Speaker 1: I want you to just close your eyes for a second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, set the scene right, picture this.
Speaker 1: It is New Year's Eve, nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: We are in Kent Cliffs, New York. It's about an
hour north of New York City, deep in the Hudson Valley, right,
and it is bitter cold, you know that kind of
Northeast winter cold where the air just feels I don't know.
Speaker 2: Thin, oh yeah, thin, and chirping your lungs. The ground
is frozen solid, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of night where, well, where sound travels forever.
Speaker 2: You can hear a car door slam from a mile
away on a night.
Speaker 3: Like that, right, And people are out. It's just before midnight.
They've got their coats buttoned up to their chins. They're
holding plastic cups of champagne, and they're.
Speaker 1: Looking up, waiting for the countdown, waiting for the countdown.
Speaker 3: They're waiting for fireworks to mark the transition into nineteen
eighty three. Maybe they're hoping the clouds break so they
can see some stars. It's just this moment of pure
noisy anticipation.
Speaker 2: But the noise never comes. That is the critical detail here,
the anticipation of a bang followed by a silence that
is almost heavier than the noise.
Speaker 3: Would have been right because instead of fireworks, the people
in Kent Cliffs see something that just completely breaks their reality.
Speaker 1: The sky it shifts, shifts.
Speaker 3: The stars get blocked out, and this massive V shaped
shadow glides over the crowd. We aren't talking about a
plane at thirty thousand feet. We are talking about something low,
something terrifyingly large and silent, dead silent. Imagine a structure
the size of a football field or maybe bigger, floating
over your head, effectively defying gravity. And it's not making
a sound none at all. No jet engines, no prop wash,
just I mean.
Speaker 1: Just presence.
Speaker 2: It creates a cognitive dissonance. Your brain sees something that large,
moving that slowly, and it expects a.
Speaker 1: Rumble, right, you expect it in your chest exactly.
Speaker 2: It expects the ground to shake. When that doesn't happen,
the fear response is immediate and primal.
Speaker 3: It's the ghost in the machine, or rather the machine
is a ghost. Welcome to Thrilling Threads. I'm your host,
and today we are pulling on a loose end that
starts up in the sky but might just end up
somewhere completely unexpected.
Speaker 2: And I'm here to help you navigate the labyrinth, because
today isn't just a ghost story. No, it's a case
study and one of the most documented yet totally baffling
mass sightings in history.
Speaker 1: We are jumping right into the Hudson Valley enigma.
Speaker 3: Now, usually when we talk about this topic, we talk
about a lonely farmer in a field, or a pilot
seeing a flash.
Speaker 2: Of light, right, isolated incidents.
Speaker 1: But this, this was a siege.
Speaker 2: Chiege is really the appropriate word. This wasn't a single
event on New Year's Eve. That night was just the
opening ceremony. What followed was a wave of sightings that
lasted from nineteen eighty two all the way through nineteen
eighty six. Wow, we are talking about over nine thousand
reported sightings.
Speaker 3: Nine thousand. Let's just sit with that number for a second.
If nine thousand people tell you they saw a benje
in the woods, you don't debate the existence of the bear.
Speaker 2: No, you call animal control.
Speaker 1: Right, you call it animal control. But because it's a crash,
because it's anomalous, we hesitate.
Speaker 2: Well, the implications are harder to process than a bear.
But today we're going to try right, and we're going
to explore theory that suggests we've been looking in the
wrong direction entirely.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is the part that gets me.
Speaker 2: We spend so much time scanning the stars for visitors,
but the Hudson Valley source material suggests that the visitors
might not be coming down. They might be coming.
Speaker 1: Up up, as in from the ground.
Speaker 2: From beneath our feet.
Speaker 3: Okay, my skin is already crawling. That triggers a whole
different kind of claustrophobia. But before we get to the
underground stuff, the caverns, we have to establish what happened
in the sky because this object, this Hudson Valley boomerang,
is incredibly unique in the source material.
Speaker 2: It is the consistency of the reports is what makes
this case so strong. Scientifically, if you have nine thousand
people hallucinating, they hallucinate different things, right, one sees a saucer,
one sees a cigar, one sees an angel. Hudson Valley,
everyone saw the same thing.
Speaker 1: So walk us through the visual. I'm standing in a
parking lot in nineteen eighty three. I look up. What
am I seeing?
Speaker 2: You are seeing a V shape or a boomerang? Shape.
But it's not just lights flying in formation. That is
a crucial distinction. Witnesses consistently reported a solid dark body
connecting the lights.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't just independent orbs floating together.
Speaker 2: No, they described a massive solid structure that blotted out
the stars between the lights. It was opaque, and the
lights themselves were often described as multicolored red, green, and white.
Speaker 1: Which sounds like standard aircraft lights.
Speaker 2: Yes, but non blinking, or if they did change, they
changed in unison, rippling across the surface of the craft.
Speaker 1: And the size.
Speaker 3: You mentioned football field earlier, but some of the reports
from the sources say it was even bigger.
Speaker 2: Some witnesses, including aviation professionals, estimated this band to be
closer than nine hundred feet or more nine hundred feet
for context, and aircraft carriers about one thousand feet long.
Imagine the USS Nimics floating over the Taconic State Parkway.
Speaker 1: The Taconic Parkway. I have driven that road one hundred times.
Speaker 3: It's winding, it's dark, it's surrounded by heavy trees. There
is a really famous story about a traffic jam there
right the.
Speaker 2: Night of the siege March twenty fourth, nineteen eighty three.
This is probably the most spectacular event of the entire wave.
The object moves slowly right down the Taconic State Parkway.
It was flying so low and so slowly that drivers
were just slamming on their brakes.
Speaker 3: I can imagine the absolute chaos. It's not like today
where everyone has a cell phone to pull out and record.
People were genuinely panicking getting out of their cars exactly.
Speaker 2: Traffic came to a dead stop. Hundreds of people were
standing on the highway, leaning against their hoods, watching this
massive city of lights hover over them. We have reports
of people screaming, people crying, people praying.
Speaker 1: Because what else do you do? And again, the.
Speaker 2: Silence, absolute silence, and that is where the physics can
completely breaks down.
Speaker 3: Let's get a little nerdy for a minute here, because
I think people hear the word silent and think, oh,
it's a glider. Why is it physically impossible for something
that big to be silent.
Speaker 2: It comes down to lift and thrust. In traditional aerodynamics,
to keep a heavy object in the air, you need
air moving over wings to create lyft. To get that
air moving, you need speed. A seven forty seven can
stay in the air because it is moving at five
hundred or six hundred miles per hour. The engines required
to push it that fast are essentially controlled explosions. They
are deafening, right.
Speaker 3: And if a seven forty seven slows down to say,
thirty miles per hour, it.
Speaker 2: Falls out of the sky like a brick. It stalls completely.
To make a heavy object hover or move at walking speed,
which this object was doing, according to hundreds of witnesses,
you can't use wings. You need active downward thrust. Think
of a Hairer jet or a helicopter, and.
Speaker 3: Those are incredibly loud. A helicopter hovering over your house
shakes the pictures off the walls. I've had life flight
choppers go over my neighborhood and you can't even hear yourself.
Speaker 2: Think exactly, to hover a mass the size of a
football field using conventional thrust would create a downdraft that
would flatten trees and a sound that would shatter windows.
These witnesses reported the object hovering just a few hundred
feet above them, and they could hear the wind rustling
in the leaves.
Speaker 1: So we are talking at some kind of anti gravity.
Speaker 2: We are talking about field propulsion, something that negates the
effect of gravity on the mass of the object itself.
If you negate mass, you don't need aerodynamic lift, and
if you don't have combustion engines, you don't have noise.
It suggests a technology that is not just a few
years ahead of us, but a few centuries.
Speaker 1: Or a few millennia.
Speaker 3: But okay, skeptics exist, and I always try to be
one sometimes just to keep us honest and look at
all the source material. Fairly, when this was happening, the
authorities must have had an explanation.
Speaker 1: They didn't just throw up their hands and say, yep,
it's aliens.
Speaker 2: Well, they certainly tried. The official explanation, and I use
that term very loosely. Was the formation pilot's.
Speaker 1: Theory the ultralight pilot?
Speaker 2: Yes, The working thing was that a group of pranksters
from a local airfield, specifically the Stormville Airport, were flying
ultralight aircraft basically hang gliders with lawnmower engines strapped to them,
and they were flying in a tight V formation to
trick people.
Speaker 3: Okay, on the surface, if you squint, that sounds plausible.
Ultra Lights are quietish and if you line them up
maybe it looks like a solid v it falls.
Speaker 2: Apart the moment you apply any real scrutiny. First, ultra
lights are not silent. They sound like chainsaws. A dozen
of them flying together would sound like a biker gang
in the sky.
Speaker 1: And the wind because it was winter critical point.
Speaker 2: Ultra lights are incredibly light. They get tossed around by
the wind easily. To fly ten or twelve of them
in a rigid, perfect formation at night, often in gusty
winter winds is suicidal. One gust and they'd smash right
into each other.
Speaker 1: Plus the whole solid body thing exactly.
Speaker 2: If it were separate planes. You would see the stars
between them as they moved. Witnesses saw a solid black
mass blotting out the sky. And finally the fuel and Brogno,
the investigator we'll talk about in a moment, calculated the
fuel capacity of these ultra lights.
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't even think about the fuel right.
Speaker 2: They could stay up for maybe an hour or two.
These sightings were happening all over the Hudson Valley, sometimes
for hours at a stretch, covering distances that these little
planes simply couldn't manage without landing to refuel multiple times.
Speaker 3: So the skeptical explanation is actually more unbelievable than the
anomalist explanation.
Speaker 2: It requires a level of coordination, endurance, and risk taking
that just defies logic. And remember the witnesses. We aren't
just talking about terrified commuters on the highway. We are
talking about highly trained professionals.
Speaker 1: Let's name names, or at least titles, who actually saw
this thing.
Speaker 2: We have Dennis sent he was a local politician, a
very credible man in the community. He went on record.
We have police officers from multiple townships who reported it.
But the most alarming reports came from the Indian Point
Nuclear power Plant.
Speaker 1: Whoa wait, the nuclear plant.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a detail that often gets buried, but
is heavily documented in the sources. Security guards at the
Indian Point Nuclear facility reported the object hovering directly over
the reactor.
Speaker 1: That is just not good. That is an act of
war theoretically if it's a foreign nation.
Speaker 2: The guards were absolutely terrified. They had their weapons drawn.
They were radioing their superiors for permission to engage, asking
if they should shoot this thing down.
Speaker 3: But what are you going to do with a shotgun
against to ship the size of a city block.
Speaker 2: Nothing? You do nothing.
Speaker 3: And the fact that it went for the nuclear plant.
That fix a broader pattern, doesn't it. These objects seem
to just love our nuclear tech.
Speaker 2: It's a recognized global pattern. Malmstrom Air Force Base, Rendelstrom Forests.
Whenever there is nuclear material, these things tend to show up.
It's almost like they're monitoring us, or warning us.
Speaker 1: Like kids don't play with matches.
Speaker 2: Exactly, or maybe studying the emissions. We don't know.
Speaker 3: So we have the massive object, we have the thousands
of credible witnesses, we have the failed skeptical explanations. Now
we need to talk about the man who tried to
put the whole puzzle together, Philip and Brogno.
Speaker 2: Philip in Brogno is the unsung hero and somewhat tragic
figure of this entire story. He was a science teacher,
very rational, very grounded guy. But he was also an
investigator for CUFOS, the Center for UFO Studies.
Speaker 3: And dropping the CUFOS acronym gives you instant street cred
in this world.
Speaker 1: That was jail and Heineck's organization.
Speaker 2: Jalen Heineck is basically the father of scientific eufology. He
was the guy the Air Force hired for Project Bluebook
to debunk everything. He's the one who literally came up
with the swamp gas explanation. But eventually Heinick flipped. He
realized there was real, measurable data he couldn't explain away.
So for Imbrono to be working under Heinick means he
was highly trained to be rigorous. He wasn't out there
looking for little green men. He was looking for weather
balloons and misidentified planets.
Speaker 3: So Inmbrogno goes to the Hudson Valley. He thinks he's
going to debunk this mass hysteria.
Speaker 2: Right. He spends months there. He interviews hundred of people personally.
He drives the roads at night. He is really doing
the grunt work to filter through nine thousand reports. But
then the abyss stares back.
Speaker 1: He sees it.
Speaker 2: He doesn't just see it, he experiences it. It was
a cold night and he was driving along one of
those really dark county routes. He saw the lights approaching.
He pulled over.
Speaker 1: Now this is the moment.
Speaker 3: If I'm him, I'm excited because I'm finally seeing what
I'm investigating, but I'm also terrified.
Speaker 2: He describes the object coming in very low and then
something happens that shifts this from mere observation to actual interaction.
Yeaubujik stopped and it projected a beam of light down,
a spotlight, a brilliant beam of white light. Imbrogno describes
it as scanning the ground. It swept over the highway,
swept over the tree line, and then it hit him.
Speaker 1: It hit him like it illuminated him.
Speaker 2: Specifically, he was entirely bathed in this light. He said
it was blindingly bright. But here's the weird part. He
didn't feel any heat. Usually a light that bright would
be hot. A police search light feels warm on your skin.
This was cold. Clinical.
Speaker 1: That feels like a violation. That's not just watching a
plane go by, that's being touched by it.
Speaker 2: It immediately raises the question of intent. Was it looking
for something in the woods? Was it looking for him?
Did it somehow know he was the lead investigator.
Speaker 3: That's a paranoid thought, but entirely valid under the circumstances.
Speaker 2: And it brings up the issue of bias, which we
see debated in the source material. Does Imbragno seeing the
craft make him a better researcher or a worse one?
Speaker 1: That is the big question.
Speaker 3: I'd argue it makes him infinitely more passionate, but maybe
less objective. Once you've been physically scanned by the boomerang,
you can't exactly go back to your office and write
it off as a flock of geese.
Speaker 2: Precisely, it personalizes the phenomenon. But because his account matches
the thousands of other eyewitness accounts so perfectly, the absolute silence,
the hovering capability, the cold beam, it ultimately strengthens the
data set. He became a calibrated instrument for the investigation.
Speaker 3: So Imbrogno is deep in it now, he's collecting reports
he's been scanned. But then he starts to notice a
pattern that nobody else is talking about. Everyone is looking
up at the sky, but the locals, the people who
actually live out in the woods, they are talking about
what's happening down below.
Speaker 2: This is the massive pivot, the thrilling thread takes a
sharp turn right into the earth. Imbrogno started getting reports
from people living in the area, specifically Putnam County in Westchester,
who were hearing things, all kind of things, not the
silence of the craft. They were hearing intense mechanical sounds, grinding,
heavy drilling, deep hums.
Speaker 1: Like heavy construction work, yes.
Speaker 2: But at three in the morning and coming from deep underground,
people would literally put their ears to the floorboards of
their houses and hear a rhythmic, heavy thrumbing vibrating through
the wood That is horrifying.
Speaker 3: If I hear a noise outside, I can lock the door.
If the noise is coming from under the foundation of
my house, I'm packing my bags and moving.
Speaker 2: It directly correlates with the base theory mentioned by research
like Campbellbasso. In our sources, the Hudson Valley is incredibly
interesting geologically. It has deep aquifers, lots of iron ore,
huge magnetic anomalies. If you were going to build a
massive secret facility, human or otherwise, it's a prime location.
Speaker 3: And the locals in the eighties, they weren't all shouting
aliens right away, were they.
Speaker 2: No. Initially people assumed it was the government secret tunneling,
maybe extending the subway lines far upstate, or building deep
bunkers for the Cold War. Remember this is the height
of the Cold War. The fear of nuclear annihilation was
very real, so a secret government bunker project seemed highly
logical to these people.
Speaker 3: But the government doesn't fly silent football field size boomerangs
to guard their construction sites.
Speaker 2: Exactly. The two phenomena were inexorably linked. The knights the
boomerang was seen in the sky were often the exact
same nights. The subterranean sounds were the loudest. Henry, one
of the speakers in our source material, suggest that these hotspots,
it's our hotspots specifically because of what is underground.
Speaker 1: So the theory evolves, it's not just a flyover, it's
a commute.
Speaker 3: They are going to work or they're coming home, coming
home to the Hudson Valley.
Speaker 2: Think about the strategic logic of it. If you are
in advanced intelligence and you want to observe humanity long term,
where do you hide your infrastructure?
Speaker 1: The dark side of the moon.
Speaker 2: Too far, you have a constant travel time issue. The
bottom of the emptine very good, and we certainly see
a lot of USO's unidentified submersible objects. But the underground,
the lithosphere itself offers incredible stability. It offers immense protection
from cosmic radiation or human detection, It offers infinite geothermal energy,
and it offers perfect camouflage.
Speaker 1: Because we don't look down.
Speaker 2: We have mapped the surface of Mars better than we
have mapped the deep cave systems beneath our own feet, so.
Speaker 3: We are just walking over them. We are building our
malls and our houses and our highways on top of
their roof.
Speaker 2: That is the unsettling implication. We think we own the building,
but we might just be renting the penthouse while someone
else owns the basement.
Speaker 3: This brings us to what I consider the darkest part
of this entire story, because if there is a basement
and there are things living in it, sometimes.
Speaker 1: They come upstairs.
Speaker 2: Whitley Streeber, just.
Speaker 1: Saying the name gives me shivers.
Speaker 3: Hmmmmm for you listening who might not know. Whitley Streeber
was a highly successful horror novelist. He wrote The Wolfen
and The Hunger. He literally knew how to scare people
for a living. But in nineteen eighty five he stopped
writing fiction because something happened to him that was infinitely
scarier than anything he could invent.
Speaker 2: Streeber had a cabin in upstate New York. It was
located in the extreme western edge of this exact Hudson
Valley Flap region. It is incredibly isolated deep Wood's Darkness, Complete.
Speaker 3: Silence, December twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five. He's alone in
the cabin with his family. He sets the alarm system
for the night.
Speaker 2: He goes to bed, and then the alarm system does
something impossible. It doesn't go off. It is completely bypassed.
Streeber wakes up, but he realizes he is not in
his bed. He is in a state of complete physical paralysis.
Speaker 3: This sounds like the classic abduction scenario, but the details
in Streeber's account, which later became the massive bestseller Communion,
are so specific and visceral. He talks about the sensory details,
the smell.
Speaker 2: Sulfur ozone, a very dry, sharp electric smell, and the
entities themselves. He didn't just see the standard pop culture grays.
He described a complex hierarchy, right.
Speaker 3: He described the small kind of worker bee types. But
then there were the doctors, the tall ones, and the blue.
Speaker 2: Ones, dark blue, short figures, almost goblin like. This is
where the extraterrestrial hypothesis really starts to bleed into ancient folklore.
These descriptions sound exactly like goblins or cooebolds or demons
from medieval.
Speaker 3: Texts, but the part that haunts me and I know
it haunts YouTube based on our notes is the dialogue.
Speaker 1: Streeber is absolutely terrified.
Speaker 3: He is paralyzed, He feels physical pain, and one of
the entities leans.
Speaker 2: In and says, what can we do to help you
stop screaming?
Speaker 3: Can we do to help you stop screaming? Not stop screaming,
not we are going to hurt you, but this weird, twisted,
almost clinical customer service question.
Speaker 2: It's deeply chilling because of the massive disconnected shows. Straeber
realizes in that exact moment that he actually is screaming,
but his mind was so fractured he didn't even know it.
The entity seems genuinely confused by his fear response. Right,
It implies they don't understand human emotion, or they view
us exactly like we view a wild animal. At the vet.
The dog is terrified, it's whimpering, and the vet is
just thinking, I'm trying to fix your leg. Why are
you making all this noise?
Speaker 1: It totally strips away our humanity. To them, we are
just biological material on a table.
Speaker 2: But here is the critical connection back to the Hudson
Valley thread. Streeber was very clear about the vector of
the abduction. He wasn't floated up through the roof into
a shiny ship in the sky.
Speaker 1: Where did they come from?
Speaker 2: He described the overwhelming sensation of being taken down, and
he described the entities coming up from.
Speaker 3: The floor, up from the floorboard, literally like a monster
under the bed.
Speaker 2: And the sounds. Streeber and his wife, on multiple separate occasions,
reported hearing loud, rhythmic banging and drilling sounds under the
cabin itself.
Speaker 3: We could hear this taking place under the cabin. That's
the direct quote from the material.
Speaker 2: So you start to triangulate the data points.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: You have the mass sightings of the massive ships, you
have the locals hearing heavy drilling, you have Imbragno suspecting
a base, and you have an abduct d describing entities
coming from below accompanied by subtraining machinery sounds. The arrow
points firmly in one direction down.
Speaker 1: It fundamentally changes the genre of the phenomenon. This isn't
star Wars anymore.
Speaker 2: This is the descent it is, and it forces us
to ask a very uncomfortable question. Is the Hudson Valley
Boomerang actually a spaceship or is it an elevator.
Speaker 3: An elevator, that's a really heavy concept of transport vehicle
moving from the deep earth to the surface.
Speaker 2: And if that is the case, the Hudson Valley isn't unique.
It's just one door in a very long hallway full.
Speaker 3: Of doors wide in the aperture here because the sources
make it clear that this is.
Speaker 1: A global phenomenon.
Speaker 3: Where else are we seeing this specific UFO to underground connection.
Speaker 2: David Hatchrid Childress has done extensive work on this exact correlation.
He compares the Hudson Valley activity to places like Lake
teita Kaka in Peru and Bolivia.
Speaker 3: Oh Titacaka is incredibly famous for this kind of activity.
Speaker 2: It's the highest navigable lake in the world, and for centuries,
long before the Wright Brothers, long before airplanes, the locals
have consistently reported glowing lights diving straight into the lake.
They fundamentally believe there's an ancient city underwater. The Temple
of the Sun is said to be hidden down.
Speaker 3: There, and technologically speaking, a massive deep lake is a
great place to hide a base. Water blocks radiation, it
muffles sound, it keeps humans away.
Speaker 2: Then you have Mount Shasta in northern California.
Speaker 3: The hippie capital of the world, but also a huge,
undeniable UFO hotspot.
Speaker 2: The legends of Mount Shasta are fascinating because they don't
usually talk about aliens coming from the sky, talk about
the Lemerians, a lost, highly advanced civilization that retreated inside
the mountain thousands of years ago. People report seeing strange
lights coming out of the mountain peaks, or finding bizarre
tunnel entrances in the woods that literally disappear when you
go back to look for them the next day.
Speaker 1: In Mexico, the volcanoes.
Speaker 2: Pope Cutta Pedal. It's a highly active volcano right near
Mexico City. There are permanent webcams monitoring it for eruptions
twenty four to seven, and time and time again, these
cameras catch massive cylindrical objects flying directly into the.
Speaker 1: Crater, into the crater while it's smoking.
Speaker 2: While it is fully active. Now, you fly a standard
plane into an active volcano, you die instantly the intense heat,
the ash clogging the engines, the severe thermal turbulence. But
these objects dive in at mock speeds without hesitation.
Speaker 3: Which suggests the volcano isn't just a volcano to them,
it's e vent It's a doorway exactly.
Speaker 2: The hollow Earth theory or the cavern World's theory, proposes
that the Earth's crust is honeycombed with vast naturally occurring
or artificially expanded habitable spaces, and that the craft we
see are just the local traffic moving between their world
and hours.
Speaker 3: It makes the silence of the Hudson Valley craft makes
so much more sense, doesn't it. If they are our neighbors,
they don't want to wake us up. They're just sneaking
out for a midnight drive or a.
Speaker 2: Very calculated reconnaissance mission.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The crypto terrestrial theory, the idea that they are from here,
not from out there, solves a lot of lingering logistical problems.
It explains why they look somewhat humanoid due to convergent evolution.
It explains why they can breathe our atmosphere. It explains
why they care so deeply about our nuclear weapons, because
if we blow up the surface of the planet, we
destroy their ceiling.
Speaker 3: We are the noisy upstairs neighbors who keep having crazy
parties and constantly threatening to burn the whole apartment building
down and they are the quiet, scary guys in the basement,
occasionally coming up to tell us to knock.
Speaker 2: It off precisely, and in the Hudson Valley from nineteen
eighty two to nineteen eighty six, they decide to stop
knocking on the pipes and just show us the gun.
The boomerang was a massive show of force.
Speaker 3: We are here, we are big, we are completely silent,
and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2: It was a demonstration of total technological superiority. And then
they just went back down.
Speaker 3: It's incredibly frustrating, isn't it. The mass sighting has just stopped.
I mean, people still see an almost thing, sure, but
the siege itself ended.
Speaker 2: They made their point, or they finished their project, whatever
they were drilling for, whatever massive infrastructure they were building
down there. Maybe it's finally done.
Speaker 1: Or maybe they just got a lot better at hiding.
Speaker 2: That is the far more likely and frankly more disturbing possibility.
Speaker 3: This has been a lot to process. We started with
a freezing New Year's Eve party and ended up literally
questioning the structural solidity of the planet.
Speaker 2: That is what we do on thrilling threads. We pull
the thread until the entire fabric unravels.
Speaker 3: So let's try to wrap this up. If you are
listening to this right now and you are sitting in
your house, maybe turned down the volume for just a second.
Wasn't the room around you?
Speaker 2: Listen to the hum of the refrigerator, the wind blowing outside,
but try to listen deeper.
Speaker 1: Do you hear a low hum? Do you feel a
vibration in the floorboards?
Speaker 2: Is it really just the plumbing or is it something else?
Speaker 1: We want to leave you with this final thought to ponder.
Speaker 3: We as a species are spending billions of dollars looking
for microbial life on Mars. We are building massive things
like the James Webb Telescope to look at the very
beginning of time. We are completely obsessed with looking up.
Speaker 2: But we have barely even scratched the surface of what
is down. The absolute deepest whole humanity has ever managed
to drill, the Kola Super Deep borehole is only about
seven and a half miles deep. The earth is roughly
four thousand miles to the center. We have barely scratched
the thin skin of an apple and just arrogantly assumed
we know exactly what the core looks like, what.
Speaker 3: If the reason we haven't found aliens in deep space
is because they aren't in space at all. What if
they've been right here the entire time, operating beneath the
Conic Parkway, beneath Mount Shasta, beneath your own basement.
Speaker 2: It's a profoundly humbling thought. We might not actually be
the landlords of this planet. We might just be the
temporary tenants.
Speaker 3: And the landlord is doing some major renovations late at night.
So to you listening, we want to hear from you
directly and be totally honest.
Speaker 1: Does the underground based theory make the whole phenomenon.
Speaker 3: More believable to you? Does it neatly solve the physics
problems we talked about? Or does it just sound like
pure science fiction? Too much of a leap?
Speaker 2: And I'm very serious about this next part. Have you
ever heard the sounds, the hum that mechanical grinding coming
from nowhere? If you live in the Hudson Valley or
near a deep body of water or a mountain, tell
us leave.
Speaker 1: A comment below, share your story with us.
Speaker 3: We really do read every single one, and frankly, we're
trying to build a map of this stuff.
Speaker 2: We are connecting the dots as best we can.
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us on this thrilling thread. It's been
an absolutely wild one.
Speaker 2: Keep your eyes on the sky and.
Speaker 1: Maybe keep an ear to the ground. See you next time.