In a recent interview on The Shawn Ryan Show, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson shared his evolving views on extraterrestrial life and religion. Carlson, who previously delved deeply into the subject of UFOs, revealed that he has stopped his research into the subject.
“I am satisfied that I know enough; “I don’t really want to know much more,” Carlson said declared. “I’m no longer curious about this because I don’t want to know anymore.”
Carlson’s comments extended beyond extraterrestrial life to a broader discussion of religion. He noted striking similarities between world religions and creation myths, especially the belief that supernatural beings can take physical form.
“If every culture in the world that we know anything about, that has left a written or physical record, comes to the same conclusions somewhere, maybe there’s something there? Maybe it’s not so crazy to think what everyone has always thought since the beginning of time,” he pondered.
Carlson also highlighted a significant shift in religious belief that he attributes to the coming of the nuclear age.
“It’s only since 1945, when America dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, that people have started to think differently about religion,” he said.
“From then to now it is just a slice of time in the continuum of history. We assumed that for that one period [religion is not] true, but everyone has assumed it to be true. I go along with everyone else in that.”
During the interview, Carlson talked about his conversations with government insiders, which profoundly influenced his views. “I was really shocked by what credible people told me,” he recalls. “I became completely convinced that they were not lying.”
Carlson had previously indicated that classified information about UFOs could have significant global consequences if made public.
On the Redacted podcast with Clayton and Natali Morris, he said, “The more you dig into that and talk to people with actual knowledge. Again, this is another story where there are some fantastic ideas floating around, but there’s just no evidence whatsoever that they’re true. But when you talk to people who have actual knowledge of it and have gathered it themselves, there are parts of that story that I don’t understand at all and that are really, really, really dark… That story bothers me.
His comments come in the wake of retired Major David Grusch’s testimony before Congress last summer, in which Grusch alleged that the US is concealing a long-term program aimed at recovering and reverse-engineering unidentified flying objects.
“In the course of my official duties, I was made aware of a multi-year UAP crash recovery and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,” Grusch said, according to the Associated Press.
