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i was driving home from work

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about 9 30 in the evening 9 9 30 around

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that time

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and approaching

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the road that turned off a paved road to

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my house

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i noticed flashing lights

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in the distance and assumed that they

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were fireworks

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and uh but was puzzled about why someone

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would be shooting fireworks in august

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you see this new year's in the fourth of

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july but never in august

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but i continued on home turning down a

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dirt road toward my house and i got

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about halfway down the road

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and suddenly in the distance about

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treetop level

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this huge object just lit up

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and it was

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a glowing orange red

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color

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and so i stopped the card convinced that

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i was seeing things or i didn't know

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what it was

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however when i stopped the car it went

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out

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and so i immediately proceeded to

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go home and on down the road and i went

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a little distance and it came back on

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and i stopped again

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and when i stopped it went out

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and i sat there for a few minutes and

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then i

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came started on again to come on down

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and when i stopped the car it didn't

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immediately go out but it did go out

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and i decided that i'm not staying i'm

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leaving and so i began

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reversing up this dirt road with the

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ditches on either side

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no backup lights

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i'm still i don't really know how yet i

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made it without going in the ditch but

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when i finally reached the paved road

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and turned around and then looked back

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coming toward me

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at about powerline level

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was an enormous bright bright light

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the glowing object was not there any

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longer it was just this really bright

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light and moving very slowly in the

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direction that i was traveling

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and so i immediately

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took off and i went back to my office in

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fort payne i

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i have no idea what i saw

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but it scared me to death it was bigger

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than my house

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it was just an enormous glowing object

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there were

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six or eight pine trees

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that were affected by whatever this

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thing was they had turned a very strange

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color the needles on the pine trees

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there's a maple tree nearby that with

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leaves on one side and no leaves left at

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all on the other side of this tree

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and underneath where this object was

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there's nothing but bare ground

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everything had dyed all of grass and

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weeds and foliage of any sort

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just totally bare ground

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well this happened in 1976

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and it seems i'm not absolutely certain

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of this but i think it's been about four

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years ago that it finally started

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to regrow

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which would be 86.

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so there was a period there of somewhere

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around 10 years

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that we had just a big bare spot there

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that nothing grew

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and there was a large pine tree that

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looked like something had just snapped

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the top out of it

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however it had not turned a different