Joe Rogan Experience #1612 - Robert Bigelow

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Hello. Good morning.

Good-

Or good afternoon.

... afternoon. Yeah, pleasure to meet you, pleasure to get to talk to you, and I, I really appreciate you coming on here. It mean-

My-

It means-

My pleasure.

... a lot to me. Um, you and I have, uh, some shared interests, clearly, in the world of, uh, UFOs, but I wanna talk... M- most people know of you because of Bigelow Aerospace. They know that you're this billionaire investor and you're a s- very successful businessman, but you have a, a deep fascination with UFOs.

Yeah. Yeah, sure do.

How did this all get started?

Um, back when my, uh, when I was about three years old, which would be about 1947, in actually May of that year, my grandparents had a, um, very close encounter. It was dramatic. And, um, they were taking a, an afternoon, evening drive in the late afternoon up into the mountains and then coming on back down to, to Las Vegas and they saw, um, what appeared to be at first an airplane on fire. (clears throat) And, um, i- the object became closer and closer, uh, to them and they pulled off to the side of the road and at one point then it filled up the wi- windshield and they thought they were gonna die. And at the last second, uh, it shot off and, and, uh, disappeared and, um... (clears throat) I learned of this story when I was probably 10 years old and... 'cause I was three at the time and, uh, my mother had told me this story. So I approached my grandfather and he wouldn't talk about it. Now after all these years, like seven years have gone by 'cause I was intrigued with it and, uh, (clears throat) so I went to my grandmother and she on- only would say a few words, but she wouldn't talk, so I got the story from my mom and, um, and they had... My grandfather had to sit on the side of the road there in the car for a while to, um, (clears throat) recompose himself and, uh, uh, because they thought they were, they were gonna die and, uh, and then fin- he finally was able to drive on back to Las Vegas. So that was the beginning for me.

Did he ever describe what... Y- you said it looked like a plane on fire, but like w- what was the shape of it as it got closer?

I, I don't recall any kinda shape that was, that was, uh-

Disguised?

... that my mother described. I don't recall that. Um-

But they just knew it wasn't a plane. They knew it was something-