Why I believe in UFOs, and you should too... | Ben Mezrich | TEDxBeaconStreet 

Little did he know that the government was STILL investigating UFO''s

People laugh at you if you believe in UFOs, but then they head to church to pray to God on Sunday.

Lmao I 100% believe humanity's reaction to extraterrestrial life would be utter and total indifference. Literally a day later we would be talking about something else.

This ended way too quickly. This should be at least an hour or two long. He should go on Joe Rogan's show.

The moment the US government said: "There are no such things as UFOs," I immediately realized that UFOs were real.

The saddest part of the whole extraterrestrial life subject, is that certain people in power for almost a century, have thought you unworthy of knowing the truth.

If people panic because of a virus, how do you think they would react to extraterrestrial UFOs?

Myself: Believing no other life beyond this planet is like believing the earth is flat.

I hold in my hand and am typing away on an iPhone that a few years ago was as unbelievable as UFOs.

Well, there really is no question for me that these things exist. I had an extremely close encounter with a craft that was within 15ft from the top of my head. It was about 25ft in diameter and circular. It had 4 large domes in the middle of the bottom that was glowing an odd white color. It made zero noise and moved about the pace of a walk. It was dark and possibly metallic. My brother and I witnessed this craft when we were younger. My brother was older than me and I remember very vividly that he was screaming in terror " Go away, Go away". However, I had a completely different reaction to seeing this craft. At the same time that he was screaming in terror, I was jumping up and down yelling " Come down, come down". Its so strange, because I remember feeling like it was " playful" and I was very excited to see it. I was very young, but I knew it was something extremely unusual. It just hovered over us, drifting very slowly. It was around 15ft above us.

Voltaire : - The only certain barrier to truth is the belief you already have it.

Now June 2021 finally we accept UFO s . Pilots see them every day !

20 years ago I accompanied my roommate to his hometown for a wedding. We drove north from TN to IND. It was about 10 o’clock in the evening when I noticed a funny light in the night which I initially presumed to be an aircraft. The “light” began to dance around the stars; left and right, up and down. I thought maybe a spotlight or something. Then it just took off to the other side of the sky, literally as far as I could see. Then, whoosh! All the way back, in a second. At this point I’m a little excited and nervous. Suddenly there were TWO of them, whipping around each other and whizzing to and fro like nobody’s business. Every few moments or so a large(to the best of my description) ball of orange light would form and hover in the air, slowly dissolving. 4 balls of orange total. It seemed as if the 2 “aircrafts” were flirting or playing a game with each other. I don’t know much, but I have never seen anything move the way that they moved that night, whatever they were. The entire experience was maybe 2-3 minutes.

This guy has FORREST GUMP LUCK with who he's met.

I like to say, “there are fish in the ocean that don’t believe in people”

I am one of the lucky ones to have an encounter. I live here in Australia. A little less than 40 years ago I was on a beach camp. A girl & I had left the main hall to go to our dorms & toilet situated outside. It was about 10 pm. As we were walking I looked over towards the town & noticed what looked like lightening through the clouds in the distance. My friend happened to look up as well in time to see this saucer fly through the clouds & circle round in front of us & move towards the beach. My friend wanted to get a camera but I told her it would be long gone by then. My friend stayed where she was as I ran down to the beach. The craft was stationary above the beach, maybe 50 feet above the sand. It didnt make a sound & was saucer shaped with lights all the way around it. I distinctly felt that I was being given a choice to go with them. Mentally I had decided to stay & immediately the craft moved out about 10 feet from shore. The water here was only 6 foot deep & the craft was the size of a house. The craft then turned on it's side like a coin balancing on it's edge & came straight down into the water which seems impossible as it was so shallow. It didn't even cause a ripple & never made a sound. I still believe to this day that this was not a random encounter, but that I was chosen for the encounter & given an opportunity for an adventure.

Isn't it weird and even Ironic that this man, talking about This subject, looks a Lot like Richard Dreyfus when he was in the movie Close Encounters??!

Can we take a second to appreciate the reusable cup, plate and bowl display behind this man 😂

“Proxima Centauri is a planet reachable with current technology in about 40 years”….. Um, no, it’s not. First, it’s not a planet, it’s a star. Second it’s 4.2 light years away. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. We are about to launch the fastest rocket ever launched in an attempt to get close to the sun, something that you’d think would be easy but isn’t. That rocket will travel at 430,000mph, which is 119 miles per second. Pretty fast considering voyagers 1 and 2 are in the range of 30,000 mph. There are people talking about using light sails and lasers to accelerate small paper thin probes enough to be able to travel interstellar distances, but none exist yet. They are hoping to be able to launch them in 20-25 years, and that they will take 20 years to get to Proxima. That’s not to say that it’s impossible, but credibility takes a big step outside of reasonable with statements like this in there. FWIW, I also doubt that the Roswell incident actually was a spacecraft. It’s much more likely to be something that the military were experimenting with that went wrong and that they didn’t want the public and the soviets to know about. You know, like U2 spy planes or space capsules or whatever. We know that they experimented with both animal and human trials in that area at the time. Making up stories about coverups and conspiracy are a great way to sell books though, and the best conspiracy theories have a small element of truth in them, but it seems much more likely that the mundane is true than some fantastic coverup.

His father was the department chair at the University I did me fellowship in. His brother was a resident when I was a fellow. Interesting to come across this fella. Smart family

I've witnessed them quite close up doing wonderful, seemingly impossible things in flight. These craft are as real as real can be, more real than what we are told about physics and flight. Who flies them, I have no idea? But after one particular sighting in Feb 1997, I knew that there is more to and in this life, than we are told!!

In the 80s I saw a "ufo" in the hills behind Auckland, New Zealands biggest city. It was a very bright point of light that appeared in the sky and gradually gained intensity. At first I thought it was a huge star, but when it became much brighter I stopped to watch it and figure out what it was. To my amazement it suddenly shot across the mountain range and instantly ended up on the other side of the skyline, then it stopped just as suddenly, and stayed motionless for a few seconds before zipping up into the stratosphere and out of sight. It was one of those things that makes you think " what the hell was that? but even more so.

Back in around 2000. I traveled to Calistoga California with a friend. After dinner we went back to our cabin off the main drag and watched TV for a while. Later that night we went out to the meadow and stretched out on a hammock. At one point I stood up facing our cabin and to my right I noticed a light heading towards us in a zig zag motion. At first I thought it was a police helicopter and I thought it strange one would be here in wine country. Looking at my friend I asked for the time. Midnight was the answer. I looked back at the light approaching. I noticed no sound and no light beam coming from what I thought was a helicopter down to the ground as you would see from a police helicopter. I expressed my bewilderment to my friend. When I looked back at the light it was huge...about the size of a football field. It was a dull white lighted disk moving about 3 mph from left to right over the tree line. No sound at all. I asked my friend WHAT IS THAT several times and my friend said I AM SCARED. When I looked back at the light it appeared to boil as milk and water combined would look like. Then I saw traces of the night sky in the light as it began to disappear...then it was gone...perhaps into another dimension? All I know is WE ARE NOT ALONE.

Ok, here's my story: We were like 6-7 of us in the night, at a campfire,talking about the big stuff, aliens included. Untill we saw a big white blueish ball of light coming from behind a mountaintop, at which feet we were hanging out. It was like quater size of the moon, and as bright as the brightest star, so we all watched it surprised. It looked like it was like 2-3 Km away, but since we don't know it's size, it's hard to judge. The ball of light was moving relatively slowly, and in a non linear, wavy motion. It stopped, and moved again, like it was floating, without any sound. Then suddenly dissapeared. It moved about 45 degrees on the horizon. Maybe it was a ball lightning, or a UFO, but I know for sure it wasn't any conventional flying object..We waved our hands at it ,and had some laughs, but it was something I'll never forget,and probably none of us will.

This has aged incredibly well. This guy new stuff nobody was aware of or talking about.

They have been here for millions of years.

I was raised in CO in one of the areas of the mutilations. On a Sunday my mom and two other siblings coming back from church (I was a toddler at the time) spotted a UFO. Decades later I would ask each one of them if they still stood by their story--unemotionally and emphatically they said yes. My mom was a strong Catholic.

The guy in the photo from the Roswell base was not a radar operator. He was Jessie Marcel, the head of intelligence of the only nuclear base in the world. He is a hero of mine because he stuck by his story that what crashed in the desert was a UFO until his death. He showed his son the debris with hieroglyphs and a kind of metal foil that would return to its original form after being crushed in the hand and yet could not be ripped.

60 minutes interview with Mr Bigelow states open he's spent more money than any person has ever spent towards ufo research and he says he knows for a fact we are being visited. Pretty eye opening coming from a man in his position. Good stuff

The mainstream is finally catching up. Great talk.

So interesting. I never knew of this 37th parallel! Good talk but is this the entire talk?? Wish it was longer.

One ten-minute conversation with Steven Greer should convince anyone that UFOs are indeed very real.

Lightening didn't take it down, our "new" radar did. View "Unacknowledged" on both netflix and youtube. Then go see "Sirius." Then look up the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind."

If you cannot disprove a theory it means that the possibility of it beeing true is higher than zero.

When I was a kid in the 70's I was a passanger in the back seat of my parent's car as we drove over the UK's North Yorkshire Moors. The day was clear and sunny with little cloud and I saw a silverish shape streak across the sky appearing to go extreemly fast which seemed to roll over and then suddenly vanish. Look as hard as we could my mother and I could no longer see it anywhere. For some reason it did not strike me as a plane. Decades later and I found out that the area has a NORAD missile radar detection base called RAF Fylingdales and presumably is in a no-fly zone as I have never seen any aircraft out there during many motorcycle rides around there. But the bizarre thing is that since the internet became a thing I found out that the area is a UFO spotting 'hot spot'. Did I see a UFO? I still think it may have been one. I've always wanted to - walk on the moon, travel into the future and see aliens, I'll never get to do either of the first two but it is just possible that I may have done the third without knowing it at the time.

I like the red party cup decor in the background, real big budget......lol

I feel like the main reason people don't believe in aliens is because the distances through outer space are too great for travel. This is irrellevent for more advanced civilizations. If they are out there who's to say what their technology can accomplish?

it's nice to wonder outside the box with an open mind .

Fascinating discussion, need to search the internet for this guy. He sounds pretty down to earth.

I like how TEDx decorates the background with red plastic bowls, plates, and solo cups 😂😂😂 other than that, it’s an interesting talk.

And literally a year later, TTSA brings us AATIP, Lou Elizondo, and this subject has blown up like crazy.

I've switched to Almond milk just to be on the safe side.

Great thinker. Charming gentleman with lovely sense of humour.

I hate how you can openly believe in God and pray out loud all day long, but you can't talk about UFO's without getting called crazy

His got a big Richard Dreyfus vibe emanating off him

The government had an alien and was questioning it. "What was up with all that anal probing?" The alien said "Oh, we did that all over the galaxy to all kinds of species, we really learned a lot about them, but in truth we only learned one thing about humans from it." The government agent asked what that one thing was and the alien said " We learned that about ten percent of you really liked it."

As a 12-year old during 1958, while operating a Massey Ferguson tractor which was pulling a plow on my Grandmother's Kansas farm and traveling in an East to West direction, as my father operated a larger M&M tractor in an adjacent nearby field and traveling in a North to South direction, we both observed the following: directly in front of my father's path and approximately 200 yards away to my left-rear, was a thick path of maize that was probably 12-16 feet in height; as my dad was approaching the maize patch, I turned my head to the left in order to evaluate the progress of the plow as I was beginning to prepare to make a turn to the left; apparently my father's approach to the maize threatened what had been concealed within the thick maize stalks, because just as I had turn my head to the left, a metallic disc-shaped craft lifted upward and came to an abrupt stop as it briefly hovered above the maize, causing maize debris to scatter in all directions; I brought my tractor to a stop and watched in amazement as the disc suddenly moved towards the East at a speed of what I can only estimate now to have been far in excess of 4,000 mph, until it almost immediately reached the outskirts of the nearby town of Arlington approximately a mile away, whereupon is changed direction and abruptly moved to the South and it climbed several thousand more feet until it again changed direction toward the East, where it continued to climb at an approximately 60-degree angle until it finally disappeared as it blended in with the full moon that was hovering in the afternoon sky. As I had watched the spacecraft fade from sight, I recall feeling a sense of sadness, because I understood that I was unlikely to ever see it again. The craft had made no sounds as it darted through the air, nor did it emit any hit of what was propelling it. However, as it moved away from me, I noticed that it didn't rotate on its axis, but it did appear to be shifting through a series of gears, because was it moved forward, it incrementally gave the impression that it was increasing its speed; as it was moving, it also gave me the impression that it was being pulled--not pushed. After the craft disappeared from site, I lifted the plow out of the ground and drove the tractor to my father's location. My father revealed that he had also watched the craft as it took off and sped away, and that he had seen them on prior occasions. He cautioned me against mentioning to anyone else what we had seen, because people would label us crazy. So, this is only part of an experience that I had suppressed until a related incident half a century later allowed the memory to resurface as though it had just occurred. Whether the craft was an alien spacecraft or a reverse- engineered version of an alien spacecraft, it's capabilities were far above any known aircraft that was available at that time or what we having flying now. My major concern is not that our government has been lying to us, because my personal experience clearly proves that it has been lying; but why? Are the aliens from distant galaxies or from planets closer to home, including our own planet Earth?

This guy is hilarious n I love how he bounces left to right as he speaks:

"I don't beleive in ufos" Bob Lazar. "Hold my beer"

I enjoyed the talk, but he didn’t say much. There was nothing we didn’t already know.

Out of all the thousands of reports every year only one of us has to be telling the truth!

Okay I listen to the whole TED Talk and I'm still not convinced

Thats it??? Brother....youre about two decades late to the party...nothing new or groundbreaking here.

Who thought it was a good idea to use stacked up red solo cups as decoration?

The idea that there are not UFOs and we are more or less alone in the Multiverse is far more preposterous to me.

9:52 He says Proxima Centauri is a planet. I am pretty sure it is a star.

"10,000 cows and horses" I'm gonna need more pictures. Wouldn't you assume space beings could figure it out after a few hundred?

In the spring of 2010, me and two friends watched a triangle shaped craft hover silently as it approached us and stopped just over our heads. It was more than a city block in size. It made no sound. It seemed like a few seconds but it actually took over two hours.

I could listen to this guy all night

"To Serve Man". It's a cook book!

No mystery here. They have been here for countless thousands of years, watching over their flock.

Between the Solo cups and saucers and him looking down, I had to just read comments until he finished.

I’ve seen UFO’s: once in the sky, and once on the ground- yes, they are real and I am not crazy

the distances are enormous to come to a place and hide from the inhabitants

how do they allow this, but not Graham Hancock's infamous talk??

I would have clapped a bit louder--entertaining, informative, and short.

The weird guy: I belive in ufos.. ME: He is an alien.

That moment when your realise the decorations are really just Solo plastic cups, plates, and bowls...

He forgot to mention another president who believed; Eisenhower

Doing the best Richard Dreyfus as Hooper from Jaws impression I've ever seen.

1954 Einsenhower was vacationing in Palm Spring Ca. He had a public meeting/ speech on his schedule he was expected to attend. He missed it. When questioned by the press to his whereabouts a vague answer was given. This piqued the press interest into his location, who pressed his staff for answers. Eventually hours later he reappeared at a Air Force in New Mexico. The official reason for this lapse in time was, he had chipped a tooth and needed to visit a dentist. Fast forward years. In researching historical records of this time line every person having contact with the president was noted in security logs and historical archives for posterity. Even the unintended meeting with a pastor he happened to notice stop and chatted with. But no record has ever been found of his needing to see a dentist. And the dentist on call at the airbase never mentioned meeting the president even to his wife who stated " if he had met the president" who they both admired " he would have definitely told me". This mystery has as many question as answers. Why travel miles into another state to see a dentist, when a full medical teams travel with the president for such emergencies, why disappear leaving most of his staff personal at a loss or refusing to answer question from the press. Why are the records/ logs of his activities while on the base missing or protected by NSA prodicals.

This young man is fascinating.

He had me up until he claimed we could reach proxima centauri in 40 years. That's absurd. It would take us longer than 40,000 years. Probably around 70-80,000 years. So now the entire video is suspect.

This has been the best ted talk I’ve seen ever

The key word is UNIDENTIFIED.

@ 9:50 he says “Proxima Centari is reachable by current technology in 40 years” however, every search I have done has indicated it would take over a thousand years. I’m not at all certain he has his facts straight, which surprises me in a TED talk.

I hate it when TEDTalks are nothing more than advertisements for a book... it was intriguing, but lacking much information at all.

This guy provided no proof, only anecdotes.

👽🛸🧞‍♀️ Awesome 👍 loved his talk! And I for one don't think he's nuts. He's very intelligent. We need more people like him in our world.

The claim that "Proxima Centauri is reachable by current technology in 40 years" is completely unfounded. The fastest spacecraft we've created is the Parker Solar Probe, which would take 6,789 years to get there. You'd need a craft 166 times faster than that, or 10.67% of the speed of light to get there in 40 years. There's no reason to think that we have that kind of technology.

Paul Hellyar, Canadian Defence Minister in the 60s has publicly stated that it was known to him back then that a number of species of alien have been visiting earth for many years.

As an amateur astronomer, out there in the dark with my telescope, I have seen many UFO's. After some investigation, I managed to turn them all into IFO's.

UFO does not necessarily mean alien

On october 2019, finally us navy admitted that UFOs are real.

Interesting presentation but Proxima Centauri is Star not a planet. And it’s 4 light years from us. We would need to travel at 1 tenth the speed of light to get there in 40 years. That is equivalent to us travelling to the sun in 80 minutes. I can’t even get across Sydney in 80 minutes. To me, These discrepancies throw a level of doubt about the rest of the content that is not referenced.

Is he on to something? Ancient astronaut theorists say YES.

Notice how all of these bright minds giggle. Not giggling as much now. Tic-Tac.

i want to hug this guy so bad

Ben, it is all coming out now, in the media, something I have known for decades to be true.

Cheryl Powell of Derry, New Hampshire, USA, informed me in 1991, of a military aircraft in Viet Nam that the passengers had their seatbelts still strapped on & were discovered to be completely devoid of blood.

The question isn’t if they exist. The question is “Are they benevolent”

I don't think anyone has duplicated cutting up these cows and horses that way. Just be glad no one found humans like that.

I thought I was crazy. Just playing I'm a believer.

Love how the UFO/UAV allow "Some" to "Know" and not others.

The material went to the Wright Patterson AF Base in Dayton, OHIO, not area 51.

9:43 "We find an Earth-like planet almost every day." This is simply and utterly incorrect.

The Roswell debris was taken to Wright - Patterson base in Ohio. Maybe it ended up at Area 51, but that place didn’t exist in -947

He has guts, I hope he writes about it.

This guy is smart and has a knack for strange phenomena. Constantly fidgets and reads a script or bullet points to keep his narrative on track because if not, it would stray off course from the topic. I unofficially diagnose this man with ADHD.

So I can travel across far distance but lighting can take me down😭😭😂🤣😅