Description: In 1994, dozens of school children witnessed a UFO in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. A BBC war reporter and a Harvard psychologist did extensive interviewing and reporting of those involved in the incident. Ariel Phenomenon documents this case, which one of the best-documented mass-sightings in history. Nickerson spent years in Zimbabwe investigating the event and corroborating the witnesses’ testimony decades later. Q&A to follow... what’s known publicly, and how did it look behind the scenes?
See the film website for details on how to watch it at home.
The Disclosure Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting government transparency on UAP. It advocates for legislative action, protects whistleblowers, and supports scientific research into UAP-related issues. The foundation engages with lawmakers, hosts public briefings, and pushes for the release of classified information, aiming to reduce stigma and ensure public accountability on the UAP topic.
Anna Brady-Estevez (Yale PhD '09, former Graduate Student Body President) is a scientist, deep-tech investor, and innovation policy leader. She founded American DeepTech, has served at the National Science Foundation (NSF) directing the SBIR portfolio, and has helped steer funding toward technologies & companies that are “UAP-adjacent” or address disruptive / edge science. She also co-chairs interagency efforts including the U.S. Space Economy working group and has been involved in bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs, and government in public UAP-science/innovation panels.
Dillon Guthrie is a Washington, D.C.–based attorney and policy advisor who specializes in financial services, technology, and regulatory law. Before joining DLA Piper as counsel, he held roles including counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and staff member for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has also explored emerging legal challenges around “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP / UFOs) and how congressional oversight might evolve in that space, including publishing an article on UAP in the Harvard National Security Journal and helping co-author the UAP Disclosure Act.
Kirk McConnell brings 37 years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, and the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China. During this time, Kirk oversaw various critical initiatives, such as establishing and advancing the cyber mission and leading national intelligence reorganization post-9/11. Additionally, he played key roles in Beyond Goldwater-Nichols defense reform, shaping microelectronics industrial base policy (including the CHIPS and Science Act), managing national and military intelligence programs, developing space systems, and overseeing information technology and systems, as well as Army and Marine Corps ground force programs.
Jordan Flowers is the Executive Director of Disclosure Foundation. He is also the CFO of Ontocalypse Productions, and has over 20 years of experience in finance, operations, and investing.
Description: Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record. Beginning with the landmark 2017 front-page New York Times story about a secret Pentagon UFO program, Leslie and Ralph Blumenthal have been contributing to The Times on the subject. Leslie's decades of UFO reporting was profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. She helped produce the ongoing series "UFOs: Investigating the Unknown" (Nat Geo/VICE, 2025). Her award-winning 2017 book Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife was the basis for a six-part Netflix documentary series. Leslie has presented at Rice University, American University, the Explorer’s Club, the Franklin Institute, and The Institute of Noetic Sciences. She has been interviewed by Ezra Klein (2023) and Steven Colbert (2010).
Gallaudet spoke about his findings researching underwater and transmedium UFOs, his military service, and his thoughts on leadership. Link here to watch.
We hosted a series of events with the leadership team of AIAA UAP, the Integration and Outreach Commission of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, chaired by Ryan Graves.
In-person speaker event with the Leadership Team of AIAA UAP, hosted by Ryan Graves. Link here to watch.
Description: The talk will discuss the state of play in the UAP space. We will discuss broader aspects of national security, aviation safety, and how the threat posed by UAP undermine operational security and public safety.
Zoom-style speaker event with Rex Groves of the Hardware Factors Team of AIAA UAP. Link here to watch.
Description: The hardware factors group at AIAA UAP is composed of a world-class team of experts with diverse and advanced backgrounds in aerospace engineering, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, and data science. The group brings unparalleled expertise to the detection, characterization, and evaluation of UAP. Their work evaluates cutting-edge aerospace and sensor technologies to suggest systems capable of capturing high-quality data. This session discussed what is known about the performance of these objects as well as the methods, challenges and technical work involved in the study of this phenomenon.
Zoom-style speaker event with Shawn Pruchnicki, Chair of the Human Factors Team of AIAA UAP. Link here to watch.
Description: The talk discussed the current state of affairs with UAPs and flight safety hazards that are being seen in both the military and commercial aviation communities. The discussion then followed on with the stigma associated with reporting these events in both aviation domains and the need for a reporting system that can capture meaningful data of these events that will foster the ability for scientific analysis.
Cosmosis is a three-part Apple TV mini-series exploring the startling reality of the UFO phenomenon and its profound implications for every facet of human knowledge. Featuring top experts, bleeding-edge theories, and fresh insights, this docuseries reveals how these discoveries could reshape humanity's understanding of its place in the cosmos.
We screened the first episode of the series and include Q&As with the members of Ontocaplyse Productions, who produced the series. There was a 15 minute intoduction by the team, followed by screening their 60 minute episode, followed by a Q&A with the three leaders of Ontocalypse. Stay tuned for the Q&A video! It was a doozy.
Kelly Chase (Writer & Executive Producer) is also host of The UFO Rabbit Hole, ranked in the top 1% of global podcasts on Spotify in 2023.
Jay Christopher King (Director & Executive Producer) is also co-founder of The Experiencer Group, a community for anomalous experiencers of all kinds.
Jordan Flowers (CFO & Executive Producer) is the CFO of Ontocalypse, with 20 years of experience in finance, operations, and investing. Jordan is also a Board Member of the non-profit UAP Disclosure Fund.
This event served as the inaugural session of a pioneering initiative to elevate the academic discourse surrounding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs, at a time when the U.S. government had begun taking active steps to provide incontrovertible evidence that alien technology and entities exist and have been present on our planet in contemporary times.
The Yale Student UFO Society’s teach-in represented New Paradigm Institute and Visible College’s commitment to engaging university professors, students, and academic institutions in the global conversation on UAP. NPI and VC sought to integrate scholarly expertise into a public discourse long overshadowed by secrecy, myths, and speculation by hosting teach-ins and fostering rigorous intellectual debate.
Dr. Kevin Knuth (U Albany) 'UFO Physics': Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP). Link to watch.
Danny Sheehan & Jim Garrison (New Paradigm Institute) 'The Truth Will Out': Politics of UAP Disclosure. Links to watch here and here.
Dr. Daniel Stubbings (Cardiff Metropolitan University) & Linda White, LCPC 'Ills We Know Not Of': Mental Health Care for UFO Witnesses (co-sponsored by Yale Student Mental Health Association). Link here to watch.
Dr. Steven Brown (the Ohio State University) 'Method in the Madness': Benevolent Non-Interference. Link here to watch.
Dr. Michael Glawson (College of Charleston) 'Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves': UFO Disclosure and Citizen Action. Link here to watch.
See this very similar talk he gave at the Sol Foundation.
