By Tim Binnall
Military abductions, AI, and the Roswell incident were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. Meanwhile, at the C2C website, we told you about the latest UFO files released by the Pentagon, a possible encounter with Australia's Bigfoot, and a creep dressed as the 'Cat in the Hat' who chased a Canadian teenager. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
The Roswell incident took center stage on Wednesday night's program as researcher David Rudiak reflected on the seminal UFO event which he has been investigating for over 30 years. He detailed how the event was initially described as the recovery of a "flying disc" by officials from the Roswell Army Air Field before they pivoted to saying that the object was actually just a weather balloon. Despite the government's repeated insistence that nothing extraordinary occurred during the event, Rudiak recounted reports from several significant witnesses, such as mortician Glenn Dennis and rancher Mac Brazel, who gave credence to the claim that an alien craft crashed that fateful day in July of 1947 and that extraterrestrial passengers perished in the process.
The UFO phenomenon made headlines again this past week as the Pentagon released its sixth batch of files on the subject. As with previous drops, the tranche contained several videos showing unusual objects filmed during military operations over the past few years and dozens of documents centered around government efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery. To that end, earlier in the week, the Pentagon also announced that it had issued a "legal waiver" that would allow current and former military personnel with alleged insights on UFOs to share that information with the government, but not the media or the public.
Artificial intelligence was a hot topic of conversation this past week on Coast to Coast AM, with two guests discussing the rapidly emerging technology that has become all the rage in recent years. First, on Monday night's program, USC professor Bart Kosko shared his thoughts on fears that AI could wipe out humanity and the ongoing competition among tech companies to develop their respective systems. Then, on Thursday night's show, cognitive archaeologist Dr. Heather Lynn argued that artificial intelligence can be traced back to ancient times, when our ancestors first began recording information, and detailed her use of AI to read undeciphered scripts from the distant past.
This past week featured a rare report of an encounter with Australia's version of Bigfoot, known as the Yowie. Recounting a camping trip from earlier this year, witness Belinda Kay described being pelted with stones and feeling like she was being watched during her visit to the remote location that, an Indigenous man told her, was home to the legendary cryptid. Her experience got weirder when she left some food in a large patch of grass that had been flattened seemingly by a sizeable creature and, to her astonishment, snapped a photo of what she believes was a Yowie's arm snatching the snacks. After later being bowled over by a powerful stench often associated with creatures like Bigfoot, she left the bush certain that was what she encountered.
Are elements of the military working with reptilian entities to abduct and study humans? On Saturday night's program, researcher James Bartley made the case for just such a scenario, sharing his experiences as a victim of this alleged clandestine program. Asserting that there were multiple incidents both here on Earth and off-world in a variety of settings. He posited that the people being taken unknowingly possess the ability to interact with alien technology, which is what makes them of interest to the military. Bartley lamented that the alien abduction research community has been too focused on gray aliens when there are an array of beings behind such events.
Like something out of a horror film, the already bizarre viral AI 'Cat in the Hat' trend spilled into the real world with an unsettling incident in Canada this past week. According to the West Kelowna RCMP in British Columbia, they received a report from a teenage girl who was chased by a troublemaker dressed as the iconic Dr. Seuss character. Fortunately, the young woman was able to evade the creep and made it home safely. That said, authorities are understandably concerned about what they believe to have been a misguided prank inspired by the viral trend and hope to unmask the miscreant who menaced the teen.
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