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Space is big, really big.

You won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is.

I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist,

but that's just peanuts to space. Douglas Adams, from the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, a Pardape, Pardman. In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah, yeah. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith and I'm Karen Stalsnow. I think I may have

mentioned it before but I believe in UFOs. Of course only in the literal sense. I believe there

are unidentified flying objects. This past week

there was a lot of excited chatter in my world around UFOs and secret

government projects when word broke in the New York Times that a black budget program to examine the question of

UFOs have been run from within the Pentagon for several years with expenses over $20 million.

I'll put a link to that in the show notes.

The program was apparently greenlit by former House majority Senate leader Harry Reed, and much of the

money went, according to the article, to a friend of the senators and a well-known figure in

UFO and alien lore, billionaire Robert Biggillow. of the

friend of the senators and a well-known figure in UFO and alien lore,

if you've not heard of Mr. Bigelow before he's the founder of Budget Suites of America

and Bigelow Aerospace.

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