The Pentagon’s official release of UFO footage taken by Navy pilots comes after the same snippets had been leaked before. Brad Johnson, retired Sr. CIA Officer and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform, gives his analysis of the objects, the motives behind the release and why crucial information is left out. With 25 years in the CIA, is Brad a Scully or a Mulder? And what does Jimmy Carter know? The truth is out there.
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brad johnson it is april 29th
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of 2020 and i think it was two days ago
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yesterday the day before
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some some really startling news came out
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of the pentagon
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where they had confirmed i think to be
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to be precise and to be accurate about
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this they said that some videos which
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actually had been circulating online a
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couple of years ago
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about where some u.s i guess navy pilots
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i think in f18s
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they spotted some aircraft behaving
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in a way which aircraft doesn’t normally
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be even i don’t think
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there’s any science at this time to be
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able to make them behave that way
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and everybody was circulating a couple
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years ago saying
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this this is the best ever ufo footage
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so the pentagon came out in the last
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couple of days
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and actually officially said yeah we
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don’t know what these are these are
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officially
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unidentified maybe unidentifiable flying
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objects
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and um it feels like you know what
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what should be maybe some of the biggest
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news of all time in a way
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uh it’s it’s been a giant collective
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yawn
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i mean it’s i think the fact that it
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isn’t news is as big as the news itself
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it has been interesting i think there
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are some reasons for this
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i i took a look at those videos just to
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see what everything that was going on
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i guess throw my head into the ring on
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the analysis of what they mean
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now these videos have been leaked
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previously
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and so tidbits of this were coming out
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from 2007 to 2017
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i think was the period that that some of
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these were coming out so the videos are
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a little bit
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uh older and
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uh they finally there’s been these leaks
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and people looking at it and saying you
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know clearly this is
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an odd uh some form of odd aircraft
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that’s moving oddly
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and so then they’re the the people who
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are
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big believers in ufos have have been
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saying that that’s proof
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so it’s been part of an argument going
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on for a decade and a half
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on on these videos and as of more have
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come out they’ve been used to make the
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same argument so
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i think part of the reason it hasn’t
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been more reported or looked at or
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analyzed just over the last few
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few days since this came out is because
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of that there is a history to it but
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they did release them
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a couple comments on it like i said i
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looked at them pretty closely and looked
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at them a number of times
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uh first of all navy pilots are you know
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i’ve
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met guys those guys quite a few times
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through the years a lot of
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good guys you know navy pilots and
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they’re very qualified pilots good guys
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smart guys all that sort of stuff so i
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mean
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i have respect for them as a cadre and
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certainly individually the
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some of the guys i’ve met there have
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been you know high-end high-end people
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so i would tend to respect what they say
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their comments on it and one of those
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pilots now you don’t have too much in
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there that’s that’s said
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you don’t have anything conclusive in
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there and it cuts off so you don’t know
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what happens
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i mean does the thing go away at you
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know warp two
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or or what happens you don’t know so
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there’s a lot of
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missing information in there now
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supposedly
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back when these were early uh you know
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captured on film
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uh the reason that they weren’t released
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and what has been said since then by the
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pentagon
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is that there were good national
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security reasons why they weren’t
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released well now they’re released and
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you’re looking at it and go well what
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are those national security concerns
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and i think because they didn’t have a
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good explanation for them
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although i i do question why these are
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cut off why is it just uh
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you know these are each very short
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videos why don’t we have a
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a longer video now something happened to
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that thing and you know these navy
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pilots didn’t
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you know follow it for 30 seconds ago
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okay that’s enough turn it off let’s go
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home
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you know they were they were sticking in
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there they were going to go see what it
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was too they would have wanted to know
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and their that’s their job they were
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out looking around to see what what the
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heck was going on and who was it
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so they would have continued pursuit
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unless
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somehow the aircraft got away well that
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would be interesting news and they would
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have
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uh data telemetry type data on this
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other aircraft and how it went away so
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we’re getting partial information
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i question why we’re getting that
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because perhaps there’s something in
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there that
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that is scary and that’s why it’s the
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national security concern
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just because that aircraft performs at a
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certain level that we’re not familiar
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with
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is not proof of aliens although clearly
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i mean
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being realistic i suppose there’s there
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is you know some measure of
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chance that that’s the case uh but i
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would you know my first guess would be
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that you know maybe the so
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the russians or chinese have developed
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something and they were using it off the
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coast of the united states or
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some u.s territory to see what they
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could see with it and try and use it
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might have been an unmanned
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there’s been a lot of progress with
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unmanned aircraft so something like that
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would be able to maneuver in a way
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that manned aircraft would not be able
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to
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one of the comments that came out of
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that that the man made made a comment
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that
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the the aircraft was rotating i find
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that very interesting but
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what i would what i’m really curious
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about and what we need to all see in
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order to kind of decide what to think of
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this is what’s
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what’s the end you know what happens
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after that
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that when you see those little lines
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come in and focus on it and then it’s
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tracking in the camera
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and you some of the films you see it’s
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kind of sliding and then it comes back
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and it slides and comes back
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then it gets locked once it gets locked
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that
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pilot and like i said these navy pilots
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are good guys they’re well trained
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very capable guys uh you know there’s
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ones with more experience and ones with
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less experience but they’re still
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you know capable people so he didn’t
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just like
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lose it you know after that so that that
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information’s missing and i would be
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curious about all of that
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that’s kind of the final element to me
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now like i said i know a lot of people
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take a look at this and
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consider proof but that you can’t see
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enough detail of those things to really
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decide
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what they are it does look circular in
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some ways
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it does appear to be moving and rotating
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in ways that a a normal aircraft
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wouldn’t but
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perhaps there was some sort of change in
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direction or something where the
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airplane
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the other aircraft shifted and it gave
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the appearance of
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rotating where uh you know it might have
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continued in
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its thing there are aircraft where the
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wings move and stuff too
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and in an experimental aircraft maybe
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you know the wings fold in it just goes
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like a rocket and then goes low and
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disappears into the ocean who knows what
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just floats there until it’s picked up
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uh i don’t know i’m speculating wildly
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now but
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uh my first guest would not be aliens
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i’m not a big believer in that sort of
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thing so it’s kind of not my first
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guess i would say you know always be
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suspicious of
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my fellow mankind first for these sorts
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of things
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and then worry about the
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extraterrestrials and uh
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you know i don’t know if i was going to
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travel light years to get here i’d want
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at least stop in and say hello rather
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than just flying around out of the ocean
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with
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you know trick aircraft and not not not
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at least pop in for coffee
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so i i’m a little surprised that uh that
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that there’s so much belief in that but
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you
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you never know it’s it’s a it’s
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certainly a theoretically feasible
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possibility for it to be aliens but
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based on these films there’s there is no
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proof
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there may be some evidence of something
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unusual but there is no proof so
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uh to those who are interested in that
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to the ufo believers
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i would say go after that tail end of
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these videos to find out
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how it ended what happened where that
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aircraft disappeared from view because
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certainly
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the navy has more than enough capability
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to call up as many aircraft as they need
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for whatever it is they need those two
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aircraft that were out there apparently
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uh certainly were not the end of our
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resources and they could have tracked
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that
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that other aircraft for a long time with
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using all sorts of
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airborne capabilities so that’s what’s
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missing why that hasn’t been released i
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think is a very interesting question
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that’s what
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that’s what needs to be focused on it
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would have been really helpful if there
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was
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any indication of scale in any of those
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videos because that’s
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the other thing too is was this a small
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drone or was this uh i mean that
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the lack of indication of scale is is an
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interesting data point right all by
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itself
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it is you know we don’t have included in
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that the navy pilots would have the
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information on its speed for example
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they would have had a pretty good idea
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of the size the scale that you’re
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mentioning of the aircraft
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and uh you know where did it go
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and like i say if it if it if it turned
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and sped off
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at you know mach 25
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then you know i would be looking that
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going holy moly i mean there’s a problem
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here of some sort because
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if somebody else here on this planet is
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doing that then we’ve got problems
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if it’s somebody from some place place
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else that’s here doing that then we’ve
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got problems
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no matter how you slice it we need to
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figure this out you know
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that would be my immediate reaction to
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it so i
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it’s extraordinarily important data
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that’s just not left out but there is
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some sort of
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security element to it and i would say
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the the government
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tends to error towards trying to avoid
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people
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panicking which uh
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you know even with all the scare tactics
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it’s used in covet 19 i haven’t seen
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that many people
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panic per se a few guys that you know
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getting fist bites in the
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costco over the last case of water you
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see some of that sort of thing but like
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widespread panic and stuff
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you know you haven’t really seen not
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that it couldn’t be done but i don’t
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think by information like that
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i just don’t think you’re going to see
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the people panic in the street so me i
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would personally
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just throw it out there and let me add
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one other thing kind of in conclusion
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we had a former president united states
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jimmy carter that was a big believer in
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ufos and one of the things he swore to
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do when he
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got if he became president was to go
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look into all this and make it public
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and
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he was fully convinced that the federal
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government was hiding information on
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ufos
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so that so did hillary clinton so did
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hillary clinton as
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one of her campaign promises and by far
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the most amusing one
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is that if she was elected she would
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release all the government data on ufos
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that’s interesting yeah i didn’t i
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wasn’t aware that of hillary
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so she didn’t get elected so we don’t
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know we haven’t had the opportunity to
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see what
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she might have come up with but jimmy
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carter did do that and he did go in and
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look at everything
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i would be surprised to find that if
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he’s
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actively looking for something out of
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the navy that the navy didn’t give to
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him he is commander-in-chief
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those people understand following orders
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and receiving orders and giving orders
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but
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uh i i just i can’t believe that they
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would have hidden from the president
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united states something that he
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demanded to be shown out of the military
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out of the navy specifically so
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um i tend to think that there is no real
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evidence
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i tend to think that what they find as a
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national security problem would be
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the that this is technology by somebody
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else that fits
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the criteria of the situation we’re
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faced with so as i often mentioned
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optimus razer what’s the simplest
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explanation for the data that we have
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and that’s the simplest explanation that
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there is some sort of technological
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aspect to this that’s
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that’s fairly advanced that would that
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could be judged
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threatening and so the government
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doesn’t want to release that out they’re
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going to study it themselves
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which there’s some appropriateness to
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that and
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but they didn’t want wouldn’t want to
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create any sort of general panic
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letting people know that uh somebody
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else out there on this planet has got an
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advanced technology that we don’t have
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you know that’s bad press so they would
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want to avoid avoid
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those sorts of issues so that to me is
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the
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simplest explanation for what we know so
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far
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last question on this in uh sometime
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late last year
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putin announced he actually showed
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footage of it
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that they had some missile that was
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unstoppable that was mock
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i don’t know mack double digits i think
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and that it was maneuverable in flight
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that could reach any target on earth
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within a matter of an hour or two or
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something it was just
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crazy fast hypersonic missile nuclear
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capable
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and um but and could maneuver while in
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flight
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but yes i think that if this was that
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we would they would have been able to
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identify it i mean there’s there’s
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footage of that right
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correct and i don’t think that’s i don’t
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think these are same things because
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what we saw in the video this thing was
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flying and you can
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see that there’s what looks like ground
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below some of these shots so
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i mean it may have been up quite high
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it’s hard to it’s just so hard to tell
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from what we see in the
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in these videos what they would have
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would be much different and far
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uh far more revealing of the details
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than what we’re able to see out of these
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videos well let’s let’s put it this way
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i have a hard time believing that an f8
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and us
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2020 or 2017 even u.s navy f-18
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has a 360 p um black and white camera
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i i just i’m pretty damn sure the
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footage we saw
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has very little relationship to the one
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i think what they’ve done is what
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they’ve released were the leaked
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materials and that anything that hadn’t
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already been leaked
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they’ve held back and like i said it’s
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probably because there’s some
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technological things in there that they
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want you know they’re trying to you can
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reverse engineer from seeing the
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performance of something
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so i think that would be the the
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national security element to this uh
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and that would be you know very un
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reasonable reaction to that of you
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you came across it i mean it’s the
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program that you’re gonna be working on
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to develop that same technology
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of course is gonna be classified so that
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therefore that’s national security
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and that’s something you don’t want to
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go out to the public so if that’s indeed
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what’s going on i would say that’s just
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like
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pretty straightforward
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