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What do I do?

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Just describe what happened.

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I was on a spy ship and we were south of San Fuegos Cuba, 14 miles off the coast.

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And on the radar this cigar shaped blip appeared coming out of San Fuegos Harbor.

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And then another one and another one, there ended up being three of them.

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And we were on a collision course with these things.

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However, it was a full moon night.

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We couldn't see anything on the water.

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We couldn't see anything with the night observation devices.

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There was nothing on the water with our air radar.

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We couldn't see anything.

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I even had the sonar directed in that area and we couldn't detect any noise coming from that area.

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And yet we had these blips on the screen.

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We remained on a collision course.

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We were called General Quarters.

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And it was at night, by the way.

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And everyone became prepared.

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The captain came to the bridge and nothing happened.

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These things just passed over us, through us, under us, whatever.

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They just went right through the center of the screen and just right on out past us.

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No visual sightings?

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No visual sightings.

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All we had was radar returns.

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And I also had the radar checked out.

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Everything was good on all radars.

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Now, in that area, the Russians were having a...

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Well, it was a top secret thing at that time.

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It probably still is.

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And there were several Russian ships, very advanced ships in the area,

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along with the best of what Cuba had in that same fort of the harbor.

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So, you know, I thought it was interesting.

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As far as I know, no report was ever made of it,

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because the captain didn't want to seem like a fool.

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But the whole ship was aware of this.

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Okay.

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And what was the month of that?

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It was about January of 1973.

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Okay.

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In fact, I think that's when it was January of 1973.

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I'd never really thought anything about these things until that happened,

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and I just thought that was very, very strange.

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Okay, we appreciate the report.

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Okay, thank you.

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Thanks again.