
Welcome to EMERGENT, a live podcast with me, Reed Summers, in which we explore the frontlines of the most profound and controversial phenomenon of our time: Contact with non-human intelligence (NHI).
Reed’s EMERGENT Podcast Shows
- Who Controls Disclosure? | Reed Summers Live Friday, Sept 25 @ 7 PM MT
- Highlights | Understanding the State of UFO Evidence
- FRONTLINES | AMA: The UFO Singularity – Becoming “Citizen Disclosers”
- Understanding the State of UFO Evidence
- The UAP Busters: Breakthrough Field Observations of Anomalous Intelligence | John and Gerry Tedesco
- Tracking UAP—James Fowler on Skywatcher, “The Dogwhistle,” Aerial Intercept and 11 Classes of UAP
- How UFOs Became a Cold War National Security Issue: with Geoff Cruickshank
- UAP Military Incursions and The Crisis of “Classifying Reality Itself” with Jeffrey Nuccelli
- Reed on the Age of Disclosure | What Did We Learn? A Critical Analysis
- The New Science of Non-Human Intelligence with Dr Michael Cifone
- Frontines: From the Age of Coverup, to the Age of Disclosure
- Reed and Ted Roe: Breakthrough Research into Non-Human Intelligence
- Reed discusses Disclosing Non-Human Intelligence—A Global Reckoning
- Reed on The New Frontlines: Strategic Conversations on the Edge of a Non-Human Reality
- Rony Vernet: Orbs, Encounters and Abductions: What’s Going On in the Amazon?
- Daniel “Danny” Sheehan Interview: What’s at stake on Sept 9 congressional hearing?
- Exclusive AMA with Matthew Szydagis: EMERGENT Podcast, July 25, 2025, 8 PM ET
- Signs of Intent: What 30 Years of UFO Encounters Can Reveal About the Motives and Intentions of NHI
- SCU Conference Debrief: Charting the New Frontier of UAP Research
- Special edition of Emergent: taking your questions in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session
- The Future of UFO Disclosure: What happens after the hearings, the leaks, and the headlines?
- The Hidden Frontier of UFOs: Tracking Transmedium Craft Beneath Earth’s Oceans
- UFOs and Strategic Security with Joshua Pierson
- Investigating NHI—Insights Into Entities, Encounters, and Engagements
- Encountering NHI—The Bio, Psych, and Tech Implications of “First Contact”
- Reed Summers with Chris Grooms on the 2019 Origins of the Drone Crisis
- Misinformation, Disclosure & NHI Theories with Darcy Weir
- Consciousness, Psionics and “Psychic Engagement” with Non-Human Intelligence
- UFO Disclosure under the Trump Administration
- The Path Forward for UAP Science and Research
- Citizen Disclosure Part 1: Detection and Tracking of UAP with Mitch Randall
- Societal Readiness for Disclosure of Non-Human Intelligence // 2024 SOL Conference Debrief with Erik Zidek
- Breaking down the November 13th UAP Hearings: What you need to know
- UFO Hearings and Immaculate Constellation with Richard Dolan
- Breaking Barriers: The UFO Conversations We Need to Have
- The UFO Calling – Personal Responsibility in the Age of Contact
- 2025 Shows
- December 12:
- Jeffrey Nuccetelli—UAP Military Incursions and The Crisis of “Classifying Reality Itself”
- November 28:
- Matt Ford and Chris Sharp—Convergent Coverup—Unmasking the Human/Non-Human Coverup
- November 7:
- Reed Summers and Ted Roe—Breakthrough Research into Non-Human Intelligence
- October 24:
- Reed Summers Live—Disclosing Non-Human Intelligence—A Global Reckoning
- October 15:
- Reed Summers Live—The New Frontlines: Strategic Conversations on the Edge of a Non-Human Reality
- September 26:
- Rony Vernet—Orbs, Encounters and Abductions: What’s Going On in the Amazon?
- September 6:
- Daniel “Danny” Sheehan—Whistleblowers, Threats to Congress and Implications of an ET Presence
- July 25:
- AMA with Matthew Szydagis—Associate Professor of Physics, University of Albany
- June 27:
- Ian Porritt and Larry Hancock—Of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. Live podcast.
- June 13:
- Reed Summers—Special episode on the 2025 Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) Conference
- June 3:
- Joshua Pierson—Ask Me Anything (AMA) about the world of intelligence and analysis
- May 30:
- Reed Summers—Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted on the brand-new platform Forerunner.
- May 16:
- Reed Summers—On the Future of UFO Disclosure
- May 2:
- Richard Cloete—Computer Scientist at Harvard University, Galileo Project scientist, CEO of SEAQR, and Andriy Fedorenko—Data Scientist at Harvard University, Galileo Project, CTO of SEAQR
- April 18:
- Joshua Pierson—Doctorate of Strategic Security, US Army; Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies National Security Advisor; Society for UAP Studies National Security Advisor
- March 7:
- Chris Grooms—Former Chief of Police of Ord, Nebraska, Military Veteran
- February 21:
- Darcy Weir—Documentary filmmaker on eyewitness accounts, government disclosures, and the broader implications of Contact through 15+ films on Amazon and Apple
- January 10:
- Rich Hoffman—Co-Founder, Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, Senior Systems Engineer, US Army; Enterprise Architect, and the Marshall Space Flight Center
- Matthew Szydagis—Associate Professor of Physics, University of Albany
- December 12:
- 2024 Shows
- December 27:
- Christmas Break—may your holidays be non-emergent!
- December 13:
- Mitch Randall—MS Physics, CEO and Researcher at Ascendant AI, Project Skywatch
- November 28
- Erik Zidek—MBA Principal Investments & Finance, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
- November 15:
- Richard Dolan—UFO Historian and Researcher
- October 18:
- Reed Summers—Inaugural Episode, Personal Responsibility in the Age of Contact
- December 27:
About the Podcast
Every two weeks on EMERGENT Reed Summers will take listeners to the frontlines of the most profound and controversial phenomenon of our time: humanity’s contact with non-human intelligences (NHI).
Using a logical approach, insightful analysis, and big-picture thinking, Reed Summers examines trending issues in the field of UFOs/UAPs, exploring the impact the phenomenon is having on society, religion, science and technology and world affairs.
EMERGENT aims to deliver clarity amidst the confusion of today’s discourse on Contact in order to equip listeners to think critically about the questions that matter most:
- Who and what is visiting our world?
- What are the most probable explanations for the visitor’s intent
- What kind of agendas may be at play?
- What does this visitation mean for humanity and for the global public?
- How should we respond?
Each episode will focus on the most impactful and consequential issues relating to Contact and the state of our world, tackling topics such as:
- Public readiness for contact: how would contact change society?
- Aliens and us: the future of human identity post-contact
- Aliens and the church: a new spiritual paradigm or the end of church and faith?
- Is alien visitation an event of nature? Environmental pressure, natural selection and darwinian competition among worlds
- Ethical visitation, free-will and the crisis of non-consensual Contact
- Influence wars, psychological manipulation and life in a new mental environment
- The grey agenda: what do we really know about the grey aliens?
- Trojan tech: the implications of adopting alien science and technology
- Convergence of minds: AI, NHI and Human Intelligence
- The true cost of human inaction in the face of Contact
Whether you’re a UFO enthusiast, a curious newcomer, or someone concerned about humanity’s future, EMERGENT provides valuable insights and practical guidance for understanding the phenomenon of unidentified anomalous phenomena and contact with non-human intelligence and their profound implications for our world.
Join Reed Summers in EMERGENT as we challenge status-quo thinking and empower ourselves to think freely and engage our full capabilities toward understanding the meaning and implications of contact with non-human intelligence.
About Reed Summers
Hello, my name is Reed Summers. I write and speak on the UFO/UAP issue and work to present a comprehensive and logical framework for understanding Contact and our human evolution in a universe of intelligent life.
My focus is on the activities and agenda of the alien visitation occurring in our world, unraveling the mystery of why these beings are here, their activities, and the overarching purpose propelling their involvement in our world.
I am also a principal teacher of a curriculum for developing the greater capabilities of our human spiritual intelligence and learning how to apply these capabilities to meet the growing environmental, social, and political challenges we face, as well as the frontiers of interaction between human beings and non-human, extraterrestrial intelligence from beyond our world.
On my site, I work each day to bring clarity, logic, and a nuanced approach to understanding the event of Contact. I explore the intricate dynamics at play between the UFO phenomenon, government disclosure, and the environmental, social, and technological trends already reshaping our world. Additionally, I’m deeply fascinated by the ontological and existential questions surrounding Contact and how this event will impact our human societies, religions, and even our own personal lives.
Overall, I believe Contact represents a major evolutionary hurdle for the human species—one that will challenge our existence as never before but also offer us real paths to greater unity and cooperation that are desperately needed right now in the world.
And I also believe the individual is the key actor in this picture, and that we can only overcome this hurdle through enough inspired contribution and thoughtful, conscientious involvement by individual people like you and me, and many others.
Contact is a species-to-species interaction, and we are the individual members of the human species. Nothing represents the reality of our species more than each individual human being. I believe the extraterrestrial intelligences visiting our world know this based on their intense scrutiny and involvement with individual people over 80 years. And I believe we need to know this as well.
We shouldn’t relinquish our part in this equation to either human or non-human forces. And in fact, this is a big part of my work: to re-empower the individual and help them see how to become involved in constructive and healthy ways and bring forward their unique contribution.
Therefore, I believe Contact belongs not under military or government purview but instead out in the open, in the citizen space. Here we become empowered to become the prime actors in this species-to-species equation now taking shape and contributors to bettering this equation on behalf of the human race.
So let’s dive in, get grounded and informed, and find out how to become involved in what could be the biggest event of our lives and of the human species as a whole.
