Professor Bohlander co-organises symposium on contact with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)

15 May 2026

Online symposium on reviving serious academic research into UAP-related contact and experiencer phenomena to be held on 10 July 2026.

Please join the organisers on 10 July 2026 for a free online symposium:

"Breaking the Taboo" — a case for reviving serious academic research into UAP-related contact and experiencer phenomena.

Organised by Karin Austin, Kimberly S Engels and Michael Bohlander, and hosted by the Center For The Impossible and the John Mack Institute, this single-day event brings together scholars, clinicians, and experiencers across three sessions exploring the reverberations of contact, its translation into academic knowledge, and the ethics of encounters between humans and non-human intelligence (NHI).

Click here to register and to view the programme.

For recent research by the organisers related to the topic of the symposium, please visit:

Austin/Bohlander/Engels - “Don’t look up?“ – Why it is past time for serious holistic research into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | Global Policy Journal

Engels - Contact and Multidimensional Subjectivity - Toward a Phenomenology of Disclosure

Bohlander - From Description to Meaning – Epistemological Problems of Scientific UAP Research and Ethics of Contact