From the search for life elsewhere to Navy encounters, public releases, disclosure law, historical cases, and what another intelligence might want here. TL;DR: Navy pilots in 2004 reported an object they could not identify. The Pentagon released related Navy videos. Congress held sworn hearings and continues pushing bipartisan disclosure law. In 2026, the government began publicly releasing UAP files under a presidential directive, the House adopted a disclosure review-board framework, and th...

The universe is old. Really old. About 13.8 billion years old, give or take. It's also big. Incomprehensibly big. Hundreds of billions of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. Most of those stars have planets. The numbers get so large they stop meaning anything to the human brain. Here's the thing, though. If you do the math, even conservatively, the universe should be crowded. Not with primitive microbes hiding under rocks. With civilizations. Advanced ones. Civilizations...

Episode #423 w/ Nadia Drake (@nadiamdrake) is available now. Nadia Drake is an award-winning science journalist who specializes in space exploration, astrophysics, the search for alien life, along with jungle and wildlife reporting for National Geographic. She is the daughter of astronomer Frank Drake who founded SETI and is best known for the Drake Equation.