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Many Worlds, Or None

Many Worlds, Or None

He was a small man with conspicuous shadows under his eyes. Years of calculation had saturated him deeply in the habit of counting and inference. Those years gave him a

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 1 Mar 2021 • 27 min read
The image making spider
fiction

The image making spider

The image making spider is busy tonight. It has spindly mechanical legs that wobble uncertainly, and wavering arms that pull on invisible threads. Watch it amble through a dark alley,

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 28 Jan 2021 • 3 min read
Revisiting Hynek's Strangeness-Probability Curve: Analysis of 341 Case Reports
data

Revisiting Hynek's Strangeness-Probability Curve: Analysis of 341 Case Reports

Finding signal in the noise of UFO case reports using a modern computational approach to an old idea: Hynek's strangeness-probability curve.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 25 Jan 2021 • 30 min read
The self-erasing idea
philosophy

The self-erasing idea

Some ideas have a curious property: they destroy themselves.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 14 Jan 2021 • 11 min read
Analyzing The Nearly Lost Hatch Database: 18,123 case files
data

Analyzing The Nearly Lost Hatch Database: 18,123 case files

When Jacques Vallée described the history of UFO data collection efforts to a French government group, he prominently mentioned a name that is purposely obscure even to UFOLogists: Larry Hatch

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 10 Jan 2021 • 22 min read
What Does Russia Know? Translation and Analysis of a Soviet UFOlogist's Study of Naval Incidents

What Does Russia Know? Translation and Analysis of a Soviet UFOlogist's Study of Naval Incidents

UFOs have returned to the national conversation in the past several years. That conversation has often invoked national security concerns. The recent passage of an omnibus spending package included a

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 1 Jan 2021 • 76 min read
December Ephemera
ephemera

December Ephemera

Things have started to grow a bit beyond the blog, including participating in the creative endeavors of a few friends. There are also some creative odds and ends that don't

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 23 Dec 2020 • 10 min read
Will John Adams Ever Be Able to Live With Himself? (Part 1)
presidential history project

Will John Adams Ever Be Able to Live With Himself? (Part 1)

Recently I developed a harebrained idea: why not read a biography of every U.S. president, in chronological order? I'm embarking on a weird project: I'd

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 18 Dec 2020 • 7 min read
Saying Goodbye to Twitter

Saying Goodbye to Twitter

This is a short note to say I decided to leave Twitter, at least how I've been using it. Why? Two reasons. First: screens want time and attention, and our

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 12 Dec 2020 • 2 min read
Reaction to "‘Fast Movers’ and Transmedium Vehicles"
uap

Reaction to "‘Fast Movers’ and Transmedium Vehicles"

Tim McMillan's latest in The Debrief offers several important new pieces of information: There have been extremely high level briefings on UAP with the Department of Defense, to include the

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 2 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
Answering "Who Else Knows"
uap

Answering "Who Else Knows"

To find out more about Luis Elizondo's resignation, I contacted him for an interview. He graciously agreed. I asked him directly, what did you mean by "who else knows?" He responded at length.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 28 Nov 2020 • 27 min read
How the Safest Bet on Bipartisanship Became A Trap

How the Safest Bet on Bipartisanship Became A Trap

Early in the morning after the 2020 election it was clear there was not going to be a big blue wave in the Senate. Instead, the arithmetic looked right for

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 21 Nov 2020 • 7 min read
Magnetar
personal

Magnetar

I got sick in what was supposed to be the closing chapter of my doctorate. At first, my spine and hip hurt. Later, my eyes started to get excruciatingly irritated

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 17 Nov 2020 • 4 min read
A TV Guide to Modern UFOlogy That No One Asked For

A TV Guide to Modern UFOlogy That No One Asked For

Popular culture is a shared language to negotiate some kind of sense out of our reality. UFOs have long been part of the warp and weft of television and movies.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 13 Nov 2020 • 10 min read
Who Else Knows?
intelligence

Who Else Knows?

The 2017 release of "UFO" videos raised eyebrows and consumed a few short-lived news cycles before largely falling in between the cracks of the national news media. Perhaps this shouldn't

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 23 Oct 2020 • 5 min read
Our Lady of Computation
reflections

Our Lady of Computation

I never got to meet the man I replaced; he was already deployed to Iraq. Our crowded department meant that my predecessor's workspace was claimed before my first day. I was given a plank jammed between two racks in the back of a lab.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 17 Oct 2020 • 13 min read
Her Many Names
fiction

Her Many Names

Art Credit: From the film "El sueño de Malinche"  directed by Gonzalo Suárez, illustrated by Pablo Auladell We do not know the first of her many names. Her birth language

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 1 Oct 2020 • 6 min read
The International Stage
diplomacy

The International Stage

Charting the course from the Senate to the world stage. How will TTSA's Chris Mellon and Elizondo architect alliances on the international stage?

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 6 Sep 2020 • 9 min read
Nobody But Us, But For How Long?
intelligence

Nobody But Us, But For How Long?

What does China know about UAP? What happens when American "Nobody But Us" becomes "Fear Of Missing Out"

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 2 Sep 2020 • 9 min read
Blurred Vision: UAP Are Not All One Thing
policy

Blurred Vision: UAP Are Not All One Thing

National security decision making has always been hard, but it is becoming harder at a superlinear rate.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 15 Aug 2020 • 7 min read
Intelligence Authorization Bill Merged with National Defense Authorization, Passes Senate
senate

Intelligence Authorization Bill Merged with National Defense Authorization, Passes Senate

Yesterday (July 23, 2020) the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization bill (NDAA) on a 86-14 vote. The closely watched "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021" was merged within the NDAA.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 24 Jul 2020 • 3 min read
What if Christopher Mellon succeeds?
policy

What if Christopher Mellon succeeds?

Christopher Mellon has a plan. As former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), he understands national

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 22 Jul 2020 • 9 min read
How Will the Air Force Fare Under the Gaze of the Senate?
policy

How Will the Air Force Fare Under the Gaze of the Senate?

Imagine this scenario: the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) sits before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to deliver a report on advanced aerial threats.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 19 Jul 2020 • 5 min read
“Chains of the Sea”: The 1973 Science Fiction Novella Influencing TTSA
science fiction

“Chains of the Sea”: The 1973 Science Fiction Novella Influencing TTSA

Former head of the DOD's AATIP program shared a surprising reference to an obscure 1973 science fiction novel.

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 8 Jul 2020 • 8 min read
Checkmate or Gambit: Christopher Mellon and the Senate UAP Report
policy

Checkmate or Gambit: Christopher Mellon and the Senate UAP Report

An analysis of the role of Christoper Mellon as architect of the 2020 Senate Intelligence request for a UAP report

  • Adam Kehoe
    Adam Kehoe
Adam Kehoe 26 Jun 2020 • 14 min read
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