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I Thought the End of the World Had Come! Ten Truly Weird UFO Encounters of the Second Kind · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, my name is Preston Dennett and welcome to
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Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for joining me, I truly appreciate it. Today
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking about UFO encounters of the
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Speaker 1: second kind, cases where UFOs affect the environment or the
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Speaker 1: witness in some way. I've done a few episodes on this.
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Speaker 1: I think these kinds of cases are important because they
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Speaker 1: contain physical evidence in support of a person's encounter. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of cases like these, and I think they
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Speaker 1: deserve more attention. The title of today's episode is, I
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Speaker 1: Thought the End of the World Had Come, 10 Truly
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Speaker 1: Weird UFO Encounters of the Second Kind. These cases stretch
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Speaker 1: from 1943 all the way to 2016, so some historical cases,
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Speaker 1: some that are quite recent, and of course they come
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Speaker 1: from all over the world. So we'll be going on
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Speaker 1: a journey across the planet today exploring these cases, including
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Speaker 1: such locations as England, France, Northern Ireland, Tasmania, Malaysia, California, Illinois, Iowa, Texas,
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Speaker 1: and Utah. Again, these cases have really good evidence that
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Speaker 1: usually falls into four categories, which include physiological effects, animal reactions,
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Speaker 1: landing traces, and electromagnetic disturbances. And we will see all
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Speaker 1: of those in the cases that I present to you today.
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Speaker 1: Let's get started. First case I want to talk about, ICALL,
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Speaker 1: I shall always remember. This occurred in October 1943 at
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Speaker 1: some location outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. I like
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Speaker 1: this case because it's a very early case. and the
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Speaker 1: effects that the UFO had on the environment are quite unusual.
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Speaker 1: This case comes from first-hand witness James P. Sharp, who
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Speaker 1: in the early 1940s owned a ranch about 55 miles
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Speaker 1: southeast of Salt Lake City. One evening around sundown in
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Speaker 1: October 1943, he drove along U.S. Route 40. He was
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Speaker 1: alone and in a hurry. As he traveled, he made
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Speaker 1: various turns and was traveling north when, as he says,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, I stopped. And when I did, I
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Speaker 1: looked to the northwest and saw over the top of
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Speaker 1: a mountain the brightest star I have ever seen. I
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Speaker 1: pulled onto Highway 30, then 40, and went a short
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Speaker 1: distance west, and then turned northwest and could see that object,
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Speaker 1: which was very bright. I drove possibly a half mile,
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Speaker 1: and then put on dark glasses so that I could
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Speaker 1: see what it was. So this object was so bright,
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Speaker 1: he had to put on sunglasses to see it clearly.
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Speaker 1: And although the object was, as James estimated, about 10
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Speaker 1: miles away, it continued to move closer until he could
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Speaker 1: see that it was some type of airship. And it
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Speaker 1: looked to him like it might be on fire. As
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Speaker 1: James says, So I pulled off the road as I
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Speaker 1: was sure it was attempting to land on the highway.
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Speaker 1: I could see a very bright light, almost like welders
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Speaker 1: use when they cover their eyes with a dark mask.
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Speaker 1: I judged it to be about five feet across, and
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Speaker 1: surrounding this was a real bright red light, like a
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Speaker 1: hot iron. And then I saw it was throwing up
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Speaker 1: sparks in the sky, reminding me of the sparks or
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Speaker 1: balls from Roman candles. Whatever it was, it was rotating.
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Speaker 1: So this object was moving closer and closer, and before long,
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Speaker 1: it appeared to James to be about three miles away
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Speaker 1: and still moving closer. There was a hamburger stand along
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Speaker 1: the road about a quarter mile ahead, and in mere moments,
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Speaker 1: the object reached that building. And this is when James
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Speaker 1: noticed a very unusual effect, which turned this encounter from
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Speaker 1: a simple sighting, a close encounter of the first kind,
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Speaker 1: to a close encounter of the second kind, where it
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Speaker 1: affects the environment. As James says, it, the UFO, reached
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Speaker 1: this house, and I could see the suction pulling hay, straw,
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Speaker 1: and small bushes and whirling them around behind whatever it was.
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Speaker 1: I could hear no sound. Then, with a sound like
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Speaker 1: a jet of today, it came up about 30 feet
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Speaker 1: above the road and covered the car with trash of
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Speaker 1: all kinds. I felt the car rocking, and I thought
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Speaker 1: it would tip over, but it did not. So now
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Speaker 1: the object moved off, and as it did, James exited
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Speaker 1: his car and saw this object moving over to a
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Speaker 1: mountain about 10 miles to the southeast and lighting it
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Speaker 1: up like daylight. He got back in his car after
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Speaker 1: the UFO had gone, drove about five miles when he
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Speaker 1: was stopped by a man holding a red lantern, and
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Speaker 1: this man asked him where he was when this object passed.
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Speaker 1: And as James says, I told him. Then he said,
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Speaker 1: Keep still about what you saw for the time being.
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Speaker 1: We have located it. My car was a mess of sticks, hay, straw,
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Speaker 1: and bushes, and the running boards were covered with gravel
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Speaker 1: sucked up from the side of the road. So that
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Speaker 1: was the end of the encounter, but it was an
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Speaker 1: experience that James would never forget. As James says, with
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Speaker 1: dark glasses on, was a very beautiful sight, one I
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Speaker 1: shall always remember. Such an interesting case. To me, the
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Speaker 1: most important aspect of that case is how early it occurred. 1943,
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Speaker 1: well before the modern age of UFOs. So I think
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Speaker 1: we can discount any possibility of that being a reverse
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Speaker 1: engineered craft in my assessment. Also an important takeaway, I think,
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Speaker 1: is how this craft, or whatever it was, lifted up
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Speaker 1: the debris. I suspect that there's electromagnetic fields of some
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Speaker 1: kind surrounding these craft, anti-gravity perhaps, and that's what caused
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Speaker 1: all the debris to be lifted up. Such an unusual
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Speaker 1: case of a close encounter of the second kind. So
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Speaker 1: now let's move to the next one, which I call
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Speaker 1: a terrible experience. This one occurred on June 28, 1947
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Speaker 1: in Waterloo, Iowa. And this, I think, is an interesting
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Speaker 1: case because it occurred right at the very beginning of
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Speaker 1: this massive UFO wave that swept across the United States
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Speaker 1: and the world and affected the witness in quite an
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Speaker 1: unusual way. This very early case first appeared in the Waterloo,
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Speaker 1: Iowa Sunday Courier newspaper and was later published by Jan
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Speaker 1: Aldrich in his paper, Project 1947. a preliminary report on
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Speaker 1: the 1947 UFO sighting wave. Jan says it is one
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Speaker 1: of the first reported cases of physiological effects involving UFOs.
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Speaker 1: It was June 28, 1947, at the very beginning of
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Speaker 1: this massive UFO wave that would introduce the entire world
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Speaker 1: to the extraterrestrial presence. It was around 1.30 a.m. when Mr. J.E. Johnston,
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Speaker 1: a concession stand operator decided to go down to his
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Speaker 1: basement to check on his plumbing. The basement was accessible
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Speaker 1: only from the outside of the house. So after he
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Speaker 1: finished checking the plumbing, Mr. J.E. went outside and was
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Speaker 1: going to go into the house when he was startled
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Speaker 1: to see a bright, shiny, circular object swooping down across
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Speaker 1: his yard about 25 feet away from him. He estimates
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Speaker 1: it was 12 feet wide, almost flat in appearance. Now,
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Speaker 1: seeing the object was shocking enough, but it was how
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Speaker 1: it affected Mr. J.E. 's body that would leave a
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Speaker 1: lasting impression. As he says, It stunned me, not from
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Speaker 1: the sight of it, but almost as if some ray
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Speaker 1: that it gave out. I could hardly get into the house.
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Speaker 1: I was numb from head to feet. The object made a, quote,
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Speaker 1: rocket-like swishing sound and thankfully moved off, as the witness says,
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Speaker 1: at terrific speed. But the witness was still physically affected
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Speaker 1: by whatever kind of electromagnetic field this object had produced.
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Speaker 1: He had to stumble into the house where his wife,
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Speaker 1: a nurse, confirmed his condition. He was suffering pains in
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Speaker 1: his chest. He had difficulty raising his arm. And this
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Speaker 1: condition persisted through the following day. And the witness is
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Speaker 1: convinced that it was the UFO that caused this and
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Speaker 1: that it was something unusual. As he says, was too
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Speaker 1: close to the ground to be an airplane. It was
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Speaker 1: a terrible experience. It numbed me from head to foot.
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Speaker 1: Definitely an alarming case in how this witness was affected negatively,
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Speaker 1: physiologically speaking. I do wonder if that craft was occupied
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Speaker 1: or not because it appears to be quite small. But again,
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Speaker 1: so early, I find it hard to believe that this
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Speaker 1: could be human-made way back then. Don't know for sure.
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Speaker 1: While the investigator believed that this was probably the first
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Speaker 1: physiological effect reported by a witness, we now know that
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Speaker 1: there are earlier cases of this. But it's a cautionary
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Speaker 1: tale here. Perhaps don't get too close to a UFO.
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Speaker 1: Not that the witness had any choice. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: appeared in his backyard. Very interesting and unusual close encounter
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Speaker 1: of the second kind. Alright, now let's move to the
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Speaker 1: next case, which actually got quite a bit of publicity
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Speaker 1: and falls into that category of someone driving along a
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Speaker 1: remote highway at night when they have an encounter. I
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Speaker 1: call this one, I Was Scared to Death. This occurred
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Speaker 1: on April 20, 1950 in Lufkin, Texas. It is a
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Speaker 1: single witness case, but again, with physical evidence in support
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Speaker 1: of the gentleman's encounter. This case was first published in
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Speaker 1: the Lufkin, Texas Daily News in an article titled, Man
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Speaker 1: Who Scoffed at Flying Saucers Sees One Up Close. It
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Speaker 1: was later picked up by other newspapers and was widely
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Speaker 1: published in a number of books. The case took place
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Speaker 1: at 9 p.m. on April 20, 1950. The witness is
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Speaker 1: Jack Robertson, a 28-year-old pharmacist and part owner of a
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Speaker 1: drug store in Lufkin, Texas. He was married with three children,
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Speaker 1: and he was an avowed UFO skeptic. So he was
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Speaker 1: driving alone in his 1942 sedan about nine miles west
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Speaker 1: of Lufkin on Highway 94 at about 40 miles per
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Speaker 1: hour when he started to get a strange, quote, feeling
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Speaker 1: that something was following him. Then, without any other warning,
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Speaker 1: A bright red glowing craft of some kind appeared ahead
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Speaker 1: of him on the road, about 600 feet up. And
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Speaker 1: as Jack says, it was about eight feet across. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell how deep it was because it was too
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Speaker 1: dark to see the top, if it had any. And
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Speaker 1: it glowed like iron in the fire with a dull
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Speaker 1: red color. The bottom of the object was rounded like
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Speaker 1: a globe. It looked sort of like aluminum. It appeared
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Speaker 1: to be going about the same speed I was. Realizing
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Speaker 1: he was seeing something truly strange, Jack followed it for
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Speaker 1: only a short distance before he decided to stop the car.
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Speaker 1: And as he says, I was scared to death. I
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Speaker 1: pulled over to the side of the road and stopped.
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Speaker 1: Then I got out of the car and crawled up
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Speaker 1: on the fender to get a better look. Now to
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Speaker 1: his shock, the object then loomed forward and hovered directly
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Speaker 1: over his head. And as Jack says, the bottom was
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Speaker 1: only about 12 feet from me. The object then stayed
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Speaker 1: there for only a few seconds before taking off. You
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Speaker 1: can now see fiery sparks coming out from a small
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Speaker 1: slot on the bottom of this craft. As Jack says,
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Speaker 1: it made a whooshing roar when it took off. So
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Speaker 1: this object quickly climbed upward at an angle and moved
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Speaker 1: off into the distance and was gone. Jack got back
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Speaker 1: in his car and kept driving, and he noticed nothing
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Speaker 1: unusual until about five minutes later when he began to
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Speaker 1: feel a burning sensation on his face. Going home, his quote,
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Speaker 1: sunburned condition was verified by his family. And Jack discovered
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Speaker 1: that not only was his face burned, but so was
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Speaker 1: his chest. And as Jack says, I didn't feel any
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Speaker 1: burn until about five minutes after it was gone. Then
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Speaker 1: it began to hurt. I don't believe the sparks burned me,
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Speaker 1: but something did. What I'm wondering about is whether anybody
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Speaker 1: also saw the thing. I never saw one before. I
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Speaker 1: thought they were hallucinations, just as other people have thought.
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Speaker 1: But I believe in them now. I saw one. There
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Speaker 1: you go. Another close encounter of the second kind. This
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Speaker 1: gentleman received a sunburn. What amounts to a sunburn from
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Speaker 1: the UFO? So many cases like that. What's to me
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Speaker 1: so unusual about this case is the gentleman stops his
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Speaker 1: car and climbs up on top to get a closer look.
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Speaker 1: And what does the UFO do? It approaches him even closer.
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Speaker 1: And it was this, I think, that caused the sunburn.
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Speaker 1: And it shows, once again, that there is some sort
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Speaker 1: of electromagnetic field around these objects. And I really wonder
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Speaker 1: what the intention was behind this. Was this UFO just
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Speaker 1: showing itself off? Was it trying to convince the witness
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Speaker 1: that UFOs are real and we're not alone? Pure speculation,
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Speaker 1: of course. But if that's the intent, it was certainly
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Speaker 1: effective because this prior skeptic was left believing in UFOs.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's move to the next case. We're going
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Speaker 1: all the way to Northern Ireland in this one. I
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Speaker 1: call this one Split the Tree in Two. This occurred
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Speaker 1: on December 31st in 1958 in Port Glenone, Northern Ireland.
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Speaker 1: This is a single witness case, but the evidence this
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Speaker 1: encounter left behind is absolutely undeniable. This case was widely
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Speaker 1: published in various newspapers and got a lot of attention,
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Speaker 1: eventually making its way to UFO publications such as Flying
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Speaker 1: Saucer Review and the APRO Bulletin. The sole witness is
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Speaker 1: Joseph Bennett, a farmer from Port Glanone Antrim in Northern Ireland.
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Speaker 1: This is a small town of about 450 people, and
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Speaker 1: the incident occurred on the afternoon of December 28, 1958.
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Speaker 1: I'll just quote Joseph directly, as he says, Yesterday afternoon
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Speaker 1: I was out walking in my fields when suddenly there
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Speaker 1: was a strange noise in the sky. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was a rush of wind. Then I saw this thing,
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Speaker 1: big and black, and about seven feet across. It came
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Speaker 1: hurtling through the air about twenty feet above the ground.
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Speaker 1: So it was coming in his direction and appeared to
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Speaker 1: be descending and getting closer. So Joseph ducked down and
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Speaker 1: watched in amazement as this object headed directly for a
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Speaker 1: row of oak trees that divided his property line from
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Speaker 1: his neighbor's farm. As Joseph says, it came from the
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Speaker 1: south and traveled northwest. Then it hit a 40-foot-high oak tree,
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Speaker 1: splitting it in two. It sliced through the two-foot-thick trunk
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Speaker 1: about eight feet from the base. It had vanished by
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Speaker 1: the time the tree crashed to the ground. In a
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Speaker 1: matter of seconds, it disappeared into the sky. It looked
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Speaker 1: like a small black cloud giving off a hissing sound.
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Speaker 1: It passed right through the tree, which crashed and proceeded
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Speaker 1: on its way at the same speed as if nothing
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Speaker 1: had happened. That tree came down with a terrible crash.
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Speaker 1: It was going so fast that I could not tell
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Speaker 1: whether it was a solid object or not. It was
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Speaker 1: going at many times the speed of a jet plane.
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Speaker 1: So after this occurred, Joseph did share his experience with
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Speaker 1: the local townsfolk. Some believed him, some didn't. Robert told
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Speaker 1: all who disbelieved, quote, come and see my tree. Now,
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Speaker 1: there was no denying that this tree was broken, and
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Speaker 1: in an unusual way. Soon, researchers showed up on the scene.
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Speaker 1: Like the tree, investigators were split into two different camps.
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Speaker 1: Those who believed Joseph's tree had been split by a UFO,
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Speaker 1: as Joseph maintained, and those who thought that it was
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Speaker 1: something natural. Among the first investigators on the scene was
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Speaker 1: Terence Nonweiler, an astronautical engineer from Queens University. After examining
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Speaker 1: the tree and not finding any scorch marks, he did
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Speaker 1: rule out lightning as a cause. And he did note
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Speaker 1: that there were some signs of rotting in the trunk
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Speaker 1: where it had broken off. But he also found four
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Speaker 1: distinct marks on the bark, three on the trunk and
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Speaker 1: one on the large branch, all in a perfect line
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Speaker 1: which corresponded to where Joseph had seen the object striking
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Speaker 1: the tree. So he came away impressed that something unusual
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Speaker 1: had happened, but he stopped short of calling it an
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Speaker 1: actual UFO. Now later, forestry expert Arthur Simpson from the
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Speaker 1: Belfast Ministry of Agriculture's Forestry Division examined samples of the
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Speaker 1: tree under a microscope and he found evidence of disease.
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Speaker 1: And his conclusion, clearly disregarding Joseph Bennett's testimony, was that
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Speaker 1: the damage was caused by a whirlwind. A spokesman noticed
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Speaker 1: that the tree was heavily branched at the top and
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Speaker 1: said that, quote, a sudden gust of wind was all
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Speaker 1: it needed. However, they did admit that the cleanness of
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Speaker 1: the break was unusual. They speculated that a fungus might
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Speaker 1: have developed an irregular pattern, and they denied finding any
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Speaker 1: evidence of impact damage. Not everyone, it seemed, had a theory. Dr.
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Speaker 1: Ian Lindsay of Armagh Observatory speculated that a water spout
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Speaker 1: downed the tree, stating that historically water spots had been
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Speaker 1: reported coming from the direction where the object had traveled from.
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Speaker 1: Needless to say, the witness, Joseph Bennett, rejects these theories, saying,
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Speaker 1: The object was not rotating, nor did it give me
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Speaker 1: the impression that it was a whirlwind, as apart from
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Speaker 1: the stricken oak tree, it disturbed nothing else. Alfred Connolly,
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Speaker 1: the actual owner of the tree, says that the damage
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Speaker 1: to the tree looks as if something solid tore into
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Speaker 1: it and adds, quote, Mr. Bennett is a most reliable witness.
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Speaker 1: If he says he saw a black flying object, you
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Speaker 1: can be sure that he saw it. What an unusual case.
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Speaker 1: I do know of a few other cases where UFOs
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Speaker 1: have damaged trees, but not one where it cleanly chopped
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Speaker 1: it in half. So that makes this case unique. What's
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Speaker 1: amazing to me is how people bend over backwards to
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Speaker 1: try to explain this. Everything from a whirlwind to a
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Speaker 1: water spout, or maybe the tree's just rotting and it
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Speaker 1: fell over. Really completely disregarding the testimony of the witness,
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Speaker 1: Joseph Bennett. Who knows better than anyone else what happened
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Speaker 1: because he saw this thing. Almost sounds like a missile,
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Speaker 1: but clearly couldn't be a missile with this thing that
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Speaker 1: low to the ground and continuing on off into the distance.
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Speaker 1: So it was something. It's technically a UFO. Perhaps a
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Speaker 1: UFO in distress. I really don't know. But an important
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Speaker 1: addition to the catalog of close encounters of the second kind.
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Speaker 1: Now let's move to the next case. This one is
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Speaker 1: really poignant, really unusual. I call this one, I Learned
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Speaker 1: to Fly. This technically involves two incidents, one which occurred
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Speaker 1: in 1960, the other in 1978 in Chiffnall, England. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: a very unusual case. This case comes from pioneering, long-time,
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Speaker 1: highly respected paranormal researchers Janet and Colin Borde. It was
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Speaker 1: published in the November 1978 issue of Northern UFO News
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Speaker 1: and in Volume 24, Number 5, issue of Flying Saucer Review.
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Speaker 1: The sole witness is a gentleman by the name of
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Speaker 1: David Busby. His story does involve two distinct, yet clearly connected,
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Speaker 1: very odd UFO encounters. The first encounter occurred on a
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Speaker 1: summer day in 1960 when David was five or six
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Speaker 1: years old. He was playing alone in a cornfield near
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Speaker 1: his cottage home in Chiffnall, England. At the time, the
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Speaker 1: corn reached up to the level of his chest. Suddenly
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Speaker 1: and without warning, David found himself, quote, floating off the ground.
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Speaker 1: He estimates that he was about 15 feet above the ground.
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Speaker 1: He felt no fear, and as a young child might do,
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Speaker 1: he accepted this unusual event with excitement and thought to himself,
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Speaker 1: I've learned how to fly. Moments later, and still levitating
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Speaker 1: and flying around, he looked up and saw, quote, a
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Speaker 1: great big round disc. He said it was totally silent.
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Speaker 1: He said it appeared to be metallic, and he remembers
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Speaker 1: being very impressed by its large size. Having heard of
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Speaker 1: flying saucers, he immediately realized that he was actually seeing one.
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Speaker 1: He still felt no fear, but apparently he may have
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Speaker 1: had missing time because the next thing he remembered was
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Speaker 1: as being lowered to the ground and falling asleep. He
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Speaker 1: woke up about two hours later. He rushed home and
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Speaker 1: told his mom that he had seen a flying saucer
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Speaker 1: and learned how to fly. Naturally, his mother was skeptical,
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Speaker 1: and he remembered nothing else about this strange incident. About
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Speaker 1: years later, another encounter would spark his memory of this
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Speaker 1: early childhood encounter. It was about 14 or 15 years later.
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Speaker 1: David was now 20 years old and employed as a
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Speaker 1: builder And he still lived in the same cottage in Schiffmall, England.
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Speaker 1: And I'll just let David describe what happened. As he says,
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Speaker 1: It was a night about the end of July, 1975.
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Speaker 1: I was walking up the track to my home about
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Speaker 1: 11 p.m. It was a clear, warm night when I
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Speaker 1: saw a very bright ball of light in the sky.
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Speaker 1: It was about 20 yards across, and circling around it
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Speaker 1: were three saucer-shaped objects, each about 15 yards across. a
22:32
Speaker 1: blue one, a red one, and a green one. Each
22:36
Speaker 1: were sending flashes of light to the ball-shaped object in
22:39
Speaker 1: their own colors. This happened for about 15 minutes. Then
22:43
Speaker 1: the three objects started moving across the sky side by side,
22:47
Speaker 1: but the ball didn't move. These three saucer shapes just
22:51
Speaker 1: kept going backwards and forwards, as if they were looking
22:54
Speaker 1: for something. After about half an hour, the bright ball
22:57
Speaker 1: of light started pulsating. and it sent out three beams
23:01
Speaker 1: of light to the saucers. As they hit the saucers,
23:04
Speaker 1: they turned into the same colors as the saucers. At
23:08
Speaker 1: that moment, the saucers shot across the sky and into
23:12
Speaker 1: the big ball of light, which then spun around very fast,
23:16
Speaker 1: and it went all colors, like a Catherine wheel, and
23:19
Speaker 1: then it shot off across the sky like a fireball. Now,
23:23
Speaker 1: for those who don't know, a Catherine wheel is a
23:25
Speaker 1: type of spinning firework that shoots off sparks And David
23:30
Speaker 1: added that as this weird UFO display occurred, he could, quote,
23:34
Speaker 1: sense an awful lot of power, like there was like
23:37
Speaker 1: an electric atmosphere in the air. He said that right
23:41
Speaker 1: before this ball of light left, it turned white in color,
23:45
Speaker 1: became so hot that he could feel the heat, even
23:48
Speaker 1: though he was at least 600 feet away from it.
23:51
Speaker 1: It made no sound, and he estimates that the entire
23:54
Speaker 1: experience lasted about one hour, which is a pretty long time.
23:59
Speaker 1: Now perhaps related to all of this is that David
24:01
Speaker 1: also reports other minor sightings of unexplained lights in the
24:05
Speaker 1: area and a few odd psychic experiences, such as one
24:09
Speaker 1: time the door in his home moved by itself accompanied by, quote,
24:14
Speaker 1: a very, very cold feeling all around. Another time he
24:19
Speaker 1: said he had an OBE following an accident. He also
24:22
Speaker 1: said that he sometimes experiences precognition and premonitions of future events.
24:29
Speaker 1: A final strange event is that when Janet Board was
24:31
Speaker 1: recording the interview with the witness, the tape mysteriously malfunctioned,
24:37
Speaker 1: causing them to lose part of the interview. Janet and
24:40
Speaker 1: Colin were both impressed by the young man's sincerity and write,
24:45
Speaker 1: We do not feel that Dave made up the events
24:48
Speaker 1: he described to us. We could not detect any signs
24:51
Speaker 1: of lies or exaggeration, nor can we think of any
24:54
Speaker 1: reason why he should fabricate such stories. I think you'll
24:58
Speaker 1: agree that's a pretty unusual case, the kid levitating and
25:02
Speaker 1: then seeing a UFO. To me, I think that that's
25:06
Speaker 1: a strong indication that perhaps he was taken on board
25:10
Speaker 1: and was actually being levitated by the UFO, which certainly
25:13
Speaker 1: qualifies as a close encounter of the second kind. Wouldn't
25:17
Speaker 1: surprise me if he was taken on board. Interesting that
25:20
Speaker 1: he has another encounter some years later. So I think
25:24
Speaker 1: perhaps he is a contactee. That second encounter does sound
25:28
Speaker 1: like a UFO display where UFOs are putting on sort
25:31
Speaker 1: of a show for the witness. I don't know, but
25:35
Speaker 1: definitely a very unusual case. Now let's move to the
25:38
Speaker 1: next one. This one has a lot of unique and
25:41
Speaker 1: unusual elements to it. I call this one the UFO
25:45
Speaker 1: and the Missing Pig. This actually took place over a
25:48
Speaker 1: period of days in the spring of 1968 in Centralia, Illinois.
25:54
Speaker 1: It's a multiple witness case involving animal effects, weird physiological effects,
26:00
Speaker 1: and landing traces. This case comes from MUFON researcher Terry
26:04
Speaker 1: Turner and was published in the September 1972 issue of
26:08
Speaker 1: the Skylook Journal. The witnesses include many members of a
26:12
Speaker 1: farm family near Centralia, Illinois. They have requested anonymity, so
26:17
Speaker 1: I'll just call them the Smithson family. The case involves
26:20
Speaker 1: a series of unusual incidents. The first odd event occurred
26:25
Speaker 1: about 1 a.m. one morning in May. Mrs. Smithson said
26:29
Speaker 1: that she was awakened by strange activity on the lights
26:32
Speaker 1: of the electric fence charger. So she got out of
26:36
Speaker 1: bed and went outside to investigate, and she was amazed
26:39
Speaker 1: to see that the entire area around the house was
26:42
Speaker 1: bathed by a brilliant orange-white light coming from above. Looking up,
26:47
Speaker 1: she saw an object moving in from the northwest, which
26:51
Speaker 1: then hovered almost directly above the house. No sooner had
26:55
Speaker 1: she noticed it when it moved off to a location
26:57
Speaker 1: just east of the house, and it remained there, hovering
27:01
Speaker 1: for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. She then watched it
27:05
Speaker 1: until this glowing object moved to the south of the house,
27:08
Speaker 1: hovered for about five minutes, and then vanished. She never
27:12
Speaker 1: saw any solid object, just this brilliant orange-white light. With
27:16
Speaker 1: the object now gone, she went back to bed. And
27:19
Speaker 1: that seemed to be the end of it. But in truth,
27:22
Speaker 1: it was just the beginning. Now here's where it gets interesting,
27:25
Speaker 1: because the next morning, she woke up and had only
27:28
Speaker 1: a fuzzy recollection of the sighting, and wondered if perhaps
27:31
Speaker 1: she had dreamt the whole thing. But going outside, she
27:34
Speaker 1: quickly discarded this dream theory, and she now saw something incredible.
27:39
Speaker 1: There was a line of trees running from east to west,
27:42
Speaker 1: just northwest of their house, and she now saw that
27:45
Speaker 1: whatever that brilliant object was, it had burned a distinct
27:48
Speaker 1: pathway through the trees. In fact, all the leaves on
27:52
Speaker 1: the trees were wilted and soon died, as if they
27:54
Speaker 1: had been scalded. And this pathway was precisely the pathway
27:58
Speaker 1: she had seen this object arriving over the house. Furthermore,
28:03
Speaker 1: the trees near a hog pen east of the house,
28:06
Speaker 1: this is where the light had hovered for about 10
28:07
Speaker 1: to 15 minutes, also showed signs of being burned. And
28:12
Speaker 1: in fact, three of the trees died completely. And then
28:16
Speaker 1: another strange thing happened. All the Smithson children missed school
28:20
Speaker 1: that day because as they soon discovered, every single clock
28:25
Speaker 1: and watch in the house were five minutes slow. Nobody
28:29
Speaker 1: could explain this other than the presence of the UFO
28:32
Speaker 1: the night before. And still, events weren't over yet. Examining
28:37
Speaker 1: their farm further, they discovered that one of their brood
28:40
Speaker 1: sows had disappeared from the hog pen. This was the
28:44
Speaker 1: same pen which the glowing object had hovered over for
28:47
Speaker 1: about 10 to 15 minutes. And the weird part was,
28:51
Speaker 1: there was no evidence that the hog had broken out
28:53
Speaker 1: of her pen, and the Smithsons were absolutely confident that
28:57
Speaker 1: nobody else could have stolen the hog without them knowing.
29:00
Speaker 1: The only explanation pointed towards the UFO. It was one
29:05
Speaker 1: month later that Mr. Smithson and his friend or just
29:08
Speaker 1: a short distance northwest of the farmhouse when a hat-shaped
29:12
Speaker 1: solid craft appeared overhead a short distance away. This craft
29:17
Speaker 1: had portholes which were lit by a brilliant white light
29:20
Speaker 1: coming from within the craft and it had red and
29:23
Speaker 1: white lights on either side of the craft. This craft
29:26
Speaker 1: was moving in a curved pattern from west to north
29:29
Speaker 1: when they first saw it, but it then immediately stopped, hovered,
29:33
Speaker 1: and retraced its route the way it had arrived and
29:37
Speaker 1: disappeared among the trees. During this whole time it was
29:40
Speaker 1: emitting a high-pitched whining sound. Meanwhile, back at the farmhouse, Mrs.
29:46
Speaker 1: Smithson didn't see the UFO, but at the time of
29:49
Speaker 1: this sighting, the whole house shook as if struck by
29:52
Speaker 1: a sonic boom, and she could also hear this weird
29:56
Speaker 1: high-pitched whining sound. She did look out the window to investigate.
30:00
Speaker 1: This window was open, and she felt some, quote, invisible substance,
30:05
Speaker 1: which seemed to float in through the window and onto
30:08
Speaker 1: her arms. This caused a burning and tingling sensation, and
30:12
Speaker 1: she became so dizzy that she had to sit down
30:15
Speaker 1: for a few minutes until these adverse effects passed away.
30:19
Speaker 1: I have to wonder why the UFO was so interested
30:22
Speaker 1: in that farmhouse. We do see a lot of cases
30:25
Speaker 1: where UFOs show interest in farms. perhaps because of the
30:29
Speaker 1: animals that got the pig, perhaps that's what it came for,
30:33
Speaker 1: but if that's why, why did it return? A really
30:37
Speaker 1: well documented case in terms of there being not only
30:42
Speaker 1: a missing animal, but the physiological effects, the landing traces,
30:47
Speaker 1: very hard to deny that something really unusual happened. Also
30:51
Speaker 1: interesting is that the UFO came, was there for just
30:54
Speaker 1: a short period of time, and then off it went,
30:56
Speaker 1: Apparently that family never saw a UFO again. Very odd.
31:01
Speaker 1: All right, now let's move to the next case, which
31:04
Speaker 1: I call, I Thought the End of the World Had Come.
31:09
Speaker 1: This occurred on September 16, 1974 in St. Helens, Tasmania.
31:15
Speaker 1: I did an episode recently, UFO Cat and Mouse Games,
31:19
Speaker 1: where cars are being chased down the highway. This one
31:22
Speaker 1: kind of fits in that category because there is a
31:25
Speaker 1: couple of episodes of that, this is really much more dramatic.
31:30
Speaker 1: In this case, it appears this UFO was picking on
31:32
Speaker 1: this one family and would not go away. This case
31:36
Speaker 1: was investigated by the Tasmanian UFO Investigation Center after hearing
31:41
Speaker 1: about the case in the Hobart Tasmanian newspaper, the Saturday
31:45
Speaker 1: Evening Mercury. It was later reprinted in the January 1975
31:49
Speaker 1: number 86 issue of the Skylake UFO Monthly Journal. The
31:55
Speaker 1: case took place on the night of September 16, 1974,
31:58
Speaker 1: and involves three primary witnesses, Andrea Richards, age 34, and
32:05
Speaker 1: her two young children, Janine, age 8, and Kathleen, age 5.
32:10
Speaker 1: But it also involves her husband, Brian. At the time
32:14
Speaker 1: of their encounter, they lived on a farm in a
32:16
Speaker 1: rural area near St. Mary's, Australia. It was about 9.15 p.m.
32:21
Speaker 1: as Andrea Richards and her two children We're driving southbound
32:25
Speaker 1: on the Anson Spar Road. This is about four to
32:28
Speaker 1: five miles north of St. Helens. This road is a
32:32
Speaker 1: very narrow gravel road in a remote area surrounded by forest.
32:37
Speaker 1: They had just passed over a bridge and were coming
32:40
Speaker 1: up a small hill when suddenly the car mysteriously lost power,
32:45
Speaker 1: the radio filled with static, and then the car's entire
32:48
Speaker 1: electrical system completely failed. The headlights, the dashboard lights, the heater,
32:54
Speaker 1: and the radio all were dead. Andrea tried repeatedly to
32:59
Speaker 1: restart the car, but nope, the car was completely dead. Suddenly,
33:03
Speaker 1: ahead of them on the road, they could see that
33:05
Speaker 1: the road and the fields next to it were brightly
33:08
Speaker 1: illuminated by something coming from above. And moments later, there
33:13
Speaker 1: was a powerful vibration, and a noise shook the car like, quote,
33:16
Speaker 1: 30 or 40 jets. She had no idea what was
33:21
Speaker 1: happening and was at a complete loss to explain it.
33:24
Speaker 1: As Andrea says, It was as though my head was
33:27
Speaker 1: splitting open. I thought the end of the world had come.
33:31
Speaker 1: She tried to block her ears with her hands, at
33:34
Speaker 1: which point a series of painful, quote, electrical shocks passed
33:38
Speaker 1: through her body, worse than any shock she had felt
33:41
Speaker 1: before from any household appliance. And it lasted for a
33:45
Speaker 1: full 60 seconds. Her face became numb. She smelled a
33:49
Speaker 1: powerful gassy odor, quote, stronger than any household gas. As
33:54
Speaker 1: Andrea says, I felt I just had to get out
33:57
Speaker 1: of the car. All I wanted was fresh air and
34:00
Speaker 1: to breathe properly. Meanwhile, five-year-old Kathleen was sleeping through the
34:05
Speaker 1: whole incident, but eight-year-old Janine felt the same sensations as
34:09
Speaker 1: her mother. She said the sound was, quote, deafening, and
34:13
Speaker 1: she wondered if perhaps the car had caught on fire. Together,
34:17
Speaker 1: they pulled Kathleen from the car, and seeing this strange
34:20
Speaker 1: glowing object in the sky, they abandoned the car completely
34:24
Speaker 1: and ran down the road. They had to run a
34:27
Speaker 1: full two miles to the home of Harvey Chappell. It
34:31
Speaker 1: took them about a half hour of running. Meanwhile, Harvey
34:34
Speaker 1: Chappell could clearly see that Andrea was badly traumatized, and
34:39
Speaker 1: after calming her down, Harvey and his brother Derek went
34:43
Speaker 1: to go investigate. They found the car right where she
34:46
Speaker 1: said it would be. There was no sign of any UFO.
34:50
Speaker 1: They did not smell any unusual odors. The car started
34:53
Speaker 1: up immediately and showed no signs of any damage. But, weirdly,
34:58
Speaker 1: the radiator was empty of water. Arriving home, they found
35:01
Speaker 1: her husband Richard waiting. He said that earlier he had
35:05
Speaker 1: seen a strange light and heard a loud roar, which
35:09
Speaker 1: he had first assumed was his wife coming home, but
35:12
Speaker 1: of course it turned out not to be her at all.
35:15
Speaker 1: and Richard insists that he kept his car in good
35:17
Speaker 1: condition and that the radiator was filled with water prior
35:21
Speaker 1: to this. Nevertheless, they took it to a mechanic who
35:24
Speaker 1: could find nothing wrong with it. Andrea, however, was still
35:28
Speaker 1: suffering physiological effects from this encounter. She could not walk
35:32
Speaker 1: the next day. Her arms, hands, and fingers swelled up,
35:36
Speaker 1: and it took a few days to return to normal.
35:38
Speaker 1: She also found a red mark over her right eyebrow,
35:41
Speaker 1: which took a long time to heal. Now it's just
35:45
Speaker 1: two nights later that the father, Brian, was driving home
35:49
Speaker 1: after visiting a neighbor and he saw an unusual light
35:52
Speaker 1: in the sky. As it moved towards him, he had
35:55
Speaker 1: the impression that it was actually attracted by his car headlights.
35:59
Speaker 1: This object proceeded to follow him on the 35-minute long
36:03
Speaker 1: drive all the way to his house. He maintained a
36:06
Speaker 1: height of about 2,500 feet during this time. And as
36:10
Speaker 1: he arrived home, this object zoomed down to a height
36:13
Speaker 1: of about only 80 feet, just above some trees about
36:17
Speaker 1: 300 feet away from the house. His wife Andrea, his
36:21
Speaker 1: daughter Janine, and his son Ricky, age 11, watched it
36:25
Speaker 1: through a window, and they described it as, quote, a
36:28
Speaker 1: vibrant egg, yellow in color. The young son, Ricky, became
36:32
Speaker 1: curious and started to go outside for a closer look,
36:35
Speaker 1: at which point the object immediately began to approach him.
36:39
Speaker 1: so his frightened family quickly dragged him back inside, and
36:42
Speaker 1: finally this object left. Afterwards, Brian was so shaken by
36:46
Speaker 1: this encounter that he vowed to purchase himself a high-powered gun, quote,
36:52
Speaker 1: for some protection. Andrea, his wife, says that the most
36:56
Speaker 1: frustrating part of the encounter was the aftermath of trying
36:59
Speaker 1: to convince people. As she told reporters, I'm hardly likely
37:03
Speaker 1: to make up a story like this. Why should I?
37:07
Speaker 1: We know what we've seen, but how can you get
37:09
Speaker 1: people to believe you? Now, interestingly, many other people in
37:13
Speaker 1: the area were reporting UFOs. In fact, just two weeks earlier,
37:18
Speaker 1: on the night of August 30, 1974, English professor Roger
37:23
Speaker 1: Brooks and a student, Gary Bensiman, were walking the dog
37:27
Speaker 1: at Scamander Beach, about 10 miles away from the above encounter,
37:32
Speaker 1: when they both saw a large saucer-shaped object with a
37:34
Speaker 1: dome on top and colored lights maneuvering around in the
37:38
Speaker 1: sky for over an hour was moving this weird darting
37:42
Speaker 1: pattern over the ocean. And a final case, probably related,
37:47
Speaker 1: occurred not far away in Hobart, Tasmania. This was just
37:51
Speaker 1: one month earlier in July of 1974. This case was
37:55
Speaker 1: also investigated by the Tasmania UFO Investigation Center and was
37:59
Speaker 1: written up in an article titled, Man Claims UFO Controlled Auto.
38:05
Speaker 1: by researcher and MUFON international coordinator Richard Hall. It was
38:09
Speaker 1: one evening in July 1974 when this witness and another
38:14
Speaker 1: man were driving from Hobart towards Campania and were in
38:18
Speaker 1: a very rural area when he and his passenger saw
38:21
Speaker 1: an oval-shaped object at low elevation. As the witness says,
38:26
Speaker 1: it seemed to be an oval. It didn't appear to
38:28
Speaker 1: have wings. It had a front top light, a red one,
38:32
Speaker 1: and this larger bottom light. We went along the highway
38:36
Speaker 1: and turned off. It hovered as we turned, and it
38:39
Speaker 1: seemed to keep pace with us. There seemed to be
38:41
Speaker 1: no noise. It was so queer. It was perfectly silent.
38:46
Speaker 1: So the witnesses sped up their vehicle, and of course
38:48
Speaker 1: the UFO matched their speed. And when they slowed down,
38:52
Speaker 1: so did the UFO. When they reached Campania's main road,
38:56
Speaker 1: where there were lots of houses and structures, the object
38:59
Speaker 1: immediately rose high up and moved some distance away. but
39:02
Speaker 1: when they moved back into a rural area where there
39:05
Speaker 1: were no homes, this object again descended and resumed pacing
39:09
Speaker 1: the car. As the witness says, after it came down again,
39:13
Speaker 1: I felt as if I was in its power, as
39:16
Speaker 1: if it was definitely going to take over the controls
39:18
Speaker 1: of the car. It was hard to steer. We did
39:21
Speaker 1: wander over to the right side of the road where
39:23
Speaker 1: the object was. To pull it back onto the right
39:26
Speaker 1: side of the road was quite an effort. I can
39:29
Speaker 1: remember that after it disappeared, my arms ached around the shoulders,
39:33
Speaker 1: so I was making quite an effort to keep the
39:35
Speaker 1: car where it should be. It seemed as if the
39:37
Speaker 1: car wasn't in my power. I can't imagine how terrifying
39:41
Speaker 1: that must have been for the mother and her two
39:45
Speaker 1: young children having to run away from their car which
39:49
Speaker 1: was no longer working on this rural road late at
39:52
Speaker 1: night with that UFO hovering there. And then this UFO
39:56
Speaker 1: coming back, following the father all the way to their home.
40:00
Speaker 1: Very strange. Again, this did occur during a wave of
40:03
Speaker 1: sightings in that area. So that's clearly connected to that.
40:07
Speaker 1: But I think it's undeniable that they were picking on
40:09
Speaker 1: this family for whatever reason. Definitely an intense close encounter
40:16
Speaker 1: of the second kind. So now let's move to the
40:19
Speaker 1: next case. We're going to France now. I call this
40:22
Speaker 1: next case, I Was Very Astonished. This occurred on September 26,
40:27
Speaker 1: 1975 in Assevant, France. This is a multiple litmus case
40:33
Speaker 1: involving animal reactions, electromagnetic effects. It's somewhat controversial, but a
40:40
Speaker 1: really close-up sighting of a very unusual UFO. This case
40:45
Speaker 1: was originally published in the French publication Nostradamus, but was
40:49
Speaker 1: later reprinted in the July 1976 issue of the Mufon
40:53
Speaker 1: UFO Journal in an article by researcher Richard Hall titled,
40:57
Speaker 1: Giant UFO and Satellite Object with EM Effects in France.
41:02
Speaker 1: The primary witness is Michael Satzi, age 33. He was
41:07
Speaker 1: an aeronautics reserve lieutenant in the Air Force who served
41:10
Speaker 1: eight years as an officer instructor at NATO bases with
41:15
Speaker 1: tours of duty in both Germany and the US. Richard
41:18
Speaker 1: Hall calls him, quote, an unusually well-qualified witness. It was
41:23
Speaker 1: around 9 p.m. on the night of September 26, 1975,
41:26
Speaker 1: that the witness, Michel, was in the living room of
41:30
Speaker 1: his home working on a radio-controlled model helicopter. His hobby
41:35
Speaker 1: is flying radio-controlled model aircraft. His wife and his friend
41:39
Speaker 1: were also there, His friend decided to leave for his
41:42
Speaker 1: own house for the evening, but after exiting the house,
41:45
Speaker 1: he came rushing back inside to see that there was
41:48
Speaker 1: an unusual-looking orange light in the sky to the north.
41:51
Speaker 1: This was in the direction of the La Salmanie Airport
41:55
Speaker 1: and not far from the border of Belgium. So Michel
41:58
Speaker 1: and his wife and friend rushed back outside, and together
42:01
Speaker 1: they watched this unusual object. Intrigued, Michel and his friend
42:06
Speaker 1: decided to go investigate. Michel grabbed a camera, whistled for
42:10
Speaker 1: his dog. Normally his dog loves to take car rides,
42:14
Speaker 1: but very strangely the dog refused to get into the car.
42:18
Speaker 1: So together Michael and his friend drove off. They were
42:22
Speaker 1: driving along side roads trying to get closer to this object.
42:25
Speaker 1: There was nothing but farm fields around them. In about
42:28
Speaker 1: five minutes they found a side road that afforded the
42:31
Speaker 1: closest possible view from a road. But as they drove
42:34
Speaker 1: down this road trying to get closer, Their car motor
42:38
Speaker 1: suddenly died and they rolled to a stop. They could
42:41
Speaker 1: now see a few other cars on the road ahead
42:43
Speaker 1: of them also stopped. The headlights were all off. None
42:47
Speaker 1: of the occupants in those cars got out. But still curious,
42:51
Speaker 1: Michel and his friend exited their car and began to
42:54
Speaker 1: hike across the fields towards this object. The family came
42:58
Speaker 1: to a hedge. They estimated at this point that they
43:01
Speaker 1: were less than 1,000 feet away from this strange craft.
43:05
Speaker 1: Michelle's friend decided to stop there, but Michelle was curious,
43:09
Speaker 1: and he pushed through his hedge to get closer, and
43:12
Speaker 1: he could now see that this object was about 800
43:14
Speaker 1: to 900 feet wide, hovering maybe 60 to 70 feet
43:19
Speaker 1: up in the air. It glowed with a dull orange-colored light.
43:23
Speaker 1: Michael immediately lifted his camera and began to snap photographs
43:27
Speaker 1: of the object. The moment he did so, this object,
43:31
Speaker 1: as if in response, began to move. It started to
43:34
Speaker 1: rock slightly, like a boat on the waves is how
43:37
Speaker 1: the witness described it. This allowed him to see what
43:40
Speaker 1: appeared to be a row of lights or portholes, slightly
43:43
Speaker 1: brighter and lighter than the craft itself, around the perimeter circumference.
43:48
Speaker 1: It looked to him like the entire craft was spinning
43:50
Speaker 1: very slowly in a counterclockwise direction. This rocking motion also
43:55
Speaker 1: allowed him to see that the object was a perfect
43:58
Speaker 1: disc shape, except for the presence of a much smaller
44:01
Speaker 1: cone-shaped object which was resting on the top center of
44:05
Speaker 1: the craft, narrow and downwards. Without warning, this cone-shaped object
44:10
Speaker 1: detached itself from the top of the craft and proceeded
44:14
Speaker 1: to rise slowly upwards to a height of just over
44:17
Speaker 1: 300 feet, and then it moved horizontally off to the left.
44:21
Speaker 1: Michelle remained watching this original craft when suddenly the cone-shaped
44:25
Speaker 1: object reappeared and entered inside the craft, though Michelle could
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Speaker 1: not see any openings where this object went inside. Now,
44:34
Speaker 1: at this point, the craft stopped its rocking motion, the
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Speaker 1: portholes or lights disappeared, the orange glow of the craft brightened,
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Speaker 1: and the object started off at intense speed. As Michelle says,
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Speaker 1: I was very astonished. That machine was not moved by
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Speaker 1: known propulsion methods, air screws or jets. I noticed neither sound,
44:56
Speaker 1: nor wind, nor smoke, nor heat at the time it
44:59
Speaker 1: took off. So at this point, Michel and his friend
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Speaker 1: returned to their car, which now apparently worked, as they
45:04
Speaker 1: drove home. Michel later developed the photographs and was very
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Speaker 1: disappointed to see that none of them came out. None
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Speaker 1: of them showed this UFO. Later, French researcher Jean-Marie Bijorn
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Speaker 1: looked into the case, and it was his conclusion that
45:20
Speaker 1: Michel and his friend were deluded and had seen nothing
45:24
Speaker 1: but the flames of a blast furnace off in the distance.
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Speaker 1: He apparently ignored the detailed description of the witness, seeing
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Speaker 1: a solid craft with portholes, this other object that detached,
45:35
Speaker 1: and of course the electromagnetic effects. So needless to say,
45:39
Speaker 1: Michel rejects this explanation wholeheartedly. And as he says, I
45:43
Speaker 1: keep asking myself what it was I saw that evening.
45:47
Speaker 1: All I know is that it was a flying machine,
45:50
Speaker 1: or two flying machines. that made use of a perfectly
45:53
Speaker 1: astounding technology. A pretty amazing observation. And I find it
45:59
Speaker 1: very hard to believe, despite what that other researcher says,
46:03
Speaker 1: that this gentleman misperceived a blast furnace or whatever, given
46:08
Speaker 1: that all the cars have been basically affected by the
46:13
Speaker 1: presence of this UFO, including the witness's own car. He
46:16
Speaker 1: was quite close up to this object. It had portholes.
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Speaker 1: It was clearly a solid object. released a smaller object.
46:23
Speaker 1: So that explanation from that other researcher simply doesn't hold water.
46:27
Speaker 1: And I find it hard to just disregard the testimony
46:31
Speaker 1: of this witness, who apparently is quite credible. So there
46:35
Speaker 1: you go. Another amazing close encounter of the second kind.
46:39
Speaker 1: Cases have a lot to unpack to them. All right,
46:43
Speaker 1: now we move to the next case, which I call
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Speaker 1: Don't Touch the UFO. This occurred on May 30, 1979
46:51
Speaker 1: in Kampong Naga Lilit in Malaysia. This is a very
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Speaker 1: small village. There are three witnesses. I think this is
47:00
Speaker 1: probably my favorite case because this UFO is so unusual
47:05
Speaker 1: and how the witnesses reacted to it is so unusual
47:08
Speaker 1: and how the UFO reacted to the witnesses is very unusual.
47:12
Speaker 1: So let's get to this case. This very alarming and
47:16
Speaker 1: unusual case was published in the Bing Tang Timer newspaper
47:19
Speaker 1: in Penang, Malaysia. It was also published in the February
47:23
Speaker 1: 1980 issue of the Mufan UFO Journal in an article titled,
47:28
Speaker 1: Three Boys Found UFO Near Cattle Shed, which was submitted
47:32
Speaker 1: and translated into English by Malaysian researcher Ahmad Jamaluddin. It
47:38
Speaker 1: was May 26, 1979, as the three boys found Vijaya Kumaran,
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Speaker 1: age 14, A. Kumar, age 15, and K. Humerlingam, age 10,
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Speaker 1: were playing near a cattle shed in this small village
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Speaker 1: at Kampung Naga Lilit. Suddenly they saw a strange craft approaching.
47:59
Speaker 1: It was round like a platter. It had three landing
48:02
Speaker 1: legs coming out from the bottom and was shooting out brilliant,
48:05
Speaker 1: colorful beams of light. It was reportedly very small, though
48:09
Speaker 1: the exact dimensions were not described. But as Vijaya, one
48:12
Speaker 1: of the witnesses, says, While we were playing, we saw
48:16
Speaker 1: an unidentified flying object moving slowly about one and a
48:19
Speaker 1: half feet from the ground. The object emitted rays in
48:23
Speaker 1: various colors, which shone into the eyes. It had three
48:26
Speaker 1: landing gears, but all three legs of the object did
48:29
Speaker 1: not touch the ground. So he was curious about the object,
48:33
Speaker 1: and he approached it, and in fact he was about
48:36
Speaker 1: to touch it. when suddenly a beam of intensely bright
48:39
Speaker 1: light came out from the rim of the craft and
48:41
Speaker 1: struck his eyes, dazzling his eyes and causing pain and
48:45
Speaker 1: causing his vision to temporarily darken. So he stepped back,
48:49
Speaker 1: and following this, 10-year-old K. Vumarlingam tried to step forward
48:54
Speaker 1: and touch the object, and of course it sent out
48:57
Speaker 1: another beam of light which struck the boy in the
49:00
Speaker 1: eyes with the same physical effects. Incredibly, after this, 15-year-old A.
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Speaker 1: Kumar also tried to touch the object. And no surprise,
49:10
Speaker 1: he was also struck by a beam of light from
49:12
Speaker 1: the object and also felt pain and suffered temporary vision loss.
49:17
Speaker 1: At this point, the object then zoomed towards the three
49:20
Speaker 1: boys at great speed, and they immediately fled the area,
49:24
Speaker 1: screaming for help. At the time, there were two adults,
49:27
Speaker 1: 27-year-old A. Muniandi and 41-year-old cowherd Raja Kumar, who were
49:34
Speaker 1: in the area. They listened to the boys spilling out
49:37
Speaker 1: their story. Raja Kumar went to the site where the
49:41
Speaker 1: boys had been, and he was amazed to see this
49:43
Speaker 1: small object moving slowly into the nearby jungle. And as
49:47
Speaker 1: he says, I was afraid to follow the object into
49:50
Speaker 1: the jungle after hearing this story from the students. Now, interestingly,
49:55
Speaker 1: one year earlier in April 1978, numerous people in Kampong Potama,
50:01
Speaker 1: this is only 15 miles away, reported seeing strange orange
50:05
Speaker 1: star-like lights hovering at low elevation over the rice paddy fields.
50:09
Speaker 1: And this went on for five nights in a row.
50:12
Speaker 1: What an unusual case that is. And I think it's
50:15
Speaker 1: a cautionary tale. Do not get too close to a
50:18
Speaker 1: UFO and certainly don't try to touch one. It's amazing
50:22
Speaker 1: to me that these kids tried to reach out and
50:25
Speaker 1: touch this UFO and I can't blame it for sending
50:28
Speaker 1: out a beam of light to keep them away. Yes,
50:31
Speaker 1: they were physiologically affected in a negative way, but it
50:35
Speaker 1: wasn't permanent. So I couldn't call this a hostile action.
50:39
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I would call it friendly either, but
50:41
Speaker 1: it's a really unusual close encounter of the second kind that,
50:45
Speaker 1: as far as I know, is unique. Amazing. So now
50:49
Speaker 1: let's move to the last and final encounter in this compilation.
50:53
Speaker 1: I call this next one, We Couldn't Move. This one
50:57
Speaker 1: occurred on June 10, 2016, in Oceanside, California. I like
51:03
Speaker 1: this case because it's a dozen witnesses. They are children, but...
51:08
Speaker 1: With a dozen witnesses, it's hard to discount this. It's
51:11
Speaker 1: a very close-up sighting of a solid craft during daylight hours.
51:17
Speaker 1: So that also makes it quite significant because those kinds
51:20
Speaker 1: of cases are pretty rare. And the way it affected
51:23
Speaker 1: the environment is really unusual, meaning the kids. This final
51:27
Speaker 1: case was reported to New Fork, the National UFO Reporting Center,
51:32
Speaker 1: and was later investigated by New Fork researcher Keith Bickford.
51:37
Speaker 1: The witness is known only by her first initial, J,
51:40
Speaker 1: so I've just given her the pseudonym Jane. This case
51:44
Speaker 1: involves an extraordinary daylight, multiple witness, very close encounter with
51:49
Speaker 1: some very unusual details. It was about 3 or 4 p.m.
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Speaker 1: on June 10, 2016, a bright sunny day, as Jane
51:57
Speaker 1: and about 10 other young children played on the small
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Speaker 1: playground at the Country Villas Apartments, located at 283 Douglas
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Speaker 1: Drive in Oceanside, California. Without warning, a strange object appeared
52:12
Speaker 1: hovering at very low elevation, directly over the apartment building
52:16
Speaker 1: and the adjacent parking lot. Jane happened to look up.
52:20
Speaker 1: She believes that she was the first one to see
52:22
Speaker 1: this strange object, and she immediately alerted the other children.
52:27
Speaker 1: She estimates that this object was about 50 to 100
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Speaker 1: feet long, roughly disc-shaped, and was studded with red, blue,
52:35
Speaker 1: and green lights. It looked to her as if mist
52:38
Speaker 1: or gas was swirling around it. She couldn't tell how
52:41
Speaker 1: many lights there were on this object as it was
52:43
Speaker 1: spinning very quickly. But she could see a dome on top,
52:48
Speaker 1: and she states that other than the lights, the craft
52:50
Speaker 1: appeared to be dark-colored on the outer section, though the
52:54
Speaker 1: inner section looked grayish with strange black symbols on it.
52:58
Speaker 1: She wondered if perhaps the red, blue, and green lights
53:01
Speaker 1: were not actually attached to the ship, but were orbs
53:04
Speaker 1: spinning around it. And she estimates it was no more
53:07
Speaker 1: than 50 feet high. Seeing this craft, Jane and the
53:11
Speaker 1: other children immediately ran towards it. But as soon as
53:15
Speaker 1: they started to get close to it, they all found
53:17
Speaker 1: themselves completely paralyzed. And that's not all. As Jane says,
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Speaker 1: I and the other children saw it, and we ran
53:25
Speaker 1: towards it. We were drawn towards it. We got at
53:28
Speaker 1: least 10 feet away from the object before we could
53:30
Speaker 1: no longer move. We froze and stared as if we
53:34
Speaker 1: couldn't move. I felt numb. I don't believe I even blinked.
53:38
Speaker 1: We all just stood there frozen in the same position,
53:41
Speaker 1: feeling a vibrational sensation inside. It sat there as if
53:46
Speaker 1: watching us. Nobody seemed to react. Some of the kids
53:50
Speaker 1: were actually frozen in a running position. Nobody could move
53:53
Speaker 1: anything except their eyes. and they all just stood there
53:56
Speaker 1: in amazement. Jane also reports the well-known Oz effect, adding
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Speaker 1: that time itself seemed distorted. As Jane says, there was
54:06
Speaker 1: no sound, no noise. There wasn't even the sound of
54:09
Speaker 1: an engine. I don't know how much time went by.
54:12
Speaker 1: It didn't feel as if time was still going. I
54:15
Speaker 1: was being paralyzed. It wasn't natural. As the witnesses watched,
54:19
Speaker 1: the cloudy mist surrounding the object became thicker and larger,
54:23
Speaker 1: finally obscuring the craft which then suddenly and promptly disappeared.
54:28
Speaker 1: Jane did not see it move away. It was just gone.
54:30
Speaker 1: And as soon as it disappeared, everyone was able to
54:34
Speaker 1: move normally. Jane says that at no time did she
54:37
Speaker 1: feel any fear associated with the encounter. She does believe
54:40
Speaker 1: there might have been missing time. Jane did tell a
54:43
Speaker 1: few people about it, including a relative who was in
54:46
Speaker 1: the military, and he told her that it could have
54:48
Speaker 1: been a missile and advised her, quote, not to say anything.
54:53
Speaker 1: Not surprisingly, Jane completely rejects the missile hypothesis, as this
54:56
Speaker 1: object was very close, totally silent, hovered in place, and
55:01
Speaker 1: caused all the witnesses to become temporarily paralyzed. She is
55:05
Speaker 1: not sure how long the observation lasted, but estimates that
55:08
Speaker 1: it might have been about 30 minutes, and she also
55:11
Speaker 1: again wonders if there may have been missing time associated
55:14
Speaker 1: with this, because she says that following the event, she
55:17
Speaker 1: began to experience a kind of sleep paralysis at night,
55:21
Speaker 1: And she would see dark figures in her room at
55:23
Speaker 1: night as she fell asleep. She also reports this very
55:27
Speaker 1: strong feeling of being watched. It was eight years after
55:31
Speaker 1: the encounter. Now an adult, she reported it to the
55:34
Speaker 1: National UFO Reporting Center, writing, It wouldn't hurt to investigate.
55:39
Speaker 1: It's been driving me crazy. And after investigating the case
55:43
Speaker 1: and interviewing Jane, researcher Keith Bickford writes, I am classifying
55:48
Speaker 1: this as an anomalous sighting. How amazing is that? Such
55:53
Speaker 1: a close-up sighting of a very unusual-looking object. And the
55:58
Speaker 1: witness describing the way time seemed to stop or slow
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Speaker 1: down and everything becoming quiet is, of course, as we know,
56:06
Speaker 1: the Oz effect. Something very unusual is going on in
56:10
Speaker 1: cases like these. I think it's quite possible that there
56:13
Speaker 1: was missing time, as the witness possibly inferred, And given
56:18
Speaker 1: that she had some very unusual encounters afterwards with visitors
56:24
Speaker 1: in her room, it sounds like this was the initiation
56:27
Speaker 1: of much deeper levels of contact. But it's a good case. Again,
56:32
Speaker 1: not only during daylight hours, the close-up and telecraft, but
56:36
Speaker 1: the case was thoroughly investigated by an experienced researcher. So
56:41
Speaker 1: it's an important addition to the catalog of close encounters
56:44
Speaker 1: of the second kind. So there you go, 10 cases
56:48
Speaker 1: from all over the world. This category of cases is
56:52
Speaker 1: quite important, again, with all the evidence that they produce
56:56
Speaker 1: from electromagnetic effects and animal reactions and physiological effects and
57:02
Speaker 1: landing traces. People who say that there is no evidence
57:06
Speaker 1: for this subject have simply not done their homework. So
57:11
Speaker 1: I hope you've enjoyed this episode. I truly appreciate you
57:14
Speaker 1: guys watching. Until next time, keep asking those hard questions.
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Speaker 1: Keep searching for the truth. Most important of all, keep
57:21
Speaker 1: having fun. And I hope to see you for another
57:22
Speaker 1: episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. I am signing off
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Speaker 1: for now.