Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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I don't know. He apparently does have a college degree in some kind of arts or some kind of bachelor of science in some kind of communication or arts sort of thing. And he was thinking about being a lawyer at one point. So apparently he's academically smart. So he's got that working for him. Academically quite smart and he's well-meaning and probably liked by both Democrats and Republicans to some…

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different animal because he was always political even when he was an actor. But I don't know. I just don't know about actors becoming governors. Just doesn't feel like a good trend for the long term. You know, arguably even Arnold Schwarzenegger was kind of political before he ran for office.

All right, how many of you saw the 60 Minutes on the UFOs? So there are more videos of alleged UFOs which tend to be these oval-shaped objects which they never get a good picture of but they can definitely see it on the infrared and on the radar. So we know something's there. I feel like it's fair to say there's something. And when we say UFOs are confirmed, which I cheekily did in my tweet about this live stream, confirming a UFO isn't anything. It's like confirming that there's confusion. It doesn't confirm anything. It just confirms that we don't know what they are.

So when you say UFOs are confirmed, of course people think you've confirmed aliens but nothing like that has happened.

All right, so here's the question. There was at least one part of the 60 Minutes report that I hadn't heard before. There were four pilots in the same situation. I guess it might have been two jets with two pilots each. And all four of them saw the same thing. They report that there was some oval object making the ocean swirl and then it flew away and it went right past them and they could clearly see it, etc. And they didn't want to talk about it until now.

And so you have to ask yourself what is more likely? That four people really saw something that is not of earthly design, because apparently it was doing things that Earth technology can't do, or they always seem to do that. Is it more likely that four people are lying or mistaken? Or is it more likely that there are aliens who are visiting with advanced technology? Which one of those is more likely?

Well let's put it in context. Most of our headlines are about things that people see that aren't there, right? Most of our hoaxes and in fact most of our headlines even today, today, just pick a day, most of our headlines today are about things that people saw that weren't there. It's most of the news. Most of your experience every day involves people clearly seeing things that aren't there. Your co-workers remember a conversation that didn't happen. The news is reporting something that didn't happen. I just gave you an example. There'll be a few more before we're done.

So one hypothesis that four people could have the same crazy hallucination or just mistaken perception, that is the most common thing in the entire world. It feels like it's not right because we all think that our perceptions are pretty good. So we think, well our perceptions are good, other people's must be at least a little bit good. So it seems like it wou

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ld be really unusual that four people would see a UFO right up close and they'd be military people and they'd have the same story. What are the odds that that didn't really happen? Really high. Really high. Like close to 100 high. It's the most common thing in your experience is that people see things that aren't there. Now how common is it in all of our experience to see a confirmed alien spaces…

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