The first camera profile in the production Hermes registry is The Empress at Miramar Beach, Florida — a Gulf-front 4K YouTube live stream that has been broadcasting continuously for over two years. A note on what camera registration actually means in a research platform.
Hermes v0.7.4 replaces a 1,948-line camera intake script with a 522-line rewrite that does the same job. A post about why that happened — and why, for research infrastructure, a smaller honest tool is more trustworthy than a larger careful one.
Hermes v0.7.2 replaced the long technical intake form with a 12-step conversational wizard that asks one question per screen in the order humans actually remember an event — no latitude, no longitude, draft-saved every keystroke, and a new question about how the witness is feeling.
A notice to both the science community and the UAP advocacy community: the corpus that would actually answer the question of UAP doesn’t exist, the protocols to build it have been available for decades, and the people doing the methodologically rigorous work — on both sides — are paying costs from their own communities for refusing to organize around tribal alignment.
Hermes v0.7.1 and v0.7.3 replaced the old intake-form-as-homepage with a two-door landing — one door for witnesses, one for researchers — and a mission statement that reframes the entire relationship: Hermes does not grade the witness. Hermes helps the witness make better data.
Project Hermes v0.7.0 swapped in a more complete NUFORC dataset (+7,822 archival reports), tightened provenance on every archived case, and did something almost nobody in UAP data does: publicly disclosed the 2014-to-present gap rather than letting it be inferred.
Hermes Watch V1 is now available as an unpacked Chrome extension for our beta tester network. It captures live video streams or screen regions, runs local frame analysis, and produces evidence packages Hermes can grade.
Project Hermes v0.6.0 replaces "was a satellite nearby?" with a strict geometric line-of-sight test, adds independent-witness corroboration as a non-eliminating signal, and stamps every analysis with a deterministic hash — pushing UAP analysis closer to scientific reproducibility.
A new class of tools has emerged that does not just collect sightings. It actively analyzes them, cross-references real-world data, and gives witnesses something useful: an answer.
Luis Elizondo ran the Pentagon's AATIP program before becoming one of the most prominent public advocates for UAP transparency. Here is a look at his career and contributions.
A deep dive into what UAP disclosure means, the legislative progress made in recent years, and why full government transparency matters for science and national security.