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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You have a huge wave of UFOs over D.C.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
and it's called the D.C.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
flap or the D.C.
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flyover.
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And there's a famous newspaper clipping that you can literally see like the headline.
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It goes, D.C.
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's are white saucers on the White House lawn.
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And, you know, this is like literally being reported on.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And there's even an aviation journalist named Curtis Peebles who claims that Truman, who was president, was so freaked out about this that he ends up on a phone call with Captain Edward J. Ruppelt of the Air Force, who's running Project Blue Book at the time.
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So that's somewhat apocryphal.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And I'd love some more verification on whether that phone call occurred, but a hundred percent, there's like mass hysteria in DC.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
I've even met with one of the, you know, surviving witnesses of the DC flyover discussing how there was sort of mass hysteria around this.
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Right after that, which is I don't think this is coincidental, the CIA does a review of UFOs and it's called the Robertson Panel.
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And all these top astronomers and scientists in the U.S.
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under Caltech physicist named H.P.
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Robertson, they do this thing called the Robertson Panel.
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And.
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This is now declassified, but it was classified at the time, so it was meant to be secret.
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And they basically come to the conclusion that, you know, if the UFO knowledge were to be, like, you know, unleashed or people were to basically know that, like, UFOs were flying with total impunity over our most hardcore defense assets, and we admitted that at the highest levels of government, that would touch off mass hysteria.
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Especially think about, like, the Cold War, you know, mindset where, like, you know, you're...