Laura Krantz

But Avi Loeb, who was, or still is, um, no, I don't think he is anymore.

He was the head of the astronomy department at Harvard.

He said, Hey, you don't,

It probably isn't, but we need to consider the possibility that it could be alien technology.

It is irresponsible of us to just say, absolutely not, aliens are not out there.

Because given the size of the solar system, I'm sorry, given the size of the universe, there's a very good chance that alien life exists somewhere.

So why not at least consider the possibility that whatever this is, it could be alien made rather than just sort of a natural object.

Maybe.

I'm really bad with movies.

I will sometimes get halfway through a movie and be like, oh, yeah, I did see this already.

So...

I mean, I've always thought that there is alien life out there somewhere.

I mean, it's just the universe is far too big.

And I don't think life just arose once in the entire universe.

I think that that has arisen in multiple places and in multiple forms and under varying types of conditions.

It was interesting talking to people who'd had the kinds of experiences that you're talking about, Travis Walton, and talking to people in SETI, like Jill Tarter, who the movie Contact is based on, and Seth Shostak, who's another very well-known SETI scientist.

And

Their feeling is, is that, you know, people have definitely had very intense experiences that can't be explained, but it's not, they don't necessarily believe that it's aliens coming to earth.

And one of the arguments that they made, I thought was really interesting, which is that they talk about how, well, first of all, the amount of time it takes to get from one place to another in space.

I mean, look how long it just took us to get to the other side of the moon and back.