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DisclosureOS

An open standard for UAP data.

A shared way to write down what is known about a case — so researchers, journalists, and institutions can read, check, and build on the same record.

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What DisclosureOS is

An open source framework

Free, open building blocks that anyone can inspect and any tool or archive can be built on. No license fees, no gatekeeper, no single vendor in control.

A data standard

A shared vocabulary for UAP cases: what a record holds, what counts as a signal, how possible explanations are organized, and how every assessment points back to its evidence.

A flagship application

The Disclosure Index shows what all of this looks like in practice: real cases from official government releases, presented so anyone can read them — built entirely on this same foundation.

The Standard

Six component parts

01

Records

The unit of record

Every UAP case becomes an Observation: one structured record with a shared vocabulary for when, where, what was seen, who saw it, and what evidence exists.

30 top-level fields

02

Observables

Detection

Twelve defined signatures — six technology, six biologics — that say precisely what was anomalous about a case and how strong the evidence for each one is.

12 observables · 5 evidence tiers

03

Origins

Classification

A catalog of explanations, from the mundane to the exotic, where every possible cause has its own permanent place in one shared tree — and a flag for what science can test.

96 hypotheses · 82 testable

04

Claims

Attribution

Every assessment of a case is recorded as a claim: who made it, when, why, and the evidence behind it. When evaluators disagree, competing claims sit side by side instead of overwriting each other.

4 evidence types · 2 claim shapes

05

Scoring

Evaluation

Two separate questions, scored separately: how completely is a case documented, and how compelling is what the evidence shows? Opinion lives here — never in the record.

2 axes · 226 fields measured

06

Instruments

The instrument layer

Organizations publish what their sensors are, how they keep time, and how they are calibrated — so data from different arrays can be compared honestly, and well-documented instruments earn the trust they deserve.

6 modalities · 4 calibration rungs · 28 sensors published

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