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streak on the tree okay let me turn

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around

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here's something here very strange it's

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been

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decades of keeping this to myself so

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you're probably going to hear some

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things you probably won't uh

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i don't know believe i guess

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hell if it hadn't happened to me i'd be

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sitting in your seat thinking the same

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it was christmas eve i was the security

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airman

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for the 81st tactical fighter wing

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stationed at raf bent waters base in

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suffolk england

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there was this thick stretch of woods

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near the base called rendelsham forest

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i remember hearing all these stories of

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ghosts and strange creatures littering

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these woods for centuries

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i figured they were tails they tell us

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younger guys to scare us while we were

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on guard

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duty at night it worked

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perimeter 15 hours of nothing just

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staring at the blackness of the forest

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eerily quiet no crickets no voices

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not even a small gust of wind just the

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slow patterns of my own breath

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my radio starts blurring this harsh

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static and then i hear a vehicle coming

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towards me

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fast in seconds my superior sergeant

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bustinza tells me to hop in the security

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truck

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we were being ordered to investigate

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something out in the woods

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now i'd grown close to bustin's eye i

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knew he didn't spook easily but

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the deeper we drove into that forest the

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something big was happening

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we get to the edge of the forest we're

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ordered to leave our weapons in the

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i think that bears repeating we were

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in the middle of investigating a

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possible incursion

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to leave our weapons in the goddamn

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that something wasn't right from the

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start

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uh about a dozen of us make our way into

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the forest

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and we're holding our our flashlights

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like baseball bats

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at this point our only defense against

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whatever lay ahead

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now through the trees

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i see this bright white light

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it's just pouring through every single

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void of the leaves

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sort of pulsating you know bright then

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dim then and bright again

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i move forward with the others into this

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and that's when everything comes into

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full view

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there must have been 40

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people out there all of them staring up

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at the sky

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and that's when i see this this single

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red light coming towards us and it's

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getting bigger the closer it gets

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and it settles right above us and then

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boom

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nothing but white my eyes felt like they

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the white dissipates

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my eyes focus and i see this uh

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this uh this craft it's um

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it's got three distinct points

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almost a perfect triangle

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and it's just pitch black now

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it hovers there right right above us

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just a couple of feet off the ground

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you know i'm looking all over this thing

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uh for cymbals you know

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is it russian maybe um

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what are we dealing with here but

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there's there's nothing

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now gustanza he orders a couple of us to

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uh to move in

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uh toward this thing now he

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he's sweating bullets at this point

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clearly this isn't coming from him but

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from someone

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higher up so i do it i mean i

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i i gotta you know

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now i i feel this uh this static

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just surged through me everything's

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so slow and i get closer

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to whatever this thing is and it's

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it's pulling my shadow into it

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things get slower and slower

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and as i'm making my way around this

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i'm not shouldn't you hear

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i say to myself why are there children

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this is a highly sensitive military

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but the uh the closer i get

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it's becoming it's becoming more clear

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there were there were three of them

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a small

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slender the heads were were bigger than

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now the the the one thing that really

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what i really remember about him

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the light was bouncing off of them like

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they were beautiful

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are looking up at our wing commander

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gordon williams he's looking down at

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them and there's some sort of

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communication between them no words

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williams he's uh trying to keep calm but

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i can see the sweat pouring off of him

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in the freezing air and at this moment

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he turns to one of his officers and

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at this uh this moment uh bustinza

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orders us all back into the trucks we're

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to immediately return to the base

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so we're all huddled in the trucks and

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everyone's just sitting there in

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and we make our way to the base and uh

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when we get there i walk up to gustan's

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what are we dealing with here i asked

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and he just looks at me and he says

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larry

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we weren't ready for this

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and with that i i make my way back to

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the barracks i take off my uniform and i

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i just lay in bed trying to make sense

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of it all

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warren you're to report

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to major ziegler immediately

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there's uh there's an mp at the doorway

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of the barracks

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i struggled to my feet and i'm escorted

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across the base to uh this debriefing

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room where we're all ordered

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to sign these pre-typed statements of

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what we saw aren't even allowed to read

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they set us down in front of uh

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two men in in business suits next to

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them is major zickler he introduces them

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armed forces security service

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there were no pleasantries the first guy

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steps up

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what you men saw last night represents a

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technology

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far more advanced than our own this

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technology comes from an off-planet

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civilization one of many civilizations

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that visit from time to time

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it was it was so blunt to just to the

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i mean how how do you tell someone

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something like that with such

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and we're supposed to just sit there

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listen and accept it

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the other guy comes up nothing

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absolutely nothing that you saw last

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night is to ever be

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spoken of if we discover that you have

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i'm 19. naive

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so i speak up uh

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that guy looked straight at me what's

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larry i tell him warren

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the other guy scribbles something in his

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notebook

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my name well larry warren

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this wasn't a joke

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he meant it not a doubt in my mind

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a couple days later they find bustinza

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half his head blown off

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self-inflicted they told us

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i i couldn't stay there i

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i couldn't keep doing this job knowing

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how many times have they kept these

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for

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i started uh i started acting out any

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until they discharged me honorably

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i might add their

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idea of bribing me in their own [\h__\h]

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and with that my service to the united

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now i uh

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i talked to some of the guys since

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turned booze others

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went on to have shining careers but some

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of them

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refused to forget what they saw

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and after 30 [\h__\h] years

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of keeping my mouth shut i think i

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owe it to the public to myself to get

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this story out there

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the people deserve to know what is

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happening right under their [\h__\h]

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noses

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this is your government your military

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the people that you trust

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with your security your freedom your

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and they failed that night

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i can't sit here and tell you i know

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what happened but i want someone

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to acknowledge that we saw something we

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something visited that forest and

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whatever it was it could have wiped us

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all off the face of the planet

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in the blink of an eye and we just stood

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back and watched

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and then what did we do we denied that

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it ever even happened

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if that ain't

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larry is everything all right

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what is it larry what do you see

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nothing i don't see anything

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no are you sure

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i heard you talking who are you talking

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to larry

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that's right larry no one here

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just you and me

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what is it that we always say larry

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what is it that we must remember

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come on larry what is it

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bullets are cheap

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yes good very good

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the doctor would like to see you larry

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why don't you come with me and we'll

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talk

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just you and me and the doctor

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and the doctor

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uh