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the u.s government is creating a new

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task force to investigate ufo sightings

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it comes just months after the pentagon

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declassified three videos captured by

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navy pilots showing unidentified flying

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objects

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it's exciting news for ryan spregg who

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has spent years interviewing people

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who've had encounters with ufos

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earlier today i spoke to him about what

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he thinks the task force could uncover

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brian sprague thank you for joining the

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latest the fact that the us government

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created a new ufo

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task force does this mean they know more

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than we think

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that's a very good question uh that's

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what we're hoping for

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and the fact that we live in a world now

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where the us government and hopefully

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other governments

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are looking at this topic seriously and

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investigating it

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uh in a official capacity is more than

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we could ever ask for so

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i do believe there are some things that

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will remain classified

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but i think the public is going to be

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led on to a lot more in the coming

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coming months so what do you think they

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are hoping to discover

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with this task force i think what

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they're hoping to discover with this

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is uh possible threats or incursions i

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mean this is what

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our government does they protect their

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nations and they want to know if there's

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things in our skies that

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are most sophisticated pilots and

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aircraft uh

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are being outmaneuvered by uh that's a

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problem so i do think this is a safety

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issue a national security issue

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and uh hey if it turns out to be aliens

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uh all the more better for us ufo

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researchers out there but

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end of the day i do think this is a

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national security issue

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more than anything how has the world's

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understanding of ufos changed

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over the past year the past few years

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the perception of the ufo topic has

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changed

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dramatically you know for 70 plus years

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it was filled with stigma and ridicule

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and little green men in flying saucers

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now that the governments around the

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world are taking it seriously

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that says something so the entire

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landscape of this conversation

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has changed and i think we're going to

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see a lot more of that as time goes on

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that

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something's happening in our skies and

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we cannot explain it

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so let's talk about your latest book

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what made you focus

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on individuals who've had ufo

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experiences

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so for me uh you know the us government

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and other governments are looking at

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military ufo cases that military pilots

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and people on the ground have reported

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for every one of these military ufo

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encounters there's a hundred civilians

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from all over the world who report

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seeing these things

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so i wanted to focus on those

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individuals give them a voice

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show the world that everyday people are

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having these experiences

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including an entire chapter dedicated to

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an individual in sydney australia

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so i mean this is this touches a deeply

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personal level for people all over the

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world

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and i'm excited to have the opportunity

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to bring these stories to the public

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that have never been made public before

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how did you find these people

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uh the age of the internet i mean a lot

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of people

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reached out to me i reached out to a lot

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of people there are

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civilian ufo research groups all over

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the world that are connected

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through facebook through twitter and we

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all talk and we all

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are sharing information so it uh it

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really depends but yeah most of it has

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to do with social media

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in the age we live in so can you see a

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pattern in

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people's experiences

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i would say the biggest pattern i've

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come across in terms of people's

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experiences is how the event affected

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their lives

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you know we could have the same similar

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shape of an object these people have

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or uh you know a location where it

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human the individual having the

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and how it changes their lives and for

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some it's a spiritual

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experience for some uh it's a

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otherworldly experience

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and that's what i found most interesting

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is these patterns within

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society and culture and how those

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affect what people are seeing in their

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perception of what they're seeing

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so what sort of percentage of people do

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you think see an object and think that's

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don't know what that is compared to

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people who are convinced

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it's aliens that's a very good question

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i mean my first question when people

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come to me with the ufo report is

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were you into ufos before this did you

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believe in aliens

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and have they visited our planet and i

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probably the majority of people said no

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i had no interest in this

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i've never watched anything about ufos

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so for me i think the percentage really

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individuals no preconceived notions of

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what they were seeing

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and coming out on the other side

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believing we're not alone

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so skeptics would look at this and think

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person who'll believe in a ufo

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did you find that is there a certain

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type of person

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witnesses we all have these ideas of

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these experiences they've maybe had a

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too many beers but this is not the case

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law enforcement news reporters everyone

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you can possibly think of your barista

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these are the people having these

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experiences and being dramatically

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changed by them

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so you've had a ufo experience

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and i was terrified of what i saw i

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could not explain it

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my father witnessed this with me he

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could not explain it

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and it terrified me and it kind of sent

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me on this path to try to find answers

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what do you think it was i believe what

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i saw this was back in the mid 90s was

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some sort of top secret

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military aircraft but i cannot be

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so the possibility remains open was it

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was it from another planet possibly uh

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find that answer but for me it's more

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about the journey than i guess the final

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so are you a believer in something else

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being out there

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or you're on the fence i'm a skeptic

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believer i am definitely a skeptic

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believer when it comes to this topic uh

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i will go in believing until i'm proven

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or i'm proven differently so i remain

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i know there's life out there somewhere

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it's a matter of has it visited our

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planet and that's what we're trying to

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figure out and that's what our

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governments are trying to figure out so

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i look forward to whatever comes next

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you said you've looked into ufo cases in

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there are two

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cases in australia that i've

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specifically looked at

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one was back in the 70s with a family

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the knolls family who were traveling

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through perth

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and they actually while they were on the

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road a ufo

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came down and landed on the roof of

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their car and lifted their car

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off of the road and every member of the

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family had the same story to tell

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there were uh you know the tires blew

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something happened and there were other

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witnesses to this as well

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so this is a very dramatic case out of

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uh the other one happened in the mid 90s

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in sydney with a gentleman who's had

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lifelong ufo experiences he even invited

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news reporters and investigators to come

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all of these people had ufo sightings

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so talk about changing your life this

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guy is being followed by ufos

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every waking moment so it's really

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interesting and i will say some of our

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best cases come

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out of australia and do you believe all

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believe what they saw that's that's as

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far as i can go in terms of saying that