{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e5bb446df501a0b22943a06/5e5bb49f13b6828a4aaadd5d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Skeptic Check: Saucer's Apprentice","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e5bb446df501a0b22943a06/01a7b8958215ad7e295ed2fea008a2ba.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>ENCORE  They’re here!  About one-third of all Americans believe we’re being visited by extraterrestrial spacecraft.  But wait, you want evidence? </p>\n<p>UFO sighting are as prevalent as flies at a picnic.  But proof of visitation – well, that’s really alien.</p>\n<p>Hear why belief in extraterrestrial UFOs persists … and why military sightings that “can’t be explained” don’t warrant rolling out a welcome mat for ET.</p>\n<p>Plus, the most fab UFOs in the movies!</p>\n<p>It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!</p>\n  Guests:\n<ul>\n            <li><a href=\"http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html\">Phil Plait</a> - Keeper of the skeptical website <a href=\"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/\">badastronomy.com</a></li>\n          <li><a href=\"http://www.RadfordBooks.com\">Benjamin Radford</a> - Research Fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and managing editor of “Skeptical Inquirer Science Magazine”</li>\n         <li><a href=\"http://ufosontherecord.com/leslie-kean/\">Leslie Kean</a> - Journalist, and author of <i><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307716848?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307716848\">UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record</a></i></li>\n          <li><a href=\"http://traumamyth.com/?p=3\">Susan Clancy</a> - Psychology Researcher, Harvard University\nand author of <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067402401X?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=067402401X\">Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens</a></i></li>\n         <li><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Bullard\">Thomas Bullard</a> - Folkorist at Indiana University and author of <i><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700617299?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700617299\">The Myth and Mystery of UFOs</a></i></li>\n</ul>\n<p>FIrst aired November 15, 2010.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-aprediz-de-ovni/\">Descripción en español</a></p>","author_name":"Seth Shostak, Molly Bentley, SETI Institute"}