Contribute code
The project has four parts, each with its own tests:
Get involved
Help measure the sky
Host a node, write code, check the data or help find hosts where coverage is thin. Start by telling us roughly where you are and what you'd like to do.
Register your interest
This helps us see where volunteers are, match prospective hosts with partners 5–40 miles away, and contact you when your area is ready. It takes about a minute.
- Approximate location only. We never ask for a street address.
- Publicly, volunteers are only ever shown as counts per 1° × 1° area, and only where there are at least 3.
- Submitting again with the same email updates your entry.
Read the privacy notice for what we store, who can see it and how to delete it.
Thank you, your interest is registered.
We will only use your details to contact you about UAP Finder. Submitting again with the same email address updates your earlier entry.
Other ways to help
Everything is open source and developed in public.
Help analyse data
Tracks, sight lines, coverage and clips are available from the public, read-only API. Useful work includes:
- Checking tracks against flight, satellite and balloon records.
- Auditing the on-device filters for things they miss or wrongly remove.
- Improving the error model, for example atmospheric refraction.
Outreach
Coverage depends on hosts in the right places. Rural landowners, astronomy clubs, schools and makerspaces are natural partners. Point them to this site and the coverage map, and please describe the project accurately: it measures, it doesn't claim.