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um

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i i purposely up and up until recently

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haven't talked too much about any

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sightings that i've had um i don't feel

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that as an individual my sightings are

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compelling enough that they provide

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evidence they're just anecdotal so it's

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something that i add to the to the pile

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of other other people's stories and look

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for for connections

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but um i'll give you a more detailed

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explanation um

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it was probably around

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11 30 it was near midnight i think

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between the hours of 11 and midnight my

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family was asleep

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um it had been a long day i was for some

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reason i was still in my uniform i was

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still in khakis

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and um i was sitting outside chain

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smoking and playing a video game called

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e-republic

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um

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and i've been hyper focused you know

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very tunnel visioned um on the screen

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you know to the point that i didn't even

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see the whole world around me because

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you know how it is you can when you're i

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was outside in the dark at a little

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bistro table in my yard

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um

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and looking back i wasn't a meditator at

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the time but looking back that was that

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was flow state i was i was in flow i was

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writing and and playing the

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the game and

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very focused

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and when i finally decided just to just

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to reach up and close the computer

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because i knew it was getting too late i

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had to be up early and everything else

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i closed the computer

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and i stood up and i was standing just

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outside my front door facing due east

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smoking a cigarette

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and i was looking out at a clear totally

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clear night sky

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and i was looking at the stars that were

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above the horizon

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and they were blinking they were going

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away

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um the stars were

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were basically you know being occluded

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by something

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and i could tell that this thing was

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moving from the horizon slowly

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because of the way that stars were

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disappearing but i couldn't figure out

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if i was looking at a

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large rain cloud

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but

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i mean all these things were happening

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at once and a lot of it the recall is is

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weird to try to do but i knew the wind

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was blowing in the opposite direction a

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lot of things didn't make sense and i'm

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squinting and really getting interested

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in what this thing is and as it starts

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to actually the apex of it starts to

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actually go over the top of my house

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and if people are going to ask me the

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the altitude it's really hard to gauge

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because the size of the thing

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was

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ridiculous

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um so it was at least it seemed to be at

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least a couple football fields wide

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meaning a couple of hundred yards from

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tip to tip

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um i guess that would mean you know

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equilateral because it was equilateral

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um it had no lights that i could see

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um

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it was reflecting now that i think about

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it was reflecting a small amount of moon

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light

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and i heard the wind going over

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it seemed i heard the wind as it was

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moving you know i heard the wind over

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the outside of the craft as if you were

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moving something large through the air

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but there's no engine sound

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as it passed overhead i was kind of

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going

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the tic tac had been

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five or six months before

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and there was a 48 hour period on board

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the ship where i knew we had had a

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roswell type event that should go down

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in history

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um and we didn't seem to care about it

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and i i think i kind of

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compartmentalized that you know i went a

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lot of different directions with it i

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just assumed that it's probably us that

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was a really safe feeling to have

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knowing i didn't want to be floating out

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for the next

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12 years knowing that there was

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crazy tech surrounding us um so who

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knows what i did psychologically but

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five five or so months later

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i just wasn't ready to turn around and

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see that

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um and i as it went over the top as it

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went overhead it sped up

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and we used to have these two really

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large palm trees for reference that i

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turned around and i watched it go over

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the top of the palm tree and i was going

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to lose sight of it right behind the

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palm tree

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and i ran to the the west end of my yard

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and jumped up on this rickety table we

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had built

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and i remembered the next morning

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because i busted off the um the bistro

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umbrella it's wooden it had this little

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brass thing in the middle and just

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cracked it right in half jumping up on

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the table to catch one last glimpse of

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this thing as it tipped over on its port

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wing edge and just we have this term in

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the navy called we say zorched it's just

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zorched it just it was

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and i say it got smaller or it went away

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because without sound and light

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reference and no effect

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you know given that we're talking about

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the phenomenon we assume

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um i can't say exactly what it did it

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just receded it went away from my vision

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and perception

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and i stood on top of that table for

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probably five minutes just jaw a gate

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i just went to bed

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i never told anybody about that i mean i

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drew it

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i wrote down what happened

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but i wasn't somebody who was like holy

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crap i just saw a giant ufo

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no i i told friends and family about the

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tic tac incident like i said there was

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i wasn't asked to sign an nda there was

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no classification around it

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um and so when it came out in the news

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it was they knew exactly what they were

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looking at friends and family they were

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the ones that were telling me about the

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times article

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people asked me what did you think it

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was where do you think it's from i don't

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have any of those answers it was a big

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black triangle it didn't make any noise

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it was going super slow and it was way

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too big

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yeah and at this point in my career my

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second career of what we all do with

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this subject i don't believe that was

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tech made by

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you and i or anybody with an email

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address or that pays taxes or

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or lives in the world that we operate in

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i don't i can't find a way to make that

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but i know i saw what i saw and when i

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got up got back up in the morning i went