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I want to get to the really end part, where we talk about some of the more, meatier stuff we can discuss. Really again, just to put it all to bed, for the millionth time, there was no evidence of anything that had to do with extraterrestrial technology.

There were a lot of allegations. My my personal favorite was the piece of metal that that was given to the army that we took control of and went and did isotope measurements on. And and for those of you who are scientifically minded, isotope fingerprinting is pretty definitive and it was definitely terrestrial made.

We didn't find any evidence for private companies doing any sort of reverse engineering of anything. And just to put that one to bed, I did meet with the CTOs of every major defense contractor, prime. They gave us their full cooperation.

In fact, one of them helped me drag out of the closet some, no pun intended, one of their engineers, who believed in something without actually going through, any sort of scientific analysis, and he did some interviews with us, and we kind of got that put to bed, too. This this last point is is really one of the bigger takeaways from the investigation.

Every named program, I had a bunch of people come in and name classified programs. "This program is where the aliens are! No, that program is where the aliens are!". Every one of them was either a misidentified authentic, highly sensitive aerospace program, that they shouldn't, or didn't have access to, but somehow heard something, saw something, somewhere.

None of those were related to extraterrestrial technologies. or they resolved to disestablished programs that we did identify, and put out in the public domain. One of those key ones is Kona Blue, and we'll touch on that in a bit.

And so really, you know, my takeaway to Congress in one of my final outbreaks, in fact, my final outbreak was, "Hey, you you have a security problem! You have an op-sec problem. You have a data problem."

And when I briefed the heads of agencies and services on this, half of them looked at me and put their finger in my chest and said, "Go open a counter intelligence investigation and go after these people". And I would have to say, "I can't. My hands are tied because Congress extended the whistle-blower protections to these people".

So they can walk in and say whatever they want. I can't go after them. "You have a data problem. You need to go plug your data problem. Find out where your data leak is. I can't go after these people". And so I gave that message to Congress, and to the department, and to the IC, and to the DOE, and to everybody else that had programs named.