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And now here's Gene Steppenberg.

So, as we put together the episode for last week with Colin Bennett, who wrote the book on Edward Rupelt,

UFOs over the White House, flying saucers over the White House, whatever, I must say I was gobsmacked how confusing his conversation was.

Yeah, it was kind of tough to wait through at times, but you just got to admire the man for the amount of work he's done over the years. He's very entertaining. He's quite the character. And I really did enjoy the book. I felt his insight, personal opinion about Rupelt's process, I think it was spot on.

I think he really brought up some very interesting points.

I think his analysis of Rupelt's process and the people around him was spot on.

And I think it's a real, you know, I think a good addition to, you know, the whole Project Blue Book historical

sort of revisionism. I think it's a very, very good addition to it. He kept calling it Operation

Blue Book, of course, but I won't worry about that. The thing is, of course, I don't know if I had as

many insights into Rupelt the man as opposed to Rupelt as the executive in charge of Project Blue

Book. That would have been nice. But then he never made an effort, I guess, to contact any

members of his family or people who knew him. That was a little puzzling and surprising,

actually. Now that you mention it. It's kind of armchair research and infinitum i mean

you could have written emails you could have tried you a little google research and said okay let's see

now what was the name of his wife can i find that person is she still alive did he have children

you know what can i think that would have fleshed out the narrative quite a bit um i think

he's really into uh writing and he's a very good writer and some of his turns or phrase were

quite memorable don't ask me uh to recite one because i can't remember uh quite memorable except

that you couldn't remember one well he's just very entertaining as a writer

and you know being an aspiring writer myself i i can really appreciate someone that's got

some real writing talent which he does obviously and one thing that we didn't talk about was the

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