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In this episode of "Reality Check," recorded at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference in Toronto, Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Kevin Knuth, the University at Albany SUNY physicist and former NASA Ames researcher. His 2019 peer-reviewed paper in the journal Entropy estimated the 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac at thousands of G with no sonic boom, no exhaust and no heat signature.

Knuth opens with the anomalous experiences that shaped him long before physics, from a childhood intuition on a Wisconsin bench seat to the night he and his toddler son both saw a boy standing at a bedroom gate in their Albany home. The conversation moves through the 1988 Montana cattle mutilations, the Malmstrom missile shutdowns and Knuth's own hypothesis for how a craft warping spacetime could knock out an ICBM's navigation system, and his account that AARO had a copy of his paper two months before Sean Kirkpatrick told the Senate no such peer-reviewed work existed.

He describes sonar data from a New Zealand Navy frigate showing an 800-foot object closing 2.5 kilometers in 25 seconds underwater, the UAPx sensor network now deploying radar and RF spectrum analysis in Connecticut, and the limits already placed on the new UAP Science Advisory Council, which has been told it will see only unclassified material. Asked what he wants most, Knuth says he would like to stand inside one of these crafts, and he has spoken with people who say it's possible.


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Host: Ross Coulthart

Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

Research Producer: Rob Jones

Editor: Kanyon Lyons


On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

2:51 A Childhood Premonition

5:35 A Word from Our Sponsor, Odoo

7:02 The Boy in His Son's Room

14:22 Montana Cattle Mutilations, 1988

17:17 Malmstrom Missile Shutdowns

21:51 The 2019 Entropy Paper

23:26 Kirkpatrick's Senate Testimony

25:41 Energy Conservation and G-Limits

29:56 JAL 1628 and the NASA Report

35:42 UAPx Sensor Network

40:21 NDAs and Crash Retrieval

42:09 Transmedium Cases and Sonar Data

47:22 Stigma in Academia

52:03 The UAP Science Advisory Council

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