Policy

Terms of use and community rules

Version 1 · 2 November 2026

1. Who runs UAPgrade
2. What the site is
3. Who can take part
4. Community rules
5. How moderation works
6. Reporting illegal content
7. If we remove your content
8. Your rights in what you write
9. Points, ranks and the roster
10. Scenario voting
11. Rights in the site's content
12. Limits of liability
13. Changes to these terms
14. Governing law

Who runs UAPgrade

UAPgrade (uapgrade.com) is run by Fabio Guzzon, an individual (not a company) based in Italy. Fabio edits the site and sets its rules. The site also carries the Adattica brand, but it is only a brand: the person running UAPgrade is Fabio.

A single point of contact

The EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the DSA) requires online services to say where authorities and users can reach them. UAPgrade has a single address for both, redazione@uapgrade.com. It is the point of contact:

• for the authorities of EU Member States, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services (Article 11 of the DSA);
• for people who use the site (Article 12 of the DSA).

You can write in Italian or English. Fabio reads these emails and replies in person.

What the site is

UAPgrade is an independent fact-checking site about UFOs and UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) and about claims linked to “disclosure”, meaning the release of what governments are said to know about these phenomena. For every entry it records what was said, what is documented and what contradicts it, with sources.

• Estimates are stated opinions. Probabilities are declared judgments, with their method and the factors that would change them: they are not measurements. The method is in Method and sources.
• No advice. The site informs: it does not give legal, financial, medical or any other kind of advice.
• Errors stay on the record. When we correct an error, we say so on the Updates page: significant ones in the error log, smaller ones in the log of changes.
• AI writes the articles, Fabio approves them. The Daily news articles are written by Vega, UAPgrade's artificial intelligence, and go out only after Fabio approves them. Every article carries the byline “Written by Vega, UAPgrade's artificial intelligence”. How we use AI is explained on the Artificial intelligence page.
• It's free and carries no advertising.

These terms apply to everyone who uses UAPgrade. The community rules apply on top of them to anyone who posts something.

Who can take part

You must be at least 14

Anyone can read UAPgrade. To comment, propose scenarios, send contributions to the Investigations Unit, subscribe to the newsletter or ask Vega questions, you must be at least 14 years old. By sending a comment, a scenario proposal or a contribution, subscribing to the newsletter or asking Vega a question, you confirm that you are at least 14. If we learn that something was sent by someone younger, we remove it and delete their data.

A confirmed email address

To comment, propose a scenario, send a contribution, write to us from the Contact page or subscribe to the newsletter, we ask for your email address. We send you a link: your submission only goes in when you press “Confirm” on the page it opens, within 48 hours. That way we know the address really is yours.

Your email never appears on the site, and after 12 months we remove it from comments, proposals and contributions. You don't need one to vote on scenarios or to ask Vega questions. All the details are in the privacy notice.

The name that appears

Only a name you choose appears next to what you post, never your email:

• for comments, a name is required;
• for scenario proposals it's optional: without one, the proposal shows as “proposed by a reader”;
• in the Investigations Unit it's your investigator name, shown on the roster and in the contribution log. Always use the same one: your points add up under that name.

You can use a pseudonym: there's no need for your real name. Don't use another person's name, someone else's investigator name, an email address, a link, an insult or an advert. A comment posted under a name like that is rejected; in the contribution log, the contributor is shown as anonymous instead.

Community rules

These rules apply to comments, contributions to the Investigations Unit and scenario proposals. By sending something, you accept them.

What's fine

• Disagreement, criticism of the site, skepticism or belief, even bluntly put, as long as you're civil and acting in good faith.
• Speculative or unpopular ideas, as long as they stay on topic.
• Sources that debunk a popular idea: they count just as much as sources that support it.
• Short quotations, with a link to the source.

What's not allowed

Extra rules for each type of content

• Comments stay on the article's topic or on UAP in general.
• Contributions to the Investigations Unit bring something new and verifiable, with links to the sources. Before sending, open the links and check that they really lead to what you describe.
• Scenario proposals describe a scenario about the nature or origin of non-human intelligence, name up to six people from the site's directory who support it, and link to the sources where they do. A title already used by another proposal isn't accepted, unless that proposal was rejected.

Using the site fairly

• Don't use automated programs to post content or to vote.
• Don't get around the site's limits, for example by switching networks or clearing cookies to vote again or to send more than the daily allowance.
• Don't try to get into restricted areas, break the site's security or overload it.
• Don't pretend to be someone else, or to be UAPgrade.
• Don't put personal data, yours or anyone else's, in questions to Vega, and don't try to get around its rules.

How moderation works

Nothing you send appears on the site without being checked. In general there are four steps:

1. Email confirmation. Nothing goes in without it.
2. Automatic rules. For comments and proposals, a filter rejects obvious spam straight away: typical spam words, more than two links in the text, shortened links, repeated characters, text almost entirely in capitals.
3. Artificial intelligence. An AI model, Anthropic's Claude, which also powers Vega, reads the content and gives a verdict.
4. Fabio. He decides the doubtful cases and can always review a decision made by the AI.

• The AI marks a comment “doubtful” when it isn't sure, when the comment accuses a named person without a source, or when it reports something serious that a person should look at.
• Fabio can publish a rejected comment or remove one that's already published, and he can put a rejected proposal back to the vote or remove it. He can also choose to check every comment by hand before it goes out.
• If the AI doesn't respond, the content waits and is tried again later.
• The text of contributions is never published as it is: the contribution log shows a neutral paraphrase written by the impartial arbiter, with the verdict and the points.
• We apply these rules carefully and proportionately, with respect for freedom of expression and information.

Reporting illegal content

If you think something on UAPgrade is illegal (a comment, a scenario proposal or any other content), write to redazione@uapgrade.com. As Article 16 of the DSA requires, your report must include four things:

1. Why you believe the content is illegal, with a clear explanation of your reasons.
2. Where it is: the exact address of the page (URL) and, if needed, how to find it on the page, such as the name and date of the comment.
3. Who you are: your name and email address. You don't need to give them if your report concerns the sexual abuse or exploitation of children.
4. A statement confirming that you believe, in good faith, that the information and allegations in your report are accurate and complete.

Example: “1. The comment accuses a named person of a crime without any source: I believe it is defamatory. 2. uapgrade.com/en/news/NW-YYYY-MM-DD, the comment signed ‘Name’ on DD/MM. 3. First Last, name@example.com. 4. I state in good faith that the information and allegations in this report are accurate and complete.”

What happens next

• We send you an acknowledgment of receipt.
• Fabio examines the report carefully and objectively, and decides whether to remove the content.
• We tell you our decision and how you can challenge it, and whether we used automated tools or AI to examine the report or to decide.
• We don't tell the author of the content who reported it, unless that is strictly necessary.

You can use the same address to report content that isn't illegal but breaks these rules. If you find a mistake in the site's own content (a date, a source, a verification status), the right place is the Investigations Unit. If the content is about you, you can also exercise the rights described in the privacy notice.

If we learn of a possible crime that threatens someone's life or safety, we inform the authorities straight away, as Article 18 of the DSA requires.

If we remove your content

If a comment or scenario proposal of yours isn't published, or is taken down later, because it is illegal or breaks these rules, we email you a statement of reasons at the address you confirmed, as Article 17 of the DSA requires. We don't send one for spam. If we reject a contribution of yours to the Investigations Unit for breaking these rules, you can ask us for the statement of reasons at redazione@uapgrade.com. The statement tells you:

• what we decided: for example, that the comment wasn't published or was taken down;
• the facts we relied on, and whether the decision followed a report or our own checks;
• whether the automatic rules or the AI played a part;
• which rule in these terms was broken, or which law we believe the content breaks, and why;
• how you can challenge the decision.

For contributions to the Investigations Unit, the verdict (for example “already on the site” or “unverifiable”) and the impartial arbiter's assessment are public in the contribution log.

How to challenge a decision

• Reply to the email with the reasons, or write to redazione@uapgrade.com, explaining why you disagree. Fabio reviews the decision, confirms or changes it, and gets back to you.
• You can always go to court.
• If you think we aren't complying with the DSA, you can lodge a complaint with the Digital Services Coordinator of the EU country where you live (Article 53 of the DSA). In Italy that is AGCOM, the communications regulator (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni).

Your rights in what you write

What you write stays yours. When you send a comment, a scenario proposal or a contribution, you give Fabio Guzzon free, non-exclusive permission to publish it on UAPgrade under the name you chose, to translate it and to summarize it, for as long as it stays on the site. For example:

• scenario proposals are translated into Italian and English by artificial intelligence, which also fixes obvious typos along the way, without changing the meaning;
• contributions to the Investigations Unit appear only as a paraphrase, in other words rewritten in our own words by the impartial arbiter.

“Non-exclusive” means you can keep using your text however you like, elsewhere too. If you ask us to remove a comment or proposal of yours, we will; verified facts that have already entered the archive stay, written in our own words.

By sending content, you confirm that it's yours, or that you have the right to share it, and that it doesn't infringe anyone else's rights, such as copyright, privacy or reputation.

Points, ranks and the roster

In the Investigations Unit, each evaluated contribution can earn points. Points give you a rank, from Recruit to Chief investigator, and a place on the roster of investigators. It's a game to recognize the people who help with verification, and it has clear rules:

• points and ranks have no monetary value: they can't be exchanged for money, prizes or discounts, and they can't be bought, sold or traded;
• the impartial arbiter awards them only after evaluation, once per contribution, to the first person who brings an item;
• a false or manipulated contribution is rejected and earns no points;
• what each type of contribution is worth, and how many points each rank needs, is listed in the Investigations Unit under “Rules and ranks”;
• you can ask at any time for your investigator name to be removed from the roster and the contribution log.

Scenario voting

In the Scenarios section, readers propose scenarios and approve other people's. The rules:

• only proposals that have passed moderation can be approved;
• one vote per proposal from each internet connection and each browser: if several people share a network, at home, at school or at work for example, only one of them can vote for each proposal;
• you can't approve your own proposal;
• with 10 approvals a proposal comes “into play”: it appears in the ranking with its percentage;
• the impartial arbiter then checks, against open sources, that the people named really support the scenario. If the attributions hold up, the proposal becomes an official scenario, with only the verified supporters; if they hold up only in part, it stays in play while checks continue; if they are false, it is rejected;
• you don't need an email address to vote. The site stores a technical cookie (osv_v) and keeps a fingerprint of your connection, never your IP address: the details are on the Cookies and browser storage page.

Rights in the site's content

UAPgrade's texts, graphics and data are © Fabio Guzzon, all rights reserved. In practice:

• you may quote short passages, for example in an article or a post, crediting UAPgrade and linking to the page you took them from;
• you're free to share links to our pages;
• for anything else, such as copying whole entries or sections, republishing charts and illustrations, or reusing the data, ask for permission first at redazione@uapgrade.com.

Some material isn't UAPgrade's and remains its authors', under their own licenses: the portraits in the directory (freely licensed or in the public domain, with credits in Method and sources), documents and quotations from sources, and content posted by readers.

Limits of liability

• Information, not advice. Entries, estimates and news are there to inform. Before deciding anything important, or sharing a story, check the original sources.
• Mistakes can happen. We check every entry against its sources, but we can get things wrong. When an error comes to light, we correct it and say so on the Updates page.
• Artificial intelligence. Vega and our other AI tools can make mistakes: check the entries and sources they cite. The details are on the Artificial intelligence page.
• Readers' content. Comments and proposals express the views of the people who write them, who are responsible for them. We moderate them, but we can't verify every claim. When we learn that content is illegal, we remove it promptly.
• Other sites. Our links also lead to sites we don't control: they may change or disappear, and we aren't responsible for what they contain.
• Availability. The site is free and may be interrupted, changed or closed, even without notice, for example for maintenance. Some features, such as Vega, have usage limits and may pause.

To the extent permitted by law, Fabio Guzzon is not liable for damage resulting from the use of information on the site or from the site being unavailable. This limitation does not apply to damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence (serious carelessness), or in any other case where the law does not allow liability to be limited.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when the site changes or the law does. The version number and date are always at the top of the page. If a change is significant, we flag it clearly on the site. New rules apply from the moment they are published. If you don't accept them, you can stop commenting, proposing scenarios and sending contributions, and ask us to remove your content.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Italian law. If you use the site as a consumer and live in another country, you keep the protections that your country's law does not allow to be taken away. If a problem comes up, write to us first at redazione@uapgrade.com: that often solves it. You can always turn to the competent court under the law.