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Oh, at long last. Welcome back to UAP. It is Stephen Diener right here. Karen Curtis over there,

we are so happy to be back with you finally for our newest episode. Episode 60, the Philadelphia

experiment. You believe that? We're that far into it. It's, I'm 60 myself. No. Yes. Wow. It's a milestone day. It is a milestone day.

Well, how are you, Karen? It's been a while. It's been a while. But we promise this episode

will make the absence of us worthwhile. I think so. I think so. This, I said to Karen, in the

interest of full disclosure, because we're all about full disclosure here, right, on UAP, I said, this is before we started off the air, if you will, I said this is either going to be an episode where people look at us sideways for it, or it's going to be looked at as a masterpiece, and you're going to love it.

It's one of the other. And I'm also going to say this off the bat before we get into the subject of the Philadelphia experiment because this entire episode is dedicated to this subject. So we're going to let you know that. And we're going to try to keep it under an hour. Okay. There's a lot of detail. We have a listener's story to get to. We have a factoid. Get ready for some lost time. Here we go. Now, before we get to all of the things I just mentioned, Karen. Yes. Since we're back here, and it's a couple weeks before Christmas, by the way, and a week before Hanukkah, all the holidays are coming up. That means nothing toward our factoid, but what do you have here on a factoid for today? This is interesting. A NASA space science spacecraft launched three years ago.

It's been out of contact with controllers for nearly two weeks.

NASA announced it December 7th. Today's the 8th. Okay.

Okay.

The ionospheric connection explorer or the icon spacecraft has not communicated with the ground station since November 25th, so Thanksgiving.

The $252 million icon mission launched in 2019 designed to study the interaction of space weather with terrestrial weather.

I didn't know there was weather in space, did you?

I guess just on other planets, like ice storms and gas storms and all these things,

raining acid on Venus and all that different stuff.

Oh, that's true.

Okay.

You can be a weatherman on Mars. I guess so.

So anyway, the icon was actually looking at the interaction of space weather with terrestrial

weather in the Earth's ionosphere. Oh, wow. To better understand what drives variations in the

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