A LISTENING SELECTION
Start with the search for life, then consider theological responses and the more contested UAP conversation. Reports, hypotheses, and confirmed findings carry different kinds of evidence.
An episode can be a first meeting with a voice that feels like good company. If a show resonates, you may choose to keep listening beyond this selection. Each episode here has been chosen on its own merits; the wider show is yours to explore.
9 selected episodes
Podcast EpisodeThe Audio Long Read
A reported introduction to the gap between an immense universe and the absence of confirmed evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Podcast EpisodeBig Picture Science
Introduces the COSMIC search at the Very Large Array, science-fictional imagination, and the debate over deliberately transmitting messages to other civilizations.
Podcast EpisodeBrad Cooper with Karin Öberg
Harvard astrochemist Karin Öberg explains how scientists study the chemistry of forming planets and the conditions that might support life, then reflects on wonder, uncertainty, and her journey from agnosticism to Catholic faith.
Podcast EpisodeFlux Podcasts
Uses alien hypotheses to examine how evidence, background assumptions, and scientific explanation interact.
Podcast EpisodeGood Faith
Explores how Christians might respond theologically and pastorally if persuasive evidence of extraterrestrial life emerged.
Podcast EpisodeMayim Bialik's Breakdown
Ryan Graves describes pilot reports, aviation-safety concerns, and his congressional testimony concerning UAP encounters.
Podcast EpisodeMayim Bialik's Breakdown
Diana Walsh Pasulka discusses parallels between religious experience, technological imagination, and contemporary UFO culture.
Podcast EpisodeThat UFO Podcast
Stanford professor Garry Nolan discusses the Sol Foundation symposium, efforts to collect and analyze UAP data, scientific collaboration, disclosure advocacy, and the difficulty of drawing wider scientific participation into the subject.
Podcast EpisodeThe Joe Rogan Experience
Physicist Hal Puthoff presents his account of government-associated remote-viewing and UAP work, unconventional propulsion and energy research, alleged recovered materials, secrecy, and the scientific questions he believes follow.