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ufos

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nukes and abductions by charles lear one

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commonly reported characteristic of ufos

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is that they are often seen near nuclear

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weapons facilities

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one would think that this would get the

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attention of government authorities

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and it seems it has robert hastings is a

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researcher who looked into this aspect

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of the ufo mystery

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and his work caused many people

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including those in the media

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to take a serious look at it then at the

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risk of casting doubt on his credibility

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hastings came forward with the claim

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that he had had an abduction experience

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while this upset some of the people who

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had been encouraged by hastings to come

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forward with their stories of ufos at

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nuclear facilities

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one man told hastings of abductions

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reported by men

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stationed at such facilities according

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to hastings

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he was 16 when he first became

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interested in ufos

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he was working as a janitor at the air

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traffic control tower

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at malmstrom air force base in montana

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where his father was stationed

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a supervisor called him over to look at

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a radar scope when hastings came over

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the superior told him

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they were looking at returns of ufos

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hastings was intrigued and was told to

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come back later if he wanted to talk

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about them

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but when he did the supervisor no longer

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wanted to discuss the matter

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hastings later learned from his father

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that fighter jets had chased the ufos

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over the minuteman missiles that were

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housed at the base he then read an

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article in the saturday evening post

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about ufos reported over other nuclear

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he got the impression that what happened

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at malmstrom was something real and not

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he felt there was a connection between

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ufos and nuclear weapons

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and he began reaching out to military

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personnel to find evidence

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while some of those he contacted refused

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to talk others were eager to do so

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feeling that the public had a right to

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know along with the witness testimony

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hastings also found documents that

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supported what he was being told

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he learned that not only had ufos been

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cited over nuclear weapons facilities

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but there also seemed to be weapons

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malfunctions caused by them

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with a large body of evidence in hand

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hastings wrote

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ufos and nukes which was published in

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and updated in 2017. the two most

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dramatic cases hastings examines

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happened in 1967. two missile wings

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known as

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experience what seemed to be ufo-related

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on march 16th all 10 minute man 1

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6 to 8 or possibly all 10 missiles

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went offline at oscar flight the evented

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echo flight is recorded in documents

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one is a declassified strategic air

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command teletype message

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relating to maintenance by personnel

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from boeing the primary company

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according to the message

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two checks were run and no conclusions

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were made the teletype states

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that the fact that no apparent reason

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for the loss of ten missiles can be

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readily identified

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as cause of great concern to this

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headquarters

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the other document is part of a history

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written by 341st strategic missile wing

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historian

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discussed the missile shutdown according

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to gamble a possible cause was

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a coupler self-test command occurred

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along with a partial reset within the

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coupler

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however gamble describes the possibility

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that all 10 couplers could have been

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partially reset

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in the same manner as remote gamble ends

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the discussion of the event with this

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rumors of unidentified flying objects

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around the area of echoflight during the

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time of the fault

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were disproven the incident at oscar

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flight was investigated in the 1990s by

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salas salus was the deputy missile

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combat crew commander on alert duty at

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at that time klotz filed freedom of

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information act requests

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and retrieved the documents written by

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gamble as well as the strategic air

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teletype according to salus a ufo

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sighting and the malfunction at oscar

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were reported by colonel frederick c

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miewald who also said

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it happened at another flight according

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solace had forgotten the other flight's

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designation with the passage of time

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but hastings assumes it was echo klutz

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interviewed gamble

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and gamble told him that while compiling

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his material

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he learned of ufo activity being

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according to gamble

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he received no cooperation from those

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who might have knowledge pertaining to

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such reports

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and written changes were made by his

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superiors regarding

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the ufo aspect of the missile shutdown

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salus affirmed that there were indeed

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this was confirmed by meewald

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on september 27 2010 hastings and salas

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held a press conference

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at the national press club in washington

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dc former

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the press conference encouraged others

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to come forward with their stories

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and hastings got enough material that he

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was moved to publish a second

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updated version of his book hastings

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his efforts gained the respect of both

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then in 2019 hastings published the book

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confession our hidden alien encounters

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revealed

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for hastings to come forward as an

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abductee would seem to be the height of

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in cynical terms abductee reports were

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hastings acknowledges in his

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introduction that for the sake of his

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acquaintances not to write the book

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he writes that he chose to do so after

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much hesitation

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and reflection hastings confession is

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that he was abducted in 1988

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during a camping trip along with others

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who were with him he started having

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nightmares within two months after that

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in the nightmares he was walking towards

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a large bright oval-shaped object

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hastings recalls that he had his first

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his fascination with the subject of ufos

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before hastings robert salas had shocked

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many of his former military colleagues

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by coming forward with his own abduction

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experiences in 2013.

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some of those inspired by salus to talk

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about their ufo sightings

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felt betrayed and shared their feelings

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with hastings as hastings was preparing

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to write confession

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he wrote to these same people to give

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them a heads up

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according to hastings most did not

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respond an exception was retired air

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encouraged hastings

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and told him that he'd interviewed

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personnel who reported encounters with

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these beings both on and off duty moore

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shared three stories with hastings

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and describes one of these as being

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particularly dramatic

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moore provided a summary of the incident

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air force veteran mario a woods jr

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he was assigned to the november launch

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control facility

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and was a security alert team member he

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spotted a ufo and brought it to the

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attention of the flight security

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but no action was taken later an alert

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was received that there had been a

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perimeter breach at a nearby launch

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control facility

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and an alarm had been triggered woods

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and a partner went to investigate

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and saw a glowing reddish-orange sphere

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hovering over the site

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to breathe woods opened his window

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at the object and the pressure went away

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woods remembers hearing a voice in his

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fear he thinks he remembers five or six

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one behind then he believes he lost

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consciousness when he awoke the flight

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asking about their status and location

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wood's partner was staring into space

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and unresponsive

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so woods replied he asked the flight

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security controller to wait

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and stepped outside the car to get his

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bearings he realized that they were now

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nowhere near where he thought they

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he was also sunburned the rest of wood's

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story reads like a classic abduction

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case

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with nightmares puncture wounds and his

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partner describing being out of the

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vehicle

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and lying down somewhere while hearing