On November 8, 2002, SCI FI assembled eminent scientists and aviation experts for an historic meeting in Washington, D.C., at George Washington University. Highlights of this unique symposium, moderated by Ray Suarez, senior correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, include a discussion of the potential for interstellar travel and the evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena, sometimes referred to as UFOs. Participants included Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr. Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.

On November 19, 2002, at New York's Regency Hotel, SCI FI gathered the world's foremost UFO-abduction experts for the first time to present the facts and theories behind the fiction depicted in Steven Spielberg's recent mega-miniseries TAKEN. Moderated by veteran network journalist Morton Dean, this extraordinary symposium brought together Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr. David M. Jacobs, three of the world's most highly regarded and experienced UFO-abduction investigators.