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Richard M Dolan started researching UFOs to answer one simple question for his PhD work, and thirty years later, he still can't look away from what the declassified documents are telling him.

In this episode, you’ll hear why mainstream historians ignore military reports from the 1940s that explicitly state these objects aren't Soviet or American technology, what “high strangeness” means and why even sceptical researchers can’t dismiss it, and how the 2017 New York Times articles changed everything about who’s allowed to discuss this publicly.

00:00 Introduction
03:13 How the 2017 New York Times article changed everything
07:24 Declassified documents that made it impossible to look away
13:15 Belief in a non-human intelligence with its own agenda
16:07 Questioning ancient aliens with a historian’s lens
20:57 Why UFO sightings skyrocketed after the 19th century
23:22 Earth’s potential draw for advanced civilisations
25:10 Why aliens might not even be able to talk to us
29:32 How WWII possibly triggered deeper alien involvement
32:51 The logic behind the Roswell crash actually happening
36:33 Would they intervene in a nuclear war, or let us burn?
44:08 The psychological chaos true disclosure might unleash
46:05 Could public alien contact lead to totalitarian control?
50:21 Why democracy isn’t what we pretend it is
58:06 Internal battles are slowing disclosure attempts
01:03:31 The Tic Tac encounter and why no one followed up
01:13:56 Richard’s favourite UFO case from 1936
01:22:29 Why advanced propulsion breakthroughs remain hidden
01:33:43 Finding focus in a noisy, hype-driven UFO media world
01:37:30 Inside his upcoming book series on USO encounters
01:46:48 Which book to start with if you're new to Richard's work

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