Hey Bill.
So there are many videos online claiming to
be extraterrestrial sightings.
It just seems that the government is aware
of extraterrestrials yet they reject the idea.
Possibly they’re hiding the truth from us
in fear of the knowledge greatly changing
our daily lives.
Do you believe these aliens exist and if so
would you tell us?
No I don’t believe the aliens exist coming
to visit you and the government knows about
it and hasn’t told you.
No.
Start with that.
Two more things.
First of all the whole alien thing really
got revved up in 1947.
There was a project called Sky Hook and the
U.S.
Government had these very cool super high
altitude balloons and they were going to have
a constellation of them or an armada of these
balloons off the East Coast of the former
Soviet Union with microphones tuned to listen
for nuclear weapons tests.
This was going to be big fun.
And so they were testing the balloon in New
Mexico and it was complicated and the winds
blew the thing around and it crashed and it
was impractical.
The idea was kind of cool but it was a cold
war idea that just didn’t work.
Now this project was secret so yes, government
people showed up.
The U.S. Army swept up all the debris from
the crash and took it away because it was
secret.
And they also experimented with parachuting
dummies from very high altitudes in the same
area.
And this has led to all these fabulous myths
about aliens and the government knows stuff
you don’t.
Now I look like nobody and I am but I had
an engineering job, several of them over the
years, and during one of them I had security
clearance.
And I worked on a secret airplane for a little
while and I never went myself but I worked
with several guys, they were all men, who
went to Area 51 to Groom Lake which is an
Air Force base in Nevada where we fly around
these secret airplanes.
And it’s a real place.
And these guys went there and when I was doing
it it was called level five security clearance.
I only had level four.
I never went to Groom Lake.
But the big thing they wouldn’t talk about
was how fast these planes could go.
That was a big secret.
But anyway these are people that worked on
the F117, a stealth fighter.
If you ever go to the Air Force Museum in
Ohio you can see the Have Blue secret planes,
very cool.
As a kid I always asked myself why don’t
they paint spy planes light blue to blend
in with the blue sky.
Well sometimes they do.
Anyway you can see one of those there.
So it’s a complete myth that the government
knows.
Just think how hard it is for the government
to keep anything secret.
With all due the government kind of sucks
at keeping secrets.
So they couldn’t possibly keep the secret
with 10,000 people in on it.
So let’s just set that aside.
But with that said you may very well be alive
when we discover life or evidence of life
rather on Mars.
This would literally be alien life.
If we find it, if we find some ancient microbes
still alive in some icy layer under the Martian
sand it would change the world.
It would change the way everybody thinks about
being a living thing.
Do these things on Mars if they exist do they
have DNA or did they have DNA if they have
been fossilized?
Or are they a whole other completely different
type of life that we’ve never thought of.
Did life start on Mars?
Mars got hit with an impactor and you and
I are a descendent of Martians?
That is amazing.
It’s not crazy.
It’s extraordinary but it’s not crazy.
Then furthermore you may be alive when we
send mission to the moon of Jupiter called
Europa which has at least twice as much seawater
as the earth.
When you have seawater for 4.5 billion years
is there something alive on Europa?
Whoa like dude, that’s out there.
It would change the world.
It would utterly change the world.
This would be real alien life discovered with
tax dollars by people who are intellectually
curious who decide to devote some of our intellect
and treasure to exploring our nearby planetary
worlds.
And that’s the real stuff that I encourage
you to support and follow.
And for that of course I encourage you to
join the Planetary Society.
Think about that.
You don’t have to, I’m just suggesting
because we really do advocate for the real
exploration of nearby worlds really looking
for alien life.
Also the James Webb space telescope is going
to launch in 2018 and it may have the capability
– it is hoped that it will have the capability
of exploring atmospheres of extraordinarily
distant planets by having sunlight from those
stars that those planets orbit pass through
the atmospheres.
If we detect water vapor and methane it may
mean some day that we’ve detected evidence
of life on another world.
Do, do, do, do – do, do, do, do.
It’s all the real stuff is what I’m saying,
the real exploration for alien life is more
exciting than speculating about a nominally
secret Air Force base in Nevada.
Carry on.
