Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

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Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

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In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Robert S. Martinez, a retired employment lawyer whose book, "My Most Unusual Client: The Shocking Truth of the Alien Agenda," recounts a case he took on in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1996. Martinez describes a client from Alamogordo, whose name attorney-client privilege still keeps confidential, who said he spent nearly 50 years with a government contractor at the White Sands Missile Range, first monitoring space and later helping coordinate the retrieval of crashed craft.

The client spoke of photographs from the 1947 Roswell crash and of American fighter jets lost in confrontations with unidentified craft, beginning in the Korean War and returning in the 1990s with encounters near commercial airliners over New Mexico. Martinez recounts bringing the case to Congressman Steven Schiff, who was pressing the Air Force for its Roswell records at the time. Within days of that meeting his client was dead and Martinez traces what followed, from a stolen case file to two incidents that put him and his girlfriend in the hospital.

Robert S. Martinez's book, "My Most Unusual Client: The Shocking Truth of the Alien Agenda," is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVRYNK56

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CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Sarah Jackson

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CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:15 The Client Behind the Book 3:26 A Word From Our Sponsor, Smalls 6:34 The Client Behind the Book 12:39 Congressman Schiff's Roswell Inquiry 16:21 The Espionage Act Fax 22:57 Forced Out After 50 Years 24:45 The Client's Sudden Death 27:25 What He Knew About Roswell 31:36 The Fighter Jet Crashes 37:41 Eisenhower and Forrestal at White Sands 40:22 Three Jets Ordered Back to Base 42:14 Was Martinez Targeted? 53:05 The Empty Ejection Seat 56:49 Does He Believe It Now? 59:35 Congressman Schiff's Death 1:02:34 Testifying to Congress

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