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Certainly this president during his first term, initially when he was asked, kind of laughed it off.

And then later, from my understanding, he received some briefings and then took it quite, quite seriously afterwards.

But look, it's a very risky topic.

You know, any president that makes a public statement about this, about this topic,

runs a huge risk um simply because there's a lot of unknowns and and it's it's it has never really been good for one's career necessarily or even the media up until recently to even cover this topic because the amount of stigma and taboo that have been associated purposefully by the way on this topic on purpose our own government created this taboo unnecessarily to give it the flexibility to actually do research a lot of people are surprised when they find out that atip

was actually a program in the Pentagon that was studying UFOs.

That's what my colleagues and I were told to do.

And you said it absolutely correct.

I was never a quote-unquote believer.

I went through the medical program at University of Miami, and technically I graduated in microbiology and immunology.

So the scientific method for me is very important.

Also, as an intelligence officer, you have to let the facts speak for themselves.

However, with that said, there comes a point where you have so much overwhelming evidence and you have some of the most sophisticated capabilities, technologically speaking, in the intelligence community that normally can identify the difference between an F-16 and let's say a MiG-25 from 25 miles away.

These same sensor systems are being used.

to collect information on things that, frankly, we don't understand.

Technologically speaking, these things can outperform anything we have in our inventory.

And that is a national security issue.

And I believe that our president has been made aware of that.

And not just by the Department of War either.

There's other elements, the FBI, the intelligence community, even the Department of Energy that all have equity in this topic.