Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?

As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you're one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They're the best houseguests ever.

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.

People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.

I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to