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They have appeared in our heavens for as long as man had the mind to look up.

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Something frightened me and I remember running back into the house and saying,

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my God, this is for real, this is not a dream.

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They reflect the light of our knowledge and the dark about deepest fears.

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They put this lens over my head.

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I felt a pain and it was like there was a needle.

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We don't know what they are, nor what they want from us.

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We can only say they're here.

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Beyond what is known as an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms,

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a land that knows no limits of time or space.

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From the dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe,

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journey to a universe of the unexplained, the unforeseen, and the unbelievable,

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a place beyond reality where no question will go unanswered,

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a place where myth and legend are all superstition of science.

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Travelling to a world of secrets and mysteries.

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Time for our journey to begin.

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Some call them UFOs.

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Millet disbelieve.

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Who are you?

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Why are you here?

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They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun,

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and extended to the limits of the four supports of the heavens.

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3,400 years ago, that description of strange lights in the sky

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was recorded by Tuckmost III, an Egyptian pharaoh.

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Another early UFO sighting is described in the Bible.

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Here, the prophet Ezekiel saw an object of cleaning metal with brightness around it.

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The prophet's sense of wonder and fear has survived into our modern era.

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For example, this woman is witnessing a phenomenon,

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a close encounter of the first kind,

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the sighting of an unidentified flying object or UFO.

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According to a recent poll taken in the United States,

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half of its population believe that the universe is inhabited by other intelligent life.

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The rest of the world cannot be far behind.

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Even more surprising, over 20 million Americans believe they've seen a UFO.

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20 million people, just in the United States.

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When we think about UFOs, we remember the images presented in fiction.

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The reality, however, is somewhat different.

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One of the first modern UFO sightings occurred in the late 1890s.

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Airships were spotted hovering all over the United States, moving through the skies.

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Disadjables had not yet been invented,

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and contemporary newspaper accounts of the time referred to mystic flying lights.

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What were they? Some say something out of this world.

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It's interesting to note that in 1896 and 1897, in this country, in the United States,

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when we had an airship flap, when there were no lighter-than-air craft,

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that people also misidentified Venus regularly as airships.

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In the 1930s, in magazines like these, the strange lights first took on an otherworldly identity.

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Until that time, the lights in the sky had never been associated without a space,

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and after 1947, they would rarely be associated with anything else.

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It was on the afternoon of June 27, 1947, that Kenneth Arnold, a pilot flying in upstate Washington,

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reported seeing a group of objects that flew in his words, like sources skipping over the water.

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The age of the flying saucer had arrived, and the world would never be the same.

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The five-minute flight is restricted to a three-foot altitude, since Moller is not a licensed pilot,

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and flying saucers aren't recognized aircraft.

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A two-seater ready soon may be the car or chopper of the future.

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Help wanted a crew of little green men.

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To 1950s, witnessed a sharp increase in the number of sightings all around the world,

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and with it, more and more evidence that something unusual was happening in our skies.

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Even the United States government took notice, beginning an official Air Force investigation called Project Blue Book.

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Their files soon overflowed with more than 12,000 sightings.

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Documents have recently been released that purport to show that the US government 40 years ago

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captured a crash saucer in the bodies of four aliens and has managed to keep that secret for 40 years.

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There's just too much documentation there showing attempts by scientists to try to explain this phenomenon,

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to just dismiss it as a figment of people's imagination.

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If President Nixon only knew who was able to keep the crash saucer secret for 40 years,

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he surely would have brought that person in to keep Watergate under cover.

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There is something that flies in our atmosphere that scientists for 40 years have tried to explain and still cannot explain.

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I hope that those who are responsible for producing those counterfeits and trying to con the news media and the American public are promptly brought to justice.

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But if UFOs are only hoaxes, they are widespread and have stayed on the front pages for decades.

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No one, confirmed skeptic or fervent believer, has been able to say for certain just what they are, and they aren't going away.

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Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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This may hold true for the UFO phenomena as well.

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The objects that one sees may be completely beyond one's understanding.

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This is a close encounter of the second kind.

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Something is descending through the heavens into this woman's life.

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She has made contact. This is a close encounter of the third kind.

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Now we're about to see a close encounter of the fourth kind.

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Physical contact with what?

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This contact will change this woman's life forever, as it has changed the lives of hundreds of other people around the world.

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This woman is coming face to face with something beyond her imagination.

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Her mind is no longer her own.

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She's about to undergo a terrifying odyssey, unprecedented in human experience.

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There's something happening around the world. Something strange.

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Something frightened me, and I remember running back into the house and saying,

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my God, this is for real, this is not a dream.

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And it came towards the car that I was in very fast through the sky.

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Two people came in, two aliens came inside the bedroom, and I was taken in aboard a ship.

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When I was brought into the craft, I was brought into a room that was pitch black.

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They put this lens over my head, and it was as though they were shooting light, colored lights into my head.

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These experiences are close encounters of the fourth kind.

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Physical contact with the unknown.

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Contact that has been documented by a man named Bud Hopkins.

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Like many people who study UFOs, Hopkins leads two lives.

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The first as an internationally recognized sculptor and artist.

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And secondly, as a researcher and guide, taking people on an occasionally terrifying journey through their suppressed memories.

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Memories of their bizarre experiences.

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If this is true, it's the biggest story of all time.

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It seems to be involved with an ongoing genetic experiment,

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which involves taking sperm and ovisamples, following people across generations in the same family,

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and the apparent artificial insemination of women and then a removal of a fetus later.

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It is so intrinsically unbelievable.

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It sounds so wild, and I'm the first to admit that, yet it is going on.

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Determined a bit about what these people look like?

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Just this big, big, intense eyes.

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Big, big, intense eyes?

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What color are the eyes?

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Very dark.

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Shiny, very shiny.

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The patterns that I'm getting from these totally credible people are incredibly similar, these patterns,

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and the physical details are so similar.

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The weight of evidence depends upon the repetition of all these details in case after case after case,

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and the weight of evidence here is enormous.

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The one I saw most clearly was about four to four and a half feet tall, I think.

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Sitting down, it had big almond-shaped eyes and a long, thin face, a little thin mouth and nose.

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A larger head and almond-shaped eyes.

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Large heads, large eyes, dark eyes.

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I felt a pain in the navel area, and it was like there was a needle put into my stomach.

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Things were inserted in my nose and things down to my stomach.

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I said, you have no right. They said, we do have a right.

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I have no reason to make up such a story if I want to be known for something.

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This is the last thing that I would pick.

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I'm not sure what their reason is for being here, but they're here.

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They're around us all the time.

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If they're here, reports indicate that they are conducting some sort of experiment of mysterious dimension.

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Many witnesses describe undergoing strange tests on board these crafts.

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Tests involving examination tables, bright lights, strange sounds, probes and needles.

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Most abductees describe a sophisticated kind of surgery that leaves indelible scars, physically and mentally.

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They also recall moments of excruciating pain.

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When these strange tests have ended, the abductees will return to their homes with no conscious memory of their ordeal.

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But dreams persist, shadow images of stolen time.

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What these people are describing is fantastic.

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How can it be that diverse people scattered around the world describe seeing the same thing?

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There may be one explanation.

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There are a couple of reasons that people perhaps report similar things.

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One obvious one is that they have either heard or read or had some exposure to prior information somewhere along the line

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that they may not recall consciously getting early on.

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And the second thing is that many of these experiences in perception or misperception are based on common symbolic needs that people have

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and express themselves in similar ways.

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I think that people may have a need to believe in UFOs because we tend to look for solutions out there

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for a guru to lead us to the promised land that is not from our own immediate area,

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that in some mysterious way the answer to our problems is going to come from out there someplace, not from our own backyard.

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To this woman and many others, there's no question that UFOs exist.

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Still, many are not convinced.

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If UFOs have been cited with such frequency, it's surprising the physical evidence is so inconclusive.

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It could be said that UFO witnesses are the worst group of photographers ever to hold a camera.

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But some say there is evidence that not only proved their existence, but explains precisely what they are.

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This film has been analyzed by experts.

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They cannot imagine how it could be faked. They may be right.

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This might be evidence that UFOs are a physical phenomenon.

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We must take a closer look.

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Is this proof that these beings and their ships exist?

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Or is it just a sophisticated hoax?

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This is the proof that UFOs exist.

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Edward Meyer is a Swiss caretaker with a sixth grade education and a fantastic story.

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He claims to have had numerous close encounters with creatures from another star system.

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And what is more, he claims to have the evidence to back these stories up.

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These pictures have been analyzed by experts. They have been unable to prove any fraud.

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Meyer claims that in January of 1975, he was contacted telepathically and guided to come into an area of the forest that was outside his village.

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And there he met with entities from a star cluster called the Pleiades, which is about 500 light years from Earth.

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And since that time, Meyer claims that he's met over 100 times under similar circumstances with the Pleiadians as he calls them.

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During the course of several years, Meyer took hundreds of clear-colored daylight photographs and about eight, I believe, eight millimeter film segments.

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If Meyer has experienced what he claims, it's a revelation.

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And if he has not, then his case serves as a warning to those who readily believe what the naked eye tells them.

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For those lights in the sky may have many explanations, all one needs is an open mind.

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We must consider every point of view. For example, Philip Klaas, a self-proclaimed skeptic who has made a career out of exploding illusions and exposing fraud.

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In the 21 years that I have been investigating UFO cases, including some of the most famous, seemingly most mysterious UFO cases, I have found a few hoaxes.

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In my opinion, Gully Meyer is a not very clever hoaxer, and in fact, one of his movies that I have seen certainly involves using a small model suspended from a string, probably from a bamboo fishing pole.

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First of all, the UFO community does not, as a rule, subscribe to claims of contact, especially repeated contact. And Meyer claims to have had over a hundred contacts.

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I would say that anyone who believes Gully Meyer's story probably also believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

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To my knowledge, in 40 years there is not a single credible photograph of a craft-like UFO anywhere.

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UFOs may not be from outer space. There are other, even stranger, points of departure. We must journey to those places now.

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Our first feeling, upon looking into the unknown, is usually fear. But fear could be replaced with wonder, for those bright lights might be a signpost, pointy as to something wonderful.

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If one really thinks hard about this most curious phenomenon, many possible explanations can be found. But perhaps the answer can never be understood until our minds are ready.

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Between fantasy and reality, there may be a middle ground.

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If these things are actually taking place, I think that the FBI, the Defense Department, the whole U.S. government should be mobilized.

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But it never occurred, apparently, to some of these authors to report it to the federal authorities. They just like to go out collecting these tales, writing books, and publishing.

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There's nothing I can say that will convince anybody in so many words. It's like trying to convince someone who's never heard of it that we actually walked on the moon.

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To me, this is about the life of the soul. It has become the most spiritually enriching and psychologically enlightening experience I can imagine having.

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Whatever its origin, it is frightening, overwhelming, and in the end extraordinary and beautiful.

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A noted astronomer once said that the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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We need to open our minds to ideas like just outside our full comprehension.

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Well, in doing so, we may understand this strange universe a bit more fully.

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They're here.

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Thank you.