Our team has been working behind the scenes for the past couple of months preparing a community platform to support connection and collaboration between scholars interested in UAP/NHI. Building on well established tools as much as possible, we’ve configured a Discord server and a Google Drive for our community to use as we develop and execute projects together. We are working on white papers for government bodies, peer-reviewed research for academic journals, educational resources for the public, and we are eager to branch out in any way we can be helpful at this critical moment.
Of course, the main value of the Visible College is the community. While some of us are professional academics, we prefer the term “scholar” because we recognize that serious academic-quality work happens in many places. Now, more than ever, we need to break down the walls between our individual fields of interest to promote massively multidisciplinary work. The paradigm case of a Visible Colleague might be someone with a PhD working at an accredited institution of higher learning, or a well-credentialed professional with subject matter expertise in a relevant field, but we consider all applications on a case-by-case basis. If you want to do high-quality, scholarly work in the UAP/NHI space and you are interested in joining us, please fill out an application!
September 27, 2024
Inaugural teach-in at Yale University
During the Vietnam war era, students and activists all over the country and around the world gathered together to raise awareness, protest, and mobilize in support of productive change. Though the current cultural moment is different in many ways, we believe a similar global movement is beginning to emerge. The key difference, of course, is that the issues surrounding UAP/NHI are not on the nightly news for all to see. At most, they hover on the fringe of most people’s thoughts.
One of the challenges we face right now is the substantial gap between the status quo orthodoxy and what seems to be the truth regarding UAP/NHI. Scholars like J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee have gathered massive amounts of information going back to the late 1940s and beyond. There are thousands upon thousands of reports, photographs, videos, and physical traces to investigate. And while scholarly investigation of these topics is rewarding and productive, everyone walks away puzzled in some way or another. The Phenomenon, as we call it, resists simplification.
For a newcomer, these topics will be jarring. It is one thing to hear and try to take seriously the idea that flying saucers are real and that the US Government is hiding important information about them from the public. It is quite another to listen to experiencers report personal encounters with beings that look like large insects or reptiles. Somehow, we must all learn to sit with our discomfort as we live on the edge of a major paradigm shift. The anomalies, the strange things we don’t understand at all, those are what will lead us to new insights and, eventually, a more wholistic understanding of the world we inhabit.
