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How Putoff was talking about in the Joe Rogan interview was really interesting when it came to UFO.

So essentially from what he says is that he was involved in this group that was put together during the Bush administration to essentially list the reasons why the government shouldn't acknowledge extraterrestrial life.

Right. And he was talking about, like, politics and how it's

going to affect the landscape of, like, all these different industries, how religion is going

to be affected, which again, he's a Scientologist. But that was really interesting because he said

it was during the Bush administration, but there's this, I knew that there was a report that was done that jogged my memory while I was listening to this.

It's called the Brookings Institute gave NASA advice about extraterrestrial life.

So shortly after NASA was founded, a sought expert opinions on the international legal

and economic ramifications of the U.S. space program.

The vulnerable Washington-based think tank, the Brookings, Institute, responded with the 1960s

report, which included thoughts on dealing with aliens.

So basically this Brookings Institute report.

Brookings Institute, never heard of it.

Yeah, so this came out, and it was like, it listed all the reasons why the government shouldn't disclose

extraterrestrial or give the American public the truth on UFOs and this is I don't know if this

was the same document that how put off was talking about that he was involved with, or not because

it was done in the 60s, but it seems very similar.

So it seems like that they're just rehashing something from a really long time ago that

they did during the Bush administration, which I thought was really interesting.

It took me a while.

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