High Strange

UFOs. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em, ya know? It probably goes without saying that I would hack away my leg like it was a bamboo shoot if it meant I could get on one of those ships, and I’m quite comfortable with the concept of a bright light beaming me up through the tree branches and never being heard from again. But all alien encounters are not created equal. They range roughly from bruh. to BRUH. and the tangle of purposeful bullshit and unexplainable experiences has convinced some of us at least that some of it is true.

Project Blue Book, and its potential inverted version in our current day and age, made the murkiness even worse and certainly wasn’t a good look when it comes to government self-disclosure. But not being told extraterrestrial truths isn’t necessarily shocking given how poorly humanity has done with the terrestrial ones. We can’t even handle social media, having almost instantly transformed it into a mycelium network of our stupidest thoughts, so I don’t think it’s all that far-fetched that spilling the alien beans felt like a bad idea to the powers that be. Whatever the case may be, though, I’m hopeful that we’ll get closer to the bottom of what’s going on by the end of our lifetime and if there were a way to donate spare change to the cause I would have a station wagon packed with pennies and dimes already idling in the driveway.

To that end, I’ve been enjoying High Strange quite a bit lately and might make it the first podcast I donate any real coin to. Payne Lindsey has done a tremendous job so far capturing a pretty harrowing account from Travis Walton of his experience almost 50 years ago, which stands as perhaps the most believable contact story aside from the Ariel School incident that we the hoi polloi have access to. I’m only 3 episodes in, so we’ll see how the series wraps up, but so far it’s been a healthy mix of following the stories where they lead and giving some airspace to skeptics along the way. A lot of the sightings have other explanations, and a lot of them do not, which Lindsey feels comfortable enough with early in the season for me to have some optimism about this landing in a good place by the end. Also, I’m not entirely sure because I’m not a big car guy but I think he drove a Lamborghini out to Area 51? Which if true cements him as a cross-genre legend. Hope you enjoy and happy Saturday.