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The Welcome back to the UFO Rabbit Hole podcast. I'm your host, Kelly Chase.

I hope everyone is well hydrated and has done their

stretches because this episode is where we start a whole new leg of our journey. This, my friends,

is where we start to truly go through the looking glass, exploring the shadowy region of

human experience that lives beyond the boundaries of our understanding.

It's the place where the deepest mysteries of science collide with the world of the hypothetical,

the mythical, and for some, even the divine.

And if I'm being honest, I'm actually a little bit nervous.

Because while we've flirted with the fantastical throughout these last few episodes, we've done so while holding firmly to the guide rope of proven, or at the very least respectable,

science.

But if we're going to go any further and truly begin to grapple with the mystery at the

heart of the UFO phenomenon, we have to be willing to venture outside of the boundaries of the

established narrative. In other words, things are about to get pretty strange. And to be honest,

there's something about doing this that feels like a risk. After all, there are things that we

simply don't say aloud in polite society. There are topics that we just

don't touch for fear of what will rub off on us. Getting to this point in our conversation and

speaking about these things publicly feels like crossing the Rubicon. There's no going back from here.

I've really struggled, actually, with this intro over the past few days, because

no matter how many times I restart it or come at it from a different angle, it just keeps

coming out sounding like an apology, which I hate because I'm not sorry. Listen, something is

happening here, something big. And there are a million things that we don't know

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