Steven Bartlett

Bartlett reads from a tablet a summary, with no source named, saying Grusch on the Joe Rogan Experience discussed his intelligence background and claims of covert programs that allegedly retrieve and reverse engineer non-human aircraft, relaying secondhand accounts and documents.

Grush discussed his background in federal intelligence and elaborated on his claims regarding covert government programs that allegedly retrieve and reverse engineer non-human aircraft.

Bartlett says aliens are not top of mind because decades of sightings and crop circles produced nothing real, so attention went elsewhere to things that are actually happening.

back, you know, when I was growing up it was all about crop fields and stuff having alien craft landing on crop fields and creating these big circles and nothing's really ever happened.

The host says Trump stoked the idea of aliens and shortly afterwards the UFO files release was announced; the clip he just played shows Trump saying he does not know if they are real.

Trump seemed to stoke the idea that there is aliens. And then from that, shortly after, we had the UFO files announcement.

People who have taken DMT often report seeing or meeting beings like the insectoid alien archetypes.

They often site seeing or meeting these types of

Trump released 400 classified files on UAP a couple of days before recording.

Trump a couple of days ago released 400 classified files containing videos and photos and different reports on this subject of UAPs.

The host observes that the basis for the claim that bodies were recovered is that some people have said so; Farah agrees that, until classified material is declassified, credible people putting their reputations on the line is the best available.

So the basis of the that evidence is that some people have said it

Barack Obama (played clip, interview with Brian Tyler Cohen) says aliens are real but he has not seen them and none are held at Area 51 unless a vast conspiracy hid it from the president.

They're real, but I haven't seen them. and and and uh they're not being kept in uh Area 51. Uh there there's no underground uh facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy

Elon Musk has said that Starlink's roughly 9,000 satellites have never had to manoeuvre around an alien spaceship, so aerospace experts would know if aliens visited.

that we have 9,000 satellites up there. He's referring to his company Starink. And not once have we had to maneuver around an alien spaceship.

Pew Research: 65 percent of Americans believe intelligent life exists on other planets, 40 percent say military-reported UFOs are probably evidence of extraterrestrial life, and 30 percent say UFOs are probably alien ships; YouGov: 47 percent say aliens have definitely or probably visited Earth.

65% of Americans believe intelligent life exists on other planets. Uh 40% of people say military reported UFOs are probably evidence of extraterrestrial life according to Pew Research.

NASA's independent study team report essentially says UAP are not aliens.

essentially say that they don't believe that this these UAPs are are aliens.

Alien descriptions track the pop culture of their era: flying saucers in the 1950s after sci-fi films, gray aliens in the 1980s after books like Communion.

people saw flying saucers in the in the 1950s after sci-fi movies popularized them and gray aliens in the 1980s after books um like Communion popularized them.