Michael Shermer

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4,120 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Michael Shermer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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These are normal people that have, well, it's probably sleep paralysis, mainly a sleep disorder.
But, you know, you get enough of those, you go, okay, what are they experiencing?
So it leads us in a direction for research like Jeffrey Kripal's research also.
He compiles these hundreds and hundreds of anomalies, right?
Weird things that happen to people.
And they are.
They've happened to me.
Then I, the people write me when I write about this, I'm like, oh my God, wow, these are wild.
Yeah.
Well, I want to establish, and by the way, congratulations for being appointed to the UAP White House Advisory Board.
That's a big deal.
You're sort of the resident skeptic there.
Yeah.
What do you believe overall?
Why don't we set the table with that for the audience's sake?
Obviously, phenomenologically, as you're saying here, there are things that are happening, you know, from abductions to people seeing things in the sky.
So I don't think you're arguing with the fact that they're saying they saw a thing and that they're earnestly retelling their experience.
Yes.
Do you believe that all of those things have some sort of prosaic explanation within kind of our current physics or where do you stand exactly?
Yeah.
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