Arrows appear only where the relationship itself is genuinely subordinate — employment, formal appointment, chain of command, or founding/board/funding an organization — and the two people differ in rank; a rank difference alone (e.g. a journalist being generally more prominent than an official) is not enough to draw one. The arrow then points away from the higher-ranked party, toward the lower-ranked one. Most relationships here — co-testified, interviewed, publicized, disputed, claimed — are peer interactions and are drawn as a plain undirected line. Dashed lines mean the two people's active periods (see timeline above the chart) never actually overlapped — the tie is a reference across eras, not a real contemporaneous relationship. Confidence labels are an automated approximation based on wording, not a fact-check.
This network includes a cluster of consciousness researchers (IONS, BICS, Mitchell, Radin, Puthoff's SRI remote-viewing work) alongside the UAP figures. Overlapping institutions and personnel reflect a shared community of investigators and funders, not a claimed causal or definitional link between the two fields.