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sometime in Late July early August of

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1952 as an Ensign I saw a bright light

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and the forward of the bow

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on the right hand side which would be

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the starboard side the ship was on a

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Shakedown Cruise near gitmo Cuba

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and I was down below Dex it was maybe

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approximately eight nine o'clock in the

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evening like it was and it's a buddy of

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mine uh Vince we've seen a bunch of men

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coming from the engine room compartment

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running up top side on the ladder said

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red let's go up there see what's going

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on so I follow these guys up

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uh three or four decks up to the flight

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deck and we were watching this little

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object like a light that were it was

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following our ship

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and then it came out of the sky at us my

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friends called me to come outside and we

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observed a bright light quite high in

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the sky

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it looked like a star but was much

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brighter

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the light tracked at a high speed and

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came to a stop altered Direction and

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accelerated to high speed stopped again

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and it proceeded across the sky in this

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matter until it disappeared into the

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Moonlight these three men Robert Coburn

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Chester grazinski and John Lawrence all

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served on the USS FDR but each man was

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assigned to the ship on different tours

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in different years and with different

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jobs

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and yet each man saw the same thing

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sometime during his service an

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unidentified flying object tracking the

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Navy aircraft carrier through the sky

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others stood with them and witnessed the

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same events which occurred over a

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10-year period but there is no record of

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any sightings in the ship's logs and

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attempts to find other eyewitnesses have

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failed I know that during September of

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52 there were a series of incidents

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during operation main brace which was a

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series of Naval Maneuvers military

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Maneuvers with other countries

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and during those Maneuvers there are a

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number of UFO incidents reported

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one occurring in connection with a

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fighter jet which had been followed by

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an unidentified flying object Barry

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Greenwood is the research director of

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cause citizens against UFO secrecy he is

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also the co-author of the UFO cover-up

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Greenwood has collected photographs of

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UFOs taken in 1952 from the deck of the

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flagship for operation main brace they

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were taken aboard the USS Franklin D

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Roosevelt

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on September 20 at the newspaper

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reporter was on the flight deck of the

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carrier and a color camera with him and

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he said he turned down the flight deck

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and noticed a group of guys looking up

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into the sky

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he ran down there and noticed a large

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spherical object hanging in the air

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everybody was looking at it so he had

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his camera he decided to take some shots

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when he ran the exposures he said the

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object accelerated took off at high

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speed disappeared

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they thought it was a balloon initially

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so the brass called the various other

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ships in the area asked about a balloon

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nobody launched a balloon nobody knows

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anything about it they listed it as an

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unknown possible balloon but nobody

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knows where it came from that was quite

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obvious that we had seen something we

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don't know what it was we knew that it

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couldn't be an airplane because an

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airplane could not start and stop the

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rate of speed was too hot too fast for a

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helicopter and it was the two erratic a

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pattern track for a weather balloon Leon

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Treadwell also served on the USS FDR in

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the 1950s he recalls a UFO encounter he

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witnessed along with several other men

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while on anchor watch in Rio de Janeiro

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two

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ships

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other

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maybe about two or three hundred feet

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separated with the two of them

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and the counter rotating lights and all

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of a sudden a fireball dropped between

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the upper ship to the lower ship

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nobody knew what the devil was going on

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there was actual radar contact on these

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vehicles

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this painting depicts what Leon claims

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he and several other Sailors saw on

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board the USS FDR that night

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several offices

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in and then these These are

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representatives of divisional

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departments

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they couldn't believe what they were

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looking at everybody signed a release

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statement that nobody outside of cic

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would say anything about this

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for at least 15 to 20 years

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the cic the combat information center is

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master control for any Navy aircraft

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carrier here is where radar mapping

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Target searches and operations are

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conducted we were just told to not say

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anything about this to anybody outside

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of of combat information center the

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commander down of Virginia when I was

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discussing this with him he was on a

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ship he told me that I wasn't even

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supposed to mention this I just ignored

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what he said it's one of my desires in

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life is to find these other witnesses

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that were up on that flight deck with me

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witnessing this object as it came on top

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of the ship

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a lot of times I wish that this would

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have never happened because all the

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aggravation has caused me I have people

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at the left and said he wouldn't believe

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me really

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that was there I was there I seen it you

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weren't there you don't know you don't

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know what was like

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but why would an unidentified flying

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object of this Earth or any other spend

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nearly a decade telling this particular

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ship Truman claimed that the FDR carried

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Advanced nuclear weaponry that was

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supposedly top secret the sighting was

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well known to insiders in the government

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at the time it was written about by the

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head of Project Blue Book after he

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retired from the military and he

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described it in great detail

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possibility that our weapons were of of

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A Sort that they were interested in of

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course the carrier carried all kinds of

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different weapons the FDR was the only

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aircraft carrier time that had

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thermonuclear capability it was the only

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one that was allowed to carry the h-bomb

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we would be the only ship naturally that

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would carry them because we wouldn't be

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have the only method of delivering the

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atomic bombs since World War II there

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have been a number of UFO sightings

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linked to nuclear storage and transport

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facilities but these reports remain

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unsubstantiated in large part because

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the government organization best

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equipped to investigate the sightings

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the U.S military refuses to do so I

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think they are probably covering up the

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incidents with the FDR because they're

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covering up all incidences of UFO

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sightings I want the rest till I find

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somebody else that was on that flight

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deck with me I witnessed that same thing