What Does the Book of Enoch Say About UFOs?

About What Does the Book of Enoch Say About UFOs?

The short answer. The Book of Enoch does not contain the term UFO. That word is a 1947 neologism coined in the American press after Kenneth Arnold reported nine crescent objects skipping over Mount Rainier on 24 June of that year. The Air Force wrote the acronym UFO into Project Blue Book documentation in 1952. None of that vocabulary existed when 1 Enoch was composed between roughly the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE. The text cannot say anything about UFOs in its own voice, because the category had not yet been invented.

What the text does describe. 1 Enoch contains ascent narratives in which the patriarch is lifted into the sky, shown chambers and gates in the heavens, instructed in cosmological mechanics by an angel named Uriel, and returned. The descriptions are detailed, concrete, and physical. They include a sphere of light that carries him upward, twelve doors or gates through which sun, moon, and stars pass on fixed cycles, a structure called a lofty roof that separates realms, storehouses for winds and waters and snow and hail, radiant figures whose appearance is more fire than flesh, and a technical cosmology that reads more like an almanac than a myth. Modern readers who come to 1 Enoch from UFO and UAP interest find these descriptions compatible with spacecraft reports. Readers who come to it from Second Temple scholarship find them compatible with a known literary genre called heavenly-ascent or apocalyptic-tour literature. The text is the same. The frames are different.

The ascent chapters. The relevant material sits in two blocks of 1 Enoch. Chapters 14 through 36 describe the heavenly tour Enoch takes after interceding for the fallen Watchers. Chapters 72 through 82, called the Astronomical Book or the Book of the Luminaries, record what Uriel shows Enoch about the mechanics of sun, moon, stars, winds, and calendar. Both blocks share a reportorial tone. The narrator is not speaking in riddles or metaphors. He is describing what he claims to have seen, and he describes it with specifics that can be mapped, counted, and dated. 1 Enoch 14:8 reports that a vision is shown to him by clouds, mist, stars, and lightning, which speed and hasten him and lift him up. A wind causes him to fly and rushes him up into heaven. He is carried. The text does not say he imagined he was carried. It says he went.

The sphere of light. In 1 Enoch 14 and again in parallel Enochic material, Enoch enters a structure whose walls and floor are described as crystal, stone of ice, or built of stones of hail. Tongues of living fire surround a throne. He moves through a series of enclosures, each one hotter and brighter than the last, until he stands before a presence whose appearance he cannot look at. Nineteenth and twentieth century translators rendered these enclosures as houses and walls. Modern ancient-astronaut readers, beginning with Erich von Däniken in Chariots of the Gods in 1968, read the same passages and saw modules, airlocks, a craft interior, and a radiation or light source sufficiently intense to require shielding. The textual data does not decide between those readings. The enclosures are enclosed. They are bright. They are described by a human who wants the reader to understand what he went through.

The twelve doors. In 1 Enoch 72:4 through 72:6, Uriel shows Enoch the twelve gates of heaven through which the sun moves in its yearly circuit. Six are in the east and six in the west. The sun rises through one gate, traverses its arc, sets through its corresponding gate, and moves to the next one as the year progresses. 1 Enoch 76:1 through 76:3 describes twelve further gates for the winds, positioned at the cardinal points. Chapter 75 describes portals for the stars and for the moon. The geometry is repeated and careful. A reader asking what a physical cosmos would have to look like for sun, moon, stars, and weather to pass through ordered portals on a schedule is reading 1 Enoch in a way that aligns surprisingly well with what modern UFO discourse calls portal geometry. A reader asking how a 2nd Temple Jewish author schematized the visible sky with the conceptual tools he had is reading the same text in a way that aligns with calendrical literature from Qumran, Babylonian astronomy, and the MUL.APIN tradition. Both readings can hold the data.

The lofty roof. 1 Enoch 18:1 through 18:5 and 33:2 through 33:3 describe Enoch standing at the ends of the earth and seeing, above him, a structure the translators call the firmament, the vault, or the lofty roof. He sees where the pillars of the heavens stand. He sees the foundations of the earth. He sees the winds that bear up the clouds and the paths of the angels. This language shares deep structure with Genesis 1:6 through 1:8, where God makes a raqia, an expanse, to divide the waters above from the waters below. For a scholar of ancient Near Eastern cosmology, the lofty roof is a canopy or dome, a standard element of the three-tier cosmos shared by Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and early Hebrew literature. For a UFO-reader, the lofty roof reads more like a ceiling, a constructed upper limit, a technological boundary. Again, the text gives both readings room. It calls the thing a roof.

The storehouses. 1 Enoch 41:3 through 41:5 and 60:11 through 60:23 describe storehouses, chambers, or treasuries in which winds, clouds, dew, rain, snow, hail, frost, mist, and lightning are kept. Each has its own compartment. Each is released on a schedule. An angel is named for each. The tone is inventorial. It reads like someone giving a tour of a facility. Whether the facility is theological, the weathered warehouse of a creator-god who keeps his tools in order, or technological, a ground-station-style control of meteorological conditions, is not specified. The text specifies that the storehouses exist, that they are managed, and that Enoch saw them. The Qumran Aramaic fragments, which preserve portions of the Astronomical Book in what scholars date to the 2nd century BCE, agree with the later Ethiopic text on the inventorial tone. This is not a late editorial layer. The tour-of-a-facility voice was part of the material from early in its transmission history.

The fiery circle. 1 Enoch 17:4 through 17:8 describes Enoch seeing a great fire whose flames burn like hills, a place where the rivers meet the great darkness, and a fire that burns day and night without diminishing. In 1 Enoch 18:6 through 18:10, he sees seven mountains of precious stones, a chasm, and columns of heavenly fire that extend into the abyss. The descriptions of fire in 1 Enoch are specific in ways that other ancient Jewish fire-imagery is not. The fires have locations, durations, and temperatures implied by the effect they have on the surrounding material. A mainstream reading treats this as standard ancient-Near-Eastern underworld or boundary imagery. A UAP-era reading treats it as propulsion plume, reactor signature, or exhaust port. The two readings agree that the fire is fire, that it burns, and that Enoch was close enough to describe it in detail.

Beings of light. Enoch describes the beings he meets in physical terms. They glow. Their clothes are whiter than snow. Their hair is white as wool. Their faces shine. They are, in several passages, difficult to look at. In the ascent literature of 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch, which extend and elaborate the 1 Enoch material, these beings become even more specifically light-bodied, transparent, or holographic-seeming. The Watchers in their original form are described this way before their fall. For a theological reader, this is standard angelic iconography, consistent with Daniel 10, with the transfiguration narratives, and with the throne visions of Ezekiel 1 and Isaiah 6. For a UFO-reader, these are non-human intelligences rendered in the only vocabulary available to an ancient author. A figure that is partly physical, partly translucent, partly emitting light, partly instructional, partly shielded — the modern UAP witness vocabulary and the ancient Enochic vocabulary converge on a remarkably similar figure.

Uriel the instructor. The Astronomical Book is framed as Uriel teaching Enoch. The angel names the gates, counts the days of each month, tracks the lunar cycle against the solar year, explains why the calendar needs 364 days, and corrects what he calls the error of those who follow the moon only. This is pedagogy. Uriel does not pray with Enoch or bless him. He gives him data. He expects Enoch to retain it, transmit it to his son Methuselah, and preserve it for later generations. For readers in the ancient-astronaut tradition, the instructional relationship between a radiant sky-being and a chosen human scribe looks like technological knowledge transfer — exactly the kind of transmission that David Childress, Mauro Biglino, and Paul Wallis highlight as a recurring pattern in what they call ancient contact literature. For a Second Temple scholar, it looks like the origin story of a priestly calendrical tradition embedded in a text that was authoritative at Qumran.

What Qumran preserves. Eleven caves at Qumran yielded Aramaic fragments of 1 Enoch that J. T. Milik published in 1976 as The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4. The manuscripts date from roughly the late 3rd century BCE through the 1st century CE. They confirm that the Book of the Watchers, the Astronomical Book, the Book of Dreams, and the Epistle of Enoch were circulating as distinct compositions well before the common era. What is striking for the UFO question is that the Astronomical Book — the cosmological-instruction material — is among the oldest Enochic fragments found at Qumran. The calendar-and-cosmos tour Uriel gives is not a late mystical elaboration added to the text. It was core to the material from the outset. The community that preserved it valued the technical content enough to copy it alongside the biblical books they considered authoritative. Whatever framework a modern reader brings, the ancient community treated this material as serious and central.

Ezekiel 1 as parallel. No conversation about 1 Enoch and UFOs is complete without Ezekiel 1. The prophet sees a windstorm from the north, a great cloud with flashing lightning and brilliant light, and in the center a figure he calls the likeness of four living creatures. Each has four faces and four wings. Alongside each creature is a wheel intersecting another wheel, their rims full of eyes, rising and descending as the creatures rise and descend. Above them a crystal expanse, and above that a throne. Josef Blumrich, a NASA engineer who worked on the Saturn V, published The Spaceships of Ezekiel in 1974 arguing that the vision described an engineered landing craft. His reading was technical and granular: the wheels within wheels as gimbaled reaction-control propulsion, the four faces as visible camera or sensor arrays, the crystal expanse as a pilot compartment. Blumrich's reading did not convince biblical scholars, and he later walked back parts of it, but the book established a template. The merkavah vision returns in Ezekiel 10, where the same wheel-within-wheel construction and the same four-faced cherubim reappear at the Jerusalem temple — a second sighting of the same apparatus in the same prophet's record. Once Ezekiel 1 is read as a spacecraft, the Enochic ascent literature becomes its companion volume. One eyewitness sees the craft descend. The other is taken aboard.

Von Däniken and the modern UFO reading of Enoch. The first mass-market assertion that 1 Enoch described spacecraft appeared in Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods, published in German in 1968 and in English in 1970. Von Däniken treated Enoch's sphere of light, his flight, his guided tour, and his instruction as consistent with an encounter with extraterrestrial visitors. He was not a scholar and he did not read the Ethiopic, Aramaic, or Greek sources in the original languages. His readings were impressionistic and selective. They were also enormously popular. The downstream lineage runs von Däniken → Sitchin → Biglino → Marzulli / Alberino / Carson / Wallis, with Graham Hancock on the adjacent lost-civilizations track and Robert Temple, Pauwels/Bergier, and Charles Fort as antecedents. Satyori's editorial position on this lineage is to name it clearly and place it carefully. Ancient-astronaut theory is a modern interpretive tradition about ancient texts. It is not what the ancient texts say about themselves.

Mauro Biglino's adjacent project. Biglino, a former Vatican translator of Hebrew manuscripts, reads the Watchers and the Elohim not as disembodied spiritual beings but as flesh-and-blood beings whose technology the ancient writers struggled to describe. His work focuses more on the Hebrew Bible than on 1 Enoch specifically, but his hermeneutic extends naturally to the Enochic corpus. When Biglino-style readers come to 1 Enoch, the Watchers are visiting beings with technical capabilities, the forbidden knowledge of 1 Enoch 8 becomes metallurgy and weapons and cosmetics transferred directly rather than mystically, and the ascent narratives are physical journeys. The textual basis for Biglino's reading is real. The text does describe the Watchers as physically taking human wives and producing the Nephilim. The jump from physical to technological is interpretive rather than textual, but it is not absurd.

Marzulli, Alberino, Carson, Wallis. L.A. Marzulli's documentary series Watchers ran for eleven installments between 2011 and 2017, pairing 1 Enoch and Genesis 6 readings with footage from Peru, Mexico, and the Middle East. Timothy Alberino, formerly associated with Marzulli's team, published Birthright in 2020 framing the Watchers narrative as live theology for the UFO disclosure era. Billy Carson popularized Enochic material through his 4BiddenKnowledge platform and Gaia TV appearances, bringing the texts to millions of readers who would not encounter them in academic settings. Paul Wallis, a former Anglican archdeacon, came to similar conclusions independently, drawing more on Genesis than on 1 Enoch but converging with the same framework. These are the named voices in what could be called the 2010s-2020s disclosure-era Enoch reading. Their conclusions differ. Their common claim is that 1 Enoch rewards a more literal reading than either mainstream theology or mainstream skepticism allows.

The UAP hearings context. Between 2017 and 2026, what had been called UFO discourse moved into U.S. government hearings and media language under the term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP. The New York Times disclosed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program in December 2017. Commander David Fravor's Nimitz-encounter testimony, Ryan Graves's carrier-group accounts, and the congressional testimony of former intelligence officer David Grusch on 26 July 2023 introduced claims of recovered non-human craft and biologics into the Congressional Record. Representative Anna Paulina Luna, co-chair of the House UAP task force, publicly named 1 Enoch and the Watchers in an April 2026 statement alongside her ongoing work on declassification. Joe Rogan devoted extended podcast time to Graham Hancock, Danny Jones, and others discussing the same texts. The effect of this eight-year arc is that a subset of readers now comes to 1 Enoch already primed to read it as a disclosure document. The text did not change. The reader did.

The scholarly response. Scholars of Second Temple Judaism — George Nickelsburg in his two-volume Hermeneia commentary, James VanderKam, Loren Stuckenbruck, Michael Stone, and John Collins among others — do not read 1 Enoch as a UFO report. They read it as apocalyptic literature produced in the late Hellenistic period by scribal circles responding to specific crises in the Jewish world: the cultural pressure of Hellenization, the perception of a compromised priesthood, the calendrical dispute between solar and lunar reckoning, the theological problem of evil. The heavenly-ascent genre is well-attested in their corpus. Enoch's tour of the heavens sits alongside 2 Enoch or Slavonic Enoch, 3 Enoch or Sefer Hekhalot, the Testament of Abraham, the Apocalypse of Abraham, and the Ascension of Isaiah. These texts share conventions: the visionary is righteous, he is taken upward, he sees cosmic secrets, he is shown judgment, he returns with knowledge to transmit. The genre does what apocalyptic literature always does — it uses cosmic tours to make claims about meaning, not about astronautics.

Heavenly architecture in the Second Temple imagination. The scholarly point is that the ceilings, storehouses, gates, and chambers of 1 Enoch are shared conventions of a tradition, not idiosyncratic reports from a single eyewitness. When 2 Enoch describes ten heavens, each with its own contents, it is extending the same imaginative architecture. When 3 Enoch names Metatron — the transformed Enoch himself — as the heavenly scribe and prince of the presence, it is drawing on the same source material. The architecture is theological before it is technological. The question for a phenomenological reader becomes: what if the architecture is both? What if a mystical tradition reaches toward ceilings and portals because something in the underlying experience pushes authors across centuries and cultures toward ceilings and portals?

The phenomenological reading. Contemporary scholars of mystical experience — Elliot Wolfson on Jewish mysticism, Jess Hollenback on ancient visionary states, Rick Strassman on DMT-induced contact experiences, Diana Pasulka on UFO-religion overlap — have opened a middle path. In this reading, 1 Enoch records a genuine non-ordinary state of consciousness, and it records it in the cultural categories available to its author. Had Enoch's scribes lived in 2026 they would have used spacecraft vocabulary. Living in the 2nd century BCE, they used chariots, gates, fiery beings, and crystal firmaments. The underlying event — whatever it was — has structure that recurs: altered time, sense of being carried, encounter with radiant figures, transfer of information, return with content the experiencer could not have generated from ordinary resources. Modern UAP contact reports follow this same structure. So do medieval angelic encounters, shamanic journeys across unrelated cultures, and near-death experience accounts. The phenomenological reading does not collapse 1 Enoch into the UFO literature or vice versa. It puts them in the same conversation.

Four frameworks. At this point four distinct readings of the question have emerged. The literal-technological reading treats 1 Enoch as a record of real contact with technologically advanced non-human intelligences, the spacecraft and craft-interior vocabulary appropriate. The allegorical-theological reading treats 1 Enoch as symbolic theology, where the ceilings and gates are spiritual realities dressed in material imagery. The genre-aware scholarly reading treats 1 Enoch as apocalyptic literature with known conventions, produced by priestly-scribal circles in a specific historical moment. The phenomenological reading treats 1 Enoch as an account of a non-ordinary state of consciousness whose structure recurs across cultures and centuries, with the ancient author working in the cultural container he had available. A careful reader can hold more than one of these at the same time. A careful teacher can describe what each framework makes visible and what each framework makes invisible.

What the text does not say. Honest reading requires naming the gaps too. 1 Enoch does not describe metallic hulls, instrumentation panels, planetary origins, Hill-style abductions, or medical procedures. It describes a guided tour through heavenly infrastructure by named angelic intelligences, with careful attention to calendar, weather, stars, and moral judgment. A responsible literal-technological reading has to account for what is present and also for what is absent. The absences do not refute the reading. They constrain it. A responsible theological reading likewise has to account for the specificity of the descriptions, not only their spiritual register. The specificity is why readers keep returning.

What Satyori holds. The descriptive content of 1 Enoch is real and it is worth taking seriously. It is detailed, it is internally consistent, it was preserved across centuries by communities that considered it authoritative, and it rewards close reading regardless of which framework you bring. Whether Enoch was carried by a sphere of light into an engineered craft, carried by a cloud into the theological presence of God, composing apocalyptic fiction in a late-Hellenistic scribal workshop, or passing through a shared human non-ordinary state in the categories his culture gave him to work with, is not settled by this page and should not be settled by any one page. What this page can do is tell you what the text says in its own words, tell you who has read it in what way, and let you do the work of deciding what frameworks you can hold at once. The UFO question is not the wrong question to bring to 1 Enoch. It is also not the only question. A reader who can hold it alongside the theological, the literary, and the phenomenological questions will get more out of the book than a reader who collapses the four into one.

Significance

Why the UFO framing matters now. 1 Enoch was a fringe text in English-speaking religious culture for most of the 20th century. Its UFO-era reception began in 1968 with Erich von Däniken and accelerated through the 2010s as disclosure-era researchers and podcasters brought ancient-astronaut material to mass audiences. The April 2026 Luna moment — Representative Anna Paulina Luna, co-chair of the House UAP task force, publicly naming 1 Enoch and the Watchers alongside her disclosure work — was the proximate trigger for the current wave of public interest. Search volume for Book of Enoch aliens and Book of Enoch UFO spiked sharply in April 2026 and remains elevated. The question this page answers is therefore not hypothetical. It is being asked by hundreds of thousands of readers who have encountered the book for the first time through a UFO frame.

The stakes of the framing. If 1 Enoch is read only through the UFO lens, its theological, calendrical, and mystical depth collapses into a single question about craft and visitors. If it is read only through the scholarly lens, its descriptive specificity and the lived experience the text gestures toward get translated away into literary convention. If it is read only through the traditional-theological lens, the UFO-reader's perceptions about structure, ceilings, portals, and radiant instructors are dismissed as category errors. The cost in each direction is reading less of what the text contains on its own terms. Satyori's editorial position is that the four frameworks — literal-technological, allegorical-theological, genre-aware scholarly, and phenomenological — are each legitimate lenses and each partial. The page aims to give readers enough of each to decide how they want to hold the material.

Reception history in the ancient-astronaut tradition. Among ancient-astronaut authors, 1 Enoch does different work than Ezekiel 1, the Mahabharata, or the Sumerian material. Ezekiel gives you a single vision. The Mahabharata gives you vimanas and weapons. The Sumerian material gives you Anunnaki and the pre-flood king list. 1 Enoch gives you a guided tour. 1 Enoch is the ancient text in which a human is systematically walked through heavenly infrastructure by a named instructor — walked through step by step. For readers in the lineage of von Däniken, Sitchin, Biglino, Marzulli, Wallis, Alberino, and Carson, this is the orientation document the ancient world produced. That framing elevates the text. It also constrains it by foreclosing the allegorical and phenomenological readings.

What a responsible page can do. A responsible teaching page in this neighborhood names the lineage clearly, places it carefully, and does not convert Satyori's voice into either evangelism or debunking. The modern UFO reading of 1 Enoch is a real interpretive tradition with real texts, real researchers, and a real readership. The scholarly critique of that tradition is also real, is also rigorous, and deserves honest presentation. The phenomenological middle path is a live academic direction whose proponents include serious researchers at institutions like Stanford, the University of North Carolina, and Cambridge. Readers asking this question deserve all three streams, named and attributed. A page that gives them only one stream is giving them less than the text can support, and a teaching site that refuses to map the question for readers is not doing its job. Mapping is not the same as advocacy. Mapping shows the country and lets the reader choose the route. The reader who understands the map can travel any of the three roads without confusion about which one they are on.

Why this matters to Satyori's editorial stance. Satyori's approach to contested ancient-text questions is credibility-through-sourcing. The house position is neither evangelical nor dismissive. Alternative readings are named and placed — not endorsed, not refuted. The UFO question is a direct test of this stance because the readings are so divergent. A reader who lands on this page after watching a Rogan conversation, a Danny Jones interview, or a Billy Carson segment arrives primed toward the literal-technological frame. A reader who lands from a seminary course or a Jewish studies program arrives primed toward the scholarly-genre frame. A reader who lands from a mystical-traditions path or from comparative religion arrives primed toward the phenomenological frame. Each is a real reader. Each deserves to find their entry point named without being told their frame is the wrong one. The page they share should enlarge the question rather than resolve it prematurely.

What the surrounding Satyori pages carry. This page does not have to do all the work by itself. The patriarch's biography, genealogy, and Metatron-arc sit at the Enoch entity page. The passage-by-passage spacecraft reading has its own treatment at Enoch's Ascent as Spacecraft Encounter, so readers who want that frame pursued at full depth have somewhere to go without the present page converting into advocacy. The Watchers page handles the descending-beings material and the forbidden-knowledge charge sheet of 1 Enoch 6–11. Uriel's role as Enoch's instructor, the Astronomical Book's 364-day calendar project, and the Enochic corpus beyond 1 Enoch — 2 Enoch, 3 Enoch, and the Book of Giants — each have their own pages as well. What remains for this explainer is narrow and specific: name the question honestly, show where the word UFO comes from and why it cannot appear in the text, name the passages modern readers point to, name the lineage of interpreters in the AAT tradition, name the scholarly critique, and name the phenomenological middle path. The page's job is orientation, not resolution.

Connections

The Enoch-UFO question does not stand alone. It is a node in a network of adjacent Satyori pages, each of which handles one dimension of the material the UFO framing raises. Readers who want to understand the patriarch himself, his genealogy, his righteousness, and his transformation into the angel Metatron should begin at the Enoch entity page, which treats him encyclopedically rather than through a single interpretive lens. Readers coming for the ascent specifically — the transport, the enclosures, the throne vision — will find a dedicated treatment at Enoch's Ascent as Spacecraft Encounter, which takes the spacecraft reading seriously and traces it passage by passage.

The named interlocutor in the Astronomical Book is Uriel, whose role as cosmological instructor anchors the technical-transfer reading that authors in the ancient-astronaut tradition emphasize. The collective identity of the descending beings is addressed at The Watchers. The post-ascent transformation of Enoch himself — the tradition in which he becomes Metatron, the heavenly scribe and prince of the presence — is the bridge from 1 Enoch into 3 Enoch and the Hekhalot mystical tradition.

For the modern interpretive lineage, Satyori treats the named researchers directly. The foundational figure is Erich von Däniken, whose Chariots of the Gods first made the Enoch-as-spacecraft reading mass-market. The Mesopotamian-adjacent project is Zecharia Sitchin, whose Nibiru hypothesis and Annunaki readings extend the template. The former Vatican translator who reads the Hebrew Bible and the Watchers through a physical-technological hermeneutic is Mauro Biglino. The documentary-era figures are L.A. Marzulli, Timothy Alberino, Billy Carson, and Paul Wallis. The adjacent lost-civilizations tradition is Graham Hancock.

The overarching interpretive frame is Ancient Astronaut Theory, and its chronology is walked at Ancient Astronaut Lineage Timeline. The disclosure-era context in which the current wave of readership arrived is mapped at UAP Disclosure Timeline 2023-2026.

For the textual and comparative dimensions, readers wanting to understand the Enochic corpus beyond 1 Enoch can visit the Book of Enoch entity page, Enochic Texts Beyond 1 Enoch, the Astronomical Book of 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch Slavonic, and 3 Enoch Sefer Hekhalot. The theological frame in which celestial beings operate as a council rather than isolated actors is addressed at the Divine Council Framework. The question of how forbidden knowledge gets transmitted from sky-beings to humans — central to any reading of the Watchers episode — is handled at Forbidden Knowledge Transmission.

Finally, the methodological question of how to read ancient religious texts when modern UFO-interested readers arrive at them with disclosure-era expectations is addressed at Interpreting Ancient Religious Texts as Eyewitness Accounts and at the reader-orientation page How to Read the Book of Enoch.

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