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Hello and welcome to the 
program. 

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You have a warning and this 
episode we're talking about the 

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1973 UFO landing. 
That's correct. 

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The 1973 UFO landing. 
Now, the first article comes to 

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us from howstuffworks.com the 
title, says the 1973 Missouri, 

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UFO, sighting, of course, will 
soon. 

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See, this was a little bit more 
involved than just a sighting. 

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The article Begins by saying an 
odd, Ding sound, brought James, 

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Richard 41 and his 
sixteen-year-old daughter 

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vanilla to the north window of 
them Columbia Missouri's mobile 

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home at 12:30 a.m. on June 28, 
1973 some 50 feet away and five 

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feet apart to brilliant. 
Silver Li silvery-white beams of

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nocturnal light shown when these
lights suddenly faded away and 

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oval shaped object about 15, 
feet in diameter became visible 

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near the Pound. 
It was so bright that Richard 

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had to look away. 
The entire area was lit up as 

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bright as day. 
He reported you can. 

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Imagine this is 1973 long before
the internet at 12 a.m. pretty 

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unlikely that there was even a 
television channel broadcasting 

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at that time, least, not in 
Missouri, they look out the 

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window. 
They see these two extremely 

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bright silver, silver, colored 
lights coming down beams. 

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And next thing, you know, they 
see this 15-foot Ask levitating 

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they're just off the ground in 
their yard that had to be 

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breathtaking to say the least, 
the trees and the UFOs vicinity 

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suede is if caught any powerful 
wind one almost touch the 

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ground. 
And limbs snapped off all the 

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while Richards dogs like quietly
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Their behavior seemed oddly out 
of character unnerved. 

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Richard went for a gun which he 
kept close as a UFO continue to 

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have it by the trees. 
Richard then called the Trailer 

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park switchboard, and asked that
the police be notified as he 

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spoke the lights in his house, 
dimmed twice. 

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This is almost like something 
out of Close Encounters of the 

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Third Kind. 
I mean, you don't know if it's 

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just maybe the trees have come 
in contact with the power lines 

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or if this thing is just sucking
so much energy out of the 

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environment that it's literally 
drawing the electricity out of 

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this man's house. 
He says the UFO headed off 

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toward the north. 
It's caller dimming slightly and

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revealing a silvery surface with
blue and orange bands of light. 

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At one point, it moved toward 
riches residence, then retreated

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and after a few minutes is gone 
altogether. 

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So it's almost like you wonder 
if the same wasn't on some kind 

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of an abduction Mission, but 
when they saw Richard armed, 

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they knew it wasn't going to be 
an easy go of it. 

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I wonder if Investigators 
subsequently, found broken, 

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limbs broken tree, limbs 
crushed, foot crushed, foliage, 

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and some trees burned leaves as 
high as 35 feet above the ground

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and the days ahead more leaves 
wilted and died. 

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The UFO left imprints two feet 
deep in the hard ground. 

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I think about that 2 feet deep 
in the hard ground. 

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So, Whatever this thing was it 
had to have some weight to it. 

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I mean, you can kind of see the 
chronology of events. 

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This guy is at home in his 
trailer house with his daughter.

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They see these two bright beams 
of light. 

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Come down. 
They see this UFO descend down 

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from the trees. 
Obviously it landed because it 

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left to two foot deep imprints 
on the ground. 

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It's six. 
Explain this bright light. 

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It goes back up into the air and
it's putting off so much. 

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Whether it's wind or some kind 
of electromagnetic force that 

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it's just bending the trees over
around it. 

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It darts off then acts, like 
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trailer house and then leaves 
again. 

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And after it's gone, if I'm 
broken tree branches, burnt 

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wilted leaves. 
And even after the event, the 

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tree is continue to suffer 
damage from this encounter 

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almost seems like maybe 
radiation poisoning. 

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This is something that we see 
happened a lot in these types of

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encounters. 
Now, the other article I want to

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read maybe a little bit more 
full, involved a little bit 

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more. 
Analytical, this is from 

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Missouri move, on.org. 
And it says you fond UFO landing

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Columbia, Missouri. 1973 that 
has a source here. 

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Angelfire.com glowing, UFO, 
physical, trace evidence 

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Columbia Missouri. 
June 28, 1973. 

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It goes on and says Columbia 
Missouri. 2873 looks like about 

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12:30 to 105. 
So this must have went on for 

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about a half hour, 35 minutes, 
witness James G Richards age, 41

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animal care, technician, 
University of Missouri. 

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So this guy must look worked at 
the local University on their 

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veneer Richards age. 16 daughter
and Jamie Richards Age, 3, son 

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weather conditions provided by 
Don semanek. 

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Colby original weather bureau 
sky, clear visibility, 20 miles 

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temperature, 66 degrees wind 5 
knots at 290 degrees. 

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So the one is blonde five six. 
Seven mile an hour. 

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You wouldn't expect the trees to
be bent over like that. 

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That's just kind of a nice 
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It says, astronomical 
conditions, moon phase 7.4% 

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rising at 0 to 36, single bright
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cappella below Horizon rising at
So in other words, it's pretty 

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much a clear Dark Night with not
a lot of stars out when they saw

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this thing goes on and says 
on-site investigation from July 

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9th, 1973 Ted, and ginger 
Phillips July 14th, 1973 dr. 

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J Allen, hynek Ted and ginger 
Phillips and July 28 1973 Ted 

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and ginger Phillips location of 
observation, 1/2 Mile southeast 

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of Columbia Northeast 1/4. 
Southeast 1/4 section, 17 Route,

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12 West t48, North Boone, 
County, Missouri. 

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So you could actually just type 
that in and go to Google Maps 

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and see exactly where it's at. 
I'd imagine setting the 

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witnesses live setting the 
witnesses live in a mobile home,

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located outside. 
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The home is located at the end 
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feet, north of State, Road, 
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The home is, Rounded by 
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exception of the front, yard to 
the east, to the eea house is 

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located across the lane, to the 
East and is occupied by an 

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elderly lady who was asleep at 
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This is others contacted 
regarding this event, mrs. 

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AP directory assistance, 
operations. 

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Operator Columbia, mrs. 
LM operator, Columbia Federal 

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Aviation Administration and then
it says, the following 

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information was gathered during 
Three visits at the home of the 

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James Richards, family portions 
of the report are taken, 

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directly from the taped 
interviews, the observation the 

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event began as of Ania went into
the kitchen located at the North

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End of the mobile home to place 
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refrigerator, which is located 
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And that window was open at the 
time, Vanilla heard a rather 

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loud. 
It could be heard over the 

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record player in the living 
room, thrashing, sound in the 

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Correction of scattered trees, 
some 80 feet, north of the 

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window. 
At this point, she could see 

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nothing in the dark wooded area.
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the sound seemed to be moving 
around a large tree. 

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So, this is a sound of Sasha's 
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Is this coming in for a landing?
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sound, persisted, she became 
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father, to come to the window. 
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sitting in the living room. 
Richard That stated that is it 

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was late. 
He was tired and was slow and 

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was slow going to the window 
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Rented, the screen porch at the 
front of the home and locked the

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outside screen door and the 
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That's just normal. 
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She hears this loud unfamiliar 
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she's going to lock the screen 
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going to do by this time. 
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north Northeast of any. 
I took up a position on the 

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right side of the window and was
looking toward the trees as he 

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watched mr. 
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Light which were located at a 
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trees. 
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lights between offense and the 
trees, it's not like you just 

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saw something off in the 
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you know, a radio tower or Just 
generalize thing. 

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He's specifically says, he sees 
these two, lights located at a 

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point between the fence and the 
trees. 

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The light beams would have been 
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The beams were tapered white at 
the top about four feet wide 

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tapering to, to tapering to, 
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ground, there were some five 
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The beams were bright and silver
white and color. 

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He could not see any form above 
or Find the beams. 

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So whatever they were doing, 
whatever this UFO was doing. 

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What those beams. 
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of hiding itself. 
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these beans were so bright, and 
you can see how they're coming 

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directly from the craft all the 
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they're kind of falling down to 
a point. 

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He says, suddenly the beams 
disappeared faded out rapidly in

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a bright oval form was seen just
above the ground position of the

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beams. 
So here, the beam says appear. 

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He sees us bright oval form. 
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glowing form to be 12 to 15 feet
in diameter and very near the 

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ground. 
The object was described as 

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extremely bright Richards, had 
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and and it was silver weight and
color. 

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The edges were fuzzy and no 
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The glow did not fade or 
brighten during the observation.

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The trees were around the form 
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And right, we're quite the trees
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right, we're quite visible in 
the glow. 

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The area was lit up, bright as 
day, no sound could be heard 

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other than the threshing noise 
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So, whatever. 
This thing was the noise was 

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produced around it. 
It sounds like it's producing 

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this intense intense bright 
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No, other forms were seen. 
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moving back and forth as though 
blown by a strong wind reminding

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you the wind speeds or five not 
snow storms in the area. 

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So five dots is not very fast. 
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A showed a different motion. 
It was described by Vanessa is a

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tugging motion. 
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pulling that one tree forward to
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Now whether they were using this
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tree, or maybe this tree was 
just a whatever kind of breed of

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tree. 
It was it was somehow 

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biologically inclined to be 
almost like magnetized toward 

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the same. 
We don't know, but there's 

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They're saying the trees are 
blowing away except one tree 

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seems to be just bent over being
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Shortly. 
After the Forum was visible, the

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threshing noise ceased the tuggy
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A was still evident mr. 
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loud cracking sound and the tug 
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It was his tree, which was 
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A large limb was found broken at
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ground. 
So imagine this thing Being 

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pulled from 17 feet above the 
ground, at least. 

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So it wasn't like somebody was 
out there with the car pushing 

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on it. 
It wasn't like somebody could 

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climb this thing and pull on it.
This is what it required. 

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A tremendous amount of force, 
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Now, Richards moved to the 
various Windows around the 

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trailer, it was at this time 
that he notices dogs lying, very

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still between the trailer and a 
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He told me that dogs were 
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night at their various night 
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Not tonight, though, those dogs 
got one, look at that UFO. 

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And they were, they were being 
real quiet. 

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And it seemed very strange to 
him that his dogs were not 

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barking at all. 
This noise and bright lights. 

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The dogs are large security 
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Not easily, frightened 
Richard's, then went to the 

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bedroom at the south end of the 
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He brought the guns to the 
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from a cabinet, loaded the guns,
and place them on a deep freeze 

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by the north window, he joined 
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and noticed that the object was 
still there. 

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In the same position, the light 
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illuminated trees as Or away is 
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So this is a pretty bright light
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Mr. Rich is going to his guns, 
he's got his guns loaded, he's 

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watching this thing, so he's 
intensely involved. 

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And this UFO encounter. 
This is far beyond a sighting at

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this closed position about 50 
feet. 

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It was silver, white or aluminum
and caller. 

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No, other callers are visible, 
mr. 

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Richard said it was real real 
bright at the center dull. 

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White at the edges Way. 
Beyond a normal light such as an

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automobile. 
Mobilio headlight at the same 

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distance in brightness of their 
brightness. 

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Phineas said it was bright, but 
it didn't hurt my eyes. 

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Now, a lot of folks that I've 
seen these UFOs can attest to 

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this very strange bright. 
Illuminating Light, my own 

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personal experience is not like 
something that you've ever seen 

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before brighter than stage 
lights. 

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But not to the point where, if 
you've had the experience of 

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staring into the high beams, on 
a car coming at you, totally 

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different. 
These are the kind of So just 

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seem to be made for the purpose 
of lighting up everything in a 

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specific area. 
Very a very weird phenomena in 

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itself. 
It says, after the form had 

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remained in this same position 
for several minutes, Richard's 

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decided to call for help the 
object suddenly begin to move 

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away toward the north passing 
below tree, limbs through an 

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open area, some 20 feet, it 
moved, parallel to the ground 

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until it reached the edge of a 
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And huh? 
Heard some 200 feet away from 

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the house. 
It almost seems like it was 

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stalking the Richard family just
watching him and seems weird 

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that, you know, he goes and gets
the guns and then he calls for 

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help. 
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little bit. 
At this point, it was not as 

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bright, and they could see it. 
And they can see it was silver 

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white at the center with a blue 
band of light and an orange glow

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extending around. 
The outer edge. 

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It was still low enough to be 
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North edge of the field. 
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Point, Richard said, while the 
object was some distance away 

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Richards delved 1134 directory, 
assistance has been long enough.

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This is before 9/11, this is AP 
took the call and later told me 

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that Richards was very excited 
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he described the event. 
He told her that he needed help 

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and ask her to contact the 
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could help him. 
You know it sounds like mr. 

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Richards at some level knew that
he was very close to being 

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abducted by these things and he 
wanted no part of that I have to

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think of my own mind that if he 
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yard and looked up like a 
Curious. 

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George he'd been on that ship 
before. 

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He knew what hit him. 
Just my thoughts. 

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And says after about one minute,
she told him she would contact 

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an operator and have her call 
him back. 

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As he talked with mrs. 
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He hung up and To the window, 
mr. 

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Well, mr. 
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watching the object. 
Mrs. P contacted mrs. 

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LM, and gave her the phone 
number mrs. 

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Immediately, dialed the number. 
There was no busy signal. 

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No ring. 
Nothing in her opinion there. 

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Richards line was dead. 
Well, it was like this thing. 

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I just suck the power right out 
of it. 

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She tried dialing. 
The number five times pausing. 

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After the third try to contact, 
mrs. 

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P to be sure she had the right 
number. 

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She did. 
After the fifth try, she stated 

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it would have taken Perhaps 
three minutes to do all five 

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times waiting briefly after each
style and contacting mr. 

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P. 
She did not get through. 

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So it's almost like this thing 
is this disc has just come down,

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landed, observe the Richards 
family. 

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Just levitated off into the 
distance, instead of suspended 

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there about 200 feet away and 
now it's like, it's still 

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stalking them. 
Shut the electricity down shuts,

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the phone down. 
Richard's in told mr. 

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Mrs. M, what happened, what had 
been happening? 

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What's this during this time? 
During this time, Richards was 

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quite concerned is no one had 
called back. 

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So, they picked up the receiver 
to call out. 

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Again, over his end of the line.
He could hear, no sound, no busy

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signal. 
He tried again and again 

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suddenly as he recalls, mrs. 
M was on the line saying 

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Richards, and he answered 
Jefferson City Richards. 

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Then told mrs. 
Him. 

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What had been happening and that
he was frightened for his 

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children. 
Remember this is 1973. 

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You can still call the operator 
wasn't all computerized back 

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then. 
Mrs. M thought she could not be 

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sure that she contacted the 
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1:45 a.m. a 12:45 a.m. to her 
best recollection. 

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He repeated his story over and 
over pausing to ask vinay if she

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was still there and what it was 
doing. 

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Both operators thought that 
Richard was sober and telling 

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the truth after what seemed to 
be several minutes. 

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She couldn't be sure of the 
time. 

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Mrs. M contacted the flight 
service station at the Columbia 

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Regional Airport. 
Mrs. HS was on duty at the time.

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Mrs. S stated that Richard 
sounded sincere and sober. 

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He seemed to be frightened as he
described the event after 

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several minutes. 
Mrs. S told Richards that there 

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had been another sighting on 
June 24th of Jefferson City. 

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She then told him that she would
contact the police for him and 

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they hung up. 
So as we So often see in these 

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situations, the sightings are 
occurring on multiple days, and 

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this is no different. 
Had one on the 24th that was 

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reported in Jefferson City, not 
that far away and here we are in

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Colombia on the 28th and who 
knows how many times have I seen

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in between? 
But people just didn't report 

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it. 
Because on a says, object was 

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again moving toward the home and
Richards, became very 

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frightened, Richard stated that 
came back and we had it. 

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I'll tell you, we didn't know 
what to do, we both got kind of 

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scared eyes. 
What's going to happen? 

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Something's going to happen 
here. 

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This could this cold feeling 
came over me. 

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I got I got speechless at this 
time. 

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I just had this cold feeling 
when it came back that second 

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time, I was just sure. 
Like, you almost feel like you 

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were going to get killed or 
something like death was at you,

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this was it. 
I didn't know what to do. 

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I just froze. 
This man knows that this UFO 

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entity whatever it is. 
He knows, and he's bones. 

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That's hunting him, it's talking
him. 

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No doubt my mind about that. 
He says, I just know, I just 

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knew this was it and no one 
could come no policeman. 

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I was scared to go to the door. 
I wouldn't have gone outside no 

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way. 
Then it says the object move 

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through the trees to a point 
near the trees near its original

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position 50 feet away from the 
window. 

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So now it's coming back to the 
house it remained there for an 

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undetermined period of time. 
It's suddenly moved away through

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the trees toward the field. 
It moved with the smooth slow 

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motion, no sound Richards noted 
that the trees did not move. 

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During the second closer 
approach and there was no 

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thrashing sound as the object 
reached a point at the near edge

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of the field, it raised slightly
until it reached a point over 

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the field, some 200 feet away, 
it hovered and no motion could 

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be seen. 
It was still below the tree line

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to the north, the orange and 
blue bands. 

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Could be seen again, it will 
silver white at the center. 

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The glow seemed to shrink, even 
though it was getting smaller, 

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the orange and blue bands, were 
visible until it just 

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disappeared by growing smaller 
and smaller. 

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It does not appear likely it was
growing smaller because it was 

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moving away into the distance as
no motion can be seen. 

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And it would have hit the trees 
to the Northeast hadn't flown 

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away. 
After the glow had faded out, 

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the object was not seen again. 
Almost makes you think these 

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things are interdimensional 
because it's not going away. 

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As I say, it's just fading in 
and out of existence. 

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At about 0145, it's about 1:45 
in the morning. 

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So this is almost two hours 
after all this started over to 

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our over an hour. 
Yeah, over an hour and a 

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quarter, I guess, the police 
arrived. 

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One young officer walked to the 
area with Richards and looked 

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around briefly. 
He told Richards that there were

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some tracks, but they look like 
they were made by rabbits 

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Richards told him to forget the 
whole thing and he returned to 

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the trailer, followed by the 
officer. 

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He told the officer if he 
thought they were rabbit tracks 

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is Forget the whole thing. 
It is very possible the officer 

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didn't see the Deep imprints. 
They did not see the broken limb

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at the time, Richard's called 
the flight service station after

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the object had disappeared and 
mrs. 

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S stated that and mrs. 
S stated that he seemed relieved

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that he could talk with someone 
about the event. 

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So it's calls the cops up in the
cops. 

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Basically just blew him off is 
what it sounds like. 

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You know, this is a pretty big 
story to digest for people that 

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want to deny the existence of 
the The UFO phenomenon, it says,

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the site July 9th, 1973. 
My wife and I interviewed the 

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witnesses and investigated the 
area on our way to Chicago Allen

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hynek had divided us for a visit
and to meet Jazz drummer Buddy, 

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Rich. 
I being a drummer and had 

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mentioned Alan that buddy was my
favorite on the planet, but he 

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had a sighting and had contacted
Allen week earlier and was 

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playing in Chicago for a week. 
I spent most of the time 

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observing measurements and 
taking photographs of the site, 

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the imprints and damage to the 
trees. 

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Is located in an area of 
scattered trees, north of the 

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trailer. 
Offense is located, 25 feet from

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the window. 
And the first imprint was found 

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some 50 and a half feet beyond 
the fence. 

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This seemed to be a series of 
there. 

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Seemed this seemed to be a 
series of impress rather than 

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just one the imprints at this 
point. 

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Number four. 
They were, they were six inches 

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or 0.05 feet by .4 feet with a 
depth of Point 2 to point 3 

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feet. 
This first, set of imprints are 

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not nine and a half. 
Feet from a large broken tree. 

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Limb. 
This lamb is point four feet in 

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diameter and was still attached 
to the tree trunk. 

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So this limb was, you know what 
5 inches across and was still 

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attached to the tree, but just 
kind of ripped off. 

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It sounds like it appeared to 
have been twisted and pulled 

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towards the ground. 
Don't take a lot of strength to 

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pull a 56-inch. 
Limb off a tree. 

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The limb was broken at a point, 
sixteen and a half feet above 

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the ground to smaller limbs. 
Each point, one feet in diameter

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located on the large limb of Off
a small limb 17 feet above the 

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ground and extending from the 
tree trunk, at the point of the 

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brake shows signs of being 
rubbed. 

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All the breaks were fresh leaves
in the area above the path taken

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by the object to, and from the 
field, but especially over the 

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point where I had been, but 
where it had been a had hovered 

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are dying. 
There are signs of heating, 

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three, limbs on the tree. 
Be had leaves that were Brown. 

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These are 25 to 35 feet above 
the ground. 

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To the north. 
Now, the first imprints along 

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the objects reported path, we 
found a complex series of 

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imprints. 
He says it is difficult to 

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determine a pattern as the 
object move through this area. 

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Four times coming in and going 
out, Bob Gassaway, a reporter 

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for the Columbus, the Columbia 
Tribune visited the area, the 

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day after the sighting. 
He told me that he tried to make

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a heel Mark by one of the 
imprints. 

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And although he weighs 300 
pounds, he could force his heel 

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to a depth of only about a half 
inch Does imprints are generally

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point five, two point, four 
feet. 

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So you know, four, five, six 
inches, deep with a depth of 4 

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inches point three feet. 
We must assume a weight on each 

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imprint above 300 pounds, 
rabbits, don't think. 

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So, basically what he says, 
there were no marks in the 

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fields and their radiation, and 
no radiation can be detected 

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plaster. 
Casts were taken and the 

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imprints were outlined with 
flour for photographs when we 

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arrived in Chicago. 
Do I process the film at the 

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Northwestern University dark 
room? 

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We describe the event with the 
photographs and Buddy and Alum, 

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both plan to go, get back with 
us, go back with us, Allen made 

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it, but buddy couldn't get 
around and schedule, buddy. 

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And I discuss cases many times. 
After this on July 14th, we 

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returned with with Jay Allen. 
The leaves were all quite dead 

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than in the limbs were Barren 
over the area. 

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Wow. 
So whatever this thing was it 

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cause permanent don't damage to 
these trees and I just find this

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to be a fascinating, a detailed 
account of what happened and 

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what what this gentleman and his
daughter saw on June, 28 1973 

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back in Columbia, Missouri. 
Until next time, this is UFO 

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morning over and out.