UFOlogy (UNEXPLAINED AERIAL PHENOMENA) with Sarah Scoles and Kate Dorsch

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

UFOs are real. Straight up. There are unidentified objects flying around — but does that mean they’re aliens? Two experts in the research and culture of Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) -- science journalist/author Sarah Scoles and Dr. Kate Dorsch, a scholar in the History and Sociology of Science -- joined Alie moments after Friday’s breaking news of the Pentagon’s UAP report. Strap in for “tic tacs,” space rocks, black triangles, fighter pilot sightings, Roswell, abduction trends, secret military missions, surprising conclusions, and the -ologists’ own wacky field experience researching UFOs … and the people obsessed with hunting town the truth. Which is out there.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your old Dad Ward von Podcast whispering into a ham radio about UFOs today.
0:07.1	Did you know that UFOology was the thing?
0:10.0	Maybe you didn't.
0:11.0	I did because it's been on my list for years, but here's how I envisioned this episode.
0:15.4	Okay?
0:16.4	I thought I would be lurking in the back of a basement meeting, maybe looking for people
0:20.9	with ponytails who hunt extra terrestrials, and then just adding a grip of a side telling
0:26.4	you to take their stories with a very large chunk of salt.
0:29.3	That is not how this episode turned out.
0:31.6	It is very oddly, bizarrely mind-bendingly more legit.
0:37.5	Because breaking news people last Friday, June 25th, the Pentagon released a long-awaited
0:43.5	decades in the making-really report about UFOs, unidentified flying objects, more moderately
0:48.9	rebranded as UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon.
0:53.2	So we have been waiting six months for this report to drop, and I just so happened to
0:57.4	have a my calendar in appointment to chat with twoologists about UFOs.
1:02.2	One, a science writer and an editor for Wired Astronomy, Popular Science, Interpast,
1:07.3	and author of the 2018 book Making Contact, Jill Tarder in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial
1:13.1	Intelligence, and her brand new 2021 release, they are already here, UFO culture, and why
1:19.5	we see saucers.
1:21.2	Now the otherologist, that's right, there's two of them this episode.
1:25.5	She got her PhD in History and the Sociology of Science in 2019 with a dissertation titled
1:31.8	Reliable Witnesses Crackpot Science, the UFO and American Cold War Science.
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