Garry Nolan Outlines Bizarre Conditions for a Potential Interview with Mick West

​In an eighty-minute appearance today on The Good Trouble Show livestream with Matt Ford, UFO researcher and Stanford University professor Garry Nolan attacked what he calls “pseudo-skeptics” who disbelieve UFO claims and offered a bizarre set of conditions under which he would agree to let UFO skeptic Mick West interview him about flying saucers. (The video settings currently prevent embedding, so you will need to click the link.)

​Among Nolan’s conditions, which he appeared to be inventing on the fly:

• All of the so-called “Guerilla Skeptics” must withdraw from Wikipedia, where they work to edit articles to limit misinformation and unsubstantiated claims.
• West must disclose “who his funders are” because “they have a pretty decent budget.”
• West must pay $1 million or $2 million from his (imaginary) funders’ resources to a UFO “whistleblowers’ charity” (whatever that is).
• West must publish a paper on any of his work related to UFOs in a tier-one academic journal with The Hill opinion columnist and ufology promoter Marik Von Rennenkampff to serve as coauthor (!).

Nolan frequently emphasized his belief that UFO skeptics are somehow funded by a bottomless well of money from a shadowy but unnamed group. Ford added that $2 million was “a drop in the bucket” compared to the overall budget of the organizations funding skeptics and debunkers. (To which: Ha! I wish I had access to a multimillion-dollar budget. I make $2.99 per book sold.)

Nolan further complained that skeptics and scholars expect him and other ufologists to always be right about the claims they make and lamented that being “wrong” about facts “discredits everything.” He said that he believes there is no longer any reason to cooperate with mainstream media, which he sees as a tool of anti-UFO propaganda, nor to be interviewed by the mainstream media because they are insufficiently deferential to his credentials and his position as a serious researcher. He said that he dislikes having his perspective compared to a “garage experimenter” as though they were of equal authority.
 
Nolan then shared partially clothed photos of himself on gay party cruises dancing with unclothed men less than half his age.