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Welcome to Talk the Night, with you till dawn! I'm Dawn Stevenson.

For obvious reasons our planned interview with astronomer Jake Snow...

... on the meteorite showers we've been seeing has been postponed.

With me in the chair instead: Lieutenant General Jim Deacon - retired.

Now, you have a great deal of knowledge in...

The area. Yes. Knox was my patch, long ago.

Now I want to get one thing straight.

I've been watching this station all day, and I've been detecting some...

... negativity.

Lieutenant General, people have been forced from their...

Their homes? Sure they have. That's not good.

But there is no agenda.

This is a public health crisis.

Those boys are doing what they're told in exactly the right way.

They created that event boundary in DAYS to protect me, and to protect you.

Do you even know what that involved?

But maybe if we had some more information, then...

You'll get your information!

They've got experts!

They've got people doing tests right now!

If you don't know yet, it's because they don't want to misinform.

They don't want panic.

But there is panic, there's...

This is America. The common man is being attended to.

Okay.

Clearly this has taken place in an area that's close to your own heart.

It's well known that in the sixties this area was used for chemical testing.

Are there any laboratories in the area, or...

I think I know what you're suggesting, and my answers are threefold.

First, that's classified.

Second, very clearly not.

Third, the Army is in the process of very effectively containing an outbreak of unknown origin.

They demand RESPECT, not suspect... er...

... suspicion.

Okay. Thank you very much for joining me and talking...

... through the night.

It's been my pleasure.