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I debated America’s most famous UFO skeptic, newly appointed to the White House UAP Science Advisory Council, on the biggest UFO cases on record. Sparks flew as Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) denied anything anomalous occurred in the infamous 2004 Nimitz / Tic Tac incident, where a UAP was tracked by radar, FLIR and four expert Navy aviators. He admitted that something must have happened in Varginha, Brazil in 1996 when dozens of witnesses, including a hospital’s top neurosurgeon, described encountering an alien creature after a crash landing. When confronted with hundreds of cases of documented UFO incursions occurring over more than half a century at nuclear weapons facilities, the leading skeptic leaned on skeptical heuristics as a plausible explanation. He also concedes on record that UFOs belong in the same category as dark matter: an indirectly measured cosmological phenomenon that science cannot currently explain but is taken for granted. Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, the author of more than a dozen books on belief and pseudoscience, and now sits on a White House scientific advisory group on UAP alongside Harvard's Avi Loeb. He has publicly bet that no major scientific institution will confirm an alien presence by the end of 2030. Over three hours of heated debate, he called whistleblower David Grusch's testimony into question, despite it being found urgent and credible by the Intelligence Community Inspector General. He dismissed the pattern of scientists tied to UFO and exotic propulsion programs who have died or vanished, including General William McCasland, as statistically unremarkable, a cluster now under joint White House and FBI review. What crashed at Roswell, the microwave weapons causing Havana Syndrome, the 2024 New Jersey drone flap, strange sightings during the Apollo missions, the JFK assassination, and the quantum mechanics of remote viewing were all brought to the table. Shermer also opened up about his own anomalous experience on his wedding day and how he explains his own experience of an “alien abduction” in 1983. Full debate live now.

“Pretty much everyone on the committee is more open to the possibility that UAPs could represent something other than ordinary terrestrial phenomena,” Shermer says. “Not just space aliens, by the way, but space-time bubbles and multi-dimensional beings and far future human time travelers.” “None of that is going to pan out, because that’s just so unlikely or impossible by the laws of physics that I wouldn’t even bother doing down that road,” he adds. scientificamerican.com/article/the-wh…