Kevin Knuth

So we just didn't believe it.

We thought this was just silly.

And it became kind of a running joke.

Anytime something weird would happen at school or somebody's telling a story, oh, this weird thing happened to me, someone would invariably interject, but you know what's really strange?

UFOs are shutting down nuclear missiles up in moms from Air Force Base.

We would all laugh, right?

And so that was a running joke for a whole year.

And so now time passes, and that was September of 1988.

And he had said that it was ongoing.

He said they are doing this presently, right?

And so now fast forward to...

It was about 2015, so it's a couple years before the New York Times article.

And I was teaching an astronomy class, and we got to the point where we're talking about possibility of life elsewhere.

And some of the students wanted me to comment on UFOs.

I'm like, well, I don't know anything about UFOs, and it's certainly not science.

This is an astronomy class.

So I was just poking around on the Internet.

Is there anything reasonable I can actually say other than,

the Drake equation and the Fermi paradox, right?

The two typical things that scientists might talk about.