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my name is Michael Smith I was in the

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Air Force sergeant from 1967 in 1973 I

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was aircraft control and warning

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operator well I was assigned to klamath

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falls oregon in early nineteen seventy

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at the radar site and they were watching

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a beautiful on a radar that was hovering

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at about 80,000 feet it SAT there for

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about 10 minutes and then slowly

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descended until it dropped off the radar

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was gone for about 5-10 minutes and then

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instantly reappeared they had 80,000

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feet stationary the next sweep of the

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radar it was too hard miles away

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stationery and hovered there for about

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10 minutes and redid the whole cycle

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twice more when I found out what the

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normal what you normally do when you see

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a UFO I was told that you can horrified

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NORAD you don't necessarily write

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anything down you don't write anything

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down and you keep to yourself it's a

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need-to-know basis only and NORAD one

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night called me but later in the year to

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let me know as it heads up that there

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was UFO coming up the California coast

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line I asked him what I should do about

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this they said nothing don't write it

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down just it's just a heads up and in

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late nineteen seventy-two while

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stationed at 750 third radar squadron

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and suzanne marie michigan i received

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the couple panicky call from police

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officers who were chasing three UFOs

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from mackinac bridge up i-75 so I

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immediately checked the radar confirmed

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through the

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were there called NORAD and they were

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concerned because they had to inbound

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b-52s going to cancel air force base so

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they diverted them because they didn't

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want any proximity able to and that

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night answered many calls from the

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police department sheriff's department

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stuff my standard response was there was

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nothing in rare and I was justify to

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this under oath to a congressional

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hearing

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you