Author Robert Hastings says he was abducted by aliens. Credible?

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2:03else. So I saw this post in this clip from news nation, the UFO Joe, who I think does a lot of great work on his account. He said to him, this seems like one of the more credible interviews with someone who claims to be abducted. So let me play this clip and then we can kind of go over it afterwards. Heather too. I mean, everything we've discussed at this point, I've tried to put in terms of nuts and bolts, data, reports by military personnel. That was my whole modest out around. I just to get as many of those guys on the record as possible. And so again, I went on the lecture circuit in 81. In 1988, I was involved in a camping trip with several other people. Long story short, what occurred during that trip led me to believe beyond any question. That in fact, I had been abducted by non-human entities. Now, the circumstances were such that I went, can this really be happening?

3:09I never expected this. It's going to greatly complicate the fact that I'm trying to tell lecture audiences all over America that this is a very nuts and bolt problem. The military is up to their ears with this and they're trying to keep it from the public. If I suddenly, from the podium, tell people that I've been abducted by aliens, what's that going to do with my credibility? Alien abduction is just the subject that's too far, a bridge too far for many, many people. Nevertheless, from 1988 through the 90s into the early 2000s, I had multiple experiences that I have concluded were indeed abduction experiences. And because I did want to maximize the usefulness that I might have convincing people about a nuclear weapons link with UFOs, I chose to keep that secret. It was a strategic decision on my part. In 2017, I was diagnosed with a serious heart condition.

4:11It's affected my ability to do the things that I've been wanting to do for the last few years. But at around the same time, Bob Jacobs, who I'm going contact with, said, you know, neither of us are getting any younger. If we're going to be true to ourselves and not be hypocritical, we really should tell other humans the rest of the story. And so we just bit the bullet in and wrote that book and laid out as best as possible what we know has occurred to us. Now my attitude is to take it or leave it on the abduction phenomenon. I get it if some people just can't grapple with that. If it hadn't happened to me, I perhaps would be more dubious myself, but I really can't explain away the things that have happened to me repeatedly. Which it's just too complex to subject to go into here. I mean, I don't know because there's not enough detail.

5:11If you've watched me long enough, you know, the kind of approach that I take, you take the one side of it. Let's go with the skeptical side. It will be loon. Well, not this time. The skeptical side is, well, trying to sell a book. You can tell me about exactly what happened in all the details of the abduction, but I got to buy the book. That's the skeptical side. The other side is, no, this is somebody who has this experience in great detail and knows he's on a program that maybe he's got 10, 15 minutes or whatever he's got. He's got to talk to Boston. He can't go into the full conversation because as he was talking about, this wasn't necessarily he's there for different reasons. I really appreciated what he said and I understand why the UFO Joe wrote what he did about how

6:16it could be one of the more believable takes because here's a guy who said, look, I didn't want to say anything about this stuff because I didn't want it to discredit the idea of what I'm really trying to get behind. It's like, why are these things connected to nuclear weapons? Why is this happening? Why is this happening? The second you start saying, oh, and by the way, I was just abducted two or three times. You go, oh, this guy's out of his mind. So clearly, I'll listen to this guy. So I understand the approach behind it too because as I've said, and I brought this up before in the past and I'm bringing it up again here too, I think it was the whenever that Miami mall incident happened. I'm Keana and I leveled up my business with Shopify. Once I figured out that Shopify was a thing, I never turned back. I can create a site with my eyes closed. Shopify thinks ahead of us, you know, and it thinks about the customer more than anything. Every day I'm thinking about some other new business, but Shopify is doing it to me because it's so easy to use. It's like I can't stop them addicted.

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8:19It's a little weird and things that have kind of changed my opinion on it. Doesn't necessarily mean you just blindly believe everything, but I also think you just can't finally disregard things right away because we don't understand everything. So if these craft that are out there are able to manipulate time space and do all these things that if you're following it well enough, believe that they can do. Well, then who's to say that they can't do certain things and be able to visit people and do things if you listen to the reports that have happened many times over with it, being able to speak telepathically and those types of things that... The fascinating interview was that one with Jesse Michael. That was the one to me where I was listening and the guy was, he was translating all time, but he was telling the experience and how it happened. It was similar to other things that had happened with other, whether it was in Bobway Case or other things in those conversations and that maybe if it's somebody who is investigating or looking into these things and they're on their radar and maybe there's a reason why

9:27you're looking into it the way you are. Maybe there's conversations that they're able to have with you. I mean, I think there are shades of this universe that we just can't see. I think there's things that we can't see. There's things we can't see. I mean, who's also in the way that time and space and quantum physics and everything works? That who's to know that there's not someone right here right now sitting next to me? I don't know. Do you? You can't see everything behind the way that the actual atmosphere and things work. We see what's in front of us in this dimension and this in this plane and all these types of things. This is what we see. This is our reality. How we look at reality. But I don't think we understand every dimension of every facet of the way that the universe works and the way that again time space reality. Our reality doesn't mean that it is reality. That makes sense. And I think that this particular guy, you know, saying, look, this happened to me various

10:28times I was taken, I was abducted. I'm not telling anybody anymore. He doesn't seem crazy to me. Doesn't necessarily mean I believe could have been shit-housed a couple times and had a great dream. I don't think that's what it is, but it's why I say you can't blindly believe people the same way you can't just blindly disregard them. And it's weird because like when someone says to me, do you believe people have been abducted? The first instinct is to exactly what he said. Now, why? I know. But then it's like, I don't know, maybe. There's a lot of people have these experiences. And the question is, and he said it, he said it in the interview, right? He's like, if I didn't, if it didn't happen to me and someone said it, I wouldn't believe it. And that's really what it is. If you're best friend, if you're best friend, came to you and said, yeah, I think

11:29it was a ductive by aliens last night. So you need to go to the hospital, take you to the hospital, check out what the hell's going on with you. What'd you do last night? What'd you get into? D ductive by aliens. They're healthy talking about. And I think that that's one of the things that maybe has happened continuously, over and over and over again. So it's interesting. I just wanted to kind of shed some light on this particular clip, which I thought was it. And it's like, I want to see like some of the, you know, when the, when they analyze the footage and see if people, someone's lying with their eyes or those types of things, I, I don't think this guy's lying. But I don't know. What do you guys think? What do you make of it? What do you think about abductions in general? Do you think a lot of them are really thinking a lot of them bullshit? Do you think a lot of them are met induced? Not this guy. But I'm just saying that a lot of times. Put your thoughts in there. And I don't know why that was the option. That's the first thing you can do. Thanks for being here. I appreciate it. And we'll see you soon.