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that winged humanoid encountered near

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hamilton montana

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this account took place in 2010 i was

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living in hamilton montana with my

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current girlfriend

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it was late at night and my friend and i

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would always go for a drive

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we parked at an empty parking lot

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outside of a gym that was on the

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outskirts of town

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my friend had his medical marijuana card

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and he would smoke while we talked about

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random stuff

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we worked together workplace drama was

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usually the discussion

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after we were done hanging out i started

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my car to head back into town

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we started heading towards the outlet to

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take a ride onto the main street

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i was about 50 feet away from the outlet

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when i decided the mood called for some

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loud music

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to give you an idea as to what our field

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of view was the outlet had two white

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fences on each side that spanned the

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property

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it was one of those fences that had two

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logs with spaces in between them

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so vision was partially blocked on the

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right and left side

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granted it was pretty damn dark that is

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when crap hit the fan

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out of the corner of my eye i see what

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appeared to be a dusty brown ball of

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plastic or garbage

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that rolled into view from the other

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side of the right fence

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we were driving closer as this was

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happening but as soon as i got a better

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look

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i knew this was not a piece of garbage

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blowing in the wind

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i immediately realized it was a winged

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flesh-like creature that appeared to

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have crash-landed during flight

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i thought my eyes were deceiving me and

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i immediately turned to my friend who

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let out one of the most blood-curdling

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screams i have heard in my entire life

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i kept looking at him and looking back

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at this thing my friend was so scared he

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flew his legs into the air

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up against the passenger window and

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windshield as if that would shield him

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from this creature we were approaching

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i kept repeating what is that what is

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that as soon as the creature came to its

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senses it planted its feet and took off

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flying in the opposite direction of my

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car

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i remember is heavy breathing from both

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my friend and i

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from the adrenaline as we watched the

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silhouette of this thing fly away

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the wingspan on this creature was at

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least six to eight feet wide

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it seemed to have webbing like a bat no

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feathers

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we watched it until it was not visible

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which took a good while

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montana still has a decent amount of

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and we could see the contrast of this

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creature in the sky for two to three

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minutes before it disappeared

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i remember my friend told me please just

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take me home

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we took off and headed back into town i

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just kept asking

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what was that what was that i don't

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think there were more than a few words

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spoken between us at that point

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i just kept asking what was that what

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was that

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he would respond with i don't freaking

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know man i dropped him off

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i went home and told my girlfriend who

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was laughing at how animated and serious

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i was when telling her what happened

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the next day i woke up and immediately

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called him

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i asked him what did you see i wanted

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him to tell me first so that what i had

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to say did not influence him in his

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recollection of this creature

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he told me it was a flesh-like creature

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it was not a bird

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there were no feathers i asked him what

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color was it

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he told me brownish and i said sword of

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gray

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he said oh my gosh yes i no longer talk

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to this friend as he slipped into an

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unfortunate issue with prescription

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pills

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i wish we still had a friendship as i

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have wanted to talk to him about this

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event

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since it has happened we both saw the

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exact same thing

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i am the type of person to laugh in the

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face of ghost and paranormal stuff

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if i don't see it i don't believe it i

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still to this day cannot explain what i

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saw

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i still get chills when thinking about

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my friend scream

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the way i describe this thing is a

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gigantic bad humanoid with wings

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there was not one feather on this flying

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creature i mentioned this because

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anyone i tell this story to tells me i

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probably saw a bird of some sort

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i remember this creature being slightly

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hairy my theory as to why it was rolling

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around on the ground as if it

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crash-landed out of the sky

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i think my subwoofer sound system might

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have messed with its navigation

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and that is another reason i feel it

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might have been a gigantic bat

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can you help explain what i might have

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seen has anyone had similar experience

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with gigantic bat-like creatures

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it might be worth mentioning rocky

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mountain labs is in hamilton montana

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this is one of the highest security

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laboratories in the world

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my ex-boss's ex-husband works there and

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the only thing she knew about this job

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was that he took care of the animals

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the deadliest diseases are held in this

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lab and there are monkeys and other

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animals that are used for testing

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giant bat winged humanoid sighted in

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downer's grove illinois

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though i've spoke of my encounters at

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least a 1 000 times i've always

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attributed the sightings to a giant

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towel or bat of some kind

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i realized today that this creature was

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way too big to be any bird

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anyway about 2011 or so in the fall my

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brother-in-law and i were sitting around

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a small bone fire in my backyard on a

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beautiful indian summer night

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enjoying what was left of the nice

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weather all of a sudden

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my brother-in-law whispers dude check

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that out

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i slowly turned to look toward the south

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where he seemed to be focused and asked

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what he was looking at

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he said look at the big oak two houses

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down

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i did as he started lining me up using a

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few landmarks

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and just then i noticed what he was

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looking at about 20 feet up in the tree

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this huge creature seemed to kind of

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jump maybe dead drop out intentionally

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it fell forward spreading or opening

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what looked more like

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bat wings or a cape than a set of wings

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they never closed or even flapped before

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this thing disappeared behind the fence

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in other words it glided from at least

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20 feet up

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almost straight down until it

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disappeared behind the fence

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there was no noise from the tree

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branches not a crackle from the leaves

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it landed on

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nor a sound from anything none at all

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dead silence

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needless to say because both of us

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seeing the same thing we were freaked

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we quickly went inside trying to

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rationalize the whole thing

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we decided we'd call it a big owl from

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then on

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i've always thought it was something

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other than a bird

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he and i will still occasionally joke

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about that night being the batman

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experience

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my other encounter happened several

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miles from here

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alone driving to my favorite spot on the

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kankakee river southbound on i-55

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crossing the illinois river bridge at

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dawn something flew out from under that

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bridge right

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across my line of sight completely

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covering my windshield

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blocking my forward sight for a second

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then it was gone

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in that case all i know is that thing

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was also huge

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and seemed to be brown in the new

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morning light

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mike

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blonde illinois thunderbird witness

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comes forward i saw the two thunderbirds

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in springfield illinois the day before

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marlon lowe was attacked

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in london illinois this is no joke i

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told my father and family and they all

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laughed

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but in the next day or two when it hit

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the local news they changed their tune

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several friends of mine and i went on a

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hike following spring creek from

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washington park to southwest

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about as far as we could until we

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reached a muskrat dam

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we decided to hike back from there along

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the way back the big birds flew to north

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directly over

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our heads as we stumbled along the small

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trail alongside the creek

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and when i say directly over our heads

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that means 10 feet in the air above us

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i have never ticklished this story

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publicly but i feel it should be known

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after seeing the countless shows on the

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tv

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and the ridicule endured by marlon and

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his family what more can i say

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probably a lot more i met john hoffer

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briefly one time at a powwow in riverton

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illinois

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his film of lake shelbyville cannot be

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discounted i've had enough of the deep

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encourages

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and so you have stared one down at the

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proximity that i did

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you will never understand what changed

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your life and perception of the reality

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we live in

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i have looked at websites concerning the

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phenomenon of the thunderbirds and i'm

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not quite satisfied

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with all the results much of it is

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outdated nevertheless

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i'm still here and as the show about

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ufos said i know what i saw

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nowadays with the proliferation of

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camera phones and video cams

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hopefully someone will get better

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footage of the thunderbirds bigfoot

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ufo and the like since the 70s it has

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definitely gotten a lot better

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how do they save focus also hold the

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damn camera steady

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i only wished i had one that day but i

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never expected to see

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what i saw i also recall that the big

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birds roosted in a large tree similar to

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john huffer's film before they flew off

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i was trying to figure out how birds

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with such a phenomenal wingspan

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could perch in the branches of that tree

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and not get all tangled up

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it appeared that they somehow double

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folded their wings under so as to

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maneuver through the branches

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also they were in the higher parts of

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the tree so that when they flew off they

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would have the immediate altitude needed

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to soar off without flapping to death

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as if taking off from the ground again

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very similar to the huffer film

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believe what you will i'm here to say

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that even though the number of people

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who have seen them cannot even come

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close to the number of people that have

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seen a ufo does not mean that we just

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saw a damn turkey buzzard

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thunderbird encounters illinois

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wisconsin in 2011 i had two encounters

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with giant black birds

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when i say giant i mean i saw at two

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separate times

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birds that were all black in color with

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wingspans as big as a small plane 14

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feet or bigger

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my first encounter was early one summer

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morning when i was returning from the

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quad cities

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i was traveling on my motorcycle on

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route 30 just past i-88 when i noticed a

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big black object in the distance sitting

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in the middle of the road

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i slowed my motorcycle down as i got

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closer to the object

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at first i thought it was a black bear

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sitting in the road but as i drove

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closer to the object i soon learned it

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wasn't a bear at all

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the black object was a giant black bird

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which stood at least four to five feet

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tall

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i was in awe and a little bit scared at

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the sight of the giant bird

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i stopped my motorcycle immediately

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hoping that the beast would not attack

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me

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seeing anyone else who might be

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witnessing this amazing sight but of

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course just like in the movies there was

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no one else on the road

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realizing it was just me and the giant

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bird my heart began to race with

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thoughts of being attacked i slowly

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pulled in the clutch and put the

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motorcycle in gear

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just in case i had to make a quick

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getaway the giant bird heard the noise

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of the gear shifting

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it then looked directly at me for a

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brief moment swung open its massive

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wings

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which were at least 14 feet long stood

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upright then leaped off the ground and

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took off in flight

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the bird looked like a small black plane

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and when it flew by the trees the

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branches were swinging back and forth

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i sat on my motorcycle watching the bird

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fly out of sight

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i still do not know what kind of

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creature it was that i encountered

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i have been looking online at several

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different kind of birds but have yet to

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find the bird that i saw

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the only bird that comes even close to

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what i saw was a condor but the bird i

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saw did not have a head like a condor

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nor did it look like that of a turkey

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buzzard or vulture plus this creature

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was much larger than a condor

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i almost wonder if this was just a freak

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of nature or possibly a prehistoric bird

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could it be possible that there are

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still some type of prehistoric birds

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still in existence

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trust me i am not crazy i have recently

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seen pictures of the legendary

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thunderbirds

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and that is exactly what this bird

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looked like my second encounter with a

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giant black bird was in august of 2011.

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my friends and i were traveling on our

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motorcycles near lake geneva wisconsin

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on some back road when all of a sudden a

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giant black bird appeared out of nowhere

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the bird was obliviously mad at the

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noise of all of our motorcycles or

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something

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because it took a dive that the couple

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who were traveling in front of my wife

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and i

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the giant bird actually dove at them

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causing them to swerve on their

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motorcycle

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the bird then circled around the men

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tried to poop on them yes i said poop on

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them

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i wouldn't have believed it if i hadn't

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seen it with my own eyes

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luckily the poop missed them i am not

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exaggerating when i say the stuff that

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came out of the creature was much larger

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than that of the humans

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it was disgusting on a positive note

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there was 10 of us who witnessed this

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giant bird once again none of us knew

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exactly what kind of bird it was that we

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encountered

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just like i had described before the

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giant bird was all black with a massive

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wingspan

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and its head was not like that of a

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condor i couldn't believe that i was so

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fortunate to witness this massive bird

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again

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and i was so happy that my friends were

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with me to see it as well

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i had told my friends about the bird

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that i had seen in june but i don't

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think that any of them really believed

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me

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now they know that i am not crazy and

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are obviously convinced that the giant

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black bird does exist

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what is really kind of scary is that i

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do not believe that i saw the same bird

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twice

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i truly believe that i saw two different

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birds that are of the same species

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how i came to this conclusion is simple

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the first bird was bigger than the

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second bird

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i only hope that anyone who reads this

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takes this as a real encounter

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and just not as another fish story i

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have 10 witnesses to confirm one of my

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sightings

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i only wish i had a picture too but

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obviously i can't take pictures while i

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am driving a motorcycle

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oh well believe it or not that is my

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story and i am sticking to it

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please let me know if anyone else has

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encountered one of these giant black

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birds

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