The Battle of Los Angeles

GREAT show. Dr. Littleton is very well versed on UFOlogy. Highly recommend.

Dr Littleton doesn't accept we were genetically engineered 300,000 years ago (Sumerian tablets - Sitchen) but he does accept "they" are manipulating our DNA now. I'm not sure you could make those two statements together and be taken seriously. I think future and current PhD's get caught in the political and scientific dogma of the University system. Many seem to form a hypothesis and no matter what direction the research leads them they try to fit the square peg in the round hole. They need to be right or they need tenure.

George --

I absolutely love your program, but I have very mixed feelings about this episode.

I think the topic of UFOs (and certainly the Battle of Los Angeles) are perfectly legitimate topics to explore, but I think far too much of this interview was spent indulging the guest in his bizarre and entirely unfounded speculation about the nature of "alien civilizations" ("grays" are androids, human civilization is an alien colony, etc.)

I understand that you are sympathetic to the topic, and that your interview style in general is not usually confrontational, but I do think you risk compromising the reputation of your program by uncritically discussing this kind of nonsense.

I hope you don't misunderstand me — I think that controversial and bizarre topics (including this one) are perfectly legitimate. But I do think you should have tried somewhat harder to bring this particular guest back to planet earth when he jumped into the rabbit hole...

[05/21 It's difficult to know just what hurts one's credibility, or what helps. A judgment call. I would note, however, that the June issue of In These Times has a partial transcript of this podcast, with a brief introduction written by Joel Bleifuss, the editor and publisher. Joel had asked me if he could run the transcript (it wasn't the other way around), and — I hope I'm not speaking too much out of school — Joel's decision to run it caused a lot of angst among the magazine's staff. My feeling is that UFOs are not a bourgeois plot to blinker the working class, nor do they present any policy decisions, but that they are an intrinsically fascinating phenomenon that certainly deserves attention. I know a lot of people feel that way. It shouldn't be a political issue. g.]

I on the other hand, thought it was a very good show and was interested in hearing your guest speculate on what might be the nature of the interaction between humanity and aliens.

The professor was quite well versed in his subject and it was nice of him to share his ideas. Regarding the possible establishment of an mk12 sort of outfit prior to Roswell, it is rumored that a disc may have crashed in Missouri during the FDR presidency around the late 1930's. If this did happen it would make sense to have a committee already established to study these matters.

Thanks for an interesting program.

Dr. Littleton's ideas on Grey's being androids and humans being "an alien colony" are not unique and are shared by respected researchers. These are theories, and there are reasons more then one researcher, respected and educated, have come to them. As I wrote earlier, he is well versed and has thought out his conclusions, not pulled them out of thin air. Abductions have been reported in the stone age culture tribes in Africa. There is something real going on, not being induced by exposure to Sci-Fi in modern media as many claim is the source. Again. Great show!

George- I listened to this podcast a number of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I thought of it when I saw this:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20070327.html

It would be great if you could possibly explore this phenomenon in a future podcast. Notice, also, in some of the images it appears that there is a triangle within the hexagon. thanks, George!