Neil deGrasse Tyson Finally Takes UFOs Seriously

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, “StarTalk” podcast host, and author, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter”) joins Chris Cuomo for a wide-ranging conversation on why the longtime UFO skeptic is finally taking the UAP conversation seriously — and what changed. Tyson explains why the recent wave of military whistleblowers and congressional hearings pushed him to engage with the UAP debate, even as he maintains that eyewitness testimony is not evidence. He breaks down the difference between believing that life likely exists elsewhere in the universe and claiming that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth, and argues that the burden of proof remains the same as in any other scientific question. Cuomo and Tyson also explore the intersection of science, religion, and human belief, from ancient aliens and crop circles to why people are drawn to ideas they want to be true. The conversation offers a skeptical but open-minded look at UFO disclosure, government secrecy, and what first contact with alien life might actually mean. Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.com/chrisc #ufo #uap #aliens #news #cuomo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.6	Take me to your leader, perspectives on your first alien encounter.
0:41.4	Who would you expect to write a book like that?
0:44.0	Maybe a journalist in quotes, maybe somebody who had crop circles pop up allegedly in their
0:50.4	backyard or someone who saw something, but is from a very limited set of English-speaking
0:58.2	countries? Nope. One of the most famous, and in my opinion, foremost, scientists in America,
1:06.3	Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, professor, physicist, astrophysicist, science guy.
1:16.8	What does it mean that he is writing about UAPs?
1:22.5	Well, he just decided to turn the whole thing on its head, and says the time has come for what i'm chris
1:32.1	quomo welcome to the chris quomo project i had to sit down with the esteemed professor because
1:38.2	how is an astrophysicist talking to uap talk and why is he producing a work that takes this really,
1:48.4	really seriously? Here's the answer. Because it is. Don't take it from me. Take it from the
1:55.6	science guy. Neil deGrasse Tyson.
2:05.1	Dude, thanks for having me back.
2:06.6	I got to tell you, I just, especially these days,
2:11.2	you are just everything.
2:14.3	You are something I've been watching, you know,
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