Big Picture Science

Skeptic Check: Saucer's Apprentice

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They’re here! About one-third of all Americans believe we’re being visited by extraterrestrial spacecraft. But wait, you want evidence?

UFO sighting are as prevalent as flies at a picnic. But proof of visitation – well, that’s really alien.

Hear why belief in extraterrestrial UFOs persists … and why military sightings that “can’t be explained” don’t warrant rolling out a welcome mat for ET.

Plus, the most fab UFOs in the movies!

It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!

Guests:

  • Phil Plait - Keeper of the skeptical website badastronomy.com
  • Benjamin Radford - Research Fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and managing editor of “Skeptical Inquirer Science Magazine”
  • Leslie Kean - Journalist, and author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
  • Susan Clancy - Psychology Researcher, Harvard University
  • and author of Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
  • Thomas Bullard - Folkorist at Indiana University and author of The Myth and Mystery of UFOs

    FIrst aired November 15, 2010.

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