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sup y'all what's up everybody

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we're here in front of the Austin

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archives as you can see it's a big

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building we're about to go inside and

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check it out meet some people see some

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what's up UFO garage it's it's Joe here

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bins on the camera

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we're here with Myles today at the

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anomaly archives here in Austin Texas

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we're kind of just cruising around and

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checking out what they got in here

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alright so hey what's up man hey how's

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it going there's our new microphones

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yeah man we're right here we're gonna

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we're gonna check out some books and

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stuff and kind of miles like it's kind

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of tell us a little bit about the place

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alright so we're here right downtown at

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55 north IH 35 right on the frontage

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road at the corner of the northbound

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frontage road and lambie Street right

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near the river and we've been in

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existence since 2003 but we've been at

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this location for the last two years so

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we've got thousands of books on UFOs

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consciousness parapsychology anything

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weird and an anomalous thus the anomaly

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archives and we are a completely 501c3

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nonprofit and we are here in this

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building with our thousands of books and

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periodicals we've got about 1,500 of

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which can be checked out to membership

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if you want to take the books home the

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rest are available for in-house

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reference non-circulating use you can

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come this way come with us our biggest

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collection is a few thousand books from

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this rare book collector and seller his

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name was Bob Gerard he passed away back

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in 2011 he ran this really famous

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infamous katas een catalog magazine back

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it was basically came out every couple

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of months or every month and he would

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write these little micro reviews of

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every book that he had for sale whether

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he loved it or hated it and that was

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what made it famous was he was infamous

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for writing these really scathing

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reviews of these things he's trying to

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honesty

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it was very honest he was also quite

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curmudgeonly but lovable nonetheless and

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you know he wasn't really well-known for

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for his his own ideas but he did publish

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a few different books on on the subject

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of UFOs and his ideas about them the

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revolt of the free this one the future

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man is probably the most comprehensive

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of his ideas about the nature of the

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abduction phenomenon and the UFO

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phenomenon at large and so he had

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collected thousands of books on the

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subject of UFOs but also ancient

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civilizations expeditions and

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explorations into North rather South and

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Central America lots of books on

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folklore ancient sacred sites in England

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and the United States just a ton of

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stuff that's like tangential to the UFO

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phenomena but as charles fort one of the

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preeminent of forefathers of the strange

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phenomena movement said circle is

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measured beginning anywhere so you know

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I used the UFO as index to everything

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weird you know you can you it's like

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seven degrees or six degrees of Kevin

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Bacon in the UFO right right yeah you

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can find these connections anywhere and

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if you want to ascribe meaning to them

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you can be all young in and saying

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chronicity this means something to me so

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which the main goal of our nonprofit

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organization is the preservation of

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these kinds of materials not just

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popular literature but also the the

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research papers the correspondence

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research data of actual UFO

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investigators as well as UFO

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experiencers we have the the personal

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research files and libraries of past

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researchers such as a guy named Bob

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Durant who is a big in the Roswell

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investigation area as well as interested

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which we were talking about earlier so I

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was mentioning that the Gerard

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collection is our largest donation we're

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still we're still still processing it

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it's it's a few thousand books and

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magazines periodicals I mentioned Bob

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hypnotherapist regression therapist or

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BLM Clarke that she donated some of her

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materials that we have here the original

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collection was like a thousand books

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that I donated that we're mine and

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wesley nations wesley nations was a guy

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who i met back in the 1990's during the

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zine scene when people were doing

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desktop publishing and Xerox

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photocopying yeah little fanzine kind of

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stuff and so there was like this

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explosion of paranormal UFO conspiracy

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chaos magic and and all psychedelics all

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come together in his magazine which was

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called crash collusion and was an

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awesome and got to meet him he was local

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and he introduced me to this whole other

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network of people publishing stuff and

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that got he showed me how to use the

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desktop publishing stuff I started doing

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a desktop published magazine called

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e.l.f elfin tested spaces after terence

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mckenna's idea about DMT right way to

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strange experiences and the subtitle

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being Journal of possible paradigms as a

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play off of Robert Anton Wilson saying

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we don't need a new paradigm we need to

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abandon paradigms or wear them like

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glasses for different views on things

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but Wes moved away and lessen his load

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when he moved out west he donated a

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whole bunch of his book so then at some

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point I had over a thousand books I was

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like nah I'm not reading these something

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buddy I need to make access to other so

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that other people can have access and

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that was were kind of the organization

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the seed of it came so besides the

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thousands of books we also have

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thousands of magazines so I can show you

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we have another room couple rooms down

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the hall so these two rooms are not

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public there are like storage and

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staging area so right now what we have

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in here is is a

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the more of that Bob Girard collection

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that's in the process of being catalog

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some of these books are from the 1600s

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so we have literally like books that are

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hundreds of years old here many of them

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have been obviously rebound over the

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years this is the book from hocus pocus

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right yes yeah it's a wide assortment of

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stuff not all of its ufo-related like

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there's this book on Orson Welles and so

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forth he has the quote you may have seen

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Girard really wanted to have one place

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where he had the sum of human knowledge

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like yeah but a lot of great stuff in

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here that we're still processing yeah

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man this is so cool

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Wow these are insane like a man and so

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this is these are some of the thousands

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of Styria articles that we have they've

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been cataloged beyond besides the ones

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that we saw in the other room so like

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you were mentioning the MUFON collection

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so like here's a haul from our move on

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here's all of our fate magazines

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here's that magazine I was talking about

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crash collusion from here in Austin oh

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yeah love that cover cool and a lot of

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other rare stuff there was from back in

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the day so back on the drag downtown in

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the university area used to be this

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place called fringe where and they had a

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magazine called fringe wear magazine and

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great stuff lots of cyberpunk culture

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for writing more jeans from that same

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1990s period the conspiracy stuff love a

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New Age stuff if you've ever read Jenny

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Randall she's a famous UFO writer who's

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still around putting out great books

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and with before the British UFO Research

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this is her this is her little

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newsletter at the northern good fo news

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is the one it's kind of very zine like

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and that tiny print is about approximate

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actual handwritten script when you would

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get notes from her really tiny

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handwriting so lots of great stuff Nexus

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I think Nexus is still around publishing

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and then there's just more books around

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the corner here that are in various like

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I mentioned we've got the paper files of

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a number of different UFO researchers

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and experiences there's a local abductee

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who was one of the seven advic DS that

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was profiled in it look called taken by

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abduction researcher carla turner who

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unfortunately passed away far too soon

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in her life but she had Texas

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connections and this local deputies to

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live out near Leander and kept copious

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notes on all of her daily dreams daily

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makes weird experiences lots of

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photographs of strange marks on a body

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the typical stuff for the classic alien

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abductions phenomena but there's some

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great collections of stuff in there

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including like there's a her personal

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notes about a triangle UFO sighting that

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she saw over a lake way from her house

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and there's also that she went outside

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to look at it and was witnessed by her

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and her mom she was called by the then

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Austin MUFON director Ellen Stewart

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two groups here and two asked her to a

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we're getting reports of this strange

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object we go see if you can see it she

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couldn't she made the report submitted

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that to MUFON so we've got we've got her

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to her diary and personal notes on it

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we've got her hoof on report on it and

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the next day or that weekend there was a

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local like like way newsletter or

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we've got a lot of extra copies of stuff

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and of course we're gonna start seeding

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those in the little mini libraries

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around town people's neighborhoods as

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emotionally yeah so they'll have

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bookmarks and brochures about the

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organization so yeah we're open

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p.m. most weeks weekdays and weekends

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and we do it's all volunteer run so it's

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always a good idea to call us or email

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us ahead of time to make sure we're

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going to be open but we're trying to

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expand those hours with more volunteers

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so perfect thanks for showing us around

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you thanks for coming by

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the children of new whatever he's