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It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, Part 8, Part Man. In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness monster. Yeah. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolzno.

Don Prothro returns in this episode along with his collaborator Timothy Callahan

to discuss their new book,

UFOs, Kim Trails, and Aliens.

A very skeptical overview of the field of euphology.

As I mentioned in the interview, UFOs is a topic some people get very passionate

about, some to the point of religious fervor, and I don't mean that figuratively.

But if you're looking for a skeptical overview of a field that's often not given a very thoughtful

rebuttal from science, I think this book may be what you need.

A link to it will be in the show notes at monstertalk.org.

I'd like to take longer for this preamble, but I'm behind on several projects and must send this

out as it is. A note about the audio

quality. We had a lot of challenges getting Don and Tim together for this interview and

ended up having to do the interview on Landline. Unfortunately, Tim had a bit of a

cough and I hope he's feeling better now, but I wasn't able to remove that cough from the audio because of the way everyone was connected.

So, my apologies, but I hope it won't detract too much from what I think is a fun and an informative

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