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Episode 13 – Rotating Rings, Large Dark Objects, and Strange Lights in the Neighborhood!

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Released: 15 July 2018

Duration: 1 hour, 41 seconds

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Host and Producer Marsha Barnhart welcomes API investigators Paul Carr and Savannah Dollison. The three cover a few of their recent investigations in-depth during a round-table discussion. They examine sightings in New Jersey, New York, Utah and Georgia, which covered the gamut from overhead “fly-by’s” to unnerving close encounters!

What do photos and videos of Unidentified Aerial Objects add to the tangibility of “evidence” within the UFO research field? In fact, what IS “evidence” and what IS “proof”? Paul looks at these issues in episode 10 of his Unidentified Science series.

erratum: API is no longer using the “director” e-mail address. instead use “UFO”, or send via encrypted protonmail.com using the address “Reportaufo”.

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Conversation 11 – Kevin Knuth

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Recorded: 11 July 2018

Released: 12 July 2018

Duration: 51 minutes, 35 seconds

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Kevin Knuth Host Paul Carr in conversation with Dr. Kevin Knuth, author of a recent article in The Conversation entitled “Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study.”

The conversation centers around strategies for lifting “the veil of ridicule” that surrounds UFO studies, and Kevin’s own experience, and how he came to take the topic seriously himself.

Guest Bio

Kevin Knuth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Albany. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy. He is a former NASA research scientist having worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the Intelligent Systems Division. He has 20 years of experience in applying Bayesian and maximum entropy methods to the design of machine learning algorithms for data analysis applied to the physical sciences. His current research interests include the foundations of physics, inference and inquiry, autonomous robotics, and the search for and characterization of extrasolar planets. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has been invited to give over 80 presentations in 13 countries.

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Do you have questions for API for Episode 14 of Case Files?

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Episode 13 is done and will drop soon, but we want your questions and comments for Episode 14. If you want to submit your question anonymously, just use the contact form and tell us you wish to be anonymous.You can also e-mail us on the encrypted protonmail.com using the address reportaufo.

If you have a recent UFO sighting you would like to us to discuss on the podcast, please use the sighting report form.

If you want us to use your name on the podcast, please let us know how to pronounce it. We can even call you up and record you asking your question, or can call 240 233 1253 and leave a voicemail.  In your voice message, please be sure to tell us that it’s OK to use the recording on the podcast.

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Conversation 10 – Chris Cogswell

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Released: 18 April 2018
Duration: 66 minutes, 2 seconds

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Paul Carr is joined by Chris Cogswell, recently resigned director of research at MUFON, about how he and his team are carrying on with an enterprise of scientific research into the UFO phenomena.

Links:

The Mad Scientist Podcast

MUFON Director of Research Resigns

API Case Files

API Main Site

Report A UFO

Credits:

host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

API Case Files is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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Conversation 9 – Cheryl Costa, Part 2

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Recorded: March 23, 2018

Released: 10 April 2018

Duration: 71 Minutes, 4 seconds

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Marsha Barnhart arranged a part two conversation with Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk Reference. In part two, they pick up the conversation discussing how Cheryl became interested in writing an on-line UFO sightings column, New York Skies, for the Syracuse New Times, and how she developed mind/consciousness interests via the practices of Shamanism, Buddhism and Remote Viewing. Additionally, Cheryl and Marsha talked about recent media reports of UFO’s by the military and how the media has reacted to this information.

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What are your questions?

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In our upcoming video series as well as our ongoing podcast API Case Files, we want to answer your questions. What questions do you have about reporting UFO sightings, how API Investigates sightings, what you can expect from us, or how to become a Field Investigator? Or, anything else related? Let us know in the comments to this post, or shoot us your question via the contact form.

Please keep your questions specific, and let us know if it is ok to use your name when we give the answer.

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Conversation 8 – Cheryl Costa, part 1

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Released: 24 March 2018

Duration: 62 minutes

Marsha Barnhart talks to Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk Reference. This is a one-of-a-kind reference book covering 15 years of UFO sightings within the United States. The information was gleaned from more than 120,000 raw reports made by citizens to either the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) or the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) between the years 2001 to 2015. The information is a statistical bonanza annotating the frequency, distribution and shapes of reported UFO’s, with accompanying graphs charts and charts, and broken down into states and state counties for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Unidentified Science 2 – There Is no ET Hypothesis

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This first appeared on API Case Files in audio form in 2014. It has been edited a bit to make it more suitable for a text post.

In the first installment of Unidentified Science, I said I was going to emphasize four important virtues: humility, patience, integrity, and skepticism. Of these, I think the first – humility  – has been the most neglected in the UFO field. The kind of humility I am talking about here is “epistemic” humility: being honest with ourselves and each other about how little we reliably know, and how much what we know is overwhelmed by what we don’t know, understand, or have even imagined.

An example of one type of failure of humility – epistemic arrogance, let us call it – is the wide range of conjectures about non-human intelligence, and our eagerness to assign anomalous experiences to their activity.

I want to state plainly that it is not a stupid question to ask whether there are other intelligences than humans in the universe -beings like us in some ways – and whether we have ever been in direct contact with them. The arrogance comes in with connecting this naive but reasonable question with any claimed evidence or absence of evidence of alien visitation. It is overreaching to think we should somehow know what an alien visitation would look like, how they and their technology would behave, what the purposes of their visits would be, and what sort of phenomena we would detect should they be present.

Not only are we safe in saying that we simply don’t know these things, but just as likely in my view, ET intelligence – if it exists – is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine  – to paraphrase the famous pronouncement know as “Haldane’s Law”. We just have no idea what to look for, except that it’s unlikely to be what we expect.

I will call the notion that an ET intelligence is responsible for some UFO events the “Extraterrestrial Conjecture” , and I’d like to explain why I don’t call it the “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis.”

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