Science Magazine

Science is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1880 in the United States by John Michels with support from Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. It is a civilian, nonprofit publication, published weekly with around 130,000 print subscribers and over 400,000 readers via online access. Key activities include publishing cutting-edge research across scientific disciplines, advancing peer review, and serving as a platform for major discoveries like fruit fly genetics by Thomas Hunt Morgan, gravitational lensing by Einstein, Hubble's spiral nebulae, Apollo missions, early AIDS reports, the human genome, and Mars images. Notable achievements encompass hosting seminal papers and expanding to journals like Science Advances. Currently active, based in Washington, D.C., with an office in Cambridge, UK, it remains one of the world's most prestigious and cited scientific journals. No direct involvement in UAP/UFO research or government programs is documented in available sources.