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WKSU News, talked with Deputy Spar and here now is his story.

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It was the only traffic that we heard was from Summit County Sheriff's Office.

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It was just relayed by them that this lady had spotted a very bright object.

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It was fairly large. It was close to the ground. It was too high to be a streetlight, too low to be an aircraft or a star.

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She also stated to us that it was moving from the west to the east towards us. It was coming in our direction.

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I accepted the traffic with very little bottom on it with fireman's ball and all.

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Maybe somebody tipped a couple. I never read about flying saucers. I have never been interested in them.

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We went back to routine patrol with us to see them in an accident.

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I started east on 224. Standard thing, nothing going on.

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I had planned to come to the hospital and pick up a casualty report.

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I saw an object by a car on the road, a Ford, and believed it to be abandoned.

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I made a U-turn on 44. I came back in behind the vehicle to check it out, possibly stolen.

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Someone got a little carbon monoxide for whatever the case might have been.

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This is standard that we do check all vehicles that we find.

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My partner got out to the right side. He went to the right front fender and this is standard procedure.

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He covers any time there's two men in the car. He observes both the rear window and the driver through the rear window and also the right door.

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He's sort of an insurance policy.

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I walked to the left rear of the car. I made a visual observation in the area around,

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feeling that it's always practiced to check the area.

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Possibly someone was tired. They want some relief.

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They walked in the edges of the woods to make sure that no one walked out.

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Also, as a precautionary measure to make sure that there was no one who wanted to come up behind us.

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When I looked to the rear of my car, which would be looking west,

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I at first saw nothing.

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Then I saw this bright object coming, what would appear to be coming up from behind the trees, real low and very bright.

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At first I started to tell my partner what I seen and they kept getting bigger and closer.

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Then they asked him if he would turn the hand and look over his shoulder.

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I didn't know if I was having hallucinations or not.

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He did a double take on it and the thing kept coming.

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There ever was any way for us to stop it.

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It stopped directly over top of the two vehicles together.

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It was completely the ground, the cars.

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Him and I were completely illuminated.

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There was no difficulty in seeing each other.

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It was as bright as though there was full sunlight.

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I froze for a minute.

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I was actually petrified, I suppose.

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I hesitated.

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Nothing happened.

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I didn't start catching them far.

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I had the feeling that I wanted something between whatever this thing was and myself.

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I went for the cruiser and stood by me at the same time.

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I got in and my first thought was as we rode a booboo now,

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we were in here if anything happens we can't do anything.

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I reached the mic button, I pushed it at work,

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the lights on the car was burning, nothing seemed to...

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There was no malfunctions, I experienced nothing wrong with me.

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I looked at Barney and he looked alright.

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I was waiting for the shark to go away a little bit.

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I advised the station that I had located this object.

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I waited to see if there was a possibility that the size would decrease on him

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and that I was over the panic moment.

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Just then the vehicle moved just to the north of us.

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It's all hovering over the road at probably between 50 and 100 feet.

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It's very large, I'd say it could be between...

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First observation, minimum would have been 30 feet.

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I would guess it would be closer to 50 feet across the base of it.

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Probably 18 foot in depth.

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There was nothing weird happening, there was only one slight harmony area.

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There was no indications that anything was going to burn

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or anything, there was no sounds or explosions from it or blasting

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or anything that sounded a jet.

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Then we were back across the road and to the east,

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about 200 or 300 feet down the road east of us.

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I informed them that we were observing it.

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We did not have a camera.

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Sergeant Schoenfeller finds me that if at all possible

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to follow the vehicle to pursue it or keep it under surveillance

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as long as possible, until I could get some cars or some camera equipment

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or a photographer out there to take a photograph

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and if at all possible try to identify it.

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Make definitely sure that it is an object if you can identify it by name makeson.

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Sergeant advised me to do this, we started moving with the vehicle.

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The vehicle made no attempt to run from us or to escape from us.

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It gave you a feeling of it was watching you watch it, you know.

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The vehicle moved to the east.

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It never went over about 63 miles an hour at first or 60 or so.

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We made a right turn which would be south of 183.

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We went to 224.

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We turned east again at this time the vehicle was directly behind us

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or the object or whatever you want to call it.

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We started east.

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The vehicle came to us across the road again on the south side of 224

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maintaining another two to the time of about 250 feet.

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It proceeded east right along the rim of the road or the edge of the road

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just inside the fence line of the fields.

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It increased its altitude maybe another 100 feet.

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The illumination from it did light the ground underneath of it.

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It increased its speed to about 83 miles an hour on the clock.

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It maintained the same ground speed for about 10 or 15 miles.

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After getting into Mahoning County, I could stay parallel with it all the way.

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It crossed at the broadband reservoir to the north side of the road.

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Probably across in front of us we could stay with it very easily at this time.

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I increased the speed.

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The vehicle went to 103 miles an hour at ground speed.

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We ran with it.

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We kept missing connections at various places that cars couldn't get to us with a camera.

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We pursued it as we were.

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I think it was so that I had quite a panel of intersections.

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I was running red light and siren.

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The vehicle would slow down and wait for us.

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It would increase its speed again to 103 as long as we could run this way.

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We picked up the East Palestine cruiser as the only cruiser that was able to make connections with us on the route.

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He had no camera.

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He immediately made the same observation that we were making.

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We watched it maneuver.

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We watched it gain and lose altitude.

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It goes through a different procedure through its travels.

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We got to Rochester, Pennsylvania.

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We would have lost it there if there had been any chance of losing it.

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You have to go through a valley and behind some trees.

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The vehicle gave up its altitude and started down.

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It hovered over the highway when we came back out.

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It was waiting on us and waited until we got up to it again.

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Like I said, nobody is going to believe it.

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We got up to it again.

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We went through freedom and started out of freedom.

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Every time I would have to do a pretty stiff turn, I started sucking air.

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I was losing all my fuel.

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The tires, I guess, were pretty hot.

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I had seen this one cruiser sitting in a filling station.

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The officer sitting in it from Conway.

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We didn't have any radio contact with him.

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We were in the station.

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We informed him what we were watching.

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He had been watching the same thing.

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He didn't know that we were behind it though.

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He immediately radiated the station.

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He told them of the observation that we had pursued it from Randolph

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and that it had been traced from Macron.

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They radiated over the airport.

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We were advised shortly after that we should call in

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before I was stood in the filling station.

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There was some traffic to the effect that some fighters had been scrambled

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and as so it knew that it might be in danger.

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It went straight up in a vertical flight.

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We watched an airliner fly underneath of it.

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Directly, a large air transport probably outbowing.

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I believe it to be a 707.

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It was a very large craft that went directly underneath this vehicle.

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Through all the travels and its chains,

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the only distinct projection on the whole thing was

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what I would say was about 15, 20 feet long.

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I described it as an antenna.

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A tree of us made the same observation while it was in flight.

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It was definitely a metallic.

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I assume it to be a metallic.

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It was a vehicle.

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It is a made thing or a manufactured thing by someone or someone.

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It definitely has a means of propulsion.

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I don't know what it is.

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It can propel itself.

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It can maneuver.

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It has means of navigation.

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Who controls all this?

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I have the faintest idea.

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I feel that if it is ours, it is a pretty good trick.

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If it is, we have a problem.

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Could you tell me, sir, what was going through your mind while you were chasing it?

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Were you then trying to think what it was?

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My main thing after the initial shock of it was to try to stay with it

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from the darkening hour of dawn into daylight

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to try to make some positive identification to disprove swamp gas

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or a mirage that I didn't know what it was

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because I am not an authority on it.

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I have never seen anything.

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I just want to be sure what I have seen was something.

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I had only one thought in mind and it was possible to identify it.

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If it was something I had seen before, I could identify it.

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I couldn't.

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All I can say is that it is a vehicle that I have never seen.

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I definitely say it is a vehicle.

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I will continue to say it and nobody will change my mind.

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If they believe it, okay, if they don't, that is okay too.

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I know that, sir.

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Did you believe in FUFOs before this incident?

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No, I didn't read about them.

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I am no interested in them whatsoever.

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Do you believe in them now?

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You can bet, I do.

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Do you know today, have the jets seen them?

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Have they told you anything about that?

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They haven't told me anything.

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They had no discussion with me.

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Anything that has happened before other than brief things that other people have stated,

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I have never paid any attention to any of it.

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I never read about them.

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I just regarded the matter completely more or less.

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My time spent when other people were reading about UFOs is if I gave any spare time,

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I kind of like to fish myself.

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Could you tell us to what extent you have been in contact with the federal government's UFO agency?

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Well, the only contact I have had was the government agency right at this time,

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is Wright Patterson Field.

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I talked to a major.

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He wanted me to identify the object very briefly for them.

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He seems to be more interested in obtaining the negative.

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I'll be photographing Chief Bookard to make that night.

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He doesn't seem to be interested in what I have to say at all.

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At first, he wanted to know how long of a glance I had at it,

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or if it was a cloud of light or not.

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And I told him it was definitely not.

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Then I had visual contact and under surveillance for 85 minutes.

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I watched it through the entire flight.

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I also followed it for 86 miles, which I consider...

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I may have gone further. I was out of gas.

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I know that it was a vehicle, and if they want to discount it,

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I'll rule it out. This is perfectly okay by me.

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Could you tell us your average speed during a chase?

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Average speed during a chase was...

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I would say...

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I couldn't actually average it out for you.

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I'd have to go to the log on it.

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Assuming the miles, I'd say we averaged out pretty close to about 85 miles an hour,

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considering the time we left and when it was operating at slower speeds.

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We tried to maintain a perfect pace with it.

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My object wasn't outrun it.

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I told you before I was interested in getting a hold of it.

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I was just trying to make an identification.

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I would know what I was going to do if I had got a hold of it.

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I'd never cross your mind or anyone else's that you were in contact with during the chase to fire at it.

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For a brief instant, I thought if it was so weather-blown,

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I thought it went through my mind.

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I would shoot the balloon down and get the weather device off of it,

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return it to whatever station it belonged to.

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I was before I got a look at it.

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I made a mental note if I saw a low-floating object and it was a balloon,

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and it was about to fall and standard tests of never recovering the instruments,

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and I would go ahead and shoot it down.

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But I'm not fool enough for any reason if this thing was whatever it was.

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If it was capable of doing whatever it was doing,

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I don't think anybody in the right mind would be fool enough to attempt to harm it or to do it harm.

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At least I wouldn't.

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Getting back to the photograph the Chief Bookard took,

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you stated before that after you ran out of gas it went straight up vertically and took off.

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As you saw it in the distance after it took off,

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it looked similar to Chief Bookard's picture which was taken from a distance also.

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Yes, I would say that it did.

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Deputy Spar followed the object for approximately 83 minutes before he lost it.

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He first observed it at 5.07 Sunday morning.

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This would mean the object disappeared at approximately 6.30 Sunday morning.

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At 5 a.m. Sunday morning, Manthaway Village Police Chief Gerald Bookard was on patrol in his city.

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Manthaway monitors the Sheriff's Radio,

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and so he heard Summit County informing Portage County of the UFO.

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Bookard told WKSU News that he was highly skeptical of the report and did not expect to see anything.

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He was wrong.

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Moments after he heard the report, he observed what he called a bright shiny object hovering over the city.

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Not believing what he saw, he went home and got his wife out of bed to see it.

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They both went out to their front lawn and watched the mysterious object.

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Bookard had an inexpensive camera in his patrol car.

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With this camera he took three shots of the objects.

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One of these shots is now being examined by federal officials in Washington.

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WKSU News got this description on the object from Chief Bookard.

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I hate to say how it looked, but let's put this one.

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When it moved to the left, it looked like it was tillered.

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And it didn't appear to be ground anymore.

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I feel like an idiot saying this, but it looked like it was saucer.

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It looked like two saucers, actually, as if you take two saucers and put the rims of them together,

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and the bottom will be out.

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How are you finding people's reactions to your story?

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Are they blind or are they doubtful?

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Oh, I'm not. I'm kidding. Some of them believe it.

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I can't believe the ones that kid me about it or don't believe it,

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because I don't think I would have unless I actually saw it as I did.

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According to William Weitzel, an investigator who came to Ravenna from the National Investigative Committee of Aerial Phenomenon,

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the UFO sighting by deputies Barr and Neff is genuine.

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In the opinion of his organization, only one-tenth of such sightings are ultimately said to be valid.

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Weitzel said he can only speak for himself and not for NICAP until officials of his organization study the reports and photographs taken by Bueger.

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He also stated that he believes Barr's report of the object he tailed is valid.

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He also feels confident that his organization will decide the same way.

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And so the question still remains, what was it?

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Was the object a natural phenomenon such as marsh gas?

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Was it an experimental device being developed by our own or some other country?

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Could it have been a weather balloon caught in a fast air current?

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Or was it a vehicle that came to us from a civilization far advanced from our own?

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Dr. Alan Heideck of the University of Michigan, a scientist who investigates unidentified flying objects,

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once said that the vast majority of UFO sightings can be explained quite easily.

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Most of the remaining incidents have probable causes.

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Only about one percent of all sightings cannot be explained.

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But as Dr. Heideck said, the fact remains that if only one out of all the thousands of sightings that have been reported

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turned out to be a vehicle from beyond our world, it would be a development that would change our concept of the universe radically.