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Terry, on your website, The Missing Times, the subtitle is News, Media Complicity, and the UFO coverup.

We're wondering, how is it that you became involved in even looking at this topic in what appears to be a fairly scientific and objective method.

Well, it grows out of my interest in my academic interest primarily.

I was originally a biology student at the University of Minnesota back in the late 60s, early 70s,

and I was very interested in everything related to the origin of life and the search for

extraterrestrial life and so on.

And it seemed to me that the UFO evidence was certainly relevant to the search for non-human

intelligence.

If you had to go looking for a more advanced form of intelligence, you'd have to look at things

which sort of appeared magical

or very mystifying because, as Arthur C. Clark said, any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic. So I was curious about why there was a lot of resistance

among the scientific community to taking a serious look at the UFO data.

And some years later, after I got a master's degree, or I was working on my master's degree

in journalism, I kind of revisited the UFO topic, and I wrote a few papers about it

and about the way it was covered or not covered in the newspapers.

And so the book kind of grew out of those two academic pursuits, I guess you could say. Now, when you look at coverage

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