The Mystery of Cosmic Coexistence: "Probably a good standpoint science question is, is there other life that coexist in this moment with us talking right now?"

"Exploring Life Beyond Earth": "In the framework of science and astrobiology, the Drake equation's useful because we need to answer these questions about how common are planets, how common are Earth like planets, how common are Earth like planets, where habitability, how common is other life."

"Exploring the Cosmos: My day job, so to speak, is building large cameras and spectrographs for large based telescopes like Keck Observatory and even designing, like, first light instruments for the even larger, extremely large telescopes."

"Revolutionizing Telescope Design": "Our science question or our science objective was to try to image literally how do you image the entire observable sky and take a picture at every nanosecond?"

"Dealing with Candidate Signals": "No. It's a great question because we get this question a lot about what we would do when people have their, you know, sneaky suspicions of whether we get taken away from the men in black. You know, we have candidate signals, as you know, in experimental, you know, experiments you have kind of false positives, as we say, that can occur from your instrument as a noise, or it's a signal like a satellite. So we have protocols that do verification. So we have, like, whether, you know, we flag it like this is an exciting candidate or not, and then we go down and do the checklist to see if it's something internal or if it was correlated with something else. It usually is very unexciting. So we try not to call New York Times in most cases. But the question is, if there is something exciting, you know, we do have a proclamation that we would declare it on astronomers' telegram, you know, just like we would for any other transient source to get other facilities to follow-up."

Exploring Uncharted Territory in Science: "It was very intriguing that, you know, our government, as well as NASA was interested in kind of going into this realm that in our science community is taboo. Yeah. We can talk about, you know, microbial life on Mars, but we can't talk about life in interstellar travel."

"Breaking the Taboo: A Scientific Approach to UAPs": "It's, you know, there's this kind of divide that occurs and a stigma that occurs in the science community as well as public. Right? There's, like, this taboo thing to talk about UFOs and UAPs. And so I said yes, and it was a really fascinating committee to come into it and take a kind of a science data approach to it."

"Improving UAP Reporting Systems": "It turns out, you know, it used to be like in a little you may know because I know you're a pilot, but there was a manual and there was a number you would call, right, to somebody that you would report to. And so there was a stigma within that, and now there's better reporting for UAPs."

"Filling the Information Vacuum:": "Do we have all the answers? No. But that's science for you."

Extraordinary Claims and Scientific Inquiry: "Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence, and that will always exist for myself as a scientist. People could come forward and say what they see, and there's ways to investigate it, right? And we don't have to get overly excited about every time someone's walking forward and claiming things like this."