The Micah Hanks Program

The Micah Hanks Program


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The UFO Problem | MHP 06.22.20.
June 23, 2020

What are UFOs, and what constitutes actual UFO study? While the term "UFOlogy" is commonly used for modern UFO research, there is very little science involved in the majority of the study of this once-taboo subject. Is there a path toward a more...

Space Signals: Decoding the Mystery of FRBs | MHP 06.15.20.
June 17, 2020

Recently, astronomers have begun to notice something odd about a long-standing space mystery: the curious fast radio bursts (or FRBs) that were first discovered back in 2007. In recent weeks, the FRBs appear to be firing off light pulses on a...

Mystery Booms: Tracking the Phenomenon | MHP 060820
June 10, 2020

Mysterious sounds of unexplained origin have been documented in places all around the world. Such noises are often likened to thunder-like “booms” or explosions, and although a number of suggestions have been made as to what their causes may be,...

The Myth and Mystery of UFOs | MHP 06.01.20.
June 03, 2020

What are UFOs? Is there more than one answer to this question, and does new information forthcoming on the subject in recent years, which includes videos of unidentified objects or aircraft obtained by the Navy, change the fact that the UFO...

Paleo-SETI: UFOs and Space Explorers in Antiquity | MHP 05.25.20.
May 26, 2020

Most historians of the UFO subject would recognize its beginning in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of mysterious flying "saucers" over Mount Ranier, Washington. However, similar descriptions of unusual aerial phenomena have persisted throughout...

Navy Encounters With Rogue Aircraft | MHP 05.18.20.
May 19, 2020

Between 2013 and 2019, several incidents involving unidentified "rogue" aircraft encountered by Navy pilots occurred in military airspace off the East Coast of the United States. The incidents, detailed in newly released "hazard reports" obtained via...

NASA's "Secret" UFO Files | MHP 05.11.20.
May 12, 2020

What does the government really know about UFOs? Does our military possess information about unexplained aerial phenomena that remains unknown to the general public, and what are their attitudes toward it? For several years now, we have slowly been...

UFOs, the Military and the Media | MHP 05.04.20.
May 05, 2020

In 2017, the New York Times featured the article "," which initiated a system reset for public perception of the UFO phenomenon. However, UFOs weren't always considered among the ranks of "all the news that's fit to print" as far as topics...

04.27.20. Big Footprints: Sasquatch and Science
April 28, 2020

For many, the idea of any large, unrecognized mammals still existing in North America would seem impossible; add to that that the words bipedal primate, and the subject goes from "impossible" to just plain crazy. That wasn't the case for Jeffrey...

04.20.20. Death, Abduction and the UFO: A Modern Mythology
April 22, 2020

In 1958, psychologist Carl Jung authored one of the most unusual essays of his entire lifetime. Titled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, he both acknowledged the mytho-psychological components of the UFO mystery,...