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The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

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The Micah Hanks Program is a weekly podcast that covers science and the mysteries of our universe. Taking a critically-minded approach to the study of our world, each week Micah presents commentary and discussions with guests on subjects that include mysteries of physics and astronomy, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), UFOs, myths and folklore, archaeology and ancient mysteries, artificial intelligence, futurism, cryptozoology, science fiction, and entertainment. Each week we journey to the boundaries of human knowledge, in search of the most unusual things our world has to offer.

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The AARO Files: The 2025 Annual UAP Report, Official Responses, and Conspiracies | MHP 07.29.26.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 01:00:07

Last week, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released its Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, revealing its latest findings involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Among its key findings, AARO's report conveys that the Office continues to collect data on hundreds of objects it cannot yet identify and states that some sightings over sensitive military facilities could represent an "unmitigated threat vector" to U.S. national security.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, in addition to an analysis of AARO's latest findings, we also recap the recent 2026 Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) event held in Toronto, Canada. Finally, we examine recent conspiracy theories related to the topic and explore why some unfounded speculations persist despite the uncertainty inherent in UAP studies.

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Nimitz: The DIA/BAASS Investigations | MHP 07.21.26.

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 01:00:29

On November 14, 2004, the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Eleven steamed through the clear waters roughly eighty nautical miles west of San Diego beneath cloudless California skies. Unbeknownst to many on board, for nearly a week, operators deep inside the strike group's Combat Information Center aboard the USS Princeton had been watching something they could not explain. Initially dismissed as equipment anomalies, the contacts refused to disappear, returning repeatedly and exhibiting flight characteristics that seasoned radar operators struggled to reconcile with anything they had encountered before.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a deep dive into the investigations by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program (AAWSAP) and the evaluation of the historic Nimitz incident by its contractor group, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. What does this candid look at the official side of investigations into the landmark case reveal, and what does it suggest about a recently proposed "explanation" for the historic UAP sighting?

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VIKING AT 50: Viking: 50 Years on Mars — Poster - NASA Science
LIFE ON MARS? Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here's why the debate continues | Space
LIFE IN THE WRONG PLACES: Astronomers May Have Been Looking for Alien Megastructures Around the Wrong Stars
USS NIMITZ INCIDENT: When Top Gun Pilots Tangled with a Baffling Tic-Tac-Shaped UFO

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The Pentagon's UFO Files: The "Greek Flyer" and NASA UAP Revisited | MHP 05.20.26.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 • Duration 59:39

Among the most intriguing cases emerging from the Pentagon's newly launched PURSUE transparency initiative is a 2023 incident involving infrared footage captured by a U.S. military platform operating near the surface of the Mediterranean Sea. The case, which reportedly involved an object making abrupt "90-degree turns" at roughly 80 miles per hour, has sparked renewed debate about what military sensor systems are actually detecting—and how much the public is truly being shown.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we break down newly released mission reports, apparent discrepancies between separate witness accounts, and the sophisticated sensor systems involved in the observation, including references to mesh-networked battlefield surveillance technologies and full-motion video tracking systems commonly used in modern ISR operations. Then we shift our attention over to NASA's inclusion of historic Apollo and Skylab "UAP" materials in the recent release, including astronaut reports of mysterious flashes and anomalous lights in orbit—many of which have a likely explanation, and potentially offering a clearer picture of how the U.S. government is now approaching the long-running mystery of unidentified anomalous phenomena.

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NEWS: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna endorses AARO Director Jon Kosloski
PENTAGON UFOs: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters

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Emergence: Aliens, Crashes, and the Origins of the Modern UFO Mythos | MHP 08.27.24.

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 • Duration 01:00:23

Throughout the final decades of the 20th century, strange beliefs began to pervade the UFO research community. Ranging from stories of alleged flying saucer crashes, to strange encounters with "malevolent" alien beings, these and other controversial narratives began to predominate the minds of many in the UFO field. Where did these ideas originate, and how have they continued to shape the modern UFO narrative?

Joining us this week to discuss the origins of such ideas is Charles Lear, an independent historical researcher and author of books that include his latest work, Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens: The Emergence of the Popular Modern UFO Mythos in the Late 20th Century. We explore these ideas, and much more, on this week's edition of The Micah Hanks Program.

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ELIZONDO: Imminent: Former Counterintelligence Agent's New Memoir Reveals an Insider's Look at UFOs

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Take Me To Your Lawyer: UAP, SETI, and the Law of Contact | MHP 08.20.24.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 • Duration 58:10

As humans continue to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life from other worlds, and the UAP debate suggests the possibility that it may already have found us, legal scholars are now considering how laws would apply to potential contact scenarios.

Joining us on The Micah Hanks Program this week are Professor Michael Bohlander, the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy in the Durham Law School, and Dr. John Elliott, an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and the Coordinator for the SETI Post Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. Together we explore how international laws could apply if contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence were made, and how a recent survey the researchers are conducting could be used to develop post-contact protocols.

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ELIZONDO: I Investigated UAPs at the Pentagon—Americans Can Handle the Truth

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Sightings II: Status Report From the Case Files of the UAPSRS | MHP 08.13.24.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 • Duration 59:50

Over the decades, sightings of mysterious objects in our skies have been reported from all over the world. Boasting a wide range of physical features, questions about these mysterious objects which the U.S. government now calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) have long perplexed experts.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we offer a status update from the case files of the UAP Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS), which officially launched earlier this year. In our analysis, we'll examine trends we have observed in the current batch of reports, detailed in a series of odd first-hand witness reports involving sightings of spherical UAP, and massive triangular craft observed in our skies.

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Unit 731: Operation Paperclip of the East and the Roswell Controversy | MHP 08.06.24.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 • Duration 59:45

After the surrender of Japan that marked the end of the Second World War, American forces began to unravel clues to the existence of a disturbing secret program involving biological experiments carried out on human test subjects during the height of the conflict. Known as "Unit 731", the program has never been officially acknowledged, and although its existence is well established, the American government's secretive dealings with Japanese scientists led to an eastern counterpart to the controversial "Operation Paperclip" that ensued with Nazi scientists after the war.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the tragic history of Unit 731's war crimes, as well as the American effort to cover up its cooperation with the secretive group after the war, and finally, its possible connection to one of the most controversial alleged UFO incidents of all time.

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NEWS: Tropical Storm Debby hits Florida with floods, threat of record rain in Georgia and the Carolinas

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Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists & the UFO Connection | MHP 07.31.24.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 • Duration 01:02:14

In postwar America, a shocking secret program was undertaken to bring former Nazi scientists to the United States, in order to maintain a strategic advantage against the Soviet Union. Known as Operation Paperclip, the program involved hundreds of German scientists who ultimately helped give birth to the American Space Program.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a historical deep dive into the controversial program, with an analysis that also looks at the various connections the program, its scientists, and the curious technologies involved may have had to UFO sightings during and after World War II. Is there an even deeper secret history to the U.S.'s post war collaborations with German scientists?

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OPERATION PAPERCLIP: Project Paperclip and American Rocketry after WWII
Memorandum by The Acting Secretary of State to President Truman

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The Operators: UAP Intentions and the Atomic Connection | MHP 07.23.24.

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 • Duration 01:02:16

In the early 1940s, the world was engulfed in the Second World War. During the height of the battle, a secretive scientific endeavor began to take shape, The Manhattan Project, which would forever alter the course of history.

During this period, sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena would also begin to rise, with a concerning number occurring around sites related to the American atomic warfare complex. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at what historical research and recent studies have revealed about this period, as well as the potential intentions of the UAP operators, and finally, a series of strange secrets about UAP-related happenings in the American southwest at that time.

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The Roswell Material: Oak Ridge & AARO Analyze 'Art's Parts' | MHP 07.17.24.

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 • Duration 59:57

In 1996, radio host Art Bell received a mysterious package containing small metallic samples and an incredible story. According to the anonymous author of the enclosed letter, the material fragments had been collected during the recovery of an advanced aerospace vehicle that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947.

Recently, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) conducted a series of tests on the legendary material, whose unique physiochemical properties were claimed to enable "inertial mass reduction" (i.e., levitation or antigravity functionality), potentially due to the bismuth and magnesium layers acting as a terahertz waveguide. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, look at AARO and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's findings, as well as a deep dive into the bizarre story of these alleged Roswell materials.

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ROSWELL MATERIALS: UAP metal fragment not alien in origin: AARO

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