Dead Cows, Aliens, & Ghosts: How Kevin Knuth Connects Them All

**Mayim Bialik** (0:02)
I'm not giving up.

**Brian Keating** (0:03)
I am selling the building.

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No, stop.

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**Brian Keating** (1:00)
Today, I'm Keating's Razor, and I'll just acknowledge right up front for a series called Keating's Razor, it might be a little too appropriate. Almost as if it's a suspicious coincidence that we're opening a Keating's Razor video with a story about surgical precision allegedly being applied to cattle in 1980s Montana. I didn't plan it that way, the universe did.
So let's get to it. Where's the beef?

**Kevin Knuth** (1:24)
When people are abducted by gray aliens, there were 60% of the people reported around the world that they were given babies to hold.
Why would anyone report that? They may have the mindset Earth is their planet, right? And we happen to live here. I don't think anybody is ready for this really.

**Brian Keating** (1:48)
Today's claim, Kevin Knuth, a working physicist, a former NASA scientist, a member of the physics community I respect, he believes aliens are very probably in our own solar system. He's written a paper about the so-called Tic Tac event, and he's done the math on the Nimitz encounter.

**Kevin Knuth** (2:05)
And there was a cattle mutilation in Bozeman on a ranch.
That night there were 100 phone calls to the sheriff's office about UFOs. And then you have this cattle mutilation where there were two cows that were killed and surgically manipulated. It was very bizarre.

**Brian Keating** (2:24)
He traces all of it, the whole arc of his research, back to a story about cattle mutilations in Montana that happened in 1988 And he told it all to my friend Mayim Bialik recently. And here's what most people missed about that interview. Mayim, throughout the interview, was running the exact same methodology I'm about to apply. So this isn't going to be a Brian versus Kevin. This is going to be about two scientists looking for truth using one set of inference. Does it make the Keating's Razor cut? Let's find out.
Every claim gets a close shave. Some survive. Most don't make the cut. Before I slice and dice anything, I'm going to tell you what's not weak about Kevin's case. Because a lot of people who rolled their eyes at UAP research haven't actually heard the steel version of it. Kevin is not the caricature of some armchair physicist. He's a tenured professor of physics, a decorated educator, at the University of Albany, the State University of New York, my ancestral homeland. He spent years at NASA Ames Research Center. He publishes about exoplanets in top astrophysics journals, like the Astrophysical Journal. He teaches Bayesian inference and mathematical physics, and he's worked on exoplanet detection, actual exosolar planets found by actual telescopes in actual peer-reviewed venues. This is a man who's a real scientist with a real track record, real peer-reviewed publications, and you should set that down as a fact before we go any further. Kevin's argument on the UAP question runs like this.
Claim 1 There are sightings clustered around nuclear sites going back to the 1940s, before nuclear bombs were even loaded.
Claim 2
The speeds and accelerations reported in some of the encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena, including encounters with multiple instruments, multiple platforms like boats and aircraft with trained observers, are extraordinary.

**Kevin Knuth** (4:19)
I have friends who work up, who are in the Air Force, who work up at Malmstrom Air Force Base in northern Montana, and they have problems there with UFOs flying over the nuclear missile sites and shutting down our nuclear missiles.

**Brian Keating** (4:33)
He estimated the Nimitz-Tic Tac physics himself. And the numbers do not look like weather balloons, swamp gas, or the planet Venus.
Claim 3, cross-cultural patterns reported in abductions, shows up from Nepal to Congo to Chicago in cases from before the internet even existed.