Led by David Dominguez Hooper, the Distributed Passive Radar Project is a collaborative program to evaluate, deploy, and analyze a distributed network of low-cost passive radar systems for two complementary objectives: (1) detecting non-cooperative aerial threats in the vicinity of commercial airports to improve aviation safety, and (2) collecting instrumentally verified scientific data on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The initiative deploys Hooper-founded company ELDAEON’s NEMESIS passive radar platform—a $500 bistatic receiver based on commodity hardware and open-source signal processing software—as a citizen-operated distributed network modeled on the FlightRadar24 ADS-B receiver community. Academic research conducted through one of the world’s leading universities (announcement forthcoming) will provide peer-reviewed analysis of passive radar detection performance, while the Sol Foundation provides additional scientific expertise and review, project coordination, volunteer resources, and publication support. The project addresses two documented gaps: the inability of existing airport surveillance to detect non-cooperative, small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), and the absence of civilian scientific infrastructure for systematic UAP data collection.