This is an I-Hard podcast.

Guaranteed human.

Everyone wants the aliens to arrive.

Right?

Not just me?

Honestly, I can't even tell anymore.

Personally, I wake up every morning, hoping that today

is the day that the aliens come, that they appear in orbit or send us a message or otherwise

make themselves known to us, because either that's never going to happen, a possibility

too depressing to really consider,

or it will happen, which means there will be a day when that is real. And, hey, why can't

that be today? In this episode, we'll flip that script and we're going to ask, hmm, why not

yesterday? What if aliens have already visited

and we could find evidence of their arrival in historical data? I don't mean seeing an alien on the

grassy knoll taking out JFK, I mean historical, astronomical, scientific data, things we could

analyze and make real conclusions about. Well, scientific data, things we could analyze and make real conclusions about.

Well, one scientist thinks she's found some very compelling evidence that suggests that there

were artificial satellites orbiting the Earth pre-Sputnik, which, if true, of course, would

suggest aliens. We'll dig in the evidence, think about, of course, would suggest aliens.

We'll dig in the evidence, think about it skeptically, and hear about a competing analysis of the same data.

Today is the day we think about aliens.

Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's extraordinarily alien universe.

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