Academic articlesIn a recent article on this blog, I explored the work of a number of academics who have, over the years, published articles on the topic of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).Recently, there has been a flurry of academic articles on the topic of UAP. In January 2025, Harvard Law School's "National Security Journal" published an article by Dillon Guthrie titled "Flying saucers and the Ivory Dome: Congressional oversight concerning Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena." This article explores the recent and sustained interest in the topic of UAP, shown by the U.S. Congress Also, in January 2025 there appeared an article by William C. Lane in the "European Journal for Philosophy in Science" tilted "The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: an epistemological case for removing the taboo." The article argues that the extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for UAP needs to be evaluated together with other hypotheses. In February 2025 appeared a multi-authored paper, by Kevin H. Knuth et al, titled "The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace – Undersea Phenomena (UAP)." The article reviewed about:"…20 historical government studies dating from 1933 to the present (in Scandinavia, WWII, US, Canada, France, Rusia, China), several historical private research studies (France, UK, US) and both recent and current scientific research efforts (Ireland,
Why it is interesting: This story involves unexplained phenomena, unusual discoveries or unanswered questions that continue to attract attention.