S2 E9: You Gotta Have Faith

Wild Thing

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Science

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Our views on aliens can often be uplifting, offering a glimpse of a better, technologically-bright future, or a glimmer of hope about our ability to survive. In some cases, our thoughts about them are almost spiritual, as though aliens are divine beings. To understand why, we make a trip to Colorado’s UFO Watchtower, which has become something of a shrine for the alien faithful, and talk to author Sarah Scoles about why people place their faith in aliens and UFOs.

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0:00.0	It's a little bit desolate.
0:09.6	So I guess if you're going to be looking at anything, you're going to be looking at the
0:11.8	sky.
0:12.8	Yeah, for that.
0:13.8	Oh, did you see that big flash?
0:14.8	Did you see that?
0:15.8	No, no.
0:16.8	No, there was a huge flash over there.
0:18.8	I'm at the UFO Watch Tower.
0:21.0	Yes, this is a real place.
0:24.0	And this is actually my second time here.
0:26.1	I stopped here once on a lark to check out a kitschy roadside attraction on a long road
0:30.2	trip.
0:31.2	But this time, I'm here for work, with producer slash husband Scott Carney.
0:36.3	Okay, there was another flash over there.
0:39.8	Face that direction because you might see an alien.
0:42.9	And with a UFO expert.
0:44.6	I think the first time I came to the UFO Watch Tower, I didn't really understand it because
0:49.6	a lot of it is just a platform that's about 15 feet off the ground, which is not a
0:54.6	significantly better distance from which to see UFOs than the ground.
0:59.2	Sarah Skulls would know she spent a lot of time thinking about UFOs as the author of
1:03.8	a book called They Are Already Here, UFO culture and why we see saucers.
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