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UFOs and the police in Colby Kansas by

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Charles Lear when it comes to reporting

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UFO sightings it often happens that

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local police departments are the first

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organizations Witnesses turned to many

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times the reports the police take place

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while the UFO is still active in the

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area and Patrol officers are able to

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respond and verify witness accounts

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famous examples are the 1966 case

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involving Dale Sparr and his partner

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Wilbur Barney Neff who chased the UFO

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from Portage County Ohio all the way

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into Pennsylvania and another Ohio case

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this time in Trumbull County in 1994

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involving multiple officers chasing and

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observing UFOs to radio interactions

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have been preserved in the form of a

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recording from a police dispatch that

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was turned over to researcher Kenny

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young this week we'll look at a 1972

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case out of Colby Kansas that involved

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multiple police Witnesses and multiple

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UFOs there is a file in this case

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available at UFO history files com

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containing newspaper and magazine

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articles on sightings reports in the

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area leading up to and including the

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Colby reports among the clippings is an

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article by Hayden C Hughes who founded

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the oklahoma-based international UFO

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Bureau at the age of 13 in 1957 and had

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a long history in ufology in

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cryptozoology titled UFOs over Kansas

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and published in the March 1973 issue of

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Fate magazine the article contains

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details of UFO activities starting in

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Dighton Kansas in late 1971 according to

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Hughes Titan police chief Mr Shelton

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said that the first sightings were

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thought to be military planes checking

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feedlot runoff using infrared

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photography and attracted little

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interest the sightings continued into

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1972 and the department started keeping

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records they were contacted by Daniel

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Garcia of the international UFO Bureau

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who kept in touch until he was able to

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get out to the area and talk to

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Witnesses some of whom were police on

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August 12th and 13 1972 in the article

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Shelton is quoted describing what was

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reported as round and red orange in

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color hovering off the ground about 10

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miles west of Dighton according to

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Shelton it seemed to be under

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intelligent control as it would be

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stationary and then move away whenever

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an officer would use their radio to

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report it Shelton explains every time we

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transmit it moves another officer

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Captain John banninger confirmed

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Shelton's statements with his reports of

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multiple sightings he'd had for the UFO

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behaved just as Shelton described

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banninger reported a series of five

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sightings two in March on the 22nd and

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24th at around 10 15 pm and 3 in July

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one on the 5th in an unspecified time

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and one each on the 7th and 9th at 4 45

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AM according to him in all but the July

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5th sighting where the UFO took off as

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soon as he saw it the UFO took off as

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soon as he used his Ray radio to report

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it after the UFO went out of sight on

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July 9 banninger radioed the Scott City

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police stationed 24 miles west of

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Dighton according to Hughes Scott City

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officer Reginald Ford saw what could

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have been the same UFO coming from the

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East banninger's description of what he

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saw was a blue white cast of an iodine

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quartz light varying to a peach-colored

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glow while the activities started in the

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Dighton area the focus and Hughes

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article and the others in the file is on

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the sightings in Colby Kansas in August

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of 1972 and particularly one by Sergeant

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Paul Carter and Officer Dennis Brown his

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article begins with Jim Kansas resident

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John Calkins being awakened by his dog

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sometime after midnight on August 19

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report that he'd seen a thing or a

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couple of things hovering over the

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horizon according to Hughes they were

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flashing red and green lights at around

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207 am Colby police Sergeant Paul Carter

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unaware of Culkin's report spotted an

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object matching the description given by

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Culkin moving from Northeast to

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Southwest over Colby he went after it

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and followed it for two miles until it

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stopped along the way he radioed fellow

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Officer Dennis Brown and tried to get a

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picture of the object with a Polaroid

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camera when the object stopped it was

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over a plowed field according to Hughes

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Carter stall a huge disc shaped object

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30 to 35 feet long hovering 100 yards

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away Carter is quoted as saying all the

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time it was flashing red and green it

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resembled a cereal bowl turned upside

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down and it was about 35 feet wide and

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18 to 20 feet tall as he watched the

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object began to Glow with a light so

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bright he couldn't look at it as it got

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brighter something white began to drip

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from it but Carter didn't see anything

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land on the ground after about eight

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minutes around 2 15 am the object made a

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whooshing sound and went straight up it

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was out of sight within three seconds

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and brown arrived just in time to see it

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take off the object then came back and

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brown could clearly see what Carter had

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described he had an instamatic camera

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with him and took some pictures the

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object then took off again and headed

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Southeast according to Hughes Carter and

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Kansas 20 miles away and told them there

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was a UFO headed towards them in less

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than a minute Oakley officer Earl Wood

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Jr radioed back saying he had seen an

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object with what appeared to be six

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lights the three in the rear being white

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and the three in the front being either

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Amber or red and green wood could see it

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was a circular object and reported that

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something dripped from it that

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disintegrated before it hit the ground

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after hovering for five minutes at 2 27

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am it moved off towards the north until

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it was out of sight as this was

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happening the Kobe police received

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reports from local citizens and Caulkins

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called again to report that he was

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seeing two or three objects making weird

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noises Carter and brown headed towards

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gem to check it out and saw what seemed

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to be the same UFO with the same

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multi-colored lights it moved off nine

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miles to the Northeast and Carter and

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brown followed it until it stopped and

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hovered Again by now they were far out

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of their jurisdiction and stopped the

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pursuit they observed it from a distance

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for several hours and can also solve

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between four and eight objects zipping

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through the night sky Carter and brown

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talked to a Missouri couple who reported

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that they encountered a bright white

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light that swept over them as they were

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driving on I-70 they thought it might

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have been a plane attempting an

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emergency landing but a later check

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revealed no evidence of a landing in the

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area according to Hughes Carter spoke to

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the investigators and reported that the

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pictures taken by Brown turned out blank

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and the Polaroid he took showed only

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something that looked like a car

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headlight Carter spoke freely to the

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press and read a letter in the Selena

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Journal that was printed in the

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September 12 1972 issue in it he wrote I

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am not trying to say that there are

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beings and flying saucers up there I'm

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trying to point out that until a person

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is seen something like this he cannot

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possibly explain it he described himself

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as being a complete non-believer prior

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to his sighting Charles Lear is the

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author of The Flying Saucer

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