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Journal Article
Detecting Scattered Human Skeletal Remains with an Alternate Light Source: Case Studies
2026
Overview
Search and recovery organizations conduct missions around the world to find missing persons or their remains. Though many resources are currently employed to detect human remains, Alternate Light Sources (ALS) appear underutilized. Relying on the f luorescent properties of bone when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light, members of the Search and Rescue Tracking Institute (SARTI) employed UV alternate light sources at night to search for, find, and recover surface-scattered human bones and teeth. These searches were conducted at 12 sites where law enforcement agencies in Virginia, USA, had previously recovered human remains in daylight hours. ALS search efforts resulted in a range of zero to 39 human bones found at distances of one to ten meters from the searchers, yielding an average of 12 bones per site. Bones that had been missed by other resources were found by using UV light at night. When used in combination with other resources, the detection of human remains one month to ten years after an individual's death demonstrates the benefit of using UV light as a search tool.
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International Association for Identification
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