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The Search for Non-Terrestrial Artifacts | MHP 08.01.22.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

For decades, humans have sent probes into space to explore distant planets, and to go in search of evidence of things like life on other worlds. If humans engage in such activities, why wouldn't aliens do the same? Is it possible that Earth has ever been surveilled by extraterrestrial technologies, and that searches for non-terrestrial artifacts could reveal their presence close to Earth?

Beatriz Villarroel is a postdoctoral researcher holding the position of Nordic Fellow with Stockholm University, Sweden. Among other positions she holds, she is Principal Investigator of the "Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" project, otherwise known as the VASCO Network. This week, she joins us to discuss the scientific search for non-terrestrial artifacts on The Micah Hanks Program.

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0:00.0

News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and

0:08.7

the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges

0:14.4

of human understanding.

0:16.2

The future is now, this is Micahanks.

0:23.0

From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground, welcome one and all.

0:27.2

It is the Micahanks program, glad as always to be here to be your host, and to be getting

0:31.7

behind the microphone, getting into gear, and going in pursuit of the anomalous in our

0:36.0

existence.

0:37.6

As we do every single week right here, listen on demand via podcasting apps across space

0:42.6

and time, and of course our station affiliates there at the Unex Radio Network.

0:47.3

Very glad to be joining you guys.

0:50.1

Lots has been happening in recent days, in addition to a bit of travel that I've been

0:53.7

undertaking, but getting back to the bunker and taking a look at things, why are scientists

0:58.2

now saying that the existence of the famous Loch Ness Monster Nessie might be plausible

1:03.7

after all?

1:04.7

Well, of course I have thoughts about this, and you're about to hear them in short order.

1:10.0

Also, veteran air traffic controllers have come out in recent days talking about the

1:13.8

stranger side of things they see in the sky, and did you know the FAA has released some

1:18.4

near-miss reports, referencing UFO sightings by pilots and others?

1:23.1

We'll look at all of that and a bit more, and then later in the program I'm going to be

1:26.9

very glad to welcome, as our guest Beatrice Villaroel, who is a researcher and co-founder

1:33.8

of the Vasco Network.

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