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I wouldn't advise going too much too

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much because this really does become the

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area in which the the other children had

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seen the UFO was around about this area

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and reports have been coming in

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throughout the day that they've been

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seeing this object which flag said I

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didn't believe one bit so at the end of

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the day I came up from my classroom

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which was which is a bit higher now than

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it was it only used to stand around

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about I started looking there was

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nothing in sight whatsoever so I started

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get over the fence just at the top here

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and I was about halfway over one leg

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either side of the pen you'll see it's

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bit difficult see because these small

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trees around the perimeter starting

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mature a bit now but you'll see a large

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clump of trees at the back they're just

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just before you reached the top of the

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hill

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from behind those trees that's with the

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object surface now still sort of halfway

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across I was just in total amazement and

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but like I said before that's when I

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felt the urge to run and ran all the way

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down here to the taxi that was waiting

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to take us out was actually moving

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upwards or steady or was it off the

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ground on the ground

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it came up seemingly from behind the

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trees now there was a slight swaying

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so so it's a pretty good frame of

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reference I you know I also know how

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pretty much how big the trees were over

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there and you know it came just above

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the tree line with the rear I say the

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rear end but there was no front and rear

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to it as as such but from my point of

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view the right hand side event the end

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of the craft was still obscured by trees

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support burns you know I would say that

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I was looking at about 98% of the of the

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but whatever portion these things

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whether they were teachers supervising

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us now bear in mind this is 1977 this

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isn't it now with all you know we

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wouldn't wouldn't mind if we didn't

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worry they just knew we were somewhere

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it was being mentioned to the headmaster

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after Alan and I assumed other teachers

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as well now but you're dealing with

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people who very no-nonsense

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matter-of-factness and obviously

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initially they were thinking this was

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childish pranks childish imagination at

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work it wasn't until the following

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Monday when we all got together in in

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exam conditions and drew and described

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what we saw with without having any

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I hate to brag but the educational

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standards of children leave in primary

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schools was so much better than if it's

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today with regards to common sense and

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things of internet and computer games

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and stuff like that so

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and we weren't subjected I I read

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something the other day which I got

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quite angry about that that somebody was

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categorically sure that what we saw was

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as a result

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the classic contest and Star Wars which

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isn't about UFOs it's a Western in space

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and cowboys and Indians rather than

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outlandish sci-fi and as I said earlier

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I had a love of sci-fi but my love of

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sci-fi was the same sort of stuff that I

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like now where it looks forward at a

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possible future for ourselves not not

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the sort of sci-fi that involved

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invaders from Mars coming down in flying

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sauces and wiping us out to naught

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so my imagination was limited as it was

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I've never been really that imaginative

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it wouldn't have extended to that sort

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of scenario it was a woman in the

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woman in the pub said or done listen to

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her she wouldn't believe the Grim Reaper

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study yeah another one another one which

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was being bandied around was that some

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locals had been seen carrying a rocket

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shaped object there's no there's no way

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you can make that trivial but what she

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was actually referring to was a couple

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of days after the site in a local

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haulage contractor decided to have a

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laughing the kids expect red now it was

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said that this was supposed to have been

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the impetus for the story however what

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it was with the local haulage contractor

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having a giggle had taken a very

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expensive long-range fuel tank off a jet

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aircraft that he had he was selling

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government surplus and decided to plant

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it here was a joke because we'd seen the

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object he was intending on having it

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back a couple of weeks a couple of weeks

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later after the joke had gone around the

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world

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however by which time we thanked him

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it stood over in the corner it stood

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over there in the corner for many years

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it was the pride of the school however

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to give a good indication of how good

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our identifying was the bomb squad were

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being called local police were being

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called because as far as the school were

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concerned they had a missile in the

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school playground

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however even before the police in the

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bomb squad and everybody else in the

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military had arrived the children had

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already turned up at the school and

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identified it as a long-range fuel tank

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from a jet bomber we were so used to

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NATO aircraft flying overhead you know

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given given enough time we could

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probably told you what playing it was

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off what you saw was no more than a

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helicopter I mean we see Kings based of

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your earth labeled us they make a lot of

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noise they're bright yellow usually and

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you know or the green military ones but

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with that we saw we sometimes saw we're

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sixes but it certainly wasn't a

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helicopter certainly wasn't a Harrier

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we'd love to see the Harrier taking off

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up there you know and if we had seen a

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hairy Harrier taking off then that would

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have been big news for us because there

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was myself Jones Pugh who wrote the

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double enigma and a reporter from the

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Western Telegraph board Hugh Turnbull we

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went up there the following day because

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we actually came down here that on the

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night of the sighting but by then the

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weather conditions are deteriorated even

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further in a got dark it was impossible

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to see anything so we came back the

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following day and basically what's up

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there was bog that's that's it there is

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a sewage it works just over absolutely

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nothing at all like I said the only

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indication that they met the only

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physical indication that there may have

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been something there was cross bar on

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that on that telegraph pole but like I

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but the children did see people outside

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the craft walking on I get ideas and

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pointy you know I can only speak for

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myself and I didn't see any

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but I can't I can't comment on any of

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the children but also different crafts

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temperatures there's a possibility that

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you know no right if you look at the

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pictures there are differences there's

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no doubt however first of all you've got

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to take into account we were terrible

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artists you know if you look at my

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picture you can't even tell that they're

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trees nevermind different - never mind a

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fly-in saucer so so if you take a

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juvenile undeveloped artistic talent I

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mean we were doing it in wax crayons you

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know none of us were Rembrandt's or

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whatever and you also got to take into

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account as well like I said the children

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are notoriously unreliable witnesses

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what is remarkable isn't so much the

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differences but the fact that the

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pictures are so alike in so many

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features if you if you peel away the

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privilege of a juvenile imagination and

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then make the comparisons between the

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pictures I mean even even if you look at

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the Zimbabwean pictures there are

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differences in the pictures they're not

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carbon copies of each other but if you

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look at my picture you'll see a long

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straight fuselage with rounded ends and

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a tiny little dome on top with a red

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light on top though you mentioning I'm

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yes the dew on the heap er which is an

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Evening Post which was in August 1970

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it's almost identical to the one you

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drink yeah I will say that

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now the do not look on my picture and

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think that is a totally accurate

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description of what I saw I saw there's

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another picture there obviously by

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somebody who had a little bit off the

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end you have more classic sort of

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profile with I would rather put my name

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to that picture now I mean this day I

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don't know whether what I saw was the

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side view of a saucer-shaped object or

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whether I was actually seeing a cigar

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shaped rapido shaped object so and given

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given that the visibility wasn't

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brilliant at the time it was obviously

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quite sufficient enough to see what we

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were seeing but when you consider that

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you've got a silvery grey object against

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a grey background sky a little bit worse

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than it was than it is at the moment

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then you're not going to get a perfect a

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perfect image but there's there's no

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doubt in my mind whatsoever that we saw

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and I just really I just really firmly

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think the the only differences are but

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you could just do a curve like that next

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post you could do the same curve but

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it'd be more rounded I mean if you ask a

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child of that age draw a house or a

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little ship or or whatever I'm a more

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conventional object you're not going to

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get an exact representation your thing

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was after school after you've heard the

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story just after the bell had gone I'd

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actually come up here because you

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cheered about them through in the day

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yeah and in my mind this was impossible

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there was no way on earth that there was

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know it was pulsating now at the time I

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a pulsation rather than a flash and each

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one's I would say possibly worn maybe

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two flashes per second at the most but

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it is very very slow when it does to

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taking off I don't know because I mean I

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saw it appear from behind trees and then

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come back down now I never saw it moving

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away from yoga after that and that that

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was after that I'd already run the

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children been seeing the object that's

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that's what yeah it actually raised

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above the tree line actually and some

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have actually seen it always been a

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total skeptic I don't leave anything

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unless I see myself honestly didn't

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each time it was seen by the children it

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was seen in very very close proximity

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just outside the school perimeter yeah

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it was almost as I mean I don't I I hate

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trying to imagine what was going through

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whatever the occiput whoever the

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occupants were what was going and it was

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almost as if they were trying to keep at