Photographs were received via e-mail, but no chain of custody was provided. After analysis of the photos and their metadata, we concluded that they were a probable hoax.
Read the redacted Report of investigation.
Case 15-029 was a nocturnal photographic case from Washington State. This was probably the highest quality photograph ever submitted to us. The case was closed as unidentified with Strangeness level of 2.
We just released a new video case summary: Case 18-017. Please see our videos page for more case summaries, and our investigations page for the written reports.
If you have any additional leads on this or any other case, please contact us.
Recorded: 8 August 2018
Released: 8 August 2018
Duration: 57 minutes, 58 seconds
Transcript of this Conversation
Jack Brewer
Host Paul Carr welcomes author and blogger Jack Brewer to talk about everything except alien abductions and Gene Steinberg. In particular, we talk about the recent developments in the UFO field and concerns about disinformation. We also briefly discuss MK-ULTRA and the possible murder of bioweapons expert Frank Olson.
Jack Brewer writes the blog, The UFO Trail, where he posts credible info on incredible topics. His research interests include social aspects of reported UFO sightings, alleged alien abduction, and the overlapping of the UFO and intelligence communities. Brewer is author of the nonfiction work, The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community, and was a contributor to UFOs: Reframing the Debate, a book edited by Robbie Graham.
The Original Tic Tac UFO Video
Strike Fighter Commander Details Incredible UFO Event
Jack Brewer on the Unseen Podcast
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
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Released: 15 July 2018
Duration: 1 hour, 41 seconds
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”.
Recorded: 11 July 2018
Released: 12 July 2018
Duration: 51 minutes, 35 seconds
Transcript for this Conversation
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.
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.
This is a work in progress – notes on high strangeness cases and the hope, if any of a scientific approach to them. What do we mean by high strangeness cases? I mean cases that may or may not involve anomalous aerial phenomena, but go beyond even close encounters of the third kind, and also involve unexpected elements like interactions with the witness, distortions of time, and other strange events that generally fall under the broad category of “paranormal.”
I have resisted lumping paranormal experiences with UAPs, and continue to resist this, because at face value, different categories of human experience could well admit of different explanations. However, what is common in all this is the human experiencer, and in nearly all cases all we have to study are the memories of the experiencers. In Unidentified Science 3, I talked about some of the problem with eyewitness testimony, rooted in the flaws of human perception and memory, and almost as much of a problem are our oversimplified mental models of how these work.
But this is not a reiteration of those concerns, real as they are. I want to make a point about high strangeness cases, and that is that we have no basis for dismissing them out of hand, or for ignoring the stranger elements, or for regarding the experiencers as mentally deranged. We have the experiencers, their memories, and what they are willing to tell us about themselves, and we are not justified in jumping to conclusions about the reality of the experiences. Note that I am not approaching these cases as a psychologist who wants to know how people could possibly remember such absurd things. That is one possible approach, although I don’t think it’s completely satisfying by itself. As a field investigator, I want to find the facts of the case, and we struggle with the facts, if any, masked by all the oddities.
Released: 18 April 2018
Duration: 66 minutes, 2 seconds
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.
MUFON Director of Research Resigns
host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
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I was recently asked two questions:
In this post I am going to address the first of these questions. A near future post will answer the second.
Recorded: March 23, 2018
Released: 10 April 2018
Duration: 71 Minutes, 4 seconds
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.
