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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 today near England's ancient
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monolith at Stonehenge an extraordinary
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phenomenon is occurring the defies all
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explanation bizarre perfectly formed
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circles are appearing overnight and
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scores of wheat fields across the
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country experts have no idea how they
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have been formed only that they seem to
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have no human or natural origin who or
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what is responsible for their creation
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in a small town in Colorado two friends
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vanished without a trace under the same
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bizarre circumstances and oddly the same
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events were foretold in a novel one was
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writing about the other on a North
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Carolina Highway four men were stalked
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and driven off the road the savage
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high-speed chase what could have been
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the motive for this vicious hit-and-run
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killing also tonight the heartwarming
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story of a reunion between a young woman
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and the loving family that she was
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separated from 13 years ago on the very
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night of our broadcast Sharon Stevens
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found her long-lost foster parents
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Stonehenge the great megalithic monument
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in southern England Stonehenge is only
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one of hundreds of such monuments
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scattered throughout Britain for
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centuries he's puzzling formations have
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baffled scientists and laymen alike but
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recently scientists have identified
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another phenomena that may relate to the
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mysterious British monuments wheat
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circles this photograph was taken
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recently in England
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it shows circles and wheat fields seems
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simple enough but in fact they are not
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simple at all no one knows how these
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enigmatic circles got there voted gently
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from unbroken stalks of wheat and corn
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they may just represent one of the most
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intriguing unsolved mysteries of the
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century the only 95 percent of the
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circles occur within 30 miles of
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Stonehenge and all the rest are near
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other stone monuments similar to
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Stonehenge are the circles caused by
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something we can explain like whirl
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winds are they caused by something we
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cannot even begin to understand
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charity down farm two hours drive from
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London England in the early morning
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hours of June 15 1988 37 year-old farmer
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Chris would slowly drove a tractor
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through one of his wheat fields just
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after sunrise he saw something in the
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field that he had never seen before
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he couldn't explain it a huge circle had
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appeared in the wheat
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it's really really amazing you know how
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the actual crop was laying on the ground
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and it was so so perfect really the
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circle Chris Wood found that morning has
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never been explained during the last 12
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years more than 750 large perfectly
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symmetrical circles some of them as big
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as 100 yards in diameter have formed
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overnight and seemingly random fields of
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wheat corn and other crops the question
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no one could answer is how did the
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circles get there
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the first circle I found was in 1985
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August the 3rd at about 7 o'clock in the
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evening there's the last sort of flight
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of the nights and we were flying around
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and as the aircraft banked around to the
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right I looked into the wingtip a nebula
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he was this beautiful Quinn couplet set
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Lara circle with four smaller ones
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around it I marveled at this site and I
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questioned myself then what on earth did
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that we were harvesting it was the last
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day of harvest we were net over the
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combines in the morning to our last
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field and we come across this circle
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there was no real damages such the corn
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was flattened down it was just odd
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strange well I've been here since
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October 1957 and the first circles we
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saw were I would say 72 73 and that was
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a small circle about four yards across
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and then we saw another one the
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following year about the same size and
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as the years have gone on we've seen
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them twelve yards across with the small
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ones either side of them they vary in
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diameter the smallest we've had would be
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about five meters the largest would be I
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suppose 15 perhaps they have a neat
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perfect pattern from a Center where it's
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flattened the edges are very distinct
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the most wonderful thing about it is
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when you actually go out the night
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before to look for a circle and there's
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nothing there it's just a lovely field
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of growing corn and then the following
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morning when you get up early in the
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morning in the first light of day and
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suddenly there is the circle you just
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can't believe it
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the circles are never cut they are
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pressed down in a swirling pattern that
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runs both clockwise and counterclockwise
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the crop is not damaged it continues to
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grow and can be harvested normally
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strangely no unusual footprints or tire
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tracks leading up to the circles have
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ever been found some circles occur with
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a smaller satellite circle others appear
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in groups of three or four intricate
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symmetrical patterns like this one have
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five small circles arranged around the
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larger one in a cross pattern other
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circles are surrounded by concentric
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rings most amazing of all are the
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circles with both satellites and rings
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we put a flare here a radial flat here
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and of course it by moving the axis
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you've got the opposite coming in from
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the other end that's right and that
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seems to be the heart of all these
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spiral twins at del Gado
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an electro mechanical design engineer
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has written a book about the circles
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along with Colin Andrews the two men
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have spent over a decade studying the
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phenomenon
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Wow it's beginning to show the number of
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circles are increasing dramatically we
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were receiving reports in the order of
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two or three a year in the late 70s 10
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11 12 15 or so in the early 80s then
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last year we saw a dramatic increase
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ninety eight circles in five months of
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last summer this year we have now got in
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southern England 270 formations and we
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have fields in which we don't have five
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or six but 28 of these circles have
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appeared in a period of four or five
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weeks they occur in all weather
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conditions
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we've have found no correlation in
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meteorological data at all to connect
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them with any particular meteorological
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weather condition or weather phenomenon
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we have invited many professional
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scientist
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various disciplines to help us in this
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investigation and quite rightly so they
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start off with considering that it could
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be a hoax one of the scientists
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respected astronomer dr. Archibald Roy
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of Glasgow University in Scotland began
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studying the circles in 1980 no one
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really knows why these circles are
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appearing and I think that the
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interesting thing is that no one theory
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so far seems to fit the bill there are
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quite a number of them there is the
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frankly unacceptable one of circles
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being formed by hundreds of hedgehogs
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all marching around in circles another
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one is that they are the footpad marks
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of flying saucers another is that they
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are due to the downdraft of helicopters
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or that they are caused by will winds of
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that they are hoaxes by human beings
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there are so many of them I think that
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it's very reasonable for a person to say
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look these are hoaxes because they look
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so artificial but I don't think that the
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hoax theory can be held very strongly
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because there are so many of these
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circles now in eight or nine years have
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logged about 700 250 this year this
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summer alone the amount of time that
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have to be spent by a very big team of
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people making those circles is getting
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quite enormous I simply don't see the
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hoax theory as a very strong contender
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as part of a televised experiment
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British military personnel attempted to
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create an artificial crop circle in all
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instances where some of the mechanical
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was used to flatten the crop you will
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damage it and we can walk into a circle
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and very very quickly determine whether
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it's hoax
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and that is mechanically made or it is a
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naturally created one when we examine a
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naturally made circle the portion of
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clown that just comes out of the ground
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must be softened bent over and then
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hardened up again so not only is a
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mystery in the circle itself but what is
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it that is softening the plants bending
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it over and then hardening up again this
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is a real mystery
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if the circles are not a hoax what is
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creating several theories have been put
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forward and discarded there is no
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evidence of a fungus or other natural
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organic cause aerial infrared
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photography has shown that there are no
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underground formations neither sinkholes
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nor ochsner foundations of ancient
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buildings that might create the patterns
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some scientists have theorized that
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whirlwind vortexes might create the
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circles but other scientists as well as
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farmers believe that oil winds could not
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create such deep punched out shapes
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regardless of what causes the circles
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they all seem to form overnight their
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appearance is often linked after the
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fact two sightings of bright lights in
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the night sky
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one such sighting occurred on July 6
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1985 when Pat and Jack Collins were
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driving through a stretch of farm near
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Stone Age we've been out the evening and
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on our way back about 11 o'clock at
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night we saw this circle with lights all
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the way around the edge he said cool
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look at that I said good gracious I said
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whatever could it be and so we said it
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couldn't be you know Flying Saucer
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anything because well not knowing what
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one would look like good I mean that was
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you know our our feelings that it could
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have been one Colin Andrews believes
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that the colored lights Jack and Pat saw
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in the night sky were related to two
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different sets of crop circles the same
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night as they saw this extraordinary
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clustering of lights over that side a
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quintuplet set appeared in a field just
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a few miles to the east near old spurred
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and the same kind of formation was found
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just a few days later in a very remote
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spot safe of and over and the alignment
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of those two sides took us directly over
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the top of the Collinses particular
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sighting
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having said that we haven't actually
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seen one of these this year in an
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attempt to find out how in fact a crop
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circle does form 50 British scientists
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convened last summer for a surveillance
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operation we have been told so many
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times that all these circles are hoaxes
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and so oh and to do was to find one
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circle created in circumstances where no
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human beings were around to disprove
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that theme and so we set up a watch with
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electronic equipment video cameras light
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intensification and so on for eight days
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and lights on a field where circles had
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appeared most years out of the past
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eight or nine and we hoped that a circle
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would appear under
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circumstances it didn't and the
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fascinating thing to me is that during
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the eight days of the watch on that
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field not only did no circle appear in
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that field but as far as we know no
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circles appeared elsewhere in the South
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of England although the ninety-one had
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appeared before the watch was set up and
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since the watch has been set up
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something like a hundred and fifty have
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appeared I think it's almost certain
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that whatever is creating the circles
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was aware of the watch and that means
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that there must be some sort of
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intelligence at work and of course then
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you say well what is it
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and I haven't the faintest idea
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that's a terrible noise this is you
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stand in the center you can very very
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very bad yeah although no crop circles
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formed the project did produce one
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significant finding well what happened
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was that Pat and myself were being
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interviewed in the largest circle we'd
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ever seen when the sound man detected an
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electronic whirling noise which came
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onto the sound equipment and Pat who was
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stood just off of the center of the
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formation inside the circle could
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actually physically feel an energy field
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right alongside when he stepped into
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that energy field the noise picked right
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up and went out honey so today was the
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feeling barrier it
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it was very extraordinary it is very
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significant we do now have a noise
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component associated with this
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extraordinary phenomenon
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logic seems to yield no explanation for
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the crop circles is it possible as
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Stonehenge and the other concentric ring
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monuments scattered across Britain are
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related to an ancient appearance of the
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circles a lot of the circles appear in
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the vicinity of the great megalithic
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monuments of southern England
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now if these circles have been appearing
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for let's say five thousand years then
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they would have been appearing in the
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wheat fields and cornfields of the
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megalithic farmers what would they have
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made of them would have said these are
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signs from the gods
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perhaps we should build monuments which
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mimic these circles and so they would
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build things like Stonehenge it's an
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intriguing possibility and so we badly
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need to know if these circles have been
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appearing earlier than let's say ten
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years ago so far 700 circles have
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appeared here in a triangle the
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Stonehenge roughly in the center
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none of these circles is more than 30
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miles from Stonehenge itself and all of
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the British circles appear somewhere
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near a stone ring monument there has to
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date been no photographic evidence of
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circles occurring outside Britain but
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experts speculate that there might be
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crop circles in other countries we would
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ask any farmer any landowner any member
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of the public military or otherwise in
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America to report sightings of these
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extraordinary ground markings back to us
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it is most important it is most
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significant there's got to be an
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intelligently manipulated inexplicable
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energy used here and we don't know the
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first thing about it but it's there I
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haven't the faintest idea what is
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causing these circles I find them almost
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intriguing and entertaining mystery if
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we don't know something then it means
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that our model of reality or model of
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the world is inadequate and so as a
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scientist I feel that they should be
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studied
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in elucidating what is causing them we
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must learn something if only about the
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psychology of human beings for example
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since we originally broadcast this story
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over 500 new circles have been
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discovered not only in English wheat
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fields but in crop fields in several
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other countries including the United
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States in some cases of formations have
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grown more elaborate and designed one of
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the most interesting of the new
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formations was found last May in
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Wiltshire County in central England for
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the first time the mysterious circles
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were accompanied by large deeply
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furrowed rectangles creating a
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symmetrical design we're told by the
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British Museum that pictogram is the
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term that we should be using and that
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was the first pictogram ever last June
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an even more elaborate formation
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appeared overnight in a field which
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witnesses say was completely untouched
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the day before what we were looking at
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here was three pictograms giving us the
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largest formation ever seen anywhere in
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the world due to the sheer size and
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elaborate design of this formation
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Andrews is convinced that it is not
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man-made we were looking at a marking
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which was about one eighth of a mile
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long now if you consider that in under
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controlled conditions it takes a team of
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12 people to create something like a
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hundred foot diameter circle a
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straightforward simple circle takes
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something like six hours for them to
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construct this we were looking at a huge
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team of people working that night in the
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hours of darkness which are only seven
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hours at this time of the year in a
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location which can be seen from vantage
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points all around we had gamekeeper us
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covering that area over on four farms
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nobody saw anything
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in an attempt to capture the creation of
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a circle on film a surveillance project
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known as Operation Blackbird was
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organized as past July for three weeks
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scientists and other experts monitored
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one of the most active locations
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amazingly four circles did form while
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cameras were rolling although two of the
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formations were dismissed as hoaxes the
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other two appear to be legitimate we had
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two genuine circles appeared in front of
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the monitoring equipment and the footage
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secured during those events RNA being
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enhanced and are being analyzed this
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footage will not be released until the
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analysis is completed botanist recently
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studied the cellular structure of plant
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samples removed from inside the circles
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with plant samples found outside the
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formations when scientists compared the
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samples they were amazed at the
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difference samples taken from outside
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the circles had cloudy crystals in an
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erratic pattern plant samples taken from
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inside the formations had distinctively
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clearer crystals in a much more
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deliberate pattern I think the
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discrepancies are caused by some
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supernatural force which has been
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applied to that particular part of the
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ground which produces these patterns we
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have here a structure of a plant which
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has changed human feet cannot do that
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the downwash from a helicopter cannot do
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that and nor can a stationary whirlwind
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so we're looking here at major clues in
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the last few months of this year perhaps
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the most amazing development in this
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case is a discovery of these mysterious
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circles outside of England
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we're picking up increases in the states
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and in Australia in particular even one
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or two more in the Arctic Circle it's
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most important now that researchers
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around the world group regroup and
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coordinate our approach to this
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extraordinary but very exciting
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mr. often an unexplained phenomenon
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simply dismissed as a hoax for the
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product is someone's overactive
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imagination but in the case of these
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crop circles there's irrefutable
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physical evidence which suggests as some
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intelligences at work but who and why
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remains an unsolved mystery
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in a moment the story of a high-speed
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chase have left one man dead and three
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others badly injured this accident was
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no accident during the Christmas season
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in 1988 four men were driven off the
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road and hit run incident that occurred
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near Greensboro North Carolina one young
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man was dead another maimed for life
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could this shocking incident have been
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motivated by racism the victims were
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black the assailant was white no matter
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what the motive police want to find the
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man responsible it all began in the
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quiet afternoon of December 23rd 1988
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the time was 2:00 p.m. in a suburban
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neighborhood in Greensboro 19 year-old
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Ken Dungy was picked up by three of his
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friends on route to do some last-minute
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Christmas shopping the four young men
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planned on driving the hour and a half
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trip to Raleigh on the i-40 highway
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behind the wheel of his father's
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Plymouth Duster was seventeen-year-old
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of Vernon Allen
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Laverne had just received a scholarship
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to the Air Force Academy fulfilling a
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lifelong dream ken Dungy was a drafting
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an engineering student bound for college
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in the fall
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17-year old Kenneth Luke Kirk was in the
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backseat Kenneth had recently received a
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scholarship to a local college Kenneth's
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cousin 17 year old Darius Bannerman was
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a high school basketball star on their
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way to the shopping mall before passed a
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car driven by Grady Alexander when the
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way by me they were doing about 6065
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they were carrying all my kids do kids
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are just yeah a lot of moving the car I
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looked over and when the boys saw me
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looking at him he granted waive the car
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kept on going after that another car
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came with me very fast and as he got by
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me
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I haven't looked down a license plate
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and I said a redneck in the Georgia
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because his hair was look like it's
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dirty and greasy and straining and he's
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probably too insane if I already
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Grady noticed that there were two people
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in this motor Carlo a few moments later
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the occupants of the Plymouth noticed
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the blue car closing in at a high rate
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of speed that's really close
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what's turkey's feet up man can you
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speed up to do it when I looked in the
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rearview mirror I saw a car and he was
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so close to me I could not see his front
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bumper that's how close he was to me at
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first I just thought it was Oh somebody
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I just tailgating
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just riding clothes weary from
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basketball practice Darius was napping
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in the front seat
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I was sleeping and everyone in there was
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talking about now this guy is following
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us know at first I didn't think anything
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of it but the guy was extremely close to
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the point where you know it was like
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right on and Barbara
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he bumped us and it didn't seem to stall
00:25:52
this was all happening it just seemed it
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was like horror
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traffic was moving fast and we speed it
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up to get away from the guy the man
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driving to Monte Carlo
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he had a look of you know like we had
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done something personal to him it just
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it was just the real just crazy like
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look like man
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it just look
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like wanted to hurt us
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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a few moments later at 3:30 police and
00:27:12
paramedics arrived at the accident site
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they found a horrific scene Laverne
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Allen was trapped in the car for half an
00:27:20
hour after being airlifted to a trauma
00:27:23
center his leg was amputated at the
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thigh ken knew Kirk had suffered a
00:27:30
fractured skull and a broken link
00:27:36
Darius battlin had a broken wrist and
00:27:38
facial injuries ken Dungy was pronounced
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dead at the scene
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Beth Villa ket was the first reporter on
00:27:52
the scene
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she spoke with witnesses who described
00:27:55
the assault both of the eyewitnesses
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said that after the car black car went
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off the road the Montecarlo did pull
00:28:05
over to the side man and a woman got out
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just for a moment and looked back and
00:28:14
then they just got back in the car and
00:28:17
drove off I believe he said they sped
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off as you know not to get help or
00:28:23
anything he felt that they had left to
00:28:25
get away
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I swear he laughed when he got in the
00:28:28
car and left
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don't worry did Georgia Plains Georgia
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place real greasy blonde hair ugly dude
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yeah because of a lack of evidence the
00:28:41
police were reluctant to treat the
00:28:42
incident as a crime
00:28:43
although the victims believed that it
00:28:45
was a murder well when I think about the
00:28:48
accident it's a lot of different
00:28:51
feelings it's mainly anger because it
00:28:56
shouldn't have happened
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you know and it's frustration because
00:29:04
the guy that was driving to Monte Carlo
00:29:07
has not been found unsolved mysteries
00:29:11
commissioned this composite of the
00:29:12
suspect the driver the Monte Carlo
00:29:15
appeared to be in his late 20s with a
00:29:17
mustache and brown stringy hair he was
00:29:19
traveling with a woman in her mid
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twenties with blonde hair
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a watered vehicle is described as a
00:29:28
light blue Monte Carlo with Georgia
00:29:30
license plates I know how it happened I
00:29:34
know when it happened but I don't know
00:29:36
why it happened until I understand that
00:29:40
it would never be to rest in a moment a
00:29:47
heartwarming updated family reunion for
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[Music]
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Sharon Stevens childhood was a vicious
00:30:02
cycle of loneliness and abuse her mother
00:30:05
died when Sharon was just three months
00:30:07
old
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and Sharon continually suffered severe
00:30:09
beatings at the hands of her alcoholic
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father
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in 1959 Sharon was taken away from her
00:30:17
father and later sent to live with
00:30:19
foster parents bill and Cynthia
00:30:20
Zielinski at the zelinsky's hold Sharon
00:30:26
experienced love and kindness for the
00:30:28
first time they really knew how to
00:30:32
parent then they went all out you know
00:30:34
to make me happy
00:30:35
I felt very special for one of the first
00:30:38
times in my whole life
00:30:40
so I started to change in the right
00:30:43
respectful way they taught me respect
00:30:45
they taught me how to you know respect
00:30:48
other people and myself and that they
00:30:51
brought my self-esteem up and because I
00:30:54
had a very low self esteem about myself
00:30:57
but just one year after she arrived
00:31:00
Sharon's happy life with us olinsky's
00:31:02
came to an end a court ordered that she
00:31:04
be returned to her father Sharon never
00:31:09
lived with a zelinsky's again but she
00:31:11
will never forget how their love and
00:31:13
understand what inspired her I know if
00:31:18
it had been for them I probably would
00:31:22
have been a child abuser drug addict a
00:31:27
prostitute I feel I would have turned
00:31:30
out very bad if it hadn't been for them
00:31:33
we think a lot of you I would like to be
00:31:36
reunited with the solinsky's to tell
00:31:38
them how much I appreciate what they've
00:31:41
done for me in the past and it's a dream
00:31:46
a hope a fantasy whatever you want to
00:31:48
call it but I've got to find these
00:31:50
people and I've got to say thank you
00:31:52
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a 13-year Sharon tried to find the
00:31:57
solinsky's but was unable to locate them
00:31:59
and just minutes after her story aired
00:32:02
Sharon's search came to an end buildin
00:32:04
Cynthia szalinski were watching our
00:32:06
broadcast and called our telecenter we
00:32:08
immediately put Sharon in contact with
00:32:10
Bill and Cynthia and they made
00:32:11
arrangements for a reunion on November
00:32:16
25th
00:32:17
Sharon arrived at the Zielinski home in
00:32:19
Laguna Niguel California and met bill
00:32:21
and Cynthia for the first time in almost
00:32:23
30 years
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billon Cynthia who are now retired were
00:32:38
shocked when they saw Sharon Stone when
00:32:45
you see your own life hell part of your
00:32:48
life history unfolding on national
00:32:50
television your mind goes black you
00:32:53
don't hear anything else that's going on
00:32:56
but your mind goes back to 30 years ago
00:32:59
and all the memories that it brings back
00:33:01
I was very optimistic that someone out
00:33:08
there their friends relatives neighbors
00:33:10
someone if not their self would see it
00:33:12
and I was very surprised that they
00:33:16
themselves called it and
00:33:19
just got goosebumps when I found out and
00:33:21
I still get goose pose for Sharon the
00:33:28
reunion with a zelinsky's was a
00:33:30
long-awaited chance to say thank you for
00:33:32
the inspiration and courage they gave
00:33:34
her as a young girl making a difference
00:33:38
in somebody's life is nice it's the only
00:33:41
way to describe it you feel like there
00:33:44
was a reason for what happened at the
00:33:47
time you don't know it but now you
00:33:49
realize there was a reason
00:33:54
it's the only dream that I've ever had
00:33:57
is to point the Solinsky and it feels
00:34:00
great and it's like a dream come true
00:34:04
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in a moment the bizarre case of a writer
00:34:09
the last novel may have foretold his own
00:34:12
disappearance
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in the heart of the steep majestic
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Colorado Rockies lies the tiny village
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of Silver Plume population 130
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[Music]
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on September the 7th 1987 Tom young
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closed up his bookshop on silver plums
00:34:51
Main Street and along with his dog Gus
00:34:54
disappeared
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nine months later a newcomer to silver
00:35:03
pollutant keith Reinhart opened an
00:35:04
antique shop at exactly the same Main
00:35:06
Street location on August 7th 1988 keith
00:35:14
Reinhart closed up his shop for the day
00:35:19
less than two hours later keith Reinhart
00:35:22
also disappeared
00:35:27
not only had Tom young and Keith
00:35:29
Reinhart rented the exact same space to
00:35:31
run their shops there were also other
00:35:34
startling coincidences both men were in
00:35:36
their late 40s going through a sort of
00:35:38
midlife crisis both firmly established
00:35:41
an alibi before they disappeared and one
00:35:43
of them was writing a novel about the
00:35:45
other could these two mysterious
00:35:47
disappearances less than a year apart be
00:35:50
connected
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for 23 years Keith Reinhardt worked as a
00:35:55
sports reporter for a suburban Chicago
00:35:57
newspaper in 1988
00:36:00
Keith Reinhardt grew long hair and a
00:36:02
beard in June he began a three-month
00:36:06
sabbatical and Silver Plume
00:36:11
he's goals were to getting shaped by MUP
00:36:14
and climbing to overcome his fear of
00:36:16
heights and to begin writing a novel
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Keis old friend Ted Parker ran a cafe a
00:36:28
Silver Plume during his sabbatical Keith
00:36:30
wanted to try running an antique shop
00:36:32
geared towards summer tourists if it was
00:36:35
successful he hoped that he and his wife
00:36:37
could relocate their premise Brian heart
00:36:48
can I cross the street from each other
00:36:50
and we'd known each other about 40 years
00:36:53
and I would say that our relationship
00:36:57
was similar to that of her brothers was
00:37:05
apprehensive and excited both about
00:37:09
turning 50 he was here to finish out the
00:37:13
last of his forties in the way that he'd
00:37:15
dreamed up he felt that very soon he
00:37:20
would be starting to get old he felt he
00:37:23
was still young but he didn't have much
00:37:25
time for being young left he didn't want
00:37:34
to be sitting in a rocking chair
00:37:36
10 years 20 years from now saying I
00:37:39
should have done this I should have done
00:37:41
that he wanted to do some things that he
00:37:43
could do before he was too old to do
00:37:46
them nine months earlier
00:37:50
he's antique shop at dinner book stores
00:37:52
the proprietor was Tom young Tom had
00:37:56
been renting the space for nearly a year
00:37:58
when he and his dog Gus mysteriously
00:38:00
disappeared Tom young had told people he
00:38:04
was going on a European vacation so
00:38:06
three weeks went by before anyone
00:38:08
suspected that Tom's absence was
00:38:10
suspicious
00:38:12
but it wouldn't be a factor right here
00:38:13
woody I think Heath Reinhart became
00:38:17
obsessed by the unexplained
00:38:18
disappearance he began talking to
00:38:23
everyone in Silver Plume who had known
00:38:25
Tom he's decided to base the novel he
00:38:30
was planning to write on Tom young when
00:38:35
he began the novel Keith created a
00:38:37
character named guy gypsum who is a
00:38:39
composite of himself and Tom young
00:38:42
sometimes it seemed hard for keith to
00:38:45
tell the difference the disappearance of
00:38:48
Tom young my father he was very very
00:38:52
into it he is talking about it all the
00:38:55
time writers like to live the story
00:38:59
they're writing about um get a feel of
00:39:00
it so it's easier for them to write
00:39:02
about it maybe my father it's always
00:39:05
possible wanted to feel what it's like
00:39:08
to you know to disappear so he could
00:39:11
write about it hey Vick come on down
00:39:16
here I found something
00:39:17
yeah what do you get in July 31st 1988
00:39:21
ten months after Tom young had
00:39:23
disappeared two hunters on Republican
00:39:25
Mountain just one and a half miles
00:39:27
outside Silver Plume found the remains
00:39:29
of Tom and his dog each had died from a
00:39:32
bullet wound to the head they were up
00:39:36
there exploring some territory for the
00:39:39
bow hunting season which was coming up
00:39:40
and they found his remains also found at
00:39:43
the scene was a revolver in subsequent
00:39:47
investigation we found out that Tom had
00:39:50
purchased a gun approximately four days
00:39:54
before he was last known to be in Silver
00:39:57
Plume the Tom young case is closed and
00:40:01
it has been ruled a suicide both by the
00:40:03
coroner's office and by the Clery County
00:40:06
Sheriff's Department
00:40:11
one week after Tom's body was found
00:40:14
Keith Reinhardt walk through Silver
00:40:16
Plume in the middle of the afternoon
00:40:17
telling everyone he saw that he was
00:40:19
going to climb to the top of nearby
00:40:20
Pendleton Mountain most did not take him
00:40:24
seriously they knew he had a fear of
00:40:26
heights and disliked climbing alone
00:40:33
at 4:00 p.m.
00:40:35
Keith went to Ted Parker's cafe the day
00:40:43
Keith disappeared he was in the cafe and
00:40:46
and told me and he was gonna make it to
00:40:48
the the top of the mountain where the
00:40:50
top I'm gonna do it if I don't come back
00:40:52
call on the rescue and he said that in
00:40:56
in jest I felt I have this picture of
00:41:00
her pointing to the mountain and saying
00:41:04
goodbye that was the last time I saw
00:41:09
Keith Reinhardt was last sighted walking
00:41:12
toward Pendleton Mountain this 4:30 in
00:41:16
the afternoon much too late to begin a
00:41:18
difficult hike that would normally take
00:41:19
six hours
00:41:22
Keith had no jacket only a flannel shirt
00:41:26
he carried absolutely no supplies
00:41:31
that night Keith Reinhart did not return
00:41:41
the next day helicopters were called out
00:41:43
to search Pendleton mountain on the
00:41:48
ground more than 125 men a dozen trained
00:41:51
dogs combed the difficult terrain for
00:41:53
seven days the Rhinehart search was like
00:41:59
looking for the proverbial needle in a
00:42:00
haystack this haystack is 3,000 vertical
00:42:04
feet of 60-degree slope this was about
00:42:07
as difficult to search terrain as we
00:42:08
covered we were at a real disadvantage
00:42:11
because Keith went into the mountains
00:42:13
wearing no more than blue jeans and a
00:42:16
flannel shirt and tennis shoes he had no
00:42:17
backpack he had no equipment
00:42:19
a typical subject of a search will leave
00:42:22
lots of clues for us to trace Keith
00:42:25
didn't leave many clues he didn't have
00:42:27
many with him to leave behind in 30
00:42:30
years of operation the Colorado Alpine
00:42:32
rescue teams have found every single
00:42:34
person they searched for yet they could
00:42:37
find no trace of Keith Reinhardt friends
00:42:41
found a newspaper next to Keith's
00:42:43
computer the headline Tom Young's body
00:42:46
found still in the computer were these
00:42:50
words part of Keith's unfinished novel
00:42:53
guy gypsum changed into some hiking
00:42:56
boots and donned a heavy flannel shirt
00:42:58
he understood Tom now and his motivation
00:43:02
guy closed the door then walked off
00:43:06
towards the bus shadowless Colorado
00:43:08
forest above could these words imply the
00:43:12
Keith Reinhardt like Tom young had
00:43:14
decided to take his own life
00:43:15
I don't think Heath would have
00:43:18
considered suicide as a solution to
00:43:20
anything he was a very optimistic upbeat
00:43:23
person his advice to me was always
00:43:27
positive mental attitude
00:43:28
so with that type of personality the way
00:43:32
I knew him to be I do not think he would
00:43:35
have committed suicide another theory
00:43:39
suggests that neither Tom young nor
00:43:40
Keith Reinhardt committed suicide but
00:43:43
instead were victims of foul play
00:43:45
first ballistics could never prove that
00:43:47
the bullet killing tom young came from
00:43:49
his own gun second both men read it
00:43:55
exactly the same space to run their
00:43:57
shops they might both have come across
00:43:59
information someone did not want them to
00:44:01
have I think
00:44:04
there's foul play involved I do I
00:44:06
definitely think something something's
00:44:08
going on he stumbled upon something they
00:44:10
didn't know what happened to Tom until
00:44:12
they found his body found his body they
00:44:14
didn't know that he disappeared in the
00:44:15
mountains same with my father they did
00:44:20
he's disappeared mysteriously they have
00:44:22
no idea what happened to him final
00:44:26
theory is a Keith Reinhardt planned his
00:44:28
own disappearance I don't think that he
00:44:33
would have left at 4 o'clock in the
00:44:34
afternoon for a long-distance hike with
00:44:37
a fire destination in mind at that time
00:44:40
of the day he would have gone for a walk
00:44:42
up the mountain as far as he felt
00:44:44
comfortable and then turn around and
00:44:47
come back down the mountain what I find
00:44:49
to be odd is that he did not take either
00:44:51
one of his cameras with him and he was
00:44:53
in the habit of usually carrying the
00:44:55
camera especially in that scenery the
00:45:02
little things that bother me are the
00:45:04
facts that he was possibly had a midlife
00:45:08
crisis he was at that particular moment
00:45:11
in time somewhat frustrated that he
00:45:12
couldn't make it off his antique shop in
00:45:15
Silver Plume
00:45:16
and he told so darn many people that he
00:45:21
was going for a hike and why somebody
00:45:24
would go around town trying to make this
00:45:25
point with so many people that he was
00:45:27
going for a hike to south of town to the
00:45:29
north of town wherever I'm going for a
00:45:31
hike up the mountain why he made that
00:45:33
point I'm not I'm not sure that doesn't
00:45:35
sit right
00:45:37
apparently he had vertigo
00:45:39
some fear of heights and now suddenly
00:45:42
this man is talking about climbing to
00:45:44
the top of a mountain all by himself
00:45:45
that isn't consistent this is one week
00:45:50
after Tom Young's remains were found he
00:45:53
knows now as everybody and so Illume
00:45:55
knew that Tom young
00:45:58
a bit of a false trail and I just have
00:46:01
to wonder in the back of my mind if
00:46:02
Keith did the same I don't think that
00:46:06
Keith would be the type of person to
00:46:07
walk away from his whole entire life and
00:46:10
leave it behind him he loved the people
00:46:12
in his life he loved keeping in touch
00:46:14
with them and I don't think he could
00:46:17
have left them all behind him I would
00:46:21
like to hope he's still alive and that
00:46:22
whatever reasons he may have had for
00:46:26
disappearing we could work that out I'd
00:46:31
like to think that he would still be
00:46:32
alive somewhere but realistically I'm
00:46:37
not sure I have to also be prepared for
00:46:39
the eventualities that is not Keith
00:46:44
Reinhardt turned 51 a September 10th
00:46:46
1989 he is 6 feet 2 inches taller weighs
00:46:50
210 pounds Keith Reinhardt wears glasses
00:46:53
only for reading and has blue eyes
00:46:59
[Music]
00:47:06
tonight we have seen four stories
00:47:08
without endings four stories in which
00:47:10
ordinary people have been thrust into
00:47:11
the center of an unsolved mystery
00:47:13
perhaps someone tonight could help them
00:47:15
perhaps they were watching perhaps as
00:47:18
you
00:47:18
[Music]
00:47:44
[Applause]
00:47:48
[Music]
