Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So, yeah, I think you have a few stories and then you have David Grush, who I think is pretty beyond reproach.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And then the thing you mentioned, Gary Nolan, he's a Stanford microbiologist.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You know, he's a really, you know, well-acclaimed kind of professor tenured there.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And he works with Jacques Vallet, who I've mentioned earlier, who's this French godfather of ufology.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
He's actually depicted by Francois Truffaut, or he's played by Francois Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And he's this very interesting kind of almost mystical figure in UFO research.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And he gets, he publishes his address online.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So when people, you know, see crashes, they'll literally send the material to him.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
he'll send that material to Gary Nolan to do material analysis and mass spectrometry on them.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And Gary Nolan does mass spectrometry on one of these crashes, which I believe crashed over the beach in Ubatuba in Brazil.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And he goes, these contain isotope ratios that don't naturally exist on Earth.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
They're not man-made.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
I don't know what the hell.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Or they could be man-made, but you would need centrifuge access and a lot of money to do that.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
I think the crash occurred in the 50s or 60s.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So you need a crazy scientific level of access.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And then the question is, why?
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Like what do you, you're like exploding a thing that you centrifuged the like isotope ratios on above the beach in Brazil.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
It doesn't make sense.
Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So yeah, but then it's always one of those things where it's like, you know, until people see like a full scale craft, I think they'll be skeptical and they have the right to be skeptical.