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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast March 1990 NATO tracking
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stations and Belgium pick up a strange
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unidentified aircraft on radar the
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Belgian air force deploys two fighter
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jets to intercept the intruder only to
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have a dart out of range and disappear
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at supersonic speed it is the most
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dramatic of thousands of recent UFO
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sightings invented in the late 1960s
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rock creek ohio is besieged by a wild
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gang of street toughs a Robert Hamrick
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took charge of a police force he was
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determined to run the gang out of town
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six months later Hamrick was killed in a
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suspicious car accident Philip Breen is
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a successful businessman with a
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remarkable knack for making money and
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for taking money in 1990 he vanished
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after defrauding his employer out of
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millions of dollars and leaving his
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unsuspecting wife to pay the debt also a
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woman's search for her long-lost
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mother's finally ended thanks to our
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viewers join me for their heartwarming
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reunion
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solve mysteries
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Brussels Belgium is known as the capital
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of capitals an ancient city of charm and
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elegance it was seemed unlikely that
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old-world Brussels would be the focal
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point of a very contemporary controversy
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since the fall of 1989 several thousand
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people from all walks of life
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and reported that Belgium as being
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invaded from the skies
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basically what we saw is this big
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triangle object with three bright white
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lightning in the corners and it was in
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mobile above the motorway in the middle
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was a flashing red light it passed by
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approaching the roofs since it was
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flying so low you could see three white
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lights which formed an equilateral
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triangle what exactly is it that
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thousands of people have been seeing in
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the night sky over Belgium these
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drawings were generated from the
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testimony of hundreds of eyewitnesses
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almost without fail they described an
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immense triangular object with bright
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lights at the corners and another light
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in the center then on July 11th 1991 an
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extraordinary press conference was held
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high-ranking members of the Belgian
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military briefed the media on a UFO
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which Air Force jets had attempted to
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chase down and remarkably have recorded
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on their radar screens tonight we will
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show you the evidence presented at that
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conference for the first time on
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American television UFO sightings here
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in the United States have traditionally
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been met with skepticism in most cases
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justified by government and military
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officials the reports have elicited
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either denials or in most cases a simple
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no comment but you are about to see is a
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first this story was filmed with a
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complete cooperation of the Belgian Air
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Force in the shaandaar Marie a national
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law enforcement agency Belgium lies in
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the southeast edge of the North Sea
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bordered by Germany France Luxembourg
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and the Netherlands the mystery of the
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Belgian UFOs began on the night of
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November 29th 1989 just outside of the
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small town of you pan less than seven
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miles from a German border
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Jean dimes Heinrich Nico and he bare von
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won t even a routine patrol
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Hey and I got Runa
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yes mr. Chuck let's go set up all
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support shoulder as we approach the
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crossroads no horse rode our attention
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was drawn to an unusual sight we saw a
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field near the road that was all lit up
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it was like a football field though a
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garage we thought it was strange and of
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course we wanted to know what was
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causing those lights
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ask mom all along so she pulled over to
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the side of the wall
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Noma platform there was a huge
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triangular platform and underneath it
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the strong headlights and in the middle
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was this blinking or processing orange
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light the whole thing was floating in
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the air
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open dispatch these colorful multitudes
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immediately call the dispatcher Anupam
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Albert Kreutz as if we saw safer sex ed
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I'm only missing ya know suddenly they
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told me they were seeing a strange
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object in the sky he saw me it made no
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noise on a blog he joked about it and
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said it might be Santa Claus trying to
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land the service area ya ya quelque
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chose locked in a pod telephony approval
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corralled and bound to our senior para
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maana we detail over what that's noted
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the unusual report on his log but
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remains skeptical
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luminaria Wartrol
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yeah the shonda rhimes follow the
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unknown object is a sword across the
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belgian countryside toward hippo
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blue Hotel poubelle ofwhat you'd see it
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here because the headlights were very
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strong we could also see the flickering
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orange board underneath ago we were
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driving very slowly because it seemed
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like there was someone in that object he
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killed and that someone was trying to
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observe what was happening on earth if
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it is bhature frenzy sputter moments
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later a strange light flashed across the
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window of crisis office in new pond
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over $1 away it often the distance I
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could see something bright but I didn't
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know what it was but suddenly I saw
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something that looked like a laser beam
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shoot out of the light and then come
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back to the light
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we continue to observe the object as
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it's circled over the city a Lupin
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it's appeared to be heading to the
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forest
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Jean Durham Nicole and his partner were
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mesmerised they began to suspect that
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this visitor had some special purpose it
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did a party on each side of the object
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there was a kind of laser beam and a
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ball that was leaving the object and
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coming back as if the ball were to
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measure something so it was easy for us
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to keep track of it in the sky when
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Nicole next called it a dispatch Kreutz
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reported that he had contacted four
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local airports each had reported no
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unusual activity in the skies followed
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for a full thirty minutes
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the shonda rhimes watched in awe as the
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object hovered in the distance then the
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remarkable episode took another
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unexpected turn at the convenience all
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of a sudden it came out of nowhere
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little Fievel the one who had been
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following was still over there and now
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the second one was rising up into the
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sky at a given moment tipped it slightly
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we could see again the shape of a
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triangle with bright headlights and one
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in the middle it was exactly like the
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first object we could see some kind of
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dome on the top with two or three small
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windows and there was a light inside the
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object by the time we realized what it
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was the object fell away
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moments later whatever doubts dispatcher
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Kreutz still had evaporated not tea
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through the open window I saw a strange
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machine floating about 500 feet away
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from me it looked like a large ship
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floating in the air it drifted in front
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of me for a few seconds then flew away
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in the direction of La Cala mean it was
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a horrible thing to see her shape
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six minutes later two other Jean dimes
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encountered a similar object to the
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small village of la colony eight miles
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to the north
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oh no the desert ecology had held our
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colleagues talking about this flying
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object in the beginning we thought it
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was some sort of joke but then we saw
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something it wasn't funny anymore
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innovative so both of us had a strange
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feeling it was impossible to explain
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what the object was we thought it was an
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American airplane or something we had no
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other explanation for what it might be
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but it was real
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it was above us then another object was
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leaving the main object it was a red
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light pulsating and descending
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vertically forms object it turn to the
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right side and moved off behind the
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building according to Jean de primo and
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his colleague the episode culminated
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with a stunning climax
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the crafts seem to transform into a
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single beam of light
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then it disappeared
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all four of these extraordinary
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sightings occurred within 20 miles in
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one hour of each other that same day 11
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other sound arms and more than 100
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private citizens came forward with
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similar reports suddenly Belgium was
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buzzing with talk of UFOs that
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remarkable evening in 1989 was just the
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beginning of an incredible wave of
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sightings which continues to this day
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it may seem unbelievable but when we
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return we'll present startling evidence
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of the first acknowledged military
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tracking of a UFO a video radar
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recording provided by the Belgian Air
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Force which has never been seen before
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by the American public
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on November 29th 1989 Jean Dom's and
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Belgian reported sightings of an
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unidentified flying object over the next
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few months hundreds of witnesses would
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come forward all describing a similar
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triangular object then in April of 1990
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this extraordinary photograph was taken
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it shows the same array of lights which
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was described by the eyewitnesses by
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using a computer to enhance the film's
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contrast the triangular shape becomes
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clearly visible
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that remarkable image is currently being
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analyzed by scientists in Belgium it
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offered what many believe is the first
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photographic evidence that UFOs was
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recording the Belgian sky in the last
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two years Belgian authorities have been
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deluged by thousands of sightings the
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difficult task of deciphering and
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coordinating the reports has been
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undertaken by a privately funded
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organization of scientists and citizens
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known as so BAPS working hand-in-hand
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with the Belgian military in a jean de
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Marie so BEPS opened lines of
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communication and set up procedures
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anticipating future encounters they did
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not have to wait very long
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in March of 1990 the next wave of
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Belgian UFO sightings began captain
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Jacques past summer the Jean de Marie
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was called to a residence outside of
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Brussels when dinner guests reported a
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series of strange lights in the sky
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these points of light were very
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different than the other stars they were
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much bigger and much brighter and not
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the color of stars the main colors were
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reddish or yellow and the others were
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green later they began to travel short
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distances in an erratic manner thirty
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miles away at a NATO tracking station
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radar had detected an unknown object to
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the exact location the dinner guests
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have reported seeing the lights it
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showed up as a COS circling with a tail
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in the lower left quadrant of the radar
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screen we phoned to order civilian and
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military radar sites like same exact
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burtom santa bear and they had precisely
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the same echo at the same place we were
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unable to identify this echo as being
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either enemy either friendly it was not
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very clear for us that it was an
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aircraft can you check the pending
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confirmation we have four different
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radar stations the belgian air force was
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all over
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something very unusual was in the skies
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over Belgium yes coming
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two f-16s from the Belgian Air Force
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were immediately deployed our mission to
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locate and identify the object
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the pilots gave chase and soon locked
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onto the object with onboard radar Delta
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five seven this is to confirm that we
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now have a lock-on but after just five
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seconds the object bolted out of range
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at a blistering speed we measured some
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exceptional accelerations which cannot
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be related to conventional aircraft that
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is that is clear for the next hour the
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pilots reported that the object seemed
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to be playing a high-tech game of cat
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and mouse
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each time they achieved lock-on the
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object darted out of range
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the pilots confirmed that it was
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impossible for them to accelerate as
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quick as to target was doing an
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examination of the onboard radar footage
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astonished the military this is a
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portion of the actual footage recorded
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that evening the UFO appears in the
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center of the screen is a diamond shape
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the figure in the upper right-hand
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corner indicates the altitude of the
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object in thousands of feet and the
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pilots first locked on the object was at
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7,000 feet but within seconds it had
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climbed at 10,000 feet then incredibly
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the object plummeted to just 500 feet in
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a span of only five seconds
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at the same time the object accelerated
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to 990 knots more than 1,000 miles per
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hour
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halftimes a speed of sound this
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fantastic combination of acceleration
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and descent would have been fatal to a
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human pilot
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and there is yet one additional energy
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even though the craft exceeded the speed
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of sound remarkably no one on the ground
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ever reported hearing a sonic boom
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the data done at all these performances
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which who are registered during the
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locum of the radar
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it was totally outside of the normal
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performance envelope of any airplane
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despite the fact that the UFOs have been
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observed by thousands of eyewitnesses
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despite the fact that they even recorded
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on military radar and despite the fact
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that one unknown object is easily evaded
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sophisticated high-tech fighter jets
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skeptics continue to dismiss the
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sightings as nothing more than mass UFO
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hysteria they believe that the radar
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reports can be attributed to false
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echoes or changes in atmospheric
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conditions some people don't believe us
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the things we have seen to believe us it
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doesn't matter to me but I have seen
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something and what else can I say it was
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not some invention of my mind it
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happened just as I have said I got out
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of the car and hovering over us was a
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big black trying
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it was very dark the triangle had a
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large light on top of it and the light
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circled around while the triangle
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remained it's suspended in the air there
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have been thousands of observations in
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Belgium and I think it's it's sort of
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job to try to find out if there is
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really something in the air where it
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comes from what the origin is and what
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the intentions are indeed there is
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something going on in Belgium which is
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beyond our control
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[Music]
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there is one curious fact which bears
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mentioning despite thousands of
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sightings in Belgium there have been
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just a handful of UFOs reported in the
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neighboring countries of France Germany
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and the Netherlands for skeptics this is
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additional proof that the sightings are
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nothing more than fantasy however some
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people speculate that the objects may be
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attracted of Belgium's highway system
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which is so brightly lit at night that
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it was visible even to the astronauts on
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the moon
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[Music]
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a September 26 1991 an emotional joyous
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reunion took place in Temple Hills
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Maryland thanks to our viewers
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Mary Maxwell and Carla downing came
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together as mother and daughter for the
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first time grandmother girls are here I
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got my homework done moans I think good
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it all began in 1965 when Carla was 16
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years old
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shortly after her mother's death she met
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a mysterious woman at her grandparents
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house this is Mary Mary was a friend of
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your mom's in high school hey you look
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fair familiar at the time Carla had no
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idea who the woman really was
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Karla darling had grown up in a happy
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close-knit family but shortly after her
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brother was born she began to feel that
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she somehow did not fit in the whole
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time I was growing up always needed yeah
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there was just something not right
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mainly because of the difference between
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my brother and I he had blue eyes and
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blond hair and it was curly you know I
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had straight dark hair dark eyes olive
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complexion it was just obvious to me
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even that we just weren't alike
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but until her father's death in 1990 did
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Connors tangled family history finally
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begin to unravel this belong to your dad
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and he wanted you to have it in her
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father's briefcase she would come across
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documents which unveil a startling
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family secret the father and mother who
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raised her were not her natural parents
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Karla learned that in 1948 her mother
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Mildred met a recent immigrant from
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Belgium named Mary Mary was all alone
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and pregnant she knew that she would be
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unable to care for her baby
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the two women concocted a scheme to
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switch ID cards in the hospital her name
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is Mildred Graham failed in doing so
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builded would be listed on the birth
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certificate as Carla's mother
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I just had this need to find Mary I want
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to be in the same room with someone I
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resemble I want my mother I want
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somebody that I've been looking for for
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a long time on the night of our
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broadcast Karla Downing's prayers are
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finally answered her natural mother Mary
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Maxwell was still very much alive and
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very anxious to see her daughter Karla
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was also overjoyed to discover she had
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two half-sisters eight days later Tana
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traveler from her home in Tennessee to
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Maryland where she was finally reunited
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with her mother
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[Music]
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[Music]
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I knew it was her I couldn't believe it
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and all I could say was cool and I ran
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out the door and she ran almost tell out
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the car I think and we couldn't do
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nothing else but hold each other and
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cried
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[Music]
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when I saw her for the first time I just
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can't describe that feeling it's a home
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at last I can breathe again it's just
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the happiest moment in my whole life
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you know just the happiest moment my
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whole life this is your grandfather when
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they got married it's like a miracle
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I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe
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it for the longest to Isis this this is
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not happening to us it only happens to
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other people that they find somebody
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they're looking for another us but yet
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it happened to us when I found out that
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my mom was alive and healthy and okay
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that was just the best news in the world
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haven't been the extra bonus was I have
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two sisters and a nephew
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so it's it's a happy ending it's a
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fairytale come true
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[Music]
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next a small-town cop who stood up to a
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gang of thugs harassing his community
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and then died under unusual
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circumstances
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[Music]
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in the late 1960s a group of young men
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began terrorizing tiny Rock Creek Ohio
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once quiet and peaceful Rock Creek
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became a community held hostage by fear
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they were involved in fights they were
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involved in threats they pretty much had
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the entire village under their thumb
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when they spoke the village pretty much
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listened at the time a town relied on
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the Ashtabula County Sheriff's
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Department for protection but with
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limited resources the department seemed
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unable to stem the crime wave of golfing
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Rock Creek the town's people decided to
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fight back they organized their own
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Police Department I Robert Henry soundly
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swear in July 1969
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Robert Hamrick became the third man in
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less than six months to take charge of
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run creeks Police Department his
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predecessors both left after allegedly
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receiving threats from members of the
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Rock Creek gang but Robert Hamrick was
00:26:17
confident that he could clean up the
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town well come on give him a kiss he
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tried to do the best job that he knew
00:26:28
how to do he wanted it to be a nice
00:26:30
friendly town and he wanted you know to
00:26:33
get these this gang off the streets so
00:26:38
that people wouldn't have to be afraid
00:26:39
of him
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almost immediately
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chief Hamrick and his family became the
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targets of a systematic campaign of
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harassment they just did anything that
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they could to aggravate him when they
00:27:02
knew he was home then you know he would
00:27:04
get fed up take off out there after him
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and then at least it would quiet down
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there by the house
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five months after he was sworn in chief
00:27:16
Hamrick investigated an abandoned
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building on the edge of town inside he
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found an expensive sports car a check of
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the license plate revealed that the car
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was stolen we come across two found it
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fingerprinted it and we bugged the
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building because we didn't know who was
00:27:36
there and we put a bug in the building
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put a radio in our car and just drove
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around and listened until the guys come
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back Bob was hiding in the office and
00:27:45
when they set up by which I've done and
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busted the suspects were believed to be
00:27:54
members of the Rock Creek gang they were
00:27:56
arrested and released on bail shortly
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after these guys was arrested for the
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stolen car is when the threats came in
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on the telephone and I don't really know
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how many threats came in because if he
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was home most the time he answered the
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phone but this one day I was in the
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kitchen and the phone rang
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hello it was a man on the other end and
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he said tell your husband delete things
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alone and get him out of town or he's
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gonna be hurt and he's gonna be hurt bad
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85 to 528 I mean one month later on
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March 10th 1970 during the routine
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patrol the chief Hamrick notified the
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Sheriff's dispatcher that he was in
00:28:56
pursuit of a car heading west out of
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town
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and I own a half past with no further
00:29:10
radio contact
00:29:11
finally at around 3 a.m. the dispatcher
00:29:14
requested the sheriff's deputies try and
00:29:16
locate the missing chief t1 he had I
00:29:19
speed chase Cohen west on calendar Road
00:29:22
from route 45 four hours later sheriff's
00:29:27
deputy Denny Chapman discovered Henrik's
00:29:29
patrol car on an isolated Road just
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outside of town
00:29:33
the car had collided with a tree chief
00:29:39
chief Hamrick was semi-conscious and
00:29:43
barely alive 11 this is 528 send out a
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signal 29 chief Hamrick has hurt real
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bad
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he had head and facial injuries the
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right side and west side both
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I was surprised to find you moving when
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I got there you know and then my next
00:30:03
thing was to get him to keep him from
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moving so that he wouldn't do further
00:30:07
injury to himself from the onset the
00:30:11
investigating deputy suspected foul play
00:30:13
they found blood covering the backseat
00:30:17
Hamrick service revolver a nightstick
00:30:19
were missing in fact nothing at the
00:30:22
scene seem consistent with an accident
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the patrol car's ignition and light
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switches really off position but why
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would Hamrick who was barely conscious
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turn off the engine and headlights but
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not radio for help
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Robert Hamrick never regained
00:30:46
consciousness
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ten days later he died despite
00:30:50
compelling evidence to the contrary am
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Rick's death was officially ruled an
00:30:54
accident I didn't believe that and I
00:30:58
still don't believe to this day that all
00:31:01
the injuries that Bob received was a
00:31:03
result of that car accident
00:31:05
I believe my husband's death was not a
00:31:09
car accident and that he was beaten to
00:31:11
death and that it was covered up there's
00:31:15
so many questions and there is evidence
00:31:18
and people just have ignored that
00:31:21
evidence and they've ignored the
00:31:23
circumstances at the time and what was
00:31:25
going on in the village at the time six
00:31:29
hours after the crash the car that
00:31:31
Hamrick had been chasing was found at a
00:31:33
local gas station
00:31:35
it was splattered with mud and had
00:31:37
tired the owner stated that she had
00:31:39
taken the car in for repairs of previous
00:31:42
day one of the station employees was
00:31:45
known to be a member of the Rock Creek
00:31:49
are you driving this car last night no
00:31:51
the owner told us when she dropped the
00:31:54
car off the car was in very clean
00:31:57
condition there was no flat tires on the
00:32:01
car when she dropped it off in fact I
00:32:03
think she was a little surprised that
00:32:05
they had to keep it overnight knowing
00:32:09
that he was from hung around the Rock
00:32:11
Creek area and I had had trouble with
00:32:14
him in the past from answering calls
00:32:16
down in the Rock Creek area I felt that
00:32:19
he was directly involved but say early
00:32:22
21 local woman claims that she overheard
00:32:24
members of the Rock Creek gang bragging
00:32:27
that they had murdered chief Hamrick
00:32:29
then they they were saying we killed us
00:32:33
a cop and we got away with it and they
00:32:41
proceeded to tell how they killed him
00:32:44
how they beat him in the head
00:32:49
they had it all planned they set him up
00:32:52
get him down here on this dirt road and
00:32:55
they took his billy club and they
00:32:57
started hitting him with
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they put him back into his car and then
00:33:31
they left him there left him to die they
00:33:40
said we'll never get caught and I knew
00:33:46
in my heart I knew they were right they
00:33:48
would never get caught they were above
00:33:52
the law
00:33:53
I've been checking into it for twenty
00:33:56
years constantly if somebody actually
00:34:01
hurt that man more than likely I know
00:34:02
them probably called him a friend and I
00:34:07
would hate to think that somebody that I
00:34:10
knew and somebody that I called a friend
00:34:12
would leave a man in the condition he
00:34:16
was in there's no way my father's death
00:34:19
could have been an accident
00:34:20
because I have read the files and
00:34:24
there's enough material in there to
00:34:27
point to other things and I I just can't
00:34:31
believe it
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I just hope that we find out what
00:34:38
actually happened and if by some miracle
00:34:42
we find out who is responsible that they
00:34:45
pay for what they did they took my
00:34:48
father from me and they've lived a life
00:34:51
thinking that they got away with it for
00:34:54
over 20 years now and I think it's time
00:34:56
that they that they got something taken
00:34:59
from them the case of Robert Hamrick has
00:35:04
been officially closed for more than 20
00:35:06
years however authorities have prepared
00:35:09
to reopen the investigation should any
00:35:11
new evidence come to light
00:35:14
next authorities need your help to find
00:35:17
a businessman accused of embezzling
00:35:19
millions of dollars
00:35:29
every year in the United States
00:35:31
thousands of adult men and women
00:35:32
seemingly vanished without a trace
00:35:35
sadly in many cases the missing person
00:35:37
is a victim of foul play however there
00:35:40
are those who engineer their own
00:35:42
disappearances leaving family and
00:35:44
friends to wonder not only where they
00:35:45
are but what happened Philip and
00:35:50
Kathleen bring her married in Detroit
00:35:52
Michigan in the spring of 1988 Philip
00:35:56
was a dashing high-powered corporate
00:35:57
executive Kathleen a young successful
00:36:00
businesswoman together they enjoy the
00:36:04
good life complete with a vast array of
00:36:06
expensive brolic toys apparently paid
00:36:09
for by Philips investments of the stock
00:36:11
market for Kathleen the marriage was a
00:36:15
dream come true
00:36:22
there were a lot of things that were
00:36:24
really great about him I think it was
00:36:25
his sense of humor was one thing that I
00:36:27
thought was really great and we were
00:36:30
crazy about each other I mean I really
00:36:32
love this person and I believe that he
00:36:34
really loved me and I believed that I
00:36:36
could trust him great Philip was a
00:36:39
president of a highly successful Detroit
00:36:42
mortgage company his position gave him
00:36:44
the authority to purchase mortgages with
00:36:46
a company to service I can't wait to
00:36:48
call he's gonna be very excited about
00:36:49
this by the way we hear anything back on
00:36:52
that commercial property on 15-mile he
00:36:56
always came across kind of as a
00:36:57
happy-go-lucky guy a wizard in the stock
00:37:00
market mean he was always coming saying
00:37:02
oh I made a great killing today I made a
00:37:04
hundred grand I made this I bought these
00:37:06
options I sold these options you just
00:37:08
thought this person had a certain knack
00:37:10
that nobody else had hell yeah he'll
00:37:14
Breen I got some good news Philip Breen
00:37:18
was also generous when a friend's
00:37:20
business hit hard times
00:37:22
Philip loaned him $100,000 no problem
00:37:25
you can pick up a check tomorrow who
00:37:26
wrote me a check with no questions asked
00:37:29
never came off as the big wheeler dealer
00:37:34
he came off as a kind and good person
00:37:37
and wanting to share what he had with
00:37:41
other people
00:37:41
he certainly shared it with me
00:37:45
in the spring of 1989 Breen purchased
00:37:48
the Orlando juice baseball team for
00:37:50
$700,000 the team was one of feat
00:37:54
franchises in the newly formed senior
00:37:56
professional baseball Association my
00:37:59
league builder all retired big-name ball
00:38:01
players the venture was risky and
00:38:04
Breen's worked at the mortgage company
00:38:06
soon took a backseat to his role as a
00:38:08
team owner
00:38:11
it seemed like it was something that he
00:38:13
really wanted to do it was important to
00:38:15
him
00:38:16
but in a lot of ways I didn't like it
00:38:19
because I thought that it put an awful
00:38:22
lot of pressure on him and it seemed
00:38:24
like he was just at that point running
00:38:28
himself into the ground you know it
00:38:30
didn't make sense to me to do it by
00:38:42
year's end the enterprise seemed doomed
00:38:44
to failure
00:38:44
Phillips investment had ballooned to
00:38:46
more than two million dollars and he'd
00:38:48
begun drinking heavily great during a
00:38:53
two-week vacation at their Florida condo
00:38:56
Kathleen became concerned about her
00:38:58
husband's mental state I said well I'll
00:39:05
send the cash oh I noticed a change in
00:39:08
him he seemed to be spending more money
00:39:13
it just seemed like as time went on the
00:39:16
money was going more and more to his
00:39:18
head
00:39:22
so you have no lien on this property
00:39:24
back in Detroit the mortgage company
00:39:27
where Philip was Employee made an
00:39:29
unsettling discovery
00:39:31
they'd been servicing loans at Brainerd
00:39:33
purchased with companies that simply did
00:39:35
not exist the company suspected Philip
00:39:39
dream of investing it was just
00:39:43
mind-boggling I mean something like that
00:39:45
could happen you know the things that
00:39:47
ran through your mind is my god you know
00:39:49
we trusted this guy you know how could
00:39:51
he do this to us on Friday January 5th
00:39:58
1990 Philip and Kathleen returned from
00:40:01
their Florida vacation to their home in
00:40:02
Detroit yes all right all right just a
00:40:08
minute just a minute
00:40:14
Oh something seemed to be not right and
00:40:26
I didn't know what and so I took his
00:40:30
briefcase into him in the room where he
00:40:32
was on the phone and that room was a
00:40:35
complete disaster area
00:40:37
he had records piled all over the floor
00:40:41
papers were strewn all over he looked
00:40:49
very upset I mean he had a very funny
00:40:52
expression on his face and it frightened
00:40:54
me to see him freaked out like that that
00:41:00
evening he revealed to me that he had
00:41:04
somehow been the victim of people
00:41:09
selling phony mortgages he said to us
00:41:14
don't don't worry I'll get these guys I
00:41:17
know they can explain it there's there's
00:41:20
not a problem
00:41:21
you know it kept reassuring us there's
00:41:23
not a problem I'll get ahold of them
00:41:25
over the weekend I kept saying
00:41:28
shouldn't we be contacting an attorney
00:41:30
should you be talking to a lawyer what
00:41:34
what do we need to do I was just
00:41:38
confused I didn't know what to do I was
00:41:41
afraid I was afraid for him I was afraid
00:41:44
for us by Monday morning Philip had
00:41:51
convinced Kathleen that he could
00:41:52
straighten everything out he left for
00:41:54
work at around 8 o'clock explaining at
00:41:56
an early meeting
00:41:59
Philip Breen never arrived at his office
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00:42:08
that night Kathleen's hopes at Philip
00:42:11
would return were dashed when she
00:42:12
discovered he had taken some of his
00:42:14
clothes and luggage
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I was really upset the idea that he
00:42:26
would have actually gone just was
00:42:31
incomprehensible to me I couldn't
00:42:34
believe it
00:42:37
an investigation by the FBI revealed a
00:42:40
magnitude of Philip Greene's
00:42:42
embezzlement scheme in less than two
00:42:44
years that created at least 99
00:42:47
fictitious loans netting in more than 10
00:42:49
million dollars Green allegedly used the
00:42:54
money to support his extravagant
00:42:56
lifestyle I see they're pretty
00:42:57
substantial the FBI also discovered that
00:43:01
12 years earlier Philip Breen had been
00:43:03
convicted for fraud and embezzlement in
00:43:05
Florida
00:43:08
there was just this whole person that I
00:43:11
didn't even know existed I think that I
00:43:14
was really just numb with shock and then
00:43:18
I I questioned my own sanity my own
00:43:23
intelligence and well how could you not
00:43:25
know and why didn't I know I mean I
00:43:30
found myself questioning absolutely
00:43:32
everything on the advice of her attorney
00:43:36
Kathleen filed for divorce it was too
00:43:40
late the courts held her legally
00:43:43
responsible for Philips debts she was
00:43:46
forced to sell nearly everything she and
00:43:48
Philip owned their cars boats Florida
00:43:51
condo and Detroit home
00:43:56
for Kathleen Breen
00:43:58
the dream was not just over it had been
00:44:00
shattered
00:44:01
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I felt like I was married to a monster
00:44:08
from outer space and it almost just
00:44:10
sickens me in a way like just just
00:44:15
haunted by it and still even know it's
00:44:18
it's just very difficult to believe that
00:44:21
that someone that you think that you
00:44:23
know would be capable of just picking up
00:44:26
and and just leaving like that
00:44:32
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00:44:45
on our next unsolved mysteries captain
00:44:49
Jeffrey Digman was a textbook
00:44:51
picture-perfect marine then he was found
00:44:53
shot to death in his own band
00:44:55
when police ruled it a suicide diglettz
00:44:58
paris began their own investigation and
00:45:00
set out to prove that their son had been
00:45:02
murdered also thanks to our viewers a
00:45:07
man water for kidnapping and attempted
00:45:08
murder is now in custody join me next
00:45:12
time perhaps you may be able to help
00:45:14
solve a mystery
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you
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