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ufos and conjunctivitis by charles lear

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for researchers ufo trace cases make up

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a welcome science friendly aspect of a

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phenomenon that often eludes scientific

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study researcher ted phillips

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specialized in trace cases starting in

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the mid-1960s on the advice of project

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blue book scientific consultant j alan

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heineck in the course of his

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investigations phillips was able to note

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commonalities one of those being that

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soil samples taken from alleged ufo

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landing sites were unable to absorb

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water while ufos have been reported to

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leave physical traces on the environment

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they've also been reported to leave

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physical traces on witnesses a common

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report of this sort is what is medically

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known as actinic conjunctivitis or

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clique conjunctivitis this is a painful

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condition where the eyes become red and

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intensely irritated due to exposure to

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ultraviolet light ufo-related klieg

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conjunctivitis is perhaps most

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prominently featured in john keel's 1975

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book the mothman prophecies in chapter 2

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section 4 kiel tells the reader that he

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knew a witness was telling the truth

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because her eyes were reddened watery

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and almost swollen shut he goes on to

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say that people who have close

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encounters with ufos are exposed to

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actinic rays ultraviolet rays which can

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cause eye burn medically known as klig

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conjunctivitis conjunctivitis got

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its name from a specific form of

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vectinic conjunctivitis experienced by

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early 20th century film actors who

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worked in front of carbon arc lights

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called kleeglites after the inventors

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john and anton clegal kill brings up

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another case which involved a young

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couple who had an encounter with a big

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ball of bluish fire while engaged in

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amorous activity in the back seat of a

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car according to keel both of them were

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sunburned from head to foot and the

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young man's eyes were swollen the next

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morning in the july 7 1975 kansas

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rustled daily news there is an article

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headlined russell women blinded by ufo

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according to the article mrs frederick

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boxberger and her aunt catherine black

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were in voxburger's car on their way to

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a wedding boxburger described seeing a

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dazzlingly bright object like shining

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aluminum it was shaped like a funnel on

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its side as big or bigger than the car

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and moving from west to east it flew

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over the car and was so close that the

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women thought it was going to hit them

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boxburger stopped the car the object

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went straight up and was gone the car

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didn't stall as is often reported with

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ufo encounters but the air conditioning

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system quit and still wasn't working at

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the time of box burger's interview box

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burger said that after the encounter our

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eyes hurt and were blurry all day

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in kentucky on january 6 1976 mona

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stafford louise smith and elaine thomas

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were on their way back after having

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dinner at a restaurant to celebrate

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stafford's birthday smith was driving on

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highway 78 towards houstonville

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according to the october 1976 apro

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bulletin about one mile south of

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stanford they saw a huge disc shaped

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object which was metallic gray with a

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white glowing dome according to smith it

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was bigger than two houses she estimated

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its size as it stopped and hovered over

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the road in front of them after a couple

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of seconds of rocking back and forth the

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object moved off to the left thinking

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the object was gone smith kept driving

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then a blue light that the women assumed

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was from a police car appeared behind

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their car as they realized that the

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light was actually coming from the

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object which had circled around behind

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them control of the car seemed to have

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been taken from smith as the car

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accelerated to 85 miles per hour

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stafford who was in the passenger seat

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grabbed the steering wheel and tried to

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help smith gain control at this point

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the women began to feel a burning

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sensation in their eyes all three women

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experienced tearing and irritation of

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their eyes afterwards and stafford's was

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so severe that she was moved to seek

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medical attention there are many other

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bizarre aspects to this case which we'll

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explore next week two well-known cases

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involving conjunctivitis are the 1979

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case from minnesota where sheriff's

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deputy val johnson reported a collision

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with the ufo while in his patrol car in

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the 1980 cash landrum case from texas

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where two women and a young boy

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witnessed a ufo and afterwards

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experienced not only burning eyes but a

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host of symptoms often associated with

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radiation sickness

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keel came up with a theory that could

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explain this aspect of the phenomenon in

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his 1970 book operation trojan horse let

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us assume that ufos exist at frequencies

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beyond visible light but that they can

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adjust their frequency and descend the

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electromagnetic spectrum just as you

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turn the dial of your radio and move a

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variable condenser up and down the scale

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of radio frequencies when a ufo's

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frequency nears that of visible light it

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would first appear as a purplish blob of

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violet as it moves farther down the

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scale it would seem to change the blue

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and then to cyan bluish green in our

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chapter on meteors we note that they

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most often appear as bluish green

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if there is anything to kill's theory

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ufos would pass through ultraviolet on

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their way through the spectrum and that

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would be when they could cause

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conjunctivitis perhaps the best thing to

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take away from all this is that it might

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be wise to avoid staring at purple or