Our latest REALITY CHECK is with physicist Kevin Knuth youtu.be/UxiZrYBFjXk?si=Ms-B…. - As a child in Wisconsin he experienced anomalous events. He had a sudden intuition to slide next to his father on a bench car seat; the door on his side then blew open. His father later said he sometimes had similar intuitions. - Around 2 a.m. in their Albany home he saw a boy (looking about 5 years old) standing at his toddler son’s crib gate. The figure turned, looked scared, released the gate, and backed into shadow. Knuth found no one. Shortly afterward his son independently described seeing the same boy. Knuth does not know what it was and will not call it a “ghost.” - In 1988, while a graduate student in Montana, cattle mutilations near Malmstrom AFB (surgical removal of organs with no blood or tracks) and reports of UFOs shutting down ICBMs first made him take the subject seriously. - He later spoke with a relative who served at Malmstrom in the early 1970s who said UFOs shutting down missiles “used to happen all the time.” - He hypothesizes that UAP warp spacetime. That warping could scramble an ICBM’s inertial navigation and cause a shutdown without any direct attack on the missile itself. The same mechanism might explain some “missing time” reports. - His 2019 peer-reviewed Entropy paper (with Robert Powell and Peter Reilly) analyzed the 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac: drop from 28,000 ft to sea level in 0.78 seconds implies ~5,400 g; speeds around 40,000 mph; no sonic boom, exhaust, or heat signature. The implied power is enormous (he cites figures on the order of many times U.S. nuclear output). Even a lower 1,000 g estimate would allow relativistic interstellar travel. He concludes the object behaves like an excellent interstellar craft that violates known physics and materials limits (ordinary missiles fail around 60 g). - Kinetic energy from those maneuvers should have produced heat equivalent to hundreds of Tomahawk missiles exploding plus massive friction effects; none were observed. The object also reacted to Commander Fravor’s maneuvers, so it was not a projection. - He gave AARO a copy of the paper in February 2023. Two months later Sean Kirkpatrick told the Senate there was no peer-reviewed work showing UAP that defy physics. Knuth says that statement was false. - He has examined the 1986 JAL 1628 case (two small rectangular objects plus a much larger walnut-shaped craft) and notes FAA radar data exists that John Callahan copied before tapes were taken. - He criticizes NASA’s 2023 UAP report as thin (11 pages) and notes it omitted astronaut Alan Bean’s Skylab account of a flashing red light plus unpublished Apollo 17 photos of lights. - As vice-president of UAPx he is deploying cameras, radiation detectors, spectrometers, radar and RF analyzers (including 1.6–1.7 GHz) in Connecticut to try to triangulate recurring “orb” sightings. Analysis of 24/7 footage is tedious and they have not yet achieved a solid triangulation. - He has spoken with people under NDAs who say crash-retrieval programs exist. His personal wish is to stand inside one of the craft. - Transmedium objects appear in ship logs going back 250+ years. A New Zealand Navy frigate sonar recorded an ~800-ft-long object that closed 2.5 km in 25 seconds (~3,000 mph underwater), passed beneath the ship and drained power; no surface wave was seen, creating a paradox about how it interacts with water. - He expected academic stigma but a 2015–16 physics-department talk on UFOs was packed. Colleagues were supportive afterward and the university later gave him awards that cited his UAP work. - He joined Avi Loeb’s UAP Science Advisory Council but it will only review unclassified data. He will not participate if the process is manipulated the way Project Blue Book or the Condon Report were. He has asked to visit retrieval sites and been refused. - He believes the government is concealing information but is unsure how much officials actually understand about the operators’ intentions. He thinks the phenomenon is real, the performance data are inconsistent with human technology, and the scientific community should study it openly