Late last year, a UFO journalist released previously-unseen photos and video of two different unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, captured in the Middle East. One was called the chandelier and the other was called the jellyfish.
These caused a stir online, and UFO enthusiasts debated whether they were signs of alien life or merely smudges on a camera lens. Then, this year, the U.S. government released a report that found no evidence extraterrestrial life was connected to UAP sightings.
However, even the Sean Kirkpatrick – former director of the office that created the report – said it is “statistically invalid to believe that there is not life out in the universe,” and noted that one of NASA’s goals is to find that life.
Harvard’s Dr. Avi Loeb, the founder of the Galileo Project, joined the show this week to discuss recent UAP sightings as well as his own search for extraterrestrial life.
“Even if the government doesn’t release the information, you know, the sky is not classified,” he said. “The oceans are not classified. By doing scientific research into this will find the evidence ourselves.”
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