Police acknowledge to myth of ‘10-foot creature’ in yard after inexperienced flash in sky

In a city of unusual sights. This one sticks out. Check out what was spotted over the skies of Las Vegas a few weeks ago. All right. Check it out right there. You could see that green light kind of streaking down toward earth.

And it's moving pretty fast there. Just a short time after that light is seen, police responded to a 911 call about a, quote, non-human visitor in a local backyard. Would you say it was like a it was like a big creature? A big creature? Yeah. Like a real person.

I'm not going to be sick, guys. One of my partners said they saw some fall in the sky, too. So that's why I'm kind of curious. Did you see anything on land in your backyard or they see like a big city, like a big like a big were like, oh, I don't know. I'm so nervous.

Right now. I have butterflies, bro. I was shooting star then. These people say there's aliens in the backyard. Uh huh. Okay, well, officers did investigate, but. But found no sign of that creature, that ten foot.

Tall creature. Later, the officer joked to the family, if the creatures come back, they need to call someone else for help. All right. To discuss, we're joined by Adam Frank. He's a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester.

And author of Light of the Stars Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, and also the upcoming The Little Book of Aliens. Those folks in Las Vegas probably wish they had that little book of aliens. Professor okay, so what do you think?.

I mean, that video, the Green Streak, that's unusual, but that very ominous description of creatures. What do you think is going on here? Well, you know, when I was a kid, my parents used to tell me when we went camping, they tell me ghost stories. Right.

And it would make the hairs on the back of my neck raise up. And that's basically what this is, right? Because that that that light you see in the sky, it's a meteor and it stays exactly the way I would expect the meteor to fade. And so, you know, for whatever reasons,.

I don't know if it was a big dog. I just don't know. The ten foot tall dog, ten foot, really? Ten feet tall. Wow. So these what's important about this kind of thing is that this is like the whole history of UFOs. Right.

I mean, right in one story, right? Somebody sees something, and then you get a story, and. But there's never anything to do, you know, there's never any real evidence. There's never anything that last there's never anything that science which allows us to have this.

Amazing conversation over these wires can do anything with. And so it's like, right here is the entire history of UFO. It's like the skeptics will say one thing, the believers will say the other thing. But you're not left with anything.

To answer this incredible question of is there life in the universe? Interest thing? Okay. Well, back to your premise of your book, The Little Book of Aliens. So you do believe there's something out there? There can be something out there,.

Right, for you to have a book like that. So you know, for people to see. Well, now you're saying it's probably a meteor. You know, I don't know. What do you what do you say to people, especially the people in that backyard who are pretty certain they saw something?.

I mean, what's the best explanation as to why their eyes were playing tricks on them? Well, for something like this, there's nothing I can say to them, right? I wasn't there. They don't.

They can't give me any hard evidence. They can't give me anything that science can work with. You know, the main premise of my book is trying to tell people the extraordinary progress science is making.

In finding life in the universe, but not here on Earth. On distant planets like the James Webb Space Telescope can see into the atmospheres of worlds that are ten light years away. Right. That's how we're going to answer this question, because I there's nothing I can do.

When someone tells me a story, it's not like I'm going to tell them they're lying. I don't know. I wasn't there. But the question is this amazing method we have called science, which a lot gives us cell phones and airplanes,.

And we turn to every time there's a crisis. This method is a way of talking to the world that can give us answers back. It's a way to be in dialog with the world. And if we want to know about life in the universe,.

That's the only way we can answer the question. So if it happens again, whether it be those, you know, folks in Las Vegas who see something green don't necessarily their instinct doesn't say it's a meteor.

I mean, who are you going to call? Who should they call them? Call the police. They call the dog power, calls you very large, called the very large dog pound. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. But it's not.

You know, you take pictures, but always what you see is right. It's always fuzzy blobs. We've got people talking about UFOs for 50 years and it's always fuzzy blobs. Look at the picture that the that pilot took up the Chinese spy balloon. Right.

It's a selfie with him holding it up. And you can see exquisite detail. You can see the balloon. You can see the the had the cargo package underneath it with unicorns. It's always a fuzzy blob, you know. Well, Adam, I always loved talking to you.

I was really looking forward to this. But I'm I've got to admit, I'm kind of bummed. I thought you were going to give us something, you know, I don't know, a little bit more interesting to allow us to all believe and think that, yeah,.

There is a ten foot creature out there that comes with these but what I can tell you is science. Science is boring, but it has to be boring. It's long and it's slow, but it's the only way that you get to know.

Truly amazing things. And the amazing things are right outside your door. They're the ant colony. They're the leaves. But science is away, and it just have to, you know, listen to the process. Follow the process. All right.

Wonders will be help. Keep it interesting. Adam, Frank, great to see you. Thanks so much.

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