The one where we shoot down some unidentified objects with a cross section of American East coasters, dig up the remains of the infamous 1947 Roswell crashed "flying disc", and discuss the ideas and influence of Ufologists J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, Leslie Kean, and Avi Loeb, with Science writer and veteran UFO debunker, Robert Sheaffer.
(This episode was NOT funded by the South Carolina Department of Tourism--though we dare say it should have been.)
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 Pre-Show Announcement
0:01:33 Introduction
0:05:35 Word On The Street: Spring Break UFO Edition
0:40:14 Interview with Robert Sheaffer
2:02:05 Essay on the 1947 Roswell crashed “flying disc”
2:43:14 Closing Credits
(NOTE: None of these timestamps were reverse-engineered from broken bits of a crashed alien spaceship)
Click here to visit Robert Sheaffer's Bad UFOs blog.
Click here to watch the 1989 Unsolved Mysteries episode that made Roswell a household name. (Begins at timestamp 19:13)
Click here to read our Essay on Roswell, complete with illustrations, links, footnotes, and references.
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