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the year is

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1963 i'm in the third grade at franklin

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grammar school

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we're at recess and uh

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i played marbles the entire half hour

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and we were all waiting for the uh

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the uh recess beltering to go back in

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into class

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and i'm playing with my marbles with a

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big pocketful of them and talking to a

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buddy of mine and the bell rings and

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everybody starts piling into their

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classes

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and i wasn't in a huge rush to go back

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to class because i know we had an exam

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of some kind

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so

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was a bright sunny day about 11 o'clock

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uh before

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noon

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and i see this huge golden

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thing

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just sitting in the air

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making no noise

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and it's it's so bright i could only

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look at it for two or three seconds

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maybe not even that long at a time

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and i noticed the guy was with couldn't

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look at it it was too bite for him so he

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went and

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after about 20 or 30 minutes i i

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couldn't bear to look at it was so

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painful

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and i looked around and i noticed it was

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so huge the craft itself was blocking

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the sun so i could remember thinking to

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myself how could it be so bright under

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there it was solid gold

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like polished 24 karat gold and it was

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very convoluted and sculptured from

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below

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and it seemed like uh the height it

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seemed like i could throw a marble and

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hit it it was probably a hundred feet up

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and so let me just ask you a couple

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things first of all this is in oakland

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california for for example

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and when you saw this uh you were out on

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the playground you wanted to go in how

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many kids would you say

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uh were out there at the time and how

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many were was there yelling and anything

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else going on yeah there was must have

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been a hundred kids on the lot and uh

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the bell rang

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everybody started piling into class and

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by the time

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i got to class i was the only one on the

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uh on the pavement

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because i

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just couldn't believe it it was the most

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beautiful thing i've ever seen in my

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life there's no way in the world i could

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have imagined something like that

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it was so bright and beautiful but it

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was frustrating because i could only

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look at it for

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two or three seconds at a time then i

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had to look down

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and rest my eyes for a second you know

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what i mean

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yeah and uh did you tell teachers your

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parents or anyone

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gosh you know to be honest with you i

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didn't tell anybody for four or five

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years

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and then i looked uh to see if i could

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find if there were any other sightings

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that year because it was just incredible

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it was just incredible so then i finally

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i said man this thing is frustrating and

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i never felt scared because it was just

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sitting there and i kept thinking how

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could it possibly just sit there and not

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make any sounds let's hold it up

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and uh did you see it leave no i didn't

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i had to get back to class because um i

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i think i might have spent seven or

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eight minutes i was late to class

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yeah yeah well uh that this is all

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really fascinating and uh so we're at

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the end of our time but thank you so

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much elton i really appreciate you

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talking about it and now maybe we can

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talk about this more sometime because it

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really yeah i have the other siding too

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i can tell you about i i don't know if

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you i think you might have

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mentioned it yeah we talked about on the

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phone we'll we'll have you back on again