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Robert Powell has a BS in Chemistry and is a former collegiate debater. He has 28 years’ experience in engineering management in the semiconductor industry. While working at Advanced Micro Devices he took numerous internal courses related to device physics, ...

Prof. Knuth (http://knuthlab.org/) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy (MDPI). He is a former NASA computer scientist having worked for four years at ...

Open Minds UFO Radio: Chris is one of the hosts of the Mad Scientist Podcast. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering focusing on the study of nanomaterials for use as catalysts and adsorbents from Northeastern University. In this episode, we discuss the science necessary to prove whether an extraterrestrial civilization made a particular object.

Let’s suppose we were given a piece of material that was believed to have come from another, potentially alien civilization. The challenge presented to our scientific team is to prove whether or not this material really did, or at least most likely must have, come from some non-Earth intelligence. How would we begin to develop a plan to test if the evidence supported this hypothesis?

In this episode we discussed Project Blue Book, the US Government's official UFO investigation and the upcoming TV show of the same name. We also talked about the proposed Space Force, a project started to scientifically analyze alleged UFO material, a UFO sighting by an astronaut and much more.

• Two Pilots Saw a UFO. Why Did the Air Force Destroy the Report? - History
• Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained - History
• Reference to the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program found in a 2018 issue of the US 'Congressional Record.' - UFO Scientific Research Blog
• Leaked Nimitz UFO Report Reveals Names of Sources - Mysterious Universe
• Is this a UFO flying over North Carolina? No, Goodyear blimp says: 'That's definitely us' - USA Today
• What UFO sightings tell us about earthlings - NBC News
• UFO sighting that terrified a city - New Zealand Herald
• Jackie Gleason's UFO-Inspired Properties Listed at $12M - NMP
• NASA astronaut says he saw 'something organic/alien like' in space - CNET
• After 3 UFO encounters, retired educator and Nogal resident calls himself a believer - Ruidoso News
• A struggle for coherence - Sarasota Herald Tribune
• Next lifetime, maybe … - Sarasota Herald Tribune

A NASA scientist says we’re just a couple decades away from having conclusive proof of extraterrestrial life. On Tuesday, April 7, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan spoke on a panel about water in the universe. Water is an essential ingredient ...

A cosmologist recently published a paper in which he speculates about the size of extraterrestrials. Fergus Simpson, a scientist at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona, believes that aliens are large. As CNET explains, he used ...

A new project is searching for moons outside our solar system that may contain alien life. Astrobiologists view moons like Enceladus and Europa to be the most likely places for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. So, it only makes ...

The colors of light coming from the surface of exoplanets could help scientists locate extraterrestrial life, thanks to a new database created by a team of researchers. When searching for extraterrestrial life, astrobiologists typically look for the type of life ...

A scientist believes that formations in Martian rocks may have been created by microorganisms. Dr. Nora Noffke, a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Virginia, studied images photographed by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. These particular photos were taken as Curiosity ...

The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) selected a new organization head. A press release issued by the SETI Institute on Wednesday, April 9 announced that Dr. David Black has been named the organization’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. ...

Open Minds UFO Radio: Lee Speigel, Jason McClellan, and Alejandro Rojas review some of the highlights of the 2014 International UFO Congress.

A university professor is excited about the prospects of detecting alien civilizations with a new space telescope. The European Space Agency’s Plato (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024. And, as the Coventry ...

Astrobiologist Richard Hoover spent more than forty six years working at NASA. In that time, he established the Astrobiology Research Group at the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, and became internationally known for his research on microfossils in meteorites. Hoover has ...

Computer simulations suggest that there are likely twenty one planets in the Alpha Centauri B solar system, eleven of which fall into the habitable zone where the temperature on those planets should be just right for liquid water to exist. ...

Scientists have determined that stardust contains water, a discovery that suggests the universe is rife with life. Although scientists have previously suggested that dust grains floating through our solar system contain water, it has actually been detected for the first ...

We talk about a scientist who wants to detect Mars life and teleport it to Earth. That and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

AIR DATE: 12/6/13

Scientists educated members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the search for extraterrestrial life.

A U.S. scientist wants to detect Mars life and teleport it to Earth. And he already has the technology to do it.