Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Alien Visits, UFOs, and Other Conspiracies

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Are alien spacecrafts here on earth? In this explainer video, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss the existence of aliens on earth and what the scientific community thinks of it.
Do conspiracy theories like UFOs hold any truth or validity? Or is this obsession with aliens just fueled by the movies? Find out what T-Rex, blackholes, and the brothers Grimm have in common. We also debate whether imaginings of evil aliens are just based on how we humans treat each other. Are the people being visited by aliens always the ones in danger?
What do aliens look like? Learn why we often portray aliens as being vertebrate. Would advanced aliens capable of space travel even care about us? You’ll learn how alien sightings have changed over the years with the innovations in photographic technology. We explore the leaps many people take when they discover things in the night sky. Are human senses even trustworthy without further evidence? Is the government competent enough to keep this a secret? All that and more on another StarTalk explainer!
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0:00 - Introduction
0:27 - What Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Of Aliens
5:08 - Where Our Fear Of Aliens Comes From
6:30 - The Assumptions We Make About Alien Forms
8:11 - Would Aliens Care About Us?
9:02 - Does Neil Believe In Alien Abductions?
10:46 - What Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Of UFOs
17:01 - Is The Existence Of Aliens Being Kept A Secret?
19:03 - Closing Notes

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Комментарии : 8 тыс.

@Philo68 3 года назад

‘Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.’ Arthur C. Clarke

@The_Bit_Player 3 года назад

Both are equally beautiful. - The Bit Player.

@leomartin1603 3 года назад

The thing about E.T.'s is that sentient life doesnt HAVE to be anthropomorphic.

@BubuH-cq6km 3 года назад

yes but U also have to remember Neil also works for the Pentagon & CIA

@belendrane6061 3 года назад

amogus

@BubuH-cq6km 3 года назад

@DesertRat45 🤣😂😅go sail off your #flatearth

@paranoiac789 3 года назад

Hey Neil, any comments on the video released by Pentagon?

@nedschneebly9417 3 года назад

I wish he could talk about the potential physics behind how such a peculiar shaped aircraft could float and travel at hypersonic velocities without any typical method of propulsion than just say "UFO isn't aliens".

@paranoiac789 3 года назад

@@nedschneebly9417 he is probably currently collecting and investigating the available information

@paranoiac789 3 года назад

Probably Elon is doing the same

@paranoiac789 3 года назад

Investigating available information would also include investigating whether it was fake news by pentagon and what that was done for, if that was the case

@encoreunefois1X 3 года назад

@@nedschneebly9417 May I suggest Linda Moulton Howe"s RU-vid channel if you are after an intelligent analysis of the various aspects around this topic, including the science and tech angles? It's called Earthfiles. . ru-vid.com/show-UCN9WjlKBvjBIm3AWDXI1EUA

@Nite2012Mare Год назад

Aliens are watching us like we watch fish in an aquarium. We are merely reality TV .

@timothystewart4846 Год назад

Dr. Degrassi is my favorite person in NASA because he is such a brilliant man and he's got a great sense of humor. I want to get his opinion on everything I wonder about the cosmos including everything I can't imagine wondering because I haven't thought of it yet. He's gotta be the coolest dude in the history of cosmetology.

@rickkwitkoski1976 6 месяцев назад

@timothystewart4846 NdGT doesn't work for NASA. Or the military Or anything government

@aaappp8671 3 года назад

“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.” - Steven Wright

@vanyacaron3789 2 года назад

Thanks for the chuckle.🙂

@franco8010 2 года назад

good quote

@simplyhuman3982 2 года назад

That sounds like something he would say but I don't know if he said it. Funny though.

@martinjacobson3191 2 года назад

well said. What about the uap?

@warriorgp4640 2 года назад

I made that up, not Steven

@joesikic6531 2 года назад

I respect Mr De Grass Tyson. However, him saying why would aliens be interested in studying humans is the same as asking why humans study worms, insects, bacteria etc

@cameronbrown1490 2 года назад

I wonder why our species assumes that if we meet another intelligent species, from earth, or from outside of earth, is always going to be more technologically advanced then we are. Like what if we are more advanced then the aliens. Like let’s say we meet aliens that figured out how to get to earth through advanced space travel, but let’s say where ever they are from they haven’t figured out how to help with different sickness, they just assume you die or get better. Does that make ethier species more advanced then the other or one has figured one thing and the other hasn’t.

@finessethaprofit7325 2 года назад

@@cameronbrown1490 I think because to assume that they’d be capable of advanced space travel you’d have to assume they’d have advanced civilization and you can’t have advanced civilization without sustaining life for a pretty long time but then again who’s to say their evolution process just wasn’t as slow as ours.what if sickness isn’t even a thing in their biological makeup

@Danjoker. 2 года назад

Yeah, but not everyone on Earth is interested in studying worms, bacteria, etc. So his point still applies.

@busoryong 2 года назад

In high school I dissected a worm. I did not, however, travel light years to do so.

@skreenname229 2 года назад

Most ppl don't care about worms, insects or bacteria I'm sure neither do most aliens LoL

@DrRajatChauhan Год назад

“I don’t know what is, therefore I know what it is.” Lovely quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson. On one hand Tyson says that aliens don’t have a form like us, and we have no clue what they look like but then is expecting other people to know what to look for while searching for aliens, whether it be via smartphones or google maps etc.

@JaapTedros 10 месяцев назад

Yep, also works for religion. Usually the train of thought is "I don't know, therefore god".

@sprizz324 10 месяцев назад

@@JaapTedrosexactly!

@aqk 9 месяцев назад

@@blugreen99 Oh yeah...? Maybe they are just... transgenders? You haven't noticed there's a helluva lot more transgenders among us these days? Not that I would describe a "transgender" as freakish! No, they are normal. Perfectly NORMAL!

@mikep490 3 месяца назад

It's considered that an advanced "people" are likely to have similar functions to humans. This would be an intelligence, a way to detect and manipulate our surroundings, and similar. It's not totally out of line to expect some are similar in form to the bipod human form, though a tenticled beast from the Simpsons could be possible.

@lisadavis9535 Год назад

Thank you for this talk. You brought up several things I have been thinking about (as much as I love the thought that there might be life and benevolent aliens out there). We can't even talk to the other species on our planet, how could we hope to communicate with a species that evolved elsewhere? The point about hostile aliens is also well taken. Does natural selection create that level of hostility/competitiveness so that we could expect them to be hostile? We are a danger to any other species (and to our own species) that is not more technologically advanced than we are. Our history proves that over and over again. Archeologists have discovered very few civilizations that have not utilized weapons against other humans.

@randomix4023 Год назад

We talk all the time with other species on our planet, it is not our fault if you are blind and can't see it. How think we are so advanced in our days? agriculture, stock-farming, domesticate horse, dog, etc

@liamjohanssen7888 Год назад

Yep. Lovely conversation. The fierce man eating alien an interesting motif. Also zombie. Vampires. The many ways man eats man

@deeleebroly6509 2 года назад

I'm so glad he explained that our fear of aliens being hostile is simply a misplaced fear of how we treat life

@joemiller8482 2 года назад

Right

@montanamike7948 2 года назад

Idk about you but me and everyone I know was taught to treat all things with respect. Who exactly are you blaming besides yourself? Seriously.

@montanamike7948 2 года назад

You guys are being controlled by emotion over logic.

@ryannichols8315 2 года назад

@@montanamike7948 He should have better explained. But I believe what Neil is referring to is mankind over our history. From the days of Alexander the Great, who road hundreds to thousands of miles, conquering one territory after another. The Romans the Huns, the Ottomans, the Caliphates, the Crusades, the British and the Nazis. For a few thousand years we have been fighting wars, against people different from ourselves. Until recent history, the conquering has subsided, the wars have subsided. But for most of human history, we were at war constantly. Some people blame religion or many things as to why we have advanced so much in the last 100 to 200 years compared to the previous 5000. And it's mostly because of war. Great civilizations and Empires were built, and they'd be conquered, and in many cases completely destroyed. Even the language of that Empire would be lost to history. Let alone whatever advancement they created.

@deeleebroly6509 2 года назад

@@montanamike7948 I'm referring to the majority of humans treating life less than respectfully. I wasn't putting myself into the equation because that's not my belief. I just won't pretend like a good majority of humans don't have little to no consideration for life, it's sad but an unfortunate truth.

@mikew2479 3 года назад

I keep coming back to his videos on ufos, to see how he’s going to manage to backtrack.

@seebarry4068 3 года назад

That will be a bit of fun, I’m curious myself.

@brandonlow 3 года назад

His point about them not being videotaped has already been proven untrue, and will continue to be after the declassification in June.

@sethjensen2291 3 года назад

Exactly why I'm here. I love you

@neobliss2120 3 года назад

He’ll just say I told you so

@Baardnick 3 года назад

the goverment has already confirmed there are ufos / technology doing incredible things. and they've been filmed and have been for years. its not me telling you that. its the Goverment of the United States of America. greetings from norway btw.

@upgradeyourawareness3539 Год назад

I feel as if my father just scorned me for bringing up aliens at the dinner table…

@johnglielmi6428 Год назад

The Xenomorph (alien creature) took on the characteristics of it's host species. One came out of a dog in the 3rd alien movie and it was a quadruped. This is how the creature adapted to fresh environments. So in theory it could take over the entire universe being so adaptable. That was the premise of the movies, to not let it become the dominant species.

@ArtSurvivesArtist Год назад

Not to get off topic, but that reminds me of my question: Why did the Transformers look the way did on their home planet? Remember they disguise themselves to fit in with their environment. On Cybertron, they were already in their forms that they adapted to after crashing on Earth, but they hadn't even arrived on Earth yet. That always bugged me.

@johnglielmi6428 Год назад

@@ArtSurvivesArtist Yes I agree with you on that topic as well.

@vishal2352 3 года назад

Just what I needed before I go to sleep

@kenza9087 3 года назад

@The Eagle same here

@vishal2352 3 года назад

@SYIRE/RADIO said the alien warlord as his army beamed me up towards their shuttle

@freeone1545 3 года назад

Same

@freeone1545 3 года назад

It's 5:29 where I'm at here got to be up early for work

@crypticzen9194 3 года назад

Not even 3pm here. Sleep if you must.

@Zurpanik 3 года назад

We don't think about what a worm is thinking when we walk down the street, instead we create an entire field millions of us participate in to study every single aspect of thousands of different worms. I don't think it's hubris that we'd imagine we'd be interesting enough to an advanced/superior form of life, I think it's that all life is interesting anyways! If we can make careers out of staring at worms, we can reasonably expect an advanced species would take time to regard our entire civilization as a bit more than a passing fancy. Just a thought!

@mylynes8153 3 года назад

I think Neil is also being slightly hypocritical when making fun of the way we design sci-fi aliens in our image; but then uses the same method to determine what an alien would do upon finding a worm.

@Richitsu 3 года назад

I was thinking exactly this. While you worded it better than I could. Why wouldn't an hypothetical alien species potentially be fascinated by a lesser species on a different planet? Humans are constantly looking for planets suitable for life on it, we would be fascinated by that discovery.

@connormabe-kropf9251 3 года назад

@Indysbike nevermind, lol

@chaves88rlz 3 года назад

Any species that dominate a planet the way humans dominate earth is worth looking.. Aliens may be far advanced but that idea that we would be like worms to them is, poetic for sure, but too narrow

@twonumber22 3 года назад

The hubris comes into play when you factor in the great effort it must take to get here from any other star system. Travelling to Asia from N. America to study something is no big deal. Travelling from Proxima Centauri to Earth just to study apes is a big deal, especially considering all the hazards along the way.

@simonagree4070 Год назад

So, as a consequence of our inadequate sensory organs, if we ever do find a way to communicate with aliens, would we be surprised to find that they think we have evolved into the best storytellers in the galaxy? :-D

@RABB1DSQ1RR3L Год назад

Interesting idea. Kind of reminds me of Galaxy Quest. But they didnt know we were telling stories.

@samuelcosta8189 Год назад

No doubt

@formymentalhealth Год назад

I LOVE listening to Neil talk about aliens!!! ❤️❤️❤️

@Silverhairwitch Год назад

He's brilliant

@MukeshPanicker 3 года назад

I am 33 , I hated science in school but I have learned more from this channel than I ever learned in school. If I have kids I will make them watch all of StarTalk videos. Thanks and love from India !!!

@RedemptionPlatform 3 года назад

same here man

@twonumber22 3 года назад

Instead of making them watch it, think of ways to get them to want to watch it. I'm sure that's what you meant but I had to say it.

@katieheys8564 3 года назад

I like how everyman Neil explains things. Here's a majorly complex situation and here's what it really means :D

@y9w1 3 года назад

👍👍👍

@rabbitslayer42 3 года назад

The biggest problem is the vast majority of "science classes" are just glorified history classes imo.

@andrewlebedin2505 3 года назад

If a worm built a space ship, I would want to know about that worm.

@KonstantinosNC 3 года назад

The worm don't have to build a space ship, if you see a worm doing anything intelligent you would like to know about it, I would agree with Neil if aliens visited earth in stone ages where there is nothing interesting going on, but not now, I think humans are intelligent enough to get the interest of aliens, because at one point, the same aliens used to be at the same intelligent level as us now.

@trueelite6859 3 года назад

⬆️ 💯

@Mrphilipjcook 3 года назад

@@KonstantinosNC we'd be fascinating to a super advance civilization! Imagine if we discovered intelligent life erecting monoliths and giant primitive architecture on another world! That would be like peering in on our own ancestors, and a way to better understand ourselves. Seems unlikely to happen in my lifetime though 😂

@twonumber22 3 года назад

@@Mrphilipjcook If there's a million of similar civs like us, then we might not be interesting at all to an advanced civ.

@Mrphilipjcook 3 года назад

@@twonumber22 what if we're the first one?

@TheWoodmanDC Год назад

I think another point about aliens that Dr. Tyson didn't hit on was that given the vast distance an alien would have to travel to get here, they would not be coming here to just do a fly by and given the amount of energy it would take to move through interstellar space their ships would probably be something on the order of the motherships that were depicted in the movie "Independence Day".

@nickdyber7644 Год назад

Lol bro they inside the moon… it’s not far

@paza65 Год назад

But that is travel by our perception of A to B distance and propulsion. Our views are very limited and simplistic. I believe there are very different ways to get from one space to another.

@LadellTurner Год назад

@@nickdyber7644 They been here before us! And still here.

@lisadavis9535 Год назад

I don't know. We have done the fly by for all the planets in our solar system as well as their moons, asteroids, comets, and the sun. But, as he pointed out, there should be footage by now.

@southsudani983 11 месяцев назад

if they have advanced technology this logic does not apply

@michaelbain5703 Год назад

But isn't science being curious about why something does what it does or exists how it exists? So, using that theory from NDT himself, one could conclude that aliens (advanced technological cultures) would want to study the simple love's of humans

@ZepG Год назад

@Michael Bain Exactly my thought, we have scientists studying earthworms around the clock lol. NDT might be too smart to think in the smaller scale, he's a different type of scientist.

@Anthroid9 Год назад

@@ZepG this is stuff on our planet to help us survive…. You think a being that can travel that fast and far to reach us need anything from us bumans? If anything, they would want resources from the planet.

@SunDedGon Год назад

I believe that's the premise behind Michael Shermer's book "The Moral Arc." It's also fun to imagine that a peacefaring civilization would invite us to become the newest entry in the "Encyclopedia Galactica." This, of course, would be carefully done in steps over generations as we become more morally evolved, as mentioned in "Contact."

@Blackstar-ti4py 5 месяцев назад

Science cant be curious, but you all shouldve been long ago

@thomastmc 2 года назад

_"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."_ - Albert Einstein

@CrazyGaming-ig6qq 2 года назад

Too bad this idea that imagination is more important than knowledge is quite flawed. Without knowledge you'd be unable to imagine anything as anything imaginable comes first and foremost from knowledge, this fact should quickly put an end to any dispute over whether imagination or knowledge is more important. But one can't thrive without the other, they should be inseparable really. But I get what he had in mind with saying this, but saying imagination is more important than knowledge is going too far.

@thomastmc 2 года назад

@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq Look at why we have the knowledge we do. For instance, electricity, SR/GR, quantum mechanics, even heliocentricity. Without imagination, we'd be ignorant, not the other way around.

@CrazyGaming-ig6qq 2 года назад

@@thomastmc Im not sure what you are implying really. That I don't think imagination is extremely important? OR do you mean to imply that we could actually make scientific progress without knowledge as long as we at least have imagination? I would hope you can see how that might be slightly problematic. Knowledge and imagination is inseperable really; but again the gist of what I said: knowledge is the prequisite first and foremost for any scientific progress. Good luck figuring out electricity, SR/GR, quantum mechanics, even heliocentricity without knowledge.... People should stop treating Einstein like some kind of infallible messiah of science that can't be wrong or cant be criticized.

@thomastmc 2 года назад

@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq What Einstein is getting at is more broad than the simple idea that we need knowledge to have imaginations. He's talking about how we gain and use knowledge. Take Einstein as an example, everyone had Maxwell's equations, the knowledge. No one had GR or SR. Those required Einstein's imagination to obtain. When you look at science history and realize how much of our knowledge was obtained through ideas conceived of in the imagination, then you'll understand what Einstein meant.

@CrazyGaming-ig6qq 2 года назад

@@thomastmc I know what he must have meant, and that is not what I have a problem with, because I agree with why imagination is so important for the same reasons you just listed. But to say that it is more important than knowledge, if actually taken seriously, would mean we could then reject established well documented knowledge and replace it with our own imagination, because as Einteins quote tells us: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Again, I agree with that he must have *meant* but not what he said in that quote. And finally, to reiterate my point: there would be no imagination without knowledge, imagination is a descendant of knowledge, but knowledge is the foundation of scientific progress, not imagination. Imagination is an amazing catalyst for it however and progress would certainly suffer majorly without it. That quote sounds more like it was put into the world to sound a bit clever and to "get the point across" in a popular way, but sacrificing a fair share of truth in the process. Reminds me of my biology teacher who used to say that the reason we get hungry is for the purpose of making us avoid starvation so we can survive. As a teacher in biology she was just trying to "get the point across" I know what she *meant* but many of my classmates didnt and actually had thoughts of intelligent design because of the way she kept talking about evolution as if there was a purpose or point to it. In my honest opinion she should have spent energy teaching us kids how what we actually KNOW about that instead of trying to say it in a "digestible" way.

@elmobaybay1710 3 года назад

"Saying there nothing out there in the great void of space is like filling a spoonful of water in the ocean and saying there's no life in the oceans"

@dylanrogers9712 3 года назад

And imagine the chances of actually scooping something up

@edwardpistolhands4581 3 года назад

Everybody posting this analogy

@CosmicBackgroundRadiation01 3 года назад

But there’s so many living organisms in that spoonful tho...

@haydenarchambault2927 3 года назад

You can actually use a microscope to find billions of life forms in thet spoonful.

@Equinoxtrills 3 года назад

what water? seawater? demineralized water? tap water? ground water? rain water? waste water? be spesific. you won't even get minerals(or some but not all)on demineralized water even if it amounts to a tanker, or a lake, otherwise, even one cc of water might have life in it (more if spoonfull). I could intrepret that statement as getting a spoonfull of water (not sea water) just maybe a glass with demineralized water puts on the ocean, why not say it seawater and never mentions ocean?

@dylan42207 Год назад

I think if aliens have the ability to work around the light speed issue they certainly can disable our cell phones temporarily.

@Lance37a Год назад

What about all of the satellites, airplanes etc, can they disable everything?

@dylan42207 Год назад

@@Lance37a we’ve had mass sightings caught on multiple cameras and the skeptics still don’t believe. No need to take down the grid or satélites u less they want to use that as the “we’re here” moment.

@jjaybourne4734 Год назад

Exactly my thought. Degrass never seems to actually consider that perhaps these clearly technologically advanced individuals (if they do exist) do not wish to be seen but also have the means to ensure that they aren't seen.

@dylan42207 Год назад

@@jjaybourne4734 agreed. His argument here is very weak.

@petertaylor4758 Год назад

If aliens can do faster than light, they wouldn't crash land on earth, and have proper stealth technically and would evade military jet's. Unless they want to be seen, which obviously they don't

@aceentity7703 Год назад

Honestly his point about the telescopes looking at space all the time reminded me of cinema sins quote: "And no one who watches the sky for a living saw this massive ship approaching"

@squidball 3 года назад

"When you're walking down the sidewalk and you see a worm..." Neil, your analogy about worms on the sidewalk being uninteresting is flawed. We'd be extremely interested if we saw a worm on Mars.

@adamwiseman5831 3 года назад

Thank you. Exactly

@ToadstedCroaks 3 года назад

That's only because we create such an importance on something like visiting another planet. Would you say the same thing about being interested in your neighbors worms? What about worms from the next city over? What about worms from the next state? The next continent? A mountain worm vs a lake worm? As our brains turn towards exotic circumstances, so does our brains peak interest. To aliens, mars or earth may be just another rock to turn over in your own yard, the milky way may just be their neighbors yard. Who knows how many worms they have seen over the years before they just feel like cosmic single cell bacteria that you only care to look at through a microscope for a particular reason. No more interesting than, "Yep, that's an earth planet".

@CosmicBackgroundRadiation01 3 года назад

@@ToadstedCroaks I literally think we would be more interested with each example you gave. Our neighbor’s worm would be interesting than ours. A mountain worm would be exponentially more interesting than a worm in our neighbor’s yard. Kids play with worms for hours. Grown scientists with years of education study worms. We’re all gonna die. You’re a monster.

@Equinoxtrills 3 года назад

@@CosmicBackgroundRadiation01 You guys arguing about worms 😂. Find your own analogy (that's probably better than worms). I'd find it interesting if we see life floating in space (living ones, not cell fossil on an asteroid) 😅.

@squidball 3 года назад

@@ToadstedCroaks that's just it, "to aliens, mars or earth may just be another rock" but we can't possibly know that for sure. My point is, so much mental gymnastics is being done by people who just flat out say that we are not of interest to other sentient beings. There's really no way of knowing that. Can you honestly say what other intelligent beings might find interesting or not?

@rexrocker1268 3 года назад

Neil always says why would aliens visit we would be like ants. They’d just fly by like a joke. We ourselves study ants. And not for nothing, any planet with advanced life is probably extremely rare in this galaxy, if even at all, but they may be very well interested in having a look. We study ants, maybe they would study the extremely rare planet with life, especially one with animals and stuff, even more especially a world that has beings that create technology like us. I love Neil, but I have to disagree with him on this. I think if aliens are out there that blow us away and can travel the universe they would be very interested in our world. We are curious, why wouldn’t they be the same?

@adamwiseman5831 3 года назад

Great point. I think he doesn't want to know there's anything smarter then him.

@michael02munrolm29 3 года назад

Yes for sure if the solar system is billions of years old there could’ve been civilization somewhere else that’s been living for 100 million years. Think about what 100 million years of technology would be. You’re exactly right as humans we study right down to the smallest molecule and it’s origins so it’s laughable to think if another species knew of our existence they would flyby like a joke

@yoloman9411 3 года назад

Well, the only counter argument i can think of would be, we assume they’d think like we do. They might just fly near, see us and go “oh, dang. Lets try the next system.” Or any other hundreds of reasons. I think the ant comparison should be more like a microbe comparison. Normal people dont even think about them. Yes, scientists study them, but we are not as studied in that part of science. Aliens on the other hand, probably could be. So they really might just not bother us if its just a waste of time.

@markjones336 3 года назад

He is a very ignorant man!

@shivakumarcd 3 года назад

Your argument assumes we are "extremely rare planet with life".. Only alien who has travelled across galaxy would know if we are " extremely rare planet with life"...

@charlesperera9656 Год назад

I participated in a meditation retreat called “Awakening Wisdom” at Bodhi Meditation in Richmond BC. It’s a standing meditation practice with guidance and movement. The instructions are in Chinese and translated to English. On the second day of the retreat, I could not hear the translation, all I heard was static noise. I turned the receiver off and proceeded to continue the practice observing the movements of the participant in front of me. I saw two flashes in midair in the hall to my left. One went over my head and the other landed on an empty meditation cushion one row to my right and one row behind me. There was an opaque column of light about six feet high. A participant came a few minutes late to the retreat and went and stood on that cushion and both were sharing the same space. I was observing them for a few minutes and went back to my practice. I can see an intensive white flash that was occurring. I stopped and turned back to see what was making the flash. When she was moving slowly or still the opaque column was visible. When she made a faster movement the column of light disappeared and became visible again when she was still or made slow movements. That was the flashing. Th appearing of the column of light. On another day a German lady, Alexandra and I saw this whatever it was. She was repeating my name and pointing at the cushion between the two of us.

@jonosborne4711 Год назад

Neil please explain the context of food chain in nature and society.

@hamidahmed8076 3 года назад

"Do not believe every quote you see on the internet” - Abraham Lincoln

@joanies6778 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@kingko6512 3 года назад

🤣

@nelsonthibeau2050 3 года назад

Rules 😆😂

@tonyfrancesco3701 3 года назад

👍👍👍👍👍

@123456wasp 3 года назад

Lol 🍺😎👍

@jaredd9602 3 года назад

"When you're walking down the street and you see a worm, do you pause and say 'gee I wonder what that worm is thinking'?" Me: Yes Them: NO! Me: Well only sometimes..

@marriyumkhan9671 3 года назад

Glad I’m not alone in that

@peacewillow 3 года назад

not only do i wonder, but i make up conversations and little back stories for them!! i've done that for every creature i've run across since i was a child. 🤗

@carlosmendoza8415 3 года назад

i mean there are literally people with careers in studying insects of all kinds. Some specialize in just one insect. I don't find it hard at all to wonder what an earthworm is thinking

@joe-5D 3 года назад

Of course also how can he speak on behalf of aliens that he himself claims to know nothing about xD

@seanmcaleavy2369 3 года назад

Perfect

@bobjackson6669 10 месяцев назад

Dr. Tyson please explain what is going on at Skinwalker Ranch? There seems to be UAP and very interesting physics going on at the ranch. Loved your video. I look at both sides of an issue when I can and watch both you and Skinwalker Ranch. There is an astrophysicist leading the investigation on the History channel. Thank you for doing your videos.

@apparatus_official 5 дней назад

Just wanted to say 😊 💯👍🏻

@Kevin-le8qc Год назад

Terry Bisson wrote a very funny short story about aliens marveling over the species of man as essentially being “talking meat.” The aliens, and the majority of all species in the universe, were made of inorganic materials, and wondering what exactly to say to talking meat, decide to stay silent and quietly walk away.

@julioviana9312 3 года назад

Do not believe this man. I saw him traveling on a UFO on NatGeo.

@morganware7662 3 года назад

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

@savestheday258 3 года назад

I think your going to be very shocked in the coming weeks. I'll be very interested to see Neil's opinion after June ✌️

@savestheday258 3 года назад

Rumors re though that may will be some new information that could be pretty big as well

@droopylector3657 3 года назад

You know the report on UAP/UFO's that is supposed to be released isn't suppose to be a public thing and there wont be a press conference or anything like that right? All it says is different 3 letter sections of the government must share all files within all other governments of their investigations into this phenomena

@DDUploads 3 года назад

I will remind you in June and let's see how you wiggle around!

@raytruant9497 3 года назад

Anyone who believes a bunch of grainy photos, infrared video or blurry video is a rube. This is Fox news getting ratings, and people trying to justify Trump's ridiculous space force.

@raytruant9497 3 года назад

@@savestheday258 saquatch?

@satyendrasinghbhadauriya Год назад

#StarTalk I am from India.I listen to Niel Degrasse Tyson in awe. His open humour, reveals his confidence. my favorite versatile scientist 👌👍

@markconley9279 10 месяцев назад

I’m going out tonight to catch aliens with a butterfly net!!!

@Sockpoppet 3 года назад

Based on what I've heard from people who have an interest in UFOs, the question is not "I don't know what it is, therefore ALIENS?" People ask "I don't know what it is, so what is it?"

@johneric9957 2 года назад

NASA - ASAN - SATAN is a lying creation of the satanic earth system we are in right now. We never went to the moon, all the moon landing records were "mysteriously lost" and the copies were "corrupted". The idea of space is to give up on God and make us think of ourselves as meaningless little details in endless space, when the opposite is true. Also, you represent the demons - 'aliens' - as the 'superior race' for us, when the opposite is true. Have you noticed that all 'space shuttles' always tilt down after a while, none of them keep going up after launch? Lies and deception, everything. Christ made us and looks at us every day.

@neludiaz508 2 года назад

Who is more humble the scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who Says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved in the writing of this book.We must not believe because we want it to be true.

@neludiaz508 2 года назад

All the books and stories or that someone had something in mind when he wrote a book looks like an invention compared to the book that many say is the only real book, I tell you to close your RU-vid account and whenever you go online you you don't read anything and don't watch anything anymore, you don't send your children to school to learn because it's all a lie. Take that real book that you and those like you think is real and lockable in the house, and sit there locked in your mind, and don't try to be open-minded because you are locked in your mind.

@MrLantyy 3 года назад

"The government isn't that competent of keeping such a secret" I instantly thought of Bob Lazar.

@treehouse7861 3 года назад

a felon

@Tom_Mroz 3 года назад

@@treehouse7861 Look at timeline, and ask yourself: If I would work for government and I would like to discredit someone like Lazard, how would I do that ? Joe Rogan somewhat believes Lazard and Rogan is a guy who won't take BS from you - check interview. Personally I am not saying that I believe Lazard, but I remain open minded. Also worth watching is documentary "The Phenomenon" from November 2020.

@camelxravennova 3 года назад

Literally

@danielpaulson8838 3 года назад

If Lazar did what he said, he would have had a US government Top Secret clearance. If you decide to blab gov secrets, you get to live in a federal penitentiary. The colleges don’t have records of Lazar. He’s disarming and convincing. But no way he’s legit.

@camelxravennova 3 года назад

@@danielpaulson8838 his records were erased.

@jamesphillips8721 Год назад

I’d like to know if the universe is expanding then how is it going towards this great attractor? Love you guys you’re awesome. So much info

@interquasi 11 месяцев назад

What's that mean

@harryhorstman7486 Год назад

We don't want aliens to visit, because we don't want them to know how dumb we are.

@italianpower99 3 года назад

Neil is treading on shaky water here... David Fravor, the navy pilot, not only confirmed the object with his eyes, but also with tracking equipment and radars. And not just himself, but multiple people part of Fravors crew also confirmed everything seen on radar and in sight.

@spirorips 3 года назад

100%

@WDE1121 3 года назад

Did NDT say the pilot didn't see what the pilot is claiming to see?

@jjt1881 3 года назад

There are many down-to-earth explanations for that. Many of them you can find in scientific youtube videos. BTW, “unidentified aerial phenomena” or “anomalous aerial vehicles.” are NOT THE SAME as alien aircraft. Period. The rest is just pure speculation.

@spirorips 3 года назад

@@jjt1881 there are no “down to earth” explanations for objects breaking the sound barrier without making a sonic boom, while documented on radar. Can you link me to these explinations if they exist?

@spirorips 3 года назад

@@WDE1121 yeah, except it wasnt just his “word”, there is literal military radar data.

@robertstubblefield9512 3 года назад

Yeah except for the fact that the ships advanced radar had been tracking these objects for weeks going from 80000 ft to sea in a couple seconds, which is why the jets were dispatched in the first place. Kinda rules out the human pilot error.

@raytruant9497 3 года назад

Lol. Sure they did.

@christianburk2432 3 года назад

It wasn’t a couple of seconds it was one second. They went from 80000 feet to above the ocean in a second. Actually they said it could have been higher because the radar only reached to 80000 feet.

@charlesbrown8737 3 года назад

@@raytruant9497 What do you mean "sure they did"?

@babykosh5415 3 года назад

"80000 ft to sea in a couple seconds," CORRECTION: 1 second

@christianburk2432 3 года назад

@Nonya Biz really??? So in order to make it that your not wrong because you probably have said that ufos are nonsense your whole life you have to think of some outlandish excuse like maybe the censors were off. Haha. You think a multi million dollar battle ships censors are gonna be off

@Castor1986x Год назад

Hi, love your show, please keep it up. I dare to disagree with one thing but obviously we are talking theoretically here. I think there are options why an alien spieces would be interested in us, I believe like everything must look from many if possible all angles. You mentioned why would be interested in a worm,but there are people who are interested in them, categorize, name, look at them in their natural habitat etc. Therefore possible that not their entire race but some individual are interested in us. Also possible that they are us (as mentioned The Arrival, that is pretty much the scenario, also in Interstellar). Please don't take it wrong I brought up this, I just wish I could join one day in your discussion as a "generic human being" :) Peace

@danielanderson4832 Год назад

2012 I was witness to something for 37 minutes, 2014 I was contacted by one being. And I have come to believe there are properties in mercury and pallidium, that can create gravitational waves in a device I'd love to draw for Neil. I cannot prove anything, and I'm not going to ramble off the whole story. But I enjoyed the conversation.

@Thekingmaker 3 года назад

Tysons second point about the worm is incorrect, we do , as humans, study "lesser " animals and insects, in fact some people spend their entire lives doing so, many times we call them..... wait for it....... scientists.

@mahchestro9144 2 года назад

Yeah but that's looking at it completely differently. Traveling across the galaxy to study another "insect" is not logical.

@Thekingmaker 2 года назад

@@mahchestro9144 we travel to the depths of the oceans to to study other "lessor" life forms. Scientists, like Tyson salivate at even the prospect of finding even just a micro organism somewhere on Mars or any other planet, If we had the tech to grab samples of dirt, hoping to find just a single celled organism from a planet on the other side of the galaxy, we would, so far from being completely different, it's not different at all.

@rson2014 2 года назад

@@mahchestro9144 For these alien "scientist" or "school fieldtrip", traveling across the galaxy might be like us driving to the next state in your car to study insects.

@sierrashepherd4164 2 года назад

Can confirm, lol I've spent my life studying insects as an entomologist and know many people that do the same. Some of Darwin's theories and conclusions came from studying small things like moths and beetles.

@KrolKaz 2 года назад

Seems like he's never heard of entomology

@BB-fk1wf 3 года назад

First of all, my respect for Dr. DeGrasse Tyson is enormous. That said, if he frames the UAP problem as a conspiracy, as he says in the title of this video, he introduces unnecessary bias that serves the causes of science and truth very badly. The absence of proof is not equal to the proof of an absence. Therefore, we must keep an open mind. That's science.

@johnp82 3 года назад

But the Earth and everything on it is uninteresting, like a worm.

@johnboze 3 года назад

These UFO's are scary Russian Drones AND apparently the 9M730 Burevestnik AND THE Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System HAD A BABY !

@borgz1352 3 года назад

"the absence of proof is not equal to the proof of absence" - this is faith, reason why religion still exist to this day.

@Cho0segoose 3 года назад

@@borgz1352 but there is countless accounts and sightings over 100 years amounting to 100s of thousands of accounts. In my opinion there is something happening

@Mark-Wilson 2 года назад

@@Cho0segoose yes its called military weapons

@kaimvardas Год назад

"You put worm on a hook and catch dinner" That's more terrifying than being eaten. To serve as a bait. And I wouldn't be surprised if that's a possible scenario in some distant world.

@soilmanted Год назад

I've seen moving lights in the sky that moved in ways aircraft cannot move. Once. I do not know what these were. I did notice that they were slowly moving closer and closer to me, the same way I would might closer and closer to a wild animal so I could get more intimate with it without frightening it away. However that did frighten me away and I decide to drive back to the main highway from the deserted dirt road that I was on. I did not see any living beings. some of the video I've seen on-line shows things similar to what I saw. For example light, then all of a sudden it is 8 lights. Then the 8 lights become 1 light again. The lights make right-angle turns. The lights suddenly stop moving. The lights move fast without appearing to accelerate. I say "appearing" because it has occurred to me that if acceleration of an object was large enough, my eyes would not be able to perceive it as bring acceleration. It might look like instantaneous high speed to me, even though it was not. Same kind of thing goes for stopping, and changing direction.. For example what looks like a right-angle turn to me might actually be a turn with a very small radius, too small to perceive.

@robotx4242 3 года назад

I like how NDT can seriously entertain the thought that we might be living in a computer program but the origin of UFOs being alien is just crazy talk.

@jasonberezny9705 3 года назад

Right?🖖👁🇨🇦

@retromillenium 3 года назад

@Robot X Checkmate.

@dylanrussell4158 3 года назад

He's saying that people have no actual proof and that it is unlikely they would visit us. UFO can literally be anything in the sky you can't identify. Hence the name. As far as proof, it's similar to big foot. It's not that it's hard to get a picture of him, he's just blurry in real life.

@retromillenium 3 года назад

@@dylanrussell4158 There is a clearer colored cockpit camera pick of the same object, but let's be real here, no naturally occurring phenomena: 1) has a distinct shape like that 2) appears to have a metallic looking surface 3) flies at supersonic speeds 4) leaving no wake 5) and the kicker, banks like this object was clearly doing in the video 6) then accelerates to ungodly speeds within a fraction of a second and disappears from radar range which is effectively 20-30 miles on a jet fighter. Whatever this object is, is clearly artificially constructed and under some kind of control. That much is certain.

@348frank348 3 года назад

ndt?

@Hedgewalkers 3 года назад

About the worm point: There are plenty of human scientists interested in the study of “worms” why would alien scientists be any different? (Assuming the plausible presence of Aliens that is)

@quintessence4736 3 года назад

My thought exactly.

@supermankc8 3 года назад

Microbiologist, anyone?

@meliane6639 3 года назад

Not only that but I would argue humans would be more interesting to aliens than worms are to humans. Even if we could somehow communicate with worms, they would not be capable of nuclear weapons or sending a rover to mars even if you tell them exactly how to do it and give them a few million years. Humans have advanced a lot in a short period of time and are likely capable of developing the same technology as a possible alien species, especially if we have help.

@Rouche-et6rq 11 месяцев назад

I have a question Mr Degree, when we are looking at night sky, we see stars, but do we see galaxies. What is the difference visually between the two?

@inlonging Год назад

Wait he came up with all this off the cuff? I couldn’t have had this much to say in an intelligent and interesting manner if it had been a writing assignment I had 2 weeks to prep for!! I love the intellect ☺️

@santmiguel 3 года назад

The aliens in “Arrival” were amazing.

@HY31494 3 года назад

They’re not regular aliens we see in countless movies and tv shows, they’re inter dimensional being that came to ask for help, they don’t fly out of Earth when they leave, they just disappear into the cloud. Arrival is a brilliant movie and it have a deep meaning to life.

@PSYMAN13 3 года назад

Took my DMT trip to another level..

@PSYMAN13 3 года назад

@@HY31494 true that, but still the best representation so far I've see so far.

@niceman3318 3 года назад

Neil is amazing 🙂

@marquissmith7945 3 года назад

Yeah, arrival was amazing... The way their language was in linear form opened my eyes to a different level

@BaertXavier 3 года назад

Being from Belgium and lived my young life thrue the nineties and late nineties when 12.000 ppl have witnessed triangular craft from 1998 t'ill 1992 and it was all over the news. I'm one of those ppl. It was a late evening all dark in a small town in Belgium . Somehow i felt i should look up and i did. What i saw was a huge triangular black craft hovering by slowly without any lights and any noise. IF i had'nt looked up i'd missed it . I was in awe for a moment but then fear took over and ran away from it. Getting at my grandmother's place i told her about this thing i saw in the nightsky.. She said ,being a very catholic person , it be better not to mention that to anyone thinking it be something diabolical. So that's what i did ! I never spoke of it again. Until now. it was a late evening in nov 1998 . I'm a very sober and humble person and am willing to accept it could have been something experimental from the military .. if not it could have been extra terrestial !

@ZikrulBariTomal 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing your story.

@pameti.dragoblago 3 года назад

back in Sarajevo (B&H), we all saw, the whole city, something floating in the air one day - i cannot quite remember how it looked - i was a child at the time (mid 70-s, thereabouts). we were told it was an some kind of meteorological 'balloon'. we all accepted the explanation without any questioning. having said that, no one has ever seen anything like that before - no one has ever seen a meteorological 'balloon'. so maybe it was a 'balloon' - but maybe it wasn't. how can we be certain??? because someone told us ??? on another occasion, a school friend of mine, swore to me that he and his father saw 'something' while picnicking in the mountains. again, can't remember his description, but he was dead serious about it and quite scared as well. in those days no one was thinking of aliens or searching internet (i don't think there was one back then) also, i haven't thought of this for 4.5 decades - interesting that i'm remembering it now.

@jopa8960 3 года назад

Xavier, I believe your post, it is similar to my experience. I also believe you look up because you were telepathically told to do so. See my post.

@GeoffBlackmore 3 года назад

Yes, it moved slowly and silently. Large gas filled blimps and balloons do that.

@ralphfurley404 3 года назад

It was a weather balloon

@apphappy3796 Год назад

I like that Quote " The fact that you don't know what it is is NOT proof that you know what it is" - Neil Degrasse Tyson

@broman21 Год назад

Exactly he said it perfectly

@lovelylovelylauren Год назад

Except he’s also saying “we don’t know what it is, but here’s some reasons why it’s not aliens.”

@salomesidiropoulos7226 Год назад

Andrew Lebedin's response is great!

@aktymel3943 2 года назад

If I would notice a worm driving car and texting on a phone, I would definitely stop by and think what is the worm thinking.

@jhonatanbracho2938 3 года назад

Did the pentagon UFO video not happen in this time line? Omuamua? What am I missing? Is this the mandela effect all over again? Lol

@arcadian3090 3 года назад

Oumuamua was proven to be a pancake-shaped asteroid, not a ufo. NDT had also previously discussed oumuamua before btw, but there was less information as to what it was at the time, it was only a month or two ago scientists were able to identify what oumuamua was composed of being mostly rock.

@arcadian3090 3 года назад

@huncho farm I didn't include the video because the objects are unknown, oumuamua, however, is.

@adog6704 3 года назад

@@arcadian3090 we will have to see what the classified ufo info is about in june

@twonumber22 3 года назад

Those videos show nothing remarkable.

@billyguyjoe1858 3 года назад

@@twonumber22 craft flying at speeds and maneuverability we’ve never achieved before with ease is nothing remarkable?

@jeffmatulich6857 Год назад

I like chuck....he is really sharp.....I dont know who he is or his background....but he is on point all the time. Top Man!

@danielanderson4832 Год назад

I find it intriguing how many times religious texts say. Do not be afraid in reference to being met by outside forces. It seems religion has become more cultural than spiritual. And that most deny the modern events, while assuming ancient events are people with wings. Or something completely different. Thanks for being you Neil. Just giving my thoughts

@jamesandalotofgames9211 3 года назад

Um have you guys not been watching the news. The pentagon has acknowledged the existence of exotic flying craft of some kind.

@marquissmith7945 3 года назад

😂 he said the news

@razeezar 3 года назад

Because the Pentagon would never lie or spread disinformation about anything, right? Snark aside, I still want to believe...

@jewsco 3 года назад

Nothing makes it alien though just unidentified .

@dirtyoldba__welluknowthere8863 3 года назад

Can’t you see they don’t want to see. how could an intelligent reasonable scientist dismiss the MOUNTAINS of data that has been collected up to and including the photographic evidence he is so ignorantly blind to.

@dirtyoldba__welluknowthere8863 3 года назад

He does so cuz there are none who are as blind as those who refuse to see

@bigscoop91 3 года назад

I saw a Triangle craft 100ft above my friends house in 2003 that was completely silent and just sitting there. We had no idea when it arrived and we stopped throwing a football and looked up at it then at each other and asked "Are we really seeing this?" We stood there a moment frozen and in the middle of the craft there was a pulse and the craft shot straight up out of view. There was no wind, sound, shockwave, it was just gone. I remember seeing a almost orange glow coming from each corner of the craft and it was completely smooth except for markings on the side. We didn't feel a presence of life and figured the craft was unmanned and there for surveillance. But we were also 12 so it was more confusing than exciting we just kinda lost interest when it left and didn't really talk about it because people thought we were making it up.

@loganxman 2 года назад

That sounds just like the lights over Phoenix that I and 10,000 other people saw in 1997. Dr. Tyson is sadly misinformed and closed minded about aliens.

@bigscoop91 2 года назад

@@loganxman Difference was this was day time and I could almost have thrown a rock at it at one point if I wasn't in shock and awe.

@genopirone2643 2 года назад

We saw a globe of a yellow light about 100 feet above our house and just hovered for a minute and took off. We didn't know what to think. Blew us away but fascinating

@charginginprogresss 2 года назад

Is this the mental asylum? Woah guys.

@loganxman 2 года назад

@@charginginprogresss Yes people telling the truth about what they saw is the mental asylum. Welcome you will fit right in.

@mikep490 3 месяца назад

Well put. I've had believers explain that aliens mostly visited us in the 40's thru 70's because our technology was low enough... the "no contact" rule from Star Trek. Personally, I have seen a few weird events that were outside my ability to explain at the time. One was a large orange ball hovering "over" the Panama Canal in 1976 just about sunset. It appeared to be about 1/3 the length of a ship that was passing, that appeared to be lit from inside. (A perfect sphere, dark orange in the middle, lighter towards the edge.) It hovered for a couple minutes then moved towards the Pacific, then blinked out 3 minutes later. I assume it was some sort of refraction of the setting sun. Oddly enough, a friend who worked air traffic radar said they'd been having "UFOs" show up on radar for the previous couple days but nothing was visible to pilots. Then there were the "flying hay bails". Near the Eugene airport the farmers harvest grass seed, leaving hay on the ground. In late summer heat causes small "twisters" to lift straw into the air. One evening, around 5 PM, the straw floated in the air for miles, maybe 50 feet up, with some patches accumulating thick enough to block sunlight. A mile away the thermal barrier was broken by an overpass, so the home improvement center saw a rain of straw from the sky. Weird stuff happens.

@sidesup8286 Год назад

This happened in the mid 1970s. A real bright light hovered first above my house and then moving very slowly it hovered over another house. No shape visible at all because of the yellow glare of the light and no sound. All of a sudden from a dead stop it zoomed and disappeared over the western horizon in a fraction of a second, leaving an end trail. The speed that it suddenly generated could have been something from this Earth, but I seriously doubt it. It's speed covered about a third of the width of the sky in a half second from a dead stop. It wanted us to know it was from another world. We had an almost nightly neighbor get together, looking at night sky objects through a telescope. What makes Neil think that if we would have had a video camera, it would have sped off like that? To show us what it was? It did what it did because it knew it wouldn't be recorded. That could be bad science doubting because of no video. If they think they are being filmed, they simply don't do anything unusual like that. About 35 minutes later, Airforce jets were flying overhead like crazy. It could have been halfway to Mars by then. I believe without a doubt, because of what I, and several others saw first hand that twilight.

@pataho7375 3 года назад

Navy fighters aren’t crazy people. Ask the right questions.

@KrolKaz 2 года назад

Hmm. You'd have to be crazy to sign your life away to a government agency..

@kathysarden2689 2 года назад

Thank you...

@ryankueter8396 2 года назад

You haven’t met many Navy fighters then. They are humans like you. Some are very crazy. Some are very normal. Again they are humans not Superman.

@kathysarden2689 2 года назад

@Ryan Keuter true ( ex Navy so I've meet a few) and yes they are just people, but to be qualified to fly a Naval war craft, you have to be highly qualified, highly trained. These people are must have 20/20 vision in addition to knowing inside and out everything about their vehicle...and land on an aircraft carrier. And I'm putting things lightly! I enjoy Mr Tysons star talks, but he was Very dismissive concerning this Naval Pilots. I hope the USNavy invites him for a ride!

@vegass04 2 года назад

@@kathysarden2689 Yes, they have a 20/20 vision, not 200/200, meaning they have human eyes and, as NGT pointed out, eyewitness testimony is the lowest form of evidence in science, whether they're coming from a homeless man in the street or from a Navy pilot. Also one thing bugs me about these latest video "evidence" put forward by the Navy. They claim that they were experiencing these events multiple days or even weeks in a row. So you're trying to tell me that nobody thought about taking a highly powerful video camera to track these events? Nobody? All they had were heat sensors? One would think that the US Navy could spend a million dollars on a camera if necessary, to record this world changing event in a visible spectrum of an advanced video camera..

@DarthBiomech 3 года назад

8:30 Ah but think about it this way - there's an entire scientific field that occupied with the study of worms, AND there are tons of people fascinated with worms.

@jojojuly85 3 года назад

Lol right!? Worm farms are an actual thing. When we were kids did we not pick up worms out of puddles and play with them? Well weird kids like myself at least 🙂 Thousands of people are fascinated by worms. And I think humans may be slightly more interesting than worms.

@gyozakeynsianism 3 года назад

Was thinking the same thing. Maybe those potentially visiting us are scientists, or even anthropologists!

@Andrii87 Год назад

So, if someone recorded something like that, how do you upload without becoming target for goverment, or being banned everywhere?

@AwakeInAnacortes Год назад

This is probably my favorite StarTalk.

@vicdude4620 3 года назад

How can two people know so much about something they never took interest in and investigated it's just called living in denial

@childsy4 3 года назад

Ok. So you are very smart and hats off to you. And yes, I did not bother to watch this video in full because it annoys me. I continue to watch your other videos mind you. I am just passionate to this subject which is beyond the fact it interests me. I believe its the most important subject know to us. Not because of the possibility of being visited, or do they exist, but because of the long history of us repeating the same thing over and over again. And that is to live in ignorance and to live within a controlled narrative and thought pattern which drives scientists to be sceptical and somewhat scared to even look into an unconventional subject. Look outside the box, consider everything and get trust from others without being a sell out. It is beyond stupidity to believe what is said to be true by those we should believe. Neil, think outside conventional physics and start thinking of consciousness, interdimensional physics, and everything that is missing from our standard model. Honestly, stop ridiculing this subject and making it a laughing stock. Photos and vids capture vehicles resonating in and out of this phase of reality which is ours and is theirs. Unfortunately there is too much miss and disinformation on this subject. ETBEs are not gonna land and present themselves to maintain universal law. Plus the fact its up to us to evolve, which obviously is a very long way away if we are not open minded to this. Mate, our science is based on light and the speed of such. Very far off. Branch out, if your game

@themessengertv2108 3 года назад

this guy is pedalling smoke screens while the last director of intelligence is on the news saying its real and being declassified.

@vicdude4620 3 года назад

@@childsy4the ufologists time is coming dribs and drabs of ufo information are coming out.The government cannot explain or chose not to.People like Neil deGrasse and the rest of his cohorts will look like fools just because they're taking money from the government just look how they get paid. If they don't believe in something there's no need to make fun of it. I can't wait till the eggs on their face. By the way I've seen personally UFOs doing things that no human spacecraft or planes just can't do that was 6 0 years ago. And all these scientists explanations are b*******.

@neonpop80 3 года назад

Toooootally

@MrMrchatcity 3 года назад

@@childsy4 You suffer from confirmation bias. Because this subject means so much to you are forgetting to use logic and reason when approaching evidence. Just remember that NO ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE PENTAGON has made any claim that this UFO is NON-Terrestrial in origin. Please you have to understand that NDT is of the same mind as his mentor Carl Sagan. Sagan, like NDT, many other scientist and even people like myself would be thrilled life on other worlds was discovered even if it was microbial BUT those hopes and dreams of discovery have to be tempered in the cold hard flames of facts. look up a video clip of Carl Sagan explaining the Drake Equation and move on to the Fermi Paradox. It will make it clear that people like NDT and others don't jump on the first maybe and claim it as truth not because they don't believe it is possible but that it's not probable. So just get some perspective and don't go down the road of believing everything the Pentagon and CIA tell you

@vykintasmorkvenas6839 3 года назад

Just a quick reminder: UFO means an Unidentified Flying Object. No one ever meant it to be aliens, technology or even real thing at all ;)

@rexrocker1268 3 года назад

Indeed. And our own governments admit there have been weird things in the sky that were unidentified. It doesn’t mean aliens. And there are tons of videos of strange phenomena in the sky, just it’s usually miles and miles away taken from old cameras or cell phones and you can’t see anything clear. Could be a bunch of birds or mylar balloons. But I keep an open mind. If there are alien visitors it would probably be probes, not actual corporeal life. I think it’s possible, but one in a billion chance if not way more, like a trillion even.

@charlesbrown8737 3 года назад

Agree! But if we really think about this, what else can it be? US have the largest military budget by far and have for a long time. If someone could create something that seems to defy physics then wouldn't it be the US? Barack Obama just confirmed that there were flying objects they couldn't understand. The eye witnesses in the navy have told that they move like nothing they have ever seen and the radar data supports incredible speeds. To think this isn't real you have to discredit all that..

@thedethrocker8858 3 года назад

@@charlesbrown8737 exactly that ....why is no one talking about it ....its all aliens or nothing

@TheNinja781 Год назад

2:20 "first of all, i love me some aliens" -Neil deGrasse 😂😂

@Leonitus333 11 месяцев назад

Would Mr. Tyson do an updated video on this discussing the information released by the U.S. military/government in 2023

@tanadarko6991 3 года назад

NdGT's point about alien treatment being a projection of how we treat each other was very well done in the movie "District 9."

@christopherrowe7860 3 года назад

loved that movie

@danieljackson4965 3 года назад

loved that movie

@TheHighlanderprime 3 года назад

Funny NDT says this given that he has this same fear as demonstrated by his skeptic’s denial of the possibility of alien visitations.

@hoagied3783 3 года назад

Would we be interested in worms? Uhhh yes... ? We have scientists that study literally every known organism on our planet.

@jean-pascalosca8117 3 месяца назад

"It's just the consequence of the human trying to make sense of the world. And when things don't make sense, we have the urge to make it make sense, so we can think about it, in some way that consistent with our life experience" OMG, that's deep.

@laurasoftheart Год назад

The 50’s movie with Michael Renny, “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” is my favorite alien movie. We were the bad guys!

@joeandmarz 3 года назад

Can I disagree with the "hubris" argument? Our species is intelligent, technological, and space faring, if only rudimentarily. I think aliens would at least be interested in us scientifically. As much as we are interested in lost cultures in small rainforest pockets. Give our species credit for the progress weve made. Love the show!!

@jewsco 3 года назад

Would they ? How many other planets and species have they ran into ? At most they would want to know why we can’t get along on our one planet

@filthycasual8187 2 года назад

@@jewsco Depends how many other species are as undeveloped as we are.

@jewsco 2 года назад

@@filthycasual8187 probably a lot as the amount of livable planets out there is near infinite and that is assuming no life developed needing different life sustaining conditions

@mattofalltradez 2 года назад

I wonder, during the point of "when you walk down the road and you see a worm, do you stop to study it?" Did you consider the fact that an alien species might have a societal structure in where they have their own scientific areas of expertise. One could be "the study of alien species or planets". Where, much like our biology science, they are exploring to learn the inner workings of an alien species as part of their "research project".

@johnlopez6634 Год назад

Our own scientist are literally looking for microbes or worms on other moons right now lol.

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Год назад

I can never understand people who think like that

@Zeuskabob1 Год назад

This is why I think every alien appearance would be better if they were represented as extremely nerdy. Inept at combat, completely distracted by complex puzzles, fascinated by the simplest things, etc. The only alien that would study us or live among us are the David Attenboroughs of the world who sit among baboons and other animals to learn about their behavior.

@mattofalltradez Год назад

@@Zeuskabob1 exactly! This would make for an epic film. More like a docu series of them trying to figure out our habits.

@Flip-3206 Год назад

But you also have to factor in how many solar systems there are in this galaxy, and how energy-intensive near light speed or faster than light travel are likely to be. We're on the edge of one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way and the solar systems that formed first were the ones in the center of the galaxy, and ours is probably among the latest to have formed. The older solar systems in the center are more likely to have the most technologically advanced species, and we're about 50,000 light years away from them. We'd have to be awfully interesting for them to come see us, especially if life is plentiful in the galaxy and there are a lot of life forms to study that are relatively nearby.

@soilmanted Год назад

Our senses can not sense things that move very fast. Our senses cannot sense motion that is very slowly.

@jasonlombardi472 Год назад

that was a great video! thank you for creating this, Mr. Tyson.

@heylookoverthere9142 3 года назад

Did anyone hear former DNI John Ratcliffe state that the USG has "satellite imagery" of UAP's on his recent interview with Maria Bartaromo?

@themessengertv2108 3 года назад

he must not have gotten the memo.

@rhensontollhouse 3 года назад

And they have imagery of the craft being only 50ft feom the jests canopy. Holy .... No time to be arraogant. Real physicists understand there are huge gaps in the Standard Model and structure of the universe.

@themessengertv2108 3 года назад

@@rhensontollhouse The government has real physicists working on this as we speak. I believe he smells of jealousy and envy and this is the classic way in which these types of people have historically dealt with those feelings.

@themessengertv2108 3 года назад

I saw that. Lou E. said these are the least compelling pieces of evidence being leaked to the people.

@manusartifex3185 3 года назад

Before starting this video I'll say what he has to say "UFO doesn't mean Aliens"

@jamesh.5765 7 дней назад

I wonder how Neil feels about Travis and Erik studying Skinwalker Ranch.

@flagrentfoul3829 4 месяца назад

I love to dive into UFO stories, and I love to believe in it, but I also love NDT’s take on the whole subject.

@mackenziecolt 3 года назад

I am waiting for June 1st, UAP Pentagon disclosure. Best bday present I can ask for.

@harvbegal6868 3 года назад

Dial back those expectations, that report to congress is likely going to be watered down and go heavily on the "unknown, possibly advanced drones from peer nations." Angle.

@rob_zombie 3 года назад

Lol me to my bday is June 2nd ....just another sign to me that the other life forms and the universe are trying to tell me something

@ticoman90 3 года назад

Marry me

@paulskierski8271 3 года назад

Here's the best gift I can give you I found a great depth of knowledge to be found in the Lost book of enki and the ancient astronaut archive seek and he shall find

@corazoncubano5372 3 года назад

I have a feeling we will be underwhelmed.

@m.k.c.5212 2 года назад

One sci-fi short story I always loved is one about how the archivist for a federation of ET scientists from various planets that came to Earth saw the report that Earthlings had tested nuclear bombs in our own atmosphere, the archivist crossed Earth off the list of non-extinct species.

@muchanadziko6378 2 года назад

what's that story called?

@m.k.c.5212 2 года назад

@@muchanadziko6378 so sorry, but I read it many yes ago. Hugo award winning short story collection had it. I don't remember the title or author.

@muchanadziko6378 2 года назад

@@m.k.c.5212 ok, thanks anyway

@johneric9957 2 года назад

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Год назад

Isaac Asimov story. I found the title: it was “Silly As

@fearandloathing776 Год назад

Neil! My dream is to meet and talk stars with you! Agh! Absolutely love your work!

@calebtyus4621 2 года назад

I don't think we're even in the aliens "food chain" so to speak. 😂

@jcjc4960 3 года назад

"People can't be knowledgeable about anything, but they can be knowledgeable about the extend of their own ignorance, even they have PhDs." -Thomas Sowell

@vincentnord5914 3 года назад

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance”

@MichaelJCaboose013 3 года назад

I would really love to see a conversation between Neil and Avi Loeb.

@brucegelman5582 3 года назад

Avi Loeb is a senile old lunatic selling books

@marcvince1261 3 года назад

Compare oumuamua to the jaxta lightsail Launched in 2010. U can find location and speed of oumuamua at asteroid finder. There both traveleling at similar speeds and seem to be in the same location. If u want more info just ask.

@marcvince1261 3 года назад

Avi loeb is probably right oumuamua is a lightsail. For some reason he can't say its from earth, probably Japanese. Do the research. He's trying to call out the planetary society and blue horizon, hoping someone will catch on. Genius 🤭

@dundabird3203 3 года назад

I would really love to see a conversation between Neil and Karl Pilkington.

@kathysarden2689 2 года назад

I would love to see this conversation between Neil and the Naval pilots in question...

@ohshucks7156 Год назад

Star Talk is great!

@Hahahb211 10 месяцев назад

What if aliens have technology to be invisible

@fffffffffake 3 года назад

What if the aliens used to show up more frequently, because humans haven't had enough devices to record, but now that we do, aliens are hiding better or they just left? ;)

@venataciamoon2789 3 года назад

Problem is when people do record these ufos people like these two just instantly dismiss it and make fun of it. Sure, it's hard to believe.. until you see it with your own eyes. Once you do see a ufo with your own eyes then these two jokers become the nuts. Normal people are dismissed because it seems only when people like Neil say ufos are real, then it's credible. Just shows how blind the human race is, probably better ufos don't become real because most people couldn't handle it.

@mlguy8376 3 года назад

@@venataciamoon2789 UFO = Unidentified flying object by definition you can not say it is alien as then it is identified (semantics I know) Even the pentagon have downgraded to “unidentified arial phenomenon”. If you want to believe that you are part of a select group of people that are “woke” then go ahead. At me when there is an Alien captured or A reputable news station breAks The news. Question to you for or against 5G and or vaccines? Or is Bill Gates killing people?

@Blackstar-ti4py 5 месяцев назад

Do you feel like hes hiding in that video or what

@seraeirian2 2 года назад

I think it was Clarke who said that visiting aliens would most likely be friendly because in order to get to the point of interstellar space travel, they would HAVE TO live in a cooperative society. Makes sense to me.

@pomme_paille 2 года назад

China is a counter example tho

@Kinobambino Год назад

That's actually very interesting

@lisadavis9535 Год назад

We can only hope!

@frogmanpipes9561 Год назад

Russia is a counter example

@frogmanpipes9561 Год назад

How about when the European settlers killed the Natives?

@mauricearpin7946 Год назад

Why do aliens keep visiting the earth? Simple, we are the only planet in the galaxy with both Bacon and Maple syrup. After travelling across the galaxy, you want a good breakfast.

@garryferrington811 8 месяцев назад

Fear of aliens goes back to Wells' "The War of the Worlds" in the 1890's. In movies, it starts with "The Thing from Another World," RKO, 1951, based on John W. Campbell's classic 1930's novel.

@kingchiles4328 3 года назад

Idk... I seen a light that I cannot explain and it gives me chills till this day. Idk, its like when you see something crazy, you don't just whip out a camera, you're stuck in awe and utter shock.

@stephenlamley541 3 года назад

Same I woke up with a strange urge to look out of my front window and saw a red orb not flashing, relatively low in the sky no more than 2000ft if I had to guess seeing it wasn't the strange part what made me want to look out and up was, ordinarily I'd turn over and go back to sleep. I watched it for 5 minutes no movement nothing I had to be up in a few hours so I went back to bed, I wish now I watched it until it moved. I live rurally where it was above is nothing but fields I can see the ground below where it was it gets real dark here so if people were flying a drone I'd have seen lights on the ground I saw nothing and who tf gets up at 4 to fly drones or let off a lantern odd definitely odd

@briansanchez8302 3 года назад

11:01

@tomwebber4015 3 года назад

His attitude makes me question everything he says now ..

@MrDisgruntledGamer1 3 года назад

@@stephenlamley541 woah thats spooky, apparently sometimes they are surrounded by plasma that glow so maybe you saw one

@cn8299 3 года назад

@@tomwebber4015 His "attitude" I'm assuming you're talking about Neil here, is the correct response to these findings. If you want "Aliens" and "Ufos" to be taken seriously you HAVE to doubt findings. You need hard evidence. You can't just look at any strange thing that you don't understand and immediately call it a UFO (aliens). Just look at how many people think the recent Starlink sightings are UFOs even though Starlink sightings are old news. I remember years ago when SpaceX launched a rocket off California and it put on a major spectacle in the sky. At the time I didn't know it was a SpaceX launch and I pulled over with others watching it and many of them were claiming it was UFOs and aliens but a quick google search told me it was SpaceX. It was the most bizarre sighting ever, it was huge and it looked like a space ship was coming towards me and landing just miles away but in reality, it was launching up and away from me and it was hundreds of miles away. Our eyes are easily tricked. If you want UFOs to be taken with any serious integrity, all of the other explanations must be crossed off and hard evidence must be provided, PERIOD. Just because you don't know what it is, doesn't mean you know what it is. Neil said it perfectly.

@jesusfon5619 3 года назад

The US government has fully admitted and released footage of unknown crafts flying in ways that they can't explain. That doesn't necessarily mean Aliens.

@patmaurer8541 2 года назад

Indeed! There may be a truly civilized culture elsewhere on this planet that chooses to remain shielded from the rest of us. Though, being compassionate and curious, they occasionally send expeditions to see what we're up to. ;-)

@filthycasual8187 2 года назад

It does if you've spent any time at all actually looking into the phenomenon.