TERMS

Beyond Blue Book publishes the declassified public record on unidentified anomalous phenomena — official record only — alongside a private forum and a submission form for sightings and photos. The government documents shown here are works of the United States federal government and are in the public domain. We do not host government PDFs; we link to them at their official sources, and every document on the site says where it comes from.

There is no front-door age check on this site. It is a public archive, open to anyone. The forum is behind login, and its own rules apply there.

• Send only what is yours. You must own the rights to any photo or story you submit, or have permission to share it.
• Approval is a person’s decision. Every submission is reviewed first. We may decline anything, for any reason, and nothing is published without approval.
• By submitting, you give permission to display your photo and story on this site, with credit as you wrote it, if it is approved. You keep your copyright.
• Photos are checked. Manipulated photos are not published. Photos are stripped of location and camera metadata before anything is stored.
• Community contributions are labeled. Approved reader photos and stories appear in a labeled Community Contributions strip. They are reader material — clearly not official government records, and never presented as such.
• We do not invent posts. Forum posts are written by members. The site does not fabricate discussion, sightings, or documents.

If you change your mind after a submission is approved, write to [email protected] and ask for it to be removed. The photo is deleted with the record.

The forum is private — login required — and lives on Discourse at beyondbluebook.discourse.group. The same rules apply there as here, plus the forum’s own community rules, which are posted in the forum:

• Be civil. No harassment, threats, or hate. No impersonating another person, a government official, or the site itself.
• No illegal content, no spam, and no posting other people’s private information.
• Keep to the official record. Theorizing belongs in the forum, not on the site — and even in the forum, claims need a source when asked for one.
• Breaking the rules can mean losing access. Discourse provides reporting, blocking, and account deletion, and the moderators use them.

• Do not scrape the site in a way that harms it, and do not try to break the submission form, the waitlist, or the review queue.
• Do not impersonate the site, its staff, or a government agency.
• Do not use the site to mislead others about what the official record says. Link to the source; let the record speak.

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, send a takedown notice to [email protected] with:

• What the material is, and where on the site it appears (a link, or the page and title).
• Your contact information.
• A statement that you believe in good faith the material is used without authorization, and that the information in your notice is accurate.
• Your signature (a typed name is enough for an emailed notice).

We review every notice and remove material that infringes. Government documents in the public domain are not subject to copyright claims, but a mistaken posting will still be corrected.

The site is provided as-is. We do not guarantee that a document is complete, that a link to an official source stays live, or that the site is free of errors. The record is the record — read it, check the source, and draw your own conclusions.

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