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I've had many many letters pointing out

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that

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they as children on the farm had had

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many experiences with swamp lights and

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that this was obviously the thing that

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it was and they couldn't understand why

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the people in Michigan got so excited

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over swamp lights and the illusion of

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motion frequently is given by the fact

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that a little bit of swamp light appears

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here it goes out another one appears

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over here that goes out then but the

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illusion As A View From a Distance is

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that the objects have moved back and

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forth and sometimes as gas will gather

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into a ball and actually float away well

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of course by the time I arrived the

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situation was so charged with emotion

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that it was impossible for me to do any

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really serious investigating

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I had to fight my way through reporters

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to interview the witnesses well the

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pressure was mounting for an official

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explanation

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there were more than 60 newsmen jammed

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in at that news conference

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I gave what I thought to be at that time

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the only scientific explanation possible

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for the faint lights in the swampy area

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I made the statement that it could be

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swamp gas and even though I went on to

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emphasize that I couldn't prove it in a

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court of law that that was the full

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explanation for these sightings

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well the press picked up the phrase

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swamp gas

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and rushed off to the telephones and I