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ufos and strange creatures in harold

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washington by charles lear when a

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nine-year-old boy in harrow washington

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approximately 12 miles west of the city

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of toppenish told his mother a story

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about seeing strange creatures in their

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vehicles on the morning of a school day

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she heard him out and then sent him to

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school his story would likely have gone

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no further had it not been for a

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teacher's aide who went with him back to

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his house during recess after hearing

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his story and believing him this led to

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the discovery of physical traces that

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backed up his story and an investigation

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by members of the center for ufo studies

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and a reporter from a local paper

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according to the article harry youth

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reports ufos with greenish creatures

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written by francis story and published

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in the january 26 1977 toppenish review

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nine-year-old jose cantu woke his mother

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up at 6 30 a.m on wednesday january 19th

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wanting her to explain a little man he'd

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seen outside his mother martha had had a

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rough night with her baby and sent him

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away so she could get some more sleep

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jose then went out to investigate on his

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own jose came back in and told his

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mother what he'd seen according to him

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there were two greenish creatures in the

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yard that were about three feet tall and

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instead of having feet they rotated on

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round bases he said he saw two steely

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craft one sitting in the yard and one on

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a flat section of the roof and that

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there was a creature in each one he said

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he observed all this while hiding behind

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a washing machine outside next to a shed

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as he watched the two creatures in the

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yard returned to the vehicles he said

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they had straight stairs leading to

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doors that opened in two parts like a

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cross and that there were two chairs

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with tall bases inside the vehicles then

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rose up and disappeared into some sort

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of vaporous cloud martha san jose off to

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hera grade school and there he told his

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story to a teacher's aide diane gomez

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she is quoted in the article as saying

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jose is a serious boy he's not one that

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tells stories or lies what he told me i

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took very seriously gomez and another

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aide went with jose to his house and he

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showed them where he'd seen the

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creatures standing according to gomez

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where jose said one of the creatures had

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rotated on its base there were two round

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marks in the gravel and where he saw

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both creatures standing together there

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were three indentations in two separate

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spots the aides spoke with mrs cantu and

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then took jose back to school mrs cantu

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called her neighbor irene sanchez and

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asked her to come over they examined the

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yard and besides seeing the indentations

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described by jose in the aids saw a

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10-foot diameter circular impression in

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the grass with the grass in the middle

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whirled up mr cantu said he could see it

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clearly when he returned that evening

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from work on thursday two investigators

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bill vogel and dave akers came to the

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house both were affiliated with the

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center for ufo studies they were able to

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see the circle and the indentations and

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took geiger counter readings which

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showed no unusual radiation story

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visited on saturday and by that time the

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trace evidence had faded he could see

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only one of the foot marks and the

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circle was only faintly visible he

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brought along a translator to interview

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jose in spanish the language he was most

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comfortable with the translator is

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described as being a skeptic in the

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article and is quoted as saying after

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the interview i believe he saw what he

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said he saw according to story vogels

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said that he and acres thought jose

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definitely had a ufo experience vogel

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himself had seen a ufo in the area story

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doesn't say when but it seems to have

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been within three years prior to jose's

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sighting after being contacted by the

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toppenish police and told that mrs stan

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johnson and her friend judy farkah

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harsen had spotted a bright light over

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toppenish ridge vogel was able to see

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the light and watched it until it

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disappeared according to story the

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johnsons were area farmers and not only

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had repeated sightings of lights but

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also remained mystified by a series of

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three holes six feet wide and four feet

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deep that showed up at some point in one

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of their fields

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story talked to others who would witness

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ufos in the area but the closest thing

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to corroborating evidence he presents in

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this article is information offered by

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toppenish resident ron gardner who'd had

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a ufo experience in 1958 or 1959 when he

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was 14 years old and living in a rural

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area gardner told story that there had

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been reports by cb radio users of a

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bright light over hera the night before