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Polish immigrant and amateur geologist

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Stephen mihalik looked forward to his

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weekend getaways alone in the Falcon

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Lake Area 90 miles east of his home in

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Winnipeg Manitoba

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this was maholic's favorite prospecting

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site around noon on May 20th 1967 as he

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examined a quartz formation maholic was

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distracted by some unruly geese he

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looked up and was transfixed

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he says he saw two cigar-shaped objects

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glowing red in the sky

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the following is a recording maholic

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later made of what he saw next

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besides you know was amazing

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and here they coming down with speed I

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just can't describe amazing speed

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mahalik says one of them stopped

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suddenly accelerated then disappeared

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the other landed about 50 yards away he

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watched in awe

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I hear

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running equipment

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pumps on high speed when the tank landed

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it was of great big coal it's stainless

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steel and it was pink hot and I can feel

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the breeze on my face that that thing is

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hot outside

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there was my notebook there was my

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pencil so I sketches

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mahalik claims it was round about 40

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feet long and about 10 feet high his

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curiosity took hold and he approached

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the craft he examined the outside of it

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slowly touching the glowing skin with

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his gloved hand

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it was fiery hot nearly melting the palm

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of his rubber glove maholic says the

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craft rotated turning its grid-like

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the blast of hot gas from the vent

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knocked him to the ground setting his

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shirt and undershirt on fire the craft

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suddenly lifted off the ground according

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to maholic and soared straight up he

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threw his burning shirts to the ground

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dazed and in severe pain from Burns to

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his chest and stomach

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maholic says he wandered around for what

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seemed like ours before he managed to

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gather up his supplies

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he found his way out of the woods

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caught a bus

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and later that night arrived back in

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Winnipeg

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still in pain he rushed from the bus

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station to nearby Misericordia Hospital

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where he was treated for first-degree

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Burns mahalik claimed the blast from the

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craft had etched a grid-like pattern

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into his abdomen that matched the

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pattern on the exhaust vent

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the next day Sunday he was Spirited off

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to the Saint Regis Hotel after

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convincing the managing editor of

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Winnipeg's highly regarded Daily

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Newspaper the Winnipeg Tribune that his

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extraordinary encounter was real

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that time I said okay

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as any news man would have done draw it

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I gave him a piece of paper I think that

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drawing has become the most famous UFO

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piece of evidence in the world today he

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sat down he drew it in front of me

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I hit it

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I talked to him

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I called doctors I called police and I

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sure as hell didn't want the Winnipeg

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Free Press getting the story Monday's

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edition of the Tribune LED with this

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headline

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mahalik soon became a sensation

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worldwide

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What followed was one of the most

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intensely examined UFO cases on record

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over the next two years mahalics Burns

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kept recurring and no one could explain

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why

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he was examined by more than a dozen

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physicians in Canada and the United

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States including doctors at the Mayo

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Clinic

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an investigation by the Royal Canadian

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Air Force concluded that the abdominal

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burn sustained by Mr maholic remain as

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unexplainable as to the source of the

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burn

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the Mayo Clinic psychological report

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concluded that mihalik was not prone to

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delusions hallucinations or any type of

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emotional disorder University of

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Manitoba astronomer Chris Rutkowski

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believing the government reports left

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many questions unanswered launched his

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own investigation in 1994 he published

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the Falcon Lake case too close an

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encounter in the respected Journal of

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UFO studies

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the terrain around the site is very

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rugged very Rocky

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the brush is very very dense the trees

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all look alike the Rocks all look alike

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and to a person who's disoriented not

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feeling very well it might be very very

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difficult to find the exact site after

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some period of time has elapsed Skeptics

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disagreeing with Rutkowski also do not

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believe that maholic would make physical

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contact with an extremely hot object he

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assumed was a UFO but this does not

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surprise his son

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he is the kind of fellow that fear is

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not in his vocabulary not that he's a

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Fearless man but that when he sees

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something he doesn't understand he

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doesn't fear it he just chooses to

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understand it for my dad to fabricate

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something as large as this would require

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more than I think he had

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more than he has he's a simple man he

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grew up and lived a very straight hard

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life this was no con man

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this was a man who later went down a

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male they couldn't figure it out I

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couldn't figure it out the doctor I had

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there couldn't figure it out I am not