Ancient Aliens - The New UFO Hunters

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

In the 21st century, UFOs have gone from fringe science to mainstream obsession. A new generation of UFO hunters is employing incredible technology, and Unidentified Flying Objects are being openly investigated by the government. Are we closer than ever to understanding the strange events happening in our skies?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the 21st century, UFOs have gone from fringe science to mainstream obsession. With the interest from so many agencies, including NASA, everybody's getting into the game of understanding UFOs. A new generation of researchers is employing technology so advanced it can unlock clues invisible to the human eye. We have physical scientific evidence of these phenomena existing. with real scientific equipment. And unidentified flying objects have even captured the attention of experts at the highest levels of government. The Pentagon is now seriously investigating

the extraterrestrial question. Is humankind now closer than ever to understanding the strange events that are happening in our skies? We have a lot more information. We have a lot of cases. We have stories. of people who've interacted with them.

It's an exciting time. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone.

June 5, 2023. The news website, The Debrief, reports that former intelligence official David Grush has given Congress classified information about deeply covert military programs that possess craft of non-human origin. The sensational report captures the attention of people at the highest levels of government. Here is U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on Fox News. By law, we're required to take that seriously. The Inspector General has referred it to the committee as an urgent concern and one with some credibility to it, so we'll do our job. David Grush is just the latest in a number of high-level whistleblowers who have come forward in recent years with claims that the U.S. government knows much more about the UFO phenomenon than they have disclosed to the public.

Rod Pyle is an author and journalist at Ad Astra magazine. I think this new report is interesting because it continues to show that we really have to talk about this. Now, I suspect that there's an undercurrent of we'd really rather not talk about it, but there are people within the military who really wouldn't mind talking about this a little more because they're curious too. Now, on the official end at least, you can report these things without fear of retribution, and that wasn't always the case. For the first time in history, members of Congress,

senators and even former presidents are openly talking about the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence on earth. Nick Pope is a former member of the UK Ministry of Defense. With hearings in Congress, with reports from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the hunt for UFOs is now mainstream. This paradigm shift has emboldened whistleblowers, like David Grush, to come forward with extraordinary claims and represents a major turning point in the hunt for UFOs. What makes the modern hunt for UFOs different than what we've seen in the past is the fact that it's becoming legitimized. We have recent revelations from the U.S. military talking about sightings that they've recorded and have finally released under some pressure. All these people are going to come together to learn how to study UFOs.

UAPs, as we now call them. Which is a brilliant idea. Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Georgi Osuclos. The Pentagon has been incredibly open-minded suddenly to admit, yes, we've investigated UFOs. But that is only half of the story, because we know that they've been investigating UFOs even earlier, starting in the 40s and 50s. In 1947, Air Force General Nathan Twining, head of the Air Technical Service Command, established a program known as Project Sign to collect and evaluate information about reported UFO sightings. Here is UFO investigator Paul Heinek.

Project Sign was a short-lived endeavor about a year or so, and it was during that time that there was the reported estimate of the situation that said that this is a bona fide phenomena, we need to study it. Following on the heels of Project Sign was Project Grudge, aptly named, which took a very dismissive tone to the phenomena and concluded there's nothing here. At the conclusion of Project Grudge in 1952,

the military created Project Blue Book. The program continued to collect and evaluate UFO data, but now in a more public fashion. Project Blue Book was largely not interested, interested in whether there was a phenomena, but more in controlling the public narrative. Project Blue Book really wasn't an open conversation. It was the Air Force looking through the stuff saying, no, no, no, no, no, swamp gas, weather balloons, atmospheric effects, what have you, mass hysteria. They're putting out a report and saying nothing to see here, move along.

Between 1947 and 1969, investigators working on Project Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, collectively reviewed over 12,000 sightings worldwide. However, on December 17, 1969, Air Force officials announced that they had concluded their inquiries into the UFO phenomena. Here is Ralph Blumenthal, investigative journalist for the New York Times. The government said, there's nothing to investigate. By the way, there's 701 unexplained cases.

They didn't explain why they didn't explain those cases. They just said there's nothing worth... pursuing here. When Project Blue Book concluded with 701 UFO cases left still unexplained, UFO researchers were skeptical about the government's claim that they were no longer interested in the phenomenon. Decades later, it came to light that the U.S. government was secretly investigating UFOs once again. In 2007, the Department of Defense established the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. or ATIP, a highly classified project tasked with investigating unidentified aerial phenomena.

ATIP was officially acknowledged by the Pentagon in 2017, but soon after, it was discovered that the government had a second top-secret UFO program underway. Alejandro Rojas is the former head of public relations at Mufon. Since 2017, there's been a lot more digging and revelations that have gone on. It turns out the program was actually called ASAP, the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program. This is investigative journalist George Knapp. Osap was the biggest UFO program in the history of our government. They had 50 full-time investigators. You think about Project Blue Book, they had a handful of people working on it full-time.

50 full-time investigators who traveled all over the country, all over the world, gathering information. And they created the world. largest UFO database, 200,000 cases. And none of it has been made public. None of it has been released. In 2020, the U.S. government established yet another program within the Department of Defense, called the UAP Task Force. Its mission was to scientifically investigate and analyze military encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena. The chief scientist assigned to this task was Dr. Travis Taylor,

who had worked on various government and military projects going back decades. He was offered the position while investigating anomalous events on Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. After the first couple of weeks that I'd come out to Skinwalker Ranch, we made some measurements that startled me. I thought the measurements looked real similar to electronic warfare or non-lethal human weapon systems. So I reported this and I was invited to the Pentagon to give a presentation. on what I had seen, the director of the UAP Task Force came into the meeting and invited me to join the task force.

Dr. Taylor and his colleagues at the UAP Task Force analyzed 144 cases documented by military personnel around the world, including photographic and video evidence, as well as scientific data taken of the encounters. On June 25, 2021, their preliminary findings, were presented to the Congressional Intelligence and Armed Services Committees. Of those 144 cases, only one of them we were able to actually find was of terrestrial origin. It was something like a high-altitude balloon that was being used for scientific equipment. But 143 of the 144 was actually unexplainable with the data that we had. I get asked all the time, tell us the things that hasn't been released to the public yet.

Well, I can't do that, of course. course. I signed nondisclosure agreements. Unless the government releases it as public information, I can't talk about it. Could the U.S. government's UAP investigations have discovered important information that is being intentionally hidden from the public? And if so, might we soon learn of even more astounding evidence that is yet to be revealed? While the government still operates largely in secrecy, the hunt for UFOs has now been taken up by mainstream scientists and academics, and some of them are convinced that we may already have proof of an intelligent alien civilization. Ithaca, New York, 1960. At Cornell University, astronomer Frank Drake launches the first search

for alien life performed by an academic institution. Using a massive radio telescope, Drake and his team scanned the cosmos for evidence of radio signals that could be coming from an extraterrestrial civilization. While the Cornell program ultimately found nothing of interest, it paved the way for similar scientific efforts. The most prominent is the SETI Institute, which stands for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Seth Shostack is a senior astronomer at SETI Institute. The kind of experiment that we do at the SETI Institute is a listening experiment. The idea is fairly straightforward. We're going to aim some antennas in the direction of that little star over there, which is not

too far away and might have some planets, and tune as much of the radio dials as we can and see if we pick up a signal. You have to look at a lot of stars in order to catch one that happens to be broadcasting into space now. So that's basically the strategy. You're just trying to find something. That indicates there's somebody up there at least as clever as we are. SETI astronomers have been listening to the cosmos since 1984,

and in that time they have come across some truly bizarre phenomena. Like an anomaly first detected in 2007, known as an FRB, or fast radio burst. Fast radio bursts were found by an astronomer at West Virginia University, and he found a signal that only lasted for a fraction of the second. Just went, you, like that. At the time it takes your eye to blink, okay? And it went from high frequency to lower frequency, you.

So the question is, all right, where are they coming from, and what are they? And if it's very far away, as they turned out to be, it's in somebody else's galaxy, and we can pick it up here on Earth. It's got to be something that's really powerful. But we still don't know what fast. don't know what fast radio bursts are.

While researchers continue to search for the source of the fast radio bursts, another, perhaps even more intriguing celestial phenomenon has been observed in recent years. Interstellar objects, meaning objects from other star systems entering our solar system. The first interstellar visitor ever detected was a strange oblong object called a muamua. Muamua was discovered by a telescope in Hawaii called Pan Stars on October 19th, 2017. And the size of a Muamua was roughly the size of a football field, somewhere between 100 and 200 meters. Astronomer Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard University sent shockwaves through the world of academia when, shortly after Amuamua was detected, he made the extraordinary claim that the interstellar

object may be some type of extraterrestrial craft. Here is historian and author Richard Dolan. Avi Loeb did a very detailed analysis of Omoa Amua and noted that its acceleration after it passed the sun was beyond what you would get from a gravitational boost. So that was interesting and difficult immediately to explain. Professor Loeb said that Amuamua behaved artificial. artificially, unnaturally. He pointed to multiple areas,

like speed, acceleration, trajectory, where he said this was artificial. So in every respect, this thing raised some big questions. A lot of people who would have disregarded somebody else saying that as being kind of wacky, said, oh, this is the chairman of the Department of Harvard, at Harvard, this is somebody we respect. Maybe we got to have this conversation.

So I think Loeb was very courageous to do that. Only over the past five years, the first interstellar objects were discovered by astronomers. And that's what brought me to the subject. And hopefully within the coming decades, we'll have some evidence that tells us whether Omoa Muamua was from another civilization. And the way to find out is not to argue about it,

philosophically, but rather to look at the sky. So I established the Galileo project in July 2021 to search for objects that may be artificial in origin from another civilization. In 2021, Professor Loeb and his colleagues raised nearly $2 million and founded the Galileo project. The largest effort to research UAPs in the history of the academic world. Using a network of new and existing telescopes, as well as a variety of sky-scanning technologies, the Galileo Project aims to systematically search for possible extraterrestrial objects, both in space and within Earth's own atmosphere. Within the Galileo project, we are planning to design a space mission

when the next unusual interstellar object like Omuamua shows up. And we might send a probe that will take a close-up photograph of it. An object like Omuamua could potentially be of artificial origin and indicate spacecraft that were sent by other civilizations. That will have huge implications for the future of humanity. Professor Loeb is hopeful that the Galileo Project, will help pave the way for other scientists to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life without fear of ridicule or repercussions.

It is for this reason that he named his project after the Italian astronomer Galileo, who was persecuted in the 17th century for daring to challenge the established scientific notions of the time. So the philosophers during the days of Galileo refused to look through his telescope when he was was arguing that the evidence he finds implies that the earth moves around the sun. They wanted to believe that the earth is the center of the universe. And so they simply avoided the data and they put him in house arrest so that nobody would listen to him. So of course if there is ridiculous and stigma and we don't want to fund the searches, then we

will be exactly in the same position as those feelings. philosophers who refuse to look through Galileo's telescope. If we are open-minded and willing to consider that possibility that we are not alone and that we are not the smartest kid on the cosmic block, then we might find something. While government UFO research remains top secret, data gathered by the Galileo Project will be open to the public, with findings published in peer-reviewed journals. The academic community's growing interest in the unidentified aerial phenomena marks a new age of UFO hunting, an age that now includes scientific studies by the world's premier space organization.

NASA, French Guiana, December 25th, 2021. And lift-off, decalage lift-off from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself. At the Guiana Space Center, NASA launches the most powerful, telescope ever constructed. The James Webb Space Telescope represents an ambitious $10 billion effort by NASA to see further than ever before into the deepest parts of the universe. Nearly six months into its mission, on July 11th, James Webb delivers its first incredible images of previously unknown galaxies, stars forming, and black holes.

Too many, their early success of this powerful tool demonstrates new promise that scientists may soon answer an age-old question. Are we alone in the universe? We can now look into space with more clarity than in all of our previous human history. And with the new James Webb Telescope, some of those amazing images that we've gotten And from Hubble 20, 30 years ago, now are even more rich, more detailed, more amazing. And with James Webb, too, you know, we will discover more and more exoplanets. And some of those exoplanets may contain similar intelligent life like on Earth.

Part of what the Web Space Telescope is designed to do is to look for planets that exist in what's called the habitable or the Goldilocks zone. So they're the right distance from that kind of star to possibly be able to support life. Looking in the future, 10, 20 years, I think, and a lot of people that are a lot smarter than me think, that we're probably going to have found something we can classify as extraterrestrial life. Considering the amazing images that the James Webb Space Telescope has produced, UFO hunters are asking, what would we find if NASA applied their incredible technology to search for evidence of extraterrestrials already visiting Earth?

The question may soon be answered because on June 9, 2022, one month before the release of the first web telescope images, NASA officials announced their plans to commission an independent study of UAPs. When you think of it, NASA is the perfect organization to conduct research. They run the space station. They have satellites that probe deep into space. They have interstellar missions out there in the far reaches of the cosmos. If they're coming into our atmosphere from deep outer space, NASA would be the first one to be

able to detect that. On May 31st, 2023, NASA held its first public hearing to discuss the agency's mission in studying UAPs. Here is Dan Evans, NASA's assistant deputy associate administrator. And it's now our collective responsibility to investigate these occurrences with the rigorous scientific scrutiny that they deserve. It provides an opportunity for us to expand our understanding of the world around us. As an organization dedicated to exploring the unknown,

this work is in our DNA. Could the unprecedented efforts of NASA to join the hunt for UFOs ultimately provide the tipping point in finding evidence of extraterrestrial life? And is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that NASA already possesses strong evidence that intelligent beings exist beyond Earth? Bill Burns, Ph.D., is an author and eophologist. NASA's experience with UFOs dates right through from the very first Gemini missions, all the way through the Apollo missions, all the way through to the moon landings, we have encountered UFOs. Former Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who I knew personally, spoke openly about his knowledge of not even just having seen UFOs,

but alien bodies and technology in the possession of... of the United States government. You had other NASA astronauts, Gordon Cooper famously, talked about UFOs that he saw as a pilot. You had James McDivitt, a NASA astronaut, and quite a few others, having seen UFOs. This is author David Childress. There's the astonishing photo of a triangular craft

taken in 1986 from the space shuttle. And it too is a bright daylight photograph. And you can clearly see this triangular craft there outside the window of the space shuttle. Now, the image is labeled space debris, so that's the official view on what this is. But this is an interesting image. It shows something obviously quite structured,

and it is unmistakably triangular. There have been multiple accounts of strange things picked up on NASA videos and photos. They've got huge databases, and one One of the things when NASA announced that they were going to do this study is they said, we are going to be looking at data. And people were asking themselves, well, what data are they talking about? Well, the data they already have and have been collecting for decades.

Now that NASA is officially investigating UFOs, might we soon have definitive evidence that there is an alien presence on Earth? While the world's premier space agency may be better equipped than anyone to uncover the truth about unidentified aerial phenomena. Some researchers believe our greatest weapon in the hunt for UFOs is the smartphone, carried by ordinary citizens all over the world who are now capturing high-definition footage of events that defy all conventional explanations. In primitive rock art throughout the world, there are depictions of what look like flying craft

and strange beings. According to ancient astronaut theorists, these images represent the earliest documentation of extraterrestrial encounters. And they believe the best UFO hunters have always been ordinary citizens, recording what they see with their own eyes. In the ancient astronaut opinion, those stories of UFOs today are the same stories that our ancestors in the remote past also explored, and their cell phone camp were the walls of caves and reliefs and carvings

in which they commemorated those incredibly significant events that they were eyewitnesses to. These things have been here interacting with us forever. On every continent and every culture throughout human history, we call them by different names. They appear in different guises. We used to say they were flying shields, flying chariots. Then they were flying chariots.

Then they became flying saucers, ghost rockets, UAP, UFO. Whatever term you want to use, it's all the same phenomena. In 1870, photographer Howard Kimball took the very first UFO photo, which captured a cylindrical object above Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Since that time, thousands of photos of UFOs have been taken all over the world, many of which are grainy or blurry. But now, thanks to incredible advancements in camera technology, anyone with a smartphone can capture high-definition photos and videos

of anomalous events in the sky. Technology has changed so much over the past 30-40 years that now it's possible for regular Joe citizens to be part of this investigation. We all have computer power greater than the computers that sent humans to the moon. moon 50 years ago. Couple this with the fact that people know UFOs are now being taken seriously by the government. And what we have is an army that has been mobilized, an army of UFO hunters armed with cutting-edge technology. The hunt is on.

A key player in the modern-day hunt for UFOs is documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. Corbell has been successful with acquiring U.S. military videos of UAPs and gaining permission to share them with the public. He is also helping to disseminate compelling footage shot by civilians using the power of social media. I've been trying to modernize my approach in that I use social media as a way to instantaneously get information out and obfuscate all the channels of suppression for this type of information. So from Instagram to Twitter to TikTok, you name it. All of these are social weapons for us to get information into each other's hands. The modern hunt for UFOs is now becoming proactive rather than just reactive. Here is Daniel Zetterstrom, host of That UFO podcast.

Social media has been of great importance to the modern day hunt for UAP. Not only does it allow us to connect directly with witnesses and with, journalists who write articles and get them a bit more educated on the issue. Engaging with various figures on social media means that we're asked to adhere to a standard of evidence that we weren't before. Images captured by smartphone technology and the dissemination of them on the internet have led to literally millions of people all around the world becoming involved in the hunt for UFOs. While smartphones have made it possible for anyone to record high-definition footage of

strange events in the sky, serious UFO hunters are employing multiple technologies to separate the extraordinary from the mundane. This is Billy Carson, author of Compendium of Emerald Tablets. You have to really sort through a lot of the things and make sure that what you're seeing is truly a UFO. There could be some anomalies through the lighting. It could be birds. It could be other experiments or different types of technologies going on in that area. Sometimes, you have to have advanced technology to figure that out. I took a trip to Mount Adams about four years ago on a retreat, and the first night I was able to see 13 UFOs.

They were moving around, changing caution direction, getting brighter and also getting dimmer, and some of them actually even descended down onto the mountain and then went back up with lights on. Now, we had our satellite tracking on, our apps, we had our ISS tracker on to make sure we weren't seeing anything that was already up there. up there, clearly they were something that is unidentified and we can't really figure out exactly

what it is, but it definitely was an amazing phenomenon. In addition to devices that can detect airplanes, satellites, and other known objects in the sky, there is another powerful technology now available to anyone with a computer or smartphone called Maidar, which stands for multiple anomaly detection and automatic recording. In terms of having tools, there's something in the United States called Medar, and this is about 70 to 100 different nodes around the country. You can put this and attach it to your computer, where there's detection instrumentation that will detect changes in electromagnetic qualities in your area

and other factors to detect various types of anomalies that could be UAP. Could this new technological era of the hunt for UFO evidence finally lead to the answers that humankind has been seeking for thousands of years. Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggests that perhaps the most effective of all UFO hunters is a non-human intelligence. In the 21st century, UFO hunters are armed with technology that allows them to record anomalies in the sky with incredible clarity. And today's technology can also glean new information from photographs taken decades ago. The Northern Highlands of Costa Rica, September 4th, 1971.

Photographer Sergio Loiza is conducting an aerial survey of Lake Cote for the National Geographic Institute using a special map-making camera that snaps photos at 13-second intervals. William Henry is an author and investigative mythologist. He's up in an airplane about 10,000 feet. He's taking photos of a hydroelectric project, and they're trying to calculate the environmental impact of this. So he's just taking these ordinary photos, gets back to the lab, takes a look at the contact

sheets and says, what's that up in the right-hand corner there? It's this mysterious, circular, shiny, metallic craft. Seriously, the object does not appear in either the previous frame of film or the one after. Instantly, the National Geographic Institute says, you can't talk about this, and we're going to put a lid on this, and they do for some time. According to Loiza, he and his colleagues were forbidden from divulging any information about the object captured in the photograph, which was estimated to be 160 feet in diameter. But in 1979, the photograph was leaked to the Argentine newspaper La Nassione and analyzed by UFO researchers.

The photo is studied later by Jaxfay and other UFO investigators, and they realize this is a tremendous photograph. This photo has been officially declared by Costa Rica as an official UFO photo. They don't know what it is after years and years of study. Many skeptics suggested that the object was likely some kind of debris or smudge that got on the film during the development process. But in 2021, Esteban Karanza, a friend of the Loiza family, was able to obtain the original contact sheets and have them scanned using the latest and most sophisticated technology. He gains access to the original contact sheets and sends them off to a photographic lab and they do a reproduction of the image using the most advanced technology to bring it forward and they come up with this 1.8 gigabyte image of this craft. The debris and smudges that were visible in the original photograph are no longer present in the new higher resolution image. But the saucer-shaped object remains and its'nobes that were visible in the original photograph are no longer present in the new higher-resolution image.

But the saucer-shaped object remains and is clearer than ever. This higher-definition scan showed some new details. These new details helped take a number of prosaic explanations off the table. For example, it was said that it could have been a chip in the glass. However, you can see that that's not the case. This photo, in and of itself, in its original state, was tremendous. But now with this incredible leaping, in technology. We're able to bring it to life in an even greater way. And it's just another

example of this great leap that we're making now in our understanding of these UAPs. Another way in which UFO hunters are utilizing evidence from the past is through the advancements of artificial intelligence, or AI. In 2023, New York-based Enigma Labs launched a project to crowdsource and quantify data about UAPs with the help of artificial intelligence and also compare it with data going all the way back to the 1940s. Alejandro Rojas acts as the company's head of research and content. I help with providing background information on UAPs and the history of UAP research, and then also to make sure that when we are sharing the information on UAPs and the history of UAP research, and then also to

make sure that when we are sharing information that it's very comprehensive. So the articles, for instance, we write on historical cases are going to have more information than I think you'll find anywhere else. Enigma Labs hopes that by creating a database of both old and new evidence, patterns will emerge that could finally provide real answers to explain the strange events that have been witnessed in our skies for thousands of years. We're gathering a lot of data to hopefully have a bigger database

than anyone's had out there about cases throughout the world. And then applying AI to go through those cases, to scrub them to find those good cases. With this unprecedented effort across all disciplines from academics, government, and technology, is humanity on the cusp of discovering compelling evidence that there is, in fact, an extraterrestrial presence on Earth? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes.

and point to the discoveries being made at the site of the most intense UFO hunt ever conducted. Skinwalker Ranch. The Uinta Basin, Utah. Here on the 500-acre property known as Skinwalker Ranch, a team of investigators is conducting the most sophisticated and comprehensive UFO hunt currently underway anywhere on the planet. Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most anomalous areas on this planet. Here's what people have seen in that ranch, strange creatures, suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

UFOs, instruments don't work. When it comes to Skinwalker, you've actually had some scientific research and a lot of scientists having their own encounters. Since 2016, investigators have been using state-of-the-art camera equipment, around penetrating radar, radiation detectors, and a host of other highly sophisticated equipment in an effort to meticulously study and document anomalous activity at the site. Here is the owner of Skinwalker Ranch, Brandon Fugel.

We've made incredible progress in documenting the reality, the phenomenon. We are just getting started and scratching the surface of what we are really dealing with. That's significant. In 2019, Dr. Travis Taylor was asked to join the team at Skinwalker Ranch, just before he was brought on to the government's UAP task force. I was really excited when Brandon Fugel and his principal investigator, Eric Bard,

invited me to come out to Skinwalker Ranch and join the investigation team. Hey, look, UAP right there! Since I've been out there at Skinwalker Ranch, I've seen so many different things. Y'all see that? that before I would have not really believed they existed. For UFO researchers, the investigations at Skinwalker Ranch represent a promising new era, one in which a former investigator for the federal government and civilian researchers can work together in search for answers.

What is that for me to be doing the task force work and the Skinwalker Ranch work? I think we're in a new era of understanding the UAP UFO phenomena. It did come out of the Mesa. It did come out of the Mesa. It came right out of the Mesa. Finally, there is a congressional oversight on UFO investigation programs, and maybe one day we'll find if they are extraterrestrial intelligence, the public will get to know that.

For the first time in human history, the search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, visiting Earth is the subject of a collaborative worldwide effort across the scientific and intelligence communities. 20, 30 years ago, it would have been a dream if I would have opened the paper and I read NASA is now studying UAPs and Harvard created the Galileo Project and other universities are following suit by seriously investigating the extraterrestrial question. And so today, here we are, it is happening.

And so I am over the moon that this is happening. It's exciting as hell. I never thought I would live to see this kind of change, where it is acceptable for mainstream media to dig into it, where it's acceptable for Congress to authorize a program, to hold hearings, to dig into it, and demand information. You know, in the end, we have a lot more information. We have a lot of cases.

We really don't have any solid answers. I hope that in my lifetime will have some. Could humankind finally be on the brink of making an incredible discovery? Will irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial visitation come from a new breed of UFO hunters, like Harvard astronomers, NASA scientists, government researchers, or even ordinary citizens? Perhaps now that people from all walks of life are investigating what's happening in our skies, we will uncover an alien presence that has been with us all along.