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Gabe Lenners: They say that you have to learn from the past

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Gabe Lenners: to prepare for the future. That's never been more true

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Gabe Lenners: than now. Sightings of unidentified aircraft are on the rise,

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Gabe Lenners: with new eyewitness accounts, congressional hearings, and US fighter pilots

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Gabe Lenners: taking down four high altitude flying objects under strange circumstances.

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Gabe Lenners: The quest for answers has never been greater. Tensions escalated

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Gabe Lenners: in late twenty twenty four when unexplained drones began appearing

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Gabe Lenners: in the New Jersey skies, sparking rumors in questions that

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Gabe Lenners: no one could answer. But in late twenty nineteen, an

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Gabe Lenners: equally bizarre phenomenon started unfolding over Colorado. In Nebraska, she.

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Interviewee 1: Said that there were three drones that camp beside her.

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Interviewee 1: One was to the right, one was directly above her,

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Interviewee 1: roughly about nine or ten miles. I think in the

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Interviewee 1: Aliens, the world a war or whatever it is, and.

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Interviewee 1: Yet it just feels like you're being locked buy these machines.

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Interviewee 3: Authorities are calling it a mobile command vehicle with antennas,

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Interviewee 3: And this morning there was a very active search.

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Gabe Lenners: For there's one right over the top of me right now.

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Gabe Lenners: It has to be about three hundred feet in the air.

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Gabe Lenners: It could be looking at me.

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Gabe Lenners: When they first arrived that night in late December, hovering

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Gabe Lenners: over farms, I didn't know what would transpire, how it

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Gabe Lenners: would all end, or if the end was actually the

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Gabe Lenners: beginning of a much bigger story. My name is Gabe

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Gabe Lenners: Lenners and this is OBSCURUM: Invasion of the Drones. Chapter one, Phillips County. It

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Gabe Lenners: was late twenty nineteen, just days before Christmas. I was

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Gabe Lenners: at the Burbank Airport ready to fly home for the holidays.

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Gabe Lenners: I had originally gone to college to be a meteorologist,

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Gabe Lenners: and I still love to report on a good storm. However,

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Gabe Lenners: an unexpected summer job shifted my path, leading me into

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Gabe Lenners: a broadcasting career as a host and producer in Los Angeles,

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Gabe Lenners: working with companies like Radio Disney, ABC News in CMT.

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Gabe Lenners: Like many people who moved to the city, I'm from

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Gabe Lenners: somewhere else, one of those no stoplight towns you see

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Gabe Lenners: Nebraska and called Imperial. There are two grocery stores, one

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Gabe Lenners: coffee shop, and no MacDonald's. It's a place where agriculture

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Gabe Lenners: drives livelihoods and people talk more about the local weather

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Gabe Lenners: than the latest fashion. Dia is the closest major airport

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Gabe Lenners: to western Nebraska, so when I flew in, my parents

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Gabe Lenners: picked me up in Denver and we drove east. In

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Gabe Lenners: this part of Colorado, there are no mountains, ski resorts,

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Gabe Lenners: rolling grasslands, but that time of year, everything was frozen.

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Gabe Lenners: eventually crossed the state line. It was a couple nights

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Gabe Lenners: before New Year's Eve. We were sitting in the living

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Gabe Lenners: room after eating one of my mom's home cooked meals

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Gabe Lenners: when we heard a knock at the door. Through the

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Gabe Lenners: radio flashlight and gun holstered to one side. I turned

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Gabe Lenners: the porch light on and immediately recognized who it was.

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Gabe Lenners: The cop has a family friend, and whenever I'm in town,

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Gabe Lenners: he'll drop by and tell a funny story or crack

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Gabe Lenners: a joke. He's your typical laid back small town cop.

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Gabe Lenners: But that night. He stopped by late. It was after

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Gabe Lenners: began telling us about giant drones lighting up the night

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Interviewee 2: I had when I believed you had over or ya.

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Gabe Lenners: Knowing I work in the entertainment industry, he thought this

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Gabe Lenners: be a hoax, but living in has taught me that

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Gabe Lenners: fact is almost always stranger than fiction. So I grabbed

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Gabe Lenners: It was eleven PM when I started to see what

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Gabe Lenners: all the fuss was about. I'm canning at least one, two, three, four, five,

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Gabe Lenners: The brightest light that looks the biggest is load to

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Gabe Lenners: be a challenge, but I'm going to see how close

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Gabe Lenners: I can get. I saw more lights in the sky

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Gabe Lenners: making calls to neighbors and was told the objects were

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Gabe Lenners: first spotted in Phillips County, Colorado, just over the Nebraska

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Gabe Lenners: This is Sarah. She and her husband Chris were a

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Gabe Lenners: their request.

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Gabe Lenners: What do you remember happening on that night of December sixteenth.

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Interviewee 3: My son and I were at his band concert, so

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Interviewee 3: which we have our driveways about three quarters of a

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Interviewee 3: I noticed that there was a drone flying right above

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Gabe Lenners: Wow, gosh, it's so crazy.

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Interviewee 3: Yeah, when it's in your window, it's different. When they

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Interviewee 3: one thing. But when they're intruding on your home. It's

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Interviewee 3: completely different. It flew for a very long time. It

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Gabe Lenners: What happens next to your husband gets in in his

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Interviewee 3: Yeah, so he he got in his pickup when he

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Interviewee 3: just followed the drone and it continued west. We just

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Interviewee 4: So then that's when I took off chasing. And there

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Interviewee 4: a there were two drones flying in perfect unison, probably

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Gabe Lenners: How big do you think this run was that you saw?

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Interviewee 4: It had to be at least a five foot wingspan?

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Gabe Lenners: You know when you talked to law enforcement, what did

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Interviewee 4: They were a ways behind me or ways of way?

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Interviewee 4: And they just told me to just try to stay

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Interviewee 4: with it until it landed. You know, I had a

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Interviewee 4: and I'd just about use it all up, so I

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Interviewee 4: there for probably twenty minutes, waiting to see if I

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Gabe Lenners: After talking with Chris, I had way more questions than answers.

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Gabe Lenners: I had no idea how strange the story was going

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Gabe Lenners: to become. In all honesty, strange doesn't even begin to

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Gabe Lenners: describe what I was about to discover Chapter two. Their

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Gabe Lenners: and grill. The morning after first seeing the objects, I

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Gabe Lenners: How's it going?

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Gabe Lenners: How are you good? I'm gonna get some coffee too.

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Gabe Lenners: I'm gonna do a little.

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Interviewee 2: Cream in there.

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Gabe Lenners: There was one local farmer in particular I wanted to

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Gabe Lenners: visit with, but before I did, I needed caffeine and

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Gabe Lenners: You could probably guess what the topic of conversation was about.

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Interviewee 5: I think the funnest one is the fact that they

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Interviewee 5: were missing a nuclear warhead.

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Interviewee 6: I like that one is that what they're saying now too.

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Interviewee 5: There's a few individuals that have said, well, like them

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Interviewee 5: Someone has to be automatically or manually excuse me taking

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Interviewee 5: over that control that uav for to do that.

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Gabe Lenners: I hadn't heard about warheads or aliens, but I wasn't

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Gabe Lenners: surprised to hear there were more wild rumors. I quickly

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Gabe Lenners: grabbed my coffee, hopped in the truck, and took the

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Gabe Lenners: back roads out of town. It's freezing out here today,

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Gabe Lenners: this guy named Tim. I'm kind of like thinking about

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Gabe Lenners: how this reminds me of that movie Signs with Mel Gibson.

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Gabe Lenners: If I was by myself right here at night, there's

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Gabe Lenners: O good, how are you doing?

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Gabe Lenners: When I pulled up to Tim's house, I didn't know much,

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Gabe Lenners: just that he and his wife may have experienced a

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Gabe Lenners: few close range encounters west of Imperial. You could tell

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Gabe Lenners: Tim's a family man. There were toys around the house,

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Gabe Lenners: and the farm dog greeted me right when I stepped

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Gabe Lenners: out of the truck. How does that make you feel

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Gabe Lenners: that someone could be watching early servying what's going on?

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Interviewee 6: Drug or sex trafficking and all that kind of stuff

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Interviewee 6: has kind of been big news locally recently, and so we're,

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Interviewee 6: you know, with kids, we don't have you know, we

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Interviewee 6: don't have the police driving by every twenty minutes or anything.

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Interviewee 6: And you shoot, I don't even know if I've ever

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Interviewee 6: seen this sheriff drive by out here. That's that's just

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Interviewee 6: the rural Nebraska that we live in.

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Gabe Lenners: When Tim's wife saw the aircraft, she was worried.

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Interviewee 6: Yeah, she was a lot more concern. And in case

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Interviewee 6: they're trying to find people and find kids to nab,

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Interviewee 6: like sex traffickers have gone extremely high tech. And the

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Interviewee 6: numbers of drones, I mean, the first one reports we

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Interviewee 6: heard was like, you know, six to ten, Then we

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Interviewee 6: heard sixteen. Now we've heard twenty to thirty. A friend

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Interviewee 6: had twenty flying over his house. And you know, we

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Interviewee 6: had four over our house a couple of nights before that.

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Gabe Lenners: Tim was now the third person Night spoken to who'd

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Gabe Lenners: confirmed these drones as he described them, were flying really

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Gabe Lenners: low to nearby homes.

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Interviewee 6: Yeah, they were about two probably three to four hundred

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Interviewee 6: feet is probably where they were. My dad flies ultra

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Interviewee 6: light airplanes. They're a small aircraft, but it's you know,

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Interviewee 6: a thirty foot wingspan, and it was about the same

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Interviewee 6: height that Dad flies when he comes over to see

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Interviewee 6: the grandkids. As they were just over the trees, about

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Interviewee 6: one hundred feet over here, and it was you know,

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Interviewee 6: they were up there. I mean Dad's airplanes. They're gas powered.

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Interviewee 6: You can barely hear them when he's flying putting along

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Interviewee 6: and those drones. Yeah, it was silent. You couldn't you

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Interviewee 6: couldn't hear anything. You just saw the lights basically, and

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Interviewee 6: saw them as they were headed west basically.

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Gabe Lenners: Champion, Nebraska resident Dallas Baney recalled a similar description.

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Interviewee 7: Well, they're quiet, but they had definite two like spotlights

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Interviewee 7: coming out of the bottom of them. It was hard

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Gabe Lenners: they choose to do it here. I was driving down

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Gabe Lenners: Invasion of the drones, we were testing the ability to

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Interviewee 1: We've heard that there's a missing nuke and that they're

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