UFOs and the U.S. government: The push towards greater transparency

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Unexplained aerial phenomena. Is the government covering up what it knows? We dive into 75 years of UFO history and the beginnings of government mistrust. Garrett Graff joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Its unique combination of original reporting, first-person stories, and in-depth analysis creates an experience that makes the world more intelligible and humane. Deep dives. Original stories. Fresh takes.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Meghna here with a small request before today's episode.
0:03.4	We really appreciate that you listen to the Onpoint podcast, but we'd like to know a little bit more
0:08.8	about your listening preferences so that we can serve you better.
0:12.2	If you've got a few minutes to take the on-point survey,
0:15.0	it would be a huge help.
0:17.0	It's at WBU.org
0:18.0	slash survey, or click the link in the episode show notes.
0:22.0	Now, on with today's show.
0:25.1	This is on point.
0:26.1	I'm Magnitoc Robardi.
0:27.3	My name is Ryan Graves.
0:28.5	I'm a former lieutenant and F-18 pilot in the US Navy?
0:32.6	In 2015, Ryan Graves was in the briefing room when his fellow pilots on the USS
0:39.1	Theodore Roosevelt came in to talk about what they'd seen in the air.
0:44.0	It is a fucking going on,
0:47.0	bro,
0:48.0	one of my very good friends from my squadron,
0:51.0	they noticed that there were a number of radar contacts that were east of the
0:55.4	aircraft carrier and they went to go check out these objects and then they got
0:58.3	closer and started breaking out on the fleer, that's when we start to hear some of
1:02.0	the communication on the tapes that were released about how they don't know what the object is, how they're looking at the situational awareness page, and seeing a whole fleet of these objects.
1:11.0	There's a whole fleet of them.
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