Washington’s X-Files

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

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Summary

The serious government search for UFOs. What the death of Keystone XL could mean for Big Oil. And, what we know about how covid affects the brain.

Are we alone in the universe? The U.S. government has been investigating that question for years. Reporter Jacqueline Alemany on the serious search for UFOs.

The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline is shutting down the project after years of lawsuits and public blowback. Juliet Eilperin reports.

Scientists are still trying to understand how the coronavirus affects the brain. Frances Stead Sellers reports.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hello, hey, you.
0:09.0	Here's the Luisa back from the Washington Post.
0:11.0	Hi, this is Beth Ryan, who's the Washington Post.
0:13.0	Laurie Arightani, over at the post.
0:15.0	I'm...
0:16.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:20.0	It's Thursday, June 10th.
0:24.0	Today, the serious government search for UFOs.
0:29.0	At the end of Keystone XL could mean for big oil and COVID's effect on the brain.
0:38.0	Why are UFOs also called UAPs, which are an identified aerial phenomena?
0:44.0	Why are they in the news?
0:46.0	They are in the news right now because at the end of the month, Biden's Director of National Intelligence is planning on releasing a report to the Senate Intelligence Committee and members of Congress that contains everything unclassified.
0:58.0	That the U.S. government knows about UAPs.
1:04.0	Jackie Alamani covers politics for the post.
1:07.0	She spoke to producer Ariel Platnick about why Washington is suddenly obsessed with UFOs.
1:13.0	We have tackled many strange stories on 60 minutes, but perhaps none like this.
1:19.0	Is the truth really out there?
1:21.0	We may soon find out newly leaked military videos and witness accounts from former Navy pilots
1:27.0	have taken the prospect from science fiction fodder to the halls of Congress.
1:32.0	And we've already seen preliminary reports from the New York Times of senior administration officials who have been briefed on the findings.
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