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UAP is the trendy way to refer to UFOs

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and although it's routinely presented as

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new terminology the US military has been

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idiomatically

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hello citizens and welcome to UFO UAP

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WTF I'm your host Jason MccLellan and

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together we'll be exploring the

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fascinating enigmatic and frustrating

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subject of UFOs

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although the initialism UAP has recently

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been modified by the United States

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Department of Defense to mean

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unidentified anomalous phenomena most

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people who have heard about UAP before

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know it as unidentified aerial phenomena

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in recent years many media outlets and

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UFO researchers alike have been

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enthusiastically presenting UAP as the

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new term of Choice by the U.S government

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when referring to UFOs that's not

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entirely accurate in fact the US

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military was using unidentified aerial

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phenomena terminology before they used

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let's spend some time together today

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looking back in time to explore this UAP

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jargon

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on March 24th 2016 Hillary Clinton

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former first lady of the United States

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and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013

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appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as part of

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a media tour for her presidential

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during the interview Kimmel brought up

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the topic of UFOs as he frequently does

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President Clinton on this show he said I

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asked him about UFOs in Area 51 and if

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you if you looked in because if I was

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president if that's the first thing I do

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I go right into those files and see what

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was going on right and he said that he

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did do that yes and that he didn't find

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anything well I'm gonna

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I'm gonna do it again yeah why not right

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and and you know there's a new name it's

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unexplained aerial phenomenon

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unexplained aerial phenomena really yep

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UAP that's the latest nomenclature close

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as we just covered UAP is an initialism

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that has largely stood for unidentified

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aerial phenomena

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but it was around that time back in 2015

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and 2016 when UAP started picking up

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momentum and becoming the trendy way to

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refer to UFOs Nick Pope who worked for

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the United Kingdom's Ministry of defense

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and dealt with UFO reports for the mod

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from 1991 to 1994 was someone who around

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that time was notably happy to promote

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this trend and even kind of took credit

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for the terminology from an mod

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perspective to some extent the British

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government requested an intelligence

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assessment of the UFO situation in the

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late 1990s this effort was named project

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University of Colorado's UFO study that

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was funded by the United States Air

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the Condon committee the mod's project

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c-o-n-d-i-g-n not c-o-n-d-o-n anyway

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project content examined many of the

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sightings investigated by the mod over a

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30-year period the report produced by

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project content in 2000 was titled

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aerial phenomena terminology here was

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quite intentional and strategic Nick

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Pope explains quote This was done to

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issue and to escape any pop culture

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baggage associated with the former term

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obviously referring to UFOs here

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the United States Air Force offers a

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similar perspective on the website for

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The Air Force's declassification office

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it explains quote some investigators now

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avoid the confusion and speculative

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to UFO end quote Pope adds quote it was

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nature both these points were adopted by

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the mod influence can be demonstrated

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the novel military applications that the

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exotic science and materials to change

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stars and that company is still around

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and they've got some pretty cool

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projects in the works several of which

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I'm sure we'll see release this year but

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back to Lou Elizondo in 2017 Elizondo

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attention on three DOD UFO videos that

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were reportedly investigated by atip

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the fact that they were recorded by Navy

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fighter jet systems Amplified the

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interest in these videos by people and

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media outlets around the world

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they also prompted journalists and UFO

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researchers to request official

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statements from the government related

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to these videos these requests were

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successful and the response included

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statements about UAP

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on September 11 2019 researcher John

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website theblackvault.com titled U.S

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acknowledged encounters with phenomena

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the three encounters referenced here are

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those shown in the aforementioned videos

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Joseph grandeshire the official

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videos commenting that quote the Navy

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receiving a similar statement from

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controlled training ranges in quote

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the media Buzz generated by these videos

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featuring this new terminology for UFOs

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anybody interested in the UFO subject

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today is likely familiar with this term

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use of UAP by the military and the media

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but let's look at older uses of this

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phrasing

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back in 1980 Dr Richard Haynes a UFO

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researcher and former NASA research

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scientist provided this description in

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his book observing UFOs and

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investigative handbook

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flight dynamics of which do not suggest

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if one is possible end quote Haynes is a

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when this research organization was

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UAP terminology because they quote felt

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phenomena such of which are described as

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lights rather than objects and had not

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been co-opted by the UFO Community as

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of this organization because Coral

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against them still the group opted for

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aerial phenomena also known as nightcap

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let's see what other early examples of

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an article titled flying saucers turn up

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on Air Force doorstep appeared in the

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a section in the article is titled

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was controlled in Flight by some means

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member of an Air Force committee which

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has studied Flying Saucer reports said

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the object may have been a balloon or of

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astronomical origin he did not see it

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since the USAF closed its book on the

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name a few end quote

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here's an article titled quote Air Force

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joke end quote which appeared in the

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this article mentions the Kenneth Arnold

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then explains quote his report set off a

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Celestial chain reaction and launched

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project saucers at Wright-Patterson to

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probe unidentified aerial phenomena end

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quote

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this article mentions other reported UFO

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encounters from Pilots then concludes by

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saying quote it was because of the

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reports from such Pilots that the Air

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Force is continuing the investigation

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into unidentified aerial phenomena end

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quote

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an article titled Flying Saucer is still

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a mystery appeared in the June 19 1949

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edition of the Philadelphia Enquirer

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a line in this article States quote a

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few months after the first flying discs

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had been cited the United States Air

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Force set up a special project to gather

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data on each report of unidentified

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aerial phenomena end quote

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the Los Angeles Times published a story

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on December 7 1952 titled science used

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on reports of Sky saucers

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if that sounds remarkably similar to

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current headlines about UFOs just wait

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the article States quote no orders have

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been issued by the Air Defense command

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to its fighter units to fire on

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unidentified aerial phenomena end quote

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it concludes quote the Air Force has

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stated in the past and reaffirms at the

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present time that these unidentified

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aerial phenomena are not a secret weapon

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missile or aircraft developed by the

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United States end quote

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it's interesting to note that both these

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statements are nearly identical to

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recent statements provided by the

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Pentagon

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here's another one that sounds similar

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to recent UFO headlines in August 1st

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1952 edition of the Ogden Standard

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Examiner includes an article titled

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photograph shows four round objects with

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shafts of light in v formation

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the article explains quote Coast Guard

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headquarters today made public a

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photograph of unidentified aerial

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phenomena taken by a 21 year old Coast

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Guard photographer end quote it

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continues quote the Coast Guard said it

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had no opinion as to the cause or source

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of the objects and was releasing the

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picture only because of the widespread

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public interest in aerial phenomena end

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quote

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Air Force released a long list of

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Statistics revealing it had received 432

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written reports on sightings of

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unidentified aerial phenomena so far

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this year end quote

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definitely a few interesting parallels

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in that article to what we've seen

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reported in recent years

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let's do one more

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this one's kind of interesting the

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Sunday News newspaper from Lancaster

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Pennsylvania published a story on

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February 1st 1953 titled Air Force

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trying for photo of flying saucers in

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area

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it states quote the Air Force is going

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to try and take a picture of a flying

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saucer

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special cameras have been designed to

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photograph the mysterious discs in

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flight

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the Air Force has ordered 100 of these

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cameras

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and a pentagon official has told the

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Sunday news representative that one will

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undoubtedly be put in operation in this

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area probably either at Olmsted Air

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Force Base in Middletown or Newcastle

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airport the news adds a sobering note to

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the sometimes hilarious Flying Saucer

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stories though the Air Force prefers to

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call them unidentified aerial phenomena

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they'll still be flying saucers or discs

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to the average citizen end quote

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I wonder whatever became of those

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special UFO cameras

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moving beyond newspaper articles there's

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documentation showing that the US

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military was using UAP terminology in

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the 1940s at the onset of its UFO

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investigations

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there are incident reports used by the

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air force during that time with a

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statement to the submitter stating quote

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your contribution has been made a matter

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of record and is being incorporated into

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our present study of unidentified aerial

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phenomena end quote

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in the 1950s the U.S Air Force's project

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Grudge UFO study was headquartered at

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the air technical Intelligence Center at

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in

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Dayton Ohio

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and the Personnel involved with this

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project were part of a special group

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Within atic

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Edward repelled who was the director of

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project Grudge at the time explained

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that quote by March 1952 project Grudge

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was no longer just a project within a

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group we had become a separate

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organization with the formal title of

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the aerial phenomena group end quote

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even before that this phenomena

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terminology was present in a famed

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letter sent on September 23 1947 from

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the chief of the atic to the Commanding

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General of the then Army Air Forces in

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response to a request to conduct a

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preliminary study of UFO citing reports

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a line in this letter announces quote

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the phenomenon is something real and not

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Visionary or fictitious end quote

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quick historical look at UAP

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are you somebody who has adopted this

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terminology to replace UFO

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is there a correct or preferred term to

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use when talking about UFOs

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there's a seemingly endless list of

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terms that have been and still are used

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by various parties when referring to

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UFOs

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although UAP is presently the term of

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choice for the government and many UFO

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researchers alike

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your personal preference obviously

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dictates the terminology you choose to

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use when talking and writing about UFOs

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but for those who opt for something

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other than the tried and true UFO they

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typically find themselves needing to

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follow up with a clarifying statement

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like UAP you know UFOs

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it always comes back to UFOs because

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people are familiar with that they know

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what that is

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interestingly this same necessity for

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clarification was also present when the

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term UFO was introduced by the military

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and intended for use in place of flying

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saucer

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in his book the report on unidentified

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flying objects Captain repelled explains

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that one situation where the Air Force

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would still use Flying Saucer was quote

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in an explanatory sense

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as when briefing people who are

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unacquainted with the term UFO

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UFO you know flying saucers end quote

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another illustration from that time

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period is coral laurenson from the

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aerial phenomena research organization

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as previously mentioned although she

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reportedly disliked the term Flying

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Saucer and opted for aerial phenomena in

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the name of a group she still used

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Flying Saucer and UFO and the title

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separate books because the general

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public and popular culture was more

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familiar with both of those terms than

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it was with aerial phenomena

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so which term is the correct one to use

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again this is completely up to your

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personal preference

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many UFO researchers currently prefer

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UAP because this broad term encompasses

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more than just objects in the sky

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weird lights or orbs atmospheric

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disturbances and other strange aerial

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phenomena aren't necessarily objects so

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UAP is more all-encompassing

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there's also the previously mentioned

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pop culture baggage that comes with the

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term UFO for example UFOs equals aliens

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advocates for UFOs being taken seriously

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tend to prefer the UAP term to avoid the

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ridicule and pop culture Association

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tied to UFO that being said I'm firmly

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on team UFO

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I guess that when I talk or write about

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strange things in the sky I'm talking

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about an object the large majority of

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the time so UFO meets my needs if there

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happens to be something I'm discussing

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that doesn't fit the object descriptor

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then it's unlikely I'd call it a UFO

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for example if there were something

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floating in the sky that resembled a

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ghostly Apparition it wouldn't

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necessarily call it a UFO

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and as I mentioned everything eventually

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comes back to UFO anyway if I ever use

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the term UAP it's necessary to follow up

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with you know UFOs in order for the

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broadest audience possible to understand

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what I'm talking about

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so just sticking with UFO saves me that

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extra explanation step

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but another significant element that

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puts me in the UFO Camp is an issue of

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plurality that is just too grating for

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me to entertain

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the letter P in UAP which if you're

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paying attention stands for phenomena is

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already plural making it convenient for

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broadly speaking about a wide range of

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varying phenomena in the sky

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however when using this initialism to

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refer to a specific UFO case or a

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specific object in the sky UAP just

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doesn't work

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grammatical nightmares quickly emerge

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when you attempt to discuss details of a

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case when you're talking about a single

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UFO but referring to it as something

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plural

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adding vagueness and grammatical flaws

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aren't really conducive to intelligent

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conversations especially as it pertains

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to discussions about a ridicule topic

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like UFOs

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so for me it has been and always will be

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UFO

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you use the term that works for you

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though it's completely up to you

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with that my friends is our exploration

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of the term UAP I hope you learned

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something I'm glad we could walk through

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that together and hey if there's a case

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or topic you'd like to have featured or

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addressed on a future episode a general

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comment or anything else I'd love to

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hear it I'm easy to reach you can always

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contact me on Twitter at acentric that's

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a-c-e-c-e-n-t-r-i-c or shoot me an email

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