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A recent podcast discussion featuring former CIA scientist Harold Hal and documentary producer Dan features a compelling argument regarding an alleged 80-year government cover-up of non-human intelligent life, allegedly initiated by elements within the US military following the Roswell incident in 1947. The speakers assert that this secrecy was driven by Cold War dynamics where revealing knowledge about advanced extraterrestrial technology to adversaries like China and Russia would provide a competitive disadvantage. They claim that despite decades of suppression through disinformation campaigns designed to make such topics seem ridiculous, credible whistleblowers within the intelligence community have confirmed the existence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with non-human origins. Key figures mentioned include former National Security Advisor Marco Rubio and retired senior executive Jay Stratton, who reportedly witnessed crashes involving recovered bodies that were not human. The conversation delves into the technical capabilities attributed to these entities, suggesting they utilize advanced physics such as Einstein's equations of general relativity to manipulate space-time metrics. This technology allegedly allows for warp drives or wormholes, enabling transmedium travel where crafts move seamlessly between air, water, and space without creating sonic booms or splashes by warping the environment around them rather than pushing through it. The speakers explain that while NASA has historically downplayed these phenomena to avoid public panic or bureaucratic complications, recent directives from President Trump have initiated a rolling declassification process of classified files, videos, and photos held by federal agencies. This release is expected to provide concrete evidence supporting claims that UAPs operate at speeds far exceeding current human engineering capabilities, including instances where they maneuver instantly between the ocean surface and space. Beyond physical craft, the discussion explores historical CIA programs like Stargate, which investigated remote viewing—a psychic ability allowing individuals to perceive distant locations or events without sensory input. Former researcher Hal describes how these trained viewers successfully located downed Soviet aircraft in Africa using only their minds and demonstrated an ability to influence quantum devices shielded by superconducting materials. The speakers argue that this phenomenon suggests a deeper connection between consciousness and the physical universe, potentially involving quantum entanglement or non-locality principles not yet fully understood by mainstream science. They note that while skepticism is natural in the absence of direct public evidence, the consistency of reports from high-level military pilots, Navy commanders like David Fravor regarding the "Tic Tac" incident, and intelligence officers makes it difficult to dismiss these claims as mere conspiracy theories. The dialogue concludes with a reflection on how acknowledging non-human life could fundamentally shift human perspective and potentially unify global society against external threats or existential challenges. The speakers emphasize that while some individuals like Elon Musk remain skeptical due to lack of direct observation, the sheer volume of classified data now being declassified suggests an inevitable public acknowledgment is approaching. They express optimism that future revelations will not only confirm the presence of advanced civilizations but also open new avenues for scientific inquiry and philosophical understanding regarding humanity's place in a teeming universe. The overarching theme remains one of curiosity over fear, urging viewers to remain open-minded as more evidence surfaces from government archives over the coming months.
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There has been an 80-year cover-up of
the existence of non-human intelligent
life covered up by elements of the US
government, but this past Friday the
[music] first tranche of evidence was
released to the public.
>> And the evidence is absolutely clear
that there is some form of life with
advanced technology. And they're all
over the place. But the people involved
in gatekeeping this information don't
think [music] the public can handle the
truth.
>> People have had their lives threatened.
>> of them are afraid to come forward
[music] and tell the White House what
they know. This has been kept from even
sitting presidents. And I've interviewed
high-level intelligence [music]
officials and government officials. And
there have been UAP crashes over the
years and in some cases the crashed
crafts had the bodies of non-humans in
them. And now we have people on ships
[music] seeing these things under the
water with seeing enough times under
enough different conditions that we just
have to accept that it is real. So what
exactly is inside this [music] report?
We have so many sightings, even access
to materials. And there's a number of
files, reports, video, and still [music]
images that were declassified. And the
most notable piece of evidence in there
is [music] this.
So I have so many questions. You're
probably familiar with this NASA report.
They essentially say that they don't
believe that these UAPs are aliens. Why
would NASA be lying? Is there a reason
why this stuff hasn't been captured on
like an iPhone? [music] Are they
currently living amongst us?
>> And then do you trust the Trump
administration to release [music] all of
the available information?
>> I think eventually we'll get to that
moment that we've all only seen in
movies where a sitting president steps
to a microphone and tells the world
we're not alone in the universe.
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>> [music]
>> Dr. Harold, Dan,
I wanted to have a conversation with
both of you today because you are two of
the most popular voices online on this
subject of UAPs, which is unidentified
anomalous phenomena. Right. Exactly. It
has been in all the news recently
because Trump a couple of days ago
released 400 classified files containing
videos and photos and different reports
on this subject of UAPs. Now, I
don't have an opinion. I I honestly
haven't gone that far down the rabbit
hole on this subject, but I wanted to
have the conversation with both of you
because you do have opinions. So,
starting with you, Dan,
what is your background and as it
relates to this subject of UAPs, what is
it that you believe that most people
don't know or understand? My interest in
this topic comes from my childhood. And
so, over the years, I just I read every
book on the topic, watched every doc. I
always wish someone had made a super
serious, credible, sober documentary
that only interviews people who have
direct knowledge of this topic as a
result of working for the US government.
And so, got into producing as I was
getting access to high-level
intelligence officials and government
officials before even filmed, I really
quickly learned how serious and real the
situation is and how
serious it's treated behind the scenes.
And you know, I made this movie, The Age
of Disclosure, in secrecy over 3 and 1/2
years. And I would say the headlines
that I learned that the average person
doesn't know is that there has in fact
been an 80-year cover-up of the
existence of non-human intelligent life.
It has been covered up by elements of
the US government since at least the
late '40s. Other nations have also
covered this up. And the other major
headline is that the people who within
the US government that have been
gatekeeping this, they've also been
involved in a high-stakes secret Cold
War race with adversarial nations like
China and Russia to reverse-engineer
this technology of non-human origin. And
And the stakes couldn't be higher. Those
are the two massive headlines.
And And I'm proud to say when the film
came out, it created a national
conversation at an at an unprecedented
level, and it led to President Trump
issuing this directive in the middle of
February. Super unprecedented historic
directive instructing federal agencies
to start declassifying evidence it has
they have of non-human intelligent life
and UAP. And then that process began
this past Friday. The first tranche of
evidence was released to the public. And
during the process of producing this
documentary,
who did you speak to? I got access to
the highest levels of government,
military, and intelligence community. My
interview subjects range from Secretary
Rubio, who's also our national security
advisor now, White House National
Security Council members, Navy fighter
pilots, admirals, generals, a former
Secretary of Defense, uh the leadership
of all the recent classified US
government UAP investigations. Every
single person is extremely credible. Hal
Hal was one of my interview subjects.
Hal's
one of the most senior scientist uh to
work on this topic for the US government
in classified projects. And him and all
these other people interviewed, they had
a lot of information they could legally
share
over the years, but they were always
discouraged from doing so, and they
never really had the opportunity to
comfortably do it. No one wanted to be
the one guy out on a limb
saying something extraordinary on CNN or
Fox or 60 Minutes and then being subject
to the the pushback and the ridicule.
And so, when I realized that, I I
started socializing a plan for how to
step out of the shadows arm in arm with
safety in numbers. I'll pick up on that
point now. We talked about safety in
numbers. How he he mentioned you there.
You're part of the documentary. I saw
you as well in the trailer of the
documentary. What is your background and
why what reference points are you
drawing on to speak on the subject of
UAPs and UFOs, etc.? I'm a quantum
physicist. I worked for the National
Security Agency for various uh
organizations in the intelligence
community like CIA and so on. And so, as
part of my technical work, uh I was also
a consultant, uh chief science advisor
to Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace.
He's really quite quite a titan. I mean,
he has two space stations orbiting the
Earth. So, anyway, those those people
who are in in the space business and
they're moving out into space, they just
can't help but wondering, you know, what
are we going to run into when when we
get out there? As a science advisor to
him, uh it turned out that the Defense
Intelligence Agency came forward and
said, uh you know, we need to find out
uh really what's uh going on in the
so-called UAP area. So, then they
determined they were just going to start
a UAP program. If that program they
started was called A SAP. They hired a
whole team, for example, Hal. And that
program started in 2008. Um
and
got a lot of pushback behind the scenes
because it turned out
when they looked over the intelligence
community to see if there was another
UFO program and didn't think there was,
turns out there was one. And there was a
deeply hidden program referred to as the
legacy program.
And it had been operating in the shadows
since the 40s
uh outside of congressional oversight,
outside of the oversight of the White
House.
Um completely, you know, off off
>> Completely hidden away. Yeah. As hidden
as a program can be.
And so they started pushing back behind
the scenes against everyone involved in
AATIP because they didn't want anyone
else looking into this, right? Started
to cause a lot of bureaucratic issues
for them, red tape issues, and
ultimately AATIP lost its funding in
2010 despite the fact that it was
looking into very real issues like UAP
over our nuclear weapon sites. It shut
down in 2010. Why do you think it shut
down?
They were dealt
these bureaucratic hurdles behind the
scenes by people involved in the legacy
program, people who just caused problems
and prevented funding and it's a lot of,
you know, it's a
big bureaucracy. People can people can
do things behind the scenes to prevent
funding from coming through
for programs. And so ultimately they
lost their their funding in 2010 and
then Jay Stratton and other people
involved they were continuing to look
into this because they they didn't want
this serious national security concern
to go, you know, on on investigated,
right? So you know, that's how somebody
like me gets pulled in and they say,
"Okay, these pilots are out there and
they said they see craft coming out of
the ocean and making right angle turns
at 6 G or whatever." And they say, "Oh
my god, this is way beyond our physics."
So I and other physicists sort of dug
into, you know, what could be
responsible for this. And we actually
found that just like we use so-called
Maxwell's equations in electromagnetic
stuff for everything we do in
electromagnetics,
we have Einstein's equations in general
relativity for, you know, black holes
and all that kind of stuff. It turns out
if you could engineer those, you would
actually get the same effects that
people were observing with these UAP
crafts. So we think we've come up with,
you know, what it is about
the science of it. It's just that we
don't have the engineering to do it. Do
you believe in UAPs?
Absolutely believe in UAPs
because [clears throat]
I've been exposed to data about them.
A more specific question would be, do
you believe in aliens? Yeah, so a number
of the people I interviewed went on the
record
stating that they know from their own
personal experiences that there have
been UAP crashes over the years that
have been recovered by elements of the
US government and in some cases the the
crashed crafts had the bodies of
non-humans in them.
And numerous people I interviewed went
on the record saying that. And keep in
mind, everyone I interviewed only shared
what they lawfully could. There was a
line they couldn't cross. Everyone I
interviewed is aware of classified
information that they they can't talk
about, but they went right up to the
line and uh
made it clear that there had been
recoveries of non-human bodies. A couple
people actually testified under oath to
Congress saying the same thing. Why
wouldn't they be able to talk about it
publicly? Well, when you're involved in
certain programs, uh you sign certain
agreements that prevent you from sharing
Right.
>> specific information.
>> programs and
of course the big concern is, okay,
whatever we might learn about these kind
of craft and and so on, our adversaries
are out there and probably been there
been crashes in Russia, crashes in
China.
And so if we reveal what we're learning
about the subject area and
you know, said it publicly, then it it
might help some potential adversary
>> Yeah, a saying get a step get a step
ahead. So, that's why it's all just kept
really close end. So, a saying that I
heard often from my interview subjects,
you can't tell your friends without
telling your enemies. Meaning, you can't
tell the public what we know and don't
know without also telling China and
Russia what we know and don't know. And
giving them that information might give
them a competitive advantage. And the
the obvious question anyone would ask
when hearing that is then well okay, so
what shifted? Why is Why is that no
longer the leading thought secrecy is
best? And the answer is because the US
is in a really high stakes race, a
technology race, against these
adversaries to reverse engineer
technology of non-human origin. And
the secrecy around it in the US
since the 40s has created a scenario
where the scientific community and
academia don't even know it's real. They
don't even know it's a valid area of
inquiry.
>> Don't even believe it's real. I mean
>> the smartest kids graduating MIT this
year, they are not thinking that this is
something they can put their brain power
towards. So,
coming back to the question, do you
believe in aliens? I 100% believe that
non-human intelligent life
is here and has been here for a long
time. When you say here, do you mean
>> Earth. currently living amongst us?
>> I don't know about the living amongst us
part.
>> that. I don't know about that, but
>> Wouldn't rule it out, but I mean
>> There is UAP activity being reported on
a daily basis by commercial airlines
pilot commercial airline pilots to the
FAA,
by Navy fighter pilots off the East
Coast being reported, you know, up the
military chain of command. And on top of
that, regular activity over our nuclear
weapon sites inside the United States.
It's happening on a regular basis
uh on the on on the nuclear sites and on
a daily basis in commercial air travel
space. UAP have come over nuclear
missile sites and actually turned off
the missiles.
And so, you know, when something like
that happens, you just got to take it
seriously.
>> And the the technology that they're
displaying is technology that no humans
have.
And again, there has been some crashes
and in those crashes there have been the
bodies of non-humans. How do we know
that? How do we know that in those
crashes they've recovered bodies of
non-humans? The whistleblowers basically
coming forward from the government.
>> So we So the basis of the that evidence
is that some people have said it. At
this point, until until
previously classified information
regarding crashes and is and recoveries
is declassified,
until it [clears throat] happens, the
best we can hope for is credible people
putting their reputation on the line to
tell you this is what's been happening.
Did someone during your process of
making the documentary who had seen
non-alien non-human life non-human
intelligence tell you that? Yeah. Who
was that? A number of people, but
notably, you know,
Jay Stratton who we just talked about.
>> Yes, right.
>> Who co-created, co-founded AATIP, and
then became the director of the UAP Task
Force, the largest whole of government
investigation of UAP ever. What did he
say? He went on the record in the film
saying that he's seen non-human beings
and non-human craft with his own eyes.
That was the farthest he could go at
that point. Why did he say he couldn't
go further? Uh he he he he had a
situation that he
was involved in that um
for a few reasons he wasn't he just
wasn't comfortable talking about it yet,
and some of it I think he just wanted to
make sure he legally could. Now, going
back to credibility, like take a guy
like Jay saying that. When Jay retired a
few years back, he was part of the
senior executive services of the federal
government. That's a level less than 1%
of all federal employees ever reach. You
know, it's equivalent of a two-star
admiral or general. Um very very senior,
very trusted. You know,
cleared at a very high level.
Um he had worked with naval intelligence
in a senior capacity.
Uh he had worked with the CIA. He had
worked with the Defense Intelligence
Agency as the head of aerospace warfare.
It's a super serious, credible guy. And
he's he's he's putting his reputation on
the line to share this information
um to the extent that he legally could
and and comfortably could. And when you
asked him why
the world doesn't know this stuff in his
view, what did he What would he say?
There's a lot of reasons. I mean,
certainly the, you know, the idea that
we can't tell our friends without
telling our enemies has been a driver.
To just to recap the reasons for
secrecy, I I I actually believe it it's
better to kind of start from the
beginning. When this When when in 1947,
there was a crash at Roswell of
non-human origin
and uh yeah, RA uh RAAF captures flying
saucer on ranch in Roswell region. Yeah.
>> That's right. And then this is the image
of their cover-up story trying to show
weather ballooner. Yeah, so multiple
people in my film go on the record
saying the Roswell crash really
happened. Uh technology of non-human
origin and non-human bodies were
recovered.
Um if you put yourself in the shoes of
the military and government at that
point, like put yourself in Truman and,
you know, Eisenhower's shoes, you're
just coming out of World War II. The
world was just chaos for a very long
time. It's finally starting to settle
down. You can't exactly step to the
microphone and tell
America that there's a new threat that
we know nothing about and we can't
protect you from. They're far advanced,
you know,
what what's the advantage of that? So,
secrecy became the plan at that point
and
they had more questions than answers.
So, everyone I've talked to gave me
context explained that the the the the
plan for secrecy went in motion there.
Uh let's investigate. Let's find out
more about what we don't know before we
tell the American people. That was
quickly followed by the Cold War era and
we learned that Russia also had
retrieved technology of non-human
origin. And so, we knew we were in a
technology race. So, then the idea of
can't tell your friend without telling
your enemy ruled the day. So, now the
Cold War mentality, you know, led to
more secrecy and as a security wrapper
for this this program that it that it
started, uh they created the stigma in
the late '40s, early '50s. This cultural
stigma, this idea that you're crazy if
you look into this topic. You're wacky,
you'll have your reputation ruined,
you'll have your career ruined.
>> actually to CIA meeting where people got
together and said, "Okay, in order to
not have people be pursuing this area,
let's go out of our way to spread
what we would call now disinformation
about this
>> very basically the most effective
disinformation campaign in the history
of the US government because it got into
our culture, some movies were funded
that made aliens seem silly, and the
idea of life from elsewhere seemed
ridiculous, and that compounded over the
years, and then we got to the point
where where we were like, you know, just
just like few years ago, where the
average person just thinks it's not
real. You know, the average scientist,
academia, Yeah. you know, they think
it's conspiracy stuff, it's nonsense,
it's silly. Um there was no advantage
for elected leaders to get in front of
this or for military members to, you
know, speak up about what they learned
or saw. It would be a career ruiner.
Um
and uh that started to shift uh several
years back when Jay Stratton
and Jim McCaslin when they put together
AATIP in 2010, and they started to go
out there and collect data
um and get evidence, and they started to
actually share it with the Senate
Intelligence Committee and the Senate
Armed Services Committee, and looking at
classified data in a classified setting,
people like Marco Rubio, who was the
vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee at the time, started to
realize,
Yeah, so there's something here.
>> Not only is there something here, but
we've got a problem, right? There's a
lot of a lot of UAP activity over these
highly classified sites like our nuclear
weapons sites. There's a lot at stake.
We are in this, you know, race with
other nations, and the stigma has
created a disadvantage for us.
It's very hard to win a technology race
when the majority of your scientists
don't know it's a valid area of inquiry,
right?
And do people think that there's one
type of non-human intelligence that's
visiting the earth, or is there many,
many types?
>> People who have been involved in
recoveries have said
>> least four types, four separate types.
Now, I have not had direct access to
that, but I I I believe the people who I
talked to. Four different types of life.
Four different types of life, at least.
And the people
I've talked through to, you know,
through the process of making the
documentary, both on camera and
off-the-record sources,
and the people I also talked to over the
decades have said that there are there
have been dozens of recoveries of
crashed craft in the US alone. Dozens of
craft of non-human origin
that either crashed organically or
caused to crash
and then recovered. And have you spoken
to people who You talked about Jay. Have
you spoken to other people that have
worked on these
crashed crafts? I've talked I've talked
off the record with some people who are
involved in recoveries. They would not
go on camera to do interviews.
Special forces people that would not go
on camera do interviews. One I actually
thought I've I've mentioned this in
another interview, but um one I thought
was going to do an interview and then a
couple days before sent me a message
saying, "After further consideration and
long talks with my wife, I decided I'd
be forfeiting my life if I participated
in your interview."
And I thought that was like very un-
very unsettling message to get,
obviously, but also very specific word
choice, you know, "forfeiting my life."
What did he know? He was a special very
senior special forces guy who
had told me he had been involved in
multiple recoveries.
That's what he told me.
Okay.
And I met him through uh some high-level
intelligence people.
Early on in my process, I got connected
with the Senate Intelligence Committee
and the Senate Armed Services Committee,
and they had on their own learned the
reality of the situation through the
work of ASAP and then ATIP and then the
UAP Task Force and through their own
their own intelligence channels. Leaders
on those committees wanted to educate
the public about what they could
lawfully about this, but they didn't
really have a way to do it. It's such a
complicated situation. It takes a while
to explain it. You can't do it in like a
6-minute news hit on Fox or CNN or even
like a 15-minute 60-minute segment. You
just can't do it. And no one wanted to
be the one guy trying to do it. So,
when I started putting together the film
and socializing this safe way for people
to step forward, it also quickly became
those people's plan for disclosure.
That's why Senator Rubio participated.
That's why White House National Security
Council members participated. It became
amongst the group of people who had
learned the truth, it became
the plan for disclosure, the way to
bring this information out in a
thoughtful
way. Do the presidents of the United
States
know about this stuff? Are they aware?
>> Historically, no. Historically
>> Yeah, and even Rubio says on camera
that, you know, historically, this has
been kept from even sitting presidents.
Who would know then? So,
a number of the people in my film break
down um who's involved in legacy
program.
Now, sim- just to put it simply, it's
elements of the CIA, elements of the Air
Force, elements of the Department of
Energy, and a few major defense
contractors. And they have the ability
to access information from a number of
federal agencies and branches of the
military, but the the primary leaders of
this program are the CIA, the Air Force,
the Department of Energy, and major
defense contractors. And Rubio breaks
down in the film the way our bureaucracy
works, um
you could have
career bureaucrats in positions of power
at those organizations for decades,
and they can just wait out sitting
presidents. They can wait out sitting
senators.
>> presidents as just temporary help.
They're going to come and go. And that's
what's been happening up until this
point now. So, the fact that Rubio had
learned so much about the reality of the
the and the extent of the cover-up, and
then ended up arguably the second most
powerful guy in the world as our
Secretary of State and our National
Security Advisor at the same time,
which has only happened once in US
history, Henry Kissinger for 2 years. No
one else has ever had both those jobs at
the same time. The fact that he ended up
in that position of power and influence
after learning the reality of the
situation, and right as the age of
disclosure is coming out and driving
this national conversation,
it really led to the current President
Trump being informed about this in a way
that no president has in a very long
time. So, are you saying that the United
States don't think the public are ready
to even know that this exists? Because,
you know, they could tell us that they
have recovered UAPs or aliens, whatever
it might be, without telling us about
the technology. They could, and I think
we're going to get to that point.
>> Yeah, I think that they were trapped in
in the system that had that had grown
up, and uh people behind the scenes
working in the classified programs said,
"Well, you know, we don't know how the
public is going to respond, so let's be
safe, and let's let's just keep it
in-house." Do you think Trump believes
that there are aliens? Cuz I I was
looking at some of his quotes, and he
said, "Well, I don't know if they're
real or not. I don't have an opinion on
it. I never talk about it. A lot of
people do. A lot of people believe it."
Barack Obama said that aliens are real.
Well, he ain't supposed to provide
information. He's not supposed to be
doing that. So, aliens are real? No, I
don't I don't have an opinion on it. I
never talk about it. A lot of people do.
A lot of people believe it.
So, you believe it, Greer? Uh well, if
the president can declassify anything
that he wants to, so if he wants to make
an announcement I may get him out of
trouble by declassifying. One of the
things that came out in the age of
disclosure
is that
during Trump's first administration,
his cabinet was briefed by the UAP Task
Force, by Jay Stratton. And
when he briefed them
uh he was told that they had asked for
this briefing
because they needed to be able to
evaluate what the repercussions would be
if Trump decided to step to the
microphone and tell the world we're not
alone in the universe. Obviously, he
didn't end up deciding to do that then.
However, in this new administration
he's got Rubio
in the position of Secretary of State
and National Security Advisor and fully
aware of the situation and that has
given him the comfort to put this this
process in motion. There's certainly a
disclosure process unfolding right now.
Obama said in an interview that he did
with Brian Tyler Cohen
when asked about aliens, Obama said,
"They're real, but I haven't seen them.
They're not being kept at Area 51.
There's no underground facility unless
there's this enormous conspiracy and
they hid it from the President of the
United States." Now, that sounded to me
like kind of sarcasm when he said
they're real, but and then explained all
that they're not real.
They're real, but I haven't seen them
and and and uh they're not being kept in
uh Area 51. Uh there there's no
underground uh facility unless there's
this enormous conspiracy and they they
hid it from the President of the United
States.
So, it would appear to me that Obama
also doesn't know of any aliens. I think
Obama was largely kept in the dark. I
think he does know that the base fact
that we're not alone in the universe and
I actually think when he said they're
real, I think he was being that was just
candid.
>> honest.
>> That was his honest, candid, genuine
statement. I think when he then said
they're not kept at Area 51 I think he's
also being honest cuz none of my sources
say that say that UAP and aliens are
being kept at Area 51. They're being
kept somewhere else.
Um
so, I think he was being honest there
and I think when he made the comment of
uh unless there's a giant conspiracy, if
you watch the tape, he like sips his cup
and raises his eyebrows as he said. He
thinks
he knows there's a giant conspiracy.
That's the truth. The following day uh
Trump was asked about that on Air Force
One and he responded saying Obama
revealed classified information and he
shouldn't have said that. And um
I think that's the truth. Yeah. I think
presidents don't don't know when they're
and they're told not to talk about it.
Trump has started to release a lot of
classified information around UAP and
aliens. The first batch of that was
released a couple of days ago. What
exactly is inside this report? There was
a number of files, reports,
video, and
still images that were declassified.
This is information that previously had
been classified or just never really
made public.
This was just the first tranche of what
has been what will be released.
The most notable piece of evidence in
there is an image, a still image, from
the 1972 Apollo mission. It's an image
of a triangle,
seemingly triangle-shaped craft,
hovering above the moon and above the
astronauts. And the image was taken from
the from the lunar module. And
you know, the UAP task force looked into
this image years ago and determined it
was real. That seems to be the most
glaring piece of evidence in this this
tranche. But I will say this, Hal and I
both have the same a lot of the same
sources of information and
everyone we've talked to at various
federal agencies has told us that
when the president gave this directive
in middle of February for federal
agencies to declassify evidence of
non-human intelligent life and UAP,
only a few
engaged with it. They only gave a small
percent of what they have.
And they only had a couple weeks to do
it.
>> Mhm. One of the things I I think I've
always struggled with with the idea of
these kind of conspiracies um
is that I don't know why that
information would necessarily fall into
the hands of like government officials
because, you know, alien life forms or
UAPs would be
visible and would land in anyone's back
garden. So, you would you could imagine
a world, especially in a world where we
have, I don't know, like 8 billion
iPhones roaming around. Can imagine a
world where if there was some kind of
UAP crash in my garden, it would be on
TikTok within 5 minutes. Yeah. Or if
there really was
>> Someone got there with an iPhone. You're
right. You know, there was that incident
earlier in the year with those with were
they drones in in America flying
>> Jersey. Jersey Jersey Jersey Jersey And
that was on social media within minutes
and everyone was talking about it and
looking at what they were. I don't know,
I think in the modern world because we
have so many ways to capture
high-quality video, if there was
something out there, we would have seen
a very clear image of this thing by now.
>> Well, there's a lot That's why there
there's a lot that came out in these
files because over the years our sensor
systems that the pilots have in their
planes have gotten so much better.
They've captured, really,
a small amount. Does this life want to
be seen? Do these aliens want us to know
that they're I'd have to assume that
given the level of quality of their
technology, if they didn't want to be
seen, we we wouldn't be seeing them.
So, it seems like I would say there's
evidence that, for whatever reason,
they're they're they're wanting to be
seen. But also like I my personal
opinion is that if someone answers that
question, they're answering it through
the lens of like how humans think,
right?
For all we know,
you know, we're we're ants to them. You
know, you don't hide from the ants. You
walk around them. You don't even But you
also don't pay attention to them, you
know? Based on their behavior from the
interviews you've done,
how do you think they view us? I I
honestly feel like the dynamic is, you
know, we are very very far below them on
the food chain. You know, Hal makes an
analogy in the film. He says, "The ants
in your
tree line in your backyard, they could
be there for generations. You never
think about them, you walk around them,
you don't you're not hiding from them,
but like they're there and you don't
really care, right? But what happens if
they evolve one day and out of nowhere
they figured out how to get into your
house and they beelined under your under
your door and they're in your living
room, right? We might have evolved
technologically over the last 80 years
since we cracked the atom so quickly
that we're now, you know, the equivalent
of the ants showing up in their living
room. Like all of a sudden
>> All of a sudden this warring species,
this violent species, humans, you know,
um
we have we we progressed so quickly. We
went from no real technological progress
progress for a very long time to
cracking the atom and then figuring out
nuclear technology and then continuing
to increase, you know, our our nuclear
technology development.
And, you know, we have this program that
has been retrieving their crashed craft
and trying to reverse engineer them. So,
we might be at that point where we're
about to do what they do and all of a
sudden we are a problem. Um that might
be the explanation of why they pay so
much attention to our nuclear process.
You know, there's a lot of UAP activity
not only at the nuclear weapon sites all
over the world, but um
uh sites involved in the process, the
nuclear process, like uranium mines or
refineries. Is it you know
>> It might just be we've [clears throat]
gotten to the point where all of a
sudden they have they have to
In uh in the Soviet Union, uh
the UAP came over and actually started
a launch of the Russian missiles.
I mean, they actually forced the system
to start into a countdown process.
>> know that?
By the intelligence community's
uh access to information about it.
Every person we spoke to in Belorac of
each has said they saw a flying saucer
on that day.
For hours it hovered over the nearby
ballistic missile base. No No had
touched any buttons. No one had entered
any codes. And yet, as the UFO hovered
over the base, the control panel showed
the missiles were preparing to launch.
For 15 agonizing seconds, the base lost
control of its nuclear weapons.
Logically, I would think that unusual
activity would happen
around consequential sites. Yes. You
know, I'd be more surprised if there was
really frequent unusual activity
happening in my back garden, for
example. But, around highly
consequential sites, one would expect
there to be
people flying things around there,
spying. You know what people are like
with cameras these days. They want to
take photos of anything interesting.
They They hang around police stations
and army barracks. Right. Right. So,
logically, I would assume that there
would be an an increased probability of
strange activity in the sky above a
nuclear site. Well, in fact, there was a
group of people in the intelligence
community who who recognized exactly
what you're saying. And so, they decided
to, you know, make an attractive magnet
by getting a whole lot of nuclear
assets in in one location to see if that
would draw them in. And my understanding
it was successful.
So, you know, our nation and other
nations have figured out circumstances
that can, for lack of a better term,
bait UAP. Right. Right. Um
a certain level of nuclear footprint in
a in a small radius
tends to attract them.
And um
our nation figured that out a long time
ago, and and so did other nations. One
of the things that I I thought about is
I know I know very little about physics,
but I know one thing I know is how big
the universe is.
Now, I'm quite a big fan of SpaceX. I'm
actually invested in the company. And um
from my fascination with space, I've
learned just how big the universe is,
and how long it would take us to travel
from,
I don't know, Earth to the nearest uh
galaxy. The closest star system to us,
which is called Alpha Centauri, Mhm.
Alpha Centauri, right. is over four
light years away, which is about 40 24
trillion miles.
>> Mhm.
If we traveled at the impossible 10% of
the speed of light, which is impossible,
currently impossible, it would take a
ship 40 years to get there. Now,
fortunately, what we learned in looking
at what might be the underlying physics
and using Einstein's theory of general
relativity, it turns out that there are
ways of modifying the effective speed of
light to make it much higher.
Or much lower. So, you you you can do
that. So, So, when you get into
potentially modifying
what we call the space-time metric,
you could get to a point where you can
make wormholes and warp drives, and
those are things that are not off the
charts. I mean, they're actually
textbooks by general relativity experts
on on the fact that you could
re-engineer the space-time
>> So, you're not saying So, you could do
it. You could get from here to there.
But, you're not saying you would travel
in like a like a a a line like you do in
a plane, right?
>> Well, you could. You You could. It It If
If you arrange for the effective speed
of light in that line to be
much higher, then without breaking the
speed of light, you can zoom over there
very quickly. So, you even even in in in
the straight line uh
But, no no one at the moment knows how
to do that on Earth.
I think I think
>> write the equations and see how it
doesn't violate our physics equations,
but we don't have the
uh engineering capabilities. So, we
figured out basically we figured out
like how these how these craft are
operating, the theory of it, but we
don't have the material sciences right
to exactly to replicate it. What I'm
pointing out is if you travel at that
speed across the universe, if you even
hit I don't know
an object the size of a pebble, it would
be like a nuclear explosion. Yeah, but
thing is, when you're modifying uh
it's sort of like making like like a
surfer wave on
you know at the seashore, you you
arrange to have space moving ahead like
that. So, you come up to a rock, it's
just going to push it aside. So, so
>> engineer that. This is how I've wrapped
my head around it. Essentially, they're
they're warping space-time in a
localized area. They're creating immense
amount of energy around the craft and it
creates essentially a bubble around the
craft. And that bubble separates the
craft from the environment around it.
So, the environment has no no impact on
the craft. That's why we see transmedium
travel like a craft going, you know,
smooth from space to air to the water
without even a splash. The environment
around the bubble has no bearing on the
craft inside it. And the craft inside it
is in its own space-time.
And once you wrap your head around that,
then things like interstellar travel
become totally possible.
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One of the paradoxes with this is they
appear to be such so advanced in their
physics
and their technology, if I could call it
that, but at the same time they seem to
be crashing a lot. Which is a bit of a
paradox, isn't Actually, [clears throat]
some of them have not crashed but have
been
simply left in the desert.
Sort of like a gift or a donation. We're
still trying to figure that out. So I
mean some of them do do do crash and and
it can have maybe some of our
electromagnetic pulsing and laser
pulsing can interfere with their
technology and and and and you might get
a crash. Why why don't you Why do you
think another country hasn't come
forward with
similar disclosures and similar
evidence? I actually think there's a
really simple answer for that. I think
our allies follow the US's lead. Right.
And I think our adversaries,
primarily China and Russia, have no
reason to go public.
They don't have the same sort of
societies and dynamics. Like Xi can do
what he wants anyway. What's What's the
advantage to him?
Same thing with Putin. You know, there
is no advantage. And when you look at it
that way, you really quickly get to the,
you know,
this is the way it is for that reason.
They did a study in 2026 and found that
45 planets are likely capable of
supporting life.
They call this the habitable zone out of
more than 6,000 planets discovered so
far by NASA. Mhm. Um there are
approximately a trillion galaxies in the
universe and within these galaxies
100,000 planets could potentially host
life according to Oxford University.
Now, I believe that if you think about
the entire universe,
I believe that we're not the only life
in the universe. Yes, right. I think
that's I mean I think that's a very
scientific conclusion. Probabilistically
it would be pretty incredible if we
were. I mean, it'd be just it's almost
inconceivable that we are. The question
of whether that life has been here is a
question that for me is still a big
question mark.
Because I just, you know, I also I think
Elon, you know, whatever you think about
Elon, he is someone that seems to just
say what he thinks.
And this is part of what's caused his
companies a lot of problems. He seems to
be pretty unfiltered. He has been asked
multiple times as well if he believes
that they are there are aliens in the in
in our galaxy and he has said on
multiple occasions that he doesn't
believe that to be the case. And you
know, he's launching rockets all the
time. So, he said, I heard him say, "If
anyone should know, it should be me."
You do think he knows?
I think that you can't operate in space
at at at the level he does or operate as
a contractor at the level he does
um
without having clearances that require
secrecy. You know, there's
there's there's all kinds of
uh uh levels of secrecy. You know,
there's Everyone knows the word
classified, right? There's classified
projects, but there's also black
projects that are unacknowledged special
access programs where you literally by
law required
to not acknowledge the existence of the
program or anything it does. That's
literally the the Anything it knows.
Yeah. That's literally the whole They're
They're literally referred to as
unacknowledged special access programs.
That would be his team as well, wouldn't
So, if you're involved with an
unacknowledged special access program,
if someone asks you about it,
you you have to say you have no idea
what they're talking about. And all of
his team.
If if they are a part of the program,
yeah.
But just because someone's um read it on
an unacknowledged special access program
doesn't mean all their employees are.
Elon said um that we have 9,000
satellites up there. He's referring to
his company Starlink, and not once have
we had to maneuver around an alien
spaceship. He argues that if aliens were
constantly visiting Earth, the aerospace
experts who watch these guys every day
would be the first to know. Well, look,
NASA also has said for decades that they
have no evidence
of extraterrestrial [laughter]
life or UAPs, and last Friday the
federal government released a photo of a
triangle craft hovering over the 1972
Apollo space mission. So, somebody's
somebody's not being honest.
Right. You know, which also implies a
lot of other people know things that
they haven't revealed.
I think I've heard you say before how
that you think
this intelligent life actually exists
amongst us. Yeah, I I The quote was
they are not occasional visitors. They
live secretly alongside humans, but with
advanced technology. We have so many
sightings and so many uh
even access to materials and so on.
I mean, they're all over the place. 65%
of Americans believe intelligent life
exists on other planets. 40% of people
say military reported UFOs are probably
evidence of extraterrestrial life,
according to Pew Research. And 30% of
Americans believe UFOs or unidentified
flying objects are probably alien ships
of life form. And 47% of Americans
believe aliens have definitely or
probably visited Earth at some point,
according to YouGov. Half of Americans
believe that UFOs
{slash} aliens have definitely or
probably visited life at some point.
Mhm. Quite a lot of people.
>> Well, you see you see you see the the
Age of Disclosure film and the people
that came forward. I mean, you had
Clapper, ex uh
head of the office of Director of
National Intelligence and Senator Rubio
at the time, now in his elevated
position and so on.
You now have people of real quality and
you know they're not lying. And they're
coming forth and saying, "This is real
and we got to deal with it. And there's
a lot we don't know about it." Could you
be wrong?
Um I don't think it's about
[clears throat] whether I'm wrong or how
strong. You'd have to believe that
senior leadership across the government,
the military, the intelligence community
that has access to classified
information
and is saying, "Based on the classified
information they have seen, this is a
real situation." You'd have to believe
all of those people are lying for some
bizarre unexplained reason.
So, I find that hard to believe.
Could it be the case that all of those
people were misinterpreting what they
were seeing?
They they saw something, you know, if
at flight altitude they saw something
moving in their visors when they're up
in space.
Not really, because
>> No, no, I mean, in some cases that could
be the case, but then when you have
actual materials, crashed craft,
bodies that aren't
human. Also, a lot of these sightings um
they're now in the process of the White
House, cabinet members are in the
process of
identifying where the evidence exists
within federal agencies and the military
so they can get access to it themselves
and then determine from there what can
safely be shared with the public. I
think once they get their hands on more
evidence, then a plan would put in place
for telling the world this conclusion. I
think we're we're it's like
>> We're close.
>> Fait accompli basically. Like it's going
to get to that point relatively soon. If
we get to that point and you get
personally invited in to wherever
they're keeping the these materials and
you get to see every single file that
exists and as you go through those files
you realize that
a lot of what you've been told is not
true because there's other explanations.
How would it like fundamentally change
the way that you see the world?
Some of some of the UAP we've seen like
take the famous everybody knows the Tic
Tac UFO, right? The Commander David
Fravor, the Navy fighter pilot,
interacted with in 2004, right?
>> I'll put that on the screen for anyone
that hasn't seen it. Great. And so take
that take that UAP for example.
Multiple data collection systems and
Commander David Fravor, a legend in the
in the Navy, Top Gun guy, commander of
an entire naval strike group, right?
Like total badass, legend legend of a
guy.
He sees this with his own eyes and a
bunch of data collection systems
captured data confirming it's real. This
UAP went from hovering above the ocean
to instantly being at 80,000 ft which is
the entrance to space, right? And it did
that maneuver all afternoon.
The amount of energy required to do that
is so bonkers.
It's we do not humans do No human beings
have the ability to create that must
that much energy, right? In a localized
area for for an aircraft.
And and so
to answer your question, if we find out
you know
the unthinkable, that this is not
non-human intelligent life, that some
humans have figured out how to crack
that technology
and did it as recent as 2004 when the
Tic Tac incident happened.
That would
be even more mind-blowing than
accepting that life from elsewhere is
here and has been here a long time
because that would mean that some some
group of humans leapfrogged the rest of
all of humanity technologically by
thousands of years and then seemingly
did nothing with that. Or it could be
something else. That's the nature of
unusual things. They become great
stories. So I I think in the case of the
Tic Tac incident, again, I'm what I'm
trying to do is interrogate this from
all angles. Is could it have been
something else?
Could it be Any any isolated event like
that you could do the whole could it be
this, could it be that thing, but it's
the it's the you got to take a step back
and look at this the collective. It's
one report like that after another from
credible people since World War II.
You know, during World War II pilots
were seeing what they called the Foo
Fighters, like these orbs that would
move alongside uh our our fighter jets,
right? Like they would like they would
move in in line with them.
Um And now we have we have people on
ships seeing these things enter the
water and then moving at, you know,
Impossible speeds.
>> knots or something, which no no human
being could could do that.
>> as I know, our fastest submarines go
like 50 miles an hour. These things are
going hundreds of miles an hour under
the ocean. So these craft are
transmedium. They're seen in space,
they're seen in the air, they're seen
underwater.
There's just too much activity to to
ignore. Yeah, and and that would be a
hard one to say, "Well, you know, is
there some sonar thing that makes you
think something is doing that?" But it's
seen enough times under enough different
conditions that we just have to accept
it as real. Is there a reason why this
hasn't been captured on like an iPhone?
When like in 4K? There's been a lot of
stuff captured on phones and video
cameras. In in that scene in the Age of
Disclosure I mentioned where Hal and
some of the other people break down how
these things are working and they
describe that they're creating a a warp
bubble around the craft. That warp
bubble also makes it very hard to get a
clear video of something cuz you're
you're taking a photo or a video
through
essentially a space-time barrier, you
know?
>> barrier.
>> the equivalent of taking pictures of
trying to take video of like koi fish in
a pond from above the water. It's going
to look all distorted cuz you're going
through the water.
If you're if you're trying to video or
take a photo through a
this bubble, it makes it pretty hard.
And then you end up with the kind of
videos we we see.
Um you'll probably be familiar with this
NASA report that they produced on UAPs,
independent study team report where they
they essentially say that they don't
believe that this
these UAPs are are aliens. Why would
NASA be lying? Like all these big
bureaucracies, there's people who are
aware of the truth and then there's
people who
have the truth kept from them. Or, you
know, one of the people I interviewed
was Mike Mike Gold who was on the UAP uh
the NASA UAP task force. And he talked
about um how that
effort was was was flawed from the
start. They didn't want to have a result
that said NASA has all this information
that they've kept from the public. They
wanted the result that that they landed
on, which is there's nothing to see
here. And they were really discouraged
from um for example, the uh that that
image of a triangle
what clearly appears to be a triangle
craft over the moon, um
they were told not to not to include
that in their report.
Like they were they they they were not
set up to tell the world the truth.
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In your view, is it possible that aliens
aren't
aren't real? Is it possible?
Possible.
>> I think I'm missing the question.
So, you think it's impossible?
>> Yeah, using the term alien, you know,
has a certain connotation about it. So,
we can certainly say, I mean, that the
evidence is absolutely clear that there
is some form of life with advanced
technology. You know, if you want to
say, "Well, what can I prove about about
it?" Well, that those are still unknowns
that we're trying to suss out.
I got access at a very high to a very
high level of the government, the
military intelligence community. And
there were a lot of people who talked to
me off the record that wouldn't go on
camera. There were a lot of people who
couldn't tell me about classified
information. I didn't want to know
classified information.
But, they all made it very clear, um,
not just on camera, but off the record,
that there that there is evidence at a
classified level that is clear as day,
like some video taken when like the
bubble is turned off and you can see a
a craft of non-human origin clear as
day. And there is evidence of the
technology that's been recovered and of
these bodies. And when you have when if
you put yourself in my shoes, when you
have so many senior people across the
military, government intelligence
community telling you this, it's it's
really just impossible to ignore it,
especially when most of them aren't even
friends. They're not like ideologically
aligned or politically aligned. They're
all just different groups of people. I'm
less compelled by eyewitnesses. This is
the problem cuz you know, I'm such a big
true crime fan.
>> [laughter]
>> I hear about all the bloody cases where
eyewitnesses said this and then they
find out the serial killer wasn't that
person or that thing didn't happen. So,
and I also just have my own experiences
of like thinking I saw things when I was
younger. Here's an interesting thing you
just made me think of. So, in the film,
uh, Rubio and General Jim Clapper, two
people who are completely ideologically
and politically opposed to each other,
made the same
really intelligent point.
And they both have knowledge at a a
classified level of the situation.
They both said
a problem we
as humans have
is that there's something in the human
psyche that says, I cannot wrap my head
around or prepare for things I haven't
seen or experienced, right? And time and
time again throughout history
that has proven to be like a human flaw,
right? Rubio goes on to say that the
greatest intelligence failures in US
history
come from a lack of imagination. And he
cites a few examples. He says, we never
would have imagined the Japanese could
figure out how to get torpedoes through
the straits and hit us at Pearl Harbor
until they did. Um he says we never
would have imagined terrorists would fly
to the homeland, learn to fly commercial
planes and then use them in a terrorist
attack until they did, right? Um he says
some other examples, too. But time and
time again, not wrapping our head around
a set of circumstances that and using
our imagination to think about what
might happen or what might be happening
has it's bit us in the ass. And he he
ends his line of thought by saying lack
of imagination leads to strategic
surprise like Pearl Harbor, like 9/11.
And sometimes strategic surprise changes
the course of history. Mhm. And so
you know, him and and other people I
interviewed think it's really important
to get ahead of this as opposed to
waiting for something to happen. As
opposed to waiting for, you know, to
find out the hard way that China, you
know, cracked this technology before us
and used it as in an act of war or uh
non-human intelligent life uh does
something unpredictable and then all of
a sudden the US government's on its
heels and so are other governments on
their heels explaining to the public
what they've known for a long time. I
I've often heard that the reason why
they don't tell the general public that
these things exist is because the
general public aren't ready for this
information.
Is that an argument? I've not really
heard you guys say that.
>> Yeah, no, people there are people
involved in
gatekeeping this information that don't
think the public can handle the truth.
Uh you know, Hal recently told me that
people in the legacy program are
pointing to the Age of Disclosure and
saying, "Look, this film reveals a lot
and people aren't losing their you
know? People aren't jumping out of
windows. It's not causing chaos in
society." Like the public can handle the
base facts. Of all the things you've
heard, Dan, what is the What was the
most compelling story or anecdote that
you heard that convinced you?
It was really just the sheer number of
very high-level military government
intelligence officials who were telling
me in in private settings to my face,
you know,
that at a classified level they know
with absolute certainty this is real.
But if you had to pick one story? Oh, I
mean, it's really it's really
it wasn't one It really wasn't one thing
for me. It was like it was the overall.
It's like, for example, I I interviewed
Rubio and Gillibrand Senator Gillibrand
on the same day. They both participated
in the film and did lengthy interviews
with me. And both looked me in the face
and told me they thought this was the
most important documentary that's ever
been made. And that this was really
important to bring this information out
in a thoughtful way to the public and
make them aware of what's happening. You
You can't like unhear stuff like that,
you know?
Um
and it makes it makes an impact on you.
What about you, Hal? What was the most
persuasive thing that you
that tipped you over the edge from a,
you know, maybe being agnostic to
believing that there are
non-human intelligent life amongst us?
Well, it's looking at the technology,
which is so advanced,
that I'm that I'm essentially certain
that no
uh us or our adversaries could have made
it.
So, somebody actually made it and it has
to be somebody who knows a lot more
about physics than we do.
I mean, there's there's there's nowhere
to go but to say, "Okay, there's
somebody who is way beyond
humans to develop that kind of
technology and display it. Of all the
evidence that's been released and all of
the rumors and videos and you know,
going back to the crop fields that we
used to hear about many years ago,
presumably there's lots of this stuff
that you don't believe.
That you think is nonsense.
>> definitely there's definitely
>> tons of them.
>> of reports that are that when you look
into them seem like for sure.
Because you know, one of the things
people often say is that alien encounter
descriptions perfectly match the pop
culture of that era.
So, people saw flying saucers in the in
the 1950s after sci-fi movies
popularized them and gray aliens in the
1980s after books like Communion
popularized them. And this kind of
suggests that
sightings are born from human
imagination versus
Well, I I think I and I think that's a
reasonable uh
place to come to. I think I think a lot
of the reports that we get,
you know, we can generally set aside as
being, you know, just
manufactured by humans who get caught up
in the sort of
a give and take on social media and so
on.
But, nonetheless, when you really zero
in on actual evidence of technologies
and evidence of bodies,
there you can't just say it's uh
you know, it's just social contagion.
>> Yeah, when I think about the
technologies, when I watch like the Tic
Tac video, Mhm. it's kind of blurry. I
don't really know what I'm looking at.
Like there's this thing moving around on
the screen that's like black and white,
but I don't really know what I'm looking
at. And I think this has always been the
struggle with it is we're so used to
consuming content in high definition
that we can clearly and it it appears to
be the case that so many of these UAP
videos are like in the distance and kind
of blurry and vague.
So, it makes them harder to believe. And
I just I think we're all longing for
like a solid video. You talked about
them going in and out of the water.
How come someone's not got a You got If
someone like falls over and we we we
capture it all on camera these days.
CCTV cameras on every high street. Why
is there no like a solid video of
something going in the water and out of
the water?
>> Look, multiple people said on camera
they have seen with their own eyes
classified videos that are indisputable.
Um and some of them told me specifics
like that story I told you that the
first video Jay Stratton was shown when
he went down this rabbit hole. It was a
triangle craft hovering over a nuclear
weapon site. Uh Air Force security
guards had filmed it on a little VHS
camera that they had. It was It was
hovering long enough for them to do
that. You know, that kind of evidence
exists, but it's just still classified.
Will it be coming out, do you think? I I
I hope so. I I I know this process is
playing out right now where people like
like Jay Stratton are helping the
administration find where the evidence
exists so they can get their hands on it
and then determine whether it can safely
be declassified. Like that process is
definitely playing out right now. Do you
think Do you trust the Trump
administration to release all of the
available information? I I don't think
it's a question of do we trust the
current administration will release it.
It's do we think all these federal
agencies and branches of the military
are going to turn
over the evidence they have to the
administration. That's the question. And
the jury's still out on that. They're
They're not right now. They're pushing
back.
And they're pushing back hard. And
that's why the administration is working
with people like Stratton like Jay
Stratton who who who have who over 16
years has learned where a lot of this
evidence is. Um they're working with
people like him to find out where the
evidence sits, who who's gatekeeping it
at each of these different
organizations, and how to get to it. Um
so they're doing They're doing a
fact-finding mission right now.
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If it is released, if all the
information that you've heard from your
witnesses is released, if they release,
you know, craft alien craft, and they
release alien bodies and all of these
things, how do you imagine the world
would be different? I think it will lead
to a giant technology boom. I think once
we're told, "Hey, there's this
technology that exists that could
revolutionize the way we live, you know,
it could lead to anti-gravity
technology. It could lead to
solve new energy sources, solve the
energy crisis overnight, right?" Could
lead to interstellar travel and going
farther out, you know. And I think it'd
have a great psychological effect uh
because, you know, you suddenly
uh you go from the point of saying,
"Well, maybe we're the only intelligent
species in the universe." And then you
suddenly get the idea that
uh this is a universe full of life.
>> What does that mean for religion?
I think all dogmas will just apply to
it, you know. And I think that the
Vatican's already gotten ahead of it and
said, you know, they put out a message a
couple years ago that basically the the
the gist of it was, you know, God's
God's universe and God's work is vast
and, you know,
>> and you couldn't you couldn't uh
you know, say that he he wouldn't have
the ability to do that. I mean
>> Yeah.
So I I I I I I I
>> from a religious standpoint
and certainly in the case of the
Catholic Church
they've had uh very positive views about
population being throughout Yeah. And
there's nothing really at least from the
Catholic Church's perspective, there's
nothing that counters the you know it
does that doesn't allow you to wrap your
head around the fact that there's other
life out there, you know? Are you guys
religious? Not like overly religious,
but like you know I my my my mom's Irish
and and grew up going to Catholic school
and I you know I went to a CCD and you
know Sunday school is the it's called a
CCD where I grew up.
Um but uh
>> in God? I do. I do. Do you believe in I
do too. Yeah. I'm a practicing Catholic,
so So would that mean that you believe
God has made all of these
aliens as well? That's my that's what my
worldview is.
>> Yeah, I would think that I couldn't say
that's not the case.
But you know, as a scientist I can't
prove that that it is the case, but
you know, just just on the statistics of
it it's pretty likely.
You know, an interesting thing happening
right now Steven too is these people who
have been gatekeeping the truth.
Um a lot of them are afraid to come
forward and tell the White House what
they know because they they think
they're going to be villainized. They
they think the optics around this are
such that like if someone's been
covering this up, they're they're
they're they're the villain of the
story, right? And so
um the White House and the Director of
National Intelligence and the Department
of War realized this and so in the last
couple of weeks they've been messaging
out to the military and the intelligence
community
that this is not a witch hunt, it's not
an endeavor to punish anyone. They want
to encourage people to come forward,
they assure them there will be no no
punishment uh for being involved in
gatekeeping this. They just want to
learn the truth and find out where the
real evidence sits. So that's another
thing that's playing out right now that
I think if it gets out there enough, uh
it will lead to more people coming
forward with that
that evidence we all want to see. Yep.
Earlier on we you talked about how some
people feel like their lives are at risk
because of what they know.
Has there been any instance of anyone
being punished for saying anything in
this regard?
Well, certainly having having their
clearances pulled or losing their up
opportunities for advancement, uh
we we've heard stories like that from
from several people in the intelligence
community. Is there any Is there anyone
you can name that has said that they
were threatened or punished or in some
form because of what they know?
>> the the number one whistleblower for for
many people has been David Grusch.
And so he has uh outlined the various
steps taken against him to
basically ruin his career significantly
enough that he went to the Inspector
General of the intelligence community
and said,
"I'm being punished, shoved aside,
losing clearances, and so on because I
came out with this data." And they said,
"Well,
what you provided us is, you know,
serious, worthy of consideration."
>> And I think a lot of people have had
their lives threatened. Um I'm not
certain if if anyone has been killed, um
but I know people have had their lives
threatened. Yeah.
And who's threatening them?
People that are involved um
in
this this program, referred to as the
legacy program. Who think that the
evidence should not ever come out.
This legacy program. So this is a
program run within the US government?
To it. US government
>> Elements of elements of it, uh and also
defense contractors.
>> And you think the legacy program knows
the truth on this regard?
Yes, because they have the first-hand
evidence of the crash materials and the
bodies.
There's 80 years of data that this
this
group has.
And they haven't released or leaked that
data for the last 80 years.
There'd be no advantage. No one's hacked
it. This This program is the epitome of
a special access program. I think this
program is as off the grid as it it
could possibly be.
It almost seems like there's nothing
that eventually hasn't come to come to
light that the government have done.
Like I've sat here and interviewed a lot
of CIA spies
who've told me the history of the CIA
and this program that lasted for 12
years and then it comes out and this
program and I mean even some of the
stuff that I've heard you talk about how
around um
what's it called? Remote viewing. Remote
viewing. Remote viewing. Yeah. That was
that CIA project? That was CIA. What is
remote viewing? Remote viewing, well,
the the the CIA suddenly got concerned
because they saw that the the Soviets
were spending millions of dollars at
some of their best institutes to
investigate the possible use of quote
ESP. What's ESP? Psychic ability.
>> Yeah. Psychic abilities, extrasensory
perception.
And so as it turns out I was at Stanford
Research Institute and they saw my
background. They they came to me and
said, you know,
"We'd like for you to to look into this.
Is there anything to this? I mean no um
scientist in America even believes there
is such thing as ESP." Who came to you?
CIA.
This is This is in the '70s.
>> Yeah. The CIA
>> Back in the '70s.
>> approached you in the '70s and asked you
to investigate remote viewing. That's
right. And so they asked me to set up a
small program and 50 or 60 K or
whatever. They said, you know, "We hope
you'll find this is all nonsense. We can
forget about it. We don't have to worry
about it."
And it grew into, you know, more than a
two-decade program, millions of dollars.
Stargate is
the label for it that most people know
about because by now most of the
information in the program came out. And
basically it we just we just found that
the people
essentially just like you have artistic
ability or athletic ability or whatever,
musical ability.
Well, we found out that remote viewing,
this ability to sit in a location and
pick up information from some place far
away uh is a talent that many people
could demonstrate. And so we ended up
actually training Army intelligence
officers at the Army Intelligence and
Security Command at Fort Meade
how to do this. And so So wait, let me
just simplify this for the audience that
might not fully understand what we're
talking about. So remote viewing is the
idea that I could sit here in London
where we are now and I could be trained
to see what was going on in another part
of the world.
>> your mind's eye go to a remote location.
>> I'll give you [clears throat] a specific
example. A Soviet plane that CIA wanted
to get hold of went down somewhere in
Africa.
And they didn't they didn't know where
because the pilot had bailed out and it
just went on until it ran out of gas. So
we got two of our quote best remote
viewers, one that worked for the Air
Force and one that worked for my
organization to say, "Okay, here's a map
of Africa. Where's that damn plane? We
got to go in and get it."
And they put an X on the map that was in
3 miles of where the plane went down out
of the hundreds of thousands of square
miles. And so the CIA went and it got
the plane. So I mean it was, you know,
how do they do that? Well, By the way,
there's an audio recording of President
Jimmy Carter telling that story.
>> Yeah.
Hm. Post post [clears throat]
presidency.
Maybe we should play that.
One time we had a a small plane go down
somewhere in Africa. We were not able to
find it by surveillance from our
satellites. So the director of the CIA,
he was also director of all the
intelligence agencies,
heard about a uh
a woman in California that uh was a
medium. And he uh contacted her, and she
gave him the
latitude and longitude of the plane's
whereabouts. And the next time one of
our space satellites went over that
area, we located the plane where she
said it was. Again, this sounds like
it's impossible. Sounds like I give It
sounds completely bananas. It sounds
like something out of an X-Men comic
book. It sounds crazy. But Well, I was
okay. It is You want to be really
practical about it. Uh
you know, they they often our skeptics
would say, "Well, if they're so psychic,
why aren't they rich? Why aren't they in
the stock market or whatever?"
So, we set up a little program on on a
challenge to predict silver futures. To
predict to predict what? Silver futures.
>> Just the value of silver? The value of
silver silver on a daily basis was it
going to go up or go down?
So, we had somebody said, "Okay, I I
will if you'll set up a little program
like that for 30 days, I'll bet on what
your quote remote viewers say,
and I'll put the money in, and I'll give
you 10% of what I make." So, I said,
"Okay, fine." Now, long story short, uh
made um
$260,000
in the 30 days. We got our 10%, which is
$26,000.
So, people could actually
in this case even look into the future a
day and
generate a description of what they were
going to see and handle the following
day. Presumably not everybody. How many
people did you have
do that?
>> We had
uh seven in that experiment.
>> And how many of them were successful in
generating
>> Six of the seven
uh generated really good data. So, were
those six of people now rich?
Well, I don't I don't know. Uh some of
them may may have followed up. They
don't Why were those six people picked?
Since we had learned that sort of
anybody can do this, uh
we were actually raising money for a
school that was being put together. So,
I just went to the board of directors
and said, "Okay, I'm going to give you a
crash course over the weekend in {quote}
remote viewing of the type we train
intelligence officers to do."
And
so, you're going to be it.
So, you just it was the board of The
school.
>> The board board of the school. Okay.
They all knew what I did for a living
and so This program Stargate got
so much
actionable intelligence from the remote
viewers that Hal started briefing at the
time the director of the CIA on a
regular basis.
>> have briefed all the way up to Bill
Casey, the director of the CIA. So, does
it still exist, this program?
In any capacity? Uh remote viewing? If
it does, you wouldn't hear about it.
Why?
Because
it'd be a best black highly classified
program. Why?
Because we don't want our adversaries to
know how we might be getting access to
their data. You just told us.
But people can not believe that, and
that's fine. But aren't you under some
sort of contract?
Well, as it turns out, the CIA and and
DIA, also went to the DIA, that program
finally got declassified
at the level that was operating at, and
that you can go to the CIA reading room
and you can get all the documents. All
of So, your work was originally
classified? Oh, it was originally top
secret special access program. Yeah.
There's a part of me that goes, "Listen,
if people could do remote viewing and
see, you know, into other parts of the
world or predict the things that you're
saying,
I mean,
if if if it was trainable,
everything the life as we know it would
be completely flipped on its head.
>> I think it's unreasonable to think that
when Stargate became public, the US
government stopped
remote viewing. I mean, I wouldn't stop
if I was the US government. If if it
worked, I wouldn't stop.
>> it just went underground, moved to a
different agency.
>> Yeah, went underground.
So you were training people to do it,
though.
Yeah. We Well, we had Yeah, we had we
had people that we trained. So train me.
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah. How do you train me? Well, now a
number of the uh military intelligence
officers that we trained have now left
the military, and they do have training
courses.
Do you Do you believe it?
I do. At first, I thought it just
sounded too much like something in a
comic book, right? But
the more I first read about Stargate in
the declassified documents, started to
realize how serious the government took
it, and the more I learned about it
through Hal, and then eventually
um I really don't want to get into the
details of this, but eventually
um I got connected with someone who has
done remote viewing for the government,
and they did a demonstration for me that
blew my mind.
Cuz you would think if anyone was
capable of doing remote viewing, they
could go on the internet and make one
prediction or do one video that would
be, you know, proven to be true, and
they would literally be considered to be
a superhuman.
Like they would literally be
I mean, people would probably think they
were a deity or a
or a spiritual leader or something.
Well, if one person could do remote
viewing
>> was that it seems to be an act action
that
is just part of the human makeup.
And so it isn't like they're super deity
or god-like or really off the charts.
It's something that people can learn to
do, like they can learn to play the
piano or whatever it is for whatever
reason. Maybe it was a skill set that
anyone
>> new uh
you know, psychiatrists and
neurophysiologists
beginning to study, you know, how does
consciousness do its thing in the brain
and so on and
are there elements of it once you get
into quantum theory and quantum
entanglement that would say you could
have evidence,
you know, beyond just our physical
structure.
>> Like it could be rationalized with like
a quantum connection basically that that
the moving your mind's eye to another
location which also goes to like, you
know, Hal's life very interestingly, you
know, first was the Stargate stuff and
then he got into UAP and the overlap
that I find fascinating is some of these
craft that have been found or crashes
that have happened.
The reports from people involved say
that a lot of them don't have any
control panels in them. Mhm. Like
they're basically empty other than seats
which suggests that maybe there's some
sort of mind connection controlling
these craft. I did wonder about the
crafts. So I thought, you know, if I was
an advanced civilization, why would I
and I was that small, why would I send
life to these planets when I could just
send the crafts?
You know, why am I sending biological
life when I could just send the Maybe
they're manufactured biological life.
Maybe it's maybe they're the equivalent.
Maybe they're not sentient.
Yeah.
It's true. But the remote viewing stuff
opens up a lot of possibilities if Yeah,
I mean we as part of this CIA program,
we found that
people could
affect quantum devices that were
totally shielded by superconducting
shielding. Tell them Tell them that
particular story. That's a Yeah, we we
uh
there's a quote psychic so-called and uh
so I brought him to Stanford and I was
skeptical at the time and uh I said,
"Okay, well, we've got this super
experiment where there's tiny quantum
chip down inside of this electrical
shielding, magnetic shielding,
superconducting shielding. We We to see
if you can affect it.
And he did. I mean, this is supposed to
be totally non-affectable
from by anything on the outside. In
fact, it was developed by the Navy to
just look for corks and stuff like that.
And so, it was supposed to not be
influenced from the outside by anything.
And he influenced it. And when I say he
influenced it, I'm not just saying
there's a little blip that, you know,
you could kind of read into it. No, it
it was a system where
it ordinarily just had an oscillating
signal like that. And then when he
affected it, it just stopped the
oscillation.
And then he could also make the
oscillation go twice as fast. Of course,
for a graduate student whose life
depended on this not being
affected from the outside, you know,
really.
But then they uh they
that that that raised a big issue for
them. That means uh gee, does that mean
if we put if we hide our documents
inside of superconducting safes, uh the
Russians might be able to
So, actually when we had detente, the
American remote viewers got together
with the Soviet remote viewers and
traded war stories.
Did experiments together for You know,
I'm I think I'm naturally skeptical cuz
I'm skeptical with all things, but I'm
often proven wrong.
So, you know, my fiance, she um she
believes lots of things I don't believe.
And so so frequently she's been proven
right in those things that I remain
open-minded
to things in life
cuz I've learned to.
So, I think that's where I remain. I
remain open-minded.
And I think on the balance of
probability, if you ask me, do I think
there's other life in the universe? I
think it would be crazy to say there
wasn't. Right. Right. But it but
[clears throat] has there been life that
has arrived here that we've recovered? I
just I would need more evidence. Is
there
>> I I think I think that's the right
attitude. And we're hoping that uh with
the
release of documents that's starting to
happen now,
that you'll get that evidence, but in
the absence of actually
getting access to the evidence, it's
very reasonable that to be skeptical.
Yeah, absolutely.
>> I do think though that
the current administration in the US
is so focused on following through with
this directive the president gave to
to get
all the evidence within the possession
of the federal government, all different
agencies, military branches, and then
figure out what can be declassified. I
think they're taking it so serious that
we're going to we're going to get to
more tranches of more meaningful
evidence. And I think eventually we'll
get to that thing that we that moment
that we've all only seen in movies where
a sitting president steps to a
microphone and tells the world we're not
alone in the universe. I think I think
we're going to get there.
I think so, too.
Just a matter of time.
Does it change the meaning of life if
that becomes the case? Does it Does it
mean anything for us as humans?
What do you think the meaning of life
is, How? And do you think it we should
change our behavior in any way even if
this
moment does occur? I think if we found
out that there were life throughout the
universe that it's
it can be developed in all kinds of
forms
then then that makes us
take a new look at well, what does it
mean to be human? You know, we ought to
think about if we can interacting with
these other species and seeing what we
can learn from them and
what might they learn from us? And so,
it just opens up a whole new sort of
view of what the universe is like. I
mean, I've got I've [snorts] got 15
grandkids. They should grow up in a
universe where it's teeming with life
and they know that and that's a very
kind of an exciting kind of thing. I
think it also could be the one thing
that could unify all of humanity.
You know, Reagan gave a great speech
during his presidency at the United
Nations where he said he often thinks
that it might be a threat from outside
this universe that makes all of humanity
come together and think more about what
it has in common than than its
differences.
Um and you know, it moves them past the
the the the conflicts of the moment. And
that might be, you know, wishful
thinking and might be naive, but it also
might actually be the one thing that
could that could line people up. How's
it changed how you think about the
the meaning of life? Between what I've
learned about the the reality of the UAP
situation and the existence of non-human
intelligent life, what I've learned
about, for example, remote viewing, it's
made me realize that our sort of Western
present-day view of reality is not
complete. You know, we think we know
everything there is
you know, to life and and how things
work and we just don't. And when you're
honest with yourself and you look back
at history, all the times people thought
that they were they were proven wrong
pretty quickly.
Right. And so it's made me open to a lot
more possibilities um than than I would
have been just just 10 years ago.
Do you think it could be a a renaissance
in in our attitudes toward life and and
everything? Yeah. Are you both open to
being wrong?
Yeah, look, I should have said this
early on. When I first started making my
documentary, I was totally prepared to
have people tell me, "Look, this is all
It was all cover for our
classified projects." Did they? No, no
one did. That was the crazy thing. Not
not a single person did. I would I was
trying to pull it out of people. I'd be
like,
you know, "Come on, this is really this
is like a black project then on an on
acknowledged special access program,
right? Like just just say nothing if
that's the case." And they're like, "No,
dude. Not not even close." Like it was
over and over and and these weren't
random people. These were really senior
people on the Senate Intelligence
Committee, on the Senate Armed Services
Committee, um
leaders in in the intelligence
community, leaders in in in the
military. And so,
yeah.
It's hard to ignore. Yeah. Well,
Trump has released the first round of
the UAP reports. Um so I guess in many
respects this conversation is to be
continued. Yeah. Yeah. And we we we have
been told by our friends in government
that the next tranche of evidence is
likely to come out in the next 30 days
or so. And it's going to be a rolling
declassification process. So there'll be
a lot more to talk about in the near
future. Thank you so much for your time.
Really appreciate it. I feel very
curious. Yeah. Very very curious and I I
highly recommend people go check out
your documentary. I'm going to link it
below. Um and I think one of the great
things about the documentary is the
diversity of people you've spoken to
including Marco Rubio who is what now
working alongside President Trump and
many others including yourself Hal. Um
and other guests that I've like people
like Jay who um I hope to speak to you
sometime soon. Cool. Thank you for
having us and thank [clears throat] you
for bringing attention to interesting
topics like this. I really do think
you know, you know, people like you are
are helping open people's minds. You
know, in the past we only had you know,
it wasn't that long ago there's only
four TV networks, right? And a small
group of legacy media people controlled
what people thought about really. So
people like you are opening up
everyone's minds to other possibilities
and other information and so thank you.
>> Yeah, it's it's it's interesting cuz
again so sometimes I I think I have to
remind the audience of like why I do
what I do and why I pick the subjects
that I pick. But it's honestly just what
I'm curious about. And if if something
rises in public curiosity and it's in my
my curiosity then I'll speak about it.
It's not an endorsement of me believing
everything. It is just me wanting to
learn more. Yeah. And I you know, I I
wish we lived in a society that was more
open-minded generally to the people on
the other side of the aisle or to
subjects that are currently considered
to be I don't know, controversial or or
or not because you know, it's not lost
on me that my own very existence as a
black businessman
is in of itself um something that was
once a very controversial idea.
And so I'm all for you know,
uh controversial ideas being having some
kind of space to be
>> Every major breakthrough in the history
of humanity came from someone being
curious, right? And wanting to learn
about something they weren't aware of.
So, I I think great things will come out
of it. And and and you just touched on
something we didn't mention, which is I
found, shockingly, that this is the the
UAP issue, non-human subtle life, is the
most bipartisan issue in Washington,
D.C. At a time when Democrats and
Republicans in the United States can't
agree on anything, they're completely
lined up on this being the biggest issue
of our time. Extremely significant. And
like that says a lot, too, you know?
Yeah.
To be continued.
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