Sol's 2024 Symposium

November 22-23 at The Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Over the last year, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) have become more visible in our world, with sightings on the increase and government, academia, and media taking notice as never before. This growing acceptance of a UAP presence, however, foregrounds just how little we understand about these enigmas, the alleged science and technology that make them possible, and what the United States and other governments may have learned about them over the years. We also are only beginning to anticipate the likelihood of a future in which UAP are taken for granted, with all the radical changes to our world and self-understanding that will bring.   More details at the bottom of this page.

Join the Sol Foundation to explore one of the great challenges of our time at our second annual symposium, which will take place November 22-23 at the Fort Mason Center, in San Francisco. Led by some of the most prominent and thoughtful voices on UAP from government, academia, and technology, Sol’s meeting this year reinvigorates the UAP conversation by showcasing new scientific discoveries, proposals for government reform, ideas for social action, and visions of technological innovation.  

Organized by Sol’s board of directors, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Peter Skafish, and Jonathan Berte, the symposium features them as speakers as well as other prominent and new UAP voices, including:

Yoshiharu Asakawa, General Secretary of the UAP Caucus, Parliament of Japan
Dr. Eric Davis, theoretical and applied physicist, Earthtech, formerly the Aerospace
Corporation
Dr. Stephen Finley, Chair of African and African American Studies, Louisiana State University
Rear Admiral (ret.) Dr. Tim Gallaudet, former administrator, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration
Ryan Graves, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Aerospace
Leslie Kean, journalist and author, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
Kirk McConnell, staff member (retired), Senate Armed Services Committee
Eric Shrock, former Deputy Director, Technology Development and Integration, Lockheed Martin
Dr. Jacques Vallée, computer scientist and author, Passport to Magonia and The Invisible College
Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, astronomer, the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) Project
Rizwan Virk, entrepreneur and investor, founder of Play Labs at MIT, and author of Startup Myths and Models and The Simulation Hypothesis
Dr. Alexander Wendt, Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of
Political Science at The Ohio State University