What Xeno is, what it archives, and how $XENO fits into it — in plain language, with nothing hidden behind hype.
Xeno is an open, single-page archive of humanity's documented encounter with the unexplained in the sky — verified government UAP/UFO disclosures from more than twenty nations, sitting side by side with tens of thousands of individual sighting reports, plotted on a map and a 3D globe, all linked back to primary sources. $XENO is the token that carries the project's name on-chain.
The Greek xénos means, all at once, stranger, foreigner, alien, and different — the root of xenon, xenobiology, xenoarchaeology. It names the subject of this archive precisely, without smuggling in “alien” as a foregone conclusion. To the Greeks it also meant the guest: their custom of xenia demanded the stranger at the door be met with hospitality, not fear, until you knew who they were. That's the posture the project takes toward the unknown — open evidence, open mind.
Sighting reports on the site are unverified public reports, not confirmed events. For landmark cases, status labels reflect each releasing body's own stated conclusion — “unresolved” means an agency couldn't reach a determination, not that a case is confirmed non-human. No verified government release to date has concluded extraterrestrial origin. This whitepaper follows the same rule: nothing below is speculation dressed up as fact.
Xeno is a single-page app, plus a standalone Aliens page, all reading from the same underlying dataset of government releases and citizen/pilot reports. The archive holds 54 hand-verified government cases and 102,256 individual sighting reports spanning 1901–2018, of which 101,986 are plotted geographically across 122 countries.
A nightly job merges three openly-licensed sources. A NUFORC-derived historical CSV supplies global coverage in one-line summaries (83,508 rows). GEIPAN open data — France's official CNES UAP unit — carries full multi-sentence narratives, auto-translated from French to English (2,763). And the Hatch U catalogue, via UAPDrop's CC BY 4.0 aggregation, adds 15,985 terse but globally distributed case entries — which is what lifts non-US coverage to 29,302 reports across 122 countries. That's how the archive gets breadth and genuine full-length reports in the same table.
Not everything on offer is worth taking. The same aggregation also carries a Project Blue Book feed of 7,468 rows, but those share only 13 distinct summaries between them — generated catalogue stubs with approximate state-level coordinates, not witness accounts — so they are deliberately left out rather than used to inflate the count. Blue Book is already covered properly as a Landmark case.
The three feeds are not comparable in depth, and the site is explicit about it rather than hiding it. The median NUFORC report is 72 characters and the longest is 153; the median Hatch entry is 94 and the longest 211; the median GEIPAN case is 769 characters and the longest is 8,992. That gap is not a processing choice — NUFORC's upstream CSV truncates its comments field at roughly 130 characters, and NUFORC's own terms of service prohibit scraping their live site for the fuller text, so for those rows there is no longer version to recover. Hatch entries are catalogue shorthand, terse by design. The sync only ever trims a cut-off fragment back to a clean sentence boundary; it never invents words a witness didn't write.
Share cards follow the same rule. A report with a real narrative gets a card headed WITNESS ACCOUNT carrying the account itself; a one-line record gets one headed REPORT SUMMARY that folds shape, place and duration into the body — an honest card rather than a mostly-empty one padded out to look fuller than the source.
Every one of the 102,256 reports is reachable in the browser, but embedding them all inline would roughly double the page and every visitor would pay for that before first paint. So the page ships an offline core — every full narrative plus a sampled cross-section of the rest — and pulls the remainder in the background as a separate static file once the page is up. Opened straight from disk, with no server at all, the core still works on its own.
Both feeds arrive with damage that has to be repaired rather than passed through. NUFORC writes HTML entities without their closing semicolon and some rows are double-encoded, which is why place names arrived as Düsseldorf and São Paulo with the accents mangled into stray markup; those are decoded back to the letters the reporter wrote. GEIPAN publishes latitude and longitude columns but ships them empty, which had left every French case — the only ones carrying full narratives — off the map and the globe entirely. Each case is now resolved against the French government's open commune registry, which put 2,495 of the 2,762 French cases on the map. Where a place name is ambiguous or isn't a place at all, the case is left unplotted rather than guessed at.
The site reads in five languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic — covering the interface and the written content: case summaries, theory write-ups, file and vault blurbs. Where a translation is missing the English original is shown rather than a blank.
A public, no-accounts chatroom runs alongside the archive so people can talk about what they're reading in real time, with basic word-filtering and impersonation guards on both the client and the backend rules.
A floating leaderboard button ranks visitors by time spent on the site and by research activity — distinct sources opened, redacted excerpts revealed, sighting details opened, share cards created — backed by the same real-time backend as chat and keyed to the same display name, so renaming yourself in chat carries your rank over. It's a casual ranking, not an audited one: there's no login, so “identity” is whichever browser holds your id.
Xeno — Air Raid, at /game, is a self-contained 16-bit arcade shooter
reached from its own nav tab. It shares the archive's domain and colour palette but nothing
else: no libraries, no build step, no image or audio files — the sprites, terrain and sound are
all generated at runtime. Six sectors each keep their own top-ten leaderboard, synced to the
same backend as the rest of the site, with scores banked locally first so offline play always
counts.
The archive defaults to its phosphor-on-black look, but a toggle in the top bar — on the main archive, Aliens, $XENO, Live chat and Leaderboard pages — switches to a light theme for daytime reading. The choice is remembered and carries over as you move between pages.
$XENO is the token for the archive, tracked live on the Robinhood Chain. It exists to give the project an on-chain identity — it is not a claim on the archive's data, infrastructure, or future decisions.
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A portion of supply has been sent to 0x000…dEaD — a dead address with no
known private key, so tokens sent there can never move again. That's the standard on-chain
convention for a “burn.” Live burn totals are read from the token's own holder list
on Blockscout →,
and mirrored on the token tab of xeno.news.