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This episode of Expanded Perspectives is made possible by Dollar Shave Club! This week the guys start the show off talking about how\xa0in the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.\xa0Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.\xa0For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon\u2019s C Ring, deep within the building\u2019s maze.\xa0The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.

Then, a person witnesses what can only be described as a group of yoked, commando, reptilians that invaded their neighborhood. After the break Kyle brings up some more stories about the Grinning Man.\xa0Eyewitnesses claim that the Grinning Man is a looming figure who stands well over 6-feet tall. His head is said to be devoid of any hair and his dark, beady eyes are nestled unnaturally far apart in his domed skull. Some observers are so perturbed that they are later unable to recall whether he even had a nose or ears, but \u2014 as disturbing as that may be \u2014 far and away his most disconcerting characteristic is the wide, hideous, shark-like grin that is perpetually plastered across his face.

Renowned paranormal investigator and \u201cMothman Prophecies\u201d author, John Keel, is considered to be the first researcher to mention the creature (or, more likely than not, creatures) that have collectively come to be known as the Grinning Man. In his seminal tome on unnatural entities, \u201cThe Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings,\u201d Keel discusses what is believed to be the first modern run-in with this peculiar entity, but it certainly wasn't the last. All of this and more on this episode of Expanded Perspectives!

• Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program
• Reptilian Commando Encounter
• Bigfoot Seen in Northern Georgia
• Strange Intruders Book by David Weatherly
• The Mothman Prophecies Book by John Keel
• Operation Trojan Horse Book by John Keel
• The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings Book by John Keel
• Strange Creatures From Time and Space

• Dollar Shave Club
• KGRA Radio

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