The nuclear connection
Wherever the bomb went, the sightings followed: the labs and test sites in the 1940s, the missile fields from the 1960s, the bases abroad, the Soviet arsenal, and now operations that use nuclear material as bait. Several narrators touch it (Michels with Herrington and Friedman, Gerb, Morgan, The Age of Disclosure), but none tells it whole. The tree is the nuclear complex itself, growing from Trinity; the dots are the sightings that followed each new kind of site, and a second strand at the top is the secrecy written for the bomb.
The voices it opens with
Before UAP Trail says a word, the video lets others speak. Each clip is linked at its second in the video.
We've had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities, and it's not ours and we don't know whose it is.
Transmedium crafts... have been operating with complete impunity around the world since at least the 1940s.
We received an alarm at our closest missile site. There was an object directly above that ICBM nuclear missile, right on top of the blast door.
That kind of propulsion is not within our capability and it's not within the capability of any country that I know of.
If you actually read the Atomic Energy Act, if something is not a nuke, but it has radiological energy coming off it... same secrecy.
They're basically treating this as nuclear secrets.
It's basically breaching the airspace of one of the most sensitive British American bases in the United Kingdom with total impunity.
The number I remember was 18 out of 18 times it was successful. They lured these things out... nuclear submarines.
The claim, in UAP Trail’s words
“We've had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities, and it's not ours.”
Marco Rubio (likely), The Age of DisclosureThey have both deactivated and activated nuclear weapons with both the United States and Russia. (The Age of Disclosure (speaker not labelled in our copy))If something is not a nuke, but it has radiological energy coming off it... same secrecy. (Jesse Michels, American Alchemy)
How it split
The central claim drawn as a tree. Each branch is a part of the story that went its own way, splitting at UAP Trail’s turning points. Line weight is UAP Trail’s sense of how much each branch holds. Click a branch, a fork or a dot.
Labs, test sites and plants
How it unfolds: three eras
The bomb years
The missile age
After the Cold War
What carries it
Every event in the narrative, sorted by what it rests on. The on-record events are the skeleton; the rest is what UAP Trail hangs on it.
Has anyone counted?
- Bruehl and Villarroel, 2025. Palomar sky-survey transients, 1949-57, cluster within a day of nuclear tests. Peer reviewed, in Scientific Reports. record
- Grosvenor, Hancock and Porritt, 2025. UAP indications across the US atomic warfare complex, 1945-75. Peer reviewed, in Limina. record
- Hancock and others, 2023. A pattern-recognition study of the military atomic complex, 1945-75. A Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies report, not peer reviewed. record
- Hancock and others, 2024. An activity-pattern study comparing military and public sightings, 1945-75. record
Open threads
- The Oak Ridge sample. Michels cites a 1950s Oak Ridge document on a magnesium-bismuth sample with odd isotope ratios, released under PURSUE. It hasn't been checked against the PURSUE batches yet.
- Malmgren's chain. He says the Bluegill debris came via Lawrence Preston Gise of the AEC in Albuquerque. Gise's role has not been checked.
- Weapons switched on in Russia. The Age of Disclosure names no case, but our 1982 Ukraine launch-panel record fits it. Its insider later took his account back, so it stays disputed.
- The bait data. Stratton says the submarine run collected data; the '18 out of 18' story suggests a series. Who holds the results?
- Which silos? The DIA triangle video has no base or date. Malmstrom, Ellsworth and F.E. Warren are the candidates Michels names.