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

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Coast to Coast AM. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Rich Barra, and let's talk about our first guest, Alejandro Rojas.

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Speaker 2: He's published articles on science and science fiction, but is

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Speaker 2: most known for his coverage and involvement in the study

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Speaker 2: of unidentified and nomalist phenomena that is the UAP, otherwise

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Speaker 2: known as UFOs. Alejandro is president and CEO of the

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Speaker 2: nonprofit UAP Discovery and consultant for Enigma Labs. We're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about that a lot tonight too, and also

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Speaker 2: as the founding member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP,

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Speaker 2: he has spent over twenty years researching and writing about UFOs.

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Speaker 2: I believe the thing that Alejandro is studying we are

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Speaker 2: starting to hear more and more about. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's you know, exploding. I think the truth is trickling out.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Alejandra. Hey, it's nice to meet you. I don't

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Speaker 2: think we've ever talked before. Nice to meet you, good sir.

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Speaker 3: I don't think we have, so I'm excited to talk

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Speaker 3: with you. Thanks so much for having me on.

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Speaker 2: I got so many questions. In fact, let's start from

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Speaker 2: the beginning. Let's go from take me from a novice

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Speaker 2: point of view of UFOs in UIPS and you're getting

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Speaker 2: involved with it. Go back to twenty plus years ago.

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Speaker 2: What made you decide to start getting so involved in this?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, I'm a little different than most. A

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Speaker 3: lot of people come into this after they have their

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Speaker 3: own signing or experience. With me, I was a journalism student.

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Speaker 3: I actually entered college to become a rocket scientist. But

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Speaker 3: my friend who got me into journalism started dating this

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Speaker 3: guy who would just kept talking about UFOs and I,

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Speaker 3: just thought, this guy's a goofball. I wish you'd cut

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Speaker 3: it out, but you know, I started listening to him,

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Speaker 3: and he had cluped me into some things I hadn't

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Speaker 3: heard of, even though I had looked into the topic,

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Speaker 3: and I quickly realized there was a lot of There

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Speaker 3: were a lot of credible people taking this all very seriously,

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Speaker 3: and these weren't in the documentaries or shows out at

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Speaker 3: the time. But of course, the nineties was kind of

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Speaker 3: a dark ages where this topic where really the media

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Speaker 3: wasn't paying as much serious attention to it, so I

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Speaker 3: kind of.

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Speaker 2: I mean beyond the x files really, right, it was

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Speaker 2: just the x files that we had. The only show

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Speaker 2: we had was the x files. Everything else was so

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Speaker 2: that was about it, right.

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Speaker 3: I think you're right. The X Files was out, which

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Speaker 3: was kind of creating this kind of mythos in the

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Speaker 3: background of the smoking Man and all of that. And

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Speaker 3: then meanwhile, you know, there were credible things happening at

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Speaker 3: the time, and so I saw this as a beat

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Speaker 3: that's not being covered. It should be taken more seriously.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to take it more seriously and I'm going

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Speaker 3: to write about it. And it became very popular. No

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Speaker 3: one else was doing it, understandably, you know, they were

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Speaker 3: afraid of hurting their credibility and their ability to write

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Speaker 3: about other topics or pay by we get employed to places.

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Speaker 3: But luckily for me, I get employed to write about

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Speaker 3: and research this topic over time. So that's really what

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Speaker 3: it was a kind of journalistic curiosity.

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Speaker 2: So give me, give me a little topic. Since you've

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Speaker 2: been kind of in this field for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: It seems like, in fact, we're even seeing a little

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Speaker 2: assume that those are not alien to nature. I assume

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Speaker 2: that is either us or another country or we're being

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Speaker 2: lied to. But what is it about journalism? When you

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Speaker 2: watch any sort of news, they always like to make

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Speaker 2: maybe they're little green men. What is it about journalism

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Speaker 2: itself that doesn't want to take that seriously? Or are

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Speaker 2: we don't want to assume that that it could be

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're exactly right. I think it's just

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Speaker 3: nervousness around the possibility if there's something that UFOs posed

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Speaker 3: a mystery that is more than just you know, what

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Speaker 3: is dark matter? What is you know? Is there methane

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Speaker 3: which is scary. The people with the most advanced technology

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Speaker 3: think that there might be another society or civilization out there,

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Speaker 3: I think, and I think that that really messes with people.

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Speaker 3: So journalists in particular, it's easier to make fun of

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Speaker 3: So it's a real safe space to take. But to

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Speaker 3: there's been a few mainstream journalists have who have decided

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Speaker 2: When you watch the hearings or you know that when

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Speaker 2: you feel like, Okay, they're just letting a little bit

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Speaker 2: Do you feel that way.

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Speaker 3: A bit of both? You know, definitely, And that's the difficulty.

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Speaker 3: So when I'm watching this, on the one hand, I

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Speaker 3: making the more kind of wild claims, and to be honest,

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Speaker 3: I don't find their claims credible. I know that they've

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Speaker 3: I've always gone after and interviewed many of these people,

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Speaker 3: say what is your evidence? Whatever is your evidence, and

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Speaker 3: it's always here, say it's always a second third had person.

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Speaker 3: So I wasn't surprised that I think came of that,

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Speaker 3: But I also wasn't price and nothing came from the government.

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Speaker 3: They're not in a position to or do they ever plan.

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Speaker 3: I think plan to really give us a lot of

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Speaker 3: information when it comes to this topic. It's around sensitive topic.

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Speaker 3: There's no advantage for them to really give us more

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Speaker 3: In Congress. Congress, they are politicians. They're going to use

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Speaker 2: Okay, so if you're in them, if you're if you're

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Speaker 2: that's what people want, even though you know that there's

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Speaker 2: only so much disclosure you're going to get. It's just

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Speaker 2: you're you're just kind of putting it out there. So

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Speaker 2: you're like, hey, I want to know the same things

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Speaker 2: you do, but you're not you're not invited to that party.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's invited to that party, right.

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Speaker 3: And what I like to see though, and I think

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Speaker 3: we've gotten a little more personally. I think we've gotten

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Speaker 3: And to be honest, I think they know less than

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Speaker 3: some of the philosophers that have been kind of examining

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Speaker 3: and that's what they're afraid of. I can see that

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Speaker 3: CIA has a long paper on this disinformation and misinformation

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Speaker 3: So their hands are tied on a lot of the

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Speaker 3: So really we're not going to learn much from them either.

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Speaker 3: I think what I do like to see is Congress

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Speaker 3: really think there has to be some sort of more open,

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Speaker 3: participate in. That needs to happen. But there just doesn't

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Speaker 2: I know, it seems like the Internet starting to take

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Speaker 2: we're starting to discover stuff. In fact, I think this

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Speaker 2: In fact, I want to go to one early because

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Speaker 2: I saw Newsweek. This is from Newsweek online. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: there are reports of some orbs over Minnesota. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to the east of the Rockies line where Suzanne is on.

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Speaker 2: She's right near Lake Superior, Minnesota, and she saw them

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Speaker 2: over the neighborhood tonight, right, Suzanne.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was. I had stepped out on my porch.

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Speaker 4: It was exactly midnight because the news was just coming on,

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Speaker 2: I wonder about I wonder about that stuff. Over water, Alejandro,

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Speaker 2: tell me about what that might be.

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Speaker 3: It's difficult to stay over water. I mean, overwater isn't

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Speaker 3: necessarily indicative of anything. I know, lots of people talk

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Speaker 3: say water has a relation to it. However, why water

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Speaker 3: is important is we're inch into drones. You know, we're

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Speaker 3: talking about drones so much. Of course, I'm more interested

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Speaker 2: But let's get into that just a second. Let's let's

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Speaker 2: back up, let's get a let's get a beginner's guide here.

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Speaker 2: Tell me, I think we've got a unique position with you.

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Speaker 2: Where you went to school to be a rocket scientist.

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Speaker 2: So you've got the science behind you. I'm sure you're

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Speaker 2: you're a good engineer student. And then you've also got

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Speaker 2: the journalistic approach. So if I'm just turning into the

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Speaker 2: show and I'm like, yeah, I mean, I want to

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Speaker 2: know about UFOs, tell me the difference. I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: an open thinker here, a little bit of a skeptic,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to see if you can you can

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Speaker 2: pull me into your world a little. Tell me the

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Speaker 2: difference between what a UFO and a UAP might be.

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Speaker 3: Okay, my answer to this, and I think this is

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Speaker 3: significant for not right now is nothing and a lot.

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Speaker 3: And the reason I say nothing is UFOs is unidentified

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Speaker 3: flying objects. It was coined by the US Air Force

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Speaker 3: in nineteen fifty two when they were beginning to do

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Speaker 2: Well, you were talking about in twenty seventeen, everybody got

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Speaker 3: Is what's interesting, and I think where it's kind of

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Speaker 3: Then the Congress felt the same, and that kind of

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Speaker 3: didn't find any We weren't able to verify any of

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Speaker 3: that information. You know, the head of the committee in

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Speaker 3: But then afterwards a lot of those House representatives were like,

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Speaker 3: the internet and social media. Like you mentioned before, social

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Speaker 3: media has taken over, and not in a nice way. Well, no,

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Speaker 3: because I don't think it's in a positive way.

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Speaker 2: I think we don't believe anything.

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Speaker 3: You don't want anything to do with this anymore.

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Speaker 2: Then, Yeah, it's like I think it's like it doesn't

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Speaker 2: it because if you say, yeah, it's just kind of

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Speaker 2: like when I'm looking at the drones, doesn't it seem

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Speaker 2: You can see that they're drones. Is if they have lights,

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Speaker 2: they're huge drones. But they've been up there for a

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Speaker 2: you can't preace the serial number.

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Speaker 3: Yes and no, actually and I and even yes, as

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Speaker 3: far as even worse than you're saying, because in the

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Speaker 3: UK there are US bases where the Dods said, yes,

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Speaker 3: we've had drone incursions over our UK basis. In Germany

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Speaker 3: today today I'm just reading that we had drones over

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Speaker 3: incursions over basis. So around the world they're having these incursions.

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Speaker 3: New Jersey, to be honest, in my opinion, is a mess.

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Speaker 3: They aren't drones.

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Speaker 1: For the most part.

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Speaker 3: What we're seeing in the news, what we're seeing from

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Speaker 3: a lot of those witnesses aren't airplanes. People are posting

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Speaker 3: and you can look online at UFO researchers and even

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Speaker 3: you know, very hard in UFO researchers are like, guys,

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Speaker 3: I'm into the drones, into the UFOs, but all I

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Speaker 3: see a videos and pictures of airplanes here. Do you

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Speaker 3: have anything to this point, we don't have a lot

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Speaker 3: of good videos. That's what we're doing at Enigma. I

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Speaker 3: think we do have some better ones to just come

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Speaker 3: to analyze this and album Enigma Labs, And if you

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Speaker 3: go to Enigma Labs and social media, you're going to

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Speaker 3: find an article we just put up. Well, we've got

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Speaker 3: ninety different reports from the area. A lot of those

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Speaker 3: have videos, and some of those videos are more mysterious.

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Speaker 3: And what do those videos look like? They look more

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Speaker 3: like what your caller said where they look more like

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Speaker 3: what those pilots reported, and what those pilots reported that

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Speaker 3: things moving at incredible speeds.

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