Is the Government Hiding Aliens?
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.4 • 921 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A commentary on the latest UAP/UFO story about the whistleblower and the government UFO retrieval program.
In this special episode of The Michael Shermer Show, Dr. Shermer addresses the latest claims by a whistleblower that the U.S. government and its allies has spacecraft that are “off-world,” meaning extraterrestrial in nature.
If true, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in human history, but is it, in fact, true?
Very very unlikely, for a number of reasons that Dr. Shermer considers as he puts this story into historical context after 30+ years of studying UFOs, a topic of regular coverage in Skeptic magazine.
Also, read Dr. Shermer’s article in Quillette: “Aliens…Again! This time, they always say, it could be different.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show Hello everyone it's Michael Schurmer and it's time for another episode of the |
| 0:28.3 | Michael Schurmer show this one a special commentary so no guess today and I'm doing this under the watchful eyes of |
| 0:35.8 | Carl Sagan the painting there by Pat Lindsay for the cover of Skeptic magazine we |
| 0:42.2 | did in tribute to Carl when he died. |
| 0:44.3 | Here it is, the actual issue. |
| 0:46.4 | And we have plenty of them right over there here in the office where I'm recording this. |
| 0:50.4 | You can order them online. This is volume four, number there he is great Carl Segan and is made it on |
| 0:59.9 | the cover of Time magazine which I purchased online. I bring this up because I wanted to |
| 1:05.5 | make a commentary on the latest UFO story or UAP which used to then stand for unidentified aerial phenomena now it's |
| 1:14.6 | unidentified anomalous phenomenon that titles keep changing even though |
| 1:19.4 | there's no more evidence than there ever was. This was a huge news story. |
| 1:24.8 | This week, I'm recording this the week of June 7th here today. |
| 1:29.4 | In an article in a site called the De Brief, D-E-B-R-I-E-F, never heard of it. |
| 1:35.0 | It apparently is a science and tech website. |
| 1:39.0 | And the title of the article is Intelligence Officials |
| 1:43.1 | say US has retrieved craft of non-human origin. |
| 1:49.1 | This was published two days ago, June 5th, |
| 1:51.2 | 2023, Leslie Keene and Ralph Blumenthal. |
| 1:54.0 | If those names sound familiar, it's because they are. |
| 1:57.0 | Leslie Keene is a uphologist |
| 1:59.0 | and general believer in all kinds of paranormal |
| 2:02.0 | supernatural phenomenon. |
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