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james mattis that you oppose. that saving despite every overwhelming evidence that both the classified and unclassified level certain individuals in the defense department remain staunchly opposed to further research on what could be a tactical threat to our pilots sailors and soldiers and perhaps even the next essential threat to our national security wow these revelations along with the two videos that the former military intelligence officer released to has revealed that the truth ladies and gentlemen is indeed out there and we definitely need to be watching the skies and law. if that s. what the you know that i got. the. lead. role in the corner watching the hawks i am tired rover i m sure i m sad but i wallace themselves those. fans want us to discuss that this today is american engineer former nasa astronaut entrepreneur motivational speaker and engineering consultant the right thank you so much for joining us today right. oh my pleasure well it s a pretty exciting day
greetings and salutations so what if i told you that three congressmen including a senate majority leader quietly colluded with an aerospace billionaire to create a secret department inside the pentagon whose sole purpose was to study document and investigate an identified flying objects yes you oppose. you would probably call me a conspiracy theorist you call me a crazy whack a doodle why am i listening to tie anymore he s gone off the deep bed well guess what i really hate to let all you haters down but was what but what was once conspiracy theory is now can see as the pentagon has admitted now can guess the pentagon has admitted now confirmed that it hasn t dede been investigating you up close called the advanced aerospace threat identification program and budgeted annually around twenty two million dollars from two thousand and seven to two thousand and twelve the program was run according the new york times by a military intelligence official luis elizondo on the fifth f
seen plenty of things that looked odd at the moment and all of those things were later explained as either manmade or natural phenomena and you know i think several astronauts aviators have seen similar things and and we can give examples of some of those what are some of the things that might make that i mean what are the things that could have made who could that can move like that. well it s hard to say you know it could be a trip played by the lighting could be any number of things i can tell you about an example on my second space mission and we were told by the mission control center to look down towards florida because we might be able to see a rocket launch slouching a satellite and we couldn t actually see the rocket but suddenly the whole horizon lit up in all all the colors of the rainbow and that was because at the third stage the spent third stage was venting its residual fuel into space once the fuel hit the cold vacuum of space it turned into crystals into litt
the cold vacuum of space it turned into crystals into little prisms and all the sunlight passing through all those thousands of little prisms turned the entire horizon into a rainbow and so if we had been warned in that scene that boy i don t know what we might have thought it was so are you saying that you don t believe any of the u.f.o. or anomalous aerial vehicle fight against our action that i m an anomaly it s well i think these sightings themselves are legitimate but i think they re probably reasonable explanations and it s not really it s so much extraterrestrial now i you know just give it you know i gave you that example there are several others that i could tell you about from my experiences in space where we might have thought we saw u.f.o. s but we really didn t and you know my belief is that there is life out there but i don t believe we ve been visited because the distances are so vast the nearest star that might even have a chance of having a planet with the ri