This fall, we’re proud to host a rare and rigorous seminar series that brings a lifetime of independent research to bear on one of the most controversial and neglected domains in modern science: UAPs.

Titled “Alongside GEIPAN: History, Fieldwork, Statistics, and Epistemology,” this four-part series will be led by Dr. Jean-Pierre Rospars, former collaborator with France’s state-sponsored UAP investigation unit, GEIPAN (formerly GEPAN/SEPRA).

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Each seminar explores a different facet of the problem:

• Seminar 1: A unique state effort. The fifty-year story of GEIPAN’s rise, decline, and rebirth reveals how scientific institutions wrestle with the anomalous—and what that tells us about public trust, data scarcity, and political will.

• Seminar 2: A case on the edge. A 1979 humanoid sighting in rural France reveals the methodological difficulties—and epistemic tensions—of investigating firsthand witness testimony.

• Seminar 3: Numbers vs. narratives. What do statistical analyses of hundreds of reports reveal about witnesses, patterns, and the limits of perception?

• Seminar 4: The limits of knowledge. A deep epistemological reflection on why UAPs remain so hard to study—and what this reveals about science itself.

 

Across all four sessions, Rospars advances a powerful case for “methodological patience and epistemic humility” in the face of unresolved anomalies.