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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 tonight a special unsolved
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mysteries report mysteries of alien
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beings who are they and where do they
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come from are they real or imagined in
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recent years hundreds of people have
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come forward with startling accounts of
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abduction by alien beings even though
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the descriptions are strikingly similar
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there is no hard evidence as such beings
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actually exist for many abductees the
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memories are triggered by a vivid dream
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I was starting to have nightmares really
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terrible nightmares that I could not
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explain but I found myself in a very
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brightly lit room I had no idea where I
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was or why I was there to my left I
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could see my brother Jim Chuck Rach and
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Charlie Pfalz sitting on some type of
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bench and they were all naked and while
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I'm trying to figure this out I notice
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this figure or a dark shadowy type
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figure emerging from the this light this
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bright light in front of me wasn't like
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other nightmares where you have some
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strange dumb dream or something and you
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forget about it the next day
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this would stick with me for days and
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days it was like I couldn't think about
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anything else I couldn't function it was
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horrible not so long ago it seemed
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inconceivable that aliens and UFOs had
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become the topics of everyday
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conversation yet a recent poll reveal
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that nearly half of all Americans now
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believe that UFOs are real
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in the next hour a new in-depth look but
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maybe the most remarkable phenomena of
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our range
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we'll take you to area 51 a top-secret
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military installation tucked away in the
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remote Nevada desert you'll meet a man
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who claims that he worked near area 51
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witnessed the test flight of alien
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spacecraft for almost 50 years the
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so-called Roswell incident is fascinated
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and confounded UFO researchers tonight
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in an exclusive update a new eyewitness
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accounts suggest that the Army did in
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fact recover the bodies of alien beings
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in 1947 and the fantastic saga of the
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allagash war four young men who claim
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that they were abducted by aliens during
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a camping trip in the main wilderness
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their chilling story may seem
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unbelievable but more and more people
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have become convinced that such accounts
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are based in fact not fiction join us
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for the special report mysteries of
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alien be
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it scared us we didn't know what it was
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or didn't know what to think about it
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just like dumb fathers we were just like
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at all there was no wings
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there was no motors there was no
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propeller
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I know it wasn't the planet Venus and I
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know it was not atmospheric phenomena
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these were some kind of craft moving
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over our house I notice two cigarette
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like shape things with the hump in the
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middle so the hair is that
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there's no way of knowing how many
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people believe that they've actually
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seen a UFO from outer space but it seems
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safe to assume the reliable sightings
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now number well into the thousands
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typically a sighting involves a single
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eyewitness in other cases a small group
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will see the same thing at the same time
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in the most traumatic episodes an entire
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community will report seeing the same
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object in the sky for weeks months or
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even years that is exactly what happened
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over New York's Hudson Valley between
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1983 and 1986
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perhaps no account was more convincing
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than that of Ed Burns a computer
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engineer
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out of nowhere I got a lot of static on
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the radio I got I thought maybe I was on
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the wrong number and I went over to turn
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the dial again and that's when I looked
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up and saw this craft
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it was a triangular Chevron shipment and
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the back of that Chevron had to be as
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large as a football field at least it
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was one solid piece of a chevron shape
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the wedge-shaped chevron of G described
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by many Hudson Valley eyewitnesses was
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no stranger to UFO historians it first
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appeared in 1947 when a pirate named
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Kenneth army claimed that he encountered
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not one but nine mysterious flying
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objects on a search and rescue mission
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over Washington State when a headline
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writer tried to describe an Arnold saw
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he coined the phrase flying saucer and
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helped launch the modern era of UFOs
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soon people all over the country were
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reporting UFO sightings but by the early
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1950s the Air Force had reached the
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conclusion the correct conclusion in my
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opinion that all UFO reports were
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explainable in down-to-earth prosaic
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terms but some of the more impressive
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encounters could not be explained when a
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wave of UFOs swarmed over the small town
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of Lubbock Texas in 1951 a County
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student named Carl Hart jr. took a
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remarkable series of photographs
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incredibly more than 30 years later the
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same v-shaped lights were described by
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many of the Hudson Valley eyewitnesses
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are the striking similarity to
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coincidence wishful thinking or perhaps
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part of an unmistakable pattern the
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stretches back hundreds of years there
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are many things that happen in the
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distant past that we are never going to
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understand fully in fact when you go
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into history and into folklore you get
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intriguing accounts of odd phenomena
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seen in the sky
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this antique German woodcut depicts a
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quote frightful spectacle that occurred
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in Nuremberg in 1561 could it be that
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the random chaos of lights and symbols
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depicted here is a same phenomenon that
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was photographed in the skies over
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Canada in 1974 more than 400 years later
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this Renaissance painting of Madonna and
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child seems perfectly normal
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however closer inspection reveals a
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strange craft hovering in the background
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with an Earthbound observer witnessing
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the event for many historians
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comparisons between past and present
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suggest that UFOs are not restricted to
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the modern age strange globes seen over
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Basel Switzerland in 1566 a photograph
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taken in Salem Massachusetts 1952 a
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French token minted in the 1680s seems
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to show the underside of a circular
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object floating in the sky
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could it be the same up describe during
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the 1980s by a group of American airmen
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stationed in England it seems amazing to
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scientists that if you take all these
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UFO reports at face value
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that all the visitors have somehow
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managed to clean up after themselves
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perfectly how come we have never had any
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picnic garbage we've never had a left
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over calling card a shred of clothing a
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piece of the spaceship some of their
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motor oil drop dripping on the ground
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nothing which could then be tested in
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our laboratories and clearly established
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as alien but many researchers believe
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the government does have proof of alien
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contact and has had it since 1947 when
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this startling headline appeared in the
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Roswell New Mexico Daily Record
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the story began with a violent storm on
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July 2nd 1947 a few days later a local
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rancher led two military officers to a
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pasture where something had crashed
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during the storm why did you stay there
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mr. Randall lieutenant major Jesse
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Marcel senior an intelligence officer
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and combat pilot was unable to identify
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the debris years after this instant
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happened we would talk privately among
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ourselves about what the possibilities
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of this what this thing was and I feel
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that we well I know that we came to the
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conclusion it was not of earthly origin
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Jesse Marcel jr. was 11 years old at the
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time and vividly remembers a night his
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father brought pieces of the wreckage
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home he is one of the few people still
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living that claims to have handled the
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debris Marcel recalls it the most
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remarkable fragment was a short piece of
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Ivy covered with strange symbols and
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embossed markings it's like some kind of
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hieroglyphics this writing could be
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described as like hieroglyphics egyptian
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type of hard looks but not really the
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symbols are in the eye beams were more
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of a geometric type configuration in
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various designs
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it had a violet purple type color and
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was actually an embossed part of the
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metal itself
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other witnesses have claimed that the
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army not only recovered the wreckage of
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a UFO the bodies of its occupants
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captain Pappy Henderson was stationed at
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Roswell in 1947 two years before he died
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he described what he saw to his wife my
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husband told me the bodies were small
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smaller than human bodies the heads were
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larger and the eyes were rather sunken
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and a little slanted clothing was of
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material unlike anything he'd seen
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before they were strange they were not
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not of this earth
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when my husband he was a man of truth
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who was trusted with 29 different army
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aircraft planes first pilot aircraft
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commander tells me this story I believed
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him
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shortly after the details of the crash
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remains a story they admitted to making
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a grave mistake and announced that the
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flying saucer wreckage was in fact
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debris from a downed weather balloon
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for almost 50 years the events that took
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place at Roswell in the official
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explanation fueled suspicions and
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charges of cover-up as recently as
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September 8 1994 the Air Force released
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yet another report stating at the rumors
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of alien contact were groundless in
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spite of these assertions witnesses
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continued to come forward insisting that
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the reports are true of all the new
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accounts the story related by a man
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named Glenn Dennis is too compelling to
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be ignored in 1947 when Dennis was 22
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years old and just out of college that
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summer he was working as a morticians
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assistant at a funeral home in Roseville
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two days before the saucer story broke
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dennis received a strange phone call
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from the Roswell Air Base Mallard
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funeral home he's not in but this is
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Glen Dennis can I help you yes sir he
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was wanting to know what size
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hermetically sealed baby kaskus do we
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have did we have pacifically three feet
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six inches or did we have maybe no
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larger than a four foot hermetically
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sealed casket that afternoon Glen Dennis
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was called a transport an injured airman
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to the Roswell base when he arrived he
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was surprised to find the base in firmer
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he's surrounded by MPs two ambulances
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parked at the curb immediately drew
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Glen's attention
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I looked into the ambulance I saw quite
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a bit of wreckage of some type it looked
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like stainless steel that had become in
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contact with the high degree of heat it
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was a purplish bluish color I noticed
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one large piece of the wreckage could
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look like the listing Egyptian
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hieroglyphics
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the confusion at that day that I was out
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there was so great but I don't think
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anyone really knew what the other man
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was doing and I don't think they even
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knew each other
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I think they were brought in from
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different military bases or whatever sir
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is there anything you want me to do can
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I help you I'm Glenn Dennis with a
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Ballard funeral home when we have a
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contract with the base well this area is
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off-limits today yeah but there was a
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crash outside do you want me to go back
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and get ready or anything son this is an
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off-limits area today you're not allowed
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in here sergeant escort this man back to
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the funeral home two MPs came up and
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said sir we have to ask you me of I hold
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it right there bring that man back here
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and you get this straight and you get
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back to town you didn't hear anything
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and you didn't see anything because
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nothing happened here do you understand
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me
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that's not true I just saw crash shots
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nothing happened
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you can't tell me what to do I'm a
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civilian oh really and that's when he
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said let mr. somebody'd be picking your
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bones out of the sand if you go stirred
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up a lot of revelers you got me get him
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out of here
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there's a door opened into one of the
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supply room and the nurse that I knew
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personally was coming out something very
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drastically was wrong at the base
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naturally I'd you know was curious and
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mad and couldn't believe what was
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happening so the first person I thought
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I was to contact a nurse to see what she
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might know and she could she bring me up
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to date on what was going on as Glenn
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Dennis was being escorted from the
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Roswell infirmary by two MPs a group of
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doctors stumbled out of a storeroom
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overcome by noxious fumes with them was
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a nurse with Glenn recognized hoping to
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find an explanation for the strange
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events at the base Glenn Dennis asked
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the nurse if she would meet with him the
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next day the nurse agreed on the
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condition that Glenn never reveal her
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identity yesterday I went into the
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supply room to pick up some bandages and
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there were two offices there who ordered
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me to take notes during this what she
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said that she saw that they were doing a
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partial autopsy and there were these two
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old Hospital Gurney's with these two
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little crash bags on top there was the
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crash bag it was open and there was two
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very mutilated very small bodies they
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weren't children I never seen anything
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like that and then one of the officers
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had these long forceps I turned a hand
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over that had been severed and they were
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explaining that it was a very
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and only four fingers I get armed with
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some four fingers cups the head was very
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large the eyes were set back they didn't
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have the ear lobes or anything there was
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like two canals like two year canals
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there was only two offices where the
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nose the mouth she explained and what
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she said she wrote down was only like an
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inch slit they described there was no
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teeth it was just like a piece of
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cartilage maybe and they opened the next
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back and there was a whole creature in
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there that wasn't mutilated it was just
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horrible I've never seen anything like
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that in my life you know the nurse
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claimed to have seen three bodies she
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was adamant but none of them was earthly
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in origin after Glenn left the nurse he
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returned to his office when he casually
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unfolded the newspaper on his desk
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it was the infamous edition of the
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Roswell Daily Record Glenn never saw the
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nurse again a few weeks later rumors
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circulated that she had died in a plane
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crash after being transferred out of the
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country to this day Glenn Dennis remains
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convinced that the details of her story
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are true there had to be some type of a
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body prints and they had to be something
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there I don't think the nurse lied about
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cuz I don't think she knew how to lie in
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the first place and I just think
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something happened very unusual and it I
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don't I doubt very seriously if the
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world will ever know what happened I'm
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absolutely convinced that the Roswell
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events crystallized government secrecy
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about UFOs
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I think Roswell became important to the
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military because possibly for the first
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time they actually could get their hands
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on the remains of a flying saucer they
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had the debris they had bodies they had
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possibly the remains of propulsion unit
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this was an unprecedented opportunity
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600 miles west of Roswell somewhere in
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the midst of the vast Nevada desert is a
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top-secret military installation it's
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been called the ranch the funny fun
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dreamland groom Lake and most commonly
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area 51
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it doesn't appear on any map and
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although it can be seen with a naked eye
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from an adjoining ridge the Air Force
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insists that area 51 does not exist it's
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been there since the 1960s and it's a
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site where extremely advanced aviation
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technology has tested usually under
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cover of darkness some of these objects
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actually look like what people have
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reported as UFOs this amateur video was
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shot near area 51 using a special
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digital zoom lens skeptics say the
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strange lights seen here and in other
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videos are experimental military
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aircraft but others remain convinced
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that they are in reality the test
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flights of alien spacecraft the only
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thing I was told is that I was going to
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be working on an advanced propulsion
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system Bob Lazar says he worked for six
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months at a secret installation near
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area 51 something different than a jet
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or rocket something different than a
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propeller which I thought was fantastic
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that was exactly what I was interested
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in I had no idea that this was of
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extraterrestrial origin as astonishing
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as it may seem Bob Lazar claims that the
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United States government is in
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possession of alien spacecraft
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one of them nicknamed the sport model
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measures fifty two point eight feet in
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diameter Lazar claims he witnessed a
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test flight in March of 1989 the flight
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of the disc was short the bottom of the
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disc itself glowed a very faint blue as
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it rose to about twenty or thirty feet
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the sound dissipated and it was
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completely silent and and hung silently
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in the air which was which was quite a
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sight for something that size it moved
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very slowly over to the left very slowly
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over to the right and then sat back down
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it was very uneventful well as
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uneventful as a flying saucer tests
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could be well some charge at Bob Lazar
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is a fraud and lacks scientific
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credentials others maintained that his
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story is essentially true in the five
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years I've been working on this I've
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accumulated approximately two dozen
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other witnesses who will corroborate the
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story people who worked at at Groom Lake
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and area 51 in the 50s 60s 70s and 80s
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all of whom have different bits and
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pieces that would tend to corroborate
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people who have seen the flying discs
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people who have worked at the base and
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watched the tests people that have been
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told by the superior officers that these
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things came from somewhere else
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what unsolved mysteries asked the
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airforce about area 51 they refused to
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acknowledge its existence Bob Lazar
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believes that the Shroud of official
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secrecy is hiding much more than alien
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spacecraft I did have the opportunity to
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view autopsy photos and when they were
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taken I couldn't I couldn't even guess
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they were black and white the being was
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dead it was it was only an upper chest
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photograph of the being it has its chest
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was cut in a T fashion with the skin
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pulled back and what was removed was one
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large Oregon I think the situation has
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become more complex as the years have
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passed since there seems to be the
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possibility that we're dealing not just
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with one species of extraterrestrial but
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possibly several who may have several
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motives any discussion of the possible
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mode
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of extraterrestrials who may be visiting
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the earth is purely speculative we have
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no way of knowing but if UFO reports are
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taken literally they certainly do
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suggest that we are dealing with a
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technological civilization in other
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words a civilization with an advanced
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scientific knowledge you don't get
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advanced scientific knowledge without a
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great degree of curiosity I would expect
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that an extraterrestrial civilization
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would visit the earth for exactly the
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same reason we visit the remote outposts
00:25:11
of our own planet to learn things
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the implications are almost impossible
00:25:21
to comprehend skeptics maintain of the
00:25:24
very concept of alien contact is absurd
00:25:26
but others suggest that the evidence can
00:25:29
no longer be ignored in recent years
00:25:32
hundreds of credible ordinary people
00:25:34
have come forward with alarming reports
00:25:36
of being taken aboard alien spacecraft
00:25:38
against their will in a moment the
00:25:41
remarkable story of four men who
00:25:43
believed they shared a close encounter
00:25:45
of the Fourth Kind alien abduction I was
00:25:57
starting to have nightmares really
00:25:59
terrible nightmares that I could not
00:26:01
explain I found myself in a very
00:26:04
brightly lit room I had no idea where I
00:26:10
was or why I was there
00:26:12
to my left I could see my brother Jim
00:26:17
Chuck rack and Charlie Falk sitting on
00:26:20
some type of bench and they were all
00:26:22
naked
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I was wondering why they weren't helping
00:26:32
me because I felt like I was in danger
00:26:34
and while I'm trying to figure this out
00:26:37
I noticed this figure or a dark shadowy
00:26:42
type figure emerging from the this light
00:26:46
this bright light in front of me I would
00:26:51
wake up the sweating and breathing
00:26:55
heavily and just in a state of terror
00:26:58
and shock for years
00:27:04
Jack Weiner told no one about the
00:27:06
nightmares except his wife married then
00:27:08
in late 1988 Jack's twin brother Jim
00:27:11
confessed that he was being haunted by
00:27:13
the same disturbing nightmares they
00:27:17
started happening more and more often
00:27:19
and they and they seemed to be becoming
00:27:21
more and more real in terms of what I
00:27:24
was remembering about these things there
00:27:26
were always certain elements of the
00:27:28
dream that were the same some type of
00:27:30
creature and being helpless being
00:27:34
violated was a feeling I often woke up
00:27:37
with it was a real surprise to find out
00:27:41
that Jim was having identical dreams
00:27:45
because I didn't want to talk about my
00:27:47
dreams except to Mary and then when I
00:27:50
found out he was having him it was like
00:27:52
wow something is going on here but we
00:27:55
just couldn't put our fingers on it
00:28:00
in every dream
00:28:02
the twins were with Charlie Fulton Chuck
00:28:04
RAC two friends yet met in art school
00:28:06
the twins began to wonder if their
00:28:09
nightmares could be connected to a
00:28:10
bizarre experience the four-minute share
00:28:13
twelve years earlier during a camping
00:28:15
trip in Maine in August of 1976 Charlie
00:28:21
Chuck Jack and Jim spent two weeks along
00:28:24
the allagash wilderness waterway the
00:28:27
allagash covers thousands of acres in
00:28:29
the northernmost part of the state one
00:28:32
of the area's most prominent features is
00:28:34
a mountain named by the Abenaki Indians
00:28:36
they called it Katahdin to them it is a
00:28:39
sacred place
00:28:42
on the second night out Jim noticed a
00:28:46
bright object in the sky right over
00:28:48
there it was just floating above the
00:28:51
treetops that didn't seem to be moving
00:28:53
in any direction and I looked at it
00:28:57
through the binoculars for maybe 15
00:28:59
seconds 30 seconds and it suddenly just
00:29:02
winked out from the outside edges inward
00:29:05
it's gone where is it I mean it
00:29:09
literally just went like that and it was
00:29:12
gone
00:29:14
I thought maybe it was a weather balloon
00:29:16
or perhaps a helicopter that had just
00:29:19
turned a light off it was flying over
00:29:21
but there was something about this thing
00:29:24
that left me with an odd feeling that
00:29:26
wasn't quite right but I really didn't
00:29:28
dwell on it
00:29:31
huh let's get that 10 up
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the men continued through the allagash
00:29:39
wilderness on the fourth day they
00:29:42
decided to try some night fishing
00:29:44
they built a bonfire to mark their
00:29:46
campsite that far north at night it is
00:29:51
pitch black and we had a nice good-sized
00:29:55
fire going not too large that it would
00:29:58
get out of control and burn the forest
00:30:01
but it was it was borderline you know it
00:30:04
was it was a fairly good fire that would
00:30:07
have lasted for hours bare minimum and
00:30:12
then we struck out on to the lake just
00:30:15
as it was getting dark Chuck ruck was
00:30:18
the first to realize the wart alone I
00:30:21
had a feeling that there was someone
00:30:23
staring at me from behind me I turned
00:30:27
over my right shoulder like that and I
00:30:31
saw this large round globe of light that
00:30:35
looked exactly like what we had seen two
00:30:37
nights previously hey guys look at that
00:30:42
it was a type of a thing where we didn't
00:30:45
have to ask what or where we just seemed
00:30:48
to know where he was looking and we all
00:30:51
have turned and looked it had this
00:30:53
roiling effect to it like a miniature
00:30:56
Sun very very bright it lit the tree
00:30:58
tops up like daylight and it was
00:31:01
absolutely silent
00:31:03
after looking at it for what seemed like
00:31:06
several moments we decided to signal
00:31:09
this thing and that's when Charlie
00:31:11
picked up the flashlight and squeezed
00:31:14
off a message SOS the response was
00:31:19
instant the sensation I had was one of
00:31:25
absolute elation I couldn't believe that
00:31:28
that we were really going to find out
00:31:30
what it was we attended to communicate
00:31:32
with it and it actually was responding
00:31:35
well when when the light started coming
00:31:38
toward us my curiosity was satisfied and
00:31:42
I I just dropped the flash like the only
00:31:45
fight in my mind was to get to shore I
00:31:47
never looked back I remember looking
00:31:53
over my shoulder trying to keep an eye
00:31:56
on this object as it was coming up
00:31:58
behind us and and it was getting very
00:32:00
close I mean it was almost on top of us
00:32:03
at this point and I remember thinking
00:32:04
that we're not gonna outrun this thing
00:32:06
there's just no way it was coming too
00:32:09
quickly
00:32:18
the next memory any of the men had was
00:32:21
being back on shore staring up at the
00:32:23
bright object is opposing for a portrait
00:32:28
I remember thinking my god I could pick
00:32:32
up a stone and bounce it off the side of
00:32:34
this thing that's how close it was I
00:32:36
picked up the flashlight again and
00:32:39
flashed at it a second time this time
00:32:43
there was no response from it it seemed
00:32:46
to just drift away from us as it was
00:32:50
moving up it seemed to implode somehow
00:32:53
and and it shrank and then all of a
00:32:56
sudden at a higher level it it
00:32:59
reappeared again and then all of a
00:33:05
sudden it just streaked away very very
00:33:09
fast and within a few seconds it was
00:33:11
like a star just another light in the
00:33:13
sky
00:33:13
I remember get stepping out of the canoe
00:33:17
and going up to the campsite and I
00:33:21
remember there was no panic people
00:33:24
seemed to be very relaxed guys about
00:33:29
this fire it's out all the men agree
00:33:32
that they were out of the lake for less
00:33:33
than 20 minutes
00:33:34
the huge bonfires had ablaze bright for
00:33:37
hours yet inexplicably only coals remain
00:33:45
the unusual thing is that we didn't stay
00:33:48
up for hours and discuss this thing
00:33:50
which is what you would think you know
00:33:52
for young guys on a camping trip would
00:33:54
do and we just seemed very fatigued and
00:33:58
we just wanted to go to bed the next
00:34:00
morning we got up and got our camp
00:34:02
together and and paddled to the next
00:34:05
campsite
00:34:07
the men spent another 10 days in the
00:34:10
allagash wilderness but never again saw
00:34:12
the bizarre light as a years went by
00:34:15
they told friends and family about the
00:34:17
UFO but no one really believed them the
00:34:20
men could hardly believe it themselves
00:34:22
then the nightmares began for Jim and
00:34:26
Jack Weiner
00:34:27
finally Jim contacted UFO researcher ray
00:34:30
Fowler for help Fowler suggested the
00:34:34
allagash four undergo hypnosis with a
00:34:36
trained hypnotherapist to recover
00:34:38
details of the sighting therapist
00:34:40
pregnant
00:34:41
Fowler has since written a book about
00:34:43
the case called the allagash abductions
00:34:48
from the beginning Ray Fowler suspected
00:34:52
the men had been abducted by a UFO but
00:34:54
did not tell them one by one they under
00:34:58
what hypnosis they all promise not to
00:35:01
tell each other about what they recall
00:35:02
until all the sessions were complete
00:35:05
each of the men Jim Weiner Chuck Rach
00:35:09
Jack Weiner and Charlie folks described
00:35:13
would appears to be a classic abduction
00:35:14
experience
00:35:17
afterward each of them drew
00:35:19
illustrations of their incredible
00:35:21
recollections these are their actual
00:35:23
paintings and drawings all four said
00:35:28
they were taken aboard the craft the
00:35:30
aliens forced them to strip naked and
00:35:32
seemed to be conducting medical
00:35:33
examinations the aliens apparently took
00:35:37
samples of the men's skin and body
00:35:39
fluids their blood urine and semen what
00:35:43
follows are excerpts from the original
00:35:45
hypnosis sessions recorded in 1988 know
00:35:53
what to do I think they think I'm gonna
00:35:55
come after I feel like I want to I feel
00:36:00
like I wanna the first one that comes
00:36:03
near me I'm gonna throttle him that's
00:36:06
what I want to do is throttle him I
00:36:08
don't like these things
00:36:10
I don't care where they come from I
00:36:14
shouldn't be doing this to people
00:36:19
Jim's brother Jack found the faces
00:36:22
terrifying right there their face is
00:36:29
right in my face I don't know why I
00:36:34
don't want to know I don't want to know
00:36:38
what they want they're saying things
00:36:48
there
00:36:53
explaining things with their eyes
00:37:01
in my head
00:37:05
they're saying
00:37:07
don't be afraid
00:37:12
don't be afraid
00:37:15
we won't harm you
00:37:19
they say do what we say
00:37:26
just do what we say
00:37:30
Charlie folks was the next to be
00:37:33
examined I'm afraid and
00:37:41
it's like a doctor's office
00:37:48
it's cold like a doctor's office is cold
00:37:54
they put the panel over your chest
00:38:01
and I scrape your arms
00:38:05
your chest
00:38:07
their legs and thighs
00:38:12
you shouldn't be here I just keep
00:38:18
thinking I'd be back in the canoe Chuck
00:38:23
RAC had a good view of what the aliens
00:38:25
were doing the German
00:38:28
see some sort of device on him they've
00:38:33
got a looks like a silvery and it looks
00:38:38
like they like it's got curves on it
00:38:41
it's almost like like it sucks something
00:38:46
he's got his head tipped away back it's
00:38:51
almost like he's in pain we're just
00:38:55
there or we can't help them we're just
00:39:00
all we can do is watch him I don't know
00:39:08
if you were aware of it you probably
00:39:09
opted because you haven't been talking
00:39:11
to each other after the hypnosis
00:39:13
sessions we great Fowler brought the
00:39:15
allagash four together for the first
00:39:17
time they discovered that each of them
00:39:19
to recall the same horrifying events
00:39:22
experiences we were amazed that Jack
00:39:25
would say something about how he
00:39:26
remembered the light or Chuck Rach would
00:39:29
say something that he remembered or
00:39:30
Charlie would say and we'd sit there my
00:39:33
god that's exactly what we remember one
00:39:36
person would pause to take a breath and
00:39:38
the next person would pick up and you
00:39:41
knew what they were gonna say you know
00:39:43
what they were gonna say and when they
00:39:45
pause for breath you could continue it
00:39:47
was just amazing to come to the
00:39:49
realizations that all these things were
00:39:52
really true and that they they really
00:39:54
had meeting and and it was also kind of
00:39:57
nice to know that I wasn't going insane
00:39:59
having these nightmares that they were
00:40:02
in fact memory real memories of an event
00:40:05
that did happen
00:40:07
ultimately each of the allagash four
00:40:09
took polygraph tests and passed easily
00:40:12
it is clear that they believe their
00:40:14
memories are real to skeptics however
00:40:17
stories of alien abduction do not stand
00:40:19
up to scrutiny some suggested images
00:40:23
from a popular culture like these scenes
00:40:25
from the 1953 science-fiction movie
00:40:28
invaders from Mars may be the
00:40:30
inspiration from memories of alien
00:40:32
abduction some of the stories that you
00:40:36
hear about abductions are right out of
00:40:38
the films I mean almost verbatim dr.
00:40:41
William Coleman is a clinical
00:40:43
psychologist who specializes in the
00:40:45
study of repressed memory and hypnotic
00:40:47
therapies media-driven it's cyclic all
00:40:50
you get some good cases on TV people
00:40:53
hear about them they think they may have
00:40:54
had the same thing happen it sort of
00:40:57
feeds upon itself usually these are
00:40:59
people have no interest in abductions
00:41:00
and not read about or even unfamiliar
00:41:03
with the nature of the beings and are
00:41:05
shocked and astounded when they hear
00:41:07
someone else has had these experiences
00:41:09
as well or that there is material in the
00:41:11
media about it my experience of what's
00:41:14
going on is the investigators have a
00:41:16
very clear-cut agenda about what they're
00:41:18
what they're looking for so if you get
00:41:20
somebody that's doing UFO abduction
00:41:23
research this is a person that generally
00:41:25
has already decided that UFO abductions
00:41:27
are real that thousands of people are
00:41:29
having them they have a symptom list and
00:41:31
if you come in the door with those
00:41:32
symptoms then you must have been
00:41:34
abducted it really doesn't work like
00:41:36
that the person comes because they've
00:41:38
heard that I'm open to listen to
00:41:43
something which other therapists or
00:41:46
other mental health professionals have
00:41:49
not been able to listen to they're
00:41:53
highly doubtful they don't want this to
00:41:55
be true this is not a club anyone wants
00:41:58
to belong to
00:42:01
if you were to tell somebody 40 years
00:42:05
ago that they would be able to see on an
00:42:08
invention called a television set which
00:42:11
didn't exist a meteorite crashing into a
00:42:15
planet that they can now watch at home
00:42:17
that's a reality check folks and yet 40
00:42:22
years ago of that science fiction this
00:42:25
happened if you believe it that's all
00:42:28
right if you don't believe it
00:42:30
I don't care I don't care because it did
00:42:37
when the Greek philosopher Aristotle
00:42:39
first suggested that the world was wrong
00:42:42
skeptics dismissed at his fantasy when
00:42:45
Copernicus theorize of the Sun not the
00:42:47
earth was a center of our solar system
00:42:49
many considered it heresy when Jules
00:42:53
Verne wrote that a human being would
00:42:55
someday travel to the moon science
00:42:58
rejected it as pure fiction perhaps the
00:43:01
day will come when our beliefs about the
00:43:03
existence of UFOs and alien encounters
00:43:06
undergo a similar transformation we have
00:43:11
these two camps the scientists searching
00:43:14
for life among the stars and the UFO
00:43:16
believers thinking that they've already
00:43:18
landed I think in both cases we share
00:43:21
the dream the dream is that were not
00:43:24
alone in the universe that we have if
00:43:27
not brothers and sisters
00:43:29
perhaps cousins out among the stars
00:43:33
publicly the scientific community
00:43:36
remains skeptical privately however they
00:43:39
are working to achieve contact
00:43:42
Mercer anticipates it within the next
00:43:44
decade the Voyager 1 space probe will
00:43:47
become the first human artifact ever to
00:43:49
leave our solar system on board is a
00:43:52
message in a bond that has been dropped
00:43:54
into the vastness of space as the
00:43:58
Secretary General of the United Nations
00:43:59
an organization of 147 member states who
00:44:04
represent almost all of the human
00:44:06
inhabitants of the planet Earth I send
00:44:09
greetings on behalf of the people of our
00:44:12
planet
00:44:14
[Music]
00:44:19
it is either the greatest hoax in human
00:44:22
history an unprecedented mass
00:44:24
hallucination Oh perhaps single most
00:44:28
important event since of dawn of
00:44:30
civilization for the hardened skeptic
00:44:33
proof will remain elusive until an alien
00:44:36
spacecraft is placed on public display
00:44:38
an extraterrestrial appears on the
00:44:40
evening news until that moment one of
00:44:44
the greatest mysteries of our age will
00:44:46
remain unseen
00:44:52
[Music]
00:45:15
[Applause]
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