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airplane passenger ufo sightings by

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charles lear

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pilot ufo sightings have been a constant

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in the world of ufology ever since the

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sighting in 1947 that started the public

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fascination with the subject by kenneth

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arnold who was flying in his own plane

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near mount rainier in washington state

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even though these are often single

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witness sightings researchers generally

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take them seriously as pilots especially

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commercial pilots risk their reputations

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and continued employment by coming

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forward but what about airplane

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passengers in the case of passenger

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sightings you often have multiple

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witnesses or at least one witness that

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can corroborate the pilot report an

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instance where a passenger witness came

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forward to back up a pilot report

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occurred in 1948 in the case of the

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classic charles witted ufo encounter on

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july 24th 1948 pilot clarence chiles and

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co-pilot john whitted were flying a dc-3

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over alabama at about 2 45 a.m child

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spotted a red glow up ahead and brought

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wit its attention to what he assumed was

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an army jet it quickly closed in on the

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dc-3 shot past the right side of the

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plane and then with a burst of flame

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coming out of its rear climbed up into

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the clouds the pilots reported that the

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object was torpedo shaped had no wings

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was 100 feet long and 25 to 30 feet in

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diameter passenger clarence l mckelvey

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added to the credibility of the sighting

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by reporting that he saw a bright light

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streaked by his window at that time he

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later appeared in the documentary ufos

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it has begun a 1976 and 1979 re-release

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of the 1974 documentary ufo's past

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present and future and there he says he

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spoke with one of the pilots and his

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description matches theirs

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a case with multiple passenger witnesses

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occurred over africa in 1951 at around 7

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20 a.m on february 5th radio officer dw

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maryfield spotted a bright white

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star-like object hanging over mount

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kilimanjaro and pointed it out to

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captain jack bicknell they were flying

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an east african airways lodestar with

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nine passengers aboard after watching

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for about three minutes they alerted the

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passengers one of the passengers had a

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pair of high-powered binoculars which he

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used to get a more detailed look when

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the object was first spotted the plane

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was about 85 miles away from the

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mountain when they were about 50 miles

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away bicknell took a look through the

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binoculars himself his description of

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the object to a reporter from the

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nairobi kenya sunday post appears in the

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february 25th 1951 edition according to

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bicknell he saw a metallic bullet shaped

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object over 200 feet long it was dull

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silver colored with dark vertical lines

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at regular intervals and had a square

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cut vertical fin on one end it remained

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stationary for approximately 17 minutes

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while the passengers took turns looking

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at it through the binoculars and two of

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the passengers took pictures it then

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moved off to the east ascending as it

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did so and disappeared at around forty

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thousand feet

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another case involving a passenger

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filming a ufo this time with a motion

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picture camera occurred in 1966

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on april 2nd thomas oldfield and his

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wife were flying for the first time and

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she was filming the view out their

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window she managed to capture a

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cigar-shaped object with vertical fins

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top and bottom fore and aft keeping pace

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with the plane just behind it it is seen

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for about two seconds and then it turns

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away from the plane and seems to

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collapse into itself and disappear as

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striking as the footage is according to

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the cbs report ufo friend foe or fantasy

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hosted by walter cronkite a few days

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after the old fields captured their

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footage a bbc cameraman sat in the same

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seat and captured something similar it

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was determined that the image was caused

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by a reflection of the plane's tail

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section which was distorted by the

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convexities of the window and the camera

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lens recent footage of alleged ufos

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filmed by plane passengers is plentiful

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on the internet and while there are some

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intriguing videos the lack of backstory

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or follow-up investigation in most

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instances leaves it up to the viewer to

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assess their validity an instance where

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a video was investigated involved a

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dramatic incident allegedly captured on

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january 17th 2021 by a passenger aboard

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a singapore airlines plane as it was

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landing in zurich switzerland it was

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posted on twitter on january 21st 2021

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and later embedded in the news posts of

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the independent and the india times

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during the video the pilot can be heard

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instructing the passengers to brace

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themselves the plane dips to the right

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and passengers can be heard panicking

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then a small white object shoots past

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just under the wing and an expletive is

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uttered seemingly from the person

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filming as convincing as it might seem

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this video has been debunked by afp fact

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check according to their research the

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video was originally posted on youtube

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in 2015 titled hard banking takeoff

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lufthansa 8320 departs zurich the 2021

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posting is a mirrored version with the

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singapore airlines logo pasted over the

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lufthansa logo different audio and an

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added in formerly non-existent ufo afp

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contacted singapore airlines and a

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spokesperson confirmed that their pilots

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weren't the ones making the

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announcements in the video

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another case where passengers came

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forward to back up a pilot report comes

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from 2007 on april 23rd captain ray

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boyer was on the way to alderney the

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third largest of the channel islands

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after taking off from southampton

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england he was flying a gxtor

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which carries a maximum of 18 passengers

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on a routine 45-minute rne air services

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flight at around 2pm approximately 20

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minutes away from alderney boyer saw a

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bright yellow light that is 12 o'clock

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in the direction of guernsey he thought

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it might be an airplane or a reflection

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from the ground but it persisted long

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enough that he concluded the light was

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being emitted from that position and not

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reflected boyer checked with nearby

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jersey air traffic control and was told

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there had just been a similar report

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from a pilot 25 miles to the south

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according to paul kelly the controller

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on duty at the time as reported on the

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news website the register there was no

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radar return but if the object was

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stationary it would have been screened

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out a passenger behind boyer was also

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seeing the first object and pointed out

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a second identical object behind the

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first boyer described the objects seen

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for about 15 minutes this way both

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objects were of a flattened disc shape

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with a dark area to the right they were

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brilliant yellow with light emanating

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from within and i estimated them to be

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up to possibly a mile across

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on november 12 2007 boyer addressed the

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u.s national press club where he

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described the sighting and said that

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many of his passengers had seen the

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objects he told those assembled that at

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12 miles distance these objects were

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becoming uncomfortably large and i was

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glad to descend and land the aircraft

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the case was investigated and examined

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in great detail by jean-francois bauer

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david clarke paul fuller and martin shaw

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who published their findings in the

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journal of scientific exploration volume

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22 number 3 2008 according to the

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investigators the passenger behind boyer

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and a couple in the next row were able

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to see both objects but refused to be

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identified a couple seated three rows

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back john and kate russell were willing

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to go on record as witnesses but

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disputed boyer's estimate of size

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feeling what they'd seen where nothing

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like is large

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so next time you're on an airplane and

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you see a ufo it might be nice to let

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your pilots know you might be giving