Dr. Eric Haseltine

Whenever you see something that doesn't fit what you know, a real scientist should get excited, not skeptical.

When you look at all the many thousands of reports, and we've looked at all, and some I have guilty knowledge of from when I was inside the government, it's real, and it's something we do not understand.

I think what we're seeing with these credible real phenomena is something really bizarre and out there.

We might all be Martians.

I think it's almost certain that we're evolved from building blocks that are extraterrestrial.

There was some advanced civilization on Earth many hundreds of millions of years ago that discovered near-luminal travel.

You can move something through the air where there's no engine on it at all.

You're just pushing on it with photons.

Having been at NSA and being one of their senior leaders, I find that highly unlikely.

It's a great honor to be here.

Well, I'll start and then you can fill in where I miss things.

First of all, a little context for the book.

I spent years at the CIA after leaving NSA and ODNI, where I was basically the CTO of the U.S.

intelligence community, the whole thing.

And I was an analyst for a particular target.

and was trained in analytic tradecraft, which is basically the scientific method.

And we call it the method of competing hypothesis.

When we see a phenomena or an event, we say, what are all the different hypotheses for what could be driving this?

And then we go and we look for evidence that would support or contradict each of those.

And at the end, we weigh it and come out with an assessment with the probability of what we think is the most likely of all of those with some confidence.