International UFO Bureau
The Hayden C. Hewes Archive preserves reports and investigations from earlier generations. The International UFO Bureau's current reporting program carries that work forward.
If you witnessed an unidentified object, unusual aerial event, anomalous phenomenon, or encounter you cannot readily explain, you can submit a report through the IUFOB's official reporting system.
Every report is treated as a record of an experience worth documenting. You do not need to know what you saw before reporting it.
Preserving the Past. Recording the Present.
Historical UFO research exists because people took the time to document what witnesses reported seeing. Reports preserved decades ago can still be examined today because someone created a record.
IUFOB continues that process through structured modern reporting. Each submission creates a record that can be preserved, reviewed, compared, and, where appropriate, investigated alongside other reports.
After a report is submitted, a Phenomenon Response Officer (PRO) reviews the information provided. When additional information is needed, the PRO may contact the witness with follow-up questions about the observation, circumstances, location, timing, media, or other relevant details.
Go to the Official IUFOB Report PageUseful Details
Provide as much detail as you reasonably can, including the date, approximate time, location, duration, direction of movement, weather or visibility conditions, number of witnesses, and a description of what occurred. Uncertainty is acceptable — indicate when a detail is an estimate.
Photos & Video
If you photographed or recorded the event, preserve the original files. Avoid cropping, filtering, enhancing, recompressing, or otherwise modifying them before submission. Original files may contain information that is lost when media is edited or shared through social platforms.
Review Process
A Phenomenon Response Officer reviews submitted information and may contact you for clarification or additional details. Reports can then contribute to IUFOB's continuing record of UFO, UAP, and anomalous phenomena.
From Observation to Research Record
Individual reports matter, but their research value can increase when information is collected consistently.
Structured reporting allows information such as date, time, location, duration, observed characteristics, movement, environmental conditions, witness information, photographs, video, and other available details to be compared across cases.
Over time, organized records may help researchers identify recurring characteristics, geographic or temporal patterns, unusual correlations, and differences between cases that are difficult to recognize when reports are examined individually.
Research Without a Predetermined Answer
The purpose of the sighting program is not to force every observation into a predetermined explanation.
The goal is to preserve useful information, examine reports carefully, compare cases where appropriate, and create a stronger body of data from which better questions can be asked.
Research Data Stewardship
IUFOB's approach to research-data management is informed by principles described in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Research Data Framework (RDaF), including data provenance, preservation, access, retention planning, management, and responsible reuse.
Maintaining that record helps ensure information gathered today remains understandable and useful to future researchers rather than becoming disconnected files without context or history.
Learn About the NIST Research Data FrameworkContinue the Record
The cases preserved in the Hayden C. Hewes Archive began with people reporting what they experienced.
Today's reports continue that record. Whether an event ultimately receives a conventional explanation, remains unresolved, or contributes to a broader pattern, careful documentation gives future researchers something real to examine.
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