Ricky Schroder Says He Sees UFOs Over His Home, Asks Elon Musk to Explain

Ricky Schroder says he has seen UFOs flying over his Colorado property on a number of occasions—and he turned to Elon Musk for an explanation.

The Silver Spoons star, 52, on Saturday posted a video on Instagram, in which he explained that he has often seen the unidentified objects and their unconventional flying patterns and characteristics while staring up at the night's sky.

After being left baffled by the regular sightings since moving onto his property last year, the actor has asked Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk, 51, for answers.

"I moved back to Colorado a year or so ago, and I've been looking up a lot lately," Schroder said in the clip. "I sit around my fire, I sit in my new hot tub, and I've been seeing things up in the stars, up in the sky, that I can't explain. And fortunately, a couple times, other people were with me here and they saw it."

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Ricky Schroder on September 16, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California, and Elon Musk on May 2, 2022, in New York City. Schroder has asked Musk to explain the numerous UFOs he says he has seen... Gotham/Getty Images;/Gotham/Getty Images

"I was looking online for explanations," he went on. "It's like you think they're satellites on a normal trajectory just going straight. But then they'll change trajectory, or slow down and even stop. And even one turned off its lights.

"These things up there, they're not aircraft, normal aircraft. You know, I'm a pilot. I haven't flown in years, but I know what aircraft look like and sound like and how fast they move. What we're seeing up there is unexplained and so, Mr. Musk, maybe you know."

Schroder suggested that he expected his claims to be dismissed, because "when you verbalize those things, society wants to make it sound like you're crazy, or something. And so that's another way to find the truth, because sometimes it's the exact opposite of what society says or what the programming from the stranger there tries to teach you."

"I don't know what they are, but they move fast, they can change direction and they can stop and adjust their lights," he added of the flying objects.

Elsewhere in his video, Schroder praised Musk for his recent purchase of Twitter, before claiming that his account had previously been "taken away" by the previous owner "after I bailed Kyle Rittenhouse out." Rittenhouse killed two men and injured a third during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2019. He was acquitted of multiple charges including first-degree homicide at trial in 2021.

The Golden Globe-winning star of The Champ also went on to state that Neuralink—Musk's brain computer chip startup that intends to develop ultra-high bandwidth interfaces between brains and computers—was written about in the Bible.

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Elon Musk is pictured at Heidi Klum's 2022 Halloween Party on October 31, 2022, in New York City. Ricky Schroder has praised the billionaire for purchasing Twitter. Taylor Hill/Getty Images

In a direct address to Musk, the actor said that he had been "looking at Neuralink, and I just wish you were sitting here, so I could ask you directly. But I have a question, and that is, there's an ancient text in the Bible that talks about what you're doing, developing a chip that goes in people's brains."

He then read verses 16 and 17 from Revelations, Chapter 13, which states: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

Suggesting there was a link between Neuralink and the End of Times prophecy, Schroder explained in his address to Musk: "So there's an ancient text that I believe is referencing Neuralink, and so I was curious [to know] what you think about that.

"I looked into Neuralink a little bit and it seems like there could be some great benefits to people that have had limitations, or have handicaps. So I could see how it's used in many ways for good. But my question to you is, how do we ensure it's not used for bad? How do you put safety protocols in place, so it's not used as a further control device of us?"

Continuing to address Musk, Schroder, who has voiced his objections to COVID safety precautions and the vaccine on a number of occasions, added that Neuralink could "have wonderful benefits to mankind and humankind, but could also then be used in nefarious ways, as they do with MRNA.

"So it makes me very leery about Neuralink and your intentions with that. And now you own Twitter, and there's a lot of data and a lot of people there, and it seems like there's opportunities for synergies between Neuralink and Twitter. And so I was really wondering what you thought about all that. I wish you were here, sitting around the campfire, because I think you'd be a fun guy to talk to."

Back in March, Schroder condemned internet pornography, claiming it has "corrupted healthy relations between men and women." He also linked the rise of the internet and other modern technologies to the Roswell incident of 1947, when it was reported that two flying discs had crashed into a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

While there have been enduring conspiracy theories that the U.S. military had encountered aliens following the crash, the Roswell Army Air Field retracted a statement that a "flying disc" had been recovered, saying the crashed object was actually a conventional weather balloon.

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