This is David Marler, UFO researcher, and you're listening to That UFO Podcast.

Hi everyone and welcome back to That UFO Podcast.

My name is Andy and on this show I am joined by first time

guest he has a PhD in physics and advanced degrees in engineering I'd love to

welcome Dr Jim Seagala.

Jim welcome.

Hey, great being here.

Thanks for inviting me.

It's good to have you on.

Four and a half years and I'm just getting round to getting you on now.

That's definitely a fault on my part Jim. Lots to get through and a limited time. So first off for anyone who's unfamiliar with you, your work, could you give us the Clif Notes version of your background and what's kind of brought you to the UFO topic?

Yeah, sure. So I actually started out as just an engineer doing work for various companies, went back to school, got my PhD in physics. I was

very fortunate enough to land an internship with the Institute for Advanced

Study out of Austin with Hal Putoff. He's a very famous investigator of all sorts of crazy

paranormal things and so I got an internship with him lasted seven years.

So during that seven years I was able to do a lot of work with him,

learned a lot of things about this subject and UF research and and things like that so that basically kicked me off into this this whole topic.

Growing up through childhood or adulthood what was the interest in the kind of UFO topic?

Was there any?

Well, there wasn't really.

I mean, I didn't really understand what I was looking at

until later on when, you know,

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