Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal is a professor of philosophy and religious thought at Rice University, where he holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought and serves as Associate Dean of the Humanities. Known for his groundbreaking work on the intersections of religion, consciousness, and the paranormal, Kripal explores how mystical and anomalous experiences challenge mainstream materialist assumptions. He is the author of several influential books, including How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything and Mutants and Mystics, and is a co-founder of the Archives of the Impossible, a research initiative that invites scholarly engagement with extraordinary human experiences. Visit his website at https://www.jeffreykripal.com Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and pioneer in UFO research who is respected for his data-driven approach. He co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA, and helped build early internet technologies. Vallée is renowned in ufology for challenging the extraterrestrial hypothesis, proposing instead that UFOs may represent a broader interdimensional phenomenon. He’s the author of Passport to Magonia and advisor to multiple scientific investigations into anomalous phenomena. Visit his website at https://jacquesvallee.com Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, published in eleven languages. Her over two decades of investigation and mainstream coverage of UFOs were profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. Leslie and reporter Ralph Blumenthal have contributed articles to The New York Times on UFOs/UAPs for seven years, beginning with a 2017, game-changing front page story about a secret Pentagon UFO program. This story included reporting on the 2004 Nimitz incident and the release of the now famous Gimbal and FLIR Navy videos. Leslie and Ralph [broke the story of former senior intelligence officer and whistleblower David Grusch in The Debrief in June, 2023, which led to an open Congressional hearing on crash retrievals and UAP. Her website is https://www.lesliekean.com/ #ufos #ufob #highstrangeness #Experiencers #aliens #jacquesvallee #jeffreykripal #lesliekean #ama #reddit #highstrangeness #interdimensionalbeings #ufob #vallée #jacquesvallee #jeffreykripal #lesliekean #psi #psychic