Basement: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Why Files
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 200 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we've got Mark Dantonio. He's an astronomer, Mufan's chief photo and video analyst, |
| 0:05.2 | and the CEO of a visual effects company that builds stuff for Hollywood and defense contractors. |
| 0:10.3 | He also co-developed a UFO detection camera system with Douglas Trumbull. He's the guy who did |
| 0:15.5 | the visual effects for 2001, Blade Runner, Star Trek, Close Encounters, I mean, he's a legend. |
| 0:20.5 | So he gets paid to analyze UFO footage and make UFO footage. |
| 0:25.6 | It's like hiring a counterfeiter to authenticate money. |
| 0:28.6 | I love it! |
| 0:29.6 | At nine years old, Mark had a missing time experience on a school field trip. |
| 0:33.6 | He came home terrified of the night sky. |
| 0:36.6 | So what did he do? He asked his parents for a telescope. |
| 0:39.3 | He turned that fear into a career. |
| 0:41.3 | So the aliens scared him and his response was, I'm gonna find you? |
| 0:46.3 | Well, it's not a career, that's revenge. This guy's like a nerdy Charles Bronson. |
| 0:52.3 | Today we're covering exoplanets how life spreads across the universe, |
| 0:56.0 | and what Mark heard on a Navy submarine that the government won't talk about. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, he spent some time with semen. |
| 1:02.0 | Stop that. |
| 1:03.0 | What? |
| 1:04.0 | And Mark has a theory that might explain how UFOs actually move, without engines. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'm telling you, it's a good theory and backed by real science. |
| 1:12.6 | There's also a three-night encounter at his house involving knocking, a flash of light, |
| 1:18.6 | and something in his sinus that he can't explain. |
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