Public Records Research

Aircraft tracking and ADS-B aviation data network

Best for: Public-interest flight tracking, aircraft movement context, aviation event reconstruction, historical track review, and airspace-awareness checks with safety safeguards.

Forest monitoring, satellite alerts, and environmental geospatial data

Best for: Environmental OSINT, deforestation monitoring, forest-change alerts, land-use context, and public-interest geospatial research.

Public crypto scam and suspicious-address reporting database

Best for: Checking whether wallets, domains, scam narratives, or crypto abuse indicators have public reports or related community warnings.

Political violence and protest event data for public-interest research

Best for: Structured conflict, protest, political-violence, crisis, actor, and event-context research for journalism, civil society, and regional analysis.

Ethereum blockchain explorer for public wallet and transaction research

Best for: Checking Ethereum addresses, transactions, token contracts, wallet activity, labels, and public on-chain evidence before deeper crypto investigation.

Legal Entity Identifier search for company identity checks

Best for: Confirming LEI records, legal-entity names, registration status, reference data, and identity anchors in company due diligence.

Investigative offshore entity and intermediary database

Best for: Checking whether a person, company, intermediary, address, or entity appears in ICIJ offshore leak datasets during due diligence…

Open ADS-B flight tracking and aviation data network

Best for: Public-interest flight tracking, aircraft movement context, aviation event reconstruction, and open ADS-B research with safety safeguards.

Open-source data cleaning and reconciliation

Best for: Use it when OSINT work has moved from search into messy spreadsheets, entity lists, names, addresses, or identifiers…

Structured open knowledge graph

Best for: Use it when a person, organization, place, or concept needs identifiers and linked open-data context.

Scholarly and legal web citation preservation

Best for: Use it when a cited web source needs a durable reference for legal, academic, policy, or investigative documentation.

Curated public web archive collections

Best for: Use it when an investigation needs institutionally curated historical web context around public issues, governments, elections, or events.

U.S. campaign finance and lobbying research database

Best for: Researching U.S. political donations, lobbying records, PACs, industries, candidates, committees, and money-in-politics patterns.

Street-level imagery platform for geolocation and scene context

Best for: Corroborating roads, storefronts, landmarks, signage, and local scene context in geolocation workflows.