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Giant UFO shaped hole stuns locals after appearing above houses
Last updated: 2025/08/25 at 4:30 PM
A giant UFO shaped hole stunned locals after appearing above houses.
Kristin Braund spotted the weird weather phenomenon, sometimes mistaken for a UFO.
The Fallstreak hole, or Cavum, is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds.
Trainee paraglider Kristin did a double-take after a footprint-shaped one opened over her in Portland, Dorset.
“I was in my garden admiring my sunflowers, and I just happened to look up at the sky,” Kristin told What’s The Jam.
“I always look up as I love the sky and the clouds.
“I’m a trainee paraglider, so I’m in a constant state of awe with our skies. “But this really took me by surprise.
“I’ve never seen a formation like it before. “It was quite unique and had such an ethereal look to it.”
According to the Met Office, Fallstreak holes form in clouds of supercooled water droplets,
Aircraft punching through the cloud can cause the supercooled droplets to freeze and fall from the cloud layer in a distinctive pattern.
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Navy Officer Says Underwater UFOs Are Legitimate Threats. The Evidence Is Hard to Ignore
Aug 25, 2025 9:30 AM EDT
In mid-2014, during training flights off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, F/A-18 pilot and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves began to notice something strange.
The radar returns looked off—phantom blips moving with unfathomable speed and precision. At first he dismissed it as a glitch. But then the anomalies returned, recorded by the fighter jets’ sophisticated sensors.
They would hover in place—and then dart away at supersonic speeds. They were recorded from the ocean’s surface to 40,000 feet.
“Sometimes stationary—0.0 Mach. Other times 250 to 350 knots . . .. Sometimes even supersonic—1.1 to 1.2 Mach. All altitudes. And always over the ocean,” Graves says.
After appearing only as glitches on the jets’ radar, the objects on one occasion finally came into view. Graves reported seeing a dark gray or black cube inside a clear sphere, between five and 15 feet in diameter, coming within 50 feet of their jets.
“That was the turning point,” Graves says. “We started treating it as a safety issue.”
Over the next year, Graves’s squadron recorded sightings of unidentified objects almost daily. Sometimes the objects flew in loose formations. Other times they traveled alone.
They had no exhaust, no visible propulsion, no wings. Sometimes the object would rotate in place; others vanished when approached.
As it turned out, pilots stationed off the West Coast—on missions aboard the USS Nimitz, the USS Princeton, and other carriers—had been experiencing similar things for years.
Some of these craft—now classified as UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena)—appeared to be capable of transmedium travel, meaning they are able to move from air to sea without slowing, splashing, or emitting heat.
They challenged every assumption held by aerospace engineers and radar operators.
Graves doesn’t claim to know what the objects were. But one thing was clear. “This wasn’t business as usual,” he says.
“There was a serious issue at play. It wasn’t just one rogue object. It wasn’t just us on the East Coast. It wasn’t just my squadron. It was a pattern. This was global.”
Since at least the 1950s, military sources have reported strange objects plunging into the ocean—what they call USOs (unidentified submerged objects).
These phenomena exhibit characteristics that conflict with our understanding of physics and maritime navigation. As radar and similar technologies have advanced, so have the number of sightings.
Today Graves is one of the most vocal advocates for UAP transparency.
Now retired from the military, he’s the founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, the largest UAP-focused pilot safety initiative in the world, and works with former Pentagon and naval officials to push for greater transparency.
He doesn’t claim that these craft are alien, but he’s certain that they aren’t using known human tech.
“Where that leaves us opens up options—extraterrestrial visitors, time travelers, breakaway civilizations . . . things that challenge the status quo and aren’t easily accepted at face value,” he says.
Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, PhD, an oceanographer, was one of the first to view footage from the UAP incidents in 2015 involving fighter jets attached to the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which at the time was conducting training exercises off the coast of Florida.
Two videos captured by Navy fighter jets that were made public in 2020 show strange craft flying at incredible speeds with no visible means of propulsion, sometimes rotating in midair.
“I knew then that what I saw was not our technology. We don’t test experimental aircraft in training ranges—it’s too dangerous—and I had access to everything classified. No nation has craft that can move like that,” he says.
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Gallaudet, now retired from the Navy and currently the CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, is pushing for the U.S. government to treat these phenomena as a “national research priority.”
Despite some public disclosures, many records remain classified, buried within defense contractor vaults or shielded by national security exemptions.
If even part of what’s been reported is true, then the encounters off Virginia, California, and elsewhere could be the opening chapter in a much deeper mystery—one that spans oceans, navies, and continents.
This spring, Graves and Gallaudet briefed officials in Washington, D.C., on unidentified submerged objects. “We’re at a unique moment in history,” Graves says. “People have access to tools that can reveal things. The momentum is building.”
That momentum has already begun reshaping policy. In 2023, Congress passed the UAP Disclosure Act, legislation requiring federal agencies to collect, catalog, and disclose records related to recovered nonhuman craft and biologics.
For the first time, U.S. law openly acknowledged the potential existence of off-world or nonhuman intelligence, and even hinted at craft retrieval and reverse engineering programs.
Those newly released records contain a trove of details on previously classified encounters with multiple transmedium UAPs.
None definitively prove that otherworldly beings are hiding in or above our oceans, but they do raise questions that neither our military nor scientific experts can explain.
“The possibility that they exist underwater is very real,” Gallaudet says. “They could come from another galaxy, if they’ve conquered the engineering challenge of that,” he says.
“Or why not—maybe they lived here for a long time, before we even evolved, and sought safety from the Earth’s atmospheric and geologic cataclysms by creating a habitat or place to live beneath the seafloor. . .. That’s one hypothesis.”
The following four incidents have provided investigators with the most compelling—and perplexing—evidence so far of transmedium encounters with what experts like Gallaudet believe could be nonhuman in origin.
USS Nimitz, 2004
In November 2004, several U.S. Navy pilots assigned to the USS Nimitz encountered a Tic Tac–shaped UAP darting and dashing over the Pacific.
According to reports that followed, the object lacked visible control surfaces and heat signatures that would be typical of jet aircraft or rockets.
It never made a sonic boom, although it appeared to be traveling faster than the speed of sound.
The incident began when the USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser escorting the Nimitz off the coast of San Diego, picked up strange radar contacts.
The objects appeared at 80,000 feet, and then dropped to sea level in less than a second. F/A-18 Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight scrambled to intercept the object.
Each man claims to have seen a smooth, white oblong object around 30 to 40 feet long, with no wings, no windows, no markings. It hung in the air just over the sea.
As Fravor circled downward, the object suddenly shot away, vanishing in seconds. “It just disappeared. Like a bullet out of a gun,” Fravor told Fox News.
The strike group dispatched a second flight. This time the object was captured on an infrared camera showing a white speck flying against the wind, rotating and maneuvering in ways no known aircraft can.
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 2013
One of the most hotly debated encounters of an unidentified submerged object came in April 2013, when an infrared surveillance camera operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection captured something extraordinary over Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
A small spherical object flew inland from the ocean, crossed the airport, and then returned to sea—where it maneuvered in ways that appeared to defy physics.
The three-minute video, published by the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, has become a key piece of evidence suggesting the possibility of transmedium travel. It shows the object entering the water without slowing down—no splash, no wake, no disruption.
Seconds later it resurfaces, splits in two, and then submerges again. Any object passing between two mediums should generate drag or turbulence or, at the very least, a splash, according to the laws of hydrodynamics.
But this one behaved as if those laws didn’t apply.
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“It’s not that they break the laws,” Gallaudet says. “It’s that they demonstrate engineering capabilities we haven’t yet developed. We can’t build anything that can do that today.”
“I’ve spoken with the pilots who saw it,” he adds. “The near-instantaneous acceleration of that craft is something we just can’t engineer.”
Caribbean Sea, Unspecified date
In the 1990s, a Navy CH-53 Sea Stallion pilot was flying off the coast of Puerto Rico when he saw something he couldn’t explain.
His crew, on a routine mission to retrieve a BQM target drone that had previously been dropped into the ocean, had sent a diver into the water to connect the drone to the helicopter’s hoist system.
But just before the helo was about to lift the 20-foot-long drone out of the sea, something pulled it violently downward.
The pilot, whose name has not been disclosed, would later report that the object was a large, dark mass unlike any submarine or marine animal he’d ever seen.
After F/A-18 Commander David Fravor went public with the previous incident he witnessed flying off the USS Nimitz, he says the Sea Stallion pilot contacted him to relay the story. Fravor then shared details on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2019.
“The helo drops a swimmer in the water, he hooks the whole thing up, and they fly back,” Fravor said. “The first time they were out and they were going to pick up a BQM, he’s sitting in the front—in the CH-53 you can see down by your feet—and as he’s looking down, they’re 50 feet above the water, he sees this kind of dark mass coming up from the depths.”
As the pilot picked up the BQM, he was apparently at a loss for words. “He’s looking at this thing going, ‘What the hell is that?’ And then it just goes back down underwater.
Once they pull the kid and the BQM out of the water, this object descends back into the depths.”
USS Omaha, 2019
It began as a blip. In July 2019, an infrared camera aboard the USS Omaha captured something that defied explanation: a spherical object moving swiftly over the Pacific before dropping into the ocean—again, no splash, no wake, no debris.
The footage, later verified by Pentagon officials, stunned observers. The object didn’t resemble any known drone, missile, or aircraft. And its disappearance beneath the waves raised new questions about transmedium tech.
In the incident, the crew of the Omaha (which was also sailing off the San Diego coast) recorded a spherical UAP hovering just over the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
The ship’s sensor that caught the object was the sophisticated AN/KAX-2—a stabilized sensor turret built for maritime environments that includes a digital video camera, night vision camera, and laser rangefinder.
The video shows a recording of the AN/KAX-2 screen and appears to have been taken with a night vision camera.
The object seemingly moves, tracked by the sensor operator, and then hovers just above the ocean’s surface. Then the object disappears.
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What happens if a fighter jet fires missiles at a UFO?
Updated: Aug 25, 2025, 18:03 IST
Have Fighter Jets Chased UFOs?
There have been events where military jets chased objects called UFOs. These are often reported to be unknown craft moving in unusual ways.
Some records say pilots were ordered to fire missiles after tracking such objects.
What Happens When They Fire?
When a pilot fires a missile, the missile locks onto the target using radar or heat. In the past, some pilots claimed their missiles lost guidance or failed to explode when aimed at a UFO.
Official reports often say the results were inconclusive.
Do Missiles Work on UFOs?
According to some sources, in several cases, the missiles either missed, or the target moved away very fast.
Sometimes, pilots said the unidentified object seemed to dodge or vanish suddenly, making interception impossible.
Military Reports and Declassified Cases
There are declassified reports from the US and other countries where fighter jets fired guns or missiles at unknown flying objects.
No clear evidence shows a jet ever succeeded in hitting or destroying a true UFO. Investigations continued but found no proof.
Risks for the Pilot and the Public
Firing missiles at unknown targets risks accidents and creates diplomatic tensions.
In some incidents, pilots found their jet's systems malfunctioning, possibly due to electronic jamming, as stated in pilot interviews and air force records.
What Do Experts Say?
Experts believe that most UFOs turn out to be drones, foreign aircraft, weather balloons or unexplained radar echoes.
Firing weapons is only permitted as a last option. Strict rules of engagement are followed in all air forces before taking action.
Has Any UFO Been Shot Down?
Till now, there is no proven case of a fighter jet successfully downing a real, unidentified flying object.
Most cases remain unsolved or are marked down to technical glitches, confusion or misidentification in official investigations.
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EXCLUSIVE: Mysterious UFOs Swarm Ohio Military Base — Secret Leaked Government Docs Reveal the Objects' Ties to Roswell Compound After Sparking Chaos
Aug. 25 2025, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
Newly released top secret government records have revealed shocking swarms of UFOs at an Ohio military base with close ties to the mysterious Roswell compound, where the first downed spacecraft is infamously reported to have crashed, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The government was forced to release documents and video of two separate assaults by unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Greene County in December.
According to the disturbing documents, the Air Force determined that the waves of unidentified objects were so serious, it halted flight operations, alerted local law enforcement agencies, and utilized thermal imaging cameras to pinpoint the location and identity of the mysterious UFOs.
What Did They See?
"The objects appeared to be lights moving as a group, but too high up to get an accurate assessment of what they looked like," one officer at Wright-Patterson reported to the Daily Mail.
Another officer spotted an unknown aircraft descending toward the base, getting within 500 feet of landing before it suddenly ascended and disappeared.
One patrol confirmed the officer's sighting, adding that the "unidentified flying object" just vanished after approaching the base's runway.
The Famous Roswell Crash
Secret government files reveal that debris from the infamous 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, was allegedly flown to Wright-Patterson to be studied by a secret government group dubbed the Majestic 12, comprising top scientists, intelligence officers, and military brass.
CIA files have detailed how the group conducted projects intended to communicate with aliens and reverse engineer downed alien spacecraft for military use.
The base was also home to the Air Force's Project Blue Book, which conducted investigations into 12,618 UFO sightings, with 701 still classified as "unidentified," according to records found in the National Archives.
Why Are So Many UFOs Being Spotted?
As RadarOnline.com readers know, military pilots have reported hundreds of close encounters with UFOs in recent years, but the powers that be at the Pentagon have refused to acknowledge their alien origins – even though the objects can perform airborne feats impossible for our most modern aircraft.
Insiders said these sightings have occurred with frightening regularity around conflict zones and military installations – almost as though the UFOs are scouting humans' combat ability in preparation for an invasion.
"These unidentified craft keep popping up over war zones around the earth, and that's a phenomenon that gives me pause," said one concerned military source.
https://radaronline.com/p/mysterious-ufos-swarm-ohio-base-ties-roswell-compound-revealed/
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The Cost of Disclosure: How Intimidation Keeps UFO Witnesses Quiet
24 August 2025
The first thing, Mike Herrera says, is the pressure.
It arrives as a feeling before it becomes a fact: the sense that people asking the wrong questions are being watched, leaned on, or shut down.
Politicians, congressional staffers, and whistleblowers are facing threats and intimidation from Intelligence Community operatives and government contractors as they investigate covert Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) programs, according to the Marine veteran, who says he has briefed the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and the Senate’s Intelligence and Armed Services Committees.
“Absolutely - it happens quite a bit,” Herrera told Liberation Times.
“Many feel the heat [investigating UAP allegations from whistleblowers and witnesses], and I personally know some, though I won’t name them. It’s a very common trend among staffers and even politicians to be threatened or intimidated in an effort to make them back off.”
The intimidation, he says, is meant to be unmistakable - more than whispers in corridors, closer to a performance of power.
“They use surveillance to make people feel uncomfortable - helicopters are the big one. They’ll fly over someone’s residence or circle them, just as a reminder: ‘You’re on our radar.’
It’s happened to me personally, and it’s happened to many whistleblowers I know. Even staffers and some politicians have experienced it, over and over again.”
From pressure tactics, Herrera moves to structural allegations: efforts inside Congress that steer inquiries away from sensitive lanes, especially around alleged crash retrievals and reverse engineering.
“There are staffers and even sitting members of Congress who are essentially CIA plants. They either work to obscure perceptions or try to put up roadblocks in front of anyone attempting to look into it.”
Asked if compromise and blackmail play a role, he doesn’t qualify his answer:
“Absolutely, I know that for a fact. I'm not going to go into detail, but I know that that happens for a fact.”
That environment, he argues, leaves many on Capitol Hill struggling to gain clarity.
“I’ve noticed that many members of Congress have no idea what’s going on,” Herrera said.
“They’re trying to get to the bottom of it, but at the same time, there are people within their own ranks putting their feet on others’ necks, trying to limit it as much as possible.”
Even so, he points to officials he trusts to take credible reports seriously.
Despite threats and conflicts of interest, Herrera does trust some members of Congress - of note, Representative Eric Burlison, who recently recruited UAP whistleblower, David Grusch, to his staff and has been leading political efforts for greater transparency:
“Congressman Burlison is definitely someone who can help. He’ll listen to their stories and look for corroboration on his end… he’s a good guy to talk to.”
For Herrera, the story didn’t begin in Washington.
It began amid earthquake rubble. In late September 2009, a magnitude-7.6 quake struck West Sumatra, devastating Padang and surrounding districts and triggering a large international relief effort.
Herrera says that during those operations near Padang, his six-man team encountered a hovering octagonal craft and was threatened by unmarked U.S. personnel.
The experience, he says, rewired his assumptions.
“I used to think it was just Hollywood - just movies, just stories that sold well. But when that happened in 2009, it… confirmed two things:
first, that we had the technology, and second, that we got it from somewhere else - which means non-human intelligence exists, because that’s where it came from.”
Herrera had suspected that this operation was illegal and involved human trafficking.
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He contends that the government office tasked with clarifying the record - AARO - has, at times, distorted it.
“Everyone I know who has testified has had their statements misrepresented in the first AARO [historical record] report… They’re not supposed to steer things into a different narrative; they’re supposed to present what was said. And they simply didn’t do that.”
In Volume 1 of AARO’s Historical Record Report, released last year, the office summarised an interviewee (Herrera) from a 2009 humanitarian mission as encountering ‘U.S. Special Forces’ loading containers onto a ‘large extraterrestrial spacecraft.’
By contrast, Herrera has described the craft as manufactured - “it had rivets… it had seams” - and the personnel as unmarked U.S. paramilitary forces - potentially from the CIA, not an identified Special Forces unit.
He also says the report left out the surrounding context he’s publicly discussed, including threats and human-trafficking claims tied to that episode.
That moment, in 2009, pulled him into a network of insiders and a vocabulary that sits outside mainstream science.
Since then, Herrera has built relationships with insiders like Jake Barber, a U.S. Air Force veteran and helicopter pilot who says he contracted to fly twin-engine helicopters on sensitive retrieval missions involving potential advanced non-human craft and first came forward publicly in a NewsNation interview with Ross Coulthart.
Barber now leads Skywatcher, a research team drawn from intelligence and aerospace circles.
In August 2024, Barber’s team conducted its own operation to summon a UAP using a psionic asset - a term referring to an individual believed to possess heightened mental or psychic abilities, such as telepathy or remote influence.
The Pentagon told Liberation Times in February 2025 that AARO is aware of Barber’s claims and is investigating them.
Barber has publicly backed Herrera’s core account, saying it corroborates what he knows: paramilitary units recruit psionic assets and move them to the United States from other countries.
Barber’s public stance distinguishes recruitment from trafficking - something Herrera now agrees with.
Jake Barber disputes that what Herrera witnessed amounted to human trafficking.
He says he has verified that the operation involved recruiting and voluntarily transporting individuals with psionic abilities out of Indonesia - potentially to summon UAP of non-human origin.
That distinction sets the frame in which Herrera places his own experience. What Barber describes, Herrera says, matches a pattern he has heard repeatedly from other sources.
“The way the operations were described to me was pretty much identical to that… I don’t doubt it was psionics at all. Even the advanced vehicles and containers inside function not only as a transportation system, but also as a workstation.”
When asked whether Barber knew of the octagonal craft type, Herrera’s answer is terse: “Yes, he was.”
Herrera told Liberation Times he has no doubt the craft was built with the aid of reverse-engineering efforts using recovered, advanced non-human craft.
The allegations relating to psionic powers and science-fiction-type craft are difficult to swallow for many who have not been following the UAP topic.
However, Congress is taking such allegations seriously. Senator Chuck Schumer, a member of the Gang of Eight privy to the USA’s closest-held secrets, has on consecutive occasions even introduced legislation that references ‘non-human intelligence’ and ‘technologies of unknown origin.’
Herrera also sees interest in Trump’s orbit:
“I won’t reveal who I’ve spoken to for their safety… but hopefully there are people within Trump’s administration - including President Trump himself - who understand this is a problem that needs to be reined in.”
As Herrera sketches the community of whistleblowers and witnesses, he divides the risks into two overlapping worlds. One is kinetic and immediate - the realm of security and retrieval - populated, he says, by highly trained tier one operators.
“They work as contractors, either for the [CIA] or for aerospace [contractors], which are kind of integrated. It’s good pay… Most of them are tier one operators from the United States Special Operations community.”
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The other world is technical and cloistered - the reverse-engineering labs - where, he argues, the dangers escalate in different ways.
“They [people part of such programs] like being part of something cutting-edge, but what they don’t like are the criminal aspects, the secrecy, and the threats surrounding these programs.
“There’s also technology suppression - targeting inventors and people who’ve worked in these programs - and that’s a big problem, especially for anyone trying to get to the bottom of this.
At least I know who’s involved, and those names have been submitted to members of Congress so they can begin investigating the people responsible for suppressing technology.”
Day to day, he says, the message is relentless: say nothing.
“They understand they’re under a microscope and constantly reminded they can’t talk about this - they can’t even hint at it.
There’s always the threat of losing their jobs if they come forward. But it goes beyond that. The real danger lies in the biologics and the reverse-engineered propulsion or energy systems. That’s why it’s so serious.”
Herrera ties that secrecy to human costs that are hard to document because the programs “technically don’t exist.”
“There have been illnesses and other issues people can’t get treatment for because the operations are classified and technically don’t exist,” Herrera said.
“They have to jump through hoops just to seek medical attention. Even through the VA, active-duty personnel with disabilities from this have been denied or not even considered - I’ve seen it personally.”
Then there are the darker allegations he relays relating to the alleged UAP programs, which he says have fuelled a sense of injustice among whistleblowers:
“There are also darker elements… drug sales across the world to fund programs, and money laundering… It spans from murder, to drugs, to trafficking - and that’s just what I personally know.”
Whether the pressure is overt or bureaucratic, Herrera argues the intent is the same: containment.
“If people don’t stay quiet, they get harassed, and certain government agencies are weaponized against them to scare them or ruin them financially… It’s not just whistleblowers - anyone even remotely involved in this subject, including those in government roles, can suffer the same fate.”
Herrera points to the revocation of whistleblowers’ clearances as a clear threat to their financial well-being as a key issue facing them:
“If their clearances are revoked, it’s essentially like being blackballed from the intelligence community. They can’t get any work that involves Top Secret or Sensitive Compartmented Information.”
And that has knock-on effects at home.
“The work they do is very lucrative… When the money suddenly stops, they have to scramble - especially as their families rely on them as the breadwinner.”
Given that landscape, his guidance to insiders starts with prudence and practicalities.
“I always say act cautiously… Until those things [legal protections, funding, family support] are addressed, we won’t have insiders come forward, and we’ll remain stuck in this loop.”
And any help, he says, should be tied to a credible process:
“If someone goes through the legitimate channels - vetted, investigated, willing to testify under oath - those are the people who should be helped. It shows they’re serious and have skin in the game.”
This is where Herrera is trying to shift from complaint to capacity.
Herrera is turning coffee into a support pipeline. Through Beyond Black Coffee, sales underwrite a small safety net to offset the personal costs of coming forward—covering security, medical bills, and travel for vetted witnesses meeting policymakers in Washington, D.C.
“We’re trying to support whistleblowers who have gone through official channels by getting them funding and help - whether that’s for security, medical expenses, or even travel to meet with politicians and committees in Washington, D.C…
I’ve been funding it personally up to a certain threshold… We won’t name anyone, but people will know when medical bills are paid or travel expenses covered.”
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