Ep. 205 - The Real X-Files

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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During the 1950s and 1960s the United States Air Force ran a secret program to investigate the growing number of reports of unidentified flying objects. This is the story of Project Blue Book. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp/0062484176 https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos https://vault.fbi.gov/Project%20Blue%20Book%20%28UFO%29%20 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/arts/television/project-blue-book-history-true-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-report.html https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/01/obituaries/j-allen-hynek-astronomer-and-ufo-consultant-dies.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	A November 14, 2004, Commander David Fraver of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was
0:38.0	leading a routine training mission in an FAA-18F Super Hornet over the Pacific Ocean.
0:44.6	What he received an unusual radio transmission.
0:48.2	An operations officer from the USS Princeton, a Navy cruiser that was part of the strike
0:52.8	group, asked if their planes were carrying weapons.
0:56.8	Commander Fraver replied that he was carrying dummy missiles that could not be fired.
1:01.0	They weren't expecting any sort of hostile activity during the training mission, so they
1:04.6	didn't think they'd need live weapons.
1:07.6	The radio operator replied that they had spotted something unusual on radar and asked that
1:11.3	Commander Fraver break off from training to investigate.
1:15.0	Over the past two weeks, radar operators on board the Princeton had been tracking some unknown
1:19.0	aircraft over the ocean that demonstrated unusual flight patterns.
1:23.3	On November 14, the radar operator noted several of these objects had appeared suddenly at
1:27.4	80,000 feet.
1:29.5	Then began hurtling toward the sea at an incredible rate of speed before abruptly stopping in
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