It is Thursday the 18th of October 2012 and you're listening to Skeptics with

the K, the podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with the K is a production

in the Mercy Science Skeptic Society a nonprofit organization for

the promotion of scientific skepticism on mercy side around the UK and

internationally I am your host Michael with me today is Marsh hello and Colin

here for the full fucking episode. Yeah, yeah make a nice change.

It does make a nice change. So did you guys see that thing about the the

UFO file? It wasn't quite the UFO files it was the US Air Force to have recently

declassified these files for a 1950s attempt at making a craft shaped like a flying saucer.

Right.

And it was this thing called the Avrocar obviously and it's this disc shaped craft

with like a jet engine jet type engine and it may not actually be a jet engine

I don't know the specifics of it and it was picked up by wired the declassification of these

doctors picked up by wired.com and they run this story going

this is you know look there's this new thing it's declassified and US military

was trying to build these UFOs and it was all legitimate and on the level.

Right.

The problem I have with it is they kept talking about these newly declassified documents.

And they weren't that declassified newly?

They're not that newly classified.

When we ran out of Giant Book of Fantastic Facts,

Yes. I went and bought another book that I had when I was a kid.

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