Garrett Graff:
So I came at this as a national security writer, as you know.
And what changed for me, what got me interested in the subject was there was this sea change in recent years in Washington around this topic, that you started to hear serious people talking seriously about this subject.
And, for me, there was this one very specific moment in December 2020 where John Brennan, who was just wrapping up the better part of a decade as the former CIA director, White House homeland security adviser in the Obama years, said, basically, like, there's stuff out there. We don't know what it is. It puzzles me. And the phenomenon may end up constituting some new form of life.
And it was a really startling comment to me. And so for him to be leaving office saying, I still don't know what this thing is, felt to me like a topic that would be fun to dig into.
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