Dan Aykroyd Details His UFO Experiences | Joe Rogan

Yeah, no, it would be nice to find that, that's for sure. I believe Bob, I do, and I believe Barney and Denny, and I believe Travis. I want to believe all of them, that's my problem. I believe the Allagash guys, why would they do this? Because people are full of shit. They love to lie, they love attention, they love crazy stories, people love telling you their sidekick, people love believing in astrology, people believe in Bigfoot. I think that there's a lot of people out there that want fantastic things to be real, including me. It's exciting, it's way more exciting than not being real. It is entertaining, that's why I love the whole subject. That's my problem with it. The thing is that these people were severely damaged, like Barney Hill was damaged, the Allagash boys were damaged, Travis Walton were psychologically damaged by these experiences. Allegedly. We don't know. I mean, they might have been damaged already. This might have been- I accept that. Yeah, this might have been something- But you read Contact, and you've seen Betty interview. Yes, I did. Doesn't she come off as someone- She does. ... who is extremely credible. She does, she does. So does Betty and Barney Hill. They're an interesting couple, because they were an interracial couple. What year was this? This happened? 57. So they were dealing with all sorts of pressure. This was during the Civil Rights Movement. And they were pretty- It was not what you would expect for people that were calling out and trying to get attention. And the way they described this, it resonated with people. Well, he was having nightmares and rashes, and they had to come to some medical conclusion about it. Also extremely inconsistent. The story was extremely consistent. It wasn't. They consulted a friend at the Air Force, who they knew, and they came to Ben Simon and that. No, it's a fascinating story. It's just, in a way, as again, it's very, very, very entertaining. How did you get involved in this? My mother worked for the Ministry of Munitions and Supply in World War II for the minister, and she was subborn to work with the aircraft production for the hurricane. She was in charge of working with getting the hurricane fuselages built in Canada for the hurricane fighter plane. So she was in the world of aviation. And in 1947, she was walking down Spark Street in Ottawa, and she looked up in the sky, and she sort of said, something told me to look up, and she said she saw what looked like a Christmas tree ornament just winking above the street about four or five hundred feet, winking on and off, red, green, white, red, green, white. And she thought, that's odd, you know? And then she looked at it and she just zipped off in the sky and disappeared. And around the house after that point, we always had articles. There's an article, there's a cover of Life Magazine with Marilyn Monroe, talked about Flying Saucers, there's a cover of Look Magazine with Elizabeth Taylor. It catalogs the Barney and Betty Hill incident. So whenever one of those articles come up, she always had that at home for me to read. So I kind of, I was interested in it from then. And I've had four sightings myself, quite vivid. The first one was in Martha's Vineyard. It was four in the morning. I got up to take a leak on the balcony there, and I looked up in the sky and about a hundred thousand feet up. Two glowing discs flying in echelon formation. You saw this. I saw this. How old were you? I was, what was I, in my thirties, yeah. And so I look up and I see these things and they're moving, man. They're going from horizon to horizon, 20,000 miles an hour. And I've been in an F5, I've had it in my hands. I've been in a B25. I know helicopters, I know aviation, I know meteoric bull rides. I know what's not a meteor and what is. I know what's a helicopter and what is. I know what's the moon and Venus. Two glowing, glowing round objects, a hundred thousand feet, maybe 20,000 miles an hour they're doing because they went across the sky like just in a zigzag formation. So if I screamed to my wife, my friends, they got out, the three of us saw it and I said, you know, and they all knew it was something unusual. That was my first sighting. Okay, now who knows? Okay, meteorite, bull ride. There are many people that can dispute that that wasn't real, but I know what I saw. I know what my friends saw. I know what my wife saw. Those things were moving. They were glowing fast. They were flying in formation and they were doing enough speed to get from basically the right side of my eyes to the left side of my eyes really fast. The second one was I was in, so that's four. I count those two as two. And then the second one that I saw, so the one, two, the third one I saw, I was in Montreal, Canada and I was on the 23rd floor of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and this would have been when we were doing Patron in Canada, the Patron Tequila promotion and that was what I'm in in the early 2000s. And I looked up and beyond the window there and I saw this. It just looked like an air mattress turned over on its, you know, with the bubbles on the bottom. It was huge. It was 150 feet long, 50 feet wide, gray. It was a gray, rainy day in Montreal. Daylight and here was this thing at the 23rd story of the hotel and I'm looking at it and it moves slowly down St. Catherine Street and I'm thinking, where are the wires? Where are the wires? It's got to be a balloon. It's got to be, there's no Thanksgiving Day parade here. What is that? And my friends are with me, what is that? And it come along and it just parked outside the window. We looked at it, big gray thing with these bulbs underneath and then it slowly turned and we saw the full length of it and then it went around the corner. We ran out in the hall and we just watched it drift kind of sideways off over the St. Lawrence River and disappear. Wow. Did people take pictures of this? No, we didn't get any pictures and I don't know who else saw it. What year was this? In the 2000, let's see, five or six, something like that. And then the- Did other people report it? No, I don't know. I should have checked and seen in Montreal with the local MUFON. I think they have a representative up there but it was vivid. We all saw it. And then the fourth one that I saw, I was on my motorcycle leaving town to go at Kingston, Ontario where I lived there and I was driving out of the farm gate and I saw there's a power line that runs on the opposite farm there across the road and I saw this winking red light just moving slowly along the top of the power pylons and I thought, well, you know, helicopters did do that kind of work where they string power lines but they don't really do it at night. I thought that's got to be a chopper, a hydro chopper, like a hydro company chopper watching the power lines checking for faults or I don't know, I was- and it goes along like this and I'm watching it and I stop the bike, you know, and then it stops and makes a right angle turn and comes right at me. And so I turn on, I have a police motorcycle. So I turn on my wig wags, you know, like that. You have a police motorcycle? Of course. Why do you have a police motorcycle? I have a police equi- well, well. Are you a cop? Damn, accurate. Imagine getting pulled over by a blues brother. Wouldn't that be good? I've actually had the experience of actually pulling some people about anything. You pulled people over? Sure. Why'd you pull them over? You're a sheriff? Well, I was a- Representative deputy sheriff, don't, don't, don't. You and Ted Nugent. A reserve, a reserve, I must say. But I served under the first African American sheriff in Hines County, Mississippi in its history. Anyway, back to my sighting, the thing comes along, I put on the wig wags and the bike and it stops above me and it turns on a light and I'm going, it looked, where's the rotor wop? Where's the, where's the wash? Where's the, come on, the helicopter at 3,000 feet? You can hear it. This thing's like three, 400 feet above me. I'm looking at the thing, I'm thinking, where's the wash? Where's the, where's the, it looks like, it looks like a helicopter. It's got to be a helicopter. Do I see a canopy? Do I see rings, rotors? Nothing. Just, just a mass of kind of metallic and lights and it just shines this light light on me and I turn the lights on the bike on and then turn them off and then it winked the light off and it just drifted out over the field and just drifted off like that. So you've had three different instances. And then one night, well one night I was in bed, I was in bed with my wife. It was in the 1987 or so and I woke, I woke both upright at three in the morning. I said, I got to go outside. I got to go outside. They're calling me, they're calling me. They want me to see, they want me to see and she says, I'll go back to sleep. So I went back to sleep next day all over the radio of upstate New York. They talked about a big pink spiral in the sky that had appeared to upstate northern, northeastern Ontario and upstate New York. And they were saying, oh, it was a Chinese rocket. What a bottle rocket or the Chinese center rocket. This was the explanation that the media and the government was giving at the time. So those are my experiences right there. And you know, and then, and then an interesting thing happened where I was doing a show called Out There, Beyond Belief and we were doing it over there for, for Bonnie Hammer over there at, at the Sci-Fi channel. And it was an interview show where I talked to Doug Meldrum, the Sasquatch expert and all kinds of. I've talked to Doug. Yeah, I believe him. I believe him. He's passionate about it. I don't see why he, he's also a scientist. I talked to all those people, but the day that I had Steve- You think Sasquatch is real? Yes, I do. I believe, I believe that there's got to be this. You know Gabrielle Reese, the Olympian? Sure. I'm going to run the podcast. She talked about her Sasquatch experience? No. Now I need to talk to her again. Yeah, you really do. She's so gigantic and beautiful. I would imagine that Sasquatch wanted to breed with her. Well, that's why apparently it shook a camper that she was up in an upstate- Yeah, a big giant woman, super athlete. She was attacked. Her camper was attacked by when she tells that story. Yeah. But where was I about the, where do we go back to the, Gabrielle Reese Sasquatch here? I interviewed all kinds of people on this show. You were talking about- My show was supposed to be a- Sasquatch. It was supposed to be a, yeah, but was supposed to be a show on Sci-Fi channel, an interview show where I'd interviewed everybody, you know, all the people in the field of cryptozoology and that and Sci-Fi and science fiction and theory and UFOs. I had Stephen Greer and Stephen Bassett on that same day. I've had Stephen Greer on the show too. Okay, so I interview Stephen Bassett. I'm about to interview Greer and I get a call in about like noon at our noon break and they call and they say, your show's canceled. We want you out of the studio by the end of the day and we're not going to air anything that you've done. What you do- Stephen Greer, Stephen Bassett, Stephen Greer, the UFO show, it gets canceled that day. Now maybe Ms. Hammer made a decision, you know, talk shows aren't really our thing or acroids not really what we want on our network or I don't know, was she called by someone or why that day when I was going to do this vivid, you know, UFO show that was going to go out on the air eventually. Why then did it get canceled? How are the ratings? How are the ratings? Well, no, we never got to air. I did 26 of them and we never got to air. It never got to air? No, no. So you just filmed them and it never did you guys do any wacky ones where they got to film and like, what are these crazy fuckers doing? Was there any of that? Like if you were a non-believer, non-UFO enthusiast- It was a pure interview show. I didn't show any footage. I just interviewed- Just talk to people. Yeah, so the day of my UFO show that I was going to do my big Stephen Greer and Stephen Bassett show, he got canceled. So, you know, there's- But do you think that they would, listen, sci-fi is all about those shows. I mean, I watched an episode of sci-fi where there's a bunch of people that claim to be trapped in a cabin in Maine because werewolves were outside. It's just like, it's- Well- They're into nonsense. I did a show on sci-fi. Talk show. I had a show called Joe Rogan Questions Everything where I would go- How long did it last? Not very long, but part of that was my idea. I didn't want to keep doing it. And then you worked for Bonnie? You worked for Bonnie Hammer, right? No, it was different people back then. Because she's one of the smartest executives in the industry and I don't doubt that she'll be running NBC someday or all of Universal, but I just, I would always like to know what happened. Did someone call you Bonnie and say, you know, don't bring this up now? I don't know. I just don't think anyone's going to call people about UFOs.