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question to ask unquote now is people

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who have studied the mystery airship

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question are aware some of these stories

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are deeply suspect and sometimes they

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involve people who don't even exist they

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were just made up by somebody probably

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somebody in this paper office but I

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decided to investigate to find out if I

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could even establish that a JR lagoon a

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charlie lagoon and a rabbi a levee even

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existed and I ended up engaging in

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correspondence with the archivist in the

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Beaumont Public Library System and he

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provided me with with proof that the

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levee that the lagoons existed there

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mentioned in official records from the

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period including an indication that jr.

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lagoon died sometime between 1897 and

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the turn of the century and his wife is

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listed in the night his widow is

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identified in the 1900 Beaumont city

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directory now there's also no question

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that a rabbi a levee existed and he

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served in Beaumont in 1897 Beaumont

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historian WT block has written about the

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city's small but thriving Jewish

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community dating back to 1875 in

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September 1895 temple and manual was

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established and according to block its

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members immediately engaged dr. Aaron

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Levie as the city's first resident rabbi

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unquote block notes that during a

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six-year stand in Beaumont quoting rabbi

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levy as the voice of the congregation

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plunged headlong into community affairs

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he won much acclaim now I found

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references to rabbi levy in the

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Galveston papers of the period for

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example this sentence rabbi levy has won

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many friends during a stay in Beaumont

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unquote in short levy does not look much

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like a hoaxer or a prankster or teller

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of tall tales and this suggests that not

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every account of an alleged encounter

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with human-like airship crew was

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necessarily fiction now there's another

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related story that I also investigated

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involving it appears in the press the

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pier

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involves a man named HC LaGrone of

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Deadwood Texas now there's no question

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that HC lagrone existed his father Adam

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legrande founded the tiny town that in

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1882 was named Deadwood and the younger

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lagrone established a mill around which

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the settlement grew in eighteen eighty

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five he was the town's first postmaster

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on the evening of April twenty-eighth

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1897 he allegedly had this experience

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reported in the Houston post two days

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later he heard a disturbance among his

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horses and he went out to check on the

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cause and he saw this flying the strange

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flying object approaching from the

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southwest and it landed and this is what

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this is what he wrote I went directly to

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the place of landing and on arrival

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found the ship its crew was composed of

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five min three of whom entertain me

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while the other two took rubber bags and

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went for a supply of water at the well

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they informed me that this was one of

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five ships that have been traveling the

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country and that this individual ship

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was the same one as recently landed near

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Beaumont after having traveled pretty

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well around the Northwest they stated

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that the ships were put up in an

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interior town in Illinois they were

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rather reticent about giving out

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information since they had not yet

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secured everything by patent but stated

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they would soon be secure in this now

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there were no airship ologist in 1897 to

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interview these witnesses firsthand

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investigate the cases but to the extent

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that we can read the evidence from

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limitative suggestive evidence it's

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surely reasonable to infer that these

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were credible informants telling

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incredible stories in other words pretty

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much like many many millions of people

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over the centuries it appears to be

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possible to encounter things that don't

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exist in any conventional understanding

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of the verb I call these things

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experience anomalies or the secondary

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phenomenon is opposed to the core

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phenomenon

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they typically have a parasitic or even

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parody like relationship to a core

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anomalous event the anomalous event

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takes place in the world and can be

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empirically demonstrated or potentially

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demonstrated it's experiential correlate

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borrows its imagery from the anomalous

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event but is otherwise unrelated to it

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experience anomalies are open-ended

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almost anything can be seen though

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cultural traditions and expectations

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role in shaping their particular content

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in experienced individuals perceive

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supernatural or at least unlikely

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entities like fairies murr beings angels

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the Virgin Mary gods monsters space

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people and phantom airship crews these

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are not hallucinations as hallucinations

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are ordinarily understood these

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encounters which sometimes occur

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collectively are truly profoundly

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mysterious and their cause is unknown

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yet to all available evidence sincere

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witnesses and good viewing conditions

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that assure us of the anomalous pneus of

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the observation don't translate into

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anything that transcends memory in

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testimony we barely have a vocabulary to

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talk about these things the closest we

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get to it is visionary experience and

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visionary experiences used as if it's an

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explanation when in fact it's only a

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description the British ufologist Ginny

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Randall's calls this the oz factor

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defining it as the sensation sometimes

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reported by UFO witnesses of quote being

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transported temporarily from our world

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into another were where reality is but

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slightly different unquote now protein

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in nature experience anomalies are

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variable changing over time and

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instance of that I found in a 19-7

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Tennessee newspaper and involved as

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falsely took place in June

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19 7 involves a hunter named Walter

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Stevenson Stevenson was resting from

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haunt out in a rural area sitting on a

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log and he noticed something in the in

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the eastern sky and first he thought it

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was a was a kite it was approaching him

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never in his life before seen unquote

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and beautiful eerie music was emanating

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from this object it landed and strange

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the car was closely curtain with a

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substance that fairly glistened unquote

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lady he called it and she asked him in

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German if he had prayed and the press

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account goes on quoting instantly all

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were aboard the airship rose and was

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an impression upon him that he can never

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forget and while he knows that it was

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some human invention it looked and the

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than of mortals unquote now if

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otherwise fantastic sightings this one

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conjures up divine entities angels and

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even by one reading the Blessed Virgin

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Mary secret airship pilots and looking

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forward to UFOs in the modern sense

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notions of extraordinary encounters on

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the other hand in some instances may

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also have as their inspiration the

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source of real this world encounters

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whose contents are sufficiently exotic

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and enigmatic estuve border on the

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ball lightning is poorly understood but

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sociologist james mclennan has noted

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that quoting and effort and excuse me an

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effect that occurred during an

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electrical storm would be termed ball

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lightning other cases with the exact

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unquote now in such context balls of

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light may act purposefully as if endowed

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with intelligence and able to perform

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fantastic feats such as the opening of

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and passing through a locked window

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informants now where do we go from here

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I think what's required is a radically

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objective approach that respects the

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testimony that deserves respect in other

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words some people who are saying

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insincere even when it speaks of

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incredible things this testimony may or