The Comical Heathen S2 E9: Talking UFOs with Ben Radford

Show Notes

 

On June 25 2021 the Office of the Director of National intelligence issued a report called "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena."  This generated some media interest and some buzz around the topic of UFO's.  So we here at The Comical Heathen thought this would be a good time to bring in an actual expert, so today we present my conversation with author Ben Radford.  Ben is a Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, having covered many topics in addition to UFOs, such as ghosts, chupacabra, and Killer Clowns.  This episode includes guest co-host Jesse Pimpinella, a phone call from Ian Harris, and my rant about why I think UFO's should be called U-WTF-O's.

 

*Ben's website:  http://benjaminradford.com/

*Ben's podcast, Squaring the Strange:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squaring-the-strange/id1226273233

 

*Jesse's website:  https://www.jessepimpinella.com/

*Jesse's podcast, At the Grown-up's Table:  https://www.jessepimpinella.com/podcast

 

Show notes:

*The actual UAP report:  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20973253-uap-20210625

*Press release from CFI,  "Keep UFO Reporting Grounded in Reality, Advise Skeptics":  https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/keep-ufo-reporting-grounded-in-reality-advise-skeptics/?fbclid=IwAR2dX8OV9JkMkKGs_Cm4bU3jV8F6Wh_sKmhHbk62aXKaO4b_Y8rvnLeLwLY

 

*Mick West's page mentioned by Ben: https://www.metabunk.org/home/

 

*Ben's book about Killer Clowns:  Bad Clowns (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0826356664/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

 

*Article about man who thought moon was UFO, "Police say UFO was just the Moon":  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7489457.stm?fbclid=IwAR3fReWiuE4JwQX0V3sHnWzJSJ5SGHz6qWee2S1KXV5y7v9QkRFpqVFXB5s

*Pareidolia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

 

*Occam's razor:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

 

*The Comical Heathen Live Show at the Kansas City Fringe:   https://kcfringe.org/2021-shows/the-comical-heathen/

 

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