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the lights were really brilliant and it

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was just fascinating I mean it was it

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was enormous

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it just felt otherworldly

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you know you're in your gut you could

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just tell it was otherworldly well I saw

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a uh a huge craft just kind of come

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right over a Peak

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um that was it was just breathtaking it

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was a it was a unquestionably it was a

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UFO which means unidentified flying

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object there's nothing we're being

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visited well it's nothing like anything

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I've ever seen and you're an Air Force

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guy yeah yeah and a pilot uh got a lot

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of hours flying so it was pretty

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breathtaking and um and I'll never

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forget I I snuck out to see it

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um you know without DPS

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which I I'm not supposed to be driving

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my own car and that kind of thing and so

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but I told Anne what I was doing I was

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going to go up to Peak and see

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what everybody was you know clamoring

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about and when I walked in the front

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door she looked at me and I was

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apparently just normally I'm Fair

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complected and pale anyway right and she

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said oh my gosh she said she'd look like

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a ghost what did you say and I said

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well I don't know what I saw but it's it

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was really something and I'm not going

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to talk about it

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and so were you did it frighten you no I

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no I think I was kind of in awe really

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you know how big

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ger than anything I've ever seen in the

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sky like an aircraft carrier yeah yeah

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something like that you know and it was

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hard to Define because of the light in

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terms of the size but it but it was

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absolutely silent and had sort of your

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re-embedded lights and you know so

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that's what I thought I wasn't expecting

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to see anything because I was looking

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out over

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at Luke

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to the west and and then all of a sudden

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these people in the Park

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area on the just on the west side of 51

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there are a bunch of people there

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everybody said look at that and we

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turned around and this thing was coming

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from the Northwest traveling to the

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southeast

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we now know and it really hit me when

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when we were watching the Diamondbacks

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in game seven

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and the B1 flew over

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it wasn't yeah it wasn't a B1 bomber

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but that thing all of a sudden out of

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nowhere appears and I and I said to

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somebody that night I said well you know

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when they do test these they test them

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in populated areas they're new stuff

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they test it to see if people detect it

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do you believe it was ours do you

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believe it was something from the US

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government that they were kind of flying

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around yeah it wasn't even close to ABY

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was much bigger than B1 I'd be one that

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actually isn't that big I mean right I

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mean if it's it's at low altitude it'll

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appear a big but no this was totally

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different

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something though that you think our own

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government may have been kind of running

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by a populated area to see what would

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happen I will they certainly certainly

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achieved their goal of stirring the pot

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if that's what they were doing but I

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don't think I don't think so I don't I

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think this was technologically far

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advanced

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I use the I use the analogy can you

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imagine if you took Christopher Columbus

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and put him in the cockpit of a Boeing

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triple seven

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what his reaction would be he wouldn't

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understand it he would be convinced that

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this is something from another world you

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know and I think I really believe I

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believe that I believe that but I've

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always been open to that you know we're

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not alone in the universe I agree we're

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going to find that we're going to find

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that out one way or the other even Bill

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Clinton was talking about that the other

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day on the national news I saw that yeah

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I do believe that that we're not alone I

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just don't know that we've been visited

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but you think maybe that night we were I

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I think so yeah there have been so many

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different sort of sightings and

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inexplicable phenomena that you know um

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but but the disparity in terms of

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technological progress would be so vast

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that we would be I think of sort of no

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consequence to whoever is visiting us

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because the technology to get here would

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be just beyond anything we could imagine

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did it hover no it was just going in a

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straight line slow pace yeah slow pace

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yeah and then you know the roles there

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were the sightings of the America West

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Plain coming into Sky Harbor or said he

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could have landed on it it was enormous

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like an aircraft carrier in the sky is

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that about as good yes I think that's I

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think that's a fair description yeah

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yeah I'm five Simington in 1997 during

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my second term as Governor of Arizona I

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saw something that defied logic and

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challenged my reality

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I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft

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that silently navigated over the

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Peak area

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in North Phoenix in the evening and it

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was truly breathtaking

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uh to my astonishment it appeared that

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it appeared to be a solid structure it

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was huge uh it had a very distinctive

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Leading Edge with embedded huge embedded

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lights in it and it was just traveling

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quietly made no sound through the

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Arizona night sky

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I still don't know what it was

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as a pilot and a former Air Force

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officer I can definitively say that this

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craft did not resemble any man-made

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object that I'd ever seen

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and it was certainly not high altitude

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flares

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as uh put out by the the Air Force at

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Luke Air Force Base because I've never

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seen flares fly in formation

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the incident was witnessed by hundreds

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if not thousands of people in Maricopa

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County and in Southern Arizona

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and my office was besieged with phone

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calls from very concerned citizens

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the growing hysteria intensified when

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the story broke nationally

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and so I decided to lighten the mood of

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the state and I called a press

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conference

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uh where I dressed up my chief of staff

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in a martian outfit

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it was meant to be a spoof a

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good-natured spoof that worked we

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managed to lessen the sense of panic at

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the time

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but I also upset quite a few of my

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constituents

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well I'd like now to set the record

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straight

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I never meant to ridicule anyone

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my office did make inquiries as to the

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origin of the craft but to this day they

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remain unanswered

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eventually the Air National Guard

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claimed responsibility stating that

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their pilots had been dropping flares

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they also also another individual from

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Tucson said that a-10s had been flying

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in formation over Maricopa County but

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those of us in the Air Force and those

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of you who know about a-10s they're

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called the warthog it's a tank-killing

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aircraft know that it's the noisiest

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machine in the sky and there's no way

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that a flight of a-10s could come over

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Maricopa County and be quiet that just

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doesn't work

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so we get these explanations that fly in

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the face effects explanations like

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weather balloons swamp gas

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military flares

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and hardware and software problems

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I was never happy with this silly silly

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explanation there might there might very

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well have been military flares in the

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sky that evening but that sure wasn't

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what uh what I and what hundreds of my

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fellow citizens saw

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well I now know that I'm not alone in

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witnessing something extraordinary

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that's the bottom line

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there are many high-ranking military

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Aviation and government officials many

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of whom are here today who share my

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concerns

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some of them have truly exceptional

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stories to tell

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there's absolutely no doubt as to the

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veracity of what these men have told you

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they have fought in Wars they have

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guarded top secret weapons

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and they've flown countless passengers

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throughout the world Skies

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incidents like these are not going away

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one year ago Chicago's O'Hare Airport

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experienced a UFO event that made

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national and international headlines

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pilots and many other Airline employees

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observed a metallic looking disc

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hovering over the United Airlines

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terminal for several minutes and then it

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shot straight up into the sky cut a hole

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in the sky disappeared the FAA

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apparently did not investigate dismissed

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we want the United States government

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to stop perpetuating the myth that all

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UFOs can be explained away in down to

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earth and conventional terms

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instead our country needs to reopen its

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official investigation that it shut down

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in 1969.

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the United States government can no

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longer shun an international dialogue

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about this phenomenon and we invite the

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government to work in cooperation with

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countries as represented on both sides

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of me here today

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when it comes to events of this nature

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dealing with the great unknown

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we deserve I believe more openness and a