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the light was coming at me was extremely

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bright the inside of the car lit up i

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can remember that

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and it was a very dazzling brilliant

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occurrence if something did strike my

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vehicle

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something

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didn't want me there apparently or it

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was you know i i can't put a judgment on

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it

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recording of the actual radio call that

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he made seconds after the incident

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listen closely

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407 uh what is your condition

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i don't know

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someone just hit my car

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strange

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are you uh what's your condition are you

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okay

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something attacked my car

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i heard the glass breaking in the locks

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the

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what is it that happened

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deputy johnson recreated step by step

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the events of that night

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i was on routine patrol and i came up to

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this intersection and i looked south

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and i

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saw a bright light

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just over the center of the roadway

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my first impression was the wave maybe

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it was a semi with the one headlight

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broken out and then it

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dawned on me that the light was too big

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around and too intense for an ordinary

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407 what is your condition

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someone just hit my car

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i don't know how to explain it though

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strange

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are you uh what's your condition are you

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okay

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something attacked my

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[Music]

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what

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val was rushed to a local hospital where

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my eyes were extremely painful as if i'd

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been subjected to uh

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something like arc welder burn or

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something

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my uh

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there's some staff put in my eyes and

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they were covered with an adhesive

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bandage but in a matter of six to eight

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hours it cleared up johnson was

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unconscious for 40 minutes before he

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radioed for help and was taken to the

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hospital a doctor and later an eye

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specialist confirmed that johnson had

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suffered mild welder or flash burns to

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his eyes even stranger both johnson's

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wristwatch and the electric clock in his

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patrol car had mysteriously stopped for

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14 minutes an investigator from the

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center for ufo studies in evanston

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illinois flew in to examine the damaged

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patrol car there was no evidence of

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radioactivity and neither the

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investigator nor the sheriff can figure

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how the two spring-mounted antennas

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became bent at almost 90 degree angles

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at the scene of the accident skidmarks

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show deputy johnson coasted for 800 feet

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after impact before applying the brakes

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the area around here has been searched

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but nothing's been found all kinds of

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small airplane theories have been

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bandied around but deputy johnson

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clearly remembers hearing no engine

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noise

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and nothing explains the 14-minute laps

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in the two timepieces nor the peculiar

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bending of the antennas it's a mystery

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or as the ufo investigator from illinois

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said it appears to have been a close

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encounter of the second kind

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val johnson's a very good fellow and

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he's a good officer he has

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two young children and a nice wife and

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he's very reliable person and

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my feeling was that whatever happened uh

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was strange and unknown and uh there was

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no doubt in my mind that val was telling

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what he actually saw

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this is deputy val johnson and his wife

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now

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since that incredible experience that

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has shocked us all have you had any

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other experiences any any other close

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encounters no sir no had you had any

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before this no no this is the first one

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well how has it changed your life

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well it's uh

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it's uh brought our family union closer

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together

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uh

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because it scared everybody so much you

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mean well there was a lot of people

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confused about it and a lot of uh

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unusual stories that came out about it

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uh but uh

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it's uh brought us closer together as a

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family unit was it a religious

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experience for you many times these

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events are

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a religious experience upon reflection

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afterwards it's been about six months

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fun reflection uh

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we've kind of come to the conclusion

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that

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perhaps the creator has made other

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things that we can't readily see or