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This is John Keel in New York City.

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The date is November 18, 1968.

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Recently I moved from one apartment to another here in New York,

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and in the process of moving I came across a box of old acetate recordings,

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radio programs that I had written and produced some 16, 17 years ago in Europe.

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All I was serving were the American Forces Network in Germany.

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One of these shows dealt with unidentified flying objects,

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and as you know acetate deteriorates rather rapidly,

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and these are the discs that are beginning to...

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...aware out, and so I've tried to transfer some of them onto tape.

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And what follows is the tape recording of the original acetate transcription

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of a show called Things in the Sky, which was aired in 1952 in Germany.

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It was broadcast throughout Europe.

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AFN, the American Forces Network, is a large network of radio stations

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operated by the Army for the entertainment of troops overseas.

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You've heard of AFRS, I'm sure they maintain similar networks in the Orient

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and throughout the world.

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They also now have some television stations too.

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Well, the program you are about to hear was written about the time of the big 1952 flat,

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and I collected material from all kinds of sources over there

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and put together the show, and it was aired for the troops in Europe.

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It's very interesting in listening to this old show to see how very little progress

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we've made in the last 16 years.

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Most of the things that are stated on this program are still being stated

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by the latter day authorities on the subject,

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and the controversy has not been diminished one bit.

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The acting on this program is rather hammy.

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Most of the performers, all of the performers, were GIs serving with the American Forces Network.

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A number of them have since gone on to become celebrities in radio and television here in the United States.

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You will hear one voice in particular, that of William Wolfe, who is now working with CBS in Hollywood,

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and Mr. Wolfe has appeared very briefly in Dr. Strange's film 7.7.

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Though Wolfe has had a lifelong interest in the unusual, and he's still very interested in UFOs,

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I last saw it all about 1965 when I was in Hollywood.

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The other voices you probably won't recognize, and some of them are really rank amateurs, as you will.

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Here we sometimes had to enlist everybody in the place, the engineers and so on,

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and some of these little dramatizations that we slapped together.

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But as I say, the program is interesting primarily because it shows how little progress we have made,

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and how little our ideas of the subject have changed in the last 16 years.

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You will hear references to Charles Ford, and to the various theories, the mirage theories and so on.

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But overall, in listening to this program again after I hadn't heard it in many years,

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I was rather pleased to find that it is quite objective, that it tries to present several of the different aspects of the problem,

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and it tries to give you an overall view of the thing in approximately 15 minutes.

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Here then is our own little time machine. We go back 16 years to Germany in 1952 to things in the sky.

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So our fans, I could have listened to the facts on the strings of the phenomenon of modern times.

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The facts on the things in the sky.

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There's something in the sky!

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In the 70s, when the Soviet Union was under the control of the Soviet Union,

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the Soviet Union was under the control of the Soviet Union,

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and the Soviet Union was under the control of the Soviet Union,

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and that's what I'm going to explain.

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That incident occurred in 1904, less than a year after the Wright brothers and neighbors first successful flight at City Hawk.

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There were not three complete flying machines in existence at that time.

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20 years earlier on November 30, 1880, an Italian astronomer named Signor Ricca was making some routine observations of the Sun at the observatory at Palermo.

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At 8.30 that morning he was setting the Sun to a telescope when suddenly a formation of strange objects crossed his view.

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It will flap back shapes flying in two parallel lines.

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Some of the waves of cold air swept over him as he realized that the objects were flying at a height of almost 100 miles,

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power on any living thing could go.

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Signor Ricca's official report was filed away in the archives of the astronomical society,

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and forgotten for many years.

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But in the early 1920s his observations were uncovered by a serious little man who had become the hero of the flying saucer story.

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His name was Charles Swart, and he devoted his life to collecting facts on strange phenomena which signs could not explain.

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In the shabby looking little man, there were always most whose claws unpressed on his thick round mustache whistling with gillipopry.

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He set most of his life in two places, the most in reading rooms of the New York Public Library and the halls of the British Museum in London.

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He patiently collected all of the abby books of information which were looking in among the back pages of all newspapers.

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Fantastic information which he assembled and published in a series of books which were last sat by the general winning public.

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But all of those books were considered to be the best source for information on the flying saucer mystery.

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We can't help but wonder what Charles Swart could say if he knew his work was finally being accepted.

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I would say that there are things between heaven and earth where you're ungrateful and you're strattenship of the world for life.

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Who's that?

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For us, the name Charles Swart.

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But he's not in 1932.

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As long as my books are around, I'll still be alive.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Tell us, what if you get all those facts?

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Find them and I can be in few spaces.

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I can check every fact.

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Check them carefully.

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Why there's even passages of Bible that mentions wheels in the sky.

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There are many old women legends that are strange flying saucers.

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Flying works but are nothing new.

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If you know so much about them, what are they?

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Can you tell us what?

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No man is a man for that question.

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You think they come from Mars or from another planet?

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I don't know.

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In 1978, made that chance to be exact, an extraordinary man, W. Hamburg, was standing the moon.

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And in the middle of the day, he frightened me with a submarine, a lip of implant, a light flickering in the surface.

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He caught a memory of the sun at the place of two, and then in the next twelve months, a family of other women were found saying 1,600 separate places of life on the moon.

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No one has ever explained them.

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And what have they got to do with flying saucers?

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Well, about the same time, the world of floating was caught by strange things in the sky.

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On March 27, 1978, many people saw an odd circular object in the L. O. E. London.

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You can read about it in the O. O. M. Journal of the World with a logical society.

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And in the year 2000, the British saw a great fit of greenish life.

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Even the scientists, the oil and mineral in the image was listed.

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They estimated that it was 133 miles above the Earth, and was traveling at a speed of about 10 miles per second.

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Can you guess where the meteor is?

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I think that the astronomers will know a meteor when they see one.

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The guy needs to maneuver it though, by some intelligence.

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But we have no real conclusive proof that there is great.

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None of them are ever landed.

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And it's not a problem that people assume that they don't exist.

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In April of 1897, every news paper in the country was telling some great stories about a huge cigar-shaped object, which was cruising along Chicago.

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My first huge white light passed over all the houses. Probably one of those people saw it.

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And you mentioned all those things in the book?

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Yes, some of them.

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For example, the funeral of Alain de la Troye in 1873, was reigned in four of the characters that we have in the book.

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What are the names of these?

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Well, the best ones.

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The one that is used by the modern buffers, which they're called, the books of the Dan.

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News papers usually find me some amongst those.

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Big news stories are generally scarce, and so the cross-agents and projectivity hounds will appeal to them.

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The papers of stories with scrupulous stories about movie stars and the occupiers have not got symbols.

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Well, the men of the town, for these marks, they call it the silly season.

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It's the season of beauty contest and silly news stories that the ordinary never appeal in front.

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The season I remember best began in June of 1947.

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A pilot named Thomas Armour was flying over the state of Washington.

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Armour, the oppressed mountaineer, he started a formation of men, scatter like flames, flying like geese and a guide in a line.

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They shared one amount of a high peak to the speed which Armour estimated to be about 1,000 miles per hour.

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Armour's course lasted across the country, and within a month, flying jets of the mid-1941.

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And Armour wanted to get his name in the paper, but only to report that he or she had seen a flying saucer.

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Morning, Granted. Hello, this is Hal Vinsky. I'm a wealth man, and this morning while I was covering my route, I saw three funny-looking things in the sky.

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They were funny? I just saw a big round thing in the air. It flew right over my car.

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Hey, that's right. They were about a dozen of these saucers. They circled my house, and then they made it about half a foot.

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A lot of the reports were from the whole country was alarmed, and the flying saucer's scur had a new peak.

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Finders in government officials' scouts, they tried to explain that the saucers were merely the product of massive scur.

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Then they did blame the members of the Union. The saucers were also appearing over Europe and Russia, and the Soviet was blaming them on us.

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The off-road part of their special group called Operation Slaughter, and they investigated each reprofitting them.

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Most of them they found were gamblers. However, now and then, they uncovered a disturbing case.

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Many prominent and reputable men reported saucer studies.

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Governors, senators, top news government and leading scientists claimed they were witness to the phenomenon.

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For example, in the summer of 1948, crowd W. Campbell, the astronomer who discovered the planet Cuba, was sitting on the yard of his home with his wife.

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Suddenly, something was silently overhead, something that was too fast to be a brain and too slow to be a meteor.

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He described it as some kind of shattered ship over space.

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Campbell reported for a resumption reported to the Samoan pilot, that the plane was found in the Copilot John B. Wider.

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The plane was seen a long, rocket-like ship in July of 1948.

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One of the strangest incidents in the flying saucer's scur occurred in 1947, and a flying disk was reported to Christ in New Mexico.

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The armistice stopped the plane to pick up the remains of the craft.

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Next to this plane was returning, it crashed, and all the men on board were killed.

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If they had learned anything about the saucer, they would be good-bye with him.

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There's a Mike Graham speaking from Birmingham, New Mexico.

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The 2000 inhabitants of this little town will never forget this, until 1950.

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For the past two weeks, the skies of the Birmingham have been literally forming with strange spiritual objects.

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I'm standing now in the roof of the local bank, watching a large formation of these things as they maneuver overhead.

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Few civil men and radio commentators from all over the country have gathered here to watch this fantastic spectacle.

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These weird things are flying at an altitude which is beyond the reach of our fighter plane.

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For two weeks, they've been conducting an amazing aerial circus above this town.

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It's impossible to count over just a minute, and there must be hundreds.

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And the citizens of this town have been watching.

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For two weeks in the summer of 1913, New Mexico has been an uproar of the same things that were happening in San Antonio.

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Long time ago, the big promise that the incident was forgotten.

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Since 1977, there have been thousands of flying saucer's scur.

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Now, the same kind of a new family.

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Actually, photographs of people's faces and faces.

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Thousands of others have been photographed.

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Here are several of these things that are still there, and there are some other things about the saucer's.

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Some of these pictures were scurred of these sites, but a few of those pictures have been published.

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The best group of flying jets photographs were taken by an 18-year-old boy named Carl Hart.

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On August 30th, 1951, he managed to get five shots of some 18 or 20-millimeter copies in flight.

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To help us, he found nothing he was judgment about pictures and he even found it, but examined them closely.

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So, I'm concluded that the objects in the photographs were, again, 50,000 feet in the air, and were covering around 18,000 miles per hour.

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But, of course, recently released the photographs of the perfect saucer's with the photographs of an hour's station in San Luis, Massachusetts.

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Last month, as the city season got underway, a group of flying saucers were detected by radar in the space.

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First one, there was been a fresh avalanche of saucer stories.

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Food and Sciences, to inspect new things, have observed the mysterious objects over early installation.

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Now, status claims have been received in the graphic search.

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What are they?

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Well, maybe a dollar each keyhole, half out of the books for flying saucers are real, has been called,

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but he believes they may be observed a unit from another planet, unit from the photograph on the German power planet.

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Then scientists, scientists, are nearly apical illusions, reflections, and cloud formations.

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The latest theory is that the phenomenon is caused by drifting photos of ionized air.

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Oranges might be both if we all adopted Dr. Albert Einstein's attitude.

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When he was recently asked for his opinion on the flying disk phenomenon, he replied,

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These people have seen something, what it is that they do not know, and I am not curious to find out.

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You have been looking through the things in the sky, such as programs based upon facts collected by the United States Air Force and leading American magazine.

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Each of these facts can be fully documented by the authorities involved.

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There are a misdemeanors by the reals, Zales, and Bob Harlan, and Ken Dunigan.

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And both of those are just used, such as X, Y, T, and B, and B.

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This control on the flying saucer mission is written and produced in our center studios by two of two Johnny Keel,

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