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we got it down to one one Buton that I

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need to push so we're in good we're in

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good

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shape thank

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you um it's um it's wonderful to see

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that science can uh come to grips with

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problems like

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this um you just have to wait 65 years

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which is um what happened to me you can

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see the my my hair was a different color

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at the

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beginning uh it's always um a bit

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nostalgic for me to come back to the

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farm

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here um I spent nearly four years on on

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this campus first in the computation

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Center uh which was a couple of years

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ahead of IBM in system

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development and later at The Institute

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for Plasma

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Research um under Professor Peter

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sturak developing models of the solar

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Corona uh palsar

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energy and unidentified flying

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objects the year was

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1972 and it was already clear at least

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to us that these three Cosmic subjects

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had a a lot in

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say here you see uh President Clinton

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having a private talk with his science

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advisor uh from 93 to 98 Professor Jack

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Gibbons an astrophysicist and atomist

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specialized in the structure of the

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Sun and energy conservation which is

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what got him the

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job he held this prestigious position at

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the time when Mr Lawrence

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Rockefeller well-known supporter of

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American Science and the

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environment strongly suggested to

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President Clinton to remove the secrecy

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and the stigma

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that surrounded the UFO issue in the

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US the problem was a scientific one but

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it was mainly

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political and as we all know the secret

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lifted in February 94 I had the

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opportunity to Listen to Professor

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Gibbons at the annual meeting of the

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American Association for the advancement

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of Science in this city in San

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Francisco where I was part of a panel

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about the use of computer networking and

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the management of crisis in industrial

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environmental

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issues he uh presented Dr Gibbons

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presented the keynote

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address and gracefully two questions

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afterwards um of course uh someone from

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the audience asked him

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how do you advise the president of the

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United States when Mr rockerfeller wants

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him to reveal once and for all the

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reality of unexplained objects in the

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planet's

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neighborhood there were a few laughs in

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audience followed by deep and Silent

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Gibbons picked up the mic and said he

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could not answer in place of the white

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house but he could tell a short story

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that would summarize his personal

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situation and I'll mention that because

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it's now our personal situation here

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it's about an older man who is tired and

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goes home one

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evening in the grass along the way he

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detects an unusual light

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as he gets closer he discovers a

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frog with the odd detail that it wears a

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little lighted Golden

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Crown so he's intrigued by that

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Discovery and he picks up the

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Frog and he's about to put it in his

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him the Frog this was at a Triple A in s

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Francisco in front of all the scientists

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in in the Bay Area okay so the Frog

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explains that in reality she is a young

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very wealthy

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princess changed into a frog by a mean

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magician and all he has to do is to kiss

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her she will become human again they

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will live together in happiness and they

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will have many wonderful

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children the old man pund the situation

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seriously for a while and then he puts

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her in his pocket saying at my age I'd

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rather have a talking

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frog that's funny but it's

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also the most clear explanation I've

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ever heard at the highest

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level regarding the historical status of

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the UFO problem in the United States

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remember this is the advisor the science

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president second thing I have to

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mention is um when I joined this

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wonderful campus uh I I was hired to

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develop a generalized database system

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for the campus and medical school and I

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took the opportunity since I had the

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computer to Implement cataloges of

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1973 and we developed a screen to

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separate the most interesting cases from

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those that were likely to be

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explainable which is the first thing you

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do in science you clean up the

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data um here by the way You' see some of

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the pioneers of this uh discipline uh

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from left to right Dr James Harder

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University of California Berkeley Dr

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NASA Mr Brad Sparks an individual

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researcher uh myself with black

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hair um Dr Bruce makabe from the US Navy

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and uh Professor sturak who is still

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very much alive and lives here in in

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uh in pal

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Alto and he was again the first man who

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initiated UFO research at

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Stanford at the time the um French space

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agency the cnes which by the way is the

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third wealthiest space agency in the

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world they own the Kuru base in uh on

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the Equator so they are the only ones

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who can launch from the equator which is

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obviously a big advantage in launching

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satellites especially heavy satellites

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they launched the cap telescope from

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Kuru um so the cnes had had an interest

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in the same issue and they were talking

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about a useful sample after cleaning the

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data of uh 5% to 10% of the

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cases the remaining ones being explained

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are too poor in um in terms of

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content as we all know thanks to thanks

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to the efforts of the cnes the

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percentage has now fallen to 2% of the

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data that's valuable data for

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scientists um after deeper analysis of

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exceptional Optical effects um

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observation errors and the influence of

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imagination back here in California our

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group um included a a retired army

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officer about 1943 he told us he used to

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charge um of surveying and detecting

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the United States in the general area of

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Massachusetts his unit had studied the

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complexity of

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statistics and he strongly disagreed

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with us he strongly stated that

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ethologist had the problem

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backward in his position if 2% of the

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reported cases turned out to be German

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indeed for the United States therefore

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he encouraged me to apply to UFOs the

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same discipline that the Army had

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applied to the detection of enomy

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Atlantic that changed a lot of things

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me he told me something like this you're

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doing scientific research therefore if

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you have explained 98% of the reports

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happy um they all Co cost the same

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amount pretty much and you believe you

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solve the problem and if you remember

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from many years during Project Blue Book

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the Air Force was sending report to

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Congress saying again this year we have

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explained all but 2% of all the reports

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coming from the American people and

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everybody applauded and everybody went

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else he said my own job was Intelligence

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my problem was exactly the reverse of

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yours the 98% EXP cleanable cases have

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probably been given to me by the

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same the remaining 2% could kill me and

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they will cost a lot

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more and detecting them you know is

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going to be difficult that's where we

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are I never forgot that

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lesson When government services

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announced today that the great majority

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of of the reports are

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explained as we saw recently from before

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Congress that simply means for an

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information guy like

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me that the input is very poorly

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2% my third thing I need to get

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into is this in the day when Madame

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curri was trying to characterize the

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pitch blend which is a completely

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material she only obtained one tenth of

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a gram of radium chloride for several

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prize this scientific and strategic

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issue posed by UFOs cannot be left

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unanswered

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indefinitely not only are ordinary

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citizens reporting personal observations

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parameters but since the last few years

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systems that enable correlations as we

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and the surface of our planet that

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situation it's no longer possible to

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services of the cnes um can now

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correlate witness observations with

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precise weather measurements at the time

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system the same is true in the us as we

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minutes and hours allowing very precise

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and this the only one that has a a curve

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uh a graph so after all this is Stanford

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know after what Dr Nolan showed you know

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was kind of overwhelming so this is not

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overwhelming but it's interesting

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why is it uh that the phenomenon remains

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so mysterious 65 years for much of the

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public and even for the

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Pentagon um I'm I'm not breaching any

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security here but I'm pretty sure that

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the Pentagon has no idea what's really

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going on at the big at at the scale that

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here um the answer Li in a very

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statistical effect that you can see here

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that's very often

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neglected um the graph can be read in

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the following way the probability that

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an observer will be

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motivated after to get to get a report

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somebody has to have a motivation to

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send a report to you okay we assume

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people will always do that because they

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want their name in the paper and so on

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that's not true and

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the the probability that the Observer is

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going to be motivated to send this

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report depends on the strangeness of the

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experience which is the horizontal scale

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here and this is somewhat arbitrary I

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mean admittedly I made it up but uh it's

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you know it will correlate with your

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data if you if you try you may have a

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different

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scale um the strangeness is defined a

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graph represented with two steep hills

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not one there isn't one distribution

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there are at least two

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distributions which is a mistake that

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we're making when we go testify before

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Congress there are two different

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distributions and they are very very

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very

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different in strangeness category one

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the witness may have observed an unusual

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light in the

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sky or at at a ground level which

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behaved in some curious way it's

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unlikely they would call authorities but

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the sighting may become known especially

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very is an unusual physiological

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reaction at the same time or some other

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incident you would find those in the

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files of the Air Force uh which I spent

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four years going through one by

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one in the old

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days uh in Stranges category two the

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object is better defined like a luminous

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body

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with complex shapes or

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displacement uh We've mentioned some of

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them you know this morning or a sphere

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in the sky that appears to fly Against

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the

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Wind um sometimes it's a definite silent

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steady light that was extinguished

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suddenly and therefore couldn't have

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been an artificial

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satellite well um those cases go to

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official organizations that are trusted

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I've assumed that maybe three people out

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of 10 would report something if it was

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in some ways touching them

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personally for for example if they had

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some reaction to it uh in my early days

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at Paris Observatory we were responsible

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as public servants for answering and

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trying to explain reports that the

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French people were sending us um and we

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had to do that because artificial

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satellites were going to be very

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important and there was a a tremendous

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education program to do with the

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population many people thought it was uh

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uh Soviet propaganda and there was no

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such thing me you look at the sky you

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don't see a

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satellite most of the

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time um so we uh we were assigned during

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the day during the night we would

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observe and during the day we would

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answer letters from people uh um and

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um uh some of those remained unexplained

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the the satellite that dis disappears

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right in the middle of the sky is simply

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because it went into the the the shade

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of the earth know the cone of of the

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shade of the earth people don't know

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that so they see a light that goes like

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this and po it disappears which seems

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mysterious uh those things are

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explainable and people are very grateful

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when you explain

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that um Everything Changes in category

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three the motivation is urgent people

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will call the Air Force they will call

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the army they will call the the police

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uh like an orange Globe has followed

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your car on some isolated Road a

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luminous object like an airplane on fire

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seems to have crashed behind the next

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Hill

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um the life has been diving on an

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isolated car and the engine died at the

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same time a flotilla of Lights has

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slowly slowly crossed the sky leaving a

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trail or a flying cylinder With No Wings

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carrier the public is troubled by these

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observations so are the people on the

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aircraft carrier uh which don't have an

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immediate explanation

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we find them in police reports and in

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previous cases they may be explainable

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but they fill the official files and

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often end up in the records of concerned

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agency like the CNAs in France or a

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local Airbase in the US or now the

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Pentagon if any

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uh they some fall to civilian

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Services uh military unit on radar

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stations investigators review the data

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talk to Pilots talk to technical U

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organizations in the area so that's the

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Black Hill you see a report number one

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report number two report number three so

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on if an object overcomes a car and

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lands on the road ahead of

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you and then takes off again we're in

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strangeness category

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4 the report May not go to the Air Force

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it might go to the local police

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probably um and in many cases it goes to

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a local journalist you know or to an

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independent researcher or in most cases

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there is no

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report because you're afraid that people

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will make fun of you or the reputation

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of your company will be you know you

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would be surprised the number of CEOs

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within 10 months of Stanford um you know

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who know me as a venture capitalist have

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come to me to talk to me about something

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like this was never

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reported in strous Category 5 um

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everything becomes even more scary the

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probability of any official report is

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almost zero perhaps a creature has come

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out of the object that was in front of

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your car perhaps a witness is felt a

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form of communication with whatever it

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was or even a physiological reaction

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ction such as temporary paralysis we

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have many cases of that

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hundreds such cases have filled my files

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over the years and I don't need

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permission of Congress to study them I

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just call the guy and you know if I'm

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lucky gives me a cup of coffee and and

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we talk about his experience I mean

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there is no official

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anything experienced ethologist will

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tell you there's a category six six and

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a category

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seven the red curve again that are very

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seldom considered by the police the army

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or the serious news

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organizations uh because um they are

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weird and they're also high in number

436
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and rich in content no witness wants to

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be exposed as a crazy person by some

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scientist journalist or law officer yet

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these reports are often correlated to

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physical observations that are quite

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real category 7 one would Place reports

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of what people have called deductions

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for lack of a better term and the

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probability of an official report is

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very

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low one is back to what sociologist

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Pierre lrange in France has called the

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rumor there is a rumor about these

449
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things it's difficult to pinpoint

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specific cases

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and even that assumes that the

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unconscious mind has reported it to the

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mind and hypnosis is not going to get

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you

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there contrary to what my friends in

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euphology

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believe so there are two conclusions

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that can be drawn from our curve with

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the two

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hills a current analysis methods are

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insufficient even blind before most of

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the reports and those reports themselves

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derive from an unknown and large number

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of observations by the public because

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this is out of 10 observations and I've

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just estimated the height of the curve

467
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that is a report be military analysis

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are highly relevant they teach us a lot

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but only in a minority of sightings in

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the United

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States namely the classic cases

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available to very specialized equipment

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like aboard limits or the ship that

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followed the limits when we're told that

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2% or 3% of the cases remain un

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explained after serious study you must

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relate these figures to the estimated

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number of observations that were not

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reported and you have to ask why were

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they not reported how many are

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there

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the official services do work on an

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important sample but it's limited by

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severe selection parameters which

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restrict the scope of their conclusions

486
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a situation which is well understood by

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modern science in practice in medicine

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for example you would never release a

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new drug that had only been tested on a

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small statistical sample in one

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country I see a serious danger in any

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future response to the phenomenon based

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on media

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Revelations or on a social disclosure

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attempt there are many definitions of

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disclosure that would present it as a

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grave and present danger without due

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attention to the more subtle

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categories in our data

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space it it has to be a danger if you

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are looking for fun from the military I

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mean that's what they deal with if it's

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not dangerous they'll cut your funding

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which is which occasionally

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happens to us uh it is true that uh we

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suffer from almost a century of neglect

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and

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ignorance but this um will not be uh

509
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correlated by or corrected by

510
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overreacting to the present or potential

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danger that our own ignorance has

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created nor will it be corrected by

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simply dumping all the files into some

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AI engine uh my PhD is in AI 1968

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Northwestern uh AI has been along all

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all the time it's in factories it's in

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your car it's everywhere what the AI

518
00:27:27,310 --> 00:27:22,840
that people are talking about now is the

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latest the latest version uh of of AI

520
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which is which faces the

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public everything else works I

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mean uh but it doesn't work on files

523
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where you cannot even Define what the

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problem

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is we need to do we need to apply AI at

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the at the level where we have already

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done serious

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investigation with boots on the ground

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to clean up the

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sample the real solution lies in the

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more subtle data categories those we

532
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have neglected all along five six and

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seven and in the future um that's where

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I want to spend most of my

535
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time in conclusion uh trying to separate

536
00:28:22,029 --> 00:28:18,279
science from the evolution of society

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00:28:24,590 --> 00:28:22,039
has always been a fudal

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exercise early in this presentation we

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noted that the probability of a UFO

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or UAP maybe report varied with

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strangeness it's highest when the case

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is clearly

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abnormal and observed under good

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conditions but doesn't threaten the

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witness's emotional stability in

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contrast the strange observations those

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of their Highest Potential scientific

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interest only reach official Services by

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accident and I are difficult to analyze

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and poorly

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socialized we don't have a good enough

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00:29:08,269 --> 00:29:05,640
picture of their Global characteristics

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00:29:10,630 --> 00:29:08,279
we know the us we know France you know

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what do we know about India what do we

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know about

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Afghanistan we don't have a good enough

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00:29:19,269 --> 00:29:16,480
picture and we cannot obtain it by

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looking at the official records secret

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or

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not among concerned Services military

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authorities are in a position that is

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better defined

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but more isolated from the deeper social

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reality their equipment provides the

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best quality of technical data but it

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only addresses specific domains that

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don't reveal the global picture that we

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need in particular they treat any

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anomaly as a Potential

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Threat to be extinguished rather than an

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opportunity to be observed analyzed and

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recorded

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the Ron Corporation wrote a very

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interesting memo which was not classifi

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to the US Navy after the episode of the

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limits and I will paraphrase what they

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said they said do not ascribe to our

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infrared cameras what they what they

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cannot tell you everybody has assumed

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those were photographs those are not

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photographs those are a detection of a

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heat resp PS okay it's those are

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infrared cameras they are very large

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under the wing of the aircraft and they

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are they can track uh the

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target what you bought from us was a

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specific system that you asked for as to

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develop that records a heat signature of

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the engines of an enemy airplane you're

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going to

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attack we didn't sell you a UFO detector

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O the real danger lies in the lack of a

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wider research

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program one fun more fundamental and

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more accessible addressing the life

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sciences and social realities as well as

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physical performance and Military

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threats beyond the justifiable

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protection of of a few secret projects

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the time has come for major countries

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not just one to open the real files

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widely to the scientific Community thank