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2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

As I said before, I have no idea what to make of the UAP shift of our government. But I do know that this period is unlike *any* other epoch. And there are many *different* unprecedented things that could happen so close to the source code as we have been for 50 to 75 years.

4:30 PM · Apr 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The number of higher credibility officials or former officials choosing to walk right up to, yet generally not over, the line of confirming alien encounters via UAP has changed markedly.

I have always avoided UFO discussion. This makes that impossible:

https://t.co/uaM0wwEVMu

4:09 PM · Apr 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

At this point, the story I am tracking isn’t “Little Green Men”. It is “Officials inexplicably change course on UFO narrative”.

Also, the story about “Technology never before seen.” Would make more sense with “Technology” replaced by “Physics”.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eigenbros

@eigenbros

High level government officials have given UAPs credibility, but it's still pretty hard for an outsider to analyze the evidence objectively. It's all video footage and testimony. We need much stronger evidence to form any real opinion on UFOs being extraterrestrial or not.

12:06 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The US/Europe seriously diverted attention from doing real theoretical physics almost 40 years ago in 1984 to explore physics inspired mathematics. Did China/Iran/Russia/Israel? I don’t know.

But I can tell you this: no one in government is appropriately focused on new physics.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Imagine in 1900 some “crank” told you about thermonuclear weapons. Would you listen or laugh? Well, they’d be only 5 decades away with no aliens necessary. And powered flight hadn’t happened yet!

That’s how powerful a “new physics” advantage is. We’re behaving like lunatics.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Any time ANYONE at least 1/2-way viable says something weird or kooky or interesting (Wolfram, Lisi, etc.) the cost of a Department of Energy 1hr phone call is negligible. Almost no one with that background says anything like this. Maybe less than 1 such PhD “lunatic” per year.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Do I think Wolfram, Lisi, Kaku, Smolin, Klee Irwin, Sarfatti, Woit/Penrose etc are right or on the doorstep of new physics? No! But It’s also totally irrelevant to the security risk.

It wouldn’t matter to me at all. I would check in with all of them: the cost is zero. The risk?

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The thing I like least about Geometric Unity is not being able to know what it would unlock if true, any more than Einstein and Bohr understood Lise Meitner, Stan Ulam & Edward Teller’s weaponization of New Physics.

We are talking about UFOs while not worrying about New Physics.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Think about the g-2 muon anomaly. Have you heard as much about that suggesting the possibility of New Physics from high precision (rather than high energy) as you have about the TicTac UAP?

Similarly, how often do you hear about UAP technology rather than physics issues. Right??

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have no idea what to make of the change in the UAP narrative. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few claims seriously.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

As we saw over & over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.

The handful of PhD level claims are of negligible cost to investigate & dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.

DOE lost the plot.

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Enough! Let’s get back to UFOs and space opera so we don’t have to worry about China & Iran making a breakthrough on a white board in some lab we can’t see.

Moral: if you take UFOs seriously but not the risk of new physics, you aren’t thinking clearly.

Just think about it. 🙏

1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are being told L*ttl*-Gr**n-M*n and are being handed the vowels i and four e’s by our defense department.

Only don’t say UFO...say UAP. And when we ask “So...aliens?” They say “This is not consistent with the capabilities of any nation.”

Cut the crap: https://t.co/cfDIUVvndC

4:37 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

No one knows how to talk about this. It isn’t our top headline.

My question is *how* is this not our top headline? Either the defense department is pranking the entire world or we have the largest dire security mystery on earth or we have contact.

All 3 would be our top story.

4:37 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

When our experts now talk openly about all these UFOs they talk about their “technology”.

And every time they do, I replace the word “technology” with the word “physics” for the obvious reasons. Because if non-terrestrial craft are here, physics > technology.

5:26 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Imagine if these UAP were actually visitors from beyond the local solar neighborhood. You wouldn’t be focused on their technology first. You’d want to understand how they got here and if they used new physics to do so. Most importantly, you’d want to know about dimension hacking.

5:26 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A key issue in Geometric Unity for me is whether additional temporal & spatial degrees of freedom are accessible or shielded from manipulation. But consider what 6 additional temporal dimensions or the ability to manipulate rulers and protractors fundamentally could yield.

5:26 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We are somehow no longer worried about any new physics. We are so sure it won’t suddenly progress in an unexpected way or unlock anything new that we aren’t even paying attention to the field. After String Theory it all feels ironic.

This is potentially a *catastrophic* mistake.

5:26 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Every threat against a head of state is taken seriously. Even the absurd ones. It is cheaper to dot a few “i”s and cross a few “t”s than to not worry about such threats.

Obviously.

UAP, Gain Of Function, New Physics, MANPADS, loose nukes, etc should be the same.

Obviously.

5:26 PM · May 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

You can recover a surprising amount from just one simple statement: UAP, public health, standardized testing, immigration, mortgage backed securities, crypto, inflation methodology, String Theory, Aaron Swartz, Etc.

“Institutions do not have the right to gaslight individuals.”

6:40 PM · May 18, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In a certain sense, that is the main through-line of my politics. Any institution that gaslights an ordinary human trying to make sense of the world in a reasonable fashion is wrong to me in a particularly profound way.

Don’t know how to describe this as a political perspective.

6:40 PM · May 18, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Folk wisdom to the contrary, we are somehow mildly pregnant with UFOs.

1:29 AM · May 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It’s very weird. It’s ongoing titration of UFO declassifications so that we never wake up to hear “It’s little green men!” nor “We figured out they were just seagulls covered in metallic flotsam.”

We just get pulled farther and farther out. Like a rip-tide you don’t even notice.

1:34 AM · May 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’m not saying that the UAP/UFO stuff is 👽. I am saying that we’re being *told* it’s 👽 in a game.

The game: we present a mystery (UFOs) and then take away all but one option. If you guess *anything* but 👽, we tell you it is de facto been ruled out.

Guess 👽, and we shrug 🤷‍♀️.

1:44 AM · May 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Our National and military position on UAP/UFO in restricted military airspace makes no sense to me.

As in zero. Maybe I just don’t get it but I really really don’t get it. Can anyone make this make sense? Why is the leadership of the US scientific community totally absent?

7:36 PM · May 31, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The US isn’t explaining or keeping secrets. We aren’t debunking. We aren’t defending ourselves. We aren’t interested as a nation or even particularly curious. We aren’t outraged. We do giggle a bit. We aren’t debating. We aren’t excited.

We are sleepwalking. As usual. Even here.

7:36 PM · May 31, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

UFO / UAP Poll:

2:55 AM · Jun 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Note: if you think this is Atlantis or future humans or Orca technology, choose “alien” to this earth. There just weren’t enough characters allowed. Sorry.

3:06 AM · Jun 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

On UFO/UAP: note the absence of top physicists. Or scientists more generally. Or academicians more generally than that.

Any science fiction author would know to get our leading physicists, geometers, evolutionary biologists, linguists on this if it’s real. Ok, so where are they?

7:01 PM · Jun 7, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

There has been a tiny response. Mostly we see military, ex-military and civilians UFO community commenting.

The number of top relevant academicians commenting is near zero. This is very odd because we know from the Manhattan project that you need to tap your academics. Thoughts?

7:04 PM · Jun 7, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The UAP data is all of ours. Not the military’s exclusively.

It is scientific data. It is physics data.

We need to get it to our physicists. Not just our aerospace companies & defense contractors.

The Institute for advanced study, fully informed, should be leading discussion.

6:16 PM · Jun 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@the_IAS > @LockheedMartin

This is ridiculous.

6:16 PM · Jun 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Not releasing claimed (remarkable) data and expecting scientists comment is a recipe for destroying scientific credibility.

The Military destroyed lives of those who claimed to have seen what leaked.

I demand our data from the defense department. Demand yours as well.

1. UAP #UFO

7:26 PM · Jun 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

25000 of you answered. Almost 3 in 4 of you believe either that UFOs are a deliberate fabrication of the government and/or Next Generation US Tech, or from some previously unknown advanced civilization.

About 1 in 4 say the US is just incompetent (in error or being leapfrogged).

2:47 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

UFO / UAP Poll:

2:55 AM · Jun 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The poll ran for 3 days to decrease selection bias. It was stable from early on in the response patterns.

Over 2/5 of you have already gone to some form of alien explanation.

Even at this crude level I find this fascinating having run several of these Twitter polls in the past.

2:47 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The poll was intended to force people to make a definite guess:

There is nothing real there (lying or incompetence)

There is something there (US tech)

There is something there (Adversaries).

There is something there (Aliens)

More characters would have helped, but not much.

2:47 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

But here is what I find fascinating: if 2/5 of us think this is Aliens, and 3/4 of us think the US is *baldly* lying on a matter of grave security, in possession of out of this world tech, or are being visited by advanced alien civilizations…and UAP is still not the top story.

2:47 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I personally have no idea what’s going on. If I believe in my country then it is most likely aliens. If I disbelieve my country we are engaged in a lie that will soon collapse and destroy our trust and credibility even more.

Moral: get us US scientists our own US UAP data. Now.

2:47 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My 1st tweet thread ever about UFO/UAP so far as I know was end of April of 2020.

So I am WAY late to this party.

Why? Because I thought this was all bullshit. I shutdown most every conversation until last year on this.

Why? Because it seemed obviously preposterous. I trusted.

11:02 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I never went through an X-files phase. No “Chariots of The Gods” or “Ancient Aliens” phase. Ever.

I can’t even conceive of a world where this national strategy makes any sense.

The US can be occasionally ruthless. But just plain dumb? I still can’t believe we are Keystone Cops.

11:02 PM · Jun 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

John reached out to me not all that long ago. I also will not kill myself. I’m not suicidal.

Also, this is getting fucking ridiculous.

This authoritarian turn around Epstein, Wuhan, Ivermectin, “Fortifying Democracy”, UAP, climate, mostly peaceful protests, Leaked Tax Returns…

10:27 PM · Jun 23, 2021

John McAfee

@officialmcafee

Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm.

$WHACKD available only on http://McAfeedex.com:)

7:48 PM · Nov 30, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

…mandatory racism exorcism at work, #metoo witch hunts, shadowbanning, Build Back Better, Trust and Safety, TOS changes, compulsory speech, ANTIFA denials, Labor Shortage claims, denial etc…etc… is clearly a repudiation of all the US stands for. He was bugged by it all.

10:27 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

And if you mention the ENORMOUS number of issues that are behaving in this *same* totally artificial fashion, the reputation attacks SOAR from all sides.

What the hell has control of the US and why is it localized to the Democratic Party & it’s associated media and businesses?

10:27 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I wish I could remember his call w/ more precision. But it was when I was in San Francisco. I couldn’t believe I was known to him.

NOTE: I will be taking a new approach to all repetitive doxing, reputational or other attacks as a result.

Think I’m done fucking around.

10:27 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Having been menaced over asking for Epstein as a fake “Disgraced Financier” to be called out by our press and connected to any intelligence services, this takes on new meaning.

When you can’t call your own damn teams for help, who can you even call?

I so hate this shit. RIP JM.

10:27 PM · Jun 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

DOD: It appears not to be that we can't confirm that it's no longer the case that with multiple sensor data that it is now unlikely that at least some UAP are likely to be non-human technology or enemies leapfrogged us.

Public: Huh. Gosh. Ok. Meh.

DOD: Phew. Dodged that bullet.

4:20 PM · Jun 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It’s totally irresponsible for any scientist to refuse to investigate UAP after this report with a full and unpruned decision tree at her side.

That includes considering the total incompetence of the defense department, *aliens*, spoofing by enemies and UFO political economy.

6:37 PM · Jun 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Name a single species on earth so insignificant that biologists do not bother to include it on the phylogenetic tree or consider it interesting?

Neil:Pardon me for asking, but isn’t *this* an egocentric anti-curiosity position elevating radical obligate “debunking” over science?

1:14 AM · Jun 28, 2021

Neil deGrasse Tyson

@neiltyson

How egocentric of us to think that Space Aliens, who have mastered interstellar travel across the Galaxy, would give a shit about humans on Earth.

12:32 AM · Jun 28, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This isn’t meant as a dig. I am trying to use your same exactly choice of normative framing that you used to dismiss my fellow inquiring minds in the wake of the UAP report. Happy to remove it if we can get rid of the invective. Thanks.

1:19 AM · Jun 28, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

*exact

1:23 AM · Jun 28, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I subscribe to an unpopular position. Consider 3 kinds of 🌎:

A) Ones with no life or at least no life within striking distance of the source code (ToE).

B) Worlds that are on the verge of gaining the source code but are confined to a terrestrial surface.

C) Root level access.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Now, if you can jack into the cosmos as ‘Root’ it MAY facilitate stuff that’s unimaginable (e.g. dimension hacking) yet only one remaining big upgrade away from being able to fuse nuclei. Which is where we are now.

I’d guess all civilizations that are Root care about each other.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The following is pure speculation (Tutored by experience w/ GU):

I think we sent a signal to the cosmos in 1945 and then on Nov. 1, 1952. Fusing Nuclei is what you do JUST before you become root. If this is right, we let the cosmos know “Earth is root adjacent” w/o awareness.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is there anyone in the cosmos listening? Perhaps not. But we are all acting as if living on a terrestrial surface with the ability to fuse nuclei is some totally normal thing due to <70 years of good luck. Which is insane.

Now what if I’m right in the above and the cosmos cares?

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The idea of a newly space-time-faring unwise civilization with fresh root level access is a nightmare. And no one but no one on earth takes this seriously anymore. After 1952 fundamental physics went on progressing normally for ~20yrs. So after that it’s been~50yrs of stagnation.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In those ~50yrs we learned to stop worrying. About Fusion-weapons, interstellar travel, a cosmos that listens or even our ability to progress to the end. In 1984, physicists were talking about the end of physics without irony. They then failed, while failing to report failure.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So they told another story: “String theory didn’t fail!! It may take 100s of years to figure it out!” That is “If we String Theorists can’t make progress, a Theory of Everything is now far over the Horizon for everyone else.” But that’s not logically necessary. I say we’re close.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It makes sense to worry about *every* small boutique program: Lisi, Wolfram, Barbour, LQG, Tegmark, ConnesLott, Octonions, amplitudhedron, etc. Our science/defense establishment doesn’t seem to get this idea: after 50yrs of no progress it seems too abstract to practical men.

2:15 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I learned from my buddy @SamHarrisOrg that he thought 👽 would be Millenia ahead of us. Look at Nov 1, 1952 from Nov 1 1902: you don’t have powered flight, know what relativity or the quantum is, know that neutrons exist, know about anti-matter, etc.

From ‘02, ‘52 IS millennia. https://t.co/YiRc1AbkcU

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2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Well, we may or may not have a major update in our future. And if it unlocks dimension hacking, looking glass matter, VEV/potential hacking, multi-temporal pseudo-Riemannian metrics, Dark Chemisty, Dark Light, additional families, RaritaSchwinger fields, etc then we get upgraded.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

And I believe all at once.

What does that mean? I honestly don’t know.

But Imagine you sent a chainsaw, a Bugatti, Ibogaine, “My-1st-Crisper”, and an F-18 to a badly behaved 5yr old child for a birthday present w a simple card: “Enjoy!” We’d worry specifically b/c immaturity.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

That’s what NDT has most wrong. He thinks we are far behind anything that could visit us, but that ISN’T backed up by science. He’d have to explain why we aren’t “root adjacent” right now or that root buys us nothing. Well?

Think of the relationship of Iran to nukes for example.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Iran is now Nuke adjacent. And their facilities and scientists keep running into mysterious problems. Why? Surely not because Iran is too insignificant to her more advanced neighbors. That would mirror NDT’s argument. My argument is that root level access to nuclei *suffices*.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Am I saying “Aliens are here”? Of course not. But the “Root Adjacency Hypothesis” is not properly discussed almost anywhere. Which defies all explanation.

Perhaps everyone else is right & I’m wrong. Absolutely! But it’s common for the world to make a crazy dumb idea a consensus.

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

And I think NDT is enforcing a dangerous “Copernican” consensus that we are too insignificant to even monitor or visit, to go along with “We’ve had Nukes for 70 years without losing a city. I wouldn’t worry. What could possibly go wrong.”

This is just a human rationality flaw.🙏

2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

When does Jon Stewart signal it is finally okay to talk about progressing cognitive decline?

4:23 PM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

He isn’t the only one. Jon did the Wuhan lab leak. @TIME did ‘fortification’ 2020. @BarackObama got UAP and Wokeness. Brad Delong got to reveal NAFTA was social Darwinian…

But the rules are very clear on EXACTLY who is allowed to say “Previous Fringe view X is now Mainstream!”

4:59 PM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What was special about Stewart was quite subtle. He didn’t say “The facts have changed.” He said: it’s obvious & has always been so, that the Biosafety Level4 Bat Corona Virus lab is the likely origin while Colbert feigned being shocked: The Gated Institutional Narrative updated.

4:59 PM · Jun 29, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

An irrational attachment to being able to feed their families & avoid reputational ruin on a going forward basis. Call it a hunch.

UAP with crappy video and without hard data is unbounded downside with limited upside for scientists.

It’s absurd: We don’t bring in our own team.

6:35 PM · Jun 30, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The fact that many of us have moved on from the UAP report is fascinating.

During the financial crisis, the phrase “Non-Recourse Loan” was used to describe the government’s ‘relief’ strategy.

And folks just walked right by “Non-Recourse Loans” as if it were just boring jargon.

4:41 AM · Jul 4, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@JohnGingyJo Read it *super* closely. That’s the only way it is so interesting.

4:49 AM · Jul 4, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Physics’ Overton Window.

We can talk about CRAZY stuff that’s irrelevant to our lives & never progresses: Boltzmann Brains, Many Worlds, String Theory Unification, AdS, Super-partners, etc.

We can’t talk about anything that COULD suddenly change everything. UAP, other TOEs, etc

5:34 PM · Jul 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My point isn’t at all that low probability topics are likely to change everything. It’s that we feel *safe* knowing certain crazy ideas always seem to lead nowhere. But we feel unsafe when we don’t know if what we’re looking at *could* surprise us by suddenly changing our world.

5:43 PM · Jul 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

An example: In GU, relativity theory is recovered from the Observerse which is constructed around two separate spaces X and Y. Einstein’s Spacetime (a signature (1,3) 4-manifold with pseudo Riemannian metric) is recovered from observations of Y by X.

6:11 PM · Jul 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Another example. Some see spacetime as the commutative limit of a non-commutative manifold. That would be beyond relativity.

Others see topology changing operators that allow agents to change spacetime topologically. Again that would be beyond the usual relativity theory.

6:11 PM · Jul 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

But in standard Relativity theory as an effective theory, I don’t think about FTL. Sorry.

6:11 PM · Jul 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Scratch the UAP story and you soon learn that there are a surprising number of seemingly sane people orbiting around the Pentagon who assert that UAP are particularly active around our nuclear weapons.

What to make of this? 🤷‍♀️ But the above *can* be said *without* speculation.

4:46 PM · Oct 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Are they all insane? Don’t know. Seems unlikely.

Are they propagandized? Seems far fetched but possible.

Is it a Psy-op? Maybe.

Mass psychosis? Don’t think so. But it could be a self reinforcing belief.

But no one wants to chew up their credibility talking about these rumors.

4:51 PM · Oct 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

And just so we are clear on the nature of the rumors, here is what you hear over and over again:

“The UAP aren’t merely hovering over nukes. The UAP know how to *shut down* nuclear weapons.”

This is why I never listened to UFO rumors BEFORE the DOD report. It’s just too crazy.

4:55 PM · Oct 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Things I don't believe we can't conclusively resolve:

A) COVID's origin.

B) The Jeffrey Epstein story.

C) UAP.

D) JFK assassination.

E) Vegas Shooting.

F) Extent of 'Democracy Fortifying' in 2020.

G) Efficacy of Non-Vaccines.

H) Mysterious WEF 'Build Back Better' mantra.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I) Negative impacts of Trade known to have been suppressed.

J) Adulteration of BLS CPI measure of inflation.

K) Negative economic impacts of Immigration.

L) Sudden spike in fake 'Objective Third Party Fact Checking'.

M) Sudden "Diversity Equity Inclusion" explosion.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q) Joe Biden's state of cognitive decline.

R) Nature of MSNBC campagin against Andrew Yang.

S) Nature of Dean Scream, Anti-Ron Paul and other interference in democracy by Mainstream media News.

T) Impact of loss of mandatory retirement on young people seeking work.

U) Rex84.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

V) Collusion between National Academy and National Science foundation division of Policy Research and Analysis to fake demographic crisis in mid 1980s.

W) Lack on anyone building the significant & desperately needed new non-profit institutions despite skyhigh wealth inequality.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

X) Loss of Academic Freedom across the board in Academe.

Y) Loss of the Lancet and other publications as trusted non-political sources of fact.

Z) The true nature of @EcoHealthNYC w its relationship to @doddtra & Dr A. Fauci.

Moral: much of this 'ambiguity' is serving the few.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MLGACE Whatever our data is for UFO/UAP. Accelerations. Heat signature. Cloaking. Transmedia behavior. Cornering ability. I have no idea. I just know we aren't looking at high quality data and I know we have MUCH higher quality data than has been released.

5:52 AM · Oct 24, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

After a zoom call yesterday with Avi Loeb, I’ve decided to join Harvard’s Galileo Project on its Research Team.

Time to de-stigmatize the whole topic and help the data talk. The claimed phenomenon of UFO/UAP, after all, should be a scientific question.

https://t.co/kx5NgtILML

5:24 PM · Dec 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A key point. We use cosmic rays as if they were from an accelerator. There is an outside chance that UAP should be thought of the same way.

If we’re hurting for new physical phenomena to analyze, some portion of our physics effort should be spent debunking or understanding UAP.

5:24 PM · Dec 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@delta_waverider There are many sightings that are bunk. Your issue is with the nature of the complement of that set. But debunking will need to be done in all future scenarios. Nature of the beast.

7:17 PM · Dec 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@michaelshermer I haven’t seen any compelling data. I have been told that such data exists in abundance from multiple sources that I trust. No idea how to square that.

9:04 PM · Dec 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@s_offiler @michaelshermer Not saying anything beyond that I find the videos released uncompelling as data. I find the incident super interesting. Would like to see the entire time series of data taken in by all sensors.

10:16 PM · Dec 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have been dismayed by the senator before this.

But this is correct. And courageous. UAP is both a security and a scientific issue. Stop the giggles. Start the study.

Maybe I was too hasty about dismissing KG. Opening my mind again.

5:55 AM · Dec 23, 2021

2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Can someone authenticate the existence of this claim for me? I’m new to UFOs. Before the report on UAP this last summer, I would think this is BS.

Now I believe it’s more likely to be real, having updated my Bayesian priors. And, again, apologies to all of you I’ve denigrated.

3:40 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is there such a text?

Has the USG owned up to it?

Is there a PDF of it circulating?

Are there others attached to Wright Patterson AFB, or the RIAS, or the Physical Fields institute of UNC Chappell Hill or Brown University’s Non Linear Dynamics Group, or the Glen L Martin Co.?

3:44 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Sorry for the weird specificity but I’m trying to link this to things that I know to be real and that I’ve been puzzled about for years that never made sense to me.

Also, it’s hard to fake an entire text competently. So this is interesting.

Thanks #ufotwitter.

3:48 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Hi Michael,

Not updating my priors on all UFO sightings. I’m updating my priors on “The Golden Age of General Relativity”, B DeWitt, L Witten, RIAS, the Martin Company, etc.” And I’m doing it based on a government report inconsistent with the closing report of BlueBook. And you?

4:20 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Michael Shermer

@michaelshermer

Dear @EricRWeinstein

According to UFOlogists 95% of all sightings for all time are explained by natural/terrestrial phenom (planes, blimps, geese, sun dogs, lens flares, etc.). 5% unexplained (≠ ET or Russian tech). X new sighting is made. Which bin is X most likely to be in?

4:05 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We have been spun. And as skeptics we have to notice the inconsistencies.

We were likely either spun this last summer, or spun at the closure of Operation BlueBook.

The whole thing sounds like total bullshit. But we also have a lot of weird stuff from real 1950s science.

4:26 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Who were Babson and Bahnson? Those stories don’t make much sense. Why Bryce and Cecile DeWitt and Peter Higgs in Chappell hill funded as part of a weird anti-gravity program?

Simple question: how did you tutor your priors last summer? Not at all? A tiny amount?

Skeptically, E

4:26 PM · Jan 10, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My colleague and friend Jesse Michels asked me to interview Dr. @haroldputhoff on UAP/UFO. Wasn’t sure how to do this, so we tried oscillating between steelmanning and critiquing what Puthoff was able to say within his obligations of non-disclosure.

Can we just end the secrecy?

11:42 AM · Feb 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

For those of you speculating on channels reaching out to Sam Harris, myself and others on UFO/UAP. There was a minimum of one planned dissemination that got called off for reasons unknown. I am not at liberty to discuss. But I can say why people like Sam are likely to be quiet.

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What has so far been released to the public by government has been minimal. No one I know wants to incinerate credibility becoming a true believer over a tiny number of relatively low quality USG videos which, at least to me, prove absolutely nothing.

So then: why be interested?

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Because there is an ocean of weird behavior and claims coming from otherwise sober seeming USG and former USG people. And a lot of it is weirdly consistent. So I’m totally underwhelmed by the direct evidence so far. But I’m baffled by the indirect evidence. What generated this?

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I won’t speak for @SamHarrisOrg. But I failed to generate *any* good explanation for the repeated and fairly consistent assertions of DOD/IC types with no evident training in acting or theater. To say nothing of ordinary non-USG people. So…none of us knows what to think. Truly.

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Something huge is up. It could be a psychological operation. It could be next generation spoofing by an adversary. It could be mass psychosis. But I don’t want to speculate beyond a decision tree. Something huge *is* up. And I dug hard, but failed to get beyond indirect evidence.

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What is worse, the most parsimonious explanations are the obvious two:

A) Our government is engaged in deception and utterly brilliant at it.

B) 👽.

If the former, it is more competent than we ever suspected.

Everything else is less parsimonious. But I can’t make sense of it.

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

One request: stop speculating. Some folks are reaching out. They pulled back a bit. And I for one may stop talking about this if asked due to the security issues. But that which has been shared with the public is not enough to go on. It’s the indirect evidence we are watching. 🙏

3:13 PM · May 12, 2022

2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So far as I am aware, there is as yet ZERO evidence of UAP/UFO craft defying the laws of known physics based on high quality publicly available data.

There are simply an enormous number of videos, rumors, eye witness accounts, and indirect indications.

What should we propose?

2:35 PM · Feb 7, 2023

Oliver Wood

@OliverWood2017

I have no idea what the ground truth is on UAP. But I strongly believe it’s time for science to take UAP seriously, & push for answers. Even if every single one is mundane, we will surely learn things along the way. There is LOTS of evidence. It’s time to look for PROOF w/data!

3:06 AM · Feb 7, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I don’t mean to rain on any parades, but the complete absence of high quality data made available to scientists is both a MAJOR clue and an impediment to figuring this out. It is interpreted as the government not wanting scientists to investigate. Thus, it makes it sound like BS.

2:35 PM · Feb 7, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My position on UFO/UAP is that this is something *huge* that I’m simply not smart enough to figure out. I’m not going to lie and say it’s all weather balloons. And I’m not going to lie and say we have solid high quality publicly available data when we don’t: we are being starved.

3:05 PM · Feb 8, 2023

BasicHypothesis

@BasicHypothesis

Did I miss some tweets, Eric, where you slowly pivoted from the "government have kept all of this data secret, this must mean something, why is no one taking this seriously" to the message today?

I haven't got a strong stance here but felt like there's been a change in yours.

2:33 PM · Feb 8, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

UFOs are “fun” for many people. There is another group of us who don’t find it “fun”. I don’t want to believe. I don’t want to not believe. I want to know either way.

I dislike this topic not b/c of the UFO, but b/c I’m being manipulated, lied to and played by those in the know.

3:10 PM · Feb 8, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Point blank: we are being starved for information. My response to being starved for information is not to guess which branch of the decision tree is correct but to share with you the contradictory evidence both direct and circumstantial. I don’t know why others pretend to know.🙏

3:13 PM · Feb 8, 2023

2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Many of you are asking for my reaction regarding the just released @DoD_AARO report. There is much to say. I want to think carefully before saying more. I am not unsympathetic to US National Security needs in this.

In February of 2023, @joerogan invited me for four hours onto the world's largest English Language program (episode #1945) to describe in detail the mystery of potential US Government involvement in UFOs and Post-Einsteinian physics during the mysterious "Golden Age of General Relativity". It has been seen and discussed by millions as expected. I was thus eager to see how thorough this report would be by combing it for search strings raised in my research.

REFERENCES:

"Glenn L Martin Company": 0
Bryce Cecile DeWitt: 0
Institute for Field Physics: 0
Research Institute for Advanced Study: 0
Louis Witten: 0
Roger Babson: 0
Agnew Bahson: 0
Gravity Research Foundation: 0
Gravity: 1 (pg. 32)
Rennaisance Technologies: 0
UNC Chapel Hill: 0
Solomon Lefschetz: 0
Freeman Dyson: 0
Herman Bondi: 0
Negative Mass: 0
"Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem"
Australian Intelligence 1971 Report: 0
Australia: 0
George Rideout: 0
Edward Teller: 0
Robert Oppenheimer: 0
David Kaiser: 0
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: 1 (pg. 18)
Curtis Wright Aerospace Buffalo: 0
Pascal Jordan: 0
Mansfield Ammendment: 0
Joshua Goldberg: 0
Office of Global Access: 0
University of Texas, Austin: 0
Center for Dynamical Systems: 0
Physics: 5 (pgs. 16-17, 53)
Relativity: 0
Albert Einstein: 0
George Bunker: 0
Welcome Bender: 0
George Trimble: 0

CONCLUSION: This report purports to have studied the questions raised surrounding UFO/UAP related research of the US federal Government. It, in fact, appears to have studied a carefully chosen SUBSET of the claims selected from among those which appear to have mass appeal to the so-called "UFO Community." It completely, or nearly completely, avoided reporting on all questions surrounding issues which have been raised in serious research and by PhD level researchers who have raised scientific questions in this area. This continues the pattern of using PhD level government scientists who appear to avoid the actual research questions most likely to involve sensitve Special Access Programs and Stovepiped Research which are compartmentalized by design. Whether the omissions are due to issues of avoidance, misdirection (e.g. so-called Limited Hangout strategy), ignorance or incompetance cannot be discerned from the information given.

RECOMMENDATION: It is simply not possible to treat the current AARO report as historically complete or comprehensive. To gain the public trust, the successor to AARO would have to expand and redo this analysis with input from domain professionals who are trusted by the public not to have an apparent agenda or government background (e.g. Prof. David Kaiser of MIT or Dr. Nima Arkani Hamed of IAS, Prof. Brian Keating of UCSD, Avi Loeb of Harvard) Otherwise, it is relatively easy for scientists to "Follow the Silence" in government reports to see what is *not* being addressed or discussed.

11:26 PM · Mar 8, 2024

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

@DoD_AARO

Today the DoD released our Historical Record Report Volume 1.

AARO’s report covers more than 70 years of the U.S. record relating to UAP, draws from interviews, archival research, and partnerships across government and industry.

Read it here: https://statics.dod.teams.microsoft.us/evergreen-assets/safelinks/1/atp-safelinks.html

3:53 PM · Mar 8, 2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

NOTE: Above reference to the work of Prof. Kaiser and to JRE #1945 are included to establish that both were in the public domain, independent, in high levels of agreement, and that there was *ample* time for AARO to investigate these claims which appear not to have any impact.

11:32 PM · Mar 8, 2024

2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

No. You are correct.

Assume even that beings were using additional hidden dimensions to traverse space and time. You still wouldn’t talk like this. It’s just mental sludge.

I can riff a bunch of equally vapid vibe terms:

“Digital Seraphim”
“Energetic Consciousness”
“Distributed Cognition”
“Disembodied Guardians”
“Plasmic Will”
“Resonance Lifeforms”
“Vibrational Travelers”
“Retrocausal Projectors”
“Trans-Temporal Sentinals”
“Autonomous Vaccum Fauna”

This is just super embarrassing. This is the level of us as a country now.

1:22 PM · Aug 14, 2025

Tom Bilyeu

@TomBilyeu

Am I crazy to assume that this is internally facing propaganda rather than actual interdimensional beings?

12:46 PM · Aug 14, 2025

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives

@dom_lucre

🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna just broke the internet after claiming she has seen evidence of "interdimensional beings" with credible people reporting "movement outside of time and space."

"They call them interdimensional beings. I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have."

"I can tell you without getting into classified conversations that there have been incidents where very credible people have reported that there have been movements outside of time and space."

This comes after claims of a possible alien invasion in December by Harvard scientist, and several reports of aliens and UAPs in the last 4 years like the incident at the Bayside mall in Miami which has never been fully reported.

Something is coming whether it be real or fake be prepared.

11:16 PM · Aug 13, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I then asked AI to come up with equally meaningless technical terms based on “Interdimensional beings”. Here are the first 50 results:

1. Quantum Nomads
2.Etheric Sentinels
3.Chrono-Weavers
4.Harmonic Architects
5.Phase-Walking Entities
6.Neuro-Aether Collectives
7.Prismatic Wanderers
8.Dreamfield Navigators
9.Celestial Executors
10.Photon Shepherds
11.Metacognitive Guilds
12.Temporal Lattice Keepers
13.Spectral Conservators
14.Luminal Envoys
15.Gravimetric Messengers
16.Pan-Dimensional Heralds
17.Subspace Wardens
18.Chrono-Sovereigns
19.Singularity Whisperers
20.Interstitial Custodians
21.Reality Sculptors
22.Hyperspace Envoys
23.Archetypal Infiltrators
24.Thoughtform Navigators
25.Omniversal Pathfinders
26.Quantum Seers
27.Hyperconscious Collectives
28.Mindwave Pilgrims
29.Scalar Frequency Keepers
30.Eidolon Oracles
31.Astral Cartographers
32.Metatronic Stewards
33.Voidborn Shepherds
34.Causal Horizon Monitors
35.Memetic Wardens
36.Phase Entanglers
37.Pulseborne Architects
38.Resonance Nomads
39.Energy-Field Sentinels
40.Tachyonic Dreamers
41.Infrasonic Voyagers
42.Consciousness Carriers
43.Zero-Point Custodians
44.Orbital Keepers
45.Psychewave Diplomats
46.Entropic Harvesters
47.Lightwoven Inhabitants
48.Chrono-Spiral Navigators
49.Plasmatic Envoys
50.Harmonic Continuum Guardians

1:24 PM · Aug 14, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Yes.

I think the US almost certainly has at least one fake UFO program. A decoy.

Think of that decoy as putting out bad information to confuse adversaries. But what does it due to our own scientists?

Now imagine a post relativistic gravitational theory group PRTG here on earth. You would imagine that our own government would be working with that PRTG. Because that group is trying to figure out if we are trapped here, the last thing you want to do is to have the f****ng decoy program polluting our own understanding.

I think the morons in our decoy program forgot to bring in their own PRTGs. Because to a PRTG, UFOs….real NHI craft….would be key data. And fake craft is just feeding your own scientists poison and polluting their own understanding.

So we don’t have ANY top tier PRTG in this game. That’s what makes me think there is only a fake UFO decoy program. OTOH…

7:09 AM · Nov 30, 2025

Terra

@terracotta_hawk

Can you explain your thoughts a little better?

Have you put any thought into what’s actually going on specifically in the null hypothesis case? What’s this all for? It’s not clear to me at all that there is any sensibility in either direction.

2:27 AM · Nov 30, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Continued….on the other hand it sure looks like in the 1950s we set up two cut outs and created “The Golden Age Of General Relativity”.

And then in the wake of Howard Morland and John Aristotle Phillips, it kinda looks like we stagnated and soft sunsetted real open research in fundamental physics with a preposterous story about String Theory and Quantum Gravity. Which makes no sense to anyone honest after 40 years of failure.

So that is pretty odd. Scientists don’t shoot down new ideas for 40 years to protect one known not to work. That isn’t how science works.

So that opens the question, is there a second secret physics program (like a Manhattan Project for Gravity 2.0) and perhaps a second UFO program. A non decoy. And while I see no direct evidence of NHI craft, we do have a mystery as to why the U.S. would destroy its own commanding advantage in fundamental Physics over string theory and its obvious failure. It just doesn’t pass the laugh test.

The only thing I can wonder about is if we figured a bit of new physics out that lead to new Manhattan Project-level secrecy around all fundamental physics. Maybe 50 high ranking people (e.g. @SecRubio ) aren’t lying with the skill of Pacino and Brando. 🤷‍♀️.

Something is way off. We aren’t doing physics in the open any more. And we aren’t asking our own people for help. So you would be crazy not to wonder…WTAF?

This is, unfortunately, consistent with a second Manhattan project on Gravity. This is exactly how secret science works. For example: We stagnated chain reaction research outside los Alamos and continued doing successful physics inside the compound.

Well, the first part of this is true today. We are dead in the water in university level fundamental physics beyond GR and the SM. The second part is unknown. Is there a place where you can get paid to succeed at physics rather than paid to do things which are known not to work? I just don’t know.

Moral: Physics when done well and right, is very very dangerous after all. And I want us to get back to doing physics that will go way beyond Einstein.

Even the kind that goes boom:💥

🙏

7:09 AM · Nov 30, 2025

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