Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs

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4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where free thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:14.8	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young and
0:20.6	Canadian editor Jonathan K.
0:22.8	You can support our podcast by visiting Patreon.com
0:25.8	forward slash Quilett and becoming a monthly patron.
0:29.1	By becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. The 22-4, a planet locally known as Earth.
0:45.0	What a miserable-looking mudball.
0:49.0	Send a robot probe.
0:51.0	Extract the quantonium with extreme prejudice.
0:58.9	Nothing can stand in my way now.
1:08.0	Welcome to the Quillett Podcast. I'm Jonathan Kay speaking to you from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Planet Earth. What you just heard was actor Rain Wilson
1:16.8	voicing the evil Galaxar, scourge of our planet in the 2009 animated film Monsters versus Aliens, which is of course a work of fiction.
1:26.3	Or is it?
1:27.3	Later this month the US government will be releasing a report on years of unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP, that's what we're supposed to be calling
1:36.6	UFOs now.
1:37.8	And there are plenty of people eagerly waiting to see what that report will contain.
1:42.2	And we're not just talking about those who believe in alien
1:44.4	encounters, but also those who think that UFOs or UAPs actually represent super-advanced
1:50.8	Russian or Chinese military assets,
1:53.4	assets that could give our global adversaries
1:56.4	the powers of Galaxar himself.
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