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In 1952, the United States Air Force held a press conference about UFOs. They had analyzed thousands of reports. They explained most of them. A small number remained unresolved. No threat to national security. Still investigating.

Last week, the Department of War launched PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — and released 162 declassified files. Fuzzy blobs. Light smears. Camera artifacts. An Apollo photograph the astronauts themselves attributed to ice crystals in 1972.

Still investigating.

In this episode of TrapCheck, Darren dissects the machinery built around a question that never gets answered — and why the people running that machinery need it to stay that way. From a 1952 Air Force press conference to a Spielberg film dropping in thirty days, from a filmmaker claiming his documentary caused a presidential directive to the epistemological trap that makes the whole system unfalsifiable — this is what 74 years of almost actually looks like.

The question of whether we are alone in the universe is worth asking. What it’s getting instead is PURSUE.

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