Organization
UAPx
Also known as UAPx
UAPx is a non-profit scientific research organization, working with physicists at the University at Albany, that takes cameras, infrared imagers, radiation detectors and other sensors into the field to record UAP with instruments rather than rely on eyewitness accounts. Its first field expedition, in 2021 to Laguna Beach, California, was published in 2025 in a special issue of Progress in Aerospace Sciences: the team explained all but one of the potential anomalies it recorded and found no evidence of non-human intelligence.
Kevin Knuth is its vice president; Gary Voorhis, a radar technician on the USS Princeton during the 2004 Nimitz encounters, is a co-founder, and says UAPx briefed AARO's director Sean Kirkpatrick on its first expedition but never heard back. It now watches a site in Connecticut and, by Knuth's account, was adding radar and radio-frequency sensors in 2026.
Sources: University at Albany press release (June 2025); NewsNation Reality Check interview with Kevin Knuth (September 2026); Gary Voorhis at the SCU conference (2024)
Facts and claims
- claimed The University at Albany describes UAPx as “a non-profit scientific research organization”; with UAlbany physicists Matthew Szydagis, Kevin Knuth and Cecilia Levy, it collected visible-light and infrared images, weather radar data and radiation measurements during a 2021 field expedition to Laguna Beach, California, published in Progress in Aerospace Sciences in June 2025. Source: eurekalert.org (archived)
- claimed The team plausibly explained all but one of the potential anomalies it recorded. Szydagis: “While we did not find evidence indicating that UAP have anything to do with non-human intelligence, we still cannot fully explain our one remaining ambiguity”, a collection of bright white dots within a dark spot seen in multiple videos. Source: eurekalert.org (archived)
- claimed The California field work was funded by the director and producer Caroline Cory of OMnium Media, to produce the documentary A Tear in the Sky (2022). Source: eurekalert.org (archived)
- claimed Kevin Knuth says UAPx monitors a site in Connecticut where orbs are often reported, with multiple cameras for triangulation; nothing had been triangulated yet, and a radar and a radio-frequency spectrum analyser were due to be deployed. — Kevin Knuth Source: Physicist Kevin Knuth on the Tic Tac's accelerations: Ross Coulthart (NewsNation Reality Check, 2026) at 37:36
- claimed Knuth's review of scientific UAP studies (34 authors, seven nations, 506 references) appeared in the same special issue of Progress in Aerospace Sciences as UAPx's first field results; he says it grew out of a section the editor asked them to add to the UAPx paper. — Kevin Knuth Source: Kevin Knuth: The Scientific Study of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (SCU Conference, 2025) at 13:14
- claimed Gary Voorhis says UAPx met AARO's director Sean Kirkpatrick and briefed him on its first expedition; Kirkpatrick asked technical questions, such as whether they had checked with NOAA, but UAPx never heard back. — Gary Voorhis Source: Gary Voorhis at the SCU conference: the Nimitz tracks, AARO and UAPx (2024) at 29:40
Connected files
People
- Kevin Knuth (member) — Vice president; a co-author of its first field results
- Gary Voorhis (member) — Co-founder; a Princeton technician during the 2004 Nimitz encounters
Videos
- Gary Voorhis at the SCU conference: the Nimitz tracks, AARO and UAPx (2024) (subject of)
- Kevin Knuth: The Scientific Study of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (SCU Conference, 2025) (discussed in)
- Physicist Kevin Knuth on the Tic Tac's accelerations: Ross Coulthart (NewsNation Reality Check, 2026) (discussed in)
Mentioned in this file
- Non-human intelligence (Concept)
- USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” encounter (Incident)
- Sean Kirkpatrick (Person)
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)
- Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (Organization)
More organizations
- UAP Science Advisory Council
- NASA
- GEIPAN (CNES, France)
- Galileo Project (Harvard)
- Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- SRI International