meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Business Daily

How would we trade with aliens?

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A US government report on UFOs has said there was no clear explanation for the unidentified aircraft, but did not rule out extra-terrestrial origin. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested into searching for signs of alien intelligence. Ed Butler speaks to Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at Cornell University, who has analysed the closest, most likely planets to support alien life. If, or when, we do make contact what could we trade with our new neighbours? David Brin, a science fiction writer and astro-physicist says our culture would be the most easily exchanged aspect of our civilisation. And what about making money on Earth from the continued interest in aliens? Juanita Jennings is the public affairs director for the town of Roswell, New Mexico. The site of the most famous UFO sighting.

(Picture: a UFO over the Mojave desert, USA. Credit: Getty Images.)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hi there, welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, the aliens are here.

0:06.6

With the release of a new Pentagon report this month, cashing in on UFO tourism seems like bigger business than ever.

0:14.2

Just this past weekend, we saw over 4,200 visitors, people from all over the world, from London, from Japan, Australia, come and see

0:24.1

all the space and alien adventures that we have here. Yes, in today's show, as the talk of

0:29.7

UFOs goes mainstream, we're asking what extraterrestrial trade might actually look like,

0:35.8

and whether ET will trade fairly.

0:38.3

If we're beaming our culture out there, are we giving away our trade goods for free?

0:44.3

And if they're already listening, are they stealing because they're not offering anything in return?

0:50.9

Well, someone's got to ask, Business Daily from the BBC.

0:55.8

There's a whole fleet of of them. Look on the ASA.

0:59.4

Oh my gosh. They're all going against the wind. The wind's a hundred and point an ounce

1:03.9

to the west. The sound there of some bewildered U.S. airmen, witnessing unidentified aerial

1:09.6

phenomena off the coast of Florida in 2015.

1:13.1

Look at that thing, man. That's not our honest, though, is it? It's not. I do.

1:17.1

I don't know that thing. It's rotating.

1:22.4

Incidents like this, we now know from the Pentagon's much-heralded report released last week,

1:29.6

are more common than was previously acknowledged.

1:33.0

144 recorded incidents over a couple of decades,

1:36.1

for which they say there's no easy explanation.

1:39.3

Former Navy officer Sean Cahill told Fox News about another sighting of California back in 2004.

1:43.3

I had seen five to seven objects up in the sky at approximately 45 degrees off the port bow at about 2,000 feet.

1:49.9

All of them moved together towards the center of a circle in a counterclockwise fashion,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.