Close Encounters with the Unknown
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 pilot, shares stories of close encounters (and near collisions) with UFOs off the coast of Virginia. With the recent Chinese spy balloon incident fueling renewed interest in UFOs/UAPs, Ryan joins Andrew to discuss shifting attitudes surrounding UFOs, the history of UFO sightings, and what we should do about them.
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| 0:00.0 | People ask me all the time, you know, what do you think it is? |
| 0:02.5 | You know, what is it really? |
| 0:04.1 | And we're just not there. |
| 0:05.9 | We're not at a point where we can necessarily |
| 0:07.9 | draw conclusions on it. |
| 0:09.5 | Now, you've said it could be ours. |
| 0:11.7 | It could be someone else's on this planet, |
| 0:13.7 | or it could be something else that we have |
| 0:15.5 | and identify that is either from here, from somewhere else. |
| 0:18.9 | The end of the day for me, this is very simple. |
| 0:21.0 | It's either a national security aviation safety issue, |
| 0:23.6 | and we need to deal with that with the mechanisms we have. |
| 0:26.5 | Or it's something else, and we need |
| 0:27.9 | to have the scientific integrity and the bravery |
| 0:30.9 | to go look at and explore it, regardless of the results. |
| 0:33.9 | MUSIC |
| 0:55.9 | It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast |
| 0:59.9 | for our next podcast, |
| 1:01.9 | former Navy fighter pilot, engineer by training, |
| 1:04.9 | and now founder of Americans for Safe or Aerospace. |
| 1:08.9 | Ryan Graves, welcome, Ryan. |
| 1:10.9 | Hey, Andrew, thanks for having me here. |
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