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broadcast tonight all news stories on
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the season premiere unsolved mysteries
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in the 1980's one UFO sighting after
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another numbering into the thousands
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astounded residents of New York's Hudson
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River Valley the controversy boiled over
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when maverick stunt pilots claimed they
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responsible for the spectacular light
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formations when she was just 17
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tami-lynn Lippert had it all she was a
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beauty queen
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an accomplished model as well on her way
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to a career in the movies but in 1982
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Tammi began to withdraw growing
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increasingly paranoid until finally she
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vanished in Paducah Kentucky a young
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stranger was seen loitering at the local
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airport penniless and trying to talk his
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way onto a flight people still wonder
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what drove him to make the desperate
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decision that would end his life
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join me for these intriguing stories on
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our season premiere perhaps you may be
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able to help solve on the street
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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Tammi is 16 years old it's 5 foot 1/2
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1982 the Miss America sunshine surf
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beauty pageant in Orlando Florida the
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eventual winner will be Tammy Lynn
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libert incredibly at the age of 16 Tammy
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has already competed in more than 300
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beauty contests she has won the crown
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280 times she was very loving kind she
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was always smiling you never saw the
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child when she wasn't smiling when she
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is as young as I can remember she woke
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up with a great big smile and the last
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thing I saw for she went to sleep with a
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big smile Tammy Lindley prett was a nun
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commonly beautiful child when she was
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just four years old she was entered in
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her first beauty contest Tammy's mother
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and father divorced when she was 7 her
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fledgling career fell to the tender
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loving care of her mother who was a
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theatrical and modeling agent I was
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constantly busy running her around to
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where she had to go and what she had to
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do and I enjoyed it I enjoyed watching
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her itself because she always went for
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the best that she could go for the
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highest level wing Flanagan one of
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Linda's clients was just 11 when he
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began living at her house
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he and Tammy were like brother and
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sister she would bend over and kiss me
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on the cheek and I couldn't quite ever
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get it completely off
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it was rather you know embarrassing to
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walk around with this mark but I think
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actually I learned to wear it proudly
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after a while because it was almost a
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status symbol
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you know Tammy
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in July of 1982
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tami-lynn was cast in the teen
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exploitation film Spring Break which had
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gone to earn nearly twenty five million
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dollars at the box office after Spring
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Break Tammy went unchaperoned to an
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out-of-town weekend party she came back
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a different person
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sometimes I'd ask her you know what was
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on her mind if anything was bothering
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her and she'd usually evade the question
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she'd change the subject or she'd say oh
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nothing you know and then try to laugh
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it off soon Tammy's behavior began to
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take on paranoid overtones hello no
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she's not here right now yeah all right
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bye happy now Tammy what's the problem
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honey talk to me Tammy I saw something
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awful what something really bad
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honey what did you see I wasn't supposed
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to see it she said that she saw
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something so horrible that she couldn't
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talk about it I talked to me and she
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said mom what would you say if I told
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you somebody was trying to kill me what
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are you see this Tammy
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can't tell anybody I kept trying to find
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out who they were she never would tell
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me
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tami-lynn began a steady retreat into
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isolation Linda and wing had no way of
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ascertaining which of Tammy's fears were
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real and which were paranoid delusions
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once she called me over to the window
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she said look across the street tell me
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what you see I said well the neighbors
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got a new van and she said exactly and
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you know I was I didn't know quite what
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she was getting at and she said the van
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has mirrored windows that means that
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they can see us but we can't see them
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after two weeks of virtual seclusion
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tami-lynn was offered a small part in
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the big budget Al Pacino film Scarface
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which began shooting in Miami in March
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of 1983 she stayed with a family friend
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Walter Leibovitz all went well until the
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fourth day of filming I received a call
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from the casting director to tell me
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that Tammy had a breakdown on the set
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they said that there was a scene where
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someone was supposed to be shot and I
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had artificial blood spurt out and they
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said when Tammy was watching the scene
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she started crying hysterically and it
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got so bad that they had her take her to
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a trailer she was in a tremendous state
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of fear anxiety hysterically crying
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saying something about money laundering
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I don't know where to hide things of
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that nature what it was that caused this
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great fear in her I don't know when I
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spoke with Tammy's mother I told her
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that she should take Tammy to a doctor
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and also take her to the police to find
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out if the problem was psychological or
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if there was some basis in fact that
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someone was actually trying to kill her
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and get to the bottom of it Tammy Lynn
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quit the film and went back to Cocoa
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Beach that her mother's insistence Tammy
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did talk to the local sheriff but
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apparently never mentioned that she felt
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her life was in danger
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even with her family Tammy's paranoia
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ran rampant she became convinced that
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someone was trying to poison her
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tasteless why just do it
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there were good days and there were bad
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days there were days when she was almost
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normal
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almost and there were other days when
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she was real edgy she was not the Tammy
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that we know we did not recognize this
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Tammy in personality she even began to
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take on a different look kind of a wild
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look in her eyes and scared look that's
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what it was and if she really believed
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that somebody was going to try to kill
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her
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scared us the feeling that we were
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seeing on July 1st 1983 Tammy Lynn
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finally snapped what are you looking at
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not you I saw you looking at me Robert I
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look at you don't
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we're doing stop completely crazy
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looking at her eyes she wasn't her I
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don't think she really knew who I was I
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just kept saying over and over again
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Tammy I love you until I finally saw
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recognition in her eyes I knew then
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right then that I handled that incident
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but I didn't know if I was gonna be able
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to handle the next one
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Linda checked Tammy into the brevard
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county mental health center for a
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complete physical and psychiatric
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evaluation doctors found no evidence of
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drug or alcohol use and kept Tammy in
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the hospital for 72 hours of observation
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after we took her home she said you've
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got to make me a promise I said if I can
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just mom if anything happens to me
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anything at all I want you to get even
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with that person for me would you please
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I said what do you think it's gonna
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happen Tammy she said I know you don't
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want to hear this but he's still gonna
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try to kill me
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Rick Adam it was Tammy's best friend
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they went out the day after she was
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released from the hospital at that time
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Tammy we got out of the van and she
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looked at me and she says Rick I I love
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you I said Tammy I love you too and she
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said I might be going away for a while
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next day everything seems to be
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extraordinarily normal
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she seemed I think really be trying to
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impress me she was okay a little bit
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right I suddenly got frightened real
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frightened and I went to the door and
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opened it I just knew right then it was
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the last time I was gonna see her
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this friend picked her up at her home in
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Rockledge Florida and they drove to the
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beach and we talked to him and he
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basically stated that they become
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involved in a verbal argument that she
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had requested that he let her out near
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the glass bank in Cocoa Beach and he
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complied and as far as we know that was
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the last person to see Tammy I just want
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you to shut up
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according to Tammy's friend he dropped
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her off at approximately 3 p.m. on July
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6 1983 five miles from her house she was
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barefoot and carried no purse
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she disappeared without a trace we
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talked to some of her close friends they
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felt strongly that Tammy was having
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problems at home and that that she had
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left home and she wanted to leave home
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there's no conceivable way I would
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believe it because first of all she was
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getting ready to go to California for
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three months that's a way from as far
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away from me as she could get from Cocoa
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Beach to California and she was really
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excited about going what reason would
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she have for running away
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Tammy saw something Tammy saw something
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that she shouldn't have Tammy knew
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something she shouldn't have about
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someone that she was very frightened of
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sometimes I feel if I had asked her
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rather than told her that it was in her
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imagination maybe she would still be
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here
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[Music]
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what could a 17 year old girl have seen
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would cause it a fear for her life
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during her break down on a set of
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Scarface tami-lynn had mentioned money
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laundering according to an official at
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the US Customs Service dozens of money
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laundering cases in Florida under
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federal investigation at that time
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some call it sheer coincidence Tammy's
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mother believes it is no coincidence at
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all I think Tammy is either a victim of
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foul play or she doesn't know who she is
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I as a mother wanted to believe
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everything she told me and I wanted to
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help her if I had it all to do over
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again I would go back in I would believe
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every single word she told me and I
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would just hide her someplace until we
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found out what the truth was but I can't
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do it over and maybe she had to hide on
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their own I don't know no matter what
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happens I would
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like for things to turn out for the best
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this interview was taped in 1983 during
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Tammy Lin's final beauty pageant do you
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like the best aren't the best and things
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the doubt seems again
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are the best
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but I'll do my best no matter when we
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return a series of UFO sightings fuels
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controversy New York's Hudson River
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Valley the quiet beauty of New York's
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Hudson River Valley malaises location
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just 40 miles north of the bustling
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streets of Manhattan the valley is home
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to upscale professionals and retirees
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they tend to be well educated in
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cosmopolitan hardly the type of people
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you would expect to be swept up by UFO
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fever yet that is exactly what happened
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to more than 5,000 area residents
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between 1983 and 1989 the epidemic of
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sensational UFO sightings in the Hudson
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River Valley lasted six years
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ultimately the entire episode was
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largely dismissed as a hoax perpetrated
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by a group of local stunt pilots however
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to this day many of the eyewitnesses
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maintain that what they saw could not
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have been a handful of airplanes
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[Music]
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Dennis sent a husband and father of five
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has worked in local government for 17
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years he is currently the
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highest-ranking deputy in Putnam County
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on March 17th 1983 sans home in Brewster
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was a site of an extraordinary event
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[Music]
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with a very large object the structure
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of it was very dark grey metallic almost
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girder type looking
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girls toasty money to see this
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the objects seem to be very silent the
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lights were iridescent bright they stood
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out in the sky and 3-dimension it looked
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like a city of lights it's just hung in
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the sky of all brilliant colors at that
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time the girls became very frightened
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and they ran inside the house then my
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son and I were just drawn underneath it
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feel very good about encountering a
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visual contact with the object
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[Music]
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we followed the object around to the
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backyard and at that point a feeling of
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fright came upon me my thoughts started
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to flood my mind thoughts of the craft
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touching ground thoughts of an encounter
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with an alien being thoughts of being
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abducted all types of fearful thoughts
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started to enter into my mind and it
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seemed only to be seconds before the
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object started to move again but the
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feelings were overwhelming
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from beginning to end the 19 or 20
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minutes that I had viewed that craft was
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also a time of self-examination of
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myself and who I was
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[Music]
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Dennis Santana's family we're not the
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only ones mesmerized by the
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extraordinary light formation a few
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miles away traffics preached to a halt
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on Interstate 84 as a mysterious object
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hovered overhead the Hudson Valley
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sightings had only just begun I was
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sitting there looking at it and I wasn't
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afraid I was just amazed I was in awe of
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it I don't know what it was officer Andy
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said of a ten year veteran of the
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Newcastle Police is also an instructor
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in criminal child abuse procedures on
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March 24th
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one week after Dennis Sants sighting
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officers say dog was working routine
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traffic patrol I was working a 4:00 p.m.
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to midnight tour and assigned to set up
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some radar to look for speeding cars
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I had the radar set up and I looked up
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into the sky and saw coming from east to
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west there was a series of lights and at
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first I thought it was a plane it was
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quite a distance quite far away but it
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was it was really quite large
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as I recall there were mostly white
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lights but there were green lights also
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it was alternating green and white
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lights it approached my vehicle and as
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it approached the vehicle it stopped and
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it seemed to hover there was no sound
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and I'm looking at this thing like
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thinking what is it
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[Music]
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when I put my head out the window and
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I'm looking up and it was huge
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the thing that I recall the most is I
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was amazed that there was no noise
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there was no humming there was no engine
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no low sound to it it was absolutely
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silent just seconds later the eerie
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silence was broken another eyewitness
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report unit five to base from seeing it
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- it's hovering above my car at the time
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that we started to transmit over the air
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that was about the time that it started
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to move and it moved very slowly almost
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floated and we followed it we followed
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it until it disappeared off into the
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hills I guess I was mostly curious as to
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what it could be you know excited - to
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try and figure out well maybe it's this
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or maybe it's a government thing or but
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I wasn't frightened of it no there
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really wasn't time to be frightened of
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it I was spending most of my time trying
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to figure out why there was no noise
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coming out of this thing so it was truly
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a flying City if that's the way you want
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to call it I mean it was huge computer
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engineer Edie burns is a retired senior
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manager for IBM at the time of the
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sightings Burns handled the company's
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contracts in Japan and South America
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on the night of March 24th and virtually
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the same time officers Sadoff was
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pursuing the mysterious object Edie
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Byrnes was driving home on the Taconic
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Parkway ten miles north of say toffs
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location I have no where I got a lot of
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static on the radio I felt maybe I was
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on the wrong number and then I went over
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to turn the dial again and that's when I
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looked up and saw this crash
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it was a triangular Chevron ship and the
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back of that Chevron had to be as large
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as a football field at least it was one
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solid piece of a chevron shape and there
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was no noise seems so close to the
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ground it seemed like I could have
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thrown a rock at it maybe Ed Burns
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pulled off the highway and joined a
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group of motorists by the side of the
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road all were gazing skyward seemingly
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dumbstruck it was so shocking this one
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fellow that was talking to her never did
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answer me a bit isn't that incredible
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have you ever seen anything so huge I
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think was just staring at this thing and
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I remember his size of his eyes were so
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huge and he never did answer me at all
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it seemed like I talked for an hour was
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probably only a minute but I was so
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excited about I wanted to share and
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share whatever I was feeling at the time
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where was it from
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I met into astronomy Mars I mean I don't
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know the solar systems but what I had
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witnessed that night was not from this
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planet the eyewitness reports indicated
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the object was slowly moving north over
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the Hudson River Valley
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officers say tov and at least 12 others
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sought newcastle ten minutes later ed
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burns and at least 20 motorists sought
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near Millwood ten minutes after that but
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phones began ringing off the hook in the
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police station at Yorktown Yorktown PD
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officer Wolfe
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no ma'am everything is fine no we've had
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several reports everything is under
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control
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every line kept going every single line
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constant answered the phone another one
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answer the next line another one got to
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the point I got a call of the Connick
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Parkway being stopped the people were
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all out in the cars it was starting to
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get really crazy as I tried calling the
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cars to find out if they saw anything
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and the only one that called what the
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cars was Kevin said that he would stop
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in Officer Kevin Sora Villa had also
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seen the dazzling lights reported by
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dozens of Yorktown residents the object
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was extremely large an estimated to be
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close to 300 the foreign it yards wide
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we stood out in front facing to the
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north and approximately about five
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minutes we did the object began to
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appear from the northern horizon
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officers wolf and Sarah Villa were
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standing side by side under the same sky
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yet their accounts are entirely
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contradictory it's gotta be a group of
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planes or something I don't think so
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yeah I think I see a wing in there I
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don't think so they don't look like
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planes officer Sarah Villa is convinced
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that what he saw was one large object
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with a number of small lights I was say
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approximately 1618 lights running in a
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v-formation from 200 to 40 yards of why
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I was standing between the lights to see
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any type of a solid structure where he
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may have basically been staring at the
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lights of themselves they look like
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airplanes to me I said keV I says you
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know I live near an airport so I see
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these airplanes every day so as they
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were coming over he says well he can't
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hear anything and said listen with that
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when we started hearing a drone it
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wasn't one big solid unit but it if you
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looked at it for like a couple of
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minutes or even a fraction as it was
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coming over I could see where some
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people would have gotten upset
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suddenly the Hudson Valley sightings had
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taken a dramatic turn it appeared that
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the UFOs were a hoax nothing more than a
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small aircraft flying in precise
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patterns but this earthly explanation
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was lost in an avalanche of additional
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sightings which continued unabated month
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after month in addition many claim this
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circular formation photographed it has
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swept over the area is also a UFO
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however other eyewitnesses countered
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that the unusual lights they had seen
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were nothing more than small airplanes
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flying in wedge-shaped formations is
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anywhere from upwards of seven to ten
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aircraft that do fly around in formation
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and this is visible from our tower
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Anthony Capaldi has been an air traffic
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controller for just under ten years in
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the summer of 1983 he made an
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observation that seemed to settle the
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UFO controversy once and for all the
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first time I observe the formation
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flying it looked a little peculiar
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and from our vantage point in the tower
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they just appear to be just on being
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light because they are they are flying
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in tight formation so estimate the size
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maybe two football fields wide there's a
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v6 aircraft flying in formation I
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imagine it's possible at first glimpse
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that an observer may not be fully aware
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of what this formation is but I don't
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think if this formation flew over an
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individual's head at a thousand feet
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that there's any way you can miss
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diagnose it for anything but the
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formation flying due to the the son of
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the aircraft engines and imagine at
00:29:42
1,000 feet you could really determine
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that it's aircraft the UFO was surely
00:29:48
seen before these hoaxster pilots began
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their night flights and after these
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hoaxers began their night flights people
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would call me up who had seen the UFO on
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previous dates and said well I saw
00:30:01
something strange in the sky but it
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wasn't the same thing that I saw a week
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before it definitely was planes so he
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had people who saw the UFO and then you
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had people who saw the planes and were
00:30:11
able to identify each as being something
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strange in something totally explainable
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oh good god
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I don't know well I'll be - I'm gonna
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tell you something funny I don't know
00:30:27
what the holidays this home videotape
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showing a light formation about Brewster
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New York was taken July 24th 1984 by
00:30:34
local resident Bob Pozzuoli Philip and
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Bronte know is convinced it shows a UFO
00:30:41
being a scientist myself I'm still
00:30:43
waiting for it to be proved 100%
00:30:46
although it has been looked at by a
00:30:48
number of photographic experts who
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indicate that the movement of the object
00:30:52
on the video seems to be one rigid
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object and not individual objects plus
00:30:59
there were hundreds and hundreds of
00:31:00
witnesses who saw the UFO and said it
00:31:03
was something strange but the night that
00:31:05
the airplanes were seen there were also
00:31:07
dozens of witnesses who said in fact
00:31:10
that they did see airplanes this image
00:31:15
was videotaped in June of 1984 also by
00:31:19
Bob pozzuoli skeptics and believers all
00:31:22
agree that it shows a squadron of small
00:31:24
planes that some say are military
00:31:26
aircraft if you look at that videos you
00:31:34
can see that the lights are shifting
00:31:36
position in relation to each other
00:31:38
the fellow who videotaped it is talking
00:31:41
about he can hear the engines he can see
00:31:42
the stars as the object is passing over
00:31:45
him the matter of fact when that
00:31:47
videotape was made of the airplanes no
00:31:49
one came forward to say they had seen a
00:31:51
UFO people called me and said they had
00:31:53
seen airplanes flying in formation but
00:31:55
the night of the UFO sighting when the
00:31:57
videotape was made I had hundreds of
00:32:00
phone calls two different telephone
00:32:01
lines of people who had in fact seen a
00:32:04
UFO
00:32:08
what is the truth about the spectacular
00:32:11
light formations that cruise the Hudson
00:32:13
River Valley for the aerial stunts
00:32:16
performed by sophisticated pranksters or
00:32:18
UFOs of unknown origin even those who
00:32:22
saw the same object at the same time
00:32:24
cannot agree I personally think that it
00:32:28
was an airplane or people who were
00:32:31
playing games trying to take get a rush
00:32:35
and an excitement out of making people
00:32:37
feel hey there's somebody from another
00:32:40
world here where in fact they were just
00:32:43
fooling people's mind if it was also
00:32:48
lies I'm a little amazed by the
00:32:50
precision flying I have to see it again
00:32:53
to believe I'm not too sure I'm not too
00:32:56
sure about
00:33:00
in a man's life particular things unfold
00:33:03
that make an impression for the rest of
00:33:05
their life
00:33:06
this was one of those moments in my time
00:33:09
that made a very dramatic impression
00:33:12
upon me what I saw was not planes in
00:33:16
formation
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there was no shaking or movement or
00:33:23
rocking back and forth of any of the
00:33:26
lights it was perfectly still you know
00:33:29
I'm not trying to say what it was I
00:33:30
don't know what it was I know it wasn't
00:33:32
an airplane I tell the story a lot to
00:33:37
certain friends that I can trust it'll
00:33:39
believe me I mean my wife I think
00:33:41
believes me because she loves me and
00:33:44
respects me I don't know if my children
00:33:47
do but they love and respect me but they
00:33:49
also read the papers I guess and I guess
00:33:52
about this five other airplanes
00:33:54
maybe they equated to that but boy I'll
00:33:56
tell you I'll never forget that as long
00:33:59
as I live and five airplanes it was not
00:34:04
in preparing to film this story unsolved
00:34:07
mysteries ask the alleged hoaxers to
00:34:08
recreate one of their flights during
00:34:10
daylight hours no one was willing to be
00:34:13
publicly identified this may be because
00:34:16
when flown at night some of the
00:34:18
maneuvers violate FAA regulations
00:34:21
according a Tony Capaldi most of the
00:34:24
formation flights took place on Thursday
00:34:25
nights it is interesting to note that
00:34:28
less than one third of the UFO sightings
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occurred on Thursday nights in a moment
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a young man dies under tragic
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circumstances
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September 30th 1991 Paducah Kentucky are
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you a pilot
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do you know a pilot I can talk to you
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just after 6 p.m. a young man approached
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airport worker Wes Weaver at padukas
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small airfield listen I'm really in a
00:35:09
bind I really need to get out west you
00:35:11
got to know somebody here that can help
00:35:12
me out I've kind of thought that maybe
00:35:15
he was into something he wasn't supposed
00:35:16
to be into running from something
00:35:19
because he honestly he didn't act
00:35:21
drugged up I mean didn't act like he was
00:35:23
drunk and he really did not crazy just
00:35:25
kind of desperate come on man I mean
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look I've got this jacket isn't there
00:35:30
some way I could trade this jacket for a
00:35:32
lift you know one of the pilots around
00:35:34
here what began as an odd encounter soon
00:35:37
evolved into a tragic and perplexing
00:35:39
mystery I finally just kind of told him
00:35:43
no and and made it to the point to learn
00:35:45
you know he should lay even he stood
00:35:47
around for a little while and finally he
00:35:49
went back through the hangar 30 minutes
00:35:53
later Wes Weaver's saw the stranger
00:35:56
again and he had the jacket on and I
00:36:00
thought it was kind of strange so I kind
00:36:02
of slowed down and watched and I saw him
00:36:04
run across the ditch and and jump up on
00:36:07
the fence and jump over and run towards
00:36:09
the plane and that's when i radioed for
00:36:11
someone to call security
00:36:16
two other witnesses saw the young man
00:36:19
run across the airstrip me and my
00:36:24
husband was out in the yard and this
00:36:25
plane you know pulled up and we saw this
00:36:27
guy running in the field and he run over
00:36:31
to on the other side of the plane well
00:36:34
we never did see him no more the way he
00:36:36
was running to it so fast you know he
00:36:40
was up to something the only aircraft on
00:36:44
the runway was commuter flight to nine
00:36:46
for old destination Memphis Tennessee
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just before sunset but exactly six forty
00:36:52
nine the plane was cleared for takeoff
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everything seemed normal
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the plane got way up there and I stood
00:37:04
there you know was watching in a few
00:37:06
minutes I seen something fall and I told
00:37:10
my husband I said they something fell
00:37:12
out of that plane as darkness fell
00:37:17
Airport authorities mobilized an
00:37:19
extensive search looking for any sign of
00:37:22
the man witnesses had seen
00:37:26
at the northern end of the airfield
00:37:28
Director of airfield services ron jones
00:37:31
noticed a section of fence which had
00:37:33
been damaged lying at the base was the
00:37:36
body of the young stranger it really hit
00:37:40
me the end that that this actually
00:37:43
happened that someone actually got onto
00:37:46
an aircraft some kind of wave and that
00:37:49
someone had fallen to go there no
00:37:52
identification of any kind was found on
00:37:54
or near the body as we examine the and
00:38:00
we note that the nails appear to be
00:38:02
manicured and well-groomed blood tests
00:38:06
reveal no traces of drugs or alcohol in
00:38:09
the victims system we noticed that his
00:38:12
body was well tanned and that there were
00:38:15
not any tan lines the pubic hair was
00:38:18
shaved in in a swimmer's type style or
00:38:21
of someone who may have been wearing
00:38:23
tights
00:38:24
we searched out leads with a male dancer
00:38:29
troupe that was here the Chippendale
00:38:31
type dancers who were here the week
00:38:32
prior and we base that on to his
00:38:35
well-developed physical appearance his
00:38:38
tan body the shaved pubic area and all
00:38:41
of those leads were negative when they
00:38:42
were researched
00:38:44
this is a jacket worn by the young man
00:38:47
in one of the pockets investigators
00:38:49
found a pair of swimming goggles sewn
00:38:52
into the collar was an ID tag inscribed
00:38:54
lieutenant LF price USAF a check of
00:38:59
military records could find no such
00:39:01
person when we go back and look at the
00:39:07
series of events that led up to this
00:39:09
incident the individual had
00:39:13
approximately 90 seconds to two minutes
00:39:15
to climb over a seven and a half foot
00:39:17
high fence traverse approximately 800
00:39:20
foot of terrain including one ditch
00:39:22
system run around the aircraft's tail
00:39:25
section and then climb on the aircraft
00:39:27
although we have no actual eyewitnesses
00:39:29
to his climbing on the aircraft and
00:39:33
again the time interval was between 90
00:39:35
seconds and 120 seconds it's quite an
00:39:37
accomplishment
00:39:41
within seconds flight to 9/4 Oh was
00:39:44
barreling down the runway at 125 miles
00:39:47
an hour once airborne the speed
00:39:51
increased to more than 190 miles an hour
00:39:54
and that obviously is a substantial wind
00:39:58
force upon anyone trying to stay on the
00:40:02
wing of an aircraft with really no hand
00:40:04
holes we judge at this point that he
00:40:08
managed to stay on for approximately
00:40:11
3,000 to 3,500 feet after the aircraft
00:40:14
departed the ground
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I wonder what was so important to make
00:40:26
him take a chance I'm trying to catch a
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ride on the outside of an aircraft I
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think that there's an answer with his
00:40:34
family his family may not have even
00:40:37
known that he was coming home and I
00:40:40
think that that's probably if we could
00:40:42
just get over that hurdle there I think
00:40:44
we could find out why
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join me next time for another edition
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