Social Repercussions and Academic Freedom in UAP Research: Faculty Perspectives Across 144 Universities and 14 Disciplines

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Across 144 research universities and 14 disciplines, a large survey asked professors about UAP research and academic freedom, finding that social backlash like ridicule concerns most, only about 7.4% would vote against a colleague’s tenure for UAP work, while 52.67% worry at least a little about tenure or promotion, two-thirds feel their field can judge the evidence with physics, philosophy, anthropology, and engineering most confident and economics and some humanities fields less so, and 250 open-ended responses yielded 14 themes that illustrate the difficulties of discussing such topics and the need for ongoing reflection on credibility, criticism, and inquiry among faculty.