What's in our skies?

Observational Citizen Science of Earth's atmosphere and beyond

Our vision

Facilitate a citizen science project

to observe phenomena in the skies 24/7 and provide high-quality results and analysis – available to everyone

Develop hardware and software with and for the project community

under MIT and Creative Commons licenses

Support the development and operation of a global network

of sky observation stations to provide global live sky situational awareness

What we do

credit: Paul/France 2023

We provide a community platform, tools and support to all people interested in observing the skies for stars, meteors, satellites, planes, drones, weather phenomena, birds, UAPs or anything else that happens in our atmosphere and low Earth orbit.

We already support the Discord channel the UAP Tracking Forum for the community of UAP trackers with over 2,200 members.

Together with and for the community we develop hardware and software for an affordable 24/7 citizen sky observatory that can detect, track, identify and analyze any aerial phenomena.

The Sky360 station

Since a sky observing station will be outdoors 24/7, the sensitive electronics must be protected from all weather conditions. Since there are no good off-the-shelf solutions for this purpose, we have developed and are further developing an enclosure for the Sky360 community, that is available for purchase here.

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UAP detection in action

EXAMPLE #1

Object falling from the sky

credit: Aaron/Alaska 2021

EXAMPLE #2

UAP above Houston (#1)

credit: Adam/Texas 2021

EXAMPLE #3

UAP above Houston (#2)

credit: Adam/Texas 2021

How we do it

Open source hardware development under Creative Commons License

Open source software development under MIT License

Open source hardware development under Creative Commons License

Management and support of the global Sky360 R&D community

System based on affordable, harmonized hardware for DIY

Worldmap of sky awareness stations

Sky Awareness Stations

● Sky360 - stationeers, developers

Development

At Sky360, we have two parallel development efforts—hardware and software—that combine to engineer the observation station and its underlying functionality. Volunteers are welcome to join any effort, given their skill-set.

Additionally, we're always graciously seeking funding and manpower to test components. If you're interested in becoming a contributor, you can join us on Discord or Patreon. Any help provided by volunteers or Patrons is greatly appreciated.

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Managing Team

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

Our team

As an organization, Sky360 operates with two core teams consisting of accomplished scientists, engineers, developers, and more.

Our management team handles all Sky 360 operations, records-keeping, and legal matters while the Scientific Advisory Board guides all scientific endeavors.

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Support, partnership & funding

As Sky360 is a global citizen science project with and for the community—it needs your engagement.

You can engage with us either by joining our discussions in the UAP Tracking Forum, by setting up your own Sky360 station, or by joining one of our development teams and contributing your expertise.

You can collaborate with us scientifically by co-developing and sharing data as well as helping us cover the costs of test hardware, communications, web and cloud space.

Get involved

Join us on the Discord server UAP Tracking Forum, where we meet to discuss new topics on research, development and science in the field of observational citizen science of aerial phenomena.

Here you also find friends, who are building their tracking stations.

Join the forum

Open source software development

Development of Sky360 software is done by several teams.

Click the button, if you want to contribute and join one of our teams.

Join the dev teams

Open source hardware development

Development of Sky360 hardware is done by several teams.