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what I'm about to tell you is about an

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event that never happened I used to tell

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the people before when we get done was

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it's one of these things that says who

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you going to believe your lying eyes or

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the government I'm John Callahan I was

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the vision chief of the accidents

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valuations an investigation division of

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the FAA in Washington for six years

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during the 1980s in early January 1987 i

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received a call from the air traffic

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quality control branch in the FAA's

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Alaskan region office they were

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requesting guidance and what to tell the

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media who were overflowing their office

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the meeting was requesting information

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about the UFO that chased is Japanese

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747 across the Alaskan skies for some 31

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minutes at flight level 310 31,000 and

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35,000 feet somehow the word got out

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what UFOs wanted this take place why

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wasn't Washington headquarters in forms

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hey the guy says who believes in UFOs I

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just need to know what to tell the media

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to get him out of here the answer was

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simple tell him it's under investigation

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and then I said wrap it all up I want

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the disk i want the tapes i want

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everything you have over the ni one at

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the FAA's tech center tomorrow morning

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that means he has to put it on the

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midnight flight from the red line and

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it's a pain to get all that done

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Japanese airline flight 1628 was a cargo

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jet with a pilot copilot and one crew

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member they were just north of Anchorage

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it was about 11 p.m. but that's the time

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is not really correct it was closer to

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five when the pilot first reported the

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UFO he described it as a huge ball with

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lights running around that he said it

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was about four times bigger than the 747

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he was riding and remembered a 747 as an

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aveda and he's looking out the window

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when he sees something that's four times

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the size of his aircraft he said he saw

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it with his eyes his lying eyes he saw

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it the copilot with them saw it and the

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other crewmember all saw it visibly over

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the course of next 31 minutes the UFO

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jumped miles in a few seconds the radar

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sweep at that antenna was like 10

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seconds so one time he says it's over

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here at twelve o'clock in eight miles

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and when the antenna goes by we see a

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target there ten seconds later it is now

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behind them six seven miles behind them

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so it's going from from eight miles out

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here to six or seven miles back here

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really in like five or six seconds okay

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after receiving the data from Alaska

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almost two months late aft this happened

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i briefed my boss hobby sofia and the

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faa ministry at the time was Admiral

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engine and the Admiral said to go to the

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text and to find out what's happening I

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want to know what's going on now the FAA

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had developed a program that was capable

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of recreating the traffic on the control

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of scope we call it today a plan view

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display pbd I instructed the FAA

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specialists to synchronize the voice

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tapes with the radar data so we could

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hear everything the control and the

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pilot said and we could be looking at

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the scope at the same time so it would

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be as if you were standing behind the

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controller watching what was going on

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the printout and radar playback

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displayed primary targets in the

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vicinity of the 747 these target returns

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were displayed about the same time place

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as the pilot advised viewing the UFO and

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if we had the capability of showing you

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this you would see it also cost the CIA

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he said you can't see it because it's

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not there now

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both the radar manual control observed

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the primary target the military control

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is also viewed the primary target a

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narrator and they identify it as a

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double primary a very large primary the

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pilot and crew viewed the target on

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their radar and they will also able to

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see the huge UFO LT with their own eyes

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now if this craft had been a legit or a

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military aircraft in today's the air

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traffic operations when the pilot looks

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out the window and sees somebody

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shooting across his nose or flying along

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with the first thing he does is call

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their traffic and say hey do you have

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traffic at my altitude and the control

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would panic looks at the scope and says

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no we don't have a traffic at your

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altitude well it's an unknown the

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traffic control then says we will track

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that guy until he lands and we'll have

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flight standards meet them down there

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we're going to write them up but Paul's

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ticket will do whatever we have to do

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but the pilot basically said it's a UFO

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who believes in UFOs and this is the

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kind of attitude that the air traffic at

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the time so when I went back to

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headquarters I gave Admiral England a

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quick briefing and showed him the video

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he set up a briefing with the President

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Reagan's scientific staff he told me my

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function was to hand this operation off

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to those people and those people ended

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up being the CIA the president's group a

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bunch of grunts that came to the meeting

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the Admiral says I want you to hand it

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off because the FAA does not control

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UFOs we want an out of our district now

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I brought a copy of the video tape I

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made I had bought a camera for Christmas

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just before this happened and I took a

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videotape of it when I got home I showed

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it to my wife and my neighbors I made a

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copy of it when i went to the to the

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briefing we put on this the video for

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the people there two or three times so

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it takes you know half hour so we'll

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talk about now and a half or so they

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asked a bunch of questions very

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intelligent questions they want to know

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the speed of the antenna they want to

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know the frequency of the antenna they

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want to know the beam width of the

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antenna they want to know the algorithm

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for the height find the equipment and

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the people i brought up in the room were

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all headquarters technical engineers

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hardware and software people and they

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gave those answers like they were a high

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school math coach a square b square c

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square they spit that stuff right out it

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was really amazing what these guys work

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when they got done the the CIA said to

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all the people there this event never

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happened we were never here and you're

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all sworn to secrecy we are confiscating

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all this data and they did they took

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everything that was in the room in those

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days when you print that out something

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from the computer it printed out boxes

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and boxes and boxes of the user these

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printouts you remember these from the

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from the days when we used to say it on

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TV boxes and boxes of this stuff this is

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titled UFO incident at anchorage 11 1886

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and it tells you what data is in here so

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we could take a chart and we could

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reproduce everything that the control is

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seen on a piece of paper well they took

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all that data a few days later they

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brought in a few weeks later i guess it

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was they brought in the FAA's report of

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the event that never happened I hadn't

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put it on a little table in my room in a

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corner and I said we'll leave it there

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and when the CIA wants the rest of the

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data element sure they're going to come

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and get

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it not too long after that they brought

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the voice tapes for the same incident

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and we put that on top of that package

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waiting for the CIA to come and get it

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now when I was at the tech center I had

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the software engineers and the hardware

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engineers put together a chart that

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would show every target along the route

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of flight and what they did is they

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commented on it this is when we first

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saw the UFO this is when the pilot sort

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of your focus was the military guy saw

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the UFO all the way down here this two

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of these it's it's ripped off here a

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little bit because it ended up in my

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bond for a couple of years and I didn't

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know it was in the box and the mice were

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eating it when I got down with this

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briefing now we're talking to the

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engineers that build the air traffic

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control system hardware and software

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when they get done hanging this up on

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the wall I said tell me what those dots

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are what is it the hardware engineers

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get up and said this problem over here

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that's a software problem and this one

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over here software problem every time

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all the way down it's a software problem

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there's nothing wrong with our hardware

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system so I should find it makes sense

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to me so the software guy gets up and he

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says this target over here that's a

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hardware problem and this one here a

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hardware problem there was no software

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problems and there was no hardware

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problems well what do we have if we

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don't have anything do we ever tied it

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there or not well one man get up and

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said my religion forbids me to believe

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in UFOs so I said fine i gave the the

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brief and they carried all the stuff

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they took it out this stuff stayed in my

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office for two years when i left one of

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the specialists commanded and i were to

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get me out they packed up everything

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that was hanging there all the stuff on

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the walls and they put it in boxes and

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shipped it to my house today

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I like to say that most people working

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as faa controllers they're not really

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familiar with how the fááá system works

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they don't know why aircraft traveling

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through our airspace is not displayed

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under scope they don't know why I do but

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they don't the system today in the

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organization of the FAA is not

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configured to identify and track these

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type of performances that's the end of

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my speech who are you going to believe

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you lyin eyes or the government