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so as Alejandra said this is my first

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ever presentation except you know

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talking about UFOs with some co-workers

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at work and whatnot

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so I want to thank all of you for coming

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to this today and to follow Travis

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Walton is a little bit of pressure so

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again thank you and we're in this

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together so yeah well we'll get this

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started um my talk today is basically

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broken into two halves in the first half

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basically a group or a handful of

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witnesses and experiencers that I've

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personally researched their stories and

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how we can sort of connect that to the

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study of ufology I've always been very

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fascinated by characters like Alejandro

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mentioned I am a playwright and I love

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to know how people tick how they react

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in certain situations and ultimately how

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they change and I found that very

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apparent in the UFO phenomenon as well

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what is the aftermath of seeing a UFO or

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possibly having an encounter or an

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abduction experience so we'll cover that

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in the first half and the second half I

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really want to get into what is ufology

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we ever since the modern UFO era we've

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attempted to study the phenomena yet

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very few determinations have ever really

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come forward so we'll look at just

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exactly how ufos can be intrinsically

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linked to every realm of study in the

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most human of ways and how at the very

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core of this phenomenon it is those

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this might talk today UFOs verse ufology

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the convergence of experience and study

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so a little bit about me

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I got involved with this subject at a

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very young age I am not only interested

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in it I believe I came face-to-face with

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it when I was 12 years old

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this happened in 1995 I was on a summer

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getaway with my parents

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I loved fishing and I was fishing at

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night off of a dock and I noticed three

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white lights in the reflection off the

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water so you know I thought maybe it was

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a plane so I look up and this is

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basically what I saw it was probably

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about 200 or so feet above me there was

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a hazy red light in the center and it

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just sort of coasted over the water

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heading towards this was the st.

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Lawrence River in central New York which

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also borders Canada and it was actually

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heading towards the Canadian border now

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I did scream for my father to come out

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to see this thing and there was a

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Yankees game on TV so there wasn't there

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was really nothing that was going to get

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him away from that but I did I did I got

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him to come out and he did see the tail

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end of this thing as it drifted off he

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told me it was a plane I knew I knew

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different you know even at the age of 12

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it was unlike anything I'd seen before

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and it terrified me it really did it

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that fear turned to an obsession and I

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began to take out book after book from

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the Monday Branch Library in Syracuse

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New York where I'm originally from and I

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started to interview people in my

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hometown about UFO reports and sightings

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that they had had and one of the first

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people I came across was a Vietnam

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veteran who had worked on a command and

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communications vessel for the Navy and

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he had a very dramatic UFO

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citing over the water with four other

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Navy officers they witnessed seven orbs

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orange in color floating over the

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Pacific Ocean in a boomerang formation

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now this guy had never spoken about this

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before so I was very honored that I was

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the first that he was bringing it up to

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but I was also 13 at the time

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so what was I going to do with this

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information well bring it to the only

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person an institution that I can think

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of and that was Miss McCrone my 7th

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grade English teacher and John T Roberts

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middle school which was my UFO Reporting

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Center apparently we had to write a

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report on something mysterious that we

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found of interest so naturally at this

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time it was only UFOs for me eventually

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my writing on the topic grew and I

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started to branch out I started

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interviewing people from not just my

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neighborhood but all over the world this

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would eventually lead to me writing for

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open minds magazine and you know various

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other magazines as well alternative

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magazines and it really opened a lot of

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doors for me and when I'd interview

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these people there was there was

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something that really struck me I

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noticed that when I'd interview them I'd

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be scribbling little notes in the

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margins

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I would I would put down the size of the

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craft I would put down what time of day

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it was how far up it was but what really

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captured my my passion was hearing how

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it affected them in the moment and after

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the event and this eventually culminated

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into a project for me over two years in

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fact

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and I interviewed hundreds of

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individuals from all over the world and

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I really focused on the aftermath of the

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experience

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and how the event changed them this

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culminated into my first book somewhere

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in the skies a human approach to an

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alien phenomenon so today I want to

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introduce you to a few of these

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individuals we will see videos from them

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directly as well and hear their stories

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and how their stories ultimately became

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my ethology a little about Scott he is a

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retired radio man first-class for the

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Coast Guard he is also a retired postal

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service worker and a former MUFON field

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investigator so this guy had experience

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in terms of analyzing things and making

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sense of them but this event changed all

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that it was the summer of 1974 in

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Cuyahoga Falls Ohio Scott was at a

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drive-in movie theater with a friend of

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his and just before the movie started

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Scott notices something above the movie

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screen he asks his friend if he sees it

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too and he says quote yeah what the hell

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is that and this is what they saw the

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object was pitch black no distinguishing

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features it was boomerang shaped and it

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was massive Scott told me that from

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quote from tip to tip it covered the

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entire parking lot of the drivin it

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coasted over the parking lot and all the

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lights in the venue went dead people

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tried starting their cars but nobody's

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engines would turn over this is when

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Scott's homemade that quote I could feel

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go figure the air was very heavy and I

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could see and actually feel it

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shimmering a few things really stuck out

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to Scott at this point everyone just

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stared at the thing and they didn't

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react almost like they were in some sort

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of trance like state the object

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disappears into a field and the lights

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all turned back on in the venue but the

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weirdest part of this entire event is

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that the movie starts people get in

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their cars and they start to watch like

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nothing had just happened even Scott he

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brings his friend home with no

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recollection of what had just happened

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it wasn't until many years later that he

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had a trigger event which we will hear

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about in just a moment that brought all

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of this to the surface with this is

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Tracy Letts key she is a MUFON was a

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MUFON starting field investigator she

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was formerly employed by such agencies

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as the Department of Defense and

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Homeland Security she was also a

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certified private investigator

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and she like I said she was also the

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star team manager for Rapid Response

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cases with MUFON where they were sent

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out as an event was happening or had

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just occurred so on April 20th 2010 she

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was assigned to a case in Tennessee

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where multiple witnesses had reported

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seeing clusters of red and white lights

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in the sky over their homes most of the

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activity however came from a primary

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witness who would eventually contact

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chase in a panic he told her he'd seen a

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triangular formation of lights the night

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prior and the next morning helicopters

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were circling his land appearing to be

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searching for something chasing her star

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team partner packed their bags and they

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went to investigate there were brief

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introductions with the primary witness

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and it was dark at this point and

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immediately chase noticed lights over a

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cornfield

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distance the witness brought her and her

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partner out to the field to get a better

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look they set up their equipment and

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noticed that the triangular formation

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the witness had seen had returned it was

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actually heading right towards them she

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noticed a red light in the center and

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noted that it was indeed a solid craft

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they tried to take photos and video but

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all of their equipment had gone dead

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convenient again the craft flew overhead

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and disappeared out of sight immediately

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chase felt some sort of imposing threat

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like they were being watched with just a

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glance all three of the witnesses

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started to leave the field they picked

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up pace and then all of a sudden chase

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slams into the back of the primary

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witness he just yells what the bleep is

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that he clearly didn't say bleep but we

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will keep this PG and this is what they

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saw the being was about three feet tall

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large head and black eyes it's staring

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right at them at this point this only

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happened for a moment and immediately

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they dart for their truck get in and

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speed out of the cornfield as fast as

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they can they get back to the witness's

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home and assure one another that they'd

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all just seen this being in the

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so this this event this happened in real

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time and chase was the first to admit to

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me that you don't get all of these

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things in one go you have a UFO sighting

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you have a close encounter with a

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triangular craft and then you see a

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freaking being in the middle of a

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cornfield so this is where she believed

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that this event seemed somehow planned

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what that means she's still trying to

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figure out and she struggles with that

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again she felt this immediate threat

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when they were in the cornfield almost