Yes, welcome in to you AP. It's going to be a big one. Episode number one, five, six. Welcome back. It's Stephen Deiner here with you as always for episode 156 of the Unidentified Alien

podcast. And I say it's going to be a big one because we have a lot to cover and very significant

things to cover coming out of the UAP hearing just a few days ago. I do want to, I don't know,

apologize, maybe more explain on the delay. Obviously, this would have been better

served maybe a couple of days ago, such as the day after the hearing. That was impossible

because I didn't get back home until about 5 o'clock p.m. from Washington, D.C. So that was,

obviously, I had to get some things together from there. And then, you know, world events took place.

And it just didn't feel right to come out with an episode in the midst of everything going on.

It would have seemed very short-sided by me, knowing that everyone was consumed with the assassination of Charlie Kirk with the 24th anniversary

of 9-11.

It just felt like the wrong day to come out with an episode of UAP.

It just didn't feel like it made much sense in that moment.

So today, I wanted to kind of separate things. I get home.

Yesterday, a lot going on on September 11th, of course. And now I want to bring this to you before

we get too far removed here from the hearings on Tuesday, September 9th. So obviously been a very, very full week in the world.

And this was definitely a part of it. We're going to go over some of the witness statements

and go over some of the big highlights that I took away from it, both personal and I suppose

you could say significant towards the UAP discussion,

a lot behind the scenes things as well, starting with really how it all began.

I'm obviously going to get to the hearing, but I do want to go through some of the behind

scenes things and talk about some of the fun things that happened, such as Monday night.

And what I saw on Monday night, the night before the hearing, just if I could as we begin,

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