The article discusses the stigma surrounding the US government's investigation into unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and the lack of support for academic researchers in modern research universities. No major university has established a dedicated UAP research center or offered competitive grants for UAP inquiry, and no doctoral programs train researchers in UAP methodology. The author argues that the gap between what governments acknowledge and what universities are willing to study is difficult to explain on purely intellectual grounds. The Society for UPA Studies, a nonprofit of scholars and researchers, operates Limina as a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal and has convened international symposia drawing researchers from physics, philosophy of science, and the social sciences. The University of Würzburg in Germany became the first Western university to officially recognize UAP as a legitimate object of academic research in 2022.