UAPDrop Research Archive — MCP Server

A remote Model Context Protocol server that gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP-capable client grounded, citable access to the UAPDrop research corpus: declassified UAP/UFO government documents, a geocoded sighting archive built from national archives, news coverage, and cited entity profiles.

Every result links back to the record it came from, so the assistant's claims can be checked against a primary source rather than taken on trust.

Endpoint: https://mcp.uapdrop.com/the-truth-is-in-here
Transport: streamable HTTP
Auth: bearer API key — create one free
Docs and pricing: https://www.uapdrop.com/api.html
Registry name: com.uapdrop/research-archive

This repository holds the server's public metadata (server.json) and documentation. The server itself is hosted — there is nothing to install or run locally.

What's in the corpus


Declassified documents	13,929 — Project Blue Book, the FBI Vault, and national-archive releases, with extracted PDF text
Geocoded sightings	28,314 records from four vetted government sources
Sighting sources	US NARA Project Blue Book, UK National Archives, France's CNES/GEIPAN, and the Hatch catalogue
Commentary videos	~10,000 analysed, each with a generated summary, analysis and talking points
Entity profiles	Reported non-human entities, every claim backed by a citation into the archive

The underlying sighting dataset is free to download in bulk and always will be. What this server provides is the retrieval layer over it — keyword search, semantic search, ranking, and cross-linking across the whole corpus.

Tools

All tools are read-only. There are no ingest, generation, or administrative tools, by design.

Tool	What it does	Plan
`search_documents`	Full-text search across the declassified archive — title, summary, incident text, tags and extracted PDF text. Filter by tag, releasing agency, or file type.	Free
`get_document`	One archive document in full, including its attachment gallery.	Free
`search_sightings`	The geocoded sighting archive, filterable by source, date range and bounding box.	Free
`get_sighting`	One sighting record with its full media set.	Free
`list_sighting_sources`	The source keys available to `search_sightings`.	Free
`search_videos`	Keyword search over analysed commentary videos.	Free
`get_video`	One commentary video with our written summary, analysis and talking points.	Free
`related_documents`	Archive documents related to a video, diversified across release programs.	Free
`related_commentary`	Commentary videos related to an archive document.	Free
`search_semantic`	Embedding-based search across documents, news and sightings — finds conceptually related material that keyword search misses.	Researcher
`list_news` / `get_news`	UAPDrop news coverage, including related-commentary links.	Researcher
`list_beings` / `get_being`	Reported entity profiles with their full cited-references ledger.	Researcher

Raw video transcripts are never returned, and neither is YouTube's own description text.

Setup

Create a key on your profile page — sign-in is free and so is the starter tier — then register the server with your client.

Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add uapdrop --transport http \
  https://mcp.uapdrop.com/the-truth-is-in-here \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer uapd_live_YOUR_KEY_HERE"

Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and other file-configured clients

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uapdrop": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.uapdrop.com/the-truth-is-in-here",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer uapd_live_YOUR_KEY_HERE" }
    }
  }
}

Verifying the connection

The server publishes OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata, so an unauthenticated request returns a spec-conformant challenge rather than a bare failure:

Terminal

curl -s https://mcp.uapdrop.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource

Plans

	Free	Researcher
Price	$0	$50/month, cancel any time
Calls per day	50	5,000
Document and sighting archives	✅	✅
Cross-links and video search	✅	✅
Semantic search across the corpus	—	✅
News archive and entity profiles	—	✅

Quotas are per key and reset at 00:00 UTC. Responses carry X-RateLimit-Remaining; exceeding the quota returns 429 with a Retry-After header.

Example prompts

Once connected, these are the kinds of questions the server is built to answer:

"What did Project Blue Book conclude about the 1952 Washington D.C. sightings, and what do the original documents actually say?"
"Find sightings within 100 km of Rendlesham Forest between 1980 and 1981, and show me the source records."
"Search the archive for anything conceptually similar to 'metallic disc observed by military radar operators' — not just those keywords."
"What primary sources back the claims in the entity profile for the Hopkinsville goblins?"

Data provenance

Records come from public government archives — the US National Archives' Project Blue Book, the UK National Archives, France's CNES/GEIPAN, and other national disclosure releases. Every result carries the URL of the originating record so it can be verified against the source.

License

The contents of this repository (documentation and server metadata) are released under the MIT License. The archive data itself is drawn from public government sources; see the dataset page for its licensing.

UAPDrop Research Archive README