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The UAP-rade: Marching Toward Disclosure: National Security, Open Science, and the Legal Fight to End Secrecy
May 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
May 24, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Robertson Hall, Bowl 002
Princeton’s famous P-rade celebrates familiar orange-and-black traditions — but this year, alumni will first explore a frontier that could redefine national security, scientific inquiry, and even public trust in government: unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
In a fast-paced 45-minute panel, we will unpack why Congress, the Pentagon, Silicon Valley, and the scientific community have all placed UAP on their 2025 agenda:
- Why now? Bipartisan legislation and whistleblower testimony have cracked open decades-old secrecy, and a series of still-unexplained drone incursions over New Jersey’s critical infrastructure in late 2024 has put air-space security back in the headlines.
- Science & innovation: From open-data prize challenges to multi-sensor sky-watching networks, UAP research is becoming a test-bed for next-gen aerospace, AI, and sensing technologies.
- National security & law: How new legal frameworks can protect insiders who come forward — and why transparency is a strategic advantage.
The discussion will cut through myth and hype with candid insights and vivid projections of how policy, open-science initiatives, and new legal safeguards could finally turn decades of rumor into verifiable public knowledge.
Speakers:
Jordan Flowers ’05, Executive Director, UAP Disclosure Fund; Investor & Entrepreneur with deep experience scaling mission-driven ventures. Formerly McKinsey & Co., Houlihan Lokey, and LGT Capital Partners. Co-Founder, Executive Producer, and CFO of Ontocalypse Productions, creator of the Cosmosis docuseries.
Lester Nare ’14, Director of Operations, UAP Disclosure Fund; Co-Founder & COO, Steadworth. Zimbabwean-American entrepreneur shaping the civilian movement for responsible UAP disclosure through advocacy, digital storytelling, and multi-domain sensing projects.
Dillon Guthrie, Advisory Board, UAP Disclosure Fund; Technology & National Security Attorney. Former Counsel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Former Advisor, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Published Commentator on UAP law and policy in the Harvard National Security Journal.
Sponsored by the Class of 2013