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someone in a recent new york times

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article made the bold claim

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that not only have ufos crashed on earth

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but materials from these crashes

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have been collected and studied by

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unnamed groups

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i'm jason and today we're taking a quick

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look at ufo crash retrievals

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on july 23 2020 the new york times

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published an article titled

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no longer in the shadows pentagon's ufo

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unit will make some findings public

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the article's authors leslie kane and

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ralph blumenthal point out

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that former senate majority leader harry

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reid believes the crashes of objects of

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unknown origin

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may have occurred and that retrieved

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materials should be studied

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reed has mentioned this a couple times

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to klas investigative reporter george

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knapp

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some people say that there are some

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public corporations that have uh

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materials that we should look at now i

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wanted to make sure

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that that was valid or not valid but i

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couldn't get they would

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defense department wouldn't approve it

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the titans article also mentions eric

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davis

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a former pentagon subcontractor who says

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he gave a classified briefing to a

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defense department agency as recently as

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march

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about retrievals from off-world vehicles

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not made on this earth

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davis was contracted by bigelow

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aerospace advanced space studies or bass

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a private organization owned by real

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estate and private space tycoon

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robert bigelow bass received a

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government contract to study

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all sorts of strange things including

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ufos

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back in december 2017 the new york times

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published an article that not only

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revealed this government-funded study

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but also reported that the company

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modified buildings in las vegas for the

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storage of metal alloys

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and other materials that mr elizondo and

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program contractors

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said had been recovered from

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unidentified aerial phenomena

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the mr elizondo mentioned here was also

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mentioned in the july 23 new york times

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article

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this is luis elizondo the former head of

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the pentagon's ufo project

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the advanced aerospace threat

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identification program

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the article says that mr elizondo is

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among a small group of former government

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officials and scientists with security

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clearances who

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without presenting physical proof say

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they are convinced that objects of

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undetermined origin

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have crashed on earth with materials

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retrieved for study

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that government-funded study was put in

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motion by harry reid

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who is a long-time friend of robert

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bigelow

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and the times points out that reid's

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interest in ufos came from mr bigelow

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so you can quickly start to see that a

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lot of these recent claims or recovered

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ufo crashes

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stem from a single source

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robert bigelow's interest in alleged

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alien materials is well documented

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and we know that to the star's academy

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of arts and science is actively engaged

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in

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elizondo

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is currently the director of government

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programs and services at this company

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and chris mellon

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the former deputy assistant secretary of

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defense for intelligence

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serves on the advisory board for ttsa

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millen was asked by cnn recently to

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share his thoughts about eric davis

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i was quoting eric davis i know you're

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familiar with his work when i read that

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that uh new york times paragraph a

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moment ago do you believe that there are

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in our possession broadly defined our

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possession

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that are from something other than this

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what i will say about that is that i

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think that assertion should be taken

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seriously

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um i i'm aware i know eric very well

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um i understand his arguments i was

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present in his briefings on the hill

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and he tried to provide some leads for

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them to follow

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to enable them potentially to confirm

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this

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it is an issue that should be taken

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seriously in the new york times article

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the authors cautiously and responsibly

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added statements like

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in some cases earthly explanations have

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been found for previously unexplained

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incidents

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even lacking a plausible terrestrial

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explanation does not

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make an extraterrestrial one the most

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likely astrophysicists say

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and no crash artifacts have been

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publicly produced for independent

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verification

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some retrieved objects such as unusual

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metallic fragments

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were later identified from laboratory

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studies as man-made

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this is good responsible objective

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journalism on the part of the authors

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but don't misinterpret this as saying

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there's nothing noteworthy to look at

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when it comes to the subject of ufo

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crash retrievals

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also don't think that this is some new

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sexy angle being added to the ufo

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discussion

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crash retrievals have always been part

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of ufo lore the 1947 roswell ufo

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incident

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is a prime example it is just one of so

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so much has been written on crash

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retrievals and it is its own subset of

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ufo research

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it's a really fascinating topic and i

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get into it a bit more

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on this episode of the ufo podcast