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among the first photographs taken on the

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old tin type cameras was one at drawback

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norway

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showing

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a a

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photographer with the big bellows over

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his head and a big camera on a tripod

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was taking

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a scene of the harbor and after late

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evening afternoon scene of the harbor

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early evening

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and he saw an object moving from right

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to left across the field of view snapped

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a picture of it and got perhaps the

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first uh

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photograph of a ufo

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at close range in earth's atmosphere in

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the sky here and that picture was taken

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on the 27th of july in 1907

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at drove back norway

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the next picture of importance and

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probably the second or third picture of

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ufos taken was photographed by

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mr alfredo fendrickas a weekly news

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magazine reporter for a paper in uh

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fatima in portugal

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and you you know the operations began in

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september in august 13th of august 13th

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to september and the 13th of october

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in the first apparition the children saw

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the sun

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swooping overhead and an apparition

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appeared and to three shepherd children

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they reported that to their priest

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the priest went with him the next time

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the apparition happened only the four

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people saw it

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they got the

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word that it was going to happen a third

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time on the 13th of october now always

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predicted in advance

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and by the time of the third anticipated

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apparition on the 13th of october there

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were 12 000 people gathered in the

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fields there when the object appeared

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it was brilliant came through they saw a

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spot it emerged through the underside of

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the clouds

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it was rotating on a vertical axis began

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to swoop over the heads of the crowd

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like this making low passes

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back and forth over the crowd

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alfredo fenrikas got two pictures with

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his camera of the object in the sky we

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have one of them here

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it shows up as a

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as a

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brilliant ball of light below the clouds

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it's a tin type so it's not the sharpest

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then the next pictures of of consequence

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were the pictures taken during

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the japanese

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invasion of china

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uh and their manchurian operation they

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used aircraft and objects appeared over

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the flight line of the japanese bombers

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preparing for missions

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they appeared following the bomber

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formations in flight

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they appeared in the sky above

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formation they they even passed through

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formation much like the foo fighters of

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modern history modern war history

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except they were

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something else then

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the uh and it was during that time

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during the manchurian occupation that

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a chinese

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walking down the street in teen sin

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china and

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he uh

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his attention was drawn to an object in

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the sky because the street photographer

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one of those with the old bellows camera

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had set up and people started pointing

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and shouting and pointing the object to

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the sky rickshaw stopped crowd stopped

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people pointed

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tin type cameraman aimed his camera and

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took one picture of the object coming

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down the street the japanese general

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went over and bought it and took it back

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to japan and that's the photograph made

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in 1942 at tinsing china

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of any serious importance was

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one that was made in over los angeles

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25th of february in 1942

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our war with japan had started and our

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we had our cities in blackout at the

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time los angeles was blacked out every

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night san francisco san diego the whole

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west coast of the united states

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o'clock in the morning disc shaped

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and the anti-aircraft batteries

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turned on the searchlights

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the objects passed back and forth

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batteries started firing on them and

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and sixty raw thousand four hundred and

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thirty rounds and the aircraft rounds of

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ammunition didn't hit a thing

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that were falling

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the next one uh of of serious importance

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again was before

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described flag sausage that was in 1949

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but the next the photo event of interest

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that happened on the 17th of march in

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mr walter rogel managing editor of

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farmington times published news on the

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front page of the of his paper huge

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saucer armada jolts farmington now what

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happened on that day the town's

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population of about 5 000 people then

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looked up and saw spaceships

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circular disc shaped metallic disc

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shaped craft with domes on the top

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passing over their city

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they were changing position within the

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formation like a flock of bees or birds

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established formation it was just a

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large gaggle of objects that flew over

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hundreds of them flew over for

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almost two hours and the same thing

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happened the following day

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one picture escaped collection by the

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military people that went there in

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canvas houses they took all the pictures

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took cameras but somebody had

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in town the left town after taking the

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photographs and took one to durango

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colorado where he turned it into the

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durango paper and durango published this

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one photograph shows

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about seven or eight of the objects in

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the sky five of them in a loose

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formation at lower level and four or

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was crashing through the underbrush and

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emerged into

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into a clear area not far from red but

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illinois facing the southwest he came

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into a clearing from the south side

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and as he stepped into the open area he

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saw a large object hovering just over

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the scrub bushes there now this was

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about 30 or 40 feet in diameter

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it was below the tops of the trees

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and as he stepped into the clearing

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there it started to move

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slowly at first and then faster and

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faster he had time to

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open his reflex camera where you look in

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the top and it it's they're hard to

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the the scene moves the opposite

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direction once you move the camera

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and he got it open and got one picture

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and by the time you can roll the film

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and get set up again it'd move so far

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away he was afraid he wouldn't get it he

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snapped the picture he got a little dark

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spot in the sky but

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dark smudge leaving the first picture

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they he turned it over to the local

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newspaper and it was published on the

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and a few days later he got a he was

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contacted by a news boy who was

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was throwing papers

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that time of day

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down the road in a rural area

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and the news boy said that he saw the

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object coming from the direction of the

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woods

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heading down the highway at about

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four times five times the speed of an

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airplane

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and he looked up at it and and saw it

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road a little ways he came on a man and

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his wife working on the roof repairing

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it and he asked he said did you see the

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thing that just went over and they said

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corroborated

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dean morgan's story

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and they came out in news reports the

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following day so that was an interesting

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it represented a a type scene rather

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close up and photographed

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within 150 feet 200 feet of the camera

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the next one that got any real attention

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occurred on the 11th of may 1952 at

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mcminnville oregon

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at about 7 30

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in the early evening of 11 may 1952

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farmer paul trent

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was in the kitchen of his home when he

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heard his wife who called to him from

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the backyard to come out and see the

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strange objects that was approaching

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and he immediately ran for his following

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camera and dashed outside to meet her

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there against the

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the low overcast sky he saw a low a

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circular dome disc

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with a

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a tower on top of the dome a

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a raised cupelo it was moving

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fairly slow

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he had plenty of time to frame he

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snapped the first picture and then he

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had to move to his right to snap the

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second picture there was no flame or

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reflux of any kind visible no sound was

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completely silent his wife didn't hear

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any sounds either the pictures he took

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on the 11th of may and he didn't report

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him until the 12th of june

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when he had his pictures developed and

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and back and he he showed them to a

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friend

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uh frank wortman who suggested they take

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him to the newspaper and they took him

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to the california in richmond california

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independent

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where they uh they looked at them chat

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tested them and published them for the

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first time so now that's it's two months

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after the pictures were taken before the

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information got out

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but it became they have become a classic

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in the lore of ufo ufology is if you

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want to call it

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now