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S05E03 So Much for the Show Me State

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History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

UAPs, “Disclosure,” and the Influence Machine 🔦🛰️
This episode looks at the latest UAP theater around Rep. Eric Burlison’s congressional presentation of the “Hellfire vs. orb” video, how it intersects with long-running media and funding networks (Skinwalker Ranch/NIDS/Las Vegas circle), and why skepticism and provenance still matter. We discuss the hearing, witness line-up, and the ecosystem that amplifies these claims—along with grounded, testable explanations where available.
With Matt Baxter.

🎥 Primary Items from the Episode
• Eric Burlison’s Congressional Presentation of Video (with George Knapp testimony)
• Eric Burlison’s UAP DISCLOSURE ACT

🧪 Skeptical Takes & Analysis
• Mick West’s take — It’s a balloon again
• Hank Green’s take — Seriously — it’s just a balloon

🎧 Related Listening from the Episode
Strange Arrivals podcast
• Toby Ball’s visits to MonsterTalk

📚 Books & Authors Mentioned
• Sarah Scoles — They Are Already Here
• Sarah’s visits to MonsterTalk

🧩 Quick Reference: Acronyms, Players, and Context
• AATIP — Pentagon program often associated with Luis Elizondo
• TTSA — To The Stars Academy (Tom DeLonge, Hal Puthoff): company, Tom DeLonge, Harold Puthoff
• UAP — Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (newer terminology): overview
• UFO — Unidentified Flying Object (classic term with cultural baggage): background
• Robert Bigelow — hotelier, space entrepreneur, longtime funder in the anomaly space: bio

📰 Key Reporting That Shifted the Conversation
• The New York Times story that broke AATIP publicly: read
• The 2020 follow-up from two of the authors (Kean & Blumenthal): read

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0:51.1

Thank you, everyone.

0:52.2

It takes such great courage to come forward, and we acknowledge that, and I hope that you see that we are taking that seriously. And so very thankful for what you're doing today. I'm also very thankful for previous witnesses that have come forward. I see Matthew Brown in the audience. He courageously stepped forward and was as a witness.

1:12.2

I encourage everybody to look and seek his testimony.

1:16.5

I want to thank the people that came in our first hearing, Ryan Graves, David Grush,

1:21.8

David Fravor.

1:22.5

And in our second hearing, Admiral Gallaudet, Lou Elizondo, and Mr. Gold, and the many others that

1:30.9

have come forward. We hear you, and it's time that we, you know, enough is enough, it's time

1:36.2

that we take action. Look, I'm not, I'm not jumped to the conclusion that I believe that

1:40.7

there are, you know, aliens coming from another planet.

1:45.9

But I'm open to that.

1:49.9

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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