March 20th, 2026 marks the second anniversary of the historical meeting about “UAP in European Airspace”, organised at the European Parliament building in Bruxelles, which was baptized as the first “European UAP Day”.

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This may be a good opportunity to resume what European developments of the UAP scene  have happened in the twelve months elapsed since the previous anniversary.

 

 

On the very March 20th, 2025, in an unprecedented collective iniziative, Charles Maxence Layet’s article about a “European Strategic Autonomy and the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena” was published  in 11 different languages on the websites of 14 national UFO organizations across Europe (and was even relaunched across the Atlantic by the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies).

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On April 10th, the shared appeal  for  the new European Parliament to take action on UAP in relation to their aims, values, mandates and priorities (which had been signed and submitted by the representatives of 15 national UAP organizations in October 2024), generated a wider public support campaign: UAP Coalition Netherlands called on citizens and organizations to jointly exert pressure on the European Parliament, by writing to each one’s Member of the new EuroParliament,.asking to take concrete measures toward a greater transparency and serious research about UAP, such as Data collection (a central European system), Scientific research (funding for multidisciplinary studies) and Policy integration (aviation and safety protocols).

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As it will be noticed, the Dutch organization UAP Coalition has constantly been on the forefront of the initiatives toward European Union institutions, indeed.

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On April 30th, UAP Coalition representatives had the first meeting with  EuroParliament member Fabio De Masi (Germany), who had asked a Parliamentary question to the EU Commission about what information was known about UAP in connection with the critical infrastructure of member states, in December.  During the two hour  meeting, several critical issues were discussed: Stigma & Mental Health (the psychological impact on pilots and professionals and the need for a safe reporting culture), Flight Safety (the risks of unknown phenomena in European airspace); Cooperation (concrete actions for greater transparency and cooperation at EU level).
Those same topics were raised during another meeting of UAPC officers with a MEP, Lukas Mandl (Austria),  on September 24th.

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On July 20th, European ufology was put on stage  of the annual symposium held by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Cincinnati (USA): Edoardo Russo (Italy) was the invited foreign representative of the year, talking about “New Perspectives in UAP Studies from the Old Continent”: having more than  40 different countries (speaking dozens of different languages) has brought communication difficulties  but also  a great variety and richness of approaches and initiatives, which were presented to the unknowing American fellows, including: augmented reality tools for field investigation, cognitive psychology interview techniques, new software packages specifically devised for UFO photo analysis and for automated IFO identification, case classification by text mining and machine learning, new integrated systems for automatic sky monitoring & UAP detection,  massive digitization of UFO literature, search engines for specialized bibliographies, A.I. tools for archival purposes, UFO ChatBots.

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On September 10th, a collective feedback to the European Commission for the European Research Area (ERA) Act. was submitted by UAP Coalition and signed by 24 scientists and researchers from 14  countries, in another shared initiative sponsored by UAP Check network. This legislative initiative should ensure a resilient and inclusive European Research Area and the contribution was focused  on a fundamental issue : stigma as a systemic barrier, discouraging researchers from applying for funding and hindering access to essential research infrastructures.The document offered four concrete proposals to the European Commission: Promoting curiosity (encouraging open and unbiased research); Anti-stigma Guidelines (development of frameworks for assessors and funders); Support for Exploratory Research (creating space for controversial or marginalized fields); Inclusive Networks (stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration); Fair Access (ensuring access to infrastructures, regardless of the research domain).

In the following months, more researchers joined the initiative and the total of signatures has grown to 36 by the end of January, 2026.

A few days later, on September 26th, UAP Coalition submitted a feedback to the public consultation about another relevant topic: the EU Space Act, suggesting that it should include: Explicit Recognition (inclusion of UAP in the legal texts), Reporting Obligation (for operators to report unidentified phenomena), Synergy (use of existing monitoring systems for UAP detection), Transparency (central data collection without the hindering effect of stigma).

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The October 24-27th weekend saw the third SOL Symposium, organized by the American SOL Foundation in Europe for the first time: three full days of speeches and meetings, involving more than 20 speakers from academia, government, civil society, and the private sector, as well as 440 guests from all over the world in the touristic town of Baveno, on Lake Maggiore (Italy) probably made this the main European UAP event in 2025.

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As a a direct result of its feedback to the European Research Area (ERA) Act,  UAP Coalition  obtained a consultation meeting  with the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission on December 19th.  Accompanied by Prof. Anders Warell and Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, they made it clear that an integrated European research market is unattainable as long as stigma hinders progress in unconventional fields such as UAP.

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December 24th saw the publication of the annual European UAP Barometer by Philippe Ailleris for EuroUFO.  An annual overview of the UFO reports which have been collected by the main UFO organizations in Europe has been published for several years, but the 2025 edition showed a significant improvement compared to previous years: five additional national organizations joined the survey and two international collections contributed to reaching a staggering total of 33,600 reports from 40 European countries for the years 2019-2024.

 

On the very last day of 2025, December 25th, another joint initiative was launched by EuroUFO.net and UAP Check: Euro Ufo Index, the catalog of reports and news of alleged UFO sightings in  European countries. For the first time ever, 23 national UFO organizations from all over Europe (as well as two international ones) agreed to share their data sets in order to create a common reference tool. The first experimental version has been limited to  sighting reports from  the year 2024, and  the essential data for indexing each case (date, time, location, type, originating organization). After the test phase is completed, the Euro Ufo Index will be extended to a longer time frame (from 1947 or earlier) and more data will be added for each report. Meanwhile, more than 4,000 reports from 43 different nations have already been indexed for that single year and the total is expected  to reach 5,000, after the addition of a few more national collections.

A notable year as of the European Union UAP scene, indeed.