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They Spent 70 Years Making You Laugh at UFOs, Here's Why

35 minJun 27, 202619K views

For 70 years you were taught to laugh at UFOs, and that wasn't an accident. After WWII, the US saw an explosion of 10,000+ sightings, and what followed was one of the earliest examples of social engineering: a deliberate campaign to make it a cultural stigma to even talk about them. So what's really going on?

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In this episode

  1. 0:00 The 70-year setup: why you were taught to laugh
  2. 1:30 Welcome + guest: Sh. Fahad Tasleem (Sapiens Institute)
  3. 3:30 Amthal: how ridicule was engineered
  4. 5:30 Post-WWII: 10,000+ sightings across America
  5. 7:00 Testimony and how you know what you know
  6. 9:30 1953 Robertson Panel & the 3 tactics of social engineering
  7. 12:30 The reversal: NYT, whistleblowers, House hearings, UFO → UAP
  8. 15:00 The USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" case
  9. 17:00 Declassification, John Mack, and the Zimbabwe schoolchildren
  10. 19:30 Government reaching out to churches: and Muslim leaders next?
  11. 21:00 The Jinn Hypothesis: explanatory scope, power, depth
  12. 23:00 Aliens vs. jinn: and the theological room for both
  13. 25:00 Evidences from the tradition: abduction, speed, builders & divers
  14. 28:00 The real objective: deception and turning people from Allah
  15. 29:30 The dawah angle: real experiences, real conversions
  16. 31:00 Getting ahead of disclosure (and the "science & Quran" caution)
  17. 32:30 Inference to the best explanation
  18. 33:30 Being proactive: closing thoughts

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