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Using the intelligence community method of competing hypotheses, Hazelene and Gilbert evaluated all UFO explanations in a matrix format, concluding a few dozen cases out of hundreds of thousands are genuinely real and unexplained.
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Hazelene developed electronic fireworks at Disney using focused neodymium YAG lasers to create ionized plasma balls in open air, and a Navy patent exists to use this exact technology to fake aircraft shapes and fool missiles.
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The authors deliberately apply anti-mirroring to extraterrestrial motivation analysis, assuming ETs are opposite to humans in every way including no language, no social bonds, no aggression, possibly immortal, and potentially made of dark matter.
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Hazelene argues some UFO secrecy is about protecting sources and methods, specifically advanced sensors that can detect things in wavelengths adversaries do not know the US can see, not necessarily about hiding aliens.
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The book explores the possibility of an ancient advanced Earth civilization hundreds of millions of years ago whose evidence was erased by tectonic subduction, which could have discovered near-luminal travel and returned to Earth much later.
