Former NASA Physicist: The UAP Maneuver That Should Have Exploded

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Brian Keating (1:00)

This is a two-part episode. We're discussing today a fascinating lecture that summarizes a lot of the current cutting-edge research and investigations that you've done as a physicist. The reason that I'm having you on for this in a podcast as well, is because I think you're doing really important and heroic work in terms of bringing scientific rigor to this problem. One of the problems that I see most in afflicting the UAP phenomenon, is that there are very few actual real scientists, professors. Yes, I'm sorry to be a gatekeeper, but sometimes we need gatekeeping. You and I met through a chat thread with about 300 other people, some accusing others of different nefarious things, and everyone's saying that they have their own truth. Well, no, there's only one scientific truth. It's our job to investigate it, interrogate nature, and you do that through the lens of a practicing professional scientist, and you're also a professor, and these things matter. Yes, it's important to have other people and voices as well, but we need people from agencies, from industry, from the military, but we certainly do need from the professoriate, and that's why I think it's really important what you're doing. Today, you're going to describe the research that you've gone into in terms of a presentation you made, and a very important conference you gave over the summer, and you're gracious enough to provide it here, and then we're going to have a nice long conversation. Depending on which order you're watching this in, you may have already seen the conversation with Kevin on the Into the Impossible podcast. This shows you I'm dedicating two hours to this phenomenon, because I think it's so important, so and it's so prescient that Kevin's been involved in this, bringing scientific rigor, bringing academic rigor. We hear a lot about peer review is broken, science is broken, Fauci's this, lock up string theorists, and I'm guilty of some of it too.

But the reality is Kevin's a working professor.

You can check out his website. All of his links below. And I'm just really grateful for your presence today, Kevin. So if you wouldn't mind, you could take us through this presentation. I might interrupt here and there, but just to ask clarifying questions that the audience might be interested and unable to ask at this point.

Kevin Knuth (3:08)

Absolutely. And thank you for the very kind introduction. Yeah, I gave this talk at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies meeting, the SCU meeting, this last summer in Toronto.

And I think one of the... there's a few things that characterize academic scientists and make them different than others, and perhaps in this field more useful is we study things, and we're trained to study things, and we're trained to be skeptical, and we're... I don't know how many times I'm told by somebody, I'm skeptical. Well, I am too. I mean, I'm skeptical of my own ideas, and most people aren't.

Brian Keating (3:57)

And that's a sign of a good scientist.

Kevin Knuth (4:00)

Yes, but thisism works both ways. You have to be able to catch mistakes. And the fastest way to catch mistakes is for you to catch them.

And then in addition to that, physicists think about things differently than other people. And so I can't say that that's the only good way to think about it. I know that it's not. But physicists often bring a unique perspective that you can't get anywhere else. And so this talk is basically that. I'm asking the question, how anomalous is anomalous when it comes to UAP? And I'm going to focus on energy and power. And I think the reasons for focusing on energy and power are that in some cases we can estimate the energies and powers involved in a sighting or in interaction with these objects. And very often those energies or powers are as much, much greater than humans are capable of dealing with. And I think this is the real evidence that we have that we're dealing with non-human tech in many of these cases. And it's pretty, and when I go through some of these cases, it'll be pretty obvious that this cannot possibly be human technology. I know Lockheed Martin can do some pretty cool things, but there's a lot of things that they can't do.