STANDARDS & CORRECTIONS
This beat attracts more confident assertion than evidence. These are the rules UFONN works to, published so you can hold the desk to them — and so you can tell the difference between what a document says, what an official said, and what UFONN is telling you.
Verification
Nothing runs on a single anonymous claim. A UFONN report is built from named outlets and primary documents — hearing transcripts, agency reports, released video, FOIA releases — and each is listed, numbered and linked at the foot of the story. The numbers in the body map to that list, so any individual sentence can be traced to where it came from.
This is enforced mechanically, not on trust: the site generator refuses to build if a report cites nothing, if a footnote marker in the text has no matching source, or if a cited URL is missing from the source index. A story that fails any of those checks does not publish.
Named and unnamed sources
UFONN does not run its own anonymous sources, because UFONN does not conduct its own interviews. Where the reporting it is built on rests on unnamed sources — which on this beat is often — the report says so, names the outlet carrying the claim, and gives the government's response where one exists. Attribution is never laundered: "officials say" without a publication behind it does not appear here.
Extraordinary claims
The standing order is objects, not entities. UFONN covers craft, lights, orbs, spheres, radar returns, drone swarms, sensor footage, hearings and paperwork. It does not run alien-body stories, recovered-occupant claims or contact narratives — not because they are impossible, but because none of them can currently be traced to anything a reader can check. Where a cited source makes a claim of that kind, the report may note that the document exists and declines to build a story on it.
Where an official body has contradicted a claim, the contradiction runs in the same story, not a later one.
Images
Every photograph on this site is a real, openly-licensed image with its author, licence and source page recorded from the publisher's own metadata rather than typed in by hand. Only public-domain and attribution-style Creative Commons licences are accepted; non-commercial and no-derivatives licences are refused. Much of this beat is U.S. Government work and therefore public domain.
UFONN publishes no photorealistic imagery of unidentified objects that it created. Where no suitable photograph exists, the story runs a generated schematic plate, captioned as such. Lead photographs are captioned as illustrative file images — related to the subject, not pictures of the reported event — and the desk filters out portraits of identifiable individuals so that no one is visually implied into a story they have nothing to do with.
Corrections
Errors are fixed in place and the story keeps its URL — UFONN does not quietly delete a report it got wrong. Substantive corrections, meaning anything that changes what a report says happened, are noted in the story itself. Typographical and link fixes are made silently.
The things worth reporting: a misattributed quote, a wrong date, a citation that does not support the sentence it is attached to, a dead or mislabelled source link, or a photograph whose credit or licence is wrong.
Feedback and takedowns
Rights-holder requests, attribution disputes and factual challenges are handled the same way as corrections. UFONN hosts no one else's article text — every citation links out to the original publisher, and no third-party article body is reproduced here. If an image credit is wrong or a licence has changed, the image is pulled or corrected.
Ownership, funding and disclosure
UFONN is an independent, non-commercial project. It carries no advertising, takes no sponsorship, sells nothing and has no institutional or government affiliation of any kind. It has no relationship with any agency, contractor, advocacy group or individual covered in its reporting.
Copy on this site is drafted with AI assistance against the cited sources and reviewed before publication; the citation checks described above run on every build. The source index was assembled by machine search across the open web, which means it over-represents English-language and U.S. coverage and is a sample rather than a census. Links rot. Nothing published here endorses a claim made in a cited article — including the many that contradict each other.
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