Shadows in the Sky: UAPx and the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 07.08.25.

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Micah Hanks

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In July 2021, researchers conducted a week-long scientific expedition off California’s Catalina Island to study unidentified aerial phenomena using visible, infrared, and radiation sensors. While most anomalies were resolved through analysis, one unexplained event—captured around 4 a.m. on July 16—remains outstanding, marked by a dark object and possible coincident ionizing radiation.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by Dr. Matthew Szydagis is a member of the physics faculty at the University at Albany State University, NY, pursuing experimental particle astrophysics, in particular direct laboratory detection of dark matter particles, underground. Since 2019 Matthew has also been a member of UAPx, which led the 2021 research effort off the California coast, detailed in a new paper, “Initial Results From the First Field Expedition of UAPx to Study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena."

Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider reporting your sighting to the UAP Sightings Reporting System, a public resource for information about sightings of aerial phenomena.

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0:00.0	reports of unidentified flying objects.
0:08.2	Unidentified aerial phenomena.
0:10.0	Are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments?
0:13.5	The American people are becoming most interested and, in many instances, very alarmed by the UFO stories.
0:19.5	So why do you suppose that all of this has been kept from the world?
0:23.6	Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe. Where do they come from?
0:28.6	Why can't you explain it? Everybody in Uthology is screaming for disclosure. The future is now. This is Micah Hanks.
0:36.6	From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground.
0:40.5	Welcome, one and all. It is the Micahanks program. Glad as always to be your host,
0:46.4	and of course to be continuing the conversation that we have every week in pursuit of the
0:51.0	anomalous in our existence. Of course, listen on demand via podcasting apps everywhere,
0:56.3	courtesy of our friends at the Unex Radio Network
0:58.4	and made possible by listeners like you.
1:00.8	So thank you, as always, for joining us here
1:03.2	as we continue to look at what's happening in our world.
1:05.8	First and foremost, right off the bat,
1:08.5	my heart goes out to everybody down there in Texas,
1:12.5	who has been affected by this flooding as the death toll in that state continues to rise.
1:19.3	A few updates on that situation right now, courtesy of CNN.
1:23.0	What we know is that there are more than 160 people who are currently missing in Kerr County, Texas.
1:29.8	This is the result of the flooding that occurred in the central part of the state.
1:33.6	Right now, at least a dozen others are missing in other parts of the state, but separately
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