With nearly a third of Americans sheltering in their homes under government order and many of the other two-thirds staying in out of prudence and caution, television viewing numbers are growing. Ancient Aliens saw some interesting ratings changes this past weekend. Its total number of viewers did not rise significantly—coming in at 1.043 million—but the number of younger viewers watching nearly doubled. A chunk of the show’s older viewers tuned out (they seemingly flocked to cable news coverage of the corona virus), but younger viewers switched to Ancient Aliens to make up the difference. Oddly, The UnXplained with William Shatner, which previously had more total viewers and more viewers 18-49 than Ancient Aliens, saw its ratings fall to just 883,000 viewers as younger fans apparently sated themselves on Ancient Aliens and turned the channel or went to bed. As you might imagine, COVID-19 has limited the amount of fringe history being discussed, so there isn’t a lot to talk about right now. I feel like I should mention physicist Jack Sarfatti’s claims on a recent The Hidden Truth with James Beslo podcast that the so-called Tic-Tac UFO seen by the USS Nimitz in 2004 is a time machine, but the octogenarian Sarfatti also claimed on Coast to Coast AM last year that about seventy years ago a sentient computer from a Tic-Tac UFO contacted him and spilled space secrets. He’s been into time travel and warp drives for ages, and there isn’t anything new here.
However, I do want to highlight how he has absorbed the stream of nonsense claims about “metamaterials” coming out of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. Sarfatti claims that UFOs are composed of “metamaterials”—a claim he can’t possibly have evidence to prove—and that such metals can travel through time when zapped with electricity—another claim he can’t prove: “What happens is that if you pump electromagnetic energy into the material, it will have a certain resonance. In that resonance, the speed of light inside the material can go down to a very small number.” Does anyone seriously doubt that he only speaks about metamaterials because TTSA has been hyping them? Sarfatti claims that he wants to meet with White House officials to discuss his ideas. I’d usually call that ridiculous, but, really, who can say anymore?
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Joe Scales
3/26/2020 11:24:03 am
"Sarfatti claims that he wants to meet with White House officials to discuss his ideas. I’d usually call that ridiculous, but, really, who can say anymore?"
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Jim
3/26/2020 12:32:25 pm
Of course Trump would distance himself from UFOs.
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An Anonymous Nerd
3/26/2020 12:46:09 pm
Calm down, Mr. Scales. I, for one, didn't read Mr. Colavito's statement the way you did. It's telling that that's where your mind went. In this case, however, the more-supportable, logical conclusion is that Mr. Colavito was being politically neutral.
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Joe Scales
3/27/2020 12:44:36 pm
"Either way: You need to realize that Donald Trump in all likelihood neither knows nor cares about you. Nor do any other of your favorite celebrities."
An Anonymous Nerd
3/29/2020 11:21:08 am
Looks like I missed a stealth reply. Let's see here. The key phrase, really, is this:
"I Am a Assistant Professor"
3/29/2020 10:20:04 pm
Anonymous Nerd. Your posts are very long. Please self-edit.
An Anonymous Nerd
3/30/2020 07:33:04 am
[Anonymous Nerd. Your posts are very long. Please self-edit.]
Bezalel
3/30/2020 02:11:19 pm
In response to “I AM A ASSISTANT PROFESSOR”
Joe Scales
3/30/2020 03:17:29 pm
"I'll start with an instance where you promoted a wild conspiracy fantasy, in order to support President Trump and the Republican party."
Jim
3/30/2020 04:27:53 pm
"So I finally reply to you with an honest question and do I get an answer? No. "
An Anonymous Nerd
3/30/2020 07:36:52 pm
[So I finally reply to you with an honest question and do I get an answer?]
Joe Scales
3/31/2020 11:37:29 am
"I found evidence of your doing what you said you don't do, and you don't like it. It's a simple matter, really."
An Anonymous Nerd
3/31/2020 02:17:31 pm
["I found evidence of your doing what you said you don't do, and you don't like it. It's a simple matter, really."
Hope Hicks
3/26/2020 02:34:08 pm
White House officials and Trump are not the same thing. His administration has a high staff turnover rate. It is not unrealistic to suspect that someone might end up on staff who could be persuaded to give someone like Sarfetti a fifteen minute sitdown.
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Doc Rock
3/26/2020 11:19:35 pm
If Kanye West can get open microphone at the White House then anybody has a shot. But then again, didn't a VIP's ankle monitor go off during a visit to the Obama White House. The bar seems to be set low for invitations no matter who is in the White House. Special relationships, I guess. 3/27/2020 12:18:00 am
Hello Hope
An Anonymous Nerd
3/27/2020 11:08:43 am
[If Kanye West can get open microphone at the White House then anybody has a shot.]
Doc Rock
3/27/2020 10:33:12 pm
Under different circumstances the ankle monitor incident could have gone from a minor lightly reported "amusing" event that nobody really remembers to a hot media topic that makes the books. Just depends on the time and the lens that one is looking thru...
An Anonymous Nerd
3/28/2020 08:51:21 pm
[Under different circumstances the ankle monitor incident could have gone from a minor lightly reported "amusing" event that nobody really remembers to a hot media topic that makes the books. Just depends on the time and the lens that one is looking thru... ]
Doc Rock
3/28/2020 09:51:27 pm
An Anonymous Nerd
3/28/2020 11:04:48 pm
[What you say is context a more objective person used to analyzing this type of thing could argue is just as much a matter of your lens. Thanks for helping to illustrate my point. ]
Kent
3/30/2020 05:45:39 pm
Mr. Sarfatti:
JACK SARFATTI
10/26/2021 10:46:58 am
I was the first to connect UFOs, WARP DRIVE and METAMATERIALS in Oct 2011 at an invited paper to DARPA-NASA meeting in Orlando.
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Jack Sarfatti
10/31/2021 05:10:36 am
Fake news cite your sources.
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Jack Sarfatti
10/31/2021 05:28:34 am
That UFOs are time machines was already discussed in intelligence community back in the 1970s as shown in a CIA recording of me with Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from 1973 with an excerpt on my Sound Cloud Channel. This was confirmed by Franc Milburn - Sandhurst, British Army Intelligence ret a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6l-ZtXH880
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JACK SARFATTI
11/7/2021 06:01:17 am
FYI
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Kent
3/26/2020 02:03:41 pm
Physicists, even "good" ones, often have weird ideas, e.g. Wheeler's "There is only one electron" which isn't actually all that weird.
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Bezalel
3/26/2020 11:17:58 pm
”Physicists, even "good" ones, often have weird ideas, e.g. Wheeler's "There is only one electron" which isn't actually all that weird.”
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3/27/2020 12:20:21 am
LOL, it's LSD genius. I was NOT part of the FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT in 1968. I was a assistant professor of physics at San Diego State University in 1968.
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Bug Baby
3/28/2020 03:48:12 pm
It's a quote from Star Trek 4 where a time traveler from the future invents transparent aluminium.
Nick Danger
3/26/2020 03:32:16 pm
Metamaterials can channel "time waves"? I'd LOVE to see the studies behind THAT assertion!
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JACK SARFATTI
3/30/2020 01:43:57 pm
Straw Man I made no such claim. Your allegation is word salad. I am sick of idiots who have no competence in physics trying to tell me how to do my job.
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Jack Sarfatti
11/6/2021 04:58:57 am
Straw man another stupid comment from an ignoramous who has no understanding of physics.
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Darold knowles
3/26/2020 09:58:27 pm
TV ratings in general have risen during this period (except for sports oriented channels which have no live sports to broadcast), but ad revenue will crater.
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3/27/2020 12:11:31 am
I first suggested meta-materials for UFO propulsion back in 2011 when General Pete Worden (USAF Space-Command ret) then head of NASA AMES flew me to Orlando in October to the DARPA NASA 100 Year Starship. This was years before Tic Tac was disclosed. Two CIA guys I know for years with access to Trump have briefed him on my work. As soon as Trump is re-elected and the CV-19 crisis is over, then I will probably meet with him. Trump knows who I am as does Vladimir Putin. Jason is not my peer. I am a PhD physicist (U California and Cornell) with 60 years in the field not a pop journalist who writes on science for the layman.
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Bezalel
3/27/2020 08:09:31 pm
Jack
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for the record
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Jim
3/27/2020 10:40:53 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sarfatti
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JACK SARFATTI
3/29/2020 10:29:03 am
I detect a vacuum between your ears. ;-)
Jim
3/30/2020 06:29:21 am
LOL 3/27/2020 09:34:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHGYprFP9qQ&t=7s
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Jim
3/28/2020 09:08:42 am
"Apocalypse unleashed by China I think deliberately by the way."
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JACK SARFATTI
3/29/2020 10:30:14 am
CCP has no qualms to sacrifice their own people.
Jim
3/29/2020 01:40:55 pm
That is your reasoning ? Really ?
Kent
3/29/2020 03:40:23 pm
In the spirit of treating Mr. Sarfatti as a guest rather than someone whose every utterance must be knee-jerkedly gainsaid, let me propose this:
Bug Baby
3/28/2020 09:46:47 pm
I think it's so rare that the subject of one of Jason's articles responds here that it behooves us (Kent, Jim, Bezalel, eg) to treat him as a guest rather than pounce on him.
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Bezalel
3/28/2020 10:57:55 pm
Jack
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Kent
3/29/2020 02:02:41 pm
And they're breeding Guild Navigators in tanks underneath the site of the old Heurich Brewery.
Bezalel
3/29/2020 10:37:00 pm
“Any solution that begins "Assume a non-existent power source" can be dismissed out of hand.”
Kent
3/30/2020 05:39:02 pm
"No need for calculations at this point, just a block diagram or concept would suffice. A power plant to drive the source is also required, name at least three types."
JACK SARFATTI
3/29/2020 10:33:15 am
You are wrong. If they did it before me they would have revealed it by now. Also CIA & DOD. asked me to work on. it in the 1970s. In. any case I have the details and my competition has. bubbkas - vapor ware.
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Bezalel
3/30/2020 11:38:34 am
Jack
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JACK SARFATTI
3/29/2020 10:36:08 am
Nonlinear Resonant Meta-Material EM Susceptibilities
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Kent
3/29/2020 07:12:19 pm
"The Planck distance can grow very large in a resonance giving very low energy quantum gravity
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Bezalel
3/30/2020 02:00:23 pm
Jack one other thing said Peter falk:
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5/19/2020 11:43:21 pm
You are all a bunch of clueless idiots without the slightest understanding of physics.
Bezalel
3/29/2020 11:37:57 am
Jack, Thanks for your response, the equations don’t show up so I’ll email you I guess
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JACK SARFATTI
3/30/2020 01:54:55 pm
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Jim
3/30/2020 04:00:11 pm
"Year of the CCP Pandemic"
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Kent
3/30/2020 04:51:43 pm
Mr. Sarfatti:
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Bezalel
3/30/2020 05:07:26 pm
Sorry you missed my point.
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JACK SARFATTI
3/30/2020 04:43:28 pm
All these comments are by stupid people who do not understand the subject and are completely clueless of how stupid they really are.. Very low level of discourse not worth my time.
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Kent
3/30/2020 07:06:44 pm
Mr. Sarfatti:
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Jim
3/30/2020 08:57:07 pm
Yup, your time may be better wasted fawning over Trump and retweeting conspiracy theories on twitter.
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JACK SARFATTI
3/31/2020 12:44:04 am
re: "I asked an honest question ..."
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JACK SARFATTI
3/31/2020 12:53:23 am
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Bezalel
3/31/2020 04:22:04 pm
Lmao
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Kent
3/31/2020 06:51:10 pm
"Various standard and simple power plants could do the job...pick one...any one that can fit inside a 10m or so diameter disk."
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Bezalel
3/31/2020 11:48:49 pm
Emphatic NO
JACK SARFATTI
3/31/2020 06:23:15 pm
"ack for all your decades in physics it does seem you are inadequately remembering the field of electrodynamics, especially the kind that is Gauge invariant.
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Bezalel
3/31/2020 11:45:11 pm
Jack
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JACK SARFATTI
3/31/2020 10:04:08 pm
https://exonews.org/top-physicist-claims-nimitz-ufo-time-travelled-to-reach-19000mph/
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Bezalel
4/16/2020 08:14:48 am
A more terrestrial proposal
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Bezalel
4/16/2020 08:38:56 am
Another example, published right under my nose
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Jr. Time Lord
4/20/2020 08:52:09 pm
Mr. Sarfatti,
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An Anonymous Nerd
4/3/2020 06:06:13 pm
I've been reading the exchanges here involving Jack Sarfatti, PhD, and based upon what's here this is a particularly interesting case of someone speaking outside of his area in multiple ways and not necessarily taking care to do the core readings in those other areas. And then trying to connect things outside of his area of expertise as though they were within it.
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Kent
4/3/2020 10:55:51 pm
"James Randi used to tell a couple of stories..."
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