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the Air Force has a long-standing

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relationship and interest in

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unidentified flying objects going back

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to 1947 and possibly even earlier

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we're all familiar with Roswell which

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took place in and around July 1947 and

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that's probably one of the more popular

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but it was as early as September 1947

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where we find a memo written by

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Lieutenant General Twining Lieutenant

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General Twining wrote

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it is the opinion that the phenomenon

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reported is something real

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and not Visionary or fictitious so as we

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can see early on in the Air Force's

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investigation of UFOs there is an

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admittance of a reality to the UFOs and

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that they are real and not Visionary or

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fictitious objects were reported to make

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are just not possible to be done by

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humans so after that memo the Air Force

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continued to investigate

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publicly investigate UFOs until

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1969 and all throughout all those

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decades they would get many

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opportunities

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to not only think about but elaborate on

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the phenomenon and be transparent with

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the public

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in the files

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you can find all sorts of cases from

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and all types of different civilians who

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witness things that are undisputably

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bizarre

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some of which are clocked on radar up to

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cited visually

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coordinated with radar tracks all the

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while the Air Force denying that there's

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anything beyond the realm of our

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scientific capabilities that exists and

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that is flying in the sky let alone to

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the conclusions contained in Special

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Report number 14 conclude that it is

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considered to be highly improbable that

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reports of unidentified aerial objects

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examined in this study represent

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observations of technological

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developments outside of the range of

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present-day scientific knowledge

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it is emphasized that there has been a

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complete lack of any valid evidence of

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physical matter in any case ever

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reported unidentified aerial object and

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they would do this time and time again

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and they would also say this in their

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public reports

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they felt a responsibility to address

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the Extraterrestrial hypothesis because

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of public pressure

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and when they did it was always a clear

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answer of no we have no evidence

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or materials

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the Air Force often recovered

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unidentified objects later to be tested

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and found to be of Earth material the

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world would go on living the status quo

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individuals wrapped in the minute

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circumstances of each day is my boss mad

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at me

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I need a new place to live

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my best friend lied to me

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how would some lives have changed if it

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turned out all the wild people knew as a

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that there is another intelligent life

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habitating Miss hurts with us

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masquerading as subtle respected and

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rational humans would continue to have

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encounters and experiences with these

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undetermined they'd go on to live in

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did their human software so to speak

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just have a bug in the system the object

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certainly could have been real as the

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highest Authority in the land denies its

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and they tell myself and people like me

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maybe we really saw a plane maybe our

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because we misidentified a bird

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with an object

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so much so that they mimic objects

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that maneuver in ways not possible

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say about Witnesses is they were just

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when nowhere else in their life have

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the Chicago O'Hare incident they would

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continue on although the Air Force says

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that they don't have evidence of any

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materials that have extraterrestrial

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Air Force was very interested in the

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recovery of objects or debris that is

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associated or was associated with a

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report of an unidentified flying object

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materials laboratory located in

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio was

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to analyze and identify if possible The

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conclusions complete identification was

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either slag or unnaturally occurring

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material so we can see that the Air

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whether it was something that they

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called slag or a balloon or a piece of

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metal you know the Myriad of other

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things that they've collected throughout

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the decades and tested and analyzed

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is of extraterrestrial origin and some

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of that just may be because we don't

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auras and black money the pentagon's

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in the 600 billion annual defense

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department budgets the 22 million spent

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on the advanced Aerospace threat

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identification program was almost

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impossible to find which was how the

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Pentagon wanted it for years the program

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investigated reports of unidentified

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flying objects according to defense

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intelligence official Luis Elizondo on

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the fifth floor of the pentagon's sea

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ring deep within the building's maze

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the defense department has never before

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acknowledged the existence of the

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program which it says it shut down in

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2012 but its backers say that while the

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the time the program remains in

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existence for the past five years they

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continued to investigate episodes

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defense department duties the shadowy

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program parts of it remain classified

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his long had an interest in space

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phenomena most of the money went to an

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aerospace research company run by

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friend of Mr Reed Robert Bigelow who is

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program produced documents that describe

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studied videos of encounters between

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unknown objects and American military

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the size of a commercial plane chased by

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aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of

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San Diego in 2004. Mr Reed who retired

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from Congress this year said he was

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while not addressing the merits of the

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program Sarah Seeger and astrophysicist

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origin of an object does not mean that

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it is from another planet or Galaxy

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when people claim to observe truly

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unusual phenomena sometimes it's worth

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but she added what people sometimes

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have phenomena that remain unexplained

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the noise or even to stirred up as

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acknowledge the existence of the program

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which began as part of the defense

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intelligence agency officials insisted

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that the effort had ended after five

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years in 2012.

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it was determined that there were other

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higher priority issues that merited

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funding and it was in the best interest

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of the dod to make a change a pentagon

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spokesperson Thomas Cresson said in an

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email referring to the Department of

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Defense

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but Mr Elizondo said the only thing that

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had ended was the efforts Government

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funding

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which dried up in 2012.

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from then on Mr Elizondo said in an

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interview he worked with officials from

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the Navy and the CIA

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he continued to work out of his Pentagon

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office until this past October

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when he resigned to protest what he

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characterized as excessive secrecy

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why aren't we spending more time and

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effort on this issue

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Mr Elizondo wrote in a resignation

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letter to defense secretary Jim Mattis

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Mr Elizondo said that the effort

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continued that he had a successor whom

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he declined to name

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UFOs have been repeatedly investigated

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over the decades in the United States

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including by the American Military

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in 1947 the Air Force began a series of

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studies that investigated more than 12

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000 claimed UFO sightings before it was

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officially ended in 1969.

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the project which included a study

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codenamed Project Blue Book

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started in 1952

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concluded that most sightings involve

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Stars clouds conventional aircraft or

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spy planes although 701 remained

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unexplained Robert C Siemens Jr the

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secretary of the Air Force at the time

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said in a memorandum announcing the end

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of Project Blue Book and that it no

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longer can be justified either on the

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ground of National Security

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or in the interest of science

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Mr Reed said his interest in UFOs came

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from Mr Bigelow

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in 2007 Mr Reed said in an interview Mr

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Bigelow told him that an official with

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the defense intelligence agency had

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approached him wanting to visit Mr

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Bigelow's Ranch in Utah where he

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Mr Reed said he met with the agency

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officials shortly after his meeting with

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Mr Bigelow and learned that they wanted

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to start a research program on UFOs Mr

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Reed then summoned Mr Stevens Mr inue to

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I talked to John Glenn a number of years

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before Mr Reed said referring to the

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astronaut and former senator from Ohio

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who died in 2016.

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Mr Glenn Mr Reed said it told him he

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thought the federal government should be

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looking seriously in UFOs and should be

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talking to military service members

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particularly pilots who had reported

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seeing aircraft that they could not

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identify or explain

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the sightings were not often reported up

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the military's chain of command Mr Reed

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said because service members were afraid

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they would be laughed at or stigmatized

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the meeting with Mr Stevens and Mr

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anyway Mr Reed said was one of the

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easiest meetings I ever had

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he added Mr Stevens said I've been

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waiting to do this since I was in the

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Air Force the Alaska Senator had been a

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pilot in the Army Air Force slang

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transport missions over China during

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World War II

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during the meeting Mr Reed said Mr

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Stevens recounted being tailed by

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strange aircraft with no known origin

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which he said had followed his plane for

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miles

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also known as a foo fighter

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none of the three Senators wanted a

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public debate on the senate floor about

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the funding for the program Mr Reed said

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this was so-called black money he said

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Stevens knows about it anyway knows

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about it but that was it and that's how

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we wanted it Mr Reed was referring to

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the Pentagon budget for classified

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programs contracts obtained by the Times

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show Congressional appropriation of just

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under 22 million beginning in late 2008

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through 2011.

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the money was used for management of the

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program research and assessments of the

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threat posed by the objects

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the funding went to Mr Bigelow's company

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Bigelow Aerospace which hired

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subcontractors and solicited research

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what under Mr Bigelow's Direction the

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company modified buildings in Las Vegas

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for the storage of metal alloys and

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other materials that Mr Elizondo and

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program contractors said had been

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recovered from unidentified aerial

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phenomena researchers also studied

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people who said they had experienced

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physical effects from encounters with

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the objects and examine them for any

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in addition researchers spoke to

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military service members who had

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reported sightings of strange aircraft

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were sort of in the position of what

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would happen if he gave Leonardo da

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Vinci a garage door opener

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said Harold e put off an engineer who

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has conducted research on extrasensory

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perception for the CIA and later worked

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as a contractor for the program

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first of all he tried to figure out

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what is this plastic stuff he wouldn't

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know anything about the electromagnetic

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signals involved or its function the

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program collected video and audio

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recordings of reported UFO incidents

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including footage from a Navy fa-18

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Super Hornet

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showing an aircraft surrounded by some

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kind of glowing Aura traveling at high

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speed and rotating as it moves

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the Navy Pilots can be heard trying to

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understand what they're seeing there's a

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whole Fleet of them when exclaims

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defense officials declined to release

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the location and date of the incident

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internationally we are the most backward

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country in the world on this issue Mr

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Bigelow said in an interview

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our scientists are scared of being

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ostracized and our media is scared of

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the stigma

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China and Russia are much more open and

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work on this with huge organizations

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within their countries

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smaller countries like Belgium France

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England and South American countries

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like Chile are more open to

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air proactive and willing to discuss the

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topic rather than be held back by a

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juvenile taboo

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in 2009 Mr Reed decided that the program

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had made such extraordinary discoveries

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that he argued for heightened security

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to protect it

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much progress has been made with the

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identification of several highly

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sensitive unconventional Aerospace

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related findings Mr Reed said in a

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letter to William Lynn III a deputy

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defense secretary at the time requesting

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that it be designated a restricted

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special Access program

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limited to a few listed individuals

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a 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the

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program prepared by its director at the

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time asserted that what was considered

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science fiction is now science fact

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and that the United States was incapable

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of Defending itself against some of the

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Technologies discovered

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Mr Reed's request for the special

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designation was denied

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Mr Elizondo said in his resignation

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letter October 4th

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he said that there was a need for more

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serious attention to the many accounts

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from the Navy and other services of

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unusual aerial systems interfering with

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military weapon platforms and displaying

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he expressed his frustration with the

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limitations placed on the program

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telling Mr Mattis that there remains a

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vital need to ascertain capability and

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intent of these phenomena for the

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benefit of the Armed Forces and the

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Mr Elizondo has now joined Mr putoff in

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another former Defense Department

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official Christopher K Mellon who was a

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deputy assistant secretary of defense

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for intelligence in a new commercial

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Venture called to the Stars Academy of

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Arts and Science

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they're speaking publicly about their

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efforts as their Venture aims to raise

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in the interview Mr Elizondo said

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he and his government colleagues had

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determined that the phenomena that they

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had studied did not seem to originate

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from any country that fact is not

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something any government or institution

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should classify in order to keep secret

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from the people he said for his part Mr

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Reed said he did not know where the

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objects had come from if anyone says

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that they have the answers now they're

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feeling themselves he said

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we do not know

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but he said

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[Music]

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okay

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[Music]

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as I take the stand

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as honestly as I can

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[Music]

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thank you

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as I take the stand

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[Music]

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is

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[Music]

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thank you

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if you don't mind I just actually just

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got a message from Luella zondo a

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statement to read out on the stream if

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you don't mind yeah

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because he can't be here so Sean is that

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okay

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no yeah yeah go ahead

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excuse me I gotta read this in my best

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voice now so this is from Lou he says

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better be good

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okay

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friends

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through Vinnie please allow me to offer

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my sincerest appreciation for all that

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you do you bet on the right horses

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and know that we are not finished

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winning races for you we have only begun

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the next year will be even better and

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greater

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thank you for being you and thank you

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for your support

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onwards until dawn Take No Quarter and

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Savor the moment our Armada has set sail

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and together we are like a hurricane

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Unstoppable

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the study of UFOs is an important and

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fascinating field of research

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first and foremost UFO sightings can

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provide valuable information

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about our own technology and

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capabilities when people report seeing

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strange objects in the sky it prompts

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investigations by government agencies

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and scientists

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and by examining the evidence such as

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photographs or radar data researchers

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can learn more about the physics of

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flight and how to identify natural

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phenomena like weather balloons or

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drones this can lead to improvements in

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aviation safety and a better

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understanding of our planet's atmosphere

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but there's more to UFO sightings than

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just technology

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they can also be a window into human

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psychology and our beliefs about the

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unknown a fascinating example is the

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Phoenix Lights incident of 1997.

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thousands of people in Phoenix Arizona

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reported seeing a triangular formation

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of Lights moving across the sky the

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event was captured on video and became

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one of the most well-documented UFO

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sightings in history

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while some Skeptics suggest it was

576
00:27:54,529 --> 00:27:51,779
simply flares for military exercises

577
00:27:56,690 --> 00:27:54,539
others believe it was a visitation from

578
00:27:59,029 --> 00:27:56,700
a non-human intelligence

579
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overall UFO sightings are important

580
00:28:03,289 --> 00:28:00,720
because they can provide scientific

581
00:28:06,289 --> 00:28:03,299
insights into our technology and

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atmosphere as well as reveal fascinating

583
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details about human psychology and our

584
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beliefs about the unknown

585
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so the next time you look up at the sky

586
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remember there may be more out there

587
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than meets the eye

588
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and that UFO sightings are a reminder of

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our never-ending Quest

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for knowledge about the universe around

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us

592
00:28:31,490 --> 00:28:29,340
so what's the truth where are we headed

593
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now that we're here

594
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will we get some sort of admission from

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the U.S government that there's a

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non-human intelligence that exists

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00:28:44,510 --> 00:28:42,360
is Among Us on this planet as we speak

598
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how will they explain the Decades of

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00:28:50,149 --> 00:28:46,980
denials

600
00:28:52,669 --> 00:28:50,159
how will they unearth information and

601
00:28:54,890 --> 00:28:52,679
data from investigation of years past

602
00:28:57,110 --> 00:28:54,900
that were previously unknown to the

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how will the Department of Defense

604
00:29:04,909 --> 00:29:02,220
continued to hold trust in the American

605
00:29:04,919 --> 00:29:08,450
after such deceit

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should we care

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should we accept the information and

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move on grateful to have it

609
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or should we go backwards

610
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punishing those who kept the truth from

611
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:36,049
well that's not a decision for me but

612
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the truth

613
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is the goal

614
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no I still don't know what the object is

615
00:29:45,649 --> 00:29:42,840
that I saw

616
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:45,659
almost three years ago now

617
00:29:49,549 --> 00:29:47,520
that moved me so much to put me in this

618
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place where I'm making these shows and

619
00:29:52,310 --> 00:29:50,700
clips

620
00:29:55,070 --> 00:29:52,320
and I still don't know what those things

621
00:29:58,610 --> 00:29:56,930
I did not see a ship or an object

622
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although what I saw

623
00:30:03,289 --> 00:30:00,840
I could see

624
00:30:08,450 --> 00:30:03,299
being things that people described as

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00:30:15,409 --> 00:30:12,889
so what was it and will I ever know

626
00:30:17,570 --> 00:30:15,419
are there multiple phenomenons maybe

627
00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:17,580
some the government does know about and

628
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others they do not know about

629
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in which did I see if any

630
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some people would say maybe it was some

631
00:30:33,970 --> 00:30:29,000
sort of initiation

632
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maybe since I noticed the phenomenon the

633
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whatever it is I'm still trying to

634
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figure it out along with you guys thanks

635
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for watching

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