Experts discuss the difficulties in explaining unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and emphasize the importance of distance estimation in determining their movement. The chapter also teases a future discussion on convincing evidence of extraterrestrial visits.
The recent congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomenon–also known as UAPs– gave a high-profile platform to what we used to call UFOs. But why now–and was this a substantive government inquiry or a summertime Washington diversion?
Bloomberg’s Roxana Tiron and Megan Scully join this episode to make sense of the hearing and claims that UAPs may pose a threat to national security. And astronomer Seth Shostak gives his view of theories that some UAPs may be alien spacecraft.