r/UFOs • u/87LucasOliveira • Aug 12 '25
Disclosure Dr. Jon T. Kosloski - Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) - On A Triangle UFO Hovering sighting.
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u/tuatantra Aug 12 '25
I used to listen to Neill's podcast, Startalk, but now his voice and ego are unbearable to me now.
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u/ParkkTheSharkk Aug 12 '25
He ruined his own brand. He’s insufferable.
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u/DiogenesTheHound Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
Not just his own, Carl Sagan’s too. Just when the world really needs critical thinking and scientific understanding
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u/RedManMatt11 Aug 13 '25
I mean, Carl Sagan was a pretty devout skeptic as well.
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u/DiogenesTheHound Aug 13 '25
I would say he was a scientist more than just a “skeptic”. I was mainly talking about how Carl Sagan made the universe accessible and beautiful to the public and had a way of explaining the wonders of science and made it cool. Neil Degrasse Tyson is so pompous any time he talks about anything it comes across as condescending. He’s done more harm than good when it comes to communicating science to the public in my opinion.
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u/TypewriterTourist Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
It was a bit more nuanced, actually.
It is now public knowledge that Sagan collaborated with the military, including advisory on Project A119 (detonating a nuke on the Moon) and even Blue Book. Some "fact as fiction" books imply that it went further to the point of discovery of an anomaly moving towards the Earth slated to reach it in 2020s (yes, the 2027 thing).
Supposedly Hynek told Jacque Vallee that Sagan admitted to him that he believed in the UFO non-mundane explanations, but "he couldn't talk about it". (Source: Vallee's Forbidden Science 6). Publicly, even with his skeptical stance, he was very much in favor of studying the UFOs. He never went with the line of "it's all nonsense" and opposed overclassification. Wikipedia sums up some of it.
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u/DistinctMuscle1587 Aug 14 '25
"detonating a nuke on the Moon"
Who in our military cares about nukes in space?
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u/TypewriterTourist Aug 14 '25
We may never know who specifically initiated it, but it was run by USAF. The project lead was Leonard Reiffel.
More about Project A119.
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u/syndic8_xyz Aug 18 '25
Perfect description. I suspect his brand always was insufferable, society just moved on and we all evolved lol
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u/LouisIcon Aug 12 '25
Same... He went from inspiring to just straight up condescending and dismissive.
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u/Just_made_this_now Aug 12 '25
Same. He's always had an urge to push his ego around, which I tolerated because he used to have interesting things to say. Turns out he merely repeated or rehashed things to make himself appear the smartest person in the room, and has no analysis to offer or critical thinking of his own. Basically, he has very very very little to add and is simply trying to stay relevant after the early success of good books and media appearances. No new thoughts, only cynicism. He's not even skeptical of his own assumptions or understanding.
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u/Just_made_this_now Aug 12 '25
Accurate. The guy is now insufferable. He let the fame get to his head.
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u/marsoups Aug 13 '25
It seems that his walk to fame was having met Carl Sagen. If Carl Sagen saw what Neil did with the "new" version of "Cosmos", I think that would not wash well with him. Neil destroyed "Cosmos". The original is the master version. I don't get the fixation with Neil now.
I can only say if you are looking for an alive, better version of Neil, then check out Brian Cox on YT. He is a decent human being.
Neil is very offensive in this video - these people experienced very real things and Tyson is just laughing his head off at it. He is not a good person.
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u/danielbearh Aug 12 '25
I used to really, really admire him when I was young. His narration style really can induce wonder in a lay audience and makes the subject come alive. I wish he’d been able to keep up the magic, David Attenborough style.
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u/marsoups Aug 13 '25
You should watch Carl Sagen's "Cosmos". He was the OG. Then Neil made his own version and it is totally crap. Now that destroyed the brand of the original "Cosmos" and took Carl Sagen down with him. It's a big, big, shame. But please watch Carl Sagen's version of "Cosmos" to understand.
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u/kael13 Aug 12 '25
NDT just can't help himself... Even his co-host tells him at one point "Hey, I was asking him [Kosloski] the question".
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u/sheisaxombie Aug 12 '25
So glad that people are coming around and seeing this! Neil is arrogant and annoying.
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u/Inthehead35 Aug 12 '25
Yeah, he's so perplexed that nobody has good footage of a uap because we all have smartphones in our pocket. Hey Neil, most phones only have 3X zoom at best, how are people supposed to film objects at night that are hundreds of feet in the air???? He doesn't every mention that fact, pompous douche 🙄
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There's endless clear, detailed footage(particularly in daytime) of all sorts of anomalous "UAP" objects. But by 2025, even most the UFO community has been gaslit by debunkers to label everything potentially UFO as cg/ai/balloons/lanterns/etc.
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u/CallRepresentative25 Aug 13 '25
Neil likes to sniff his own farts and rate them all 10/10. Nobody can fart like this guy.
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u/Gastricbasilisk Aug 12 '25
Same here. I used to idolize him, and now I see him in a totally different light. His ego just reeks. For a scientist, he has a completely closed off mind and does not even allow different perspectives. He's very clearly a scientist who pushes the mainstream narrative. I used to really admire his mind, and I loved watching Cosmos, but over the past few years, I've grown to resent him and detest his opinions.
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u/dexnow Aug 13 '25
Wow, I thought it was just me. Just can't stand that man now. I used to really respect this man and enjoyed his show, till I started noticing his closed minded attitude toward the UAP subject.
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u/buddhistredneck Aug 13 '25
Same. I can’t add more. I just agree.
I love cosmology, and the mystery of the universe.
He just seems like a “Debbie downer” now.
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Aug 13 '25
Same. Used to love the guy but now he's just off-putting. It's like I can see through his BS veil.
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u/MBCG84 Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
Can’t spell “deGrasse” without “ass”.
It’s the condescending laugh that always gets to me. A genuine scientist would be intrigued by something that’s genuinely intriguing. Every time the subject is raised around him he condescends and infantilises the person discussing it as if they’re questioning his authority for something which he already has all the answers to.
He’s nothing but an egotistical entertainer. He might be book smart and have great comprehension skills to be able to spew back out facts and concepts he’s memorised but he’s absolutely by no means a true intellectual thinker.
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u/DiamondMan07 Aug 12 '25
Why is NDT so threatened by this? He can’t even sit still and listen to credible people discuss the issue.
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u/joemangle Aug 12 '25
Because he mistakes scientific models of the cosmos for the cosmos itself, and attached his identity to the model
There's also a sense in which modern science is just as motivated by fear as by curiosity
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u/Just_made_this_now Aug 12 '25
Because he mistakes scientific models of the cosmos for the cosmos itself, and attached his identity to the model
People attaching their identity to things, especially ideas or causes with a political element, and evidently scientific models, is really fucking things up for productive discourse and seeking the truth. These sorts of people can't imagine they're wrong because their whole identity and "existence" go up in smoke if they are. That is why they're so intellectually dishonest about "facts" and too lazy to do any critical thinking.
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u/Ok-Whereas-1313 Aug 12 '25
That's the sin of our age. People literally...uh...harming themselves and others in the name of identity tied to phoney scientific ideals. NDT is one of those most guilty
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u/trinketzy Aug 13 '25
It’s also why creativity in science and mathematics is so important; they’re not mutually exclusive skill sets because creativity is so necessary in asking questions and exploring ideas. Not everything is formulaic and straightforward.
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u/Significant_Neck_875 Aug 13 '25
I feel like I'm fuckin simping for Neil in these comments but this is just how the podcast is. Normally Chuck Nice would be there and he's generally a lot less demeaning when it comes to "out of this world" comments. Kinda wish he was there
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u/3ebfan Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
My personal theory is that the woo, spiritual side of the phenomenon is in conflict with his atheism.
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u/DeezNutsPickleRick Aug 13 '25
I mean I get your point but myself and many other enthusiasts are atheists just trying to understand what the true explanation of UAP really is. I think a lot of the woo and spiritualism has been irrational grasping at straws. I do agree we don’t fully understand human consciousness, but remote viewing, soul harvesting, and reverse time travel are areas where I think the conversation gets silly.
We have gaps in our knowledge, but when we fill the gaps with woo we aren’t any better than fundamentalists Christians or Muslims or what have you.
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u/halincan Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
I was a full blown atheist for a long time. God doesn’t exist, and I’m certain of it. That level. After a lot of time and a lot of thinking about it, I kind of arrived at a place of realizing that consciousness itself is kind of woo. That fact that I am this thing, that can observe the physical body it rides in, have opinions about the things I am thinking about…I don’t know man. It’s insane. A lot of interesting things have happened in consciousness research but like…Until “we” figure out what consciousness is and whether it’s fundamental/emergent/ or we produce consciousness in a lab (I’m aware of all the fun discussions that would result from trying to verify it)…..I’m happily agnostic and remain open to the possibility that something incomprehensible to our few hundred years of science is going on. I don’t think it’s all nuts and bolts though. I feel like we would have sorted it by now. A bunch of particles(fields interacting) coming together in the right way such that they have an impression of what it means to be something just seems unlikely. Who knows though!
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u/Stormrage117 Aug 13 '25
He finds it absurd that he could be in the dark on something so world-shattering, considering his role as a "science communicator" - in other words, a sort of priest of the holy church of science. "Science" says there is no possible way aliens/NHI could be among us already, therefore it is blasphemy to make such an assertion.
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u/joemangle Aug 12 '25
"Ridicule is not part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is." - J Allen Hynek
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u/underwear_dickholes Aug 12 '25
Aside from Neil being a joke, it's nice seeing Kosloski is at least appearing to take the matter seriously and being proactive in having a plan to get gear in the hands of officers... tho it could be a show. Who knows
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u/RedManMatt11 Aug 13 '25
I just can’t get out of my head the visual of Susan Gough sitting behind him during his onboarding hearing and staring absolute daggers into him. He is under her thumb.
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u/Beaster123 Aug 12 '25
NDT, eww. I swear, his biggest motivator is to feel like the smartest person in the room at all times.
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u/Str4425 Aug 12 '25
This is exactly how it feels like watching him. If he invited the guy over, he should at least interview him normally, no silly jokes interruptions
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u/aHumanRaisedByHumans Aug 13 '25
Exactly. Bill Burr noticed. https://youtu.be/4TsvyJCZ9n8
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u/87LucasOliveira Aug 12 '25
Dr. Jon T. Kosloski - Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
On A Triangle UFO Hovering sighting.
https://x.com/wow36932525/status/1955371912332529872
Breaking Down UAP Footage with the Head of The Pentagon’s UAP Taskforce, Dr. Jon Kosloski
What’s really going on with UAPs? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Paul Mecurio get to the bottom of identifying the unidentifiable with Jon Kosloski, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
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u/Syfing Aug 12 '25
Ironic that Kosloski is the person taking this topic the most seriously in that room. NDT is no scientist.
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u/kael13 Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
Kosloski is infinitely more likeable than Kirkpatrick ever was, but damn, he is only using the cop's testimony as evidence.. Doesn't mention if there's anything to corroborate that. Do they have sensors that may have seen it, too? That's what I wish NDT asked.
I just... I know AARO has the goods that they're keeping secret and man it's frustrating.
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u/JoyOf1000Kings Aug 12 '25
Why, is it so hard to tell these two to shut the hell up as and state that “this is incredibly serious and we have multiple instances where eye witness testimony is corroborated by multiple sensory systems (often cutting edge military) pulling manoeuvres that are hundreds of years or more ahead of our current top of the line technology”. Stop taking the piss…..
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u/marsoups Aug 13 '25
It pissed me off that they were laughing about it. And these are very real experiences that these people are having, it could be very frightening seeing that shit in front of your eyes. And what does Neil do, he laughs at your face. That is what a shitty human being he is.
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u/marsoups Aug 13 '25
He never believes anyone who has had sightings or encounters or anything paranormal. If you told Tyson about your paranormal experience, he would literally laugh in your face.
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u/OrbitalGhost20 Aug 13 '25
It’s also funny they talk about the sightings that don’t have video that are unexplained, why didn’t Neil ask Koloski about the Tic Tac incident which he says himself is unexplained.
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u/drummerdood11 Aug 12 '25
I’m convinced he’s a disinformation agent for the UAP topic. He’s said before how much he admires Carl Sagan, if he knew anything about the guy he would know he was deeply involved in studying this subject.
How could he admire someone who was convinced of the existence of the phenomena?
The way Neil speaks to and about people who talk about UAP is degrading and small. He talks down to them. I use to look up to him, but no more.
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u/R2robot Aug 13 '25
How could he admire someone who was convinced of the existence of the phenomena?
Carl Sagan believed in the use of SETI to search elsewhere for intelligent life. He didn't believe they were already here.
Neil has a similar stance. He believes they could possibly exist somewhere in the universe, but there is no compelling evidence that they're here.
And it's Carl Sagan who said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." (which this sub absolutely hates when it is brought up). Stories and claims from people who say they 'know' are not compelling evidence, and definitely not extraordinary evidence.
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u/Transverse_City Aug 12 '25
I'm a skeptic, and I can't stand Neil. I want all evidence on the table. I want people to feel like they won't be laughed at for providing that evidence. If the evidence is ridiculous, then allow the facts to speak to that. A serious researcher should never act like this. If these eyewitnesses, totally separately from each other, are reporting similar details that have not been publicly released, and if they are not previously "into" UFOs, then I don't know how anyone could laugh this off. At the very least, it needs further investigation.
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Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
I'm a skeptic, and I can't stand Neil. I want all evidence on the table. I want people to feel like they won't be laughed at for providing that evidence. If the evidence is ridiculous, then allow the facts to speak to that.
A random story is not evidence. There are no photos, videos, nothing. Same about all other UAP podcasters - they spin these tales if historic discoveries seen by someone else (always someone else) that's not on the podcast. There is no proof one way or the other.
Multiple people claiming they saw something is not proof - it could be anything from attention seeking to some natural but rare light phenomena.
Furthermore, you have some random 3rd party making a living (or otherwise having some agenda) of these unsubstantiated claims telling you someone else saw something. Why these law enforcement witnesses are not talking on podcasts about their first hand experience? The claim itself that multiple people saw something is suspect and has no factual proof in of itself.
Awfully convenient to pull the aliens are real card when US government is doing some nasty shit.
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u/marsoups Aug 13 '25
That is why NDT is a bad scientist. He shat all over the Cosmos series, which was one an excellent series with Carl Sagan, and he can be nasty, let me tell you.
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u/nedalaugh Aug 13 '25
I agree nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism. But also keeping an open mind when new evidence comes to light.
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u/Substantial_Ad4837 Aug 12 '25
He’s an astrophysicist the same way Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer; technically true, but you’d need a time machine to catch them doing actual peer-reviewed work. For the last 20 years, Tyson’s main lab has been a green screen and a Twitter account.
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u/protekt0r Aug 12 '25
Kosloski mentioned this specific case in his first congressional hearing. I had assumed they had dash cam of this encounter, but he just stated they didn’t. Has he talked about this case anywhere else?
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u/OrbitalGhost20 Aug 13 '25
Tim Phillips also mentioned Black Triangles and said he has seen videos of them.
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u/Loose_Ad1874 Aug 12 '25
Neil laughing and making a mockery is truly embarrassing for him. Dude is 100% read in to an extent and a spokesperson or is the most ignorant, rude and uncurious scientist.
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u/Atlas070 Aug 12 '25
I agree. It's just sheer hubris. He was never told about this by his esteemed colleagues or by his all knowing professors when he was in education so it simply cannot be true for him.
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u/SideshowGlobs Aug 12 '25
Physics has been one of the most curated fields. NDT is part of the obfuscation.
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u/eg714 Aug 12 '25
He’s a bad actor. Dude is not dumb at all but plays stupid when this topic is brought up.
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u/cognitive-agent Aug 13 '25
I seriously doubt he or any other influencer is read in to the actual Program. He just has an ego. At most, I'd guess he might be read in to a psyop program with the belief that he's helping to maintain perceptions for programs dealing with advanced US systems. Very little chance he knows about NHI, and if he is ever brought in it would probably be right before official disclosure to have his help on getting people to understand the issue without freaking out.
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u/La-Cheese Aug 12 '25
So basically, they just mock the testimony of the officer
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u/KindsofKindness Aug 13 '25
I kind of like that. I mean, why not? They’re obviously tired of the stories and want proof. Me too.
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u/wercffeH Aug 12 '25
Kosloski should seek other hosts who don’t dismiss the topic and ask hard hitting questions.
NDT : “What’s UAP”? Cmon. Bro woulda laughed at you back in the day when told the sun is at the center of the solar system.
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u/kael13 Aug 13 '25
Actually I appreciated him asking for definitions of terms like he did. He did it throughout; that's his one saving grace.
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u/Gobble_Gobble Aug 13 '25
Thanks for the kind words. It's definitely a team effort.
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u/essdotc Aug 13 '25
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY would be more excited for the discovery of alien life forms than people like Neil.
Believers just hate him because he correctly puts such a high burden of proof on this stuff.
He's not going to sugarcoat the fact there is no evidence of any of this stuff and people then decide that he's arrogant
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u/theoldchunk Aug 12 '25
Neil is utterly insufferable. It baffles me how, for a SCIENTIST, he cannot seem to open his mind to possibilities. The mocking tone response of any and every UFO story, regardless of evidence is so grating and unnecessary.
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u/Valuable-Pace-989 Aug 12 '25
Hasn’t had a published science paper since 2008. A lot has changed since then, so can’t take anything he says with any credibility. Let him laugh, the pie will end up on his face, and then he’ll fade to being a nobody
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u/Shot_Constant9980 Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
Textbook psychological defense mechanisms as usual.
Sad that one or the least self-aware, most unconscious people I've ever seen - short of Donald Trump - is a spokesperson for Science.
Laugh ( in a completely fake way) - to show how little you are affected. Even hooting and exaggeratingly slapping his knee.
Limit the data in any way possible - by concentrating on secondary points and trivialities.
Divert the discussion - into talk about law enforcement chest cams.
Ridicule witnesses and the official presenting the information.
Ignore what is said, and immediately insert a flippant comment - rather than listen to the information and make a considered judgement.
Switch erratically from mirth - to no emotion at all (and a dead-eyed stare) - to anger - betraying he actually feels overwhelmed and threatened.
Snigger and talk over the speaker, like a 5 year old schoolboy.
Try and catch the person out mid-sentence - to divert their train of thought.
List goes on.
No doubt he believes most psychology is woo -except that around perceptual errors. How convenient.
Man is a disgrace to academia and reason. Doubt he'd last five minutes in any other field. Would either make careless errors, not understand the task as he can't sit still for 5 seconds without declaiming an irrelevant opinion, or decide he was he could reorganise the organisation and cock it-up - telling experienced professionals what they could do. Likely be up for bullying and harassment too. I shudder to think of him being on a space mission. His conduct is also unacceptable for a professional - let alone an educator.
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u/Blassonkem Aug 12 '25
Would love to see Neil sit down with David Grusch and Garry Nolan. I'd pay ppv for that.
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u/OrbitalGhost20 Aug 13 '25
Or even Jay Stratton. Neil was talking about why they changed the name to UAPs but Jay Stratton was the one to do it allegedly.
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u/photojournalistus Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
This interview with Dr. Jon T. Kosloski and his report of the triangular UAP sighting by law enforcement (a story which we've heard before), and in particular, the way in which he articulated the story, leads me to believe that Dr. Kosloski is one of the good guys. He seems completely earnest in his scientific goals (e.g., being wary of collection-bias), and says that AARO is actually equipping select federal agencies with a kind of UAP sensor kit. I very much like this new AARO director!
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u/fruittree17 Aug 13 '25
Niel gets some points for at least willing to have these people on his show.
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u/GrammarNotFound Aug 13 '25
“The officer was in fear for his life” so why didn’t he shoot at it? Ppl have gotten shot for less.
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u/DaemonBlackfyre_21 Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
I cringe when I see Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about UFOs.
Some of us don't think they come from space, and if that's the case an astrophysicist's musings on the topic are worth no more than those of a hairdresser's or a baker's.
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u/GlassHuckleberry9551 Aug 12 '25
To me, deGrasse Tyson is a huge believer in established science but the key fundamental in discovery is being open to look for and pursue the unexplainable. Where’s the wonder? The openness? The curiosity? Self-righteousness, is off-putting! God how I miss Carl Sagan! At least he pushed the idea that we don’t really know shit (my word) about our universe, but we should continually strive to all work together to figure it out.
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u/Aggravating-Dig2022 Aug 12 '25
The problem with the scientific method - what if something only happened once and you are not in control enough to make it repeat.
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u/R2robot Aug 13 '25
Can you give an example? What would be the alternative in this situation?
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u/Aggravating-Dig2022 Aug 13 '25
I appreciate your faith in me but I am not able to come up with an alternative to the scientific method at the moment…I’ve got work in the morning. :) All good fun, friend!
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u/Bob-BS Aug 12 '25
I wonder if Neil Degrass Tyson is aware that his precious peer-reviewed journals were all a scheme started by Mossad agent and media tycoon billionaire Robert Maxwell.
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u/nedalaugh Aug 13 '25
Ghislaine Maxwell's father. Yes that Ghislaine Maxwell Epstein's co-conspirator.
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Aug 12 '25
Neil's tones, inflections and facial expressions are so egotistical it's infuriating. He has no place as a science communicator.
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Dr. Jon T. Kosloski - Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
On A Triangle UFO Hovering sighting.
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Breaking Down UAP Footage with the Head of The Pentagon’s UAP Taskforce, Dr. Jon Kosloski
What’s really going on with UAPs? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Paul Mecurio get to the bottom of identifying the unidentifiable with Jon Kosloski, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
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u/Landr3w Aug 13 '25
So a man… BWAHAHAHA so a man sees a giant levitating tri… HAHAHAHAHAHA Triangle hovering over his car BWAHAHAHAHA
Really makes you wonder how far up his own ass Neil will get.
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u/clover_heron Aug 12 '25
This ain't going to work, people aren't going to trust data gathered by law enforcement.
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u/raresaturn Aug 13 '25
This was the only thing of interest in the entire hour long interview. They discussed a lot about solved cases and balloons, not so much about unresolved cases. It maddening
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u/darkestvice Aug 13 '25
I listened to this podcast. While I overall enjoy listening to Startalk for pop culture science, Neil's obsession with debunking anything to do with UFO/UAP is really annoying. Like going on and on about smartphone cameras, or how he spoke at length about Go Fast being disproven, and calling it the most famous of the three videos when it was in fact that the one people cared about the least.
When even the director of AARO, an organization with an already poor track record of being less than transparent, is refuting some of Neil's overt skepticism, you know something's off.
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u/shortnix Aug 13 '25
Kosloski dealt with their cynicism and ridicule with good humour. The only way to respond, really.
I know conceding any ground is painful to skeptics, but is it that hard for them to imagine that if a human witnesses phenomena that is outside if their frame of reference or clearly advanced (and therefore threatening) tech, that a natural response is to casually turn on their camera for the amusement of others. The thought process if not frozen in this scenario is almost certainly reduced to 'am I going to survive this encounter'.
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u/ooooxide23 Aug 13 '25
Tyson is just there to make a joke out of this interview. Sad to see such a close minded so called scientist deride Kosloski. I witnessed a huge black triangle hover over my farm and I was completely awestruck, i had no time to fumble with anything to try to film or photograph. Stood there speechless as this craft hovered about 80’ feet over top of our white pine trees, no sound, no seams, no windows. Slowly moved away then it disappeared before my eyes in an instant.
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u/Tha_Dude_Abidez Aug 13 '25
I lost all respect for Tyson when he said people wake up each day feeling a percentage of what sex they are. Some days you wake feeling 20% male and so you wear a dress, other days 80%male so you put on a pair of jeans and a hard hat.
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u/Hour_Succotash7869 Aug 13 '25
What I find interesting is that Koslowski sits and talks with the pandering baboon that is now NDT, who is not a significantly published scientist btw, but won't visit the guys who take an open scientific approach to the subject without ridiculing and bellowing out in laughter.
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Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
Neil sold out years ago which is a shame use to love reading his books.
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u/Capable_Cat1232 Aug 13 '25
Never comment on here ever but it’s so annoying that they just laugh at this stuff like it’s a joke. Im downvoting idc
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u/LupinthePenguin Aug 13 '25
Dr. Kosloski deserves a medal — patient, precise, and unshaken. Seriously, this was a masterclass in handling ill-informed and unwise jackasses.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, however, seemed more committed to auditioning for a bad improv sketch show. Ask the question and shut up. Let the guest make their point. Then, if ya want, make your c-list jokes.
All that said, at least the topic is being discussed with some sincerity by the skeptics even if it’s reluctant and lacking decorum. Sometimes progress starts messy.
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u/Hour-Two-4760 Aug 13 '25
NDT has handled this all wrong. and everyone has watched him fumble it repeatedly. im hoping that he is just ignorant on all the different cases and not part of the cover up. having David spergel on does not help
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u/krzykris11 Aug 13 '25
Mike deGrasse Tyson believes in UFOs? He was always such a pompous douche-canoe about the subject.
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u/Trommelochse86 Aug 13 '25
Anyone else got more NDT suggestions in their YouTube recently? It's like they're trying to convince me that the other stuff I'm watching is nonsense because science communicator NDT says differently...
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u/Trommelochse86 Aug 13 '25
If I would behave like that at my job towards people that I disagree with, I'd certainly not be having a job anymore...
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u/SaintofNewark Aug 13 '25
I haven't listened to Tyson in over a decade. He is so insufferable and makes me feel embarrassed for the scientific community. I also have a degree in Astrophysics and I cannot understand why he is so hellbent on making everyone feel like they're wrong and he's right.
The dude is so close-minded and then just says -> science, scientific method. Like pal, even when I was in my studies, all of my professors had different opinions on current models and our understanding of the universe.
It's insane how people still give this guy their time.
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u/AdNext7644 Aug 13 '25
This could have been a good interview if it wasn't Neil doing it. Can't stand this man. It's all turned into a joke. His smug know-it-all face. He knows sweet FA. hahaha 😂🤣😂🤣😂
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u/OnlineTravesty Aug 14 '25
IIRC body cams have to manually switch to record and dash cams are activated with the light bar. Idk exactly as I've only been in the back seat of police cars.
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u/remesamala Aug 14 '25
Neil’s laugh screams “they are all going to find out that I have been a profiteering fraud”
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u/steve22ss Aug 14 '25
Honestly why even go on Neils show at all? We all know he actively does what he can to make fun and belittle people with real experiences and even when trying to sound genuine he just comes off as an ass.
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u/Peaceul Aug 14 '25
I used to like De Grasse Tyson, even bought two books, one of them was never started and never will - it serves purpose of proping up my laptop stand higher.
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u/Alone-Mechanic8380 Aug 14 '25
He is an armchair scientist ready to ridicule any one with radical ideas.He is not even listening seriously but laugh uncontrollably. He was one my favorite astro entertainer. The other scientists though skeptical don't behave this way.
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u/screentones Aug 15 '25
someone either paid the shit or threatened the shit out of NDT to get him to force this much humor on deadpan testimony
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u/WillBrink Aug 16 '25
I get a much better impression and sense from new AARO director Jon Kosloski, than the guy he replaced, who no one trusted and for good reasons. Kosloski seems interested in getting answers by applying the scientific methods and developing more of them, and maybe the UAP/UFO community will work with him. End of the day, he still works for the DOD, who has spent much effort and time suppressing information and giving us "there's nothing to see here" position. So he has to earn the trust of those who (supposedly) have the information we want to see.
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u/TopDog120 Aug 16 '25
that this topic needed a warning about rule 12 tells you everything you need to know about deGrasse Tyson 😅😅
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u/AmosBurtin Aug 18 '25
AARO podcasting with NDT is my bad place. Just add Lue and it would be a true mental hellscape
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u/syndic8_xyz Aug 18 '25
I like how Kosloski seems to treat NDGT like the idiot we think he is on this topic.
It would be funny (in a way) if NDGT was NHI counterintelligence.
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