Recordings and materials on the Symposium “Grounding the SETI and UAP Debate” of 24 April 2025

This website contains post-symposium resources, including links to the Declaration on SETI and UAP Research; the recordings of the papers; the speakers' presentations; media echo; as well as the Event Programme, containing presenters' bios and abstracts.

For a summary of the symposium, please see the previous event news release.

^{Photomontage: Andreas Müller – Attribution of the parts of the composite image: Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica (4 Sep 1971) (right) and NASA/NEAR Shoemaker (1 May 2000) (left)}

The Declaration on SETI and UAP Research

To read the Declaration, and complete a form to add your endorsement should you wish, please click here.

The Declaration has been translated to a number of different languages, you can see a list on the The Declaration - Translations page.

This Declaration was adopted by the delegates of the Symposium of 24 April 2025 in their personal capacity. It is not an official document of Durham University and any endorsements are also made in a personal capacity.

Videos and Presentation PDFs

NB: These files may only be cited after previous written permission by the authors.

Panel 1 - Part 1 Video: Philippe Ailleris – Presentation not released by the author

Panel 1 - Part 2 (Video not available) : Mike Cifone

Panel 1 - Part 3 Video: Beatriz Villaroel – Presentation not available

Panel 2 - Part 1 Video – Chris Senn

Panel 2 - Part 2 Video –  Andreas Anton

Panel 2 - Part 3 Video – Christian Peters

Panel 3 - Part 1 Video – Eric Hilgendorf

Panel 3 - Part 2 Video – Jia Wang

Panel 3 - Part 3 Video – Michael Bohlander

Panel 4 - Part 1 Video – John Priestland

The Declaration Launch Video

You can watch all of the videos in order on our Panel Playlist

Media echo

Artistic rendering by R&F Mo - find the original at @randf.mo on Instagram

Event Programme

The Grounding the SETI and UAP debate - Programme provides further details on the day’s proceedings, including speakers’ abstracts and bios.