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hi guys Ryan here and welcome to another

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episode of somewhere in the skies case

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files and today we're going to be

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talking about a case where an Army

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Reserve helicopter flying over Mansfield

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Ohio almost had a mid-air collision with

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a UFO enjoy an Army Reserve uh-1

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helicopter cut through the night sky on

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October 18th 1973 the four-man crew

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captain Lawrence Coyne Lieutenant Arrigo

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Jesse sergeant John Healy and Robert

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Jana SEC had traveled from Cleveland to

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Columbus earlier that evening for a

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regular standard medical examination

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following that they would board their

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vehicle at 10:30 p.m. and leave for

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their return journey back to Cleveland

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it was while they were over Mansfield

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that the night took a strange turn they

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were flying at 2,500 feet the mixture of

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woods hills and farmland below them it

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was Healy who first spotted the strange

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red light to their left it was at some

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distance but it looked too bright to be

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a standard aircraft light he would keep

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the sighting to himself but keep his eye

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on it several moments later Jana sac

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noticed the red light also when it began

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to close in on their craft he informed

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captain Coyne believing themselves to be

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on a collision course with this object

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coin thrusts the helicopter down

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descending around five hundred feet as

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he did so he would request information

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from the control tower in Mansfield a

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few seconds after initial radio contact

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with the tower their communications

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began to be interrupted the red object

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was still heading in their direction I

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looked out the window and observed this

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light moving at a very excessive speed

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in excess of 600 knots coming at the

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helicopter it looked like a lot done

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missile the men prepared for impact

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just as the object was about to crash

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into the helicopter it came to a

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complete stop directly in front and

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slightly above them the thing that makes

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this particular evening a unique

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experience was that it was almost a

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mid-air collision with an object that we

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were you know as a UFO we did not know

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was such until it was on top of the

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helicopter and that took just a matter

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of minutes the metallic cigar-shaped

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object hung in the air filling the

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entire windshield the crew would

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estimate the object to be around 60 feet

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in length and around 20 feet high all

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four men looked on in awe of this huge

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otherworldly craft suddenly a green

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light swung from underneath and hit the

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windshield of the helicopter

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according to coin the whole cabin turned

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green as the light illuminated

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everything in a bright green wash after

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a few seconds the light went out and the

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object moved up and to the west at great

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speed coin who had the helicopters

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height locked throughout the incident at

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about 1700 feet realized they were

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suddenly at a height of the 3,500 feet

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they had climbed almost 2,000 feet in a

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matter of seconds and never even knew it

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suddenly a bump nuts the helicopter and

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instinctively

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Coyne climbed slightly the vehicle now

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back in his control the crew still

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shaken continued on to Cleveland where

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they would make an official report of

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the incident however unlike many

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encounters involving aircraft pilots

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military or commercial coin would give

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his report to the media

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the object that I view at that

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particular evening had a high degree of

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technology it was composed of a

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structure and a design that we do not

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have the object can move through the

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atmosphere without causing any

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turbulence it can move at high speeds

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below 10,000 feet there are no vertical

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or horizontal stabilizers no landing

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gear no source of propulsion is

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reflected on the craft looks like it fly

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in space a local Cleveland reporter ran

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the story the following day shortly

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after coin appeared on the Dick Cavett

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show

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and told of the encounter to a national

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audience it's because of his actions

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that the account is largely seen as

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credible it also gives the military no

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chance to cover-up or ridicule the

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incident and even if they had tried

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several people below also witnessed the

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bizarre events unfold there were several

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witnesses on the ground who would

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corroborate the pilots accounts one of

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them was Jim Carver

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and his family who were driving to the

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rural home just outside of Mansfield

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along with Jim were his three siblings

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and his mother Emma it was shortly after

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11:00 p.m. when they noticed a strange

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red light in the sky above them it

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appeared to be getting closer Emma

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turned the car onto Route 430 as she did

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so both she and her four children could

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now see two lights above one was Fred

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the other green as each of them watched

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the lights in fascination they noticed

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the sound of an approaching helicopter

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mm up hold the car to the side of the

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road and she and her children stepped

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out to watch the events above they could

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see the huge cigar shaped object

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hovering over the helicopter suddenly

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they witnessed the bright green light

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shoot from the under

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and bathe not only the entire cockpit in

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fluorescent green but everything in

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sight as the crew reported after a few

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seconds the light went out and the

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object moved away casting a brief flash

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of bright white light as it did

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incidentally there was a spike in UFO

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sightings throughout the u.s. in October

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of 1973 in 1988 almost 15 years later a

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new witness came forward with more

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information

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Gian Elias from the southeast Mansfield

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area recalled laying in bed watching the

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11:00 p.m. news when the sound of an

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extremely low-flying helicopter made her

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stop watching the TV she was used to

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low-flying aircraft as their house was

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only six miles from the Mansfield

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Airport runway

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however this aircraft sounded lower than

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normal and she feared an imminent crash

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as she panicked

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she hid her head under the pillow on her

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bed she could hear her teenage son John

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calling to her from his room next door

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the loud rumbling sound had awoken him

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and a bright green light filled his

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entire room from outside following an

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appeal in the Mansfeld news journal in

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2015 for witnesses to the Mansfield

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incident many people did come forward

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with new information

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one was Brian Stevens what the time of

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the incident was thirteen years old he

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would recall seeing a red orange ball

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that he couldn't take his eyes off of as

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he walked along Ohio 39 another new

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witness Glen stout worked at Mansfield

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tire he and several co-workers were on a

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break at the back dock when a

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crazy-looking light sped towards a

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helicopter nearly crashing one

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particularly bizarre detail offered by

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stout was his home electric bill for the

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month following the incident was only

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four dollars he wondered if this

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surprisingly low bill had a connection

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to the UFO overhead that even

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bring on all the UFO encounters here in

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New York City please my electric bill is

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insane

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Judith hem was yet another person who

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witnessed the bizarre events in 1973 she

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claimed to have almost screamed out loud

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as she witnessed what she thought was

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two planes about to crash

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Pam believed it was a military plane

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until reading stories of the encounter

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afterward but let's return to where this

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all began with Captain Coyne and the

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rest of the helicopter crew just what

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was it that was seen that evening in the

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skies over Mansfield Ohio may never be

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known

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well it isn't beyond the realm of

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possibility that the military has more

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information about the case the fact that

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coined by past potential sensor heavy

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channels by speaking directly with the

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media suggests the incident is mostly

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intact whether or not there was some

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clandestine military involvement

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somewhere in the timeline of the episode

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is open to debate and just like many

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other UFO cases it also remains

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unexplained I would like to stress one

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important fact and that is there is

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approximately 20 years of army aviation

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experience between the four men on board

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the helicopter that night we have been

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trained to follow procedures and

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regulations in reporting incidents

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regardless of how they're accepted and

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we try to follow those procedures and we

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reported the incident as it occurred and