The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies begins its 2026 annual conference on July 24 at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre, with sessions continuing through July 26 and an online attendance option. The nonprofit organization has framed the meeting around the role of science and governments in UAP research.
Christopher Mellon, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, is scheduled to deliver the opening keynote, titled “Science, National Security and UAP.” The official program presents his session as a discussion of oversight, aviation safety and the release of information held by military authorities.
Physicist Randy Bostick, a former science adviser to the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, will address scientific rigor in UAP study. Other sessions cover calibrated sensors, structured collection, multi-modal autonomous detection and the limits of drawing conclusions from incomplete observations.
The speaker list gives the meeting an international scope. Planned presentations include Canada's Sky Canada work, lessons from France's GEIPAN, historical reports from Japan and instrumentation at Norway's Hessdalen site. Researchers from universities and technical organizations in North America, Europe and Asia are also listed.
The conference program is a statement of planned work, not a set of research findings. Its value will depend on the data, methods and documentation presented, and on whether proposed standards can be tested outside the meeting. Proceedings begin July 24, so no conference-wide conclusions were available when this article was published.