MAY 3RD, 2026 – SUNDAY – STARTING AT 10:00 AM PT
Why attend UAPcon 2 Live Online Summit?
EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF UAP AND CONSCIOUSNESS
UAPCon 2 live online summit invites those who perceive the UFO/UAP phenomenon as a significant threshold for humanity rather than just a mystery to unravel. Moving beyond conventional speculation, in the second UAPCon we move to experiences and conclusions for post-disclosure, consciousness, cultural evolution, and our interconnected universe.
Participants will explore the transformation of human awareness through experiences and prepare to engage with radically different post-disclosure world. Through presentation and dialogue, we examine how this phenomenon impacts life on Earth by interacting with consciousness, belief systems, and creative expression, shaping our culture and awareness.
The conference offers a stable platform to confront the unknown and navigate experiences, unveiling new ways of knowing essential for a post-disclosure world. By integrating insights from consciousness research and personal experiences, we emphasize relationships in our evolutionary journey.
Attendees are encouraged to actively engage, embracing uncertainty and expanding awareness without succumbing to fear or denial.
This summit is not just about UAPs; it is a collective exploration of who we are becoming and how we can prepare for a broader intelligence within the cosmos.
The speakers
LINDA MOULTON HOWE
EARTHFILES
Linda Moulton Howe is an investigative journalist and Emmy-winning filmmaker, known for her work on science, the environment, and unexplained phenomena. She founded Earthfiles, a platform reporting on UFOs, crop circles, animal mutilation, and other subjects, focusing on firsthand accounts and challenging official narratives. Howe has consistently explored mysteries often ignored by mainstream institutions.
MIKE CLELLAND
THE MESSENGERS
Mike Clelland is an author, illustrator, and researcher who examines the connections between UAP, synchronicity, and consciousness. His inaugural book The Messengers is noted for his analysis of owls in contact phenomena, in this and other works he views these events as transformative experiences revealing psychological, spiritual, and archetypal aspects that challenge conventional perspectives.
NICK COOK
THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT
Nick Cook is an investigative journalist, author, and former editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly, recognized for connecting research into black projects and UFOs. His notable work, The Hunt for Zero Point, examines links between UFO reports and classified programs. Through documentaries and books, Cook investigates the intersection of military secrecy, technological innovation, UAP, and recently turned to consciousness studies.
STEVE BASSETT
PARADIGM RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Steven Bassett is a political activist and disclosure advocate focused on integrating UAP into public policy and expanding cultural understanding. As founder of the Paradigm Research Group and Washington’s first registered UFO lobbyist, he has pushed for official recognition of non-human presence and explored its impact on humanity’s worldview. He believes disclosure could reshape our understanding of reality and collective awareness.
HOLLY ANNE WOOD
THAT UAP GIRL
Holly Anne Wood, also known as That UAP Girl, is a British UAP researcher and writer based in northern England. She creates spaces for witnesses to share and discuss UFO encounters, focusing on consciousness, psychology, and spirituality. Known for her work with Human-Initiated Contact Events, Wood encourages audiences to view consciousness as central to understanding the UFO phenomenon.
JAY CHRISTOPHER KING
THE EXPERIENCER GROUP & COsMOSIS
Jay Christopher King is a filmmaker, researcher, and community leader focused on consciousness and anomalous phenomena. He co-founded The Experiencer Group, co-created the NYC conferenceon Anomalous Experiences & The Phenomenon, and directed Cosmosis: UFOs & A New Reality. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, Museo Reina Sofía, and James Cohan Gallery.
DARREN KING
EXOACADEMIAN
Darren King, also known as ExoAcademian, is a researcher and podcaster focused on UAP, contact phenomena, and human consciousness. Through projects like Point of Convergence, Liminal Phrames, and Essence of Being, he investigates encounters with non-human intelligence and anomalous experiences to explore deeper models of reality and consciousness.
MEREDITH SPEARMAN
THE MAZE TO METANOIA
Meredith Spearman is a writer, professor, and registered nurse whose work focuses on UAP, anomalous experiences, and consciousness. Her Substack, The Maze to Metanoia, uses unusual experiences, like UAP encounters and threshold states, to explore transformation and the challenges of living with experiences outside cultural frameworks. She is writing her first book, a narrative nonfiction about the lifelong impact of carrying extraordinary experiences in silence.
REED SUMMERS
EMERGENT & HUMAN INSTITUTE
Reed Summers is a researcher, strategist, and media host whose work examines UAP, non-human intelligence, and human consciousness. As host of EMERGENT and Director of Strategy at the Human Institute, he views UAP as both an intelligence and security issue and a catalyst for changes in human perception and awareness. His perspective uniquely combines practical analysis with philosophical inquiry into consciousness and humanity’s role in the cosmos.
DARCY WEIR
SECRET SPACE UFOs FILMMAKER
Darcy Weir is an independent filmmaker and researcher who explores hidden histories and unexplained phenomena. His Occult Journeys productions cover UFOs, cryptids, parapsychology, and secret government topics, featuring films like Secret Space UFOs, Transmedium, and The Unwonted Sasquatch. He uses witness accounts, expert interviews, and historical research to challenge mainstream views.
RICHARD MONCK
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF HIGH-STRANGENESS
Richard Monck is a writer and researcher focusing on UAP and high strangeness for uapedia.ai. He was Director of Photography on Dartmoor episodes of Legend Seekers and conducts field investigations with the Centre for Fortean Zoology. His memoir, The Cartography of High Strangeness, explores lifelong anomalous experiences and considers the phenomenon as an ongoing curriculum, drawing insights from Harpur, Keel, Vallee, Wargo, and Kripal.
Dr. TARA, PHD
MAster of CEremonIES
Dr. Tara, PhD, is an academic clinical psychologist, treatment innovator, mental health ai startup co-founder, speaker, author, past laboratory manager at Harvard University, and former faculty member of Cornell University’s Medical College. Her research in the field of psychology has been cited in over 2,000 papers and in major media outlets. Dr. Tara is also a recognized thought leader in the UAP community on the topics of ontological shock and mindful disclosure.
ALAN STEINFELD
HOST anD Moderator
Alan Steinfeld is a leading voice in the field of UFO/UAP studies and non-human intelligence. Author and curator of the award-winning Amazon best seller Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence. He is a regular speaker/ host of the largest UFO event in the world Contact in the Desert.
The schedule
MAY 3rd, 2026
UAP, Consciousness, and Human Experience: What Researchers, Journalists, and Experiencers Reveal
UAPCon 2 builds on the first UAPCon by turning toward one of the most complex and consequential dimensions of the phenomenon: its relationship to consciousness. Through keynotes, research spotlights, and moderated panels, this second edition brings together researchers, journalists, and experiencers to examine where observation ends, where interpretation begins, and what patterns may emerge when testimony is taken seriously but assessed with care.
Across the event, UAPCon 2 explores three essential dimensions:
- Testimony: What can be learned from the accounts of researchers, reporters, and experiencers when examined with rigor and openness?
- Consciousness: How might perception, awareness, cognition, and anomalous experience shape the UAP question itself?
- Meaning: What conclusions can we responsibly begin to draw about human experience, reality, and the cultural implications of contact with the unknown?
Whether you come from science, media, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, or simply a sincere desire to understand, UAPCon 2 offers a rare space to engage this subject without sensationalism, grounded in discernment, serious dialogue, and intellectual humility.
10:00 am PST – OPENING & KEYNOTE
Speakers:
Fireside chat with LINDA MOULTON HOWE, Alan Steinfeld and Dr. Tara, PhD.
Topic: HOW WE GOT HERE
Alan Steinfeld, Dr. Tara, and Linda Moulton Howe come together for an intimate fireside chat exploring Linda’s decades of research about the phenomena from various aspects. Drawing from investigative research, testimony, and perspectives, this conversation examines what it means to encounter the UAP mystery wrapped up in secrets. A rare phenomena-centered dialogue at UAPCon.
11:00 Am PST – PANEL and Q&A
SpeakerS:
NICK COOK, REED SUMMERS AND DARCY WEIR
Topic: REPORTING THE UNEXPLAINED – MEANING AND CONCLUSIONS
How do journalists and filmmakers approach a subject that sits between evidence, secrecy, testimony, and public imagination? In this opening panel, Nick Cook, Reed Summers, and Darcy Weir explore the challenges of investigating UAP through reporting, storytelling, and visual media. Together, they examine how information is sourced, how credibility is built or lost, and how the media helps shape public understanding of one of the most consequential mysteries of our time.
12:00 Pm PST – PANEL and Q&A
SpeakerS:
HOLLY ANNE WOOD, MEREDITH SPEARMAN AND RICHARD MONCK
Topic: THE EXPERIENCER DIMENSION – MEANING AND CONCLUSIONS
What happens when the UAP question moves from observation to direct personal experience? In this panel, Holly Anne Wood, Meredith Spearman, and Richard Monck reflect on the experiencer dimension of the phenomenon, exploring how unusual encounters can affect perception, identity, meaning, and worldview. Grounded in lived testimony, the conversation invites a more serious and compassionate consideration of experiences that often resist conventional explanation but leave lasting human impact, and discusses lessons learnt.
01:00 Pm PST – PANEL and Q&A
SpeakerS:
DARREN KING, MIKE CLELLAND AND JAY CHRISTOPHER KING
Topic: PATTERNS AT THE EDGE – MEANING AND CONCLUSIONS
What begins to emerge when researchers and artists follow the patterns that conventional categories cannot easily contain? In this panel, Darren King, Mike Clelland, and Jay Christopher King explore the UAP phenomenon through the lenses of consciousness, synchronicity, contact experience, and long-form inquiry. Bringing together distinct but complementary lines of research, the conversation examines how anomalous events may challenge prevailing models of reality while inviting more serious attention to human experience as part of the evidence.
02:00 pm PST – CLOSING KEYNOTE
SpeakerS: STEVE BASSETT, DR. TARA, ALAN STeINFELD
Topic: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A POST-DISCLOSURE WORLD
This closing fireside chat explores the political, cultural, and societal implications of contact, from policy to consciousness and ethics to governance, education, and human identity. The panel invites participants to consider how a post-disclosure world can be responsibly integrated into society life and collective decision-making, emphasizing preparation, discernment, and conscious engagement with a rapidly unfolding future.
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UAPcon is presented by UAPedia, an experiencer-led global knowledge hub dedicated to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), and related scientific inquiry, combining curated research, case files, timelines, and structured knowledge resources designed to evolve as new evidence emerges. Learn more here: UAPedia – Unlocking New Realities)
