From the Abstract The topic of UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena), previously referred as UFOs, has often been dismissed by members of the academy. Those that have studied it have found the subject stigmatized, as a result of boundary work, a rhetorical strategy used particularly in the natural sciences to define the bounds of legitimate research and knowledge production. Nevertheless, recent events, media coverage, and government hearings haveprompted more members of the academy to openl...

Astrophysicist and UFO figure Eric Davis and former NASA Ames Center Pete Worden both came out of the University of Arizona in Tucson. Worden is though to be at the center of the UFO Legacy Program, and we have receipts. Rizwan Virk at ASU just dropped a new paper on UFO research stigma in academia. A follow-up study to Beatriz Villarroel's paper regarding "transients" just dropped as I was putting this together. As was a new livestream via the Associated Press following the first transport a...

ASU engineering professor working on advanced MEMS sensors was murdered in 2020. Found this a story a few weeks ago after the tragic shooting at Brown & murder of the MIT professor, I wanted to see if there was a pattern or any other scientists who met an untimely end. Found this story prior to McCassland going missing & now I wanted to share just to see if anyone else thinks his work is of note. In no way am I implying that there is a direct or indirect connection to the MIT or Brown inciden...