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Hayden Hughes and the international UFO

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Bureau by Charles Lear when it comes to

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having an interest in the subject of

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UFOs there are those who enjoy it

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casually those who study it more deeply

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and those who become active as

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investigator researchers as for the

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latter type some such as Max B Miller

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start young Miller was the president of

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the Junior flying saucer League at age

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15 in 1952 and in 1953 was the editor of

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saucers a magazine he and his group

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flying saucers International put out

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until 1960. in 1953 Miller came up with

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the idea to organize a convention an FSI

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organized what was billed as the world's

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first flying saucer convention it was

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held at the Hollywood Hotel from August

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16th through 18 1953 and was moderated

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by FSI member Jerome King Criswell whom

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some readers may know as the narrator

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for Edward's Masterpiece Plan 9 from

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Outer Space another precocious ufologist

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a leading Hughes started the

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international UFO Bureau in Oklahoma

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City Oklahoma at the age of 13 in 1957.

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Jews may not be as well known as Miller

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as the some readers but he and his group

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were involved in some cases it should be

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Hughes passed away in Oklahoma City on

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2017. there's an article about him by

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David Ferris headlined remembering a man

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who investigated the unusual that was

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posted October 10 2019 on the Edmond

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life and Leisure website according to

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Ferris Hayden Cooper Hughes was born in

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Cape girardell Missouri on December 29

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1943 his family moved to Oklahoma City

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which is where he founded the

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international UFO Bureau in 1957.

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hughes's organization attracted members

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throughout the US and internationally

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and included members of the scientific

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Community he gained friends among the

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police in the media who kept him

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informed and referred witnesses to him

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an early incident of note is when used

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from a letter to Soviet Premier Nikita

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Khrushchev asking him for information

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about Russian UFOs Khrushchev wrote him

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back and told him of his country's

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interest in the subject soon after young

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Hughes was visited by two FBI agents

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he's got the opportunity to witness the

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UFO for himself in 1965 at around 9pm on

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August 1st local reporter Mike Buchanan

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called him to tell him that the Oklahoma

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Highway Patrol was responding to calls

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from over 20 people who had reported

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seeing a UFO Hughes drove to the highway

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patrol Communications Tower and watched

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the sky while calls continued to come in

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at around 11 30 A call came in that

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there was a UFO north of El Reno 20

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miles from the tower it was then that

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Hughes saw his first and only UFO in the

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company of six patrolmen as Hughes

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recalled I saw a multi-colored flashing

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light and it hovered above the Horizon

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to the west of Oklahoma City while we

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were observing it the highway patrol

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north of El Reno were also reporting on

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the same object in our Direction so we

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had a triangular fix the object flew

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over Tulsa and a 14 year old boy got a

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picture that Hughes sent in to Project

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Blue Book their analysis was that the

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photo was authentic and that the image

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was unexplained Lauren Coleman wrote a

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remembrance of Hughes investigator

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Hayden Hughes died in 2017 that he

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posted May 18 2018 on his website crypto

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Zoo news Hughes had an interest in

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Sasquatch and formed an offshoot of the

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international UFO Bureau called

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Sasquatch investigations of Mid-America

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in 1972 there was a rash of sightings of

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a sasquatch-like creature along the

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River Road and at the foot of marsoff

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Hill Louisiana Missouri the creature

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became known as Momo and according to

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Coleman Hughes was there Coleman

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described him as saying he was impressed

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with the witness's sincerity there was a

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lot of excitement in the media about the

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case and Coleman quotes Hughes

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describing the same I did close to 75

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television and newspaper interviews they

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flew me to Chicago to do some television

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there there were people around us

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shooting documentaries documents

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concerning a rather famous UFO sighting

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he was looked into are available at

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theblackvalt.com on page 15 of the PDF

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file there is a letter on International

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UFO Bureau stationery dated September 14

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1973 from Hughes to then governor of

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Georgia Jimmy Carter Hughes wrote to say

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that his organization was interested in

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sightings recently reported in the area

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and that they had field investigators

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there looking into them Hughes wrote

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that he'd had reports that Carter had

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observed the objects himself and asked

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if he'd be willing to supply details and

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fill out the enclosed citing form Carter

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responded quickly and The Returned form

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on page 4 of the PDF is dated September

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1973. according to the Forum Carter

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along with 10 members of the leery

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Georgia lions Club saw an object as

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bright as the moon in October of 1969

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that moved towards him and then stopped

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it moved partially away and then left he

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described it as bluish at first then

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reddish luminous not solid not long

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after this according to Ferris Hughes

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met with a man and a woman who called

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themselves Herff and Bonnie who were

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also known as Beau and Peep they had

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been speaking in the area around Dallas

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Texas and had stopped by his office in

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Oklahoma City on July 13 1974. they

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claimed to be aliens whose mission on

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Earth was to show us that death could be

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overcome and that they were in ferris's

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words the two witnesses from Revelations

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11 in the Bible who had lied dead for

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two and a half days before being

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resurrected according to Ferris Hughes

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arranged another meeting along with

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officer Dan Garcia interviewed the

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couple on tape for 90 minutes Hughes

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seemed to have had some sort of belief

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in the couple's claim times as he

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reported that after he walked them out

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to the street he turned around after

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taking two or three steps and saw the

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couple and seemed to have vanished he

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also said that herf had given him a

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thought code he could use whenever he

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wanted to talk to him he said that it

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worked on two occasions he used it and

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received a phone call from a member of

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the group that had gathered around the

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couple Hughes along with author Brad

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Steiger met with the couple again and in

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1976 they co-authored a book about them

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titled UFO missionaries extraordinary

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peep whose name was Bonnie Nettles died

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of cancer on June 19 1985 negating the

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claim that she would be resurrected perf

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whose name was Marshall Applewhite

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negated his claim on March 26 1997 when

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he took part in a mass suicide with 38

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of his Heaven's Gate group followers

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soon after Hughes and steiger's book was

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re-released under the title inside

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Heaven's Gate another case he is

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investigated was the alleged 1897 UFO

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crash in Aurora Texas to which the pilot

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was said to have died that was described

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Dallas Morning News according to the

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article enough of the pilots badly

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of this world the article ends with the

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news that a funeral for the pilot was

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scheduled for noon the next day Coleman

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includes a March 24 1973 UPI article

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describing hughes's efforts Hughes told

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the reporter that they had checked the

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graveyard using metal detectors and had

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spent three months Gathering facts his

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and his group were convinced there was

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an alien pilot buried in the graveyard

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and had initiated proceedings to have

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the body exhumed permission was denied

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to hughes's group and others who would

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seek it in the future an article in the

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report according to then 86 six-year-old

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as a joke and to bring interest to

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Aurora the railroad bypassed us and the

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town was dying Hughes was one of many

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unsung investigators who have been

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responsible for bringing UFO cases into

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the public forum while many may know the

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history the people who helped write it

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are often forgotten Charles Lear is the

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