Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies Announces 2025 Annual Conference

[RAS]

Can't wait to see what comes out of this event

https://www.explorescu.org/scu-conference-2025

SCU returns to Huntsville, Alabama, with former UAP Task Force Director Jay Stratton
headlining the event.

The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) proudly announces its 2025 SCU Conference,
scheduled for June 6–8, 2025, in Huntsville, Alabama. Attendees can again participate in person at
the Von Braun Center or virtually from anywhere worldwide.

This year's conference theme, Foundational Approaches for UAP Studies, continues SCU's mission
to bring rigorous scientific inquiry to the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) study.
"We believe this conversation belongs in the hands of scientists, engineers, and evidence-based
researchers," said SCU Executive Board member Robert Powell. "AAPC is about creating space for
interdisciplinary collaboration and advancing public understanding through data and dialogue."

The 2025 conference features a distinguished lineup of speakers from across government, academia,
and the private sector. Retired Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Jay Stratton, former Director of
the UAP Task Force, will deliver the keynote address on Friday, June 6, offering a firsthand
perspective on the U.S. government's evolving approach to UAP.

"Jay Stratton's leadership helped bring unprecedented focus to the U.S. government's understanding
of anomalous phenomena," said SCU Executive Board member Rich Hoffman. "We're honored to
welcome him as our keynote speaker and excited for the depth of perspective he brings."

The 2025 conference will feature a robust lineup of presenters from across scientific, academic, and
government sectors, all contributing to a growing body of serious research into a global mystery.

Organizer/Speakers:

 

[flarkey]

Indeed. I already linked to one of the talks in this thread:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ne...ield-county-ct-2022-orb-ufo.13792/post-339853

https://whova.com/embedded/event/9WOM798dl6oIdGKhy1HuzKj3vUWHmJgpusW1cio01nc=/?refer=undefined&day=1

 

[RAS]

Here is a line up of some of the talks:

 

[JMartJr]

Maybe we should organize a field trip? ^_^

 

[RAS]

Maybe we should organize a field trip? ^_^

There is also an online option for $75.

I am close and considered going but don't know if I can stomach $350.

 

[MapperGuy]

I see one item that could be of great interest.

"UAP Response Training for Public Safety Professionals"

It could be very helpful to those who are trying to analyze sightings if police body cameras were collecting the initial contact between the police and the person reporting the sighting. The viewers initial statements of what they saw, where they saw it, and what their first impressions were could be helpful. Public Safety Professionals who have been given basic questions to ask (where were you standing, what direction were you looking in, etc..) would facilitate analysis of whatever photos/videos they have taken. Just keeping the reporter calm while talking about the sighting might help the reporters memories of the event. Taking the reporter seriously may also help, instant ridicule may just cause the reporter to exaggerate and embellish their claims.

Keep in mind that what is reported as a UFO might be some actual event, such as a plane crash, that constitutes a real emergency. First Responders need to take things seriously up front, and save their skepticism for later. The same goes for debunkers, even if it is obviously just another StarLink sighting.

So what kinds of things should be included in such training?

 

[Mendel]

I see one item that could be of great interest.

"UAP Response Training for Public Safety Professionals"

I would expect that to be along the lines of this document:
https://majorcitieschiefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MCCA-UAP_Reference-Guide-June-2024-.pdf

Though that mirrors the approach of Ryan Graves' ASA and their uap.guide, and this is SCU, so maybe not.

Don't get your hopes up.

 

[MapperGuy]

I would expect that to be along the lines of this document:
https://majorcitieschiefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MCCA-UAP_Reference-Guide-June-2024-.pdf
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Though that mirrors the approach of Ryan Graves' ASA and their uap.guide, and this is SCU, so maybe not.

Don't get your hopes up.

I don't see any real "what to do" or "where to report things" in that document. It is more of a Conspiracy recruitment poster.

One of the three speakers for this topic shows what could be serious credentials for law enforcement.

Presentations at a group like this are likely intended, at least in part, to generate sightings for UFOlogists to catalog and analyze. I would expect some specific groups to be mentioned where info could be sent, or at least places where they viewer might report things. Expecting the cop-on-the-beat to be very interested in spending time writing up and reporting sightings may be pushing things, but some may already be fans/believers and might do so.

 

[Mendel]

Presentations at a group like this are likely intended, at least in part, to generate sightings for UFOlogists to catalog and analyze. I would expect some specific groups to be mentioned where info could be sent, or at least places where they viewer might report things.

Yes. See section 10. MUFON etc.

 

[FatPhil]

Here is a line up of some of the talks:

This sounds like they're trying to use statistical methods, the field of mathematics designed for drawing conclusions from bulk data, when what they're interested in has never occurred:

I was never a stats guru, but the worry I have is whether the width of their error bars would be x/0 = +inf for some x>0, or 0/0 = NaN.

My guess is that they will make a reasonable-sounding simplification somewhere early on that makes everything else follow naturally, but which will turn out to be an unfounded assertion. Be on the look out for the appearance of arbitrary numbers.

 

[jarlrmai]

That is classic SCU eg such as calculating the power output of a UFO based on Kevin Days recollection of what he says he saw on his radar screen.

 

[flarkey]

My guess is that they will make a reasonable-sounding simplification somewhere early on that makes everything else follow naturally, but which will turn out to be an unfounded assertion. Be on the look out for the appearance of arbitrary numbers.

Nailed it.

https://whova.com/embedded/session/9WOM798dl6oIdGKhy1HuzKj3vUWHmJgpusW1cio01nc=/4363594/?widget=primary

Making the extraordinary assumptions that sentient species other than humans exist, are capable of constructing vehicles for transportation, and are sufficiently fallible that their technology can malfunction, it becomes possible to quantify some potential answers to the question of how long it might be before smartphone imagery and/or video evidence appears on the web

 

[Mauro]

That is classic SCU eg such as calculating the power output of a UFO based on Kevin Days recollection of what he says he saw on his radar screen.

This reminds me of the calculation of the power output of the Death Star based on it destroying Alderaan.

 

[Mendel]

That is classic SCU eg such as calculating the power output of a UFO based on Kevin Days recollection of what he says he saw on his radar screen.

I was going to react , but then I thought, perhaps that actually happened

 

[jarlrmai]

I was going to react , but then I thought, perhaps that actually happened

https://www.explorescu.org/post/est...fied-aerial-vehicles-in-2004-nimitz-encounter

 

[JMartJr]

I was never a stats guru, but the worry I have is whether the width of their error bars would be x/0 = +inf for some x>0, or 0/0 = NaN.

That is the purtiest way of saying Garbage In, Garbage Out that I have ever seen. (If that is not what it says, please don't tell me, I prefer living the dream...)

 

[jdog]

While we are making assumptions based on what we see moving on a screen:

If the ball in the video game Pong is crossing the screen in 2.56 seconds, and we assume the screen is the width of the Pacific Ocean (19,300 kilometers), how fast would the ball be going in kilometers per hour?

And the answer I get from Perplexity:

Let's calculate the ball's speed using your hypothetical scenario:

Given:

• Screen width = Pacific Ocean width = 19,300 km
• Time to cross screen = 2.56 seconds

Step 1: Convert 2.56 seconds to hours:

2.56 seconds÷3600 seconds/hour≈0.000711 hours2.56 seconds÷3600 seconds/hour≈0.000711 hours
Step 2: Calculate speed (distance ÷ time):

19, ⁣300 km0.000711 hours≈27, ⁣154, ⁣000 km/h0.000711 hours19,300 km≈27,154,000 km/h ... This is ~2.5% of the speed of light (1.08 billion km/h). At this velocity, relativistic effects would become noticeable (though still minor).

If the anomalous dots on the radar screens are at least as advanced as Pong balls then interstellar travel is possible, assuming you can avoid asteroids and space invaders (modest assumptions included). I see no reason not to let these calculations guide my life.

 

[elvenwear]

While we are making assumptions based on what we see moving on a screen:

And the answer I get from Perplexity:

If the anomalous dots on the radar screens are at least as advanced as Pong balls then interstellar travel is possible, assuming you can avoid asteroids and space invaders (modest assumptions included). I see no reason not to let these calculations guide my life.

So Perplexity would be fooled by the GoFast video. Interesting.