The UFO Files Were Declassified Today
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Hey everyone, Michael Sirmer here. Time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. This is a solo commentary on the UFO files. Yes, they've been released finally. Here it is Friday, May 8th.
It's uh midday here in California. They were released this morning, so I've been tweeting and reading and scanning and clicking and just hundreds and hundreds thousands of files here to go through. Uh so this will be an unscripted, kind of a quick commentary on how disappointing this was. We were told by many people in the government that aliens are here and that we know like for 100% certain that they're here and Trump is gonna show us the evidence.
He himself was a little dubious, but okay, let's see it. Well, it's here. And Ah, it's disappointing, as I'll show you throughout this commentary. Uh, it's pretty much the same old blurry photographs, grainy videos, artists' reconstructions of what people said they saw, lots and lots and lots of stories about uh what people said that they saw, although for some reason they didn't have their cameras with us, and more recently they didn't have their cell phones with them to photograph these things, or if they did,
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