Rich Hoffman, The Scientific Coalition for Ufology

Hello, and welcome to Open Mind UFO Radio. This is your host, Alejandro Rojas, and I am with You might think it's Martin Willis. Martin not here, Willis. He's actually not here. He's in Florida. He's running around trying checking out hotel or something like that. So we couldn't make it too record the show. And I guess his guest cancelor on him,

so he won't be doing his own show podcast UFO this week. But before you feel sorry for him, he did send me a picture of these beautiful white beaches where he's at, So he does not deserve our pity at all. In fact, he should be the one pitying us who are back, you know, doing our regular life riga ramole. He's doing fine, so I hope he has a great time. He's actually there for work, but he's planning on doing a lot of fun stuff too. So Martin's not here

with us. But I got a lot of news to go over anyway, So with that and we could probably get through more. So I want to talk to you first about my guest. My guest tonight is rich Hoffman. He's been on the show before. He's a part of the Scientific Coalition for Eufology, so we've talked about that. He's also a researcher. He actually grew up in Dayton, Hawaii, are near Dayton, Ohio, which is of course his word. Project blue Book was actually headed out of Wright Patterson

Air Force Base. He started when he was a kid. In fact, at fifteen, he appeared on the Phil Doni Hu Show and he became known as kind of this local UFO expert. So he's been in this field for decades. He was known for, you know, being the state director in Alabama. He also was a director of Muffon's strategic projects. He's no longer with Mufon though now he's with the SEU, the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, which he helped start. And for a full disclosure, I actually was part

of the formation of this organization as well. I'm kind of an board advisor, not necessarily a board member. But in this show we talk about the SCU, but in particular the need for scientific investigation of the UFO phenomena and kind of the credible investigation and this interface with science that needs to happen. I've said over and over again there needs to be a SETI of UFOs.

And the reason I say that is because you may not be aware, but watching this closely, you know, in the nineties to now, there's been a huge transformation. It used to be that the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, also known as SETI. Often when you refer to the term SETI, people think of Sas Shastak and Jill Tarter. These are scientists who work in this arena. They work for an organization called the SETI Institute. So it's a

little different now. And of course I repeat this over and over again practically every episode we bring up SETI because it's very important to understand the distinction, because there are SETI initiatives. In other words, SETI stands for the search for Extraterrestrial intelligence. There are those sort of initiatives outside of this organisation,

the institute that happened, So that's important to note. So when you're referring to SETI and more and more as you know, we read these articles and see people working in this arena, that term does not mean the SETI Institute, and it used to. But getting back to why there needs to be a SETI of UFOs and why I use that terminology is that in the nineties or earlier on kind of like if you saw this movie Contact, great movie

starring Jodie Foster. It's actually based on a book written by Carl Sagan, but the whole search for extraterrestrial intelligence was not taken very seriously decades ago, even up into the nineties where things started to change. In fact, you know, it was seen as very fringe and kind of silly, as represented in that movie. So it wasn't taken very seriously there. It's a lot

of fodder to make fun of it. However, things changed over time, and now some could argue that a NASA is a SETI sort of organization, so much of what NASA is doing is looking for life and other projects kind of related to that. That this is really and not only that, anything the Seti Institute does becomes news. So it's really changed from being fringe to

mainstream. So now you're probably seeing why I keep saying there needs to be a SETI of UFO research, really moving this topic from the fringe into the sirius. Now, I believe that lou Elizondo who's come out, who worked for the Pentagon investigating UFOs. That's kind of been debated in UFO circles, but fortunately is not being debated in the areas where I think it's most important, which is the mainstream and in mainstream science, and that has begun to

change things. There is kind of this movement, but what SETI did was essentially stacked the deck with scientists. They got lots of scientists involved, They interfaced with scientists, They tackled this issue head on, and they became a part of the community, a part of the zeitgeist, a part of the kind of what we see as science and space is looking for extraterrestrial intelligence,

which makes sense. I mean, we've got Star Trek, We've got Star Wars, we've got all of this sort of cultural perception of space and ideas of space having to do with alien life. It should be, or it can be something that we look towards and try to discover and take seriously. So there has to be this movement. I'm very excited for the Scientific Coalition

for Eupology because I think this is the group. There have been groups kind of attempting to do this in the past, but none as prolific, I would say, as you know, hardworking as this group that the Scientific Coalition for ufology. The SCU, for example, we're going to talk about Rich and what he's up to, and what SEU is up to and what his goals are for this organization. But they're getting a lot done. If you go to their website explore s CU dot org, you'll see a lot of

stuff there. You'll see some papers, some science kind of based papers, other research into UFOs that have been done serious credible investigation or at least theorizing over how we really discover something, how we move things along, and how we take this take a serious look at this topic. So I'm very excited to talk to Rich. You know, he works actually out of Huntsville, Alabama, near the Redstone Arsenal. He works for Army Material Command. Actually

he is a IT contractor, so he works in the computer field. So he's got this insight into that world, at least on the intelligence side, which is helpful, or at least i should say, in the government end, which is helpful because you know, that's sort of where this conversation is going. We've had Nick pop on recently to talk about that, so it's very exciting. In fact, what else is cool is John Alexander, Army retired Army intelligence officer. He also has gone into the civilian world to work

in defense and on weaponry and all of this great stuff. But he's really into UFOs and he investigated. He had this group that he put together to look into where are the secrets? What does the government know that they're not telling us. What he found was, like you said, it was more kind of bumbling bureaucracy and just really dropping the ball is what he found, more so than kind of this major overall secrecy. And he he spoke at Phoenix move On recently and just the other day, and it was a great

talk because he talks about budgets. He talks about how you're able to do this sort of thing. You know, lou Elizondo has talked about this quite a bit. If you've read George Knapp's articles on more information that he has discovered regarding a tip this organization from the Pentagon that investigated the UFO's you know, more around the budgets and Harry Reid, the Senator, and how they had to frame things and word things in order to get money into this group

to do their UFO research without mentioning the word UFO. We're going to talk about that with Rich because that's really important. People and funding run from the term UFO because of all the baggage that the term has with it. And these are serious considerations when we're looking into moving things forward and getting people involved who have an interest but are afraid of the blowback that can happen. Harry Reid talked about that that fear, that very real issue that they had when

they were trying to set up a tip. So it's a big deal. It's a big thing, and we've got to work smarter, I think in this field if we really want to make some progress, and that's what I think SCU is doing. That's what I personally feel that To the Stars Academy is doing. It's not easy and it's very difficult. Everything's nuanced, everything has to be you know, you're literally walking on egg shells. Everything has to be done right, and that's why it takes insiders to guide this and

to move things along. And I'm excited that that is what we now have happening. So I have mentioned that, you know that I'm going to have lou Elisondo on the show. We're looking like probably the next show will be that interview. So I'm very excited about that. We'll bring this conversation forward even further, and then maybe after that I'll have John Alexander. We'll talk

about his talk at Phoenix. Move on. But this is a really important time for this field, and we have to capitalize on it, and we can't just stick to and I don't mean to insult anybody, you all know, I never intend to do that, But there's a lot of sloppy thinking. You know, there's a lot of well, it must be this, or it must be that, and if I look at the you know, they whoever they may be, do this, so that must mean they're hiding

this or that that happened. And all of these scenarios are wild and fringe, and so many people, so many even prominent quote unquote UFO researchers, you know, support this information without looking into or even researching or digging in and talking to these key players. And that's really important because you have to

run these things by all of your conspiracy theories or wild ideas. You know, it's fair to be able to let these people speak to them as they often do when I interview them, because there's often real world answers, real world considerations, and there are reasons why things are done the way they are. What's interesting is a lot of people assume that many of these people are hiding these major secrets behind interfacing with aliens or some other wild idea, when

in fact that's not the case. These people feel just like you do, or just like some of these people with French beliefs, and they're doing their best as an insider to try to get answers and try to move this conversation along in a serious way. And instead of bashing these people or you know, assuming they're evil and terrible and doing all of these bad things, you know, there's a lot more cooperation and there's a lot more well that can

happen. I think a lot of people assume, oh, they don't know, you know, they haven't listened to this speaker or that speaker, or they haven't listened to this contact he or that abductee, so you know, they don't know what's going on. Well, they know more than you think, and they it's just typically when you don't understand the system, you know, it's easy to assume why that system works the way it does, and it's difficult to dive in there and try to understand the complexities. In fact,

it's similar to something that John Alexander said. He said that really this topic and researching it is as serious and as difficult complicated as investigating, you know, a cure for cancer. It's a very complicated issue. And if you're going to do it the service that needs to be done, then there's a lot of resources, a lot of different scientific disciplines that need to be put into play in you know, taking a wide look at this topic.

So I think we're in a great chance to actually get that done. There are players in the field right now doing this, and I hope that SEU can kind of become that SETI stay strong, stay scientific, and interact with and take feedback from mainstream science to kind of break down those barriers and to

move this so maybe in five ten years. You know, when people bring up UFOs, it's considered like it was with Project blue Book, or it was to Dug Jay Allen Heinik, who's representative, of course, in this television show Project Buboog, a serious scientific investigation, a serious scientific pursuit for knowledge about an unknown mystery. So I think we have that opportunity and we're

moving towards that, and we're going to get into the news. And I think the news is doing the same thing as pointing towards all of this as well, So let's get into the news. I do want to mention a couple of things when it comes to the news and my YouTube live show. So I'm doing this live show called UFOs Seriously Live. You know, it's essentially a live YouTube show where we're taking the topic seriously and I go over all of the UFO news and I also answer questions for chats from chats,

so there's some one on one interaction with people. If you're not watching it on you YouTube, you must and I am very disappointed you for not doing that. I'm just kidding. I know people are busy, got a lot going on, but if you have the opportunity to even if you can't catch it live, you know, you'll be able to hear me talking about a lot of news, a lot of these issues. It's on YouTube, and I'm moving a lot more stuff over to my YouTube channel, which is called

the Alejandro advantage. If you just google Alejandro Rojas on YouTube, you're gonna find a lot of other guys. Most of them don't speak English, so but if you look for the Aljandro Advantage, you'll find my page where I've got lots of cool stuff, lots of videos going up, and I'm gonna have more and more going up there. You can also find all of these linked at the Alejandro Trojas dot com which is my blog, or on the

Patreon. So yeah, it would just be great for you guys to see that because I'm talking about all of this sort of stuff and then answering questions from the chat and it's a lot of fun on so check that out. And in fact, I'm gonna videotape myself doing my intro, doing these interviews with people for the podcast, and I'm also going to put those up there

soon as well. So I'm going to befall that up stuff up because i want to get information out to you all as quickly and as often as possible, because we live in such important times when it comes to this just terribly interesting field. I mean, you know, sometimes people will say, why don't you believe in UFOs, And I'm like, what are you talking about? You? Why do you think I do these podcasts and stuff. I

think there's a genuine mystery here. We have to look into it, just because you know, a news story comes out and they say, look, there was a UFO that just flew over the desert and some guy took a picture, and it's got to be a UFO. But it's a bird or it's a plane or something. Just because I don't believe everything's a UFO or an extraterrestrial spacecraft does not mean I don't I don't believe in this field.

It's just the opposite. I want the good data, the good information, so we can really determine something based off of anomalist information, not based off of information that we can't confirm as anomalists or is likely not to be. That's a waste of time. So anyway, in the news, a couple of interesting things when it comes to Project blue Book. First of all, you may not have heard this, but Project blue Book, the History Channel series, has got renewed for a second season. So that's good news.

It means people are watching it. Some of you may be thinking, well, that's not good news. In fact, John Alexander this Weekend expressed this opinion because the show is not totally real. They're pushing out some stuff that's not real, and we want people to know about the real doctor j Allen

Heinek. Well, I can see that point. However, the result of the show has been a great interest that has been kind of sparked in the general population about doctor j Allen Heinek and what he's up to, and the History Channel has put some great articles about him there, and we see these UFO stories popping up all over mainstream media because of the show. So I

think it's a really good thing. Personally, I think it's important, and sure it's difficult that sometimes it's entertainment, but that's the way it is. You know, entertainment gets to the masses more than like a documentary does. That's just the fact of things. So you know, I don't think it hurts to attack this topic and to get information out in as many fronts as possible. So that check that out. Also, you know, I've got some reviews. I do go over my reviews on my UFO seriously live show

of Project Blue Book. And the reason that's important is not just to talk about some sci fi show, but to talk about the real cases that are referenced, because there's really some intelligent writing there that I don't think everybody catches up on David O'Leary, the writer, and I'm sure the other writers and people involved they're referencing actual mythologies if they're not referencing real cases. So there is a lot to learn by breaking down those stories and going over some of

that stuff. Plus we get a review other cases that the show is not directly referencing, but are similar to what the show is referencing. So it is a learning kind of activity that we get to go through. So Project blue Book is going to keep rolling. Also, there are those of you in the UK probably listeners right now, who have been wanting to watch this

and kind of upset because they haven't been able to. But the sci Fi Channel has now picked up Project blue Book for the UK, so the UK will be getting the show on a sci Fi channel sometime soon, so that's good news. Otherwise, this is really great. There's this scientist called Avi Lobe. He's actually a Harvard astronomer, and he has been talking aliens left and right, and he's been making tons of news. All of these news links. By the way, you'll find it Openminds dot tv on the front

page, but you'll see there two links. I have a washingtonpostlink and a Boston dot Com link. The Washington postlink I have there if you're a subscriber, but if you're not a subscriber, you might not be able to read the whole story. But Boston dot Com reprinted the whole story, and so that's why I have both links there, so you can read this story. And essentially, this is the guy, the scientist who suggested that this planetary object Omaha omama, that's what you say. I think it's a really fun

name to say. But he suggested that this, you know, kind of long potato looking thing that came through the Solar system like a few weeks ago, could have been extraterrestrial, and a lot of his colleagues have said, that's ridiculous, how can you say that? But it has been a little bit weird in that it's the first extra solar object to come through our solar system. Typically, like a comment, will come in, come around the Sun and then leave and maybe we won't see it for a very long time.

But it is in orbit around the Sun. This object came from lord knows where and flew in, went around the Sun, and it was caught in the gravity of the Sun. Whipped around the sun, but when it moved away from the Sun, it sped up, and the scientists were not sure why. Now most scientists are saying are thinking it's probably just because of the makeup of whatever this thing is. We don't understand it. But if we were able to get a sample and kind of examine it, then we

would probably get why it did that. Abby Lob was saying, well, if we got a sample, we might have found out it's alien technology. He says, it might be like this giant solar sale. You know that essentially what that is is this big sale. It's on Star Trek actually, where the sun pushes it. The heat from the sun or radiation from the sun is able to push this sale just like a wind would. It's kind of like solar winds, and that's how it travels. So he thinks that

maybe that's what it was. Lots of his colleagues are getting really upset about this. Some of them think that he's just kind of challenging people by bringing this up. But he's doing interviews and he's not backing down. He's saying this is a possibility. In fact, he did a video also, and we've got a link on the page why the Universe may be full of alien civilizations, where he talks about his belief that that may be the case.

Really cool stuff, So you've got to check those stories out, you know. Again, and we keep talking about this. This is a scientist kind of coming out and talking about aliens. It's kind of getting okay for scientists to talk about aliens. So really cool stuff. Also, there's another good story there about Tom DeLong, his drummer with Blink one eighty two, saying that he and Tom used to like to get stone and go look for UFOs

in the desert. You know. He said sometimes they saw stuff, and he was on Joe Rogan the drummer his name is Travis Barker, and he said that, you know, he likes the UFO thing. He thinks that there may be aliens visiting us. He just says, I don't know that I would quit my job with Blink one eighty two, you know, leave my everything and go do UFO stuff like Tom did. But he thinks it's pretty cool. So that's an interesting story out there as well. That is

a news ladies and gentlemen. You could see all of this at Openminds dot tv. But let's go ahead and talk to Rich Hoffman. We'll have him on right after this short break. All right, I am happy to welcome back to the show a lifetime eufologist Rich Hoffman. Hello there, Hey, how you doing al good? It's good to be good to be on with you again. Yeah, it's great to have you again. And uh, you know I called you a ufologist, which is what do you think of

that term? What do you think? You know, how do we term what what we do? And this appeld Well, it's a good question because I think it's it's actually almost changing a little bit, isn't it. Uh. Even the term the term UFO has an interesting connotation to many that now that there's a there's them for this emphasis, that's like, you know,

changing him to AAPS or UAPs or that type thing. And I still think of myself as a ufologist, even though I mean, I've always adopted the fact that I'm going to be dealing with not only flying objects, I'm going to be dealing with another kind of might be underwater objects or something of that

nature. But I think we need to look at maybe coming up with another way of you know, calling ourselves because I think that too often it has this again, it's a negative connotation with the word uf Are they term UFO that everybody immediately attributes to being aliens And you know, a bunch of kooks running around wearing some sort of like, you know, hats or something like that, those aluminum hats or something like that. But I still think of

myself as uthologists. You know. So Lou Elizondo is going to be speaking at an event that you have been organizing for the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, and I bring this up because the last person who brought this up to me with Lou, he was saying, you know, and this is something he

wants to talk about. Is he's ran across a lot of people in the last year being involved with all of this, and there are so many that kind of are kind of armchair they're interested in the topic and everything, and then there's those like you who you call yourself a UFO expert because you are, you've been doing this for decades, and he's like, you know, how do It's almost like we need a new term because everybody claims to be

a ufologist, but there's only a handful of true experts, and that's kind of a tough thing to deal with. Yeah, you're absolutely right, it is. And you know, it seems like more and more, you know, anybody who, let's say, looks at a bunch of websites that can call themselves ufologists, I mean, you know, and we see a lot of people who are in social media that are doing the same thing. It's like, you know, and and I guess, you know, I even had that with some of the members of my local group. I mean,

they come from entertainment as opposed to coming to study this stuff. And and and so I try to focus it on study, you know, And there's not a lot of people that want to spend that time and that that I had that long dedicated interest in doing that kind of study. Uh. And so it's it's very rare, actually, to be honest, to find a true quote unquote ufologist anymore. Right, they make themselves self proclaimed experts or something like that because they wrote a book or you know, or something of

that nature. And that's that's unfortunate because I think that the phenomena needs that in depth study and we need specifically to focus on scientifically what that means. And I think that Lose done a great job of trying to connect us to this scientific and keeping us kind of focused, if you would that way. And so I have to applaud the guy for trying to corral us and to get us to think rethink that type of stuff. And that's it's all good.

Yeah, I'm really tempted to talk to you about and we'll get into this kind of this new world and how things I feel have been changing really rapidly in this field like we haven't seen before. But I kind of wanted to take a step back though and kind of frame your perspective and approach to this phenomena. And one way would be, you know, you you were with move On for decades and now you're with the Scientific Coalition for Ufology.

Why was it important to create this organization? What I began to see, you know, I got to understand that move On doesn't fills a niche that I think is still very, very valuable in the sense that if you look at new Fork, you know, in terms of what it does, it just gets the citing data and there's nothing done in the way of investigation of the case and helping us to reduce down the bogus stuff or the misidentified or the crack putts or whatever you want to call it, but to get us

honed down a little bit closer to getting to what the UFO is about. So with the fact of having an investigation, you know, you're helping to do that, and that's boots on the ground or that's people calling somebody and helping to walk through that. So that's where it plays a very critical role.

So it's collecting that kind of data. Now here's the problem that I continue to see in the sense that you know, you may have in your database seventy thousand cases, and that's wonderful to have seventy thousand cases, But the question comes who's taking that data and going through it and really pulling out the nuggets of the wonderful information that you need want to garner from a scientific standpoint to be able to help us account for the maneuver ability of the object,

to see if there's any like some people report distortions around the objects or something of that nature, and it and it doesn't you did. What I saw was that we're doing a great job of collecting It's almost like what the Air Force did. But then who was actually doing the analysis, who was doing the study of that data, and and what I found was that it was very rarely being looked at. It's not like that other than you know, the few of us, a few of us that were actually going and

culling and looking through it. And it's one thing to go out and find a case that looks really really good, but it and helping to re look at it and through us more of a scientific lens, which is what the Science Review Board was attempting to do. But I mean again, it's it's like, we need to make use of the data, and people need to be able to look at the data. We didn't allow you know, scientists or other organizations or whatever to necessarily come in and look at move On data.

They needed to be a part of move and there was like you know, I mean, you know, and I was encouraging us to be able to get it in such a way that you could do that, and then for scientists to be able to take it and then do statistical analysis, to be able to do all these kinds of things, to be able to determine more and more about the objects, and to help them craft white papers, to be able to get them out, the white papers out and actually get

stuff published in scientific journals, right, And so to me, that's where I see that we needed to go even within move On. Well, you know, I mean the other part of that is that that move On started to move kind of like in directions that a lot of scientists reject outright. I mean it's like, you know, you want to talk about secret spaceship programs, or you want to talk about and have those at your conferences.

Well, those kind of things don't help the scientific community to stay in And what I found out is that a lot of us just were starting to leave, and we don't want to lose those scientists to have an interest. So that kind of led to a little bit of the formation of kind of a loose knit team that we did have while we were under move On, And we called ourselves as a team kind of like the SCU. It's just a

coalition of us getting together to be able to study. And of course, you know, we were studying the Aguadilla case, right, So we started as a team then to be able to now, like how can we apply that? And in that particular case, it was a situation where the witnesses did not want to go through any kind of a UFO lens. They wanted to keep it outside of a UFO group and move on, and so we had to now work it outside of you know, move on, and well

that cost a lot of heartburn. But anyway, bottom line wise that eventually a lot of us got a little bit disappointed with that and said, look, we need to come up with a new way of approaching this, and we need to have more scientists engaged in it, and so let's go create

our own group. And that's the start of SCU Scientific Coalition. We decided to go and become a five oh one C three and you become incorporated and really start to set ourselves up. And right now we're over forty basically scientists, you know, engineering types, of psychology types, a lot of people that are in different roles and more scientific in our approach, and we've got ten PhDs, and so we're encouraging more and more people to get engaged like

that to help us to do that analysis, to do a bigger deep dive, to be able to create journal articles if you would, to write white papers, to do peer like you expect you would have in science. And so that's kind of like where we're going now. I mean we're trying to get more structured, more disciplined in that approach. And what's cool is if people go to the website explore SEU dot org, you've got already a lot

of great stuff up there. What I find exciting is the papers link, where you have different white papers or papers that have been written throughout history, including like Special Report fourteen from Project Blue Book or the Condon Report. Some that are well known, but others like this estimate of Optical power output and six Unexplained Cases by Jacques Valet. So these are science oriented papers that are

out there. Now. There's few and far between to find these sort of things, but they have been done in history, yes, and so we're trying to collect all those that are relevant to the scientific approach that have been published. At the same time, we're we're also now going through and reviewing. For example, let me let me give you this peer review process.

When we did the Aukwarodia case, we were like saying, well, who can we go to, you know, to have them look at our work and of a scientific nature and really to help us out and identifying and figuring it all out. And did we do it right? And there is there something we're missing or that type of thing, and so we were looking for

that that to happen. Well, as you might recall, we ended up going over to the do An organization over there cns UH and we went to a Sigma I think it's Sigma two or something of that nature group that's under under their NASSA if you would that we're willing to at least look at the paper and give us some feedback on it. And now yeah, in France

and I'm sorry, and so we're now making that more rigorous. And we we've actually taken Kevin Randall did a paper on the Van Tell case, so we've actually gone through and looked at his paper, We've given him some feedback. He's actually rewriting it and making some changes to improve it. So we're supporting him in terms of that. And so we've gone through like a peer review kind of like work there and now we're applying it to ourselves in the

context of even our Nimits report which we're coming out with. And so you know, again it's the rigor of going through having people that are technical and finding those other technical people to do that. And that's what we're trying to mature, which is very exciting. And I mean, you know, so many people may argue, well too, The Stars is kind of doing a similar thing, and certainly they have a very prestigious group of directors and people

working for them. But at the same time there's a lot of controversy attached to it. There's kind of this entertainment arm where what is great about SCU is it's just kind of pure on its own. It interacts with the public and is this coalition of very serious minded people not distracted by some of these

other things exactly. And so that's where we're we're that's where we're tending to go, and we want to be able to grow and mature that and again it's about getting others that are out there who you know might be you know, remember the you know, Jacques Bela, the Hidden College, you know, if you would, that's out there that they couldn't find an appropriate link and and and the other good thing about it is and that we have to realize is that since you know, I got started in this thing like fifty

four years old years ago or something like that, you know, what's happened to technology, Well, technology is blossomed to the point where we've got better tools, more information. We're starting to see cases like the Limits or like these other kinds of like the aquad where you're starting to get military great equipment, you're getting thermal imaging kinds of cameras, and you're getting multisensory data.

And you know, there's nothing that scientists love more than having data given to them, right, So now you've got, you know, a scientific community who can engage because there's some data for them to analyze. And so as opposed to high I saw a UFO last night. Let me show you, let me show you my blurred photo, you know, okay, And so what we're trying to encourage is the use of technology to get things like spectral

images. We're looking to get thermal graphs. We're looking to get you know, obviously radar wherever we can, and there's other means of being a get other kinds of data to be able to go along with the case that we haven't been considering or analyzing in the past that will now help us to understand the objects better, you know. And so we're now looking to encourage that

development as well. So m hm, and you know, those are great outlines there there was some I've heard some people say, you know, there can't be any science applied to the UFO field, which is kind of a bit odd to hear from some people. But certainly you can. What you do need data, and certainly anecdotal data is a start, but it's not

much. But when it comes to radar and photos, that's data you can actually do something with correct and we as scientists can also engage in helping to get the tools out to the community, meaning that you know, why can't scientists help us develop those things like you know you might be aware of, but I mean those like those portable devices that would put some sort of multisensory

data kind of capability out at a site where there's a hotspot. And so, you know, you had Center for UFO Studies, which is doing the UFO data thing. You had Mark D'Antonio working with you know, a couple others and stuff like that to be able to help develop something. And so there's there's a good start moving that direction. And so we need to get

that a little bit orchestrated. And why can't scientists be on that cutting agent in terms of helping to develop it and get it out to others, and that's what I want to talk about also, Eva, that is the conference that I'm going to be coming up with. Yeah, definitely my last question though along these sides before we get into the conference, because this is exciting too, and there's a great segue from something recently I wrote about, Well,

we'll get into that. This is fun but still nimics the two thousand and four Nimmets incident. Of course, I've talked a lot about it on the show, interviewed various people. Pope was on last week. We talked about it, and of course Robert palt has been on and he's kind of he's a part of the SEU kind of leading this research. But when people say, well, you know, what can you add to it? You

know that Alexando and his group have already looked at it. We have this leaked document from George Knapp that has been confirmed by Alexando that you know, is this military report. What can be added? What would be your answer to them? I think where we're at is, you know, it's always good to have multiple sets of eyes on things, right, okay, meaning

that we may come up with a different perspective than another group. And that's Okay, all right, there's no reason why what for something we do or our approach can't be also considered and we might pick up on something in our study that might not have been looked at or that maybe they don't have. And let me also point out to you that do you see those those results

of that analysis being given to the general public. No, I mean, have you seen any analysis of that that's been supplied to you or data made available to the general public. No, Because it's under a government thing. It's an a tip ring, right, and so what you had was an a tip project that was under the government, and that's still within the reign of the government, and stuff probably is still classified in many respects, and

what you get is only a little snippet of that information. For example, we don't have the radar data from that that case, but you have again, you know, witnesses who have described it in radar operators have talked about

it. And so we've talked with the radar operators, We've talked with the pilots, We've talked with you know, overall a lot of different people to try to get their take on what we saw, what they saw and how they described it and so in some respects, we're actually somewhat validating what Tta is saying, okay by our doing our work, but at the same time,

you know, we're going to be publishing ours. Well, i'd like to see theirs, right, you know, and I don't, and you don't have it, and I don't have it, right, and so we take on we're on their word that they did this and here's their outcome of that case. But that's all I can do at that point, right, Yeah, exactly. I think you make a lot of great points. That's what's really exciting about this report, and I know the SEU report will be coming out soon, is that, Yeah, we haven't seen and I think

that's something that we need to continue to talk about. You know, amongst the community is uh and Lou you know, says he can't share anymore. Unfortunately, because he's bound you know, by his by this these things are are still not released to the public. So all we have is this one leaked kind of short report with a handful of witnesses. But we don't have that radar data. We don't have analysis, you know, how they analyze

these videos, how they determined they were anomalous. We don't have a number of witnesses that I know that you all have been talking to. So it's going to be really exciting to see how much of this report do you think is new and fresh and something that people wouldn't have seen before? Well, I think that I think you know what's happened here is and you know as

well as I do. It's a situation where we worked and we've had a lot of these conversations with these people, and we've got this kind of information that was given us. But like you know, let's say, let me put it through this way. Commander Slate who we talk with, who was was also one of the people on board one of the two aircraft, you know, we talked with him, We got a lot of detail that he gave us that you know, and he's not on Facebook and he's not out

you know, being interviewed. So consequently, we're going to have information that we got from him that you know hasn't been published, okay, so or that has not that will be new. The other thing is that we've gone through exhaustive levels of detail of looking pixel by pixel at the video and we have data like you wouldn't believe on that and we've got you know, Larry Cage, that's who's a mathematician that's focused on it, who's published an extensive

amount of effert we have. You know, let me let me put to you this way. Have you do you know what the kinetic energy level that would have What would have happened if you had an object to drop from eighty thousand feet stopping and above C level in point seven eight seconds? What would be the kinetic effect? What's the amount of G force that you're talking about? How do you look at that and apply that to the concept of you

know, acceleration and deceleration. How do you do that? And we're looking at it through the lens of a scientist and say, how can this possibly

happen? Mm hmmm. So for example, you know Elon Musk is doing that, I guess with the space that's rockets, but of course they've got jet inted rocket engine gender they're expelling huge amounts of fuel to do this, and think, yeah, exactly, and you don't have that you know here right, So I mean, how do you how do you propel yourself to such a speed to the point where you can get to where you're going to

be in point seven eight seconds. You've got to look at it like, you know, I've got to accelerate and then I have to decelerate to stop, right, I mean, but this is just instantaneous in that level and how can that be? And then you know, what do we know about aircraft? What we they go through the sky or they go through the atmosphere, and you know they practically burn up, you know, the faster that they go, right, So how do you deal with an object like that

that's doing that? So again it's you're going to see like the perspective of the scientists or a physicist if you would, it's looking at that angle to say, well, how can this possibly be? So we do that as

well. And so there's a lot of this kind of information that we're going to be able to to give you and you'll be able to you know, it'll be and it'll be published, so you'll be able to see it and you'll be able to touch it, and you you'll be able to where you don't have that with the other stuff, right, right, And that's what's exciting about this group. And even for instance, when you all put out your Aguadilla report, I mean, you're welcoming scrutiny. And that's what science

is about. It's not about hiding your information and being afraid of able to look at it and kind of put it through its paces. You want people to do that, so, uh, you know other organizations want you know, others like and now there is at least you ought to be able to look at this and scrutinize it. Yes, so that's really exciting. We've got to go to break, but I will mention when we come out of break, we're going to talk about this conference. And actually it's located near

where you work, the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. And that's important because people may not realize this, but the last episode of Project Bluebook Operational paper Clip, they talked about Huntsville, but specifically, I don't think they even mentioned the name. Specifically, where those German scientists were working to begin

the space program was at the Redstone Arsenal before NASA even existed. So we'll talk some about that riches experience working in the area when we come back from this short break, So stay tuned. Welcome back to Open Mind GUFO Radio. This is your host Alejandro Rojas and I am here with Rich Hoffman, and when we came when we're going into the break, I was talking about the Redstone Arsenal. And even when I wrote about Project Bluebook the last episode,

I don't even know if I mentioned the arsenal. But it's got a rich history. One can argue this is kind of where the birthplace of our US space program. Yes, it's a very exciting thing, and we're very excited here in Huntsville because you know, you we got the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon landing, and this is where the rockets were built. In fact, if you go over and I know that you know this because you went to Space Camp, we have space Camp here, and we've got we have

the Davidson Center. It's gotten actually a full stage Saturn five and on its side and you can go and look at it. But then there's also a large Saturn five sitting out there, and then they have all the earlier models

of rockets and stuff like that. And even on the arsenal, you can go over there and there's like, you know, the original Redstone test facility that Berner von Braun used for the Redstone rocket, right, it's still over there and people on the base and you know, people can go over and see that and that those test stands are still there, and you know, it's very exciting because the SLS is being built now and of course there's all different kinds of things related to that, and you know, so it's an

exciting place with NASA there, but it's got that rich history like you talk about of that whole space program and now you have the Marshall Space Flight Center there and you've got in addition to that. I don't know if you know this, but like the FBI is leaving Quantico and coming here, So oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, the the entire Quantico location for the FBI is now here at Redstone. And and of course i'm the military.

Uh, the Missile Defense Agency is here. Everything relating to space and missiles you know, in the Army and stuff like this here and you know, Army Aviation is here. And I work for the Army Material Command, which is the entire logistics umbrella too. And by the way, it's the corollary

to the Air Force Material Command that had underneath it Project Bluebook. And so so it's funny for me because I started off on Dayton Ohio and I in fact, I've had occasions to go out to the base and meet with some people and stuff like that, and gable lecture on UFOs by the way out there. But so I'm kind of like I left there somehow I ended up in the Army Sister organization and uh, and so it's kind of like an interesting little thing for me that that I'm now back and I'm working for them

and uh, you know, doing this whole thing. And and they pretty much recept to me doing this as well, which is really cool. Oh that is cool and which I think says a lot. And we'll get into that, but that's probably I mean, I would imagine because this is a space hub, why it's so exciting that you have been putting together this this short conference, and maybe tell us about the conference and what the mission is

kind of what you're attempting to accomplish. Yeah, I know a lot of us have been talking about wanting to do a conference, and I was willing to say, like, you know, I'd love to be able to have I'd love to have one in the back door so to speak of this. You know, Redstone Arsenal and the Marshall Space Flight Center and to now see if we can get a collaboration between some of the scientists and engineers and that

type of people that are over there. Included in that is University of Alabama Hunspital, which is largely uh at an engineering school, and you know, even encourage them to come and to get you know, we're surrounded by all of the corollary indus, the do O D businesses if you would, that support them, like Lockey, Martin Boeing, uh. You know, all these companies are around here, and it's just huge tech quarter for this kind

of thing. And so consequently, you know, I'd love to be able to have this serious scientificness discussion between people that are on the base or in industry or in academia talking about the UFO subject uh uh seriously and saying and for us to come in an open Kimona, lay out why we think that

it's important that we continue to do it. And you know, and then with the fact that you have this Pentagon program that was announced, you know, and that that announcement kind of gives it a little bit more credibility in a lot of people's eyes. The fact that here's a deed, you know, here we are at the Pentagon, you know, studying this thing is a threat identification program kind of like look and aerospace threat And so if you have that kind of a context that maybe you might be able to now get

them to be willing to converse and collaborate. So I've constructed the conference if you would, to create a kind of like a very highly collaborative environment from over the time period that we're holding this And so that's where I'm going, and that's what I'm trying to achieve, and that's I'm looking for very scientific, we're minded people who are very serious minded people to attend h and I'm you know, I'm getting doctors that are presenting I'm getting I'm getting you know,

of course we'll be talking about the Aguadia case, and not for the context that we even have answers on it, but maybe more like in the context that you know, here's a case that has that kind of like data that we're looking to get, you know. Uh. And then we're also going to be talking about the detection and characterization of anomalous aerial phenomena using satellite

data imagery. So you have and Felipe aleis from the European space agencies coming over, and we're going to be looking at the physics of the Limets case and talking about that. We're going to be talking about the Agardilla case. But then we're also going in and talking about you know, you know,

constraints on societies engaged in interstellar travel. And also we have a propulsion systems expert from the base, So we're going to be talking a lot of different things, and we're hopefully, you know, we're pulling in those kind of people. And I'm being told that we're getting a lot of interest in chatter on even on the Intel networks, uh, you know, intelligence people, and so they're very intrigued and excited about it. So I Lou is extremely

excited about it. I mean just from the standpoint that we offered him to be the keynote for this conference, because I think that his his approach to this thing is right in sink. And he was a former military guy, right, I mean, he was a former army. At the same time, he has the Pentagon experience, and so he can help us to kind of get that where we want to go. And so I'm very excited about

this. I think it's going to be a great conference. And it's you need to contrast this against a lot of the other conferences you know, you probably have even heard of, but I mean it's again, it's focuses solely science and getting the science typic community engaged and talking. And that's where we're

trying to go. And one of the things I've found out very right off the bat is we need to get away from the term UFO because to the scientists and to the people on the base that they won't even begin to come And so we got to put this. We had to change this over to like you know, anomalous aerospace phenomena, you know, and aerospaces canotes actually believe it or not, It's not just you know, air and stuff like that. It's a that's a term that works in all three layers, you

know, the oceans, the atmosphere, and in space. So we're calling it AAP anomalous aerospace phenomena and trying to do what we can do pretty much avoid as much as we can the term UFO because we're trying to get them to look at this in a different context other than you know what the typical UFO thing brings up. Which is funny because it wasn't like on the program Project blue Book, it wasn't Heinech a scientist who came up with UFO, But it was you know, Rupel, who was in charge of Project blue

Book, who came up with that. So it was an air Force term. But it's gotten correct, I suppose, is the way you'd put it. And people's perceptions have changed. And so it's interesting that, you know, we have this world where we have these scientists who are now like this Harvard scientist in the news low and we've got others that have been talking about, you know, the importance of paying more attention to sort of these anomalous events, and so and Lou in a way has kind of shoehorned the UFO

issue into some intelligence work. He did that while he was in his career, along with others whose names we don't even know because he cannot share who

he worked with in the intelligence world on these sorts of things. But now, that's what's great about what you are are doing, because it's filling that kind of gap that even scientists are saying that we need filled, which is to take a serious look at these incidents that could be related to and this is a scientist saying this that could be you know, the result of intelligent

extraterrestrial intelligences. Yes, yeah, I mean it's wide open in terms of trying to figure out where these things you know, could emanate from come from, or even what they are. You know, and we haven't eliminated these big hypotheses. In other words, are they all coming from outer space?

No, you know, the data doesn't suggest that they have. They always been here, you know, I always there's always been here a hypothesis if you would, you know, and you can argue that you could talk about interdimensional like ballet, you know, that they pop in and pop out of space and time or something of that nature. And you can have cases that substantiate that. You can have, you know, instances where theyd of like you know, completely just blank out in front of a witness or something like

that and pop in out of nowhere. Well, you've got that, and then at the same time you've got you know, like if you want to go with the bent Water's case where you know, you know, Peniston goes up and basically touches one and you know he's actually touching it and that type thing, and then gets these things, these ones and zeros binary code, I guess, and it translates into something like it's a time machine from our

future or something of that nature. So we don't, you know, we don't do a good job of eliminating all the various hypotheses, but we do need to do. And I think that this is where like you know, lose doing and they're doing. The focus was a very very good focus. What do these things do? They seem to be able to, like if you would cloak themselves. They have stealthy kind of capabilities. They they're not

bothered by working in water. They don't change their shape at all. There's there's the same shaped object will go in water, be out in space, or be in the atmosphere. Yet we build things with you know, that have to have a different kind of look and feel to them, right so in order to be able to maneuver through those different media, and yet these things don't do that. Well, wouldn't that be great to know? Or what about you know? Obviously positive lift the fact that they can harver and

they can do what they can do. How do I begin to have something that can be maneuvered from eighty thousand feet to zero point seven eight seconds ending up in stopping just above the water, you know what I mean, how do I do that? And so we need to be able to understand these things, categorize and look and sort those kind of details out and see what, if anything we can figure out in terms of how that works. And that's what science does, you know, it looks at it that way.

And what's great about this is at least it's showing lou who's got certainly his connections into the real serious, mainstream and high level echelons of the government of intelligence, of d D and also now more and more science that and the scientists that there are serious science minded people who have been looking into this for a very long time who you can come in and listen to it and talk to, you know, at your level if you're a scientist and inside of

your own comfort zone. And I think that's really important to kind of introducing, you know, the idea that it's okay to look into this stuff and there are avenues of research that are very interesting that can be looked into. Yes, absolutely, And so the more we can put that lens on and figure out what's going on and seeing if we can come up with those answers

or eliminate some of these things you know that we believe. For example, you know, you had Stephen Hawking who was interested in the Hawking radiation. Well, the question was in his mind was does the UFO when it pops in or pops out? Do you see any indications of Hawking radiation or an indication that there's a wormhole that's being created? Well, do you know what

one looks like? Do you know? And what do we need to do to be able to figure out because the witness the more we educate the witnesses or even getting that data or having the right kind of information will help us to do it. And does that mean that we need to be enlisting cameras that go beyond the visible because we're tired of not getting anything, you know,

that's meaningful from the visible range of the spectrum. How about we go into the old or violin how about if we go into the gate you know, and these other ranges like infrared, near infrared, long you know, far infrared. How about if we go into you know, and the spectrum is pretty large. So I think that if we go and we look and develop the means to be able to detect those kinds of things like gamma ray radiation, or that we might be able to learn more about their operation and

their capability. Right, And so so that's what we're trying to say that we need to really really focus on. And again, if we get scientists engaged in that, which is very you know, encouraging to me, then we might be able to then be able to collaborate, come up with ideas, share, and really go at this thing in a way much more dedicated approach that's going to yield some results. Because hey, look I didn't, I haven't. I'm not in this fifty four years because I don't want to

get answers. I want to get answers, you know. And we can we can talk on social media or do all this other stuff and not get anywhere for any length of time and just create a wonderful mythology out there. But I'm not interested in that, and I want to be able to get past the mythology stuff and instead focus on what is it that we know about or can do do is from these things that are being seen, Right, And that's why I've stated in it for fifty four years to get answers.

I think this is all just really extremely exciting. Of course, what lou Aleisander's working on is very exciting. What he shared this far is very exciting. And what you are doing, I think that it's the perfect thing to be going happening at this time. I mean, it's just a really exciting time for this topic. I mean, would you agree with that? I

think it is. I think it's a very exciting time. And I think that if we can keep the interest level up and we can help to develop these kind of like you know, organizations like you know, SCU or whatever or TCSA or whatever, you know, that that can keep the focus on it and to build on it, you know, and to get actually some support in terms of doing this, you know, Invisible College, if you would, that we might be able to actually now get somewhere form maybe even

our own association and go from there or something like that. But but I think that, you know, it's it's it's one of these gradual approaches and we're fighting the big you know, the big fight, if you would, in terms of getting getting two scientists who have basically shut the door on this subject, you know, and said well, we're not going to even go there. You know and and and I mean, I'll be honest with you. There was one time where I went up to say, well, I

was like wanting to study about how to write a research paper. And on the front page of that website that I went to, it said, as an example, you don't want to write about UFOs. Oh wow, that's hilarious. And this is the Yeah, this is like, you know, so don't even broach the subject of UFOs on your research. And this was on the front page of this like how to write a research paper. Right, So I mean I'm going like, wow, well, we've got some work to do, buddy, We've got we have to we have got some

serious work to do to change this around. And you know. And so that's where we're trying to go. And it's one step at a time, and it's you know, getting science moved back up into doing this. And the more we can have this level of discussion when we have data where we can talk about it and we can we can share data or we can that's gonna be better. That will bring help to bring it on. And the other thing is to create a means for them to have a safe conversation.

Because part of what I was trying to do here was you know, I want to keep media out media per se, like you know, let's don't have the TV stations coming in and uh, you know and airing this whole thing all because Lo's there. And Lou was emphatic about not marketing him, and I applaud him for that because he said, I didn't want I don't

want to be the thing that detracts from your scientific work. You get what you know, you know, and that's a hell of a lot of integrity, and I appreciate that on his from his standpoint, he said, I don't want to become the detractor where all the news media wants to come in

and interview me. And I said, I agree, and in fact, I don't, you know, I mean, my hope was that we would avoid all that kind of stuff, primarily just to be able to get a conversation where people from the base could talk about their military things in his safe environment, knowing that it's not going to now be on the front page news. You get what I'm saying, right right so exactly, And I do want to get to because we're about out of time here, that it's not

necessarily completely open to the public. But you're looking for essentially like we've science might professionals who are in this sort of arena. Yeah, and so we are. We're trying to like basically go through and get a you know, qualifying that that as we go through the attendees and stuff like that. So we've got on our explore scu dot org website, we've got if you do it, if you do the www dot explore scu dot org and then you

put a forward slash, then you put a a PC. We have a place where you can go up and you can basically give us some information about you and and then we could then make it, you know, help you to then get say you're connected or you're not. We're just not looking to get like you know, you know, Hi, I learned about UFOs yesterday and I'm I'm interested in the subject. Because I'll be honest with you, this conference is going to be way over your the general person's head, per

se. It's gonna be more science. It's not about you know, that's all all UFO. Last that let me tell you the story, right, So that's what that's not what we're doing. And the other thing is, I mean I've made this thing at such a rate. I don't know if you saw my rate right now. It's one hundred and fifty dollars to attend the event, and that's good through the fifteenth of February, and then I'm

going to raise it to one seventy five. But guess what, I've got a rate that makes it affordable because that includes four meals, two lunches, and two dinners. Wow. So I mean, where can you go to a conference this day for that kind of price with with people like this coming in and doing it. And so my big concern was, my god,

the half the base was closed because of the government shutdown. NASA was closed, also, the FBI was closed, and so there were a lot of those people that are and the contractors took a big hit, you know, and so they're hurting financially, and then there's the threat coming up on the fifteen maybe another one, you know, right, so there they're being a little bit hesitant about signing up and saying that they even want to spend that

little bit of money. So anyway, that's kind of like where we we We set this thing up, and I think it's going to be fabulous, I really do. And I'm looking forward to having any serious minded individuals that have, you know, an interest in science and stuff like that, to really be the ones that come. Well. Great, Well, thank you so much for coming back on the show. I'm really excited about everything SEU

is doing. Of course, I've been involved with helping to develop SEU at the beginning and everything, and I am just so extremely excited about the organization, all of you involved with it and where it's headed. And it's great. Keep up the great work. Thank you. I appreciate everything you do for us, and I'm really I'm very sincere when I say that. Thank you so much to Rich for joining a show that was so much fun.

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