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A security officer is visited by an unearthly presence at a nuclear launch site.

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I see these beams.

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They had a bluish grayish tint to them.

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This is burned into my memories.

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An unknown entity targets an Air Force officer.

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I had come in contact with something not of this realm.

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A higher power mysteriously protects a US Army gunner from mortal danger.

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The bullets were whizzing by my head.

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I was terrified.

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But something was there protecting me.

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Whatever this was, I definitely thought it was extraterrestrial.

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On the vast prairie of South Dakota sits one of America's most important Cold War military

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installations, Ellsworth Air Force Base.

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Ellsworth was established to protect the US against Russia's growing nuclear arsenal.

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The base was home to B-52 bombers, armed with nuclear warheads.

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It also served as a launch site for nuclear missiles.

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For decades, the skies around Ellsworth launch facilities have been known for documented

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sightings of UAP, unexplained aerial phenomena.

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All of a sudden, I could feel the heat off of this thing.

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I can't run.

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I can't do anything.

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I can't listen to them say, do not fear, do not fear, do not fear.

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It's hypnotic.

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They just take over your mind.

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I'm Mario Woods.

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I was in the United States Air Force in Security Police from 1975 to 1983.

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I was born in Virginia.

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My childhood was really good.

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My father was a merchant seaman and I used to go to sea with him.

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I dreamed of being with a captain and then in 1973, my father was killing a car accident.

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It just changed everything.

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I just couldn't go to sea without my dad being there.

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So I chose to go in the Air Force and I'm glad I did.

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In 1977, I was assigned to Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and I worked security

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for the Minutemen missile side for the base.

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I was stationed at November 1 missile site, the launch control facility.

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My job was classified.

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Armed with nuclear warheads, the Minutemen are the primary response that the United States

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would have in the event of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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Ellsworth is part of a really extensive array of U.S. missile silos and air bases in the

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Midwest.

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Places like Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, which are really the principal defense network

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during the 1950s, 60s into the 1970s in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet

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Union.

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The capsule crew is underground 60 feet and that's where they launch from if given the

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order to do so.

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One of those weapons getting into the wrong hands would just completely take out an entire

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city to think, you know, I may have to lay my life down and to protect these systems and

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these people.

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One fall evening in 1977, Mario was on a routine patrol of the launch facility when he spots

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something unusual in the sky.

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It was about 9.30 I stepped outside, looked around and I looked up in the sky and there

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was this object sitting there.

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It looked like a star.

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It was stationary at about a 30 degree angle and it was flickering five to seven miles away.

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I don't know if I'm confused or just curious.

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What would make that type of light?

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But it was different than anything I'd ever seen.

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I told Michael to my team leader to come out and check this light out.

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He looked up at it and he goes, what?

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It's just a light.

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He says it's probably just a star.

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The third brightest object in the sky is the planet Venus and it's always near the sun.

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If Mario saw this light late at night or on the horizon, there's no way it's Venus because

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at that point the location on Earth that he is on is pointed away from the sun.

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So on a clear night, if it's sufficiently late, you'll never see Venus.

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It's like a mini moon or something and it was flickering.

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That color was like nothing I've ever seen before.

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So I said, wait a minute, I'm going to try something.

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Let's see if I can signal this object to see if it signals me back.

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The idea came from sailing with my father as ships communicate and native light signals.

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All of a sudden the light goes off.

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I said, well, okay, I guess the show's over.

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I know Sooner said that, then it popped on again, but it was a little bit further north

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and it responded to me.

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How would it know to come back on and it turned off?

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I went back inside and just shaking my head thinking, well, I don't know what that was,

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but it was very strange.

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South Dakota, this is the land of the big sky.

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It's completely flat in a lot of places.

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So there could have been a bright light shining into the sky.

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For miles around, one thing that creates a giant orange orb in the sky is a total lunar

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eclipse.

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Because the moon passes into the Earth's shadow, the moon is in complete darkness.

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And as a consequence, it will look a deep reddish or orangeish color.

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It was about 12.15.

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I'm back in the day room when the alarm sounds from the capsule crew in the flight security

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controller's office.

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And it was a sit for situation four, which was a very serious alarm at November 5 missile

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site.

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Mary and Michael are part of a security team that's responsible for monitoring really important

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nuclear sites, missile silos across a pretty large area, all codenamed November.

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In this particular instance, the security alert comes from a nearby site codenamed November

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5.

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The situation for alarm is the highest that the Air Force has.

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November 1 to base, on route to November 5, ETA under 10 minutes, over.

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As we're approaching November 5, I saw a glow and I said, that's that object over there.

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Do you see it?

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We drove all the way up to the cattle gate.

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I could see the fence line on November 5 lit up.

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It looked like a mini sun sitting five to 10 feet in the air.

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The object was getting much, much brighter, just illuminated the entire atmosphere.

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It was gargantuan.

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What is that thing?

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This craft looked to be gaseous.

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It had no hard edges, no instigations, no propulsion system.

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I could feel the heat off of this thing through the windshield.

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It was all around you.

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And I was so scared because the only thing I had for protection was the window.

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Whatever this was, I definitely thought it was extraterrestrial.

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By 1977, the Air Force was testing stealth aircraft technology, many of which had unusual

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capabilities or top secret designs.

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It's possible that the light that Michael and Mario are witnessing is from a test flight

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of this new military equipment.

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Michael is literally frozen.

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He didn't say a word, he just was sitting straight ahead just glued to that windshield.

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All of a sudden, the interior of our truck lit up, but I felt as if every time I breathed,

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I was in a great big vacuum.

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And it felt as if my chest was going to cave in.

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I don't know where the pressure came from.

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And then all of a sudden, my vision just started going into like a tunnel, like a black tunnel.

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In about 20 feet away, I see these beings.

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They had a bluish-grayish tint to them, and they did have large eyes, no hair, and then

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I heard something.

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I can't do anything but listen to them, and I hear, do not fear, do not fear, do not

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fear.

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It's hypnotic.

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It's total alien.

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I can't move.

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I can't run.

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I can't open that door.

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And then I simply blacked out.

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While en route to a missile launch site, Air Force Security Officer Mario Woods and his

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partner have a terrifying close encounter with an unknown presence.

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I don't know how much time went past since I blacked out, but I wake up, I'm sitting

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in my seat, and I'm in total darkness.

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And all of a sudden, I see these beings.

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I hear, do not fear, do not fear.

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And a hand or whatever it was laid right here on my shoulder.

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There's no question they are so different than you or I or any other thing on this

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planet.

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It's total, total alien.

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The next thing that I know, the radio cracks alive.

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Number one, what's your status?

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Over.

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We're here at November 5.

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Over.

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Negative.

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What's your position?

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And he said, we don't know where you are.

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Thinking they are near the November 5 launch site, Mario and his team leader, Michael,

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are confused when they learn a recovery team needs to triangulate their radio signal to

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locate them.

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I thought it had just been a few minutes since we had arrived at November 5 missile site at

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1 AM.

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But all of a sudden, I see that the sun is coming up.

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And I'm like, oh my God.

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When I looked down at my watch, it was after 6 AM.

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Five hours had passed.

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I thought November 5 would be to my left, but we weren't even close to that missile

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site any longer.

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I don't know where we are or what's happened.

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I put both feet on the ground because I was in mud.

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I'm asking myself, how did we get here?

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There were no tracks leading in there, so was our vehicle lifted and placed there?

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And I looked at Michael.

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He wasn't even functionable.

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I know he didn't drive.

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I don't think he could drive.

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I was just scared beyond belief.

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The first team to us was a Sergeant Garza, friend of mine.

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What are you doing at the reservoir?

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I've got no idea.

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From November 5 launch facility, it was approximately 9 miles to Newlake Reservoir Dam where we

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were.

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And I said, well, what happened?

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He said, I can't talk to you about any of it.

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We got to escort you back to November 1.

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Back at base, Mario's superiors grill him about the night's events.

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As then he learns that he sustained an injury he can't explain.

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The Sergeant, he's asking me questions.

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He said, how did you get these burns on you?

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And I said, burn?

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I said, what are you talking about?

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And I didn't even really know until I touched myself and then I could feel the burn right

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above my right eye here on this side of my face.

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And the back of his hand was burning.

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He said, yeah, these could be radiation burns.

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If Mario does have radiation burns, the question is how?

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It had been a radiation leak from the November 5 launch site.

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There's a protocol that require reporting accidents.

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But here in this case, there are no reports.

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So that means that the radiation burns were not caused by radiation from the stored nuclear

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warheads.

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Was it his proximity to the unexplained aerial phenomena?

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I told him what I saw, what I heard.

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Of course, I got a few scoffs at that.

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And you have to be very careful because if you have issues that may not seem to be normal,

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well, they can pull your clearance and they can put you out of service.

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I cannot explain these five hours to what happened to myself and my team leader, Michael.

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Claims of close encounters, including alien abduction, have very common themes amongst

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them.

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Suspicions of mind control being taken and then later returned with memories wiped, awareness

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of gaps in time, and rashes or burns on the body.

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At the end of the debrief, Mario's suspicions about the event are confirmed when his superiors

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ask him to sign a letter of confidentiality.

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I signed a letter of nondisclosure.

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Really, that's the small part of it.

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I believe that the object that I saw in the air at November 1, Launch Control Facility,

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was the same craft that was at November 5, Missile Site.

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Is an extraterrestrial craft that has technology that we don't even begin to understand?

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Two weeks later, Michael came to my door.

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I see.

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I said, how are you, man?

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He goes, I don't know.

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He said, I couldn't move.

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I couldn't do anything.

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I was completely frozen that steering wheel.

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I said, draw what you saw.

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Draw what you saw.

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And he drew basically the same craft.

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Mario and Michael never share their drawings with their superiors, but their experience

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is far from an isolated incident.

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In May 2022, top Pentagon officials testified before House Subcommittee that unidentified

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aerial phenomena or UAP sightings by pilots and service members had grown to about 400

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since 2021.

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Reports of sightings are frequent and continuing.

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Yet, even as government officials indicate their willingness to discuss the taboo topic,

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they still shy away from characterizing the objects as UFOs.

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In those hearings, what they could have shown, they didn't.

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I've kept this story about 43 years.

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I believe there was direct contact with a form of existence or life elsewhere that we

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know nothing about.

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I don't know if I'll ever find the answers, but I always look up every morning, every

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night looking for those UAPs.

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In 2003, after U.S. forces overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, they fought a growing

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insurgency by former loyalists.

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Getting rid of Saddam in his regime was the easy part, and then all hell breaks loose.

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The Americans find themselves in the midst of a really complicated insurgency.

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It was getting more and more sophisticated, inflicting constant damage on American soldiers

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and getting worse by the month and must have pushed all soldiers to the brink.

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I knew something weird was happening to me.

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I'm still searching to this day as to what it was.

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My name is Jonathan Keyworth.

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I was a gunner on the Humvee in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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I grew up in Inglewood, Colorado.

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My dad did play for the Denver Broncos from 1974 to 1981.

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It was exciting, you know, with what my dad did.

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I wanted to give my life direction and discipline, so I joined the military in 2001.

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In September 2003, Jonathan is deployed to Habaniah, Iraq to fight against the loyalists.

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His unit performs raids, disarms insurgents, and helps to free the Iraqi people.

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We were in the middle of the Sunni Triangle, and that's where all the Saddam loyalists

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were.

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Once his government collapsed, that's where the Wild West began.

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Everybody had a gun.

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It was a shootout pretty much every day.

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On missions, I was a gunner on the Humvee.

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Being a gunner is very challenging.

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You're fully exposed.

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You're the only one that has a 360-degree view.

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You feel very vulnerable.

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You're full bodies out in the open.

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You basically feel like sniper bait.

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Every day I feared for my life.

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I didn't know if I was going to get shot by a mortar.

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I didn't know if it was going to be a suicide bomber.

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You just never know when it's going to happen.

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On Halloween of 2003, several months into U.S. Army gunner Jonathan Keyworth's deployment

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to Iraq, his unit is sent to a nearby town to search for caches of weapons and insurgents.

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As we were approaching this little town, there were kids along the road.

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We were giving them candy, and it was very pleasant.

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All of a sudden, everybody started running, and we had no clue what was going on.

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That is when 51 caliber rounds went flying by my head.

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I was shot at for the first time.

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When adrenaline is pumping, everything goes into slow motion, except the bullets.

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The bullets were just whizzing by my head.

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I was terrified.

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If I had to measure that fear on a scale of one to ten, it was eleven.

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I dropped down.

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I was frozen with fear.

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I couldn't speak or do anything.

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Everybody else in that homey was feeling the same way.

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I couldn't move.

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And all of a sudden, this voice said, you'll be okay.

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It felt like somebody was right on my shoulder.

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The voice made me feel like I was losing my mind.

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This is the first time anything like that had ever happened to me.

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Stand up.

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You'll be okay.

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Stand up.

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But something was calming and trusting about it.

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So I stood up.

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I felt like nothing was going to hurt me.

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I felt invincible.

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All my fear dissipated just like that.

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I spun my gun around 180 degrees, and I started firing to protect the men inside the MV.

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Once it was over, I couldn't explain it.

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I didn't know what it was.

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What could be happening here is the third man factor, which is a hallucination of an

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unseen being that offers comfort in the moments of extreme stress.

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Scientists believe it's triggered by biochemical reactions in the brain.

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While normal hallucinations are disorderly, the third man factor is helpful and orderly,

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inducing feelings of unearthly calm.

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The most shocking part was how I went from 100% fear to 100% peace.

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It started making me realize that possibly something's helping me.

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Three weeks later, Jonathan's unit is assigned to guard a US base in a neighboring town.

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It was dusk.

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I was scanning my sector.

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When you're a gunner, they don't have a seat.

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It's like a one-inch strap connected from one part of the turret to the other.

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So as I was sitting in my strap, all of a sudden, my left leg began shaking uncontrollably.

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This was the first time anything on my body had done anything like this.

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I have no prior injuries or diseases that would cause that.

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I had no idea what it was.

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It wouldn't stop.

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It just kept shaking.

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So my leg's going crazy and I'm messing with my night vision and all of a sudden, it stops.

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With what happened on Halloween, I kind of, in the back of my mind, took it as a sign.

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You know, maybe something's warning me something was going to happen.

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Exactly five minutes after his leg stopped shaking, Jonathan witnesses something unexpected.

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I see it with my night vision.

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It looks like a flashlight being pointed at you.

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I knew it was something infrared.

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Infrared light.

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There's a type of electromagnetic radiation that humans can't see, but they can feel because

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of the heat.

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The military uses infrared to highlight objects at night, and that seems to be what Jonathan

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was seeing from the beam that he could only see with his night vision goggles.

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It's possible that this infrared light was being used by insurgents to highlight the

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target.

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As I put my night vision down, this light started getting bigger and bigger.

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In a matter of seconds, it was coming right at me.

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The thought going through my head was, I'm going to die.

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The light was getting bigger.

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During a firefight in Iraq, US Army gunner Jonathan Keyworth's leg begins to shake uncontrollably.

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Suddenly, it stops, exactly five minutes before he sees a bright light heading straight

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toward him.

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The rocket propelled grenade was going so fast.

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It exploded and injured my platoon sergeant with shrapnel in his leg.

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They were intent on destroying us that night.

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The battle lasted for four hours.

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You never forget the visions.

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If I hadn't paid attention to my leg tremors, I wouldn't be sitting here today.

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Seven weeks later, Jonathan's unit is returning from a mission in another town when they

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receive news about their injured platoon sergeant.

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We were driving down what is known as the Highway of Death, where all these attacks

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happened from IEDs to roadside attacks with RPGs.

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We get a call from the superior saying that our platoon sergeant helicopter had been shot

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down.

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He was the one that held our platoon together.

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He was like our dad.

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It was really devastating for us.

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As I'm mourning, just thinking about getting back to base, my leg starts to shake.

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Have no explanation as to why my leg would be shaking again.

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I was standing up.

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I wasn't even sitting on the strap.

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Moments later, Jonathan's leg stops shaking.

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And I have this feeling inside my soul that something's going to happen.

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Five minutes later, we get attacked.

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Two RPGs were fired from across the highway at our convoy.

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I had an actual chance of dying.

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If I didn't pay attention, they went on both sides of my head.

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We turned around.

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I started firing my weapon into the field.

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I was supposed to die.

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Two weeks later, Jonathan is prepping for the day ahead when an odd occurrence catches

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his attention.

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We were getting our Humvees and equipment ready.

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And as clear as I'm talking to you now, a voice tells me whatever you do, don't go on

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this mission.

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It was that same voice that I heard on Halloween.

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No one was out there.

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Whose voice it was.

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I don't know.

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It's telling me for a reason not to go.

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Sir, can I have a word for a sec?

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I can't go on the upcoming mission.

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I don't think I'll be able to protect my platoon.

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I tell my sergeant that I don't feel well, something's wrong.

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I wouldn't be able to perform my duties.

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I asked him if he would mind if I got another gunner to take my spot.

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He said that was no problem.

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I wish I could have told him about the voice, but if I told anybody, I don't think they

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would have believed me anyways.

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Maybe because of lack of sleep, maybe because of stress.

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Jonathan hearing the voice could be an auditory hallucination.

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Studies show that 62 to 74% of active military members do not get enough sleep, which is

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actually twice as much as people in the general population.

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Relieved of his duty, Jonathan's platoon carries on while he stays behind.

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And then at 5 a.m., I hear the loudest explosion I ever heard.

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I got on the radio and nobody responded.

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It was a car bomb.

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The vehicle that I was supposed to be in blew up.

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Now three friends are dead.

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That could have been me.

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It brought on grief very quick.

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I carry a lot of guilt.

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On my wrist are the names of the soldiers that I lost.

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The last three were in the car bomb.

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After the incident, Jonathan tells his superiors about the voice.

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Understood, sir.

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I was essentially downgraded from fighting to office job.

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I was one of the best gunners on the Mark 19.

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You feel really like a failure.

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The following year, Jonathan decides to leave the military.

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I got out in 2005.

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I don't talk to anybody about the voices or the leg shaking for a long time.

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Since I've been out of the Army, I have never heard the voice again.

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It's always been in the back of my mind.

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What was that?

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When someone has had near death experience, it's traumatic.

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When you're trying to find meaning and purpose, sometimes we can find it in places that give

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us comfort, which might be a vision of, say, an angel or somebody coming to comfort us.

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He's being protected by something else, where it might have just been a general gut feeling

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and a coincidence.

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It's a way to explain what happened to him.

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The voice I heard was my spirit guide of my time in Iraq.

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I want to tell my story because of time passing, and I feel more comfortable talking about

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it now.

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I cannot explain why, but it might have been the voice that I needed to hear.

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I consider it an angel that saved my life.

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I noticed some men on the flight line.

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They didn't look at me.

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They didn't notice me.

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I definitely wondered if they had some secret mission.

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Then they were just gone.

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In the Florida Panhandle lies Eglin Air Force Base.

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It is trained pilots who have flown in every major battle the U.S. has been involved in

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since the mid-1930s to the present day.

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During its long history, Eglin Air Force Base has witnessed accidents that have taken place

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during training missions where flight crews have died.

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In one notorious crash, a plane spiraled out of control, killing all five members of the

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flight crew on impact.

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I'm having to hold this in, questioning myself.

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Is this really what I saw?

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Am I going to see him again?

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I'm Christy Grissom.

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I was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base.

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I was an Airman 1st class, and I was also a firefighter.

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My father always said that I could do anything that I wanted to do.

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He was in the military.

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There was something inside of me that said I want to be a part of that.

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In 1993, after graduating from basic training at the top of her class, Christy is assigned

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to the Elite Fire Protection Unit at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

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Fire specialists are an essential part of the Air Force that put their lives on the

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line every day.

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From putting out hazardous material fires, to burning rocket fuel, and even extracting

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pilots from planes that have crash landed.

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When I first got there, I was the only female.

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It was difficult.

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There were many men that didn't want me on their shift.

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Even the fire chief had said, put Airman Grissom on B-Shift.

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I don't want her on mine.

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Being a female, I had to do everything 110%, 120%, because all eyes were always on me.

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In spite of adversity, Christy earns a coveted spot as the driver of the base's crash truck.

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A specialty vehicle equipped to handle the rescue of airplane crash survivors.

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I would go out and sit on the bumper of one of the crash trucks.

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You can see the whole flight line.

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You can see the aircraft.

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One time, I happened to notice some men standing pretty far in a distance.

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In 1993, the flight suits were a light-color green, but the flight suits that they were

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wearing were tan.

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I didn't know if it was because they were officers or with a different career field.

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They didn't look at me, didn't notice me.

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It would be unusual to see a full crew like that at that time out on the flight line.

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I definitely wondered if they had some secret mission that they were going on.

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I wish I could hear what they were saying.

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Then, they were just gone.

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A month later, Christy has earned the trust of her team and is comfortable with life on base.

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After a busy day, she witnesses a familiar scene.

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I just wanted to go out and clear my head to ground myself and shake off the day.

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As I'm looking out, I see the same airman again out of nowhere.

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It kind of caught me off guard.

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It was odd to see the exact same people at the same spot.

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I really started questioning what's going on.

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Am I seeing things? Is this weird? It didn't seem right.

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Confused by what she sees, Christy decides to approach the men.

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But as she gets closer, she notices their flight suits seem to be from another era.

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What Christy saw seems to be consistent with what flight suits looked like in the 1940s.

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Big, bulky, likely made out of fleece because there wasn't heat in the planes.

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By the mid-1990s, things had totally changed.

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These planes are heated pilots wear much lighter uniforms, more breathable.

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So they wouldn't be wearing anything bulky and outdated like that.

484
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,560
It just didn't make sense to me.

485
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:02,960
I could see them engaging in conversation, moving their hands,

486
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,000
but I could not understand anything they were saying.

487
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,840
Then one of them looks directly at me.

488
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,640
He stares at me for what feels like forever.

489
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,920
He knew I was there and he knew that I saw him.

490
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,280
His face was a blank stare. There was no expression.

491
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,200
So it made me very nervous.

492
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,240
I do remember thinking, that's got to be the man that's in charge of this crew.

493
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:49,760
I never saw them during the day. It was very specific to that one spot.

494
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:58,080
A few days later, Christy tries to rationalize what she is seeing.

495
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:05,840
Eglin is large, but it's a possibility that I could have run into them training on the flight line

496
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:11,120
or the mess hall, but I never, never saw them.

497
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:19,680
In the 1990s, the fire protection specialists were known to use this aqueous film forming foam

498
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,920
that contained toxic chemicals known to create hallucinations.

499
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:29,600
We have Christy's report, but there were other fire specialists who used the same foam

500
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,760
and they didn't report similar hallucinations.

501
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,000
So what does that tell you?

502
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,520
Was there something else going on here?

503
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:42,160
It was definitely scary. I didn't have anybody to talk to about it.

504
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:48,080
I couldn't go to my supervisor. I probably thought about it 24-7.

505
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:53,440
Am I too stressed? Should I go talk to a doctor?

506
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,520
But I knew if I did that, that that would be the end of my career.

507
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:06,960
Shaken but not deterred by what she experienced, Christy's intense work schedule keeps her busy.

508
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,280
Weeks pass and she does not see the mysterious flight crew again.

509
00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:17,280
I was pulling a 24-hour shift. Everybody else had gone to sleep.

510
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:25,520
I had gone to bed, drifted off. At one point, something woke me.

511
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,000
I was just a feeling, a feeling like I was being watched.

512
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,040
I rolled over and looked. What am I seeing?

513
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:42,960
It was the man from the flight line. He was so close, my heart jumped out of my chest.

514
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:49,760
I had no idea what he wanted and what he was capable of.

515
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:58,880
I was afraid that he was going to attack me. It was complete terror.

516
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:08,080
What do I do? Where do I go? I couldn't get up and run out of the bed.

517
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:14,080
After working a 24-hour shift, first airman Christy Grissom is getting some much needed rest.

518
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,640
She discovers she isn't alone.

519
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,080
I was just standing between the door and the bed.

520
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,520
It just wasn't normal.

521
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,760
I just flew back up against the wall. It was the man from the flight line.

522
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,360
There was a vibration around him, a little bit of haze.

523
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,080
I knew right then and there that this man is not human.

524
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,320
It was a shadow person, a ghost, an entity.

525
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,560
Please don't hurt me. Please don't hurt me.

526
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:58,080
And I'm just paralyzed, not knowing what was going to happen next.

527
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,040
But I don't think I ever lost eye contact with him.

528
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,560
And then he turns like he's going out the door.

529
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,000
And then he just dissipates. Gone.

530
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,760
I was shaking. I was afraid he was going to come back.

531
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:31,120
I just sat in the recliner rocking and trying to rationalize what had happened.

532
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:38,160
I'm 100% convinced at this point in time that this is paranormal.

533
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,280
I'm just so happy.

534
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:48,160
A few weeks later I'm in the bug room asleep and I get that feeling again.

535
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,400
When I woke up I knew, I knew immediately.

536
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,120
The pilot was standing at the exact same place at the foot of the bed

537
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,600
and he was wearing the light tan flight suit.

538
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,560
I remember thinking, not again. Not again.

539
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:16,960
As Christy tries to push past her fear, a new awareness takes hold.

540
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,960
You're not here to hurt me, are you?

541
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:27,200
The only thing different that night was his facial expression.

542
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,760
Just a small smile.

543
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:37,360
I was still on guard but once he smiled at me, I don't know if I was still afraid

544
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,280
but it was almost like I had made a connection with him.

545
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:48,640
I had a feeling that there was something that he wanted to ask me.

546
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,920
But he never said anything.

547
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:58,000
And then all of a sudden he turns and dissipates.

548
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,880
I wanted to find out who he was and learn everything that I could.

549
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:14,080
But unfortunately that was the last time that I ever saw the pilot.

550
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,600
The experience made me curious about the paranormal.

551
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:24,000
It made me question a lot of things about life in general.

552
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:31,360
I'm coming forward with my story now because I repressed it for so long

553
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,040
and I guess afraid people wouldn't believe me.

554
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,840
But what I'm saying is the truth.

555
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,400
I know that I'm not afraid of the truth.

556
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,720
I know what happened to me.

557
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:55,200
From the moment that I had that experience 20 some odd years ago, it's changed my life.