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> In fact, the weirdest thing to me about the announcement was that... nobody cared.

Senior military official saying something got devalued a lot since the aftermath of nine-eleven.

Legitimizing ufologists is just last nail in the burried coffin laced with remaining shreds of credibility.

> no such announcement would have ever been made in 1987 because either the announcer would have had to resign in disgrace or we might have had a good chance for public pandemonium.

That's because the internet conditioned us into tolerating inanities coming from the mouths of people we thought should know better. People chose and tolerated for years a president that used primary school English and reasoning.




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