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michigan ufos on radar by charles lear

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the state of michigan is best known

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ufologist as a swamp gas state

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this is because of project blue book

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scientific consultant jaylen heineck

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he came up with the explanation that

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swamp gas was responsible for sightings

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that were reported there

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that was way back in 1966. it caused a

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fury that led michigan representative

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and house minority leader gerald ford to

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call for a hearing in congress

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the case is based on multiple witness

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testimonies which include those of

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police officers

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and is well represented in ufo

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literature however there is a more

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recent and less well-known case that not

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only has multiple witnesses

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but radar confirmation and a 9-1-1

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dispatch tape as well

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on the night of march 8 1994

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meteorologist jack bushong was manning

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the national weather service office in

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muskegon

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he received a call from an ottawa county

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dispatcher who'd been dealing with

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multiple reports of mysterious lights in

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the sky

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the dispatcher wanted to know if there

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was anything on radar to confirm the

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reports

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on september 3rd 2020 buchang gave his

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recollection of the events that night to

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wwmt

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news channel 3 link available in the

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written version of this blog

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bashang explains he was able to manually

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control the radar with two cranks that

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allowed him to move it up and down and

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side to side

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this was often done when looking for

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hail according to him

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he swept the radar over the area in

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question and got a return that showed an

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object moving at 100 miles per hour

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as he watched it stopped and hovered and

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then quote

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shot up end quote he then saw a triangle

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formed by three objects 20 miles apart

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one object would jump to a spot 20 miles

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away and the other two would follow to

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reform the triangle

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he says they did this repeatedly bouchon

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called the faa control tower at muskegon

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county airport and asked if they were

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getting similar returns

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a controller there reported seeing quote

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three aircraft information end quote

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with no transponder codes bichon was

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told by the nws not to speak to the

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public about what he'd seen

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according to him their main concern was

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to avoid becoming a ufo reporting center

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bashang says he's faced ridicule but

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feels more comfortable speaking about

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his experience

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since the u.s department of defense

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released videos they confirmed were of

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quote

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the case was looked into by mutual ufo

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network michigan chief investigator

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daniel snow

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and is listed as case 62470

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snow reported there were over 300

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witnesses provided an overview of the

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occurrences that night

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and included a recording link available

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from the 911 with the attached

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conversation between

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a dispatcher and bouchon a dispatcher is

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heard saying they'd received 60 calls

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reporting ufos

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buchang is heard describing three to

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four returns the size of half a

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thumbnail

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and he tells the dispatcher that planes

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show up as pinpoint size blips

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the tape was obtained by mike walsh when

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he was an investigative journalist for

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the muskegon chronicle

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link available walsh who is now an

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attorney was interviewed by maurice

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cisneros

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herself a michigan mufon investigator

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for the muskegon

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channel series paranormal muskegon link

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in january of this year he describes his

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habit of getting to the office early

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which quote was my mistake that day end

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his boss told him they'd been getting a

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lot of phone calls about quote unusual

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activity near holland end quote and

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asked him to look into it

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walsh began by calling the police

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department and they dismissed the

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reports with comments like

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quote yeah there were lights in the sky

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they're called planes

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end quote walsh then got the idea to

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send a freedom of information act

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request to the 9-1-1 dispatch service

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via fax

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the fax was received at 9 00 am and by 9

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walsh was contacted and told to come

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over and pick up the tape

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he was given a cassette tape and he

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listened to it in his car

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he tells cisneros quote it blew my socks

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end quote the first caller is a woman

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who described seeing in

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quote unusual orb end quote across the

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street with the voices of her excited

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children in the background

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a police officer was called to confirm

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her sighting and he did so

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walsh then describes the interchange

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between the dispatcher and bushong and

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how quote

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it would make your hair stand on edge

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end quote one

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instance is when buchang exclaims quote

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oh my god what is this

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end quote when he spots a particular

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return

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the story made international news and

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the muskegon chronicle was besieged by

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calls from news organizations all over

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walsh received two calls from pilots one

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from american airlines and the

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other from united airlines they said

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they saw a quote

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a flash of light that went in front of

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them end quote and one pilot said quote

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it looked like it was out of star wars

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end quote walsh tells cisneros people

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were concerned about their jobs

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bruchong was concerned enough to

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approach him at his house the sunday

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after the story broke

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and beg him to stop reporting on it

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walsh sent a federal foia request to the

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nws for radar tapes and was told

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quote the machine does not record end

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quote he describes the nws response as

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end quote walsh interviewed the woman

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who was heard at the beginning of the

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tape

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he describes that she saw a quote

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circular worm-like object end quote with

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blinking lights that was quote

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able to navigate end quote it moved off

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and discharged quote what appeared to be

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two other craft end quote went across

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quote at a high rate of speed end quote

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while walsh found the case mystifying he

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wasn't convinced that people were seeing

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something extraterrestrial

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he does however talk about his belief in

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the possibility

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of extraterrestrial life he has talked

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about the case on larry king live ufo

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hunters on other television shows and

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being able to listen to walsh himself

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and hear the dispatch tape

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really brings this case to life as to

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the question of whether or not something

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unusual was happening in the sky over

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michigan that night