Salisbury Plain is noted for the Stonehenge and Aveburystone circles (which together are a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site) and other ancient landmarks. Much of the plain is a training area for the British Army. The city of Salisbury is notable for its medieval cathedral. Large country houses open to the public include Longleat (where there is also a safari park) and the National Trust's Stourhead.

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Chalk is a porous rock, so the chalk hills have little surface water. The main settlements in the county are therefore situated at wet points. Notably, Salisbury is situated between the chalk of Salisbury Plain and marshy flood plains.

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In addition, there is higher-than-average employment in public administration and defence, due to the military establishments around the county, particularly around Amesbury and Corsham. There are sizeable British Army barracks at Tidworth, Bulford and Warminster, and the Royal School of Artillery is at Larkhill. Further north, RAF Lyneham was home to the RAF's Hercules C130 fleet until 2011; the MoD Lyneham site is now a centre for Army technical training. Wiltshire is also distinctive for the high proportion of its working-age population who are economically active (86.6% in 1999-2000) and its low unemployment rates. The gross domestic product (GDP) level in Wiltshire did not reach the UK average in 1998, and was only marginally above the rate for South West England.^[15]
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The county registered a population of 680,137 in the 2011 Census. Wiltshire (outside Swindon) has a low population density of 1.4 persons per hectare, when compared against 4.1 for England as a whole.^[18][19][20]

Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury. It is home to two British government facilities: a site of the Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory - known for over 100 years as one of the UK's most secretive and controversial military research facilities, occupying 7,000 acres (2,800 ha)^[1] - and a site of the UK Health Security Agency.^[2] Since 2018, part of the campus has housed Porton Science Park, which is owned and operated by Wiltshire Council and has private sector companies in the health, life science and defence and security sectors.

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Burchett says the hits have been coming from, seemingly, every angle.

"Also, the Pentagon has flexed their muscle. We've lost a witness because of that, and NASA has backed down. And they blocked my amendment, which basically says if there are any, then they oughta come forward with information and they say there's not any but they're blocking my amendment," Burchett says.

Still, they're undeterred and eager to allow the public inside their investigation, even over the protests of ever-maneuvering aides.

"Staff needs to assume its position," Burchett tells Ask a Pol, "and Congress needs to assume its authority."

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A 25-year-old woman in Alabama who was reported missing on Thursday night after telling a 911 dispatcher that she saw a toddler walking along the side of an interstate and would pull over to help was found late on Saturday, according to the police.

The woman, Carlee Russell, showed up at her family's front door, knocked and was greeted by her stunned relatives, said Nicholas Derzis, the police chief in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham.

He said he was not sure how Ms. Russell got there, but nobody was with her when she arrived. She was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Dispatchers at Hoover 911 received a call at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday that said Ms. Russell had returned home, the police said in a statement.

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Among the most puzzling details about the case is how no other driver on the heavily traversed interstate managed to spot a toddler walking on the side of the road that night, an image that would have surely prompted more 911 calls than just Ms. Russell's.

"That is a little unusual," Chief Derzis said on Saturday night before Ms. Russell was found.

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"From the time that she stopped to the time that the first officer hits the blue lights and gets to the scene — we do not see another vehicle pull over or anything like that," Chief Derzis said.

An early tip about a gray vehicle with a man standing outside of Ms. Russell's vehicle was discounted after the footage review, the chief added.

"So what we're focusing on is, one, getting the information out to the American people: Clearly, this is a big galaxy that we live in and that there is very likely technology that we are unaware of where it's come from — and so, does this pose a national security threat?" Luna tells Ask a Pol.

Number two:

"It's important that instead of trying to make this conspiratorial and poo-pooing it, that people are actually understanding that it's very likely that there's other life forms out there and that we're not alone in this universe and that we can address these things with a scientific mindset," Luna says.

Last month, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer confirmed he tapped Luna and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) to lead his committee's investigation into new claims made by whistleblower David Grusch, who claims the federal government has recovered otherworldly craft. And also hidden it from Congress.

"So Burchett and Luna, on my committee, are the two that are kinda taking the lead in that. It's interesting. It's not an issue I'm an expert in so I don't know anything about it, but apparently Burchett and Luna are so they're really excited and our staffs are real excited about it," Comer told Ask a Pol.