Weinstein was a UFO skeptic until he tried to debunk Jesse Michaels and couldn't. What changed his mind: too many credible, unconnected people describing the same impossible things, including stories of craft apparitions that left physical tissue necrosis. He now believes there are one or more special access programs with UFO on the side, whether or not aliens are involved.
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The pivot to UFOs begins with a confession: five or six years ago, Weinstein thought the entire narrative was nonsense. He tried to debunk Jesse Michaels on his own show — and couldn't. The turning point was the sheer consistency of unconnected credible witnesses. Brandon Fugal's close-encounter account at Skinwalker Ranch — a craft a few feet over his head, his head of security catatonic — was too specific, too detailed, and too shared across multiple people to dismiss. Stanford immunologist Gary Nolan described cases where a ball of energy entered a body and left a path of necrosis visible on imaging. Weinstein can't explain these things. He also notes that government outreach — to him, Sam Harris, and Lex Fridman — suggested an imminent disclosure event, with officials saying they needed trusted public communicators to help mediate the reveal. He now holds one firm belief: there are definitely one or more special access programs with 'UFO' on the side, whether or not non-human intelligence is involved. [1] — Eric Weinstein "Weinstein was a UFO skeptic until he tried to debunk Jesse Michaels and couldn't. What changed his mind: too many credible, unconnected peo…" 1:56:50
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