Jesse Michels

Now, what people don't know is we now have letters between him and an Air Force Colonel, Robert Hippler, where Robert Hippler is telling him, we want you, we don't want to pay for Blue Book anymore.

We want you to say that this is a total waste of time.

A lot of the cases that they did review, I think 25 percent are still unresolved.

So like, you know, that's not inconsistent with there being actual UFOs.

And then Condon was actually very close with Oppenheimer.

They studied at Göttingen in Germany together in the 20s.

And he's responsible for writing the McMahon Secrecy Act in 1946, which gets turned into the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

So he's kind of, he's like this total insider in the Manhattan Project who is arguably responsible for creating modern day UFO secrecy in some ways.

You get that time and time again where a lot of these debunkers who end up stigmatizing the topic for a very long time to come were actually tied in with the early kind of atomic programs in the U.S.

So he's a good example of that.

And from then on, you get this like crazy kind of stigma attached to the UFO topic.

You have a couple, you have a 1974 documentary called UFOs Past, Present, and Future, where the Air Force starts to change its tune and starts to become more open about the topic.

And J. Allen Hynek kind of admits that, you know, maybe there is something real here.

And Jacques Vallée, who I, you know, mentioned earlier, this kind of French godfather of ufology, is actually J. Allen Hynek's assistant.

And he takes part in that documentary, which is really interesting.

And then in the 80s, you have the advent of stealth craft.

So like aircrafts that, you know, they have their radar cross sections reduced and, you know, they can evade ground systems, you know, for the Soviets or the Chinese.

And so you have the F-117, the B-2 stealth bomber.

And I think a lot of games get played around calling those UFOs kind of, you know, the U-2 spy plane, the SR-71.

Before that, I think we're mistaken for UFOs.