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cars lifted up and transported by ufos

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by charles lear in the 1950s the first

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reports of cars shutting down in the

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proximity of ufos started hitting the

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news most memorably those from leveling

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texas in 1957

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then in the 1960s there were reports of

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ufos chasing cars sometimes hitting them

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and in fair turnabout reports of cars

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chasing ufos

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things didn't escalate until 1978 when

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the first reports came out of ufos

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lifting cars up in the air carrying them

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for various distances and periods of

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time and then returning them to the

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ground in 1978 alone there were four

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reports that this writer was able to

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find the first of these occurred in july

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of that year and is described on the

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website of the missouri investigators

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group according to the report there was

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a ufo flap in ellsbury missouri at the

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time on july 27th mrs clara wincher was

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driving towards her home in arnold

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missouri after visiting her brother in

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beaufort at around 12 30 a.m she was

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coming out of union missouri when she

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saw what she thought was a

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tractor-trailer coming straight at her

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as she braced for impact her car filled

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up with white light then the rear of her

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car was lifted up and she found herself

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looking down at the pavement which was

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brightly lit the interior of the car

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heated up and the windows fogged as this

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was happening the car shook violently

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and swayed wincher did what she could to

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control it and saw that she was

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approaching a steel bridge she pressed

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down on the accelerator but this of

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course only led to her rear wheel

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spinning in the air all she could do was

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steer towards the center of the bridge

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and hope for the best just as she came

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to the bridge the car was released she

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crossed the bridge and pulled over to

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the side to see what sort of damage

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might have been done to the car there

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seemed to have been no damage but the

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next day an examination revealed two

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indentations in the trunk lid what was

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odd was that there was no cracking in

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the paint in or around the indentations

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winter drove onto arnold and stopped in

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at the police department there to report

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what had happened to her the next day

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she and her husband drove back to union

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to give a report to the union police

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department the story was reported in the

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july 29 30 st louis missouri globe

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democrat in september of that year there

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was a case reported in the september

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25th 1978 edition of the argentinian

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newspaper cronica the case was also

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looked into by the institute of hispanic

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ufology and is described on the

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inexplicata website according to the

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inexplica account two chileans carlos

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acevedo and miguel angel moya were

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participating in the rally de america

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del sur when they encountered a ufo

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acevedo was at the wheel of their citron

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at around 3 a.m they were on their way

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to bahaya blanca argentina and as they

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reached the area near salitra de agurabo

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they saw a bright light coming up behind

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them at high speed the inside of the car

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was filled with a purple shaded cloudy

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yellow light acevedo then realized that

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the car was about two meters up in the

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air after a few nervous seconds the car

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was set back down and the light inside

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faded according to the account in

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chronica they were set down on the side

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of the road the men then watched as what

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they described as a truncated cone of

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yellow light moved away to the west they

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drove on and reached a gas station 15

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minutes later in the town of pedro

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laurel and asked the attendant for

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directions to the local police station

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they then looked at their odometer which

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should have showed that they had

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traveled 127 kilometers but instead

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indicated that they had only traveled 52

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kilometers also strange was that it took

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them just under two and a half hours to

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travel the 127 kilometers when it should

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have taken them about 1 hour and 15

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minutes and the reserve tank which

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should have been full was empty in the

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chronica account it is mentioned that a

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man living near pedro loro went to check

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out the spot where the men said their

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car had been put down and he saw tracks

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leaving the spot but none entering it

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one of the most famous cases where a car

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was reportedly lifted comes from italy

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and was written about by italian

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journalist reno di stefano in his 1984

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book the semfrata case according to di

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stefano in december 1978 pierre

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fortunato zanfreda an italian night

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watchman who served with the italian

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national police force known as the

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carabinieri started to report encounters

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with strange creatures under hypnosis he

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described them this way they are green

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with triangular yellow eyes with big

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thorns they have green flesh and their

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skin is full of wrinkles as if they were

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old their mouths look like they're made

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of iron they have red veins on their

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heads pointed ears and arms with

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fingernails with round things they come

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from the third galaxy he also reported

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that his car was lifted with him in it

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up into a spaceship as fantastic as

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zenfreda's claims might seem his fellow

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carabinieri were repeatedly obligated to

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come to his rescue over the next two

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years and would find him in a terrified

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state in remote areas zemfreda's head

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was reported to be hot even when they

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found him outside on cold nights the

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inside of his car was described as being

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like an oven by one officer who drove it

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back to the station

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to test the validity of zamfreda's

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claims two technicians secretly prepared

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his assigned car a fiat 127. they hid a

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thermometer that would record the

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highest temperature and rigged the axles

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with cables that would break if the car

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was lifted up it wasn't long before

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zenfreda had another episode and he was

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found on a freezing cold night on the

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edge of a gorge when the car was back at

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the station the technicians checked the

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thermometer and saw it had recorded a

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temperature of 43 degrees celsius

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109.4 degrees fahrenheit when they

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checked the cables they found that all

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four of them were broken

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finally in the august 31st and september

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1st 1978 editions of chronica there is

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the story of two men who reported being

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lifted up and transported to a strange

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city while in their car francisco nunez

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and his son also francisco were driving

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in argentina from mendoza to loya de

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coyo when they were amazed to find

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themselves ascending according to them

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the ascent was serene the car engine

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stopped but the radio continued playing

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music they then felt cold and saw a

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number of bright red lights soon they

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saw a strange reddish city in front of

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them with tall joined buildings and a

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wide illuminated avenue they saw no

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signs of life according to them their

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car moved along at a high speed until

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the city disappeared from view they then

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found themselves back on the road nine

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kilometers further on and their engine

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restarted they said they felt no fear

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during the entire episode according to

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the september chronicle when they got

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home the senior francisco felt compelled

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to wash the car and take a bath because

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of old sayings relating to spirits and

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the younger francisco didn't bathe as he