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Hello and welcome to the 
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You have a warning hand. 
This episode were talking about 

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this Sheffield Bridge UFO. 
That's correct. 

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The Sheffield Bridge UFO. 
This is a kind of a famous 

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encounter has gotten a lot of 
coverage over the years and 

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pretty complex story, but I 
really like this article I found

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on it. 
This is from 9news.com dated 

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July 20th, 2020. 
The title says the UFO encounter

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the tour us. 
Unity Parts written by 

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raffaella. 
See rossella, it says, as a u.s.

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family were driving home on a 
still, warm evening, 50 years 

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ago, they had no idea their 
lives were about to be changed 

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Forever on September 1st, 1969. 
The Reed family claimed. 

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They had an encounter with an 
unidentified flying object. 

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As they took a shortcut home 
over the Sheffield bridge in 

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Massachusetts around 8:30, p.m. 
Tom Reed, who was nine at the 

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time. 
Still remembers what he saw and 

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Vivid. 
Detail says his mother, Nancy 

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Reid was driving and his 
grandmother was in the passenger

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seat. 
He told nine news.com.au next to

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him was his younger brother 
Matthew, the pair have been 

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sharing Lolly's, there was light
coming through the bottom Boards

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of the bridge. 
He said as we left the bridge 

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and came out on the other side 
we saw what looked like a 

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self-contained sphere of white 
light and is it rose up maybe 

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two stories. 
There was some rods of light, 

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they fired several thin. 
Directional laser, like poles of

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light, from one side to the 
other. so you have these people,

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the supports us 50 years ago but
have been clear Back in 1970, I 

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guess they were Crossing this 
right quaint old Covered Bridge.

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They come out in the other side 
of it and apparently this thing 

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is so bright. 
This UFO that's not only, you 

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know, emitting this blazing 
blazing light in front of them 

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but it's permeating up through 
the floorboards of the bridge. 

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Says his mother Nancy Reid was 
driving, his grandmother was in 

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the passenger seat. 
He told news next to him, was 

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his young brother Matthew, the 
pair had been sharing Lolly's, 

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there was a light coming through
the bottom Boards of the bridge.

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He said, as we left the bridge 
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We saw look like you soft 
contains fear of white light as 

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it rose up. 
Maybe two stories. 

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So I'm assuming he's saying that
the spirit self just levitated 

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up off the ground. 
There was some rods of light 

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they fired, several thin 
directional, laser-like pulls of

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light from one side to the 
other, the light, then retracted

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into it and the spear slowly 
moved around the line of trees 

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going in the same direction. 
We were my brother then happened

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to notice a second round, sphere
off to the right of the car that

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looked like it was sitting under
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At that point, everything felt 
odd to us. 

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It was almost like being 
underwater and as the car slowed

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you know the tapping sound you 
get from being in a pool, the 

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sound was Stones tapping under 
the fender of the car. 

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Mr. Reid said everything then 
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that's when the family claims 
they saw it a turtle shell 

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shaped disc hovering over the 
field to their left. 

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The three objects, two spheres 
of light, and this shell made a 

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triangle with the Reeds car. 
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The car suddenly exploded with 
light mr. 

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Reid said almost like flood 
lights have been shown on it. 

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Now if you a lot of people have 
had these Close Encounters close

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sightings however you want to 
say, you know, this is a common 

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thing where people talk about 
the bright light involved, you 

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know, this intense light that 
it's like there's no Shadows the

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light just saturate you 
everything. 

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It's just almost like, stage 
lights is intense, intense 

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bright light, often times people
describe it as different colors,

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maybe, white, blue, whatever. 
But it's always this extremely 

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intense light that just seems To
light up everything in that area

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whatever this thing is looking 
at whatever studying it's almost

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like the light takes on a life 
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It says a car suddenly explode 
with light mr. 

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Reid said almost like flood 
lights, had been shown on it. 

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He exclaimed to 9news.com a you 
everything was illuminated and 

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glaring detail. 
I could coffin. 

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He annoys you repped it as 
crickets and frogs burst into 

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the Frantic activity on the 
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On the banks of the Housatonic 
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That's a little bit different. 
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these things, they talked about 
how quiet it was that the 

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animals weren't making any kind 
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Quit the frogs, the frogs 
weren't croaking, but they had a

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kind of exact opposite 
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He says that was the last thing,
mr. 

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Reading his family. 
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vague visions of what? 
Resembled an airplane, Hangar 

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describing it as a large open 
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That was much larger than the 
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When the family finally came to 
Nancy Reid, and her mother had 

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mysteriously switched positions.
In the car, the Cartesian was 

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off and the lights were off mr. 
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Sounds like a classic abduction.
Nobody were taken to the 

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Mothership, whatever they come 
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People are put back in the car, 
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Sometimes people have the wrong 
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We've also seen this with A lot 
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its talks about where they find 
these, the bodies of these poor 

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missing people, and they come 
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in there. 
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backwards shoes on the wrong 
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That's where stuff is almost 
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him, but didn't know how to do 
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It says that night, across 
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residents, from multiple towns 
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instead of bringing the 
community together at toward a 

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part, of course, you know, 
you're looking at what 1970. 

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I mean, people really weren't 
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It says the sightings are the 
focus of an episode from Netflix

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is new series Unsolved 
Mysteries, which details the 

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Encounters of Tommy Warner 
Melanie crypto for Jane green 

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and the Reed family, mr. 
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felt like he belonged in the 
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The family came from New York 
City and this is kind of a sad 

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situation. 
You have these Outsiders who 

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claim that they've been abducted
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Alien so you can imagine what 
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how that they were accepted or 
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Mr. Reed was the most vocal the 
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claimed he had seen UFOs several
times to Sheffield throughout 

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the 1960s. 
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experienced rampant bullying for
speaking about his experience, I

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just can't imagine how hard it 
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nine-year-old kid to have never 
won gone. 

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Fit abduction. 
Number two, tried to talk about 

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it and then just have been 
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The school undoubtedly, I'm 
imagining. 

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This family was also a rest at 
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Reid said they were regularly 
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A white pickup truck. 
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He said the cops had to eat in 
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divided the community. 
We went through a lot there, we 

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went through a lot, there was a 
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hardship came from some of the 
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changed my life. 
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I don't have any faith anymore. 
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You start to think, why are we 
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And what? 
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somebody would lose your faith 
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The Bible has a lot to say about
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You know principalities of 
Darkness. 

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You know what kind of angelic 
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inhabit, the heavens. 
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these things where we have to 
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We don't we have to put these 
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and that shouldn't change. 
How we approach life in general?

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I mean, this is just it's a 
mystery of life, there's lots of

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mysteries to life and it just 
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Well, then you happen. 
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a mystery to life. 
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tragedy at work and were 
confronted when sometimes people

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win the lottery. 
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Probably not. 
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sometimes just people just 
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nothing to get. 
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to get personally distraught 
about it. 

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Like I said, it's just one of 
those mysteries of life that you

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happen to encounter. 
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look at it as as a unique 
experience, whether good or bad,

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it's definitely unique. 
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Great Barrington Historical 
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read siding and officially 
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history in doing. 
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Reed, who had set a polygraph 
and past was finally been 

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negated. 
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What concrete Monument was 
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commemorate their sighting? 
Mr. Reed now manages the Tom 

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Reed UFO, Monument Park. 
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without the support of sponsors.
Something he is extremely 

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grateful for and then it's got a
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the little more. 
All I've got. 

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It says, do I think there was an
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be removed the car? 
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He said, I can tell you, I saw 
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were surrounded, the The Spheres
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conjunction with the craft and 
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water. 
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government aspect also involved 
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say that sort of thing often 
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victim to the normalcy bias, 
they have to have something in 

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there and they're known reality 
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Their experience, to probably 
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these. 
As like I said, just understand 

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that. 
It's just one of these mysteries

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of life we're trying to unmask 
it, but don't there's no reason 

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to create more anxiety. 
Be in oneself by trying to 

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explain it away immediately. 
All you can do is just say I saw

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it, they experience this, it's 
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It's maybe it's kind of a Zen 
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probably the most healthy way to
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without getting too far off in 
the weeds, or really causing the

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person to say like he said, lose
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the community or whatever. 
He says, do I think do I think 

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there was also a military 
government aspect on also 

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involved more than likely at the
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Do aliens know how to shut off 
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Of course they would if they 
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Galaxy or across the universe or
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shutting off a car would be the 
least of their worries. 

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However it could just be a 
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electromagnetic energy. 
This things are putting off. 

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However, mr. 
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The fact that there could be an 
environmental explanation, I 

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don't know hallucinogens, they 
make the Magnesium that was 

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mined for the atom bomb in World
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five miles from our restaurant 
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He said, in Connecticut, there 
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We also had command Aerospace 
electric vote, which made the 

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nuclear submarines General 
Electric You had some of the 

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most polluted water and the 
entire country and the Hue and 

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the Housatonic River, it's so 
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You can't eat fish out of it. 
There is toxic waste of that 

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Waterway. 
Who knows what happened? 

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Well, I think maybe the 
connecting dots that aren't 

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there. 
It's got some great 

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illustrations on the, on the 
article here. 

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It's got some pictures of the 
old covered bridge and I pretty 

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good eyewitness report and then 
got some picture of the guy 

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who's Just a little guy, nine 
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Imagine that, just the trauma 
being in an alien abductee, and 

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then and, you know, I like 1970 
and then having to face those 

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kids at school and just being, 
you know, totally shunned and 

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ridicule on top of it. 
Yeah, they've got, they've got a

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couple of the pieces of stuff 
here. 

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They're talking about in that in
an interview with the fellow, 

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definitely check it out. 
9news.com, like I said this is 

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written a couple years ago back 
in The Dateline of this is July 

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20th 2020. 
The UFO encounter that tore a 

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u.s. community apart Sheffield 
Bridge, UFO encounter an 

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abduction. 
Until next time, this is UFO 

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warning over now