NATURE OF THE ALIEN : ET's, DEMONS OR GOV'T PLOT? : PT 17
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Jacques Vallée On Government-Staged UFO Hoaxes, Holograms And
Bogus UFO's Used As Psychological Warfare And Experimentation
1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Government Infiltration
And Manipulation Of UFO Groups, Manipulation Equals Confusion
Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Exposes Gov't. UFO Tactics
UFO Stories And Views Of American Astronauts White, McDivitt,
Slayton, Carpenter, Armstrong, Conrad, Musgrove, Cernan And
O'leary, 1969 Recording Of Apollo 11 Astronauts Armstrong And
Aldrin Concerning UFO's On The Moon, NASA Scientist Maurice
Chatlein Confirms American Astronauts Were Followed By UFO's,
Russian Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev's Account OF UFO Encounter
February 1961 Soviet Space Incident, Mikhail Gorbachev States
UFO Phenomenon Is Real, General Maltsev And March 1990 Moscow
UFO Encounter, 1989 Belarus UFO Incident, High Credibility
Jacques Vallée also believes that other nations of the world
may likewise be initiating UFO hoaxes as well, in order to
conceal certain activities they are conducting which may be
frowned upon by the rest of world. These secret activities
may include, for example, testing missiles which may be in
contradiction to certain international treaties. In that
same interview, Dr. Vallée stated:
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"Jim Oberg, who is a specialist in the Russian space program,
pointed out to me that some of the sightings that I published
from the Soviet Union -- a strange yellowish crescent seen
going through the sky by many people in the Soviet Union --
that those were rocket tests that were illegal under the SALT
agreement; and obviously, they couldn't hide it in the sky.
. . . so the government planted the story that there was a
flying saucer, and that got into the newspapers."
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Vallée is also convinced that certain governments have staged
some UFO sightings and encounters as a form of psychological
welfare, such as during wartime. One particular example that
Vallée mentioned, occurred during World War I. Vallée states
that both the Germans and the French relied upon holographic
projections in order to manipulate the other side by creating
images of religious figures. Dr. Vallée offered the following:
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"Our gods have always come from the sky. And how would a god
come from the sky today? He would come down in some kind of
spaceship. He couldn't just appear out of the clouds, I mean,
that won't work. Although in World War I the Germans were
using psychological warfare by projecting photographs, slides
along French lines. And I'm sure the French were doing the
same thing to the Germans. And there are very sophisticated
devices now being used in psychological warfare to create
holograms, to create visions to influence people. It might
not work with you and me today if we go out today and see
something in the skies, it might not destabilize us. But if
we were under a lot of stress -- if you've been fighting for
a month on some little island, and all of the sudden
something like that happens . . ."
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In some instances, Dr. Vallée believes that governments may
even conduct psychological experiments with their own people
in the military, in order to gauge their reactions to UFO's.
Earlier, I briefly mentioned the December 1980 Rendlesham
Forest UFO event; during which a triangular craft was seen
by a considerable number of people who were stationed nearby
at two NATO air bases: RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. At
that time, these bases were being leased by Great Britain to
the U.S. Air Force. During a period of four days, personnel
from the two bases observed a metallic-looking, triangular
craft in the Tangham Woods area of Rendlesham Forest. This
craft emitted a brilliant light which lit up the surrounding
area. Was this a real spacecraft from another planet? In Dr.
Vallée's view, it was not. He stated in the interview:
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"The [Rendlesham Forest] event had all the earmarks of being
staged for the benefit of the witnesses so that they could
be studied, and the reactions of the different psychological
types and of different ranks could be studied. And when you
think about it, it's not that weird. If you were in charge
of a project like that, you'd have to test it in conditions
where nobody is [in] danger, and you can get the data you
need. In cases like this one -- not many but a few of them
-- that I investigated, I had to conclude that these were
tests of virtual reality projectors . . . But I think there
was no UFO there. I think the UFO story was invented."
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Allow me to clarify that the reason why Vallée states "you'd
have to test it in conditions where nobody is in danger", is
because the base personnel who were sent into the forest,
were unarmed. If their superiors really believed that there
was a serious threat in the forest, would they have sent in
personnel unarmed? It certainly doesn't make any sense to
me. The tragedy of situations like this, where people are
being manipulated on purpose by their own governments, is
that the victims of the hoax become thoroughly convinced of
what they've seen and heard; and when they later share their
experiences with others, they are in fact telling the truth;
even though it isn't really the truth. This is why it is so
difficult for us to separate truth from fiction, when it
comes to the UFO phenomenon. As Dr. Vallée also stated:
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"I was investigating some cases that were physically real,
but they were hoaxes; yet not hoaxes on the part of the
witnesses."
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But perhaps the most disturbing facet of government hoaxes,
is that, as I noted earlier, they will also manipulate some
sincere UFO researchers, as well as infiltrate certain UFO
groups, in order to study and gauge their reaction to rumors
and certain pieces of disinformation. As Dr. Vallée stated:
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"In some cases, the community of UFOlogists may simply be
used in a sociological experiment, because they are a
convenient group of people to test, to see how they react to
different rumors."
"Again, the UFO research community is a useful laboratory in
which to observe the effects of propaganda and disinformation,
since it is driven in large part by an intent to expose "the
coverup." This creates an opportunity for people to masquerade
as good guys and "reveal" all sorts of unverifiable rumors.
They meet with a receptive audience, because the context is
one of independent inquiry of original, bold, nonconformist
ideas. Does that mean we should necessarily believe the man
who claims he was in NATO intelligence and saw a classified
document about the four humanoid races that live on the moon?
I don't think so."
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The sad end result of all of this government psychological
manipulation, is that people like you and I are left more
confused than ever. We simply don't know what to believe. If
we decide to place our trust in the evidence provided by some
respectable UFO researcher, we may be disappointed later when
that individual turns out to be a fraud; and there have been
plenty of them over the years, as we have already discussed.
The idea that the U.S. Government might be playing both ends
of the field when it comes to the alien-UFO phenomenon, is
even embraced by certain people in high places. For example,
in a taped interview, Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell not
only states that he is convinced that the 1947 Roswell event
was a real UFO crash, but he also explains how the American
Government will reveal UFO-related information, while at the
same time, will deny that very same information:
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"I've talked with people of stature, of military and
government credentials and position, and heard their stories,
and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public.
And that got my attention very, very rapidly. The first hand
experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced
years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that,
and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real
incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that
material was recovered from that crash site"
"The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding
UFO's. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way
it's been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the
documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as
fraudulent, as bogus of some sort. There has been a very
large disinformation and misinformation effort around this
whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide some-
thing out in the open than just to say, 'It isn't there.
You're deceiving yourself if you think this is true.' And
yet, there it is right in front of you. So it's a
disinformation effort that's concerning here, not the fact
that they have kept the secret. They haven't kept it. It's
been getting out into the public for fifty years or more."
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Over the years, quite a few other American astronauts have
had encounters with what they believe to have been crafts of
an extraterrestrial origin, and a few of them have stepped
forward to share what they know. Other information has been
released by other parties who have known some of these men,
and who have had intimate conversations with them. One early
UFO incident involves Ed White and James McDivitt, who were
astronauts during the Gemini missions. In June 1965, as they
orbited over the Hawaiian Islands, they encountered a weird,
metallic object which had arm-like extensions sticking out
of it. McDivitt took several pictures of the object, but to
date, the pictures have never been released to the public.
As the strange object approached their capsule, the men
became alarmed. In a later interview where he discussed the
event, McDivitt commented:
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"At one stage, we even thought it might be necessary to take
evasive action to avoid a collision."
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So this was obviously a very real, physical object, and not
just ball lightning, a reflection, or any similar natural
phenomenon. Neither was it a weather balloon. Fourteen years
earlier, in a 1951 interview, Astronaut Donald Slayton, who
eight years later would participate in the Mercury missions,
shared this amazing story of his encounter with a UFO:
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"I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted
this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright,
sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I
realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer
it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet
in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing, it
didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer,
a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly
going away from me; and there I was, running at about 300
miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all
of a sudden, the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a
45 degree climbing turn, and accelerated, and just flat
disappeared."
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On May 24, 1962, another Mercury astronaut, Scott Carpenter,
photographed a UFO as their capsule orbited the Earth. As had
occurred with Astronaut James McDivitt, NASA never released
the photograph taken by Scott Carpenter. As a result of his
experiences, Carpenter later made the following profound
statement:
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"At no time, when the astronauts were in space, were they
alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFO's."
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A number of other astronauts have publicly expressed their
views concerning the possibility that intelligent life may
exist in other parts of the Universe, as well as whether or
not some of those life forms may have already, or may even
now, be visiting the Earth. Consider the following quotes:
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"We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best
information we have available to us, we have to come to the
conclusion that other life probably exists out there, and
perhaps in many places."
- Apollo 11 Astronaut, Neil Armstrong, Oct 21, 1999
"There are one hundred million suns out there somewhere,
with planets around them like ours. We would be remiss if we
thought we were the only life in the Universe."
- Apollo 12 Astronaut, Charles "Pete" Conrad, 1973
"We all know UFO's are real. All we need to ask is where are
they from."
- Apollo 14 Astronaut, Ed Mitchell, 1971
"I have been over the years very skeptical like many others.
But in the last ten years or so, I have known the late Dr.
Allen Hynek, who I highly admire. I know and currently work
with Dr. Jacques Vallée. I've come to realize that the
evidence is building up to make this a valid and researchable
question. Further, because my personal motivation has always
been to understand our universe better, and my own
theoretical work has convinced me that life is everywhere in
the universe that has been permitted to evolve, I consider
this a very timely question."
"By becoming more involved with the serious research field,
I've seen the evidence mount towards the truth of these
matters. I rely upon the testimony of contacts that I have
had -- old timers -- who were involved in official positions
in government, and intelligence, and military over the last
fifty years. We cannot say that today's government is really
covering it up. I think that most of them don't know what is
going on anymore than the public."
- Apollo 14 Astronaut, Ed Mitchell, MSN Interview Oct. 1998
"Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced
civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I
believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar
travel. I believe it's possible they even came here."
- Apollo 16 Astronaut, Storey Musgrove
"I've been asked about UFO's and I've said publicly I
thought they were somebody else, some other civilization."
- Apollo 17 Astronaut, Eugene Cernan, L.A. Times, 1973
"We have contact with alien cultures."
- Apollo Scientist-Astronaut, Dr. Brian O'leary
As we saw earlier, Astronaut Scott Carpenter clearly stated
that at no time were American astronauts ever alone in Outer
Space. He said that their activities were constantly being
monitored by UFO's. This leads us to what is without a doubt
one of the most amazing, and highly controversial recordings
ever made of astronauts' conversations from Outer Space. The
following exchange is alleged to have occurred in July, 1969
during the famous Apollo 11 lunar mission. The astronauts in
this conversation are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin:
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Astronauts: "Those are giant things. No, no, no . . . this is
not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this!"
Houston Mission Control: "What . . . what . . . what? What
the hell is happening? What's wrong with you?"
Astronauts: "They're here under the surface."
Houston Mission Control: "What's there? Emission interrupted
. . . interference . . . control calling Apollo 11."
Astronauts: "We saw some visitors. They were there for
awhile, observing the instruments."
Houston Mission Control: "Repeat your last information."
Astronauts: "I say that there were other spaceships. They're
lined up on the other side of the crater."
Houston Mission Control: "Repeat . . . repeat!"
Astronauts: "Let us sound this orbit a . . . In 625 to 5 . . .
automatic relay connected . . . My hands are shaking so
badly I can't do anything. Film it? God, if these damned
cameras have picked up anything . . . what then?"
Houston Mission Control: "Have you picked up anything?"
Astronauts: "I didn't have any film at hand. Three shots of
the saucers, or whatever they were, that were ruining the
film."
Houston Mission Control: "Control, control here. Are you on
your way? Is the uproar with the U.F.O's. over?
Astronauts: "They've landed there. There they are, and they
are watching us."
Houston Mission Control: "The mirrors, the mirrors . . . have
you set them up?"
Astronauts: "Yes, they're in the right place. But whoever
made those spaceships surely can come tomorrow and remove
them. Over and out."
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At first glance, the above conversation may be viewed as a
very creative fabrication of someone with a very imaginative
mind. Perhaps it is just one of many invented stories which
have been disseminated on the Internet for years. However,
before jumping to such a quick conclusion, allow me to point
out that there appears to be yet another source which tends
to validate incidents such as the above. Back in the 1960's,
Maurice Chatlein was a NASA scientist who helped to design
the Apollo communications and data processing systems. Like
other NASA employees, he was a very serious-minded person
not given to flights of fancy. On page twenty-seven of his
book "Our Ancestors Came From Outer Space", published by
Dell in 1975, Chatlein writes:
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"It seems that all the Apollo and Gemini flights were
followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite
closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin -
flying saucers or UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) if you
want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the
astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered
absolute silence."
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In that one paragraph, Chatlein not only confirms that being
monitored by UFO's from other worlds was a common occurrence,
but he also supports the argument expressed by others, that
the U.S. Government has had a long-held policy of pressuring
and silencing anyone of importance, who dares to speak out
regarding their encounters with alien intelligences in Outer
Space.
As should be expected, UFO sightings and encounters have not
been limited to American astronauts alone. There have been
some leaks of UFO encounters by Russian cosmonauts as well.
For example, in April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev
made the following comments concerning a UFO he encountered
while en route to the Solyut 6 space station:
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"It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on
the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it
disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made
from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with
inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and
inside there were openings. Some places had projections like
small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We
photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28
meters away."
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An equally strange incident, possibly UFO-related, occurred
about eighteen years earlier. In February of 1961, the Soviet
Union launched a seven-day space mission from their Baikonur
facility. Rumor has it that the original goal of the mission
was to conduct a circumlunar flight. The space vehicle, which
was alleged to be a Lunik spacecraft, carried a two-man team,
comprised of one man and one woman. While it is not known for
certain who the cosmonauts were, it has been speculated that
they may have been Gennady Mikhailov and V. Zavadovskiy; who,
like other Russian cosmonauts, have become known simply as
"phantom cosmonauts", due to the veil of secrecy which has
always shrouded the Soviet Union's space program.
Initially, the mission appeared to be going well, as the team
would radio back "Everything satisfactory. We are maintaining
the prescribed altitude." However, at some point, apparently
a serious malfunction of unknown origin occurred, and both
the electrical system and the cosmonauts' air supply began to
fail. As the cosmonauts made attempts to repair the damage to
their space capsule, they transmitted the following messages
on February 24th. This, according to the story, is the last
time that they were ever heard from:
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Female Cosmonaut: "I'll take it and hold it with my right
hand. Look out the peephole! I have it!"
Male Cosmonaut: "There is something! If we do not get out
the world will never know about this!"
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Exactly what did they see outside of their space capsule?
What was the female cosmonaut trying to hold? What was so
important that they had to tell the world about it? Some
people remain convinced that they had a collision with an
alien spacecraft which damaged their capsule. What do you
think?
Former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, was apparently
also convinced of the reality of the UFO phenomenon. In the
May 4, 1990 edition of the Soviet Youth magazine, Gorbachev
is reported, (in a declassified CIA document), to have made
the following comment to workers in the Urals:
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"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated
seriously."
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It is possible that Gorbachev's position was influenced by
another UFO-related incident within the former Soviet Union,
which came to light on April 19, 1990, when the newspaper,
Rabochaya Tribuna, published an amazing story entitled "UFOs
On Air Defense Radars". It was based upon a detailed report
which had been submitted to it by a general by the name of
Igor Maltsev. Maltsev was the chief of the Main Staff of Air
Defense Forces, which is comprised of Russia's most elite
fighter pilots. This particular event occurred on the night
of March 21, 1990, in the northeast sector of Moscow known
as Pereslavl-Zalesskiy. According to General Maltsev, "more
than 100 visual observations" were made, based upon reports
which had been compiled by the commanders of several Air
Defense Forces units of the Moscow Military District.
In submitting his report to the newspaper, General Maltsev
had included five credible witness accounts. One of these was
from Soviet pilot, Lt. Col. A. A. Semenchenko, who had flown
over the craft. He stated that as he flew over the object, he
observed "two flashing white lights" and the faint silhouette
of the object against the city lights below. Semenchenko's
comments were confirmed by Captain V. Birin, who stated that
the object "looked like a flying saucer with two very bright
lights along the edges." Another observer, Capt. V. Ivchenko,
as well as other pilots, stated that the UFO's lights flashed
more rapidly as the craft increased its speed.
A second report was submitted by a ground-based surveillance
radar tracking station, which described a rapidly moving,
shining object with red lights. Following behind this craft
was another object with white lights. Included in the report
from the radar tracking station were times, azimuths and the
distances of the objects. General Maltsev concluded that
what had been observed were indeed extraterrestrial crafts.
In his released statement he said:
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"I am not a specialist on UFO's, and therefore I can only
correlate the data and express my own supposition. According
to the evidence of these eyewitnesses, the UFO is a disk with
a diameter from 100 to 200 meters. Two pulsating lights were
positioned on its sides. When the object flew in a horizontal
plane, the line of the lights was parallel to the horizon.
During vertical movement, it rotated and was perpendicular to
the ground. Moreover, the object rotated around its axis and
performed an 'S-turn' flight both in the horizontal and
vertical planes. Next, the UFO hovered over the ground, and
then flew with a speed exceeding that of the modern jet
fighter by 2 or 3 times. All of the observers noticed that
the flight speed was directly related to the flashing of the
side lights: the more often they flashed, the higher the
speed."
"The objects flew at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 7,000
meters. The movement of the UFO's was not accompanied by
sound of any kind, and was distinguished by its startling
maneuverability. It seemed the UFO's were completely devoid
of inertia. In other words, they had somehow 'come to terms'
with gravity. At the present time, terrestrial machines could
hardly have any such capabilities. The object was observed as
a 'pip' from a radar target on the screens of aircraft radar
sights, and on the screens of several electronic surveillance
sub-units. One station did not establish an observation."
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The above UFO incident was also reported in various American
newspapers in 1990, including the New York Tribune, and the
Arizona Republic. At the time that this incident occurred,
Russia was experiencing a very active UFO flap. Almost seven
months earlier, on September 30, 1989, the Russian newspaper
"Sotsiahisticheskaya Industriya", or "Socialist Industry",
reported an equally amazing story regarding a UFO encounter
which had occurred over the city of Borisov in Byelorussia,
today known as the Republic of Belarus. The encounter, which
would later prove to be deadly, involved two Soviet fighter
jets. The newspaper article stated in part:
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"The crews of two Soviet aircraft reported seeing a large
flying disk in their vicinity with five beams of lights
emanating from it: three beams were directed toward the
ground and two were projected upward when the object was
first sighted. The ground controller instructed one of the
planes to alter its course and approach the object, at which
point the disk flew to the same level and aimed one of its
beams at the approaching Soviet plane, illuminating the
cockpit."
"At this time, the copilot was at the controls. He observed
the maneuver that the object had just carried out and was
able to raise his hand to shield himself from the unbearable
light. The aircraft commander was resting in the adjoining
seat, and a bright ray of light, projecting a spot with a
diameter of 20 centimeters, passed across his body. Both
pilots felt heat."
"The copilot was forced to leave his job due to a sudden
deterioration in his health, including the onset of sudden
prolonged periods of 'loss of consciousness.' The aircraft
commander died within a few months. The cause of death was
listed as 'cancer', and 'injury to the organism as a result
of radiation from an unidentified flying object' was listed
as a contributing factor on the official medical record in
the hospital where the commander died."
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While many UFO incidents have occurred in Russia over the
years, encounters such as the previous ones stand out, due
to the caliber of the individuals who have made the reports.
As in the other cases we have examined, and the many quotes
I have provided for you, these reports deserve a high level
of credibility; particularly when we realize that they were
made by the Russian military establishment; which, prior to
"glasnost", would have never released this kind of info to
the general public. It is obvious that they did so with the
permission of the highest echelons of power within the
Soviet government.
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