The Matt Walsh Show - June 29, 2023


Matt Walsh DEBUNKS Anti Alien Propaganda - Part 1

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On this episode of Conspiracy Theories, host Alex Blumberg and co-host Lauren Tickner discuss the growing number of UFO sightings across the U.S. in recent years, and whether or not these sightings are the work of government cover-ups.

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00:00:00.000 You are saying to the human race, for the first time, an official intelligence representative is saying publicly, we are not alone.
00:00:11.760 We're definitely not alone. Absolutely, the data points empirically that we're not alone, yeah.
00:00:17.040 This is one of the things that the sci-fi writers and filmmakers of the past got wrong.
00:00:23.280 I think they got a lot right, but one thing they got wrong is they always assumed that going through all these different hypothetical scenarios
00:00:28.920 of when we make contact with aliens or when aliens come to the United States,
00:00:32.100 they always assumed that no matter what else happened, it would be a big deal to the people on Earth.
00:00:38.040 Like, it'd be the biggest deal of all.
00:00:42.320 And they got that wrong because a lot of people don't care.
00:00:45.500 You have a U.S. intelligence official that comes out on the record and says, yes, we have these vehicles, we have them.
00:00:53.540 And everyone's like, I don't know, who cares?
00:00:56.260 Who cares? I don't care.
00:00:57.760 I don't care.
00:00:58.920 I want someone to explain to me.
00:01:00.240 It doesn't mean that you, yeah, you can always find a reason to doubt anyone when they're making a claim of something you haven't seen for yourself.
00:01:06.240 But when you're assessing the veracity of someone's claim, you look at a couple of things.
00:01:11.600 You look at their resume, their own background to see if there's any reason they would know this.
00:01:19.180 And this is not a credentialism thing.
00:01:20.600 What I mean is, if someone's saying, oh, I have seen top secret classified documents proving this, well, now the credentials do matter because I want to know, are you the sort of person who would even have access to that?
00:01:31.420 And if you aren't, then I'm not sure that I probably won't believe you.
00:01:34.840 In this case, he is the kind of person who would have access to that information.
00:01:38.080 So you want to look at that.
00:01:38.740 And the other thing you want to assess is what is in it for this person?
00:01:42.460 If they're lying, what could they gain from lying?
00:01:45.300 But as we talked about, there's a lot of other evidence, and McKenna has compiled other UFO sighting videos.
00:01:51.780 And I don't think I have any context on any of these, really.
00:01:54.380 So I don't know where any of this happened.
00:01:56.280 Do we know where any of this happened?
00:01:57.200 These are just random YouTube videos of UFOs.
00:01:59.740 Now it is darkened outside.
00:02:01.540 Temperatures are sitting at 61 in Buffalo.
00:02:03.580 We have a northerly wind at 7.
00:02:05.440 Good sleeping weather tonight, folks.
00:02:08.080 What was that?
00:02:08.920 Did anybody see that thing go past?
00:02:10.580 Did we just see a shooting star on Skywatch?
00:02:14.360 That was awesome.
00:02:15.300 Did we see it again?
00:02:16.280 I missed it.
00:02:17.160 In Buffalo, we have a northerly wind at 7.
00:02:19.560 Good sleeping weather tonight, folks.
00:02:22.180 What was that?
00:02:23.020 Did anybody see that thing go past?
00:02:24.740 Did we just see a shooting star?
00:02:26.860 Yeah, that could have been.
00:02:27.400 I don't know about that one.
00:02:28.900 I mean, yeah, it was probably aliens.
00:02:30.180 But look, they're not all going to be winners, okay?
00:02:31.900 But many of these are very good.
00:02:32.900 Okay, just go to the next one.
00:02:35.340 This is from 1994.
00:02:40.560 And this is in Norway.
00:02:45.300 I mean, what else could that blur on the screen be but aliens?
00:02:56.140 I'm starting to destroy my own case here.
00:02:57.800 Look, not all these sightings are created equal.
00:03:00.960 But also, another thing to keep in mind is that there's also a question people are asking about why we're seeing more and more of these recently.
00:03:09.260 And what's that all about?
00:03:10.680 Is it some sort of mass hysteria sort of thing?
00:03:13.260 And I think that it's not.
00:03:14.180 It's just that now we actually have the capability to record this, which could also explain.
00:03:20.180 Because the other question is, well, if the government was lying about this for decades, and now you've got some government officials coming out and saying, yeah, this might be real.
00:03:27.800 And you've got even Congress doing hearings and investigations and taking it seriously.
00:03:31.500 Well, what explains that?
00:03:32.860 Like, did they have a come to Jesus moment?
00:03:35.040 Did they decide to start being honest?
00:03:36.520 I think no.
00:03:37.560 I think instead, first of all, you've got a few whistleblowers who are forcing their hand a little bit.
00:03:42.640 And also, because of modern technology and the information age and video and social media, they're not able to lie about this stuff the way that they used to.
00:03:50.660 It's almost like their hands are being forced because people have cameras now on their phones and they can capture these kinds of videos.
00:03:57.500 I have over 200,000 pictures.
00:03:59.380 I got pictures like this.
00:04:00.660 Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
00:04:01.500 This little camera takes all these pictures.
00:04:03.240 It's a very recent phenomenon where everybody has a high-powered camera with them all the time.
00:04:08.340 And so it makes sense that now we're starting to see a lot more of this than we did before.
00:04:12.840 And I also think that it might make sense that we're being visited.
00:04:15.480 We're attracting more interest from these entities.
00:04:18.900 A UFO has landed in America.
00:04:21.920 The only country UFOs ever seem to land in.
00:04:24.780 Because we have so much technology.
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00:05:19.140 All right, this next one is supposed to be in California.
00:05:23.660 It doesn't look like California.
00:05:24.520 I was going to say, California's changed quite a lot.
00:05:26.880 Okay, let's watch this.
00:05:31.880 And now we're talking.
00:05:34.320 That right there, you see it turning around.
00:05:40.420 The turn is really significant because that tells you it's not like some kind of blimp or balloon.
00:05:46.400 The other thing, and it's also important that in these sightings, there's similarities between them.
00:05:55.500 And oftentimes, it's not possible.
00:05:58.120 Like, how is that even staying in the sky?
00:06:00.060 It doesn't appear to be any propulsion mechanism that we recognize.
00:06:04.280 A lot of times, there aren't any wings that we can see.
00:06:06.660 So, it defies our understanding of physics in the first place.
00:06:12.040 We also have some of these pentagons.
00:06:13.400 So, these are some of the footage that the Pentagon has released.
00:06:16.080 Let's go to clip 10.
00:06:17.140 This one, to me, is probably the most convincing of all the videos we've seen.
00:06:37.620 That's not an LNS thing, is it?
00:06:39.200 It's not an LNS thing.
00:06:41.240 Look at that thing. 0.92
00:06:43.560 It's rotating.
00:06:50.060 Yeah, I mean, these are military pilots.
00:06:57.520 Capture this stuff on radar.
00:06:58.880 Go ahead.
00:07:00.720 Woohoo. 0.99
00:07:02.760 What the f*** is that? 0.99
00:07:05.520 All right, well, what is that? 0.99
00:07:14.000 That's my question.
00:07:15.200 You know, what...
00:07:15.680 Okay, we can stop.
00:07:19.500 If you don't want to entertain,
00:07:21.840 and I'm not saying you have to automatically believe that those are aliens,
00:07:26.680 but if you don't want to even entertain that possibility,
00:07:30.480 then what are your competing theories?
00:07:33.540 That's the other thing.
00:07:33.940 I haven't heard very many compelling competing theories,
00:07:37.160 and all the competing theories I hear, to me, are not persuasive.
00:07:40.240 Especially the theory that this is technology from some adversary that we have.
00:07:46.420 So, you're telling me that China or some other would have to,
00:07:49.660 I don't know what other country would even potentially be.
00:07:51.260 The Russians, the Chinese, Martians, Canadians, I don't care. 0.99
00:07:54.360 So, China has technology that is so far advanced of us that it looks impossible.
00:08:02.900 Okay, it's so far advanced that our own military pilots, we do this for a living.
00:08:07.000 Okay, they're in the skies, they're looking at anomalous craft, and they're looking at enemy craft.
00:08:10.920 And it's so advanced that our own pilots don't even know what it is.
00:08:16.260 So advanced that our own pilots have to consider that it might be aliens.
00:08:20.540 And our adversaries have that, and they haven't at this point just taken over the world completely.
00:08:26.820 If they have technology that appears to be otherworldly in origin because it's so advanced,
00:08:33.000 then you would think they could just take over the world.
00:08:35.140 And why would, I mean, why would another earthly entity, another earthly government have technology
00:08:42.680 that is that far ahead that it would seem impossible?
00:08:46.320 That doesn't make sense.
00:08:47.880 And it makes even less sense that it's our technology,
00:08:51.160 and we're trying to fool our enemies by saying it's not ours, it's aliens.
00:08:56.960 If there's never been anything visiting Earth that even could potentially be otherworldly in origin,
00:09:02.420 China would know that.
00:09:05.080 And so they're not going to be fooled.
00:09:07.900 Anyway, all right.
00:09:09.500 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:09:10.280 Godspeed.
00:09:10.560 Godspeed.