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I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself before I get into the experience that

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I had. I was born in Missouri and I was brought up as a service brat. My father was a career

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man in the Air Force. I went to school in Japan, Germany, France and Hawaii. I jumped

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around quite a bit so I didn't get much of an education when I was young. But I did finish

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it all later. When I was 17 years old I went into the military service, United States Navy,

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and my first new station was in Jacksonville, Florida. And then from there I went over to

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the far west command and I helped serve our flag and fight for it in Vietnam even though

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I thought it was a more active of war. Then coming out of the service I went back to Missouri

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and spent a couple of months there and I went home to Nebraska where my folks were. And I

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wasn't making very much money being out of the service, you know, $2 an hour being a

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clerk wasn't my bag really. So I wanted newer fields so I always wanted to be in law enforcement.

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So I talked to my father about going into law enforcement and he decided that the state

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patrol in Nebraska would be a good idea. So we filled out the forms and everything and

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I had to go to the Ash in Nebraska, to the police department to get a police check. So

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I walked in and five minutes later I was a policeman. They hired me there. My life before

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this happened as a police officer the shorter time I was was a good one. I enjoyed it. I

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enjoyed working with the public and serving the community and serving the laws of the

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state. Now I guess I'll get on with the story. It was long, two thirty. Actually I think

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was the time that this happened but right around two twenty I was just checking two gas stations.

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I left the two gas stations. Excuse me. I left the last gas station that I had checked

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to pull onto the highway and I was making radio contact with the Wahoo Sheriff's Office

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because we didn't have radio communications available in the city at night time because

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we couldn't afford it. So I told them that everything was all secure. I pulled onto the

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highway and put the mic down. I seen some flashing lights in front of me. First appeared

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to me to be a truck I thought as I got closer and put the high beams of the lights in the

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tow car on this. This object started raising. These lights started raising up in the air

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to about forty feet. I think I was something like fifty yards from this. These lights were

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flashing and they got as they got bigger as I got close to it. It seemed like they were

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red flashing lights coming out of a porthole which sort of circled the craft. They had

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like a catwalk going around the center of it. It was shaped like a football, very metallic,

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like a very shiny bumper if you polish the bumper on a car. It had sort of a reddish,

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orangey glow coming from beneath it. Then there was this white flash that came on to

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me in the tow car. It felt as if we were being pulled. Then it was being pulled. We were

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being pulled up the side of this bank to the left of the road and up toward this field

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the car and I. I felt nothing. At first I felt kind of stunned and shocked and then I felt

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sort of tingly. As the car and I moved up the bank to the top of this field this object

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landed and some legs came out and it sat down. I was just seeing they were really motionless.

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I couldn't move. I may even have my mouth open. I don't remember being probably scared.

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This hatch came open and this light came out of the hatch and this form came down and looked

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at the form of a human being. This form started walking toward the patrol car with an object

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in both its hands. It appeared to be hands. He was walking straight toward the patrol

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car. As he was doing this another form came out and started walking toward the patrol

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car also. As this being walked up to the front of the tow car with this object in his hand

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which looked sort of a square oval type. It looked like it had a lens in front of it.

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The only thing I could think was oh my God what's going to happen now. This green light

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came out all over the car and then it sort of went back in again. I felt a sensation and

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then I felt nothing like I was just there and that was it. This other being started walking

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up toward the car. I was sitting straight looking straight. I couldn't even move my head. He walked

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up to the car and the window was about three quarters of the way down and he had an object

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in his hand. A silver object that looked like a big pencil with a round ball on the end

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of it and he pressed this against the side of my neck which I felt some pain from and

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said ouch. Then he stepped back and I sort of sat there and he opened up the car door

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and just went like this and I sort of raised it out of the tow car and I was looking at

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him and he was looking at me and he said are you the watchman of this town? And my response

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was yes sir. He said come with me watchman and we started moving toward the spacecraft

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and it felt like I was walking on air. We got up to the hatch to where you went inside

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of the spacecraft and we just sort of like floated up into the first level and he says

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to me watchman come with me and we were in a circular room and there were a lot of cylinders

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about four and a half feet high and about two feet wide that circled the whole room

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and it had sort of like a cable running through it, two cables running through these. They

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look like tall batteries to me. And then in the center of this room was a huge cocoon

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or you know like this shaped object was spinning and it was giving off colors like the rainbow

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and was about 20 feet long. And it seemed like these cables were coming up and connecting

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to these two block things that came down on each end of it. And we walked a complete circle

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in there and I said what is this? And he said this is how our craft operates and he said

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it operates on electrical reversible magnetism. And then I looked at him and he said come

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with me watchman and we walked back over to where I came up in with him and this glass

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sheet came down and we stepped onto this which I felt and we moved up into the second level

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of the craft. And lo and behold I have never seen anything like it before in my life with

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so many different types of instruments, panels and computer type things that you just wouldn't

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believe it. This cone thing was right in the center of the floor. You can see half of it

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from on top and half of it from the bottom but it gave off a red glow that sort of not

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flashed but kind of died down and then came back up again. And he says watchman come with

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me and we walked over to a screen that was up on the side I say wall. It was sort of

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like a TV screen and he pressed some buttons and I guess flipped some switches. I wasn't

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paying too much attention to him. I was looking at the screen and some stars in the sky appeared

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on there and he put his finger up like this and he said this is where we're from watchman

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and then he put his hand back down. He didn't say where and he didn't say the name. He just

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pointed the purpose that we're here is to get electricity and there was another being

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standing a little distance away and the man turned to him and they both looked at each

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other and he started depressing buttons and he says watch watchman and there was this

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antenna on the outside of the spacecraft which angled toward a power unit and this bolt went

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out a color I've never seen before in my life. I don't even think I could describe it went

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out and came back and this stayed like this for about three minutes and then it went off

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and he turned and looked at me and I felt as I was getting a very very awful lot of

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role of input of words that I couldn't understand and he reached up and he touched me on the

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shoulder and he felt real when he touched me and I think at that time I did touch him

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and he felt real to me and he says watchman come with me. We walked back over to the exit

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I'll say where we came up and the glass sheet came down again and we went up into the third

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part of the craft which was the observation deck. He said as we stepped off he said watchman

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come with me and we walked over and we were standing there looking out of a big plate glass

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window type thing and there were a little control panel right in front of it and there

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were two chairs that looked like dentist chairs you know I've ridden to the dentist here but

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really superstructure of a chair better than a dentist here. We looked out the window and

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I could see this one being walking back and forth by where my patrol car was and I thought

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like I said wow and he put his he didn't know he didn't he turned to me and he said something

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I don't understand and he said some more things that I didn't understand or I couldn't make

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out and I still don't and then he pointed his hand toward the plate glass window as I

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say refer to to the stars out there and he says to me watchman one day you use your

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self we'll see the universe as I have and he reached up and he touched me on the shoulder

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like this you know like grabbing you on the shoulder like a man does I have to steer you

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away and he says come with me watchman and then he stopped and he said watchman and

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I turned around like this to look at him and it felt like I was getting more input of something

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that I couldn't understand then he says watchman come with me we walked over and we went down

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all the way out of the craft as we got outside this other being started walking back toward

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the spacecraft and boarded it as we were walking toward my patrol car and we stopped right

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by the patrol car and I turned to look at him and he was looking at me and then again

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it felt like I was receiving input of words of some kind that I couldn't understand and

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he turned now he saw lifted his hand and then he turned and walked back to the spacecraft

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floated up inside this catwalk thing started spinning the lights started flashing off and

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on this red orange glow came out from beneath it it started lifting up in the air and I

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guess it got about a hundred feet high and shot straight outside let me tell you I was

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scared I started feeling me again when I was aboard the spacecraft I had hardly no feeling

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at all my body was tingling I was aspiring I was hot I felt nauseated I got back into

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the patrol car I turned it around and I hit it back for the police station on the way

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the police station at a high rate of speed I tried to make communication with Wahoo

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Sheriff's office and it appeared the radio was dead I got to the station I jumped out

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of the car and fast walk walk into the police station and I noticed that the wall clock in

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the police station said one minute after 3 a.m. well I went directly to the bathroom

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and I filled the bathroom with the drink of water because I was hot and I walked back

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into the main room of the police station we had a real small police station it was about

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20 by 20 and I sat there at the table and I lit a cigarette and I said wow what the hell happened

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something happened to me did I really see a flying saucer did this really happen to me

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I looked at my report log and I remember through all the training and everything I went through

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that regardless of the nature or what it was put it in your report book because you just might need

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it so I looked at my report book and I got my pen out and I wrote at 2 30 a.m. December 3rd 1967

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I saw UFO at the junction 663 believe it or not about 6 30 that morning a fellow officer came in

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and I explained to him what happened to me and the fellow officer says I believe you heard

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one time I was on my way to Wahoo, Nebraska and I was driving down the road I looked over

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well, behold there were two UFOs sitting in the field and these little green men were out there

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walking around it waving at me I said sure Paul and he says I don't think you should tell anybody

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heard because I don't think anybody's gonna believe you matter of fact you're gonna lose your job if

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you tell the people but I said Paul it's the truth he said well you know he said a lot of people

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won't even accept the truth I said well I wait for the chief he says no I'll go on home so I went

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home and I was you know I really felt like everything was drained completely out of my body

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and I lay down on the couch and as I lay there I started getting a buzzing feeling in my head

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and it felt like I was being I had pressure on my body I couldn't move my arms I couldn't you know

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how you try to open your mouth you can't say help I was trying to say help you know and then I went

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off to sleep in the phone rang and it was the chief and the chief says get your butt down to the

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station right now what is this you mean you've seen a UFO I said I don't feel good I'm sick and

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I'm not coming down to the police station he said I'll be right over so the next thing the tv came in

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press came in you know newspapers radio stations and telephone calls started coming in two days later

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the ridicule started coming in believe me and I had a man run three blocks huffing and puffing

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get your tire shop there in ashton avasca and you let me

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herb if you ever see another flying saucer and it lands you tell me I want to sell them a set of tires

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the phone rang this is the planet mars you know I mean really ridiculous stuff I think

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though being here in Florida one of the the neatest walkings I got was right out here in the lobby

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the gentleman out there selling books and I walked up and he says herb sure man I said yes

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my name is so-and-so and I was taking aboard a police cruiser

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I thought that was neat the United States Air Force

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conning committee blue book project or however you want to say it

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investigating team came down to ashton avasca to investigate me

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a gentleman by the name of john erins who is a friend of mine

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and a gentleman by the name of Roy Craig who was a physicist uh john erins he'd probably hit me

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but he was a shrink psychiatrist him and I had long discussions and he told me to tell my story

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over and over and over and over and I told it over and over and over and over and then they found a

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25-minute time lapse in my log and john says herb uh what happened to you between

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2 30 a.m. December 3rd 1967 and 3 a.m. or a little before 3 a.m. and I looked at him

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and I couldn't say anything because I didn't remember so he says you got to come to bowler

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that's okay so they took me up to bowler and I met a UFO team there a lot of people

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who've run a lot of tests on me and a hypnotist by the name of dr leo sprinkler administered

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time regression hypnosis on me which found out a small detail that I had been aboard the

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spacecraft and that I had actually communicated with them they played the tape back to me and it

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shocked me I didn't know what to think I said are you is that really my voice on that tape

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you bet it is boy I says my god what do I do now while I was up in bowler the city got real cute

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you know the city fathers and people in the city the day I left they uh matter of fact the night I

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left uh they went down to our beautiful cemetery there in airstone Nebraska and took this dummy

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and hung it by the neck in a tree put a big star on it shot a hose through and paint the hose with

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red like blood and put her across the star with a cowboy head on it and they really may look big

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because they went down to the mortuary and they got the ammits out of code three run sourines

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red lights the whole works went over and they very carefully took it down and put it on a stretcher

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and covered it up and took it back to the morgue I uh they thought they scared me but they didn't

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you see that's what they were trying to do they were trying to scare me but they didn't

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scare me because I thought it was kind of funny and I laughed about it when I read the paper and

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seen all the pictures and everything but while I was in bowler they blew my car up with dynamite

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and that really made me mad I just got too pain for it and I was furious you know I could have done

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like uh George C. Scott did in that movie rage you know that's how mad I was but through the whole

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crisis I had one very good friend in ashland Nebraska his name is Leroy Demet very close friend

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and he helped me a lot in ashland he was one of our relief officers in the police department

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and I'm I really I was really proud to have him as a friend as well he's stuck by

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uh my family I really can't say uh I went to my father and I said dad I said uh I know you

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have 20-something years in the air force but I asked my father point blank I said dad what do you

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think of UFOs my father never said no he never said yes he just said son if you're telling the

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truth stick with it and so I stuck with it all right thank you very much