Gideon lewis kraus: What would the consequences be if we believed that this could have been an artifact of an alien civilization? He says it would weld us together as a species. The super powers could potentially just turn on each other, likein the amy adams alien movie arrival. But to night, china becomes the first world power to declare war against the aliens.
Congress just had its first hearings on UFOs in over 50 years. We revisit a 2021 episode where the New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus explained why the US government started taking sightings seriously.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Cristian Ayala, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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