ARTICLE: Recordings and materials on the Symposium “Grounding the SETI and UAP Debate” of 24 April 2025

Recordings and materials on the Symposium “Grounding the SETI and UAP Debate” of 24 April 2025

This website contains post-symposium resources, including links to the Durham Declaration on SETI and UAP Research; the recordings of the papers; the speakers' presentations; media echo; as well as the Event Programme, containing presenters' bios and abstracts.

For a summary of the symposium, please see the previous event news release.

Photomontage: Andreas Müller – Attribution of the parts of the composite image: Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica (4 Sep 1971) (right) and NASA/NEAR Shoemaker (1 May 2000) (left)

^{Photomontage: Andreas Müller – Attribution of the parts of the composite image: Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica (4 Sep 1971) (right) and NASA/NEAR Shoemaker (1 May 2000) (left)}

The Durham Declaration on SETI and UAP Research

To read the Declaration, and complete a form to add your endorsement should you wish, please click here.

Panel Recordings from the Grounding the SETI and UAP Debate Symposium - Morning

Panel 1 - Part 1: Philippe Ailleris

Towards a Systematic Framework for UAP Evidence Evaluation: Introducing The Rainier Scale.

Panel 1 - Part 2: COMING SOON

Down to Earth: Characterizing the landscape of (scientific) UAP studies

Panel 1 - Part 3: Beatriz Villaroel

Searches for Near-Earth Extraterrestrial Artifacts with Hypothesis-Driven Science

Panel 2 - Part 1: Chris Senn

Structuring archiving and search parameters for the "Archives of the Impossible" as an example of facilitating coordinated access to historical encounter evidence

Panel 2 - Part 2: Andreas Anton, Michael Bohlander & John Elliott

The global survey "Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence – A study of projected perceptions and reactions among the world’s societies" - First results