Why I believe in UFOs, and you should too... | Ben Mezrich | TEDxBeaconStreet
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2016
- Ben discuses the UFO highway located at the 37th Parallel, and the strange phenomenon of cattle mutilations.
Ben Mezrich is the author of 18 books including Bringing Down The House that was made into the movie 21, and Accidental Billionaires that was made into the movie The Social Network.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Little did he know that the government was STILL investigating UFO''s
The Bigelow contractors he was describing were from the AATIP program. Those files may very well be what get used (in part) in the report to Congress later this month. Good for him and the disgraced sheriff being vindicated like that.
What if the aliens we can't find are from the planet we can't find - and our little bug eyed buddies don't want us to find it? 🤔
The saddest part of the whole extraterrestrial life subject, is that certain people in power for almost a century, have thought you unworthy of knowing the truth.
Bill Clinton asked George Bush,( Chief of the CIA that time, < that is wrong sry.) correct is on the briefing of President to President elect about the UFO files. He got denied access with the reason 'you don't need to know' .... which in fact prove the existence of a shadow government. So even the US president is left out and in the dark about this issue..can't blame them for that.
My personal thinking is, either this hidden rulers are the Aliens, or they somehow 'convinced' Humans to keep quiet about this issue. Destroying evidence and ridicule everyone involved is systematically...
One possible explanation is, Earth is ours (the Aliens) and we use it as an experiment. And if the guinea pigs don't behave we will end this experiment. Strong argument to do what they want right ?
@@hansjorgkunde3772 nothing gets denied to Bush father. He put is buddy Manuel Noriega in Prison. Operation Semper Fidelis. Always faithfull. And he was in Dallas TX. For JFK au Revoir. Nothing got hidden from Bush Father.
It is happening now...may take a while but there is no denying that disclosure has begun.
Hansjörg Kunde It's just a bunch of Shadow Government agents that want this technology all to themselves for power. People in powerful positions are very greedy and will do anything keep this technology a secret. Power corrupts the mind and they are very corrupt
Come on bro. How could so few people hide something supposedly so true from so many ?
This ended way too quickly.
This should be at least an hour or two long.
He should go on Joe Rogan's show.
Absolutely
@@reubanrajan2679 100%
AGREE!
Lmao I 100% believe humanity's reaction to extraterrestrial life would be utter and total indifference. Literally a day later we would be talking about something else.
People laugh at you if you believe in UFOs, but then they head to church to pray to God on Sunday.
*_Yes I am Laughing at you..._*
@@OfficialBartNash your the one being laughed at and I am australian and I am laughing at you
@Full Moon Mama. But God doesn't use UFOs. Jesus never came down to earth on a UFO, Nor did he go back on a UFO.
That means real aliens don't need UFOs. Only humans use UFOs.
Benjamin Falzon how do you know???
Full Moon Mama great point
The moment the US government said: "There are no such things as UFOs," I immediately realized that UFOs were real.
The government tells you you live on a spinning ball.
But you believe that though.
Globetard logic for you.
@ONE TREE HILL /11 The largest wave of UFO sightings took place in Belgium in the late 90's; look it up. It's not just America.
I seen when I was 13 yrs old it scared me when it came towards me and I ran the things in the Cradt looked just as the greys are described big eyes wish to God I could see one again now I am 42 I wouldnt have ran
A lie ns.
Lol.
I see dead people, you see aliens.
all countries say that
If people panic because of a virus, how do you think they would react to extraterrestrial UFOs?
Quite calmly.
Are people panicking?
@George Sears What does the "U" in ufo stand for?
Exactly, that's what I am thinking too.
@Zeek Banistor take me to your leader
Myself: Believing no other life beyond this planet is like believing the earth is flat.
It is flat just bend. ALITTLE. Just a few bumps and drips. ITS FLAT FOR THE MOST PART.
@@roberthertz6634 Yep, even in Himalaya there are flat areas.
@@roberthertz6634 Have you every looked at a 2 page world map? The world looks flat to me...Lol
For a long time I believed that life doesn't exist beyond this planet. Not because of religion, uniqeness or distance. But because of time. The universe is ancient and life on Earth is just a moment of existence in comparison. The chance that other life exists in our own timeline, rather than billions of years before Earth was formed or billions of years after it ceases to exist is approaching to zero.
But the recent sightings and government admissions cast a doubt on that. Maybe life on other planets did exist billions years ago... But maybe it didn't stop yet. Maybe it is possible to develop technology that keeps the life going beyond natural life span of habitable planets. And if it is possible... Then it is basically guaranteed it happened.
@@ShadowTheHedgehogCZ there's also the possibility that the oldest most advanced civilizations are actually AI machines. If we are to create true sentient machines, they would be able to survive the destruction of the environment and by design be eternal. This process could occur anywhere biological lifeforms create AI
I hold in my hand and am typing away on an iPhone that a few years ago was as unbelievable as UFOs.
Steven I THOUGHT one stuck it up my rear.
steve2713 wring!
steve2713 wrong only the technology was, not the idea Moe.
Then again, your iPhone didn't have to cross several hundred light years, just a few time zones.......
Nah a few years ago we had iphones already
20 years ago I accompanied my roommate to his hometown for a wedding. We drove north from TN to IND.
It was about 10 o’clock in the evening when I noticed a funny light in the night which I initially presumed to be an aircraft.
The “light” began to dance around the stars; left and right, up and down.
I thought maybe a spotlight or something.
Then it just took off to the other side of the sky, literally as far as I could see.
Then, whoosh! All the way back, in a second.
At this point I’m a little excited and nervous.
Suddenly there were TWO of them, whipping around each other and whizzing to and fro like nobody’s business.
Every few moments or so a large(to the best of my description) ball of orange light would form and hover in the air, slowly dissolving. 4 balls of orange total.
It seemed as if the 2 “aircrafts” were flirting or playing a game with each other.
I don’t know much, but I have never seen anything move the way that they moved that night, whatever they were.
The entire experience was maybe 2-3 minutes.
I saw a similar UFO in California in the 1980's, about the same time of night, driving south from Mammoth Lake. When I came home, I tried to find out on a map where that happened. The area where I saw the UFO was clearly marked "Naval Testing Grounds". I said "Oh".
UFOs scanning the area.
I saw a very similar occurance in my home town of Bell Block in Taranaki, New Zealand when I was 10 years old in approx 1995. It was in daylight very early in the morning, and at one point there were about 7 or 8 of them flying around. Me and my best friend tried to explain it but we couldn't figure out what could move through the sky that fast.
I have the same story. Around the late 70's from my bedroom window facing East. A light in the sky roughly the same brightness as Venus moved up and down then sporadically in all directions before flickering out. Entire sightng lasted maybe 2 minutes.
Zer0 Sum I saw the same thing over around 2007 in California! Lights were dancing fast far far in the distance, moving up, down, left right... then disappeared and came back... then it started to love toward us and all of a sudden it turns out to be a plane of some sort, triangle in shape, it flies over head, silent, completely silent... it looked like a military plane but it was flying so low and made no noise
Isn't it weird and even Ironic that this man, talking about This subject, looks a Lot like Richard Dreyfus when he was in the movie Close Encounters??!
Yes I see it close encounters
Definitely weird.....
Wow.. I can see it! 🧐 lol
Richard Dreyfus lives near me now. He is looking like he lived a hard life these days.
I was thinking of Mr. Hollands Opus
Coincidence or intentional ??
Now June 2021 finally we accept UFO s . Pilots see them every day !
Can we take a second to appreciate the reusable cup, plate and bowl display behind this man 😂
Absolutely❗❗❗
It was better than that so called presentation!!!
liam hood absolutely!!!!!
Yes, that's the first thing I noticed!
That's hilarious! that's exactly what I thought those were, thank you for saying it. To me thats confirmation...😁 plastic cups and plates. Personally I think they're cool.
I was wondering what they were.
His father was the department chair at the University I did me fellowship in. His brother was a resident when I was a fellow. Interesting to come across this fella. Smart family
So interesting. I never knew of this 37th parallel!
Good talk but is this the entire talk?? Wish it was longer.
Voltaire : - The only certain barrier to truth is the belief you already have it.
Definition of a Trump supporter.
@@peg202xo7 sounds like YOU, perfectly.
@@billyhndrsn4542 Jesus, is that the best you can come up with?
@@peg202xo7 ask yourself the same question on your original commentary.
Definition of a EX Hillary - Kamala Harris - Elizabeth Warren - Michael Buttigieg - Michael Bloomberg - Bernie Sanders - now Joe Biden supporter.
This guy has FORREST GUMP LUCK with who he's met.
And he's Jewish. Just saying.
@@badbillybrookes *Picks up Phone* Shut it down, they know
Or perhaps if he hadn't met them we wouldn't know who they were.
Ronny JoeJimBob Is nobody allowed to be Jewish
I tend to have forrest gump luck with meetings.
In the 80s I saw a "ufo" in the hills behind Auckland, New Zealands biggest city. It was a very bright point of light that appeared in the sky and gradually gained intensity. At first I thought it was a huge star, but when it became much brighter I stopped to watch it and figure out what it was. To my amazement it suddenly shot across the mountain range and instantly ended up on the other side of the skyline, then it stopped just as suddenly, and stayed motionless for a few seconds before zipping up into the stratosphere and out of sight. It was one of those things that makes you think " what the hell was that? but even more so.
sightings per civilian is very high in NZ.
Chuffpup wish I lived in a place less populated like NZ, would see way more, still, I’ve seen a couple over the past few years or so I’ve been looking up and checking
Where can I get some of that stuff you smoked that night in the 80s?
Happens to a lot of people, but unfortunately seeing something is meaningless as a form of evidence. People have seen insects and swore they were miles away doing incredible things. Until there is real evidence I will remain unbelieving that we have been visited.
@@AniishAu That's 'cuz they only have like 5 civilians. That reminds me, say "hi" to Chuck for me, will ya?
This has aged incredibly well. This guy new stuff nobody was aware of or talking about.
I’m intrigued! Could you specify a couple of examples?
I am one of the lucky ones to have an encounter. I live here in Australia. A little less than 40 years ago I was on a beach camp. A girl & I had left the main hall to go to our dorms & toilet situated outside. It was about 10 pm. As we were walking I looked over towards the town & noticed what looked like lightening through the clouds in the distance. My friend happened to look up as well in time to see this saucer fly through the clouds & circle round in front of us & move towards the beach. My friend wanted to get a camera but I told her it would be long gone by then. My friend stayed where she was as I ran down to the beach. The craft was stationary above the beach, maybe 50 feet above the sand. It didnt make a sound & was saucer shaped with lights all the way around it. I distinctly felt that I was being given a choice to go with them. Mentally I had decided to stay & immediately the craft moved out about 10 feet from shore. The water here was only 6 foot deep & the craft was the size of a house. The craft then turned on it's side like a coin balancing on it's edge & came straight down into the water which seems impossible as it was so shallow. It didn't even cause a ripple & never made a sound. I still believe to this day that this was not a random encounter, but that I was chosen for the encounter & given an opportunity for an adventure.
That is bizarre
I want some of that good stuff you got! You must've been smoking on some moon rock❗
@@gslimm40 ..and apparently, he still hasn't come down!☺️
Awesome trolling :)
Well, there really is no question for me that these things exist. I had an extremely close encounter with a craft that was within 15ft from the top of my head. It was about 25ft in diameter and circular. It had 4 large domes in the middle of the bottom that was glowing an odd white color. It made zero noise and moved about the pace of a walk. It was dark and possibly metallic.
My brother and I witnessed this craft when we were younger. My brother was older than me and I remember very vividly that he was screaming in terror " Go away, Go away". However, I had a completely different reaction to seeing this craft. At the same time that he was screaming in terror, I was jumping up and down yelling " Come down, come down".
Its so strange, because I remember feeling like it was " playful" and I was very excited to see it. I was very young, but I knew it was something extremely unusual. It just hovered over us, drifting very slowly. It was around 15ft above us.
I like to say, “there are fish in the ocean that don’t believe in people”
I dig it. So true.
When I find these fish I will kill em then eat em. UFO.or NOT.
Deep bro.
Suffi style comment. Very cool.
And I believe certain fish are great! Just the ones on my dish, with shrimp and tartar sauce.
Back in around 2000. I traveled to Calistoga California with a friend. After dinner we went back to our cabin off the main drag and watched TV for a while. Later that night we went out to the meadow and stretched out on a hammock. At one point I stood up facing our cabin and to my right I noticed a light heading towards us in a zig zag motion. At first I thought it was a police helicopter and I thought it strange one would be here in wine country. Looking at my friend I asked for the time. Midnight was the answer. I looked back at the light approaching. I noticed no sound and no light beam coming from what I thought was a helicopter down to the ground as you would see from a police helicopter. I expressed my bewilderment to my friend. When I looked back at the light it was huge...about the size of a football field. It was a dull white lighted disk moving about 3 mph from left to right over the tree line. No sound at all. I asked my friend WHAT IS THAT several times and my friend said I AM SCARED. When I looked back at the light it appeared to boil as milk and water combined would look like. Then I saw traces of the night sky in the light as it began to disappear...then it was gone...perhaps into another dimension? All I know is WE ARE NOT ALONE.
that is so cool
I saw exactly the same thing you did you can read my comment above I have seen them at least three times in my lifetime thank you for sharing I wish people had more of an open mind to believe that this is for real
@@gabriellebudd1166 Oh and in the morning at check out I asked if anyone reported seeing anything strange last night and they said no. After something like that happens to you it removes all doubt. Thanks for your reply.
@@isaablll8308 Yeah it removes all doubt after seeing it for yourself. I know reliable witnesses such as policemen have reported and filmed such phenomena as well as Google Earth Maps and even the military. I wish the government(s) would be more truthful to the people on earth. Thanks for your reply.
They have been here for millions of years.
Zeek Banistor probably not millions of years but they certainly have been here
Bwahahahahahaha
@Zeek Banistor if you dont believe then you're wrong
Northeast Reaper I read your side and zeeks side, I agree with you completely, they do contain life and it is proven, being opened minded is very good way to live life with exploration and being curious to the unknowing, there is so much out there in the universe to believe that we are the only life is unimaginable, most life will not make it far enough technology- if they did as a civilization to reach any other civilization like as Earth or any other. The Universe is just too big and we don’t even but what we can see in the observable universe, and we our technology advancing more and more, it just keeps getting bigger , so life is absolutely out there as well, just thankful for what we have and hope we all strive together as we have been
Zeek Banistor So I get what you are saying , I have no proof of other life , I don’t believe aliens have been watching us for millions of years like the comment about all this, ancient aliens I don’t believe have been here and that, I believe we just aren’t alone in the entire universe, no I don’t have proof but I just believe there’s in more out there, that’s my belief, but I respect your beliefs too my friend, I’m only 19 so I have a lot to see In life
I've witnessed them quite close up doing wonderful, seemingly impossible things in flight. These craft are as real as real can be, more real than what we are told about physics and flight.
Who flies them, I have no idea? But after one particular sighting in Feb 1997, I knew that there is more to and in this life, than we are told!!
I wish I could see what you've seen. Sounds fascinating! The navy videos aren't enough for me.
@@LawTzuTao It can change your whole outlook in life. I now know there is more to the world than what the mainstream science and religion, etc, tells us.
That night back in Feb 1997 blew my mind!!
you are absolutely right on
You are fortunate , I know you are speaking the truth 🙂
That was a weather balloon.
The mainstream is finally catching up. Great talk.
Yep. The mainstream is catching up. Catching up to how fuckin dellusional you UFO truthers are.
@@Jbsutt Yes, but because there's no "aliens", only spiritual entities (demons).
@@AndersonMallonyMALLONY-EricCF wtf, ALIENS ARE NOT DEMONS YOU MORON.
@@Jbsutt you look equally delusional and child-like to us, you know.
@@dslkjvoxicuyhgl4554 exactly - he's a sheep who believes whatever his govt tells him!
I was raised in CO in one of the areas of the mutilations. On a Sunday my mom and two other siblings coming back from church (I was a toddler at the time) spotted a UFO. Decades later I would ask each one of them if they still stood by their story--unemotionally and emphatically they said yes. My mom was a strong Catholic.
@Brian Jones Good point, what I find most intriguing is this supposed government cover up. Also, the Betty and Barney Hill account is very compelling, and on the surface very credible.
@@GrogDC1 The thing is is that the gvmt cannot cover up something so easy to leak, especially in the modern age. It simply cannot be done without literally shutting of the internet, like North Korea.
@@GrogDC1 I mean we all pay attention ti America, but America is not the whole earth . No way every government would conceal information
Ok, here's my story: We were like 6-7 of us in the night, at a campfire,talking about the big stuff, aliens included. Untill we saw a big white blueish ball of light coming from behind a mountaintop, at which feet we were hanging out. It was like quater size of the moon, and as bright as the brightest star, so we all watched it surprised. It looked like it was like 2-3 Km away, but since we don't know it's size, it's hard to judge. The ball of light was moving relatively slowly, and in a non linear, wavy motion. It stopped, and moved again, like it was floating, without any sound. Then suddenly dissapeared. It moved about 45 degrees on the horizon. Maybe it was a ball lightning, or a UFO, but I know for sure it wasn't any conventional flying object..We waved our hands at it ,and had some laughs, but it was something I'll never forget,and probably none of us will.
Drones behave like that
I've switched to Almond milk just to be on the safe side.
Michael Partridge 😂😂😂 you’re my type of people , worrying about the important things.
Lol
I quit drinking almond milk when I discovered that children in sweat shops are used to milk the almonds.
Greg Brockway I'm currently on soya milk, both original and choco.
@@gregbrockway4452 JAJAJA...!!!
Who thought it was a good idea to use stacked up red solo cups as decoration?
It's art lol
Someone in Accounting 😂
🤣
Probably Chewbacca and his friend Han...?
Its DNA
I like the red party cup decor in the background, real big budget......lol
@White Samurai Never said it did.
@White Samurai You made a comment and I responded to it and I need to chill? Insert eyeroll here.
Alien decor.
They look like high voltage insulators found at the utility switchyards but are red instead of grey
Love the solo cup/plate art
"10,000 cows and horses" I'm gonna need more pictures.
Wouldn't you assume space beings could figure it out after a few hundred?
Hunger never goes away
you assume there is only 1 specie of space beings ...
@Chad Mulligan So they can fly here from another star, but they can't make their own growth enzyme? Really?
Probably testing for dioxins or other pollution in the food chain.
What ever goes on in secret military organisations may cause residual pollution that must be monitored to keep it secret.
Hmmmm, cows specifically. Why?
60 minutes interview with Mr Bigelow states open he's spent more money than any person has ever spent towards ufo research and he says he knows for a fact we are being visited. Pretty eye opening coming from a man in his position. Good stuff
@Jon Gabriell
Did he say if the visitors were from another planet or humans from the future .
@@OverUnity7734 he called them extra terrestrial.. So yes from a place not from earth. Check out the clip. Search 60 min bigelow ufo!
Fascinating discussion, need to search the internet for this guy. He sounds pretty down to earth.
He's kind of obsolete after recent Pentagon verified footage of UAPs
@@rugfixr What are UAP's? what footage was seen?
No pun intended?:)
@@zeynand4039 Where have you been lately? (I hope you were just being sarcastic...).
@@zeynand4039
UAP stands for unidentified aerial phenomena. It's essentially a euphemism for UFO created by the US government as a way to describe these events.
The Pentagon has confirmed the existence of numerous incidents of UFOs.
They have video footage, radar evidence, eye witness accounts and more.
In June, they will be required to release the information because of a pandemic recovery bill signed into law.
Former President Obama even admitted to all this just last week.
And CBS and others covered the stories seriously, but also interviewed Navy pilots who witnessed and engaged the UFOs during a training mission.
The guy in the photo from the Roswell base was not a radar operator. He was Jessie Marcel, the head of intelligence of the only nuclear base in the world. He is a hero of mine because he stuck by his story that what crashed in the desert was a UFO until his death. He showed his son the debris with hieroglyphs and a kind of metal foil that would return to its original form after being crushed in the hand and yet could not be ripped.
I feel like the main reason people don't believe in aliens is because the distances through outer space are too great for travel. This is irrellevent for more advanced civilizations. If they are out there who's to say what their technology can accomplish?
Humans have short life spans. Just imagine the life span of a civilization that is thousands or millions of years advanced from us. If they take a 40 year trip to a near sun, that could seem like nothing to them.
Exactly right. And they could be as large as mountains or smaller than microbes. You just never know.
Oliver Betteridge true, but why can't we fund any hard evidence
Distances are definitely a thing. If Proxima Centauri is over 4 light years away and we can reach it in 40 years with "current technology" then he is saying we currently have the ability to send something (more than microbe size, I'm supposing) at one tenth the speed of light?? That's 30,000 km per second! Yeah right! Show me that. According to Google, Voyager 1, the fastest travelling object ever, is leaving the solar system at 17.027 km/s relative to the sun - at that speed it would still take about seventy thousand years to get there!
What would even count as hard evidence?
He forgot to mention another president who believed; Eisenhower
Carter too.
Chad Mulligan That’s right, he also warned us about the Military Industrial Complex, it’s all on You Tube.
And Nixon
JFK too...
Greg Flores some warning Eisenhower gave us. He literally issued said warning as he was walking out the White House door for the last time.
Nice Video.. Thank You and please keep them coming :-)
Great thinker. Charming gentleman with lovely sense of humour.
"I don't beleive in ufos"
Bob Lazar. "Hold my beer"
The New Youk Times recently reported that the official position of the US government is that UFOs are real! This is a complete reversal of a long-held policy that the weren't real! I think it is simply recognition of overwhelming evidence that UFOs exist! Sorry to counter the naysayers!
Bob Lazar according to William cooper Is a disinformation agent nothing he says can be verified or denied, the bulk of information suggest that ufos do exist but not in the manner presented by Robert Lazar, he is employmed to keep the public in a perpetual state of confusion never discerning what is really happening.
I have seen one so I am a believer, but many have seen the same evidence and still deny it exists. I'm not denying God, never, but there is something that many have seen, the governments have seen them, know that we know, and then lie to you about it's existence. Believe your eyes not what people in government tell you.
Good for you!
Lol!
His got a big Richard Dreyfus vibe emanating off him
My first thought was, "God DAMN, he looks like Roy Neary!"
Yes, he even looks like him.
Peshur damn you’re right!
He also has some of that manic vibe Dreyfus had in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind".
Yeah, almost the same mannerisms.
I like how TEDx decorates the background with red plastic bowls, plates, and solo cups 😂😂😂 other than that, it’s an interesting talk.
Yeah. Wtf are those decorations. Hahaha
Looks like bamboo
@@happypawfun2143 I'd say it looks more like they've been bamboozled..... by a college freshman posing as an interior decorator.
Solo cups are a mating call to flying saucers.
I think the background is well done.
When I was a kid in the 70's I was a passanger in the back seat of my parent's car as we drove over the UK's North Yorkshire Moors. The day was clear and sunny with little cloud and I saw a silverish shape streak across the sky appearing to go extreemly fast which seemed to roll over and then suddenly vanish. Look as hard as we could my mother and I could no longer see it anywhere. For some reason it did not strike me as a plane.
Decades later and I found out that the area has a NORAD missile radar detection base called RAF Fylingdales and presumably is in a no-fly zone as I have never seen any aircraft out there during many motorcycle rides around there. But the bizarre thing is that since the internet became a thing I found out that the area is a UFO spotting 'hot spot'.
Did I see a UFO? I still think it may have been one.
I've always wanted to - walk on the moon, travel into the future and see aliens, I'll never get to do either of the first two but it is just possible that I may have done the third without knowing it at the time.
You DID se a UFO, no doubt. Question is, what is extraterrestrial!
And literally a year later, TTSA brings us AATIP, Lou Elizondo, and this subject has blown up like crazy.
jonny the boy ah maybe, I still think his motivation is truth.
gamertaboo it’s great reading informed peoples comments after scrolling through all the rubbish 👍🏼 😆
I want to see more of that show lou was doing with the blink 182 guy. It had, what 6 episodes of groundbreaking stuff then bam! Nada???
jonny the boy yes it was called blink 182 but he gave it up.
In the spring of 2010, me and two friends watched a triangle shaped craft hover silently as it approached us and stopped just over our heads. It was more than a city block in size. It made no sound. It seemed like a few seconds but it actually took over two hours.
Relevant question: Was there ever a time that you actually related this event to anyone as happening "yesterday", or "a week ago? ................??
@@37rainman YES. The following day I started to remember what happened. I called my brother. He's retired army intelligence. He said, "there's no way that was the air force. They don't like to show off their new high tech devices."
@@kevindouglas8768 What were you smokin that day? The mind is a wondrous thing, and a wondrously fragile thing. So take care of yours
“Proxima Centauri is a planet reachable with current technology in about 40 years”….. Um, no, it’s not. First, it’s not a planet, it’s a star. Second it’s 4.2 light years away. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. We are about to launch the fastest rocket ever launched in an attempt to get close to the sun, something that you’d think would be easy but isn’t. That rocket will travel at 430,000mph, which is 119 miles per second. Pretty fast considering voyagers 1 and 2 are in the range of 30,000 mph. There are people talking about using light sails and lasers to accelerate small paper thin probes enough to be able to travel interstellar distances, but none exist yet. They are hoping to be able to launch them in 20-25 years, and that they will take 20 years to get to Proxima.
That’s not to say that it’s impossible, but credibility takes a big step outside of reasonable with statements like this in there.
FWIW, I also doubt that the Roswell incident actually was a spacecraft. It’s much more likely to be something that the military were experimenting with that went wrong and that they didn’t want the public and the soviets to know about. You know, like U2 spy planes or space capsules or whatever. We know that they experimented with both animal and human trials in that area at the time.
Making up stories about coverups and conspiracy are a great way to sell books though, and the best conspiracy theories have a small element of truth in them, but it seems much more likely that the mundane is true than some fantastic coverup.
Bro all due respect- government admitted not only are ufos are real, but they been studying ufos for 70 years. Which means over the decades they have been lying. That’s the definition of a coverup/conspiracy. This thought process is why they been able to deny deny for decades without public pressure. Keep an open mind bro.
@@zandrrlife there is a massive difference between keeping a military secret, secret, and covering up about aliens. There is also a massive difference between investigating unknown sightings of what are reported as an airborne craft and saying that it’s a spacecraft. UFO just means Unidentified Flying Object. Until you identify what it is, everything is a UFO.
Governments are, of course, investigating sightings and reports. This doesn’t mean that they are saying that alien spacecraft exists or that they are investigating alien spacecraft. Pretty well every sighting or report has been shown to be something relatively mundane. Those that haven’t because of a lack of information remain as ‘unknown’. Just because something is unknown doesn’t mean that you can inject any theory into it and have credibility. To do so is a logical fallacy.
I keep an open mind, but apply critical thinking so that it’s not so open as to let my brain fall out. It’s much more likely that all of Roswell was covering up the development of technology than it was to be a yet unidentified technology belonging to some aliens that we also can’t identify and that cannot be confirmed. You may as well say that it was pixies since there is the same amount of corroborating evidence.
Did this guy do a longer presentation and this was just a short clip of it or was this the whole presentation ?
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it's nice to wonder outside the box with an open mind .
Coz bring your tin FOIL hat. So they know its you
His mind IS NOT open. He's already taken sides.
As long as you brain doesn't fall out ... without a box it will be lost.
No mystery here. They have been here for countless thousands of years, watching over their flock.
You cannot prove that so don’t make your statement so certain please and thank you xx
And those who buy that, are very sheep-like
Hope they weren’t watchin me twenty minutes ago!
I thought that I was the only one that knew that. !!!!!
if that's true I have a lot more respect for religions.
This young man is fascinating.
One ten-minute conversation with Steven Greer should convince anyone that UFOs are indeed very real.
Nah Steven Greer is a known liar, watch him on joe Rogans podcast. That should be enough to convince anyone he’s a fraud
Between the Solo cups and saucers and him looking down, I had to just read comments until he finished.
Doing the best Richard Dreyfus as Hooper from Jaws impression I've ever seen.
Thought the same. Definitely channeling Dreyfuss.
You're right! I knew there was something familiar about him :D
Why the audio is so damn low! Thought something was wrong with my television , until I realized I can hardly hear it on my computer w/ surround sound system!
This guy is hilarious n I love how he bounces left to right as he speaks:
Does he have his lecture notes written on his shoes ?
Robert S Plissken 😂😂😂😂
probably a teleprompter on the stage in front and below him.
Robert S Plissken I imagine that the lights are too bright.
Monitor maybe?
LMAO :)
I enjoyed the talk, but he didn’t say much. There was nothing we didn’t already know.
exactly!
@@dunjee2 Is he pushing a book?
The new is that this is now allowed in TED
Bigelow, come out !!
Well, there's certainly nothing he said that I didn't already know. Anyone with serious interest in the subject already knows this stuff. & yeah, sure.. He could've been more informative, even in the short time he took or was given. That said, not everyone is interested in this subject. & if nothing else, I'm sure he got some folks interested in researching this topic further on their own. & that does matter.
9:52 He says Proxima Centauri is a planet.
I am pretty sure it is a star.
Exactly my thoughts too. But he probably meant the planets around it which also called proxima centauri b.
Correct it's proxima b he's trying to refer to. Makes me wonder how much he actually knows what he's talking about....
I’ve seen UFO’s: once in the sky, and once on the ground- yes, they are real and I am not crazy
This has been the best ted talk I’ve seen ever
Lightening didn't take it down, our "new" radar did. View "Unacknowledged" on both netflix and youtube. Then go see "Sirius." Then look up the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind."
I think you're correct there.
You folks need to start taking your meds again.
As a 12-year old during 1958, while operating a Massey Ferguson tractor which was pulling a plow on my Grandmother's Kansas farm and traveling in an East to West direction, as my father operated a larger M&M tractor in an adjacent nearby field and traveling in a North to South direction, we both observed the following: directly in front of my father's path and approximately 200 yards away to my left-rear, was a thick path of maize that was probably 12-16 feet in height; as my dad was approaching the maize patch, I turned my head to the left in order to evaluate the progress of the plow as I was beginning to prepare to make a turn to the left; apparently my father's approach to the maize threatened what had been concealed within the thick maize stalks, because just as I had turn my head to the left, a metallic disc-shaped craft lifted upward and came to an abrupt stop as it briefly hovered above the maize, causing maize debris to scatter in all directions; I brought my tractor to a stop and watched in amazement as the disc suddenly moved towards the East at a speed of what I can only estimate now to have been far in excess of 4,000 mph, until it almost immediately reached the outskirts of the nearby town of Arlington approximately a mile away, whereupon is changed direction and abruptly moved to the South and it climbed several thousand more feet until it again changed direction toward the East, where it continued to climb at an approximately 60-degree angle until it finally disappeared as it blended in with the full moon that was hovering in the afternoon sky. As I had watched the spacecraft fade from sight, I recall feeling a sense of sadness, because I understood that I was unlikely to ever see it again. The craft had made no sounds as it darted through the air, nor did it emit any hit of what was propelling it. However, as it moved away from me, I noticed that it didn't rotate on its axis, but it did appear to be shifting through a series of gears, because was it moved forward, it incrementally gave the impression that it was increasing its speed; as it was moving, it also gave me the impression that it was being pulled--not pushed. After the craft disappeared from site, I lifted the plow out of the ground and drove the tractor to my father's location. My father revealed that he had also watched the craft as it took off and sped away, and that he had seen them on prior occasions. He cautioned me against mentioning to anyone else what we had seen, because people would label us crazy. So, this is only part of an experience that I had suppressed until a related incident half a century later allowed the memory to resurface as though it had just occurred. Whether the craft was an alien spacecraft or a reverse- engineered version of an alien spacecraft, it's capabilities were far above any known aircraft that was available at that time or what we having flying now. My major concern is not that our government has been lying to us, because my personal experience clearly proves that it has been lying; but why? Are the aliens from distant galaxies or from planets closer to home, including our own planet Earth?
I want some of that moon rock you been smoking😆!
@ 9:50 he says “Proxima Centari is reachable by current technology in 40 years” however, every search I have done has indicated it would take over a thousand years. I’m not at all certain he has his facts straight, which surprises me in a TED talk.
"I don't beleive in ufos"
Jeremy Corbell. "Hold my beard"
😂😂
Jeremy Cornell's a dunce
LLOL*
*Literal LOL
The government had an alien and was questioning it. "What was up with all that anal probing?" The alien said "Oh, we did that all over the galaxy to all kinds of species, we really learned a lot about them, but in truth we only learned one thing about humans from it." The government agent asked what that one thing was and the alien said " We learned that about ten percent of you really liked it."
the distances are enormous to come to a place and hide from the inhabitants
16 seconds in, we note that the speaker has two names? The one posted behind him, and the one provided on our screen.
I would have clapped a bit louder--entertaining, informative, and short.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.” - Metrodorus, Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C
Nick O space isn’t infinite but it is growing
@Malcolm M how do you know that malcolm lol
Okay I listen to the whole TED Talk and I'm still not convinced
37th parallel also includes the oldest human settlements (Gobekli Tepe & Catalhoyuk) in what is now known as Anatolia / Turkey
I thought I was crazy. Just playing I'm a believer.
Thats it??? Brother....youre about two decades late to the party...nothing new or groundbreaking here.
Disaltar We know that he's a couple decades late but I still think it's important for him to speak out about this because there's a lot of people new to this subject that are on the fence about it and if well known people talk about it that helps to get the word out. I mean, I know way more about ufos than this guy through study and personal experience (close encounter) but do you think anyone is going to listen to a regular guy like me? :/ Now if the governments and scientists would share the truth about alien/ufo activity then people would listen to witnesses like me but for now we are just labled as wackos because they want to keep it hidden from the general public. Can't keep it secret too much longer, deceivers :-o
@@neoufo7972 I'm not sure why you would assume he told you everything he has discovered in a 10 min TED talk.
Dont you mean a couple thousand years late to the party
Its helpful though. Most people don't know how many weird things have happened in UFO history.
Read Leslie Kean's book *_UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record_*
Going down the rabbit hole.
Hey! Is Mezrich in Belo Rus on the 37 P.
👽🛸🧞♀️ Awesome 👍 loved his talk! And I for one don't think he's nuts. He's very intelligent. We need more people like him in our world.
Paul Hellyar, Canadian Defence Minister in the 60s has publicly stated that it was known to him back then that a number of species of alien have been visiting earth for many years.
Yeah he's legendary 👽
@Alex Jay You've clearly never heard of the Disclosure Project?
@Alex Jay Oh well, enjoy basking in your ignorance then...😉
Thanks for sharing. I witnessed a cigar shaped UFO at close range on 2 different occasions when I was farming here in Ireland.
What Co. in Ireland? Year?
good show
The very fact that humanity is such a “Johnny come lately “
Is in itself a cause for a major worry because we are exploring the earth and the space with next to nothing knowledge of what has been happening in our cosmos and especially in our solar system , and the very fact that they have allowed us to venture out In their Domain is a also very interesting.
Cheryl Powell of Derry, New Hampshire, USA, informed me in 1991, of a military aircraft in Viet Nam that the passengers had their seatbelts still strapped on & were discovered to be completely devoid of blood.
I actually heard about that somewhere too, idk if it's true but I've heard that too.
Ben, it is all coming out now, in the media, something I have known for decades to be true.
They are definitely HERE.. 🌎 .
Abd THEY'VE been visiting for a WHILE..
However their technology has changed too..
👀
@Bob Dillahunty Bob, If you are interested dig into it, don't expect to be spoon fed by others. I have been following this subject closely sine 1961, you can start now if you desire, far easier now than back then to do research.
Bob Dillahunty I can send you all the links to his claims. It's all backed up by facts and sources from Government sites. Just let me know.
Ok Jay! why don't you share with us what makes you KNOW its true!! Ben thinks it's the Government, you think it's the media hiding the proof? I think it's because the PUPLE MEN are IMBIZZABLE!!!
@@joegastly6166 Joe, Did you just say "Government sites",,,,,LOL!
The probability of the existence of alien life is so high and almost certain that it is so strange why we didn't make a contact yet ...the right questions should be something like "why do we not see them?"
1954 Einsenhower was vacationing in Palm Spring Ca. He had a public meeting/ speech on his schedule he was expected to attend. He missed it. When questioned by the press to his whereabouts a vague answer was given. This piqued the press interest into his location, who pressed his staff for answers. Eventually hours later he reappeared at a Air Force in New Mexico. The official reason for this lapse in time was, he had chipped a tooth and needed to visit a dentist. Fast forward years. In researching historical records of this time line every person having contact with the president was noted in security logs and historical archives for posterity. Even the unintended meeting with a pastor he happened to notice stop and chatted with. But no record has ever been found of his needing to see a dentist. And the dentist on call at the airbase never mentioned meeting the president even to his wife who stated " if he had met the president" who they both admired " he would have definitely told me". This mystery has as many question as answers. Why travel miles into another state to see a dentist, when a full medical teams travel with the president for such emergencies, why disappear leaving most of his staff personal at a loss or refusing to answer question from the press. Why are the records/ logs of his activities while on the base missing or protected by NSA prodicals.
Is he on to something?
Ancient astronaut theorists say YES.
Nathan Venter a resounding YES
I believe these things were around before we were. We find 6000-year old artifacts in caves made out of gold that depict what look like fighter jets and flying saucers, yet history cannot explain how they knew this stuff. They've always been here.
I think they only thing he's on is drug. And not just normal drug but heavy one.
Physicists say nyet.
Those crackpots say yes to everything. Anything at all .the got one answer to everything Ancient Aliens did it.
He had me up until he claimed we could reach proxima centauri in 40 years. That's absurd. It would take us longer than 40,000 years. Probably around 70-80,000 years. So now the entire video is suspect.
Besides, even a car here on earth wouldn't last any 40 years without repairs. (Not to mention that there's no proof of the existence of an infinite vacuum of space, ball-shaped planets, and the like.)
These people are all snake oil salesmen.
It appears (to me) that Ben had some sort of cue cards on the floor in front of him. But, boy, what an interesting guy and a very interesting topic.
In a program organized by the late Dr. R.Leo Sprinkle one presenter showed maps of US and of global nuclear facilities (mines, weapons depots, processing plants, dumps, and power plants) then overlaid acetates of reported cattle mutilations. Throughout the developed world there is an exact correlation between those nuclear sites and clusters of mutilations down wind and down stream from them.
As an amateur astronomer, out there in the dark with my telescope, I have seen many UFO's. After some investigation, I managed to turn them all into IFO's.
Willie Koorts….I've been an amateur astronomer most of my 78 years. For about twenty years I used an off road vehicle riding area for my observing site....no one rides in the summer and I often had the 110,000 acre site for myself and would often go three or four days w/o seeing another soul. In all of the time I spent there, never saw a single UFO, but, I have had three other sitings. Once, in the late 60's, had an estimated 75' diameter classic 'flying saucer' fly directly over my house at an estimated altitude of 75'. It was at night, but my unshielded front porch light illuminated it really well.
Damn your rational logic ruining my delusional alien fantasies! I wanna be abducted.....lol
Pack it up everyone! This amateur astronomer says there's nothing to see. Was fun while it lasted...
You misread me @@tiny_toilet There are lots to see in the night sky, unidentifiable as well as identifiable! The more you look, the more you learn what is normal and what not! In fact, you MUST be outside looking to familiarise yourself with what all can go bump in the night! If you don't, you see UFOs everywhere.
He reminds me of Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the third kind 1977
Agree
i want to hug this guy so bad
Bigelow used to own Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Lots of paranormal/alien (cow mutilations happened there) research going on there.
I believe my wife is from another planet!
Venus
WHy? Did she stick a probe in your bungholio?
Mine too..currently I'm looking for her cryptonite
Welcome to the club, mine´s definitely a lizard from zeta reticuli, her comfort zone is in plus or minus 0,5 degrees 23 centigrade.
That's sofa king funny
Interesting presentation but Proxima Centauri is Star not a planet. And it’s 4 light years from us. We would need to travel at 1 tenth the speed of light to get there in 40 years. That is equivalent to us travelling to the sun in 80 minutes. I can’t even get across Sydney in 80 minutes.
To me, These discrepancies throw a level of doubt about the rest of the content that is not referenced.
Adrian Wood you're talking with our technology not above technology 1000 to 1,000,000 Ahead of our technology
Victor Giacobbe, technology has a hard time overcoming the most basic laws of the universe. The rules don't change no matter how many years go by.
Adrian Wood that's our recent knowledge of basic laws of the universe imagine the basic laws of the universe 200 years ago. Check out Bob Lazar Who worked on alien craft
@@inkyguy Yet, I watched as 2 blue lights that were being chased by a military helicopter, shot off into space in a matter of seconds. I've also seen what appears to be a wormhole open and a UFO enter it. Just because "humans" haven't figured out the technology doesn't mean a much older civilization hasn't. Or we do have access to that technology and it isn't being shared with us yet.
@Victor Giacobbe cheers for your thoughts I agree with you, but the presenter stated that our “current technology” could get to the “planet” Proxima Centauri in 40 years. That is what I am challenging. I agree that an advanced race that could even manipulate gravity could also get here much faster. Maybe they could fold fold or bend space like folding a piece of paper bringing the ends together?
"To Serve Man". It's a cook book!
Why is the audio so low?
He reminds me of Richard Dreyfus when he sings beautiful boy
The speaker is gifted on many fronts! Great speech about the topic of UFOs - The truth is out there...
Yeah especially on Proxima centauri. It takes light 4 years to get there. And he claims we would TAKE 40 years to get there
@basil fawlty Get a decent headset. Volume was fine on my phone.
i saw one at mesa verde 40' away from me.. 60' feet high, a perfect mirrored sphere.. moving 45* into the wind , silent... it was 100 yards away i waved and it winked out.. vanished !
Btw, was there ever a time in your life that this happened yesterday?? The answer is of course, "no"
Great speach sir , time is ticking so fast will be too late when we xpt the truth of humanity , we will not survive in future.