Big Picture Science: Skeptic Check: Disclosure Day
The latest
Hollywood romp through the world of aliens has landed in theaters. Steven
Spielberg’s movie Disclosure Day suggests that our government has been hiding a
cache of evidence about alien visitation that spans decades. It’s fun fiction
but does it mesh with reality? Officials have made a series of public
disclosures containing information about the government’s UAP program over the
years, releasing massive amounts of declassified documents along with audio and
video files. Will the most recent data dump finally provide evidence that
aliens are here? We look at the extended history of public desire to believe in
extraterrestrial visitation, plus the scientific efforts to detect intelligent
or microbial life on other worlds.
Guests:
- Adam Kirsch – Senior editor at The Atlantic, and author of, “We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters”
- Sarah Rugheimer – Astrophysicist at the University of Edinburgh and author of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Life”
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