If you haven't already heard about it, my next feature film coming out is about the

current UFO rage.

Everyone's talking about UFOs.

They're even talking about them in government and seem to be taking them quite seriously.

So I'm making the film and this companion podcast to suggest how you might want to regard

this phenomenon and some ways you can better inform your opinion on it with science.

And that's today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

What they don't want you to know about UFOs.

I'll start by confessing that's a totally clickbait title.

It implies there is some secret government committee, probably in an underground layer

with dramatic under table lighting, plotting to prevent you from knowing the truth about

aliens who are visiting the earth.

Now I'm certainly not omniscient, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

To the point that I'll go out on a limb, slide my chips to the middle of the table and declare

for a fact that it's not the case.

But there are people out there, among us right now, who do indeed promote an unscientific

perspective on the UFO phenomenon and hope to persuade you to believe it too.

So in a sense, there actually is a group of people who don't want you to have a science-informed

position on the matter.

I see this as a problem.

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