Ben McGee, Chasing UFO's Science Guy

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2012

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Ben McGee is the Founder and Principal Research Scientist of Astrowright Spaceflight Consulting LLC and the resident scientist on the National Geographic Channel’s reality series, Chasing UFOs. He has served for several years as adjunct faculty in the Physical Science Department of the College of Southern Nevada, and in 2011 he successfully completed FAA-certified suborbital-scientist astronaut training at the National Aerospace Training and Research Center. McGee is currently engaged in research exploring alternative temporal implications of Special Relativity, documenting the industrial archaeology of the NASA-AEC Nuclear Rocket Development Station, and developing guidelines for xenoarchaeology, a speculative form of archaeology assessing possible alien life and culture. We’ll talk about science and UFOs, commercial spaceflight and xenoarcheology. http://www.astrowright.com - http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/chasing-ufos/

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0:00.0	Welcome to UFO Think Tank Radio with with your host, Alej. Hello, hello.
0:36.2	Hello, and welcome.
0:38.8	Excuse me.
0:42.2	Welcome to UFO Think Tank Radio.
0:44.3	I'm your host, Alej. So it is wonderful to be speaking with you all yet again today.
0:51.4	And I have a great guest who is on a television show that you all love to death.
1:03.3	If I said what's your favorite TV show, most of you will be thinking of this television show.
1:11.0	Yes, that's right.
1:11.8	It's chasing UFOs.
1:14.9	Actually, we're like my niece used to say when she was little.
1:18.8	She'd say, actually, and she called me Nini, so she'd say, actually, nini.
1:25.7	So actually, this is a show that I have not received a lot of positive feedback on.
1:33.5	Of course, we've talked about it before because I was on it. And in fact, some people said that I was, that was their favorite part. That was pretty nice of them.
1:41.8	And all I did was point, essentially essentially and i did have a line actually
1:46.0	my sister said no you had three lines she counted them because i did say a couple other things like
1:53.4	that they kind of barely got in there anyway i went sky hunting with these dudes and and at least I'll say this. They are some cool
2:04.0	people, especially, I mean, I don't know them all that well, but I do know Ben fairly well,
2:11.3	and I know James Fox very well. In fact, I'll try to get him on the show, but we've got
2:16.2	Ben McGee, the science guy from the show today.
2:19.4	Now, he is a skeptic, but he is also a scientist.
2:24.5	And as I've said before, I think it's really important that we engage and we discuss with scientists.
2:31.6	And the advantage here is that Ben is very open to talking about this
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