Hey everyone. Michael Shermer here. Time for another episode of the Michael Shermer show. This is a solo

commentary on the UFO files. Yes, they've been released. Finally, here it is Friday, May 8th.

It's midday here in California. They were released this morning, so I've been tweeting and reading and scanning and clicking.

And it's just hundreds and thousands of files here to go through.

So this will be an unscripted, kind of a quick commentary on how disappointing this was.

We were told by many people in the government that aliens are here and that we know, like, for 100% certain that they're here, and Trump is going to show us the evidence.

He himself was a little dubious, but okay, let's see it.

Well, it's here.

And it's disappointing, as I'll show you throughout this commentary, it's pretty much the same old blurry photographs, grainy videos,

artists, reconstructions of what people said they saw, lots and lots of stories about what people

said that they saw, although for some reason they didn't have their cameras with us, and more

recently they didn't have their cell phones with them to photograph these things, or if they did, again, it's not very clear what it is exactly

we're looking at at all. All this came about, by the way, because Trump, half the things he does,

I think, is in response to Obama. Obama on a podcast episode said, in response to the question, are aliens real?

Yes, aliens are real.

Okay.

He walked that back later and said, okay, what I was saying was that I think somewhere in the vast distances of interstellar space in the cosmos, in our galaxy or some other galaxy, there's probably extraterrestrial intelligence.

The aliens are there somewhere.

Almost all scientists say that's probably the case, including me.

I agree.

I think aliens are out there.

I don't think they've come here.

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