Skeptic Check: Identifying UAPs

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Pentagon’s report on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) said nothing about the possibility that some might be alien spacecraft. Nonetheless, the report has generated heightened interest in figuring out what these UAPs are, and that interest extends to some scientists. We talk to two researchers who want an open and strictly scientific investigation of these phenomena. What should they do and what do they expect to find? And finally, will the possibility of alien visitors ever be resolved? Guests: Jacob Haqq-Misra – Senior Research Investigator at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Ravi Kopparapu – Planetary scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.5	That's Wired Science wherever you get your podcasts. As we like to say, when the Pentagon released its report on the unexplained
1:18.5	sightings of flying objects, well it wasn't our first UFO rodeo, not for me, not for this show, and certainly not for the country.
1:26.0	But some things have changed.
1:28.0	The phrase unidentified flying object, UFO, was changed to unidentified aerial phenomena, UAP. The report said that the government couldn't
1:37.8	identify most of the objects recorded by Navy pilots in some short videos. But apparently the DoD report is not the final word on
1:46.5	UAP research. Not only will there be future reports but some scientists want to try finding the UAPs themselves.
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