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

Guest Info:

- Doug is Deputy Chief Scientist of The Acquisition Innovation Research Center. Early in his career, he created the very first aerogel used by NASA. Doug is a member of SCU.

Topics:

- What tech systems do we need to do a better job sorting mundane UAP from genuinely anomalous ones?

- Doug walks us through the steps and tools used to definitively identify a UAP as a party balloon.

- He talks about his project of purchasing and studying anomalies at a piece of land near Skinwalker Ranch.

- We argue over whether studying UAP is like studying dark matter, and whether dark matter is even “real”. (pt 2)

Links:

- Doug Buettner’s publications on ResearchGate.

Christopher Mellon is without a doubt one of the most important figures in the modern history of this subject. As Deputy Assistant Director of National Security for Security and Information Operations, he had access to America's most sensitive secrets and intelligence, and from that vantage point he determined that the UAP subject wasn't being given the serious attention that it deserved as a national security issue. After long efforts to raise the issue within the government, he brought unclassified military footage of UAP to the New York Times, which published it on the front page in 2017, reigniting serious public interest in a subject that had received little attention for decades. We take the opportunity to ask Chris to help us understand the government's complicated and often fraught relation to the UAP subject.

Topics:

• Is there a disclosure scenario that doesn't inevitably lead to a global disinformation war between enemy nations?
• Do government have perverse incentives to portray UAP as enemy threats (say, in order to encourage social unity)?
• How can we know when to trust governments's statements about a subject that's so historically and politically fraught?
• What is the future of the UAP subject in the US and globally?
• In what ways is the UAP subject more than a national security issue?

Links:

• ⁠Follow Chris on X⁠
• ⁠Chris's SOL Foundation Talk "The Potential Consequences of UAP Disclosure"⁠
• ⁠Chris's Politico article, "If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It's Time to Reveal Them"⁠

Guest Info:

• Garry is a professor at Stanford Medical School, where he’s an immunologist and cancer researcher. He has published over 300 research articles, holds over 50 US patents, and has founded multiple publicly-traded companies listed on the NASDAQ. He’s also co-founder, with David Grusch and Peter Skafish, of the SOL Foundation, a policy think-tank, advisory board, and fund for serious research into UAP.

Topics:

• What is the SOL Foundation's role in the future of UAP research?
• How do you think through the landscape of theories about what UAP are?
• Is reverse engineering even possible if the tech is vastly more advanced than ours? Leonardo da Vinci couldn’t reverse engineer a smartphone, after all.
• Is a materialist, scientific worldview getting in the way of studying anomalous phenomena?

Links:

• ⁠Garry Nolan's faculty page at Stanford Medical School⁠
• ⁠Follow Garry on X⁠

Corrections:

• ⁠Michael incorrectly suggested that the journal Limina was a publication of the Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies. It is not. Limina is a publication of SCU's sister organization, The Society for UAP Studies. Check them out here: https://www.societyforuapstudies.org/

Guest info:

Julia Mossbridge earned her MA in neuroscience from UC San Francisco, and her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University. In addition to being the founder and research director of the Mossbridge Institute. She is the co-founder and board chair of The Institute for Love and Time, an affiliate professor at University of San Diego in the Dept. of Physics and Biophysics, the acting CEO of LightRoot Quantum, and a member of SCU.

Topics:

• What do psi phenomena have to do with the study of UAP?

• Is the study of psi empirical science? I modern empirical science really as empirical as it pretends to be?

• What do AI, UAP, psi, and unconditional love have to do with one another?

Links:

• ⁠Dr. Mossbridge’s author page on Amazon⁠

• ⁠Dr. Mossbridge’s faculty page at University of San Diego⁠

• ⁠The Mossbridge Institute⁠

• ⁠The Institute for Love and Time

Guest Info:

• Dr. Kevin Knuth is professor of astronomy and physics at University of Albany, a science advisor for UAPx, a former NASA scientist, and a member of SCU.

Topics:

• How do we rigorously study something we don’t have a clear conception of, like “unidentified, anomalous phenomena”?

• Do UAP demand a revolution in our scientific understanding of reality itself?

• Kevin explains his project of simulating star systems within our galaxy, to see how many produce civilizations that get off their planet and find Earth.

• What’s the most plausible theory about what UAP are and where they come from?

Links:

• Dr. Knuth’s faculty page at SUNY Albany

• Kevin’s Newsweek article “Do Aliens Exist? This Is Why We Should Take the Question Seriously”

• Kevin’s publications on ArXiv.org

Welcome to The Anomalous Review! In this episode we introduce the podcast itself, along with some of the founders and leaders of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies.

Topics:

• What does SCU do? What’s the history of the organization? Why does it have a podcast?
• How is SCU different from other UFO organizations? How is this podcast different from other shows on the topic?
• How does SCU approach, define, and study UAP? Does SCU study other anomalies like ghosts, telepathy, or Bigfoot? Why or why not?

Guest Info:

• Larry Hancock: Larry’s education is in anthropology and history. He’s the author of multiple books dealing with cold war history, clandestine operations, and hybrid warfare. Larry is a board member of SCU.
• Richard Hoffman: Richard is an operations manager and consultant for NASA, and a board member of SCU.
• Robert Powell: Robert is a chemist and engineer, a UAP historian, the former director of research for MUFON, and a board member of SCU.

Links:

• ⁠SCU website⁠
• ⁠Larry Hancock’s author page at Amazon⁠
• ⁠Richard Hoffman’s page at IMDB⁠
• ⁠Robert Powell’s author page at Amazon