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Episode 17 – I Know What I Remember

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Released: 7 June 2021

Duration: 59 minutes, 30 seconds

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Central Casting Saucer Spotted Outside Louisville; a Colorado Campout Overhead Light Show; and a Terrifying Idaho Orb Encounter

Several really good cases to cover in this episode! A mother and daughter saw a right-out-of-central-casting flying saucer maneuvering over them in the early evening of December 11, 2020. They were in a large urban area just outside Louisville. And we hear from a Colorado camper who got more than he bargained for under the stars the night of May 13, 2021: a mass of seemingly connected white lights cavorting in the sky for several hours as he and a companion took in the spectacle. A Witness in Caldwell, Idaho on May 17, 2021 recorded an orb flying along that seemingly changed directions to fly towards him. It stopped momentarily over his house as he took cover under an awning in fear of what it might do next! 

Also in this podcast, Paul Carr presents another in his series of Unidentified Science episodes. He covers the issues surrounding fallible human recall.

We also introduce you to our newest API Investigator, Roger Draper. He hails from the San Francisco area and, with a background in law enforcement, investigation, and his DOD experience, he’s a real bonus addition to the team! 

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We ask for sketches, and here is some scientific support of that practice

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We encourage our witness to make sketches as soon as possible after their sightings – before they contact us, and certainly before they discuss any details with other witnesses. This is true regardless of whether there are photos or videos. Now, some new research at University of Waterloo in Canada lends some scientific support to this practice. They found that drawing is superior to other memory retention techniques. So, not only does making a sketch help us understand what witnesses saw, it helps the witnesses retain their memory better.

We hope this will be followed up by more research that will help us understand in more detail how the sketch reinforces or affects witness memories.

Episode 4 – UFO Photographs

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Release Date: 4 June 2014

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72 minutes, 52 seconds

Hosts: Antonio Paris and Marsha Barnhart

  • Intro
  • Show update
  • Please leave a review on iTunes
  • Reporting a UFO sighting to API
  • Episode 4 overview
  • Marsha’s Case Files Update
  • Photographic UFO Evidence with Robert Kolb (and Antonio and Paul)
  • Norio Hayakawa tells us about an upcoming conference in New Mexico
  • Conversation with an anonymous skeptic, part 2
  • Antonio Paris’ Investigator’s Notebook
  • Unidentified Science Part 4: what if the phenomena are smarter than we are?
  • 20 second recommendations
    • Antonio – FlightRadar24.com
    • Paul – The Zoom H2N
    • Lawrence – Pilots and Generals
    • Marsha – Discernment
  • Final Remarks
  • Looking ahead to Episode 5
  • Outro/Closing 

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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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Unidentified Science 4 – Smarter than we are?

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As I promised at the end of Unidentified Science 3, this time I’m going to take a little break this time from talking about virtuous scientific work. Such work is hard, slow and often reaches a Great Divide where no progress seems possible, but we have gone too far to quit.

So, it’s good to have a little fun once and awhile and indulge in speculation. As long as you clearly label speculation as just that, there is no harm in it, and these little imaginative expeditions can often stimulate really useful new ideas.  After all, that’s one thing science fiction is good for. Like good science fiction, we want our speculations to be informed by the best science we have, admitting that there are leaps across the gap of our ignorance that are simply made up for the amusement of thinking about it.

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