Starting in one hour: Join SUAPS for today's colloquium with Michael Glawson, Ph.D. "Reframing the UAP Subject for Scientific Tractability" Why has the UAP subject struggled to emerge as a coherent scientific discipline despite growing evidence and public attention? ⏰ 3:00–4:30 PM EDT RSVP: bit.ly/4e6bZsj

A recent Nature Astronomy paper explores "molecular diversity" as a potential biosignature framework for more rigorous identification of life. The significance lies not in a discovery claim, but in methodology: how scientists evaluate evidence, reduce ambiguity, and avoid over-reliance on single indicators. Strong conclusions are built through multiple converging lines of evidence. Source: bit.ly/4vBXORm

What discoveries might still be hidden in decades of scientific data? Researchers used an AI-assisted tool to analyze nearly 100 million Hubble image cutouts, identifying roughly 1,400 unusual objects. More than 800 had not previously been documented in the scientific literature. The findings highlight how new analytical tools can reveal discoveries hidden within existing datasets. Source: bit.ly/4vaFO0W

Why has the UAP subject struggled to emerge as a coherent scientific discipline? This Friday's SUAPS Colloquium features: "Reframing the UAP Subject for Scientific Tractability" with Michael Glawson, Ph.D. June 12 3:00–4:30 PM EDT RSVP: bit.ly/3RNoTCR

Why do certain phenomena capture the imagination of an entire culture? Next week's SUAPS Community Reading Circle focuses on: “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky” by Carl Jung Thursday, June 18 6–7 PM EDT Schedule and access: bit.ly/3RLe7gl

Schedule Update The Society for UAP Studies' June Colloquium featuring Dr. Michael Glawson has been moved to June 12, 2026. Reframing the UAP Subject for Scientific Tractability June 12, 2026 3:00 PM–4:30 PM EDT Online via Google Meet RSVP: bit.ly/4eimGYE

The Society for UAP Studies welcomes Dr. Michael Glawson for our June Colloquium. Reframing the UAP Subject for Scientific Tractability June 5, 2026 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT Online via Google Meet This lecture examines how philosophy of science and technology may help reframe the UAP subject into a more coherent and scientifically tractable field of inquiry. These sessions are oriented toward those engaging with UAP studies from professional and academic perspectives. RSVP here: bit.ly/49tr9VI

The Galileo Project recently received a $260,000 donation through support connected to the John Templeton Foundation. While funding announcements are not scientific results in themselves, they do reflect something important about the development of emerging research fields: sustained support, institutional structure, and long-term continuity. As UAP Studies continues to evolve, questions surrounding research infrastructure and interdisciplinary collaboration will likely become increasingly important alongside the scientific questions themselves.

Today’s SUAPS Colloquium: Dr. Michael Uhall “Against Otherness: Concepts of the Alien and the Meaning of Radical Translation” A discussion on alien otherness, interpretation, and nonhuman intelligence. ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT 📍 Online via Google Meet RSVP here: bit.ly/4dBO81T

Today’s SUAPS Community Reading Circle: “The Edge of Reality” by J. Allen Hynek & Jacques Vallée A discussion on UFO reports, interpretation, and scientific inquiry. ⏰ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT 📍 Online via Google Meet Schedule and access: bit.ly/3RiGYbr

Today, we’re hosting a SUAPS seminar with Adam Dodd. Signals Out of Place: UFO Reports as Information Pollution May 14th at 4 PM EDT / 10 PM CEST This session explores how UFO reports are encountered, interpreted, and discussed across different informational contexts, and why careful methodological approaches matter when evaluating UAP-related information. Join us live: youtube.com/live/IfrhlRr29Hg

The Society for UAP Studies and Limina would like to congratulate incoming Community Engagement Lead @uapmaya for her successful dissertation defense. Dr. Cowan is part of an exciting new scholarly generation who take the subject seriously. Congrats Dr. Cowan!

How should we approach a phenomenon that resists a single explanation? Next week’s SUAPS Community Reading Circle focuses on: “The Edge of Reality” by J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée Thursday, May 21 6–7 PM EDT Schedule and access: bit.ly/3RiGYbr

The new U.S. government UFO/UAP file release matters. But if the response is hype rather than method, the subject will once again be buried under its own weakest commentary. Disclosure can expand the archive. It does not transform ambiguous documents and data into stronger evidence, nor does it justify extraordinary conclusions. Archival release is not analytical resolution. What is needed now as always is independent, methodologically serious analysis: provenance, context, instrumentation, and comparison with the already-established record. It's this harder work of independent analysis, and the much more challenging task of developing rigorous science and scholarship on UAP, that moves us from mere attention to real understanding. That is the standard SUAPS and Limina together were created to uphold. Let's support this work. Let's support the scholars doing that work. societyforuapstudies.org war.gov/UFO/ #UAP #UFO #ResearchStandards #Transparency #AARO

The Society for UAP Studies welcomes Dr. Michael Uhall for our May Colloquium. Against Otherness: Concepts of the Alien and the Meaning of Radical Translation May 22, 2026 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT Online via Google Meet This lecture examines the alien as a figure of radical otherness across philosophy, political theory, and discourse on nonhuman intelligence. These sessions are oriented toward those engaging with UAP studies from professional and academic perspectives. RSVP here: societyforuapstudies.org/eve…

Update: The scheduled time for our upcoming seminar with Adam Dodd has been revised. Signals Out of Place: UFO Reports as Information Pollution May 14 at 4 PM EDT / 10 PM CET We look forward to your participation Join here: societyforuapstudies.org/uap…

Next week, SUAPS hosts a seminar with Adam Dodd. Signals Out of Place: UFO Reports as Information Pollution May 14 at 2 PM EDT / 8 PM CEST This session explores how UFO reports are encountered, interpreted, and discussed, and how their meaning shifts across contexts. Join here: societyforuapstudies.org/uap…

Following this week’s SUAPS seminar, we’re highlighting recent work by Kimberly Engels. What happens when accounts of contact are no longer interpreted through familiar lenses, but allowed to appear on their own terms? The book explores what becomes possible when these experiences are taken seriously as sites of inquiry. amazon.com/dp/1848905076

Today, we’re hosting a SUAPS seminar with Kimberly Engels. Resisting Narrative Flattening: Epistemic Justice for Experiencer Testimony April 30 at 2 PM EDT / 8 PM CEST This session explores how experiencer testimony is often simplified or reshaped within dominant frameworks, and what more careful, rigorous approaches might reveal. Join us live: youtube.com/live/4ZXqGz-E25I