It was a fascinating pleasure to attend the third Sol Foundation symposium in Baveno, Italy which ran October 24-27 2025. The Sol Foundation is led by the anthropologist Peter Skafish – who translated Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s classic ‘Cannibal Metaphysics’ which has been a constant on our MA Environmental Architecture reading lists – and Stanford Professor Garry Nolan, a world leading cancer research specialist. The Sol Foundation was established to bring the field of UFO and UAP studies into the academic mainstream, as evidence of the reality of the phenomena becomes ever more overwhelming, and as the global Disclosure Movement – which calls upon governments around the world to release currently classified files on the subject – continues to grow.
The symposium brought together world-leading researchers in the field and an impressive array of whistleblowers from government and military, and experiencers of all kinds.
My own research in the field continues to grow. Many experiencers of the phenomena report receiving ecological messages or experiences of some kind, and I am working on a cybernetic Batesonian interpretation of the environmental architectures and ecological aesthetics of UFO/UAP. The politics surrounding the field are also rich and complex, with the military-industrial-entertainment complex deeply implicated in cover-ups, dis-information and all kinds of complex involvements.
The dialogue between Peter Skafish and US military whistleblower Jeff Nuccitelli closed the event, and brings together the complexity of the field.