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Hello r/UFOs!

We're thrilled to announce that the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies is hosting a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with members of our Board of Directors and Advisory Board.

WHEN

Tuesday, July 14, 2026, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM CDT (Central Daylight Time)

WHO WE ARE

The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) is a nonprofit interdisciplinary research organization dedicated to rigorous, evidence-based investigation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Our team comprises scientists, engineers, former military and intelligence professionals, and law enforcement experts who apply advanced analytical methods to understand anomalous phenomena.

For nearly a decade, we've been at the forefront of advocating for scientific integrity, government transparency, and collaborative research across academia, industry, and policy sectors.

MEET YOUR AMA PANELISTS

Our panelists will work as a team to provide answers to questions related to their fields of expertise. They bring decades of combined expertise in physics, engineering, statistics, AI, ML, historical analysis, case studies, field experiments, field investigations, UAP science, and academic publishing.

Behind the scenes answering your questions will be:

Robert Powell — Executive Board Member (See Robert’s X account on July 14 for confirmation of this AMA) Robert Powell is a one of the leading advocates for applying scientific methodologies and data-driven analysis to UAP; he is also the author of UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know), UFOS and Government: A Historical Inquiry and other UAP-related publications.

Rich Hoffman - Executive Board Member. Information Technology consultant and strategist. Hoffman has worked as a defense contractor for over 20 years, working primarily for the Army Materiel Command HQ with a variety of companies. Mr. Hoffman has also worked as an Enterprise Architect at Redstone Arsenal and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He has over 54 years of experience investigating and researching the UFO subject.

Dr. Doug Buettner — Board Member. Doug Buettner received his PhD in astronautical engineering from the University of Southern California. Buettner is the Deputy Chief Scientist of the Acquisition Innovation Research Center, a multi-university applied research center led by the Stevens Institute of Technology. He has over 30 years of industry experience in the engineering of aerospace and software-intensive systems for the Department of Defense (DOD) and NASA.

Dr. Laura Dominé — Board Member. Laura Dominé completed her PhD in physics at Stanford University, working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. In 2023, she joined the Galileo Project to help design ML-based scalable experimental approaches to conducting scientific surveys of UAP. Currently, she is a Project-specific Assistant Professor, Kyoto University, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Cosmic-Ray Laboratory.

Dr. Sarah Little — Scientific Advisor. Dr. Little has a Ph.D. in marine geophysics from Massachusetts institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, specializing in underwater acoustics. She joined the Galileo Project early on, worked on the multimodal instrument development site, and has contributed to ten published UAP papers. She has been an SCU member since its inception.

...and others from our Board of Directors and Advisory Panel

CONTEXT AND KEY LINKS

• Read more about our upcoming conference, “The Synergy of Science and Government in UAP Research,“ including the full agenda and registration info. Join us online or in Toronto from July 24 to 26, 2026.
• Read our research, including UAP activity and indications analyses, Aquadilla analysis, Stephenville Lights study.
• Catch up on our work, UAP news, profiles, and history by reviewing our quarterly newsletter, SCU Review.
• Review our approach: Principles of Engagement in Public, Academic, and Government Discourse

HOW THIS WORKS

Post your questions about the intersection of UAP and science in the comments below before Monday, July 13 at 12 NOON CST. Our board members will monitor the thread and prioritize answering the most upvoted questions in time for the live AMA and will continue to respond to as many upvoted questions as possible during the AMA.

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

We ask that all participants engage respectfully with our panel and one another—disagreement is welcome, but personal attacks, harassment, or bad-faith arguments will be ignored or flagged to the moderators for removal. We're here for genuine scientific dialogue, and we appreciate your commitment to keeping this conversation constructive and civil.

MORE ABOUT SCU

Visit us at www.explorescu.org to learn more about our ongoing research, read our publications, explore our podcast and YouTube channel, register for our conference, or get involved as a member or volunteer.

We're excited to engage with this community. The questions you ask and the perspectives you bring are crucial to advancing transparency and scientific rigor in UAP research.

Let's explore together.

Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies
A 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Research Organization
www.explorescu.org | www.reddit.com/r/explorescu

The conversation surrounding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP, formerly UFO) and Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) has been buzzing lately. The US govt. has recently released several files related to investigations into paranormal phenomena, including military sensor data showing strange, unexplained objects. Steven Spielberg’s new film, Disclosure Day, will release in the coming weeks. The stigma around the topic is dissolving. More and more people are being drawn into this mystery of the ages.

Somewhat paradoxically, however, very few people who become seriously interested in “UFOs” actually maintain the belief that “aliens” are visiting us from other planets. Diving into the subject one will quickly be immersed in a world of black budget programs, secret physics, clandestine intelligence organizations (the Vatican anyone?), psychic phenomena, and a litany of possible origins for all things paranormal. From the interdimensional hypothesis to Von Neumann Self-Replicating probes, there are countless theories. Here are a few;

1). They are a race of ancient Earthly beings that evolved long ago. They live in the oceans, have technological capacities beyond our ability to conceive, and see humans as a nuisance.

2). One particularly exotic belief is that humans will merge with AI. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Theil are working toward this post/trans-humanist reality. Interestingly, a commonly reported NHI contact experience is with small, grey beings that are thought by some to be biologic automata.

3). Another belief is that NHI are really just humans from the future that are coming back to interact with us, guide us, and harvest our genetics in some cases (ostensibly to guard against future issues with DNA degradation and space travel).

4). My personal belief, and the subject for this post, is that angels and aliens are really the same thing and exist in another layer of reality that intersects with the reality we can perceive. Human culture has simply not evolved enough to accurately describe these things, and so we are stuck calling them aliens, angels, djinn, fairies, vahanas, spirits, etc. Perhaps all these do exist, but they follow a strict directive and cannot initiate contact without invitation. Honest, intentional prayer, meditation, or contemplation may occasion contact with an entity. Your thoughts are accessible to them, fear is the mind killer.

I grew up in a very liberal Protestant denomination, I was agnostic and a bit nihilistic for a while, and now after getting into UFOs I’d say I hold some pretty hippy, new age beliefs (all is one, love/light). I’d be curious to know how other religions might react to or integrate new knowledge about humanity’s place in the cosmos.

Dr. Julia Mossbridge is an American cognitive neuroscientist, author and educator who works on understanding and training exceptional human performance including psi effects such as precognition, technological intuition, human-AI teaming, and accessing unconditional love. She is a Senior Distinguished Fellow in Human Potential at the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, and Society at Florida Atlantic University, Member of the Loomis Innovation Council at the nonpartisan Stimson Center, Affiliate Professor in the Department of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego, founder of Mossbridge Institute and co-founder of the nonprofit TILT: The Institute for Love and Time. Mossbridge gives talks and workshops to corporate, government, and academic audiences (including Google X, Accenture, National Intelligence University) and led the Innovation Lab at Institute of Noetic Sciences for several years (2014-2018). She completed her PhD in communication sciences and disorders and her post-doc in cognitive neuroscience at Northwestern University, her MA in neuroscience at UC San Francisco, and she graduated with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College.