ECRI is an effort led by UAP Sweden and the Ocean X Team, with the support of the VASCO Project and an interdisciplinary group of civilian scientists and experts. The project has the ambition of mapping and analyzing alleged UFO/UAP crash sites on European soil, both contemporary and historical.

Several eminent scientists and public figures have given their support to ECRI, including Harvard astronomer and founder of the Galileo Project Avi Loeb @aviloeb , and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D., U.S. Navy (ret), former Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)