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[eerie music]
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[eerie music builds]
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[music climaxes]
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[nostalgic piano music]
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[Dr. Gale]: I grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas
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with my younger brother, Kyle, and my mother and father.
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My father died when I was four in a car accident.
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He was hit by a drunk driver. T-boned.
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It was a closed casket funeral.
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My mother was undiagnosed bipolar and
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self-medicated with alcohol.
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After my father died, it was challenging for her to manage Kyle and I.
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And one day when I was 12, I came home and found her
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what I thought was passed out on her bedroom floor.
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I grabbed her by the hair and pulled her out and she was actually not breathing.
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After that, we moved around even more.
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Kyle and I were kept together for a little while and then separated.
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And we just took it out on each other.
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So we didn't want to stay in touch.
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I did very well in high school.
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I enjoyed science immensely.
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I knew in the 11th grade that I was destined to become a marine biologist.
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And I took my studies very seriously.
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I didn't have a lot of friends.
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Because I didn't know how to be a girl, really.
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I graduated with honors and received a full ride scholarship to UCLA.
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Which was amazing because I knew I was going to get to see the ocean.
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And I was able to lead an expedition off the coast of Mexico
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to study the communication methods of the Humboldt squid.
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They change color through bioluminescence.
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They flash, they communicate with light.
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The Mexican fisherman called them “Diablo rojo”
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because of how aggressive they are.
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My diver had to wear chainmail.
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I did not go into the water.
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My diver’s name was Scott.
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Well, we'll call him Scott.
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Scott and I developed a very close friendship
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spending so much time together on the boat
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and we fell in love.
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He was my knight in shining armor.
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Literally.
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Although if he was too shiny, that's when he got attacked.
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He proposed on the boat with his grandmother's ring
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stuck in a squid that he knew I was going to be cutting open.
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It was disgusting, but sweet.
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We were perfectly matched.
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But that doesn't always mean that it's meant to last forever.
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[ominous ethereal whooshing]
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[Dr. Gale:] In 2002 I was flying from Heathrow to JFK.
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Sunday, March 10th.
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I was seated in the rear of the plane.
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K57. In economy
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I was seated next to a man who was trying to get my attention.
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And I just was not in the mood.
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So I tried to display my engagement ring.
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He didn't seem to be affected by that.
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So I thought I would just pretend to sleep instead.
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As I was drifting off it suddenly got very quiet.
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There was this light on my face.
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It wasn't a cabin light, though, because it was coming from one side.
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I heard a little bit of nervous laughter
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and then the man beside me
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He said “What the fuck is that?”
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I opened my eyes and the entire cabin was illuminated
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by a yellow glow.
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I wanted to get up to see what it was.
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The man beside me was frozen so I had to climb over him
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and I found myself an empty seat.
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When I looked out the window, what I saw was
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two massive, glowing yellow disks.
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Hovering somewhere between the plane and the horizon.
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They were so bright.
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Now, keep in mind, it was 2002.
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So even though we all had cell phones, they were pieces of crap
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and the cameras were garbage.
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Not that anyone had the presence of mind to use them anyway.
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When you see something like that, you just
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you're stunned.
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All you can do is stare at it.
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And then suddenly, they just disappeared.
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And it was completely black again.
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I don't think I heard anyone even make a joke about it after that.
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It was just totally silent on the plane.
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I got up and went back to my seat
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and the guy didn't bother me for the rest of the flight.
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But my mind was spinning.
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I was trying to process what the possibilities were.
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What that could have possibly been.
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Was it some sort of weather phenomenon?
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Now something like that, with that kind of size
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could not enter the atmosphere without going unnoticed.
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Something of that mass, pushing its way from outer space
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into the earth would ignite the atmosphere.
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The sky would be on fire.
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So it had to be one of a few possibilities.
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Either it was something from the earth.
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Some sort of natural phenomena.
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Or if it was, in fact, a solid object
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it had to either have been made on the earth
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or it was created by a technology so
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enormously advanced that it could completely sidestep
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all the laws of physics as we know them.
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And although I didn't get confirmation for many years
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that was in fact what it was.
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Disembarkment was just normal.
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I thought about talking to the pilot, but
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decided against it.
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So I went home.
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Scott and I were living in New York at the time
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and I told Scott what happened.
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What I had seen.
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And he just looked at me like he was disappointed.
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So I just didn't bring it up again...
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Until later.
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Despite the subject being taboo at home
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I could not stop thinking about it
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almost to the point of obsession for a number of months.
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Then one day I was online and I saw an article from the Post.
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The pilot, Ray Thompson, was fired
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for quote unquote, making the airline look ridiculous
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with his quote unquote, unbelievable story.
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That was my pilot.
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I was...
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I was pissed.
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So I immediately wrote a letter to the Post
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backing up his claims.
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I felt like my having a solid scientific reputation would somehow support him
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and maybe have him not end his career.
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I signed my own name and I gave them permission to publish it.
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I did not think anyone would read it, nevermind care.
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But I was wrong.
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And it was possibly the worst decision I ever made.
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Scott found out from a colleague of his who sent him the letter.
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"Is this your Laura?"
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He printed it off, brought it home and confronted me with it.
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I honestly didn't feel like there was anything wrong with it.
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We disagreed. It was our first fight.
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The fallout from my acquaintances and colleagues was very swift.
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Even at work, I felt like I was being dismissed, questioned.
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My authority was gone.
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I heard people referring to me as a UFO nut.
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I was invited to a dinner party with Scott shortly after.
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I thought maybe it was a sign that things were dying down.
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It was a very prestigious party.
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I won't name names, but...
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It very quickly devolved into a round robin of people taking
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passive aggressive potshots at me.
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Making jokes about little green men.
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In the car ride home...
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Scott was... absent.
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Just shut me out, really, from that point forward.
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I think it was in the car that I knew that things would never be the same again.
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It didn't take very long before he ended the engagement.
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His career was in trouble.
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People were questioning him because they were questioning me.
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He had no choice, as far as he could tell.
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My career was taking a nosedive, and he felt like his career would be following.
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So... I understand.
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It wasn't very long after that, that I received a form letter
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telling me that my grants had been cancelled.
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I suppose I could have recanted the story.
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I thought about it.
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[somber piano music]
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After the engagement ended
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I was without a job in New York, which is not possible.
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So I decided to move back to LA
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which was the last place I could remember feeling happy.
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I didn't think that my new reputation would follow me
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all the way to the west coast, but it did.
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And I had trouble getting a job.
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The only job I could secure was teaching high school biology
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at Hollywood High School.
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I was there from 2004 until 2006.
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[mysterious glass harmonica music]
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One day in June of 2006
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I was grading finals in my classroom and two men entered.
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They were like G-men out of a movie.
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They started asking me about my UFO experience.
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So I immediately got my back up.
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I assumed that they were either tabloid reporters
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or some sort of kooky UFO researchers
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and I threatened to call the police.
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They informed me at that point that they belonged to a three letter agency.
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They said they were there to potentially offer me a job.
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They handed me a white card with a phone number on it
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and said that the phone number would be good for three days.
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Then they left.
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So I thought about it.
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I had nothing left to lose. So...
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On day three, I called them.
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The voice that answered asked me if I would consent to an interview.
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I said yes.
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That was it.
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And the next morning another G-man shows up
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in a black sedan
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knocks on my door and tells me he's there to take me to my interview.
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We drive to an abandoned parking lot in downtown LA
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where I'm transferred to a bus with blacked out windows.
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I'm the only person on the bus and the driver does not speak to me.
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We drive for what feels like about two hours.
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I have no idea where we're going.
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Then when we arrive at the destination
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two more G-men get on the bus, fit me with blackout goggles.
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Very dramatic, vey annoying.
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And lead me off the bus.
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When the goggles are removed, I am in a white room with a table, a chair
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a very obvious two way mirror
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and a mountain of paperwork.
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There's a speaker above me, and a woman's voice comes on
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and asks me to please go through the paperwork in order.
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First thing is a ridiculous personality questionnaire
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easily 500 questions.
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The next thing is a bunch of legal texts outlining
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how classified and confidential the information that I may receive would be.
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which I read thoroughly.
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After that, I am asked to make a list of everyone.
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All of my close friends, relatives, acquaintances
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Their contact information, their known whereabouts.
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Very short list.
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I didn't really have anyone in my life at the time
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so I wrote that down.
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After that, I was asked to write down my UFO experience.
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Then I started to get an inkling of what this might be about.
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So I was taken back to the bus with the goggles.
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two hour drive back to downtown LA, into the sedan, and home.
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I felt buzzed on the way home.
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I couldn't sleep that night.
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Like maybe something good would come of this after all.
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A couple of days later, I got a call
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asking me if I would accept the position.
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I had no idea what the position was
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but I just said yes.
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The next day, new guy shows up at the door and a black sedan. Same outfit.
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I'm taken to downtown LA again, onto the bus, driven for two hours.
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Goggles, whole nine.
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Back in the white room.
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Only this time instead of a mountain of paperwork
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there's an NDA and a book.
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The book is blue, bound.
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Nothing on the cover.
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The voice tells me to sign the NDA
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and then read the book cover to cover.
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At this point, I'm starting to get the vibe of what it must feel like
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for Scientologists when they're pulled into the little room
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and given the documents about Lord Xenu.
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Turns out it was something quite similar to that anyway.
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The book, "The Assessment"
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was compiled from over half a century of covert research.
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Everything that the United States government knew
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or at least this small cell within the Defense Department knew
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about the UFO phenomenon.
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So...
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If you want to know the truth about unidentified flying objects
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and the non-human intelligence that operates them...
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Here it is.
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[pulsing synthesizer bassline]
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[Audiobook Narrator:] The universe is nearly 18 billion years old.
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The milky way galaxy, in which our solar system resides
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is aged about 13 billion years, and contains as many as 400 billion stars
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and just as many individual planets.
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These are spans of time so vast that it’s beyond the comprehension of the individual human brain.
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Our Earth was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, and life evolved relatively soon after.
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Electricity arced through the early seas and certain molecules, over a couple billion more years, coalesced into organized forms.
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They became the same mindlessly-replicating nucleic acids that still comprise your own genetic code, as well as that of all other life on Earth.
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This process still took another two billion years before it produced anything interesting.
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The first sea creatures to shape their fins into feet and drag themselves ashore only did so 370 million years ago
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while early humans finally appeared as recently as just 3-million years ago.
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And even then we only arrived at a point of real technological ability within the last century.
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Human beings took their first powered flight only as recent as 1903...
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But something much more sophisticated has been flying around our skies since long before then.
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The first real UFO report dates from 1878.
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A farmer in Texas watched as a strange, apparently silent object flew overhead
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which when viewed from below resembled, as he put it, “a large saucer”.
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The object shot away into the far horizon and vanished.
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The paper which reported his story opined that it “deserves the attention of our scientists”.
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Then, as now, it publicly received none.
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More visitations soon followed.
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Over the next few decades came waves of reports of bright lights with dark bodies attached racing about the night skies of America.
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The quaint minds of the time interpreted these as airships created by some hidden genius.
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As the wave wore on reports became more dubious and obviously the products of limited imaginations
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but many of the sightings as described line up neatly with types of objects still being seen today.
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Over the first few decades of the 20th century, the intelligences piloting the UFOs made only infrequent appearances.
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Even the first World War, with its nascent aerial battles, was apparently not worthy of more thorough observation.
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That would soon change.
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World War II marks the emergence of the UFO phenomenon in its current form.
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In both European and Pacific theaters of combat
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pilots reported being tailed or paced by mysterious lights and wingless crafts that completely outmaneuvered them.
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Despite these objects never acting in a hostile fashion, they were assumed by the militaries of the world to be a new weapon developed by one of the various enemy nations.
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American pilots over Germany dubbed them “Kraut fireballs”, believing them to be some sinister Nazi innovation
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while their counterparts stationed in England took to calling them “Foo Fighters”
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which was originally “Fuckin’ Foo Fighters”, but this more colorful variant of the term was sanitized by the press of the time.
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UFOs were now a subject of private concern to the military, but awareness would soon spread to the public in 1947
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when pilot Kenneth Arnold and others reported seeing a fleet of saucer-like objects racing through the skies at supersonic speeds above Washington state.
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Newspapers picked up the story and reported it without mockery or ridicule, and a tide of open curiosity and interest spread across the globe.
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The public wanted answers.
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The problem, however, was that the military had none--
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a frightening scenario for the world’s most powerful nation.
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Thus began a policy of denial and ridicule that would forever poison the topic in the minds of the scientific community
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and make them unpaid stooges for the military’s campaign of secrecy.
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But why were these advanced beings suddenly so interested in us?
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That answer was obvious even then.
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[Maj. Donald Keyhoe:] The Air Force has officially analyzed the motives of possible visitors from space.
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Here is a direct quotation from the official report.
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"Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets.
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In the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed.
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We should therefore expect at this time above all to behold such visitations."
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[rising, atonal strings]
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[explosions]
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[ominous woodwind ensemble]
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[Audiobook Narrator:] The start of the Anthropocene epoch
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a proposed geological time scale that marks the era when human technology began to significantly impact the Earth
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has been proposed to start in 1945 with the detonation of the first atomic bomb.
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It is not coincidence that our visitors turned out in droves at this exact same point in time.
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Their increased observation of our planet runs precisely parallel with our increased destruction of it.
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Carl Sagan, the patron saint of armchair scientists
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once opined that it was absurd to entertain the idea that beings from another planet would be such regular visitors to our own
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likening such a scenario to every anthropologist on Earth running to go see the natives on some remote island develop a new fishing net.
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His apparent prejudice against the worth of native cultures aside, this argument has always seemed to me to be both stupid and in bad faith
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considering this view is commonly espoused by the same type of scientist who will also try to instill you with a schmaltzy sense of awe
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about the wondrous nature of life on Earth.
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Either this planet is a backwater dump unworthy of cosmic study, or it’s a glowing jewel of beauty unique amongst the vast emptiness of space.
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I wish they’d make up their minds.
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But we are not alone.
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The question of the origin and purpose of the UFO craft visiting the Earth has spawned competing hypotheses
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some more valid than others.
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The most popular, and most obvious, is that they are extraterrestrial vehicles or technology
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operated by intelligences that evolved in another solar system, possibly even another galaxy.
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After all, they have been tracked on radar entering the atmosphere from outer space, and have been quietly observed by astronauts in orbit.
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Though it is not the sexiest or most exotic explanation, it is the one that fits the data
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and is the one subscribed to by myself personally, by the majority of CEU personnel and by most of the military.
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Those more exotic explanations include the Interdimensional hypothesis
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which argues that the craft originate from another dimension or plane of reality, which sounds exciting and dangerous, but is completely untestable scientifically
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and basically tantamount to saying they are magic.
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Then there is the Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis, in which the UFOs are explained as technology developed by an even more advanced species endemic to the Earth
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who have somehow never been discovered and have also left no trace of themselves in the fossil record.
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In a similar vein is another explanation, which every few years gets trotted out by some new researcher
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who thinks it’s bold and novel and not something that has occurred to every stoned undergrad in their dorm room at 3am.
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I am of course referring to the idea that UFOs are simply time travel devices used by humans from the future,
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an idea so silly and far fetched that it was once even used as the plot of a Godzilla movie.
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Finally, there is a hypothesis that has a depressing but unsurprising number of adherents at both the Pentagon and in government
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which is the belief that UFOs are demonic in origin and emissaries of Satan meant to test the faith of our god fearing Christian nation.
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The term “UFO”--unidentified flying object--as well as the fashionable, newer term “UAP”--unidentified aerial phenomena
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are both something of a misnomer.
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While the craft are often viewed in the sky, they are not "flying",
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which describes a solid object moving atop the gasses that make up our atmosphere by some means of physical propulsion.
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UFOs do not do this.
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While they move at often hypersonic speed, they do not create sonic booms, or any sound at all, which indicates there is no displacement of the air around them.
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They give off no exhaust plume or indications of conventional propulsion.
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In fact, one of the fastest ways to send a UFO report into the trash at the CEU
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was to say that it made loud noises, gave off exhaust or any other indicators of conventional jet propulsion.
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Such cases can almost always be comfortably written off as hoaxes or misidentifications.
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Not only do the craft not create sonic booms, they also sidestep the concept of inertia.
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They regularly make hard right angle turns going at speeds of over 14,000 miles an hour
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so fast that they can lap the entire circumference of the Earth in less than an hour.
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Theoretically, anything with mass that occupies physical space should be subject to inertia, gravity, the whole lot
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but UFOs, which occasionally show up on radar and therefore have a concrete, physical presence in conjunction with their visible appearance
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have apparently never heard of any of these human concepts of physics, because they disregard all of them.
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Not only do they merrily zip through space completely unimpeded, they plunge into the depths of the ocean without so much as a splash or a ripple.
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They seem to be both here and not here at the same time, phasing through space, or simply bending it around them somehow.
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They don’t really move in and of themselves--what they actually seem to do is move the immediate universe around them.
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In addition to this, they have advanced cloaking capabilities.
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UFOs will commonly show up on radar or sonar while being completely invisible to the naked eye, only becoming so when viewed through infrared or the ultraviolet spectrum.
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Conversely, they will often show up plain as day for all to see, but remain completely undetectable by radar.
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If they are detected or seen, it seems to be either an intentional display, such as their frequent appearances above nuclear weapons sites in both the United States and former Soviet Union
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or simply a rare instance of them letting their guard down and apparently not caring.
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After all, even if they are seen there is nothing we can really do about it.
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Their favored method of concealment, however, is also the most simple.
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They are not really hanging out in our skies.
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Their preferred habitat on Earth is at the bottom of the ocean, where they can conduct their business with almost no interference or detection by humanity.
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One of the jokes commonly told among CEU staff was the idea that someday we will finally crack the language of the dolphins and the whales
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whereupon they will tell us that space aliens have been visiting and communicating with them for aeons
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but did not want to talk to us stupid, primative landwalkers on shore.
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We know they are here--but why are they here?
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The CEU still does not know.
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Neither do the various other top secret research groups, I’d wager,
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many of which are housed and protected at private corporations so as to be off limits to government auditors.
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And neither do the civilian investigators.
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Modern ufology is not a science, it is a subculture
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and it attracts mainly either New Age post-hippies or paranoid right-wingers
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who add UFOs to their list of fringe hobbies next to the Illuminati and various antisemitic conspiracies.
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And it is also no coincidence that the Alien abduction craze reached its zenith in parallel with the Satanic panic of the late 1980s and early 90s
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when quack investigators used the supremely unreliable technique of regressive hypnosis to make their victims believe that they had been anally probed by space beings
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or forced to participate in suburban basement blood orgies.
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What I do know is that there are over 9 million species of life on Earth, which means over 9 million points of potential study for hypothetical scientists from elsewhere.
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That number, however, is rapidly shrinking thanks to just one species on Earth, which will probably soon include itself among the number of the vanished.
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I often think of the intelligences visiting us as being akin to our own scientists stationed in Antarctica
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who occasionally cross paths with a disoriented penguin heading away from shore and into the endless frozen wastes.
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The scientists follow a strict code of non-intervention; and so they must watch as the poor creature waddles out into the white horizon to die alone
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unable to save it with merely a simple nudge in the other direction.
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[Dr. Gale:] So after reading all of this, I was given two choices:
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Either join the Counter-Espionage Unit, the CEU
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or rot in mediocrity for the rest of my life in complete fear of all the NDAs I just signed.
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Needless to say, I joined the CEU.
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The CEU was so named because the UFO phenomenon is so elusive that it's nearly impossible to gather data on them in the first place.
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So we can either do it by chance, or through purposeful spying.
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However, whenever, wherever we can.
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The UFO intelligences observe us, so we do our best to observe them.
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The CEU was formed in 1972 by the Nixon administration.
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Now, Nixon was a paranoid psychopath
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so it must come of no surprise that he would be spooked by the UFO phenomenon and want to do anything possible to get as much information as he could.
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Although there were several other organizations that existed prior to the CEU,
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the CEU was the first one that was actually beginning from a point of acceptance.
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All of the other organizations from prior administrations began with the idea that we need to investigate this phenomenon, to see if it actually exists.
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Whereas we said, we know that this exists, we know that there are alien craft or alien intelligence of some sort.
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And we're going to start from that as our benchmark, and then investigate from there.
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The woman who ran the CEU during my tenure was--we'll call her Rachel.
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She managed to hold on to her position for more than 20 years.
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She was appointed by Ronald Reagan in the 80s.
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[Ronald Reagan:] I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide
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would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
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And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us?
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[Dr. Gale:] She had wonderful stories about her time in the CEU when Reagan was in charge.
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He used to come by the office and demand to see the "dead space aliens".
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At which point she would tell him there are no dead space aliens...
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That we know of, on earth.
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And he would say "Oh, okay", and then leave.
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And then he would come back a couple of months later demanding to see the space aliens again.
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Because he was senile.
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At which point she would again tell him there are no dead space aliens.
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Until finally he came back and threw a complete temper tantrum.
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She told him "Okay, give me a week, Ronnie, I'm going to show you the dead space aliens, but they're top secret."
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She thought that maybe just telling him that would make him go away
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but then he told her "If I don't see those those dead space aliens in a week, I'm cutting the funding to the CEU".
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So her top secret location where she was holding the dead space aliens was actually a Halloween store in Burbank.
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She went and found two foam prop space aliens, covered them with green slime and stuck them in a freezer
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and then called Ronnie to come in the middle of the night and take a look at them.
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After he saw them, he was so impressed he doubled the budget for the CEU.
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In terms of staff at the CEU, there are several tiers.
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There are approximately 10 to 15 high level staff who have read the Assessment
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and who are in charge of interpreting data, either in part or in full.
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And then there are approximately 30 to 50 low level staff who have not read the Assessment
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but who do mostly field work, and they're in charge of collecting data or they're mainly functionaries.
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Most of our time was spent either analyzing data that we stole from other countries
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or that was given to us by [CENSOR BLEEP],
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a billionaire who was obsessed with UFOs, and who proved to be a useful idiot for funding and other resources.
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When I was at the CEU, we were understaffed. So Rachel and I included, there were only seven high level staff who actually got to analyze data as it came in.
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Forming any kind of close relationship with any of my colleagues at the CEU was forbidden, because of the sensitive nature of what we were studying.
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I did however get buddy-buddy with a colleague, who we'll call Paul.
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Paul was in his late 50s, early 60s. Balding, paunchy, glasses.
Typical science nerd.
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And Paul and I bonded over the fact that we had both been essentially laughed out of our respective fields.
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Paul was an astronomer, and very well respected.
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He had actually no interest in UFOs until he was at a conference
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a high level conference actually, and he went outside to have a cigarette during the keynote speech.
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Like most people of this generation, he was a pretty heavy smoker.
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While Paul was outside he had a sighting.
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A UFO descended from the clouds and hovered above the building where he was having a cigarette.
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He ran inside the conference, interrupted the keynote speech
and yelled at the top of his lungs:
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"There is a UFO outside, everyone come and look!"
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350 astronomers, and nobody moved.
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He said, "No, I'm, I'm serious! There's a UFO outside!"
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He said people turned away from him.
Literally turned their backs to him.
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Nobody went outside.
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In that moment, he knew his career was over. And it was.
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Until Rachel came and scooped him up, and brought him in to the CEU.
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When I was at the CEU, the main focus of our work was codenamed "Deep One".
459
00:43:52,667 --> 00:44:02,167
And this was the investigation of a deep sea base off the coast of Mexico that appeared to be some sort of waystation for the UFO craft visiting our planet.
460
00:44:02,208 --> 00:44:13,608
The craft would descend somewhere north of Catalina Island, just off the coast of Los Angeles, then cruise along the coast to Guadalupe Island
461
00:44:13,667 --> 00:44:15,107
and then submerge.
462
00:44:15,542 --> 00:44:19,742
Now what they were doing underwater, we still don't know.
463
00:44:20,750 --> 00:44:26,302
We took several trips out to the installation in order to ascertain what was going on there.
464
00:44:26,383 --> 00:44:31,823
By the time I left, the only things that we knew for sure were, one: the coordinates
465
00:44:31,908 --> 00:44:36,156
Two: the approximate size of the base, which was about three miles by three miles.
466
00:44:36,242 --> 00:44:40,850
And three: that it was guarded by some very sophisticated sonic weaponry.
467
00:44:40,892 --> 00:44:46,892
Anything that you send down there:
cameras, submersibles, divers...
468
00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:54,600
doesn't come back, at least not in one piece.
469
00:44:56,317 --> 00:45:09,317
The CEU learned this the hard way in the 70s when they attempted to send down a submersible, piloted by divers, that was capable of reaching the deep sea.
470
00:45:10,075 --> 00:45:17,435
At a certain point, the crew topside received frantic messages from the divers that was quickly replaced by static.
471
00:45:18,208 --> 00:45:19,208
[distorted screaming voices over radio]
472
00:45:19,308 --> 00:45:22,175
When they tried to reel them back up, well,
473
00:45:22,333 --> 00:45:28,333
they found the submersible had been crushed, like a tin can.
474
00:45:28,342 --> 00:45:30,875
There were no survivors, obviously.
475
00:45:31,783 --> 00:45:35,783
After that, the CEU's work at the site was mostly indirect.
476
00:45:35,833 --> 00:45:45,033
No one wanted to be responsible for instigating an interstellar war, so we were forbidden from on high from trying to make any contact.
477
00:45:45,708 --> 00:45:52,708
Which was much to Rachel's dismay,
because her sole purpose in life was to make contact.
478
00:45:58,033 --> 00:46:07,233
We had videos of lights deep down under the sea, which was a potential glimpse of Deep One from far away.
479
00:46:12,808 --> 00:46:19,408
We had sonar readings, we had videos of the craft entering and exiting the sea.
480
00:46:21,875 --> 00:46:23,875
Always filmed from far away.
481
00:46:27,833 --> 00:46:29,513
[eerie ambient music]
482
00:46:35,683 --> 00:46:40,739
But whatever it was that was going on down there,
we just weren't meant to know.
483
00:46:45,333 --> 00:46:50,197
We've talked about things that are.
Now let's talk about things that are not.
484
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:56,308
Majestic-12? Complete bullshit.
Project Serpo? Forgot it.
485
00:46:56,583 --> 00:47:03,315
Anything that tells you that there are aliens running around or having dinner with the President? Complete crap.
486
00:47:03,458 --> 00:47:10,434
No, there can't be any real government alien conspiracies because they're too stupid to actually create them.
487
00:47:10,708 --> 00:47:21,708
It's incredible to me that the general public thinks that the government is capable of concealing a secret for 50 years over multiple administrations.
488
00:47:22,375 --> 00:47:25,723
They can't even keep a secret through one administration.
489
00:47:25,792 --> 00:47:34,792
And if one government can't keep it together to keep it a secret, how in the hell could the entire world's governments keep it together to keep it a secret
490
00:47:34,858 --> 00:47:36,725
over the course of 50 years?
491
00:47:37,333 --> 00:47:39,333
There is no conspiracy.
492
00:47:40,383 --> 00:47:46,383
[Radio Announcer:] Headline news, July 8 1947.
493
00:47:46,750 --> 00:47:52,262
The Army Air Force has announced that a flying disc has been found and is now in the possession of the Army.
494
00:47:52,350 --> 00:47:58,086
Army officers say the missile, found sometime last week, has been inspected at Roswell, New Mexico
495
00:47:58,108 --> 00:48:01,264
and sent to Wright Field, Ohio for further inspection.
496
00:48:01,317 --> 00:48:05,377
[Dr. Gale:] No, a flying saucer did not crash at Roswell in 1947.
497
00:48:05,817 --> 00:48:10,829
It was exactly what they said it was when they revealed the documents in the 1990s.
498
00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:16,900
It was a balloon, an espionage balloon that was part of Project Mogul.
499
00:48:17,942 --> 00:48:26,942
Now, for some reason the first story that was created was that it was a UFO because UFOs were popular at the time.
500
00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:29,950
And it was an idiotic story,
501
00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:35,062
and they realized very quickly that it just made people more curious about what they were in fact doing.
502
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:41,324
So they wheeled back on that story and they told a new story,
that it was a weather balloon
503
00:48:41,417 --> 00:48:44,517
which was closer to the truth but not actually the truth.
504
00:48:44,933 --> 00:48:55,533
And then continued to just create stories about crash test dummies and other other stories that would convolute the actual truth,
505
00:48:55,583 --> 00:49:02,683
which of course, when it came out in the 90s wasn't believed by that point because they'd been lying for so long and creating false information
506
00:49:02,775 --> 00:49:06,555
that why should you believe them when they actually do tell the truth?
507
00:49:07,125 --> 00:49:13,197
This has been a constant pattern with the military and their relationship with UFOs since day one.
508
00:49:13,208 --> 00:49:20,908
[Digitally altered voice:] We operate from a designated base in the United States. It's in the state of Nevada in an area called
509
00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:22,972
Area 51 or "Dreamland".
510
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:32,000
["Falcon":] The extraterrestrials have complete control of this base,
which is located in Nevada.
511
00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:35,222
[Dr. Gale:] No, there are no aliens at Area 51.
512
00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:49,175
The reason we think there are aliens at Area 51 is because the government has hired disinformation agents in order to propagate interesting tales about aliens and UFOs operating from that site.
513
00:49:49,650 --> 00:49:57,010
The reason they've done that is because it is a site of testing of defense weapons, dumping of illegal chemicals...
514
00:49:57,542 --> 00:50:08,542
All sorts of games that the government plays that wastes money, and they would rather not have people witnessing.
515
00:50:08,592 --> 00:50:13,392
The mythmaking was started when the government
hired these disinformation agents.
516
00:50:13,483 --> 00:50:19,183
Gave them basically, you know, free rein to create whatever types of stories they wanted to create.
517
00:50:19,225 --> 00:50:24,593
It doesn't seem like they had a lot of oversight in terms of what was coming out of the mouths of these people.
518
00:50:25,025 --> 00:50:34,325
It began with Richard Doty. In 1988, he made an appearance on a show called "UFO Cover Up? Live!"
519
00:50:37,908 --> 00:50:42,416
He appeared as a secret government informant
under the codename Falcon.
520
00:50:42,750 --> 00:50:44,190
["Falcon" speaks]
521
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:06,000
He revealed such top secret information as
aliens have big black eyes, and gray skin...
522
00:51:14,333 --> 00:51:16,733
...and like to eat strawberry ice cream.
523
00:51:28,175 --> 00:51:33,875
From there, he created all sorts of incredible science fiction stories.
524
00:51:33,958 --> 00:51:44,058
As a matter of fact, I think he would rival L. Ron Hubbard for the sheer volume of sci-fi that he's created over the course of his career.
525
00:51:44,750 --> 00:51:49,850
["Falcon":] MJ-12 was a group of people within the government.
526
00:51:50,208 --> 00:51:54,608
MJ-12 was created by President Truman in the early 50s.
527
00:51:55,125 --> 00:52:00,825
So after Richard Doty came Bob Lazar.
Very quickly after, actually.
528
00:52:01,250 --> 00:52:02,610
[synthwave music]
529
00:52:09,825 --> 00:52:11,265
Hi, I'm Bob Lazar.
530
00:52:11,417 --> 00:52:19,417
During late 1988 and early 89, I worked on the propulsion systems of extraterrestrial vehicles for the United States government.
531
00:52:21,950 --> 00:52:23,950
Bob Lazar is a complete fraud.
532
00:52:25,342 --> 00:52:28,142
Nothing he says should be taken seriously.
533
00:52:28,367 --> 00:52:31,967
Now, the CEU is a government agency.
534
00:52:32,083 --> 00:52:42,083
We're a small unit buried under layers of bureaucracy, that of course no one within the government even knows exists for the most part
535
00:52:42,375 --> 00:52:44,319
and definitely didn't know what we were doing.
536
00:52:44,383 --> 00:52:55,783
So when you think about people like Richard Doty being financed by completely other arms of the government that are not focused on science at all
537
00:52:56,125 --> 00:53:01,281
but are focused on the military and covering up whatever the military is up to,
538
00:53:01,583 --> 00:53:08,559
"aliens" is just a convenient side story that they can use in order to distract from what's really going on.
539
00:53:08,708 --> 00:53:14,404
Now unfortunately, when you're funded by the military
you have a lot more at your disposal
540
00:53:14,883 --> 00:53:19,343
as opposed to our funding which was trickling down on a good day.
541
00:53:19,992 --> 00:53:23,500
The CEU actually has one UFO in its possession.
542
00:53:23,792 --> 00:53:33,692
It was found in the 60s. It is about the size of a camper van and shaped vaguely like a popcorn kernel.
543
00:53:35,117 --> 00:53:40,485
Despite all the rumors about Area 51,
nothing has ever been reverse engineered from this.
544
00:53:40,875 --> 00:53:47,083
It is extremely old. We know that from carbon dating of the stones that it was found embedded in.
545
00:53:48,033 --> 00:53:50,566
It's made of a beautiful silver alloy.
546
00:53:51,217 --> 00:53:54,217
The fuselage is impenetrable.
547
00:53:57,675 --> 00:54:01,075
Because it's impenetrable,
we've never been able to get in in any way.
548
00:54:02,042 --> 00:54:07,042
It's just sitting in a top secret hangar in storage, gathering dust.
549
00:54:10,208 --> 00:54:11,888
[eerie ambient music]
550
00:54:25,708 --> 00:54:28,652
We never studied alien abductions at the CEU
551
00:54:30,433 --> 00:54:35,073
mostly because there was no scientific evidence to support that they actually exist.
552
00:54:35,508 --> 00:54:42,560
Now the main reason for this is that every single explanation of an alien abduction always begins with the same story,
553
00:54:42,583 --> 00:54:49,583
and that story is exactly in alignment with stories that come with sleep paralysis.
554
00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:57,548
The second reason is that the narrative of alien abductions has changed over time.
555
00:54:59,158 --> 00:55:07,558
If in fact the same thing was happening to everyone,
we would see very, very similar
556
00:55:08,067 --> 00:55:11,134
specifications in terms of the story.
557
00:55:11,158 --> 00:55:18,046
I'm not talking about, you know, I was probed and my eggs were stolen, and they made me ejaculate and stole my sperm.
558
00:55:18,533 --> 00:55:23,077
I'm talking about the narrative surrounding what the beings look like.
559
00:55:23,842 --> 00:55:31,842
So even the typical greys that have permeated pop culture, every person who describes them has a slightly different interpretation.
560
00:55:31,850 --> 00:55:38,182
The eyes are positioned differently, they're bigger or smaller, and then that has even changed over time as well.
561
00:55:38,717 --> 00:55:44,917
They've wrapped around the head, or there's a nose or there's no nose, or there's ears or no ears, and the skin is different.
562
00:55:44,975 --> 00:55:48,975
The height is different. The noises they make are different.
563
00:55:50,267 --> 00:55:58,967
I just don't give much credence to reports of aliens because the odds of something like that adapting on another planet that looks humanoid
564
00:55:58,967 --> 00:56:00,487
are extremely rare.
565
00:56:00,533 --> 00:56:05,745
The other thing is, how are they running around
with the ability to breathe our air?
566
00:56:05,833 --> 00:56:11,869
If they did evolve on another planet, chances are, you know, they would need some sort of spacesuit
567
00:56:11,917 --> 00:56:16,909
or clothing at the very least in order to be able to deal with our atmosphere.
568
00:56:17,075 --> 00:56:26,575
Now people who report alien abduction stories
shouldn't be mocked or made fun of.
569
00:56:27,367 --> 00:56:29,800
Sleep paralysis feels very real.
570
00:56:30,850 --> 00:56:38,550
As you know, anything that happens between the waking and asleep state, it's very difficult to discern what is real and what isn't.
571
00:56:38,575 --> 00:56:47,575
And for many people, these alien abduction stories become part of a recurring, waking nightmare.
572
00:56:48,492 --> 00:56:51,392
And I have a lot of empathy for those people.
573
00:56:51,433 --> 00:57:01,733
But it just seems as though the popular culture narrative has permeated these sleep paralysis experiences, nothing more.
574
00:57:03,117 --> 00:57:08,317
I had a coworker at the CEU. We'll call him Joe.
575
00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:10,692
He was an excellent researcher.
576
00:57:11,733 --> 00:57:13,413
Seemed like a decent guy.
577
00:57:16,142 --> 00:57:19,598
One day, he just completely disappeared from his desk.
578
00:57:22,100 --> 00:57:24,033
I asked Rachel what happened.
579
00:57:26,458 --> 00:57:30,874
She didn't want to tell me at first, but eventually she revealed that
580
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:38,200
Joe believed he had made direct contact with the aliens.
581
00:57:40,700 --> 00:57:49,600
He'd been camping and a grey alien with black eyes had come into the tent and brought him aboard the spaceship.
582
00:57:50,725 --> 00:57:55,973
It's a very typical sleep paralysis story.
And frankly, I was kind of disappointed
583
00:57:56,808 --> 00:57:57,808
in Joe.
584
00:58:01,992 --> 00:58:07,992
I mean, regardless of what happened,
because who am I to say at this point, really
585
00:58:10,575 --> 00:58:13,647
that story compromised the security of our unit.
586
00:58:17,158 --> 00:58:20,506
It undermined the integrity of what we were trying to do.
587
00:58:21,183 --> 00:58:26,111
We're never going to be taken seriously with gray beings with big black eyes.
588
00:58:29,608 --> 00:58:30,888
So he had to go.
589
00:58:35,042 --> 00:58:42,042
I have very mixed feelings about Rachel in retrospect.
590
00:58:42,950 --> 00:58:48,950
She sought me out to work there, and she was very kind
591
00:58:50,658 --> 00:58:55,922
and gave me a lot more leeway than I probably should have been allowed in that type of organization.
592
00:58:55,992 --> 00:59:00,272
She had built something truly extraordinary, but then had leveled off.
593
00:59:00,292 --> 00:59:06,292
In a way, it felt like at a point that she was
just humoring me professionally.
594
00:59:07,292 --> 00:59:11,672
And the whole system, the way it's set up, really is quite ridiculous.
595
00:59:11,717 --> 00:59:15,597
You know, to have a scientific organization reporting to a government.
596
00:59:15,625 --> 00:59:19,625
It's like toddlers running a daycare center.
597
00:59:22,767 --> 00:59:26,267
There were moments in, you know...
598
00:59:26,325 --> 00:59:29,192
We spent a lot of time working together and
599
00:59:29,650 --> 00:59:33,650
Rachel, I think was attracted to me from the beginning.
600
00:59:36,783 --> 00:59:42,783
And when I started to realize that, a bitterness grew inside me.
601
00:59:43,550 --> 00:59:55,450
Just for all the years of feeling like I was being promoted or paid attention to because of my looks and not because of my ability.
602
00:59:55,950 --> 01:00:04,350
It's hard to articulate what the reason was for my departure.
603
01:00:07,017 --> 01:00:08,697
But I just had had enough.
604
01:00:13,708 --> 01:00:15,908
[waves and ocean in the distance]
605
01:00:18,208 --> 01:00:20,008
[ominous, atonal woodwinds]
606
01:00:37,142 --> 01:00:43,294
[Dr. Gale:] In 2009, Rachel received communication
from the Coast Guard off the Bering Strait.
607
01:00:44,742 --> 01:00:51,742
There had been several counts of first,
contact on sonar and on radar,
608
01:00:53,392 --> 01:00:58,292
and then sightings of a large, boxcar shaped object.
609
01:00:59,483 --> 01:01:05,583
We immediately charted a flight and went to Alaska.
Myself, Rachel and Paul.
610
01:01:07,708 --> 01:01:14,908
We arrived in Alaska and boarded a ship with a skeleton crew, and went out into the Bering Sea.
611
01:01:14,933 --> 01:01:19,093
Into the spot where all of the the observations had taken place.
612
01:01:20,225 --> 01:01:23,469
On the first day, about 2:30 in the afternoon,
613
01:01:26,458 --> 01:01:38,558
we saw a large, boxcar shaped craft emerge from the sea.
614
01:01:40,950 --> 01:01:56,150
It was two rectangular objects tethered in the center
that ascended from the sea to the sky.
615
01:01:57,267 --> 01:01:59,600
Almost like an amusement park ride.
616
01:02:10,875 --> 01:02:18,875
It almost looked like some sort of conveyor belt, in a way, that wasn't attached to anything by the way that it moved on top of itself
617
01:02:18,958 --> 01:02:20,158
as it ascended.
618
01:02:20,417 --> 01:02:23,981
We estimate that they were about 200 feet in length.
619
01:02:24,558 --> 01:02:31,458
The vessel moved from the sea to the sky without
displacing any water, any air...
620
01:02:31,458 --> 01:02:37,654
...and took about a minute to travel from the sea to the clouds, to the point where we couldn't see them anymore.
621
01:02:38,208 --> 01:02:44,808
According to the Coast Guard, this was the same spot that it was occurring in over and over again, so we were pretty sure we were going to see more.
622
01:02:44,900 --> 01:02:49,316
Although on the way out there, I didn't actually think
that we were going to witness anything.
623
01:02:50,992 --> 01:02:58,792
Because what typically happens is that there's a sighting in a spot, and even multiple sightings. And then once people start to show up in anticipation
624
01:02:58,817 --> 01:03:01,273
it's almost like they know and they don't come back.
625
01:03:01,517 --> 01:03:07,117
So I was really floored that we saw anything at all.
626
01:03:08,733 --> 01:03:12,445
On the second day, there was very poor visibility. Storms.
627
01:03:14,450 --> 01:03:16,130
We didn't see anything.
628
01:03:20,667 --> 01:03:23,267
The third day, in the morning,
629
01:03:24,583 --> 01:03:28,583
we saw another craft, and then again in the afternoon.
630
01:03:29,850 --> 01:03:37,250
At this point, Rachel hypothesized that they
were transport vehicles of some sort.
631
01:03:38,017 --> 01:03:42,753
That they were mining something in the ocean
and taking it up into the sky.
632
01:03:43,617 --> 01:03:45,617
Paul was disturbed.
633
01:03:47,225 --> 01:03:51,769
You know, it's one thing to study but it's another thing to experience.
634
01:03:53,908 --> 01:03:56,041
The next night, we were sleeping
635
01:03:57,708 --> 01:04:03,536
and one of the Coast Guard staff came down and woke us up, and told us to get to the deck immediately.
636
01:04:03,617 --> 01:04:06,717
And we did, and what we saw was...
637
01:04:07,658 --> 01:04:13,658
a green glow coming from beneath the surface of the sea
638
01:04:14,525 --> 01:04:18,025
with a very distinctive, spherical shape.
639
01:04:18,700 --> 01:04:22,924
We tracked it on sonar.
It was in fact a solid object, and it moved
640
01:04:24,383 --> 01:04:29,583
from where it was to directly underneath our ship.
641
01:04:37,825 --> 01:04:42,225
Now the craft was about three times the size of our ship.
642
01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:47,167
And our ship was nearly 80 feet long.
643
01:04:48,017 --> 01:04:51,025
Nothing about the movement of our ship changed.
644
01:04:53,667 --> 01:04:57,467
I didn't feel any vibrations. Nothing.
645
01:05:06,333 --> 01:05:08,013
But I did feel afraid.
646
01:05:10,533 --> 01:05:19,933
If it were to ascend, it would have toppled our ship in an instant.
647
01:05:21,392 --> 01:05:24,392
Then all of a sudden it was gone.
648
01:05:25,725 --> 01:05:29,629
It was no longer on the sonar, and the light had disappeared.
649
01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:46,100
The next day, Paul and I had a long discussion about the very strong feeling that we both had that we should leave.
650
01:05:48,583 --> 01:05:51,083
But Rachel was hearing none of it
651
01:05:53,333 --> 01:05:56,200
and became obsessed with making contact.
652
01:05:59,683 --> 01:06:07,283
That night, she started by shining a very, very bright
spotlight onto the surface of the sea.
653
01:06:08,467 --> 01:06:17,067
And she decided to use Morse code, because she figured that since they've been able to disrupt our technology that they would be able to decipher Morse code.
654
01:06:17,850 --> 01:06:25,150
That night, she started to fire Morse code with a
giant spotlight onto the surface of the sea.
655
01:06:26,825 --> 01:06:30,825
"We want to make contact", over and over again, for hours.
656
01:06:34,667 --> 01:06:35,667
Nothing.
657
01:06:37,867 --> 01:06:44,059
The next day, she decided to emit audio signals through the water through a very high powered speaker.
658
01:06:44,125 --> 01:06:51,613
She continuously, for hours, said: "We want to make contact, we are representatives of the United States government."
659
01:06:56,242 --> 01:06:57,242
Nothing.
660
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:03,100
Until Rachel decided to shoot a laser
661
01:07:06,925 --> 01:07:08,925
at the transportation vehicle.
662
01:07:12,850 --> 01:07:22,850
But this time instead of, I don't know, her long ass Morse code message, she just shot "contact".
663
01:07:23,533 --> 01:07:26,533
C-O-N-T-A-C-T.
664
01:07:26,858 --> 01:07:30,058
For the entire time from emergence to ascendance.
665
01:07:34,100 --> 01:07:35,100
No response.
666
01:07:38,517 --> 01:07:41,184
Until the craft ascended into the clouds
667
01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:46,725
and then every system on our ship shut down.
668
01:07:47,375 --> 01:07:49,055
[ominous low strings]
669
01:07:50,650 --> 01:07:58,950
The engines turned off. All of the communication devices, our cell phones, our camera equipment, everything dead.
670
01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:04,684
For 20 minutes, the crew was running around trying to get everything back online.
671
01:08:04,975 --> 01:08:07,142
Paul was completely frantic.
672
01:08:09,250 --> 01:08:10,250
Then...
673
01:08:12,675 --> 01:08:14,355
along the horizon line...
674
01:08:17,675 --> 01:08:25,275
I saw a massive object start to ascend out of the water.
675
01:08:25,550 --> 01:08:30,750
It looked like a landmass was rising out of the sea.
676
01:08:33,625 --> 01:08:35,492
[intense ethereal whooshing]
677
01:08:37,975 --> 01:08:45,275
As it ascended out of the water, bone dry, not a drop coming off of it
678
01:08:46,550 --> 01:08:52,266
it was easily the largest thing I've ever seen,
and I've never seen anything that size moving.
679
01:08:53,242 --> 01:08:56,570
As it cleared the water it started to move toward us
680
01:08:57,375 --> 01:08:59,055
[low rumbling, whooshing]
681
01:09:09,725 --> 01:09:13,289
and positioned itself right over top of our vessel.
682
01:09:16,050 --> 01:09:18,183
Completely blocking out the sun.
683
01:09:26,917 --> 01:09:32,417
It was so close we could have thrown a rock off the bow and hit it.
684
01:09:34,017 --> 01:09:35,057
Paul fainted.
685
01:09:38,883 --> 01:09:40,483
I felt like, just...
686
01:09:41,092 --> 01:09:42,992
incapable of moving.
687
01:09:45,450 --> 01:09:46,450
And then...
688
01:09:48,783 --> 01:09:51,883
a noise started to come out of Paul's throat.
689
01:09:56,642 --> 01:10:02,442
It was like nothing I'd ever heard before.
690
01:10:05,158 --> 01:10:06,838
It did not sound human.
691
01:10:09,292 --> 01:10:12,292
And the noise became words.
692
01:10:17,450 --> 01:10:18,450
And it said,
693
01:10:19,283 --> 01:10:20,323
"No contact".
694
01:10:23,167 --> 01:10:24,207
"No contact".
695
01:10:24,475 --> 01:10:25,515
"No contact".
696
01:10:26,917 --> 01:10:27,957
"No contact".
697
01:10:29,075 --> 01:10:30,075
Four times.
698
01:10:37,225 --> 01:10:38,905
And then it was gone.
699
01:10:39,867 --> 01:10:41,067
It disappeared.
700
01:10:42,825 --> 01:10:49,825
It was like it went from night to day,
because when it disappeared the sun blinded us.
701
01:10:55,258 --> 01:10:57,158
Paul came to...
702
01:10:58,675 --> 01:11:00,675
and was just out of his mind.
703
01:11:01,633 --> 01:11:09,177
He needed medical attention, so we rested back at the Coast Guard facilities for a couple of days and then returned home.
704
01:11:14,633 --> 01:11:22,133
When we got back to the office, I filled out my reports,
my observations, and the whole time
705
01:11:23,375 --> 01:11:32,175
I kept thinking about how momentous this experience was, and how important it was to share this information with the world.
706
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:38,800
Rachel didn't want to talk about it.
707
01:11:42,042 --> 01:11:45,370
Eventually, I just felt like I had to say something.
708
01:11:45,392 --> 01:11:46,592
I cornered her.
709
01:11:50,258 --> 01:11:54,946
And I asked her if this was the first recorded incident of contact?
710
01:11:57,992 --> 01:11:59,352
And she said yes.
711
01:12:06,033 --> 01:12:08,366
She said yes but it meant nothing.
712
01:12:10,325 --> 01:12:14,725
She felt that if they didn't want to make contact with us, then what was the point?
713
01:12:14,808 --> 01:12:20,808
She felt like all of the work that she had done at the CEU was for nothing.
714
01:12:22,742 --> 01:12:23,742
So myopic.
715
01:12:25,267 --> 01:12:36,267
Like, if this was the first known contact, recorded contact, then this is the most significant thing to happen to mankind in all of recorded history.
716
01:12:38,083 --> 01:12:40,083
And the public needs to know.
717
01:12:40,967 --> 01:12:44,567
And she said, "No".
718
01:12:51,125 --> 01:12:55,853
And I said, "I don't think that you get to be the one to make that decision."
719
01:12:57,008 --> 01:13:00,008
She said, "Yes, I am."
720
01:13:01,283 --> 01:13:08,583
So I went back to my desk, and I memorized as many of the data points as I could.
721
01:13:09,917 --> 01:13:12,117
And I left.
722
01:13:19,233 --> 01:13:21,633
I knew I was never going to be back.
723
01:13:25,892 --> 01:13:33,892
As soon as I got home, I wrote down everything that I could remember from that incident and every incident that had taken place over the course of my time there.
724
01:13:35,508 --> 01:13:37,508
And I started writing my book.
725
01:13:38,433 --> 01:13:46,633
I wrote for three days straight, completely lost track of time, but I didn't want it to get away. I didn't want to forget anything.
726
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:53,168
And after three days is when Rachel showed up at my apartment.
727
01:13:56,592 --> 01:14:02,192
She found my address through the personnel files. The same way she had hunted me down and recruited me.
728
01:14:02,983 --> 01:14:06,951
When she came, she told me she knew what I was planning to do.
729
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,400
That I was planning to go public.
730
01:14:10,583 --> 01:14:12,783
I don't know how she knew, but...
731
01:14:16,375 --> 01:14:21,367
She tried to reason with me, to tell me that she was once like me. Idealistic.
732
01:14:22,350 --> 01:14:24,217
Wanting to change the world.
733
01:14:27,475 --> 01:14:31,583
There was a very slight chance that I would ever be able to pull it off.
734
01:14:32,625 --> 01:14:35,292
Something about having her in my home...
735
01:14:39,867 --> 01:14:42,867
I felt violated.
736
01:14:42,925 --> 01:14:45,392
And it colored all of my memories of her.
737
01:14:47,467 --> 01:14:52,523
All the times she brushed my hand accidentally or stood a little bit too close.
738
01:14:52,592 --> 01:14:56,092
She told me she cared. And I just freaked
739
01:14:59,175 --> 01:15:00,615
Called her a dyke.
740
01:15:01,450 --> 01:15:03,383
Slammed the door in her face.
741
01:15:08,667 --> 01:15:09,787
That was mean.
742
01:15:12,117 --> 01:15:13,237
I regret that.
743
01:15:18,292 --> 01:15:19,972
[somber string music]
744
01:15:20,067 --> 01:15:23,855
[Dr. Gale:] Well, what are they really?
I mean, we don't even know.
745
01:15:23,917 --> 01:15:26,117
We sort of know what they're not.
746
01:15:27,950 --> 01:15:32,218
It's not human technology. It definitely doesn't belong to us.
747
01:15:32,725 --> 01:15:39,525
And if it belonged to Russia, or China or North Korea, we would know.
748
01:15:39,958 --> 01:15:45,398
But if they are aliens from outer space hanging out in our oceans to avoid detection,
749
01:15:46,467 --> 01:15:50,691
whatever they're doing, they certainly don't give a shit about us.
750
01:15:53,092 --> 01:16:08,392
I mean, they've been visiting for probably millennia, and only started making themselves seen or interacting with us in any way in World War Two.
751
01:16:10,642 --> 01:16:14,226
They didn't intervene during the Holocaust or Hiroshima.
752
01:16:15,717 --> 01:16:20,773
Which leads me to believe that they probably only give a shit about the planet.
753
01:16:22,117 --> 01:16:29,669
As a matter of fact, it's been said many times that we should count ourselves as lucky that they're not talking to us.
754
01:16:30,267 --> 01:16:47,567
Because even according to our own history, when someone more technologically advanced invades a primitive culture, no matter what their intentions, the primitive culture does not come out on the other side better.
755
01:16:48,133 --> 01:16:54,633
They come out with diabetes, or smallpox, or dead or enslaved.
756
01:16:57,208 --> 01:17:05,076
If they are aliens, their technology demonstrates
such immense power and sophistication
757
01:17:05,117 --> 01:17:09,173
that if they wanted to make contact with us,
they would have done it aeons ago.
758
01:17:11,908 --> 01:17:13,588
But we'll never know.
759
01:17:14,783 --> 01:17:19,583
Because the subject is a heretical taboo to academia.
760
01:17:24,267 --> 01:17:32,767
We will never have the financial resources in order to properly study them, even if it is just counterespionage.
761
01:17:34,850 --> 01:17:41,850
Because the government, administration after administration,
has turned it into a joke.
762
01:17:42,408 --> 01:17:45,008
I mean, it's turned itself into a joke.
763
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,133
I think it's a tragedy, personally.
764
01:17:56,117 --> 01:17:57,637
What have I gained?
765
01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:03,348
A slightly more comprehensive understanding of the universe.
766
01:18:06,500 --> 01:18:15,200
It may seem insignificant, but I think what I've lost has impacted me more.
767
01:18:20,792 --> 01:18:23,992
I lost my career. Twice.
768
01:18:28,258 --> 01:18:30,258
I lost respect.
769
01:18:33,283 --> 01:18:36,383
And I lost the love of my life.
770
01:18:38,133 --> 01:18:42,133
I heard that Scott married a hyperaccredited AI researcher.
771
01:18:44,158 --> 01:18:55,158
Apparently, studying artificial intelligence is more respectable than studying extraterrestrial intelligence.
772
01:19:02,750 --> 01:19:07,750
My life isn't exactly how I thought it would be.
773
01:19:10,017 --> 01:19:13,645
I wrote a book called "The Gulf of Silence" in 2012
774
01:19:17,925 --> 01:19:25,933
which contained most of the information from the Assessment and new information that I learned while working with the CEU.
775
01:19:30,342 --> 01:19:33,542
The title actually came from something Rachel said.
776
01:19:35,050 --> 01:19:45,450
She said the philosophy behind the CEU was to try and bridge the gulf of silence between us and whatever's out there.
777
01:19:48,242 --> 01:19:49,922
I thought it was poetic.
778
01:19:53,625 --> 01:19:57,417
Turns out books don't actually sell themselves, so...
779
01:19:59,167 --> 01:20:02,567
I tour UFO conventions.
780
01:20:03,908 --> 01:20:07,308
Answering questions, sometimes speaking.
781
01:20:07,850 --> 01:20:12,350
Mostly just signing books.
782
01:20:14,250 --> 01:20:25,250
You know, it's incredible. My book is every ounce of truth that exists as we know it concerning UFOs.
783
01:20:26,150 --> 01:20:34,138
And I'm seated next to a guy who's written a book that he perceives to be every ounce of truth about the frog people.
784
01:20:35,292 --> 01:20:39,056
If I think about it too much, it feels humiliating.
785
01:20:41,058 --> 01:20:50,058
I suppose that's one of the reasons why I wrote my book. To like, drop a pebble into the ocean of disinformation.
786
01:20:50,308 --> 01:20:56,708
So hopefully, at some point, someone will be
able to pick up the gauntlet and run with it.
787
01:20:59,142 --> 01:21:02,362
It's not going to be in my generation, that's for sure.
788
01:21:03,308 --> 01:21:07,404
I actually saw Rachel at the last convention I was at in Nevada.
789
01:21:08,992 --> 01:21:12,960
I guess she knew I was speaking and I saw her in the audience.
790
01:21:14,742 --> 01:21:18,454
And then she came up to my table afterward with a book and
791
01:21:19,758 --> 01:21:21,358
asked me to sign it.
792
01:21:30,325 --> 01:21:32,058
I was grateful to see her.
793
01:21:42,492 --> 01:21:46,576
I signed the book and just said thank you for the title.
794
01:21:51,392 --> 01:21:55,296
I imagine that's probably the last time we'll see each other.
795
01:21:58,367 --> 01:22:00,500
She just smiled and walked away.
796
01:22:18,642 --> 01:22:21,778
I don't think I'll see anyone from the CEU again.
797
01:22:26,692 --> 01:22:28,372
Unless Joe writes a book.
798
01:22:30,375 --> 01:22:31,495
[somber music]
78572
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