Eric Weinstein on UFOs and hidden physics
Since 2022 Weinstein has argued that the US government fakes some UFO phenomena to hide real aerospace work, and that fundamental physics was quietly redirected after the early 1970s.
2023 CE · 38.91, -77.04 · status: claim
The account
In posts from November 2022 onward, and on The Joe Rogan Experience in February 2023, he said 'we may be faking a UFO situation'. He argues that research in fundamental physics changed character in the early 1970s (linking this to the 1969 Mansfield Amendment) and again in the mid-1980s, and that a fake UFO programme may cover a real one. In 2025 he estimated a 10–20% chance of a secret post-Einsteinian physics programme while saying he had no hard evidence beyond his list of reasons and had seen no conclusive evidence of non-human intelligence. The June 2025 reports of Pentagon UFO disinformation were taken by his followers as partial support.
The sceptical view
By his own account the claim is speculative; sceptics such as Mick West and Michael Shermer, with whom he has argued in public, see no evidence for a suppressed physics programme.
Connections in the atlas
- Pentagon UFO disinformation revealed
- Weinstein's 'Distributed Idea Suppression Complex'
- Mick West
- Eric Weinstein
- Area 51 (Groom Lake)
- Grusch testimony