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and this is weapons

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let's talk a second about the CIA thing

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because this is hilarious and I want to

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tell the audience about my favorite UFO

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documentary of all time the only UFO

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documentary completely funded and

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produced by the CIA it was narrated by

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Rod Serling who is the the voice of The

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Twilight Zone I mean just the greatest

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ever and it was in response to a

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previous uh documentary where they were

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kind of uh pushing down the UFO topic

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being negative trying to dismiss people

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this documentary is called UFOs past

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present and future and it is an

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excellent documentary narrated by Rod

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Sterling that I actually have a link for

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what we'll post it for people it is so

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cool it's like an apology video right a

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couple other things though is that I've

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talked to people who have flown these

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planes out of Area 51 in these secret

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programs and I know for sure that the

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first testing of these planes that were

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supposed to be the highest ever the

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highest flying planes ever at the time

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that they had objects UFOs unknowns

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above them when they did their first

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test flights so somebody's got attack

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that is better than ours now the first

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time you put me in coach I can't believe

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you trusted me oh my God my beard was

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probably way too long for the insanity

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going on in my brain but you had me out

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you had me out sorry I came out with my

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camera first row at the Atomic Testing

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Museum and you were interviewing on

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stage uh the chief scientist for the CIA

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out at Area 51 and the the head

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historian for the CIA out of there if

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you want and they were just going to

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talk about area 51. so here comes the

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bearded guy always holding the camera

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and you didn't really know if I was a

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loose Candy net now you know I'm a loose

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candy yeah it's confirmed yeah confirmed

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so uh so I was sitting there thinking oh

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man please raise my hand will George

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call on me I got a question to ask and I

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think I asked him like three questions

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and it was very specific are you aware

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as the lead historian at robarge is his

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last name are you aware as a lead

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historian that the CIA funded and

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produced a documentary called UFO's past

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present and future and he was like I

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don't have knowledge of that but then I

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asked him about site four

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and man it was I think it was genuinely

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like they weren't maybe they didn't know

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but it looked Shady they were like

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Whispering back and forth and like so it

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was just cool to be able to ask them

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specifically and they they couldn't

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confirm they had no specific knowledge

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but that was so funny because I couldn't

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believe you called I mean thank you for

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that thank you and and being able to ask

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them directly that was a big moment for

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me to be able to film that just sitting

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my name is George Knapp I'm a journalist

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at klas and unlike this these guys here

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my connection to the topic of Area 51 is

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a little more tenuous I have never been

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inside the place I will never be allowed

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to get inside the place uh but I'll tell

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you I've been writing about it since

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1985. I've spent I haven't been inside

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but I've spent more days and nights

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outside Hearing in than you can ever you

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can imagine trying to dodge security and

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coyotes and whatever else is out there

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and uh you know when I die I'm sure that

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this will be somehow Area 51 will be

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part of my uh obituary along with Tales

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of various debauchery and other things

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like that

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um this is a panel of Extraordinary

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People United by their interested and

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involvement with the most extraordinary

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places we all know a place that you know

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it's sort of a contradiction in terms

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that is the world's best known secret

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military base

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um kind of the rock star of the Off the

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Grid testing facilities It's A Place

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With No Name and a place with a whole

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lot of needs you know uh Paradise Ranch

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the Box a Watertown area 51 Dreamland or

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the current official name very catchy in

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my opinion an operating location near

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Groom Lake but put that on a bumper

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sticker or a t-shirt Area 51 as we all

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know has been shrouded in secrecy uh

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some would argue too much secrecy and

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the cone of silence that was sort of

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dropped over the base at least for a

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while has been a contributing factor to

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all kinds of wild stories that have

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cropped up most of which I have reported

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at one time or another so tonight we'll

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talk about secrecy a little bit how and

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why secrets are kept

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about some of the steps that are taken

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to ensure that secrets were and still

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aren't being kept and we'll talk about

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the steps that have been taken to lift

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the veil to allow the public to finally

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we did not talk about a lot of things it

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went on during that period but during

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that period

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Technology based on Spain and

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so on was the most advanced r d effort

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I really appreciate you guys coming

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forward and talking about all this it's

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fascinating so as one of the highest

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ranking CIA officials out at Area 51

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during a very exciting time it sounds

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like are you aware of a facility or

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facilities on or near Nellis range

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designated S4 past present or future

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thank you

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ever heard of an S4 at Tonopah there is

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a size 4 a tonify test range which by

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the way tone of our test branch is

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listed in some of the Department of

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energy phone books as area 52. so that

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that would explain the public

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acknowledgment from uh information

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officer in 1989 when a well-known

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journalist called and asked about a

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facility called S4 they were probably

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referring to the one in Tonopah most

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likely and are there multiple or single

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s scores that any of you are aware of we

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had a side four that where we parked our

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Soviet thank you very much fascinating

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so the last question is for Dr robarge

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um just that personal curiosity I get to

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ask the you know weird questions

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so as the chief historians and CIA are

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you aware of in 1971 the Department of

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Defense asked for produced and publicly

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funded a feature film titled UFO's past

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present and future uh where it was

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admitted on camera by high-ranking

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officials in the military that UFOs as

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far as they could tell were of

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non-terrestrial origin are you aware of

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that film and the funding of it by the

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Department of Defense in 1971. no I'm

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afraid not it's uh it would have no CIA

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equity in it so the CIA is no longer

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studying the UFO phenomenon or they are

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they're not officially right now

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studying the UFO phenomena

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thank you

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else

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Secrets can be kept right

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we hear this Washington leaks like a

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sieve there's no such thing as a secret

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Secrets can be kept can't

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confirm or deny that we keep any secrets

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okay everybody