{"id":3949,"date":"2005-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2005\/04\/26\/close-encounters-of-the-absurd-kind-a-scientist-looks-at-ufos\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"close-encounters-of-the-absurd-kind-a-scientist-looks-at-ufos","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/close-encounters-of-the-absurd-kind-a-scientist-looks-at-ufos\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind \u2014 A Scientist Looks at UFO\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Mark Vagins<\/p>\n<p>Look! Up in the sky!  It\u2019s a bird?  It\u2019s a plane?  It\u2019s&#8230; a weather balloon?  What\u2019s the real deal with America\u2019s ongoing UFO obsession, anyway? What does a professional astrophysicist with an interest in the offbeat think about the whole paranormal scene?  Come on an exploration of the claims and issues involved, both from a scientific perspective and through the tales of the true believers.  It will be an eye-opening hour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3949","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}