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Confronting Unknowns at MIT: Sensemaking and UAP Research
June 24, 2026
A reference page for the Confronting Unknowns program at MIT and the Sensemaking framework for anomalous aerospace events.
The Disclosure Foundation's engagement with the Confronting Unknowns program at MIT reflects a broader effort to bring UAP research into serious institutional settings.
The program is connected to Sensemaking, an independent research effort focused on the gap between what sensors detect and what institutions can make sense of. Its flagship paper, Confronting Unknowns: A Framework for Anomalous Aerospace Events, examines how leaders can reason responsibly about anomalous aerospace events when information is incomplete, ambiguous, or difficult for institutions to classify.
The 2026 Confronting Unknowns program at MIT is described by Sensemaking as a transdisciplinary intensive teaching sensemaking as a leadership skill. Several contributors to the Sensemaking work are participating in the Disclosure Forum's conversations about scientific inquiry, technology, governance, and the institutional challenge of interpreting anomalous data.
For the Disclosure Foundation, the connection is straightforward. UAP are not only an intelligence or aerospace question. They are also a test of how institutions handle uncertainty, evidence, public trust, and decision-making under conditions where premature certainty can be as damaging as inaction.