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The Micah Hanks Program
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…
Episodes
The Micah Hanks ProgramIncident at Eglin Air Force Base | MHP 04.30.24.
In January 2023, a U.S. military pilot reported an encounter with a group of unusual objects flying in a diamond formation over the Gulf of Mexico near Eglin…
The Micah Hanks ProgramUFOs: A Scientist's Perspective | MHP 04.23.24.
What do we really know about UFOs, following several decades of studying these phenomena? With the many questions that remain about unidentified aerial…
The Micah Hanks ProgramBroken AARO: The 'Mellon Report', UAP, and Area 51 | MHP 04.15.24.
On March 8, 2024, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released its historical report on UAP, shortly after briefing only a select group…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe DoD's Dark UAP Secret | MHP 04.09.24.
In the Autumn of 1957, a series of events unfolded that, for a time, left U.S. defense officials believing that the country was on the verge of war with the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe UFO Deception Game | MHP 04.02.24.
In 1950, a bizarre story involving the alleged crash of a flying saucer near Aztec, New Mexico, and its subsequent recovery by the U.S. military, sparked one…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Secret History of Aviation: Strange Sightings & Special Projects | MHP 03.26.24.
For years before the beginning of the modern UFO era in 1947, sightings of bizarre, cigar-shaped flying objects capable of unusual aerial feats were reported…
The Micah Hanks ProgramDarkness in the Desert: The Roswell Controversy | MHP 03.18.24.
According to the findings of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the object that crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe AARO Historical Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 03.12.24.
A new Defense Department report detailing the United States government's involvement in investigations of unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known…
The Micah Hanks ProgramProject Moon Dust: The Secret U.S. Crash Retrieval Program | MHP 03.05.24.
In the 1970s, the existence of a once-secret program called "Project Moon Dust" first came to the attention of UFO researchers employing the Freedom of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramDisinfo and the UFO: True Tales of Saucers and Psyops | MHP 02.26.24.
Since the late 1940s, stories about crashed flying saucers in the American Southwest have perplexed UFO researchers, and while many believe the stories have at…
The Micah Hanks ProgramUFOs & U.S. Presidents: Aerial Phenomena & the Oval Office | MHP 02.19.24.
Since the late 1940s, Americans have remained perplexed by stories of unidentified flying objects in our skies, a question that has also been viewed as a…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Sol Foundation UAP Initiative: NHI, Research, & Policy | MHP 02.12.24.
On November 17-18, 2023, a symposium of academics, current and former government officials, and other leading voices in the study of unidentified anomalous…
The Micah Hanks ProgramPlasmas: UAP and Life-Like Luminous Phenomena | MHP 02.07.24.
For centuries, reports of strange lights moving through the skies have been reported around the world. Beginning in the late 1940s, popular reports of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramExit Strategy: AARO's Former Director Speaks | MHP 01.31.24.
In a recent opinion and analysis piece written for Scientific American, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Quickening: Experiencers and the NHI Enigma | MHP 01.23.24.
Humankind continues to move steadily toward an uncertain future... one where advancements in artificial intelligence, the potential discovery of alien life…
The Micah Hanks ProgramClassified: The Intelligence Community UAP Briefing | MHP 01.16.24.
Recently, several lawmakers on Capitol Hill received a classified briefing from the Intelligence Community Inspector General on allegations that first surfaced…
The Micah Hanks ProgramCryptoterrestrials: A Hypothesis of Earthly NHI Origins | MHP 01.08.24.
Since mysterious aerial objects were first encountered by pilots during World War Two, questions have remained among world leaders about whether there could be…
The Micah Hanks ProgramSightings: Real Encounters with Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 01.03.24.
What if world militaries were beginning to make detections with advanced sensory equipment that corroborated sightings of phenomena not unlike historic…
The Micah Hanks ProgramUAP Secrecy: Law, Democracy, and the Phenomenon | MHP 12.26.23.
The National Defense Authorization Act has been signed into law by the President of the United States, but not without a few concerns, according to an official…
The Micah Hanks ProgramCatastrophic Disclosure: A Mitigation Plan | MHP 12.19.23.
In 1938, an infamous broadcast based on H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds allegedly incited confusion and panic as listeners questioned whether a real…
The Micah Hanks ProgramUAP Disclosure: The Empire Strikes Back | MHP 12.14.23.
Earlier this year, a 64-page proposal to bring about the disclosure of information on what the U.S. government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) was…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Minot Air Force Base UFO incident | MHP 11.05.23.
In the early morning hours of October 24, 1968, witnesses at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, which included security personnel at the installation's…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Fight For UFO Transparency: The UAP Disclosure Act Under Fire | MHP 11.28.23.
There's trouble brewing on Capitol Hill, as a group of top lawmakers are banding together to attempt to block the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, potentially one…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Sol Foundation: Academia's Cutting-Edge UAP Think Tank | MHP 11.20.23.
"The time has come for serious, well-funded, and cutting-edge academic research into the nature of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and their broad cosmological…
The Micah Hanks ProgramuNHIdden: The Non-Human Intelligence Initiative | MHP 11.14.23.
Recent revelations by government whistleblowers are raising questions about whether the United States and other nations could have information about the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramAliens: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrials | MHP 11.06.23.
Are we alone in the universe? Could intelligent aliens exist somewhere in the cosmos, and how close are we to finally discovering them? Or is it even possible…
The Micah Hanks ProgramFrom Beyond: Uncanny Encounters with Eerie Visitors | MHP 10.31.23.
Autumn fills the air, and of all the things that frighten us, some of the most terrifying are those which involve "the terrors next door," and the lurking…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe 2023 Annual Report on UAP | MHP 10.23.23.
A classified report detailing the Pentagon's latest findings in its ongoing investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, has been delivered to…
The Micah Hanks ProgramImpossible Archaeology: Strange Structures & Ancient Enigmas | MHP 10.16.23.
At England's famous Stonehenge, new analysis of one of the site's most enigmatic features has revealed the extraordinary lengths its ancient builders were…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Albuquerque Anomaly: UAP Entities and Military Encounters | MHP 10.10.23.
For decades, sightings of unusual aerial phenomena have been logged by observers from around the world. Yet in only a handful of the countless number of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe U.S. Department of Energy UAP Files | MHP 10.02.23.
Since the early years of the Atomic Age, sightings of unidentified flying objects near American facilities involved with nuclear research and power generation…
The Micah Hanks ProgramWitnessed: The Case of the White Pine Triangle | MHP 09.25.23.
It was an ordinary late afternoon in the early 1980s, when something incredible happened to a rural family in Eastern Canada. As they looked out the windows of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe NASA Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 09.18.23.
"The study of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) presents a unique scientific opportunity that demands a rigorous, evidence-based approach," reads a…
The Micah Hanks ProgramHunt for the Mystery Spheres: AARO and Metallic Spherical UAP | MHP 091123
According to the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a significant majority of UAP incidents reported by members of the military involve…
The Micah Hanks ProgramIncident at Ford Road: A Close Encounter with Triangular UAP | MHP 09.05.23.
It seemed like any other clear Michigan evening as Wayne and Michelle drove their Jeep Wrangler home from a late-night game of bingo. Then, suddenly in the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramAerial Threats Over the United States: NASA's Latest UFO Sightings | MHP 08.29.23.
Several recent UFO sightings logged by American pilots are revealing details about harrowing encounters with strange objects they couldn't identify. The…
The Micah Hanks ProgramWatchers: Surveillance, UAP Secrecy, & the MH370 Enigma | MHP 08.22.23.
As a bipartisan group within Congress is pushing for the establishment of a new select committee on UAP, information presented within classified hearings on…
The Micah Hanks ProgramAntigravity: Zero Point and the Classified World of UAP Technology | MHP 08.15.23.
For decades, rumors involving secret research efforts to find a means of opposing gravity have hinted at efforts by the United States and other world…
The Micah Hanks ProgramNon-Human Intelligence: UAP, Humanoids, & Flying Saucer Folklore | MHP 08.08.23.
What would a form of exotic non-human intelligence potentially look like, and how might it behave? Would it be anything like us, or would it be impossible to…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe 2023 Congressional Hearing on UAP | MHP 07.31.23.
Last Wednesday, lawmakers convened for a widely-anticipated hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) featuring testimony from witnesses that included…
The Micah Hanks ProgramCrashes, Casualties, and Cover-Ups: Assessing the UAP Whistleblower Claims | MHP 07.25.23.
As the latest round of Congressional hearings on UAP approaches, many questions remain about the claims of whistleblower David Grusch, and the information he…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe UAP Disclosure Act: The Senate's Fight for UFO Transparency | MHP 07.17.23.
In a historic new bipartisan measure led by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York, government records on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)…
The Micah Hanks ProgramSoviet USO Encounters: The Quacker Mystery and Unidentified Acoustic Phenomena | MHP 07.11.23.
For centuries, unusual sounds have been reported throughout the world. From the quaking "Ton der Dove-Bai" reported in Greenland to the mysterious "Bloop"…
The Micah Hanks ProgramItaly's Fascist UFO Files: Crashes, Coverups, and the RS/33 Cabinet | MHP 07.04.23.
In 1996, a strange series of documents were delivered to several Italian media outlets and UFO researchers, purporting to reveal the existence of a secretive…
The Micah Hanks ProgramGiant UFOs on Radar: UAP, Whistleblowers, and the Stephenville Enigma | MHP 06.26.23.
In 2008, one or more massive unidentified flying objects were observed moving erratically through the evening skies over Stephenville, Texas. Among the many…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Nuclear Connection: UAP and the Atomic Warfare Complex | MHP 06.20.23.
Throughout the early years of the Cold War, recurrent appearances of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) were documented near several radioactive materials…
The Micah Hanks ProgramDavid Grusch: The UAP Whistleblower Controversy | MHP 06.12.23.
As the developing story of UAP whistleblower David Grusch continues to unfold, new statements from the former member of the U.S. Air Force and intelligence…
The Micah Hanks ProgramCraft Retrievals of Non-Human Origin | MHP 06.05.23.
Is the United States in possession of anomalous craft of non-human origin? Has this information been illegally kept from Congress? These are among the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe RB-47 Incident: Mystery at 2800 Megacycles | MHP 05.29.23.
In the early pre-dawn hours of July 17, 1957, an Air Force RB-47—an aircraft that served at the time as the backbone of Strategic Air Command's bomber…
The Micah Hanks ProgramOn the Trail of the Skinwalker: Colm Kelleher Ph.D. on the AAWSAP Investigations | MHP 05.23.23.
Between 2008 and 2010, what is arguably one of the most atypical government investigations into the unexplained was carried out by employees with Bigelow…
The Micah Hanks ProgramBlack Knight: Dark Satellites, Anomalous Echoes and Alien Probes | MHP 05.15.23.
Since the 1950s, American astronomers and military officials have monitored the orbital space above planet Earth for signs of objects that may represent…
The Micah Hanks ProgramLost: Missing Persons, UFOs, and High Strangeness | MHP 05.08.23.
Few perennial mysteries intrigue us more than people who vanish. Throughout history, there have been countless examples of cases involving individuals who went…
The Micah Hanks ProgramUAP: Knowns, Unknowns, and Uncertainties | MHP 05.01.23.
On June 2, 1964, Charles Davis, a youth living near the town of Hobbs, New Mexico, had been playing outside in full view of his grandmother when a small…
The Micah Hanks ProgramGarry Nolan: UAP Analysis and Anomalous Pathology | MHP 04.19.23.
Since 2017, reports of unusual encounters U.S. military personnel have had with anomalous aerial phenomena have seen renewed debate among the military, the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Senate Hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena | MHP 04.19.23.
On April 19, 2023, a hearing by the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities was held that focused on the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Secret Life of Tom Slick: The CIA and the Search for the Yeti | MHP 04.11.23.
In 1957, a wealthy Texas philanthropist and oil tycoon named Tom Slick Jr. was making headlines across the nation. Slick, who had already poured much of his…
The Micah Hanks ProgramArea 51 Uncensored: Tales From America's Best-Known Secret Base | MHP 03.05.23.
In the heart of the Nevada desert is one of the most legendary and talked about locations in the United States... despite the fact that, until a decade ago, it…
The Micah Hanks ProgramSuperintelligence: An A.I. Takeover Scenario | MHP 03.27.23.
By the early years of the new millennium, experts were already sounding alarms about the potential threat that machine intelligence might eventually pose to…
The Micah Hanks ProgramLaw Enforcement Encounters with UAP | MHP 03.21.23
Throughout the mid-1970s, several incidents occurred throughout the United States involving law enforcement encounters with UAP. Involving multiple witnesses…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Hunt for an Invisible Killer: Colorado's Mystery Cattle Deaths | MHP 03.14.23.
In October 2022, dozens of cattle were found dead under mysterious circumstances on U.S. Forest Service property along Colorado's Western Slope. Although…