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injured by the ufo

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part 2 by charles lear starting in the

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1960s

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ufos began to interact with witnesses in

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a most

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unpleasant manner in part one of this

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series we looked at cases where people

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were injured by ufos

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specifically by being burned one case

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involved an eight-year-old boy in hobbs

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new mexico in 1964.

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this week we'll look at another episode

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from 1968 that has a lot of similarities

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two other cases will be examined as well

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one comes from new york and the other is

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a famous case from canada

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all are unexplained and may make one

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think twice before approaching anything

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unusual floating in the sky

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the first case comes from a report in

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the may june 1966

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apro bulletin on april 24 1966 in

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fleming new york

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45 year old viola smartwood was in the

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passenger seat

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riding in a car with her husband a

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glowing ball appeared out of the rain

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and hovered close by

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they heard a loud snap and a shock went

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through mrs smartwood's right side

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she was paralyzed on that side and was

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taken to the hospital

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where she slowly regained motor control

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as it was raining

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ball lightning seems like a plausible

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explanation the trouble is

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it has not been scientifically confirmed

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that ball lightning actually exists

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despite hundreds of years of reports

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next up is a well-covered classic but

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it's interesting to consider it within

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this larger context

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on may 20th 1967 a celebrated incident

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occurred near falcon lake in manitoba

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canada

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stephen mitchellack was an amateur

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geologist and was prospecting in the

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area when he cited two

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disc shaped craft descending in the

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southwest

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he described them as looking like they

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had been milled out of a solid piece of

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steel

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as he watched one of the discs stopped

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and hovered 15 feet above him

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the other one ascended and moved away

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towards the southwest

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changing colors from red to orange to

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gray until it disappeared from sight

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in the meantime the remaining object

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remained about 160 feet away from him

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and was also changing colors from red to

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iridescent steel

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mechalak got out a pad of paper and

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sketched the object while looking at it

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for nearly 30 minutes

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he described it as being 40 feet in

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diameter and 10 feet thick

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then a door opened and he heard high

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pitched indistinct childlike voices

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coming from the craft

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mitchulek walked towards it as he got

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close the light inside the craft was so

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that he needed to flip down the welding

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filter on the safety goggles he was

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wearing

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he'd borrowed them from his job as an

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industrial mechanic at a cement factory

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to protect his eyes while hammering

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rocks looking inside he saw no beings

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but did see lights that seemed to come

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from instrument paddles

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he moved his gloved hand along the

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surface of the craft and found it to be

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as smooth as glass

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when he pulled his hand away he saw that

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the glove had been burned

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and partially melted the door closed

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with three panels coming together

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like a camera lens and the craft began

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the move

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it rose up and as it did it released a

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hot gas through a grid of small circular

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openings

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that set his shirt and undershirt on

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fire and scorched the cap he was wearing

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he was left with first and second-degree

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burns on his chest and stomach

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the burns on his stomach matched the

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pattern of the openings

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the craft reached a height of around 40

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feet and then vanished

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michilak was nauseous and in shock and

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made his way to the highway

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where a passing royal canadian mounted

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police officer

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refused assistance because he thought he

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was drunk

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he made his way back to his motel and

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after several hours

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took a bus back home to winnipeg in

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he was examined by doctors and tested

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for radiation poisoning but the results

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were negative

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the burns on his chest were diagnosed as

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being caused by heat but the grid

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pattern on his stomach seemed more like

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chemical burns

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unexplainably the grid pattern would

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fade and then reappear every three

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along with nausea for close to a year

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and a half

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he was left with a pattern for the rest

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of his life in the form of subcutaneous

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in addition family members described a

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sulfurous odor

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like an electric burning motor stink

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that stayed with him for weeks after the

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michelac returned to the site on june

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30th with a friend

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and they saw a circular patch swept a

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vegetation

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more than 30 feet in diameter when they

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returned to winnipeg

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they reported the encounter to the royal

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investigators from numerous

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organizations subsequently examined the

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and interviewed michelac organizations

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the rcaf rcmp cid

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criminal investigations division and

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of health and welfare

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part of the official interest was due to

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radiation being detected at the site

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but that was later attributed to a

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source of radon known to be in the area

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on march 19 1968 in bealesville

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ohio twelve-year-old gregory lynn wells

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was walking home from his grandmother's

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house next door

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it was 8 30 p.m and he had gone there to

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get some water

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because the water line in his family's

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trailer home had broken

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the neighborhood dogs were barking and

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howling according to the report

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towards the southwest looking up at a 20

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he saw a light red glowing oval object

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with dark red circles of light flashing

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across its middle

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it was about 100 feet away a tube

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emerged from the bottom

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that moved from side to side it then

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pointed at him

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before he could react there was a sound

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like a generator going round and round

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as a red beam of light shot out and hit

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him on the arm

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he felt a tingle as if from an

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electrical shock and was knocked to the

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his jacket had been set on fire his

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mother heard his screams and came out

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she also reported seeing the object she

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said that it remained for 10 minutes

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and then just faded away she helped him

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put out the fire and he was taken to a

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nearby hospital

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where he was treated for two coin-sized

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burns on his right arm

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in the june 20th 1968 wheeling west

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virginia intelligencer

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well's father notes that the television

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turned into wavy lines

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when the object was overhead and that

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his dog and his mother's dog

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barked rolled over and ran round and

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the local civil defense director checked

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wells his jacket and the area where the

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incident occurred for radiation

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and found nothing unusual the jacket was

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sent by

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the local sheriff to a crime lab for

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analysis and they too

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found nothing unusual the case was

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looked into by a local high school

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senior

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bruce francis who was the president of a

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student club devoted to ufos

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he sent a report to the national

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investigations committee on aerial

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phenomena

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it came out that wells had also seen the

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object two nights before

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another student janet spears came

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forward saying she'd seen a similar

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object on the night wells was burned

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the doctors who treated wells were

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convinced he hadn't made up the story

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and one of his teachers told the

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intelligencer i believe he saw something

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what i don't know the air force

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investigated