As humans continue to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life from other worlds, and the UAP debate suggests the possibility that it may already have found us, legal scholars are now considering how laws would apply to potential contact scenarios. 

Joining us on The Micah Hanks Program this week are Professor Michael Bohlander, the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy in the Durham Law School, and Dr. John Elliott, an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and the Coordinator for the SETI Post Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. Together we explore how international laws could apply if contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence were made, and how a recent survey the researchers are conducting could be used to develop post-contact protocols. 

Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider reporting your sighting to the UAP Sightings Reporting System, a public resource for information about sightings of aerial phenomena.

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Show Notes

Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:

• ELIZONDO: I Investigated UAPs at the Pentagon—Americans Can Handle the Truth 
• NEWS: Palmdale UFO Scare Leads To Revelations About Mystery Drone Incursions Over Plant 42 
• How Would Humans React to Contact with Extraterrestrials? UK Researchers Seek Answers in New Survey
• MICHAEL BOHLANDER: Professor Michael Bohlander - Durham University 
• BOOK: Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights
• ARTICLE: Take Me to Your Lawyer: The Legal Aspects of Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• JOHN ELLIOT: Dr John Elliott - School of Computer Science
• PAPER: Meeting extraterrestrials: scenarios of first contact from the perspective of exosociology 

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