Two pieces of funding to support academic research into UAP, have been revealed in recent times. The first is a donation to the University of Albany; and the second is a proposal by the state of New Jersey in the USA to establish an academic Center for the Study of UAP. Both lines of funding are unprecedented in the academic study of UAP. It is interesting that it should be the state of New Jersey, given all the "drone" sightings reported there, in the not so distant past.University of AlbanyIn