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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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In this episode we're talking 
about the Lake MI Mothman. 

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That's correct, the Lake MI 
Mothman. 

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Now the article that we're 
looking at comes to us from 

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cingular14.com. cingular14.com 
Title says Tall, dark human like

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winged being reportedly seen in 
downtown Chicago building. 

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This is written by Tobias and 
Emily Weiland, dated April 12th,

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2024. 
I find these cryptic stories 

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very interesting, that in part 
because they seem to just be on 

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that border between the UFO 
phenomena and the paranormal. 

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Now are these things purely 
paranormal? 

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Are they things purely ETI don't
know. 

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Maybe there's some sort of 
entities that are expressing 

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themselves to us and folklore 
that we might understand they're

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coming across that void, perhaps
presenting themselves as Bigfoot

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or Mothman or or, you know, any 
number of these other crypted 

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animals in some way trying to 
communicate with us or maybe 

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even influence us. 
But I think they're worth 

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looking at now. 
The article begins here. 

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It says LON Strickler of 
Phantoms and Monsters recently 

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received the following report 
from a man claiming to be a 

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former security guard at a 
building in downtown Chicago. 

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Starts off, it, says hello Sir. 
In the spring of 2021, I was 

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working as a security employee 
in downtown Chicago, IL. 

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On this specific night at around
1:30, AMI had completed my usual

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rounds and then settled into the
monitor room to check the 

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footage. 
So I'm imagining this guy in 

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this big building, a tall 
building, perhaps downtown in 

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Chicago area, somewhere near 
Lake MI, and he's making his 

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rounds. 
He's checking the doors, making 

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sure nobody's where they're not 
supposed to be. 

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At kind of a lonely job. 
He settles back into the control

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room to watch the monitors, just
like he does every night, he 

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says. 
After about an hour, I took a 

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walk to start my next round. 
Sitting all mine can get 

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tiresome, and I needed to 
stretch my legs. 

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Occasionally. 
I would start at the ground 

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floor, then walk up the 
stairwells, checking all the 

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crucial points. 
I checked the entrances and 

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exits, check to see if all the 
offices were locked, and then I 

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would head back down to the 
ground floor. 

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Maybe he's just killing a little
time there, just making sure 

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everything is the way that it 
should be. 

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When I got back to the third 
floor, the elevator stopped. 

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When the doors opened, no one 
was there. 

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I noticed the corridor lights 
flickering and it felt a little 

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creepy. 
When that happened, I got back 

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into the elevator and went to 
the ground floor. 

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When I reached the ground floor 
and after the elevator doors 

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opened, I made my way to the 
security room to watch the 

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monitors. 
So he's coming down from the 

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upper levels of this building, 
and it should just go straight 

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to the third floor or to the 
ground floor here. 

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But it doesn't. 
It opens up. 

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You could imagine being this 
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You're thinking, who in the 
world could be getting on this 

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elevator? 
Why is this thing opening? 

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But the door's open. 
Nobody's there but notices the 

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lights flickering. 
I have to wonder if whatever 

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this entity is, if it's not just
kind of drawing energy out of 

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this building, he says. 
As soon as I sat down, I caught 

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a fleeting glimpse of something 
unusual passing by on one of the

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surveillance monitors that was 
situated outside the security 

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room. 
I could have sworn that it had 

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wings, but it went too quickly. 
I got up, open the door, and 

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peeked out of the room. 
My stomach started to churn. 

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I could feel that something was 
aware that I was there. 

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Don't ask me why, I just had 
that immediate sense of 

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nervousness. 
Spidey senses kicking in. 

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So it's almost like this thing 
followed him to the control room

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he says he saw on the security 
camera outside the control room.

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That would that would really, I 
guess I would be in a heightened

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state of awareness at that 
point, he says. 

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I returned to the monitor room. 
I started to review the CCTV 

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footage and pull up the feed 
from a camera. 

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As I watched, I saw the familiar
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Then I observed A hazy figure 
materialize on the screen. 

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It resembled a human form, but 
its edges shimmered and blurred,

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making it seem dreamlike. 
The figure floated down the 

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hallway. 
It cast no shadow and seemed 

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entirely devoid of substance. 
I continued to monitor the 

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ghostly figure as its movements 
became more erratic. 

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So he's watching this thing out 
there, bouncing around this 

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hallway. 
Very weird. 

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Then as it moved toward the 
Front Street, it began to gain a

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more defined form, So we see 
this shape shifting, happening. 

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I immediately got to my feet and
rushed to the door. 

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I walked into the hallway and 
quickly moved toward the front. 

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As I turned the corner I saw a 
six to seven foot tall winged 

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being that looked human like. 
It was very thin and dark in 

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color. 
The wings were huge, I'd say 15 

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feet in total width. 
When unfurled, I was in shock. 

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I accidentally dropped my 
flashlight on the floor and the 

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being turned and looked in my 
direction. 

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That is when I noticed his eyes 
illuminated with a bright orange

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red collar. 
Then in a flash of blue light, 

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it vanished. 
It was totally gone. 

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It's almost like there was some 
kind of electrical flash maybe 

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where this thing is changing 
shape, changing from 1 dimension

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to the other. 
We hear about this a lot in our 

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world. 
When an airplane travels past 

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the speed of sound, you have 
that Sonic boom and it's almost 

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like this thing is having some 
sort of a a visual optical boom 

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as it goes for maybe one 
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I don't know. 
I live alone so there was no one

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at home to relay my incident to.
About two weeks later, I quit my

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security job after finding 
another line of work. 

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More recently, I was at a 
friend's home for dinner. 

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He had other acquaintances there
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As we sat in his living room 
after dinner, a discussion 

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started about the Chicago 
Mothman sightings. 

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I had never heard of the 
phenomena, but I was intrigued 

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by what I heard. 
That is when I decided to search

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online about the sightings, and 
that is how I found you. 

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I don't know what I witnessed 
that night, but deep down I 

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believe that it may be related. 
I'm hesitant to reveal the 

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location on my side and because 
I don't want any trouble for my 

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ex employer at this point. 
I'm debating with myself how 

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much information that I want to 
disclose. 

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So you you actually wonder how 
much of this that he's seen is 

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he telling us about? 
Strickler was unable to speak 

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with the witness directly, but 
they did exchange messages via 

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encrypted text. 
I was able to contact and 

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message the witness, Strickler 
said. 

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There was no telephone 
communication and the text was 

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devoid of ID and stated secured 
only my. 

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He eventually told me where his 
sighting occurred, but insisted 

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that I not release the 
information. 

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All that I will discuss is that 
it occurred in a building 

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located at the intersection of 
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State St. 
For now, the specific location 

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and other information will 
remain confidential and only 

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known by the Phantom and 
Monsters 14 research team. 

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This encounter suggests that 
these winged humanoids may be 

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supernatural, an aspect of this 
investigation that the team has 

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believed to be true, he said. 
Additional details were provided

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to Singler 14 Society 
Investigator Tobias Whelan by 

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Strickler, including the 
Witness's first name and address

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of the sighting location. 
Those details will remain 

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unpublished to protect the 
witness's privacy. 

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The sudden disappearance 
described above is currently 

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consistent with other reports, 
including a report from 1999 in 

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which a trio of witnesses said 
that they saw a red eyed flying 

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gargoyle fly between 2 pine 
trees and vanish. 

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Another from April of 2017 in 
which the witnesses said that he

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saw a 7 foot tall winged bat 
reptile hybrid humanoid briefly 

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become a blur before vanishing, 
and one from April of 2018 in 

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which two women said they were 
mysteriously paralyzed by A dark

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winged being prior to it 
vanishing into thin air. 

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This also contains a trend of 
winged humanoids reportedly 

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being seen in or near people's 
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In 2020, a woman from Cicero, IL
said that she saw something huge

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with demonic wings and a brief 
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walking past her son's room 1 
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In early 2002, a woman in 
Madison, WI said she saw a large

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bat like creature with glowing 
red eyes while driving near the 

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Seminole Highway exit off of the
Beltline. 

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Soon after, the woman believed 
she saw that same creature in a 

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basement storage unit, almost 
like this thing is stalking her.

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That series of encounters also 
included a number of other 

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concurrent paranormal phenomena,
including phantom baby cries and

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anomalous fire, and the sound of
dishes being thrown from covers,

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only to be found unharmed 
immediately after this kind of 

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poltergeist activity. 
Also in 2002, a young woman in 

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Babcock, Wisconsin, reportedly 
witnessed a gargoyle with 

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feathered wings perched on the 
roof of her family's home. 

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That sighting out of Babcock is 
one of several wherein people 

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have claimed to see a winged 
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someone's home. 
Because of its proximity to 

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other sighting locations, the 
creature described in the above 

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report could be related to the 
larger Lake MI Mothman 

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phenomena. 
Those sightings are commonly 

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reported within a few 100 mile 
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including every state bordering 
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The sightings substantially 
began in the spring of 2017, but

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more historical accounts are 
being reported as more people 

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become aware of the phenomena. 
They generally take place in the

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evening or at night, often in or
near a park or natural area, and

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around water. 
Witnesses consistently describe 

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a large Gray, brown or black bat
or bird like creature, sometimes

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with glowing or reflective. 
Red, yellow, or orange eyes and 

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humanoid features such as an 
upright bipedal posture are 

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often reported. 
Some witnesses have reported 

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feeling intense fear and an aura
of evil emanating from the 

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creatures they encountered. 
Many of the sightings are also 

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of something seen only briefly, 
or are described only as a 

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flying creature with few 
details, which leaves open the 

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possibility that a misidentified
large bird such as a Heron or 

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crane, or some type of anonymous
avian species could explain 

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some, although certainly not 
all, of the encounters, a number

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of associated high strands. 
This incidents have also 

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occurred alongside the creature 
sightings. 

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These include reports of UFOs, 
other anonymous flying creatures

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and mysterious humanoids, 
parapsychological phenomena, and

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bizarre events experienced by 
those investigating the 

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sightings. 
Wow, yeah, really strange. 

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Like I said, they kind of get 
into this paranormal area 

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because not only are people 
seeing these, but they're 

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associating them with other 
strange paranormal events that 

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some people think that these are
harbinger of bad things to come.

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Kind of almost like a a warning.
Or maybe they're just putting it

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out there in your face because 
they're not really offering any 

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solutions. 
This leads me back to this whole

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this whole idea of people having
contact with these UFO entities.

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That some people think that 
they're alien ETS, some people 

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think they're interdimensional, 
but often times they have 

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conversations with people. 
They talk to people, they make 

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vague comments about saving the 
planet, but rarely do they ever 

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resolve anything for us. 
Whether this thing is some sort 

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of paranormal entity or whether 
this thing is connected somehow 

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with UFOs, I don't know, but I 
think that's definitely worth 

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studying. 
Until next time, this is UFO 

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Warning Over now.