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Speaker 1: Today's story is about one of the most famous paranormal
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Speaker 1: events in history, but it's not famous because of how
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Speaker 1: outlandish the details are. Instead, it's famous for its credibility.
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Speaker 1: Not only were there twelve witnesses who saw this thing happen,
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Speaker 1: but also there was a NASA engineer who investigated this
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Speaker 1: event and ultimately concluded that it must have happened because
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Speaker 1: of tangible proof. But before we get into that story,
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Speaker 1: into today's story. Around nine pm on December twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, a fifty seven year old woman named Vicky
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Speaker 1: Landrum rode in the front seat of her friend Betty
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Speaker 1: Cash's car, while her seven year old grandson named Colby,
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Speaker 1: who she was raising, sat between them. The three of
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Speaker 1: them had just had dinner at a truck stop and
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Speaker 1: were now on their way home, driving down a dark
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Speaker 1: wooded highway near Huffman, Texas, which is a small town
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Speaker 1: about thirty miles northeast of Houston. As they drove down
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Speaker 1: the road, Vicky began to notice the windshield was fogging
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Speaker 1: up from how cold it was outside and how warm
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Speaker 1: it was inside the car, and so Vicky turned on
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Speaker 1: the defroster, and as the windshield began to clear, Vicky
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Speaker 1: noticed this bright light right out in front of them,
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Speaker 1: up over the trees. And at first Vicky just figured,
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Speaker 1: you know, they were close to the Houston Airport and
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Speaker 1: so that light must just be an airplane. But as
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Speaker 1: the trio continued driving down this winding highway road, that
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Speaker 1: light that Vicky really thought was a plane landing appeared
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Speaker 1: to just kind of hover in the trees, and actually,
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Speaker 1: as they drove, the light almost appeared to get closer
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Speaker 1: and closer to them, so it didn't really seem like
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Speaker 1: it was a plane.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: At first, Vicky thought this was just kind of interesting
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Speaker 1: and was curious about this light. But as they got
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Speaker 1: closer and closer to this light, it became very obvious
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Speaker 1: that the inside of the car was getting much warmer
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Speaker 1: and stuffier than any of the heat settings would allow
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Speaker 1: it to get to the point where Vicky was actually
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Speaker 1: sweating and panting from the heat. Now, all of this
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Speaker 1: was happening really quickly, and so Vicky sort of went
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Speaker 1: from being curious to being kind of anxious, like what
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Speaker 1: was going on here? Like does this light have something
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Speaker 1: to do with the heat they're experiencing in the car.
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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, the light that appeared
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Speaker 1: to be sort of behind the trees suddenly came right
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Speaker 1: out in front of the car, and Vicky screamed at
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Speaker 1: Betty stop, and Becky jammed on the brakes and they
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Speaker 1: came to a stop and blocking their path maybe one
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Speaker 1: hundred feet in front of them, just hovering over the road.
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Speaker 1: Is this strange looking aircraft aimed right at them? This
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Speaker 1: craft was the strange light. For a moment, all three
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Speaker 1: of them just stared in shock at this craft, like
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Speaker 1: it was so unexpected and so unbelievable that this had happened.
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Speaker 1: But then Vicky, who's sitting there still panting and sweating,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's looking out and she's realizing this craft
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Speaker 1: she's looking at looks nothing like any other aircraft. She
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Speaker 1: had ever seen. The craft was a bit bigger than
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Speaker 1: a car. It was diamond shaped, and it was letting
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Speaker 1: out these strange, loud, roaring sounds, almost like an engine.
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Speaker 1: It appeared to be glowing red hot, and periodically with
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Speaker 1: those loud roaring sounds it was making, fire would appear
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Speaker 1: to shoot out the bottom of the craft, scorching the
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Speaker 1: pavement right under it. And again, this strange craft is
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Speaker 1: just hovering there, right over the ground, appeared to be
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Speaker 1: aimed directly at Vicky, Betty and Colby. Pretty quickly, Colby
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Speaker 1: began to cry, he was scared. But Betty, the driver,
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Speaker 1: she said she couldn't go anywhere, you know, the road
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Speaker 1: was too thin, She couldn't really turn around very easily,
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Speaker 1: and she couldn't drive straight and go under the craft
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Speaker 1: and risk being burned by the flames. And so they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of trapped there, and so Vicky and
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Speaker 1: Betty sort of looked at each other like, Okay, we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna We're gonna wait it out and hope this
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Speaker 1: craft just eventually flies away.
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Speaker 2: But after several minutes and the craft still not departed.
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Speaker 1: It was still blocking their way and periodically spitting fire
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Speaker 1: into the ground. Vicky and Betty are like, well, let's
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Speaker 1: get out and see what's going on here.
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Speaker 2: Let's investigate.
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Speaker 1: By this point, their fear and anxiety around this had
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Speaker 1: sort of been replaced, but just genuine human curiosity. I mean,
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Speaker 1: what the heck is this thing? And so Betty the driver,
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Speaker 1: she gets out, and Vicky she tells her grandson staying
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Speaker 1: the car. So Colby's right here, and Vicky gets out.
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Speaker 1: And the second she does, and she now has an
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Speaker 1: unobstructed view at this craft, she suddenly remembered this Bible verse.
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Speaker 1: So Vicky was very religious, and she had read in
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Speaker 1: the Bible that one day Jesus would return to the
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Speaker 1: earth and when he did, he would return in a
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Speaker 1: rain of fire. And so all of a sudden, Vicky
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Speaker 1: believed that what she was looking at was not some aircraft,
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Speaker 1: but the second coming of Jesus Christ. This was like
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Speaker 1: a highly spiritual moment for her. But just as Vicky
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Speaker 1: was about to go forward and actually inspect this thing
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Speaker 1: up close, she heard Colby call out for her. He
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Speaker 1: was crying hysterically, he was totally scared and upset, and
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Speaker 1: so this kind of broke Vicky out of her trance.
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Speaker 1: She turned around and went back to the car to
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Speaker 1: comfort Colby. And when she got back to the car,
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Speaker 1: she found Colby scrunched up on the floor underneath the
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Speaker 1: dashboard like he was trying to shield himself from this craft,
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Speaker 1: and so Vicky she got right down there with him.
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Speaker 1: She wrapped her arms around Colby and began praying with
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Speaker 1: him to try to calm him down. But while Vicky
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Speaker 1: and Colby were praying inside the car, Betty remained outside
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Speaker 1: of the car, just staring at this craft. And it
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Speaker 1: went on like this for about ten minutes until Vicky,
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Speaker 1: who still tucked down there with Colby, heard that roaring
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Speaker 1: sound coming from the aircraft get noticeably louder, like he
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Speaker 1: was about to do something, And so Vicky poked her
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Speaker 1: head up and she looked out the windshield, and sure enough,
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Speaker 1: this craft was beginning to take off. It was getting
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Speaker 1: higher and higher off the ground, Flames were shooting out
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Speaker 1: the bottom of it. Betty was still outside staring at it,
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Speaker 1: and then before long this craft had shot straight up
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Speaker 1: into the air and began taking off up and away
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Speaker 1: from them at a really steep angle. And at the
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Speaker 1: same time, Vicky suddenly saw the swarm of all these helicopters,
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Speaker 1: These military style helicopters go right up around this craft
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Speaker 1: they were escorting it, and then the craft and all
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Speaker 1: these helicopters took off into the horizon and disappeared. After
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Speaker 1: they were all gone, Vicky realized that what she had
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Speaker 1: just witnessed was not the Second Coming of Christ because
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Speaker 1: of these military helicopters that arrived as this craft took off.
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Speaker 1: It told Vicky and also Betty that very likely this
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Speaker 1: was just a US military exercise of some sort. And
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Speaker 1: so a few moments later, Betty came back to the
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Speaker 1: car and sat in the driver's seat, and Vicky she
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Speaker 1: climbed back into her seat and lifted Colby up to
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Speaker 1: the middle seat as well, and for a moment, the
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Speaker 1: three of them just sat there in silence. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing blocking their way anymore. They're just sort of
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Speaker 1: trying to process what just happened. Eventually, Betty just put
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Speaker 1: the car in drive and began driving straight ahead, crossing
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Speaker 1: right over that scorch mark on the pavement where the
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Speaker 1: craft had been. About forty five minutes later, Betty pulled
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Speaker 1: up to Vicky's house and parked the car. Vicky and Colby.
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Speaker 1: They got out, they said goodbye to Betty. They didn't
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Speaker 1: really talk about what they had just seen. They just
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Speaker 1: said good night, and then Vicky and Colby headed inside
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Speaker 1: the house, and as much as both of them did
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Speaker 1: have things to say about whatever it was they saw,
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Speaker 1: they just continued not to talk about it. They both
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Speaker 1: were just kind of eager to go to bed. However,
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Speaker 1: as Vicky was putting Colby to bed, he began to
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Speaker 1: complain that his stomach hurt, and at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Vicky began to realize that she also didn't feel very well,
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Speaker 1: and shortly after that, both of them were vomiting in
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Speaker 1: the bathroom, and this scared Vicky. You know. She tried
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Speaker 1: to tell herself that, you know, maybe the reason they
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Speaker 1: were sick is because they ate some bad food at
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Speaker 1: that truck stop, But deep down, Vicky was very concerned
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Speaker 1: that their nausea was somehow connected to that strange craft.
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Speaker 1: And so it was a very long night, with Vicky
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Speaker 1: and Colby being nauseous most of the time, but eventually
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Speaker 1: they both did fall asleep, and then when Vicky got
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Speaker 1: up the next morning, she still felt awful, and so
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Speaker 1: Vicky she rolled out of bed and made her way
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and when she looked at herself in
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Speaker 1: the mirror, she gasped her skin was bright red and blistered,
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Speaker 1: like she had had this horrible sunburn. At this point,
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Speaker 1: she knew whatever was going on here, it had to
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Speaker 1: do with that craft.
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Speaker 2: She just knew it.
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Speaker 1: And so Vicky instinctively rushed to Colby's room to check
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Speaker 1: on him to see if his skin was all blistered
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Speaker 1: and red, and she found he was still sleeping, but
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Speaker 1: she could see his skin was red and blistered in
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Speaker 1: some places, but not nearly as bad as Vicky's. And
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Speaker 1: so Vicky she began thinking about the night before, and
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Speaker 1: she remembered she had gotten out of the car and
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Speaker 1: gotten closer to the craft, so she was sort of
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Speaker 1: more exposed to the craft, if you will, than Colby,
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Speaker 1: who stayed in the car and tucked himself down underneath
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Speaker 1: the dashboard the whole time. And so maybe Vicky's exposure
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Speaker 1: to the craft was higher than Colby's, which is why
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Speaker 1: she looked worse. But as Vicky was thinking this through,
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Speaker 1: she remembered that Betty had actually stayed outside the car
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Speaker 1: for ten fifteen minutes, much longer than Vicky had the
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Speaker 1: whole time, just staring directly at this craft, and so
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Speaker 1: immediately Vicky was worried that, you know, if this is
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Speaker 1: what happened to me, I can only imagine what shape
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Speaker 1: Betty is in. And so Vicky ran to the phone.
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Speaker 1: She picked it up, and she dialed Betty's number, and
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Speaker 1: she listened, and it just kept on ringing and ringing.
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Speaker 1: Betty didn't answer. Now, at this point, Vicky was in
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Speaker 1: a full blown panic, not only because she was worried
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Speaker 1: about Betty, but also, you know, she doesn't really know
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Speaker 1: what's wrong with her or with Colby. She doesn't know
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Speaker 1: if their sickness is going to get worse or better. Currently,
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Speaker 1: she felt horrible, she was nauseous, her skin seemed to
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Speaker 1: be practically falling off. Colby was in less bad shape,
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Speaker 1: but still not healthy. And also Vicky didn't have the
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Speaker 1: money to even go to the doctor to get looked at.
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Speaker 1: And so as much as Vicky really wanted right now
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Speaker 1: to just go check on Betty, go drive to her
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Speaker 1: house and check on her, she couldn't. She needed to
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Speaker 1: focus on herself and her grandson first and make sure
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Speaker 1: they were okay before she did anything else. And so
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Speaker 1: over the next few days, Vicky and Colby stayed home.
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Speaker 1: They slowly regained their strength, and over those few days,
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Speaker 1: Vicky actually would get Betty on the phone and Betty
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Speaker 1: would tell her that, yes, she's also dealing with similar symptoms,
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Speaker 1: but she was okay, which was very reassuring to Vicky. However,
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Speaker 1: Vicky also knew that Betty was not a complainer, and
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Speaker 1: even if she did have horrendous symptoms, she was not
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Speaker 1: the type of person who would necessarily tell Vicky. She
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Speaker 1: would sort of tough it out. Finally, after five days,
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Speaker 1: Vicky felt strong enough to go check on Betty in person. However,
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Speaker 1: when she got to Betty's house and went inside, she
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Speaker 1: called out for Betty, but there was no answer. The
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Speaker 1: house was eerily quiet, and so Vicky began walking around
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Speaker 1: Betty's house looking for Betty, and eventually Vicky walked down
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Speaker 1: a hallway and reached Betty's bedroom and the.
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Speaker 2: Door was shut.
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Speaker 1: Vicki called out for Betty, but there was no answer
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Speaker 1: from inside, and so, feeling kind of scared at this point,
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Speaker 1: Vicky reached down, she turned the handle and opened the door,
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Speaker 1: and immediately she saw Betty on her bed, and Betty
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Speaker 1: looked horrible. She was barely conscious. Her entire body was
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Speaker 1: red and blistered and bleeding. There was vomit all over
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Speaker 1: the bed sheets, and there were all these huge clumps
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Speaker 1: of Betty's hair littering her pillow, and so Vicky was horrified.
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Speaker 1: She rushed inside. She scooped her friend up, and between
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Speaker 1: the two of them that kind of hobbled out of
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Speaker 1: the house. Vicky put Betty in her car and they
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Speaker 1: sped to the hospital. A few hours later, Vicky was
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Speaker 1: waiting in the emergency room where Betty was being treated
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Speaker 1: when Betty's doctor walked into the waiting room, at which
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Speaker 1: point Vicky stood up and rushed over to him and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on with Betty? You know what happened to her?
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Speaker 1: What's going on? But the doctor just shook his head
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Speaker 1: and said, you know, your friend, her skin is literally
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Speaker 1: peeling off, her face in sheets, and there are blisters
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Speaker 1: breaking out all over her body. He told Vicky that
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Speaker 1: her symptoms reminded him of radiation poisoning. However, he also
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Speaker 1: told Vicky that that was basically impossible. You know, for Betty,
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Speaker 1: a woman who lives in rural Texas, you know, where
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Speaker 1: would she go to come in contact with something that radioactive.
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Speaker 1: It just seemed not possible, so that couldn't be it.
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Speaker 1: But Vicky, when she heard this, felt like she knew
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Speaker 1: exactly how Betty came in contact with something highly radioactive.
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Speaker 1: It had to be that craft, and so, without even
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Speaker 1: thinking about it, Vicky began pouring out the story of
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Speaker 1: how her and Betty had seen this light and then
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Speaker 1: this craft appeared on the road and it was shooting fire,
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Speaker 1: and then it flew off with helicopters all around it.
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Speaker 1: But as she was wrapping up her story, Vicky suddenly
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Speaker 1: in early February of nineteen eighty one, Vicky was at
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Speaker 1: her kitchen table with the phone pressed to her ear.
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Speaker 1: written to, to try to tell him about the strange
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Speaker 1: aircraft she had seen that made her friend sick. But
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Speaker 1: Vicky did not have high hopes about this phone call
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Speaker 1: because she had already been ignored so many times by
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Speaker 1: so many people when it came to the story. So
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Speaker 1: by this point, Vicky and her grandson Colby had basically
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Speaker 1: recovered from their nausea and their burns. However, Betty had
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Speaker 1: not recovered.
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Speaker 2: She was still.
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Speaker 1: Cycling in and out of the hospital, She was in
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Speaker 1: constant pain, she still had burns all over her and
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Speaker 1: in fact, because of all these symptoms, she had had
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Speaker 1: to move in with her brother. Now, Vicky was certain
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Speaker 1: that all these symptoms Betty had were radiation sickness caused
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Speaker 1: by the radiation from this aircraft. They came in contact with,
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Speaker 1: but it was like everybody they told about this aircraft
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Speaker 1: didn't believe them. Just then, Vicky heard a woman's voice
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Speaker 1: break through the hold music. It was the local senator secretary,
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Speaker 1: and so Vicky quickly explained why she was calling and
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Speaker 1: why she really wanted to talk to the local senator.
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Speaker 1: But the secretary just told Vicky that, yep, she'll pass
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Speaker 1: this along to the senator and he'll be in touch,
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Speaker 1: and then she hung up, And for Vicky, this was
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Speaker 1: the moment she snapped. She felt like trying to navigate
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Speaker 1: the proper channels to try to figure out what this
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Speaker 1: aircraft was and what happened to Betty was not working
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Speaker 1: because clearly nobody was taking her seriously, and so Vicky
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Speaker 1: slammed the phone down and just sat there, frustrated, having
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Speaker 1: no idea what to do. But as she sat there,
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Speaker 1: Vicky remembered there was actually one place she had not
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Speaker 1: called yet, specifically because she didn't want to call this place.
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Speaker 1: It was a UFO research center, and Vicky hadn't called
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Speaker 1: because she did not believe the craft she had seen
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Speaker 1: was a UFO. She believed it was a military aircraft
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Speaker 1: because she had seen the helicopters escorting it away, and
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Speaker 1: that made the most sense. It had to be military.
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Speaker 1: But if she called the UFO Research Center and people
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Speaker 1: found out about that, it would make her look even
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Speaker 1: crazier because now she's claiming the craft was aliens or something.
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Speaker 1: But now Vicky felt like she had run out of options,
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Speaker 1: so she picked up the phone, grabbed the piece of
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Speaker 1: paper with a number.
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Speaker 2: On it, and dialed.
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Speaker 1: A couple days later, a scientist named John Schusler drove
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Speaker 1: down the winding wooded Highway into Huffman, Texas. He was
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Speaker 1: going to meet up with Vicky. John was an aerospace
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Speaker 1: engineer for NASA. However, he also spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: time investigating UFO sightings. Vicki's call to that UFO Research
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Speaker 1: Center had created a lot of excitement in the UFO community,
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Speaker 1: and the story had eventually found its way to John,
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Speaker 1: who decided he would take on the case. Now, to
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Speaker 1: be clear, John was not into researching UFO sightings in
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Speaker 1: order to prove they really happened. Actually it was sort
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Speaker 1: of the opposite. He would look into reported UFO sightings
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Speaker 1: in order to prove they were not UFOs. He would
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Speaker 1: find a rational, scientific explanation that debunked the sighting. That's
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Speaker 1: sort of what he did. And so with Vicky's case,
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Speaker 1: that was his intention to go to Huffman Texas, talk
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Speaker 1: to Vicki, and explain away with science and rationale what
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Speaker 1: happened here, that this was not you know, aliens, this
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Speaker 1: was something ordinary, like a government aircraft. And so John
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Speaker 1: eventually got to Vicky's house and he went inside and
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Speaker 1: he chatted with Vicky, and she talked him through all
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Speaker 1: the details of the story, and then eventually they both
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Speaker 1: left Vicky's house. They hopped in their respective cars and
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Speaker 1: headed out to go to the actual site where this
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Speaker 1: had happened. And when they got there and John got
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Speaker 1: out of the car, he didn't need Vicky to direct
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Speaker 1: him to the specific site, because right in front of
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Speaker 1: him was this really obvious black circle right in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the road, as if the road itself had
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Speaker 1: been melted and then reslidified and actually looked different. And
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Speaker 1: Vicky said, that's where it was, that's where the craft
17:36
Speaker 1: was hovering. Those marks are from the craft. Now, this
17:39
Speaker 1: was great evidence that a craft really had been here,
17:42
Speaker 1: but John wanted more. He needed to figure out what
17:44
Speaker 1: kind of craft this really was, and so he told
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Speaker 1: Vicky he was going to leave and go canvass the
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Speaker 1: area for witnesses, and he told her he would keep
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Speaker 1: her updated.
17:52
Speaker 2: So Vicky left and John drove.
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Speaker 1: Up the road until he reached some campsites and farmhouses,
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Speaker 1: and John systematically went from door to door and tent
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Speaker 1: asking anybody if they had seen or heard any aircraft
18:04
Speaker 1: or anything strange on the night of December twenty ninth. Now,
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Speaker 1: going into this, John didn't really know what to expect
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Speaker 1: from these people he was asking. I mean, he's some
18:12
Speaker 1: random scientists showing up uninvited at people's homes asking if
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Speaker 1: they'd seen strange lights in the sky. However, every single
18:19
Speaker 1: person he spoke to said that yes, they had seen
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Speaker 1: that aircraft on December twenty ninth. However, they were obviously
18:26
Speaker 1: just farther away than Vicki and Betty and Colby had been.
18:29
Speaker 1: So now John felt like he had enough information to
18:32
Speaker 1: speak directly with military officials. However, when he contacted all
18:36
Speaker 1: the military bases in the area, all those officials he
18:39
Speaker 1: spoke to told him absolutely that on December twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: there were zero military operations happening. John found this very
18:47
Speaker 1: frustrating because to him, it seemed very clear that these
18:50
Speaker 1: officials were just lying to him, but what they were
18:53
Speaker 1: lying about and why was unclear. So John actually went
18:57
Speaker 1: to these military bases to speak to the officials face
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Speaker 1: to face, and when he did, he showed them all
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Speaker 1: the witness testimonies saying what they had seen on December
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Speaker 1: twenty ninth, and he also told them that with his
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Speaker 1: own eyes he had seen the black scorched mark on
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Speaker 1: the pavement where the pavement seemed to have literally melted
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Speaker 1: in a ring and re solidified from the heat of
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Speaker 1: this craft. And to John, I mean that scorch mark
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Speaker 1: almost proved something had been there, very likely a military craft.
19:26
Speaker 1: But all these military leaders, despite hearing this and hearing
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Speaker 1: John's testimony, they just said, you know what, you can
19:32
Speaker 1: gather up all the evidence you think you have here,
19:34
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. It doesn't prove that we were
19:36
Speaker 1: in the area. There was no military craft there that night.
19:39
Speaker 1: And so the bottom line was the military was adamant
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Speaker 1: they were not involved, and so the case really began
19:45
Speaker 1: to stall. John went home, but he couldn't stop thinking
19:48
Speaker 1: about the case, and so he kept in touch with
19:50
Speaker 1: his witnesses and periodically checked him with military officials, but
19:54
Speaker 1: nothing seemed to change, except that Betty continued to get
19:57
Speaker 1: sicker and sicker, and Vicki actually began to develop other
20:00
Speaker 1: serious symptoms, like developing cataracts in one of her eyes.
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Speaker 1: And then John got a frantic call from one of
20:06
Speaker 1: his witnesses. They told him they had just seen something
20:10
Speaker 1: truly incredible, and as John listened to the story, he
20:13
Speaker 1: felt his heart sink because now he knew the military
20:16
Speaker 1: had been lying to him about being out there on
20:19
Speaker 1: December twenty ninth. Clearly they had been, and very likely
20:22
Speaker 1: it was their aircraft that had made Betty, Vicky and
20:26
Speaker 1: Colby so sick. But now John also knew that any
20:29
Speaker 1: hope he had of proving this was now literally gone,
20:32
Speaker 1: because the witness told him that black government vehicles had
20:36
Speaker 1: rolled up to the incidents site out on that road,
20:39
Speaker 1: and they had come along with construction vehicles, and for
20:42
Speaker 1: no clear traffic related reason, they had cut up one
20:45
Speaker 1: particular stretch of that road, taken it with them, and left.
20:49
Speaker 1: And that particular stretch of road that was removed just
20:53
Speaker 1: happened to be the exact spot where that scorch mark
20:57
Speaker 1: had been left by the craft. It was like they
20:59
Speaker 1: were taking the evidence and getting rid of it. Now,
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Speaker 1: John himself was not able to literally go back to
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Speaker 1: the road and see for himself where the pavement had
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Speaker 1: been cut. However, not long after John learned this information,
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Speaker 1: a group of UFO scientists descended on the road to
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Speaker 1: find this scorch mark, or to prove it had been
21:17
Speaker 1: cut out and taken away like the witness had said.
21:19
Speaker 1: And sure enough, when they got out there, they didn't
21:22
Speaker 1: find the scorch mark. Instead, they found nice, fresh, brand
21:26
Speaker 1: new pavement. The strange event that Vicky, Betty, and Colby
21:29
Speaker 1: experienced on the night of December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty
21:33
Speaker 1: is widely considered to be one of the most famous
21:35
Speaker 1: and credible UFO sightings of all time. It's now known
21:38
Speaker 1: as the cash Land Room Incident after Betty and Vicki's
21:41
Speaker 1: last names, and to this day, nobody has been able
21:44
Speaker 1: to come up with a rational explanation for what happened
21:47
Speaker 1: if it wasn't a UFO. To this day, the US
21:50
Speaker 1: government maintains that they did not have any military operations
21:53
Speaker 1: happening on December twenty ninth. However, they did say when
21:57
Speaker 1: it comes to cutting out the road and paving over it,
22:00
Speaker 1: that that was just for routine maintenance. They were not
22:02
Speaker 1: trying to hide evidence. As for Vicky and Betty, over
22:05
Speaker 1: the years, their health continued to deteriorate. They ultimately filed
22:09
Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the government, but because they couldn't actually
22:12
Speaker 1: prove that the aircraft even existed or that it caused
22:15
Speaker 1: their health problems, their lawsuit was ultimately dismissed. Both women
22:19
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22:22
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22:26
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