Things Kevin Knuth Has Said on Podcasts

“I feel bad about raining on this guy's parade of his cool UAP photo, but that's my job as a scientist. We've been ruining all the fun for, what, 400 years now.” — Kevin Knuth, Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Kevin Knuth has just shown a UAP photo that turned out to be a seagull the photographer hadn't noticed. His point is that most reported sightings are not alien craft.

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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating Around 05:57 into the episode

Kevin Knuth

…And the fastest way to catch mistakes is for you to catch them. Physicists often bring a unique perspective that you can't get anywhere else. And so this talk is basically that. I'm asking the question, how anomalous is anomalous when it comes to UAP? And I'm going to focus on energy and power.

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Kevin Knuth

…didn't notice it while he took the pictures because he was taking a picture of the boats in the background that I have covered up. And that's actually a seagull. This is the same picture. And the person was taking a picture of the ships here. I've cropped it a bit. We can zoom in. And maybe still not obvious what it is. It's not obvious until I do that. Now it's pretty obvious what this is. I feel bad about raining on this guy's parade of his cool UAP photo, but that's my job as a scientist. We've been ruining all the fun for, what, 400 years now. And that's really what we've been doing. It's very funny. I work very closely with Matthew Shadagas and Cecilia Levy, both professors at the University at Albany. And I work with them under UAPX and our UAPX group. And we've looked at many cases at this point, looked at photographs. Matthew's been analyzing materials and we have discovered more, as Matthew puts it, he puts it quite well. He's…

Brian Keating

That's right.

Kevin Knuth

So I'm going to focus here first on speeds and accelerations. There are many cases where we can measure speeds and accelerations and sometimes with radar. Herman Oberth, this grumpy looking gentleman here at the bottom of the picture, was a German father of modern rocketry. He was the mentor to…

Brian Keating

Everything he shows rests on one assumption. And at the end of this conversation, I'm going to push back on it.

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“UFOs have been observed going from air into water and from water into air pretty seamlessly. Humans can't do that very well. The craft that we have that does this is a seaplane. A seaplane, I love that example, because a seaplane is neither a good plane nor a good boat.” — Kevin Knuth, Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Physicist Kevin Knuth turns to objects reported moving between air and water as another class of UAP evidence. He compares them with the best human equivalent.

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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating Around 35:45 into the episode

Kevin Knuth

…Reticuli in less than two days. You know, this is the amount of time it'll take you to drive from New York to Florida. You could get to the nearest stars, right, within 40 light years. And there's what, there's probably 80 sun-like stars in the 40-light-year range. I don't know the exact number.

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Way more than that. I think a thousand.

Kevin Knuth

…acceleration. You're looking at something way, way orders of magnitude beyond that. All right, so underwater objects, this is the Aguadilla object, and Doug Betner gave a talk at SCU and argued that a lot of the strangeness of this object was actually due to the fact that you had a lot of video compression going on. This isn't my good power example, it was just an example of transmedium travel. UFOs have been observed going from air into water and from water into air pretty seamlessly. Humans can't do that very well. The craft that we have that does this is a seaplane. A seaplane, I love that example, because a seaplane is neither a good plane nor a good boat. Now, of course, there's new drones that can probably go in and out of water more easily after we're working on things like this. The one encounter that I find fascinating is from February of 1987, where the New Zealand frigate, the HMNZS Southland, was involved in daily exercises from November to February, where they were basically trying to lure USOs in from the Pacific Ocean into the Hiroki…

Brian Keating

Kennedy assassination. It's worse than

Kevin Knuth

the Kennedy assassination. What are they doing in the Kermetic Trench? It's a good question. All right. So let's go back to the points of energy and power, right? So we've got speeds and accelerations. How do you move at 3,700 miles an hour underwater? And this isn't a small object.

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