Since November 2020, a group of researchers from NASA, DARPA, MIT, and the US Air Force have been meeting monthly via the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC) — described by one attendee as “the Woodstock of gravity-modification research.” The sessions explicitly include discussion of Non-Newtonian EM propulsion, exotic propulsion physics, and UAP sightings as data points for propulsion research. As of 2021, 22+ documented meetings in the series. Conference moderator Tim Ventura (The Debrief): “The Alt Propulsion community is highly intersectional, and we’re sandwiched between the aerospace, defense, electrical engineering, physics, UFOs, and frontier science cultures.” Key attendees include officials from on-record US agencies — not fringe researchers. The APEC community includes researchers working on “gravitational shielding materials.” This places representatives from official US defense and civilian science agencies — DARPA, NASA, MIT, USAF — in a regular, documented discussion forum where UAP propulsion physics is explicitly on the agenda. Combined with: DARPA’s PE 0603286E Advanced Aerospace Systems program, DIA’s $22M AATIP warp drive papers, Charles Buhler’s NASA Electrostatics Lab propellantless thrust results (2,000+ vacuum chamber tests), and Dr. Pais Navy patents on the Inertial Mass Reduction Device — the picture that emerges is of multiple parallel official and semi-official research tracks all converging on the same propulsion physics that Bob Lazar described in 1989 and that UAP craft have been demonstrating over nuclear facilities since 1947.