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just because you don't see it doesn't

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mean that it's not there for generations

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people have wondered about unexplained

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phenomena in the wisconsin skies not a

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firm believer in ufos but i keep my mind

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open many consider it science fiction do

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you believe these reports when you hear

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things like that

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[Laughter]

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i do not it's very unusual and then

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there's glenn kasmar you've never seen

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anything like this before no

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no

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wisconsin police officer was on patrol

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one night 35 years ago when he and

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others reported seeing something strange

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hovering in the south central wisconsin

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sky about 25 miles south of madison i

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was really amazed myself because

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apparently there there was a number of

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sightings what did you see all i saw was

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a cluster of lights i did not see a

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shape of any

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type whatsoever other people have it was

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something

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here in wisconsin jump out at you well

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certainly the the belleville wave they

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saw it come past their car we spoke with

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don schmidt at his home in washington

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county schmidt is an author and longtime

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investigator for the privately funded

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center for ufo studies in chicago in

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1987 he spent months looking into the

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belleville case we investigated

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41 reports during that time period many

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of them involve cylindrical

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objects devoid of wings schmidt

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concluded that more than a dozen of

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those ufo reports could not be explained

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but these aren't just stories handed

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down through the decades there have been

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recent reports of ufo sightings right

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here in our area the federal aviation

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administration refers anyone reporting

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an unexplained sighting to the

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independent national ufo reporting

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center which lists more than 2 200

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reports from wisconsin last april

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someone in port washington reported a

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disk or saucer-shaped object hovering in

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the north sky last october in plymouth

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the report of a glowing craft in the sky

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changed shape and elevation defying the

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laws of physics and in november in

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richfield a black triangle shape 300

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feet wide 20 feet thick the center does

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not investigate the reports what do you

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think

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when you see these

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reports of

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ufo sightings here in wisconsin

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continuing people do tend to jump to

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conclusions jim lattis is an astronomy

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historian who heads education outreach

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for the uw madison astronomy department

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they want something to be

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this mysterious thing that they maybe

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hope is there there's a whole fleet of

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them

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there's been renewed interest in ufos in

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recent years following the release of

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no going against the wind the wind's 120

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knots from the west

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then last summer's unclassified report

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from the u.s director of national

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intelligence into unexplained aerial

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phenomena concluded that there may be

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many explanations but the government

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simply can't draw any firm conclusions

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but lattice believes there is one

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explanation that can probably be ruled

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out extraterrestrial visitors are so

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unlikely

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that there's almost no explanation that

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wouldn't be a better explanation in

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terms of the likelihood if you want to

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guess at an explanation the last guess

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you ought to make is aliens while those

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who have reported seeing something

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unexplained in the skies are left to

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keep wondering what do you think it was

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i don't know

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wainscott wisn 12 news the new defense

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department group monitoring unidentified

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things in the sky has one of the longest

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names in government it is the airborne