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Podcast UFO

The First Scientific UFO Field Study 2

Podcast UFO

Host: Martin Willis

Society & Culture, Science, Astronomy

4.4570 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

UFOs were big news in 1973. Besides the Pascagoula and the Coyne incidents, there were flaps all over the United States. One in Piedmont, Missouri, got started that year in late February with UFO reports involving cars stalling and radio interference. These caught the attention of a physics professor, Harley D. Rutledge, who was chairman of that department at Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau. Rutledge became fascinated to the point that he put together an investigation team of scientists, arranged funding, and ended up spending more than seven years observing unexplained lights while collecting data and photographs. In late 1973, he gave a presentation of what he and the group had gathered up to that point at the fall meeting (attended by John Schuessler of the Mutual UFO Network) of the Missouri section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Rutledge finally published a book describing the investigation titled Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena in 1981. Read more

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0:00.0

They keep telling you that the Jeffrey Epstein story is finished, that it was investigated,

0:04.8

that it was handled.

0:06.1

But here's the part that they never explain, why the charges were so narrow, when the conduct

0:11.4

was so broad.

0:13.1

How does a man with multiple properties, private aircraft, international travel, and a documented

0:18.2

pipeline of victims get treated like a lone offender.

0:22.1

Why were logistics treated as background noise instead of evidence?

0:26.0

Why were facilitators reduced to footnotes instead of defendants?

0:29.8

Well, that's where we come in.

0:31.7

The Epstein Chronicles exists because those questions were never answered.

0:36.3

This podcast breaks down what the public record actually shows,

0:40.1

the deals that capped exposure, the decisions at limited scope,

0:43.5

and the moments where prosecutors chose restraint overreach.

0:47.1

If you ever wondered why this case feels unfinished,

0:49.7

why accountability stopped at the perimeter,

0:51.5

or why so many names remain officially invisible,

1:18.6

you've come to the right place. Welcome to the Epstein Chronicles. The first scientific UFO field study by Charles Lear. UFOs were big news in 1973.

1:22.4

Besides the Paskagool and coin incidents, there were flaps all over the United States. One in Piedmont, Missouri,

1:29.4

got started that year in late February, with UFO reports involving car stalling and radio

1:35.2

interference. These caught the attention of a physics professor, Harley D. Rutledge, who was

1:41.2

chairman of that department at Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardo. Rutledge, who was chairman of that department at Southeast Missouri State University at

1:45.6

Cape Girardo. Rutledge became fascinated to the point that he put together an investigation

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