Future Folklore is a community for impossible dreams. Whatever field you’re in, if you’re dreaming up something that seems impossible, we’re the community for you.

Part of our core mission is to fund frontier science like unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) materials science, for which we have already raised thousands of dollars from NFT art auctions. As a community leaning into momentous possible futures, we want to lead by example, supporting serious inquiry into this topic.

As a movement for highly participatory, global science, DeSci inspires our approach to this project—targeting the greatest mystery of our time, but one that is woefully overlooked, underfunded, and stigmatized.

There are some encouraging trends, with new and serious UAP efforts already underway in Congress, the U.S. defense and intelligence establishments, NASA, Harvard, Stanford and elsewhere, and elevated media coverage. But this is an all hands effort for all people, for which the philosophy and technology of DeSci is well-suited.

We envision leading an entire ecosystem of research and technology development surrounding UAP materials. Our efforts will benefit the public by adding to the stock of high-quality data, and generate commercial IP that can someday be spun out into new companies. 

As stated on our science page, we currently have three projects related to UAP:

1) Art benefit. We raised funds with the generous support of an artist who created and auctioned pieces inspired by notable UAP materials cases.

2) Publish free analysis. We plan to fund a UFO artifact composition lab analysis, minted as a free, open-edition IP-NFT. We are currently looking for an available artifact with high quality provenance and a chain of custody.

3) Launch decentralized R&D. This will be a funded low-residency/decentralized R&D program, giving participating scientists and researchers wide discretion to tackle a specific target, such as a single UAP artifact.

Future Folklore is excited to return to Gitcoin after participating in GR15, the first ever DeSci grants round.