Rabbi Glatstein discusses contemporary views of various rabbinic figures in this shiur.
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Okay, friends. Welcome to my bomb. Welcome everyone. We have an amazing topic today. We're continuing part three of the subject of UFOs, extraterrestrial beings, and space travel, contemporary Halakhic analysis. Today, we're going to speak about the opinions of some of the more contemporary opinions. I will share with you that it was reported and the headlines on June 6th were administration used $500,000 missile to shoot down UFO. But then you'll be surprised to uh learn about what it really was. According to report, the US Air Force dispatched an F-16 over Lake Huron on February 7th 12th, 2023 to intercept what officials initially believed could be an unidentified aerial believed could be an unidentified aerial threat. The object was destroyed by what by what was likely an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The footage released last month by the by the Department of Defense as part of a new batch of declassified UFO-related records shows a dark orb-like object with a string attached appearing briefly in the fighters in the fighter pilot's targeting system before being blown targeting system before being blown apart. After the Chinese spy balloon embarrassment the DOD was shooting at every unidentified anomalous phenomenon. The object was later identified as belonging to a Boy Scout group, according to Sean Kirkpatrick. They shot down a child's balloon, which they thought was an unidentified flying object. So, that was just one example So, that was just one example of the unidentified flying objects that was shot down. But, we're continuing to discuss this topic. And this is part three of the subject. I want to begin I want to get the matter of my stuff here. Let me put this uh up on the screen. We're uh last week we uh we concluded we saw the
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