Probing Questions

To believe or not to believe.

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Trump’s indictment has left serious journalists everywhere scrambling to cover the developing story, so of course, Jonah’s response is to arrange some radical counter-programming. He’s joined today by Jazz Shaw, a Navy veteran and Hot Air’s weekend editor, for an out-of-this-world discussion of UFOs. In this eagerly anticipated follow-up to last week’s episode with Avi Loeb, Jonah and Jazz tackle all of the most pressing questions facing the ufology community. Why do pilots keep spotting UFOs? Is the government competent enough to hide big secrets? And what’s so special about cows?

Show Notes:

– Spacing out with the New York Times

– Pentagon receives more than 350 new reports of UFO sightings

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  1. Paulkempf

    A cool novel about skinwalkers was written by Tony Hillerman, one of a series of well-written police procedurals set in the Four Corners region & featuring tribal police protagonists. (Worth a look):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalkers_(novel)

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  2. Kmsinatra

    Jonah,
    wondering if you heard about this from your family in AK?
    https://apnews.com/article/alaska-sky-spiral-aurora-northern-lights-90e767058f328bb95bab62c3f5bed1cc

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  3. Randall Briggs

    I went to an academic colloquium at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, in 1995. My assigned roommate insisted that he had been kidnapped by aliens, probed, and fitted with devices that he could neither detect nor remove.

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  4. Jimolivi

    I liked your questions about "How do they keep these secrets for so long"/"The God of the Gaps". Jazz answered like the best of them. First he filibustered you, then he came out with classic "See how good they are at keeping secrets"/"It really is God's will that we feeble creatures can't understand."

    Jazz is a master of the argument from ignorance fallacy.

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    Jack

    This episode was very entertaining. Feel free to do more along these lines!

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    CJ White

    The Remnant fulfilling Jonah's request to be "more weird"! I had fun with this episode and found it interesting, if at times skeptical. The Remnant is approaching its peak weirdness!

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  7. Joseph Stevens

    My friend and I were talking about the video from the F-18s. We’re both scientists and agreed with the limited data there is no satisfactory explanation. However, believing the object was extraterrestrial raises far more questions. Such as: how do they get here, the speeds at which they would have to travel begs some questions about relativity (they would essentially be time traveling forward and in our reference frame it would be likely hundreds of years before we see them again). Also how would they be sustaining themselves for the near continual journeys? They can’t travel at the speed of light. Not even mention the energy needed to travel such distances.

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    Anne W (Raw5254)

    This was fun, Jonah! Definitely a nice break from politics. Thanks!

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    AndreaLeane75

    yet another fun podcast. A nice break from political shenanigans. Don't get me wrong. I do enjoy those podcasts but a break is welcome.

    I don't really believe in UFO's as in aliens are here kind of thing but I do believe that some people do see things that have no known explanation. I know 4 people who did see the same thing one night. Could have been a military experiment, could have been an bona fide UFO. But I do believe they saw something.

    I highly enjoyed visiting the Roswell museum, which I visited as more of a sci-fi fan than anything else. Do I think it was aliens? No, but I do now believe something happened and that there was some kind of military coverup.

    I guess I'd be open to the idea of aliens but there'd have to be some really heavy scientific proof to show me. But I do believe there are things in this universe that we can't yet explain. Not sure if that makes me gullible or just average. heh.

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      Anne W (Raw5254)

      I like the way you think!

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  10. Keith Jagger

    Jonah should send Guy to a few UFO coventions.

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      Anne W (Raw5254)

      I bet he’d have a great take on things! 🤣

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