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Astroparticle physicist Matthew Szydagis on UAP science | Reality Check

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22.09.2026
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Matthew Szydagis, an astroparticle physicist at the University at Albany SUNY, who was recently appointed to the UAP Science Advisory Council for the White House and federal agencies. Szydagis describes what the council can and cannot do without security clearances, including the more than 50 declassification requests its members have already filed and names the Varginha UFO case as the one he most wants disclosed. He walks Coulthart through the energy a Tic Tac maneuver would demand, and why he treats the claim that interstellar distances are too great as a misreading of relativity rather than a limit on visitation. He also gives a detailed account of his ongoing testing of one of the Art's Parts samples entrusted to him by Tom DeLonge and Hal Puthoff, including the millimeter-scale holes that point toward a human origin. The harassment that followed came not from debunkers but from people who want the sample to be alien, and he says it has been worse than anything skeptics have sent him. #UAP #science #declassification CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Kanyon Lyons On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/ CHAPTER SUMMARY: 0:00 Intro 2:18 Funding UAP Science at Albany 5:22 Why One Camera Is Never Enough 17:08 Disclosure From the Bottom Up 19:17 Inside the Science Advisory Council 27:17 Stigma and Threats Against Researchers 30:26 What Catastrophic Disclosure Means 38:46 Energy From the Quantum Vacuum 44:54 Evidence Versus Proof 48:38 Time Dilation and Warp Drive 55:16 Eric Davis and Extraordinary Claims 1:04:51 Testing Art's Parts 1:12:22 The Millimeter Holes 1:20:54 Ubatuba Sample 1:25:09 Malevolent NHI and the Trickster 1:29:18 Faith, Demons, and Ontological Shock 1:39:58 Designing the Ideal UAP Program 1:43:42 Is Physics Being Suppressed?
Source Channel: NewsNation