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first time I saw them was on the 20th of

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January

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and were out above that one goal there

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are four of them together and a fifth

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one came up and followed them and joined

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them

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above the roof of the house and just sat

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there and sat there and didn't move

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otherwise enormous orange globes with no

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sound didn't make a move in as if it

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just parked up and like took the keys

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out and cleared off because I just come

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back from the shop and I was driving

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around the corner there and they were

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just moving across you couldn't miss

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them they were so big they were just

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there in the corner of my eye and I

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bought cracky that helicopters low and

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then I realized it wasn't helicopter

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because the fifth light was independent

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of the other four and came up and joined

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the other four and they all just sat

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together

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and I'll stop for about seven or eight

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minutes and I walked through the middle

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of the road and I'm looking like this

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and there wasn't a sound there was no

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noise you could hear the street lights

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coming but you can see those lights for

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me there's nothing at all there was

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nothing behind the lights as if they

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were attached to a machine or anything

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so I went in the house and I said to my

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husband just look out that door quick

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and have a look over the garden gate

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tell me what you can see

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so he comes out and his chin is his

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kneecaps he couldn't believe it and he

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just does staring at them

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and he runs to get John our neighbor

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here and John came out and there was

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still sat there haven't moved

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and just as young went back in to get

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his telescope and slowly started to move

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away to the north but we were only

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treated up Heights where batteries at

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the back of that down below is how high

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they were and we still didn't ring we

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didn't do anything about it because I

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didn't want to get laughed at and then

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exactly five weeks and five days later

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she was on a Thursday the first time was

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on a Saturday

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um my husband was on the front he was a

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little boy on a two-wheeler bag he's

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only six he can start but can't stop he

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was running around the back of him like

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this and instead of being that sound of

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the road this time they were above this

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old houses and they just came sailing in

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from the end of the street right all in

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a line just in a line and I come flying

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out locked up and saw him above here

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with the moon sat behind him shot back

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in grab me scope

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just couldn't believe what I was seeing

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and then just checked all four of them

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were okay there was only four at this

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time check they were awful it was all

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right with the same and then sort of

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locked onto one and by ultimate Skull

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part against the Lamppost and getting a

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good solid possession against it so I've

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got something that's really supportive

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and and then try to get it in my mind's

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eye exactly what I'd say a single light

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not not any strobing lights not red and

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green for your wings for the important

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star but no strobing lights which you

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know you're flushing white lights which

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you can see very very clearly for or

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well 30 40 miles away at least

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um so no no chance I mean

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like I've said 30 odd years of spotting

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all over the world Spain America Germany

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weird I I'd say they were pretty low I

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mean guessing that they were looking

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through the houses in the distance going

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over towards Barrow way

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maybe about a thousand feet

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something like that distance no idea I

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didn't get a clear picture of them at

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all you know any idea about estimated

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speed

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no they're all named that they were

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moving away and again they were about

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time I got my scope on them to be really

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honest I'd just no idea I mean it could

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have been going

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quicker I just don't know but they were

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there for a fair bit of time so not

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answer the guess they were reasonable

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slow

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how I went and these things were just

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right over the top of the house and they

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were just unbelievable and I mean we've

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said about the aircraft and everything

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else

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no way I mean they weren't hard to have

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balloons or anything my very first and

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I'll be honest with me very first

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instinct was

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otter everline

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as I first got a lot of throat and this

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scope at it

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but then I started checking off there

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were five of them uh I think they're

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five now again my memory starting going

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um

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but they were I checked a lot I checked

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in each individual one and then I

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checked

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and one in particular and they all look

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the same they all were like a big

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cylinder white cylinder like a parachute

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material as you might say the moon was

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set behind and so it was showing through

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the this material as you might just call

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it and then in the base was um like what

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you might call a candle light bulb there

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was no Flame or anything it was just

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like a a glow and that was attached it

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was like that and it was attached to the

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bottom of these this cylinder and then

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it was like it was like shaped like that

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in four separate segments

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open at the top open at the bottom so

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there was no it was that ruled out the

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the utter air balloon Theory straight

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out the window and then the 23rd of

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March was the last time we saw them

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and I'm looking through my window

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because now I sit with my vertical

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blinds set so I can see straight down

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straight and I'm just sat like this

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looking out the window and it was

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quarter to eight was when the adverts

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were on for Coronation Street

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and I looked out the window and I saw in

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the distance to the north North West

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sorry North Northeast that's right North

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Northeast this orange light coming this

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way

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and I said I call my husband Danny and I

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said just have a look at that is it a

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plane or is it one of them

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and he looks and he said no it's a play

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definitely and I said well it's orange

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and it's not strobing so I went outside

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and walked down the the driveway and yes

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it was one of them and I shot back in

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and said camcord quick photograph soup

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and it was okay both came running out at

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which point John next door had come out

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as well I'm right next door but one Jill

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the policeman's wife from over there or

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everybody was all out again

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I managed to get them on camera uh take

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photographs of them and my husband got

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the video and he filmed them all we

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don't know what it was we can't tell you

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what it was but then they just sort of

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pulled sated stroll popped and

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disappeared

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[Music]

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what do you think it might have been

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that you filmed

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I'm not quite sure

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um

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I I said before I'd missed the previous

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occasion uh and because there weren't

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you know quite impressive they weren't

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as close as last time I didn't feel that

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nervous and that's why I managed to keep

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a straight hand

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um but to tell the truth to know what

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they were I haven't got a clue I mean we

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have helicopters around here the other

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one goes out uh because we're so close

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to the coast here and people get in

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trouble so we know what helicopter

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sounds like um looks like and we get

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plenty of aircraft crossing over

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um but what this was was

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extraordinary that's why everyone came

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up in the street and to see what they

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were because they were going so slowly

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these big orange balls

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um that people never seen them before in

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their life and they'd like to know what

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it was there's people we've met have

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around here have seen the lights there's

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something very common

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but it's just this little Nick this

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little area which is strange oh the

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battery is always on charge now at least

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definitely not helicopters

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it's definitely not a mechanical plane

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I don't know of any other kind of plane

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that we make down here that doesn't make

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it wasn't there weren't balloons because

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balloons can't take up formation

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whatever it was was under some kind of

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control to be able to take up formation

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like they did and just stop in the sky

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and not move and then just set off again

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willy-nilly you know they were under

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some kind of control it wasn't balloons

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wasn't