Watch Patton Oswalt’s passionate explanation of his dad seeing UFOs

There is a divide between those who believe in UFOs and those who don't.

Patton Oswalt made his side clear during his virtual visit with Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night. The conversation was set up by Kimmel asking the 52-year-old comedian if he had seen this 60 Minutes segment about regular "unidentified aerial phenomena" or UFOs in restricted U.S. airspace, which will hit Congress next month.

We'll let Oswalt take it away from here:

"Here is what's frustrating for me. I have never personally seen a UFO or a cryptid or a ghost or experienced a time shift or anything like that, but I'm very, very open to that existing, and I am surrounding by people—friends and family—who have seen and encountered UFOs. 

"My dad was a test pilot in the Marines all through the '60s and '70s, and when he was stationed at El Toro, he said, you talk to any pilot, they see all kinds of weird stuff up there. But they just don't report it because they don't want to go into a crank file. He said he was on a test flight, and he saw a bunch of objects. He said they looked like glowing balls of energy in, like, these round, metal cages. And they were keeping track with the jets. And they would do these turns that you couldn’t do under those G-forces and would disappear. 

"And when he came down and talked to his base commander and said, ‘Hey, my squad saw…,’ and they basically went, ‘Were they metal cages with like energy balls in them?’ And he's like, ‘Yeah…’ And he goes, 'Do you wanna report them?’ He’s like, ‘No, I don’t.’ And then the commander went, ‘Good, fine,’ and then walked away."

 Oswalt spent the majority of his time with Kimmel to discuss his upcoming Hulu series Marvel's M.O.D.O.K., due to the streamer May 21. Watch that trailer and the Emmy winner's full segment below.