UFOs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

In fairness, if someone told me they saw a flying object with the letters "UFO" written on it, I'd also laugh derisively

I think we should all take a moment and acknowledge the costume designer who made a bird mascot's facial expression exude pure unfiltered derision. Art. What a time to be alive.

I am a retired cop. I have answered the phone inside a police station in the middle of the night and had somebody tell me they saw a UFO. My response was to ask if the UFO had committed a crime or if there was any obvious threat to public safety. The answer was invariably “no” which removed the incident from my area of responsibility. I literally had no way to take a report for a UFO sighting if I wanted to do so. That makes sense because police should not be wasting scarce resources dealing with non-police matters. It does leave me wondering how difficult it must be for somebody who sees a UFO to find a government employee who is willing to take them seriously.

My grandfather was an intelligence officer for the air force during Korea. He once got called-in to debreif a group of pilots that had come back early from some routine flight. He said these were all pilots who'd seen airal combat - they aren't the type to be easily spooked. He talked to each one individually and they were all visibly shaken and all described the same experience of bright metallic objects whizzing around their fighter jets doing sharp turns and reversing mid-flight. no idea if it's aliens, but it's clearly something(s). Also this was early 50s so it can't be the "experimental aircraft" line - if anyone on earth had the tech to make something reverse mid-air and dance around a fighter jet 70 years ago we'd know about it by now.

Having John Oliver talk about something other than the depressing state of the world is a breath of much needed fresh air 😢

6:34 the screams after “deep mouths” are killing me especially with how delighted John looks at them

This is one of those John oliver episodes where I just have to stop to appreciate how well this show is written and made. Absolute gold, god damn :DDDD

20:38 It kind of blew my mind when I saw this was the pilot who made that video. Years ago PBS did a series on life aboard a Navy aircraft carrier. They filmed inside the USS Nimitz, and that pilot was in the show. He was still stationed on the Nimitz when he used his fighter jets targeting system to lock on and record what people call the Tic Tac, the UFO, in the Pacific somewhere off the coast of Mexico. I immediately recognized him from that show on PBS. He’s a real Navy pilot.

Getting vaporized wouldn’t be fun, but having it happen from an Alien labeled “Alien” and Death Ray labeled “Death Ray” would be one of the most hilarious ways to go ever

" my snake looks like that but this is actually a different snake. Someone come get your snake" was a truly hilarious end to that bit

What gets my attention is the reports from military pilots. Like a " ball of light" isn't the same as Navy pilots with thousands of flight hours in the most advance piece of technology on this earth and with advance understanding of physics and Aeronautics as well as studying every other known aircraft on this planet going "wtf is that?" When the world's most experienced pilots say "that flying objects aren't supposed to fly like that." That's when shit gets interesting.

I never thought I would see such a fair look at UFOs from John Oliver. Really good work!

The "I know where my snake is" bit was such good comedic acting, those facial expressions were perfect. All around amazing segment, you can tell when the writers enjoy writing about things that are a little more lighthearted

I'm glad John Oliver points out at the beginning the fact that the term "UFO" or "UAP" doesn't mean "extraterrestrial", it means we don't know what it is. It doesn't have to be from space for it to be potentially dangerous, and I'm happy that the government if finally starting to try and remove the stigma of reporting this stuff from our service men and women.

Dude, I was born on the Air Force base where the SR-71 flew from. I learned the word 'airplane' by looking up and seeing this black twin-engined machine carving a path through a summer sky in my backyard. It only got weirder from there. I see a strange bright light in the evening sky, I can't think _"Am I being visited by aliens."_ when my first reaction is _"Oh, shit. Someone's gonna get chewed out for radiating their signature..."_

The audience reaction when he said “Deep mouths”. 🤣🤣🤣

I now want the words "Believe, shmelieve, what the fuck is that?" on a canvas hanging in my living room. The words are a conversation starter.

Nothing like waking up on Thursday and watching my favorite Brit talk about UFOs.

see, *this* is the kind of coverage we need about UFOs. not conspiracy theories about a massive government coverup, nor people laughing at the prospect of UFOs; a genuine consideration and evaluation of what we do and don't know.

In 1979 my mother and I were returning to Pensacola from a Florida Little Majors all-star game(Florida’s version of Little League Baseball) in Destin. We were turned back due to a natural gas leak on Hwy 98 and had to reroute north through Crestview, Fl to I-10. While driving westward we saw a blue-green light drop in the distance in front of us, it stopped above the treetops moved slowly left about a third of the windshield then right an equal distance and speed, then it shot up fast, super-fast out of sight diagonally toward the southwest. My Mom asked “Did you see that?” I replied “Yes.” We didn’t talk the rest of the way home. We never spoke of it. Granted we drove straight through Eglin Air Force Base Reserve, and I always figured the lights were from something getting tested there. 🛸

My Astronomy minor has never come in more handy than actually knowing that those two satellites were not Venus before his reveal.

I wish John/HBO would air the whole show. John's point about refusing to meet bigots "in the middle" in the name of false bipartisanship deserves to be heard far and wide.

The Boeing Joke was great! 😅

I saw a ufo once and tried like hell to figure out an explanation for it. All I got from a high-clearance aerospace engineer was that we don't have the technology to create anything that moves like the craft I saw. It didn't seem to conform to physics as we know it. It shook me up and then thrilled me to know we have the chance to learn a great deal more about the universe if everyone, governments included, honestly shared their experiences.

Once you identify a UFO, it becomes an FO. Unless it lands, then it's just an O.

"I'm Mike Wallace, and this cigarette is Parliament." Love it

I had multiple UFO sightings in my life. Saw a black triangle at age 6 in the Nevada desert humming and rotating and zipping away from jets when my mom and I went camping. Saw two orange orbs, foo fighters, in Missouri at 13 bouncing and swirling in circles on the sky over the woods for half an hour and blinking out. And at 21 years old saw 50 craft with my gf and a bunch of others at her apartment(she always laughed at me about liking UFO stuff til then). We saw two flying saucers, two orbs, about 40 triangles, a diamond, and I filmed a red cigar that I didn't see but only showed up on camera. Up until my last sighting in 2015, on Saint Patty's day(we were both sober and hadn't drank anything yet), 99% of me believed it was humans. After that, seeing all those types of craft in one place over an hour and a half, I believe we are being visited and observed. I'm at least glad that others are seeing military videos are now believing without having seen one themselves. I always kept quiet because people would make jokes. I'm sure there will be another Phoenix Lights type event. And now there's too many cameras(phones) and it won't be easy to cover up if a mile wide UFO flies over a city in broad daylight. Mark my words, next ten years something will happen.

Check out Jean-Pierre Petit PhD interview in Prague. He's a French plasma physicist that led a team of researchers to test plasma engines in supersonic wind tunnels. It turns out that plasma heating and magnetic flow control around a plane wing, sphere, cylinder or disc shaped airfoils can totally eliminate the sonic boom produced at multiple times the speed of sound. The designs look uncannily like the tic tac and flying saucers.

god, the art of making a mascot suit feel alive and full of character is so cool to me. you could just FEEL every emotion oozing out of that guy. they were only on screen for less than a minute, but they milked every second of it tbh, good for them

I was in the military 14 years, and the lights in Arizona were not signal flares. I've done night retrieval, and those were not flares.

"That John C. Reilly character does make a good point" 🤣

As an astrophysicist, for once I actually passed John's "that's not actually ____" test! XD Also, whenever someone asks me about UFOs, my go-to line is "Anything is a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying things."

"1) Hypothesis 2) Horsewhip everybody who disagrees with you 3) Conclusion... ... you're thinking of ☝ *RELIGION* " I am LMAO😂😂😂

It is fantastic to see John Oliver talk about this phenomenon! I was a Navy submariner, and I can't talk about the things I saw underwater, but I can talk about what I saw before I joined the Navy. I was crew on the tallship Argus out of Newport Beach CA. One cruise I was standing watch, about 0200 hours I saw a large object pass below the keel amidships while we were anchored in Cat Harbor, Catalina Island. We had three guys on watch, one on the bow, one amidships, and one on the stern. Cat Harbor is long and narrow, we had to make sure we weren't dragging anchor. This thing was big, maybe 30 feet wide. I saw a green glow from below the boat and looked down over the gunwhale. Saw something very wide and glowing green passing below the boat amidships. I called out to the other watchmen and the fellow from the bow came down to join me. This thing was huge, we thought it was a whale, and maybe it was glowing green from disturbing the plankton in the water. We decided to explain it that way and note it in our logs, but I don't really believe that - it was too big, and too bright green. The brightest green I have seen the ocean is when waves are breaking in plankton rich waters, this was brighter than that. I had no other frame of reference at the time, but now after hearing reports of USOs I think it may have been that. Super weird.

20 years ago a friend and I witnessed a nearly perfect equilaterally triangular object hovering less than 30 meters in the air off the side of a rural coastal highway. It was roughly the size of a 2000 ft² ranch house, it was matte black/stealth colored and definitely something extraordinary, we stopped the car we were in and got out to get a closer look but as we approached, it took off at an extreme rate of speed, so fast that within just seconds it was out of sight over the ocean, it was near noiseless except for the sound of the air gust it made as it departed similar to a hurricane or tornado. To this day we have yet to see anything in modern technology that resembles what we saw, this was close enough that had we attempted to, we could have tossed a tennis ball or similar object and easily hit it. There's definitely something out there way more advanced than anything the world's militaries are currently employing

15:50 that mascot bit was hilarious and the actor's physical comedy was impeccable

Herpetologist here, loved the snake bit! Don't feel bad, colubrids are known escape artists and this has happened to the best of us. Pro tip, if you house your snake in an appropriate sized terrarium (preferably 4x2x2 ft) and used the appropriate locks, you'd drastically reduce the chance of your snake escaping. 😉🐍

I don't consider myself a big "believer" but once you start doing even casual research and looking around, it's very, very difficult to say all those stories, all the pics, all the video, and everything else is all fake. We are not alone, and probably never have been.

I’m a commercial pilot, and I fly around Mt.Rainer often. If you google “standing lenticular clouds” those are characteristically known for having a “flying saucer-like” appearance, and most often form around mountainous areas. I would bet that those get mistaken for UFO’s quite often, and I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned in this video.

"you're thinking of religion" is such a hard bar. Rappers wish they could

I'd forgotten that John Oliver is actually pretty funny when he's not covering the most depressive topics known to man, stay king ✊️

John Oliver is an actor. His research is what makes him popular. Take away that and he’s rolling his eyes in derision at anything that isn’t mainstream.

When my mom and I were in the Rural areas of the town I grew up in, so I was a child, we seen this craft with a lot of bright lights on it, come down from the sky. We didn’t see it in the sky, it just appeared while flying about 150 ft off the ground when we seen it, then we watched as it landed behind a group of trees. We drove over to the trees and got out of our car to go see if anyone needed help. We really thought it was a farmers craft he had built for flying over his livestock. When we got behind the trees, nothing was there! And we had seen the light of the craft shining through the trees. All we could think was it was an UFO. This was in the early 70’s and I would have been around 8-10 years old.

For anyone wondering, I'm very sure the snake is a type of kingsnake. It's specifically a California kingsnake and is not venomous and will not hurt anyone.

FYI, Jimmy Carter graduated from the US Naval Academy, and served in the US Navy as a naval officer.

So I was in the neighborhood when a ton of people ran out and saw light triangles blinking and spinning at times. Look at Wesley Chapel UFO and I can say that is a real look at what we all saw. This is in Wesley Chapel Florida.

Did they get some new additions to the writing staff? The jokes on this segment were even more hilarious than they usually are, and all had a slightly different style than the typical ones. They all had a perfect set-up, perfect execution, and a perfect punchline.

The "That's not X, that's Y! This is X! Actually its not X, its Z!" Will never get old! I missed it so much!

Nothing like opening RU-vid on a thursday evening and watching a British accountant talk about UFOs and snakes..

Thanks you so much for bringing the UAP topic to attention, John and Team!! Yes indeed, it is time for fair inquiry. 💕

I've always wondered why anyone would doubt the existence of extra-terrestrials. We are familiar enough with life on earth and evolution, and those of us who were lucky enough to catch Carl Sagan's"Cosmos" in the 1980's are on board with the immense size of the known universe. Put those two notions together and it's not much of a stagger to conclude (as Dr. Sagan did) that there must be planets with beings that are millions of years more "advanced" or experienced with physics than ourselves. To me, it's not exotic or crazy, but common sense. (I regret that I never caught Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson's remake of "Cosmos").

I was taken aback when I saw John Chancellor starting to smile at 2:46 while relating the description of the UFO. When he broke into laughter, I could hardly believe my eyes. That was the era of the straight-as-a-ruler news anchor. It was a *BIG* deal when Walter Cronkite got emotional during the first moon landing.

7:28 I have to salute john oliver for gaining enough maturity in order to resist making jokes about Mr « Keyhoe »’s name

That Boeing joke was gold

Many pilots have also said that these were "under intelligent control". The UAP's evaded their aircraft, at other times mirroring their flight movements. John also left out that the pilots reported these UAP's changing altitude by 10's of thousands of feet in seconds. This can be verified by radar data as well. These objects defy our understanding of the natural laws of physics. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

I was once travelling through the countryside of my country (Brazil), when we passed in front of a residential complex named: "Human Village". My sister and I still crack up about that years later. It is the most weirdly suspicious sign I've ever seen.

Come on, John. We can't even pass your Earth Geography exams, what prayer did we have identifying Venus?🤣

My daughter, my husband and i saw a bright white light far up in the night sky fly fast as, well, a fly. It suddenly stopped and flew twice as fast in the opposite direction. It was crazy🤷‍♀️

I was taking pictures of a UAP moving quickly in a back and forth motion, blinking rapidly at night time; I set my camera to time exposure on a tripod and the UFO light painted a picture of a chicken along with other glyph like objects. ( I posed it to my channel no joke) I have regular encounters and documenting them is not hard - when I was just a kid, they visited regularly, no idea what they do but its gotten easier to tolerate them and not be deathly afraid. They are living beings and even though we differ tremendously in how we experience life and look; we are so different yet mentally - very much the same. I'm glad to be a part in their plan for earth, whatever that may be.

6:36 The sheer shock and delight of this woman at the pelican joke has absolutely made my morning

To add to the bit about "Viking helmets didn't actually have horns", the mistake came from the fact that there were ancient Celtic helmets that *did* have horns, and they were found at so many sites of Viking battles that archaeologists just assumed that the Vikings wore them - it turns out, the mistake came from the fact that these ancient Celtic horned-helmet-wearers were simply fighting the Vikings so often that the site of any battle where the Vikings fought was liable to have these horned helmets there.

Love your show - love that you keep going online! Greetings and thanks to the whole staff!

"You're thinking of religion" ok this one cracked me up

The Boeing joke was perfection.👌🏻

Jimmy Carter is a god damn national treasure

What rubs me most about the UFO / UAP debates ist that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, to suggest that the sightings even have a common cause.

I saw something I'm 99% certain was a ufo when I was 17 or so. This was before smartphones were ubiquitous, so I didn't have a camera available and ready. But it's one of the weirdest, most unexplainable things I've seen in my life.

**Top secret aircraft accidentally leaves landing lights on** AZ governor: “I promise a full and open investigation.” DARPA: “You sure about that?”

As someone who reads up on space I'm glad I finally knew his "this is it- no it isn't" joke

Really surprised there was no mention of the David Grusch hearing since it was only 9 months ago.

Agreed we need boring. Saw one 14 years ago. The thing took off over the horizon at warp speed

I quietly whispered “yeah, Johnny boy’s back!” to myself at work and now I don’t know what to feel.

The cackle at "deep mouths" and the expression of processing that was glorious.

In the early 90s I was 7 or 8 I was Playing with 15 other kids. We all were playing hide and seek and I remember we were about to start a new game and 2 kids come running from the back alley and they are yelling “ look look look” as they are pointing up. We look up and there it was a round very big and I mean big saucer coming over the apartment building. All of us started oohing and awing. Then all that amazement turned into fear as it was about 15 stories above us and it was making a crazy humming sound kind of like an electrical sound, it was like a pulsating electric feeling all threw our body. We all literally started crying at the same time and it wasn’t normal crying , that cry like if we were being killed. We all ran home terrified for what we just saw. This thing was so low and really big , the city lights lit the thing up, u can see everything. We can see the windows and in the windows there were little people waving at us. I swear I ain’t making this up there was a lot of people who saw it. Then the next day we all gathered around the spot we saw this and I swear I ain’t making this sh!t up. So we were sitting there talking about what we saw and this guy walks up and ask if we saw weird stuff last night. We told him everything he wrote it down and then when we were done he tells us not to worry about it because what we saw was a weather balloon, I shit u not. Oh did I mention the guy was dressed in a black suit. I thought he was FBI because this happened before the movie men in black came out, this sighting was way bigger than the Arizona sighting and I don’t understand why the story didn’t blow up. This happened either in92 or 93 in Orange County California.

The 'Boston' album cover had nothing to do with UFO's. They are upside-down-guitar-shaped space ships fleeing an exploding planet earth, each one carrying an entire city away looking for a new world. Still love John's videos!

It's real nice of John to keep working his staff's fursuits into the shows budget

I have a lot of UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) in my sewing trunk right now...

Im currently re watching X-Files and then this shows up. That was fun

Loved watching him trying not to break after the pelican joke and that one lady’s laugh 😂

The Boeing joke was just perfect 👌🏻

An example of the parallax effect can be observed when viewing objects while moving. If you are traveling in a car, the objects closer to you seem to pass by quickly, while objects in the distance appear to move slower. I don't think that explains it.

The governor of AZ came out and said he saw a CRAFT, not lights. He said and has testified it was “otherworldly”.

As someone who has a snake, i'm just really happy we got to see the cute little snake at the end :)

The Boeing joke was on point. 😅

I love how he worked in the classic Henny Youngman comedic call back on UFO abductions.

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Technically, anything can be a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying things.

What it took for this team to put all this together and John Oliver to gracefully portray it is astonishing. Always a pleasure watching!

So it was going slower than they thought. Still curious why a volleyball shaped object is flying over the surface of the ocean with no discernible propulsion system. It either comes from far far away, or there is more in the depths of the ocean and near the center of the earth than we realize.

Why are people just blindly laughing? That painting is pretty interesting, I mean that clearly looks like a UFO. It's so interesting because pretty much before 1945 every society believed firmly in religion, and thinking about that painting of a depiction of something that they may have seen in the sky is quite interesting. Nowadays with our smartphones and lack of any religious philosophical beliefs, we see things in the sky all the time and think nothing of it. The reality is is that UFOs could very well be the gods that were once written about.

Happy tenth anniversary Last Week Tonight!🥫

Jimmy Carter is somehow the one president I'd believe about UFOs.

Thank you for putting this up. The Zeta Reticulans and the Pleidians also thank you.

that "Marry Kill F**k... deep MOUTHS" joke mash meh up and the Mike Wallace footage n joke was the cherry 😂#Boeing joke was awesome 🤣🙌 this was hilarious, just what i needed 😁

How does an alien get a haircut? Eclipse it.

This is probably the least depressing episode we've had in years

I once dug up a copper coin in pennsylvania with the inscription "rome 43 bc"

what I like about here is the buildings themselves, and the way the city is a being of beings all on its own. When it's all lit up in the dark it's really pretty.

"Someone please come get your snake" is wild as last words

Such a strange feeling to watch this show and not feel worse about something or myself, truly amazing