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Dangling the disclosure carrot

he promise of apparent UFO disclosure by the US Government in the form of the Pentagon’s UAP report (see p2) has seen all manner of experts, sceptics and flying saucer fans crawl out of the woodwork. Robert Sheaffer, on his blog, as usual put this in a wider context: “… The media elite and Congress are being played by a small, loosely connected group of people with bizarre ideas about science. It’s easy to dismiss UFOs as a fantasy or a fad, but the money, the connections, and the power wielded by a group of UFO believers – embedded in the defense industry and bent on – poses a danger to America more real than a flying saucer.”

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