Exit Strategy: AARO's Former Director Speaks | MHP 01.31.24.
Release Date: 01/31/2024
UFOs: A Scientist's Perspective | MHP 04.23.24.
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What do we really know about UFOs, following several decades of studying these phenomena? With the many questions that remain about unidentified aerial phenomena, how can science help us to implement new strategies that may allow us to broaden our knowledge about these aerial mysteries? This week on The Micah Hanks Program, former R&D scientist Robert Powell joins us to discuss his nearly two decades of investigation into UFOs, culminating in his new book UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know). Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider ...
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Broken AARO: The 'Mellon Report', UAP, and Area 51 | MHP 04.15.24.
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On March 8, 2024, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released its historical report on UAP, shortly after briefing only a select group of journalists associated with seven mainstream media outlets, none of whom seemingly bothered to fact-check the error-ridden report. "The disappointing lack of critical press coverage of this important report prompted me to begin compiling the insights of UAP scholars and experts who have studied the history of UAP and the US government," wrote former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, in a recent...
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The DoD's Dark UAP Secret | MHP 04.09.24.
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In the Autumn of 1957, a series of events unfolded that, for a time, left U.S. defense officials believing that the country was on the verge of war with the Soviet Union, as a pair of mysterious objects were tracked on radar systems making their way toward a series of high security facilities. Before action could be taken, the objects mysteriously vanished, and the story receded into the shadows of Cold War memories for decades, prior to a series of once-secret CIA files surfaced detailing the startling incident. What do such circumstances say about the U.S. military's capabilities in terms of...
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The UFO Deception Game | MHP 04.02.24.
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In 1950, a bizarre story involving the alleged crash of a flying saucer near Aztec, New Mexico, and its subsequent recovery by the U.S. military, sparked one of the most notorious claims in 20th-century UFO studies. Although revealed to be a hoax, why might U.S. intelligence agencies have taken interest in the story, and its bizarre claims about alien bodies recovered from the wreckage? This week on The Micah Hanks Program, after an analysis of the current state of the UFO debate, we reveal why it’s really only another case of history repeating itself. However something that is often...
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The Secret History of Aviation: Strange Sightings & Special Projects | MHP 03.26.24.
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For years before the beginning of the modern UFO era in 1947, sightings of bizarre, cigar-shaped flying objects capable of unusual aerial feats were reported by pilots during World War II, as well as military and civilian pilots over the Americas. After the war, strange sightings continued involving aircraft that were mysterious for their time... but which look eerily familiar to us today. What were these mysterious objects, and do some of the "UFO" reports from decades past actually point to a secret history of aviation in the U.S. that could explain some of the mystery? This week on The...
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Darkness in the Desert: The Roswell Controversy | MHP 03.18.24.
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According to the findings of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the object that crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 was a balloon used during a once-secret covert operation called Project Mogul. These findings, of course, are the same conclusions the U.S. Air Force came to decades ago which were detailed in a pair of official reports that sought to definitively explain what, for many, had once been deemed Ufology's "smoking gun"... but could there still be more to the story? This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at...
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The AARO Historical Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 03.12.24.
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A new Defense Department report detailing the United States government's involvement in investigations of unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, was released late last week, resulting in divided opinions over the merit of the research conducted by the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the mainstream media's coverage of the controversial new government UAP report before moving on to a fact-check of several errors it contains, in addition to revealing why AARO's over-reliance on past U.S. government...
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Project Moon Dust: The Secret U.S. Crash Retrieval Program | MHP 03.05.24.
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In the 1970s, the existence of a once-secret program called "Project Moon Dust" first came to the attention of UFO researchers employing the Freedom of Information Act to obtain U.S. government documents about unidentified aerial phenomena. Although the U.S. Air Force initially denied its existence, it was later confirmed that Project Moon Dust, along with the similar Project Blue Fly, had been tasked with the acquisition of any fallen space objects believed to have originated within the Soviet Union... but is that all the program collected? This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we...
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Disinfo and the UFO: True Tales of Saucers and Psyops | MHP 02.26.24.
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Since the late 1940s, stories about crashed flying saucers in the American Southwest have perplexed UFO researchers, and while many believe the stories have at least a grain of truth, others have wondered whether at least some of the tales could involve intentional efforts to mislead the public to help cover up legitimate secret programs maintained by the U.S. military. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the role of disinformation in the bizarre hall of mirrors of Ufology, and historical case studies involving how lies, misdirection, and psychological warfare have been used...
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UFOs & U.S. Presidents: Aerial Phenomena & the Oval Office | MHP 02.19.24.
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Since the late 1940s, Americans have remained perplexed by stories of unidentified flying objects in our skies, a question that has also been viewed as a significant question--and a national security concern--by many who have held the office of the President of the United States. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a historical deep dive into investigations of aerial phenomena and their relationship to the Oval Office, separating the fact from fiction about past involvement of U.S. presidents with the UFO issue. Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider to the UAP...
info_outlineIn a recent opinion and analysis piece written for Scientific American, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon's official UAP investigative office, lashed out against what he characterized as "sensational but unsupported claims" involving UAP and an alleged secret program within government involved in withholding information about them from the American public.
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a deep dive into the recent allegations made by the DoD's former chief UFO investigator, and examine why there is cause for skepticism amidst the scientist's assurances that the investigative office he helped establish "is unwaveringly committed to harnessing science and technology to bring unprecedented clarity to these fascinating, important, and stubborn mysteries and to do so with maximum transparency."
Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider sending us your sighting report, which may be of great importance to our scientific understanding of these phenomena. You can submit your sightings here, and we are happy to ensure anonymity for those who prefer not to share their information publicly.
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Show Notes
Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:
- SEAN KIRKPATRICK: Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter
- AARO: The Official Website of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
- OPINION: What has happened to the Pentagon’s former UFO hunter?
- REPORT A SIGHTING: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)
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