Aliens Ep 10

Aliens...UFO's... What are they? Where do they come from? I want answers. Don't you? Let me abduct your brain for a bit for some history, famous cases and much, much more. Grab the keys to the flying saucer, we're takin' a trip to the Extraterrestrial!! 

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Hi, and welcome back to another episode of That was too funny not to use.

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My name's Lina, and welcome to the podcast. I have a lot of information to give to you today, so I'm going to keep this beginning part short. I just wanted to tell you all that I am absolutely obsessed with the Artemis moon trip. We sent our NASA astronauts up on a trip around the moon, and they have gone further than any human has ever gone in space before, which is super exciting to me. They have made their way around the moon and took some great pictures of the dark side of the moon and they are now on their way back. And it pairs so nicely with our episode today. Aliens. But we wish our NASA astronauts the best of luck, a safe trip home, and godspeed astronauts. I do have a lot of information to give you today, so fuckle up buttercups, here we go. Aliens Extraterrestrial Visitors, UFOs, which more recently are called UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomenon. Experiencing something unexplainable can be extremely terrifying. It can rock your core beliefs and make you question life and existence in ways that you never did before. Sightings and experiences happen quite often. Of course, not all of them are legit, but a large portion of them remain unexplainable. According to the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or ARO, which is the agency that reviews UAPs for the Pentagon, according to them, between May 1st, 2023 and June 1st of 2024, they received 757 reports of UAPs. Now let's do some math. 272 of these occurred the previous year, but not reported until 2023, so those don't count. Well minus those. Out of the 485 that did occur in 2023, 118 of them were resolved, so explained by balloons, birds, unmanned aerial systems like drones and such. Another 174 cases are resolved and pending closure status, which leaves 193 cases unresolved and unexplained. This whole report is available on the Department of Defense's Aero website at AARO.mil. According to the National UFO Reporting Center or New Force, the U.S. reported over 2,000 sightings by July of 2025, and that's only half of the year. According to the 2025 Annual Canadian UFO Survey, they had 1,052 UFO reports. And North America is not alone. Newforce.org, so it's NUFORC, it stands for the National UFO Reporting Center. Newforce.org reports over the last 25 years, almost every area on the globe has reported sightings. Argentina has 74. Australia has 1,101. India has 593. South Africa has 258. The UK has 3,959. Mexico has 564, and 27 over international waters. And the list goes on, so this is a global phenomenon. Visitors to this planet, an aerial phenomenon, has probably been happening since the dawn of time. Since prehistoric man. There are cave drawings of similar-looking beings in caves all over the world where these cultures had no way of communicating with each other. From Italy to Australia to Utah here in the US, there's cave drawings and petroglyphs depicting beings that look like modern day astronauts, with masks, helmets, spacesuits, antenna, and large round eyes. One of the oldest civilizations, if not the oldest civilization, are the Sumerians. They settled between 4000 and 3000 BC in what's modern day Iraq. They established things like written records in cuneiform, which is a wedge-shaped writing system, language, architecture, government, courts, and schools, institutions that modern humans use today. This civilization worshipped gods that they called the Anunnaki, which roughly translates to from heaven to earth they came. These Anunnaki came to Earth from the sky. They had a hierarchy of high gods and low gods, and they were humanoid but not human. These gods also had advanced knowledge of all things, including genetics, in which they blended genes to create the human race and passed on their knowledge to us. And the human race did make a huge jump from cave people to this advanced civilization. And they even had a queen with an elongated skull. Elongated skulls is a practice of artificial cranial deformation. As a baby, the skull is bound sometimes with wood planks to create an elite or divine appearance, so their skulls are like cone shaped. This is supposed to make them similar to the gods. They were trying to imitate something that looked like that. And they're found all over the world. South America, Europe, Russia, Asia. In fact, King Tut in Egypt was depicted with an elongated skull, and it's been proven through CT scans of his mummy. Let's go to the other side of the planet, the Mayans. They had a king born in the year 603 AD named Pacal the Great of Palenque in what is now Mexico. He was said to be seven to eight feet tall and very mysterious. He was worshipped like a god, and when he died, an entire pyramid complex was built around his tomb. But it's the carving on his sarcophagus that piques my interest. It's generally thought to depict his descent into the underworld, but it kind of looks like he's operating some kind of machine or craft. He looks to be seated with some kind of mask on his nose. Both of his hands are doing different things, and I tell you, when I was watching all of the live feeds for the Artemis trip to the moon, that's what this thing kind of looks like. Like their hands, they're operating things with their hands, and they're sort of like strapped into this thing. It was very similar. His foot looks like it's operating a lever or a pedal, and there's possibly flames coming out of whatever he's in or operating or flying. This image is what the Mayans adorned the tomb of someone they considered a god. A huge endeavor to build a giant pyramid around his tomb took place. This was the most important image they wanted to convey of this great king. So this image is very important. Well, what is he doing? The Mayans were an advanced civilization. They had a great understanding of the stars and of time. They had an advanced mathematics system and a calendar. They also vanished around 800 AD. In the Hindu religion, there are ancient texts written thousands of years ago that talk about flying machines called vimanas. These machines are metal, they can be in two places at once, they are as wide as a hundred feet and have movement compared to a butterfly. People would fly around in these things and fight each other, destroying whole cities. One of them even had a beam of light that would consume its target. And these things are completely accepted by modern day Indian society. One thing I've always found fascinating is how early civilizations with no modern equipment or technology built these giant structures and moved massive stones. Pumapoku in Bolivia is a structure whose pieces are so precisely cut they fit together like a puzzle. The location is barren, there's no trees that grow there, so no logs for rolling, and the quarry is ten miles away. Some stones weigh hundreds of tons. Not pounds, tons. How did they move them and put them in place? It was built by the Amara Indians. This culture had no known writing system, making planning and logistics impossible. There are holes and designs in the stone so precisely cut that only a machine could do it. Lines that run across the length of 800 ton blocks that when measured with a laser are the exact length, width, and depth spanning the entire thing. These stones are granite and diorite. The only thing harder than diorite is diamond. How did they accomplish this? There are many many artifacts from all over the world that could be interpreted as early visitors from Earth. In Guatemala City, a sculpture from 1500 years ago looks like a being with a helmet, with a faceplate and some kind of mouthpiece. It looks like early scuba gear. In some tombs in Colombia, bronze artifacts dated to 300 AD were found that look like airplanes. Like they really look like airplanes, not like birds or insects, like airplanes. Let's jump forward in time a bit to medieval times. In April of 1561, a broadsheet, which is a newspaper format by Hans Glasier reported a mass sighting of UFOs over Nuremberg in present-day Bavaria. The text describes a large triangular object and hundreds of spheres, cylinders, rods, and other shapes falling to earth in clouds of smoke. The report states around dawn, quote, many men and women witnessed an aerial battle for over an hour. There's also an illustration that goes along with the article if you want to Google it. I'm sure 1561 Nuremberg UFO will take you right there. Another air battle was witnessed by six fishermen in the Baltic Sea in 1665. They report what they thought was a flock of birds, but then it morphed into warships and engaged in a great battle. They reported ghostly figures manning the decks of these ships. Then at dusk, a quote, flat round shape like a plate appeared above Saint Nicholas Church. Now, this is 1665 and they are describing a disc shaped UFO, a flying saucer in 1665. At that point the fishermen fled, but the next day they report tremors and physical pains. They had physical effects from this thing. Let's jump a little further in time to the 1940s. During World War II, nighttime fighter pilots would report what was coined as foo fighters. No, not the band, way before Dave Grohl. Foo fighters are objects, usually orange, red, or green glowing ball shapes, that would move intelligently around the planes. They would fly at high speeds next to the aircraft and would perform aerial maneuvers our modern day planes could not replicate. They remain unexplained and also a notable part of World War II aviation history along with early UFO history. In 1942, in the overnight hours of February 24th to 25th, an incident occurred that is known as the Battle of LA or the Great Los Angeles air raid. The United States had just entered World War II after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and on the night of February 24, 1942, U.S. military radar pick up some unidentified objects about 120 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. Because we were on high alert due to the Japanese attack, air sirens were activated and a citywide blackout was ordered. So the people of LA, less than three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, hear air raid sirens and the lights go out. Then, around 3 a.m., anti-aircraft weapons start firing into the sky. Over 1,400 rounds were shot at what was later identified by the government as a meteorological balloon, a weather balloon. A photograph published in the LA Times on February 26th shows searchlights focused on what looks like a flying saucer. The photo was modified to enhance the black and white image, but the fact remains that something spooked our military enough to take extreme measures. You mean to tell me that less than three months after what was at the time the biggest attack on American soil and our military is unaware of the weather balloons in the area? This incident killed three civilian people, not from bullets or artillery fire, but from fright. Three died in car crashes and two died of heart attacks. They were scared and panicked. And this isn't the only incident off the coast of Los Angeles. You'll hear it quite a few times in this episode. But we can't talk about 1940s UFOs without including the infamous Roswell incident. In June of 1947, a rancher named William Brazer came across some unusual debris on his ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. On July 7th, he reported to Roswell Army Airfield that he recovered, quote, one of them flying saucers. The case was assigned to Major Jesse Marcel and he, along with Colonel Cavot and Sergeant Rickett, went to the ranch and collected several pieces of, quote, reflective sort of material. That morning there's a press release by the Air Force that says, quote, they believe they have a flying saucer in their possession. Newspapers report that the Air Force had recovered the remains of a quote flying disc. The Air Force later that day held another press conference denying this claim and blamed it on yet another weather balloon. And the incident quickly loses attention. Then, in 1978, Major Marcel, now Lieutenant Colonel Marcel, who was originally assigned the case, claims in an interview that the pieces collected were, quote, extraterrestrial. He describes the metal material as no thicker than the foil in a cigarette pack. But you couldn't dent it or bend it, and even a sledgehammer wouldn't damage it. He then says, quote, it was not anything from this earth that I'm quite sure of. In 1994, the Air Force was tasked by Congress to determine if any government agency possessed information regarding the Roswell incident. They concluded that there was a cover-up, but not of aliens, of what is known as Project Mogul, a top secret military operation to detect any nuclear tests carried out by the Soviets. They claim a train of weather balloons equipped with microphones to detect sound waves is what crashed at Roswell. And quote, aliens observed in the New Mexico desert were actually anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research. End quote. I'd love to hear your opinions on Roswell and any of the cases that I'm going to be talking about today. Please email me at the podcast of Terror at gmail.com. You can comment wherever you're listening to this, and you can also follow the Facebook page, The Podcast of Terror. Back to the episode. From the 1940s to present, countless sightings and experiences and abductions have occurred, and they have become known as close encounters. These are then broken down to three different kinds using the Heinek scale. The Heinek scale is a classification of UFO experiences devised by Dr. J. Allen Heinek. He was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist, and one of the first people to scientifically analyze UFO evidence. So according to the Heineken scale, a close encounter of the first kind or CE1 is a sighting of a UFO or UAP that occurs within 500 feet of the observer. This first kind involves seeing a craft in detail like features, lights, shape, texture, color, but with no physical effects on the observer or the environment. This kind of encounter is probably the most common and it involves observation only. Some examples would be the New York Hudson Valley sightings. In 1980, huge V-shaped objects were seen by many witnesses moving slowly and silently over the Hudson Valley. Or in Belgium between 1989 and 1990, many residents, including police officers, saw triangular objects with three lights moving silently across the sky. Close encounters of a second kind, or CE2, is a step up from the first kind. It's still observed, but it has an impact on the environment. Crop circles, dead vegetation, soil contamination, soil indentations, or missing soil or ground, animal mutilations, energy drainage from a source like car batteries or flashlights, and humans may experience a sunburn-like effect, vomiting, blisters, swollen eyes, loss of hair, very similar to radiation poisoning. Close encounters of a second kind leave behind some kind of tangible evidence. A close encounter of a third kind or CE3 is a little more terrifying. This kind involves a physical being, either an alien or robot or even another human, whether inside or outside of the UFO. The original Heinrich scale ended at these three kinds, but in the 1990s, Close Encounters of a Fourth Kind was introduced by ufologist Jacques Valei and also adopted by MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, and other organizations. Close encounters of a fourth kind involve abduction or forced contact with an alien being. This is by far the most terrifying. Although, if I was abducted, they would probably send me right back. They'd be like, fuck this. Some abductees actually find foreign material implanted in their bodies. Sometimes they don't know it's there until they go in for some kind of unrelated test, an X-ray or something, and it shows up. Most likely these devices are used for tracking or communication or even mind control. These devices are found inside the body, embedded in the flesh, and have no entry wound or scar tissue. One of the first reported cases was a ufologist Peter Rogerson in 1957. He claimed his neighbor was abducted in 1938, and according to the neighbor, he was kept subdued by quote small earphones that were put behind his ears. Other doctors have claimed to have removed these things from patients' bodies, including Roger Lear's documented surgeries detailed in his book The Aliens and the Scalpel. Typical characteristics of these things are they're small, about a half inch to three quarters of an inch, usually of some kind of metallic material with jagged edges, often with small wires protruding out, and sometimes they're just wiry threads. They're also reported to be surrounded or encased in some kind of biological material. Membrane to maybe avoid detection or a possible rejection from the body. Most abduction cases are an extremely horrific experience. Many report being examined and explored, and many have medical type procedures performed on them. Some are so terrified by the experience that they completely block it out, and it's later brought out through therapy and hypnosis. We'll get to some of those cases soon. But first, let's go over some different kinds of crafts and ships and their different characteristics. There are a bunch of different shapes that are reported. The most common according to the National UFO Reporting Center is orb-shaped or sphere, closely followed by triangle, but there's also rectangle, cigar shaped, like the Tic-Tac shape, egg-shaped, diamond, regular disc or flying saucer type, fireball, and changing. The changing ones are UFOs or UAPs that change shape or break apart into smaller ships or rearrange to a different shape. Another characteristic of these ships are the speed and maneuverability. There are some reports of ships moving at speeds that would liquefy a human pilot due to the G force, or perform maneuvers that no known human-built vehicle could perform. They defy our laws of physics. This also includes cloaking capabilities. They could be outside in the sky right now and we would never even know. But sometimes I think they want to be seen. They show up on radar a lot. I also think they have an interest in our weapons capabilities and power sources. They are often witnessed around military bases and nuclear power plants. They are also often witnessed around large bodies of water. Approximately 71% of our great planet is water. The oceans make up 96.5% of that water, leaving 3.5% of fresh water, with less than 1% of that being easily accessible to humans. So side note, we need that water. Protect it. Which leads me to USOs, unidentified submerged objects. These are alien ships underwater. Like I mentioned in the zombie episode, we know more about space than we do about our own oceans. And with 70% of our planet being ocean, that's a whole lot of unmonitored and unexplored room for aliens to occupy. USOs are usually reported being able to move from water to air and vice versa. The US Navy has several documented cases of USOs. Witnesses report these ships diving into the water with no sound and no splash. The waters off of the California coast between Catalina Island and Long Beach, P.S. Catalina Island is awesome. But this area is known for having plenty of USO activity and a possible undersea base. One object seen near Catalina Island is a black triangle shape estimated at several hundred feet per side that enters apex first into the water. Another Catalina report comes from boat Captain Thor Lazan's great name. In 2021, Captain Thor took video of three orange orbs that were over the waters around Catalina Island. And who the hell are flying these things? There are different types of aliens reported throughout history. Different species, I guess you could say. One of the most common types are gray aliens or the grays. Gray aliens are called that because they have smooth, hairless gray skin. They are small humanoid beings with disproportionately large heads. Facial features can vary, but typically grays have large almond-shaped black eyes, but not always round eyes are also reported. They are also usually devoid of body parts such as noses and ears and sexual organs, and no visible skeletal structure or muscle definition. Then we have reptilian aliens, also called reptoids or lizard people. These are super scary to me. They are usually humanoid between 5 and 12 feet tall. They have greenish scaly skin and reptile like eyes. There's a theory that reptilian aliens are shapeshifters and that they live amongst us disguised as humans. That they have underground bases and have been here since the ancient Sumerians. It's also a theory that they have infiltrated our media and government, which nowadays, you know what, I fucking believe it. Another type are the Nordics or the Pleiadians or the tall whites. These again are humanoid, but they resemble Scandinavian people. These aliens are tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. They have fair skin described sometimes as pale blue or purple and sometimes just completely white. People who have encountered Nordics describe them as beautiful and graceful. They seem to be spiritually advanced and pleasant, with telepathic abilities, like they communicate with their minds. It's believed they come from the Pleiades star cluster, known as the Seven Sisters, located in the constellation of Taurus. These would definitely be my first choice of aliens if I had to make one. This next one not so much. Insect aliens or insectoids. Ugh They resemble insects, multifaceted eyes, exoskeletons, multiple limbs and antenna antennae whichever. A common description is a mantis type being, tall with six legs, also with telepathic abilities. Y'all pass on these ones, thank you. Okay, so there's an interesting report called the Kelly Hopkinsville Encounter, which I think is worth mentioning. On august twenty first, nineteen fifty five, five adults and seven kids went into the Hopkinsville, Kentucky police station and said that they have been fighting off with gunfire small alien creatures from a spaceship for quote nearly four hours. They claimed the goblin-like aliens had been attacking their farmhouse and they would shoot at them when they would appear in the doorway and peer through the windows. They were described as between two and four feet tall with large pointy ears, claw-like hands, thin legs, and yellow glowing eyes. This is the only story I could find with these goblin type aliens. But if there was no ship involved, if the people didn't see a spaceship, then these could be mistaken for goblins, cryptids or something like that. So I would not discredit these. Now it only makes sense that if there are underwater alien ships, that there would be amphibian aliens, aquatic humanoids. These are reported as tall, thin, with smooth glistening skin that seems to change color with the shifting light. Their eyes are usually described as large and dark. That's what she said. They have webbed feet and hands, and reports of these aliens started in the mid-20th century, but this could explain some mythological creatures such as mermaids and such. Most witnesses describe them as calm and sort of just observing. And then there's hybrids. These are exactly that, a cross between aliens and humans, either by procreation, you know, actual sex, or by artificial insemination. This is a theory that's been around for forever. It's believed by some that we ourselves, the human race, are an alien hybrid. The ancient Sumerians believed it. I mentioned King Tut's elongated skull. Was he an alien hybrid? A lot of alien abduction reports involve some kind of experiments on the abducted person, many of them of a sexual nature. Some even report being impregnated, carrying the baby to term, and then the baby is taken by the aliens, either through another abduction experience, or they simply wake up and they are no longer pregnant. How fucking terrifying is that? My knowledge of the human body makes hybrids iffy for me. At least the procreation part, because we would not share the same DNA unless they are actual humans just from another planet. But the types of aliens that I listed earlier would make this impossible. Unless some kind of genetic mutation was used, some kind of gene splicing or synthetic chimerism, which is mixing alien cells and human cells at the embryotic stage to create a chimera. A chimera is one organism consisting of two distinct cell lines. But this does not involve breeding. This would also be a lab-assisted conception. But with advanced alien technology, this could be easier than we know. For them, this could be like an outpatient procedure for us, like getting a mole removed or a birth control implant. They just boop, stop by, take you for a little bit, impregnate you somehow, and then boop, put you right back. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. So scary. Unless they're the hot Nordic type, then maybe not so bad. Wink. Okay, let's get into some well-known documented cases. Probably one of the most well-documented cases and one of my absolute favorites is the case of Travis Walton. Travis Walton worked with a crew of guys as a forestry worker in the Apache Sitgraves National Forest near Heber, Arizona. On the night of November 5th, 1975, Travis and six crew members, Mike Rogers, John Goulette, Dwayne Smith, Alan Dallas, Kenny Peterson, and Steve Pierce, all from a small town called Snowflake, Arizona, were done working for the day and they piled in a truck and were on their way out of the forest. The crew says they saw a lit object above the ground near the road that they were on. One member said at first he thought it was the moon, but then he looked and saw the actual moon and realized this was something different. As they approached the object, before the truck could even stop, Travis jumped out and headed towards the light. He later said that he realized his mistake, but it was too late. He didn't want to seem weak in front of the other guys, so he just kept going. P.S. Travis is only 22 years old when this takes place. As Travis approached the object, described as metallic and disc shaped and silent until he got closer. He and the crew could hear both high and low frequency sound, and you could feel it as well. One crew member said he could feel it on the truck windows. Then a beam of light shot out and engulfed Travis and lifted him off the ground. The crew said he hovered there with arms stretched out at his sides for a few moments and then he fell in a heap on the ground. The rest of the crew, scared to death and fearing that Travis was dead, took off down the road. They got about a quarter of a mile away from the incident site and then realized, shit, we need to go back for Travis. When they get back to the site, Travis's body is gone. After the crew couldn't find Travis, they contact the police. Three crew members remained to help search along with three law enforcers until around midnight when they call it quits until the next day. Travis's mother was also informed of his disappearance, who then informed his brother Duane. A search party is sent out, helicopters, dogs, law enforcement, volunteers, and they find no trace of Travis, not even a footprint. Over the next five days, the crew is put through rigorous questioning. It was assumed that they or one of them had hurt or killed Travis and hid his body. They all insisted on what they saw. They were then given polygraph tests and they all passed, except one I think was inconclusive, but then he later passed. Then, after five days, Travis's brother-in-law gets a phone call from Travis. Travis explains he needs help and he's at a phone booth near a gas station outside of Heber, Arizona. Travis's brother Duane goes to pick him up. Duane claims when he approached Travis to help him out of the phone booth, he tried to like skirt away from him as if he was frightened. Duane grabbed Travis in his arms like a baby and held him. Duane realized that Travis had five days' growth of facial hair and had lost significant weight. Travis was still under the belief that this was the same night, not five days later. Travis is taken to the hospital and then home to his mother. By this time, the story is a media sensation. News reporters from all over the world call to talk to investigators. For fear of repercussions from his experience and the effect that this could have on himself and his family, Travis doesn't talk to the media initially. He's so shaken by his experience that his brother decides who Travis should talk to. He also doesn't take the polygraph right away because he's still so freaked out that he feels that it wouldn't be accurate. The other crew members report being harassed, pointed at, accused of being on drugs, and also threatened with criminal charges if this is a hoax. Travis has some recollection, some memory of what happened to him leading up to the abduction, but is so traumatized he can't fully discuss it without breaking down. In 1975, PTSD is not widely known other than like shell shock from wartime experiences. He has little conscious recall of his time on the ship until he undergoes a regression under hypnosis by Dr. James Harter. Under hypnosis, Travis doesn't have the fear of what he experienced and is able to recall details of his encounter. Travis claims when he regained consciousness after falling to the ground, he woke up to a bright light over what he thought was a hospital bed. He was in a lot of pain which made it difficult to move. After his eyes adjusted a bit, he saw two figures of men standing over him. He describes them with no hair and underdeveloped features. Without thought he jumped up and tried to grab something to defend himself, but the creatures seemed unfazed and they just quickly left the room. He said there was a narrow, dimly lit corridor outside of the room, and he went to the right down this hallway because the beings went to the left. The corridor leads to a room with a chair and some controls, and Travis said he could see the stars through the walls. Travis hears someone enter the room and it's a man not like the other beings, but just like you or me, but with a helmet on. Travis starts to ask this man questions, but he won't answer. So Travis thinks he just can't hear him through the helmet. The being takes him by the arm and leads him to a large room where there are two more shiny oval chrome looking ships. He's then led to another room where three others like this man were, but with no helmets. He tries to talk to these beings as well, but they won't answer him either. He's laid on a table and a mask or apparatus like an oxygen mask is put over his face. Travis then falls unconscious and wakes up on the pavement and sees the light of the ship take off straight into the sky. He then crawls to the phone booth and calls his brother-in-law. This hypnosis session is done with three psychiatrists present along with Duane, Travis's brother. Dr. Harder was a very reputable hypnotherapist and had no reason to believe that Travis fabricated his story. Travis says that this session greatly reduced the stress and fear he felt not knowing what happened to him for those five days. He eventually takes the polygraph test, multiple ones in fact, and passes all of them. Travis and the crew suffer all kinds of backlash over their story, and people set out to deliberately discredit Travis. But they all stick to the story, even when offered large amounts of money to change it. They lose their jobs, they're hounded by media, and eventually move away except for Travis. He stays in Snowflake. He speaks on his experience often and is involved in UFO research. He also wrote a book called The Walton Experience and that was turned into a movie called Fire in the Sky. Travis is highly regarded amongst the top people in UFO research. In 2014, Travis and a research group went back to the site because they were curious about the tree growth. They found that the trees in the area of the incident produced wood fiber 36% faster than the other trees in the forest, and the effects diminish the further away you get from the site. And they found something else interesting as well, that not only did the wood grow faster, but it grew in the direction of the site. The tree rings are egg-shaped, pointing towards the area that the craft was. Travis also has an interesting opinion on why this happened to him. He believes that he was accidentally injured by the craft. He got too close when it was about to take off, and instead of them leaving him there for dead, the beings took him aboard, fixed him, and then brought him back. I like that theory. Another super famous abduction case is that of Betty and Barney Hill. On September 19th, 1961, while driving back to New Hampshire from a road trip to Montreal, Canada, around 10 30 p.m. near Lancaster, New Hampshire, Betty Hill notices a weird craft with lights flashing different colors in the sky traveling across the face of the moon. Barney Hill thought it was just a commercial airplane until it got a little closer. They watched this thing fly around the sky and near the mountains, and Betty testified that it's at least 40 feet long. The craft was rotating but silent. Just south of Indian Head Mountain, the object quickly descends towards their car. This causes Barney to pull over off the highway. The huge craft hovered about a hundred feet away from their car. Barney describes it as a large pancake shape. Barney takes his binoculars and walks towards the object until it was just above his head. In his binoculars, he sees the occupants of the craft, beings resembling gray aliens. Then the ship drops some sort of ramp or ladder, and this causes Barney to book it back to the car, like, oh shit, Betty, we gotta go. Betty describes him as hysterical and he immediately starts driving off. As they are driving, Betty sticks her head out the window to see if she can see the craft. She can't, so she rolls up her window, and as soon as she does this, they start to hear a beeping sound and what seems like the vibration from a tuning fork coming from the trunk of their car. They both experience a tingling sensation and then all of a sudden silence and they felt like they were floating in a dream. They felt like only a moment had passed, but then they realized they were like further down the road. Betty asks Barney if he believes in UFOs now, and he says, quote, no, of course not. Even though he had just seen it with his own eyes, Barney still had trouble believing what he had just saw. They continue on to Portsmouth with little conversations. When they get there, it's daylight already and they just feel odd. Betty notices that the dress she was wearing was ripped and she says it felt contaminated, so she just put it in her closet. Vnie doesn't want Betty to Tell anybody, but Betty is very interested in what happened, and she calls her sister, whose neighbor is a physicist. He tells her to see how a compass reacts around the car. So Barney does, and the compass spins in circles around these unusual spots on the trunk. There were around 15 to 20 shiny spots the size of a silver dollar in a random pattern on the trunk of the car. They weren't burned or discolored, but they looked like highly polished circles. They then decide to report the incident to officials at the nearby Peace Air Force Base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. And in fact, there was an unusual object picked up on radar at 2.14 AM the night the Hills had their experience. After six hours of giving all the info they can to officials, they try to move on with their lives. But soon after, Betty starts to have terrible dreams about the ship and the beings and a bright orb and a dirt road surrounded by trees. And they realize that they are missing two hours from their memories of that night. A trip that should have taken four hours took six hours with no recollection of that time by Betty or Barney. Barney's health starts to decline due to his stress and anxiety over this experience and his reluctance to talk about it. Until he sees a doctor about an ulcer that he has and he opens up about how this experience is the cause of all his stress. Betty and Barney are upstanding citizens. She was a social worker and he worked for the U.S. Postal Service. They are also a biracial couple in the 1960s, so they are fully aware of how people can point and judge. The doctor recommends that Barney see a psychiatrist named Dr. Benjamin Simon, a specialist in regression hypnosis therapy in Boston, Massachusetts. Over six months, the Hills do many recorded sessions with Dr. Simon, and this is what was recalled. They get to the point of Barney walking out to the object with his binoculars, and he starts to beg the doctor to not make him look, not make him remember. But he pushes past this mental block with Dr. Simon reiterating that he's safe and it's just a memory. Barney has a very strong emotional reaction, saying things like, Oh my god, oh my god, oh those eyes, they're in my brain. He remembers getting in the car and driving and making a turn down a dirt road, but he doesn't know why. He doesn't feel in control of himself. He finds himself and Betty on a dirt road surrounded by trees and a giant glowing orb. Then he sees figures in shiny black clothes standing in the road and he says, quote, it's them. Betty's sessions are done separately as to not contaminate either person's recall. When she gets to the point where Barney says it's them, she becomes very frightened, more frightened than she has ever been, according to her. She recalls reaching for the door of the car and trying to run towards the woods, but the beings intercept her and lead her towards the ship. She says I don't want to go. I don't want to go. But they say to her telepathically, Don't worry, there's nothing to fear. But Betty tries to fight them and kicks one of them, tearing her dress. The beings regain control and lead her to an exam room. She says she remembers the rooms being triangle shaped like pieces of a pie. They instruct her to take her dress and shoes off and she's put on a table. She refers to one of the beings as the examiner, who runs some kind of instrument over her back and spine. They have an interest in her skin and take samples and what she says seemed like pictures of her skin. The examiner then brings out a very large needle and tells her that he's going to put it in her belly button. And tells her that he's going to put it in her navel, her belly button. She pleads with this being, telling it it's going to hurt her. It insists it won't, but when he inserts it, it does hurt, and she begs him to stop. Then the one she calls the leader comes over and places its hand over her eyes and tells her that she won't feel anymore, and the pain stops. When she inquires of these beings why they put that in her navel, they tell her it was a pregnancy test. She recalls seeing Barney taken to a room as well. He recalls being examined, he remembers being naked on a table, the beings being interested in his spine and muscle structure. He says he kept telling himself to not open his eyes. Barney recalls a probe in his butt, but it was quick and painless. Phew, thank goodness. And a cup like device over his genitals that took a sperm sample. And then it's over. The beings lead both Betty and Barney back to the car, he turns on the car and starts driving. And it picks up where the conscious memory started in the car after the beeping sounds and Betty asking him if he believes in UFOs, to which he replies no, of course not. But now after these sessions he does believe. He feels great relief over getting this out. They also still want to try to keep this as secret as possible. But a Boston newspaper ran a full story for five days of all the details of their experience, including their hypnosis sessions, supposedly leaked by a friend of Betty's. The Hills are contacted for an interview but they refuse. But then they realize that they can't hide from this thing anymore and they cooperate with a writer who writes a book on the Hills abduction called The Interrupted Journey that becomes a bestseller. An interesting thing that Betty recalled during one of her sessions was being shown a star map of where the aliens were from that she drew out from memory. Later in 1974, a teacher named Marjorie Fish from Ohio claims to have found the star system. Marjorie Fish was extremely intelligent, a member of Mensa and an amateur astrologer. She constructed a 3D model of Betty's drawing in order to get a better perspective and found a match. Zeta reticuli is a star system 39 light years from Earth with a Sun similar to ours and planets at a distance from that sun that could support life. Very interesting. So after the book and some brief promotional stuff, Betty and Barney tried to go back to normal life and would give the occasional interview to UFO reporters, but made no real attempt at publicity. The Betty and Barney Hill abduction is special as in it gave us the first reported case of abduction, the first description of what are now known as gray aliens and the first case of recalling an abduction experience with hypnosis. This case has had such an impact that a historical marker has been placed on the side of the road where Barney had pulled over to observe the UFO. Neat. Many of the cases I've talked about could and should have their own episode. I've given a very brief synapse of the stories, and this next case has so much it would take three episodes. Skinwalker Ranch in Northeast Utah has quite the history of all kinds of weird activity. Going way back before the popular TV show on the History Channel. The American Indian tribe, the Utes, considered the area where the ranch is located to be cursed and inhabited by skinwalkers, dark figures from Native American folklore. These are evil beings capable of black magic. They are described as dark, thin creatures with burning red eyes and have great speed and strength. They also have the ability to shape shift, usually into a powerful animal. Going back to 1911, locals to the area would report loud sounds like thunder heard day and night, winter and summer. Beginning in the 1950s, people started reporting thousands of cases of poltergeist activity, Bigfoot, cattle mutilations, and UFOs. Activity ramps up in the 1970s, making the area a hot spot for paranormal activity. The Sherman family bought the ranch from the Myers family in the fall of 1994 with the intent of raising their children and some cattle. The ranch was empty and needed some work, and immediately things got strange. There was a clause in the purchase contract that the Shermans had to contact the Myers if they were ever going to dig on the property. The ranch itself was heavily secured with chains and locks and bars on the windows. One day, shortly after move-in, the family has a weird occurrence with a large wolf. They noticed the large creature slowly approaching the ranch. It seemed to be tamed like someone's pet. The family quickly realized that this was no ordinary wolf. Its head came up to the chest of a six-foot-tall man. It was extremely muscular, had gray fur and piercing blue eyes. The family was obviously scared, but the wolf was docile around them until it noticed a calf that had wandered too close to the fence. The wolf attacked the baby cow and Terry, the dad, and his father try to free the calf by hitting the wolf, but their blows have no effect. Terry then shoots the beast with a Colt 357 Magnum, a very powerful handgun at point blank range. A few times, but the wolf is unaffected. He then shoots it with a rifle a couple of times before the wolf walks away, still seeming unfazed by the bullets. The family is in shock. Terry and his son try to track the beast to finish it off. They follow the wolf until it disappears into the woods and then they follow its tracks until they disappear as well. Not because they lost the tracks or the ground changed, for no reason at all, the tracks just stopped. Over the next few weeks, they have distant sightings of not just this wolf but other ones too, until eventually it just stopped. Over the next two years, the family experiences many unexplained phenomena. Terry would be working and leave a piece of heavy machinery only to return and find it gone. Sometimes found 20 feet up in a tree. And then the lights in the sky start. One night, Terry, his son, and his nephew see what looks like headlights and taillights on the property. Figuring it's someone trespassing to camp on the ranch, they go to investigate, and as they get closer, the lights move away from them, but they don't hear a vehicle motor. Then the lights shoot about 50 feet up in the air and flew off. They describe the object as refrigerator shaped. Terry would continue to see random light anomalies, and on one particular night he sees a dark black silent craft hovering about 30 feet off the ground. It looked to be searching for something, flashing different colored lights resembling a disco ball on the ground below. Terry's wife Gwen reported being followed in her car by this same object. Then it flew over the house and flew away. Later, when looking for the object, she saw the refrigerator-shaped object on the ranch. The next morning, when Terry and Gwen went to look at where the vehicle was, the only trace were very large footprints. The whole family would witness what's described as large glowing orange objects. This happened frequently and always in the same area. Terry would watch them through his riflescope for hours. Here's an interesting report from Terry that I think ties to some evidence that they find in the TV show decades later. One night, while watching an orange glowing object, he sees a blue spot in the center. He then realizes that it's blue sky in the center even though the sun was already down. He then sees other triangular objects flying out of this orange object, like it's a portal. The focus then turns to Terry's cattle. One day he notices a cow is missing. He tracks the animal into an open field, and then like the wolf tracks, they just disappeared. Like the cow had simply vanished, and the cow is never found. That spring they start finding their cattle dead in very peculiar ways. They would be missing parts of their bodies, but with what seemed like surgical precision and with no traces of blood. He would see strange yellow lights at night and the next day find a dead cow, each cow costing him thousands of dollars. The family would also hear strange noises that would come from underground. Lights would be witnessed at night, and the next day huge holes missing hundreds of pounds of soil would be discovered in the area. Their family would witness glowing orbs on the ranch of different colors, but particularly the blue ones need mentioning. Described as round, about the size of three baseballs, clear with a blue liquid inside that swirled like it's about to boil. They crackled with electricity and would interfere with electrical equipment nearby. One night in 1996, Terry's prized dogs attacked one of these things. The orb seemed to taunt the dogs and they chase it into the woods. Terry heard the dogs yelp and they never came back. The next day, Terry found three circles of brown dead grass with the remains of the dead dogs in the center of each one, described as a quote, greasy mess. At this point, the Shermans had had enough and they went off the ranch. Terry decides to go public with his story in hopes it will get him some answers. He talks to a newspaper reporter for the Deseret News, and the story is printed on June 29, 1996. It spreads across the country and attracts the attention of Robert Bigelow, who purchased the ranch in September of 1996. The Shermans took a loss selling the ranch even though Robert Bigelow is a billionaire real estate tycoon with a huge interest in the paranormal. He founded an organization called the National Institute for Discovery Science, or NIDS. NIDS was very interested in the ranch. A team was put together to investigate the ranch and was led by Column A. Kelleher. The team immediately starts to experience the same phenomenon as Terry claimed: cattle mutilations, missing soil, light anomalies in the sky and on the ranch. The team witnessed the blue orbs, black objects in the sky, telepathic communications, yellow lights that looked like the entrance to a tunnel with a humanoid figure emerging, damaged cameras, and mysterious radiation readings. The NIDS investigation lasted six years from 1996 to 2002. In 2005, a book called Hunt for the Skinwalker is released, written in part by Colin Kelleher, the head of the NIDS research at the ranch. This attracts attention from people in the U.S. government, especially a scientist for the Defense Intelligence Agency named James Lakatsky. The government researches at the ranch for two years, but it was mostly kept secret. In 2016, Bigelow sold the ranch to Brandon Fugel with the agreement that research would continue. This is the guy who owns the ranch on the TV show on the History Channel. The show aired in 2020 and the new investigation team on the show finds all kinds of interesting stuff. A guy even gets what's believed is radiation burns on his skin. They use all kinds of fancy equipment, drones, they dig, use ground penetrating radar, they shoot rockets in the sky. It's a cool show. But it's just that. A TV show. Remember, question everything, people. No real substantial evidence is found. They don't find a ship with aliens, is what I'm saying, but it leaves a lot of unanswered questions about what's really going on at Skinwalker Ranch. Let's move on to a case where the evidence is pretty undisputable. The Nimitz incident. In November of 2004, multiple military personnel witnessed a tic-tac-shaped or capsule-shaped object in the skies over the ocean near, you guessed it, Catalina Island off the coast of California. The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, along with the guided missile cruiser, the USS Princeton, which by the way was equipped with the top-notch radar equipment available to the U.S. Navy at the time. They had the best of the best. They were doing training exercises when the Princeton's radar picks up strange tracks. Unknown objects would appear at extremely high altitudes and then rapidly descend and perform maneuvers not possible by any known conventional aircrafts. On November 14th, naval aviators were sent to intercept one of these objects, and what they see is pretty incredible. The pilots, David Fravor and Alex Dietrich, describe a solid, smooth, white object approximately 40 to 50 feet long. It has no wings and no visible propulsion system. Basically like a tic-tac, the little breath freshener candy things. They witness this thing hovering over a disturbance in the ocean water as if something is below the surface. It then starts to maneuver like nothing they've ever seen before. It's described as like a ping pong just quickly moving from one point to the other like bing, bing, bing. Fravor starts a spiral descent maneuver to get closer to the object, and then the object starts to mirror his maneuvers but spiraling upwards towards the pilot. Thinking this object is engaging him, the pilot cuts across the circle to get in front of the object, and then the thing flew away in an instant, just disappeared beyond the pilot's view. The two pilots were shocked. They radio the Princeton to see if they have it on radar, but they radio back picture clear. But then they radio back again that the object was back on radar but sixty miles away at the pilot's rendezvous point. Um what? This object traveled sixty miles in ten seconds. That's thousands of miles an hour, far beyond supersonic speed. Unless it did some kind of instantaneous jump, that's still impossible for any Earth craft. Maneuvers like this would kill a human. Our bodies can't take G forces like that. And how did it know their rendezvous point? Fraver and Dietrich return to the Nimitz and two more pilots are sent up. One of them, Chad Underwood, had orders to film this object with his FLIR camera equipped with targeting ability. It can lock onto a target and film it in infrared. Underwood does locate and lock onto it and films a video clip that lasts about a minute and 16 seconds. It shows the object flying level, then it tilts and then then it tilts or rotates and then takes off out of frame so fast the target sensor can't maintain the lock. Later analysis estimated it would be traveling around 24,000 miles an hour. This incident happened in 2004. It's not made public until the video is leaked by an unknown source in 2017. In 2019, the Pentagon confirms its authenticity. And this isn't the first time that the Tic Tac shaped UFOs were reported. The first radar report goes back to 1948 over Japan. A US military aircraft picked up. A quote bullet-shaped object about 30 to 50 feet long on radar with no wings and no tail, traveling about 185 miles an hour, to which it then accelerates to 1100 miles an hour faster than any known aircraft at the time. Another famous mass UFO sighting is known as the Phoenix Lights. On the night of March 13, 1997, hundreds of people across Nevada and Arizona witnessed a group of UFOs between 7.30 and 10:30 p.m. Local police departments were flooded with calls about reports of floating orbs in a V-shaped craft the size of several football fields moving slowly and silently south. Pilots, including the actor Kurt Russell, no shit, also reported this to air traffic controllers, but it was not picked up on radar. This was a mass sighting. Multiple videos were taken by different people, and it's not the first time a V-shaped set of lights is seen in the sky. I mentioned the Hudson Valley UFO wave, which was very similar. One last story before we move on comes from my hometown of Chicago. At O'Hare Airport, here in Chicago on November 7, 2006, at 4 15 p.m., at least 12 United Airlines employees, including runway crew and pilots, witnessed a dark gray metallic disc estimated at 22 feet in diameter, hovering about 1,500 feet over a United Airlines gate. There was heavy cloud cover that day, and two pilots who were grounded actually stick their heads out of the windows and see it. Another announced it over the radio, alerting other pilots and ground crew. A manager for United ran outside to see it for himself and then alerted the FAA. About 15 minutes after the first sighting, the object shot straight up into the air, punching through the cloud cover and leaving a visible hole shape in the clouds. Onlookers reported being able to see blue sky through the hole. Nothing was said to the public until the Chicago Tribune printed a story almost two months later. The article went viral online and another Tribune employee started interviewing witnesses. United Airlines workers denied seeing anything until a recorded radio conversation was leaked to the press. The recording is a supervisor asking several air traffic controllers if they see a flying disc over Gate C17. She calls back later to confirm that several pilots had seen the disc and one took a picture of it. But this photo has never surfaced. The recording also has control tower employees advising outgoing planes of a UFO and to use caution. The FAA and United still deny this incident and prohibit employees from speaking about it with any media outlet. The FAA's explanation is the reflection of the airport lights off the low cloud cover. But this occurred during the day when the airport lights were off. They then offer another explanation, a weather phenomenon known as whole punch cloud. But this only happens in below freezing weather. The temperature at the altitude of the disk on that day was 53 degrees. An independent UFO investigation group called NARCAP, consisting of former NASA scientists, pilots, meteorologists, etc., investigated and they concluded that a physical object was present that day and its maneuvers could not be explained. They suggested that the FAA do their own investigation, but to this day they have not. Well they probably have, but they just haven't told us. Which leads me to the question why? And what does our government know about UFOs and aliens? One thing I have not mentioned up until now and was involved in some of the cases I talked about is Project Blue Book. Many of you have probably heard this name before associated with the UFO phenomenon, particularly the older cases. But for those of you who haven't, Project Blue Book is the code name for our government's study of UFOs and alien life forms. It started as Project Sign in 1947, then became Project Grudge in 1949. Then finally Project Blue Book ran from March 1952 to December 1969. The headquarters were at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and initially directed by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt of the United States Air Force. It had two main objectives determine if UFOs were a threat to national security and scientifically test and analyze data related to UFO activity. Many respectable scientists worked on Project Blue Book, including Dr. J. Ellen Heinick, who I mentioned earlier who developed the classifications of UFO experiences. But still, many cases were treated with skepticism as if they were hoaxes and people were discouraged from talking about it. U.S. military personnel could be fined thousands of dollars if they spoke of their experiences with unauthorized personnel. Project Blue Book was involved in Roswell, the Betty and Barney Hill abduction, the Tic-Tac UFO over Japan in 1948, and many more. According to the National Archives, from 1947 to 1969, 12,618 sightings were reported to the project. Of those, 701 remain unidentified. From 1969 to 2007, there is no publicly acknowledged government agency dedicated to investigating the UFO phenomenon. Then in 2007 to 2012, the U.S. Congress funded an unclassified but also unpublicized program called ATIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. According to the Department of Defense, the project ended in 2012, but in 2020, the military acknowledged a similar military program called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force. According to the U.S. Department of War, on August 4th, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of the of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force. And it's to be led by the Department of the Navy under the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. So yes, we are still watching our skies. Phew! But our government has always tried to keep the UFO phenomenon secret and very hush hush. People who report experiences are often ridiculed and made to feel crazy or like liars or that they are just making it up because they want attention or money for their story. Our military personnel, people who we trained, who we trust to protect us against things like nuclear attacks and foreign invasions, now we don't believe them when they report something strange. That's ridiculous and counterproductive. But I believe it's getting easier to report these things. With so many reports, so many pictures and videos and respected people coming forth, it's also becoming more widely accepted that these things are out there and unidentified. Then, finally, on July 26, 2023, members of the US House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation held congressional hearings to discuss military reports of UAPs. I watched this live when it happened, and then I rewatched it again for this episode. It starts out with a few congressional speakers who pushed for this hearing, and Representative Burchett from Tennessee brings up how difficult it was to get this hearing in front of Congress and how intelligence agencies make it extremely difficult to not only report to but to get info from. And he says a great thing. He says we need to tell the Pentagon that they work for us. We don't work for them. And that's not a direct quote, as he has a great Tennessee accent, and I would not do it justice. And then ranking member of the subcommittee Robert Garcia states that he understands that national security is important, but so is the American people's right to know the truth. He reminds us that just because government agencies like NASA say there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life or UFOs to the public just means that they can't speak about it in a public forum. That these things are classified and over-classified. He hears from many people and agencies that the stigma and harassment that goes along with reporting phenomenon prevents them from reporting it at all. And that's a problem for national security. If a pilot can't safely report an unknown object in our airspace, that could have serious consequences. Then the witnesses are sworn in as if testifying in a court of law. The three witnesses are David Fravor, a retired commander and 18-year veteran of the U.S. Navy. He is also the pilot who witnessed with his own eyes the Nimitz Tic-Tac incident. Lieutenant Ryan Graves, a former U.S. Navy F-18 pilot who testifies about his own UAP experience. And finally, we have our whistleblower, David Grush. A former senior intelligence officer and senior clinical advisor on UAP issues. He was in the Air Force. He has a long list of credentials, including co-lead on UAP phenomenon and transmedium object analysis. And he reports to the UAP task force and eventually to Eroth, the all-domain anomaly resolution office. He became a whistleblower when he found out that the U.S. government is operating in secrecy above congressional oversight on the matters of UAPs. He testifies under oath that he was informed of as part of his official duties of a UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program. All three men are testifying under oath in front of Congress. They can go to federal prison if they lie. And this guy drops the bomb of reverse engineering alien spacecraft. Different members of Congress then ask these three witnesses a series of questions that reveal just how in the dark the American people are when it comes to UFOs or UAPs or NHIs, which is non-human intelligences, and how difficult it is for our military personnel and agency workers to report these issues to ensure national security, as well as alerting the public without backlash and ridicule and fear of losing their careers. After this hearing, President Biden did pass a bill that was supposed to increase transparency for the US people. But really, nothing changed. It's still up to certain agencies what's classified and what's not. And of course the president has the ultimate say, but even when the president says yes, we want to know, we want the people to know, they don't really show us anything. Even former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter both claim to have seen a UFO, we still get no real disclosure. And why? What impact could it have on society and religion and the world if we had the proof? I'm not talking about full-on alien invasion. I'm just saying hard proof, requiring no interpretation that there is extraterrestrial life. At first, I'm sure people would be shaken. Even if they oppose no immediate threat, people would be scared and panic. But some studies show that the long-term outlook was a positive one, that it could bring on global unity. The effects on the religious community could be devastating. It could shatter people's core beliefs. Major religious texts would have to be reinterpreted. But you know, if God is God, they would be the aliens god too, right? If he created us, then he created them is what I'm saying. So I think people could work it out. But also take into consideration that major religions are also like corporations. There's a lot of money involved in religion. And when it comes to conspiracies, when in doubt, always follow the money trail. As far as how it would affect the world, globally the technological advances we could gain would be profound. Space travel, air flight, surgical procedures, communication, it could all take a quantum leap forward. As long as humans don't use it to destroy ourselves. Which is maybe why they don't just fully land here and reveal themselves. Maybe we are not ready. So why do they come here? Well there's a plethora of reasons why. Earth is rich in resources, gold, vegetation, soil, and a lot of water. They could be monitoring our weapons and defense systems to see how advanced we are and what we do with our technology. Monitor us so we don't become a threat to them. Their planet could be dying and they are searching for a new one. They could come here to breed with us or test new surgical procedures like we are the lab rats. Maybe they use our airspace and our waterways for testing their aircraft and submersibles because of our atmosphere and our unique weather phenomons and our vast oceans. Or maybe they are simply curious about us and our magnificent planet Earth. She's a great planet, people. We should love her and care for her. But it's silly to think that she's unique in this unmeasurable universe. And who is to say that the planet they're from has to be like Earth to have life? Organisms can adapt to anything. What if this life form breathes nitrogen instead of oxygen? Because that's their biological makeup. That's what life on that particular planet is. So to wrap this up, I'm gonna drop some numbers on you. There is an estimated two trillion galaxies in the universe. Our Milky Way galaxy has approximately 300 billion stars in just our galaxy alone. As of March of 2026, there are 6,150 confirmed exoplanets. These are planets that are outside of our solar system. Our solar system consisting of our Sun and our eight planets, nine planets if you count Pluto. These exist within 4,575 planetary systems with over 8,000 additional planets waiting on confirmation. This is just in our Milky Way, with scientists believing that billions more exist out there in the universe. So in conclusion, yes, I believe it is very silly to think that we are the only intelligent life in the universe. And if we are, what an incredible waste of space. So until next time look to the skies and stay safe out there. Now grab the closest hot Nordic alien and let's dance.