In a new interview out today, University at Albany Physics Professor Kevin Knuth talks about the work of UAlbany Project X to bring UAP studies into the scientific mainstream, the new UAP Science Advisory Council that he and colleagues are serving on, and how he reckons with the possibility of never knowing the truth.

Part 1 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR The Magenta narrative treats senior attention, urgency, secrecy, rivalry, and missing records as anomalous without a control case. This post builds that case: Allied exploitation of captured Axis technology from 1943 to 1950, its scale, and its paper trail. Those features were routine in ordinary captured-technology work. They cannot carry an extraordinary conclusion alone; a claim must show what th...