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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Thomas Aquinas.
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He had a whole taxonomy of, you know, angels.
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And he based a lot of his stuff off of this Syrian Neoplatonist named Eamblichus.
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And he would write on the mysteries, but he also had this whole kind of, you know, angel hierarchy.
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And you can literally read, like, you can create like a table out of like his angel hierarchy.
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And it's, you know, you know, stuff that looks like seraphim and cherubim and that sort of thing.
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And then one of them, like literally the attribute is like irradiated light.
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Yeah.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And you're like, that looks like electromagnetic radiation.
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And it looks like some of the stuff that Gary Nolan, again, the Stanford professor says that the CIA came knocking at his door, I think in like the mid 2010s, like 2015.
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And they were like, we have all these UFO experiencers and they've experienced all these weird effects.
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And it was bucketed in with some people experiencing Havana syndrome, which we now know probably come from these like microwave weapons.
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Yeah.
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But basically, if you take that at face value, he's looking at a lot of UFO experiencers, and they're experiencing literal radiation burns.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And then you see kind of analogs to that in ancient history, which is fascinating.
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You can literally watch...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and you see the main character's face, you see him sunburned.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You see this literal, as if the UFO emitted this electromagnetic radiation.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And so it's like, who is giving Steven Spielberg the information in the 80s about this sort of stuff?
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And you see actually crates in Close Encounters, one that says, I think, Skunk Works, and another that says TRW.