James Fowler
Public spokesperson, Skywatcher multi-sensor group
“We’ve seen one or two as a singleton, but usually they’re in groups of three to 20.”
James Fowler is the public-facing spokesperson for Skywatcher, a private multi-sensor observation project, and the principal voice in the 2025 American Alchemy interview with Jesse Michels where the group’s nine-class taxonomy was first laid out class by class. His account leads with instruments rather than memory: it presents what Skywatcher says its sensor stack recorded, and the framework comes from one private group using its own instruments, published on its own research pages, with no outside replication to date.
Who he is
Fowler is the public spokesperson for Skywatcher, a private multi-sensor observation project. He describes a method built on a fixed observation site and a multi-spectral sensor stack, electro-optical, shortwave and midwave infrared, radar, laser range finder and radio frequency. He was the principal voice in the 2025 American Alchemy interview with Jesse Michels, where the nine-class taxonomy was laid out class by class. The framework is single-source: AARO, the Galileo Project, NASA’s UAP study and the peer-reviewed literature do not use these categories.
What he says
The nine classes. He describes a working taxonomy of unidentified craft, each with a morphology, a size, a flight behaviour and a sensor signature: Tetra, Tic Tac, Blob, Beam, Manta Ray, Bright Star, Jellyfish, Hornet, and a provisional Egg. He says an object that lights up some sensor bands and stays dark on others is read as actively managing its signature, and that the specific mix of bands a class registers on is part of how that class is defined.
“We’ve seen one or two as a singleton, but usually they’re in groups of three to 20.”
The 2003 microwave incident. He cites a craft said to have pre-empted a directed-energy threat. By his account it is a single event reported by the one group.
Calling Class 9. He says that under some conditions the team can “call” a Class 9 craft to the site through claimed psionic methods. By his own admission this is a goal, not a result, and he describes it as the point where Skywatcher’s evidence is thinnest and its ambition is largest.
A living taxonomy. He describes the framework as a living document, still under revision, and says Class 9 rests on a single low-quality recording.
The hedges he attaches. He raises a plasmoid-projection alternative for Class 3, and he frames the Class 9 calling effort as an aim rather than an achievement.
In his own words
“We’ve seen one or two as a singleton, but usually they’re in groups of three to 20.”
What is on the record
Everything Skywatcher reports comes from one private group, using its own instruments, published on its own research pages; there is no outside replication at present. The nine-class framework is not used by AARO, the Galileo Project, NASA’s UAP study or the peer-reviewed literature. The 2003 microwave incident is a single-source account. Fowler describes the Class 9 “calling” effort as a goal rather than a result, and the taxonomy as a living document still under revision, with Class 9 resting on a single low-quality recording. The rolling PURSUE declassification is the channel in which claims of this kind either appear in the record or do not, and the document briefings on this site read each release as it comes.
Where to go deeper
/nine-classes, the full class-by-class taxonomy- the wiki entry on the Nine-Class UAP Taxonomy
/caveats, the Fowler and Skywatcher section, the site’s own ledger