FROM STANFORD A CALL TO THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD: LET'S STUDY THE UAP PHENOMENON TOGETHER

8 mar

Eminent scientists propose that the world of science participate in research that could change the course of human history forever.

Last Nov. 17 and 18, the prestigious Stanford University (Calif.) hosted the first international symposium of the Sol Foundation, a think tank established in Palo Alto last Aug. 15 to promote a broader understanding of the UAP phenomenon and serve as the main source of research on the topic.

Board Chairman Dr. Garry Nolan (Professor of the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine and co-sponsor of the event with the Nolan Laboratory he chairs) and Sol Foundation Director Dr. Peter Skafish (who was a professor at the Collège de France, UC Berkeley, and also McGill University) invited dozens of academics, as well as representatives of the military and intelligence apparatus, and researchers from various fields to agree on a kind of "state of the art" on the study of the phenomenon.

"Welcome to Stanford," began Garry Nolan, Ph.D., "The objective here is to legitimize and professionalize and then to seek from you your ideas."

Starting from the premise that after decades of undeserved marginality, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena ("UAP") are enjoying unprecedented levels of public interest and new legitimacy in academia, government, media and even venture capital, it is clear that this sudden turn is deepening rather than mitigating the enigma of the phenomenon, revealing not only that all questions about it have gone unanswered but that many more must now be asked.

The Sol Foundation mobilizes intellectual insights and policy expertise to address scientific and policy challenges, seeking to align Science, Policy and Public Education for the Post-UAP World.

Last month (February 2024) videos of all the talks were made available by the Sol Foundation on its YouTube channel, which we warmly recommend.

As declaimed on the Sol Foundation website, "The time has come for serious, well-funded, and cutting-edge inquiry into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Sol’s research agenda cuts across the natural sciences, the social sciences and humanities, engineering, and policy to consider the implications of UAP for our understanding of aspects of nature, such as physics and energy, as well as human institutions like politics, economy, law, and religion”. With this vision, the Foundation aims to be a leading research center on UAPs. Under the leadership of academic and government experts already professionally engaged in the study of UAPs, the Foundation is gathering teams of renowned specialists in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and engineering, information sciences and other technological disciplines. The seriousness and rigor of the research that the teams involved in the Sol Foundation are well represented by the papers collected during this first symposium.

We would like to emphasize here that one of Sol Foundation's commitments is to develop a socially responsible approach to the issue, outlining three goals:

the establishment and maintenance by the governments of the United States and other countries of informed democratic oversight of their commitments to UAPs, including through the creation of public transparency.
the promotion of UAP-related research that is commercially and environmentally responsible.
the promotion of a greater sense of common humanity across cultures, faiths, nations and political structures, including by supporting the development of UAP-focused initiatives at international institutions.

Among the available Videos, we particularly suggest talks by Garry Nolan, Christopher Mellon, Avi Loeb, Kevin Knuth and Beatriz Villarroel.

Instead, this is the full list of speakers who spoke at the symposium:

Speakers:

Dr. Garry Nolan - Ph.D, Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine

Jeff Kripal - J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University

Dr. Timothy Gallaudet - Rear Admiral, US Navy (Retired) and Former Administrator, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Dr. Jairus Victor Grove - Director, Hawai'i Research Center for Future Studies and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i, Mãn'ua

Dr. Avi Loeb - Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, the Galileo Project

Dr. Kevin Knuth - Associate Professor of Physics, University of Albany

Larry Maguire MP - Member of Parliament, House of Commons of Canada

Christopher Mellon - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Karl Nell - US Army (Retired), former Deputy Chief of Staff, US Africa Command