text: Realtime data feed about in progress UAP sightings
  With the app named “UFO Alert!” (or “Contact Project App”) the Contact Initiative wants to engage with others who also think that they aren’t alone in the universe.
  That includes not just our neighbors on planet Earth, should they exist. By that I mean neighbors on other planets.
  We, the Contact Initiative, believe that there is a non-zero chance that UFOs/UAPs have an extraterrestrial origin. In other words and more precisely: we believe that UAP may be of extraterrestrial origin.
  But we can’t be 100% certain.
  In the past we may have seen something unexplained in the sky and wondered what it was… We never found out about it because no one told us and we didn’t have the tool to tell us.
  We are the casual UFO/UAP witness.
  We are 46 million people in the USA alone.
  We wanna know what’s going on!
  The UFO Alert! app
  An tool to identify the identifiable and investigate the unknown.
  Currently the flowchart of the app is not hewn in stone. No godly instructions were received on a mountain to create this.
  This is a project in the brainstorming stage. To make it a reality compromises may have to be made.
  That is possible because the app has a modular design. The app is composed of modules. Each module is desirable, but not essential to create the app.
  For instance. the “Identified Flying Object Databanks” can be left out. They can be added at a later stage, or never. Omitting them would make the app programming much easier and faster.
  How much can be realized at the first try?
  That depends on
  a) funding or
  b) the selfless support from the open source community.
  UFO Alert! is an open source UFO/UAP real time reporting tool. Every user who downloads the app is a “Search partner”. Users CAN register to use the app. During the registration users CAN enter their profession, such as pilots, air traffic controllers, military personnel, and age and hobbies.
  Search partners can be anyone with a smartphone, radio operators, videographers, gigapixel camera operators, Unistellar telescope operators and (passive) radar operators, which are a subset of radio HAM enthusiasts and people that are close enough to have visual or audible contact with an UAP/UFO.
  UAPs are a very transitory phenomenon. Often a sighting lasts less than a minute. Speed is of the essence to reacquire the target. Because it is in the reacquisition phase that the “UFO Alert!” app gathers most of its data.
  The Contact Project
  The “UFO ALERT!” app has two modes of operation: ALERT and CONTACT.
  App users that report a sighting shall be called Alerters.
  HAM radio and other operators that are sent the coordinates of the UFO shall be called Contacters.
  What happens when an UFO is spotted?
  The user who sees the object/phenomenon presses the “UFO sighting in progress” or “Alert!” button of the CONTACT app:
  The app immediately uploads the timestamp and GPS coordinates of the sighting:
  The user can also try to take snapshots or video of the UFO sighting with their smartphone. This provides real time additional data: the smartphone’s gravity sensors record the elevation and its magnetic compass records the azimuth:
  The data are then sent to an “Identified Flying Object server”.
  Here GPS and time data are parsed (and available elevation and azimuth). An astronomical real-time database, the NORAD database and air traffic databases are used to identify known flying objects near the UAP location, such as planets, planes and satellites. (To categorically exclude ship traffic, such as may have been filmed in Kumburgaz, Turkey, in 2007-2009, a marine AIS database should be included). Secret military projects are excluded via NORAD TLEs:
  If the object is not identified,
  it becomes a “prospective UAP” (PUAP):
  GPS coordinates and other data of prospective UFOs/UAPs are forwarded as an ALERT to close-by Contacters using the same Contact app, to be investigated in more detail:
  Contacters are selected based on their vicinity to the GPS coordinates of the sighting and their hardware/qualifications/experience. The contacters may be HAM radio operators and others (search partners with CB / HD camera / HD video / telescope / radar):
  Should the same PUAP be reported multiple times at different locations a trajectory can be computed and search partners will be notified in advance of a possible PUAP arrival.
  Users that spot the PUAP can fill out a standard UFO sighting questionnaire and/or supply more detailed reports that will be attached to the alert.
  The presence of a not identified flying object has now been broadcast to users of the CONTACT app in the vicinity of the sighting via multiple routes (SMS, EMAIL, POP-UP APP NOTIFICATION).
  Alerted by this notification:
  HAM RADIO OPERATORS will be listening for incoming broadcasts from the sighting using multiband radio frequency scanners. Should the sighting be a remote controlled drone it would now be identified via the unique drone radio frequency signature.
  If the PUAP is a viable UFO and not a drone → then HAM operators will attempt to make contact using a variety of radio bands. A pre-recorded message or data burst transmission may be broadcast towards the UFO.
  TELESCOPE AND CAMERA OPERATORS
  Other search partners may try to use the information to get radar or visual confirmation via HD cameras or automatic telescopes (for instance UNISTELLAR / VAONIS STELLINA).
  (PASSIVE) RADAR OPERATORS
  A special field of amateur HAM radio is the analysis of passive radar data, often to observe meteor tracks. Sometimes unexplained tracks are recorded, showing flight maneuvers of objects at right angles. In case of these anomalous sightings an ALERT can be triggered with the aim of visual confirmation and radio contact.
  Any search partner who can verify the sighting by eye sight using the CONTACT APP provides real time data to the sighting in progress.
  The CONTACT INITIATIVE effort may be coordinated via the members of SETI Institute / SETI LEAGUE / MUFON / HAM and other organized networks.
  All who download the app can make UFO reports.
  A sighting by a single person is less convincing than an event that many witnesses report from a distance to each other.
  An AI algorithm will analyze live reports coming in in real time to determine if multiple witnesses are reporting on the same thing. This takes into account the position and possible flightpath of an object.
  To motivate the public to take part in this search,
  prizes can be given for successful detections of UAPs, staggered by evidence weight:
  1. confirmed UAP pictures, 2. video, 3. radar images,
  4. reception of radio emissions, 5. verifiable conversation with ETI (CETI), 6. physical alien artifact, 7. actual landing of UAP with ETI.
  Alternative to cash prizes, credits may be given, they could be collectible non-fungible tokens (NFT’s), whose value is based on their desirability.
  The whole endeavor (and prize money) will be funded by private enterprise through the “Alien Marketplace” advertising space. This marketplace is accessed through the Contact app. To filter out fakes and false identifications AI algorithms and volunteers evaluate the results. The volunteers may be paid cash or NFT tokens that can be traded on the Alien Marketplace.
  The Contact App flowchart as PDF: download here,
  and as JPG: download here.