Name: What Got Robert Bigelow Interested in UFO's?
Uploaded: 2021-02-25T18:45:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Got Robert Bigelow Interested in UFO's?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Got Robert Bigelow Interested in UFO's?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-25. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience you and I have some shared interests clearly in the
world of UFOs but I want to talk most people know of you because of Bigelow
aerospace they know that you're this billionaire investor and you're a very
successful businessman but you have a deep fascination with UFOs yeah yeah
sure do how did this all get started back when my when I was about three years
old which would be about 1947 and actually of May of that year my
grandparents had a very close encounter that was dramatic and they were taking
an afternoon evening drive in the late afternoon up into the mountains and
coming on back down to Las Vegas and they saw what appeared to be at first an
airplane on fire and the object became closer and closer to them and they
pulled off to the side of the road and at one point then it filled up the
windshield they thought they were going to die and at the last second it shot
off
and and disappeared and I learned of this story when I was probably ten years
old
and because I was three at the time and my mother had told me the story so I
approached my grandfather and he wouldn't talk about it now after all these
years like seven years have gone by because I was intrigued with it and so I
went to my grandmother and she only would say a few words but she wouldn't talk
so I
got the story from my mom and and they had my grandfather had to sit on the
side of
the road there in the car for a while to recompose himself and because they
thought they were they were gonna die and and then finally he finally was able
to
drive on back to Las Vegas so that was the beginning for me did he ever
describe
what you said it looked like a plane on fire but like what was the shape of it
as
it got closer I don't recall any kind of shape that was that was just my mother
described I don't recall that but they just knew it wasn't a plane they knew it
was
something that's right so that's right so in the family you know in the family
the
family had an event and I lived right next door to my grandparents and the
family had an event that kind of started things at that date for me other
personal things came later but for the family that was a big deal so this was
you
said 47 47 and 47 was the time of the Roswell crash 47 was a time there was a
lot of UFO activity being observed worldwide and the speculation is that
this had to do with the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
and
all the tests that United States had done and Russia had done and that there
was a
lot of interest in in obviously in that well actually Russia hadn't dropped any
bombs by that time right right it was after that but that there was interest in
our species by extraterrestrials because they let oh these crazy assholes are
detonating nukes like let's let's go take a look at them right well you had so
called foo fighters during the war these lights that were following bombers and
the
tail gunners were the ones that saw them most often of course and then that
happened through through the war and then and then of course Roswell but for
that was Kent Arnold right in about June June ish and then in July 8th was
Roswell and there's a direct uptick though from the Trinity experiments right I
think I yeah I yeah I gather my feeling simply is that without any kind of
other
other evidence or proof that that was a huge stomach stimulus yeah so this was
around that time then you had heard about this as a part of you know family
discussions right and so that sort of ignited the fire initially yeah and I
started asking my friends as I say when I was about 10 you know have you any
reports
in your family of anything and and by golly a couple of my close friends told
me
things that they had never told me before so you know that wasn't that wasn't
an
and necessarily an exclusive event is what I'm saying other people in Las Vegas
had had
seen things at close proximity as well now your relationship to this is
obviously something that you've carried for so long it's it's been an obsession
of yours for so long yeah yeah it started with this but what personal
experiences if
any have you had well when I was probably seven or so seven or eight I used to
have
why chalked up all my life to just being silly dreams and I had maybe five or
six
of these dreams and they I could never make sense of them and I would be laying
in
bed on my side and typical dream always the same there would be three short
somebody somethings in a kind of monk robe and so I couldn't see any face
couldn't see any appendages and then these three whatevers were standing there
and they they were not too far from my eye level as far as the heights and so
forth so these like child size yeah yeah and so there's nothing in a I was an
avid comic book reader but there was nothing in the and the whole genre of
comic books that related to that or movies and we didn't have television Las
Vegas till 53 or 54 and even after that it was terrible broadcasting you know
at
first but so it made no sense to me and so over my lifetime I never mentioned
it to
anybody including my wife you know it's funny how you keep things secret and
just
kind of for no no good reason maybe I was be embarrassed to to talk about it
but I
finally thought well you know maybe it was just dreams maybe it was something
else
and so that was a first event personally that I had at that time was in the
subject when did you start to connect the idea of these tiny people or of human
like things with extraterrestrials well years later when I began to start my
process as a researcher and as a student in the subject and began to talk with
people who were who made it their business to be experts in abductions and the
more I got into the field and sat writing out questions for the researcher for
the
therapist who would be asking the questions and and I'd be sitting there
watching the process and just over time I thought well you know maybe there was
something more to it but I'm better off not knowing anything so I'll just block
it
off and forget about it yeah we talked last night about John Mack a little bit
the Harvard great guy yeah and he did a lot of
these sort of hypnotic regression sessions with people where they describe very
similar scenarios oh well yeah multitude of different situations the
abduction phenomena was was very proliferate and in the population it seemed
like even
we did a survey called the roper poll and we repeated it three times so that
the
margin of error was really reduced to like one one and a half percent and abduction
researchers came up with the the ten questions and so they we distributed that
and the the conclusion was a fairly relatively sizable percentage of the
population had some kind of experiences according to them according to the
researchers and according to the poll I am NOT qualified to speak to the
accuracy of whether the questions were that relevant to the conclusions or not
but
that's what they said and so and I had in my own research found people that I
put
them through regression I'm not personally but I found a hypnotherapist that
could do that and I found a number of people just here there scattered around
maybe
somebody my own staff and they would come up with with these these stories in
these
events one of the criticisms of John Mack and hypnotic regression in general is
that the idea that you can put the idea that you can put a memory into someone's
head that you could suggest things and you could create false memories and this
was
something that I've read in the criticism of his work that this style of
hypnotic regression and bringing up these very specific scenarios to a bunch of
different people you can sort of help create especially in people that are
easily influenced or people people that are open to suggestion you could put
these false memories in their head and so you know especially when you're
dealing
with something as fantastic as a UFO or alien abduction or visitation or
something
like that oh that's definitely possible there's also something called screen
memory but dealing with the first the power suggestion that's absolutely true
but
my experience was with different hypnotherapists they went out of their
way in fact to say maybe if they did make a suggestion it was just the opposite
they
might say okay you're on board this craft you know where's the where's the
lighting coming from is it coming from the corner or of the of the room that
you're in well there were no corners may be corrected right away by the person
being hypnotized and so they went just the opposite direction on purpose to
make
suggestions to maybe coax the person to come that direction and they wouldn't
do
it the person wouldn't do it now screen memory is different supposedly if
somebody has a very close encounter with supposedly somebody that's that CT you
leave that at that the memory turns out to be entirely different and that's put
into you consciously and you recall something entirely different than what
actually happened maybe you you saw deer two deer on the road or something of
that sort or maybe there were owls or whatever so that's what's
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