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Joe Rogan · 2024-12-24 · 2h 43m

Joe Rogan Experience #2246 - James Fox

UFO documentarian James Fox makes the case for non-human intelligence, crash retrievals, and the East Coast drone wave amid a push for government transparency.

Joe Rogan Experience #2246 - James Fox
The guest

James Fox — UFO documentary filmmaker with 30 years of field research; director of The Program, Moment of Contact, The Phenomenon, Out of the Blue, and I Know What I Saw.

The gist

Joe Rogan hosts filmmaker James Fox to discuss the recent wave of mysterious drones over New Jersey and military bases, framed against Fox's decades investigating UFOs/UAP. Fox details his new documentary The Program, which traces the 2017-2024 push by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and intel whistleblowers toward government transparency, including three Congressional hearings and David Grusch's testimony about a crash-retrieval program. He recounts firsthand witness encounters (Nellis 1994, Vandenberg, Stephenville, Phoenix Lights, the Calvine photograph) and his pursuit of compelling photographic evidence. The pair debate whether the phenomenon is non-human intelligence, advanced human tech searching for a missing nuke, or a cover story, and they probe ChatGPT live for answers on the drones and the Tic Tac case.

Big reveals

  • Fox notes David Grusch testified under oath months after Fox's prior Rogan appearance that a crash-retrieval program exists and the government has proof we are not alone.
  • Fox recounts whistleblower Jason Sands' alleged 1994 face-to-face desert encounter with an entity that had no ears, blue-tinted skin, and communicated telepathically seeking a metal.
  • Fox details the Calvine, Scotland 1990 photograph case, recovered after a 20-plus year search via RAF press officer Craig Lindsay and researcher David Clark.
  • Hotel cook Richard Greaves reveals the two Calvine photographers were grilled by men in suits in the rain, then vanished without a trace within weeks.
  • Fox describes being escorted into a SCIF across from the Pentagon to meet the new head of AARO, John Kosloski.
  • AARO head allegedly told Fox: I can't part my hair without approval from the DoD, and you can quote me on that.
  • Fox cites a memo referencing a 1953 Kingman, Arizona landed craft left intact with doors open and no scratch on it.
  • Fox claims a pilot scrambled to intercept the 1997 Phoenix Lights craft had to be carried out of the plane, so shaken by what he saw.

Things worth remembering

  • Air Force technical sergeant Jeffrey Nellis statement describes a 2003 Vandenberg red square object roughly the size of a football field hovering over a missile defense system.
  • Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Project Blue Book's scientific adviser, has a cameo smoking a pipe in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
  • A bear's sense of smell is cited as roughly 2,100 times better than a human's, far above a bloodhound's.
  • Gary McKinnon, called the biggest computer hacker in history, hacked NSA/CIA/DIA systems looking for UFO proof and nearly faced life in prison.
  • Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet testified to objects moving underwater at extraordinary speeds defying conventional explanation.
  • Stephenville, Texas witness Ricky Sorrells described a 2008 craft so large he could not see its edge while standing beneath it with his rifle scope.
  • Fox says the heads of AARO told him they could not explain the Tic Tac case.
  • Fox cites that AI-piloted fighter jets beat the best human pilots 100% of the time in simulated dogfights.
  • The episode discusses the twin paradox and Alpha Centauri being roughly 4.3 light years away as the nearest star system.
  • Fox compares children's drawings of alleged aliens from the 1994 Ruwa, Zimbabwe Ariel School case to thousands-year-old Wandjina Aboriginal cave art.

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