Take Me To Your Lawyer: UAP, SETI, and the Law of Contact | MHP 08.20.24.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As humans continue to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life from other worlds, and the UAP debate suggests the possibility that it may already have found us, legal scholars are now considering how laws would apply to potential contact scenarios.

Joining us on The Micah Hanks Program this week are Professor Michael Bohlander, the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy in the Durham Law School, and Dr. John Elliott, an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and the Coordinator for the SETI Post Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. Together we explore how international laws could apply if contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence were made, and how a recent survey the researchers are conducting could be used to develop post-contact protocols.

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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Show Notes

Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:

ELIZONDO: I Investigated UAPs at the Pentagon—Americans Can Handle the Truth
NEWS: Palmdale UFO Scare Leads To Revelations About Mystery Drone Incursions Over Plant 42
How Would Humans React to Contact with Extraterrestrials? UK Researchers Seek Answers in New Survey
MICHAEL BOHLANDER: Professor Michael Bohlander - Durham University
BOOK: Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights
ARTICLE: Take Me to Your Lawyer: The Legal Aspects of Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
JOHN ELLIOT: Dr John Elliott - School of Computer Science
PAPER: Meeting extraterrestrials: scenarios of first contact from the perspective of exosociology

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0:00.0	Reports of unidentified flying objects, unidentified aerial phenomena.
0:10.0	Are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments?
0:13.4	The American people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the
0:18.4	UFO story.
0:19.4	So why do you suppose that all of this has been kept from the world exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe.
0:28.0	Where do they come from? Why can't you explain it?
0:30.0	Everybody in Newology is screaming for disclosure.
0:32.8	The future is now.
0:34.6	This is Micah Hanks.
0:36.8	From the high mountains of Appalachia
0:38.8	in a bunker below ground.
0:40.5	Welcome one at all.
0:41.4	It is the Micahanks program, and glad as always to be behind the microphone in these very uncertain times.
0:48.0	And going in pursuit of the anomalous like we do every week, listen on demand via podcasting apps, all throughout space and time,
0:56.7	and of course courtesy of our friends at the Unax Radio Network.
1:00.5	As of the day I am recording by the way, it's August 20th.
1:04.0	This is a momentous day for many people because this marks the date of the release officially
1:09.0	of Mr. Louise Elizondo's book, Imminent.
1:13.3	I have not read the book yet.
1:15.1	I have been waiting for the official release date.
1:18.1	I did reach out to his publishers about possibly getting advanced copies, a few outlets, very few in fact, were actually provided under
1:25.7	embargo advanced copies.
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