Summary: <p>Welcome to How To Die Happy, the podcast that explores the big questions in life, death, and everything in between. In this episode, host Martin O'Toole and Terae De Cou ask the question that has fascinated people for decades: <em>do aliens exist?</em></p> <p>In May 2021, the Pentagon <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">verified</a> declassified UFO footage as legitimate evidence that UFOs had been tracked by US military pilots. This revelation delighted UFOlogists worldwide but had little impact on broader society. The question remains: if the US government is now saying that these crafts are real and not human-designed, who is in the UFOs? Where are they from? And why are they not making contact?</p> <p>UFO sightings are not a new phenomenon. They date back to cave paintings, and in 1952, UFOs were <a href="https://www.history.com/news/ufos-washington-white-house-air-force-coverup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">famously</a> sighted over the White House in Washington, DC. Despite all this evidence and the recent disclosure, many of us still choose not to believe that there might be intelligent extraterrestrial entities entering our air space. It begs the question: <em>are UFOs real, or are they a hoax?</em></p> <p>According to recent statistics, a majority of Americans believe that UFOs are real. In a Gallup poll conducted in 2019, 60% of Americans said that they thought some UFO sightings were of actual alien spacecraft. In 2020, the US government released a report on UFOs that concluded that some sightings remain unexplained. This report also raised questions about the safety of US military pilots.</p> <p>But why do we have little to no interest in incredible phenomena that bring into question everything we think we know about physics, the universe, and our place in it all? We may be so used to seeing them in popular culture and have thus become desensitised to their existence.</p> <p>During the podcast, Martin also discussed Operation Highjump, a significant Antarctic mission between 1946 and 1947 involving 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft. Its purpose was to research ice bases and test equipment in frigid conditions. However, according to some theories, the Nazis built secret bases in Antarctica to develop superweapons.</p> <p>It's no secret that the Nazis wanted to build an electromagnetic "flying saucer"; the theory is that they succeeded in developing incredible interstellar technology. Operation Paperclip, a US program that took more than 1,600 German scientists from former Nazi Germany between 1945 and 1959, employed one of these scientists as the first head of NASA: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Wernher von Braun</a>.</p> <p>Martin argues that aliens aren't just interstellar. As the pair discusses the link between DMT and interdimensional travel, he mentions the documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZqVqbkyLM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">DMT: The Spirit Molecule</a>, where Graham Hancock highlights the typical report of people having contact with entities while working with plant medicine.</p> <p>In conclusion, the question remains: <em>do aliens exist?</em> Are UFOs real, or are they a hoax? What are UFOs, and why are they not making contact? Despite decades of countless sightings and encounters, our governments have kept quiet, and they might still be concealing information from us. Join us in this fun and informal Chinwag as we try to find the answers. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying the How To Die Happy podcast, please do write us a review.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtodiehappy/message
