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in 1979 in the denchmont woods area near

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Livingston Scotland Robert Taylor would

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claim to have encountered beings from

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another world

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and it would be the only case in all of

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Scotland where a UFO would become part

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of a criminal investigation this is the

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dutchmont woods Encounter of Robert

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on the morning of November 9th 1979

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Robert Taylor decided to pull his

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vehicle to the side of the road so he

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could stretch his legs and allow his dog

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to do the same this would take place

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near the M8 Motorway it was around 10 30

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a.m as he was walking through the

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Woodland with the seven-year-old red

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setter Lara it was as he was coming up

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on a clearing among the fir trees the

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Taylor's morning and indeed his life was

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about to take a drastic turn

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there in front of him no further than 12

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yards away was a flying Dome or circular

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object that was suddenly in his line of

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sight it appeared to be floating

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slightly above the tops of the trees the

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craft was close enough that he could

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make out the rough sandpaper-like

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texture of the Black Metallic material

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in Aroma of burning breaks suddenly

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seemed to fill the air he noticed two

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objects that had fallen to the ground

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from the main craft

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Taylor would later describe these as

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looking like second world war Naval

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mines

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each of the strange objects had Spikes

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all over them

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they headed toward him one to each side

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making a strange noise against the

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ground as they moved

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when they were level with him in

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attachment with a spike on the end shot

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out of each one and attached themselves

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to each leg of Taylor's trousers of more

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concern to Taylor he would feel a

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pulling sensation on his body as if the

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craft was dragging him towards it he

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began to panic and pull back from it but

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his body didn't respond as this was

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happening a rotten choking smell filled

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his nostrils immediately weakening his

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resistance to the pole as he gagged on

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whatever this Aroma was

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as he began to lose Consciousness the

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last sounds he heard was the unsettling

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hissing of the object and the agitated

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barks of his dog Lara it was a huge

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thing with a big Crown Dome

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a very dark gray color

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a big flange going all the way around I

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could see Adam's

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sticking out to this flange with what I

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took to be bleeds

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on the toe as I stood here there's the

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two balls came out two boys I think

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there'd be about three feet in diameter

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with about six spikes and they were

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brawling on these fakes they came right

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up beside me

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I remember feeling a tug at that time

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and a very powerful smell a choking sort

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of smell and

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that was it the next thing Taylor knew

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he was alone on the clearing floor the

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object had vanished

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as he picked up his face from the dirt

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and leaves of the forest floor he

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noticed how severely his legs ached he

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also realized he couldn't bring himself

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to speak in an attempt to calm Lara who

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was still barking somewhere in the

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immediate vicinity after Gathering his

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thoughts Taylor Made his way to his

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vehicle although sometime it passed it

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stood in the spot he'd left it at it was

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a short Joy however try as he might the

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car would no longer start as if drained

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of Power by an unknown source

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Taylor would continue his journey on

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foot

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when he arrived home his family was

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aghast at his torn clothing as well as

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the cuts and bruising to his face and

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arms he would inform his wife Mary

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bluntly that he had been attacked by a

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spaceship unsure of what to do Mary

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informed her husband's employer and boss

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of the incident it looked terrible when

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he came in the door and he just stood at

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the door and I said have you had an

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accident with your Lorry and he said no

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I've been attacked and I said what with

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and he said spaceship and I said oh

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goodness me there's no such a thing as a

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spaceship I'm going to phone the doctor

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you must have failed and hurt your head

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it looked quite shocked Andy he was

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drained it was ripe white and his face

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was dirty and he had a red scarf here

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and his clothes were all dirty in his

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trousers and then he told me his

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trousers had been done Malcolm Drummond

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the boss would order a search of the

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area where the incident took place using

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other forestry workers however there was

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nothing on tour discovered that

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something had happened to Taylor though

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was surely Beyond doubt with this in

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mind the Livingston Police were notified

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of the attack and would shortly arrive

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at the Taylor home to investigate given

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that Taylor had been physically attacked

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and he had these shredded clothes and

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marks to prove it the police would treat

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the incident as a crime

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they had Taylor take them back to the

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site of the encounter so that they could

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see it for themselves

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headed by detective inspector Ian work

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that would discover strange

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ladder-shaped Impressions on the ground

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where Taylor claimed the incident had

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unfolded

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furthermore they also noted two

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indentation rows right where Taylor

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claimed the two spiked objects had moved

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towards him on either side

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in this seemingly corroborated his

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version of events of being dragged

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towards the object

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his torn trousers went off for

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scientific analysis

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the conclusion being that the damage

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appeared to be in line with a

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machine-like object gripping and pulling

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him

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in short every indication so far was

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that Taylor was telling the truth

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although they might not have necessarily

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believed Taylor was attacked by a

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vehicle from outer space the police were

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very much in belief that he was attacked

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by something and a criminal

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investigation was opened

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track marks of the machines and vehicles

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used by forestry workers in the area

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were all examined in an attempt to

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locate a match to the markings in the

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clearing where Taylor was attacked none

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of them matched

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flight records of the airspace over

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Livingston were also examined no

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helicopters or small airplanes were

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overhead that day

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the ground surround where they incident

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had taken place were even examined in

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the event that evidence of a crane that

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might have lifted some kind of machine

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into the clearing might be found no such

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evidence was uncovered

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and with the ground being soft from the

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rain these markings would have been

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clear

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ultimately although they could not

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explain the encounter the police were

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certain of Taylor's credibility

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inspector Lark stated that they had no

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reason to doubt anything about what he

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was telling them

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perhaps because of the police

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involvement public interest in the

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encounter soared with local and National

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media coverage as you can imagine with

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the intense interest many theories and

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suggestions as to what actually happened

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that November morning also surfaced

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take out the possibility that Taylor

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witnessed a genuine extraterrestrial

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vehicle of some kind what else might

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explain this most bizarre event

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some would suggest that Taylor merely

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suffered an intense illusion possibly

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due to an epileptic fit however there is

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no evidence of such seizures in Taylor's

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medical history and even if something

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had triggered this one-off fit it's

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highly unlikely that he would have

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recovered sufficiently as quickly as he

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did in order to walk home where the

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incident occurred

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there have also been suggestions that

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ball lightning might be responsible for

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the incident with Taylor perhaps coming

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too close and ultimately confused by

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what he was seeing however this

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explanation is hardly concrete not least

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is Taylor specifically recalled seeing a

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metallic machine-like craft as opposed

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to ball lightning which even then would

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have been easy to identify

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there are others who wonder whether the

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machine witness that day was some kind

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of top secret military vehicle if this

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was the case though where was it

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produced by who and whose was it

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what's the purpose of the attack on

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Taylor Milly to allow this futuristic

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vehicle to escape

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if this was the case however we might

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expect that something very similar would

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have entered the public domain in the

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decades since

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and it hasn't

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of course there are some who believe the

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incident to be a very clever hoax

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one designed to attract UFO tourists to

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the area for the financial betterment of

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the region

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however many point out that this notion

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is fanciful simply because the area was

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largely industrial Urban Scotland and

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essentially not Loch Ness

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besides business opportunities were

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already well on their way to becoming

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Scotland's silicon Glen home to computer

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and Associated Industries

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one skeptic of the case Stuart Campbell

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claimed in his book the UFO mystery

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solved that the markings discovered on

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the ground were likely from equipment

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being used in the area by Water

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Authority workers

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however when he spoke to these workers

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who had indeed operated in the nearby

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area they claimed that none of the

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equipment had been stored in the region

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Taylor had its encounter in despite this

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Campbell persisted that he suspected

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they were not being truthful further

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suggesting further suggesting they might

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have used the area to store gertman

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without permission

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in short the encounter remains both

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unexplained and difficult to dismiss

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convincingly there is no doubt that the

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Livingston incident is one of the most

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intriguing and credible on record

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whatever the truth of the sighting might

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one day prove to be

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something strange happened to the 61

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year old Taylor that cold morning in the

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denchmont woods is surely Beyond doubt

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Taylor Made next to nothing financially

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out of this incident and never tried to

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capitalize on his Fame

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he even became thoroughly fed up with

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the persistent interests people had in

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the incident

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Robert Taylor passed away in 2007 but

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there remains an interest in his story

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not least because of its apparent

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authenticity

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Taylor would not alter his version of

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events at any point after the incident

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and the denchmont woods close encounter

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remains a staple both in UFO history and

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in all of Scotland

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well I'm pretty certain that that day