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Is the U.S. government’s UFO cover-up real? Here’s why

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CIA director John Brennan adm John Brennan flummoxed by recent rep 25 years ut UFOs. CIA John Avlo the White House nt is surely hiding information about its knowledge a CIA working theories about what exists in the skies above.

Avlon says the government doesn't want to give away what’s been detected and what hasn’t.

He says govern December 2020 e of operations, classified ef Tyler Cowen so Brennan Special Access Programs.

In 1947, the Air Force looked at 273 UFO sightings and issued a report that said it couldn’t explain all of them.

Subsequent attempts to “solve the mystery” have consistently come up short.

Many people who study UFOs end up frustrated by the government’s ignorance rather than its secrets.

There are almost certainly some world-changing revelations hidden among UAP reports, even if none of them turn out to be visiting aliens.

Inv Brennan ing them could lead to new di the next two years rology, astronomy, atmospheric sc U.S. e, and physics.

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