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Hello, and welcome to the sixth episode of The Dig Presents.

Maybe you heard this summer that a former Air Force intelligence officer

said at a congressional hearing that, basically, the government has been collecting alien bodies.

He described it as biological material that was, quote, non-human.

Well, we don't know much about that whole situation, but this week we do have a story about UFOs,

and also the U.S. military industrial complex, photography, and the geography of the desert.

One thing I do need to say first, though, is that I do The Dig as my full-time job,

and I pay a bunch of other people to help put this out every week, including these very

cool but rather expensive episodes of The Dig Presents. This is a listener-supported operation,

and the place where listeners support us is at patreon.com-slashthedig. If you're listening now,

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