# Wernher von Braun’s Alleged Alien Card Warning

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121623879038751155
- Source account: [@Markmaycott2](https://x.com/Markmaycott2)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:41
- Published: 2026-11-14
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning) The strategy that Wernher von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=6) In fact, when I met him in 74, they were the enemy, the identified enemy.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=10) We were told that they had killer satellites.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=13) We were told that they were coming to get us and control us, the dirty commies, that whole story.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=17) First, the Russians were the enemy against whom we're going to build space-based weapons.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=21) Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=25) We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country crazies.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=31) We now call them nations of concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would be needing to build space-based weapons.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=39) And the next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point, he kind of chuckled the first time he said it.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=47) Asteroids, against asteroids we're going to build space-based weapons.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=50) So it was funny then. And the funniest one of all was against what he called aliens, extraterrestrials.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=57) That would be the final card. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring up that last card and, "Remember, Carol, the last card is the alien card.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=75) We're going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens."

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=78) And all of it, he said, is a lie. He didn't mention a timeline, but he said that it was going to be speeding up faster than anybody could possibly imagine, that the effort to put weapons in space was not only based on a lie,

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aieJL3M5lUW8/en/wernher-von-braun-s-alleged-alien-card-warning?t=95) but would accelerate past the point of people even understanding it until it was already up there and too late.