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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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In this episode, we're talking 
about Ed Walters UFO Polaroids. 

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That's correct. 
Ed Walters, UFO Polaroids. 

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This was a story that happened 
back in 87 and 88, a collection 

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of photographs taken by this 
gentleman. 

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A lot of controversy around him.
I want to kind of develop a 

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little bit of a base for the 
story here. 

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If we go to pnj.com, that's 
Pensacola News Journal, we find 

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the article titled Pensacola man
truck abducted by clawed aliens.

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Still no word on suspect 50 
years later written by Troy 

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Moon. 
So he starts this article off 

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talking about in the event that 
happened about 15 years before 

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Ed Walter's pictures. 
But it's interesting says new 

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details have been released 
regarding the six suspects 

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described as short with claw 
like arms that allegedly 

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abducted a man and his truck on 
Interstate 10. 

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The alleged suspects vehicle was
described as an unidentified 

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space ship. 
You'd think there would have 

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been some kind of follow up for 
a reported abduction by 

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creatures who somehow moved the 
man and his pickup truck into a 

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waiting hovering UFO above 
Interstate 10, only to return 

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him and the truck 30 minutes 
later. 

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But since the incident occurred 
on October 17th, 1973, there's 

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not been another word about the 
abduction. 

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The man said the clawed 
creatures kept him and his truck

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for about 30 minutes and after 
picking him up on Interstate 10 

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near Luxley Allen, Alabama, as 
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from Mobile, he was returned 
with his truck near Pine Forest 

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Rd. 
Now I tried to look that case 

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up. 
I couldn't find a word of it 

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anywhere. 
If somebody else is familiar 

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with this case, I'd really be 
interested to know who the man 

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was and more about it. 
The article goes on and says, 

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but I searched the database and 
there's nothing since that 

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original article 51 years ago. 
Yes, there were other local and 

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regional UFO reports around the 
same time. 

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In fact, the next day, October 
18th, 1973, a woman in Milton 

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reported that a flying saucer 
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little green men were walking 
around on the houses roof, said 

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Escambia County Sheriff's 
Dispatcher Larry Pearson. 

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By the time deputies arrived, 
the saucer and the little green 

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men were gone. 
Goes on here. 

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It says Florida has the second 
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and then here are the biggest 
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The same day that Pensacola News
reported about that spaceship 

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abduction, there were also 
numerous reports of flying 

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saucers and UFOs. 
Hundreds in fact, from South 

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Alabama through northwest 
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These things do seem to kind of 
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Most were explained away. 
Helicopter maneuvers in Mobile, 

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atmospheric testing at Eglin Air
Force Base, and weather balloons

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flying near J at the time. 
And always a good excuse with 

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the weather balloons. 
But there never was resolution 

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to the claw creature abduction. 
Within a day or so, all the UFO 

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commotion had died down. 
It wasn't the big sensation of 

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the Gulf Breeze UFO incident of 
1987 and 80, 1988, when resident

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Ed Walters shared pictures with 
the Gulf Breeze Centennial 

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showing a UFO he said he 
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Walters claimed to have 
conversed with the aliens from 

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the ship in English and in 
Spanish using telepathy. 

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There were numerous sightings by
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most people believe Walters 
photos were a hoax. 

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After he moved, the new owners 
discovered a foam model UFO 

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hidden in the attic. 
Still, the Gulf Breeze sighting 

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captivated the community for a 
month and and national 

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attention, with a couple of 
mentions on The X-Files and 

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various documentaries and 
shorts. 

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But the 1973 reports the 
northwestern Florida instance 

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were largely ignored. 
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coast in Pascagoula, Ms. that 
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sensation, but the publicity 
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While there was nothing more on 
the Pensacola incident, there 

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wasn't as plenty on what maybe 
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Both Mississippi men would write
books on their alleged 

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encounters and even one appeared
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To tell the truth, the Pensacola
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its time in the UFO spotlight 
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later. 
And a pretty interesting article

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takes a few twists and turns 
there bringing up the Pascagoula

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incident. 
Now we go on to another article 

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here from the same newspaper. 
This is dated December 10th 

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2000, 1017 same author actually.
Troy Moon Gulf Breeze UFO 

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phenomena 30 years later citing 
still divide public. 

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It's got a picture here of Ed 
Walters says in July 1990 with 

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photos he shot of UFOs and Gulf 
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The Gulf Breeze building 
contractor claims to have 

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photographed UFOs on various 
occasions during the fall and 

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winter of 1987. 
An article begins, it says 3 

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decades after a Gulf Breeze 
building contractor released UFO

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photos of circular UFOs to local
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sky guy watching phenomena, the 
so-called Gulf Breeze sightings 

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have become part of American 
lore. 

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Ed Walters claimed he shot the 
photos from his yard on November

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11th, 1987. 
And now even 30 years later, 

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people are still divided on what
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Breeze in late 1987 through 
1988. 

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Even the nations most legendary 
UF all of the just fictional FBI

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agent Fox Mulder from the 1990s 
hit Series X-Files weighed in on

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the Gulf Breeze sightings when 
it was revealed the character 

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investigated the panhandled 
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the phenomena for Omni Magazine 
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I really don't have a good 
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or not. 
There was so much controversy 

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about it and MUFON went back and
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When I first saw the Gulf Breeze
photos, I knew they were a hoax,

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Mulder said in the classic 1994 
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EBE. 
And Mulder was a person who 

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famously always wanted to 
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He goes on down here and says. 
But he's not alone in concluding

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that the controversial Walters 
photographs were a hoax, an 

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opinion that became more 
widespread after Walters moved 

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from his home in 1990. 
The new owner found a model of a

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flying saucer wrapped an old 
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The model was made out of foam 
pipe, plates, cardboard, paper 

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and tended plastic gel. 
You got to wonder why would you 

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leave that thing there? 
Walters claimed the model was 

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planted, but most thought and 
still think Walters photos were 

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a hoax. 
There were witnesses who alleged

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knowledge of the staged UFO. 
News Journal reporters and 

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photographers later used the 
model to stage their own UFO 

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models that seemed identical to 
the ones taken by Walters. 

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Now you can see the picture 
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I did do a short video on this I
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kind of decide yourself if the 
pictures that they recreated are

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the same. 
I don't know, They look a little

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different to me, but what do I 
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It says. 
Craig Myers was the lead 

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reporter on the story for the 
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the Gulf Breeze sightings and 
subsequent controversy. 

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He wrote a dozen stories on the 
sightings and specifically 

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Walters claims, and later wrote 
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sightings. 
Today, he works as an editorial 

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assistant for Middle Tennessee 
State University, where he still

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gives the occasional lecture on 
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Meyers is confident the 
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Walters, who was known as a 
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reports from the time. 
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Meyer said, but then it just 
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He's probably the smartest guy 
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rooms he walks into. 
Walters could not be reached for

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comment, but as always, 
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took were authentic. 
He also wrote a book on the 

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topic titled Gulf Breeze 
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And even now, there are those 
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the validity of his photographs,
including noted UFO researcher 

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and physicist Bruce Maccabee, 
who has written numerous 

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research papers and technical 
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sightings, he says. 
I think they're real, he said of

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Walters photographs, dismissing 
the model found later. 

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I think the model is a hoax. 
Hoax squared. 

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Even if you dismiss Walters 
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there were too many other 
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UFOs in the Gulf Breeze area, 
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ignored. 
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seeing objects, he said. 
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that you have to account for 
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massive occlusion on the part of
the residence of Gulf Breeze and

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Pensacola. 
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this lady holding what looks 
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photo, possibly of a UFO, it 
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On February 20th, 1990, Gulf 
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Pollack holds a photograph she 
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light hovering over Gulf Breeze 
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Methodist Church. 
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in Gulf Breeze at the time with 
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eight years old, says My 
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South side. 
They saw at first and came 

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inside to get me. 
I couldn't believe what I was 

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seeing, but I know I saw 
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rotated. 
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There are countless stories like
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Hundreds of people began 
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Breeze, most congregating at 
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Dozens reported sightings, but 
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clarity and proximity of 
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I really don't have a good 
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or not, said George Williams, 
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Florida Mutual UFO Network in 
Tallahassee and the field 

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investigator who has 
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sightings extensively. 
There was so much controversy 

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about it, and MUFON went back 
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but he made a model and buried 
an installation question mark. 

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That just doesn't sound right, 
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But no matter Walter's photos, 
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Pensacola remain a UFO hotspot. 
We still get reports of 

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interesting stuff in the area, 
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And in 1987, you had hundreds of
people besides Walters reporting

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sightings. 
It's always been an interesting 

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area. 
Yeah, that's the thing. 

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It's just like, well, I mean, if
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fake all of these other 
sightings? 

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Now, there was one other article
here in Wikipedia. 

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Of course, you know, a lot of 
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on the debunking side, but they 
had a little bit more of an 

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angle on this thing where they 
were talking about the money 

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involved, which I did not 
realize to me that the amounts 

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were pretty substantial. 
It says. 

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So it talks about the model 
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It says probably way down the 
article and we'll finish up. 

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It says. 
The discovery of the model 

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proved instantly divisive within
the UFO community, with Walter's

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supporters repeating his claim 
that the model had been planted.

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Boyd, formerly a director of 
MUFON, later said he was forced 

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to leave the group when he 
expressed doubt in the photos. 

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News columnist Mark Curtis said 
that two MUFON investigators who

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confirmed the hoax war 
themselves literally chased out 

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of MUFON by its remaining true 
believers. 

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Contrary to claims by his 
supporters that he had refused 

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money for telling a story, the 
News Journal reported that 

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Walters had been given a 
$200,000 book advance and 

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offered $450,000 by the American
Broadcasting Company, ABC for 

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miniseries rights. 
The paper also reported that 

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Walters had previously served 18
months in prison in 1967 for 

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forgery and auto theft charges, 
and he was granted a pardon by 

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Governor Barb Martinez in March 
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Wow. 
So that's, I'm not saying that 

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this is just what's reported 
here in Wikipedia from this News

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Journal. 
Very strange. $200,000 would 

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have been a lot of money back in
1980, seven, 1988, you could 

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have got a nice little modest 
house in a lot of states for 50 

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or $60,000. 
And if you combine the $200,000 

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with a $450,000 offer from from 
a television station, boy that 

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would have been significant, 
significant amount of money. 

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Then it goes and it finishes up.
It says on October 5th, 1988, 

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Unsolved Mysteries and later TV 
special called UFO Cover Up Live

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featured of the Gulf Breeze UFO 
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In 1989, eyewitness Shirley 
McConnell talked about her 

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experience on A Current Affair, 
Unsolved magazines Inside 

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Edition and A Current Affair 
filmed. 

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Current Affair filmed more UFO 
shows in July 1990. 

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On a 1994 episode of The 
X-Files, character Fox Mulder 

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mentions the Gulf Breeze UFO 
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Scholick saying that the first 
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they were fake. 
And we've heard that. 

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So absolutely a world famous 
case here. 

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It's amazing. 
Was he paid that much money? 

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Well, I actually don't know, but
that's what they're reporting 

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here. 
All the whole thing with the 

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model that was discovered in the
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his, I guess we don't know that 
either. 

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But the pictures are 
fascinating. 

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And like I said, they've taken 
some pictures that were 

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reconstructions, people saying, 
well, we're going to redo this 

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fake picture that you've done 
and show how easy it is. 

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They, they don't look exactly 
the same to me. 

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I just don't know what goes on 
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I'll finish up, it said. 
In a February 1993 News Journal 

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editorial, Curtis revisited the 
evidence against Walters 

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account, and that's this 
journalist mentioning a friend 

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of the Walters family, Tommy 
Smith, had come forward 

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admitting to have witnessed Ed 
faking the UFO pictures as a 

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practical joke. 
Curtis also reported that Walter

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and his wife had divorced in 
November 1992, splitting two and

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a half million dollars in assets
that Curtis believed came from 

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the hoax. 
Well, I don't know. 

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I mean, the guy was a building 
contractor. 

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He was successful, could just 
earn that straight up. 

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But you kind of see what happens
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This is a problem with some of 
these UFO sightings when money 

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gets involved. 
To me, if the guy wanted to take

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money for sharing a story with 
a, with a broadcast company or 

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whatever, I mean, I'm OK with 
that. 

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I'd probably be best if you're 
transparent about it. 

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But you can kind of see what 
happens when this stuff's all 

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done kind of on the down low and
then people find out about it or

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there are assertions made, then 
some people will use that to 

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denigrate the testimony of this 
guy. 

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Overall fascinating case of Ed 
Walters UFO pulp right pictures.

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Until next time, this is UFO 
warning over and out.

