Julia Mossbridge

Background and Education

Julia Mossbridge is a cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in consciousness research, anomalous phenomena, and neuroscientific investigation of extraordinary human performance. She earned her BA in Neuroscience with highest honors from Oberlin College, an MA in Neuroscience from UC San Francisco, and a PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University.

Mossbridge holds multiple leadership positions bridging academia, nonprofit research, and policy: she is co-founder and Board Chair of TILT (The Institute for Love and Time), a research organization dedicated to consciousness and anomalous experience. She serves as Senior Distinguished Fellow in Human Potential at Florida Atlantic University's Center for the Future of AI, Mind, and Society, a member of the Stimson Center's Loomis Innovation Council, and founder/Chief Science Officer of American Electrodynamics Corp and the nonprofit Applied Love Labs.

Research on Precognition and Presentiment

Mossbridge's foundational research focuses on presentiment and precognition—the ability to anticipate future events before conscious awareness. In 2012, she co-authored a landmark meta-analysis of 26 presentiment studies spanning 1978–2010, employing diverse measurement techniques including heart rate variability, skin conductance, and functional brain imaging. The results were statistically astronomically significant, providing evidence that the human body generates measurable anticipatory responses to randomly presented emotional stimuli before they occur.

Her EEG research documented anomalous anticipatory brain activity in the left frontal cortex preceding random stimuli. To explain these findings, she developed the Physical-Time-Symmetry (PTS) model, proposing that presentiment may reflect backward causality or temporal nonlocality in consciousness. More broadly, she has articulated a Pervasive Universal Consciousness (PUC) model as a framework for understanding precognitive remote viewing and other anomalous phenomena, suggesting that consciousness may operate via mechanisms outside conventional neuroscientific models.

Recent UAP Analysis and Disclosure Era Work

Mossbridge entered the mainstream UAP discourse through analysis of the Buga Sphere incident—a mysterious metallic sphere that appeared in Buga, Colombia on March 2, 2025. The object exhibited unusual flight characteristics, zigzagging movements, and multicolored light emissions. Featured in Fox News and international media coverage, Mossbridge applied rigorous scientific skepticism to claims of extraterrestrial origin. She proposed that the sphere was likely a sophisticated art project or human-made object, noting that seamless engineering could be achieved through superplastic forming or magnetic pulse welding. Rather than dismissing the phenomenon, she emphasized the importance of bringing anomalous physical objects to qualified research groups like the Galileo Project for objective analysis.

Mossbridge has been an active voice in the disclosure era scientific community, invited to speak at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies AAPC Conference (Huntsville, May–June 2024) and the National Intelligence University (Bethesda, May 2023). She authored "Have a Nice Disclosure!"—a work exploring societal and scientific dimensions of official UAP acknowledgment. Her public position balances open investigation of anomalous phenomena with demands for rigorous evidence standards, advocating that "we've been looking at UAPs for decades, and the federal government has admitted that there are things that we don't understand, but we are investigating them."

Publications and Public Engagement

Beyond peer-reviewed research, Mossbridge has published books exploring consciousness and anomalous experience, including Unfolding: The Perpetual Science of Your Soul's Work (2002), The Calling (2019), The Garden (2017), and The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition (2018, coauthored with Theresa Cheung). She regularly engages with audiences through speaking engagements, media appearances, and educational programming on consciousness, psi phenomena, and the intersection of science and subjective human experience.