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Hello and welcome to the 
podcast. 

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This is UFO warning today, I'd 
like to talk a little bit about 

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series of UFO. 
Sightings that took place in 

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March of 1966, and the southern 
part of Michigan. 

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These sightings are a little bit
unique because they caused such 

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a stir that a man named Gerald 
Ford who happen to be the 

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representative to congress at 
that time. 

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Put in a request that the Air 
Force, do a serious 

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investigation of These 
sightings. 

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And yes, that is the same 
journal for that later went on 

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to become president upon the 
resignation of Richard Nixon. 

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So, what had happened was in the
last half of the month of March 

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of 1966 there in Michigan, 
around the arm that around the 

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Ann Arbor area and further west 
of there and South, there have 

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been a series of UFO. 
Sightings now, probably the most

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famous sighting was by a 
gentleman named Frank mannor, 

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mr. 
Manner had. 

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Of his house that day. 
According to him, with his son 

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and they looked out across the 
swamp and there, they saw a 

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Europe, a UFO, clear as day 
described it. 

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As saucer-shaped says it has 
flashing multicolored lights to 

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go all the way around it. 
And if you're familiar with, 

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make sure, you know that 
Michigan, the state of Michigan 

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lies between two of the Great 
Lakes on either side on the east

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side, you have like here on on 
the West Side, you have like 

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Michigan and then to the north, 
you have Lake Superior that. 

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Connects into Lake Huron and a 
lot of Michigan is over the flat

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area and there's a lot of swamp 
land in Michigan with the ground

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is at a low level and it just 
stays wet all the time and 

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especially so back in 1966. 
So realistically if you were 

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trying to hide a deep State 
spaceship, or if you were an off

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Planet spaceship or whatever 
Michigan Michigan, would have 

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been a great place just to chill
out for a while because there 

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were plenty of places. 
Or people just couldn't get to. 

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So anyway, mr. 
Manner, observes, this UFO. 

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And he's just dumbfounded. 
He reports the UFO and a lot of 

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other people see it because this
UFOs hanging out there for like 

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four hours. 
Now that happened on I believe 

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March 22nd of 1966, but there 
were other sightings, in fact, 

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there was a sighting in which a 
40 individuals of which 12 or 

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law enforcement officer also 
sighted a UFO. 

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And many of these people 
reported the UFO Oh, is 

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football-shaped also, I believe,
with the flashing lights, they 

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also reported their accounts. 
And then thirdly, I also found 

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accounts of where multiple 
sightings, but people, you know,

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in groups seeing a pyramid 
shaped UFO. 

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So it's hard to say if these 
were three different types of 

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UFOs or possibly, it was the 
same object or phenomena that 

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was just changing shapes or 
appearing to change, shapes to 

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each group of witnesses. 
Is at any rate multiple reports 

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from a to the to the Air Force 
and they really didn't do 

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anything and people became so 
upset and so agitated and 

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irritated from getting the cold 
shoulder that they began to 

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contact. 
Joel fours office, not Gerald, 

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Ford Gerald, Ford was the 
congressman from Michigan at the

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time and that's the same Gerald 
Ford that went on to become 

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president of the United States 
after Nixon's resignation and 

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there is a link you can find to 
the Gerald Ford Museum and its 

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you can download or read his 
report that he filed and it's 

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very interesting. 
Mr. Ford filed a request with 

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the Air Force asking for a 
serious investigation of these 

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UFO sightings and it's quite 
clear from his request that he's

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a little agitated that his 
constituents have not been taken

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seriously. 
And this is In 66 the cold war 

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is going on. 
And a lot of these people were 

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just Patriots that thought 
maybe, hey, this is a Russian, 

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some kind of Russian aircraft 
that's up here. 

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Snooping around, you know, 
you've got the Great Lakes Naval

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Training Academy up there is Air
Forces base, navy base. 

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So, there's a lot of stuff 
around that, you know, that that

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an enemy would be interested in 
checking out. 

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And most of these people were 
probably just patriotic folks 

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who wanted The Air Force to do 
their job and investigate what 

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they had seen and they weren't 
doing it. 

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So, mr. 
Ford files, the paperwork to get

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investigation and sure enough, 
the Air Force does send out a 

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team headed by Allen hynek J 
Allen hynek the famous UFO 

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investigator and this is where 
things get a little bit 

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unseemly. 
Mr. Heinrich does talk to some 

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people and they spend some time 
they're going through 

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testimonies and doing all the 
normal measurements and and And 

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an investigation. 
And if I the time he'd gotten 

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done there had been quite a bit 
of talk about this. 

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The paper mr. 
Frank mannor, who I had 

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mentioned before, been 
investigated our had been 

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interviewed by the newspapers 
and made his reports. 

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So hike finishes investigation 
up and everybody wants to know, 

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well, what what is it, and the 
sheriff or the local County and 

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you have to go to the link on 
this because I can't Think of 

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his name on top my head but he 
reports that hiney told him that

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he didn't know what it was. 
He didn't know what it was 

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anymore than anybody else. 
Did J Allen hynek was a really 

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really smart guy. 
I mean this guy's, he's a 

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straight-up scientist. 
He's if he says he doesn't know 

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what it is, well maybe he 
doesn't but he also knows he has

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to know how could he not know 
that it wasn't what he claimed, 

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it was the next day because the 
next day, he has a press 

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conference Is that the Air Force
puts together? 

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And he claims that what people 
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I've been to Michigan many times
and I've never seen swamp gas, 

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but Mr. Rai, he throws this 
convoluted X explanation 

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together. 
That just basically de rides, 

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everybody, that reported seeing 
these UFOs and that angered a 

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lot of people and it really harm
the reputation of mr. 

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Honey. 
Because these Ain't just a bunch

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of hicks that spotted. 
This UFO. 

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These were just yes, some of 
them were salt-of-the-earth 

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people, but a lot of them were 
law enforcement. 

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In fact, one of the individuals 
that that that made a report of 

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the Society of one of the 
sightings was the local federal 

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employee that was their, their 
FEMA guy back. 

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Then you would call him. 
He was the guy that was supposed

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to report to the federal 
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If anything, out of the ordinary
occurred, you know, this is the 

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Cold War, so your guy on the 
ground for the federal 

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government Hey, I saw a UFO and 
Honey comes along and says no, 

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you saw swamp gas, there was 
quite a bit of disbelief at 

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hiding explanation. 
And that was probably the start 

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of where the UFO Community. 
Just decided that the government

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was not going to be honest. 
With them about the UFO 

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phenomenon. 
They weren't going to disclose 

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anything. 
And in fact, they made every 

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effort on their part to minimize
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Act what it actually happen. 
In fact, Frank mannor can be 

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seen an interview. 
He got so upset. 

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I mean he was really defamed 
over this and he said that if 

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you had it to do over again, he 
would never even report that he 

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saw a UFO. 
And to my mind that's probably 

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the most unseemly thing that 
happened out of all of this. 

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You had front, you had jln, hi, 
a reputable scientist who was 

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making and I'm sure a pretty 
good living working for the Air 

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Force. 
Debunking you Oh sightings and 

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he has all this Authority behind
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And then you take a simple man, 
like Frank mannor just a 

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working-class stiff who gives an
honest representation of what he

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saw and as a result. 
Mr. Hynek does everything in his

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power and one press conference 
to destroy this man's reputation

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to put him off. 
Like he's some kind of an idiot 

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or a fool or just an attention 
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And that's really, really 
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So even though hi Ike went on 
later on in his life to found a 

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UFO research organization. 
And to say, yeah, I do believe 

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that the UFO phenomena exist. 
When I look back at the case in 

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1966, the Ann Arbor Michigan 
case of the of the multiple Mass

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sightings and I see how he 
allowed himself to be used, 

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basically as a troll for the 
government, it is very troubling

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and I think it just reminds us 
that that, when it comes down to

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judging the phenomenon of UFOs, 
we shouldn't let an appeal to 

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Authority. 
Be what, what helps us make up 

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our mind? 
We have to, we have to judge the

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evidence for Our self and make 
up our own minds. 

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And because like a lot of these 
people in Michigan, at that time

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that saw this UFO, they were 
just minimize. 

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And pushed aside, in fact that 
quick aside, before I cut off 

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here, A friend of mine that was 
living Michigan. 

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Many, many years ago, we were 
talking and somehow got the 

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subject and she in fact told me 
that her and daughter and her 

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actually had seen a UFO about 
the same time as this happened. 

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And she described as a large, 
disc-shaped UFO of UFO. 

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With flashing lights and this 
woman, you know, was a credible 

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witness of my mind a devout 
Lutheran gal who had never had 

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bouts with mental illness and I 
have to take her at her word, 

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whatever. 
They saw was real, even though I

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can't explain it and she 
described it to me the same way,

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the same exact way. 
Mr. Manor has described it a 

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little larger. 
Maybe but she's like, well they 

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they were driving along and they
could look at it over the swamp.

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And there it was just sitting 
there. 

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Lights flashing. 
Not making a move. 

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And she didn't know what it was.
But like, a lot of these people,

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she was just a normal salt of 
the earth person that had no 

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belief in UFOs whatsoever until 
the day that she actually saw 

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one. 
And that's the way it is with 

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the law these people. 
Well, that's it for now, over 

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and out. 
You have a warning.