Look to the Skies

Wow, time has flown by! This is an episode from the vault and was recorded in January 2018. 

It's May 2026 and I'm uploading a few episodes for your listening and reminiscing pleasure. Kind of prophetic and, dare I say, spot on?! Miss you Melvin and TU...

Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:07

Welcome to Settle In. Truth Unscripted. Welcome back to Truth Unscripted. I am Julie.

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And I'm Melvin. Welcome back, listeners.

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Hey, how's it going?

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It's going pretty good. How are you?

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I'm doing really well. It's Friday.

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It's Friday.

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So that makes me happy.

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Me as well.

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Well, I am really wanting to know what is going on in our skies right now. All over the world, there's all kinds of things happening. Um, meteors, booms, um, satellites, the whole thing. So I really want to I want to talk about that.

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It's the new year and all kinds of things are happening.

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Yes. So the first thing I wanted to touch on is there is a very large asteroid that's going to pass by the earth, and I I say that hopefully, pass by the earth, on February 4th. Did you know about that?

SPEAKER_02 1:13

I was not aware until you mentioned it.

SPEAKER_08 1:15

Yeah. Well, it is um a really large, when I say large, it is. It is uh over half a mile wide and 0.2 miles bigger than the tallest structure in the world. Wow. Which is the, and I'm gonna mispronounce this, I'm sure, so I apologize. The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai, which is half a mile tall.

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Wow.

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So this thing is enormous, and it is supposed to pass by Earth, as I said, um on February 4th at a distance of more than 2.6 million miles.

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Okay.

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But NASA and scientists are saying it's potentially hazardous to Earth. So I'm I think that's something that we we may want to know about.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

So at 2. 2.

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2.6 million.

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So at 2.6 million miles away, they're saying it's still hazardous?

SPEAKER_08 2:11

They are. Anything that is within 4.6 million miles is classified as potentially hazardous by NASA.

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Okay.

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So this is well within that.

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So are we looking at losing satellites and or anything? Or is it just the fact that they've given us us our us a safe radius of 4. It you know, merits our attention.

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And I don't even know if they think it merits our attention. I mean, this isn't really out there all over the news. You know, I'm hearing about it kind of in background news.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

Aaron Powell But when you say hazardous, I mean, is it gonna throw off some radiation? Is it gonna cast a shadow? Is it going to affect um gravity? What's it gonna do?

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I don't think it's gonna do anything unless it impacts the planet.

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Or, you know, something like that size impacts the planet. You got just a dust cloud alone.

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It's traveling 15 times faster than the world's fastest manned aircraft, the North American X-15, which travels at 4,500 miles an hour. So this asteroid is traveling at 67,000 miles an hour.

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It's really booking So will we even see it?

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I don't know that we'll see it. I mean, it unless it's a really bad day and it is going to be hazardous, I don't even think we'll see it. Unless we're paying attention.

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I mean, is it one of those things, you know how you're on the freeway and the big truck kind of blows by you and you kind of feel the you know, is it is it that kind of thing?

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Is it gonna be send Bruce Willis, right?

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I mean, is it gonna send one of those, you know, concussion waves when it goes by at that speed?

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Yeah, I don't think they're planning to send any uh ships up there, you know, any astronaut like people up there to, you know, set it off course or anything. But you know, I like to know about these things because people are not infallible. I mean, we oh yeah mistakes can be made, calculations, especially when you're talking astronomy. That's one of the hardest classes I ever had to take. I loved it, but it was difficult. So, you know, you never know with this kind of thing. So I just like to be aware and kind of let everybody know, you know, take a second and see what's going on on February 4th.

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All right.

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So and if it does hit, let's just talk about that eventually. If it does hit the earth.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Oh, there's nothing to talk about.

SPEAKER_08 4:43

Well, it it's not a mass destruction event. I mean it's not an extinction event.

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As fast as it's traveling, if it was to hit the earth, I think there would be some issues with the dust cloud that it would create. Absolutely. So it's it's it's and it depends on where it hits.

SPEAKER_08 5:02

Well, and they said, you know, estimated that if it did hit the earth, the temperature because of the dust cloud that you're talking about would fall by about 46 degrees Fahrenheit, which is eight degrees Celsius. And of course the earth would become darker, colder, drier, and it would last about 10 years. So we definitely have a change of priority and lifestyle.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Well, they need to be creating a big dust vacuum right now.

SPEAKER_08 5:29

Well, yeah.

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We can't just wait ten years for this to clear up.

SPEAKER_08 5:33

Well, it would affect the vegetation. It would affect a whole lot more than vegetation.

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I mean, it it it would be bad. Yeah.

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If our average temperature dropped almost 50 degrees. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

What is it that people get in the wintertime right now?

SPEAKER_08 5:45

Seasonal effective disorder.

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Seasonal effective disorder on steroids.

SPEAKER_08 5:49

Oh, it would be. I hadn't thought about that. You're right. That would be horrible. And that would be worldwide, too. So there would be nowhere to go.

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Nowhere to go. Yeah. Yeah.

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Well, NASA is working on something. Um, it's not the Armageddon movie resolution to this, but they are building a refrigerator-sized spacecraft that would prevent asteroids from colliding with the earth.

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So basically refrigerator-sized spacecraft. Right. So what kind of refrigerator are we talking? Are we talking you're in my refrigerator?

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Or NASA. I don't know.

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NASA-sized refrigerator.

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I don't know. They didn't specify.

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And so what's this refrigerator, flying refrigerator gonna do?

SPEAKER_08 6:36

Well, it's supposed to deflect it by changing, so I guess it's impact. It changes the impact course.

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Sure.

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But um by changing the speed. So it actually would take a long time. So you'd have to know years in advance in order to have this thing they're working on actually be effective. So it's uh requires changing the speed by less than an inch per second, but it it the timing, I guess, is gonna have to be really precise.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Right. Because unless you get a lot of refrigerators up there floating, if you miss it.

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Maybe a satellite would work. Satellites have almost become another layer of the atmosphere, I think. Right. You know, the garbage satellite layer. So we hadn't taken that into consideration. Maybe that would help.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

You know, some of the one of those missile defense things that somebody has up in outer space, because I'm not buying it. Nobody's got anything in space right now to protect them from somebody else.

SPEAKER_08 7:37

No, are you sure you want to segue us onto the other side of the moon discussion right now?

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Not yet.

SPEAKER_08 7:42

Not yet. Well, anyway, this refrigerator is not going to be able to help us until they're estimating after 2024. So we have a few years here where we just don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

And big flying rock is supposed to pass us this year.

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Right.

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Okay. So why are we talking about the magic refrigerator that's not going to help us this year?

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Well, I guess it's just nice to know there's something out there. Somebody's working on it.

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Gotcha.

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And if we happen to skate through this unscathed, we can look forward to that.

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Because when the dust cloud happens, we'll still be all about the importance of an a magic refrigerator after this has happened. Okay.

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Well, and I think we would be, because then we'd be terrified about it happening again.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Well, that's assuming that NASA isn't where the big rock lands.

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Well, and that's a whole other thing where it would land. Yeah. I mean, that would be an extinction event for somewhere on the planet. Yes, you're right.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 8:42

Yeah. Okay. Well, and kind of on that note, did you know that there is a space station falling to Earth?

SPEAKER_02 8:52

I'm pausing because I know that there was something falling, but I didn't think it was a space station.

SPEAKER_08 9:00

It is a Chinese space station that is defunct. And it's expected to plunge to the earth sometime in March. And they're not detonating it. What? Well, I don't think they have control over it. China is saying that they don't have control. Some individuals question this and there's some debate about it, but it's not something that can be detonated, apparently.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

Okay.

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So it's called the Tian Gong One station, and they're thinking that most of it's gonna burn up on re-entry, but there are still gonna be an estimated hundreds of pieces of this thing catapulting to Earth. Right. And they don't really know where. They give a latitude, you know, where they think it's expected to fall.

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Right.

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And that's in some pretty populated areas.

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Of where?

SPEAKER_08 9:52

Well, they say most of the time these things fall into the ocean, um, because of course our planet's mostly water. But this is going to be, oh, I don't know, southern France, Italy, Croatia, parts of Russia, China, the United States. We're talking the northern part, so Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Iowa, and then um the southern latitudes, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

That's a pretty wide splatter pattern.

SPEAKER_08 10:23

It is. It is. It is. And they aren't really gonna be able to gauge that better until a couple of days before it actually comes down, which isn't comforting.

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No.

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So February we have a possible asteroid strike, and I'm gonna say that they they don't expect that to happen, so I'm not trying to panic anybody. But then in March we have a space station falling to Earth.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

So riddle me this big asteroid comes flying by in February.

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Yeah.

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And we've got a space station up there, and it's already just a little rickety.

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Yeah, I'd say that.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Isn't it interesting that the month later we're anticipating that the space station is gonna fall out of the sky? Again, I'm going back to my big truck flying past me on the interstate, making me go. So I'm just curious if the asteroid has will have any impact on the space station that's already losing its grip on altitude.

SPEAKER_08 11:25

Well, the space station is only 180 miles up.

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Right.

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So if the asteroid gets that close.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

No, not so much so that close. Again, at that speed and that I don't know if there's any kind of wake in space.

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Ah, okay.

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But I'm just wondering if it's just gonna if there's gonna be a little wing.

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A little movement in the force out there.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I don't know.

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I know there's no atmosphere, so there's supposedly, but you know, the other thing about asteroids that a lot of times people forget is a lot of times the asteroids have little satellites that accompany that accompany them. You're right. And so sometimes they've got they come with debris. They have their own satellites, they have their own entourage.

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Well, just in case, you know, we happen to see this enter our atmosphere and see this uh up close, it's currently traveling 16,000 miles an hour and it weighs 18,000 pounds. Uh however, scientists say that it's estimated to be a one in a trillion chance of being hit by debris. So there is a person who has been hit by satellite debris. So she, I don't know.

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I don't know if that's out of all the satellites that come down, you know, she's the one in a trillion person person who's been hit. Yeah.

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Her name's Lottie Williams, and she's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was out for a walk.

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She was walking.

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Taking a walk just casually, and a piece of a rocket fuel tank hit her on the shoulder. They said it's a small piece and she was unhurt, which I don't really I I don't really know how that works.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

You're hit by space debris yet you're So you get hit by something and you're unhurt, but we know that it was a piece of a rocket fuel tank. Why?

SPEAKER_08 13:16

I guess because they knew it was coming down. I mean they know that these things are coming down and usually they're planned and they can purposely be brought down in certain locations.

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No, I get that part, but I'm saying if it was small enough that she was unhurt.

SPEAKER_08 13:29

Right. How do we know that's what it was from?

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You know, I'm sure they can tell, but I'm saying, did she pick it up and keep it as a souvenir? Was it you know what I'm saying?

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You know, traveling that fast, hit by anything. Yeah. I mean, if if it were smaller than a pebble, you would think she would have been hurt. Maybe they just don't want us to know that she was hurt. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

You know, I guess after it reaches a certain size, that as much of the velocity as it had originally gained, I can only imagine that it must lose some of that velocity coming through the atmosphere at some point.

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Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure.

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Because otherwise, you would think it would have been like a bullet.

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I know, I know, a shot right through her shoulder.

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You know?

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I know.

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That's what I but she was unharmed.

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Well, and I had to kind of look for that because they tell her name, you know, you can find her name readily. Yeah. But it took a second to find out that yeah, she was unhurt. Because I'm thinking they're not saying because she didn't make it.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Well, I mean, you know, it's one of those, it's like you you you walk through, walk underneath a tree, and out comes an acorn, and you know, you just oh, and you keep going. I mean it right. I don't I don't know how you did they was it radioactive, were they able to track it because of that? Otherwise, how do you know how is something small enough not to hurt her, but big enough for you to track?

SPEAKER_08 14:46

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, she must have reported it. There must have been some indicator on that, the type of metal. Um I don't know, there must have been a way for them to know that it was specifically the rocket's fuel tank.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

So maybe it's or maybe it's like, you know, the FDA that allows so many parts per million of stuff in your food, and they decided, well, she didn't lose a limb.

SPEAKER_08 15:08

Right. So she was unhurt technically.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Technically it was, you know.

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Well, and this was in 1997, so it's been quite a while, but 'tis but a flesh wound. And that to your point, there could be people who have been hit by debris but didn't realize or know or have any reason to think it would be that.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

You know, that rock that went through your window you thought some kid threw.

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Yeah.

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You know, to hit your window and ricochet off.

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Or something you thought was a walnut or acorn hitting you on the head. Yeah.

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It could have been space debris.

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Yeah, well, that's interesting.

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Very interesting.

SPEAKER_08 15:43

So people out there in those countries I named are. Hard hat.

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Hard hat.

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Keep your eyes on the sky in March. I think that we'll find out a little bit more about where this is expected to. You know, there'll be hundreds of pieces. Right. So there could be a wide area, but I think we'll hear more about it the closer we get.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

I'm thinking February and March is hard hat awareness months.

SPEAKER_08 16:04

May not be a bad idea.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

You know. I'm just saying. Yeah. You'd be surprised. Those hard hats are pretty handy.

SPEAKER_08 16:10

Yeah. So on to a little bit more of a mysterious something in the sky.

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Mystery.

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As you may have heard, okay. Um, earlier this week, on January 16th, there was a very bright fireball scene in Detroit, Michigan.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

Yes.

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Southeast Detroit, and it was really bright. I don't know if you saw the video of it. I mean, lit it up.

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Lit it up.

SPEAKER_08 16:37

It was bright. And there was a loud, you know, a very loud boom, and it's been determined since then that it's a meteor. I mean initially they said that it caused a small earthquake. A lot of eyewitnesses, you know, initially there were about 650 people who reported that they'd seen this. It's been a lot more since then. But just kind of interesting. I question the whole meteor thing. I haven't heard anything about where it hit. I don't know if you've heard anything about that.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

I've not heard anything about where it hit, but I know when we were uh maybe when we were first we discussed earlier or last year actually, we talked about some of the booms and some of you know the different noises and things that were being heard.

SPEAKER_08 17:22

Well, and I don't think we ever talked about that on our podcast.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

Oh, you know, we probably did not.

SPEAKER_08 17:28

We um that's one of the things that we wanted to discuss. So and you know, it kind of goes in line with that because that's what people have been hearing all over the world.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

Well, during that time, you know, I was researching for our story. Right. And there were some phenomena that were somewhat perceived to be related to this, where there were explosions or there were things found where trees were burnt and just kind of unexplained, but the light and the sound was a part of this. And I can't remember what it was. It was almost as if the meteor came into the atmosphere, came that close and kind of exploded without impacting, or something to that effect, it seemed like. And it was what was creating these burnt locations, or it was is is kind of what the explanation was, or possibly. So I can't remember exactly. I have to go back and look at my notes.

SPEAKER_08 18:29

Okay. Well, I had not heard about the burning that you're talking about. That's really interesting, though. I think when we were talking, it was just about the booms that you know we had been hearing about. There were so many reports, I think like 65 from around the world last year in 2017. People just hearing these mysterious booms, no explanation, which is really interesting because it's literally been all over the world. It's not isolated to one area.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Right. It seemed like at one point there were quite a few in succession.

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Right.

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You know, within weeks or days of each other in varied locations.

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Right.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Yeah.

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And, you know, I know they've ruled out military maneuvers or um, you know, secret things going on with the military here, you know, I don't know about in other countries. Right. Um, but you know, people have really been looking. Is it meteors causing these? Is it military secret things going on? Is it even aliens? So I don't know. What do you think about it?

SPEAKER_02 19:27

My money is on satellites.

SPEAKER_08 19:29

Really?

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Mm-hmm. Okay. We have so much space debris, defunct satellites and other space junk up there that falls out of the sky all the time. A lot of it goes un unknown because it burns up on re-entry. My question is, what if we got what if we have a we won't call it spy, we won't use that kind of word.

SPEAKER_08 19:52

Well, why not?

SPEAKER_02 19:53

What if we've got a satellite up there that is paying extra attention to something or someone that when it comes down, we want to make sure that nobody picks up any of the remnants of that thing.

SPEAKER_08 20:09

So it's being exploded remotely?

SPEAKER_02 20:12

You know.

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So m roughly 65 times last year.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

You know. No, but you know, honestly, I do think that a lot of it, my guess would be space debris, um, and meteors and things like that, that while they're not big enough to do uh any real harm or damage, and then majority of it uh burns up in the atmosphere, um, you know, you get something that hot and it's traveling at that, you know, kind of a speed, it it there's a lot of different things that can happen.

SPEAKER_08 20:44

Well, with these booms, there's not any visual to it. It's the sound, but it's not accompanied by the case.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

But what causes a sonic boom?

SPEAKER_08 20:53

Well, I mean something traveling at a fast enough rate to break the sound barrier.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Is there a size that's necessary? You know what I'm saying? So what if it's what if it's a meteor or a piece of debris that has reached that speed? You know, I don't know if if it there's a certain size that's required to create that sonic boom, but we know that it's about it's about something breaking the sound barrier.

SPEAKER_08 21:16

Yeah, because you know, these some of these, and I think the majority of them really have been heard in just large distances from state to state. Uh there was one in Alabama that um occurred at the end of 2017. They called it the Bama Boom, isn't the nickname. Um, but it was heard in a a wide area of the state.

SPEAKER_04 21:38

Right.

SPEAKER_08 21:39

And I don't know. I the reasoning and the kind of the explanation I heard for that was fracking. Yeah. That it's causing um some changes in the earth structure, right? Um, all of the oil drilling that's going on, and that these booms tend to happen in areas around. Around the world where that's occurring.

SPEAKER_02 22:02

So you would think that if that was the case someone would be able to And I thought that there was some there was a gentleman who was doing something to that effect. He was predicting.

SPEAKER_08 22:17

Yes. He's predicting the earthquakes that he believes are a result of fracking. And he actually has um a lot of videos on YouTube. He does not get along with geologists, I guess. He's kind of he's kind of a conspiracy theorist. I guess he doesn't have a lot of support from that community.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Walking to the beat of his own drums.

SPEAKER_08 22:38

He is. So he's and some of his information is pretty compelling. I mean, he lays out on a uh kind of a 3D diagram where all these earthquakes have happened. And I'll um I'll put a link to his his page on the Facebook page so you all can check it out. But getting back to it though, that was one theory for these booms. I know that we have a lot of issues with that here. I don't know around the other places where the booms are being heard if that's also an issue. So it's a mystery.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

It's a mystery. There's a lot going on in space and you know, and evidently it's bringing it here. Maybe.

SPEAKER_08 23:17

Yeah. So just things to be aware of, you know, if you hear and people, you can report these things. If you see a meteor and you're here in the United States, you can report it to the American Meteorological Society.

SPEAKER_05 23:29

Right.

SPEAKER_08 23:30

They have a log of it, and it's kind of interesting to get on their site and see exactly how many people have reported these things. But there are places to report it, and that helps to figure out what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Yeah, and I I think it also gives you a a little insight into how many times and how much activity there is around these things that you just don't know about.

SPEAKER_08 23:51

Right. And I guess there were uh reports of a number of fireballs being seen yesterday on January 18th, all over the world.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

Really?

SPEAKER_08 24:01

So it's kind of interesting. There's been a lot of activity. Same day was it?

SPEAKER_02 24:05

What about time?

SPEAKER_08 24:06

It was let's see, the one in Michigan was on the sixteenth, and the reports of the other ones being heard around the world were was yesterday, the eighteenth. I don't know. Just a lot of a lot of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Interesting.

SPEAKER_08 24:20

Keep your eyes open.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Interesting. I you know, and and I will still say this, you know, I don't put things past people who have found some creative way of doing something from doing something to get attention. But typically, you know, when someone does that, I won't say I won't I won't say always, but you know, they want credit for it at some point, you know, or somebody leaks who did it because you you know, you tell some you brag about it to somebody who can't keep their mouth shut.

SPEAKER_08 24:51

So I just don't even know if these could be man-made. These booms are so loud.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Interesting.

SPEAKER_08 24:58

I did send a text to my nephew who lives in southeast Michigan and asked him if he happened to see it and what he thought of it. And he just said, It's Elon Musk. So he's uh I don't know, evading my question.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Don't blame Elon.

SPEAKER_06 25:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 25:18

Well, all right. Well, I wanted to touch on one of your favorite subjects because I feel that it's due for an update.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 25:26

Because we have some new information.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

Oh. And my favorite subject? Really? Really? It's not your favorite, but yeah, it's my favorite to rail against.

SPEAKER_08 25:36

Yeah. Well, I did put an article on the Facebook page earlier this week about Stan Romanek.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Stan the man.

SPEAKER_08 25:46

And Stan, do you want to give a little background on Stan?

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Stan Romanek. He is our resident, no pun intended, uh alien abduction enthusiast, we will call him. Stan has, you know, indicated that he's been abducted on multiple occasions. And um he has a personal relationship with these aliens.

SPEAKER_08 26:17

Yes, to the degree that he has created hybrid children.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

So he says.

SPEAKER_08 26:23

So he says. Um, and has had some experiences that he's videotaped and you can look at on YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

The videos. Oh, wow. Those are so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_08 26:35

Well, and there's also a documentary on Netflix if you're really interested. Oh wow. He ran into some trouble. He was charged with possession of child pornography. This was oh, this has been a while now.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Which he claims about three years ago. That the government put on his computer to shut him up.

SPEAKER_08 26:55

Well, and I think that that has happened to people, but that's a side note. Do I think it happened to Stan? I don't know so much, but but he does. He thinks that it was a paranormal organization or the government has planted um stuff on his computer. But at any rate, his trial, you know, we kind of covered earlier in episode four of Truth Unscripted, but he was found guilty. And he has since been sentenced to two years in a halfway house, which is basically a community corrections program for criminal offenders for possession of child pornography. He didn't distribute it, and I guess that was the other charge initially. So he also uh was sentenced to ten years probation as a registered sex offender.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

So he's he's listed as a registered sex offender now.

SPEAKER_08 27:48

Right. Yeah. Wow. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

That's that's serious.

SPEAKER_08 27:53

That is serious. And I I want to, and you remember his wife Lisa. I watched the documentary.

SPEAKER_05 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:59

And she seems to really believe him. And there I as I mentioned previously, there was kind of this romantic triangle that was developed because Stan said that there was another well, there was another lady who came forward who said that she and Stan together were abducted, and she was the mother of these hybrid children. And so poor Lisa looks a little angry to me when I watched the documentary. But this is what she had to say after he was sentenced. And she's referring to when he was on bond, the conditions of that were he was basically at home. Right. Couldn't see children or anything like that. So she said, Imagine living as a prisoner in your own home with your wife as your prison warden. Wow. So she's had a they've had a rough time the last couple of years.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

And now he's in a halfway house.

SPEAKER_08 28:51

Yeah, for two years. Wow. So I know you are waiting to see if these aliens are gonna come through.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Well, see, he's in a halfway house. If he was in prison, you know, maybe they would come and you know, kind of break him out, but he's in a halfway house, so it's it's not really like being incarcerated.

SPEAKER_08 29:13

Really well, I kind of I really hoped that they would come and save him from this, didn't you? I mean, you said this a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

You know, my theory is if they've abducted you and and they refer to you as star seed, star child, star whatever he said, you're their favorite. Sure. Yeah, wouldn't why wouldn't they, you know, save you from this horrible outcome?

SPEAKER_08 29:39

Yes, because they supposedly thought that he was gonna save humanity, basically, I think. Right. Yeah. It's it's uh it's kind of an interesting story, and I don't know, I mean, we really latch on to these things as a culture. The fact that it's uh there are a lot of people who believe Stan and Stan's story.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

So and I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_08 30:04

Well, you know, I um there's some compelling evidence to it um that he presents.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

So, you know, he tells a he spins a good yarn, no doubt about it. Um compelling evidence. Hmm, the jury is still out on that for me.

SPEAKER_08 30:23

Well, I think for a lot of people it is.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 30:25

But you know, you're not really somebody who tends to believe in that kind of thing anyway. I mean, we've had discussions before where you've said you flat out don't believe in aliens.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

So you're really at this point, and when I say that, it's it's the the I do not believe in the aliens and the alien abductions that have been put forth thus far in my lifetime, and that's only because nobody ever walks away with any tangible evidence. And and and that doesn't mean that they don't exist, okay? But what I what I but what I will say is this for me, with just about every other thing in life, at some point, as long as we have had claims of sightings and abductions, somebody's gonna leave something.

SPEAKER_08 31:21

I do think, did you not tell me at one point that you believed in Bigfoot or Sasquatch?

SPEAKER_02 31:28

No. You did not say what I said is I would sooner believe in Bigfoot or Sasquatch than I would an alien. And that's because you know, I could imagine someone seeing the remnant of a prehistoric animal.

SPEAKER_06 31:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Or, you know, some some guy with the hair that grows long disease living out in the woods. I mean, you know.

SPEAKER_08 32:01

Yeah. But you know, that's the other thing. There's not really any definitive evidence about that either. And I don't want to go on the body. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 32:08

But you know what? I've seen pictures, real or fake, that looked better than the evidence that I feel Stan Romanek put together in that video display of his.

SPEAKER_08 32:19

Now wait a minute, are you saying you don't find that video to be realistic?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

When him jumping around looking surprised, and the the gray that pops up in the window looking like something from the Halloween costumes. The bad Halloween costumes.

SPEAKER_08 32:41

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 32:42

I actually thought that wasn't too bad. And it had a blinking, I mean it was blinking, and you know, it had a little facial expression going.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

Yeah. We won't even talk about the fact that that's what you thought that it wasn't that bad.

SPEAKER_08 32:55

Well, you know, I mean, as far as those videos go, I was just excited to actually see something, you know, because it's usually blurry and not clear at all.

SPEAKER_02 33:06

So but you gotta put the whole story together. You know, he claims to be, you know, he's been abducted several times and he's afraid of these things and whatever, whatever, and one pops up in your window, and oh no, no, the whole body of work just was suspect. Yeah. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_08 33:25

Okay. Well, aside from the video, there's other things that he shows in the documentary. And if you want to hear more about Stan, you can check that out. But I just kind of wanted to update our listeners as to the status of of his case right now. So he's probably not gonna be uh He's not gonna be producing any more videos for a little while. Yeah, so we may not hear much from him for the next couple of years. We'll see. You know, and and poor Lisa, I feel kind of bad for you.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

You know, and and all and and all jokes aside, regardless of what ultimately happened in terms of aliens, you hate to see a family go through whatever, and you know, you really hope you you know, you really hope that he wasn't some kind of perv.

SPEAKER_08 34:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:15

That would be horrible.

SPEAKER_08 34:17

Well, his attorney said that he used everything possible to blame everybody else. I mean, even his stepson at some point. So, I mean, it it got pretty ugly, I think. And you know, for the family, it's a horrible thing to have to deal with. So I wish them well. Um, and and we'll see what happens. We'll see if uh there's any abductions, you know, Stan what happens with him. So I also want to say that at the end of the episode today, for all of you who may want to listen, we're gonna play the entirety of the song that um brings us in and takes us out each episode. It's a song called Madness Calling by a group called Ghetto Circus. So you can listen to that if you want at the end of the episode.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

Awesome.

SPEAKER_08 35:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

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SPEAKER_08 35:11

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SPEAKER_02 35:20

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