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Well this is off topic. I watched this video and thought, well, if the hitch-hiker effect is a real thing. how long will it take for the entire U.S. intelligence apparatus to be infected and spooked by Them? Maybe the Havana syndrome victims had the misfortune of sharing a flight or being in a meeting with someone infected by the Phenomena? Interesting video, I'm not trying to hijack Billy's post!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFGMdp4fRog

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Forgive me if this has already been posted here. But the fact that it is Space.com piqued my interest due to their past history of being Scofftics.

"2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs"

https://www.space.com/2022-turning-point-study-ufos-uap

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I'm connected with Seth Shostak (on LinkedIn) after bumping into him at several conferences.

I know he believes in alien life, and I'm just not sure why he doesn't try to help the cause :/

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Jan 31, 2022·edited Jan 31, 2022Liked by Billy Cox

A good friend of mine, a woman now in her 80s, has been a paranormal enthusiast most of her life. Ironically, her eldest son is chair of the astrophysics dept. at an Ivy League university. He and a couple of colleagues were visiting her one time when the subject of ETs & UFOs came up (probably by her.) Her son and the others began making jokes and snarky remarks about another colleague at the university who thinks the ET hypothesis is valid and deserves mainstream research.

"But, what if he's right?" my lady friend asked.

After moments of silence, one of them replied: "Our careers would be over."

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A potentially paradigm shifting truth... is considered an existential threat.

Galileo, indeed.

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Thanks Billy. I may have mentioned that my brother Peter is professor of physics and the history of Science, and is the Pellegrino professor at Harvard. He won't touch the subject with a ten foot pole. I try not to let this affect our relationship, but as you can imagine, it does. I think that the idea that he, as a scientist, has missed the biggest scientific story in history, is just too unbearable to contemplate.

Shostak's pleasant facade has always struck me as microns deep. I think that he, unlike my brother, is very aware of the UFO reality, and is either a paid shill, or just a self-serving jerk, comfy in his subsidised world.

Keep up the good work!

Will

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Getting it by the editor: The primary problem with submissions to a scientific journal. It will be interesting to see if papers coming out of the Galileo team will have better luck. There will be such papers, right?

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