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The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-01-18 · 84 min · 16,882 words

The Hardest UFO Cases to Dismiss: Something Is Flying Around and We Don't Know What It Is

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But it was 1966 at a school just outside Melbourne, Westall High School in primary, I think. And there were, according to the teacher and all the students, almost 400 people out in broad daylight. And you have this disc hovering above, you know, doing things you shouldn't be doing, and the teachers looking at it, the science teacher, Mr. Greenwood looking at it, and then it comes down and lands. This general looked at me and he was like

Pretty much laughing in my face. He goes, kid, you expect us to come forward and you employ us to protect and secure our airspace and say, hey, there are craft of unknown origin displaying uh highly advanced technology. They don't have any wings, any tail, any visible means of propulsion. They fly rings or our our fastest jets. They penetrate the most sensitive airspace on the planet.

We don't know who they are, where they come from, or what they want. We have no visible means of defense against them. Shall they turn to be hostile? Thank you and goodnight. He goes, do you honestly think that we're gonna tell the general public that?

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