Rice University Engages the UAP Reality

 

Rice University to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6

An Academic Institution with an Emphasis on Applied Science 'Opening the Archives of the Impossible'

Press Release

Toronto [ZNN] This year, Rice University will host a major international conference on the academic study of the UAP/UFO phenomena, extrasensory perception and other paranormal phenomena.

AN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

In the past, several universities and individuals associated with other academic institutions have endeavoured to examine and uncover the complexities of the UAP/UFO phenomenon. Stanford University, Boston University and the University of Colorado unsuccessfully and with limp results paid lip service to the issue.

None went into the depth of examination that has arisen at Rice University - the university is planning a conference on the paranormal - including unidentified aerial phenomenon.

Leslie Kean

World renowned researchers and authors at the conference include Leslie Kean, Jacques Vallée, experimental physicist Edwin Lemay, author Whitley Strieber and professor Diana Pasulka of the University of North Carolina Wilmington - author of the soon to be published  “Contact 21: Encounters with Non-Human Intelligence.”

Part of the plan, according to Jeffrey Kripal, dean in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice is to hold a series of webinars ahead of the conference on unidentified aerial phenomenon led by scholars.

Among other notables, the webinar will feature Priscilla Wald,  Florence Brinkley - Distinguished Chair of English at Duke University and Hussein Ali Agrama, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Included among the four days of the conference is a digital tour of the  “Archives of the Impossible” - a huge compendium of research and document collections related to paranormal experiences.

THE NEW CONTEXT - WHY THE RICE ENGAGEMENT OF UAP IS SO SIGNIFICANT

Several reasons exist for this new context into academia. 

In addition to a conference being held at a university of such stature, the significance goes beyond breaking academic barriers and quaint lectures about the paranormal.

As cited on the Rice University web page - the political context in which this conference is being held is amidst the dramatic intervention by the powerful US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. 

The Senate committee has put in place legislative requirements that the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shall turn over data and other documents in their possession related to UAP. 

Add to this context the Office of the Inspector General. It has been tasked to over-see and monitor the transfer of files and data to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Key figures in the political pandemonium surrounding the UAP Disclosure process in Washington DC include: 

• Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), 
• Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), 
• Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), 
• Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), 
• Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), 
• Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and,
• Congressman Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), have made it OK to utter and use the acronyms UFO and UAP in the halls of American governance and in the language of legislation that has been signed by the President of the United States. 

This has never been done before - a bell that cannot be un-rung.

Now, Rice University injects this same level of credibility into the realm of academia - once and for all to follow.

This represents a leading edge of social change. It is also a highly energized motivational setting for all academic institutions to begin raising legitimate questions about UAP secrecy and why the US government is now partially or perhaps totally ending a 75 year-old truth embargo surrounding the matter of UAP.

The Rice University initiative will de-stigmatize the UAP issue. It will allow other universities of similar status to enter the arena of legitimate examination of a subject matter that is now shedding its volatile skin of incredulity.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Finally, the mainstream media - another institution whose views and actions have great influence over trends and socio-political behaviour - will want to advance this academic narrative to of course improve ratings - but also hold accountable the government for its proclivity to lie to its people about the UAP/UFO issue.

Review details on and registration for Rice University Conference - HERE

The full schedule of events is available at - EVENTS.

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