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Broadcast Seeds in the minds of the beat.
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Okay, picture this. It is the middle of the Cold War,
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nuclear drills in American schools, Spies trade secrets under dim
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street lights. You got rockets, punging holes in the upper atmosphere,
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and on paper, the biggest question on every general's mind
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is who gets to space first, who gets better missiles?
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Who blinks in the staring contest that could end the world.
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But what if?
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Off the books, the real contest was not East versus West,
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it was Earth versus everyone else. Welcome back to Broadcasting Seeds.
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I'm your host, Ben Tantan, and today we are walking
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straight into one of the strangest what ifs in Ufu lore.
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A story that looks like science fiction, reads like a
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classified Apollo mission, and somehow refuses to die even after
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decades of debunking attempts and Internet drama. This episode is
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about Project Serpo, the alleged alien exchange program. According to
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the story buried somewhere in the deep, black budget world
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of American intelligence, there was once a deal. Not a
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treaty with Moscow, not some handshake with NATO, a deal
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between the United States government and a non human civilization
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said to be from the Zeta Reticuli star system, a
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real binary star about thirty nine light years away in
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the constellation Reticulum. If that name rings a bell, it should.
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Zeta Reticuli is the same system that got tied to
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the famous Betty and Barney Hill abduction case from nineteen
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sixty one, after Betty drew a strange star map under
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hypnosis and an amateur astronomer later argued it matched that
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specific starfair. That incident became known as the Zeta Reticular incident,
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and it helped cement that star system in UFO legend
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long before anybody ever whispered the word surpo. Fast forward
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a few years, and the Surpos story says something even
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wilder happened. According to leaked briefing documents and anonymous insiders,
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an alien craft landed at a secure US facility in
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the mid nineteen sixties. A group of twelve countum twelve
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American military specialists supposedly volunteered for what amounted to a
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one way deployment, no return date, no guarantee that they
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will ever see Earth again. Their destination an alien world
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orbiting those twin sons. The story claims they trained for years,
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learned basic alien symbols, They got poked, they got scanned
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and conditioned for low gravity and strange radiation. Then somewhere
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around nineteen sixty five, they boarded a non human craft
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and left Earth behind. For thirteen years, those twelve allegedly
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lived on another planet, tried to understand an alien society,
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and kept records of their daily life so that if
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they ever came home, somebody in a windowless room in
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Washington could read about it and quietly decide what to
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do with the truth. On the surface, it just sounds ridiculous,
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and it should. It has all the ingredients of a
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late night cable movie, a secret team, an alien world,
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a mission that starts with a handshake and ends with
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missing people and classified medical reports. But here's why this
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one will not go away. During the exact same Cold
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War period, our government really did run programs that sound
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like bad sci fi. The Stargate Project, for example, was
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a real, declassified Army and DIA effort that tried to
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use remote viewing and other psychic techniques to gather intelligence.
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Their own paperwork describes parapsychological interactions and human experiments that
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went on for years before being shut down in the
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nineties and later exposed through FOYA. So when the SERPO
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materials started appearing publicly in the early two thousands, it
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attached itself to a very real pattern weird black projects,
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hidden budgets, things that sound insane. Until thirty years later
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you find the PDF stamp formerly classified sitting on the
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CIA website like it was nothing. That is the tension
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we are going to live in this episode. On one side,
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you have serious problems with the SERPO story. One of
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the early alleged insiders, Richard Dodie, has a long history
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of being tied to UFO disinformation and admitted psychological games.
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Researchers have pointed out contradictions in the timelines, physics, issues
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with the travel, and the complete lack of heart evidence.
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On the other side, there is this haunting question that
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will not leave the room. If governments are willing to
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sponsor psychic spy units, silence pilots, and bury military UFO
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encounters in classified filent cabinets, how far would they really
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be willing to go if a non human civilization offered
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an invitation. In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, we are
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going to treat Project Cirpo like what it is. It's
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a collision point between documented Cold War strangeness and an
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unverified but incredibly persistent story about human beings living off world.
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Here's how it's going to break down. Section one will
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walk you through the origin story of SERPO. Where did
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this claim even come from, who pushed it into the public,
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and how does it connect back to Roswell and Betty
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and Barney Hill. Case two will zoom in on the
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twelve volunteers. What the alleged mission profile says about their training,
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the journey, and life on an alien planet. We will
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compare that to real Apollo era astronaut protocols and ask
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what if it would actually take to send a human
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team that far from home? And then three will tackle
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the big one, disclobeure or disinformation. Is SURPO a breadcrumb
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trail meant to soften us up for slow drip disclosure
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or is it a psychological operation built out of half truths, hoaxes,
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and just enough reality to hook people like us Along
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the way. We will look at real documents, real programs,
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and real historical context and then set it aside. Set
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it side by side with this wild exchange program narrative.
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You do not have to believe Cirpo is real to
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get something out of this. The question underneath it is bigger.
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What does it do to a society if the people
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in charge of truth are caught lying again and again,
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especially about what might be sharing the universe with us?
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So before we jump in, quick reminder, if you get VAUD,
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you out of broadcasting seeds. The best way that you
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can support the show is to like share and leave
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a review wherever you're listening. That is how this thing grows.
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That is how more people find these conversations. That is
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how we keep pulling on threads like this without someone
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else deciding the narrative for you. All right, buckle up,
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grab your tinfoil passport and imagine what it would feel
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like to step onto a craft that does not belong
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to us, knowing you might not see Earth again. Section
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one from Roswell to Zeta Reticuli The Roots of the
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Surpo mythos. Let's rewind the tape back to nineteen sixty one.
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A quiet September night in rural New Hampshire. A couple
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by the names of Betty Hill and Barney Hill driving
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home after a road trip when they claimed to see
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a strange, glowing object descending in the sky. What followed
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lost time, terrified memories, and long lasting trauma. What echo
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across decades and helped birth what many today call modern
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alien abduction lore. Under hypnosis, Betty drew a screwde star map,
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one that she insisted she saw aboard the craft. Years later,
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an amateur and stramaer named Margery Fish tried to match
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that map to real stars. After painstaking analysis, she concluded
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the most likely candidate was a binary star system, Zeta Reticuli,
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and it's about thirty nine light years away that link
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hill Fish. Zeta Reticuli did more than give sci fi
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writers a stellar address. It gave UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists,
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and late night podcast host a framework. Suddenly, alien abduction
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wasn't just a shadowy memory or a wild story. It
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had actual coordinates. Here's the twist. By the early nineteen
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seventies and nineteen eighties, skepticism mounted. Astronomers and critics argued
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that the star map was almost certainly a random clustering
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of points, not a navigable I can't never say that
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word route around the cosmos. One skeptic famously this demonstrated
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that once you remove the connecting lines drawn by Betty
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or interpreted by Fish, the map lost its resemblance to
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any known StarChart. So this tension vivid testimony versus astrophysical
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rebuttal created fertile ground for speculation, and in that fertile ground,
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the story of Project Sirpo bound its roots. According to
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its proponents, the US government didn't just catalog UFO sidings.
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It turned contact into an exchange. Allegedly, in the nineteen sixties,
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twelve Americans, our first interstellar envoys, barded boarded an alien
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ship and journeyed to a world circuling Zeta Reticuli. There
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they were meant to learn, to observe, to serve as
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Earth's silent ambassadors. Why did Sirpo narrative attach itself so
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cleanly to Hill and the Zeta saga because it fills
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the gaps. The Hill incident raised the possibility of alien visitation,
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and Zaeta Reticuli gave a destination. Serpo gave a mission.
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And in the world where real Cold War secrecy was
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already hiding programs of staggering weirdness, the leap from we
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saw strange lights to we made a cosmic deal. While
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audacious felt just plausible enough. Here's the real kicker. The
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same period that birthed the Hill incident and the Zeta
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reticular discussion is also the area era when our own
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governments were exploring the limits of the mind. Programs like
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Start the Stargate Project, Real to Classified tried to weaponize
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psychic phenomena, remote viewing, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception. The idea that
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the US was secretly messing with human consciousness for intelligence
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gathering is not fringe. It's documented. So by the time
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the documents claiming SERPO existed were whispered into public forums
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decades later, the audience was already just primed a society
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already shaken by covert government mental spy programs, an abduction
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case that induced introduced the possibility of alien contact, and
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a star system that allegedly checked out that more than
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anything is how legends are born, not just on paper,
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but deep in our cultural identity. In other words, SERPO
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didn't emerge in a vacuum. It grew out of dense
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vollatle a mix of anxiety, belief, secrecy, and hope. And
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then the next section we'll dig into the heart of
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those claims to meet the twelve Americans who supposedly boarded
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that alien craft and ask would Earth even sign them
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back in if they ever returned Section two Classified Astronauts
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the twelve volunteers, Okay, imagine being chosen not for a
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covert spy mission before something far more foreign, enlisting to
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become humanity's first ambassadors to an alien world. That's what
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the story of Project Cerpo claims happened in the mid
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nineteen sixties. You had twelve Americans handpicked, prepped, and sent
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to live on an alien planet. Let's roll the alleged
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mission logs together and examine what they would have looked
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like and what problems jump out when you compare them
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to what we know for of real history. The alleged
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volunteers who they were so according to Serpo lor, the
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group consisted of twelve US military or defense intelligence personnel.
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Some versions of the story say ten men and two women.
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Their mission to travel to an extrasolar planet Cirpo, orbiting
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the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, and live as sort
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of a long term exchange, learn the alien language, observe
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their society, and then report back. Supposedly, these individuals underwent
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extensive preparation cultural training like symbol language, basics of alien psychology,
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medical screening which included radiation exposure and low gravitate, low
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gravity environment psychological evaluation, long duration isolation alien flora and fauna,
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their diet, and even geographic simulated training for other world terrain.
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Some versions of the documents referred to crew manifests, pre
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deployment conditioning, and alien language primers described among the selected humans. Then,
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in nineteen sixty five, the boarding supposedly happened. The twelve
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entered a non human craft at a secure facility somewhere
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in the US, silent blackout corridors, stripped vaporwork, sealed air locks.
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If true, that would be the most ambitious exchange program
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in human history, not across not just across nations, but
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across worlds. The journey alleged faster than light or unknown physics.
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One of the most eyebrow raising claims. Despite the target
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being around thirty nine light years away, the purported alien
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technology made the trip in just a few months, or
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in some accounts, a nine month journey. After arrival, the
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twelve would have to adapt to unknown gravity, alien atmosphere
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and perhaps even different day night cycles, radiation exposure, unfamiliar biochemistry.
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Survivability alone raises enormous scientific questions, right given our current
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understanding of space travel, relativistic constraints, and human psychology sorry physiology.
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Some versions of the story claim that the clock runs
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differently on Curpo, that thirteen Earth years corresponds to ten
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Surpo years, presumably due to different orbital characteristics, a convenient
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detail if you want the numbers to line up for
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long term exchange. The return Who came back? Who stayed Behind?
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The most telling and chilling part of the tale comes
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after the alleged mission end. Supposedly only eight of the
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original twelve returned to Earth, and according to the story,
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one died en route on the outbound journey, one died
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on the alien planet, and two volunteered to day behind,
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adopting the alien life as their own. The eight who
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supposedly returned came back drastically changed physically, psychologically, culturally. Some
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versions claim the readaption process was brutal, broke circadian rhythms,
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alien diet hangovers, language confusion, and a sense of alienation
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that no psychiatrist or debriefing protocol could fully erase. It's
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also worth noting, though the story is very juicy, no
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verifiable documentation ever surfaced. The person who often surfaces as whistleblower,
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Richard C. Doty, has been widely discredited by UFO researchers
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for previous involvement in questionable leaks and confirmed information campaigns.
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By contrast, when we look at genuine secret programs that
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have since been declassified, we see something very different. Real
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precedent for black ops weirdness to Stargate project. So in
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the nineteen seventies and eighties, the US government, specifically the
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CIA ANDDIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, did in fact explore
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genuinely strange territory under names like Scanet, sun Streak, and
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finally Stargate. They attempted to harness psychic phenomenon, mainly remote
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viewing or intelligence gathering, which is still frankly allegedly used
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today by people that I know and have even interviewed
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for intelligence gathering eyes closed spies claiming to see Soviet
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bases or hidden bunkers halfway around the globe. It sounds bizarre,