The Out-of-this-World UFO Show

StarTalk Radio

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever seen mysterious lights in the sky, or glimpsed an alien spacecraft? This show provides a probing yet playful discussion about Unidentified Flying Objects.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:19.0	Welcome back to Star Talk Radio. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:23.0	I'm an astrophysicist and the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:27.0	And I'm joined this week by comedian Eugene Mirman. Eugene, welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:33.0	Hello, it's good to be here.
0:36.0	Sounded pretty canned.
0:38.0	Put it on the welcome switch. Hello, it's good to be here, yes.
0:42.0	Well, I've already been, I'm here. Hi, no, it's great to be here.
0:46.0	Is that better? Is that less? Is that more sincere?
0:49.0	It is a true honor to be finally part of CBS Radio Family.
0:52.0	Oh, is that right? Yeah.
0:54.0	Well, this week our topic is UFOs unidentified flying objects about which so much is written
1:00.0	and so many people think about them and care about them.
1:03.0	And I thought we should bring some sort of physics to the subject or some kind of analysis.
1:07.0	No more speculation.
1:09.0	You know, there's thousands of sightings of UFOs every year.
1:13.0	And of course, most of them can be explained away as the consequence of natural phenomenon.
1:18.0	Unusual cloud formations or bright planets, lightning.
1:22.0	And especially meteorological or astronomical observations.
1:26.0	In some are just spaceships from other worlds visiting,
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