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Are we being watched by aliens from outer space?

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Are these the craft they're using to visit us?

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Did this Scottish Forester really have a close encounter in this lonely glade?

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And what does this classic UFO film show?

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A flying saucer or something more down to earth?

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Mysteries from the files of Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 and inventor of the communication

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satellite.

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Now in retreat in Sri Lanka after a lifetime of science, space and writing, he ponders

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the riddles of this and other worlds.

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I think I can claim to be a reluctant expert on UFOs.

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I've been interested in them for almost 50 years long before the phrase flying saucers

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was invented.

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UFOs are very common.

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If you've never seen one, you're either unobservant or you live in a cloudy area.

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I've seen half a dozen good ones and now I have some very definite opinions on the subject.

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It was just before midnight on December the 30th, 1978 that this Argosy aircraft took

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off in New Zealand on a newspaper delivery run.

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It followed the route taken 10 days earlier by a plane which had reported weird flying

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objects off the Kaikoura coast, objects confirmed by radar controllers in Wellington.

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Now a TV crew was on board with Australian reporter Quentin Fogarty.

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We're now approaching the Clarence River where the highest concentration of UFOs was

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sighted on the morning of December the 21st.

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We're at an altitude of 14,000 feet and we're on exactly the same route taken by Captain

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Fowle when he encountered those mysterious objects.

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It's a beautiful clear night outside and naturally we'll be looking out for anything

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unusual.

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Suddenly had Fogarty spoken when things began to happen.

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We've just heard from Wellington radar that we've got an object about a mile behind us

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and it's following us.

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It's hope they're friendly.

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It's really getting a bit frightening up here.

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There's a whole formation of unidentified flying objects behind us.

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But there were closer encounters to come.

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On the return journey from Christchurch Fogarty spotted another object.

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It was extremely bright, much brighter than any of the other stars in the sky.

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Now it's just dimmed, it's gone.

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It's back again, it appears to be going behind the cloud.

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I can't quite make up whether in fact it's going behind the cloud or whether in fact

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the light is just dimming.

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No it's such a bright light that's lighting up the clouds around it.

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This is by far the best of the unidentified flying objects we've seen so far.

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According to our cameraman David Crockett who's been filming it for the past few moments,

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it appears to have a brightly lit bottom and a transparent sort of sphere on top.

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So it appears to be well like a flying saucer.

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We've got another one right in front of us, very bright, giving off an orange flashing light.

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It looks like an aircraft beacon.

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It seems to be rolling and turning.

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I don't know, I really don't know what's going on.

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After the plane landed at Blenheim the investigation began.

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Skeptics suggested they'd seen the planet Venus,

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but most of the film was taken more than half an hour before Venus could have been visible.

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An American Navy physicist Dr. Bruce McAbee analyzed the film

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and rejected theories that it showed meteors or ships or birds.

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Several of the objects had shown up on radar screens.

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One of them had left this extraordinary trail on a single frame of film.

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And although the start of this sequence is out of focus,

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some frames seem to show what the TV crew and pilot said they'd seen.

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A luminous base with a transparent top.

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Dr. McAbee's conclusion, no known explanation could account for all the facts.

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Trying to trap a UFO is now big business.

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In the scrub land of Texas, Ray Stanford heads Project Starlight International

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with a million dollars worth of equipment.

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The laser is to signal to spaceships his goggles in case they answer back.

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The aim is to use the highest technology to establish beyond doubt

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that craft from other times or worlds are visiting the Earth.

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Centipede of Project Starlight's Armory is a computer

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to monitor UFO activities in the area.

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When this line doesn't begin to show up, I'll...

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This is an Operation Argus alert. Please proceed as you have been instructed.

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The computer automatically calls up spotters to scan the sky.

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And it really hits the panic button if a landing is indicated.

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With techniques like these, Stanford hopes to add to the evidence he's already amassed.

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Like this film he shot at Corpus Christi in Texas in 1959.

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After extensive endeavor to explain it, neither the Air Force nor the National

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Investigations Committee on Aerophenomena could come up with any ordinary explanation.

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I don't know what it was, but it was tubular and bright,

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and small objects came and departed at high speed.

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We have motion picture films, magnetometer recordings, sound recordings,

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and a whole variety of data that begin to make us think that UFOs are technological,

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that they're really not something natural after all, but something not only technological,

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but highly sophisticated and capable of speeds and accelerations far beyond anything

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that we've ever dreamed of. In fact, we've really been surprised at how fast these things

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can move that we've tracked, and frankly, I would say that they simply don't originate

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on the Earth, at least any place on the Earth that I know of.

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If the Soviet Union has that kind of technology, so God help the free world,

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and if the free world has it, God help the Soviets.

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It was this man, Kenneth Arnold, from Boise in Idaho, who ushered in the era of the flying saucer.

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On June 24, 1947, he took off from this airfield at Chehalis in Washington State,

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and headed for the high Cascade Mountains.

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A member of the Idaho Search and Rescue Organization,

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his intention was to look for a crashed military aircraft.

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But as he scoured the slopes of Mount Rainier,

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something happened to change the airfield.

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But as he scoured the slopes of Mount Rainier,

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something happened to change his life and trigger off a worldwide obsession that endures to this day.

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At this point, it's when I would say approximately,

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is where I had this terrific flash, hit the air, my aircraft, lit up the inside of my aircraft,

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and I assumed, of course, at the time in a split second,

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that it was probably a P-51 fighter that had dove over my nose,

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and it was the suns reflecting upon his bright winged surfaces that caused it.

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However, before I gathered my wits together, I looked way off here to the north,

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and then when I saw where the flash came from,

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it was an enchelon formation of a very peculiar looking aircraft,

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and they were rapidly approaching Mount Rainier,

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and it was at about this point when I got here,

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I could see their tail surfaces, or the rear end of them,

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and the second craft from the rear had a more or less crescent shape look,

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and it had a hole in the center of it,

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and of course I kept mulling in my mind that,

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damn, this looking airplane I ever saw.

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Arnold timed the craft as they sped between two mountain peaks almost 50 miles apart.

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I looked at my sweep second hand on my 24-hour clock,

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and they had covered this distance of approximately 50 miles in a minute and 42 seconds.

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It was placing their speed at approximately 1,700 miles an hour, 1,788 it came out at that distance,

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which it was, of course, unheard of in 1947.

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He abandoned his search and landed.

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Later he was besieged by reporters, and one of them asked him how the objects flew.

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I said, well, I tell you, they flew like erratically like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.

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And of course then, all of a sudden, the term flying disk and this type of thing,

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or crescent shaped or whatnot, was completely dropped,

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and everybody started seeing flying saucers, and they've been seeing them ever since.

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And photographing them too, anywhere from Australia, where a sheep farmer took this strange shot,

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to America and this 1950 classic from McMinnville in Oregon.

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Some pictures show such detail as skeptics simply scoff.

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Others are more enigmatic. This is from Madrid D'Ios in Peru.

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This was taken by teenager Stephen Pratt at Connorsboro in Yorkshire.

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Pictures can be faked, and eyewitnesses can be mistaken.

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The object reported here to be bluish at first, then red and luminous, was almost certainly Venus.

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The witness, Jimmy Carter, later president of the United States.

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Sometimes hundreds of people can be fooled.

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Many thought this apparition over the Rocky Mountains was a spaceship.

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In fact, it was a large meteorite which grazed the Earth's atmosphere 40 miles up,

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and then bounced off forever into space.

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But don't laugh at these people. Anybody can be fooled by a thing like this.

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I've been myself. In fact, behind these doors is my own favorite personal UFO.

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Come in, come in.

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I was standing in the garden on my house late one afternoon.

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The sun was just above the horizon, and higher up in the sky, the planet Venus was shining like a brilliant star.

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There was such a beautiful sight that I called out one of my staff and said,

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Look, Venus. And he looked up and said, oh yes, Venus.

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And I said, no, Venus. He looked again. Venus.

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I realized a few minutes later there were two stars shining brightly in the sky.

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The other object further to the north was just as bright as Venus and apparently motionless.

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It took me quite a while to find out what it was.

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It was the local weather balloon, and it was becalmed maybe 40,000 feet up.

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So it looked like a brilliant object, a silvery object in the sky, a most convincing UFO.

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Can mistaken identities also explain the handful of cinefilms which appear to show UFOs,

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like this one shot by Sevère Peter Day near Aylesbury in southern England?

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Or this hazy footage taken at a baseball stadium in Great Falls, Montana,

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which some think shows air force jets preparing to land?

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Or this, filmed by a British television crew in Oxfordshire?

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Could it be, as some suggest, simply an American air force plane

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jet-signing fuel high above the earth?

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One of the most celebrated of all UFO films is this,

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shot at Catalina Island in California by professional cameraman Lee Hansen.

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It was one of these clear, clear days, and that's why I was up, because you could see to infinity.

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And it was an ideal day for aerial photography.

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And it appeared silver with a shadow underneath. It was always metallic.

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And it was moving at a rate of speed, I would say, 150 miles an hour plus or more.

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And it appeared to be maybe 20 metres across.

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We decided to analyze the Catalina film.

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At the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, California,

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every frame is scanned and turned into numbers by Dr. Robert Nathan,

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top expert in the computer enhancement of photographs.

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His object is to get the clearest possible picture by averaging the best frames of the film.

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The first frame is called in from the magnetic tape and repeated on the right-hand side of the screen.

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Now there's going to be a series of operations where I'm going to take the picture

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and start adding it to the next picture.

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The second photograph is being brought in. It contrasts the stretch.

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And now it is being added to the first photograph.

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This picture now represents the average of the two photographs.

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And we're beginning to see a smoothing out of the background sky

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and an emergence of various shapes in the object.

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The third photograph has been brought in.

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This picture shows the average of all of these three.

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And now you begin to see an appearance of a strong white image on the top.

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And there seems to be some holes or some kind of transparency underneath here.

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One takes a good look at this and considering that the speed of the object,

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as reported by Lee Hansen, the photographer,

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is that this is moving at about 120 miles an hour.

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This begins to look like a small commercial airplane.

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And one can draw the comparison that you have the bright wing on the top,

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the windows, and the stabilizer, the rudder structure.

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And that's it.

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The Catalina film, I'm afraid, falls into the category of an identified flying airplane.

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Well, I've looked at this film quite a few times,

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and I'm convinced that it was a small private plane.

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There's no need to look any further for an exclamation.

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And that, of course, is a trouble with long-range sightings.

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We can never be absolutely sure what they were.

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But even if it was a visitor from outer space, we couldn't prove it.

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For this reason, I'm no longer interested in UFO sightings.

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But what does intrigue me, what is very mysterious, are the so-called close encounters.

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One such encounter happened to Mrs. Jesse Rustenberg,

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then living in this Staffordshire farmhouse.

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It was on an October day, the 25th of October in 1954.

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I was in the back kitchen of the house preparing myself, just having washed.

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And I heard this noise.

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Now, it was just like a giant cauldron of water being poured onto a red-hot fire.

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But if you can imagine, a thousand times louder.

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And my first reaction was the children.

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I must get out. There's a plane crashing.

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So I slipped on my jumper, I ran out through the side entrance of the house

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towards the front garden to look for them coming across the fields.

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And to my amazement, there suspended on the top of the roof of this old farm,

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was this object that I can only describe as a huge Mexican hat.

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It was that shape without the bubbles.

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It must have been 15 to 20 yards from where I stood.

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It covered the roof, so in circumference, it must have been about 60 feet.

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It was enormous.

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The people in the spacecraft were just looking out.

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I could see them from the waist to the top of their heads.

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They were very beautiful people.

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They had long golden hair, like the old kings used to wear, turned under.

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They had a very vivid blue, like ski top affair on.

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And they just looked at us.

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Their eyes, the expression in their eyes were full of compassion.

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And then all of a sudden, I felt the tension leaving me.

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And I felt movement, and I turned round to touch my children.

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And when I looked again, it was gone.

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Now, we stood there, and I said to the boys, did you see what I seen?

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Yes, Mummy, yes. I said, but where is it? It's gone.

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And we looked.

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And my second son said, there it is, Mum.

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And we watched it in the sky, just like a cotton reel.

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So he'll round the farm three times.

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And then it just shot straight up and away.

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But just occasionally, there is physical evidence to back up reports of close encounters.

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On the morning of November 9th, 1979,

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forestry worker Bob Taylor walked down this woodland track outside Livingston New Town near Edinburgh.

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He rounded a corner and was astonished to be confronted by an unearthly object.

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It was a huge thing with a big round dome,

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a very dark grey, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark.

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A dark grey colour.

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It had a big flange going all the way around.

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I could see arms sticking out of this flange with what I took to be blades on the top.

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Later, he described what he'd seen to a local newspaper artist who drew this sketch.

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As I stood here, there was two balls came out, two balls.

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I'd think they'd be about three feet in diameter with about six spikes.

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And they were rolling on these spikes.

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And they came right up beside me.

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I remember feeling a tug at that time.

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It had a very powerful smell, a choking sort of smell.

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That was it.

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He crawled up this path and staggered home to be met on the doorstep by his bewildered wife.

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It looked terrible when he came in the door.

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And he just stood at the door and I said,

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Have you had an accident with your lorry?

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And he said, No, I've been attacked.

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And I said, What with?

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And he said, A spaceship.

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And I said, Oh, goodness me, there's no such a thing as a spaceship.

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I'm going to phone the doctor.

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You must have fell and hurt your head.

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He looked quite shocked and he was drained.

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He was right white and his face was dirty.

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And he had a red scar here.

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And his clothes were all dirty and his trousers.

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And then he told me his trousers had been torn.

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The police were called and they discovered inexplicable track marks at the scene of the incident.

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I'm examining the area.

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I found two track marks and approximately 40 holes in the ground.

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And these are the track marks here and these are the 40 holes.

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Since then I've photographed the holes.

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This is the photograph of the hole here.

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This is the holes that measured approximately three and a half inches.

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And this other photograph here, you can actually see the tread marks that correspond to the marks here.

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These markings and tracks were actually inside this area here that's fenced off.

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And there's definitely no other tracks leading to or from this area.

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These are the trousers worn by Mr Taylor.

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As you can see, there are fairly heavy material.

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We have a tear on the left, just below the pocket.

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And one on the right trouser leg, again just below the pocket.

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These marks are consistent with the material having been pulled up while the trousers were being worn.

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Well I'm pretty certain that that day that I saw a spaceship sitting here.

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We must accept the story of Mr Taylor.

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He's a very highly respected member of the community, a man of high integrity,

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and not one likely to invent such a story.

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Personally, I'm convinced that there must be many, many higher civilizations

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in this enormous and incredibly ancient universe of ours.

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And since we are preparing to go out into space ourselves,

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other older races may have been doing this for millions of years.

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So it's quite reasonable to think that they may have come here in the remote past, perhaps many times.

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As indeed, she tested in 2001.

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So we should look for evidence of such visits.

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Physical evidence in the form, for example, of fossilized transistor radios or their equivalent.

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But the question is, are they still coming now?

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Well, at this moment we have radar networks, American, Russian, and dept. others,

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plotting, tracking everything in space.

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Anything as big as a pencil in orbit around the Earth can be tracked by these radars.

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Is it conceivable that we've been having visitors over the last decades

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trying to sneak up on us, landing in obscured places, being seen by a few people,

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and not by these enormous tracking networks?

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I feel that when there really is a visitation from space,

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it'll be something spectacular, rather like the climax of the movie,

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The First Encounters of the Third Kind,

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we'll be certain of it in about five minutes.

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You may wonder, what should you do if you do meet a visitor from space?

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Well, be very polite and be prepared for a long journey.

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Next week, dragons, dinosaurs, and giant snakes.