QUESTIONS

- What makes for a reliable UAP report, and what do the reliable reports tell us about the phenomena?

- What "kinds" of UAP emerge out of the data on UAP encounters?

- What are the trends in the form and behavior of UAP over the past 70 years?

- What does the data suggest about the origin of these strange phenomena?

GUEST INFO

Robert Powell is a chemist, engineer, and researcher with a BS in Chemistry and nearly three decades of experience in engineering management in the semiconductor industry. As the former Director of Research for MUFON (2007–2017), Robert established its Science Review Board and co-authored detailed reports on notable UAP cases, including the "Stephenville Lights" and the 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico incident. A member of the Society for Scientific Exploration and the UFODATA project, Robert is also a co-author of _UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry_ and actively uses FOIA requests to uncover historical UAP-related data. Robert is executive board member of SCU. He and his wife reside in Austin, Texas.

LINKS

- Link to SCU's report, “The Reported Shape, Size, Kinematics, Electromagnetic Effects, and Presence of Sound of UAP”: https://www.explorescu.org/post/the-reported-shape-size-kinematics-electromagnetic-effects-and-presence-of-sound-of-uap

- Robert Powell's page at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies: https://www.explorescu.org/robert-powell

- Robert's book "UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don't Know)": https://amzn.to/4fJpigG

- Robert's book "The Truth About UFOs: A Scientific Perspective": https://amzn.to/3V9Ny35

Guest:

Matthew Szydagiz is a professor of astrophysics at the university of Albany, a founding member of UAPx, a regular on the History Channel's *The Proof is Out There*, and a member of SCU.

Topics:

- Thinking through the most common objections to serious UAP research.

- UAPx's first research expedition to Catalina Island, where they attempt to observe UAP.

- The technologies and methods UAPx employs, and how they're refining their work going forward.

- Whether the search for dark matter was doomed from the start.

- Whether the ET hypothesis is the most plausible explanation for UAP.

- Which works of science fiction are best at thinking about the anomalous, and the future of humanity.

Links:

- Matthew Szydagis' faculty profile at University of Albany: https://www.albany.edu/physics/faculty/matthew-szydagis

- Matthew's profile on UAPx: https://www.uapexpedition.org/drmatthewszydagis

- Matthew's work at Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Szydagis

Guest Info:

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff has spent nearly two decades covering politics, technology, and national security, and is now recognized as one of the nation’s most prolific and wide-ranging journalists and historians. His award-winning work—including nine books on topics ranging from presidential campaigns, Watergate, 9/11, and cybersecurity, to D-Day and the U.S. government’s Cold War Doomsday plans, as well as dozens of magazine articles, essays, podcasts, and documentaries—uses history to explain the story of today, illuminating where we’ve been as a country and where we’re headed as a world.

Topics:

• How do you decide when to trust government claims about the UAP subject when they admit they’ve lied to the public about it in the past?

• What are the most plausible first-contact scenarios?

• Is it plausible that a reverse-engineering program could be hidden within the government for decades without detection until now?

• Is there a middle path between total skeptics and total believers in the UAP phenomenon?

Links:

• Garrett’s Website: https://www.garrettgraff.com/
• Follow Garrett on X: https://x.com/vermontgmg
• His book UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here–and Out There: https://shorturl.at/V8fUF