UAlbany just received a transformational endowment to fund hard-science UAP research: UAlbanyX. Recycling the UAPx name. This could be the first fully funded UAP physics program at a major public university – and only the second big academic effort after Harvard’s Galileo Project.
In this episode of Lehto Files, I break down what this gift really means, how it connects to Kevin Knuth & Matt Szydagis’ peer-reviewed UAP work, the UAPx Catalina expedition from A Tear in the Sky, and why this might finally crack the stigma around UFO/UAP science in academia.
? Official UAlbany UAP endowment announcement
UAlbany press release – Tony Gorman endowment for UAP research & “Project X (UAPx)”
https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2025-ualbany-receives-major-gift-advance-scientific-research-unidentified-aerial ? Peer-reviewed UAP papers by Knuth, Szydagis & collaborators
1) The big UAP review paper
“The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace–Undersea Phenomena (UAP)” – Knuth et al., 2025 (Progress in Aerospace Sciences; free preprint)
arXiv (free PDF):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794 2) UAPx Catalina field expedition paper
“Initial Results From the First Field Expedition of UAPx to Study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” –
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00558 3) Nimitz / Tic Tac flight characteristics papers
“Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” – Knuth, Powell & Reali, Entropy (2019)
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/10/939 ? Galileo Project & Sphere observatory
Galileo Project official site (Harvard):
https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/ Avi Loeb’s article on the Galileo observatory on top of the Las Vegas Sphere (“Dalek” IR array) – with the photos I show in this episode:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-new-galileo-project-observatory-is-celebrated-on-the-joe-rogan-experience-and-nascar-633292917fb4 ? “A Tear in the Sky” – documentary featuring UAPx & Catalina data
Apple TV (buy/rent):
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/a-tear-in-the-sky/umc.cmc.5g34tisibdiy4wfror6kx6ad0 Apple TV
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