UAP Finder

UAP Finder is a citizen-science project I'm building: a network of passive, sky-facing cameras in volunteers' homes that measures where unidentified objects in the sky are and how they move. One camera only sees a direction. Two cameras miles apart that see the same thing at the same instant can triangulate its position, so a sighting becomes a 3D track with altitude, speed and acceleration, each with error bars. It makes no claims about what anything is.

Each node is a small NVIDIA Jetson computer with a camera and a GPS receiver. It analyses its own video, filters out stars, clouds, birds, insects and aircraft that broadcast their position, and sends only small signed packets with a direction and a GPS-timed timestamp. The video stays on the node.

A server matches reports from nodes within 80 miles that land within 50 milliseconds of each other, intersects their lines of sight and builds tracks, flagging anything hypersonic or pulling more than 10 g. The public website explains the project, has a step-by-step build guide and a volunteer sign-up, and hosts a live 3D map of nodes, camera views, tracks and coverage gaps.

The software is written and tested, including a simulator that checks the server's tracks against known ground truth. It hasn't run on real node hardware yet, so the live map shows clearly labelled demo data for now. Public node positions are rounded to about a kilometre so they can't be traced to anyone's house.