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What do you call it when a retired Air Force general,
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one who once ran the most notorious lab in UFO history,
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vanishes from his house in broad daylight?
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The general was involved with the Pentagon's most advanced aerospace research.
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When the NASA material scientist behind a breakthrough rocket engine alloy
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disappears 30 feet from her friend on a hike.
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She was right behind them, 30 feet behind them, and then she disappeared.
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When one of MIT's top plasma physicists is gunned down outside his own front door.
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This many top scientists getting killed or going missing in just under a year
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looks like a major red flag.
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Who were the first people the Israelis killed in Iran when they went in?
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The first thing you do is kill your scientists.
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It's the kind of thing that sounds like the Chinese science fiction book,
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The Three-Body Problem.
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A world where scientists don't just make discoveries,
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but become the front line of a war they don't even know they're in.
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A world where the future rests on some of the most important minds on Earth.
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And those minds start disappearing.
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Except here, the names and the people behind them are real.
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Garcia went missing after taking lunch to her teenage daughter at a cafe in Taos Plaza.
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Some of them were very important people, and we're going to look at it over the next session.
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What we're looking at might not just be geopolitics in the dark or pressure coming from nation states,
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but from an unseen force shaping our timeline from somewhere above it.
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And a hidden struggle over who gets to control humanity's next leap.
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Or maybe none of these cases are connected.
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It's really sensitive stuff, and I'm not a big believer in coincidences.
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So tonight we're following the trail through missing scientists,
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murdered physicists, defense world gatekeepers,
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in this strange shadowland that forms wherever advanced knowledge becomes too dangerous to leave walking around.
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There's a state that researchers called hypnagogia,
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that threshold between waking and sleep where the brain is doing something genuinely unusual.
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The kind of thing that comes up in remote viewing accounts,
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or other out-of-body experiences,
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and honestly some of the most fascinating conversations I've had on this show.
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Since moving to Austin, sleep is something I've thought about a lot more,
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mostly because I'm not really doing it.
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That is, until recently.
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I used to sleep on whatever mattress I'd had for years,
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and it was clearly not helping me get the sleep I need.
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Then I did a comprehensive search,
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and I learned that most mattresses are kind of lame.
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And a total insomniac friend of mine told me that he tried Helix,
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I'm waking up feeling like I actually recovered overnight.
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For someone who does 4- and 5-hour interviews,
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sleep is maybe the most important thing for me to dial in.
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The trail begins in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
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in the shadow of Sandia Mountains.
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It's February 27, 2026,
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a late Friday morning on Quail Run Court.
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Neil McCasland, a 68-year-old retired Air Force general,
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is at home in a quiet neighborhood at the edge of the Cibola National Forest.
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A repairman sees him at the house around 10 a.m.
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Then, about an hour later, around 11.10 a.m.,
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his wife leaves for a medical appointment.
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At 12.04, barely an hour after that, she's back home.
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But her husband is gone.
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Left behind are his prescription glasses,
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his phone, which had been switched off,
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All the things that would make him trackable in the 21st century.
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But what's missing is a red backpack,
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and a .38 caliber revolver with its holster.
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Not the best combination.
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his wife Susan reports him missing,
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and the official police investigation begins.
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In a newly released 911 call,
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she tells the dispatcher he's been gone for about three hours.
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I have some indication that he must have planned not to be found.
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She said he changed his clothes,
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and appears to be on foot,
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since none of their cars or bikes were missing.
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She also tells dispatch that he's been dealing with some medical issues,
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and that both of them were seeing a doctor for anxiety,
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and short-term memory problems.
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it was the same doctor she had seen earlier that day.
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But Susan chalked the health issues up
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to garden-variety things that you face in old age.
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She never thought that Neil would actually act in a way to harm himself.
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Saying if his brain and body keeps deteriorating,
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he didn't want to live like that.
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But it seemed to me that was just a
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man-I-hate-how-this-is-going kind of thing.
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A comment like that would naturally raise concerns about self-harm.
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But whether that was a real risk,
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or just a throwaway comment on an off day,
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we don't actually know.
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When the police asked about the weapons,
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she said that her husband had a gun safe,
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with multiple pistols and rifles.
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couldn't tell whether anything was actually missing.
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Although now we know that one of his .38 calibers was in fact gone.
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a silver alert goes out.
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This is the kind of statewide alert issued
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when authorities think a missing person might be disoriented
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or cognitively impaired.
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New Mexico state statute doesn't require any kind of formal diagnosis.
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Given what Susan had already told the police,
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that was enough to trigger it.
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But even with those reported issues,
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McCaslin still doesn't fit the profile of a man who just wandered into a canyon.
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Investigators say he's still highly intelligent and capable.
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Friends say that the week before he disappeared,
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McCaslin cycled 60 miles.
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He hiked those very foothills.
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He knew every trail.
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This wasn't a man losing his bearings,
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but the kind of guy who could out-ski most millennials.
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This was also a town he knew by heart.
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McCaslin once commanded the Phillips Research Site at Kirtland,
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an Air Force base notorious for hosting advanced weapons research right nearby.
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He wasn't a stranger to this place.
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It was basically his backyard.
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His wife would also issue another statement,
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saying McCaslin had some risk, but not from dementia.
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He was not confused and disoriented.
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But a clear head didn't make him any easier to find.
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The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office said that they had surveillance footage
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from both ends of his street
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and still couldn't confirm his direction of travel.
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They made public appeals for doorbell cameras,
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dash cams, GoPros, anything.
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If you have any information where McCaslin may be,
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contact BCSO's Missing Persons Unit.
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Within the span of a week,
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the search expanded from the Sheriff's Office
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to the FBI's Albuquerque Field Office
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to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations,
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New Mexico State Search and Rescue,
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Albuquerque Mountain Rescue,
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three types of search dogs,
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and neighborhood canvassing.
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And despite living in an era with enough cameras
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to catch almost every delivery on the block in which he lived,
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no footage of him ever surfaced.
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Police accessed his electronic devices
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and searched his usual hiking spots,
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like the Elena Gallegos area into the Domingo Baca Canyon.
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But there was still no trace of him.
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After weeks, all they could find
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was a gray Air Force sweatshirt
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a mile east of his house.
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And even after testing it,
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they couldn't confirm it was McCaslin's.
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So we're talking about a regimented,
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physically active military vet
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who vanished from his house
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without leaving a single digital
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or physical fingerprint behind.
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That alone is strange.
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But it gets stranger
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once you understand who McCaslin actually was
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and the world he came out of.
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his disappearance was discussed.
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UAPs were discussed.
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So I don't think this story is going away, Jesse.
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This was a man who spent his career
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deep in the black world of American defense.
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When you read his official Air Force biography,
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you realize he had access to things
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aren't even supposed to know exist.
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The foundation for that kind of clearance
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started when he graduated from the Air Force Academy,
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earned a PhD in astronautical engineering
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from MIT on a Hertz Foundation fellowship
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and later studied at Harvard's Kennedy School.
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the Space-Based Laser Project office,
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served as vice commander
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of the Space and Missile Systems Center,
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was the Materiel Wing Director
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at the Air Force Research Lab's
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Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland
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and spent part of his career
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in the National Reconnaissance Office,
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the world of black, off-the-record satellites.
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His career spanned everything from directed energy
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to space weapons to nuclear oversight.
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You probably get the point.
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This was a man who could out-credential
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and probably had more access than them, too.
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And there are two jobs on his resume
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that matter more than the rest.
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From June 2009 to May 2011,
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McCaslin served as Director of Special Programs
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in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense
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for Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics.
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The title is a mouthful,
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but according to the official
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Pentagon training documentation,
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that office oversees acquisition
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special access programs.
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These programs are the ultimate category
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of secret black projects.
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In fact, they account for about 75 to 80%
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of all special access programs
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in the Department of War.
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These are the programs built
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to protect the crown jewels.
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Extremely sensitive research
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in the process of building something,
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like a next-generation weapons system
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or a craft that doesn't officially exist.
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This is where sensitive technology
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moves from theory to prototype
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to something that the military
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And if you're wondering
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where UFO reverse engineering programs
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would possibly hide,
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In the classified world,
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McCaslin's office was the motherlode.
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His Wikipedia page goes a step further,
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claiming that the role made him
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of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee,
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the body that reviews and approves
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every single special access program
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But that's not even the most interesting job
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McCaslin commanded the Air Force Research Lab,
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AFRL, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
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overseeing a $2.2 billion science
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and technology portfolio,
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one of the largest research operations
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in the entire Pentagon.
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Advanced Material Science,
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And if you're familiar with UFO lore,
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you also know that Wright-Patterson
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isn't just famous for Project Blue Book.
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It's the alleged home
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of the Roswell crash debris.
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I called Curtis LeMay
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I know we have a room
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where you put all this secret stuff.
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I've never heard him get mad,
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but he got madder than hell of me.
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Depending on who you believe,
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some of the most exotic materials
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in the history of the U.S. government.
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It's the place where they get studied,
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and obsessively hidden from public view.
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That's not even a conspiracy.
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This is the place during World War II
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where the U.S. would reverse-engineer
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And General Neil McCasland
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ran the entire thing.
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But what really put him
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on the radar of UFO world
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is that his name showed up
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somewhere no one expected.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman,
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and one of the most powerful
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political operatives
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Buried in that email dump
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is an email from Tom DeLonge
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He mentioned he's a skeptic.
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I've been working with him
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giving him a four-hour presentation
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on the entire project
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just has to say that out loud.
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Because he is very, very aware.
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Because he was the man
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in charge of all this stuff.
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When Roswell crashed,
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they shipped it to the laboratory
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at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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of that exact laboratory
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up to a couple years ago.
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what I'm trying to achieve,
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He's a very important man.
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DeLonge was after UFO disclosure
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for the American people.
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That's the whole point
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of To the Stars Academy.
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in those early efforts
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to dismiss Tom DeLonge
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and say that he was never
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in touch with Neil McCasland.
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were never publicly confirmed.
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would come to acknowledge
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and had less contact
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And she's implicitly admitting
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in that same email batch
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a calendar notification
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accepted a Google Calendar
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for something called
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a DeLonge-Podesta meeting.
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McCasland and his wife
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about UFO disclosure.
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about a 4chan thread here.
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Podesta's actual inbox.
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And as for Susan McCasland,
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impressive background herself.
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She's a PhD astrophysicist,
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in the Air Force Reserve.
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astronaut semifinalist
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her own clearance history.
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After McCasland disappeared,
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commonly held clearances
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his career this deep
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likely saw the full portfolio.
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And you don't really
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a statement on Facebook.
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any special knowledge
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from the Roswell crash
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stored at Wright-Patt.
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Though at this point,
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with absolutely no sign of him,
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maybe the best hypothesis
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the Sandia Mountains
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a woman holding it together
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tears her life apart.
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that the phrasing is odd.
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at Wright-Patterson.
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McCasland doesn't have
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any special knowledge
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in the open source world.
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So she might just be saying
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any reasonable person
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thoughts and prayers.
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to any reasonable person,
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a lot of public speculation.
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the internet theorizing
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went into overdrive.
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that there are secrets
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will not be released
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because we have technologies
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that other nations don't
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and just see the superiority
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into some continuity
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of government program?
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for the war with Iran?
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by a foreign adversary
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exactly how valuable
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with the Majestic 12,
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an elite and top secret
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presidential advisory panel
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dating back to Truman
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of reasonable questions
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this Majestic 12 committee
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ever really existed.
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government perspective
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over the last 70 years,
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Colonel John Alexander.
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that the Majestic 12
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of government programs.
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military-industrial complex
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where if the president
[0:19:07 - 0:19:08] ▶
and his direct cabinet
[0:19:08 - 0:19:10] ▶
they would take over.
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McCasland sounds like
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but I haven't seen them.
[0:19:27 - 0:19:28] ▶
In the summer of 2025,
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published an article
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from a confidential source.
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was wrestling control
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of special access programs
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away from the Pentagon
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and under the command
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a move that supposedly
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between military leaders
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president's advisors.
[0:19:50 - 0:19:51] ▶
Project Preserve Destiny,
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with non-human intelligence
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the National Security Agency,
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The program involves
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implications of anything
[0:20:08 - 0:20:10] ▶
Just listen to the experience
[0:20:12 - 0:20:13] ▶
of Air Force Sergeant
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This is what he was told
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the program was about.
[0:20:17 - 0:20:18] ▶
with an alien species,
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they started a project,
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Project Preserve Destiny,
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to genetically manage
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so that they would have
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the heightened ability
[0:20:38 - 0:20:39] ▶
to do this particular thing
[0:20:39 - 0:20:41] ▶
of the selected targets,
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or whatever you want
[0:20:47 - 0:20:47] ▶
that he was directing
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to begin identifying
[0:20:57 - 0:20:59] ▶
and releasing government files
[0:20:59 - 0:21:01] ▶
and the UAP phenomena.
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shooting from the hip.
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You don't really get
[0:21:07 - 0:21:08] ▶
that post was planned.
[0:21:08 - 0:21:10] ▶
And you have to think,
[0:21:10 - 0:21:11] ▶
if a UFO legacy program
[0:21:11 - 0:21:13] ▶
they were thinking deeply
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important personnel.
[0:21:17 - 0:21:18] ▶
after that announcement,
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from his neighborhood.
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I'm not going to pretend
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I know what this means,
[0:21:26 - 0:21:27] ▶
that Trump's announcement
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is the reason he disappeared.
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There could be a few reasons
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why that timing is important.
[0:21:34 - 0:21:36] ▶
President Trump saying,
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I'm going to release
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and then six days later,
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Neil McCaslin goes missing.
[0:21:44 - 0:21:45] ▶
If McCaslin was involved
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and felt he could be
[0:21:48 - 0:21:49] ▶
implicated in any way,
[0:21:49 - 0:21:51] ▶
the release of these UFO files
[0:21:51 - 0:21:53] ▶
could have been a pressure point,
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maybe enough to make him crack
[0:21:54 - 0:21:56] ▶
into the wilderness.
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This also could have explained
[0:21:59 - 0:22:01] ▶
leading up to that moment.
[0:22:02 - 0:22:03] ▶
Maybe the intense hiking
[0:22:04 - 0:22:05] ▶
was to relieve stress.
[0:22:05 - 0:22:07] ▶
is the most simple explanation
[0:22:09 - 0:22:11] ▶
for McCaslin's disappearance
[0:22:11 - 0:22:12] ▶
into the Sandia foothills
[0:22:14 - 0:22:15] ▶
and that whatever was in his head
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near the most secretive programs
[0:22:19 - 0:22:21] ▶
a burden too great to bear.
[0:22:25 - 0:22:26] ▶
The fact that he changed
[0:22:27 - 0:22:28] ▶
his clothes before leaving,
[0:22:28 - 0:22:29] ▶
what he was wearing,
[0:22:31 - 0:22:32] ▶
adds to that theory.
[0:22:33 - 0:22:34] ▶
of searching terrain
[0:22:35 - 0:22:36] ▶
that experienced teams
[0:22:36 - 0:22:38] ▶
they haven't found a body.
[0:22:39 - 0:22:41] ▶
who was already involved
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with early disclosure efforts.
[0:22:47 - 0:22:49] ▶
McCaslin wasn't hiding
[0:22:49 - 0:22:51] ▶
he was working toward it.
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who don't want disclosure.
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this is the last person
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you'd ever want to put
[0:23:05 - 0:23:06] ▶
on the witness stand.
[0:23:06 - 0:23:07] ▶
who saw behind the curtain
[0:23:08 - 0:23:09] ▶
what was hanging there.
[0:23:10 - 0:23:11] ▶
and civil rights activist
[0:23:12 - 0:23:13] ▶
the constitutional lawyer
[0:23:14 - 0:23:16] ▶
behind the Pentagon Papers,
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the Third Eye Drops podcast
[0:23:19 - 0:23:20] ▶
with my buddy Michael Phillip
[0:23:20 - 0:23:21] ▶
and described what he calls
[0:23:21 - 0:23:24] ▶
extremely high positions
[0:23:30 - 0:23:32] ▶
in the Defense Department,
[0:23:32 - 0:23:34] ▶
inside the Central Intelligence Agency,
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private aerospace corporations,
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and inside the military services.
[0:23:41 - 0:23:44] ▶
Okay, and I happen to know
[0:23:44 - 0:23:45] ▶
Okay, and what they've done
[0:23:46 - 0:23:48] ▶
to try to drag the program
[0:23:52 - 0:23:55] ▶
back into the government.
[0:23:55 - 0:23:57] ▶
This is a covert circle
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high-ranking officials
[0:24:01 - 0:24:02] ▶
and private aerospace.
[0:24:05 - 0:24:06] ▶
A secret brain trust
[0:24:06 - 0:24:08] ▶
to drag classified UAP programs
[0:24:09 - 0:24:11] ▶
of government oversight
[0:24:12 - 0:24:14] ▶
and towards transparency.
[0:24:14 - 0:24:15] ▶
They're all retired,
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and credibility with them.
[0:24:18 - 0:24:20] ▶
have his own little black book?
[0:24:21 - 0:24:23] ▶
Was he one of those 24?
[0:24:23 - 0:24:25] ▶
We don't actually know,
[0:24:26 - 0:24:27] ▶
but he does fit the profile.
[0:24:28 - 0:24:29] ▶
Retired, credentialed,
[0:24:30 - 0:24:31] ▶
and sympathetic to disclosure.
[0:24:33 - 0:24:34] ▶
And I've got their names, too, here.
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Are those names private,
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or can those names be...
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They're not public at all.
[0:24:41 - 0:24:42] ▶
They're not public at all,
[0:24:42 - 0:24:43] ▶
but there's 24 of them.
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hung up his uniform in 2013,
[0:24:45 - 0:24:47] ▶
his wife described him
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as a man winding down,
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hiking the foothills,
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enjoying a quiet life
[0:24:52 - 0:24:53] ▶
Technically, that's all true.
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But that's not the full story.
[0:25:02 - 0:25:05] ▶
after leaving his post in government,
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he's listed as a founder
[0:25:08 - 0:25:09] ▶
a New Mexico national security
[0:25:12 - 0:25:15] ▶
tied to James Tegnalia,
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the former deputy director of DARPA,
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of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
[0:25:21 - 0:25:23] ▶
also known as DITRA for short,
[0:25:25 - 0:25:26] ▶
is the Pentagon's agency
[0:25:27 - 0:25:28] ▶
for countering weapons
[0:25:28 - 0:25:29] ▶
of mass destruction.
[0:25:29 - 0:25:30] ▶
But it also might have a thing
[0:25:31 - 0:25:32] ▶
or two to do with UFOs.
[0:25:32 - 0:25:34] ▶
The person in charge
[0:25:34 - 0:25:35] ▶
all of the information
[0:25:36 - 0:25:37] ▶
dealing with extraterrestrials
[0:25:38 - 0:25:40] ▶
happened to sit next to me
[0:25:43 - 0:25:44] ▶
at my computer terminal
[0:25:44 - 0:25:46] ▶
all of the documents
[0:25:47 - 0:25:48] ▶
and the systems in our SCIF.
[0:25:49 - 0:25:51] ▶
This consulting firm
[0:25:51 - 0:25:52] ▶
wasn't just two old colleagues
[0:25:52 - 0:25:53] ▶
starting a fishing club.
[0:25:53 - 0:25:55] ▶
two aerospace graybeards
[0:25:56 - 0:25:57] ▶
to ever really walk away,
[0:25:59 - 0:26:01] ▶
and Department of Energy.
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Make of that what you will.
[0:26:06 - 0:26:07] ▶
he joined the board of trustees
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at Riverside Research,
[0:26:10 - 0:26:11] ▶
with hundreds of millions
[0:26:12 - 0:26:14] ▶
and intelligence work
[0:26:15 - 0:26:16] ▶
He was also the director
[0:26:17 - 0:26:18] ▶
Applied Technology Associates,
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one of those aerospace firms
[0:26:23 - 0:26:25] ▶
with a deliberately vague name
[0:26:25 - 0:26:27] ▶
working in sensitive areas
[0:26:27 - 0:26:29] ▶
and directed energy.
[0:26:30 - 0:26:31] ▶
like a quiet retirement to me,
[0:26:33 - 0:26:34] ▶
who makes a very specific
[0:26:37 - 0:26:38] ▶
a potential whistleblower,
[0:26:41 - 0:26:42] ▶
operating in the dangerous margin
[0:26:42 - 0:26:45] ▶
between intelligence agencies
[0:26:45 - 0:26:47] ▶
and private contractors,
[0:26:47 - 0:26:48] ▶
with their own distinct methods
[0:26:49 - 0:26:51] ▶
of making problems disappear.
[0:26:51 - 0:26:53] ▶
And if you're in the business
[0:26:53 - 0:26:54] ▶
of making problems disappear,
[0:26:54 - 0:26:56] ▶
you make sure you give the public
[0:26:56 - 0:26:58] ▶
a story they can wrap
[0:26:58 - 0:26:59] ▶
This is the Fixer Handbook 101,
[0:27:00 - 0:27:02] ▶
which brings us back
[0:27:03 - 0:27:04] ▶
that doesn't get enough attention.
[0:27:04 - 0:27:06] ▶
Just because McCaslin's gun
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the one who took it.
[0:27:10 - 0:27:11] ▶
If you wanted to stage
[0:27:12 - 0:27:13] ▶
someone's disappearance
[0:27:13 - 0:27:14] ▶
to read like a probable suicide,
[0:27:14 - 0:27:16] ▶
what would you take?
[0:27:17 - 0:27:18] ▶
Not their phone or smartwatch.
[0:27:20 - 0:27:22] ▶
You'd leave everything trackable
[0:27:22 - 0:27:24] ▶
but take the one item
[0:27:25 - 0:27:27] ▶
with an obvious narrative
[0:27:27 - 0:27:28] ▶
who knows what happened
[0:27:30 - 0:27:31] ▶
America's most classified
[0:27:35 - 0:27:37] ▶
vanished from his house
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despite 700 homeowners
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we have next to nothing.
[0:28:00 - 0:28:01] ▶
No confirmed sightings,
[0:28:01 - 0:28:03] ▶
in recent New Mexico history,
[0:28:09 - 0:28:11] ▶
the absence of evidence
[0:28:11 - 0:28:12] ▶
a data point unto itself
[0:28:14 - 0:28:16] ▶
that points to someone
[0:28:16 - 0:28:17] ▶
who's sophisticated,
[0:28:17 - 0:28:18] ▶
who knows how to work
[0:28:19 - 0:28:19] ▶
the first to vanish.
[0:28:22 - 0:28:23] ▶
Congressman from Tennessee,
[0:28:23 - 0:28:24] ▶
to get answers himself,
[0:28:26 - 0:28:27] ▶
some of our intelligence agencies
[0:28:28 - 0:28:30] ▶
are actively stonewalling
[0:28:30 - 0:28:32] ▶
his attempts to investigate
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why our top researchers
[0:28:33 - 0:28:35] ▶
at such a high rate.
[0:28:36 - 0:28:38] ▶
He told the Daily Mail
[0:28:38 - 0:28:39] ▶
in these certain areas
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be paying attention,
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we should trust our government.
[0:28:46 - 0:28:47] ▶
BirchitforCongress.com website
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that said more people
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than believe in Congress,
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there's something going on
[0:28:57 - 0:28:58] ▶
was looking for answers
[0:29:01 - 0:29:02] ▶
the internet was doing
[0:29:03 - 0:29:04] ▶
After his story broke,
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on a potential smoking gun.
[0:29:11 - 0:29:13] ▶
called TMB Spaceships.
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about plasma propulsion
[0:29:18 - 0:29:19] ▶
and spacecraft systems,
[0:29:19 - 0:29:21] ▶
since February 27th,
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the day McCasland disappeared.
[0:29:24 - 0:29:26] ▶
its owner was attending
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the University of Texas
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Butter Bar electrical engineer,
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which is slaying for
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a newly commissioned
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reached second lieutenant
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His official Air Force
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biography also puts him
[0:29:49 - 0:29:51] ▶
The account also mentions
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for Texas Instruments
[0:30:01 - 0:30:02] ▶
But the only McCasland
[0:30:03 - 0:30:05] ▶
we could actually verify
[0:30:05 - 0:30:07] ▶
doesn't fit that profile.
[0:30:07 - 0:30:08] ▶
Based on these posts,
[0:30:08 - 0:30:09] ▶
the user behind the account
[0:30:10 - 0:30:11] ▶
to unmask this X account,
[0:30:14 - 0:30:16] ▶
was hiding in plain sight.
[0:30:17 - 0:30:19] ▶
is sponsored by Incogni.
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Something that comes up a lot
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when I talk to UFO whistleblowers,
[0:30:25 - 0:30:27] ▶
who work on sensitive projects
[0:30:29 - 0:30:31] ▶
their digital footprint.
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Most people have no idea
[0:30:35 - 0:30:36] ▶
how much of their personal information
[0:30:36 - 0:30:38] ▶
they've never heard of.
[0:30:40 - 0:30:41] ▶
Personal phone numbers,
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family members' names,
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without your knowledge
[0:30:47 - 0:30:48] ▶
willing to pay for it.
[0:30:49 - 0:30:51] ▶
data brokers directly
[0:30:55 - 0:30:56] ▶
and get your information
[0:30:56 - 0:30:58] ▶
removed immediately.
[0:30:58 - 0:30:59] ▶
And they keep following up
[0:31:02 - 0:31:04] ▶
until it's confirmed.
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The feature I find most useful
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If you find your information
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by another missing scientist.
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Monica Jacinto Reza.
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in one of the most brutal corners
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of propulsion science.
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by the same ugly problem.
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heavy satellites into orbit,
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you need a high-pressure,
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oxygen-rich environment.
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to hold the engine together
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would go up in flames.
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that didn't catch on fire
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were too weak to trust
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with the guts of an engine.
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needed to find a sweet spot,
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but nobody could find one.
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on the Russian RD-180 engine
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for sensitive national security
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buying defense hardware
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for the most sensitive missions
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The stalemate finally shattered
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thanks to the hard work
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at the Rockwell Science Center.
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a nickel-based alloy
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the crushing pressure,
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to not go up in flames
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in an oxygen-rich hellscape.
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The first three letters
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of each of their names
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the Air Force Research Laboratory,
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began co-funding their work,
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the same Air Force Research Laboratory
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that was later headed up
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Monica told Space News
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that over the next two decades
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and after multiple Air Force
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the metal she created
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was eventually scaled
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into a family of super-alloys,
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Mondaloid 100 and 200,
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for different temperature
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and pressure conditions.
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national security hardware
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to stop relying on Russia.
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and Mondaloid ends up
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Rocketdyne's U.S.-built replacement
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for the Russian RD-180.
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Then, in May of 2011,
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came to Wright-Patterson
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as the new commander
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of the Air Force Research Laboratory
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while the Mondaloid program
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And Monica's co-inventor,
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who had been at Wright-Patterson
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since the year 2000,
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was right there alongside him,
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embedded in the lab's
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materials directorate
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until her retirement in 2012.
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This was the exact place
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a National Academies report
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shows the Mondaloid partnership
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the Air Force Research Laboratory
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at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne,
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that mastering materials
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could shape the future.
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And at Wright-Patterson,
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cutting-edge science
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has long been rumored
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to blur into the unexplained.
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and much weirder history
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of exotic metallurgy
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coming out of Wright-Patterson.
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And this is where the story
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goes somewhere familiar.
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Some researchers connect
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Mondaloid to a specific lineage
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that goes all the way back
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to the alleged Roswell crash
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with journalist Bob Pratt,
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intelligence officer
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at the Roswell crash site,
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described some of the debris
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as thin and foil-like.
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that whatever was recovered
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a classified R&D seed program
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at Wright-Patterson's
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Air Force Research Lab.
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that seed inspired families
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impossible properties.
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extreme strength-to-weight ratios,
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of the Roswell metal,
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of the same research tree.
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that Wright-Patterson
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with Battelle Memorial Institute
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studying nickel-titanium alloys,
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long before the material
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to what Jesse Marcel described,
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after he reportedly handled it.
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at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory,
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that remembers its shape.
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in modern metallurgy,
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steeped in Roswell lore,
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it looked eerily familiar.
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metallurgical neighborhood.
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has only small amounts
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at the actual science
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the exotic metal theory
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Monica's Patents for Mondeloy
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So is Monica's superalloy
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Roswell starship derivative?
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these exotic metal lineages
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didn't have a little
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the optics are bizarre.
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and now they've both
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If you look at the world
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intelligence agencies
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have warned for decades
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space and defense world.
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McCasland was practically
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a walking hard drive,
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wasn't just Mondeloy,
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the toughest problems
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in American rocketry
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is capable of solving
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for a 60-year-old woman
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Angeles National Forest.
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yesterday at about 9 a.m.
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Sheriff Department's
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Crescenta Valley Station
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and Montrose Search and Rescue
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other than Monica's beanie,
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The visor was recovered
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the synthetic aperture
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and the investigation
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to the Homicide Bureau,
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the missing persons unit.
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But Monica's community
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had already mobilized,
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organizing volunteer groups,
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mountain rescue teams
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the search and rescue
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search and rescue mission
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Hikers have been known
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to survive for two to three weeks
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but the weeks wore on
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and the volunteer exhibitions
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Hope of rescue dimmed,
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The organizers begged
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until Monica's birthday
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after her disappearance.
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That fateful June morning,
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Monica was well equipped
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and plenty of water.
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if she had her cell phone
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she could have been attacked
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but no dens were found
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are mountain lion country.
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is extremely rugged.
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and cave-like shelters
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Monica from the view
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multiple civilian searchers
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who descended the ravine
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last reported location
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described the terrain
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but not steep enough
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they could have intercepted
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a crime of opportunity,
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much more nefarious.
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beyond her invention
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the heat-resistant coating
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It's been nearly a month
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has seen Melissa Casillas.
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Her stepdaughter says
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showed Casillas walking
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and she was last seen
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walking on a highway
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even saw her walking
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to see if she needed help,
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she got into that truck.
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her personal belongings
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are all still at home,
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including her phone,
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which had been factory reset.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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administrative assistant
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National Laboratory,
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one of the most secretive
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research sites on Earth.
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to the Manhattan Project,
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where the first atomic bomb
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He worked at the lab
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Melissa swipe her badge
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But instead of heading to work,
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Melissa drove an hour
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telling her daughter,
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she'd forgotten her badge
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and was going to work
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and left for her own job.
[0:44:54 - 0:44:56] ▶
Melissa dropped off lunch
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Everything seemed normal,
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from Melissa's boss.
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wouldn't deliver at all.
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in a turquoise shirt,
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and a maroon sweatshirt
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heading in the direction
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of Carson National Forest,
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her daughter came home
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she found her mom's purse,
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and personal phones.
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one of the phones up,
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it had been factory reset.
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A check she was supposed
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to cash was sitting there,
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next to a few dollar bills.
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Her daughter searched
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she might have taken
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and other personal items.
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A witness later reported
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that around the same time
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on surveillance footage,
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they saw a blue Dodge truck
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The family later disputed it,
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saying that the witness
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Melissa was wearing.
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the stories didn't match up.
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Melissa told her daughter
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because she forgot her badge,
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he watched her swipe in with it.
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Either one of them was wrong
[0:46:35 - 0:46:37] ▶
After going through her things,
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was under enormous pressure.
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On an interview with Dateline,
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she said that there was
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a lot crumbling down on her
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that we didn't know about.
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Melissa was also feeling
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that after their daughter,
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was in a bad car accident,
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but it fell through.
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mentions that the accident
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most could never fathom.
[0:47:06 - 0:47:08] ▶
As Sierra and her father
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started piecing things together,
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they began suspecting
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Melissa might have left
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at the items she took,
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and hair straightener,
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it tells us a few things.
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Abductees don't usually
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take their hair straighteners,
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and a suicidal person
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doesn't care about frizzy hair.
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This behavior describes
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someone who might be expecting
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with running electricity,
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and maybe even someone to see.
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The factory reset phones
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If she had left voluntarily,
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she might have wanted
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to wipe her message history
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harder to track down.
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The Los Alamos connection,
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put Melissa on everyone's radar.
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administrative roles
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with classified material,
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what her position entailed.
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the confusion about the badge,
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the factory reset phones,
[0:48:01 - 0:48:02] ▶
the personal items she took,
[0:48:02 - 0:48:04] ▶
and the financial stress,
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this starts to look like
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someone who made a decision
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to disappear on her own terms.
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Maybe she saw something
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she wasn't supposed to
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And her phone and hair appliance
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were a neat cover story
[0:48:16 - 0:48:17] ▶
who didn't want her to speak out.
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Melissa's still missing,
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and her family is still looking.
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Her parents have set up
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offering a $5,000 reward
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that brings her home.
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But not every disappearance
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near a sensitive facility
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The evidence looks like
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more tragic and personal
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than a sinister conspiracy.
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because she deserves
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but we're not including her
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as evidence of something darker.
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we have to look 700 miles west
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at what was happening
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just outside Los Angeles.
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A man shot and killed
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in the Antelope Valley
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He was a Caltech scientist.
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made groundbreaking discoveries
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and will be greatly missed.
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On February 16, 2026,
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about 30 miles northeast
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of Waterman Mountain,
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where Monica Reza disappeared,
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from Caltech and JPL
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would meet an equally tragic
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The great astronomer,
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unincorporated community
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tucked away near the Los Angeles
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and San Bernardino County line,
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a world-class astronomer
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had built his own observatory
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on a remote stretch of land.
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He chose to set up shop
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in the secluded Antelope Valley,
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20 miles east of Palmdale,
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precisely because of
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how thinly populated it was.
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wanted the darkest night skies possible
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with the least amount
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Carl Johann Grillmayer,
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born in Calgary, Alberta,
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to studying galactic astronomy
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His work focused on mapping
[0:50:07 - 0:50:08] ▶
the structure of the Milky Way,
[0:50:08 - 0:50:10] ▶
identifying stellar streams,
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remnants of smaller galaxies,
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or clusters torn apart
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by gravitational forces.
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These incredibly faint,
[0:50:18 - 0:50:19] ▶
stretched out ribbons of stars,
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drift through our Milky Way,
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of what was left behind.
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Modern science sometimes suffers
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from hyper-specialization,
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but Carl Grillmayer did not.
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Within astrophysics,
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he was a renaissance man,
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with research interests
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of our own solar system,
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to giant galaxy clusters,
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for extraterrestrial life.
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Grillmayer discovered
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a vast river of stars,
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yanked into the Milky Way
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from nearby globular clusters.
[0:50:50 - 0:50:52] ▶
Using the Sloan Digital Survey,
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of these stellar streams,
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leading to key insights
[0:51:01 - 0:51:03] ▶
a mysterious missing mass,
[0:51:04 - 0:51:06] ▶
which forms a cosmic glue
[0:51:06 - 0:51:07] ▶
and their clusters together.
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Stars, galaxies, planets,
[0:51:10 - 0:51:12] ▶
and matter as we know it
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of the observable universe.
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Think of them as the foam
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crashing on the beach.
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much of the rest of the ocean.
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A vast halo of dark matter
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envelops the Milky Way.
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would disturb the path
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of incoming stellar streams
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and changing their paths.
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And by tracking these changes,
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to make profound insights
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into one of the universe's
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what is most of it made out of?
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Through his comprehensive study
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reshape our understanding
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of how galaxies evolve.
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And his work with exoplanets
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was arguably even more profound.
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Using the Spitzer Space Telescope,
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Grillmayer did pioneering work
[0:51:58 - 0:52:00] ▶
studying the atmospheres
[0:52:00 - 0:52:01] ▶
breaking down light,
[0:52:02 - 0:52:03] ▶
passing through distant worlds
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to search for molecular fingerprints
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what they're made of.
[0:52:08 - 0:52:09] ▶
Grillmayer was part of the team
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the first ever instance
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in an exoplanet's atmosphere.
[0:52:15 - 0:52:17] ▶
Today, the techniques
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in the scientific search
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as the same capabilities
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of habitable planets
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footprints of living ecology
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altering the planet's
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His colleague at Caltech,
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Sergio Fajardo Acosta,
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described his approach
[0:52:38 - 0:52:39] ▶
and galactic structures
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as truly detective work.
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the consensus reality
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in conventional astronomy
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that we're not alone
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of that paradigm-shattering
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to Dr. Grillmayer's groundwork.
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also studied celestial bodies
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much closer to home.
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as planetary defense.
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the first line of defense
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of view as you can get
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when it came to the potential
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for Earth's extinction.
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He's published extensively,
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a number of accolades,
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Exceptional Scientific Achievement
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Recently, Grillmayer
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testing new instrumentation
[0:53:37 - 0:53:39] ▶
at Caltech's Palomar Observatory
[0:53:39 - 0:53:42] ▶
to monitor for meteor impacts
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on the moon's surface
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during an upcoming lunar eclipse.
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It is a really exciting project,
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to seeing what we could learn
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about the near-space environment
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It made perfect sense
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that someone so passionate
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about the night skies
[0:54:02 - 0:54:04] ▶
outfitted with his own observatory.
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And what makes no sense
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would seemingly stalk him
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and return to kill him
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On December 20, 2025,
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according to sheriff officials
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to report someone trespassing
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on his sprawling lot
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Deputies were dispatched,
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and when they arrived,
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they found 29-year-old
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wandering the rugged landscape
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and carried the weapon
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against wild animals.
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indicating the post office
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was in the opposite direction
[0:54:50 - 0:54:52] ▶
of his and Grillmayer's home.
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The sheriffs arrested Snyder
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on a felony weapons charge
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at the Palmdale Station Jail,
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where he was accused
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of attempting to escape
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before his court appearance.
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When Snyder showed up at court,
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to complete a gun safety course,
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of past criminal record
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as the reason for his leniency.
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Snyder was released from jail
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on his own recognizance.
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Things calmed in the new year,
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at least temporarily,
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until another 911 call
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came in on February 16th.
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with a deadly weapon.
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had been shot on his porch.
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Paramedics pronounced him
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responded to the 911 call
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at the Grillmayer residence,
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another call came in.
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A carjacking had occurred
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and was subsequently linked
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to Grillmayer's shooting.
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the man who was released
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for lacking a criminal record,
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with several felonies,
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at just above $3 million.
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Investigators have yet
[0:56:09 - 0:56:10] ▶
to uncover a motive,
[0:56:10 - 0:56:11] ▶
and they've found no evidence
[0:56:12 - 0:56:13] ▶
that Snyder and Grillmayer
[0:56:13 - 0:56:15] ▶
No one has an explanation
[0:56:16 - 0:56:17] ▶
suddenly went on a crime spree
[0:56:18 - 0:56:20] ▶
that began and ended
[0:56:20 - 0:56:22] ▶
with Carl Grillmayer.
[0:56:22 - 0:56:23] ▶
And Freddy Snyder's arraignment
[0:56:23 - 0:56:25] ▶
so it may take many months
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just what happened here.
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something he wasn't supposed to?
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Was Snyder being controlled
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of something deeper?
[0:56:42 - 0:56:43] ▶
on the revolutionary
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Vera Rubin Observatory,
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which saw its first light
[0:56:50 - 0:56:51] ▶
before his untimely death.
[0:56:52 - 0:56:54] ▶
The Vera Rubin Observatory
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is one of the largest
[0:56:56 - 0:56:57] ▶
over a thousand images
[0:57:00 - 0:57:02] ▶
from horizon to horizon.
[0:57:05 - 0:57:07] ▶
for interstellar objects.
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we've only ever detected
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confirmed to be entering
[0:57:14 - 0:57:15] ▶
our own solar system
[0:57:24 - 0:57:25] ▶
in unprecedented detail.
[0:57:25 - 0:57:27] ▶
previously undiscovered
[0:57:31 - 0:57:33] ▶
take an interesting,
[0:57:35 - 0:57:36] ▶
albeit very speculative,
[0:57:36 - 0:57:37] ▶
very strange properties,
[0:57:46 - 0:57:47] ▶
American alchemy guest
[0:57:52 - 0:57:54] ▶
and Harvard astrophysicist
[0:57:54 - 0:57:55] ▶
in the Hawaiian language
[0:58:03 - 0:58:04] ▶
mainstream SETI researchers
[0:58:26 - 0:58:28] ▶
filled in extraterrestrial
[0:58:37 - 0:58:38] ▶
from visiting civilizations,
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All of Rubin's imagery
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a conspiracy theory.
[0:58:53 - 0:58:54] ▶
before the scientific
[0:59:01 - 0:59:02] ▶
for the construction
[0:59:09 - 0:59:11] ▶
immediately encrypted
[0:59:20 - 0:59:21] ▶
to a secure facility
[0:59:25 - 0:59:26] ▶
with previous images
[0:59:30 - 0:59:32] ▶
new object it finds,
[0:59:37 - 0:59:39] ▶
and one minute later
[0:59:48 - 0:59:49] ▶
together with their coordinates
[0:59:51 - 0:59:52] ▶
available to astronomers
[0:59:54 - 0:59:55] ▶
This level of intense
[0:59:56 - 0:59:58] ▶
intelligence community
[0:59:58 - 0:59:59] ▶
to be a conventional
[1:00:01 - 1:00:02] ▶
is not unprecedented.
[1:00:04 - 1:00:05] ▶
underwent massive censorship
[1:00:12 - 1:00:14] ▶
with swaths of imagery
[1:00:15 - 1:00:16] ▶
redacted or blacked out.
[1:00:16 - 1:00:18] ▶
Astronomers complained
[1:00:18 - 1:00:20] ▶
that these redactions
[1:00:20 - 1:00:20] ▶
often got in the way
[1:00:20 - 1:00:22] ▶
Now, what if you were
[1:00:23 - 1:00:23] ▶
on one of these things?
[1:00:24 - 1:00:26] ▶
and everything to do
[1:00:31 - 1:00:32] ▶
with classified spy satellites
[1:00:32 - 1:00:33] ▶
and military space assets.
[1:00:33 - 1:00:35] ▶
this is probably true,
[1:00:36 - 1:00:37] ▶
Past American alchemist,
[1:00:40 - 1:00:42] ▶
Dr. Beatrice Villarreal,
[1:00:42 - 1:00:44] ▶
discovered a possibly
[1:00:44 - 1:00:45] ▶
She found tens of thousands
[1:00:50 - 1:00:52] ▶
on astronomical plates
[1:00:59 - 1:01:00] ▶
or any American satellites
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on astronomical plates
[1:01:10 - 1:01:11] ▶
from the Palomar Observatory.
[1:01:11 - 1:01:13] ▶
Villarreal is currently
[1:01:16 - 1:01:17] ▶
working on replicating
[1:01:17 - 1:01:19] ▶
And if I had to guess,
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I think we're going to find
[1:01:21 - 1:01:22] ▶
corroboration for them.
[1:01:23 - 1:01:24] ▶
with transients for a while.
[1:01:25 - 1:01:26] ▶
I think a lot of people
[1:01:26 - 1:01:27] ▶
know about this transient work.
[1:01:27 - 1:01:28] ▶
We have been looking
[1:01:29 - 1:01:30] ▶
transients and images.
[1:01:31 - 1:01:32] ▶
Sometimes you can see
[1:01:32 - 1:01:33] ▶
appearing and vanishing
[1:01:34 - 1:01:36] ▶
within half an hour.
[1:01:36 - 1:01:37] ▶
So if there truly is
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a population of UFOs
[1:01:38 - 1:01:40] ▶
surrounding the Earth,
[1:01:40 - 1:01:41] ▶
the Rubin telescope,
[1:01:41 - 1:01:43] ▶
Grillmair's pet project
[1:01:43 - 1:01:45] ▶
at the end of his life,
[1:01:45 - 1:01:46] ▶
would certainly catch them.
[1:01:47 - 1:01:48] ▶
before ever reaching
[1:01:53 - 1:01:54] ▶
and scientific community.
[1:01:55 - 1:01:57] ▶
definite speculation,
[1:01:57 - 1:01:58] ▶
that there's no direct
[1:02:00 - 1:02:01] ▶
evidence suggesting this.
[1:02:01 - 1:02:03] ▶
potentially see something
[1:02:06 - 1:02:08] ▶
something classified,
[1:02:12 - 1:02:13] ▶
but why would he want
[1:02:14 - 1:02:15] ▶
to tell him in good faith
[1:02:18 - 1:02:20] ▶
to not tell the public.
[1:02:21 - 1:02:23] ▶
leaves many questions
[1:02:26 - 1:02:27] ▶
of General McCaslett,
[1:02:31 - 1:02:32] ▶
because of the access
[1:02:36 - 1:02:37] ▶
they had to top-secret
[1:02:37 - 1:02:39] ▶
intelligence and technology
[1:02:39 - 1:02:41] ▶
produced at our nation's
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science, and defense
[1:02:43 - 1:02:44] ▶
The murder of Carl Grillmair,
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a terrifying escalation
[1:02:50 - 1:02:52] ▶
in this attack on science.
[1:02:52 - 1:02:54] ▶
A mind like Grillmair's
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A senseless act of violence
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is always a tragedy,
[1:02:59 - 1:03:00] ▶
but when the expertise
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is wiped off the planet,
[1:03:04 - 1:03:05] ▶
we can leave no stone
[1:03:05 - 1:03:06] ▶
that took out another
[1:03:11 - 1:03:13] ▶
preeminent scientific minds.
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an expert on nuclear fusion.
[1:03:17 - 1:03:19] ▶
Nuno Felipe Gómez Lurero
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a city in central Portugal.
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Even as a little boy,
[1:03:33 - 1:03:34] ▶
he wanted to be a scientist.
[1:03:35 - 1:03:36] ▶
In a 2018 MIT profile,
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wanted to be a policeman
[1:03:41 - 1:03:43] ▶
He couldn't quite place
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of his scientific interest.
[1:03:46 - 1:03:48] ▶
He followed that passion
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to attend Imperial College
[1:03:59 - 1:04:00] ▶
in the United States
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to join Princeton University
[1:04:11 - 1:04:13] ▶
as a post-doctoral researcher
[1:04:13 - 1:04:15] ▶
at the Plasma Physics Lab
[1:04:15 - 1:04:17] ▶
Nuno worked in a laboratory
[1:04:22 - 1:04:23] ▶
for the UK Atomic Energy Authority
[1:04:23 - 1:04:25] ▶
and Nuclear Fusion Institute
[1:04:28 - 1:04:30] ▶
to the United States,
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and fusion scientist.
[1:04:37 - 1:04:39] ▶
I'm a professor at MIT.
[1:04:40 - 1:04:42] ▶
is in nuclear science
[1:04:43 - 1:04:44] ▶
He flourished at MIT
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became deputy director
[1:04:48 - 1:04:50] ▶
of MIT's largest lab,
[1:04:50 - 1:04:52] ▶
which is an umbrella
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research center at MIT
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and fusion-related activities
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that we do on campus.
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And in January 2025,
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with the Presidential
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the highest U.S. government
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honor for young scientists.
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was a renowned physicist
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He was a leading expert
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was conducting at MIT
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the hardest problems
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Problems that would unlock
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in clean fusion power,
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the world's energy crisis
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would be the ultimate
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bringing the sun to the earth
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no fossil fuel pollution
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Wielding fusion power
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would dramatically reduce
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we might be able to avoid
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a lot of the geopolitical
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we're seeing happening today.
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Plasma is a chaotic soup
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of charged, ionized gas
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in wildly unpredictable ways.
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and to force the atoms
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into just the right geometry
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and under just enough pressure
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There are many challenges
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but perhaps the greatest
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of the containment field.
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It is no simple task,
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Nuno Lurero excelled.
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His research was especially focused
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on one of the greatest challenges
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in plasma containment fields,
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magnetic reconnection.
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Consider the loops of plasma
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It usually gets trapped
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in tubes of electromagnetic energy,
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rising out of the sun's surface
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and falling back in.
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that's been stretched too much,
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The field lines break.
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All the energy stored
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in the field bursts out
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as the particles heat up
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Then the field reconnects.
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This process causes solar flares
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and coronal mass ejections,
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with an electromagnetic pulse,
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Nuno was a real blue sky researcher
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studying the phenomenon
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of magnetic reconnection itself.
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But his work had extremely practical applications
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because just as reconnection causes flares from the sun,
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it's also a major factor
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in our attempts to bring the sun's power down to earth
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and do so in the form of real nuclear fusion.
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Giant donut-shaped tokamak reactors
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use powerful magnets
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to contain superheated plasma,
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and magnetic reconnection
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is one of the greatest obstacles
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to sustained nuclear fusion.
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Just like plasma ejections from the sun,
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a leak gets created,
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leading to rapid cooling and pressure loss.
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This effectively stops the fusion process
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was one of the world's experts
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in understanding the intricacies
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of exactly how and why
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these magnetic reconnection leaks happen.
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We don't know if Nuno came close
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to solving the problem
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of magnetic field line breaks,
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he was probably as close as anybody.
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And at 47 years old,
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he had many impressive decades
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of discovery and invention ahead of him.
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Except on December 15th,
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inside his Brookline, Massachusetts home.
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an award-winning scientist,
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an expert in his field.
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He was shot in the foyer
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played a card game inside.
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The only other person
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was his 12-year-old daughter,
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who first answered the door
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for what she thought
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authorities would report
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that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente,
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the Portuguese national
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just two days prior,
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was likely also Nuno's killer.
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this seemed very plausible.
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had both studied physics together
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Instituto Superior Tecnico.
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They're also highly competitive.
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The men certainly knew each other
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of the same graduating class.
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was actually an average student
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was tied with another student
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for top of his class.
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Claudio had his heart
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for graduate school,
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but as a surprise to everyone,
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he didn't score very well
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on his graduate school
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He ultimately didn't get in.
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to Brown University instead,
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by a lack of academic rigor
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in their physics program,
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insisting his classes
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he'd already learned
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Claudio was described
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by his classmates at Brown.
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a year into the program
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of the program entirely
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and returned to Portugal.
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a disgruntled note online.
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And some now believe
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for his former classmate,
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whose massive success
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assault in the wound.
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tail between his legs,
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at an internet company
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was an extraordinary professional.
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were capable of doing,
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that he was very lonely.
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great regrets he had
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was that he couldn't
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create his own family,
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He had few social skills,
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he had any girlfriends
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Valente reported to work.
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it would be his last day.
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He turned in his laptop,
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and he was never seen again.
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Bastos tried in vain
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no one from Valente's
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including his own family.
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a visa to the United States.
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He settled in Miami, Florida,
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is that for the past
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in Salem, New Hampshire,
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and returned to Providence
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to conduct surveillance
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on the Brown campus.
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the Barris and Hawley
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Engineering Building
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a blue-gray Nissan Sentra
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with Florida plates.
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repeatedly around Brown
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between December 1st
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The picture was clear.
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This was pre-operational
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Valente executed his plan
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December 13th, 2025.
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an open lecture hall
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in the Barris and Hawley Building,
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the home of the physics department
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where students were taking
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before their winter holiday.
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killing two students
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and injuring nine others.
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a confessional video behind.
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federal and state manhunt
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Valente successfully
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evaded law enforcement
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Using a burner phone
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with a European SIM card
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as well as swapping out
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and the license plate
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that he had one more
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act of violence planned.
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Valente spent the day
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Commonwealth Avenue.
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Lurero as a representation
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he couldn't amount to.
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A successful academic,
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a leader in his field
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a successful emigrant
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This may have just been
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a modern physics-based
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both strangely calculated
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about Claudio Valente's
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to his confrontation
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much more information
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whereabouts in Providence
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prior to his Brown shooting.
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he kind of goes dark.
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to drop off the map.
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were still circulating
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still interviewing survivors.
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had not been identified.
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in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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made its first appearance
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parked on Babcock Street
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starting around 1.20 p.m.,
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recorded a masked person
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along Commonwealth Avenue.
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Ph.D. qualifying exams
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over his darker clothing.
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to Lurero's apartment
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His youngest daughter
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opens the front door
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and peeks into the foyer.
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She sees through the glass
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inside of the building,
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but on the other side
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of the man's clothing
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with the footage revealed,
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that the yellow vest
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had some gray stripes.
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There are a few discrepancies
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compared to the footage
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as having short facial hair,
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And according to her,
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has a barcode on it.
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returns to the living room
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as Nuno replaces her
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to deal with the visitor.
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and rushes to Lurero,
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in the upper left chest,
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and has a graze wound
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through his left thigh.
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to a blue or gray car
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parked across the street.
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wearing a HiVise vest.
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heading out of the city.
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that once Lurero was shot,
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the rental car's plates
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after the Brookline shooting.
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The Department of Justice
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transcript of the videos
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In these recordings,
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planned the Brown attack
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the reason for targeting
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in the same university
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but there's no evidence
[1:18:18 - 1:18:19] ▶
of a recent dispute,
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or a concrete grievance
[1:18:22 - 1:18:23] ▶
tied to the Brookline attack.
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Valente seems to have
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surveilled Brown repeatedly.
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to the same building.
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He rented both a car
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post-crime confession
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via an emergency exit.
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about his eye injury
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and described the whole
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a little incompetent.
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between the two attacks.
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Where was he staying?
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hint that the second
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but not how far back
[1:19:24 - 1:19:25] ▶
but consciously alert.
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He answers questions
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by shaking his head,
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but at the hospital,
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he was able to provide
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his name and information.
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as his former classmate,
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would he have said anything?
[1:19:52 - 1:19:53] ▶
but did not survive.
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He was pronounced dead
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the following morning.
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In the days that followed,
[1:20:01 - 1:20:03] ▶
they spoke to the MIT professor's
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family and colleagues
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that there was no threat present
[1:20:06 - 1:20:08] ▶
and they still have no motive.
[1:20:08 - 1:20:10] ▶
Everything about this case
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Valente's combination
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of caution and sloppiness.
[1:20:15 - 1:20:17] ▶
He went to great efforts
[1:20:17 - 1:20:18] ▶
and lengths in Providence
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keep his identity hidden.
[1:20:22 - 1:20:23] ▶
But then he arrives in Boston
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and paces back and forth
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that would obviously
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have security cameras.
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as if he was having cold feet
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or maybe he was awaiting instruction,
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subliminal or conscious instruction.
[1:20:36 - 1:20:39] ▶
As we've covered on this show,
[1:20:41 - 1:20:43] ▶
the horrifying ability
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to program assassins
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and it's been demonstrated
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by governments globally
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and employed to take out targets
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at the highest level.
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What remains unresolved
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is why Lurero was chosen.
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What exactly happened
[1:20:58 - 1:20:59] ▶
between the Brown massacre
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and the Brookline attack
[1:21:01 - 1:21:02] ▶
had been a longstanding target
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or simply became one
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after the Brown shooting
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was already underway.
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is that Nuno Lurero's loss
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He wasn't just the head
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of MIT's Plasma Science
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training the next generation
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of top scientific minds
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in harnessing the power
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and creating clean energy
[1:21:27 - 1:21:28] ▶
He was twice awarded
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Outstanding Professor Award.
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for the beloved courses
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both Intro to Plasma Physics
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MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics,
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just as sensitive implications
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It's the less focused on
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aspect of Lurero's work.
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And these are called
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the magnetohydrodynamic equations.
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They're hydrodynamics,
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but now there's a magnetic field,
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so you refer to this
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as magnetohydrodynamics.
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Some believe that it could lead
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to a whole new paradigm
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in flight and propulsion.
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on the future of science.
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There's no other way to say it.
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Nuno was the tip of the spear
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on sustained, clean,
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widespread nuclear fusion energy.
[1:22:19 - 1:22:21] ▶
someone wanted him dead?
[1:22:23 - 1:22:24] ▶
to a strange coincidence
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Nuno Lurero's murder.
[1:22:32 - 1:22:34] ▶
Breaking news out of Brookline,
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an MIT professor shot and killed.
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He was shot several times
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of his Brookline home.
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privately funded fusion companies,
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announced a massive merger
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publicly traded company.
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and Technology Group,
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Trump's social media platform,
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The deal was announced
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on December 18th, 2025.
[1:23:02 - 1:23:04] ▶
Lurero died on December 16th.
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The announcement didn't coincide
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technical breakthroughs.
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this combined entity
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at around $6 billion.
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experimental company.
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anutronic fusion reactors
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using hydrogen boron fuel
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all fusion enterprises
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they have yet to produce
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or commercial power.
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TAE is still pre-revenue
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in its core mission.
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So why is any of this relevant?
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Well, there are a few
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in the race with TAE
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to produce commercial
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One of their biggest competitors
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems
[1:23:49 - 1:23:50] ▶
that emerged directly
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from the Massachusetts
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Institute of Technology.
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of MIT's institutional research.
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The MIT Plasma Science
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collaborates closely
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fundamental plasma physics
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of the Plasma Science
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So the head of research
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that directly supports
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of stable nuclear energy
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on exactly where this happened.
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at his Brooklyn Hall.
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right around the corner.
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the Portuguese professor
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one of Commonwealth's
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with a sitting president's
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publicly traded company.
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Does that mean anything?
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I'm not entirely sure.
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don't want to insinuate anything.
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to say that the timing
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reasonable explanations
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say that any fusion company
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will need the support
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of the federal government
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to bring this nascent,
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and extremely costly
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out of the laboratories
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and onto the power grid.
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cost and infrastructure
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of our current grid system.
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There are other power players
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who have an interest
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the question remains,
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would the power players
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that could determine
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in our modern world.
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And Nuno Lurero's research
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was at the heart of it.
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I think on any given day,
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to go for the low-hanging fruit,
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be a little more ambitious,
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the really hard problems.
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tied to strategic technology
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Star Wars missile shield,
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something deeply sinister
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so rich and intriguing
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that if it were fiction,
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because all of the dead,
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almost two dozen to date,
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worked in Western Europe's
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the Strategic Defense Initiative,
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was actually a joint effort
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between the United States
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and some of its key allies,
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Between 1982 and 1990,
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and computer scientists,
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all working for GEC Marconi,
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on some of Britain's
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most classified defense projects,
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the scientific community
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to turn their great talents
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They consistently defied
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rational explanation.
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a suspension bridge.
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His body was then found
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needle puncture wounds
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allegedly drove his car
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tied between his neck
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decapitating himself.
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A Ministry of Defense
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was found in his flat
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with his feet bound,
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sexual misadventure.
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A senior radar scientist
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with extra petrol cans
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into an abandoned cafe.
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stuffed in his mouth.
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during a research experiment
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of how he got there.
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The British government
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investigated nothing,
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classified the files,
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has ever been charged.
[1:28:24 - 1:28:26] ▶
or something else entirely?
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The case is officially closed,
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anomalously condensed example.
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when scientific minds
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get closer to unlocking
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new facets of our reality
[1:28:44 - 1:28:46] ▶
they seem to be removed
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from the conversation.
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Take the disappearance
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of Mexican neurophysiologist
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who vanished in 1994
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just after his biggest discovery.
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That space wasn't empty,
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with a massive energy matrix
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he dubbed the lattice.
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How we see the world
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was based on our tether
[1:29:10 - 1:29:12] ▶
and those with the honed ability
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to synchronize their cognition
[1:29:15 - 1:29:17] ▶
would be able to bend the hologram
[1:29:18 - 1:29:20] ▶
to their own designs,
[1:29:20 - 1:29:22] ▶
just like Neo in the matrix.
[1:29:22 - 1:29:24] ▶
Grinberg had seemingly stumbled
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upon something foundational,
[1:29:26 - 1:29:28] ▶
and then he was never seen again.
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After convening with some top scientific minds
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his lab was cleared out
[1:29:39 - 1:29:41] ▶
and his records were erased.
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The only thing left behind
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was a single chilling note.
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If you understand the system,
[1:29:47 - 1:29:49] ▶
Speaking of disappearances,
[1:29:54 - 1:29:56] ▶
if we didn't mention
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one of the most famous disappearances
[1:29:58 - 1:30:00] ▶
tied to the scientific realm.
[1:30:01 - 1:30:03] ▶
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
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took off from Kuala Lumpur
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with 239 people aboard.
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Somewhere over the South China Sea,
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its transponders stopped transmitting.
[1:30:18 - 1:30:20] ▶
Malaysian military radar
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later showed that after going dark,
[1:30:22 - 1:30:24] ▶
the plane made an unexplained U-turn,
[1:30:24 - 1:30:27] ▶
flew for another several hours
[1:30:27 - 1:30:29] ▶
in the wrong direction,
[1:30:29 - 1:30:30] ▶
then vanished from the Earth
[1:30:31 - 1:30:32] ▶
that despite the most expensive
[1:30:33 - 1:30:35] ▶
search in aviation history,
[1:30:35 - 1:30:37] ▶
only a small number of debris fragments
[1:30:37 - 1:30:39] ▶
believed to be from the MH370 crash
[1:30:39 - 1:30:42] ▶
have turned up alongside
[1:30:42 - 1:30:43] ▶
the coasts of Africa
[1:30:43 - 1:30:45] ▶
and a handful of Indian Ocean islands.
[1:30:45 - 1:30:47] ▶
And around that disappearance,
[1:30:48 - 1:30:49] ▶
a wild theory took shape.
[1:30:49 - 1:30:51] ▶
It's centered on alleged drone footage
[1:30:51 - 1:30:54] ▶
and a companion infrared video.
[1:30:54 - 1:30:56] ▶
Researcher Ashton Forbes
[1:30:56 - 1:30:58] ▶
claims that these videos
[1:30:58 - 1:30:59] ▶
show MH370 over the Nicobar Islands
[1:30:59 - 1:31:02] ▶
being encircled by three
[1:31:02 - 1:31:04] ▶
fusion-powered plasma orbs
[1:31:04 - 1:31:06] ▶
that generate a spinning wormhole
[1:31:06 - 1:31:08] ▶
teleporting the plane westward,
[1:31:08 - 1:31:10] ▶
likely toward the Maldives
[1:31:11 - 1:31:12] ▶
military black program operation
[1:31:15 - 1:31:17] ▶
targeting high-value engineers.
[1:31:17 - 1:31:19] ▶
Now, I want to be super clear.
[1:31:19 - 1:31:24] ▶
I don't know what to make of these videos.
[1:31:24 - 1:31:27] ▶
Impressive people from the intelligence
[1:31:27 - 1:31:29] ▶
have told me they are very fake
[1:31:30 - 1:31:32] ▶
and that, for example,
[1:31:32 - 1:31:33] ▶
they've never seen thermal infrared imaging
[1:31:33 - 1:31:35] ▶
on these sorts of systems
[1:31:35 - 1:31:37] ▶
But there's another narrative
[1:31:38 - 1:31:39] ▶
and doesn't require any belief
[1:31:41 - 1:31:43] ▶
in UFOs zapping an airplane
[1:31:43 - 1:31:45] ▶
Among the documented passengers
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from Free Scale Semiconductor,
[1:31:52 - 1:31:55] ▶
an American semiconductor company
[1:31:55 - 1:31:57] ▶
that had just announced
[1:31:57 - 1:31:59] ▶
including devices relevant to radar
[1:32:00 - 1:32:02] ▶
and electronic warfare
[1:32:02 - 1:32:04] ▶
for defense market applications.
[1:32:04 - 1:32:06] ▶
The employees included
[1:32:06 - 1:32:08] ▶
and Malaysian specialists
[1:32:09 - 1:32:11] ▶
the kind of microchip technology
[1:32:12 - 1:32:14] ▶
that sits at the intersection
[1:32:14 - 1:32:16] ▶
of civilian computing
[1:32:16 - 1:32:18] ▶
and military applications.
[1:32:18 - 1:32:19] ▶
Some researchers believe
[1:32:20 - 1:32:21] ▶
that this is what made
[1:32:21 - 1:32:23] ▶
not just as passengers
[1:32:24 - 1:32:25] ▶
of highly specialized
[1:32:28 - 1:32:30] ▶
scientific expertise.
[1:32:30 - 1:32:31] ▶
of military microelectronics,
[1:32:35 - 1:32:37] ▶
then they represented
[1:32:37 - 1:32:38] ▶
a goldmine of technical knowledge
[1:32:38 - 1:32:40] ▶
for the next generation
[1:32:40 - 1:32:41] ▶
of defense technology.
[1:32:41 - 1:32:43] ▶
it's not the first instance
[1:32:44 - 1:32:45] ▶
of a mysterious aircraft malfunction
[1:32:45 - 1:32:47] ▶
was a self-taught inventor
[1:32:53 - 1:32:55] ▶
Born in Czechoslovakia
[1:32:56 - 1:32:58] ▶
during World War II,
[1:32:58 - 1:32:59] ▶
he escaped Nazi Germany
[1:32:59 - 1:33:01] ▶
the country's first rocket.
[1:33:04 - 1:33:05] ▶
formal science training.
[1:33:06 - 1:33:07] ▶
But his true passion
[1:33:08 - 1:33:09] ▶
the mysteries of consciousness,
[1:33:10 - 1:33:11] ▶
shape the foundation
[1:33:17 - 1:33:18] ▶
a protocol developed
[1:33:21 - 1:33:23] ▶
by consciousness researcher
[1:33:23 - 1:33:24] ▶
to achieve ascended states
[1:33:26 - 1:33:28] ▶
Bentov also consulted
[1:33:32 - 1:33:33] ▶
with the Stanford Research Institute
[1:33:33 - 1:33:35] ▶
with many of the people
[1:33:37 - 1:33:38] ▶
psychic spy program,
[1:33:40 - 1:33:42] ▶
was tragically cut short
[1:33:45 - 1:33:47] ▶
when American Airlines
[1:33:48 - 1:33:51] ▶
from Chicago O'Hare Airport,
[1:33:55 - 1:33:57] ▶
He also had deep ties
[1:34:13 - 1:34:15] ▶
and Israeli intelligence.
[1:34:16 - 1:34:18] ▶
of the earliest architects
[1:34:22 - 1:34:23] ▶
mind control program.
[1:34:26 - 1:34:27] ▶
Bentov's extremely dense
[1:34:27 - 1:34:29] ▶
and almost indecipherable
[1:34:29 - 1:34:31] ▶
book about consciousness,
[1:34:31 - 1:34:32] ▶
Stalking the Wild Pendulum,
[1:34:33 - 1:34:34] ▶
has become a cult classic,
[1:34:34 - 1:34:36] ▶
that they do Grinberg.
[1:34:39 - 1:34:41] ▶
If there is a Matrix,
[1:34:42 - 1:34:43] ▶
this guy might have found out
[1:34:43 - 1:34:44] ▶
But not every scientist
[1:34:47 - 1:34:48] ▶
catastrophic moment.
[1:34:50 - 1:34:51] ▶
and get marginalized
[1:34:53 - 1:34:54] ▶
into the classified world.
[1:34:57 - 1:34:59] ▶
a Chinese-American physicist
[1:35:03 - 1:35:05] ▶
in Huntsville, Alabama,
[1:35:05 - 1:35:06] ▶
known for her radical work
[1:35:07 - 1:35:08] ▶
and gravity control.
[1:35:10 - 1:35:11] ▶
YBCO superconductors
[1:35:17 - 1:35:19] ▶
tiny gravito-magnetic effects,
[1:35:20 - 1:35:23] ▶
a theory that pointed
[1:35:23 - 1:35:24] ▶
towards a possible path
[1:35:24 - 1:35:26] ▶
to gravity control technology.
[1:35:26 - 1:35:28] ▶
the University of Alabama
[1:35:29 - 1:35:31] ▶
Defense Department funding,
[1:35:32 - 1:35:33] ▶
she largely vanished
[1:35:33 - 1:35:35] ▶
Her story took an even
[1:35:40 - 1:35:42] ▶
permanent brain damage.
[1:35:49 - 1:35:50] ▶
one of the more haunting
[1:35:58 - 1:35:59] ▶
stories in gravity research.
[1:35:59 - 1:36:01] ▶
vanished into secrecy,
[1:36:04 - 1:36:05] ▶
and never really came back.
[1:36:05 - 1:36:07] ▶
And then there's the story
[1:36:09 - 1:36:10] ▶
a former Navy pilot,
[1:36:12 - 1:36:13] ▶
who is known for his work
[1:36:18 - 1:36:19] ▶
and information security
[1:36:23 - 1:36:25] ▶
tied to neural pattern
[1:36:25 - 1:36:27] ▶
the idea that we have
[1:36:32 - 1:36:33] ▶
but you might also have
[1:36:34 - 1:36:35] ▶
electromagnetic signature.
[1:36:37 - 1:36:39] ▶
in even darker terms,
[1:36:44 - 1:36:45] ▶
involved manipulation
[1:36:48 - 1:36:49] ▶
we'd never now categorize
[1:36:52 - 1:36:54] ▶
as cognitive warfare.
[1:36:54 - 1:36:56] ▶
That's what he said.
[1:37:08 - 1:37:09] ▶
He said he was doing
[1:37:15 - 1:37:16] ▶
device that they were
[1:37:22 - 1:37:24] ▶
testing that they could
[1:37:24 - 1:37:25] ▶
for concurrent technologies
[1:37:36 - 1:37:38] ▶
on September 27, 2007.
[1:37:38 - 1:37:41] ▶
Exactly what happened
[1:37:41 - 1:37:42] ▶
to the larger pattern,
[1:37:47 - 1:37:48] ▶
because this is bigger
[1:37:49 - 1:37:50] ▶
or one strange death.
[1:37:51 - 1:37:53] ▶
the people working closest
[1:37:55 - 1:37:56] ▶
scientific knowledge
[1:37:58 - 1:37:59] ▶
the most vulnerable.
[1:38:01 - 1:38:02] ▶
So where does this leave us?
[1:38:13 - 1:38:14] ▶
With the realization
[1:38:15 - 1:38:15] ▶
that even our own government,
[1:38:15 - 1:38:17] ▶
the most powerful entity
[1:38:17 - 1:38:19] ▶
building its future.
[1:38:24 - 1:38:25] ▶
Or because every case
[1:38:26 - 1:38:27] ▶
points to the same explanation.
[1:38:27 - 1:38:29] ▶
General Neil McCaslin's case
[1:38:30 - 1:38:32] ▶
The killing of Carl Grillmair
[1:38:37 - 1:38:38] ▶
human irrational emotion.
[1:38:53 - 1:38:55] ▶
they involve foul play.
[1:38:59 - 1:39:00] ▶
homegrown black budget
[1:39:01 - 1:39:02] ▶
willing to kill anyone
[1:39:03 - 1:39:04] ▶
to their proprietary technology,
[1:39:05 - 1:39:07] ▶
or foreign adversaries
[1:39:07 - 1:39:08] ▶
before the next big war,
[1:39:11 - 1:39:13] ▶
the real crown jewels
[1:39:13 - 1:39:14] ▶
that most people never see.
[1:39:22 - 1:39:24] ▶
You can steal documents
[1:39:24 - 1:39:25] ▶
but if you really want
[1:39:26 - 1:39:27] ▶
to shortcut the future,
[1:39:27 - 1:39:28] ▶
you steal the person
[1:39:29 - 1:39:30] ▶
who already solved the problem.
[1:39:30 - 1:39:31] ▶
as restricted hangers
[1:39:35 - 1:39:37] ▶
but the most valuable assets
[1:39:38 - 1:39:39] ▶
still get up in the morning
[1:39:40 - 1:39:41] ▶
Maybe there's an even
[1:39:42 - 1:39:56] ▶
stranger possibility
[1:39:56 - 1:39:57] ▶
hovering over all of this,
[1:39:57 - 1:39:59] ▶
beyond terrestrial politics
[1:40:00 - 1:40:01] ▶
relations between Earth
[1:40:06 - 1:40:08] ▶
and other intelligences
[1:40:08 - 1:40:09] ▶
that average citizens
[1:40:09 - 1:40:11] ▶
might not even know exists.
[1:40:11 - 1:40:13] ▶
During the Bush administration,
[1:40:14 - 1:40:15] ▶
in the federal government
[1:40:16 - 1:40:17] ▶
the Chinese science fiction novel
[1:40:19 - 1:40:21] ▶
The Three-Body Problem,
[1:40:21 - 1:40:22] ▶
written by a power plant engineer,
[1:40:23 - 1:40:24] ▶
trisolarian extraterrestrials
[1:40:26 - 1:40:28] ▶
forced out of their own
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unstable solar system
[1:40:30 - 1:40:31] ▶
and headed for Earth.
[1:40:31 - 1:40:32] ▶
systematically monitor,
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and sometimes even kill
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These are usually people
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and particle accelerator physics.
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Sounds kind of familiar.
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the rules of reality itself.
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So why was the upper echelon
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of the American government
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Why did a presidential advisor
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named Harold Malmgren,
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the non-human intelligences
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By tracking the frontier
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of human innovation.
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the atomic connection,
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they're generically attracted
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to the tip of the spear
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That's at the heart of it.
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Why was Harold's daughter,
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who was on George W. Bush's
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National Economic Council,
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the three-body problem?
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missing and dead scientists
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sounds super far-fetched,
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around the very technologies
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that define strategic power.
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across the United States
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170 of these people.
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In case you're not aware,
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particle accelerator
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Witnesses of the UFO crash
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claimed that the wreckage
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and taken to the lab.
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an American phenomena.
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when they transported
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sensitive scientific technology.
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officials were framing
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all of this problem.
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Maybe the three-body problem
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There's an apocryphal story
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But it's absolutely wild.
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at the highest level.
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Read the three-body problem.
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these missing scientists.
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human clearance systems.
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There's a long history
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extensively and eloquently
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Heisenberg downloading
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matrix multiplication
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the fire at Cambridge
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of the hydrogen atom,
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scientific discovery
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and it's historically
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with religious mystics.
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all true for science
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up against something
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scientists are human
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or something stranger,
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the cost is the same.
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the rules of physics,
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are now disappearing.
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The search continues
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and the list is growing.
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Alabama-based scientist
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studying anti-gravity
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Her death was deemed
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self-inflicted gunshot
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wound, but she warned
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friends ahead of time
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that her life could be
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I don't believe that she
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