#1843 - Paul Virzi

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

What the fuck? Tell me the UFO story.

Paul Virzi (0:21)

All right.

Well, first, I'm going to tell you about my dad real quick. My dad is Sicilian to the fuck. He born and raised Bronx, okay? Grew up in the 1960s in the Bronx.

Always has to dress nice, you know, very materialistic. A man needs a watch.

A man needs shoes.

Me and my brother were in the car one time. My father would do this shit. We were young. He shouldn't have, but he would be like, he'd be like, look at that. You see that? That's a fucking disgrace. He'd be like, that's a man in a Honda.

And he'd be like, there's kids in that fucking car. Like that. 1982 Jaguar XJ6, black, white leather, dressed to the nines. You know, everybody's crazy but him. Fuck them, they're crazy. Fucking crazy. So, tells me and my brother a story. To this day, the story's not changing. He told me he wished he never saw what he saw. 1973, my mother is pregnant with my older brother, Christian.

He's five years older than me. So she's pregnant with him. They're outside in Yonkers. There's a little grass lot.

And my aunt, grandmother and mother are out there and they're screaming, Tommy, you gotta come out here. You gotta come out here. So the way my father tells this story, he goes, I'm watching TV. What the fuck? You know, I don't wanna be bothered. He goes, I go outside and he said, Paul, he said, sitting where I could throw a rock or shoot my gun at it, there is a fucking, and the way he said, flying saucer, which is fucking hilarious. He goes, it's a fucking flying saucer. He said, it's got a blue tint around it, little portholes, but you could barely see, quiet, quiet as can be. And he said, they were all, and he said, the time was weird. The time of night was weird. It was like that weird time where the sun's going down. You don't know. He said, the timing of it was weird. And he said, his time perception during it was very, something was off with the time. And he said, he thought, he said, holy shit, I could fucking shoot my gun at this thing. But then he goes, he goes, then I freaked out because I don't know if this thing's really in my fucking mind. So I went inside because he thought that it might have been, so he went inside, he looked again, he went outside, they looked at it, they were stunned. And he said, like that, it turned into a dot in the sky.

He said, like that, it turned into a star like that. And he says, to this day, exactly the same thing. He goes, Paul, I always used to think those people were fucking nuts. He goes, all those people, I thought they were fucking hillbillies somewhere in the Midwest, just trying to get attention. He goes, I know what the fuck I saw. And he goes, and I wish I didn't see it because I still dream about it and I know what the fuck I saw and I know it wasn't from here. That's 100% true.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

What year was this?

Paul Virzi (2:52)

1973

Joe Rogan (2:53)

73

Paul Virzi (2:54)

And then I Googled 1973, Yonkers and many people saw something, but it was right above them.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

Look at this, man says, 1973 UFO incident turned life upside down. I'm not surprised.

Paul Virzi (3:09)

No.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

That thing, it probably looked just like that. That one right there.

Paul Virzi (3:12)

That's what, yeah. Yeah, he had, when it's funny because when he describes it, it looks like that.

Like in my mind, that's what he said it looked like. And that's what I always thought about, that right there. But he said that it was gone and like he said he couldn't believe. He said, and my mother's very like religious.

So the other day we had a party and somebody might've actually been Yanis. He goes, I've got to find out, can I talk? And she goes, I saw that. She goes, Yanis, I saw that. We saw that, that thing just disappeared. My father said if he had a picture in 1973 of where it was, nobody would ever had a picture like that. He goes, I've been a fucking millionaire. Yeah, he said, nobody, it was right there, he said. He said you could have maybe not thrown something, but shoot at it.

Yeah, man.

Joe Rogan (3:51)

Well, that thing right there is a copy by this guy, Designs by Perry.