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"ref": "2017, Rafi Letzter, Scientific American, \"The Truth about Those \"Alien Alloys\" in The New York Times UFO Story\", ISSN 0036-8733",
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"text": "2019, Kayla Epstein, The Washington Post, \"Those UFO videos are real, the Navy says, but please stop saying ‘UFO’\"\nThe Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena."
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"ref": "2020, Rob Long, The National Review, \"The Great Coronavirus Non-Freakout\", ISSN 0028-0038",
"text": "So for the first time, video showing unidentified aerial phenomena was confirmed as just that, weird objects flying around the sky at a speed and in a trajectory that no known technology allows, and it was on television and cable news for a day, and then everyone just went back to talking about what Trump tweeted to the guy on CNN."
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