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So I wanted to clarify a quote
that I made, that was taken

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somewhat out of context, mostly
because the context wasn't

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available. But the quote
appeared most recently in

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Newsweek, where it said,

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"One prolific debunker, Mick
West dismissed the interest by

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members of Congress like Reid
before and Rubio now, with

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'they're just UFO fans', he told
The New Yorker, they've been

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convinced there's something to
it. And so are trying to push

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for disclosure. Now, this is
actually something I said. And

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it's something that's actually
in the New Yorker. And in the

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New Yorker, if you read that
article, which I recommend,

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there's a little bit more
context in that a former

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Pentagon official conceded that
"there were a lot of government

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people who are enthusiasts on
the subjects who watch the

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History Channel and eat this
stuff up 24 seven", but he

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didn't think that "the current
mood was set by a small cadre of

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true believers".

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But really the context here is
that I'm not trying to dismiss

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the entire field of UAP studies
and the concern about UAPs

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because what UAPs are from a
military perspective are simply

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things that are unidentified.
This includes unidentified

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planes and unidentified drones
that go into military airspace,

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or just things that pilots see
when they're up in the sky doing

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their usual things, and they see
something off in the distance,

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or sometimes something quite
close, that they can't identify.

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This is a problem. It can be a
serious national security issue.

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And I think it's something that
needs to be studied. And it

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needs to be something that needs
to be improved, the situation

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needs to be improved. If there
are failures of technology or

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training or personnel that mean
that we're not identifying

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things, and those failures need
to be addressed. If there is, in

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fact, some new technology out
there by a foreign adversary,

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then that needs to be
discovered. And that needs to be

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revealed. If there are simply
things like sneaky drones going

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around sneaking into our bases
or being launched from

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submarines near battle groups
and going over those battle

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groups, that is something that
needs to be addressed. That is

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something that is a very real
concern, and should be looked

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into.

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What I'm referring to when I say
they're just UFO fans, isn't

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that what I'm referring to is
the interest in the idea that

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they might be aliens. I think
this is a idea that really isn't

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taken very seriously within the
US government, within the

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military and within the
scientific community, and with

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good reason, because there isn't
really any very good evidence

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for it. And I think when people
like Rubio and Harry Reid,

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entertain this idea, which they
do very, very gently, they don't

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really lean into it very much.
When they do entertain it. It is

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somewhat prompted by the fact
that they are somewhat UFO fans,

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Harry Reid, especially we know
Harry Reid is big [friends] with

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Bigelow who is a local
businessman who's very into

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UFOs. Marco Rubio, I don't know
so much, but he does seem to

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want to entertain the idea and
you know, it runs well with

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certain people, it's a popular
story. People like to talk about

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UFOs. And so it's something he
can talk about. He's a bit of a

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UFO fan, but that's not what I'm
talking about.

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So if I'm a little bit
dismissive of people and

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dismissive of their interest in
UFOs as aliens, which I don't

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think is very well founded. I'm
not at all dismissive of the

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interest in the UAP idea, the
UAP phenomena, the fact that

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sometimes there are things in
the sky that are unidentified,

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this obviously is a very real
issue, and is something that