sourced from declassified government documents, official military records, peer-reviewed investigations, and credentialed witness testimony. Each entry includes evidence classification and primary source citation.
Declassified documents
18 documents

Primary source declassified government documents relevant to UAP research, crash site investigation, and aerial anomaly analysis. All documents are publicly available through official government archives. Links open the original source document.

Documents are sourced from the National Archives (NARA), CIA FOIA Reading Room, Defense Intelligence Agency, and equivalent agencies. Classification markings are original — all listed documents are fully declassified.
Behavioral Anomaly Index — spatial analysis
137,009 reports

An original quantitative analysis of 137,009 UFO reports from the NUFORC database (1930–2022). We scored each report on observed behavior — silent flight, hovering, instant acceleration, electromagnetic effects — drawn from the free-text summaries, then tested whether the highest-anomaly reports cluster geographically.

Epistemic status: The elevation and Atlantic-coast effects are robust. The individual submarine-canyon distance effect is directionally consistent but statistically weak due to geocoding measurement error. The behavioral temporal-stability finding is the strongest single result. Spatial findings are consistent with BOTH an "underwater habitat" hypothesis AND a "naval testing activity" hypothesis — the regression needed to distinguish them has not been run. This is exploratory research, not proof of any hypothesis.
Method — the Behavioral Anomaly Index (BAI)

Seven binary dimensions were scored via regex on cleaned summary text. Each captures a physically anomalous behavior that is hard to fake or misremember — and, unlike object shape, is not something media coverage can prime a witness to report:

silent "silent", "no sound", "noiseless"
hover "hovering", "stationary", "motionless"
instant "vanished", "blinked out", "shot away"
speed "incredible speed", "blinding speed"
maneuver "90 degree", "right angle", "zig-zag"
no-prop "no trail", "no exhaust", "wingless"
EM effect "car stalled", "power out", "compass"

BAI = sum of dimensions present. BAI≥2 is treated as a strong signal (1.0% of reports, n=1,170 in the US subset); BAI≥3 as very strong (43 reports, 0.04%).

Finding 1 — BAI is immune to media contamination

An event study tested report characteristics against major media shocks. Witness-reported shape spikes hard after media events — the Phoenix Lights produced a +3.87pp jump in triangle reports (p=0.0002). The BAI showed zero statistically significant response to any media event (all p>0.09). This is the core validation: BAI measures something the culture isn't putting there.

Finding 2 — Behavioral signature is stable across eight decades

The silent + hover + instant triplet appears in every decade from the 1960s through the 2010s, with no cross-witness coordination mechanism. The apparent rate decline post-1995 is a denominator effect — the internet era floods the dataset with low-quality misidentification reports, while the absolute count of BAI≥2 reports continues to grow.

Finding 3 — Geographic predictors of BAI rate (state-level)

State-level OLS regression of BAI rate on geographic features. Low mean elevation is the strongest single predictor. Continental shelf width and submarine canyon access are positive and significant. The full model explains ~22% of cross-state variance (R²=0.222).

Finding 4 — BAI rate by submarine canyon region

Grouping geocoded reports by nearest canyon region, New England canyons show the highest BAI rate and the Pacific the lowest. Two independent quality measures — the algorithmic BAI and NUFORC's human-expert Tier 1 grading — point the same direction: Tier 1 reports are more canyon-proximate than the baseline (56% within 500km vs 42% overall).

Top BAI states (per million population)
Key confound, stated plainly: Naval installation proximity is geographically correlated with canyon proximity and the Atlantic coast. The Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area and the Virginia Capes operating area concentrate military airspace in exactly the zone showing elevated BAI. A regression testing canyon proximity vs. naval-installation proximity vs. military-airspace density would be needed to separate the "underwater habitat" hypothesis from the "naval testing" hypothesis. That analysis has not been completed — so both remain live.
Submit a candidate site

If you have identified a location with anomalous geological, geochemical, or historical characteristics that may warrant investigation, submit it here. All submissions are reviewed against our nine-layer scoring methodology before being added to the database.

Submission criteria
Submissions with 3+ independent anomaly types and at least one verifiable published reference are prioritized for review.