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James W Mosley considers a UFO crash

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story in 1955 by Charles Lear James W

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Mosley was part of the UFO scene from

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the days of the first private

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investigators in the early 1950s up

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until his death in 2012. he ran the

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longest running saucer group The saucer

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and unexplained celestial events

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research Society or saucers he and the

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group picked the acronym before they

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figured out what it could stand for and

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steadily published a newsletter known

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for most of its existence as saucer

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smear Mosley has been called the court

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jester of equality due to his habit of

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poking fun at those who took themselves

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in the subject too seriously and was

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involved in some hoses slash pranks with

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his friend gray Barker that became

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Infamous he wrote a book with Carl flock

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about his exploits and saucerdom that

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was published in 2002 titled shockingly

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close to the truth Confessions of a

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grave-robbing ufologist in spite of his

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less than serious nature he did do some

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serious investigation in his early days

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and in one instance looked into a saucer

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crash story and wrote an article about

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it that was published in the January

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1955 issue of gray Barker's magazine the

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saucerium while Mosley came across the

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story only a few years after the news

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came out that the Army had recovered a

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disc at Roswell that story went away

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after it was announced to the press that

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it was a weather balloon and only came

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to the attention of ufologists in the

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late 1970s after Stanton Friedman

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resurrected it the crash toy that caught

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everyone's attention back in the 1950s

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was the alleged crash in Aztec New

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Mexico as recounted in the 1950 book by

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Frank Scully behind the flying saucers

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while that story was discredited in the

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article by J.P Khan the flying saucers

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and the Mysterious little men in the

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September 1952 issue of true magazine he

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got rumors circulating that the U.S

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government had saucers and alien bodies

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in its possession that it wasn't telling

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the public about and this story is

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possibly a product of that the headline

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of Mosley's article reads who's lying

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the right field story according to

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mostly he received a letter in April

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1954 in which the writer offered the

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opinion that the U.S Air Force was

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holding a saucer or parts thereof at

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bright Patterson field according to the

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writer his opinion was based mainly on

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the testimony of a woman who said she

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was a whack at right field in the fall

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of 1952 during a red and white alert

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which is issued when a base is under

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threat of aerial attack which in this

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instance lasted two weeks according to

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the writer the woman learned that a

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saucer had been brought to write and she

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saw a photo of it the alert was out of

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fear that the captured saucer had sent a

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transmission and that there would be an

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attack the writer wasn't sure but

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thought the saucer might have been

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recovered near Columbus Ohio Mosley

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wrote that he'd been making an intensive

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investigation of saucers for almost a

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year when he got the letter and had come

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across rumors some Stranger Than This

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One concerning captured saucers with

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little men from outer space found in

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them other rumors that Mosley includes

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are that an anthropology Professor from

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Colombia went to examine the bodies that

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a man in Florida talked to a man who

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knew of a man who drove an army truck

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carrying a saucer that had crashed

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inside a nearby military base and that a

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doctor had examined little men in a New

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Mosley the rumors were uncheckable or

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without evidence or were outright hoaxes

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he attributed such tales as coming from

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scully's book and tells the reader that

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after the true magazine article as of

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April that year he was of the opinion

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that the US government had no material

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although the letter about the woman at

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right field didn't impress him much he

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visited the letter writer whom he refers

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to as Mr X had his house and heard a

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tape of the woman referred to as Miss y

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telling her story according to Mosley

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her sincerity impressed him and he

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decided that here at last was something

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concrete concerning captured saucers

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Mosley wrote that he managed to locate

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three or four other facts about her and

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that that story would make an

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interesting article in itself he

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interviewed her and got her story as

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opposed to Mr X's version of it and

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discovered she did not work at

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Wright-Patterson but at another base in

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the region she was not a whack but was a

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civilian signal Corps employee working

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for the Army and the FBI and worked the

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night shift at a teletype handling

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messages in a variety of classified

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material Mosley then presents Miss Wise

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story according to him she walked into a

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photo lab run by an army photographer

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referred to as Mr Z who was developing

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prints around a dozen of tour of a

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saucer Mosley then presents Miss Wise

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story according to him she walked into a

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photo lab run by an army photographer

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referred to as Mr Z who was developing

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Prince around a dozen of which were of a

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saucer Mr Z showed her the photos and

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said he'd taken them during a special

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assignment to photograph a saucer that

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had crashed to the north of the base a

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few days later messages came through her

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station saying that the saucer was being

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taken through the base under heavy guard

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on the way to Wright-Patterson she said

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that she and others in the

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communications building were informed of

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the red and white alert at this time two

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weeks later the alert was ended after

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those who examined the saucer determined

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there was no threat Miss Y and a handful

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of others were among the few who were

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aware of the threat let alone the reason

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Miss y described the saucer she said she

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saw in the photos as 30 feet in diameter

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she said it seemed to be made of metal

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that were riveted together there were no

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windows visible but she heard there were

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Windows made of one-way glass that

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couldn't be seen from the outside she

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said that government scientists had a

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hard time getting into the saucer and

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that it was made of in Mosley's words

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one or more allies not found on this

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planet there are no creatures found in

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this saucer but she'd heard there were

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five foot tall humanoids found in others

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Mosley wrote that he was convinced that

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Miss y was telling the truth about her

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job but he would need three or four

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similar accounts to believe that the U.S

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government had recovered saucers and

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little men he asked Miss Y for the name

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of Mr Z and she reluctantly gave it to

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him but said that he wouldn't talk

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because he was still on active duty

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according to Mosley after a couple of

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weeks he talked with Mr Z in the

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communications building and he denied

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knowledge of flying saucers mostly

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presence of a superior officer the men

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told him that Miss White did work at the

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teletype but didn't handle highly secret

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messages except when they were coded and

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decoding them was not part of her duties

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they said that Miss y was upstanding and

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efficient and they couldn't understand

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why she would lie about the saucer from

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here on Mosley grapples with a dilemma

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that has been with ufology from its

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earliest days and that is trying to

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figure out who's lying and who's not

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according to him Miss y told him that

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the government doesn't have all the

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answers and that they hold back

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information to avoid public panic in

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this light it made sense to him that Mr

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Z in a superior wouldn't confirm Miss

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what the government might know and

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considers the idea that many people

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might have pieces of the puzzle but only

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a few at the highest levels have the

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whole picture he wonders when the public

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will be told and makes a case for

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disclosure Mosley then does something

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rare among the saucerologists of his day

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and those to come and considers the

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possibility that Miss y could be lying

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he imagined that she didn't think that

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Mr X would tell someone like him who

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would actually go out to the base and

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investigate and that her tall tale to Mr

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ax had now gotten out of hand according

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to Mosley Mr Z and his Superior were not

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pleased with her account and he felt

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that she might be reprimanded according

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to Mosley if Miss y was lying or not

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lying Army officials would be compelled

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to deny her story either way he ends

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with this who's lying I wish I knew

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Charles Lear is the author of The Flying

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Saucer investigators available at

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