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UnFictional

The Philosophy of the Flying Saucers

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4923 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A man finds an old reel to reel tape that reveals much more than just flying saucers and alien conspiracy theories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.

0:07.0

I guess if you just say, oh yeah, there's these really ugly demon-like creatures living in caverns and they have these weird machines and they can put thoughts in your head and they control us and they make all these bad things happen.

0:20.0

No one likes to think that they're being controlled, although it's happening constantly.

0:27.0

On this episode, a man finds a reel-to-reel tape and it unlocks personal memories. It's just that these memories are

0:35.5

rolled up in a story of hidden caverns full of ancient evil sadistic aliens.

0:40.7

They will kill instantly, They will instantly kill or

0:44.0

torture anyone whom they contact unless they are extremely familiar with them.

0:48.6

Unfictional is a program of true stories, personal documentaries, and radio movies.

0:55.0

And this season, we've been listening to stories of fantasy,

0:59.0

but in this case, the fantasy has real life consequences,

1:02.0

and it leaves a man pondering his life in this huge juggernaut.

1:07.0

My main interest is in the philosophy of... I'm interested in the philosophy of the fine soldiers.

1:15.0

I produced this story along with reporter Will McCarthy.

1:20.0

I'm Bob Carlson, and from KCRCRW it's unfictional and the philosophy of

1:26.7

flying saucers. I have your latest letter in front of me February 19th, but it wasn't mailed until March the 1st.

1:47.0

And I want to go over that. I have a bunch of shavers letters here and all there's so much to go into. This is probably

1:59.1

going to take me a couple days because I don't know what all to say here. One thing that I want to say now

2:06.6

when I think of it, this is to do with the flying saucers.

2:19.0

My friend Seth was going through old boxes that his family had. And he found a real-to-real tape.

2:22.0

And he just thought that was cool cool so he kept it around.

2:24.4

Eventually all this time later his friend offered to dub it for him and so

2:30.2

he put it on he was with some friends and they started listening to it.

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