In 1982, the world was captivated by this story of a gentle alien who became stranded here on Earth, and the young boy named Elliot who brought E.T. into his mom's suburban California home.

In this movie, it's the children who see the innocence and the non-violence of ET,

and they find a way to outwith the government to help ET go home.

Now, E.T. is a unique film among Hollywood space alien stories.

Until E.T. in the artistry of Steven Spielberg, all Hollywood aliens were frightening and mean and terrible looking.

They were here to do us harm.

And sometimes they were here to do us in.

They were after the plane with a rain. And sometimes they were here to do us in. But whether evil or innocent, we're left with the same question.

Could there really be intelligent life in a galaxy far, far away?

Now, some believe there's little question that they're out there, somewhere.

After all, the universe is a pretty big place.

Others believe that extraterrestrial intelligent life just isn't out there anywhere.

But whatever the case, one thing is true.

The truth is out there.

And before we get started, a special thank you goes out to our partners in the podcast because they make this podcast possible.

All right, let's get started, but let me tell you first a little bit about myself.

I'm the kind of person who, if you came to me and said, hey, Kim, I saw a whole bunch of UFOs last

night. Who am I to say that you're crazy? Because human beings have reported seeing unexplainable

and very mysterious flying objects for thousands of years. In fact,

Alexander the Great reported seeing a pair of UFOs in 329 BC. He described them as two great

silver shields spitting fire. All this happened as his army was trying to cross a river on their way

to conquering the known world.

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