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behind the scenes of UFO cover-up live

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Part 5 by Charles Lear this is the last

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of what has turned into a five-part

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series looking into the events at led up

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two and the people who became involved

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with the television production UFO

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cover-up live which aired on October 14

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1988. it seems that the show's producer

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Michael Seligman believed that it would

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be the vehicle for an earth-shaking UFO

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disclosure what resulted was a clumsy

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and awkward production where the only

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disclosure anyone remembers is that

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aliens like strawberry ice cream Robert

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sciveria wrote a three-part series of

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Articles titled the cover-up behind UFO

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cover-up live for diabolic magazine the

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first of which was posted on May 17

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2022 scavaria spoke to Curtis Brubaker

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who came up with the idea for the show

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and Tracy tormay who produced the

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segment of the show devoted to the Gulf

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Breeze Florida sightings and the

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pictures taken by Ed Walters according

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to scavaria Rubik acre was an industrial

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designer who worked as a special effects

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coordinator on the late 1970s TV show

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project UFO he was driving in Los

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Angeles with his wife and they were

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listening to a radio show that had Bill

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Moore and Jamie chandray on as guests

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Brubaker told scavaria I listened

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carefully to all the stuff they were

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saying and told my wife if all this

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is going on these abductions and all

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this stuff somebody ought to file a

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lawsuit and take the government to court

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we ought to get some expert Witnesses

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and find out what the hell is really

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going on because this is an invasion of

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America's privacy instead of taking the

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government to court Brubaker came up

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with the idea for UFO cover-up live and

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pitched it to LBS Communications which

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had just had great success with the

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mystery of Al Capone's faults in 1986

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and returned to the Titanic live in

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1987. brubacher suggested Tracy tormay

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to produce the Gulf Breeze segment Torme

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a TV producer and member of The Writers

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Guild was quite familiar with the UFO

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subject and is described as interest as

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lifelong according to scavaria problems

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appeared from day one the two men who

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had produced the specials on Al Capone's

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votes and the Titanic were busy with a

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follow-up to the Titanic special a

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low-level producer Michael sulligan was

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the only one from the former two

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specials available and he by all

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accounts was not very familiar with the

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subject of UFOs The Writer's Guild was

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on strike at the time but Seligman found

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a willing scab in the person of very

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tough Taft's only production credit was

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as a consultant for the 1982

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supernatural horror film The Entity he

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actually investigated the case on which

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it is based and his experience as a

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writer consisted of writing articles on

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UFOs in the Paranormal for magazines he

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was let go early on and Torme told

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scavaria that the production staff

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pressured him to write but he refused

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TAF wrote articles for UFO magazine and

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not long after the show aired editor

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Vicki Cooper posted a first-hand account

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written by TAF TAF later denied writing

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it on UFO BBS UFO bulletin board system

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Taff we're going with the idea that it

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was Taft described that the opportunity

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to work with UFO Consultants such as

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Friedman was a once in a lifetime

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opportunity according to TAF rumors

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started circulating that the show was

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being influenced by insiders who were

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supposedly government Intelligence

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Officers from such agencies as CIA NSA

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or even mj-12 some of the creative staff

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found this comical and someone made up

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cards ranging from mj1 to m J12 and tape

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staff Taft describes the first dark

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clouds appearing after the producer

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Seligman is not mentioned by name

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throughout started having meetings with

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Condor and Falcon he describes him

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becoming so paranoid that he became

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irrational and that his incredible

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indecisiveness drove the creative staff

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to distraction in the article by Robbie

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Graham the Tom DeLonge delusion posted

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November 15 2016 on Mysterious Universe

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Torme is quoted giving his version of

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what happened Bill Moore wanted to get

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involved in the project because he'd

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heard all about it so he came in and it

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was very very Cloak and Dagger he

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insisted on meeting the producers behind

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closed doors and they couldn't tell any

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of us what they had discussed before

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long more flew the producers out to an

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island in the middle of the Great Lakes

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where he introduced them to his inside

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informants Falcon Dodie not rozitski and

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condor Robert Collins Torme also

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describes Seligman as becoming

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irrational one of the decisions Seligman

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made which Torme considered irrational

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was insisting that the entire show be

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scripted and that everyone read off cue

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cards this made for some very awkward

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moments during the Airing as some of the

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guests were quite inept at this when the

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show went live Mike Farrell of mash Fame

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was a hapless host and he made a heroic

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effort he didn't lose his cool even when

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he was working with a live feed with a

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bad delay to Russia to talk to two

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Russian researchers Moore was in touch

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with not only were they bad at cue cards

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they were bad at English there are

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squeaky chair noises and noises from

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off-camera which add to the amateurish

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quality of the show there are also phone

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numbers the viewers could call for a

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charge of one dollar to report Close

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recommend whether or not Congress should

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look in the UFOs or to report that

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they'd had no UFO experiences one moment

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that raised some eyebrows was during an

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interview with former Pentagon spokesman

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and chief of public information for the

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Air Force William Coleman Coleman

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describes having seen a silver 70-foot

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disc in 1955 while flying a B-25 over

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Alabama according to the thread the

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mysterious tale of William T Coleman

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ex-project Blue Book spokesman and UFO

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experiencer on the Above Top Secret

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Forum Coleman came forward with the

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story on the Merv Griffin show in 1978

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after all the lead-up stories and

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discussion when it was time for the big

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reveal viewers were shown two government

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insiders identified as Falcon and Condor

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with their faces in Shadow and their

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voices electronically altered Pharaoh

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acts as if he's actually talking to

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Falcon but according to scavaria he had

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been recorded in 1983 for a CBS

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60-minute segment that never aired Peter

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executive producer of news for the CBS

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station in Los Angeles states that he

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had met and verified the identity of

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Falcon in 1983 in 1987. there have been

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disagreements as to who these men were

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but Robert Collins stated that he was

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Condor and that Dodie was Falcon in the

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2005 book he and Dodie co-authored with

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exempt from disclosure although Doty is

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continually denied he was Falcon he is

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listed as Falcon in the cast list for

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the show on IMBD and Condor is anonymous

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Dodie as Falcon declares that there is

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one alien guest in the U.S at that time

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as part of an exchange program and that

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1948-49 the first one was held captive

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after a crash in New Mexico and the

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second was also part of an exchange

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program his description is much like

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that of the iconic gray alien he says

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that there are both males and females

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and that they have four fingers with no

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thumbs he says they eat vegetables enjoy

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ancient Tibetan music and that their

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favorite snack back is strawberry ice

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cream because of these and other

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ridiculous statements made throughout

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the show such as Stanton Freeman stating

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that he and his fellow researchers could

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prove that there was a crash at Roswell

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that was covered up and that alien

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bodies were recovered and taken away for

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autopsies there was speculation that the

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government used the show as a

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disinformation vehicle according to

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scavarius Seligman has denied that there

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was any interference from the

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intelligence Community there's a chapter

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in Jim Mosley's 2002 book shockingly

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close to the truth Confessions of a

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grave-robbing ufologist regarding the

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Air Force's UFO policy titled planned

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confusion or pure stupidity as we have

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been trying to stick to the principle of

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parsimony throughout this series if one

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applies that question to UFO cover-up

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live the simplest answer is to be

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preferred thanks to Kirk Collins and

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Kevin Randall for their comments and

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insight