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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: When I opened your book and saw its your start,

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Speaker 2: it started with the swamp gas case and that incident.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was perfect timing because I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you had noticed. In the months leading up to

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Speaker 2: these drone swarms of recent weeks, the Pentagon, the spokesperson

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Speaker 2: for the DoD who deals with these issues, kept using

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Speaker 2: drones as sort of an all purpose dismissal of whatever

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Speaker 2: UFO case was prominent at the time. Oh yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: probably drones. And it occurred to me they're using it

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Speaker 2: sort of. We were being swamp gassed all over again

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Speaker 2: in a sense or weather balloon, which was previously the

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Speaker 2: all purpose explanation to dismiss these things. And when I

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Speaker 2: saw you experiencing that same thing as a youngster, it

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Speaker 2: seemed to me that you're saying that doctor j Alen

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Speaker 2: Heinik was treated by the news media the same way

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Speaker 2: the Air Force had treated the media and the public

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Speaker 2: for so long, snide dismissal, using a broad brushed term

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Speaker 2: like swamp gas, when that isn't exactly what was that correct?

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Heinich came to town. He was at

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Speaker 3: that time the consultant of the Air Force project, and

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Speaker 3: he in retrospect, he would say he naively believed he

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Speaker 3: was hired as a consultant to help the Air Force

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Speaker 3: actually take a factual approach to this. As you know,

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Speaker 3: that's not why the Air Force hired him, But they

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Speaker 3: didn't tell him that. They wanted to use his respect

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Speaker 3: respectability as a leading astronomer from Ohio State University to

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Speaker 3: get his inprimature, his sign off on explaining away as

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Speaker 3: many of these cases as possible. Now, it happened that

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Speaker 3: Heinich was able to explain many cases as mundane or prosaic,

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Speaker 3: but he was not committed to doing that for ideological reasons.

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Speaker 3: And so when he went to the Michigan siding, and

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Speaker 3: he toured around and talked to people all throughout the area,

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Speaker 3: including near the swamp. And yeah, there was one particular area.

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Speaker 3: Gas is a real phenomenon that leads to luminous discharges

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Speaker 3: light due to you know, various outgassing around a swamp.

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Speaker 3: But they're nothing like the standard non ordinary phenomena called UFOs.

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Speaker 3: But he was he simply said, well, maybe the one

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Speaker 3: siding over at the edsure town there. The swamp might

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Speaker 3: be might have been swamp gas. It was remarkable what happened.

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Speaker 1: Georgia's you.

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Speaker 3: You should probably know. He did not get that phrase

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Speaker 3: out of his mouth before every reporter in the auditorium

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Speaker 3: who had gathered from around the nation, because this was

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Speaker 3: a big case. Walter Crownkit on the CBS Evening News

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Speaker 3: led the news three or four nights in a row

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Speaker 3: with his story. As soon as he used the phrase

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Speaker 3: no cell phones, and they called the news bureaus and said,

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon explains it all a swamp gas. Heinich was

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Speaker 3: mortified because he hadn't done that, but you're wreck exactly right.

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Speaker 3: He was. He was cajoled into an impression of having

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Speaker 3: done that. And that, by the way, is what captivated

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Speaker 3: me as a young cub reporter, if you will, as

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Speaker 3: a twelfth grade a twelfth twelve year old, sixth grade student.

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Speaker 3: That was the piece that got my attention, the closing

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Speaker 3: down instead of science, the official agents of culture, science, news, media,

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Speaker 3: academia showing interest in this phenomenon, in the fact that

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Speaker 3: something unordinary was happening, non ordinary that was not explained.

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Speaker 3: Rather than that being something of interest, it was it

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Speaker 3: was an opportunity to close down discussion. Even at that age,

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Speaker 3: I knew that's not how science and not how inquiry worked.

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Speaker 3: And you know, my teacher actually complimented me for bringing

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Speaker 3: that out. She said, keep great job with your report.

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Speaker 3: You've got the makings of a reporter, maybe a scientist

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Speaker 3: who knows, maybe even a detective. And I have to

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Speaker 3: say I was very lucky at that stage of my

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Speaker 3: celebrate my inquiry. And so I went on doing what

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Speaker 3: she said to follow the clues wherever they lead, mister Thompson,

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Speaker 3: follow the evidence wherever it points. So as the phenomenon

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Speaker 3: began revealing more of itself to me as an observer,

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Speaker 3: including the paranormal dimensions, I said, well, I can't dismiss

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Speaker 3: the paranormal simply because I could prefer that the paranormal

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Speaker 3: not exist, or that I don't quote believe in the paranormal.

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Speaker 3: I didn't grow up believing in the paranormal. But when

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Speaker 3: people report a phenomena that I understood, oh, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition,

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Speaker 3: At a belief level, but is there evidence for those qualities? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there is pretty good evidence now for psychic phenomenon. So

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Speaker 3: I'm basically a fact oriented guy as I approached this.

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Speaker 2: So as a youngster, you start reading about this, you

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Speaker 2: delve deeper and deeper into the topic. You learn of

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Speaker 2: the importance of words in terminology. Unidentified flying object UFO,

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Speaker 2: that term which, as you tell in your book, it

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Speaker 2: becomes synonymous with ETS, and it is still used that

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Speaker 2: way by our government in a derisive sort of way.

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Speaker 2: When they want to dismiss something, they'll ask for evidence

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Speaker 2: of the little Green men kind of a thing, equating

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Speaker 2: all UFOs with ET phenomena. That's not an accident that

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Speaker 2: it's evolved that way, correct, that's right.

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Speaker 3: And the government claims to want to want it to

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Speaker 3: get beyond. UFO was supposed to be neutral, but over

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Speaker 3: time it became non neutral. It became associated, as you say,

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Speaker 3: with little Green men. So ostensibly, the Pentagon's reasoning for

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Speaker 3: shifting to UAP unidentified aerial phenomena was to get back

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Speaker 3: to clarity or to get away from the connotations. I

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Speaker 3: actually think UAP was chosen because it is such a colorless,

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Speaker 3: taking attention away from the complex challenge that this phenomenon poses.

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Speaker 3: As you know from my book, I'm not whatever is

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Speaker 3: revealed in the hangars of McDonald, Douglas and Lockheed Martin,

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Speaker 3: and I think there's something to be looked at there

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Speaker 3: amen to that, it's not my primary focus. My primary

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Speaker 3: focus is the disclosure of the phenomenon as a whole.

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Speaker 3: And I'm convinced no matter what is revealed in those hangars,

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Speaker 3: there are still aspects of this phenomenon that are demanding

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Speaker 3: a fundamental paradigm shift. And that is having to do

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Speaker 3: with it with our not having reckoned fully with consciousness

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Speaker 3: as a and as you know, the Skinwalker ranch is

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Speaker 3: just one example of the anomalies of consciousness that are

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Speaker 3: associated with the UFO phenomenon.

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Speaker 2: I wonder, do you have a sort of sympathy for

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Speaker 2: the devil here in this sense, for the government if

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Speaker 2: they true do not know what these drones are, at

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Speaker 2: least there's some of them, a small number of them

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Speaker 2: that are genuinely unidentified. If they don't know. What do

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Speaker 2: they say? You know, what could they say that would

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Speaker 2: not raise suspicions and eyebrows and leave us perplexed and angry? Well,

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Speaker 2: is there a better way to handle it than they're

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Speaker 3: Well, I've often thought that's I mean, this week, I've

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Speaker 3: been thinking that there's an analogy with the government's tendency

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Speaker 3: hangars and McDonnell douglas. I think that whatever that level

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Speaker 3: of this phenomenon is is so highly compartmentalized and so

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Speaker 3: limited in a need to know that the average press

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon who comes out is really constrained to say, well,

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Speaker 3: there's really nothing going on, But what else could they

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Speaker 3: Let's say, let's say they do know. Are they going

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Speaker 3: to acknowledge whether it's the drones or before the drones.

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Speaker 3: Are they going to come out and say there is

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Speaker 3: something that is transversing our skies conducting maneuvers beyond anything

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Speaker 3: we can account for. Enormous speeds and trajectories and sudden

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Speaker 3: changes on a dime. We don't know what it is

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Speaker 3: or where it's from. We'll get back to you when

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Speaker 3: we do. No, they're not going to do that, and

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Speaker 3: so I think frankly, a large part of what they

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Speaker 3: don't understand now that there may be back engineering and

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Speaker 3: may be successful. I don't I don't have a vote

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Speaker 3: really good at saying what I don't know. By the way,

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Speaker 3: that's phenomenous. I don't know is a complete sentence, and

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Speaker 3: there's a lot I don't know. But in any case,

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Speaker 3: I think there is there are aspects of this that

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Speaker 3: they don't know that the average government official, let alone

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Speaker 3: the members of Congress, do not know. And they also

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Speaker 3: know that there's been a laughter curtain down around this topic,

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Speaker 3: like an iron curtain, and so being on the wrong

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Speaker 2: Sure, I mean, I suspect sometimes I feel a little

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Speaker 2: bit of sympathy because they've they've painted themselves into a corner.

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Speaker 2: Might have had legitimate reasons in the beginning, and now

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Speaker 2: they're kind of stuck, and more and more people these

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Speaker 2: days in our country anyway, are interested in the topic,

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Speaker 2: are asking questions. They have mainstream media that finally got

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Speaker 2: public hearings and closed door hearings with the whistleblowers and

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Speaker 2: witnesses insiders. It's an amazing transformation a short period of time,

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Speaker 2: and I imagine the pressure grows on folks who certainly

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Speaker 2: know way more than we do. The general public probably

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Speaker 2: have bodies and craft and materials that they've stashed and

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Speaker 2: analyzed for a long time. But even if they have,

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Speaker 2: not us. I see that with these the drones. They've

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Speaker 2: the really big question. I mean, they've said they're not

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Speaker 2: a threat. Presumably you haven't seen any bombs drop, their

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Speaker 2: building's vaporized, they're not from foreign adversaries, they're not ours,

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Speaker 2: but we can't say whose they are. That one gets me.

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Speaker 2: That kind of gets me, is, isn't it you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does me too. And we have had a

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Speaker 3: couple of occasions now with presidents who said they're going

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Speaker 3: they're going to reveal. Jimmy Carter saw a UFO in

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty nine, I believe, and said he would reveal

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Speaker 3: NASA to do so, and they came back and said no, no,

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Speaker 3: Mister President Bill Clinton also tried to penetrate it or

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Speaker 3: wanted to. Now what's interesting is is Donald Trump has

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Speaker 3: indicated that he is going to and his son Don

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Speaker 3: Junior has said we're going to take a real serious

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Speaker 3: look and we're not going to be stopped where they've

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Speaker 3: been stopped before. And Bobby Kennedy has said the same thing.

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Speaker 3: He's playing a unique role. And I noticed Daniel Shehan

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that means there's really a shift

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Speaker 3: in that paradigm. But what's Donald Trump going to do?

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Speaker 3: Is he really going to push is he what does

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Speaker 3: he know and what is he willing to help get revealed.

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Speaker 2: I know that there's some people around him, as you

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Speaker 2: mentioned some of the ones that are known. I know

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Speaker 2: that there's some other people around him who helped in

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Speaker 2: his campaign and are working on that transition, who are

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Speaker 2: deeply interested in this topic and they want to be

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Speaker 2: able to say something. But I would imagine it is

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Speaker 2: pretty hard for any president to draw the line on

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Speaker 2: how far can you go once you open that door? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's real, but we can't tell you very much more.

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Speaker 2: The questions are going to be endless.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I have to say say too. I don't

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Speaker 3: like to be macab, but he has had two assassination

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Speaker 3: attempts in one year, and how far can he go?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Again, I don't want to be macab and hyperbolic here,

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Speaker 2: So I'll tell you what if they were to make

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Speaker 3: It would be, especially depending on how limited it was.

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Speaker 2: So you have been involved in that level of a

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Speaker 2: of it in your book, the UFO Paradox, that we'll

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Speaker 2: framework is. As you learn more about the topic, you

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Speaker 2: explanation for a variety of phenomena that people don't equate

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Speaker 2: with UFOs but are somehow related at a basic level,

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Speaker 3: This earlier and I didn't pick up on it. Namely,

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Speaker 3: a UFO. But how it is eventually explained is yet

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Speaker 3: to be determined. But you're right, We now know that

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Speaker 3: these are preferential to bodies of water, they are seen

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Speaker 3: on land, They are clearly atmospheric in the sky. So

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Speaker 3: the attempts to try to find a single acronym really tough.

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Speaker 3: Unidentified anomalous phenomenon is a common one, but the word

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Speaker 3: anomalist doesn't roll off the tongue really well. So the

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Speaker 3: acronyms don't really help us out here very much. But

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Speaker 3: this is so much broader and deeper than a set

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Speaker 3: linguistics of it make it easy to push this away

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Speaker 2: The deeper you dig into it, the wider the discussion

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Speaker 2: gets I mean, you know, my entry point to this

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Speaker 2: as when you started, is these things are spaceships from

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Speaker 2: other worlds. But really that is not accurate for what

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Speaker 2: was really going on. The cases that kicked it off.

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Speaker 2: Kenneth Arnold, for example, his story and you go into

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Speaker 2: it in great detail in your book. His story was

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Speaker 2: Arnold were never reported at all, not for decades later.

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Speaker 3: Correct, that's correct. Maybe we have to go into this

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Speaker 3: absolutely true. His daughter Kim Arnold, came forward later and said,

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Speaker 3: he kept it quiet for the rest of his life

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Speaker 3: how the opening case in the creation myth of ufology,

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Speaker 2: this general unified theory of weirdness was UFOs and maybe

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Speaker 2: leads to a hub that's way stranger than just ets

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of other things, and it makes people everywhere uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: You know, people who investigate UFOs, they don't want to

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Speaker 3: No, they don't. And when you say that they've been

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Speaker 3: happening through time immemorial, and we have petroglyphs with alien

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Speaker 3: as our great friend Jacques Bela did by broadening the framework,

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Speaker 3: he simply said when he wrote his book Passport to Magonia,

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Speaker 3: he said, this didn't start in nineteen forty seven. We

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Speaker 3: need to look at our myths and our folklore, and

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Speaker 3: the mainstream of uthology said, oh no, Jacques is now

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Speaker 3: reducing the et hypothesis to mere myth he said, no,

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Speaker 3: I'm broadening. It's not mear myth. Don't dismiss mythology because

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Speaker 3: they may be reports of real phenomena in their time,

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Speaker 3: in their culture. So I give Jacques bel A continuing

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Speaker 3: great credit over the many years of his remarkable work

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