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gary irwin was a nike missile technician

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at fort bliss in el paso texas on

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february 28 1959 he was driving back

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from nampa idaho where he'd been on

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leave at cedar city utah he turned

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southeast onto route 14. about six miles

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from the turn-off he spotted a glowing

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object that seemed to come to earth in a

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field just off the road thinking he had

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seen an airplane crash or at least a

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forced landing he stopped to see if he

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could give assistance he wrote a note

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and placed it on the steering wheel of

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his car it read quote have gone to

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investigate possible plane crash please

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call law enforcement officers end quote

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then he wrote stop in large letters on

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the side of his car about 30 minutes

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later a fish and game inspector happened

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to be driving past and stopped at

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irwin's car he saw the note and took it

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to the cedar city sheriff's office where

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sheriff otto fife gathered a party of

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volunteers and returned to the site when

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they searched they found no trace of a

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plane crash but they found private gary

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irwin unconscious in a field by the side

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of the road 90 minutes had passed since

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he had first seen the glowing object

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erwin was taken to the hospital in cedar

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city where dr broadbent could find

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nothing physically wrong with him irwin

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was merely asleep and could not be

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awakened dr broadbent could find no

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explanation for this so his diagnosis

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was hysteria when private irwin

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eventually awoke he felt perfectly well

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but he was mystified by the glowing

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object he had seen he was also confused

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by the fact that his jacket was missing

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the sheriff's search party stated that

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he was not wearing it when they found

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him irwin was flown back to fort bliss

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and placed under observation at william

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beaumont army hospital for several days

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after which he was released as fit to

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return to duty the episode was not over

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yet though some days later irwin fainted

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on base and a few days after that he

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fainted while in the city of el paso he

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was taken to southwest general hospital

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where he was found once again to be

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asleep and unwakeable about 24 hours

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later he awoke asking quote were there

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any survivors he behaved as if he had

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lost all memory of the period between

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seeing the object on february 28th in

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utah and waking up on march 16th in el

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paso once again he was taken to william

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beaumont army hospital where he was

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placed under observation by

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psychiatrists after one month extensive

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testing could find nothing wrong with

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him so he was released on april 17th the

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next day irwin was seized by a powerful

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impulse that made him take a bus from el

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paso to cedar city arriving on april

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19th he then walked back to the field in

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which the sheriff's party had found him

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he found his jacket on a bush there was

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a pencil stuck in one of its buttonholes

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with a piece of paper wound tightly

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around it erwin burned the paper and

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then seemed to come out of some kind of

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trance he could not recall the path back

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to the road or why he'd come there he

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made his way back to cedar city and

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turned himself in to sheriff otto fife

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who told irwin about his first encounter

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on the 28th of february once again irwin

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returned to fort bliss and was given

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psychological examinations on july 10th

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he again entered william beaumont army

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hospital he was discharged again but on

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august 1st he failed to report for duty

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and one month later he was listed as a

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deserter after this private gary irwin

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disappeared from the public view and his

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current if he still is alive whereabouts