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Eddie on October 11 1973 you were

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stationed in Okinawa and the U.S Marines

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and you didn't hear about the encounter

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from your mother and father you read

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about it in Stars and Stripes could you

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tell us about your reaction and and what

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it felt like to

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find out about that this way

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yes uh my first reaction was shock

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because I really didn't understand what

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had happened to my father

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and when I read the parts about where Dr

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harder and Dr heineck came down to do an

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investigation I didn't really understand

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what all that involved that led me to

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believe that there there may have been

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some harm done to them

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I had no way of finding out other than

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waiting for a letter to come from home

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and the the articles in the paper were

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just bits and pieces you might say two

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men were picked up and were boarded a

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UFO on the Pascagoula River in

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Pascagoula Mississippi

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and basically that's all that was in the

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paper the first article I think there

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was two articles that followed that

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maybe in a week's time but it didn't

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give me much more information than that

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and I really didn't know what to think

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how did the other members of your

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company react

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they um

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they they act as reacted sort of

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surprised there was several guys in my

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company there from Mississippi uh they

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were quite concerned because we had been

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stationed at other bases together

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nobody ridiculed me uh they were quite

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interested in it uh they were as anxious

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as I was to find out some information

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from home to see what really happened

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and

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they were just basically good-natured

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about it you know

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Tisha at the time of your father in

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Calvin's encounter you were very small

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child so young that you don't even

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really remember the encounter but the

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years have come and gone were here 14

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years later and the book UFO contacted

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Pascagoula has been published your

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father and Calvin's story has been

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on the front page of the major newspaper

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here on the Gulf Coast as well as some

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of the smaller newspapers tell us about

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the years growing up the

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was there ever a time that you had any

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doubt about their story and and also if

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you would the reaction of your friends

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and acquaintances outside of the family

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well I've never doubted my parents

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um I believe everything they say and my

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friends have supported me real well and

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they've always been there there's been

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no ridicule towards me or towards the

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book and everybody's just been real good

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to me

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glands if it could all be done over

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again would you prefer that Charlie and

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Calvin didn't report this incident

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I won't even report it

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I certainly would

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because he has it's happened to him and

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he's proven he's proven it's happened to

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him and it's owlcrate

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so regardless of uh

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any of the frustrations or or problems

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that it may have created over the years

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if any you would still want it to be

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reported and for people to know

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it was real frightening to me that night

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and scary it was hard for me to believe

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you know just like everybody else you

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know I guess they thought the same thing

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I did you know we didn't know if it was

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real or what happened

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but uh the next day I knew it did happen

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to

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and for days on the weeks on the month

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song I knew it happened to him because

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he had cold sweats had to change his

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sheets at least two and three times a

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night from cold sweats