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attacked by bird-like creatures from a

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UFO by Charles Lear

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1984 was a serious year in ufology

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researchers were taking advantage of a

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more efficient and accessible process

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for putting in foia requests and finding

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documents showing that agencies such as

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the FBI and CIA did have some

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involvement with UFOs despite statements

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to the contrary the Hudson Valley wave

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was in full swing and the British UFO

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research Association got a hold of the

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tape recording made by Colonel Charles

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Holt on one of the nights when UFOs were

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seen in rendlesham forest with so much

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evidence that there was something to the

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mystery an official interest in it

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coming to light the reporting on the UFO

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subject took a turn away from ridicule

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and the Press started being serious

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about UFOs as well in the midst of this

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there was a case that many researchers

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might find worthy of ridicule and it's

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probable that researchers of the day did

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as well because it came and went and

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remains obscure but the reporting on it

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was straightforward and restrained there

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was an incident in Sauk Center Minnesota

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reported in at least two papers the

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October 10 1984 Saint Paul Minnesota

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Pioneer Press and the December 4th 1984

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examiner the article by Catherine lamper

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in the Press is headlined Tucker's duck

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a convoy of aliens and the article by

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Patrick Cotter in the examiner's

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headlined UFO alien Birds attack truck

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lamper's article is the more

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comprehensive of the two the two

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principles of the case are Robert Blair

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as professional truck drivers for the

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Davis Transport company in Yakima

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Washington according to lanfir Dorothy

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Sills the office manager at truckers Inn

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in Salk Center said the Blairs came into

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the station all upset and excited and

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said they weren't going any further

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because the UFO was shooting at them

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this was after they'd parked the tanker

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truck full of vegetable fat they were

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driving according to them they were

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attacked near Billings Montana by in

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lamper's words bird-like creatures from

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a spaceship they said the creatures were

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about eight inches tall with human legs

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and v-shaped heads and that they had

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followed them and were now surrounding

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their truck the Blairs asked to use the

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telephone sill said it was strange we

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couldn't see what they were seeing let's

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put it that way Sauk Center Police Chief

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George tree Waller said he got a call

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from the general manager of Davis

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Transport Inc Tim Ketchum the company

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was based in Yakima Washington and

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according to Ketchum the players had

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been driving for the company for a

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couple of months Trio wheeler said that

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Ketchum asked him to check on a pair of

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drivers at the Getty station but

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wouldn't say why over the phone

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according to Trier Weller the Blairs

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told him that a bubble-shaped spaceship

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crashed down on the road next to them

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and a peanut-shaped cylinder came out

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the creatures came out of the cylinder

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and followed them from Billings to Salk

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Center as metal filings were shot at the

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truck they said there were filings

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embedded in the windshield but true

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Willard didn't see any when he checked

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though he did see some inside the truck

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he thought there might have been some

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work done on the truck according to

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lamper trierwiller returned with State

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Patrol Sergeant Fred court and had him

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inspect the truck as well the Blairs

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said there were creatures on top of the

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telephone Pole's standing guard but the

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officers couldn't see them trierwiller

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said I know there are certain things

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that you can't see that you're supposed

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to believe like the Lord but when

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someone starts telling me there are bird

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creatures on top of the lampposts at the

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Getty station and I can't see them in my

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mind it's not there according to Sills

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the Blairs were quiet clean and dressed

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neatly she said that at one point Robert

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Blair pointed at a telephone pole and

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shouted here comes another one now and

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docked Sills said they seemed to believe

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what they were saying according to

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lamper the Blair stayed overnight at a

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motel and told a reporter there that

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writing had appeared on Jackie Blair's

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leg and that there were metal shape

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Savings in the room Robert cribble

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founder of the National UFO Reporting

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Center said the blares had filed a

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report with his organization he said

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there was a report of a large bright

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object in the sky over South Dakota but

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no reports of peanut-shaped cylinders

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according to lamper the driver was flown

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in from Yakima by Davis transport and

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the Blairs left with him in the truck

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according to Cotter in the examiner the

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driver was sent in to take control of

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the truck and the Blairs flew back to

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Washington Ketchum is quoted by Lampard

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describing the Blairs as plain old

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everyday folks he added they're not

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crazies

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Charles Lear is the author of The Flying

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