S11 E5: Faith-Shattering UFO Files
Heaven Bent
Heaven Bent Media
4.3 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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After Tara Jean lost her faith, she says there's an empty void that she tries to fill with other explanations for why there's anything. But why does that frighten her so much? And what does it have to do with the US government's release of the UFO files last week? On this episode, Tara Jean's interview with Harvard Professor Avi Loeb. He's a theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Heaven Bent. |
| 0:20.1 | Season 11, The Spirit of Fear. |
| 0:23.8 | Episode 5. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm a little under the weather as I'm recording this, |
| 0:30.4 | so thank you for your understanding about the quality of my voice right now |
| 0:35.4 | and in the interview you're about to hear. |
| 0:38.3 | And thank you for going on this journey with me, |
| 0:42.3 | where I'm attempting to re-contextualize some of the things that still haunt me |
| 0:47.3 | from my time as a charismatic teenager, |
| 0:50.3 | things that I'm still scared of, even though I'm not a believer anymore. |
| 0:56.1 | And on this episode, the thing that scares me is actually myself. |
| 1:03.8 | Because ever since I lost my faith, it feels like I've been left with a void in my life. |
| 1:11.6 | That needs to be filled with some other explanation for why there's life, why there's love, why there's anything. |
| 1:22.4 | And sometimes that takes the form of a real quickness that I have in me to believe reports of UFOs or, you know, word of the discovery of alien life. |
| 1:36.6 | You know, like, I guess it's like they may have the answers to all of this or they may have more clues that could help us answer all this. |
| 1:46.3 | There was this one time in 2023, when you might remember, a former U.S. intelligence officer |
| 1:53.6 | under oath testified that the government was concealing non-human biologics from some kind of crash site, from some kind of |
| 2:04.1 | UAP crash site. And while all that was happening, the big reveals and the testimonies and, you know, |
| 2:12.6 | this new footage, I was eating it all up and just basically became 100% convinced that this was part of a slow |
| 2:23.0 | revealing of the truth to the public in stages so we could handle it. |
| 2:28.9 | I told my husband, I told my cousin, straight face serious that we needed to prepare, that the world was about to |
| 2:36.2 | change. But after a while, days, weeks, nothing happened. And the whole story about the former |
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