Episode 3 – High Strangeness in the California Desert

Release Date: 21 March 2014

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Duration: 70 minutes, 36 seconds

This is the 3rd episode of API Case Files – the podcast by and for UFO Investigators.

Your host for this Episode is Marsha Barnhart, API Chief of Investigations, who opens the show with a report on API’s 2014 case-load, and provides a snapshot view of API investigator’s currently assigned cases.  Marsha Barnhart produced a segment on a “high strangeness” case, 14-027-AN4, that illuminates possible linkage between UFO experiencers and coinciding  anomalous events. Paul Carr hosts a Conversation with a Skeptic. They discusses various aspects of skeptic philosophy and how it bears scrutiny with regards to the UFO question. Antonio Paris talks about his second book “Space Science, and Paul Carr presents his 3rd installment of Unidentified Science.  Marsha Barnhart chats briefly with Investigator Nancy Doty regarding her latest case, 14-030.

  • Intro
  • Segment 1: 2014 Current Case Report
  • Segment 2: The Plastic Soldiers/Case 14-027-AN4
  • Segment 3: Conversation with a Skeptic, part 1
  • Segment 4: Antonio Paris’ book Space Science
  • Segment 5: Unidentified Science
  • Segment 6: 20 second recommendations & chat with Nancy Doty on Case 14-030
  • Outro/Closing 

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Conversation 11 – Kevin Knuth

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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