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Hello and welcome to the 
program. 

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You have forewarning in this 
episode we're taking a look at 

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UFO encounters and the Lone Star
State. 

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That's correct UFO Encounters in
the Lone Star State. 

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Now the article comes from 
Texas, monthly written by camera

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by Pamela khalaf. 
We'll just skip through the 

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introduction here because it's 
not really important, but she 

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starts off with some interesting
accounts of some of these, some 

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of these UFO encounters when 
core back to 1878 first one here

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in Denison, Texas. 
It says thanks to a 

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long-forgotten 19th century 
farmer named John Martin 

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unidentified flying objects. 
Were first described as saucers 

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here in Texas. 
According to the article a 

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strange phenomena that appeared 
in Denison. 

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Daily news on January, 25th 
1878, Martin was hunting when he

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saw a dark object high in the 
northern sky. 

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The news account states that the
peculiar shape and the velocity 

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with, which he, with which the 
object seemed to approach, 

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Riveted his attention and he 
strained his eyes to discover 

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its character. 
When first notice, it appeared 

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to be about the size of an 
orange after which it continued 

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to grow large. 
So it looks like this first UFO,

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sighting recorded, at least and 
Texas back on January 25th, 1878

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by this mr. 
Martin was definitely exhibited 

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the qualities of a shapeshifter.
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out the size of an orange, then 
begins to grow. 

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Either as it approaches the 
experiencer after gazing at it, 

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for some time, the article 
continues mr. 

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Martin became blind from looking
and left for Left of viewing to 

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rest his eyes. 
On resuming his view, the 

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objects. 
Almost overhead at increased 

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considerably in size and appear 
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wonderful speed when directly 
over him. 

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It was about the size of a large
saucer and was evidently a great

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height. 
So he's seeing it as a size of a

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saucer, but imagine how big this
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was looking at it from a long 
distance away. 

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It says, although Martin saw a 
quote, unquote saucer Idaho 

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pilot. 
Kenneth Arnold is widely and 

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incorrectly credited. 
In this first person to describe

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an identified flying objects. 
As such Arnold, ushered in the 

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postwar wave of you have hip of 
UFO history in 1947 when you 

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told a local reporter and in 
turn the Associated, Press that 

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he had seen an object and the 
sky over Washington's Cascade 

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Mountains that flew like a 
saucer would if you skipped It 

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across the water. 
Arnold's account coining. 

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The term Flying Saucer, although
that honor rightly belongs to 

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Texan John Martin, who had 
spotted 169 years earlier? 

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Pretty neat. 1883 Marfa, Texas. 
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Apache, Legend, the ghostly 
flashes of light that appear in 

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the night, sky of West Texas, 
are the Incarnation of the 

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wandering Spirit of the Apache 
chief. 

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State, who has haunted the 
Cincinnati mountains? 

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Since his execution at the hands
of Mexican Raleigh's in the 

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1860s, white settlers. 
First notice, these lights now 

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known as the Marfa mystery 
lights in 1883, when Rancho 

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Robert Ellison was driving his 
cattle, a few miles east of 

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Marfa. 
He and His companion spotted 

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flickering, lights along the 
horizon, and fear that they were

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Apache, Camp fires, but when 
they searched the area, the next

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day they found, And no trace of 
a camp mats. 

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So it looked like, you know, 
these Native American Apaches 

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had been gathered around their, 
their small campfires at night 

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dotted across their rise in 
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But when they went up on the 
place, no sign of any campfires.

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It says, since that time, people
have flocked to what is now, 

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what is now Route? 
99 miles east of Marfa to try to

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spot the lights, which have 
appeared in white, pink, yellow,

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green, and blue, and blue hues. 
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mountains. 
Sometimes the light stands 

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erratically while other times 
they remain motionless, slowly, 

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brightening with the intensity 
Skeptics, believe the lights are

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simply car headlights skimming 
across the mountains because, 

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you know, because you can drive 
a car anywhere, right? 

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But that would not explain 
sightings in the last century or

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in or the fact that the lights 
often move in circles or zigzag.

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Formations others, have argued. 
That the lights are nothing more

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than ball lightning Reflections.
Mirages swamp gas for static. 

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Electricity, but scientists have
not been able to prove that any 

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of these phenomena could happen 
in West Texas during was such 

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regularity according to local 
folklore. 

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The lights your believed to be 
many things, eyelashes Spirit, 

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through reflections of Spanish 
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The treasures of Pancho Villa, 
bruja mean witches, who are who 

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are learning to fly and most 
recently UFOs. 

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Now look the idea that we could 
explain something like this away

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by saying that it's cars. 
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ridiculous. 
This has been going Hang on, for

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over 100 years. 
Long before cars are on the 

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scene. 
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this is happening reoccurring 
and this is just nothing more 

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than, you know, ball lightning 
or some other natural phenomena 

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like swamp gas. 
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because apparently there's a 
lack of swamps down there. 

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And you have to ask yourself, 
how many is, how many of us have

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ever seen ball lightning? 
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And do you see something like 
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Was such a regularity. 
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going on here. 
Now, maybe there's something 

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with the geology. 
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Are these, you know, what appear
to be flames. 

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Maybe they're just static 
electricity or whatever. 

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Either something big, regular, 
like a fault line, or whatever. 

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This producing this stuff. 
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happen in Smoky Mountains or, 
and something paranormal, but 

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it's not something silly, like 
swamp gas, or, you know, the 

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catch-all like ball lightning or
car headlights. 

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It's either a pretty big natural
phenomena and it To be because 

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it's been going on off and on 
that for over a hundred years at

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least or it's something 
paranormal along the lines of 

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UFOs. 
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rule out. 
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of cars. 
It goes on and says, 1897 Aurora

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Texas. 
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was the several different videos
about this online on the History

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Channel. 
Did a pretty pretty decent 

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documentary on this several 
years ago, and it's just a 

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really fun case and it It's very
interesting UFO case to study 

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1897 Aurora. 
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1897 six years before the first 
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brothers and Airship. 
Quote-unquote, visited Aurora 

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Texas. 
After having been spotted 

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sporadically in the midwest, the
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was next seen in Texas First in 
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Of course, of course, the Kana 
and Stephenville the editor of 

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the Stephenville newspaper 
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hovered, so close to the town 
that he was able to yell out our

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request for an interview, which 
the Extra-Terrestrial pilot 

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denied. 
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This, these are ship encounters 
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and the western United States 
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Could be one of those cases 
where people are seeing UFOs. 

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And these UFOs are somehow 
interfacing with us in a way 

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that would be easiest for us to 
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And of course, at that time, 
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around for a little bit, not, 
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super common thing, but there 
was something people would have 

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known about now. 
The idea of these things, but 

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it's been randomly flying across
the country is pretty 

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ridiculous. 
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today. 
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But the idea that does is a 
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flying cars and their 
neighborhood with unidentified 

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drivers is pretty, highly 
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Okay. 
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the Airship reportedly circled, 
the Town Square crashed into a 

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windmill and exploded leaving 
behind a pile of charred body 

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and a note written in 
decipherable hieroglyphics. 

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According to an article 
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News, two days. 
Later the pilot. 

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It was thought to be a native of
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Mars. 
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him on Mars because that's the 
planet that people. 

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You know, at that time would 
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would assume. 
Well, this is the most habitable

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planet. 
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rumors about the Airship 
persisted and in 1973 a team of 

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UFO Buffs and television. 
Crews descended on Aurora to see

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if they could substantiate the 
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Some Aurora Elders, claim to 
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While most of the town's 300 
residents empathetic and fatik 

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Lee insisted that it was an Old 
hoax designed to release 

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designed to revive Aurora's. 
Declining fortunes the incident,

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May always remain a mystery, 
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blocked and effort to exhume and
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But some believe held the pilots
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According to local Legend, the 
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headstone bearing. 
A Cryptid Insignia, several 

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small circles drawn inside the 
Greek letter Delta. 

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The stone has since disappeared 
You know how convenient it seems

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like. 
So often times when we have the 

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Smoking Gun evidence first were 
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in the evidence just disappears,
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circulated through the 1950s 
that several officers from an 

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Air Force Base in El Dorado or 
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coordinate, for a won't strip of
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Where extraterrestrial, aircraft
had crashed rumored to be a 

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large disk. 
It has supposedly flown from 

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Jerky at around 2000 miles per 
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west, Texas desert where it was 
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agency, one variation on the 
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burned in habits of The Craft 
was significantly shorter in 

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height and the average human and
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A 1978 a man claiming to be a 
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Sent reporters photos of a 
severely burned. 

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Body inside some wreckage 
pictures that he claimed, he was

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instructed to take ever wrecked 
experimental aircraft. 

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Outside of Laredo during the 
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alien, and a photo quickly, 
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because of its extremely large. 
Head is probably a human pilot 

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who was killed when his plane 
crashed and burned, the pilots 

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noticeable lack of hair and 
enlarged. 

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Head are the result to thought 
to be of the fire. 

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That's terrible government 
papers. 

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Now indicate that the Air Force 
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with V2 Rockets nickname Foo 
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Hence the crushed experimental 
aircraft. 

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The photographer was instructed 
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Resolved question is, whether 
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a monkey? 
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river that the pilot was short 
in stature with extremely large 

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arms. 
You know that sounds like a 

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parallel narrative to me. 
I mean saying that this large 

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aircraft had crashed in the 
desert after traveling at 2,000 

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miles an hour, it doesn't really
sound This is how viable, you 

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know, they throw in the story of
well, maybe the maybe, hey, 

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maybe the army, or the Air 
Force, tied a monkey on to a V2 

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rocket, Just for kicks, and 
giggles and decided to send it 

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from Austin to Lubbock, to see 
what would happen. 

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So, you kind of see what's 
happening here. 

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This very this, very kind of a 
dark story of this UFO, 

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traveling, at a 2,000 miles, an 
hour crashing in the desert 

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there in Texas. 
And then this fell taking a 

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picture of the occupant Turley 
it ET and sharing it. 

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Soon as that story gets out. 
Parallel narrative is released 

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all. 
That wasn't a pilot. 

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That would simply have been a 
monkey that, we tied to the V2 

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rocket boy. 
They could work a little harder.

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1951, Lubbock, Texas before 
Buddy. 

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Holly put Lubbock on the map. 
The Lubbock lights. 

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Gave this Panhandle Town 
National Fame on August on 

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August Night and 1951 several. 
College professors sitting 

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outside in the porch so I 
formation of blue lights play 

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quickly overhead. 
They waited to see if the lights

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would return and later that 
evening, the observe the lights 

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again that same night a little 
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Also spotted the blue lights as 
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the clothesline, the lights. 
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Force investigator frame the 
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like craft. 
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string of lights. 
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these are the lights that were 
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like craft. 
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bomber or anything like that, 
that we've gone into this 

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particular sighting in some 
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Lubbock lights. 
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She says a few days earlier, an 
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commission. 
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and Albuquerque. 
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lights, and space by the end of 
August. 

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There was another sighting of 
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In Matador, Texas about 70 miles
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photographs of the blue lights 
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Carl Hart jr. 
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Two weeks later does is a people
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blue lights darting from one end
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investigation in the phenomenon 
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and 60s are for a study into the
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I would say cover up, came up 
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Sightings one theory, was that 
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Texas, birds with shiny white 
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the city's glow as they flew 
overhead. 

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result of Lubbock's newly 
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lamps that gave off a blue jays.
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explanations accounted for 
lights immense speed or their 

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sudden disappearance you know, 
it's so funny. 

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The same kind of nonsense keeps 
coming up today. 

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And you can just see, it's 
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were here from the government 
investigating knew that these 

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that this was some sort of 
unidentified flying object. 

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when they put out these 
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was the newly installed 
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of birds. 
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respect and how much Disdain 
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population. 
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people are just so stupid, 
they'll believe anything. 

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they think people are so 
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state of normalcy bias that they
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make the brain hurt. 
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look up in the sky and you see a
giant spaceship fly over, it can

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make your brain hurt a little 
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It's Kind of out of the norm, 
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1957 Levelland Texas, not far 
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were seen six years earlier 
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several hours. 
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close encounter took place 
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When farmworker Pedro's osito 
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brilliantly lit, object fly over
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Overhead, the trucks headlights 
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to normal once the craft had 
disappeared. 

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So say to reported the incident 
to level and policed who 

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received a call an hour later 
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wheeler eight, miles from the 
original report wheeler said 

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that his engine and headlights 
and failed as he approached a 

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brightly lit egg-shaped object 
in the road. 

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Once the craft had ascended into
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was able to restart his engine, 
sir. 

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This poor guy. 
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vehicle 1957, Right? 
Comes across S8 egg-shaped 

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object in the middle of the 
road. 

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You know, we had a sighting, I 
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Iowa, is the southern part of 
the state of a guy who reported 

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seeing an egg shaped UFO land 
not far from him while he was 

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fishing along the banks of the 
ganga River. 

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So crazy. 
Sure, if we're claim and the 

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deputy Pat McCollough drove 
along. 

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Route 116 surgery for the 
glowing object. 

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When finally at 1:30 a.m. they 
spotted an enormous egg shaped 

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craft that look like a brilliant
red sunset across a highway. 

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According to clamp, it lit up. 
The whole payment in front of 

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us, for about two seconds, he 
said and they disappeared 

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throughout the night, the level 
and police department continue 

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to receive calls, describing a 
similar bright object that 

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caused lights to dim and cart. 
Engines to shut off. 

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This is a mass UFO encounter, 
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you're interacting with it, and 
they're all saying the same 

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thing. 
Super-bright car shutting down. 

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There are Force investigating 
speculating. 

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The incident were examples of 
you guys that ball lightning. 

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Allen hynek the Air Force 

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primary UFO investigator at the 
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And later writings, I am not 
proud today that I hastily 

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occurred, concurred and Captain 
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Valuation as ball lightning as 
explanation for the level and 

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sightings on the basis of 
information that an electrical 

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storm had been in progress and 
the level and area at the time. 

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There was shown that was shown 
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hiding. 
Perhaps besides I besides 

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absence of any evidence that 
ball lightning can can stop cars

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and put out headlights the level
and sidings remain unexplained. 

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Well, how hard is it just to say
that the first time around. 

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Okay, we'll do a couple more. 
More here. 

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Maybe 1975 segment. 
Texas is says the world's 

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largest organization. 
The mutual the world's largest 

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UFO organization. 
The mutual UFO Network or mufon 

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was originally funded. 
Neil no way. 1969 after the Air 

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Force abruptly, ended Project 
Blue Book. 

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It's study of the possible 
existence of UFOs, continuing 

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where Project Blue Book left off
mufon when about researching 

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investigating and compelling, 
Holly reports of UFO, sightings 

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in an attempt to resolve. 
The question of whether or not 

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you have those exist in 1975. 
Mufon relocated to segment where

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it resumed, documenting UFO, 
sightings alien, abductions, 

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crop circles and animal 
mutilations throughout the 

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world, by the, by using the 
organization's vast network of 

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investigators. 
Of course, we know it still 

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doing that today with, with 
online reporting and all that. 

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I really wish that that Congress
would just order. 

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The defense department to turn 
over their sightings to move on 

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and let them sort through it. 
The do a much better job. 

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I think now considered to be the
preeminent, UFO Authority, mufon

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host, an International Symposium
each year, publishes the so 

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magazine and 312 Pages 
investigators manual at the, you

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a lot of good work. 
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and then we'll call in to this 
podcast 1980 dating Texas on the

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night of December 29th, 1989 on 
a remote Road. 400 miles outside

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town. 
Ten Restaurant, odor restaurant 

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owner, Betty cash, her friend 
Vickie Landrum and Landrum 

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seven-year-old grandson. 
Colby returning home after a 

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night out when a large glowing 
diamond-shaped aircraft sporting

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Flames, descended from the sky 
and hovered above the roadway in

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front of them, when they got out
of the car, to take a closer 

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look at the object, which made a
loud roaring noise. 

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They were soon forced to return 
to the car because of the 

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intense heat emanating from The 
Craft. 

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The cash claimed that she was 
that she grasped her cars, hot 

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door, handle her wedding ring 
burned into her hand soon after 

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the mysterious aircraft flew 
away with a swarm of black 

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action X, our military 
helicopters. 

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Now, this is one of these cases,
where people were actually 

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injured from coming in contact 
with these things. 

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And it looks like the government
was already on the scene, when 

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these guys got here, but when 
the experiencers happen to show 

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up and we've done a podcast on 
this before, but We'll go on 

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here. 
It says cash who had remained 

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outside the car longer than 
landrum's, was admitted to a 

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hospital as a burn victim, all 
three passengers, manifested 

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different symptoms of what 
appeared to be radiation 

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sickness such as Burns blisters,
nausea rashes, severe headaches,

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sore eyes and hair, and 
fingernail loss in cash, was 

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later diagnosed with breast 
cancer and Lantern developed 

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severe. 
Cataracts. 

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I've never believed in UFOs, 
cash layer to reporters. 

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I was the first one to laugh. 
Laugh, but she added, I was 

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terrified. 
Now, I'm afraid to look up. 230 

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swirled around the incident. 
Either the object was an 

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experimental military device 
which had gone Haywire on a test

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flight or some speculated it was
a recovered alien aircraft. 

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Which the Air Force was trying 
to fly cash and Landrum hired. 

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A lawyer who filed suit against 
the government for 20 money, 

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damages the case dragged on and 
district court for several years

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and called upon the testimony of
officials from NASA. 

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The Air Force, the Army and Navy
before being dismissed in 1986 

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because no good. 
Government governmental agency 

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owned or operated. 
Any aircraft fitting cash and 

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Leonard subscription to this 
stay. 

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There is no conclusive 
explanation of that night's 

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events. 
Well, the only the only 

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conclusion you have, is these 
people got real sick, just like 

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just like the government 
employees, that were sent out 

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there to that study and 
Stanford. 

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What 150 or? 
So of them had injuries from 

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coming in contact with UFOs, 
25%. 

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On, they said, he eventually 
died. 

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So, something's happening here, 
they're not dying from ball. 

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Lightning, you're not dying from
Swamp gas. 

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They're not dying because they 
had elucidation. 

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They came in contact with 
something the same way. 

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These folks down at Texas did. 
All of these experiences happen 

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all over recorded. 
Many, these are mass, sightings 

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of not all of them, and I just 
think it's so interesting to 

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read through these and see the 
commonalities between each Each 

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experience that each one of 
these observers had ranging 

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from, you know, just shock and 
awe to Contracting cancer. 

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Basically, it looks like, until 
next time, this is UFO warning 

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over now Each experience that 
each one of these observers had 

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ranging from, you know, just 
shock and awe to Contracting 

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cancer. 
Basically, it looks like, until 

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next time, this is UFO warning 
over now