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Okay, we're recording.

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Today's date is January 2nd, 2005,

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anytime you want to start.

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Uh, my name is...

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...then I was living in California at the time.

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1985, Los Angeles.

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A pair of teenage friends sneak out after curfew.

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A 16-year-old kid, to protect his identity,

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we're referring to him as Chet,

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had just gotten his driver's license.

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He takes his best friend out to explore a place

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that's considered off-limits.

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...

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Their destination, a decommissioned missile site.

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In the 1950s, the U.S. military installed a ring

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around Los Angeles of 16 Nike missile sites.

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These are anti-aircraft missiles,

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mainly put in there to defend the growing aerospace industry

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in Southern California.

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By the early 1980s, however, many of these have been shut down.

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I suspect there are a few things more appealing

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to a group of teenage boys

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in the prospect of checking out an abandoned missile site.

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Chet and his friends hop the fence and take a look around.

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There's not much to look at anymore,

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but they're having fun sneaking around and exploring.

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The kids are having a great time being kids.

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When suddenly, Chet looks up and notices something.

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There are blue lights just above them in the sky.

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These blue lights appear and I'm thinking,

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oh, man, this is a police helicopter.

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We're gonna get busted for trespassing.

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If this was a helicopter,

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the rotors would be deafening by now.

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Instead, the boys don't hear anything.

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It's totally silent.

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The blue lights descend from above,

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and the boys quickly realize

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they are not dealing with the police.

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I don't know what to call it.

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It wasn't, like, anything I'd ever seen on Earth.

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It was a giant UFO.

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Now, this UFO is so bright

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that the boys can barely see the craft itself.

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The entire missile base is getting lit up

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like it's the middle of the day.

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Chet and his friends are frozen.

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The witnesses are paralyzed by more than just fear.

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This light was shining down on us,

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and I suddenly realized I couldn't move.

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It was like this UFO was somehow holding me in place.

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I couldn't run and hide. I couldn't yell out.

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I felt trapped.

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What were you thinking of them, man?

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I was thinking, am I gonna die?

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Chet's experience is not unique.

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Hundreds of everyday citizens

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report having their lives turned upside down

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by a UFO.

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Could these never-before-told stories

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hold a key to the UFO mystery?

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MUFON investigates extreme close encounters right now.

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The Mutual UFO Network, known as MUFON,

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is an independent organization

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not bound to any government.

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They investigate reports of UFO sightings

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from around the world.

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Over the past five decades,

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they have collected more than 70,000 files

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stored at a secure location known as Hangar One.

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Now, MUFON is granting access to their fast archive.

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These are the files of Hangar One.

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Los Angeles, 1985.

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A pair of teenagers are trespassing

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at a decommissioned missile base.

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When a UFO descends from above,

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projecting a light that appears to paralyze the friends.

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What were you thinking at that moment?

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I was thinking, am I gonna die?

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And then it started to feel like

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something was invading my brain.

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Invading?

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Yeah, somehow I knew that this UFO

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was like scanning me, you know?

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I could feel it in there, reading my mind.

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Chet's friend later reported experiencing the same thing.

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Was the UFO scanning these kids?

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And if so, why?

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Was the UFO specifically interested in these particular boys

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or could it have been attracted to activity on the missile site?

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After about a minute of what the witness is called

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telepathic scanning from the UFO,

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the intense light surrounding the crap dim.

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The boys finally feel like they can move again.

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The UFO quickly flies up into the sky,

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just as silently as it appeared.

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Do you recall how you felt?

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I don't know.

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I was just glad it was over.

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These teenagers have just been through something amazing.

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But now that it's over, what do they do next?

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To tell their story is to admit

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that they were trespassing on government property.

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Not to mention, they're afraid of being ridiculed.

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So, they keep it to themselves.

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There are very, very confusing aspects of these experiences.

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And the psychological impact of just seeing these incredible things.

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The spiritual awakening that occurs when you realize

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that we are not alone in the universe, it is life changing.

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These lesser known stories can be very important

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because they often validate some of the more famous sightings.

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But when they decide to come forward,

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a pattern starts to emerge.

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Okay, we're all set.

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You can start when you're ready.

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Okay, thank you.

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Summer 1970.

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Lorraine Cosentino spots her young son

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peddling home on his bike.

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Even from the front door,

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I could tell right away that something was wrong.

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The kid races up the driveway, jumps off his bike,

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and makes a beeline for the front door.

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The boy's talking a mile a minute.

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Lorraine can't even make out what he's saying.

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The kid is clearly rattled.

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She thinks maybe there's been an accident or something.

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But the boy is upset about far more than scrapes or bruises.

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The son tells his mother he just saw a UFO,

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a flying saucer, hovering directly over the neighborhood.

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What was your reaction?

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I was just happy he wasn't hurt.

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I wasn't really taking the UFO part seriously.

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She tries to console her son,

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tell him it was probably just a plane or a trick of the light or something,

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but this only starts to upset him again.

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He was begging me, just come with me and see.

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So like when a child is afraid of a monster under his bed,

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Lorraine wants to show her son there's nothing to be afraid of.

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But then she looks up.

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It appeared right over the roof.

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What appeared?

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It was, I guess the best way to describe it is flying saucer.

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Just as she's assuring her frightened child that there's no such thing as flying saucers,

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bam, there's one plane this day.

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Now she doesn't know what to say.

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This UFO is shiny and metallic.

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There don't appear to be any windows or doors or hatches or even any seams at all.

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It's just a perfect disc quietly levitating over their neighborhood.

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Now the mother and her son are just standing there, staring at this UFO.

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They don't know what to do, they're awestruck, but they're both seeing it together.

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It's very real.

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They keep watching this thing for almost five minutes.

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It's not moving, they're not moving.

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It's like the whole world is stopped.

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But then the mother takes a step closer and everything changes.

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The flying saucer suddenly launches itself upward and disappears into the sky.

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The witness described it as not building to acceleration.

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It was just instantaneous.

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Like whoosh, it was gone.

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The first thing the mother wants to know is, are we the only ones that witnessed this?

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This is a mind-blowing but very brief encounter.

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No one else was there to see this UFO,

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which means that Lorraine's story is not going to make any headlines.

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This is the 1970s.

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There's no internet.

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So how do you confirm this kind of sighting?

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The mother calls the local news to ask if anyone else has reported seeing the UFO in the area.

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And as it turns out, the answer is yes.

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Several people reported similar sightings that day.

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That night she tunes into the news,

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but there's no mention of flying saucer reports.

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So this amazing story just remains this family's own secret for decades.

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Then in 1990, the mother learns about Mufon

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and finally has somewhere to officially report her encounter.

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While some witnesses may wait years to reveal their stories,

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once in a while a Mufon investigator will be in the right place at the right time

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and stumble across an amazing case that might never have been reported.

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Next, a chance discovery uncovers a lost history of terrifying UFO events

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going back over 50 years.

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This has got to be alarming.

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Here's this flying saucer and it's circling you like an animal getting ready to pounce.

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And later, a late night encounter on a lonely highway

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gives one of the most terrifying moments of the day.

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And later, a late night encounter on a lonely highway

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gives one man an up-close look inside a UFO when we return.

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Mufon archives contain thousands of UFO accounts

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previously unknown to anyone without access to this vault.

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Some witnesses wait decades to report their UFO encounters

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and even when they don't come forward,

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sometimes an investigator will be lucky enough to stumble onto their amazing case.

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In 1991, Mufon investigator Davina Rizka receives a file containing two photos.

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They depict a saucer-shaped UFO flying over a wooded area.

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These pictures were sent to Mufon from an Air Force contact

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and received them years earlier from a former neighbor.

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The neighbor got them from a friend who may or may not have been the original photographer.

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These are not high-quality images.

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These are black and white Z-Rocks of old pictures.

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But there's something intriguing about these photos.

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This UFO isn't some blur way up in the sky.

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It's right there in front of the camera, hovering just off the ground.

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Davina needs to know if these photos are legit,

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but nobody can find the original photographer.

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After four months of investigative work,

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Davina Rizka is finally able to track down the original witness.

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It turns out the photographer, a 64-year-old widow named Jane, is living in Ellsworth.

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And over a cup of coffee, Jane reveals that these UFO photos go back almost 30 years.

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Fall, 1962.

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Elk Creek, South Dakota.

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Jane accompanies her husband and son on a rabbit hunting trip.

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Jane had just bought a Polaroid camera and she's eager to try it out,

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so she figures this outing will be a great chance to take some nice nature photos.

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The family's enjoying a peaceful afternoon together.

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And then all of a sudden, the tranquility is shattered

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by this piercing mechanical shriek coming from the sky.

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The high-pitched noise drops to a steady rumble that begins to grow louder.

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So tell me what happened next.

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Whatever was making all this noise, it sounded like it was closing in on us.

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The rumble is everywhere. She can't tell where it's coming from.

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Then Jane turns around and there it is.

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A metallic flying saucer hangs in the air, hovering behind Jane and her husband.

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She instinctively raises her camera and starts snapping photos.

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As soon as Jane starts taking pictures, the UFO begins to move.

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But it doesn't fly away. Instead, it keeps hovering just out of reach

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and begins to slowly move counterclockwise around the group.

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Jane continues to take photographs as the UFO circles around her.

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Can you describe it?

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It was really loud, like an old furnace clanking and banging around.

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And it was leaving a trail of dark smoke all through the woods.

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This has got to be alarming. Here's this bizarre, noisy, smoking flying saucer.

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And it's circling you like an animal, getting ready to pounce.

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But Jane's first thought is to make sure she gets this thing on film.

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This could be a world-changing event.

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Jane keeps snapping away until the UFO suddenly flies off in a straight line

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and vanishes over the horizon.

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She looks to her family and they all just shared this absolutely mind-blowing experience, right?

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Well, they had a different reaction to the encounter.

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Jane's husband says it's probably just an experimental military aircraft.

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Jane can't believe he's being so casual about this.

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To be fair to Jane's husband, Elk Creek isn't too far from Ellsworth Air Force Base.

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So it's not unreasonable to assume this UFO might be man-made,

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but it's still way more advanced than anything they've ever seen.

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What did you think?

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I felt like we had just witnessed something from another world.

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But my husband didn't seem to care.

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He just wanted to go back to hunting rabbits.

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And oftentimes, some witnesses just flat-out don't want to acknowledge it.

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After that trip, anytime Jane brings up the encounter or gets out the photos,

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a husband laughs at her.

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She becomes afraid to speak of her UFO experience

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and refuses to talk about UFOs for the next three decades.

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And that's a shame, because when she finally opens up to the Mufon investigator,

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it turns out there's a lot more to the story.

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In 1991, Jane reveals a secret she has never shared with anyone.

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At this point, Jane is elderly and not in the best health.

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She's ready to put it all out there.

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She confides in the Mufon investigator that following that encounter,

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she walks several times in a paralyzed state and observed shadowy figures standing above her.

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On another occasion, small glowing orbs entered her house, flying from room to room.

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This woman lived with these very unsettling experiences for years

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and felt like she had to suffer in silence for fear of ridicule.

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And important questions went unanswered.

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Was she chosen based on that first encounter?

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Or was she being tracked because she saw something she shouldn't have?

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Jane is not alone in her reluctance to come forward with an extraordinary story.

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It's important to Mufon that we get very close encounters reported to us.

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Because many times there's interaction between the beings on the craft

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and the individual witnessing the event.

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Something happens, maybe the reality is transformed, space and time are manipulated.

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Things of this nature, which are so far beyond what we're normally used to,

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that it has a starling effect on most cases on the witnesses.

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Okay, we are rolling. Thank you for doing this.

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No problem, no problem.

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Summer 1975, William Riley runs a small farm in Grinnell, Iowa.

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I was sleeping on the front porch.

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Why the front porch?

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It was a really hot night. We didn't have air conditioning

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and the porch was colder than the house.

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Riley is awakened in the early morning hours

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as an unusual odor drifts across the front porch.

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Riley wakes up wondering what's this weird smell?

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There are a lot of odors on a farm, but there's no way to get it.

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It's an almost overpowering burning chemical smell.

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He gets up to go investigate and that's when the sounds begin.

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This deep, like, buzzing was moving through the whole farm.

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I could feel the ground and everything starting to rumble.

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At this point I had no idea what could be happening

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but I was worried about what was happening to my farm.

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Riley follows the sound of the sound of the engine

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and the sound of the engine.

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Riley follows the sound to his barn

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and is shocked to discover the source.

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And right there in front of it, hovering 80 feet off the ground,

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it's a giant ball of orange light.

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It takes a few seconds for his eyes to adjust

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and he sees that this isn't just a ball of light.

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The light is coming from a large rectangular craft hovering overhead.

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I had no clue what this was hanging over me.

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But after a few seconds I took a step closer

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and this UFO instantly moved back.

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It moved back?

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Yes, sir. It backed up the exact same distance I moved forward.

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So then I stepped backwards and the thing moved back to its original position.

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This is very interesting because we have what seems to be

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a human directly interacting with a UFO.

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There are a lot of encounters on file where a witness becomes burned,

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sick or otherwise injured after getting too close to a UFO.

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So maybe this dance is actually the UFO trying to protect the witness.

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Riley continues his tentative interaction with the UFO

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until the craft makes an unexpected move.

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The UFO stops dancing and suddenly launches

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dozens of burning bright projectiles in every direction.

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I didn't know what was happening.

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It was I being attacked here.

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It was this UFO about to fry me and my form.

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He's bracing for the worst,

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but then he notices these projectiles are just hanging there in the air.

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It's actually quite a beautiful light show.

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The glowing spheres slowly drift towards the ground,

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but completely dissipate before touching the farm's soil.

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Then just as suddenly as this light show started, it stops.

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The UFO went totally dark.

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There was this loud click, like someone just flipped a giant switch,

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and then it shot straight up into the sky and disappeared.

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I never saw it again.

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William Riley doesn't know where to turn with his story

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until years later when he learns about Mufan.

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Here we have one man who experiences something amazing

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all alone in the middle of the night.

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This case doesn't become front page news,

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but it's a very fascinating encounter nonetheless.

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And with this encounter in the Mufan files,

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someday this seemingly random event

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will provide an important piece to a larger puzzle.

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Next, a Long Island Teenagers Backyard UFO encounter

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is finally verified three decades later.

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After keeping this bottled up for his whole life,

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to the point where maybe he was even doubting his memories,

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Simon gets this confirmation,

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this did happen, I'm not crazy.

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When we return.

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The Mufan's story begins.

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Thousands of extreme close encounters are archived within Hanger 1.

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Events that have been reported to Mufan

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by witnesses who are initially hesitant to come forward.

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Sometimes a UFO witness will keep their encounter a secret

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until many years later they begin to question the details of what happened.

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But on occasion, one of these witnesses will be fortunate enough

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to get confirmation of their sighting

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even after several decades of uncertainty.

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August 1977.

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High school student Simon Quinn enjoys a summer evening

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outside his family's Long Island home.

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Simon is in the backyard with his brother, sister, cousin,

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and his brother's girlfriend.

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Simon is distracted by something unusual in the sky.

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A trio of lights appear in the distance.

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There are three separate lights,

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but they seem to be flying in formation

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holding a triangle pattern in the sky.

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The kids stop their game and start watching these lights.

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What are they?

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They're flying too low to be airplanes.

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They're also moving in a very strange pattern,

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but the three lights maintain the same distance from each other the whole time.

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Suddenly, two of the lights vanish in the darkness.

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When two of the lights disappear,

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the third light continues to move directly toward Simon and his family.

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Simon's brother wants a better look at this thing,

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so he runs inside the house to retrieve his glasses.

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Did anything change about it?

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Yeah.

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In the minute and a half or so that my brother was gone,

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the light came a lot closer.

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They're watching this thing approach, mesmerized,

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and before they know it, the UFO is passing right over them.

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At this point, I was like, oh my God, this is a flying saucer.

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Simon describes the craft as disc-shaped with no windows.

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The UFO comes to a stop hovering over his neighbor's yard.

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The group is terrified about what might happen next,

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but suddenly the UFO projects an intense cone of light down on the neighbor's yard.

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It is so bright that it makes the green grass appear white.

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I remember thinking, is this thing here to take us away?

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This is petrifying.

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For all the kids know, they're about to get abducted,

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but suddenly the blinding light cuts out.

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Now what happened after it went dark?

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The UFO started to make this soft, whirring sound, like this.

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And then it shot off to the horizon.

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It was gone in seconds.

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Just as the UFO banishes,

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Simon's brother finally comes back outside with his glasses,

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but he missed everything.

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The kids snap out of their tear and start screaming.

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What just happened?

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They all clamor into the house to tell their parents about the unbelievable thing

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that just happened outside, but nobody believes them.

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The adults laugh off the story.

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After that night, we didn't talk about it at all.

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To see an event like this,

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and then only the very next day to have to completely shut up about it

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because you're getting laughed at,

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it is disappointing to say the least

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when even very, very intelligent people around you

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are not willing to admit that there could be something beyond

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what you've been told all your life is true.

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Decades later, Simon is speaking with his sister,

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and he finally brings up the UFO.

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It turns out that she's been keeping the story to herself too.

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She recounts the entire event back to Simon just the way he remembers it.

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After keeping this bottled up for his whole life,

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to the point where maybe he was even doubting his memories,

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Simon gets this confirmation, this did happen.

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I'm not crazy.

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Simon reaches out to another witness, his brother's ex-girlfriend.

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Simon's brother hasn't spoken to her in decades,

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now married, has a family, but they managed to track her down

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and ask about that night in 1977.

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And it's like she's remembering a ghost.

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She was very unsettled by the event,

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but she only remembers parts of the story,

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the approaching lights, and then the very bright white light.

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For some reason, the rest of her recollection is hazy.

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It's as if there are holes in her memory.

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Did she block them, or as many witnesses report,

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these close encounters have a way of erasing themselves.

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We have an interesting phenomenon, multiple witnesses,

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with varying degrees of recollection about the event.

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Is this simply due to selective memory?

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While some UFO sightings may be buried or erased from witnesses' minds,

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other encounters are so incredible that those who experience them

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often question whether or not the event was real.

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Two years before the Roswell crash put UFOs on the front page,

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a couple of kids experienced something just as incredible,

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if not more so.

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The difference is that their story only exists in a MUFON case file.

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But when you start to pull all these cases together,

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you discover a pattern of incredible encounters

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that occur much more often than we realize.

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1945, St. James, Missouri.

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Teenage brothers Andy and Patrick Calhoun

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are enjoying a Sunday morning on the family farm.

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These two kids are sitting around the kitchen table

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and they're reading the Sunday comics,

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and suddenly the older brother notices something outside the window.

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The older brother bolts out of the house.

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The kid brother follows him and finds him standing in front of their garage,

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looking up at the roof.

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Hovering over the farm's garage is a small flying saucer.

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The object sort of swayed in the air like it was very light and weight.

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As if witnessing a flying saucer isn't enough,

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the brothers can see into the dome on the UFO,

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and there's a pilot inside, and he's not what you might expect.

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There's a man inside it, seemingly oblivious to them.

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But this UFO pilot doesn't seem too alien at all.

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It's a human-looking male, blond hair, buzz cut,

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and he's wearing a nondescript jumpsuit with no patches or insignias.

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What are they seeing here?

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A science fiction serial is coming to life on the family farm.

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The saucer is starting to make a lot of noise,

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and the pilot is preoccupied with the control panel area,

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as though he might be making some type of repairs.

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The two brothers are just staring up at the UFO in total astonishment.

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This is 1945, and they are witnessing some kind of anti-gravity propulsion system.

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There are no propellers, no jet engines, nothing.

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But this saucer somehow is equipped with the technology to hover above their garage.

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Soon, the pilot notices he has an audience.

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What did this pilot do?

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As soon as he saw me, he reacted as if he wasn't supposed to be seen.

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The pilot looks down and sees these two farm kids gawking at him.

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He startled, drops whatever he was working on, grabs the controls,

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and the UFO blasts off.

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It's gone in an instant.

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Patrick and Andy never see the UFO or anything else like it ever again.

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They're still not exactly sure what they saw on the farm that morning, or what it means.

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I'm inclined to think it was American made.

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The pilot certainly looked American.

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The pilot looked very human, but there was no technology like this at the time.

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You might make the argument that this was a reverse engineered alien craft,

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but if Roswell was the dawn of UFO reverse engineering,

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then how do you explain this craft zipping around two years before Roswell?

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How would they have got the technology before that time,

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and how long would it take to produce their own version of it?

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That's the real question, and I can't see that happening in 45 or a few years after.

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That's the real problem, is trying to track that down.

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We have a UFO featuring highly advanced technology that clearly doesn't belong in this time or place.

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Could it be that the UFO pilot was actually a time traveler?

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One hypothesis, that these beings are us from our future, and they're coming back now.

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It's difficult to pin that down, but when you talk about ufology, almost all bets are off.

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I don't know if in 1945, these boys were thinking time traveler aliens.

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At the end of the day, they didn't know what to say, so they didn't say anything.

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They keep the experience to themselves until adulthood,

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when one grows up to be an aerospace engineer, and the other brother is the mayor of a large Missouri city.

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Time and again, we have these unbelievable reports, and what seems to be a pattern in many of them,

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is that there is a reluctance to come forward with the story.

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Are these witnesses afraid, or maybe they find their own stories difficult to believe?

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From this reported UFO encounter, with a large Missouri city,

500
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the UFO is a very large city, and it's a very large city.

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From this reported UFO encounter, with a seemingly human pilot,

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MUFON investigates another case of one man's surprising look inside a UFO, and its extraterrestrial crew.

503
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He looks into this opening, and there are figures looking right back at him.

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When we return.

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Inside Hanger 1, MUFON files uncover a secret history of extreme close encounters.

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Without these extraordinary reports, we would never know some of the most incredible interactions

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between other worldly visitors and everyday citizens.

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When you start to search through these lesser known MUFON files,

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you'll discover these mind-blowing UFO sightings by some highly credible witnesses.

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We recently had a man come forward to us with a story that offers an amazing and credible account

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of what might be going on inside a UFO.

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Okay, we're rolling.

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I need to tell my story because maybe somebody else will step forward and tell what they saw.

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Fort Worth, Texas.

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A security guard is driving home from his job at a local trucking company.

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It was in July of 2007, and I noticed an orange-gold glow coming from the north.

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I looked like a beautiful full moon rising.

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But then he realizes, wait a second, I'm heading north. That can't be the moon up ahead.

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Ken's trying to figure out what's happening when suddenly this moon starts zipping around the sky.

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It's a bright orange-yellow ball criss-crossing the road and it's getting closer.

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I got a full glance of exactly what it was.

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A massive flying saucer comes into focus above the road.

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I thought to myself, this cannot be what I think it is.

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Being at that time, I thought, okay, it's a hoax. This can't be real.

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Since there was no real traffic, I slowed down and just observed this thing.

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The UFO circles around until it's traveling alongside the highway right next to Ken's vehicle.

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The truck and the UFO are basically cruising down the highway together,

528
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and he can get a really good look at this strange craft.

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He describes it as shaped like two salad bowls joined by a ring of lights.

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Ken is trying to take in all the details of this UFO,

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but the UFO is apparently trying to do the same thing to him,

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because it suddenly projects a beam, a blue light towards his vehicle.

533
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This isn't like a flashlight or laser, though. It's a very strange light.

534
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It was almost like a lightsaber where the light came out slowly and it could stop at a certain distance.

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I don't know how they would do that.

536
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The blue beam extends across the highway and directly into his vehicle.

537
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This beam isn't simply shining through Ken's window.

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It's actually stretching out into a wide, flat shaft of light

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and penetrating the entire body of his vehicle.

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And it's not like it's burning a hole in the metal or anything.

541
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The beam just keeps projecting, uninterrupted, as though nothing is in its way.

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I had no idea what to think about that. There was no heat.

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There was no sound. There was no vibration. There was no tingling. There was nothing.

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It did not damage or stop the motor on my vehicle.

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It didn't change anything. It didn't even make static on the radio.

546
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It was just there. It did what it did, and then it was gone.

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He reports that this light seems to pass through both him and his car as though he is being scanned.

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He later speculated that perhaps the UFO was assessing his threat level.

549
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With the scan completed, the blue beam is retracted back into the UFO.

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What happens next is truly amazing.

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As Ken keeps pace with the flying saucer, he notices movement on the side of the craft.

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I looked over to the side. I could see that a window or a portal, it was a great big square opening in the craft.

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Ken is trying to understand this bizarre craft, and suddenly he's granted an almost perfect view right into the heart of this mystery.

554
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And he's astounded by what he sees.

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In the craft, there were five beings. Two very tall ones, and three small ones we know them as the grays.

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The other ones were twice as tall. They had very thin heads, nomen-shaped eyes.

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The one thing that I did notice, it eased my mind. All of them were holding hands.

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The only thing that came to my mind was they care about one another, so they can't be dangerous.

559
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It was the most wondrous moment in my life.

560
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Imagine it, you're driving home after work and suddenly find yourself in a staring contest with a group of extraterrestrials.

561
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How do you even begin to tell people about this? And who is going to believe you?

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In cases like these, witness credibility is especially important.

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He's agreed to a background check. He's a veteran of 16 years of distinguished military service, no criminal record, and he doesn't want any attention over this encounter.

564
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A lot of these witnesses, like Ken, the brothers who saw the UFO pilot in 1945, the teenagers at the missile silo, Jane, who photographed a UFO in the woods.

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They have nothing to gain by coming forward except the hope that their combined experience might one day help solve the UFO mystery.

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These people coming forward, they are seeking some kind of verification and some kind of acknowledgement that what they have said is true.

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We want to be accepted as real people and not just people imagining things in our minds.

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Thousands of similar undisclosed UFO sightings exist within the files of Hangar One.

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Incredible reports from everyday citizens who struggle to know if what they experienced is real.

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Ask your friends and family if they have had any of their own extreme close encounters.

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You may be surprised by what you learned.