1 00:00:30,866 --> 00:00:32,500 WELCOME, WELCOME, 2 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:33,933 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 3 00:00:33,933 --> 00:00:34,833 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO 4 00:00:34,833 --> 00:00:38,366 MUCH FOR JOINING US. 5 00:00:38,366 --> 00:00:38,966 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK, FROM 6 00:00:38,966 --> 00:00:40,866 TRUMP APPARENTLY FALLING ASLEEP 7 00:00:40,866 --> 00:00:42,033 DURING HIS HUSH MONEY TRIAL TO 8 00:00:42,033 --> 00:00:43,966 TESLA RECALLING ALL CYBERTRUCKS 9 00:00:43,966 --> 00:00:45,800 THANKS TO A FAULTY ACCELERATOR 10 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:46,566 PEDAL, MEANING THE LIST OF 11 00:00:46,666 --> 00:00:48,266 THINGS THAT CAN BREAK A 12 00:00:48,366 --> 00:00:49,733 CYBERTRUCK NOW INCLUDES "DRIVING 13 00:00:49,833 --> 00:00:51,266 IT." 14 00:00:51,266 --> 00:00:53,333 AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, THERE 15 00:00:53,333 --> 00:00:54,166 CONTINUED TO BE PROTESTS OVER 16 00:00:54,166 --> 00:00:55,266 THE WAR IN GAZA. 17 00:00:55,266 --> 00:00:57,600 THIS WEEK, PROTESTORS SHUT DOWN 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:58,300 THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, AND IN 19 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:00,000 CHICAGO, BLOCKED THE ROAD TO 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,266 O'HARE AIRPORT, LEADING TO 21 00:01:01,266 --> 00:01:02,266 COVERAGE LIKE THIS. 22 00:01:02,266 --> 00:01:04,366 SOME MISSED THEIR FLIGHTS 23 00:01:04,366 --> 00:01:05,133 BECAUSE OF THE TRAFFIC FROM THE 24 00:01:05,133 --> 00:01:06,466 PROTEST. 25 00:01:06,466 --> 00:01:07,533 I'M GONNA MISS MY FLIGHT, 26 00:01:07,533 --> 00:01:08,233 YEAH. 27 00:01:08,233 --> 00:01:10,266 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? 28 00:01:10,266 --> 00:01:11,033 IT'S-- IT'S WRONG. 29 00:01:11,033 --> 00:01:11,700 IT'S WRONG. 30 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:13,366 I HOPE THE PROTESTERS ARE PUT IN 31 00:01:13,366 --> 00:01:13,800 JAIL. 32 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:14,966 I MEAN, IT'S... 33 00:01:14,966 --> 00:01:17,933 THE CAUSE IS MAYBE RIGHT. 34 00:01:17,933 --> 00:01:18,566 YOU KNOW, ONE SIDE IS-- THERE'S 35 00:01:18,566 --> 00:01:22,166 TWO SIDES TO EVERY SITUATION. 36 00:01:22,266 --> 00:01:23,133 BUT IT'S NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. 37 00:01:23,133 --> 00:01:24,533 THEY'RE NOT GAINING ANY FANS. 38 00:01:24,533 --> 00:01:26,033 OKAY. 39 00:01:26,033 --> 00:01:27,700 FIRST, QUICK TRAVEL TIP: 40 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:29,366 IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA MISS 41 00:01:29,366 --> 00:01:30,233 YOUR FLIGHT, MAYBE TRY RUNNING 42 00:01:30,233 --> 00:01:31,466 TO THE GATE INSTEAD OF STOPPING 43 00:01:31,466 --> 00:01:34,066 TO TALK TO THE PRESS. 44 00:01:34,066 --> 00:01:35,466 BUT I DO GET THAT IT'S ANNOYING. 45 00:01:35,466 --> 00:01:36,300 ALTHOUGH, FOR THE RECORD, 46 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:37,466 PROTEST IS KIND OF MEANT TO BE 47 00:01:37,466 --> 00:01:38,366 DISRUPTIVE-- IT'S A LITTLE BIT 48 00:01:38,366 --> 00:01:39,966 THE POINT. 49 00:01:39,966 --> 00:01:41,500 AS FOR "THE CAUSE IS MAYBE 50 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:42,166 RIGHT," THAT'S PUTTING IT 51 00:01:42,166 --> 00:01:43,633 MILDLY. 52 00:01:43,633 --> 00:01:45,533 BECAUSE THE SITUATION IN GAZA IS 53 00:01:45,533 --> 00:01:46,400 HORRIFIC. 54 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,066 AT LEAST 34,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 55 00:01:48,066 --> 00:01:48,666 KILLED, MOST OF THEM WOMEN AND 56 00:01:48,666 --> 00:01:49,933 CHILDREN. 57 00:01:49,933 --> 00:01:51,733 MANY ISRAELIS ARE ALSO 58 00:01:51,733 --> 00:01:52,533 PROTESTING THEIR GOVERNMENT'S 59 00:01:52,533 --> 00:01:53,900 ACTIONS, WHICH HAVE-- FOR ALL 60 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:54,533 THE BLOODSHED THEY'VE CAUSED-- 61 00:01:54,633 --> 00:01:57,133 FAILED TO SECURE THE FREEDOM OF 62 00:01:57,133 --> 00:01:57,633 THE REMAINING HOSTAGES. 63 00:01:57,633 --> 00:02:00,100 AND YET, THE U.S. CONTINUES TO 64 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:02,066 SUPPLY ISRAEL WITH FUNDING AND 65 00:02:02,066 --> 00:02:03,566 ARMS FOR ALL THIS, EVEN AS GAZA 66 00:02:03,566 --> 00:02:05,166 SINKS INTO FAMINE. 67 00:02:05,166 --> 00:02:06,866 IF THAT'S NOT WORTH PROTESTING, 68 00:02:06,866 --> 00:02:08,633 I'M NOT SURE WHAT IS. 69 00:02:08,633 --> 00:02:10,200 AND TO BE FAIR, EVEN SOME OF 70 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,900 THOSE DISRUPTED PASSENGERS 71 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:14,233 SEEMED TO CONCEDE, WHEN PRESSED 72 00:02:14,233 --> 00:02:15,100 EVEN SLIGHTLY, THAT THE 73 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:17,333 INCONVENIENCE WASN'T THAT 74 00:02:17,333 --> 00:02:17,566 SEVERE. 75 00:02:17,566 --> 00:02:18,433 I THINK CHICAGO POLICE 76 00:02:18,433 --> 00:02:23,733 DEPARTMENT FAILED. 77 00:02:23,733 --> 00:02:24,366 THEY SHOULD'VE ANTICIPATED THIS, 78 00:02:24,366 --> 00:02:25,200 THEY SHOULD'VE KNOWN ABOUT IT IN 79 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:25,433 ADVANCE. 80 00:02:25,433 --> 00:02:25,866 WHAT ARE THEY DOING? 81 00:02:25,866 --> 00:02:26,500 AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO 82 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:27,800 YOU AND YOUR FLIGHT NOW? 83 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:29,466 I'LL JUST GET ANOTHER ONE. 84 00:02:29,466 --> 00:02:35,966 IT'LL BE FINE. 85 00:02:35,966 --> 00:02:37,433 YEAH, IT'LL BE FINE. 86 00:02:37,433 --> 00:02:38,000 THAT DEESCALATED FAST. 87 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:38,600 ALTHOUGH I GUESS IT WAS ALWAYS 88 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,200 GOING TO, BECAUSE WHAT KIND OF 89 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:39,766 QUESTION IS "WHAT'S GOING TO 90 00:02:39,766 --> 00:02:40,400 HAPPEN TO YOU AND YOUR FLIGHT?" 91 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,000 WHAT ELSE IS HE GOING TO SAY? 92 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:41,766 "EVER SEEN "THE TERMINAL"? 93 00:02:41,766 --> 00:02:41,966 YEAH. 94 00:02:41,966 --> 00:02:45,733 I HAVE TO LIVE HERE NOW." 95 00:02:45,733 --> 00:02:46,766 AND LOOK, I'M NOT SAYING EVERY 96 00:02:46,766 --> 00:02:47,566 PROTEST HAS BEEN UNIVERSALLY 97 00:02:47,566 --> 00:02:49,766 WELL-EXECUTED. 98 00:02:49,766 --> 00:02:51,133 BUT IT'S NOTABLE THE DEGREE TO 99 00:02:51,133 --> 00:02:55,866 WHICH DEMONSTRATIONS CONCERNING 100 00:02:55,866 --> 00:03:02,733 PALESTINE TEND TO GET SHUT DOWN, 101 00:03:02,833 --> 00:03:05,233 AND HOW COMFORTABLE SOME HAVE 102 00:03:05,233 --> 00:03:05,766 HAPPILY ADVOCATED VIOLENCE 103 00:03:05,766 --> 00:03:06,200 AGAINST PROTESTORS. 104 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:06,766 JUST THIS WEEK, SENATOR TOM 105 00:03:06,766 --> 00:03:07,366 COTTON-- A MAN WITH, I THINK 106 00:03:07,366 --> 00:03:07,966 IT'S FAIR TO SAY, ENTIRELY TOO 107 00:03:07,966 --> 00:03:09,100 MUCH NECK-- CALLED IN TO FOX 108 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:09,500 NEWS TO SAY THIS. 109 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:10,033 IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS 110 00:03:10,033 --> 00:03:10,566 HAPPENED IN ARKANSAS, ON A 111 00:03:10,566 --> 00:03:12,300 BRIDGE THERE, LET'S JUST SAY I 112 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:14,466 THINK THERE'D BE A LOT OF VERY 113 00:03:14,466 --> 00:03:15,233 WET CRIMINALS THAT HAVE BEEN 114 00:03:15,233 --> 00:03:15,733 TOSSED OVERBOARD. 115 00:03:15,733 --> 00:03:17,033 I'D ENCOURAGE MOST PEOPLE, 116 00:03:17,033 --> 00:03:18,400 ANYWHERE, IF THEY GET STUCK 117 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,800 BEHIND CRIMINALS LIKE THIS, WHO 118 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:22,433 ARE TRYING TO BLOCK TRAFFIC, TO 119 00:03:22,433 --> 00:03:23,500 TAKE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN 120 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:23,700 HANDS. 121 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:24,933 OKAY, IT'S THE LEAST 122 00:03:24,933 --> 00:03:28,033 IMPORTANT PART OF THIS, BUT: YOU 123 00:03:28,033 --> 00:03:28,800 DON'T SAY OVERBOARD WHEN 124 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:29,400 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A BRIDGE. 125 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:29,933 YOU'RE THINKING OF A BOAT, 126 00:03:29,933 --> 00:03:31,333 BITCH. 127 00:03:31,333 --> 00:03:33,566 IF YOU'RE GONNA ADVOCATE FOR 128 00:03:33,666 --> 00:03:34,133 VIGILANTE BRIDGE MURDER, AT 129 00:03:34,233 --> 00:03:36,066 LEAST GET THE TERMINOLOGY RIGHT. 130 00:03:36,066 --> 00:03:37,233 AND IT'S NOT JUST PROTESTORS 131 00:03:37,233 --> 00:03:38,166 FEELING PRESSURE. 132 00:03:38,166 --> 00:03:41,200 EVEN MUSLIMS WHO'VE EXPRESSED NO 133 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:41,800 PUBLIC VIEWS ON GAZA HAVE COME 134 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,100 UNDER ATTACK. 135 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:45,700 AND FOR A HIGH-PROFILE EXAMPLE 136 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:47,233 OF THAT, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN 137 00:03:47,233 --> 00:03:48,733 WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING TO 138 00:03:48,733 --> 00:03:50,000 ADEEL MANGI, ONE OF JOE BIDEN'S 139 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:50,600 NOMINEES TO THE FEDERAL BENCH. 140 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,233 HE'S A PAKISTANI-AMERICAN WHO'D 141 00:03:51,233 --> 00:03:54,033 BE THE FIRST MUSLIM APPOINTEE TO 142 00:03:54,033 --> 00:03:54,666 THE FEDERAL APPELLATE COURTS-- 143 00:03:54,666 --> 00:03:55,733 IT'S ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS WE 144 00:03:55,733 --> 00:03:57,200 REFER TO AS A "HISTORIC FIRST" 145 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,466 BECAUSE IT SOUNDS A LOT NICER 146 00:03:59,466 --> 00:04:00,100 THAN "WE DIDN'T CONSIDER MUSLIMS 147 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:01,266 FOR THIS JOB UNTIL SHOCKINGLY 148 00:04:01,266 --> 00:04:03,400 RECENTLY." 149 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,333 MANGI IS A RESPECTED ATTORNEY, 150 00:04:05,333 --> 00:04:06,666 UNANIMOUSLY RATED AS "WELL 151 00:04:06,666 --> 00:04:08,566 QUALIFIED" BY THE ABA. 152 00:04:08,666 --> 00:04:09,966 HIS NOMINATION'S BEEN SUPPORTED 153 00:04:09,966 --> 00:04:11,433 BY ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS, 154 00:04:11,433 --> 00:04:12,733 AMONG OVER 100 OTHERS, AND HE'S 155 00:04:12,733 --> 00:04:14,233 DONE PRO BONO WORK IN CASES 156 00:04:14,233 --> 00:04:14,866 INVOLVING MUSLIM AND LGBTQ 157 00:04:14,866 --> 00:04:16,900 RIGHTS. 158 00:04:16,900 --> 00:04:17,900 BUT IN HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING 159 00:04:17,900 --> 00:04:21,800 LAST DECEMBER, REPUBLICANS 160 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,400 DIDN'T ASK ABOUT ANY OF THAT. 161 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,700 INSTEAD, THEY DID THIS. 162 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:27,733 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT ZIONIST 163 00:04:27,733 --> 00:04:28,266 SETTLER COLONIALISM WAS A 164 00:04:28,266 --> 00:04:31,333 PROVOCATION THAT JUSTIFIED 165 00:04:31,333 --> 00:04:32,366 HAMAS'S ATROCITY AGAINST JEWS IN 166 00:04:32,366 --> 00:04:34,500 ISRAEL? 167 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:35,266 DOES ISRAEL HAVE A RIGHT TO 168 00:04:35,266 --> 00:04:35,466 EXIST? 169 00:04:35,466 --> 00:04:36,266 MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE, DO YOU 170 00:04:36,266 --> 00:04:37,933 CONDEMN THIS EVENT THAT WAS 171 00:04:37,933 --> 00:04:38,566 CELEBRATING PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC 172 00:04:38,566 --> 00:04:38,866 JIHAD? 173 00:04:38,866 --> 00:04:41,466 YES OR NO? 174 00:04:41,566 --> 00:04:42,066 THAT IS A SHOCKING 175 00:04:42,066 --> 00:04:45,133 DISPLAY OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, EVEN 176 00:04:45,133 --> 00:04:45,700 FOR THESE THREE, SOME OF THE 177 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:46,933 LEAST LIKABLE PEOPLE IN HUMAN 178 00:04:46,933 --> 00:04:49,733 HISTORY, AND-- PERHAPS 179 00:04:49,733 --> 00:04:50,333 SCIENTIFICALLY-- THE ULTIMATE 180 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:52,300 NIGHTMARE BLUNT ROTATION. 181 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:59,366 I'M SURE YOU CAN THINK OF OTHER 182 00:04:59,366 --> 00:05:01,366 PEOPLE TO PUT INTO THAT LIST, 183 00:05:01,366 --> 00:05:01,933 BUT WHO ARE YOU TAKING OUT? 184 00:05:01,933 --> 00:05:02,166 EXACTLY. 185 00:05:02,166 --> 00:05:02,966 AND I SHOULD EXPLAIN WHAT THOSE 186 00:05:02,966 --> 00:05:03,600 QUESTIONS WERE BASED ON, BECAUSE 187 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:03,966 IT'S RIDICULOUS. 188 00:05:03,966 --> 00:05:04,600 VERY BASICALLY, MANGI WAS ON AN 189 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,700 ADVISORY BOARD FOR THIS CENTER 190 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:06,333 AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY. 191 00:05:06,333 --> 00:05:07,433 AND THOSE SENATORS WERE 192 00:05:07,433 --> 00:05:08,766 GRANDSTANDING ABOUT SOME 193 00:05:08,766 --> 00:05:10,233 SPEAKERS WHO'D BEEN INVITED TO 194 00:05:10,233 --> 00:05:11,600 ITS EVENTS, INCLUDING ONE 195 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,333 MARKING THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11. 196 00:05:14,433 --> 00:05:15,666 SOMETHING THAT PROMPTED THIS 197 00:05:15,666 --> 00:05:17,800 EXTRAORDINARY QUESTION. 198 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:18,433 IS THIS THE WAY YOU CELEBRATE 199 00:05:18,433 --> 00:05:24,866 9/11? 200 00:05:24,866 --> 00:05:26,266 HAVE I SAID ANYTHING THAT WAS 201 00:05:26,266 --> 00:05:27,266 INACCURATE? 202 00:05:27,266 --> 00:05:28,900 YES, SENATOR. 203 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:33,333 YES, YOU HAVE. 204 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:34,666 YOU JUST ASKED A MUSLIM MAN HOW 205 00:05:34,666 --> 00:05:35,533 HE CELEBRATES 9/11, AND UNLESS 206 00:05:35,533 --> 00:05:37,600 YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT'S 207 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:38,900 ALSO HIS BIRTHDAY, THAT'S 208 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:41,366 COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE. 209 00:05:41,366 --> 00:05:42,066 THE QUESTIONING AROUND THAT 210 00:05:42,066 --> 00:05:43,933 EVENT WAS SO RELENTLESS, MANGI 211 00:05:43,933 --> 00:05:45,166 FELT HE HAD TO MAKE TWO 212 00:05:45,166 --> 00:05:47,366 COMPELLING POINTS. 213 00:05:47,466 --> 00:05:50,166 NUMBER ONE, ON 9/11, I WAS IN 214 00:05:50,166 --> 00:05:53,000 NEW YORK, I SAW WHAT HAPPENED. 215 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:53,500 IT WAS MY CITY THAT WAS 216 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:55,600 ATTACKED. 217 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,733 NUMBER TWO, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF 218 00:05:58,733 --> 00:06:00,366 THIS EVENT PRIOR TO TODAY. 219 00:06:00,366 --> 00:06:02,166 IT WAS NEVER BROUGHT TO THE 220 00:06:02,166 --> 00:06:04,500 ADVISORY BOARD, WHICH MET ONCE A 221 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:05,066 YEAR TO TALK ABOUT ACADEMIC 222 00:06:05,066 --> 00:06:05,800 ISSUES. 223 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:06,400 THAT'S A PRETTY SOLID 224 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:07,600 ANSWER. 225 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,200 AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE 226 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:11,633 REPUBLICANS, WHO'VE OUTED MANGI 227 00:06:11,633 --> 00:06:12,500 AS TWO OF THE MOST SYMPATHETIC 228 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:14,666 A NEW YORKER 229 00:06:14,666 --> 00:06:15,500 WHO WAS ATTACKED ON 9/11," AND 230 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:17,133 "A GUY WHO SIGNED UP TO DO THE 231 00:06:17,133 --> 00:06:17,666 BARE MINIMUM AT A COLLEGE 232 00:06:17,666 --> 00:06:20,133 FUNCTION." 233 00:06:20,233 --> 00:06:20,900 UH, I CAN'T REALLY MEET MOST 234 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:21,533 WEEKS, OR EVER, BUT IF YOU NEED 235 00:06:21,633 --> 00:06:22,266 SOMEONE TO SHOW UP ONCE A YEAR 236 00:06:22,366 --> 00:06:29,366 AND NOD OFF IN AN OFFICE CHAIR, 237 00:06:31,366 --> 00:06:32,000 I'M YOUR GUY FOR THAT. 238 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:32,566 THE HEARING WAS A DISGRACE. 239 00:06:32,566 --> 00:06:33,200 AND IT'S NOT JUST ME SAYING THAT 240 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:33,666 EVEN THE ADL-- AN 241 00:06:33,666 --> 00:06:35,066 ORGANIZATION NOT RETICENT ABOUT 242 00:06:35,066 --> 00:06:36,466 LEVELING CHARGES OF ANTISEMITISM 243 00:06:36,466 --> 00:06:38,033 DEFENDED MANGI, SAYING THE 244 00:06:38,033 --> 00:06:39,166 SENATORS' QUESTIONS, APPEAR TO 245 00:06:39,166 --> 00:06:45,166 HAVE BEEN MOTIVATED BY BIAS 246 00:06:45,166 --> 00:06:46,233 TOWARDS HIS RELIGION" AND THAT 247 00:06:46,233 --> 00:06:47,133 "IT WAS PROFOUNDLY WRONG." 248 00:06:47,133 --> 00:06:47,766 AND YET, THOSE REPUBLICANS STILL 249 00:06:47,766 --> 00:06:48,400 REFUSED TO VOTE FOR HIM, EVEN AS 250 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,033 OUTSIDE GROUPS LAUNCHED BONKERS 251 00:06:49,033 --> 00:06:49,733 ATTACKS ON HIM LIKE THIS AD, 252 00:06:49,733 --> 00:06:50,366 WHICH AIMED TO PRESSURE 253 00:06:50,366 --> 00:06:51,066 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO FOLLOW 254 00:06:51,066 --> 00:06:58,133 SUIT. 255 00:06:58,500 --> 00:06:59,000 PRESIDENT BIDEN WANTS TO 256 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,100 REMAKE THE COURTS WITH THE MOST 257 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:01,800 EXTREME JUDGES HE CAN FIND. 258 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,333 BUT ANTISEMITE ADEEL MANGI MIGHT 259 00:07:04,333 --> 00:07:05,666 BE THE WORST OF ALL. 260 00:07:05,666 --> 00:07:06,833 MANGI'S ORGANIZATION BLAMED 261 00:07:06,833 --> 00:07:09,833 AMERICA FOR THE SEPTEMBER 11TH 262 00:07:09,833 --> 00:07:10,833 TERROR ATTACKS AND HAS HOSTED 263 00:07:10,833 --> 00:07:11,666 SPEAKERS WITH TERRORIST 264 00:07:11,666 --> 00:07:13,233 CONNECTIONS, INCLUDING A 265 00:07:13,233 --> 00:07:17,433 CONVICTED TERRORIST. 266 00:07:17,433 --> 00:07:18,066 MANGI'S ORGANIZATION EVEN BLAMED 267 00:07:18,066 --> 00:07:22,766 ISRAEL FOR THE HAMAS TERROR 268 00:07:22,766 --> 00:07:23,600 ATTACK ON OCTOBER 7TH. 269 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,366 TELL JON TESTER TO VOTE NO ON 270 00:07:24,366 --> 00:07:27,833 GIVING ANTISEMITE ADEEL MANGI A 271 00:07:27,933 --> 00:07:29,600 LIFETIME POSITION IN OUR COURTS. 272 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,133 WOW. 273 00:07:31,133 --> 00:07:32,600 BETWEEN THE GROSS FEARMONGERING 274 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,333 AND THE ACTUAL FOOTAGE OF 9/11, 275 00:07:34,333 --> 00:07:35,600 THAT AD FEELS LIKE YOU TOLD AN 276 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,733 AI PROGRAM TO MAKE SOMETHING 277 00:07:37,733 --> 00:07:38,366 THAT'D GIVE THE AVERAGE FOX NEWS 278 00:07:38,366 --> 00:07:39,166 VIEWER A HEART ATTACK, AN 279 00:07:39,166 --> 00:07:42,200 ERECTION, OR BOTH. 280 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,200 ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME UNFORCED 281 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,433 ERRORS IN THERE, LIKE INCLUDING 282 00:07:45,433 --> 00:07:46,200 THE TWEET THEY WERE REFERENCING, 283 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,633 WHICH CLEARLY DOESN'T SAY 284 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:49,900 ANYTHING LIKE WHAT THEY JUST 285 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:51,000 CLAIMED, AND SAYING "THE MOST 286 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,800 EXTREME JUDGES HE CAN FIND" OVER 287 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,933 PICTURES OF THESE TWO. 288 00:07:54,933 --> 00:07:56,033 AND COME ON. 289 00:07:56,033 --> 00:07:57,766 THESE ARE THE FACES OF TWO 290 00:07:57,766 --> 00:07:58,433 PEOPLE WHOSE HOBBIES ARE 291 00:07:58,433 --> 00:07:59,266 "BOOKS." 292 00:07:59,266 --> 00:08:00,966 THOSE ARE TWO PEOPLE WHOSE 293 00:08:01,066 --> 00:08:02,300 FAVORITE VACATION DESTINATION IS 294 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,433 "BOOKS." 295 00:08:03,433 --> 00:08:05,400 THEY LOOK LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL 296 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:06,000 THEY WERE VOTED MOST LIKELY TO 297 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,200 "BOOKS!" 298 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:09,600 THEY LOOK LIKE IF YOU ASKED THEM 299 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,700 IF YOU COULD BRING ANYTHING TO A 300 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:12,733 POT LUCK DINNER THEY'D SAY "A 301 00:08:12,733 --> 00:08:15,233 VEGETABLE PLATTER." 302 00:08:15,233 --> 00:08:17,900 THEY DON'T EAT BOOKS. 303 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:20,166 THEY KNOW YOU CAN'T EAT BOOKS. 304 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:22,200 BUT BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HOLD THE 305 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:23,633 SENATE, THE CONFIRMATION 306 00:08:23,633 --> 00:08:24,666 SHOULD'VE BEEN A NON-ISSUE. 307 00:08:24,666 --> 00:08:26,033 UNFORTUNATELY, NOT ALL DEMOCRATS 308 00:08:26,033 --> 00:08:27,233 ARE HOLDING FIRM. 309 00:08:27,233 --> 00:08:28,966 BECAUSE WHILE THEY MAY NOT HAVE 310 00:08:28,966 --> 00:08:30,133 EMBRACED THE ISLAMOPHOBIC 311 00:08:30,133 --> 00:08:31,833 ATTACKS, SOME HAVE GOTTEN 312 00:08:31,833 --> 00:08:33,700 SUCKERED IN BY A DIFFERENT SORT 313 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:35,200 OF RACIST DOG-WHISTLE INSTEAD. 314 00:08:35,300 --> 00:08:36,666 DEMOCRATS AGAINST MANGI WORRY 315 00:08:36,666 --> 00:08:38,300 ABOUT HIS TIES TO CONTROVERSIAL 316 00:08:38,300 --> 00:08:41,266 ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THE 317 00:08:41,266 --> 00:08:41,900 ALLIANCE OF FAMILIES FOR 318 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:42,666 JUSTICE. 319 00:08:42,666 --> 00:08:44,600 THE NEW JERSEY STATE PATROLMEN'S 320 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,000 BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION SAYS THE 321 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,866 GROUP CALLS FOR, QUOTE, "COP 322 00:08:47,866 --> 00:08:49,000 KILLERS TO BE FREED FROM 323 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:49,766 PRISON." 324 00:08:49,766 --> 00:08:50,733 THAT IS A CONCERN OF MINE, 325 00:08:50,733 --> 00:08:52,000 NOT ONLY AS A FORMER PROSECUTOR, 326 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,166 BUT SOMEBODY WHO'S MARRIED TO 327 00:08:53,166 --> 00:08:55,533 LAW ENFORCEMENT. 328 00:08:55,533 --> 00:08:56,533 OKAY, FIRST, I'M NOT 329 00:08:56,533 --> 00:08:58,166 SURE WHY YOU'RE BRINGING UP WHO 330 00:08:58,166 --> 00:08:58,566 YOU'RE MARRIED TO. 331 00:08:58,566 --> 00:09:00,000 YOU COULD BE MARRIED TO RONALD 332 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:00,700 MCDONALD AND IT WOULDN'T BE 333 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:01,500 RELEVANT TO THE SITUATION AT 334 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:05,466 HAND. 335 00:09:05,466 --> 00:09:06,733 IT'D CERTAINLY RAISE OTHER 336 00:09:06,733 --> 00:09:07,833 QUESTIONS, LIKE-- WHY RONALD 337 00:09:07,933 --> 00:09:08,433 WHEN GRIMACE IS UNQUESTIONABLY 338 00:09:08,533 --> 00:09:08,700 HOTTER? 339 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:10,133 HOW'D YOU END UP WITH A CLOWN 340 00:09:10,133 --> 00:09:11,000 DRESSED LIKE A TRAFFIC CONE 341 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,933 INSTEAD OF SIX FEET OF PURE 342 00:09:13,933 --> 00:09:14,433 PURPLE SEX? 343 00:09:14,433 --> 00:09:15,700 WHEN RONALD IS TALKING ABOUT 344 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:16,366 FRIES OR WHATEVER DOES YOUR MIND 345 00:09:16,366 --> 00:09:17,566 DRIFT TO THIS OBLONG STUNNER 346 00:09:17,566 --> 00:09:21,700 WITH AN ASS THAT GOES ALL THE 347 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:21,933 WAY OUT? 348 00:09:21,933 --> 00:09:22,733 BUT AGAIN, THAT'S A DISTRACTION 349 00:09:22,733 --> 00:09:24,566 FROM THE KEY ISSUE HERE. 350 00:09:24,566 --> 00:09:25,733 AND THAT IS THAT, AS WITH THE 351 00:09:25,733 --> 00:09:26,866 ISLAMOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON MANGI, 352 00:09:26,866 --> 00:09:29,033 THE EVIDENCE FOR CLAIMS THAT 353 00:09:29,033 --> 00:09:30,000 HE'S SOMEHOW "ANTI-POLICE" ARE 354 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,166 LAUGHABLY THIN. 355 00:09:32,166 --> 00:09:33,300 IT'S YET MORE "SIX DEGREES OF 356 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:34,900 SEPARATION" NONSENSE, AGAIN 357 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:36,466 FOCUSED ON AN ADVISORY BOARD HE 358 00:09:36,466 --> 00:09:43,533 SERVES ON FOR THIS GROUP THAT 359 00:09:46,666 --> 00:09:47,466 CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF AN 360 00:09:47,466 --> 00:09:48,066 85-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH DEMENTIA 361 00:09:48,066 --> 00:09:48,700 WHO'D BEEN CONVICTED OF KILLING 362 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:49,266 A POLICE OFFICER IN 1973, A 363 00:09:49,266 --> 00:09:49,900 DECISION I'M ASSUMING MANGI HAD 364 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:50,533 NOTHING TO DO WITH, BECAUSE THE 365 00:09:50,533 --> 00:09:51,133 BOARD-- FUN FACT-- HAS NEVER 366 00:09:51,133 --> 00:09:51,400 EVEN MET. 367 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,066 AND YET, NOT ONLY IS CORTEZ 368 00:09:53,066 --> 00:09:54,600 MASTO REFUSING TO SUPPORT MANGI 369 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,500 OVER THIS ACCUSATION, SO IS HER 370 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:57,066 FELLOW NEVADA SENATOR, JACKY 371 00:09:57,066 --> 00:09:57,266 ROSEN. 372 00:09:57,266 --> 00:09:59,733 AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THIS, JOE 373 00:09:59,733 --> 00:10:02,266 FUCKING MANCHIN IS SAYING HE'S 374 00:10:02,266 --> 00:10:03,466 PROBABLY A "NO" VOTE, TOO, 375 00:10:03,466 --> 00:10:04,000 SAYING, "IF MY DEMOCRATIC 376 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,333 COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS CAN'T GET 377 00:10:06,333 --> 00:10:07,433 ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE, DON'T COUNT 378 00:10:07,433 --> 00:10:10,233 ON ME." 379 00:10:10,233 --> 00:10:11,033 "I'M NOT LEAVING THIS PLACE 380 00:10:11,033 --> 00:10:11,600 UNLESS I CAN PRACTICE WHAT I 381 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:12,900 PREACH AND I'M PREACHING, 382 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:14,633 BASICALLY BIPARTISANSHIP." 383 00:10:14,733 --> 00:10:16,233 WHICH SOUNDS BENIGN, UNTIL YOU 384 00:10:16,233 --> 00:10:18,066 THINK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DEALING 385 00:10:18,066 --> 00:10:19,033 WITH HERE. 386 00:10:19,033 --> 00:10:19,933 BECAUSE AT A MOMENT WHEN THIS 387 00:10:19,933 --> 00:10:23,233 MAN IS BEING TARGETED WITH A 388 00:10:23,233 --> 00:10:24,333 BIGOTED SMEAR CAMPAIGN, YOU 389 00:10:24,333 --> 00:10:26,333 CAN'T BE OFFERING TO MEET THOSE 390 00:10:26,333 --> 00:10:26,966 BIGOTS IN THE MIDDLE. 391 00:10:26,966 --> 00:10:27,766 BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO THAT, GUESS 392 00:10:27,766 --> 00:10:34,833 WHAT THAT MAKES YOU? 393 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,466 AND TO BIDENS CREDITS, DAVE 394 00:10:41,466 --> 00:10:41,800 STOOD BY HIM. 395 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:42,433 AND MANCHIN'S ARGUMENT SPEAKS TO 396 00:10:42,433 --> 00:10:43,066 WHAT CAN BE SO DISPIRITING ABOUT 397 00:10:43,066 --> 00:10:43,733 OUR CURRENT POLITICS. 398 00:10:43,733 --> 00:10:44,333 BECAUSE WHILE THERE'S NOTHING 399 00:10:44,333 --> 00:10:46,166 FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH 400 00:10:46,166 --> 00:10:46,800 CIVILITY AND COMPROMISE, IT DOES 401 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:47,433 DEPEND ON WHO YOU'RE BEING CIVIL 402 00:10:47,533 --> 00:10:48,066 TO, AND WHAT YOU'RE COMPROMISING 403 00:10:48,166 --> 00:10:48,666 WITH. 404 00:10:48,766 --> 00:10:49,266 BECAUSE REMEMBER, THIS IS A 405 00:10:49,266 --> 00:10:50,000 MOMENT WHEN ONE OF THE LEADERS 406 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:50,600 OF THE SENATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST 407 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,966 MANGI IS HAPPILY ENCOURAGING 408 00:10:51,966 --> 00:10:53,400 PEOPLE TO "TAKE THINGS INTO 409 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,000 THEIR OWN HANDS" WHEN IT COMES 410 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 TO THOSE THEY DON'T AGREE WITH. 411 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,366 IT'S 412 00:11:00,266 --> 00:11:01,200 IT'S PRETTY SCARY TO THINK THAT 413 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,066 IN THE NAME OF "BUILDING 414 00:11:03,066 --> 00:11:04,500 BRIDGES", SOME DEMOCRATS APPEAR 415 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:05,100 TO BE PERFECTLY FINE 416 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:05,700 COMPROMISING WITH 417 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:06,266 REPUBLICANS WILLING TO THROW 418 00:11:06,266 --> 00:11:06,766 PROTESTORS OFF OF THEM. 419 00:11:06,766 --> 00:11:07,566 AND NOW THIS. 420 00:11:07,566 --> 00:11:12,866 AND NOW, 421 00:11:12,866 --> 00:11:15,333 A TRIBUTE TO CNBC ON ITS 35TH 422 00:11:15,333 --> 00:11:16,600 ANNIVERSARY. 423 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,633 IS A MOMENTOUS DAY FOR US 424 00:11:18,633 --> 00:11:22,000 HERE AT CNBC AS WE MARK OUR 35TH 425 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:24,000 ANNIVERSARY. 426 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 A HEARTFELT AND VERY LARGE 427 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,733 THANK YOU TO ALL OF US THAT'S 428 00:11:28,733 --> 00:11:30,700 GOT US HERE. 429 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:31,233 AND IT'S TAKEN A VILLAGE. 430 00:11:32,733 --> 00:11:36,766 HOW IS A PHONE THAT'S AN MP3 431 00:11:36,766 --> 00:11:38,900 PLAYER TECHNOLOGICALLY 432 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:39,566 INNOVATIVE? 433 00:11:39,566 --> 00:11:41,733 HOW IS A CRISIS REALLY A 434 00:11:41,733 --> 00:11:42,300 CRISIS? 435 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:45,166 OR IT'S A PROBLEM BLOWN OUT OF 436 00:11:45,166 --> 00:11:45,800 PROPORTION? 437 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,533 TO ME, IT'S REASONABLE-- I 438 00:11:48,533 --> 00:11:51,666 DON'T USUALLY DO THIS, TO 439 00:11:51,666 --> 00:11:52,800 COMPARE IT TO STEVE JOBS, 440 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,966 JPMORGAN OF THIS GENERATION. 441 00:11:56,066 --> 00:11:57,300 SAM BANKMAN-FRIED NEEDS. 442 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:58,700 I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS THE 443 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:00,700 GENERIC CLUE BUT MAYBE WE'D BE 444 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:03,166 BETTER OFF WITH THE GIVING IT TO 445 00:12:03,166 --> 00:12:03,800 EVERYBODY AND IN A MONTH THEY'D 446 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,833 BE OVER. 447 00:12:05,833 --> 00:12:09,200 I SEE A NEW BOEING, I SEE 448 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,266 STRAIGHT LINE, I THINK THAT THIS 449 00:12:10,266 --> 00:12:14,633 IS THE YEAR TO FLY A BOEING. 450 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:20,766 IF I CALL YOU A TOSS, WHAT'S 451 00:12:20,766 --> 00:12:21,700 A TOSS OR? 452 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:24,600 DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING? 453 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,366 I HAD NO IDEA. 454 00:12:26,366 --> 00:12:31,800 I MEAN, IT'S NO NEGATIVE BUT IS IT 455 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,866 SO NEGATIVE WE CAN'T SAY ON 456 00:12:33,866 --> 00:12:34,566 TELEVISION? 457 00:12:34,566 --> 00:12:40,100 DO YOU KNOW, JOE? 458 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:42,400 WHAT YOU HAVE EUROS IN 459 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:42,933 IRELAND? 460 00:12:42,933 --> 00:12:44,866 WHY WOULDN'T WE HAVE EUROS IN 461 00:12:44,866 --> 00:12:45,300 IRELAND? 462 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:47,900 I WOULD USE THE POUND. 463 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:49,133 I'M DOING WHAT MAYBE YOU 464 00:12:49,133 --> 00:12:53,700 SHOULD DO. 465 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:01,666 LOST PEOPLE MONEY, RICK. 466 00:13:01,766 --> 00:13:04,133 YOU'RE DOING A DISSERVICE TO 467 00:13:04,133 --> 00:13:05,466 THE VIEWER BECAUSE THE VIEWER'S 468 00:13:05,466 --> 00:13:06,466 NEED TO UNDERSTAFFED GO >> YOUR 469 00:13:06,466 --> 00:13:07,466 DOING A DISSERVICE TO THE 470 00:13:07,466 --> 00:13:08,200 VIEWER, YOU ARE! 471 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:15,266 YOU ARE! 472 00:13:18,066 --> 00:13:18,733 MOVING ON. 473 00:13:18,733 --> 00:13:19,366 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 474 00:13:19,366 --> 00:13:20,200 UFOS. 475 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:20,800 THEY'VE BROUGHT US GREAT ALBUM 476 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:21,433 ART, CLASSIC MOVIE MOMENTS, AND 477 00:13:21,433 --> 00:13:28,500 OF COURSE, HUGH JACKMAN. 478 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:30,866 I CAN'T PROVE IT YET. 479 00:13:30,866 --> 00:13:31,333 BUT I'M CLOSE. 480 00:13:31,333 --> 00:13:31,900 LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED 481 00:13:31,900 --> 00:13:32,500 SEEING UFOS-- FROM KE$HA, TO 482 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:33,133 RUSSELL CROWE, TO EVEN THIS GUY. 483 00:13:33,133 --> 00:13:34,266 I WAS GATHERED IN A-- IN A 484 00:13:34,366 --> 00:13:36,633 SCHOOLYARD WITH ABOUT 20 OTHER 485 00:13:36,633 --> 00:13:38,800 MEN, AND WE SAW A-- A BRIGHT 486 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:43,300 LIGHT APPEAR IN THE DISTANT 487 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:46,366 WESTERN SKIES, AND IT GOT CLOSER 488 00:13:46,366 --> 00:13:47,833 AND CLOSER, AND WHEN IT WAS JUST 489 00:13:47,833 --> 00:13:48,433 ABOVE THE TREETOPS, IT CHANGED 490 00:13:48,433 --> 00:13:51,166 COLOR, AND THEN IT STAYED THERE 491 00:13:51,166 --> 00:13:52,333 FOR A WHILE, AND THEN IT 492 00:13:52,333 --> 00:13:54,800 DISAPPEARED INTO THE DISTANCE. 493 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:55,966 AND NONE OF US COULD EVER 494 00:13:55,966 --> 00:13:57,033 IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS, AND I STILL 495 00:13:57,033 --> 00:14:01,400 DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. 496 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:02,666 YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THE 497 00:14:02,666 --> 00:14:04,100 FOLKSY, RAMBLING STORY AND THE 498 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,133 GOOFBALL SMILE, HE KIND OF 499 00:14:05,133 --> 00:14:05,766 REMINDS YOU OF JOE BIDEN THERE, 500 00:14:05,766 --> 00:14:06,066 DOESN'T HE? 501 00:14:06,066 --> 00:14:06,666 THE ONLY THING BIDEN WOULD'VE 502 00:14:06,666 --> 00:14:09,133 DONE DIFFERENT WAS NAME EACH OF 503 00:14:09,233 --> 00:14:09,800 THE 20 MEN HE SAW THE UFO WITH. 504 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,000 "THERE WAS CORN POP, FLOPPY 505 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,366 JEFF, WET DOUG, MEXICAN RICK, 506 00:14:12,366 --> 00:14:15,466 AND A BUNCH OF OTHER NAMES MY 507 00:14:15,466 --> 00:14:16,100 ADVISERS TOLD ME TO STOP SAYING 508 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:18,000 OUT LOUD BACK IN 2004." 509 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,300 BUT THE POINT IS, JIMMY CARTER 510 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:21,233 SAW A UFO. 511 00:14:21,233 --> 00:14:22,366 AND WHILE SKEPTICS PUSHED BACK, 512 00:14:22,366 --> 00:14:24,066 SAYING IT WAS PROBABLY A SPACE 513 00:14:24,066 --> 00:14:24,633 CLOUD OR VENUS AND THAT "NO 514 00:14:24,633 --> 00:14:26,200 OTHER OBJECT GENERATES AS MANY 515 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,300 UFO REPORTS AS THE PLANET 516 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:29,200 VENUS," CARTER DOUBLED DOWN, 517 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,166 SAYING "WE KNOW WHAT VENUS LOOKS 518 00:14:30,166 --> 00:14:30,966 LIKE. 519 00:14:30,966 --> 00:14:33,366 IT WAS NOT VENUS." 520 00:14:33,366 --> 00:14:33,733 AND HE'S RIGHT. 521 00:14:33,733 --> 00:14:35,200 EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT VENUS LOOKS 522 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,066 LIKE. 523 00:14:36,066 --> 00:14:37,533 NOT THAT, OF COURSE, BECAUSE 524 00:14:37,533 --> 00:14:38,433 THAT'S TITAN, ONE OF SATURN'S 525 00:14:38,433 --> 00:14:39,233 MOONS. 526 00:14:39,233 --> 00:14:40,800 IT DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE 527 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:41,866 THE REAL VENUS... 528 00:14:41,966 --> 00:14:43,666 WHICH THAT ALSO ISN'T, THAT'S 529 00:14:43,666 --> 00:14:45,733 JUPITER'S MOON IO. 530 00:14:45,733 --> 00:14:46,133 I GOT YOU SO GOOD! 531 00:14:46,133 --> 00:14:46,966 YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE, 532 00:14:46,966 --> 00:14:47,566 BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT 533 00:14:47,566 --> 00:14:52,833 SPACE, AND YOU WERE WRONG. 534 00:14:52,833 --> 00:14:54,033 THE FACT IS, THOUGH, a LOT OF 535 00:14:54,033 --> 00:14:54,566 PEOPLE THINK THEY'VE SEEN 536 00:14:54,566 --> 00:14:58,066 SOMETHING IN THE SKY. 537 00:14:58,066 --> 00:14:58,600 IN FACT, 16% OF AMERICANS 538 00:14:58,600 --> 00:14:59,233 SAY THEY'VE PERSONALLY WITNESSED 539 00:14:59,233 --> 00:14:59,800 SOMETHING THEY THOUGHT WAS A 540 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,866 UFO. 541 00:15:01,866 --> 00:15:02,733 AND RIGHT OFF THE BAT, LET'S 542 00:15:02,733 --> 00:15:03,266 THIS CAN BE A 543 00:15:03,266 --> 00:15:03,933 DIFFICULT SUBJECT TO TALK ABOUT, 544 00:15:03,933 --> 00:15:05,566 BECAUSE UFOS TEND TO GET 545 00:15:05,566 --> 00:15:06,166 DISCUSSED IN ONE OF TWO WAYS. 546 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:07,200 THE FIRST IS "WILDLY 547 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:08,733 SPECULATIVE," LIKE THIS. 548 00:15:08,733 --> 00:15:10,166 THIS RENAISSANCE PAINTING OF 549 00:15:10,166 --> 00:15:12,633 MADONNA AND CHILD SEEMS 550 00:15:12,633 --> 00:15:13,600 PERFECTLY NORMAL. 551 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:14,733 HOWEVER, CLOSER INSPECTION 552 00:15:14,833 --> 00:15:16,533 REVEALS A STRANGE CRAFT HOVERING 553 00:15:16,533 --> 00:15:18,066 IN THE BACKGROUND WITH AN 554 00:15:18,066 --> 00:15:19,133 EARTH-BOUND OBSERVER WITNESSING 555 00:15:19,133 --> 00:15:21,600 THE EVENT. 556 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:22,666 LOOK, FAR BE IT FROM ME 557 00:15:22,666 --> 00:15:24,266 TO QUIBBLE WITH THE VOICE OF 558 00:15:24,266 --> 00:15:26,766 "UNSOLVED MYSTERIES," BUT THAT'S 559 00:15:26,766 --> 00:15:29,500 A PAINTING, NOT A PHOTOGRAPH. 560 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:30,166 STUFF IN THEM CAN BE REAL OR 561 00:15:30,166 --> 00:15:32,433 MADE-UP, AND GIVEN THAT'S A 562 00:15:32,433 --> 00:15:33,733 PAINTING OF THE VIRGIN MARY, I'M 563 00:15:33,733 --> 00:15:35,466 GUESSING IT'S THE LATTER. 564 00:15:35,466 --> 00:15:37,433 THE SECOND WAY UFOS TEND TO BE 565 00:15:37,433 --> 00:15:39,200 DISCUSSED IS WITH BORDERLINE 566 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,633 CONTEMPT, LIKE IN THIS 1973 NEWS 567 00:15:41,633 --> 00:15:41,866 REPORT. 568 00:15:41,866 --> 00:15:43,666 THERE WERE MORE REPORTS TODAY 569 00:15:43,666 --> 00:15:45,566 OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. 570 00:15:45,566 --> 00:15:46,566 REPORTS FROM MINNESOTA, FLORIDA, 571 00:15:46,666 --> 00:15:48,166 CALIFORNIA, LOUISIANA, AND OTHER 572 00:15:48,266 --> 00:15:49,800 PLACES. 573 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,166 A MAN IN COLUMBUS, OHIO TOOK 574 00:15:52,166 --> 00:15:53,900 THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FOUR 575 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:54,566 STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY 576 00:15:54,566 --> 00:15:56,066 WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 577 00:15:56,066 --> 00:15:57,300 THEY WERE SEEN BY SCORES OF 578 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:58,700 PEOPLE. 579 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:01,066 TWO WOMEN IN TEXAS SAID THEY SAW 580 00:16:01,066 --> 00:16:02,300 AN OBJECT WITH THE LETTERS "UFO" 581 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:06,400 PAINTED ON THE SIDE. 582 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:07,233 WELL, I'M GLAD HE'S 583 00:16:07,233 --> 00:16:08,700 HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME LAUGHING 584 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:09,100 AT THEM. 585 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:10,066 AND I'M GUESSING IT WOULD STAY 586 00:16:10,066 --> 00:16:10,666 FUNNY, RIGHT UP UNTIL THAT UFO 587 00:16:10,666 --> 00:16:14,666 OPENS UP AND AN ALIEN LABELED 588 00:16:14,666 --> 00:16:17,333 "ALIEN" HITS YOU WITH A DEATH 589 00:16:17,333 --> 00:16:17,833 RAY LABELED "DEATH RAY." 590 00:16:17,833 --> 00:16:18,333 BUT IN RECENT YEARS, YOU 591 00:16:18,333 --> 00:16:19,866 MIGHT'VE SEEN UFOS GETTING SOME 592 00:16:19,866 --> 00:16:20,800 MORE MAINSTREAM ATTENTION-- 593 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:21,400 STARTING WITH THIS REPORT IN 594 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,266 2017. 595 00:16:23,266 --> 00:16:24,533 THESE HAUNTING IMAGES, PART 596 00:16:24,533 --> 00:16:26,766 OF A BOMBSHELL FIRST ADMISSION 597 00:16:26,766 --> 00:16:28,900 BY THE MILITARY OF A GOVERNMENT 598 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:30,133 PROGRAM INVESTIGATING SIGHTINGS 599 00:16:30,133 --> 00:16:30,366 OF UFOS. 600 00:16:30,366 --> 00:16:32,900 LOOK AT THAT THING. 601 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:34,000 IT'S ROTATING. 602 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,433 THIS MYSTERIOUS BLACK OBJECT 603 00:16:35,433 --> 00:16:36,733 SPOTTED OFF THE COAST OF SAN 604 00:16:36,733 --> 00:16:38,433 DIEGO BY NAVY FIGHTER PILOTS IN 605 00:16:38,433 --> 00:16:39,633 2004. 606 00:16:39,633 --> 00:16:41,866 MY GOSH. 607 00:16:41,866 --> 00:16:43,800 I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S 608 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,700 MORE SURPRISING THERE, THE UFO, 609 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:46,633 OR THE PILOT RESPONDING TO IT 610 00:16:46,633 --> 00:16:48,066 WITH "MY GOSH." 611 00:16:48,066 --> 00:16:49,566 IN THAT SITUATION, I MIGHT HAVE 612 00:16:49,566 --> 00:16:56,066 GONE WITH "HOLY LIVING SHIT," OR 613 00:16:56,066 --> 00:16:57,000 "JESUS BACKFLIPPING CHRIST," BUT 614 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:57,566 CREDIT TO HIM FOR KEEPING IT 615 00:16:57,566 --> 00:16:57,800 G-RATED. 616 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:58,366 THERE MIGHT BE KIDS WATCHING 617 00:16:58,366 --> 00:16:59,433 THIS NAVY FOOTAGE. 618 00:16:59,433 --> 00:17:00,500 THAT STORY WAS THE BEGINNING OF 619 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:01,300 A CASCADE OF REVELATIONS-- 620 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:03,666 INCLUDING THE DOD REVEALING THAT 621 00:17:03,666 --> 00:17:04,300 IT HAD 11 REPORTS OF DOCUMENTED 622 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:06,433 INSTANCES IN WHICH PILOTS 623 00:17:06,433 --> 00:17:08,500 REPORTED NEAR MISSES WITH UFO'S. 624 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:10,166 AND A FEW YEARS BACK, CONGRESS 625 00:17:10,166 --> 00:17:10,900 EVEN HELD ITS FIRST PUBLIC 626 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:11,766 HEARING ON UFOS IN MORE THAN 50 627 00:17:11,766 --> 00:17:13,400 YEARS. 628 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,900 SO IF THE SUBJECT IS THIS 629 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,266 UBIQUITOUS, WITH SUCH MAJOR 630 00:17:17,266 --> 00:17:18,800 QUESTIONS BEING ASKED, NOW MIGHT 631 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,266 BE A GOOD TIME TO-- AND I CAN'T 632 00:17:20,266 --> 00:17:22,600 BELIEVE I'M ABOUT TO SAY THIS-- 633 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,233 WHAT WE KNOW, 634 00:17:24,233 --> 00:17:25,766 WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, AND SOME OF 635 00:17:25,766 --> 00:17:27,233 THE PROBLEMS WITH HOW WE'VE GONE 636 00:17:27,333 --> 00:17:28,666 ABOUT TRYING TO FIND OUT MORE. 637 00:17:28,766 --> 00:17:29,800 AND RIGHT UP FRONT, LET ME SAY: 638 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,333 TALKING ABOUT UFOS DOESN'T 639 00:17:30,333 --> 00:17:32,366 NECESSARILY MEAN YOU'RE TALKING 640 00:17:32,366 --> 00:17:33,366 ABOUT ALIENS. 641 00:17:33,366 --> 00:17:34,766 UFOS ARE SIMPLY OBJECTS THAT ARE 642 00:17:34,766 --> 00:17:35,866 UNIDENTIFIED. 643 00:17:35,866 --> 00:17:38,033 THAT'S IT. 644 00:17:38,033 --> 00:17:40,400 MANY RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY PREFER 645 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:41,966 THE TERM UAP, FOR "UNIDENTIFIED 646 00:17:41,966 --> 00:17:43,200 ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA," POSSIBLY 647 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,100 TO AVOID THE WHOLE ALIEN 648 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:45,233 CONNOTATION. 649 00:17:45,233 --> 00:17:47,100 BECAUSE WHILE YOU CAN BELIEVE 650 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:49,133 ALIENS EXIST OR NOT, WHEN IT 651 00:17:49,133 --> 00:17:50,533 COMES TO UFOS, BELIEF DOESN'T 652 00:17:50,533 --> 00:17:52,466 REALLY COME INTO IT. 653 00:17:52,466 --> 00:17:53,066 WHATEVER THEY ARE, PEOPLE ARE 654 00:17:53,066 --> 00:17:54,000 SEEING THEM. 655 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,600 THAT POSTER IN MULDER'S OFFICE 656 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,633 SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID, "I WANT TO 657 00:17:57,633 --> 00:17:58,333 BELIEVE," IT SHOULD'VE SAID, 658 00:17:58,333 --> 00:17:59,833 "BELIEVE, SHMELIEVE, WHAT THE 659 00:17:59,833 --> 00:18:01,666 FUCK IS THAT THING." 660 00:18:01,766 --> 00:18:03,066 AND THE FACT IS, UFO SIGHTINGS 661 00:18:03,066 --> 00:18:05,366 LONG PREDATE ANY CONTEMPORARY 662 00:18:05,366 --> 00:18:06,000 ASSOCIATIONS WITH 663 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,200 EXTRATERRESTRIALS. 664 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,200 FOR AS LONG AS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 665 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:10,000 AROUND, THEY'VE BEEN SEEING 666 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,433 WEIRD THINGS THEY CAN'T EXPLAIN. 667 00:18:11,433 --> 00:18:12,433 ANCIENT ROMAN AND CHINESE TEXTS 668 00:18:12,433 --> 00:18:14,100 SPEAK OF PEOPLE SEEING 669 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:16,133 FIREBALLS, SPEARS, SOLDIERS, 670 00:18:16,133 --> 00:18:17,133 SHIPS, AND CHARIOTS FLOATING 671 00:18:17,133 --> 00:18:17,966 ABOVE THEM. 672 00:18:17,966 --> 00:18:20,466 PLUS, THERE WERE SIGHTINGS NEAR 673 00:18:20,466 --> 00:18:22,300 ROME IN 218 B.C., AND IN GERMANY 674 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:22,700 IN 1561. 675 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:24,333 AND YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING 676 00:18:24,333 --> 00:18:25,566 THAT DOESN'T MEAN MUCH, BECAUSE 677 00:18:25,566 --> 00:18:26,600 EVERYONE KNOWS 16TH CENTURY 678 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:27,866 GERMANY WAS SUFFERING FROM A 679 00:18:27,866 --> 00:18:29,466 RAPID INCREASE IN POPULATION 680 00:18:29,466 --> 00:18:30,200 COMBINED WITH AN INCREASE IN 681 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:31,966 GRAIN PRICES, SO A LOT OF 682 00:18:31,966 --> 00:18:33,533 GERMANS WERE TRIPPING BALLS DUE 683 00:18:33,633 --> 00:18:33,866 TO STARVATION. 684 00:18:33,866 --> 00:18:34,633 EVERYONE WENT THROUGH THEIR 685 00:18:34,733 --> 00:18:36,066 GERMAN CONFESSIONAL AGE 686 00:18:36,166 --> 00:18:38,033 OBSESSION IN THEIR EARLY TEENS. 687 00:18:38,033 --> 00:18:41,233 IT'S NOT NEWS. 688 00:18:41,233 --> 00:18:42,400 BUT OUR MODERN CONCEPTION OF 689 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,133 "FLYING SAUCERS" TOOK OFF IN 690 00:18:45,133 --> 00:18:46,266 1947, WHEN PRIVATE PILOT KENNETH 691 00:18:46,266 --> 00:18:49,166 ARNOLD SPOTTED 9 ODDLY SHAPED 692 00:18:49,166 --> 00:18:50,566 OBJECTS WHILE FLYING PAST MOUNT 693 00:18:50,566 --> 00:18:51,766 RAINIER IN WASHINGTON. 694 00:18:51,766 --> 00:18:54,233 IT WASN'T UNTIL 1947 WHEN A 695 00:18:54,233 --> 00:18:56,533 PRIVATE PILOT REPORTED SEEING A 696 00:18:56,533 --> 00:18:58,000 GROUP OF PIE PLATE-LIKE OBJECTS 697 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,233 FLYING NEAR MOUNT RAINIER THAT 698 00:18:59,233 --> 00:19:01,833 THE TERM "FLYING SAUCER" ENTERED 699 00:19:01,833 --> 00:19:04,266 THE VOCABULARY AND FUELED THE 700 00:19:04,266 --> 00:19:07,866 IMAGINATIONS OF MOVIE PRODUCERS. 701 00:19:07,966 --> 00:19:08,866 NOW, THAT'S ALMOST 702 00:19:08,866 --> 00:19:09,066 RIGHT. 703 00:19:09,066 --> 00:19:09,733 ARNOLD DIDN'T DESCRIBE SEEING 704 00:19:09,833 --> 00:19:10,366 FLYING SAUCERS, THOUGH-- WHAT 705 00:19:10,366 --> 00:19:11,333 HE ACTUALLY SAID WAS, THE 706 00:19:11,333 --> 00:19:13,366 OBJECTS "FLEW LIKE THEY TAKE A 707 00:19:13,366 --> 00:19:13,966 SAUCER AND THROW IT ACROSS THE 708 00:19:13,966 --> 00:19:14,633 WATER." 709 00:19:14,633 --> 00:19:15,800 BUT REPORTERS SHORTHANDED THAT 710 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,266 TO "FLYING SAUCER," AND THE NAME 711 00:19:17,266 --> 00:19:17,600 STUCK. 712 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,133 IT'S ONE OF THOSE FASCINATING 713 00:19:19,133 --> 00:19:21,200 HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS LIKE 714 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:22,533 "VIKING HELMETS DIDN'T ACTUALLY 715 00:19:22,533 --> 00:19:24,033 HAVE HORNS," "NAPOLEON WASN'T 716 00:19:24,033 --> 00:19:25,833 THAT SHORT," AND "GEORGE 717 00:19:25,833 --> 00:19:26,633 WASHINGTON DIDN'T REALLY EXIST, 718 00:19:26,633 --> 00:19:28,166 HE WAS JUST A REFLECTION OF 719 00:19:28,166 --> 00:19:29,533 MOONLIGHT OFF SWAMP GAS THAT 720 00:19:29,533 --> 00:19:32,000 FOOLED EARLY AMERICANS." 721 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 NOW, SKEPTICS HAVE INTRODUCED 722 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:34,566 VARIOUS THEORIES AS TO WHAT 723 00:19:34,566 --> 00:19:36,266 ARNOLD MIGHT HAVE SEEN, FROM 724 00:19:36,266 --> 00:19:37,266 WATER DROPLETS ON HIS AIRCRAFT 725 00:19:37,266 --> 00:19:38,533 WINDOW, TO A METEOR BREAKING UP, 726 00:19:38,533 --> 00:19:41,533 TO A FLOCK OF PELICANS. 727 00:19:41,633 --> 00:19:43,100 AND FOR THE RECORD, MARRY, KILL, 728 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:45,833 AND OBVIOUSLY, FUCK. 729 00:19:45,833 --> 00:19:48,966 DEEP MOUTHS. 730 00:19:48,966 --> 00:19:50,400 WE CAN'T KNOW FOR SURE WHAT 731 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,933 ARNOLD SAW. 732 00:19:51,933 --> 00:19:53,800 WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT HIS 733 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:54,533 ACCOUNT-- AND THE NEWS THAT 734 00:19:54,533 --> 00:19:55,566 BROKE SHORTLY AFTERWARD, 735 00:19:55,566 --> 00:19:57,100 SUPPOSEDLY OF A "FLYING SAUCER" 736 00:19:57,100 --> 00:19:58,000 CRASHING IN ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO 737 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,433 KICKED OFF A PUBLIC OBSESSION 738 00:19:59,433 --> 00:20:00,800 AND HUNDREDS OF UFO SIGHTINGS 739 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,666 BEGAN POURING IN. 740 00:20:03,666 --> 00:20:05,700 JUST A MONTH AFTER ARNOLD'S 741 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:06,300 SIGHTING, A POLL ASKED 742 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:07,700 RESPONDENTS IF THEY'D HEARD OR 743 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:10,200 READ ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS, AND 744 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:10,533 90% SAID YES. 745 00:20:10,533 --> 00:20:15,933 IT REACHED SUCH A FEVER PITCH 746 00:20:15,933 --> 00:20:20,700 THE "L.A. TIMES" RAN THE 747 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:22,366 "FLYING 'WHATSITS' 748 00:20:22,366 --> 00:20:23,133 SUPPLANT WEATHER AS NO. 749 00:20:23,133 --> 00:20:23,733 1 TOPIC ANYWHERE PEOPLE MEET." 750 00:20:23,733 --> 00:20:24,300 DISCUSSIONS OF UFOS STARTED 751 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:24,866 CROPPING UP EVERYWHERE, FROM 752 00:20:24,866 --> 00:20:25,366 TABLOID OUTLETS, TO EVEN 753 00:20:25,366 --> 00:20:25,866 DISCUSSIONS WITH NETWORK 754 00:20:25,866 --> 00:20:26,500 NEWSMEN. 755 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:27,800 GOOD EVENING. 756 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:28,433 TONIGHT, WE GO AFTER A FANTASTIC 757 00:20:28,433 --> 00:20:29,833 STORY. 758 00:20:29,833 --> 00:20:30,833 THE STORY THAT FLYING SAUCERS 759 00:20:30,833 --> 00:20:34,233 FROM OTHER WORLDS ARE VISITING 760 00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:36,066 OUR PLANET, JUST AS WE ARE 761 00:20:36,066 --> 00:20:36,866 EXPLORING OUTER SPACE WITH OUR 762 00:20:36,866 --> 00:20:39,000 OWN ROCKET SATELLITES. 763 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,566 OUR GUEST IS FORMER MARINE AIR 764 00:20:40,566 --> 00:20:42,966 CORPS MAJOR DONALD KEYHOE AND 765 00:20:42,966 --> 00:20:45,233 HIS CAMPAIGN TO PROVE THAT 766 00:20:45,233 --> 00:20:46,700 FLYING SAUCERS EXIST. 767 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:49,266 MY NAME IS MIKE WALLACE. 768 00:20:49,266 --> 00:20:53,466 THE CIGARETTE IS PARLIAMENT. 769 00:20:53,466 --> 00:20:54,766 WOW, I HONESTLY CAN'T 770 00:20:54,766 --> 00:20:56,400 THINK OF ANYTHING MORE 1950'S 771 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:57,800 THAN INTERRUPTING YOUR NEWS 772 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,366 REPORT TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF 773 00:21:01,366 --> 00:21:02,033 AND YOUR CIGARETTE. 774 00:21:02,033 --> 00:21:02,866 IT'S JUST NOT SOMETHING YOU 775 00:21:02,866 --> 00:21:03,600 COULD PULL OFF TODAY. 776 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,400 "MY NAME IS LESTER HOLT, AND THE 777 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,500 VAPE IS BUBBLEGUM MELON." 778 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:08,833 UFOS BECAME A POP-CULTURE 779 00:21:08,833 --> 00:21:09,966 PHENOMENON. 780 00:21:09,966 --> 00:21:11,366 IN FACT, ROSWELL HAS DONE A LOT 781 00:21:11,366 --> 00:21:13,000 TO CASH IN ON ITS ASSOCIATION 782 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,066 WITH UFOS. 783 00:21:14,066 --> 00:21:16,066 IT'S HOME TO A UFO MUSEUM, A UFO 784 00:21:16,066 --> 00:21:17,866 FESTIVAL, AND ALIEN-THEMED 785 00:21:17,866 --> 00:21:19,000 STREETLIGHTS. 786 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,933 IT EVEN HAS THE WORLD'S ONLY 787 00:21:21,033 --> 00:21:22,200 UFO-THEMED MCDONALD'S-- WHICH 788 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:24,700 SOMEHOW HAS ONLY THREE AND A 789 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:26,100 HALF STARS ON YELP, DESPITE, 790 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:29,700 AGAIN, BEING A UFO-THEMED 791 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:30,166 MCDONALD'S. 792 00:21:30,166 --> 00:21:30,966 THAT IS MADNESS. 793 00:21:30,966 --> 00:21:31,533 I COULD GET STABBED IN THAT 794 00:21:31,533 --> 00:21:33,433 MCDONALD'S AND MY YELP REVIEW 795 00:21:33,433 --> 00:21:34,066 GOT STABBED IN 796 00:21:34,066 --> 00:21:34,266 A UFO! 797 00:21:34,266 --> 00:21:38,700 FOUR STARS." 798 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:39,966 ROSWELL HAS GONE OUT OF ITS WAY 799 00:21:39,966 --> 00:21:40,866 TO MAKE ITSELF A UFO MECCA, AND 800 00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:44,566 AS THIS COVERAGE FROM THE 801 00:21:44,566 --> 00:21:45,500 '90s SHOWS, A LOT OF PEOPLE 802 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:45,933 MAKE THE PILGRIMAGE. 803 00:21:45,933 --> 00:21:46,500 HERE, THE TOWN'S TWO UFO 804 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:47,133 MUSEUMS HAVE BECOME MAGNETS FOR 805 00:21:47,133 --> 00:21:49,300 THE COMMITTED-- 806 00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:50,200 I HAVE BEEN TAKEN ABOARD 807 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,033 SPACECRAFT BY THESE TWO 808 00:21:53,033 --> 00:21:53,700 GENTLEMEN. 809 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:54,033 YOU HAVE? 810 00:21:54,033 --> 00:21:56,500 THE CURIOUS. 811 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:57,333 YOU THINK THEY'RE LIKE THESE 812 00:21:57,333 --> 00:21:57,700 GUYS BEHIND YOU? 813 00:21:57,700 --> 00:21:58,700 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 814 00:21:58,700 --> 00:21:59,633 BUT I THINK THEY'D BE JUST LIKE 815 00:21:59,633 --> 00:22:00,100 NORMAL PEOPLE. 816 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:01,600 THE GOVERNMENT HIDES THINGS 817 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:01,900 FROM PEOPLE. 818 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:04,200 GOVERNMENT DISTRUST. 819 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,000 IF THEY ARE REAL, THEY'RE 820 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,133 PROBABLY EVIL. 821 00:22:07,133 --> 00:22:08,333 RELIGION. 822 00:22:08,333 --> 00:22:09,700 IT'S JUST-- IT'S GOT TO 823 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:10,200 BE-- THERE'S GOT TO BE 824 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,033 SOMETHING TO IT. 825 00:22:11,033 --> 00:22:12,233 ALL ARE PART OF THIS 826 00:22:12,233 --> 00:22:13,900 ALL-AMERICAN MYSTERY. 827 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:14,966 MANY A NIGHT I HAVE LOOKED UP 828 00:22:14,966 --> 00:22:16,066 AT THE SKY AND SAID, "COME AND 829 00:22:16,066 --> 00:22:20,233 GET ME." 830 00:22:20,233 --> 00:22:21,533 OKAY, HARD TO PICK A 831 00:22:21,533 --> 00:22:23,100 FAVORITE PERSON THERE, FROM THE 832 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:24,500 MAN LOOKING FOR A WORD TO 833 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:26,200 DESCRIBE ALIENS AND SETTLING ON 834 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:26,800 "GENTLEMEN," TO THE GUY AT THE 835 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:27,433 END WHO'S SPENT "MANY A NIGHT" 836 00:22:27,533 --> 00:22:28,766 STARING AT THE SKY AND SAYING 837 00:22:28,866 --> 00:22:30,166 "COME AND GET ME." 838 00:22:30,166 --> 00:22:31,633 THAT'S A MAN WHO'S RUN THE 839 00:22:31,633 --> 00:22:32,933 NUMBERS AND FIGURED OUT 840 00:22:32,933 --> 00:22:33,466 ABDUCTION IS CHEAPER THAN 841 00:22:33,466 --> 00:22:34,533 DIVORCE. 842 00:22:34,533 --> 00:22:36,100 "COME AND GET ME! 843 00:22:36,100 --> 00:22:38,066 OR MY WIFE! 844 00:22:38,066 --> 00:22:41,000 NOT BOTH OF US, THOUGH, THAT'S A 845 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:41,333 DEAL-BREAKER." 846 00:22:41,333 --> 00:22:42,033 BUT IT'S WORTH ADDRESSING 847 00:22:42,033 --> 00:22:44,300 SOMETHING THAT WOMAN SAID THERE 848 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:45,133 "THE GOVERNMENT HIDES THINGS 849 00:22:45,133 --> 00:22:45,466 FROM PEOPLE." 850 00:22:45,466 --> 00:22:46,100 BECAUSE, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING 851 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:46,966 OF OUR MODERN OBSESSION WITH 852 00:22:46,966 --> 00:22:47,900 UFO'S, THERE'S BEEN A BELIEF 853 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:48,500 THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS KEEPING 854 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:50,600 SOMETHING FROM US. 855 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:51,700 AND THAT MISTRUST HAS BEEN WELL 856 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:56,466 EARNED. 857 00:22:56,466 --> 00:22:57,466 THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. 858 00:22:57,466 --> 00:22:58,166 GOVERNMENT'S STUDY OF UFO'S IS 859 00:22:58,166 --> 00:22:58,600 ONE RANGING FROM THE 860 00:22:58,600 --> 00:22:59,200 UNSATISFYING, TO THE ACTIVELY 861 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,400 MISLEADING. 862 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:02,033 AND IT BEGAN NOT LONG AFTER THAT 863 00:23:02,133 --> 00:23:03,000 FIRST "FLYING SAUCER" SIGHTING. 864 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,100 JUST A YEAR LATER, THE AIR FORCE 865 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:06,333 FORMED SOMETHING CALLED PROJECT 866 00:23:06,333 --> 00:23:07,733 SIGN, WHICH EVALUATED 243 867 00:23:07,733 --> 00:23:09,300 SIGHTINGS OVER THE COURSE OF A 868 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:10,200 YEAR AND ULTIMATELY SAID IT 869 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,066 COULD FIND "NO DEFINITE AND 870 00:23:12,066 --> 00:23:13,100 CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE" TO PROVE OR 871 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:15,166 DISPROVE THE EXISTENCE OF ACTUAL 872 00:23:15,166 --> 00:23:17,033 UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT. 873 00:23:17,033 --> 00:23:18,266 THAT EFFORT WAS THEN RENAMED, 874 00:23:18,266 --> 00:23:19,533 PROJECT GRUDGE, WHICH EVALUATED 875 00:23:19,533 --> 00:23:21,066 MORE SIGHTINGS, AND CONCLUDED 876 00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:21,700 THEY DIDN'T THREATEN U.S. 877 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:22,366 SECURITY. 878 00:23:22,366 --> 00:23:24,133 THAT WAS THEN FOLLOWED BY A 879 00:23:24,133 --> 00:23:24,933 MASSIVE INVESTIGATION CALLED 880 00:23:24,933 --> 00:23:26,466 PROJECT BLUEBOOK, WHICH TOOK 17 881 00:23:26,466 --> 00:23:28,833 YEARS AND LOOKED AT MORE THAN 882 00:23:28,833 --> 00:23:29,900 12,000 SIGHTINGS, FINDING NO 883 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:30,633 EVIDENCE THAT THEY WERE 884 00:23:30,633 --> 00:23:32,100 EXTRATERRESTRIAL OR A SECURITY 885 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:33,500 THREAT. 886 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:34,800 AND AS YOU PROBABLY SENSED, 887 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:35,766 BECAUSE THESE WERE ALL 888 00:23:35,866 --> 00:23:36,966 "MILITARY" INVESTIGATIONS, 889 00:23:36,966 --> 00:23:38,433 WHETHER OR NOT THESE THINGS 890 00:23:38,433 --> 00:23:39,366 POSED A THREAT WAS THE PRIMARY 891 00:23:39,366 --> 00:23:41,300 CONCERN. 892 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:42,466 BUT TOWARD THE END OF PROJECT 893 00:23:42,466 --> 00:23:46,766 BLUE BOOK, THE GOVERNMENT ALSO 894 00:23:46,766 --> 00:23:47,733 FUNDED A PARALLEL SCIENTIFIC 895 00:23:47,733 --> 00:23:48,300 INVESTIGATION KNOWN AS "THE 896 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:49,333 CONDON COMMITTEE," LED BY 897 00:23:49,333 --> 00:23:49,833 PHYSICIST EDWARD CONDON. 898 00:23:49,833 --> 00:23:51,433 BUT EVEN WHILE UNDERWAY, THERE 899 00:23:51,433 --> 00:23:53,500 WERE SIGNS IT WASN'T EXACTLY 900 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:56,733 BEING CONDUCTED IN A SPIRIT OF 901 00:23:56,733 --> 00:23:57,333 FREE INQUIRY. 902 00:23:57,333 --> 00:23:58,166 CONDON WAS A RESPECTED 903 00:23:58,166 --> 00:23:58,700 SCIENTIST BUT WAS HARDLY 904 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:01,600 IMPARTIAL ABOUT UFOS. 905 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,800 BEFORE THE STUDY EVEN BEGAN HE 906 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,300 SAID IN A SPEECH THAT "THE 907 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:05,833 GOVERNMENT SHOULD GET OUT OF THE 908 00:24:05,833 --> 00:24:06,466 UFO BUSINESS, THERE'S NOTHING TO 909 00:24:06,466 --> 00:24:07,100 IT." 910 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,066 HE LATER WROTE, "THE AUTHORS OF 911 00:24:09,166 --> 00:24:09,533 UFO BOOKS SHOULD BE 912 00:24:09,533 --> 00:24:14,266 HORSEWHIPPED." 913 00:24:14,266 --> 00:24:15,233 I MEAN, HE DOESN'T SEEM 914 00:24:15,233 --> 00:24:16,333 LIKE THE MOST OBJECTIVE ANALYST. 915 00:24:16,333 --> 00:24:17,700 THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD DOESN'T GO 916 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:18,566 1. HYPOTHESIS. 917 00:24:18,566 --> 00:24:20,000 2. HORSEWHIP ANYONE WHO 918 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,366 DISAGREES WITH YOU. 919 00:24:21,366 --> 00:24:23,033 3. CONCLUSION. 920 00:24:23,033 --> 00:24:26,000 YOU'RE THINKING OF RELIGION. 921 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,133 NOW UNSURPRISINGLY, CONDON'S 922 00:24:28,133 --> 00:24:30,066 STUDY CONCLUDED THAT NOTHING HAS 923 00:24:30,066 --> 00:24:30,900 COME FROM THE STUDY OF UFOS IN 924 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:32,600 THE PAST 21 YEARS THAT HAS ADDED 925 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,233 TO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AND 926 00:24:34,233 --> 00:24:35,900 THAT FURTHER EXTENSIVE STUDY OF 927 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:37,866 UFOS PROBABLY CANNOT BE 928 00:24:37,866 --> 00:24:40,266 JUSTIFIED. 929 00:24:40,266 --> 00:24:40,866 OTHER 930 00:24:40,866 --> 00:24:41,366 SCIENTISTS AT THE TIME, 931 00:24:41,366 --> 00:24:43,133 INCLUDING CARL SAGAN, PUSHED 932 00:24:43,133 --> 00:24:44,500 BACK ON THE TONE OF CONDON'S 933 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:44,733 REPORT. 934 00:24:44,733 --> 00:24:47,633 BUT HIS ATTITUDE PREVAILED, TO 935 00:24:47,633 --> 00:24:48,300 THE POINT THAT, BY 1977, A 936 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:49,600 SURVEY OF OVER 1,000 SCIENTISTS 937 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,666 FOUND THAT A MAJORITY THOUGHT 938 00:24:50,666 --> 00:24:53,500 UFOS WERE WORTHY OF FURTHER 939 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:56,133 STUDY, BUT ONLY TWO WERE WILLING 940 00:24:56,133 --> 00:24:57,866 TO WAIVE ANONYMITY TO SAY SO. 941 00:24:57,866 --> 00:24:58,700 BUT IT'S NOT JUST THAT THE 942 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,766 GOVERNMENT HASN'T COVERED ITSELF 943 00:25:00,766 --> 00:25:03,066 IN GLORY, WHEN IT COMES TO 944 00:25:03,066 --> 00:25:03,833 STUDYING UFOS. 945 00:25:03,833 --> 00:25:05,800 IT'S ALSO ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN 946 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:06,400 COVERUPS ABOUT THEM-- THOUGH 947 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,266 NOT NECESSARILY IN THE WAYS, OR 948 00:25:08,266 --> 00:25:09,600 FOR THE REASONS, THE HISTORY 949 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,733 CHANNEL MIGHT HAVE YOU BELIEVE. 950 00:25:10,733 --> 00:25:12,233 TAKE THE CRASH IN ROSWELL. 951 00:25:12,233 --> 00:25:13,666 FOR YEARS, THE GOVERNMENT 952 00:25:13,666 --> 00:25:14,700 MAINTAINED THAT WHAT HAD CRASHED 953 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,066 WAS ACTUALLY JUST A WEATHER 954 00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:16,633 BALLOON, WHICH MANY FOUND 955 00:25:16,633 --> 00:25:17,900 SUSPICIOUS. 956 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:19,200 AND THAT FUELED A LOT OF RAMPANT 957 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,333 SPECULATION, TO THE POINT WHERE, 958 00:25:24,333 --> 00:25:25,633 IN THE MID-1990s, THIS NEW 959 00:25:25,633 --> 00:25:26,166 MEXICO CONGRESSMAN STARTED 960 00:25:26,166 --> 00:25:26,633 PRESSING FOR ANSWERS. 961 00:25:26,633 --> 00:25:27,166 AND THE INQUIRY YIELDED A 962 00:25:27,166 --> 00:25:27,766 SURPRISING ADMISSION FROM THE 963 00:25:27,766 --> 00:25:29,166 GOVERNMENT THAT THEY HAD INDEED 964 00:25:29,166 --> 00:25:32,600 LIED ABOUT THE OBJECT BEING A 965 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:33,200 "WEATHER BALLOON," IN ORDER TO 966 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,066 CONCEAL WHAT IT ACTUALLY WAS. 967 00:25:35,066 --> 00:25:36,500 WHAT WAS RECOVERED NEAR 968 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,000 ROSWELL NEW MEXICO IN JULY 1947 969 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,233 WAS DEBRIS FROM A FORMERLY TOP 970 00:25:42,233 --> 00:25:45,566 SECRET ARMY AIR FORCE RESEARCH 971 00:25:45,566 --> 00:25:46,366 PROJECT, CODE NAME MOGUL. 972 00:25:46,366 --> 00:25:48,366 PROJECT MOGUL WAS SO SECRET 973 00:25:48,466 --> 00:25:50,266 IT HAD THE SAME SECURITY 974 00:25:50,266 --> 00:25:52,500 CLASSIFICATION AS THE PROJECT TO 975 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:54,166 BUILD THE ATOMIC BOMB. 976 00:25:54,166 --> 00:25:56,400 THESE HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS 977 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,233 WITH THEIR INSTRUMENTATION, 978 00:25:58,233 --> 00:26:00,300 WHERE DESIGNED TO DETECT SOVIET 979 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:02,466 NUCLEAR TESTS, THEY WERE 980 00:26:02,466 --> 00:26:05,800 TREMENDOUS IN SIZE, AS LONG AS 981 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,566 650 FEET, AND IN 1947 NOTHING 982 00:26:08,566 --> 00:26:10,066 ELSE ON EARTH LOOKED LIKE THIS. 983 00:26:10,066 --> 00:26:14,166 RIGHT. 984 00:26:14,166 --> 00:26:14,700 THAT DOES MAKE MORE SENSE. 985 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:15,333 ALTHOUGH IT IS HARD TO TAKE THE 986 00:26:15,333 --> 00:26:17,400 GOVERNMENT'S WORD FOR IT, GIVEN 987 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,000 THEY JUST ADMITTED THEY'D BEEN 988 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,233 LYING FOR 50 YEARS. 989 00:26:21,333 --> 00:26:22,266 IT'S FRANKLY NO WONDER PEOPLE 990 00:26:22,366 --> 00:26:24,400 STILL SPECULATE ABOUT ROSWELL, 991 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:24,966 TO THIS DAY. 992 00:26:24,966 --> 00:26:25,533 IT'S BASICALLY "THE BOY WHO 993 00:26:25,533 --> 00:26:27,100 CRIED WOLF," IF THE BOY WAS THE 994 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:28,100 PENTAGON, THE WOLF WAS A 600 995 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:29,433 FOOT SPY BALLOON, AND THE MORAL 996 00:26:29,433 --> 00:26:30,333 OF THE STORY WAS "WE GOT UP TO A 997 00:26:30,333 --> 00:26:31,766 LOT OF STUPID SHIT IN THE COLD 998 00:26:31,766 --> 00:26:33,566 WAR." 999 00:26:33,566 --> 00:26:35,000 AND THAT WASN'T THE ONLY TIME 1000 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,100 THE GOVERNMENT'S DONE THIS. 1001 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:36,833 A CIA STUDY FOUND THAT "OVER 1002 00:26:36,833 --> 00:26:43,900 HALF OF ALL UFO REPORTS FROM THE 1003 00:26:44,066 --> 00:26:45,033 LATE 1950'S THROUGH THE 1960'S 1004 00:26:45,033 --> 00:26:45,600 WERE ACCOUNTED FOR BY MANNED 1005 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,200 RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS," WHICH 1006 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,466 "LED THE AIR FORCE TO MAKE 1007 00:26:47,466 --> 00:26:48,300 MISLEADING AND DECEPTIVE 1008 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:49,200 STATEMENTS TO THE PUBLIC IN 1009 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,300 ORDER TO ALLAY PUBLIC FEARS AND 1010 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:52,000 TO PROTECT AN EXTRAORDINARILY 1011 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,700 SENSITIVE NATIONAL SECURITY 1012 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:54,566 PROJECT." 1013 00:26:54,666 --> 00:26:55,400 AND ON SOME LEVEL, YOU CAN SEE 1014 00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:56,866 WHY THEY DID THAT. 1015 00:26:56,866 --> 00:26:58,333 IF SOMEONE SEES YOUR TOP SECRET 1016 00:26:58,333 --> 00:27:00,300 PLANE, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN 1017 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:01,733 "THAT'S NOT A UFO, 1018 00:27:01,733 --> 00:27:02,933 THAT'S OUR TOP SECRET PLANE." 1019 00:27:02,933 --> 00:27:05,066 NO, THAT'S WHEN YOU NEED TO ROLL 1020 00:27:05,066 --> 00:27:06,333 UP YOUR SLEEVES AND GASLIGHT THE 1021 00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:08,833 HELL OUT OF THEM FOR UNCLE SAM. 1022 00:27:08,833 --> 00:27:10,166 AND SOME HAVE ARGUED THAT EVEN 1023 00:27:10,166 --> 00:27:12,233 WHEN THE GOVERNMENT'S NOT 1024 00:27:12,233 --> 00:27:13,800 PROTECTING ITS OWN TOP-SECRET 1025 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,266 PROJECTS, IT MAY HAVE OTHER 1026 00:27:15,266 --> 00:27:16,500 REASONS FOR TRYING TO SHUT 1027 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:17,200 INQUIRIES DOWN. 1028 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,533 YOU CAN COVER UP KNOWING 1029 00:27:18,533 --> 00:27:19,266 SOMETHING, OR YOU CAN COVER UP 1030 00:27:19,266 --> 00:27:22,033 NOT KNOWING SOMETHING. 1031 00:27:22,033 --> 00:27:23,600 AND I THINK IT'S-- IT'S JUST AS 1032 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,033 LIKELY THAT THE AIR FORCE IS 1033 00:27:25,033 --> 00:27:25,966 COVERING UP NOT KNOWING 1034 00:27:25,966 --> 00:27:26,700 ANYTHING. 1035 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:28,400 WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? 1036 00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:29,133 BECAUSE THEY CAN'T-- THEY 1037 00:27:29,233 --> 00:27:29,600 CAN'T AFFORD TO LOOK 1038 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,733 INCOMPETENT. 1039 00:27:30,733 --> 00:27:32,366 THEY CAN'T ADMIT TO THE PUBLIC 1040 00:27:32,366 --> 00:27:34,333 THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE 1041 00:27:34,333 --> 00:27:36,400 THINGS ARE IN THEIR SKY. 1042 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:36,966 THAT JOHN C. REILLY 1043 00:27:36,966 --> 00:27:40,333 CHARACTER MAKES A GOOD POINT. 1044 00:27:40,333 --> 00:27:40,833 WHEN YOU'RE IN CHARGE OF 1045 00:27:40,833 --> 00:27:41,900 SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROJECT A 1046 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:42,500 CERTAIN LEVEL OF AUTHORITY AND 1047 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:44,400 CONTROL. 1048 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:44,966 IT'S THE SAME REASON I CAN'T 1049 00:27:44,966 --> 00:27:47,200 TELL MY AUDIENCE HOW "I DON'T 1050 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,400 KNOW WHERE MY SNAKE IS." 1051 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,033 IT'D CAUSE A PANIC, EVEN THOUGH 1052 00:27:51,033 --> 00:27:53,100 THERE'S NO NEED, BECAUSE HE'S 1053 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:54,233 NOT VENOMOUS, I ASSUME, THE 1054 00:27:54,233 --> 00:27:55,866 WEBSITE I BOUGHT HIM FROM WASN'T 1055 00:27:55,866 --> 00:27:56,433 IN ENGLISH, BUT IT'S A MOOT 1056 00:27:56,433 --> 00:27:58,066 POINT ANYWAY BECAUSE, RELAX! 1057 00:27:58,066 --> 00:27:58,700 I DEFINITELY KNOW WHERE MY SNAKE 1058 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:00,366 IS! 1059 00:28:00,466 --> 00:28:06,200 AND THERE HAVE BEEN EXAMPLES OF 1060 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,666 GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DOWNPLAYING 1061 00:28:07,666 --> 00:28:08,300 UFO SIGHTINGS THAT THEY COULDN'T 1062 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:14,833 EXPLAIN. 1063 00:28:14,833 --> 00:28:15,766 TAKE THE CASE OF THE PHOENIX 1064 00:28:15,766 --> 00:28:16,733 LIGHTS. 1065 00:28:16,733 --> 00:28:17,300 ON THE EVENING OF MARCH 13, 1066 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:18,233 1997, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SAW 1067 00:28:18,233 --> 00:28:20,266 THESE BIZARRE LIGHTS IN THE SKY, 1068 00:28:20,266 --> 00:28:21,700 FOLLOWED BY A SECOND SET OF 1069 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:22,700 LIGHTS A FEW HOURS LATER. 1070 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:26,133 UNDERSTANDABLY, PEOPLE FREAKED 1071 00:28:26,133 --> 00:28:28,233 OUT, AND WANTED SOME ANSWERS. 1072 00:28:28,233 --> 00:28:28,766 THE STATE'S GOVERNOR EVEN 1073 00:28:28,766 --> 00:28:29,200 PROMISED AN INQUIRY. 1074 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,166 AND WHEN HE CALLED A PRESS 1075 00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:31,033 CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE HIS 1076 00:28:31,033 --> 00:28:31,966 FINDINGS, MANY GOT THEIR HOPES 1077 00:28:31,966 --> 00:28:33,233 UP. 1078 00:28:33,233 --> 00:28:37,433 WHICH IS WHY IT WAS SO 1079 00:28:37,433 --> 00:28:38,266 DISAPPOINTING FOR THEM WHEN HE 1080 00:28:38,266 --> 00:28:38,766 DID THIS. 1081 00:28:38,766 --> 00:28:39,300 I ISSUED A CALL FOR AN 1082 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:40,133 INVESTIGATION BY THE ARIZONA 1083 00:28:40,133 --> 00:28:42,233 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. 1084 00:28:42,233 --> 00:28:44,333 AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT WE 1085 00:28:44,333 --> 00:28:44,900 ALREADY ARE GETTING RESULTS. 1086 00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:46,266 WE MAY ALL LOOK UPON THE GUILTY 1087 00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:50,433 PARTY. 1088 00:28:50,433 --> 00:28:51,900 BUT DON'T GET HIM TO CLOSE TO 1089 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:53,566 ME, PLEASE. 1090 00:28:53,566 --> 00:28:54,133 WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 1091 00:28:54,133 --> 00:28:54,866 YOU CAN'T JUST INTRODUCE A 1092 00:28:54,866 --> 00:28:56,966 MASCOT ANY TIME YOU DON'T KNOW 1093 00:28:56,966 --> 00:28:57,266 WHAT TO SAY. 1094 00:28:57,266 --> 00:28:57,833 IT'S 1095 00:28:57,833 --> 00:28:58,033 LAZY. 1096 00:28:58,033 --> 00:28:59,200 IT'S CONDESCENDING TO YOUR 1097 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,133 AUDIENCE. 1098 00:29:00,133 --> 00:29:01,366 THEY'RE ADULTS. 1099 00:29:01,366 --> 00:29:02,300 THEY DON'T NEED A FUCKING PUPPET 1100 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:03,333 SHOW FROM YOU. 1101 00:29:03,333 --> 00:29:04,166 THEY'VE COME WITH REAL QUESTIONS 1102 00:29:04,166 --> 00:29:10,433 AND DESERVE REAL ANSWERS. 1103 00:29:10,433 --> 00:29:12,333 SHIT, SORRY, WE CUT THIS BIT FOR 1104 00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:13,200 TIME. 1105 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:21,000 I'M SORRY. 1106 00:29:22,066 --> 00:29:23,300 IT JUST DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT. 1107 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:25,766 I SAID I'M SORRY! 1108 00:29:25,766 --> 00:29:29,366 HE'S FINE! 1109 00:29:29,366 --> 00:29:30,300 AND THE THING IS, THAT GOVERNOR 1110 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:33,233 LATER ADMITTED THAT HE ACTUALLY 1111 00:29:33,233 --> 00:29:35,133 SAW THE LIGHTS, TOO, AND DIDN'T 1112 00:29:35,133 --> 00:29:35,566 KNOW WHAT THEY WERE. 1113 00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:36,333 HE JUST DIDN'T FEEL LIKE HE 1114 00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:36,866 COULD SAY THAT, PUBLICLY. 1115 00:29:36,866 --> 00:29:37,966 I GUESS HE WAS MUCH LIKE ME WITH 1116 00:29:37,966 --> 00:29:39,566 MY MISSING SNAKE. 1117 00:29:39,566 --> 00:29:41,433 HE'D MUCH RATHER PEOPLE STOP 1118 00:29:41,533 --> 00:29:42,666 ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT IT, SO HE 1119 00:29:42,766 --> 00:29:44,200 MADE A JOKE OUT OF SOMETHING 1120 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,333 THAT DEEP DOWN, HE WORRIED MIGHT 1121 00:29:48,333 --> 00:29:52,033 ACTUALLY BE A SERIOUS PROBLEM. 1122 00:29:52,033 --> 00:29:54,066 BUT AGAIN, I KNOW WHERE MY SNAKE 1123 00:29:54,066 --> 00:29:54,233 IS. 1124 00:29:54,233 --> 00:29:54,833 LATER ON, AN OFFICIAL 1125 00:29:54,833 --> 00:29:55,700 EXPLANATION CAME FROM THE AIR 1126 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:56,433 NATIONAL GUARD, SAYING THAT THE 1127 00:29:56,433 --> 00:29:57,033 PHOENIX LIGHTS WERE CAUSED BY 1128 00:29:57,033 --> 00:29:58,233 MILITARY FLARES. 1129 00:29:58,233 --> 00:29:59,533 AND WHILE THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY 1130 00:29:59,533 --> 00:30:00,500 A SATISFYING EXPLANATION-- AND 1131 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:02,200 BELIEVE ME, A LOT OF PEOPLE 1132 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,433 STILL DON'T BUY IT-- AT LEAST 1133 00:30:03,433 --> 00:30:04,633 IT'S PREFERABLE TO HAVING YOUR 1134 00:30:04,633 --> 00:30:05,866 GOVERNOR DUNK ON YOU IN A PRESS 1135 00:30:05,866 --> 00:30:06,833 CONFERENCE FOR EVEN ASKING THE 1136 00:30:06,833 --> 00:30:08,500 QUESTION. 1137 00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:10,500 AND THAT BRINGS US TO THE MORE 1138 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:12,100 RECENT REVELATIONS THAT HAVE 1139 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:12,733 GENERATED SO MANY HEADLINES AND 1140 00:30:12,733 --> 00:30:14,100 HEARINGS. 1141 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,800 BECAUSE THAT VIDEO OF PILOTS 1142 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:18,333 STARTLED BY WHAT THEY WERE 1143 00:30:18,333 --> 00:30:18,966 LOOKING AT, WAS PART OF A LARGER 1144 00:30:18,966 --> 00:30:20,233 SERIES OF STORIES CONCERNING A 1145 00:30:20,233 --> 00:30:21,433 GOVERNMENT PROGRAM CALLED AATIP, 1146 00:30:21,433 --> 00:30:22,000 WHICH WAS DESCRIBED IN NEWS 1147 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 COVERAGE AT THE TIME LIKE THIS. 1148 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,333 THAT ENCOUNTER DOCUMENTED BY 1149 00:30:26,333 --> 00:30:29,466 AATIP, THE ADVANCED AVIATION 1150 00:30:29,466 --> 00:30:30,300 THREAT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM, A 1151 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:30,933 SHADOWY OFFICE IN THE PENTAGON. 1152 00:30:30,933 --> 00:30:31,566 IT EXAMINED SO-CALLED ANOMALOUS 1153 00:30:31,566 --> 00:30:35,900 AERIAL VEHICLES. 1154 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,000 THAT'S INCREDIBLE. 1155 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,166 YOU DON'T EXPECT TO HEAR ABOUT A 1156 00:30:40,166 --> 00:30:40,766 "SHADOWY PENTAGON UFO PROGRAM" 1157 00:30:40,766 --> 00:30:41,166 ON PRIMETIME NEWS. 1158 00:30:41,166 --> 00:30:41,766 YOU EXPECT TO HEAR IT SCREAMED 1159 00:30:41,766 --> 00:30:42,366 AT YOU ON A WEBCAST IN-BETWEEN 1160 00:30:42,366 --> 00:30:44,533 ADS FOR CANNED RATIONS AND 1161 00:30:44,533 --> 00:30:47,833 HERBAL VIAGRA. 1162 00:30:47,933 --> 00:30:48,733 THAT INITIAL COVERAGE, ALONG 1163 00:30:48,833 --> 00:30:51,466 WITH THE RELEASES OF OTHER 1164 00:30:51,466 --> 00:30:52,366 STARTLING VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE, 1165 00:30:52,366 --> 00:30:54,733 UNDERSTANDABLY, GOT A LOT OF 1166 00:30:54,733 --> 00:30:55,866 PEOPLE EXTREMELY EXCITED, 1167 00:30:55,866 --> 00:30:57,100 ESPECIALLY WITH THE REVELATION 1168 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:57,733 THAT AATIP'S EXISTENCE HAD BEEN 1169 00:30:57,733 --> 00:30:58,733 MADE PUBLIC WITH THE HELP OF A 1170 00:30:58,733 --> 00:31:00,366 PENTAGON EMPLOYEE, LUIS 1171 00:31:00,366 --> 00:31:01,066 ELIZONDO, WHO LATER SAID HE'D 1172 00:31:01,066 --> 00:31:02,766 RESIGNED FROM THE PROGRAM TO 1173 00:31:02,766 --> 00:31:04,500 PROTEST "EXCESSIVE SECRECY AND 1174 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:06,133 INTERNAL OPPOSITION." 1175 00:31:06,133 --> 00:31:07,766 AND FOR MANY, IT SEEMED LIKE 1176 00:31:07,766 --> 00:31:09,700 FINALLY, AFTER YEARS OF 1177 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:11,200 DEAD-END, BAD-FAITH GOVERNMENT 1178 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,766 INQUIRIES, THIS COULD BE A 1179 00:31:12,766 --> 00:31:14,433 GENUINE BREAKTHROUGH. 1180 00:31:14,433 --> 00:31:16,500 BUT UNFORTUNATELY, AS PEOPLE 1181 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:17,633 LOOKED INTO THAT PROGRAM, THEY 1182 00:31:17,633 --> 00:31:18,700 FOUND THEMSELVES COMING AWAY 1183 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:20,133 WITH MORE QUESTIONS THAN 1184 00:31:20,233 --> 00:31:20,466 ANSWERS. 1185 00:31:20,466 --> 00:31:22,900 FOR INSTANCE, WHILE ELIZONDO 1186 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:23,966 MAINTAINS HE LED THIS PROGRAM-- 1187 00:31:23,966 --> 00:31:24,566 AND HAS DOCUMENTS THAT SEEM TO 1188 00:31:24,566 --> 00:31:25,966 SUPPORT THAT CLAIM-- THE 1189 00:31:25,966 --> 00:31:27,066 PENTAGON INSISTS THAT ELIZONDO 1190 00:31:27,066 --> 00:31:28,933 ACTUALLY HAD NO ASSIGNED 1191 00:31:28,933 --> 00:31:30,233 RESPONSIBILITIES FOR AATIP. 1192 00:31:30,233 --> 00:31:30,866 AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T TRUST THE 1193 00:31:30,866 --> 00:31:32,800 PENTAGON-- WHICH AS A GENERAL 1194 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,333 RULE, I DEFINITELY DON'T-- 1195 00:31:35,333 --> 00:31:36,466 REPORTERS WHO'VE DUG INTO WHAT 1196 00:31:36,466 --> 00:31:39,166 AATIP ACTUALLY DID, HAVE OFTEN 1197 00:31:39,166 --> 00:31:39,766 FOUND THEMSELVES UNDERWHELMED. 1198 00:31:39,766 --> 00:31:44,500 BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT, A LOT OF 1199 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:45,133 THE RESEARCH WASN'T DONE BY THE 1200 00:31:45,133 --> 00:31:52,200 GOVERNMENT. 1201 00:31:59,200 --> 00:31:59,833 IT WAS CONTRACTED OUT TO A 1202 00:31:59,833 --> 00:32:00,466 COMPANY OWNED BY ROBERT BIGELOW 1203 00:32:00,466 --> 00:32:01,066 A BUDGET HOTEL MOGUL, SPACE 1204 00:32:01,066 --> 00:32:01,700 ENTREPRENEUR, AND RON DESANTIS 1205 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:02,233 DONOR-- WHO USED TO OWN A 1206 00:32:02,233 --> 00:32:02,866 PROPERTY IN UTAH THAT'S KNOWN AS 1207 00:32:02,866 --> 00:32:03,366 A HOTBED FOR PARANORMAL 1208 00:32:03,366 --> 00:32:03,633 ACTIVITY. 1209 00:32:03,633 --> 00:32:04,166 THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE 1210 00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:04,766 RESEARCH FOR AATIP TOOK PLACE. 1211 00:32:04,766 --> 00:32:05,333 BIGELOW ALSO ONCE SAID THAT 1212 00:32:05,333 --> 00:32:05,900 ALIENS ARE ALREADY ON EARTH, 1213 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:06,500 "RIGHT UNDER PEOPLE'S NOSES," 1214 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:07,000 AND FOUNDED THE BIGELOW 1215 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,533 INSTITUTE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS 1216 00:32:08,533 --> 00:32:09,666 STUDIES WHOSE MAIN GOAL IS TO 1217 00:32:09,666 --> 00:32:10,533 DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S 1218 00:32:10,533 --> 00:32:11,600 AN AFTERLIFE. 1219 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,200 AND THIS IS BESIDE THE POINT BUT 1220 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,566 IT SAYS SOMETHING THAT, FOR A 1221 00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:16,133 GUY WHO IS WILLING TO THROW 1222 00:32:16,133 --> 00:32:16,700 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT THE 1223 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,166 PURSUIT OF ALIENS AND THE 1224 00:32:18,166 --> 00:32:22,300 DISCOVERY OF AN AFTERLIFE, HIS 1225 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:23,000 WORST FINANCIAL DECISION STILL 1226 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:23,600 MIGHT HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING RON 1227 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,933 DESANTIS. 1228 00:32:25,933 --> 00:32:27,366 NOW, AS FOR WHAT BIGELOW'S 1229 00:32:27,466 --> 00:32:28,600 COMPANY ACTUALLY PRODUCED FOR 1230 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:29,633 AATIP, FROM WHAT'S BEEN MADE 1231 00:32:29,633 --> 00:32:31,466 PUBLIC SO FAR, IT SEEMS TO BE 1232 00:32:31,466 --> 00:32:35,866 LITTLE MORE THAN A SERIES OF 1233 00:32:35,866 --> 00:32:36,900 38 RESEARCH PAPERS, SPECULATING 1234 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:37,733 ON TECHNOLOGIES LIKE 1235 00:32:37,733 --> 00:32:39,900 INVISIBILITY CLOAKING, 1236 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:41,166 STARGATES, ANTIGRAVITY, AND A 1237 00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:41,766 "NEVER-CARRIED OUT PROPOSAL TO 1238 00:32:41,766 --> 00:32:42,533 TUNNEL A HOLE THROUGH THE MOON 1239 00:32:42,533 --> 00:32:44,766 USING NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS." 1240 00:32:44,766 --> 00:32:46,233 THEY ALSO COMPOSED A PAPER ON 1241 00:32:46,233 --> 00:32:48,100 TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES THAT 1242 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:49,400 INCLUDES THIS ACTUAL 1243 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,266 ILLUSTRATION WHICH, AND THIS IS 1244 00:32:50,266 --> 00:32:52,066 CRUCIAL, FEATURES A MAN SAYING 1245 00:32:52,066 --> 00:32:54,700 HELLO TO A DINOSAUR. 1246 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:56,466 AND LOOK, I AM NOT SAYING 1247 00:32:56,466 --> 00:32:58,000 SCIENTISTS CAN'T OR SHOULDN'T 1248 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:58,566 STUDY THINGS LIKE WORMHOLES. 1249 00:32:58,566 --> 00:33:00,166 BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK GREAT WHEN 1250 00:33:00,266 --> 00:33:07,266 YOUR RESEARCH ENDS UP LOOKING 1251 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,100 LIKE A TEENAGER'S 1252 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:09,633 "RICK AND MORTY" FAN ART. 1253 00:33:09,633 --> 00:33:10,300 AND I'LL SAY, IF THAT'S THE KIND 1254 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:10,900 OF WORK THAT PROGRAM ACTUALLY 1255 00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:11,766 PRODUCED, IT IS REALLY 1256 00:33:11,766 --> 00:33:12,100 DISAPPOINTING. 1257 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:13,733 BECAUSE PEOPLE DESERVE SERIOUS 1258 00:33:13,733 --> 00:33:14,433 ANSWERS TO THESE LEGITIMATE 1259 00:33:14,433 --> 00:33:17,166 QUESTIONS. 1260 00:33:17,166 --> 00:33:18,300 ESPECIALLY, AS IT TAKES COURAGE 1261 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:22,866 TO EVEN ASK THEM, OR TALK ABOUT 1262 00:33:22,866 --> 00:33:24,000 WHAT YOU MIGHT'VE SEEN. 1263 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:24,600 NAVAL PILOTS WHO SAW AN OBJECT 1264 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,200 IN ONE OF THOSE AATIP VIDEOS, 1265 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,533 ZIPPING AND DARTING AROUND THEM, 1266 00:33:26,533 --> 00:33:28,166 HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY WERE 1267 00:33:28,166 --> 00:33:29,433 MADE FUN OF AFTER COMING 1268 00:33:29,433 --> 00:33:30,033 FORWARD, AND THAT THE STIGMA 1269 00:33:30,033 --> 00:33:32,933 ATTACHED TO THIS SUBJECT IS SO 1270 00:33:32,933 --> 00:33:34,300 STRONG THAT THEY CONSIDERED NOT 1271 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,700 COMING FORWARD AT ALL. 1272 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,166 YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT, OVER 1273 00:33:37,166 --> 00:33:38,900 BEERS, WE'VE SORT OF SAID, "HEY, 1274 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,833 MAN, IF I SAW THIS SOLO, I DON'T 1275 00:33:41,833 --> 00:33:42,466 KNOW THAT I WOULD HAVE COME BACK 1276 00:33:42,466 --> 00:33:44,400 AND SAID ANYTHING," BECAUSE IT 1277 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:45,966 SOUNDS SO CRAZY WHEN I SAY IT. 1278 00:33:45,966 --> 00:33:48,300 YOU UNDERSTAND THAT REACTION? 1279 00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:49,233 I DO. 1280 00:33:49,233 --> 00:33:50,266 I'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE TELL ME, 1281 00:33:50,266 --> 00:33:51,033 YOU KNOW, "WHEN YOU SAY THAT, 1282 00:33:51,033 --> 00:33:53,033 YOU CAN SOUND CRAZY." 1283 00:33:53,033 --> 00:33:54,833 I'LL BE-- I'M NOT A UFO GUY. 1284 00:33:54,833 --> 00:33:57,066 BUT FROM WHAT I HEAR YOU GUYS 1285 00:33:57,066 --> 00:33:59,666 SAYING, THERE'S SOMETHING? 1286 00:33:59,666 --> 00:34:00,366 YES. 1287 00:34:00,366 --> 00:34:01,833 OH, THERE'S-- THERE'S 1288 00:34:01,833 --> 00:34:03,133 DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT-- I 1289 00:34:03,133 --> 00:34:04,900 DON'T KNOW WHO'S BUILDING IT, 1290 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:06,300 WHO'S GOT THE TECHNOLOGY, WHO'S 1291 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:06,900 GOT THE BRAINS, BUT THERE'S-- 1292 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:10,266 THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT 1293 00:34:10,266 --> 00:34:12,033 WAS BETTER THAN OUR AIRPLANE. 1294 00:34:12,033 --> 00:34:13,800 YEAH, "THERE'S 1295 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:14,333 SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT'S 1296 00:34:14,333 --> 00:34:15,933 BETTER THAN OUR AIRPLANE." 1297 00:34:15,933 --> 00:34:17,366 IT IS CHILLING TO HEAR THAT FROM 1298 00:34:17,366 --> 00:34:18,733 A NAVY PILOT, AND NOT THE USUAL 1299 00:34:18,733 --> 00:34:20,466 PLACE, THE EXECUTIVE BOARD ROOM 1300 00:34:20,466 --> 00:34:21,133 AT BOEING. 1301 00:34:21,133 --> 00:34:22,666 "I'VE RUN THE NUMBERS GUYS, AND 1302 00:34:22,666 --> 00:34:23,633 PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE'S DOING IT 1303 00:34:23,633 --> 00:34:27,500 BETTER." 1304 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,400 BUT THERE CLEARLY SHOULD BE ROOM 1305 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,433 FOR SOBER ASSESSMENT OF UFO 1306 00:34:30,433 --> 00:34:32,133 SIGHTINGS. 1307 00:34:32,133 --> 00:34:33,566 WHEN YOU 1308 00:34:33,566 --> 00:34:34,733 DO THAT, THE ANSWERS YOU GET, 1309 00:34:34,733 --> 00:34:35,600 CAN SOMETIMES END UP BEING LESS 1310 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:36,766 FUN. 1311 00:34:36,766 --> 00:34:38,233 SKEPTICS IN THIS FIELD URGE 1312 00:34:38,233 --> 00:34:39,633 PEOPLE TO KEEP SEVERAL KILLJOY 1313 00:34:39,633 --> 00:34:41,066 POINTS IN MIND WHEN DISCUSSING 1314 00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:41,966 UFO SIGHTINGS. 1315 00:34:42,066 --> 00:34:43,700 EVERYONE IS VULNERABLE TO 1316 00:34:43,700 --> 00:34:45,733 MISINTERPRETATIONS, HUMAN VISION 1317 00:34:45,733 --> 00:34:46,266 IS OFTEN UNRELIABLE, HUMAN 1318 00:34:46,266 --> 00:34:48,200 MEMORY IS IMPERFECT, AND 1319 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:49,366 PEOPLE'S PRIOR BELIEFS INFLUENCE 1320 00:34:49,366 --> 00:34:50,466 PERCEPTION-- WHICH IS TO SAY, 1321 00:34:50,466 --> 00:34:52,600 WHAT YOU THINK YOU SAW MIGHT 1322 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,566 DEPEND ON WHAT YOU EXPECTED TO 1323 00:34:53,566 --> 00:34:55,500 SEE. 1324 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:57,300 HISTORIANS HAVE POINTED OUT "UFO 1325 00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:58,600 SIGHTINGS IN THE '50S AND '60S 1326 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,466 IN GERMANY VERY RARELY HAD THE 1327 00:35:00,466 --> 00:35:01,066 SORT OF ALIEN-EXTRATERRESTRIAL 1328 00:35:01,066 --> 00:35:02,233 BEND. 1329 00:35:02,233 --> 00:35:03,833 INSTEAD, GERMANS SAW THINGS THEY 1330 00:35:03,833 --> 00:35:05,166 COULDN'T EXPLAIN AND ASSUMED 1331 00:35:05,166 --> 00:35:05,700 THAT THEY WERE AMERICAN OR 1332 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:06,833 RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY." 1333 00:35:06,833 --> 00:35:08,466 ON TOP OF WHICH, A LOT OF 1334 00:35:08,466 --> 00:35:10,000 UNEXPLAINED SIGHTINGS CAN TURN 1335 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:10,433 OUT TO HAVE RATIONAL 1336 00:35:10,433 --> 00:35:12,233 EXPLANATIONS. 1337 00:35:12,233 --> 00:35:14,533 TAKE THIS STRIKING VIDEO, OF 1338 00:35:14,633 --> 00:35:16,466 FLOATING PYRAMIDS IN THE AIR 1339 00:35:16,466 --> 00:35:17,100 ABOVE A NAVY SHIP, SHOT THROUGH 1340 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:18,100 NIGHTVISION GOGGLES. 1341 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:19,533 IT UNDERSTANDABLY GOT A LOT OF 1342 00:35:19,533 --> 00:35:22,200 ATTENTION WHEN IT WAS FIRST 1343 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:22,566 RELEASED. 1344 00:35:22,566 --> 00:35:23,400 BUT IN CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY 1345 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,400 LAST YEAR, A NAVY OFFICIAL 1346 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,966 OFFERED A PRETTY BANAL REASON 1347 00:35:26,966 --> 00:35:34,033 FOR IT. 1348 00:35:35,266 --> 00:35:36,133 THE HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THOSE 1349 00:35:36,133 --> 00:35:36,666 ARE COMMERCIAL DRONES THAT 1350 00:35:36,666 --> 00:35:38,366 BECAUSE OF THE USE OF NIGHT 1351 00:35:38,366 --> 00:35:40,266 VISION GOGGLES APPEAR LIKE 1352 00:35:40,266 --> 00:35:40,900 TRIANGLES, IS THAT THE OPERATING 1353 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:41,200 ASSESSMENT? 1354 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,166 SOME TYPE OF DRONE, SOME TYPE 1355 00:35:43,166 --> 00:35:44,000 OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM AND IT 1356 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,833 IS SIMPLY THAT THAT LIGHT SOURCE 1357 00:35:47,933 --> 00:35:48,466 RESOLVES ITSELF THROUGH THE-- 1358 00:35:48,566 --> 00:35:51,333 THROUGH THE NIGHT VISION GOGGLES 1359 00:35:51,333 --> 00:35:53,833 ONTO THE SLR CAMERA AS A 1360 00:35:53,833 --> 00:35:56,733 TRIANGLE. 1361 00:35:56,733 --> 00:35:57,900 HUH. 1362 00:35:57,900 --> 00:35:59,933 I'D RATHER BELIEVE THOSE ARE 1363 00:35:59,933 --> 00:36:00,533 TRIANGLE ALIENS WHO LIVE ON A 1364 00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:02,100 DISTANT TRIANGLE PLANET, AND 1365 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:04,100 THIS IS HOW THEY COMMUNICATE IN 1366 00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:10,166 THEIR TRIANGLE LANGUAGE. 1367 00:36:10,166 --> 00:36:10,800 BUT I GUESS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION 1368 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:11,433 CAUSED BY NIGHT VISION TECH CAN 1369 00:36:11,433 --> 00:36:12,066 BE SATISFYING, TOO, EVEN THOUGH 1370 00:36:12,066 --> 00:36:12,700 IT REALLY DOESN'T FEEL THAT WAY 1371 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:12,966 RIGHT NOW. 1372 00:36:12,966 --> 00:36:13,833 AND THE GOOD NEWS IS, THERE DOES 1373 00:36:13,833 --> 00:36:15,400 SEEM TO BE A MOVEMENT TOWARD 1374 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,300 MORE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF 1375 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:19,200 UFOS. 1376 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:20,466 AND IT'S ENCOURAGING THAT NASA 1377 00:36:20,566 --> 00:36:21,933 RECENTLY ASSEMBLED A SMALL TEAM, 1378 00:36:22,033 --> 00:36:24,366 MADE UP OF EXPERTS IN EVERYTHING 1379 00:36:24,366 --> 00:36:25,766 FROM SCIENCE TO AEROSPACE 1380 00:36:25,766 --> 00:36:26,266 SAFETY, TO EXAMINE UAPS. 1381 00:36:26,266 --> 00:36:27,033 AND LAST SUMMER, WE GOT A 1382 00:36:27,033 --> 00:36:28,533 GLIMPSE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO 1383 00:36:28,533 --> 00:36:29,833 HAVE THEM BREAK DOWN A UFO 1384 00:36:29,833 --> 00:36:30,166 VIDEO. 1385 00:36:30,166 --> 00:36:31,666 SPECIFICALLY THIS POPULAR ONE-- 1386 00:36:31,666 --> 00:36:33,600 WHICH APPEARS TO SHOW A 1387 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,200 MYSTERIOUS OBJECT-- NICKNAMED 1388 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,666 "GO FAST"-- MOVING EXTREMELY 1389 00:36:36,666 --> 00:36:37,733 QUICKLY. 1390 00:36:37,733 --> 00:36:38,833 THE PANEL EXPLAINED, AT LENGTH, 1391 00:36:38,833 --> 00:36:40,666 AS PART OF A FOUR-HOUR PRESS 1392 00:36:40,666 --> 00:36:42,233 CONFERENCE, HOW THEY FIGURED OUT 1393 00:36:42,233 --> 00:36:44,933 THAT THE OBJECT ACTUALLY WASN'T 1394 00:36:44,933 --> 00:36:45,433 MOVING THAT FAST AT ALL. 1395 00:36:45,433 --> 00:36:47,166 HERE'S JUST A SMALL SAMPLE. 1396 00:36:47,166 --> 00:36:48,566 SO, KNOWING THE JET'S 1397 00:36:48,566 --> 00:36:50,200 ALTITUDE AND THE BEARING TO THE 1398 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,200 TARGET WE CAN APPLY BASIC 1399 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,233 TRIGONOMETRY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE 1400 00:36:54,333 --> 00:36:55,200 THAT OBJECT IS IN THE ALTITUDE 1401 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:58,466 SPACE. 1402 00:36:58,466 --> 00:36:59,433 SO IT'S THE OCEAN THAT LOOKS 1403 00:36:59,433 --> 00:37:00,000 LIKE IT'S RIGHT BEHIND IT IS 1404 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,533 ACTUALLY 4.2 MILES AWAY. 1405 00:37:02,533 --> 00:37:04,466 AND THIS IS OUR FIRST INDICATION 1406 00:37:04,466 --> 00:37:06,566 THAT SOME OR MOST OF THE MOTION 1407 00:37:06,566 --> 00:37:07,600 THAT WE OBSERVE, THE APPARENT 1408 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,933 MOTION OF THE OBJECT, IS IN FACT 1409 00:37:09,933 --> 00:37:12,533 DUE TO THE RAPID MOTION OF THE 1410 00:37:12,533 --> 00:37:14,233 SENSING PLATFORM. 1411 00:37:14,233 --> 00:37:16,066 THAT WAS BORING AS 1412 00:37:16,066 --> 00:37:17,800 FUCK. 1413 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,466 NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD 1414 00:37:21,466 --> 00:37:22,366 WANT TO GO TO A MCDONALD'S 1415 00:37:22,366 --> 00:37:23,933 THEMED AFTER THAT EXPLANATION AT 1416 00:37:23,933 --> 00:37:24,766 ALL. 1417 00:37:24,766 --> 00:37:25,733 BUT THAT'S KIND OF THE POINT. 1418 00:37:25,733 --> 00:37:28,300 IN THAT, AGAIN, FOUR-HOUR VIDEO, 1419 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,933 THEY SET OUT WHAT THEY KNOW-- 1420 00:37:29,933 --> 00:37:31,233 THE OBJECT'S SPEED-- AND 1421 00:37:31,233 --> 00:37:32,900 CONCEDE WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW. 1422 00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:33,966 WHICH IS, WHAT THAT OBJECT IS. 1423 00:37:33,966 --> 00:37:35,866 AND THEY MAKE THE ARGUMENT THAT 1424 00:37:35,866 --> 00:37:36,833 TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF 1425 00:37:36,833 --> 00:37:38,200 UFOS, A RIGOROUS, 1426 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,833 EVIDENCE-BASED, DATA-DRIVEN 1427 00:37:39,833 --> 00:37:40,900 SCIENTIFIC FRAMEWORK IS 1428 00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:46,500 ESSENTIAL. 1429 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:47,533 AND THEY'RE RIGHT ABOUT THAT. 1430 00:37:47,533 --> 00:37:48,133 IT'S BOTH PROMISING, AND LONG 1431 00:37:48,133 --> 00:37:48,600 OVERDUE, TO SEE PEOPLE 1432 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:49,233 APPROACHING THIS ISSUE SOBERLY, 1433 00:37:49,233 --> 00:37:50,266 SCIENTIFICALLY, AND PERHAPS MOST 1434 00:37:50,266 --> 00:37:51,733 IMPORTANTLY, BORINGLY. 1435 00:37:51,733 --> 00:37:52,333 AND I KNOW THAT'S HARD. 1436 00:37:52,333 --> 00:37:54,300 THIS IS AN AREA WHERE IT'S EASY 1437 00:37:56,233 --> 00:37:57,466 HARDCORE SKEPTICS, WHO ROLL 1438 00:37:57,466 --> 00:37:58,900 THEIR EYES AT THE WHOLE SUBJECT. 1439 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:01,700 AND TRUE BELIEVERS, WHO ARE 1440 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:02,266 CONVINCED EVERYTHING HAS A 1441 00:38:02,266 --> 00:38:03,700 FANTASTICAL EXPLANATION THE 1442 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:04,866 GOVERNMENT IS KEEPING FROM US. 1443 00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:06,333 YOU WILL SEE, IN COMMENTS BELOW 1444 00:38:06,333 --> 00:38:07,800 THIS PIECE ON YOUTUBE, THOSE TWO 1445 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,200 GROUPS FIGHTING IT OUT OVER 1446 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,966 EVERYTHING I'VE SAID HERE, AND 1447 00:38:11,966 --> 00:38:14,933 ONLY AGREEING ON THE FACT THAT 1448 00:38:14,933 --> 00:38:16,233 I AM A FUCKING IDIOT. 1449 00:38:16,233 --> 00:38:16,933 WHICH I'M NOT DENYING, BUT NOT 1450 00:38:16,933 --> 00:38:18,000 FOR THE REASONS THEY'LL BE 1451 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,533 ARGUING. 1452 00:38:19,533 --> 00:38:21,033 BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE ROOM FOR 1453 00:38:21,033 --> 00:38:21,700 HONEST INQUIRY. 1454 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:23,300 BECAUSE SCIENCE IS ALL ABOUT 1455 00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:24,566 COLLECTING SMALL ANSWERS THAT 1456 00:38:24,566 --> 00:38:26,033 EVENTUALLY HELP US ADDRESS BIG 1457 00:38:26,033 --> 00:38:27,733 QUESTIONS. 1458 00:38:27,733 --> 00:38:28,366 LIKE ARE WE ALONE IN THE 1459 00:38:28,366 --> 00:38:29,733 UNIVERSE? 1460 00:38:29,733 --> 00:38:31,200 WHAT'S THAT I JUST SAW IN THE 1461 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:31,900 SKY? 1462 00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:33,733 AND, FOR THE FINAL TIME, WHERE 1463 00:38:33,833 --> 00:38:36,700 ACTUALLY IS MY SNAKE? 1464 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:37,533 I'M SERIOUSLY, CAN EVERYONE LOOK 1465 00:38:37,533 --> 00:38:38,100 UNDER THEIR CHAIRS? 1466 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:39,400 BECAUSE I GENUINELY DON'T KNOW 1467 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,366 WHERE IT IS. 1468 00:38:41,366 --> 00:38:41,900 THAT IS OUR SHOW. 1469 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:42,533 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1470 00:38:42,533 --> 00:38:43,166 THIS HAS BEEN 1471 00:38:43,166 --> 00:38:43,900 "LAST WEEK TONIGHT". 1472 00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:46,133 I'M JOHN OLIVER, AND THE VAPE IS 1473 00:38:46,133 --> 00:38:47,733 DRAGONFRUIT BANANA. 1474 00:38:51,266 --> 00:38:57,733 GOOD NIGHT! 1475 00:38:57,733 --> 00:38:59,500 OH, SHIT, THERE IT IS! 1476 00:38:59,500 --> 00:38:59,933 THERE IT IS! 1477 00:38:59,933 --> 00:39:04,633 I FOUND IT! 1478 00:39:04,633 --> 00:39:05,666 YEAH, THAT-- THAT'S NOT 1479 00:39:05,666 --> 00:39:07,466 ACTUALLY MY SNAKE. 1480 00:39:07,566 --> 00:39:11,266 THAT'S A DIFFERENT SNAKE. 1481 00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:12,500 MY SNAKE LOOKS LIKE THAT BUT 1482 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:16,333 THAT'S A DIFFERENT SNAKE. 1483 00:39:16,333 --> 00:39:19,000 MRS.-- THIS IS SOMEONE ELSE'S 1484 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,100 SNAKE. 1485 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:21,000 SOMEON