Name: Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-08. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience the 2017 New York Times article in my mind made that
was a big shift because when the New York Times is reporting about it and
saying that this is major news and this is real and there's video evidence that
they can't ignore when you talk to high-level people at the government and
people like commander David Fravor who had that infamous spotting off of the
coast of San Diego when you hear about people like that that are very
reputable it starts to change the conversation in a lot of people's eyes
right see it used to be that one person would see something in the sky and say
look Martha look there's something up there now things have changed now we have
multiple sightings by multiple modes that is the gold standard the gold
standard
for looking for these objects not just one person but several people that are
reputable not just radar but visual sighting infrared sensors telescopic
evidence now we have multiple sightings by multiple modes and so the burden of
proof has shifted it used to be the burden of proof was on the people who
believed in
UFOs they saw something prove it now the burden of proof has shifted to the
Pentagon
to the military now they have to prove that these aren't extraterrestrial and
so I
think there's been a sea change a sea change in the last just several years you
know 50
years ago there was a congressional hearing and it was coming out of project
blue
book and there was a lot of laughter and a lot of jokes about things little
green
men in outer space 50 years ago that's the way it was now things have changed
now
people are looking at looking at are they a threat militarily what kinds of
sensors do we have
what kind of metrics do we have we now have frame by frame an analysis of these
objects these objects
travel between Mach 5 and Mach 20 that's 20 times the speed of sound these
objects can zigzag and we can
measure the g-force inside the this object the g-forces are several hundred
times the force of gravity in
other words any living person's bones would be crushed by these objects so they're
probably drones of some
sort these objects can drop 70,000 feet in a few seconds think about that it
can drop a tremendous
distance in just a few seconds and they can go underwater this is something
that we didn't realize
before but yes they can actually go underwater and they also move without
creating an exhaust or breaking
the sound barrier so these are things that we can now document frame by frame
looking at these videotapes
so for yourself what was the shift and how did you feel about ufos say like 10-15
years ago
well there is this giggle factor and it's the third rail of course of your
scientific reputation if you believe in
these things but the evidence is accumulating over the last several years now
when I was first approached by
Carolyn Corey the producer of this film a tear in the sky I was skeptical I
said to myself come on I mean
five days five days you're going to look for flying saucers in the sky what
happens if the aliens are
camera shy and they don't show up in five days so it's pleasantly surprised
when they actually found
something they actually have photographic evidence of objects that can gyrate
just the way the Pentagon has said and so
so we now have a sea change a center of gravity has changed with regards to
looking at these objects we no longer
simply look at one individual seeing something in the sky no we demand hours of
videotape multiple sightings by
multiple modes that's the gold standard now so what do you think is happening
do you think that this is
something that maybe another government from another country has created that
far surpasses
our abilities or do you think that this is coming from somewhere else
well the Pentagon has elicit I think five different options one option of
course is that their weather
balloons or something that's an artifact of our space program maybe a piece of
rocket that is is plunging
back into the earth's atmosphere that's one category another category is anomalous
weather events
uh they happen and they have to be looked at very carefully but the last option
the last option is other hmm that is not just the russians of the chinese
because these objects
apparently can gyrate faster than what the chinese and the russians can can
muster but it opened the door
to the possibility of other they didn't specify what other was but you can fill
in the dots yourself
now one possibility for other is hypersonic drones we see that in warfare now
the russians in the battle
of ukraine is actually using hypersonic drones to hit targets inside ukraine to
be hypersonic you have
to go faster than mach 5 anything faster than five times the speed of sound is
called hypersonic and so
the russians are now fielding hypersonic drones in warfare but you see this is
something just in the last few
months these sightings they go back decades into the past with objects
executing these gyrations
decades ago and that's why you have to take them seriously so the commander david
fravor event that
we talked about off the nimitz that was 2004 do we have an accurate
understanding about military capability
in terms of like drones and propulsion systems from 2004 or are there things
that
are classified that we are not going to have access to like is it possible that
you know 18 years ago
they had the capability to have a vehicle or a drone move this way that just
that information has
just not been released well two years ago the united states military admitted
that it stopped working
on these hypersonic drones why they're unstable they zigzag and that's why the
russians have put a premium on this
technology to evade our star wars program the russians wanted a rocket that can
maneuver and therefore
outwit a stationary star wars system designed to shoot down these drones right
so that's why the russians
have put a priority on this and they've now fielding in warfare we actually see
them as a military weapon
two years ago the united states military stopped its program they're too
unstable
they they were not reliable and it was not worth the amount of money to put
into it because the military
was invested in the star wars program not the anti-star wars program but
because vladimir putin announced
the hypersonic drones that the united states military said oops dope we have to
get into the game too so now
the united states is also working on hypersonic drones as well as the chinese
so the chinese the russians and
americans are all working on these things but you can see how primitive they
are we're talking about
objects that define the known laws of aerodynamics with a technology beyond
what we have today and so
that's why people are scratching their heads whose are these things if they're
not the chinese the russians
or the united states so one of the main points of contention is the lack of
visible propulsion method
right there's no essentially there's no heat signature there's nothing that we
understand to be present
that normally exists when something is going at a tremendous rate of speed that's
right not only that
these objects create no sonic booms when you exceed the sound barrier you
create a gigantic boom that is
then shatters windows and can be heard miles around these objects can effortlessly
break the sound
barrier and not create a sonic boom and they don't create any exhaust we don't
see an exhaust trail from
these objects so either they're an optical illusion of some sort or they have a
set of laws of physics
we we can muster now if they are a optical illusion if an object were to move
in front of your
eyes traveling at a very slow velocity but you don't know how far they are away
you may think that object is
very far away from you traveling enormous velocities so a weather balloon
drifting in front of your eyes
can simulate an object traveling at hypersonic velocities if you think that
weather balloon
is far away from you so how do you tell the difference well you look at wind
patterns
it turns out that many of these sightings these objects defy the direction of
the wind
if they are weather balloons that you confuse with a flying saucer
then they would be moving with the direction of the wind but these objects do
not do that
these objects can go against the direction of the wind not only that but we
have multiple sightings
if an object is very very far away i mean if an object is close to you but you
think it's far away
then it then it's traveling at an enormous velocity while it's actually just
drifting in front of your
eyes how do you tell the difference by having multiple sensors radar infrared
sensors visual sighting
then you can tell how far this object is away from you and then you can say
that nope it's an optical illusion
well we do that now we have multiple sightings of these objects by radar we
know how the velocity the distance
each time it comes out to be real and so that's why we're scratching our heads
who has this capability
and the answer is we don't know is there anything that's theoretical that you're
aware of that could
be applied like some from some other planet or some other galaxy or whatever
that something that maybe
we have theorized that could be responsible for the way these things are able
to move
well you know when i talk to my friends who are physicists like myself about
these things they sort
of like laugh giggle their eyes roll up to the heavens and they say something
very simple that a rocket
using conventional means would take 70 000 years to reach us from the nearest
star therefore these objects
cannot exist 70 000 years for a saturn rocket traveling at 25 000 miles per
hour to go from a nearest star
to the planet earth that's why most scientists disregard these sightings
because they defy the laws of einstein
but isn't that kind of silly isn't that kind of like saying like you can't you
know how long it would
take you to get a horse from los angeles to sydney australia isn't that kind of
like saying that exactly
and that's why i say that that assumes that these aliens or whatever are maybe
a hundred years more
advanced than us but open your mind to the possibility that they are a thousand
years more advanced than
us a thousand years is nothing compared to the age of the universe right the
universe is about 13 uh 13
billion plus years old that's how the age of the universe and so the age of a
civilization just a
few thousand years ahead of us that is just a blink of an eye to the universe
itself and once you go to
higher energies the laws of physics begin to break down the laws of einstein
and the laws of the quantum
theory breakdown is something called the planck energy why is that important
that's what i do for a living
i work on something called string theory which lives at the planck energy the
planck energy is 10 to the
19 billion electron volts that is a quadrillion times more powerful than our
most powerful atom smasher
outside geneva switzerland any civilization that can harness the planck energy
would be able to become
masters of space and time space and time as we know it become unstable at the
planck energy which is far
beyond anything that we can muster here on the planet earth so we physicists
theorize how advanced do you
have to be to access the planck energy well we rank them the kardashev scale
says that there could be type
one type two or type three civilizations a type one civilization is maybe a
hundred years more advanced
than us to maybe a thousand years sort of like buck rogers or flash gordon they
control the weather
volcanoes earthquakes anything planetary they control that's type one then
there's type two type two is
stellar they harness the power of an entire star like star trek star trek would
be a typical type two
civilization where they manipulate entire stars then there's type three type
three is galactic they roam
the galactic space lanes they play with black holes like like uh the empire of
the star wars series
would be a typical type three civilization now the next question is what type
do you have to be to
harness the planck energy the energy at which space and time become unstable
where wormholes may develop
gateways through space and time portals through empty space you have to be type
two or most likely type
three then the next question is how long will it take before you become type
three well we are maybe a
hundred years away from being type one we're maybe a few thousand years from
being from type two
and we're maybe a hundred thousand years being from being type three and a
hundred thousand years is
nothing nothing on a galactic scale the age of the universe is as i said over
13 billion years old
and so once a civilization reaches the planck energy that is a type three
civilization space and time become your playground

Physicist Michio Kaku on the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon

the Joe Rogan experience the 2017 New York Times article in my mind made that
was a big shift because when the New York Times is reporting about it and
saying that this is major news and this is real and there's video evidence that
they can't ignore when you talk to high-level people at the government and
people like commander David Fravor who had that infamous spotting off of the
coast of San Diego when you hear about people like that that are very
reputable it starts to change the conversation in a lot of people's eyes
right see it used to be that one person would see something in the sky and say
look Martha look there's something up there now things have changed now we have
multiple sightings by multiple modes that is the gold standard the gold
standard
for looking for these objects not just one person but several people that are
reputable not just radar but visual sighting infrared sensors telescopic
evidence now we have multiple sightings by multiple modes and so the burden of
proof has shifted it used to be the burden of proof was on the people who
believed in
UFOs they saw something prove it now the burden of proof has shifted to the
Pentagon
to the military now they have to prove that these aren't extraterrestrial and
so I
think there's been a sea change a sea change in the last just several years you
know 50
years ago there was a congressional hearing and it was coming out of project
blue
book and there was a lot of laughter and a lot of jokes about things little
green
men in outer space 50 years ago that's the way it was now things have changed
now
people are looking at looking at are they a threat militarily what kinds of
sensors do we have
what kind of metrics do we have we now have frame by frame an analysis of these
objects these objects
travel between Mach 5 and Mach 20 that's 20 times the speed of sound these
objects can zigzag and we can
measure the g-force inside the this object the g-forces are several hundred
times the force of gravity in
other words any living person's bones would be crushed by these objects so they're
probably drones of some
sort these objects can drop 70,000 feet in a few seconds think about that it
can drop a tremendous
distance in just a few seconds and they can go underwater this is something
that we didn't realize
before but yes they can actually go underwater and they also move without
creating an exhaust or breaking
the sound barrier so these are things that we can now document frame by frame
looking at these videotapes
so for yourself what was the shift and how did you feel about ufos say like 10-15
years ago
well there is this giggle factor and it's the third rail of course of your
scientific reputation if you believe in
these things but the evidence is accumulating over the last several years now
when I was first approached by
Carolyn Corey the producer of this film a tear in the sky I was skeptical I
said to myself come on I mean
five days five days you're going to look for flying saucers in the sky what
happens if the aliens are
camera shy and they don't show up in five days so it's pleasantly surprised
when they actually found
something they actually have photographic evidence of objects that can gyrate
just the way the Pentagon has said and so
so we now have a sea change a center of gravity has changed with regards to
looking at these objects we no longer
simply look at one individual seeing something in the sky no we demand hours of
videotape multiple sightings by
multiple modes that's the gold standard now so what do you think is happening
do you think that this is
something that maybe another government from another country has created that
far surpasses
our abilities or do you think that this is coming from somewhere else
well the Pentagon has elicit I think five different options one option of
course is that their weather
balloons or something that's an artifact of our space program maybe a piece of
rocket that is is plunging
back into the earth's atmosphere that's one category another category is anomalous
weather events
uh they happen and they have to be looked at very carefully but the last option
the last option is other hmm that is not just the russians of the chinese
because these objects
apparently can gyrate faster than what the chinese and the russians can can
muster but it opened the door
to the possibility of other they didn't specify what other was but you can fill
in the dots yourself
now one possibility for other is hypersonic drones we see that in warfare now
the russians in the battle
of ukraine is actually using hypersonic drones to hit targets inside ukraine to
be hypersonic you have
to go faster than mach 5 anything faster than five times the speed of sound is
called hypersonic and so
the russians are now fielding hypersonic drones in warfare but you see this is
something just in the last few
months these sightings they go back decades into the past with objects
executing these gyrations
decades ago and that's why you have to take them seriously so the commander david
fravor event that
we talked about off the nimitz that was 2004 do we have an accurate
understanding about military capability
in terms of like drones and propulsion systems from 2004 or are there things
that
are classified that we are not going to have access to like is it possible that
you know 18 years ago
they had the capability to have a vehicle or a drone move this way that just
that information has
just not been released well two years ago the united states military admitted
that it stopped working
on these hypersonic drones why they're unstable they zigzag and that's why the
russians have put a premium on this
technology to evade our star wars program the russians wanted a rocket that can
maneuver and therefore
outwit a stationary star wars system designed to shoot down these drones right
so that's why the russians
have put a priority on this and they've now fielding in warfare we actually see
them as a military weapon
two years ago the united states military stopped its program they're too
unstable
they they were not reliable and it was not worth the amount of money to put
into it because the military
was invested in the star wars program not the anti-star wars program but
because vladimir putin announced
the hypersonic drones that the united states military said oops dope we have to
get into the game too so now
the united states is also working on hypersonic drones as well as the chinese
so the chinese the russians and
americans are all working on these things but you can see how primitive they
are we're talking about
objects that define the known laws of aerodynamics with a technology beyond
what we have today and so
that's why people are scratching their heads whose are these things if they're
not the chinese the russians
or the united states so one of the main points of contention is the lack of
visible propulsion method
right there's no essentially there's no heat signature there's nothing that we
understand to be present
that normally exists when something is going at a tremendous rate of speed that's
right not only that
these objects create no sonic booms when you exceed the sound barrier you
create a gigantic boom that is
then shatters windows and can be heard miles around these objects can effortlessly
break the sound
barrier and not create a sonic boom and they don't create any exhaust we don't
see an exhaust trail from
these objects so either they're an optical illusion of some sort or they have a
set of laws of physics
we we can muster now if they are a optical illusion if an object were to move
in front of your
eyes traveling at a very slow velocity but you don't know how far they are away
you may think that object is
very far away from you traveling enormous velocities so a weather balloon
drifting in front of your eyes
can simulate an object traveling at hypersonic velocities if you think that
weather balloon
is far away from you so how do you tell the difference well you look at wind
patterns
it turns out that many of these sightings these objects defy the direction of
the wind
if they are weather balloons that you confuse with a flying saucer
then they would be moving with the direction of the wind but these objects do
not do that
these objects can go against the direction of the wind not only that but we
have multiple sightings
if an object is very very far away i mean if an object is close to you but you
think it's far away
then it then it's traveling at an enormous velocity while it's actually just
drifting in front of your
eyes how do you tell the difference by having multiple sensors radar infrared
sensors visual sighting
then you can tell how far this object is away from you and then you can say
that nope it's an optical illusion
well we do that now we have multiple sightings of these objects by radar we
know how the velocity the distance
each time it comes out to be real and so that's why we're scratching our heads
who has this capability
and the answer is we don't know is there anything that's theoretical that you're
aware of that could
be applied like some from some other planet or some other galaxy or whatever
that something that maybe
we have theorized that could be responsible for the way these things are able
to move
well you know when i talk to my friends who are physicists like myself about
these things they sort
of like laugh giggle their eyes roll up to the heavens and they say something
very simple that a rocket
using conventional means would take 70 000 years to reach us from the nearest
star therefore these objects
cannot exist 70 000 years for a saturn rocket traveling at 25 000 miles per
hour to go from a nearest star
to the planet earth that's why most scientists disregard these sightings
because they defy the laws of einstein
but isn't that kind of silly isn't that kind of like saying like you can't you
know how long it would
take you to get a horse from los angeles to sydney australia isn't that kind of
like saying that exactly
and that's why i say that that assumes that these aliens or whatever are maybe
a hundred years more
advanced than us but open your mind to the possibility that they are a thousand
years more advanced than
us a thousand years is nothing compared to the age of the universe right the
universe is about 13 uh 13
billion plus years old that's how the age of the universe and so the age of a
civilization just a
few thousand years ahead of us that is just a blink of an eye to the universe
itself and once you go to
higher energies the laws of physics begin to break down the laws of einstein
and the laws of the quantum
theory breakdown is something called the planck energy why is that important
that's what i do for a living
i work on something called string theory which lives at the planck energy the
planck energy is 10 to the
19 billion electron volts that is a quadrillion times more powerful than our
most powerful atom smasher
outside geneva switzerland any civilization that can harness the planck energy
would be able to become
masters of space and time space and time as we know it become unstable at the
planck energy which is far
beyond anything that we can muster here on the planet earth so we physicists
theorize how advanced do you
have to be to access the planck energy well we rank them the kardashev scale
says that there could be type
one type two or type three civilizations a type one civilization is maybe a
hundred years more advanced
than us to maybe a thousand years sort of like buck rogers or flash gordon they
control the weather
volcanoes earthquakes anything planetary they control that's type one then
there's type two type two is
stellar they harness the power of an entire star like star trek star trek would
be a typical type two
civilization where they manipulate entire stars then there's type three type
three is galactic they roam
the galactic space lanes they play with black holes like like uh the empire of
the star wars series
would be a typical type 