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After 80 years of research, reporting and media, ufology is still a nascent field. Both professionally and personally, it has a long way to go.

Today, it faces three main goals. The first is to establish its reason for existing, which is to say convincing people it's worth investigating at all.

The second is to help people navigate the intense worldview disruptions that accompany the information that UFOs are in fact real.

The third is to explore the nature of that reality, from historical research to scientific and spiritual understanding to diplomatic and military engagement.

That can all feel overwhelming, so it helps to peel it apart a bit. We talk calmly through these three elements here to help encourage a grounded approach as we all move forward in this field together.

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We talk with Dr. Steven Brown of Ohio State University about applying philosophy to UFOs, the nature of the phenomenon, the coverup and widespread denial, converging structural challenges, and how to help people process the biggest intellectual transition in human history.

Here are some things we mention in the show:

Dr. Brown’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@stevenbrownphilosophy

That UFO Podcast Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qin_JjLvJDI

New Paradigm Institute
https://newparadigminstitute.org/

The Sol Foundation
https://thesolfoundation.org/

UAP Caucus
https://www.uapcaucus.com/

UAP Disclosure Fund
https://www.uapdisclosurefund.org/

Pascal’s Wager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

William James - The Will to Believe
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26659

Lara Buchak - Faith and Traditions
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nous.12427

Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive Dichotomies
https://strategyu.co/wtf-is-mece-mutually-exclusive-collectively-exhaustive/

The UAP Disclosure Act
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/senate-amendment/2610/text

Kevin Knuth’s Sol Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&si=0IZEkOlaOWEp1S-B&v=HlYwktOj75A

Leslie Kean - UFOs
https://amzn.to/4dPhJ6v (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Richard Dolan - UFOs and the National Security State
Part 1 https://amzn.to/3WNdn95 (Amazon Affiliate Link)
Part 2 https://amzn.to/4dH6hKa (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence
https://amzn.to/4cnP07O (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Thich Nhat Hanh - How to Sit
https://amzn.to/3yJLx5M (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
https://amzn.to/3X421Px (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Dean Radin - Real Magic
https://amzn.to/3Mb2iK4 (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Jacques Vallee - Passport to Magonia
https://amzn.to/4dIjsdS (Amazon Affiliate Link)

The Phenomenon Documentary
https://amzn.to/4dI5uZx (Amazon Affiliate Link)

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The logical argument that UFOs are non-human objects is extremely strong.

The very short version goes like this:

1. UFOs demonstrate advanced propulsion
2. UFOs have been doing that for 80 years
3. It's extremely unlikely that humans invented advanced propulsion in the 1940s
4. It's extremely likely that UFOs are non-human

If you'd like to read the full essay, you can check it out here: https://wtufo.com/ufo-skepticism-is-the-real-fringe-theory/

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The UFO phenomenon has huge implications for almost every field of human endeavor. We consider the biggest areas of impact.

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We wrote this episode for people new to UFOs, and for UFO enthusiasts looking for better ways to talk to skeptical friends and family members.

We mention a large number of sources, so for full quotes and links to original documents, check out the article version of this episode here: https://wtufo.com/ufo-probability-logic/

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In September, 2023, the NASA UAP Independent Study Team released its report. They recommended that NASA investigate UAP, and made detailed proposals about how NASA can generate scientific advances on this topic.

I found this report refreshingly rigorous. Some outlets covered it as a dismissal of the subject, but I read it as a roadmap to serious research.

NASA UAP page: https://science.nasa.gov/uap/

Cool astronomy plate study: https://www.universetoday.com/163820/in-1952-a-group-of-three-stars-vanished-astronomers-still-cant-find-them/

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If UFOs aren't NHI, some other weird things must be happening. Given what we know is definitely true, we imagine the potential alternate explanations for UFOs, creature encounters, and coverup allegations. To cap it off, we use our trusty Occam's razor to cut through the chaos.

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They don't teach UFOs in school, so most people don't know much about them. Because of that, most people make a series of assumptions about UFOs that aren't necessarily well-founded.

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