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There is a sober-suited government official who investigates every reported UFO sighting, about 250 a year, and responds to each with a letter explaining, more often than not, that the suspected
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Pope calls the UFO phenomenon 'as real as toast' and suggests further study, based on the Mulder-like aphorism, 'Most of us, deep down, like to believe.' This desire to believe has already proved itself in
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