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George, basically what we're dealing with here is I'll give you the bottom line

I'm not trying to sell it I want to hear your thesis I'm not trying to sell a book

I'm not trying to promote a lecture this is based on what I've come across after intense

research in the last year and I have found out that the government has

retrieved between 10 and 15 factual flying saucers, three of which been in perfect condition, one of which they tried to fly.

They have between 30 and 50 alien bodies in cryogenic storage. We even have the name of the person whose job it is to show these

bodies to the heads of state and the people who are authorized to see them. They

represent at least five different

civilizations.

I'm Toby Ball and this is Strange Arrivals. is stranger rivals. Episode 12, priests at the Zigorot. What do you see when you look at the UFO world? Do you see scientists and

researchers who are scoffed at by their colleagues while they work to uncover the

great mystery of our times?

A professional wrestling style, artificial drama created by people playing roles

in what is essentially an entertainment industry.

Or something more like a religion or spiritual movement

guided by a select group determining its followers beliefs.

The answer is probably that there are elements of all three of these visions, but when I look, what I mostly see is something that resembles a religion.

Stories of UFO sidings and especially UFO. religion. extraterrestrial or ultra-trestrial or interdimensional beings.

I think it has gone under-recognized

as an element of American or maybe Western spirituality.

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