Josef Garcia

Josef Garcia is a German UFO researcher and the leading expert on passive radar at the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO-Phänomens (GEP), an established organisation for technical UFO investigations. He operates a continuously working passive-radar station that monitors parts of the sky — a technology highlighted in JUFOF 257 (5-2021) for its applications in UAP research. In 2024 he achieved the world's first passive-radar confirmation of a visual UFO/UAP sighting.

• German UFO researcher
• Leading passive-radar expert at the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO-Phänomens (GEP)
• Operates a continuously working passive-radar station for sky monitoring
• Technology highlighted in JUFOF 257 (5-2021) for UAP research
• Technical investigations using radar data on sightings; correlation of radar signals with visual observations
• 2024 case of a witness personally known to him with an unusual luminous phenomenon; parallel recorded radar signal
• World's first passive-radar confirmation of a visual UFO/UAP sighting; case received "GOOD UFO" status without identified conventional aircraft

For the UAP timeline, Garcia is a methodological breakthrough case: the world's first documented passive-radar confirmation of a visual sighting shifts the evidence boundary of civilian-available technology — and provides European UAP research with a tool beyond witness statements and commercial radar estimates.