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ER reports a harrowing UFO encounter by

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Charles Lear in 1973 the claims of

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Charles Hixson and Calvin Parker that

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they'd been abducted by elephant-skinned

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robot-like creatures in Pascagoula

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Mississippi open researchers up to what

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have become known as high strangeness

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reports the term comes from JL and

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heineck's efforts at creating a system

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of strangeness ratings in chapter 4 of

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his 1975 book the UFO experience Hickson

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and Parker were taken seriously because

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they seemed genuinely traumatized by

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their experience while just the two of

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them were waiting in a room at the

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police station where they first reported

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their encounter they had just been

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interviewed and unbeknownst to them a

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tape recorder in the room was left

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running which captured the bewildered

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men talking to each other about their

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experience their story was reported in

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newspapers and UFO Publications

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worldwide after that abduction reports

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began to increasingly appear in the

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midst of this new openness to high

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strange reports in 1979 there was a

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story told by a trucker that was highly

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unique and highly strange and yet was

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still given serious consideration by the

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local newspapers and investigators who

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examined it the case was looked into by

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Mutual UFO Network investigator Fred

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Whiting who wrote about it in the March

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1980 mufon journal the story also

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appears on the front page of the

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December 1979 afro bulletin and on page

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12 of The Summer 1981 UFO update the UFO

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update version seems to come straight

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out of an article by Bill mckelway

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headlined truckers says Journey covered

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light years in the September 23 1979

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Richmond Virginia Times Dispatch

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according to michelway he spent three

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hours with Winchester Virginia resident

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Harry Joe Turner and listened to him as

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he chain smoked and told his story

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Turner a long-haul trucker said he was

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headed for Fredericksburg Virginia on

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the night of August 28th in his 1974

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Kenworth hauling ketchup and mustard

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this was his first time making this trip

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he said it was 10 52 when he looked at

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his watch during a stop at a Winchester

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gas station he said there was a little

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lightning and stuff but the strangest

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thing was there was hardly no cars on

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the road everything seemed just deserted

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when he was 17 miles into the trip

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heading south on us-17 after just

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crossing Paris Mountain he saw the

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lights of an oncoming truck the driver

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called over his CB radio a southbound

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18-wheeler where you headed to Buddy

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Turner said from that moment on it was

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like I walked through that door right

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there into another world it was then

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that the lights of his truck blinked off

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and on and his CB radio started

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screeching he turned off the radio but

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there was still in mckellway's words a

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grading sound a beam of probably thick

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white light settled over the truck and

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it seemed to turn her that he was no

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longer in control of the truck according

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to Turner it was like the whole truck

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was just floating like it was being

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vacuumed up by the thing Turner said a

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creature then opened the door and there

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was another one on the roof the creature

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grabbed his shoulder with a grip like

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steel that caused him great pain he

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grabbed his 32 caliber pistol and pushed

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it to his left until he felt it hit

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something he then fired eight hollow

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points he said I went blam blam blam

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eight times but the gun just seemed to

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move right through the thing at this

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point he started to fade out he said he

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shot it my God I can't kill the thing

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what the and that was it Turner said his

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next memory was waking up in the

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warehouse parking lot in Fredericksburg

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with no idea of how he got there he was

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in the passenger seat and the seat belt

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on the driver's side was buckled he

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looked at his watch and it read 11 17 PM

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but a warehouse clock showed the actual

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time of 3 AM there were two mileage

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indicators on the truck and both showed

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that it had only traveled 17 miles in

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spite of the low mileage indicated by

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the time Turner got back to Winchester

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114 gallons fuel had been consumed this

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was according to mikelway enough to make

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the 160 mile round trip more than three

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times according to mckellway Turner

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struggled for hours trying to recall

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landmarks and the words Alpha Centauri

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came to him this is a star 4.24 light

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years away from our solar system and

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according to Turner he'd never heard of

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it before Turner said he was taken to a

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city like Place 2.3 light years Beyond

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Alpha Centauri that looked like it had

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been to a holocaust he added that along

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the way they stopped at the moon and he

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looked at Neil Armstrong's Footprints

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Turner described as captors as looking

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like us he said they were dressed in

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what looked like surgical clothes and

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wore White Caps that when lifted up

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revealed numbers written on the

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creature's foreheads Turner said that

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the creatures showed him the destroyed

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city as part of their mission to help us

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here on Earth but they say things have

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gone pretty far here and that the end is

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coming soon Turner said the creatures

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spoke a language he believed was called

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Alpha lazulu that sounded like a tape

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recording played backwards he said they

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slowed down their speech to communicate

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with him according to Turner he was

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visited later by invisible aliens and

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managed to knock five of them down

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mckellway adds that Turner left the

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house on one occasion for no apparent

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reason and returned soaking wet and he

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was chased from his house by aliens on

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another occasion an unusual detail

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reported by mikelway even for high

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strangeness UFO case is that on

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September 3rd Turner LED as many as 10

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police officers on a high-speed car

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chase a Berryville police officer said

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he was going 110 miles per hour and

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couldn't hold a candle to Turner Turner

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claimed he was out for a drive when an

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alien appeared in the car and that he

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was spurred on by the creature according

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to mckellway the quoted officer was the

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one who'd managed to pull Turner over

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Turner was charged with two counts of

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reckless driving and two counts of

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failure to heated siren and flashing

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lights his hearing was scheduled for

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November 14th mckellway offers this

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speculation his defense undoubtedly will

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be the most unusual in the history of

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the Clark County General District Court

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Turner seemed to have been in a bad way

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during the interview he said he had

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thoughts of suicide ringing in his ears

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and crying spells he said he got warning

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messages from the creatures and that

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animals sometimes reacted strangely

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around him he said there had been crank

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calls but that his friends made efforts

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to help him and understand what he was

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going through McCoy describes Turner's

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life in the aftermath of his reported

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encounter this way so he sits at home

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mulling it over and over again smoking

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and taking pills to calm his nerves the

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April bulletin article by Iris Mack

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headlined trucker rig abducted ends this

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way the question is what trauma created

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his condition all stories regardless of

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the bizarre nature should be closely

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examined we always to the precipients

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and to ourselves it seems the ground was

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being laid for the serious consideration

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of the abduction reports that would

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become common in the 1980s Charles Lear

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is the author of The Flying Saucer