Mike Cifone received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Maryland in 2009. He has published in both physics and philosophy and has taught widely in philosophy and the philosophy of science – most recently at CUNY (Bronx campus) and St. John’s University (both in New York City). In late 2022, he founded the Society for UAP Studies (SUAPS) and the academic journal Limina – The Journal of UAP Studies, fostering academic work in this emerging field. As a research fellow at FAU’s Center for Advanced Studies (CAS-E) in Erlangen, he will begin work on a book advancing foundational ideas in UAP Studies, starting with a preliminary study on the thought of French “ufologist” Jacques Vallée.

Articles:

Cifone, Michael Christian, Kevin Knuth, Philippe Ailleris, Garry Nolan, Wes Watters, et al. “The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP).” Progress in Aerospace Sciences (2025b).

Cifone, Michael Christian. “Editorial.” Limina—The Journal of UAP Studies 2, no. 1 (2025a): 6-11.

Cifone, Michael Christian. “Nothingness and Science (A Propaedeutic).” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 10, no. 1 (2014): 253-274.

Cifone, Michael Christian, Michael Silberstein, and W.M. Stuckey. “Why Quantum Mechanics Favors Adynamical and Acausal Interpretations such as Relational Blockworld over Backwardly Causal and Time-Symmetric Rivals.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39, no. 4 (2008b): 736-751.

Stuckey, W. M., Michael Silberstein, and Michael Christian Cifone. “Reconciling Spacetime and the Quantum: Relational Blockworld and the Quantum Liar Paradox.” Foundations of Physics 38, no. 4 (2008a): 348-383.

Stuckey, W. M., Michael Silberstein, and Michael Christian Cifone. “Deflating Quantum Mysteries via the Relational Blockworld.” Physics Essays 19, no. 2 (2006): 269-283.

Book Chapters:

Cifone, Michael Christian. “It’s All About the Evidence – But What Is the Evidence? A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Problem of UFO Evidence.” In UFOs in Academia: 21st Century Perspectives, edited by William Dewan and Daniel Wojcik. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. (Forthcoming 2026)

Stuckey, W.M., Michael Silberstein, and Michael Christian Cifone. “The Relational Blockworld Interpretation of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics.” In Foundations of Probability and Physics 4, edited by Guillaume Adenier, Christopher A. Fuchs, and Andrei Khrennikov, 412-421. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2007.

Silberstein, Michael, W. M. Stuckey, and Michael Christian Cifone. “An Argument for 4D Blockworld from a Geometric Interpretation of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics.” In Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World, edited by Petkov. Fundamental Theories of Physics. Springer Verlag, 2007.

Stuckey, W.M., Michael Silberstein, and Michael Christian Cifone. “Reversing the Arrow of Explanation in the Relational Blockworld: Why Temporal Becoming, the Dynamical Brain and the External World Are ‘In The Mind’.” In Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective, 2005. World Scientific Press.