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17 OCT 17:41
REPORTED CLAIM
Harvard astronomer challenges ex-Pentagon UAP chief's claims of alien bodies
Avi Loeb, the Harvard astrophysicist who leads a science team working with the Pentagon's PURSUE declassification effort, has publicly disputed claims made by Jay Stratton, the Pentagon's former top UAP investigator. Stratton says in a new memoir that he personally witnessed non-human beings and craft, including during a submarine encounter off the US East Coast, and that the government holds recovered non-human vehicles. Loeb says "the claims Jay makes are not corroborated by publicly verifiable data", adding that his team's review of military UAP data attributes most encounters to drones, balloons and other conventional sources, with no evidence of non-human technology. Loeb is calling for physical evidence rather than personal testimony.
Source: Hoodline
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