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Six objects reported at 480 mph in a declassified military infrared video show brightness flicker at bird wingbeat rates
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kopparapu, Richard Cloete +3
In September 2026 the U.S. Department of War released an infrared video recorded from a military aircraft over the Middle East, with a mission report describing six small spherical…
Limits on Kinematic Inference from the PURSUE Airborne Sensor Videos
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kopparapu
This paper analyzes the 112 sensor videos released under the PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) initiative. Redactions to on-screen displays li…
Wind Power as a Technosignature on M-dwarf Planets
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Mykhaylo Danylov
We suggest that the large-scale deployment of wind turbines on an M-dwarf planet could produce observable technosignatures. Motivated by observations of hypersonic wind velocities…
A Model for Economic Freedom on Mars
Jacob Haqq-Misra
The momentum of human spaceflight initiatives continues to build toward Mars, and technological advances may eventually enable the potential for permanent space settlement. Aspirat…
Constraints on Interstellar Sovereignty
Jacob Haqq-Misra
Human space exploration and settlement of other planets is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, while mission concepts for remote and crewed missions to nearby star syst…
Galactic settlement of low-mass stars as a resolution to the Fermi paradox
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Thomas J. Fauchez
An expanding civilization could rapidly spread through the galaxy, so the absence of extraterrestrial settlement in the solar system implies that such expansionist civilizations do…
Population Growth, Energy Use, and the Implications for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Brendan Mullan, Jacob Haqq-Misra
Von Hoerner (1975) examined the effects of human population growth and predicted agricultural, environmental, and other problems from observed growth rate trends. Using straightfor…
The Drake Equation as a Function of Spectral Type and Time
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu
This chapter draws upon astronomical observations and modeling to constrain the prevalence of communicative civilizations in the galaxy. We discuss the dependence of the Drake equa…
Why do we find ourselves around a yellow star instead of a red star?
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kumar Kopparpu, Eric T. Wolf
M-dwarf stars are more abundant than G-dwarf stars, so our position as observers on a planet orbiting a G-dwarf raises questions about the suitability of other stellar types for su…
Funding the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with a Lottery Bond
Jacob Haqq-Misra
I propose the establishment of a SETI Lottery Bond to provide a continued source of funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The SETI Lottery Bond is a fixe…
On the likelihood of non-terrestrial artifacts in the Solar System
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu
Extraterrestrial technology may exist in the Solar System without our knowledge. This is because the vastness of space, combined with our limited searches to date, implies that any…
A Protocol for Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Dimitra Atri, Julia DeMarines, Jacob Haqq-Misra
Messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is a branch of study concerned with constructing and broadcasting a message toward habitable planets. Since the Arecibo message of…