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“Well, people have talked about the so-called Unidentified Flying Objects for more than a century, even some top guns came out to tell their stories about UFO.” Bob questioned, “But how many people are really taking it seriously, even though most people might be interested in the topic?”

“AHs are not like UFOs. AHs are for real,” John argued.

“See, you are now denying the reality of UFOs although many more people have claimed seeing UFOs than seeing AHs so far,” Bob sighed. “You know what? I even think they want you to tell the story of AHs to the public, and a lot of UFOs stories in the past might have also been released as rumors on purpose.”

“Why should they do that?” John sounded very confused.

“It’s simple. They know that someday they might have to announce the truth to the public. So instead of causing a sudden shock to the public, they might prefer having someone who could be characterized as lunatic or morally uncountable to leak the story out first,” Bob explained.

“What can they gain by doing that?” John questioned.

“They could create such an effect that people are familiar with the buzz words about the issues so that in case it becomes obvious to the public someday in the future, people won’t overreact; but meanwhile, they don’t need to risk any social upset at this moment,” Bob explained.

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看来这次有可能又让我说中了，经历了几十年的似真似假似有似无的飞碟新闻之后，就算政府正式公布相关消息了，公众似乎也不再有任何兴趣了。。。

附录：上面那段英文对话的中译文是：

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“但是我仍然可以将有关AH（人工生化人）的新闻传播到全世界。我敢肯定，公众会听我的。”由于兴奋，约翰的脸红了。

“这么说吧，人们谈论所谓的UFO已经有一个多世纪了，甚至有一些大人物都出来来讲述他们遭遇的UFO的故事。”鲍勃问，“你觉得有多少人真把它当回事？尽管大多数人可能对这个话题感兴趣。”

“ AH与UFO不同。 AH是真的。” 约翰争辩道。

“瞧，你已经开始否认UFO的真实性了。。。尽管到目前为止，声称见过UFO的人远多于见过AH的人，”鲍勃叹了口气。 “你知道吗？我甚至认为他们希望你向公众讲述AH的故事，过去的许多UFO故事也可能是故意以谣言的形式发布的。”

“他们为什么要这样做？”约翰听起来很困惑。

“这很简单。他们知道有一天他们可能不得不向公众宣布真相。因此，与其让公众突然感到震惊，不如让他们被一个被形塑成疯子或道德上不可信赖的人先讲出来。”鲍勃解释说。

“他们这样做能得到什么？”约翰质疑道。

“他们可以创造一种效果，使人们对相关的话题感到熟悉，万一将来某天这件事对公众来说变得显而易见，人们不会反应过度；但与此同时，他们现在无需为此而冒任何的社会风险，”鲍勃解释说。

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