SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just shot down Tucker Carlson’s conspiracy theory on aliens where he believes that extraterrestrials are “spiritual entities” that have taken residence under Earth’s oceans.
While speaking to Joe Rogan on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Carlson, a political commentator, claims that it is a “lie” that aliens are from Mars due to there being “no evidence” that they come from another planet.
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“There's no evidence, has never been any evidence, that there are lots of these objects, these vehicles, coming into our atmosphere from somewhere else, some other planet," said Carlson. "There's no evidence of that at all.”
Carlson instead claims that aliens are “spiritual” or “supernatural” entities that have been on Earth for “thousands of years.”
“They've been here for a long time, and there's a ton of evidence they are under the ocean and under the ground,” said Carlson.
NEW - Tucker Carlson talks about aliens on The Joe Rogan Experience: "They're spiritual entities, they're supernatural. They've been here a long time. And there's a ton of evidence that they're under the ocean and under the ground."
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 19, 2024
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Carlson’s comments soon went viral on social media platform X, capturing the attention of Musk who dismissed Carlson’s theory in a tweet. Musk claimed that his thousands of Starlink satellites, which provide internet in rural areas across the U.S., have captured “no evidence” of extraterrestrial life.
I have seen no evidence for aliens and, with ~6000 satellites orbiting Earth, I think I would know
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2024
Musk’s Starlink is engineered by his company SpaceX, which designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft. The billionaire has previously expressed his disbelief in aliens, ironically, in an interview last year with Carlson, where he claims that he has seen “no evidence of aliens,” despite being very familiar with space.
Musk also said in the interview that if he did see evidence of aliens, he would “immediately” tweet about it.
“I would immediately tweet it out,” said Musk. “That’d be probably the top tweet of all time. ‘We found one, guys!’ It’s the jackpot with some 8 billion likes.”
The conversation surrounding aliens has heated up over the past few months due to a plethora of revelations during congressional hearings in the U.S. and Mexico that both discussed the alleged existence of extraterrestrial life.
Last July, the U.S. government sent social media into a frenzy after Congress held a hearing on UFOs, where former U.S. Air Force officer David Grusch shared his testimony claiming that the government has recovered “non-human” spacecrafts and “biologics” from alleged crash locations.
A few months later, in September, a ufologist during a Congress hearing in Mexico revealed two caskets that unveiled two corpses of what he claims to be aliens that were found in Peru in 2017, which went viral on social media. Peru forensic experts later revealed in January that the alien bodies that were presented during the hearing are fake.
“The conclusion is simple: they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times,” said forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada during a press conference. “They are not extraterrestrials; they are not aliens.”
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