UAP-PD: Where Law Enforcement meets the Unknown.
Helping First Responders negotiate the stigmas of unexplained phenomenon investigations
Helping First Responders negotiate the stigmas of unexplained phenomenon investigations
When something unusual happens, often 911 is the first place people think to report it. These calls are taken seriously and investigated by trained officers and first responders. However, there is a stigma that first responders face when they investigate these types of unexplained phenomena cases. Officers who are involved in these investigations often have no place to go with the stresses that are created by these types of investigations.
As a result, 2 retired police officers in Arizona, Marianne Robb and Dave Rich have created this organization, UAP-PD. To provide a "Safe Place" for officers and first responders to share their stories and speak about the stressors they've experienced during these investigations, without fear of reprisal, the threat to their career or the ridicule from inside their organization.
There have been many exciting cases that first responders have been involved in over the years. Some of these cases have been investigated by the military, other law enforcement organizations and other investigative agencies.
AND...they still remain unresolved
Currently, mainstream researchers, like the government and scientists, use the term UAP, which stands for Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon. Congress uses the latter. Most of us know the phrase UFO, meaning Unidentified Flying Objects. The U.S. Air Force created that acronym in 1952 at the beginning of their most extensive UFO investigation called Project Blue Book. Before that, the term “Flying saucers” was most common. However, it was too easy to make fun of and became synonymous with alien spacecraft.
Project Blue Book chief Edward Ruppelt wanted to bring seriousness to UFO investigations and emphasize that UFO meant Unidentified. We don’t know what they are; aliens are just one possibility.
Unfortunately, over the decades, UFO also became synonymous with alien spacecraft, despite researchers’ attempts to explain that we don’t know for certain UFOs are aliens. For that reason, the term UAP began being used by scienti5c and governmental agencies. The implication is that UFOs are too silly to investigate, but UAP are OK.
If you or someone you know is a Law Enforcement Officer or a First Responder, and had experienced an incident or investigation that you could not explain (UFO/UAP, paranormal or cryptid) Please contact us.
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