Joe Rogan Experience #1351 - Dan Aykroyd

1. 0:02 – 2:16

   Niagara tightrope stunts and podcast juggling (with oranges and knives)

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      And we're live with Dan Aykroyd, cutting oranges and doing a podcast at the same time.

   2. DADan Aykroyd0:07

      Yes. It's, uh... It's kind of like, uh, walking from the... the tightrope, uh, between two buildings, chewing gum, and uh, and looking up at the... at the ceiling. Y- have you ever heard of the... the guy who, uh... He was a tightrope walker at the turn of the century, um, and he was very famous. Uh, I think... I, I forget. He was a French guy. He walked over Niagara Falls several times.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      I know who you're talking about. Yeah.

   4. DADan Aykroyd0:27

      Uh, I... I... But, he was a French, uh, tightrope walker, and one of the things he did, Joe, was one... one morning, he said, "I'm gonna do this, but I'm gonna take my manager on my back. I'm gonna take a small stove, and I'm gonna cook him breakfast in the middle of the falls, right over the falls."

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:43

      Oh, shit.

   6. DADan Aykroyd0:44

      And this is recorded of him having... A- can you imagine the manager, you know, the conversation there? "Okay. You're gonna climb on my back. We're going to the middle of the falls. I'm gonna make you breakfast." "I love you. I love handling you. But no... What? Uh, really? I have to do this?" So, he took his manager on the back, out to the falls, cooked him eggs right there, and then walked to the other end of the falls with a stove, his manager all on his back.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:04

      (laughs)

   8. DADan Aykroyd1:04

      I... This is like... You know, these are... these are feats that, uh, that we hear about.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:08

      Did he cook in the middle?

   10. DADan Aykroyd1:10

       He cooked in the middle of the falls.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:11

       Oh.

   12. DADan Aykroyd1:11

       He cooked b-... He cooked eggs, and I think flapjacks, and, uh, all while, uh, handling his manager on his back, and handling the stove, and the whole thing. Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       There's the images of it.

   14. DADan Aykroyd1:19

       There... There he is. There yet, there. There. There's the manager. Look.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       Oh, my goodness.

   16. DADan Aykroyd1:23

       Yeah. Isn't that funny?

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:24

       Where's he cooking?

   18. DADan Aykroyd1:25

       Yeah. Blondie, that was his name. Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:26

       I wanna see him cooking.

   20. DADan Aykroyd1:27

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       They must have a photo.

   22. DADan Aykroyd1:28

       They've got to have a photo.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:29

       Is that a wheelbarrow up there?

   24. DADan Aykroyd1:30

       Yeah. Yeah, a wheelbarrow. He had the manager on his back. There he is, the manager on the back, you see, taking him across.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:35

       Jesus Christ.

   26. DADan Aykroyd1:35

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:36

       That's how you earn your keep as a manager.

   28. DADan Aykroyd1:38

       (laughs) I... I know. And... And... And I don't know whether... There. There he is. Look at the table-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       Oh, my God.

   30. DADan Aykroyd1:41

       ... and the chairs. Yeah.
2. 2:16 – 3:29

   Niagara Falls lore: deaths, daredevils, and local history

   1. DADan Aykroyd2:16

      Yeah. 1,000 people died going over Niagara Falls, many of them suicides, and many of them, uh, you know, just, uh... just that... that went over in rafts, and that kid-

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:24

      Yeah.

   3. DADan Aykroyd2:24

      ... Roger who went over in a life jacket, and kids in barr-... uh, and people in barrels, who were actually intending to go over the falls and wanted to float down that far, and so-

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:32

      One guy survived. He survived in a barrel.

   5. DADan Aykroyd2:33

      A guy in the life jacket survived, and a couple of them in the barrels survived. But the... The tribe of, uh, of the Niagara Indians who lived at the... uh, the Indigenous natives who lived at the bottom of the falls were overweight. And why were they overweight? Because they didn't run through the forest hunting. They took all of the meat that came through the Niagara River and went over the falls and was dashed at the bottom of the falls, the bears, the wolves, the moose, all of them who... p-... who drowned in the falls, all this... this wildlife. And they just harvested the meat off the rocks at the bottom of the falls.

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:03

      Oh, so they would just wait.

   7. DADan Aykroyd3:05

      They would just wait. Exactly, yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:06

      Wow.

   9. DADan Aykroyd3:07

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:07

       How many things get stuck? That would seem like you'd be waiting a lot.

   11. DADan Aykroyd3:10

       Uh-

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:10

       Oh, man. These people- 40 people every year fall over, so-

   13. DADan Aykroyd3:13

       'Cause-

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:13

       Every year right now? Yeah.

   15. DADan Aykroyd3:15

       Yeah. Wow. Wow.

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:16

       Oh, my God. 40?

   17. DADan Aykroyd3:18

       But I love Upstate New York. I love Upstate-

   18. JRJoe Rogan3:20

       It's gorgeous.

   19. DADan Aykroyd3:20

       I... I love Niagara Falls, New York. It's beautiful, um, architecture from the '30s and stuff.

   20. JRJoe Rogan3:25

       Yeah.

   21. DADan Aykroyd3:26

       And, uh, it's so... it's so neat up there. Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan3:27

       Yeah. It's a gorgeous part of the country.

3. 3:29 – 11:58

   Crystal Head Vodka: design, purity claims, and “no additives” pitch

   1. DADan Aykroyd3:29

      Do you mind if I make a non-additive-

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:31

      Please do.

   3. DADan Aykroyd3:31

      ... vodka drink here for us? Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:32

      This is your vodka company, and you base it on... I know you are a... a huge fan of extraterrestrials, and one of the things I'm very excited to talk to you about is that. But this is, uh-

   5. DADan Aykroyd3:43

      Sure. I brought you a book for... on all of that. Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:45

      Cool. This is based, uh, on the crystal skulls, right? This is-

   7. DADan Aykroyd3:49

      Well, yeah. The package is based-

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:50

      Look how gorgeous that is, folks.

   9. DADan Aykroyd3:51

      Uh, package is based on the... on the crystal heads-

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:53

       Oh.

   11. DADan Aykroyd3:53

       ... because we wanted to s- sell the idea of purity, and you can see it's a nice, smiling little... happy little skull. It was designed by John Alexander, the great Texas artist. Uh, here's our, uh... This is our wheat version. We have corn in here, we have wheat in here. And there's no cleaner vodka, I must say, on the planet. We go to great lengths to make this a clean product. Not only is the bottle beautiful, but the unique fluid inside is what has got us to 70 countries, over 50 million bottles sold. We've won 12 gold medals. We won the Pridexpo in Moscow for excellent taste out of 400 beverages. And what we do is we take, uh, peaches and cream corn from Chatham, Ontario, and we put it in the truck in the mash, and we ship it 95% al-... uh, alcohol volume, uh, at that point. And we take it over, and we put it in the ferry boat, and we bring it over at the distillery in Newfoundland, Canada, the last... one of the last state-owned stills in the world. And why are we there? Because the water from the original Wisconsin glacier is-

   12. JRJoe Rogan4:48

       Mm.

   13. DADan Aykroyd4:49

       ... under Newfoundland. So-

   14. JRJoe Rogan4:50

       Ah.

   15. DADan Aykroyd4:50

       ... water is an... Vodka's an Old Russian word for water. And great-

   16. JRJoe Rogan4:54

       Is it really?

   17. DADan Aykroyd4:54

       Yeah. And great vodkas have sweet water. Um, I'm just gonna... I want you to just take a sip, and then I'm gonna make a nice crystal drop.

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:00

       Oh, man. So, here we go.

   19. DADan Aykroyd5:00

       But just, here's our notes.

   20. JRJoe Rogan5:01

       Cheers, sir.

   21. DADan Aykroyd5:02

       Just a sip. Yeah, cheers. Yeah, indeed. Hey, to our daughters.

   22. JRJoe Rogan5:05

       To everybody's daughters.

   23. DADan Aykroyd5:06

       Daughters and sons and daughters.

   24. JRJoe Rogan5:07

       How about that? Everybody. Sons, daughters, mothers. It's very good.

   25. DADan Aykroyd5:13

       Sweetness. Sweet vanilla, dry, crisp with a kick of heat off the finish are our notes from Anthony Dias Blue. We take that to the distillery in Newfoundland. We use the water there. We do not add flavor packs. Flavor packs are added to lesser vodkas. That's glycerides, sugars, terpenes, and we put them... Uh, they put them in these packages an- uh, and they... they put them into the vodka. We eliminated all of that, and we have no additives at all. This is C2H5O6, just absolute ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, purified, distilled in... in a carbon filtration system, not the w- w- one with the hose where they just blow it through. No. We... We... We distill and we filter, and we pour it over, uh, Herkimer diamonds.

   26. JRJoe Rogan5:53

       Diamonds?

   27. DADan Aykroyd5:54

       Yep. Uh-

   28. JRJoe Rogan5:55

       You pour it over diamonds?

   29. DADan Aykroyd5:56

       We do. We... We pour it over the Herkimer semi-precious stone, and the Herkimer premi-... semi-precious stone is, uh, one of our last purification processes. Now, if you asked a high school professor, "What does pouring alcohol over diamonds do to the alcohol?" They'd probably say, "Well, nothing." But-... our stones, after certain pours, uh, a certain number of pours, they turn yellow. And we have't bleach them, clean them, or replace them. The Herkimer diamond is found in, uh, an- an- an anomalous area, uh, of Upstate New York, also in Afghanistan and Oaxaca, Mexico, uh, they're found. They're, they're little semiprecious double-ended crystals. And people love the taste of the vodka poured over the stones. Now-

   30. JRJoe Rogan6:32

       D- is there a chemical reaction that causes the stones to turn yellow, or is it-
4. 11:58 – 18:47

   The crystal skulls themselves: origin stories vs. museum skepticism

   1. JRJoe Rogan11:58

      I wanna talk to you about the, the...... the story of the crystal skulls themselves, 'cause there is this strange-

   2. DADan Aykroyd12:06

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan12:06

      ... sort of, uh, folklore attached to them, and then there's a lot of people that believe that it's all horse shit, and that these were created by modern people and buried underground-

   4. DADan Aykroyd12:15

      Mm-hmm. Yep.

   5. JRJoe Rogan12:16

      ... in order to-

   6. DADan Aykroyd12:17

      Well, my understanding of it, uh, is... There, you go.

   7. JRJoe Rogan12:19

      There she is again.

   8. DADan Aykroyd12:19

      Yeah, in- indeed. That's just the, the citrus model, the crystal driver. Um, there were 13 heads.

   9. JRJoe Rogan12:25

      Ooh, that's good.

   10. DADan Aykroyd12:25

       And, uh, and it was purported that the Navajo, the Anasazi, the Mayans, the Aztec ha- each had one. Uh, the most famous one is the, uh, the Mitchell-Hedges skull, which was found in the Yucatan by Anna Mitchell-Hedges. He reached into a cave, she was with her grandfather, it was around 1926, and she reached in and s- there was an oilcloth-covered sp- uh, item in there, and she pulled it out and opened it up, and there was the two-piece detachable jaw, Mitchell-Hedges skull.

   11. JRJoe Rogan12:49

       Yeah.

   12. DADan Aykroyd12:49

       Beautiful skull. The Hewlett-Packard engineers did a test on it in the '60s. They said it could not have been carved by a lapidary, by m- by tools. It had to have been polished over hundreds of years, over, uh, over centuries, to get to the shape that it was. So they said it was a polished item. Uh, let's see, there's the Mitchell-Hedges skull, the Phyllis Newman skull, named Max. She says-

   13. JRJoe Rogan13:12

       But, but wasn't that later decided by some people-

   14. DADan Aykroyd13:15

       Well, w-

   15. JRJoe Rogan13:15

       ... that this was not the case?

   16. DADan Aykroyd13:16

       ... I'm gonna, I'm gonna exactly-

   17. JRJoe Rogan13:18

       Yeah, please.

   18. DADan Aykroyd13:18

       ... get to that point, because of course, it's, uh, it's important. It doesn't affect my business whether they're fake or not. These were beautiful artifacts and we've recreated it beautifully. But it's nice to know the true story, and I, I have a th- kind of a thought on the theory either way. So there's the Phyllis Newman skull, um, named Max. She has to put it in the closet 'cause it talks to her. There's one of-

   19. JRJoe Rogan13:36

       What? Wait, wait.

   20. DADan Aykroyd13:37

       They (screech)

   21. JRJoe Rogan13:37

       Hit the brakes.

   22. DADan Aykroyd13:37

       Uh, Phyllis-

   23. JRJoe Rogan13:38

       I'm gonna have to hit the brakes a bunch with you. You're an excellent talker, sir.

   24. DADan Aykroyd13:40

       Oh, well, I, you know, I was inoculated with a gramophone needle at birth.

   25. JRJoe Rogan13:43

       (laughs) So-

   26. DADan Aykroyd13:44

       I could talk a taxi dispatcher into a vow of silence. I could talk an air raid siren to scrap. But, uh-

   27. JRJoe Rogan13:50

       (laughs) And you're obviously Canadian 'cause you said slag.

   28. DADan Aykroyd13:53

       Yeah. (laughs) There you go.

   29. JRJoe Rogan13:54

       And it's like, date a Canadian gal, she'll have that to tell.

   30. DADan Aykroyd13:57

       Oh. Well, that's another tangent, Canadian gals and-
5. 18:47 – 26:08

   Why experts dismiss UFO claims: Neil deGrasse Tyson, professionalism, and evidence standards

   1. DADan Aykroyd18:47

      But he... There's no way you can sit down and say, "Neil, Barney and Betty Hill were abducted by a flying saucer in 1957."

   2. JRJoe Rogan18:52

      Mm-mm.

   3. DADan Aykroyd18:52

      He's not gonna accept that.

   4. JRJoe Rogan18:53

      Right. He's not gonna.

   5. DADan Aykroyd18:54

      Because, he can't accept that.

   6. JRJoe Rogan18:55

      Mm-hmm.

   7. DADan Aykroyd18:56

      Because, everything in his training, everything in his knowledge, everything that he knows about physics and science and propulsion in the universe and how to get from place to place, defies, um, the, uh, defies the legend or, or I, I would say, defies the theory that there are, uh, extraterrestrial advanced ships out there. He can't acce- it, it's just, y- you know, he, it would be unprofessional for him to say, "Okay, there's even a possibility that there were abductions." But-

   8. JRJoe Rogan19:22

      The Betty and Barney Hill story is very interesting, but there's, there's no real evidence other than their testimony. Is that correct?

   9. DADan Aykroyd19:30

      Well, um, there was a stain on Betty's dress. There's her excellent recall. She was not... He was unconscious-

   10. JRJoe Rogan19:36

       What was the stain on her dress that's so interesting to you?

   11. DADan Aykroyd19:38

       Uh, it was a fluid that they used, uh, in, in, in the testing that, uh, some kind of a fluid, a chemical.

   12. JRJoe Rogan19:43

       The alien testing?

   13. DADan Aykroyd19:44

       Y- uh, that, that they did when-

   14. JRJoe Rogan19:45

       And did-

   15. DADan Aykroyd19:45

       They drew ova from her and they drew sperm-

   16. JRJoe Rogan19:48

       Oh.

   17. DADan Aykroyd19:48

       ... uh, yeah, from him. Now, so there's a book out called Contact by Stanton Friedman, who-

   18. JRJoe Rogan19:52

       I read that.

   19. DADan Aykroyd19:53

       Uh, yeah, and Kathleen, yep.

   20. JRJoe Rogan19:55

       Yeah.

   21. DADan Aykroyd19:55

       I'd love to know where the car is, where they, the, the, the Chevy they were driving. Where was that?

   22. JRJoe Rogan20:00

       Oh, it disappeared?

   23. DADan Aykroyd20:01

       I don't know. I'd have to ask Kathleen where it is. Did they, did it end up-

   24. JRJoe Rogan20:04

       Oh, like-

   25. DADan Aykroyd20:04

       ... in a junkyard?

   26. JRJoe Rogan20:04

       If someone could find it, right.

   27. DADan Aykroyd20:04

       'Cause there were marks on the back of the car as well.

   28. JRJoe Rogan20:07

       Mm.

   29. DADan Aykroyd20:07

       There were trace evidence in the back of the car. You know Ted Phillips is. He goes around the world collecting trace e- evidence and radioactive signatures from sightings and, and, uh, and landings. On the back of the car, there was a couple of marks. But it was Betty's... It's their credibility. Why would they wanna bring this into their lives? And she was conscious, uh, semi-conscious through much of it. And Be- uh, Barney was not, uh, uh, co- conscious. He was unconscious. If you hear the tapes of Ben Simon's interviews with them under hypnosis-

   30. JRJoe Rogan20:35

       I've heard them, yeah.
6. 26:08 – 28:39

   Abduction research and 1950s UFO waves: John Mack, headlines, and Washington 1952

   1. DADan Aykroyd26:08

      In New York, The New York Times, uh, is pretty reliable. Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean are reporters for The New York Times, and they've been studying this, uh, phenomenon. They report ver- very credibly on it. I'll tell you how an abductee's experience is related. I attended, uh, an, a lecture at the, uh, Fifth Avenue Medical Institute in, in Manhattan with my wife a few years ago. That would be about 15 years ago. And John Mack was the lecturer. You know, he wrote the book Abduction. He was the Harvard psychiatrist who wrote, uh, Abduction. You can get that up too. Abduction, John Mack.

   2. JRJoe Rogan26:41

      Yes, I read that as well.

   3. DADan Aykroyd26:42

      Yeah. And so-

   4. JRJoe Rogan26:42

      That, that freaked a friend of mine out. She was a very pragmatic, non-UFO-believing person, and she ca- we were working together on news radio, my friend Maura Tierney, and she, uh, came up to me and she goes like, "This book is freaking me the fuck out." And he wrote a second book as well. Didn't he die in a car accident?

   5. DADan Aykroyd26:59

      John Mack...

   6. JRJoe Rogan27:00

      I believe he died in a car accident.

   7. DADan Aykroyd27:02

      Stepped off a curb in, um, a, in, in a, in a small town in England, and he was struck by a, a car.

   8. JRJoe Rogan27:09

      Yeah.

   9. DADan Aykroyd27:10

      And three other John Macks died the same day in England. So...

   10. JRJoe Rogan27:14

       So you think people were whacking John Mack because he knew too much?

   11. DADan Aykroyd27:16

       Well, I don't know.

   12. JRJoe Rogan27:18

       Let's take 'em all out.

   13. DADan Aykroyd27:18

       Again, I was, I was at this lecture, and there were 300 abductees there, that, that... some who he interviewed with, some, some he had not, but who were there for... interested to, to find out about more about their experience. And one guy got up and said... He had one arm, and I don't know whether that was related... I don't think it was related to the experience, but he said, "I'm a Wall Street broker. I'm quite well off. I have a sailboat. I was in Long Island Sound a few years ago, and a blue light hit me, and I had missing time of about five or six hours. But in it, I have fil- filtrated memories of beings addressing me and telling me that I was powerful and influential and I could help the planet survive. And they put me back in my ship and I woke up." And, and, and, and he said, "I'm waiting for them to come back. I want them to come back." And I asked the room, I got up and I said, "Of all of you who've been taken, how many of you would, would want to repeat the experience or have it happen again?" And about half of them said no, no way they'd want it to have, have it happen again. And half said, "Yeah, we'd like that to happen again."

   14. JRJoe Rogan28:16

       Half?

   15. DADan Aykroyd28:17

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan28:17

       Yeah.

   17. DADan Aykroyd28:17

       Half, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan28:19

       Now, I love a good anecdote-

   19. DADan Aykroyd28:21

       So Bruce signed this to me-

   20. JRJoe Rogan28:21

       Oh, thank you.

   21. DADan Aykroyd28:22

       ... and I'm gonna give it to you.

   22. JRJoe Rogan28:22

       Oh. Thank you.

   23. DADan Aykroyd28:23

       And it's just got great, it's got great headlines from the... you know, from the '50s, uh, which was a massive time for saucers. You know, that famous photo-

   24. JRJoe Rogan28:30

       Yes.

   25. DADan Aykroyd28:30

       ... of the saucers over the, uh, the Capitol, the glowing lights-

   26. JRJoe Rogan28:33

       Mm-hmm.

   27. DADan Aykroyd28:33

       ... and the... Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan28:34

       Yeah. See if you can find that photo, Jim, 'cause it is quite interesting.

   29. DADan Aykroyd28:36

       Uh, it's, uh, July 1952, Washington sightings-

7. 28:39 – 35:24

   Nukes, Roswell theories, triangle craft, and Bob Lazar credibility clash

   1. JRJoe Rogan28:39

      Do you think this was initiated by the detonation of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where they decided, "Okay, these fucking monkeys are doing some stupid shit. We need to go down there and see what's up and see if there's imminent danger to the cosmos. Let's find out what kind of capabilities they have."? 'Cause if you listen to Lazar or if you believe the work of Zecharia Sitchin or any of the people that believe that human beings were engineered-

   2. DADan Aykroyd29:04

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan29:05

      ... that there's... The, the reason why there's this giant leap between us and the rest of the primates on the planet is because something came down and manipulated our genetics.

   4. DADan Aykroyd29:16

      Well, the movie Mission to Mars with Tim Robbins, you know, basically it says that, you know.

   5. JRJoe Rogan29:20

      Yeah.

   6. DADan Aykroyd29:20

      Basically, it's, it shows the face on Mars and that. That is one of NASA employees' favorite movies. Yeah, there they are.

   7. JRJoe Rogan29:26

      Yeah.

   8. DADan Aykroyd29:26

      Yeah. 1952 UFO incident. Thank you very much.

   9. JRJoe Rogan29:29

      Look at that photo. That is a crazy photo.

   10. DADan Aykroyd29:30

       Is that beautiful? Come on, let's go here now, folks.

   11. JRJoe Rogan29:33

       That's crazy.

   12. DADan Aykroyd29:33

       Yeah, that ain't an airplane. That ain't a helicopter.

   13. JRJoe Rogan29:36

       No. It's a crazy photograph, and it's from 1952.

   14. DADan Aykroyd29:39

       Mm-hmm.

   15. JRJoe Rogan29:39

       I mean, the, the special effects back then were incredibly crude.

   16. DADan Aykroyd29:43

       No, no, that's-

   17. JRJoe Rogan29:43

       This was something that was reported by thousands of people.

   18. DADan Aykroyd29:46

       Thousands of people, they jet... they, they scrambled jets from, from Andrews for it and everything.

   19. JRJoe Rogan29:49

       As well as the Phoenix Lights. That was another thing.

   20. DADan Aykroyd29:51

       The Phoenix Lights is fascinating because-

   21. JRJoe Rogan29:52

       Yeah.

   22. DADan Aykroyd29:52

       ... you know, um, the... Fife Symington, the governor said I... he saw them, he made fun of it with an alien, uh, m-

   23. JRJoe Rogan29:58

       Yeah, but he talked about that afterwards.

   24. DADan Aykroyd30:00

       ... dummy. Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:00

       He was put under pressure to do so.

   26. DADan Aykroyd30:02

       Yeah, yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:02

       He's in a movie called... What is it? Um, there's a documentary on Netflix, it's available, that he's in, um, that he talks about the pressure that they put on him to make light of that incident. And he talks about his own personal experiences with seeing something, some sort of triangle-shaped craft that was enormous, the size of several football fields. It was flying overhead, that was completely silent, and how it freaked him out. I think that was him.

   28. DADan Aykroyd30:24

       The triangle, the triangle and del- Delta crafts are very, very interesting.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       Yeah.

   30. DADan Aykroyd30:27

       But, uh, the, the Tinley Park incidents of the, uh, of the '80s, uh, and, uh, with, um... Sam Oranto was the investigator there from UFON.... these things would park over the family barbecue for about half an hour, and, you know, families in suburbs were looking up at them, the sky being blotted out by these things parking above them. (inhales deeply) So, y- y- I, I think it comes down to they... I don't think these beings... I... Well, Lord Hill Norton said there were 23 different species visiting the planet in 23 different types of ships. I don't think they want a formal relationship with people on Earth. They want an informal, secret relationship. I think they probably have one with elements of the, of black elements of the Air Force and the government. You know who David Sereda is?
8. 35:24 – 1:06:42

   Dan’s personal UFO origin story: family influence, multiple sightings, and a canceled Syfy show

   1. JRJoe Rogan35:24

      Well, how did you get involved in this?

   2. DADan Aykroyd35:26

      Well, my mother, uh, worked for the, uh, Ministry of Munitions and Supply in World War II, uh, for the minister, and she was, uh, uh, suborned to work with the, uh, aircraft production, uh, for the Hurricane. She was in charge of, uh, working with, uh, getting the Hurricane fuselages built in Canada for, for, for the, for the Hurricane fighter planes, so she was, you know, in the world of aviation. And in 1947, she was walking down Sparks Street in Ottawa, and she looked up in the sky, and she was, 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 4 or 500 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 said it 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, it talked about flying saucers. There's a cover of Look magazine with Elizabeth Taylor. It, it catalogues 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 it from, from then.And I've had four sightings myself, quite vivid. The first one was in Martha's Vineyard. It was 4:00 in the morning. Uh, I got up to take a leak on the balcony there, and I looked up in the sky and about 100,000 feet up, I saw two glowing disks flying in echelon formation.

   3. JRJoe Rogan36:51

      You saw this?

   4. DADan Aykroyd36:51

      I saw this.

   5. JRJoe Rogan36:52

      How old were you?

   6. DADan Aykroyd36:53

      I was, uh, what was I? I'm in my 30s, yeah. And so I g- I look up and I see these things, and they're moving, man. They're going from horizon to horizon (swooshing) 20,000 miles an hour. And I, I, I've been in an F5. I've had it in my hands. I've been in a B-25. I know helicopters. I know aviation. I know meteoric bolides. 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 s- glowing, glowing round objects, 100,000 feet, maybe 20,000 miles an hour, they're doing. Because they went across the sky, like, just in a zigzag formation. So 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, meteoric bolide. There are many people that can dispute that that wasn't real, but I, 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, uh, enough speed to get from basically the right side of my eyes to the left side of my eyes-

   7. JRJoe Rogan37:51

      Hm.

   8. DADan Aykroyd37:52

      ... really fast. The second one was, um, I was, uh, I was in, uh ... So that's, so that's four. I count those two as two, and then the, the, the f- the second one that I saw ... So the one, two. The third one I saw, I was, uh, 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 Patrón, uh, in Canada, the Patrón Tequila promotion, and that was, would have been in the early 2000s. And, uh, and I looked, um, up and, uh, uh, uh, beyond the window there, and I saw this ... Well, it just looked like an- a, a, an air mattress turned over on its, you know, with, with the, 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, broad daylight, and here was this thing at the 23rd story of the hotel. And I'm looking at it, and it moves slowly down Saint Catherine Street and I'm thinking, "Where are the wires? Where are the wires? Where ... It's gotta be a balloon. It's gotta be ... Mon- there's no Thanksgiving Day parade here. What, what, what is that?" And my friends are with me. "What is that?" And it come along and just parked outside the window, and 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 Saint Lawrence River and disappear. Wow. (laughs) Well, you know.

   9. JRJoe Rogan39:17

      Did people take pictures of this?

   10. DADan Aykroyd39:18

       No, we didn't get any pictures and I don't know who else saw it. But-

   11. JRJoe Rogan39:21

       What year was this?

   12. DADan Aykroyd39:22

       Uh, in the 2000, let's see, 5 or 6, something like that. Um, and then the-

   13. JRJoe Rogan39:28

       Did other people report it?

   14. DADan Aykroyd39:29

       No, I don't know. I should- (sighs) I think I should have checked and, and seen in Montreal with the local MUFON. I think they have a, a representative up there. But, uh, it was vivid. We all saw it. And then the f- uh, the fourth one that I saw, I was on my motorcycle leaving town to go, uh, at Kingston, Ontario where I live there, and I was driving out of the farm gate, and, uh, and I saw ... There's a power line that runs on the opposite farm there, uh, 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, they do that kind of work where they, where they string power lines, but they don't really do it at night." I thought, "That's gotta 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, I, I stop the bike, you know, and I'm w- And then it stops and makes a right angle turn and comes right at me, and so I turn on the ... I have a police motorcycle, so I turn on my wigwags, you know, like that.

   15. JRJoe Rogan40:23

       You have a police motorcycle?

   16. DADan Aykroyd40:24

       Of course. I've got po-

   17. JRJoe Rogan40:25

       Why do you have a police motorcycle?

   18. DADan Aykroyd40:26

       I have police equi- Well, I'll, I'll, I'll-

   19. JRJoe Rogan40:28

       Are you a cop?

   20. DADan Aykroyd40:30

       Uh-

   21. JRJoe Rogan40:30

       Damn accurate. Imagine getting pulled over by a Blues Brother.

   22. DADan Aykroyd40:32

       Wouldn't that be good? I've, I've actually-

   23. JRJoe Rogan40:34

       (laughs)

   24. DADan Aykroyd40:34

       I've actually had the, uh, experience of actually pulling some people over anyway.

   25. JRJoe Rogan40:38

       You pull people over?

   26. DADan Aykroyd40:39

       Sure.

   27. JRJoe Rogan40:40

       Why'd you pull them over? You're a sheriff?

   28. DADan Aykroyd40:42

       Well, I was a reserve.

   29. JRJoe Rogan40:43

       Representative deputy sheriff. Dun, dun, dun.

   30. DADan Aykroyd40:45

       Uh, yeah. Reserve.

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