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UFOs in Your Hometown Episode Ten · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, my name is Preston Dennett and thank you
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Speaker 1: for joining me for a new episode of UFOs and
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Speaker 1: the Paranormal. Guess what? It's time for another installment of
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Speaker 1: my ongoing series UFOs in Your Hometown. This one is
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Speaker 1: called UFOs in Your Hometown Episode 10. I really love
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Speaker 1: doing these episodes. Thank you guys so much for providing
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Speaker 1: so many different locations for me to explore. I always
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Speaker 1: learn a lot, not only geographically speaking, but all these
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Speaker 1: new cases, most of which I've never heard before, and
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Speaker 1: I think most people haven't heard before. And it really
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Speaker 1: does prove the point that UFOs are ubiquitous. They are
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Speaker 1: being seen everywhere. And in each of these locations, I'm
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Speaker 1: finding the full variety of encounters. Simple sightings, UFO landings,
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Speaker 1: face-to-face encounters with humanoids, Onboard experiences as well. Lots of
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Speaker 1: humanoids in this episode, so I think you might be
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Speaker 1: happy about that. They're certainly the most interesting, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: they are. But yeah, all kinds of UFO cases. I
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Speaker 1: found so many this time that I was really only
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Speaker 1: able to cover four different locations. So thanks, you guys,
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Speaker 1: for being so patient. Those of you who suggested these locations,
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Speaker 1: which are Slovakia, Really interesting stuff there. Also Covington, Kentucky. Chicago, Illinois.
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Speaker 1: And finally Sarasota, Florida. I would have liked to cover
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Speaker 1: more locations. Usually I cover about 8, maybe 10 locations
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Speaker 1: in one episode. But I found so much going on
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Speaker 1: in each of these locations that I had to kind
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Speaker 1: of stop there. So I think you'll find this super
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Speaker 1: interesting place because each of these locations not only have
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Speaker 1: all these different types of encounters, but the evidence supporting
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Speaker 1: these cases is amazing. Of course, lots involve multiple witnesses.
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Speaker 1: In some cases, we're talking hundreds of people seeing these things.
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Speaker 1: But there's also landing traces. There's physiological effects. There's animal reactions.
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Speaker 1: There's electromagnetic disturbances. There are alien artifacts. That's always super interesting.
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Speaker 1: radar returns, UFO photographs. So really some really compelling evidence
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Speaker 1: to support a good number of these cases. And we
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Speaker 1: will today be starting with Slovakia. I was really interested
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Speaker 1: to find what I could find here. This location comes
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Speaker 1: by the request of two people, Martina and LokiJack. So
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Speaker 1: thank you Martina and LokiJack. I was really curious what
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Speaker 1: kind of cases Slovakia would produce, and I was really
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Speaker 1: amazed and impressed. Because again, all different types of encounters,
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Speaker 1: some amazing humanoid encounters, on-board experiences, just so much going
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Speaker 1: on in Slovakia. I'm including Czechoslovakia and Slovakia together because
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Speaker 1: essentially they were at one time connected and are now adjacent.
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Speaker 1: But I think you'll find this pretty amazing. I certainly
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Speaker 1: hope so. The earliest case I could find in Slovakia
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Speaker 1: occurred in April of 1944. This report comes directly from
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Speaker 1: the witness, a physician, and he reported his experience to QFOS,
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Speaker 1: the Center for UFO Studies. He says it was late afternoon,
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Speaker 1: again in April of 1944. He was 20 years old.
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Speaker 1: This was wartime. an artillery fire was going off about
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Speaker 1: 30 kilometers to the west. And as the witness writes,
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Speaker 1: I was standing on a hill near my home when
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Speaker 1: a round object the color of a dark cloud suddenly
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Speaker 1: grew up to about two feet in diameter, traveling from
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Speaker 1: the left towards me on a trajectory and then getting
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Speaker 1: smaller as if going at an unbelievable speed to my right.
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Speaker 1: The total time of the sighting was less than a minute.
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Speaker 1: It moved at a steady speed and was followed by
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Speaker 1: another identical image flowing from the same pathway about 20
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Speaker 1: seconds later, and then another, starting as a pinpoint, so
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Speaker 1: that at least five of the objects were visible, starting
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Speaker 1: as a pinpoint, then growing, and again going on as
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Speaker 1: a pinpoint, all identical. I cannot be sure how many
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Speaker 1: there were. If I saw them from the first one,
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Speaker 1: which I think I did, there were seven of them,
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Speaker 1: possibly eight. I dismissed it as an optical illusion, although
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Speaker 1: this explanation bothered me right there and then. As a
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Speaker 1: 20-year-old would, I suppose, I did not tell anyone about it,
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Speaker 1: being afraid of ridicule. I suppose that I was one
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Speaker 1: of several or many people who cited it. Lots of
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Speaker 1: Soviet soldiers must have been looking in the same direction,
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Speaker 1: and the peasants east of the front were sowing in
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Speaker 1: the field, but nobody spoke of it that I heard.
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Speaker 1: So that's a strange encounter. He saw these small, dark
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Speaker 1: objects going off at very high speed, pretty low to
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Speaker 1: the ground, one after another. Hard to say what exactly
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Speaker 1: those were, but it certainly impressed him. Now here's another
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Speaker 1: one from 1944, and this is technically not a UFO encounter,
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Speaker 1: but could possibly be related. This is a discovery that
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Speaker 1: was made in 1944 during World War II by Tony Horak.
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Speaker 1: He's a Czechoslovakian soldier, and he had taken refuge in
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Speaker 1: a cave in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia. This is
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Speaker 1: now quite famous. Reportedly, at the back of this cave,
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Speaker 1: he found this huge, black, artificial steel metal looking wall,
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Speaker 1: 27 feet high, 20 feet wide, curved, totally smooth, Ted Phillips,
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Speaker 1: best known for doing studies on UFO landing traces, investigated
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Speaker 1: this case in depth, actually traveled to the location and
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Speaker 1: studied it. He says, and I quote, it looked almost
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Speaker 1: like looking in a mirror of steel, totally smooth, no seams,
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Speaker 1: no rivets, a huge structure shaped like a fat crescent
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Speaker 1: moon with seven foot thick walls that extended up beyond
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Speaker 1: the light of his torches. So there's quite a bit
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Speaker 1: written about this. This cave is allegedly in a very
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Speaker 1: remote location. Some people have tried to find it and
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Speaker 1: not been able to find it. But by all accounts,
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Speaker 1: it's totally real. Nobody knows what this structure is. It's
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Speaker 1: very old, apparently, because they did find the skeleton of
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Speaker 1: a cave bear right beneath it. So who knows? This
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Speaker 1: could be an ancient structure of some kind. indicating that
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Speaker 1: there were advanced civilizations far before ours, but I think
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Speaker 1: it deserves more studies before we can really form any
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Speaker 1: solid conclusions, but certainly very interesting. Now we move to
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Speaker 1: another case, November 16, 1959. It was around 8 p.m.
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Speaker 1: as a former fighter pilot and Air Force commander by
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Speaker 1: the name of Mr. Duchamp and another Air Force officer, Mr. Bazak,
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Speaker 1: were driving to an unnamed airfield in Czechoslovakia. They were
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Speaker 1: about 10 kilometers from their destination when their car mysteriously stalled. So,
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Speaker 1: of course, they got out to investigate, and both men
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Speaker 1: immediately saw this strange object racing across the sky. They
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Speaker 1: said it glowed this sapphire green color and moved much
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Speaker 1: faster than a jet and in perfect silence, heading directly
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Speaker 1: towards the airfield where they were going to. Now once
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Speaker 1: out of view, their car worked fine, so they had
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Speaker 1: the impression that whatever this object was, it was responsible
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Speaker 1: for their car stalling. They arrived at the airfield shortly later,
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Speaker 1: and they learned that at 8.05, this is just five
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Speaker 1: minutes after their encounter, the people at the airfield also
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Speaker 1: saw this object appear overhead, rotate, make a 90 degree turn,
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Speaker 1: then return back over the airfield, This object did appear
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Speaker 1: on radar, which showed an altitude of about 1,000 meters, 3,000 feet.
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Speaker 1: They said it was about twice the size of a
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Speaker 1: bomber aircraft, so quite large. There was an airplane ready
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Speaker 1: to go on the runway, but it became non-functional. At
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Speaker 1: this point, anti-aircraft gun officers and control tower staff all
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Speaker 1: observed the object through binoculars and could clearly discern that
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Speaker 1: this was a disc-shaped object. and they estimated it was
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Speaker 1: about 150 meters in diameter, or 450 feet, quite large. Now,
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Speaker 1: attempts were made to communicate with this object via radio
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Speaker 1: in the International Aviation Code. No response. They tried different languages,
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Speaker 1: including Russian and English, but no, whoever was in this
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Speaker 1: disk did not respond, and this entire sighting lasted about
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Speaker 1: two minutes. But it's a very well-verified, widely verified, viewed
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Speaker 1: case and one of many, many of UFOs seen over airports.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I did a previous episode focusing solely on
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Speaker 1: cases of UFOs over airports. And that one wasn't in
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Speaker 1: that episode. It's another addition to this type of case.
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Speaker 1: All right, moving along. Eight years later. December 1967. This
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Speaker 1: report is so interesting. It comes from Janet S. Polak, Ph.D.
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Speaker 1: She's an anthropologist from William Patterson College in Wayne, New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: And way back in 1971, she was conducting live fieldwork
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Speaker 1: in the Czech Republic, for her college dissertation. And while
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Speaker 1: she was doing this, she met someone from a very
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Speaker 1: isolated small village in the Majava foothills of Western Slovakia,
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Speaker 1: and they had an amazing story to tell her. They
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Speaker 1: told her that one evening in December of 1967, this
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Speaker 1: witness saw an object come over from a nearby hill
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Speaker 1: It swooped down at a low elevation and hovered in
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Speaker 1: complete silence just a few hundred feet above the village's
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Speaker 1: 300-year-old church. And while it was hovering there, it rotated
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Speaker 1: and tilted forward, which allowed the witness to see that
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Speaker 1: this was a classic flying saucer. Gray, metallic, it had
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Speaker 1: glowing portholes around the perimeter, a dome structure on top.
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Speaker 1: And when this object appeared, dogs in the area started
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Speaker 1: barking furiously. And this brought out all the people within
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Speaker 1: hearing distance to see this object as well. This object
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Speaker 1: tilted back and forth a few times and then suddenly
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Speaker 1: took off at very rapid speed. Now, Janet was able
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Speaker 1: to interview several of the witnesses, each of who confirmed
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Speaker 1: these same details. A really interesting case. The next case
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Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about occurred on New Year's Day,
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Speaker 1: January 1st, 1971. This case comes from researcher Dr. Nilos Jasensky.
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Speaker 1: He's contributed quite a lot of cases in Slovakia. There's
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Speaker 1: not much detail to this one, but it's certainly a
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Speaker 1: very interesting account. The anonymous witness reports that she, her cat,
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Speaker 1: and her friend were all spontaneously and suddenly pulled through
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Speaker 1: the window of her apartment in Kosice, Slovakia, and into
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Speaker 1: a UFO. Once inside, they kind of fell into what
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Speaker 1: they described as a trance-like state, and upon awakening, saw
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Speaker 1: that they were in a very different place, what they
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Speaker 1: perceived to be another planet. They were outside, the location
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Speaker 1: where they stood was completely covered with ice, they couldn't
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Speaker 1: see any sun or moon, and while standing there, three,
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Speaker 1: what they described as attractive female humanoids arrived, They were
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Speaker 1: all wearing silver suits, apparently human-looking. The witnesses were rendered
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Speaker 1: immobile and were kind of loaded onto a type of vehicle,
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Speaker 1: which they said was kind of like a sleigh, but different.
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Speaker 1: And at this point, the witness's memory ends. She says
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Speaker 1: she woke up the next morning back in her apartment
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Speaker 1: and had unusual pain all over her body. So that's
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Speaker 1: certainly an unusual case, to say the least. And here's another.
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Speaker 1: July 12, 1987. This could be perhaps the most famous
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Speaker 1: sighting in the Czech area. So interesting. Again, around noon,
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Speaker 1: July 12, 1987, a helicopter crew, who you can see here,
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Speaker 1: was flying above the Vrnov Reservoir, and they saw and
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Speaker 1: pursued this black-colored cigar-shaped object. They described it as being
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Speaker 1: like an airplane, but without wings. And in fact, they
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Speaker 1: were ordered by their superiors to try to shoot this
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Speaker 1: down but every time they aimed at this object, it
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Speaker 1: would immediately dart another direction. So it was apparently aware
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Speaker 1: that they were trying to shoot at this thing. Also,
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Speaker 1: the pilots were very reluctant to shoot at this object,
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Speaker 1: as this was being seen directly over the reservoir, which
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Speaker 1: at that time was pretty busy with people. Now, at
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Speaker 1: one point, per 1st Lieutenant Jaroslav Spacek, This object flew
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Speaker 1: directly towards the helicopter, and this forced the pilot to
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Speaker 1: do an extreme maneuver to avoid a collision. This object
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Speaker 1: was also allegedly caught on radar, and it wasn't only
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Speaker 1: the pilots and the crew of the helicopter who saw this.
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Speaker 1: Many people saw it from the ground and were also interviewed.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, a very famous, very widely viewed, very well
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Speaker 1: authenticated and famous case in Slovakia. Here's another one, super interesting,
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people saw this one. Basically, this
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Speaker 1: was a wave of sightings over a very small town
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Speaker 1: that had everyone in an absolute uproar. This occurred in
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Speaker 1: July of 1991 when this series of strange incidents occurred
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Speaker 1: near this town called Millicent. It literally caused panic among
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Speaker 1: the local population because this unidentified spherical object kept appearing.
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Speaker 1: and would follow residents as they drove or walked through
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Speaker 1: the area. There were hundreds of people who saw this. Now,
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Speaker 1: a few of these witnesses said that they could actually
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Speaker 1: see figures inside this sphere. In fact, in one case,
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Speaker 1: a witness said he saw this sphere come right down
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Speaker 1: over a roof. Figures came out and walked on the
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Speaker 1: roof of a cottage, leaving evidence behind in the form
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Speaker 1: of foot or handprints. which shows that they had only
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Speaker 1: four digits. During another appearance of this sphere, a bunch
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Speaker 1: of people were watching it, and one of the witnesses
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Speaker 1: suddenly became entranced and walked, or actually ran, towards this sphere.
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Speaker 1: Everyone called out to him. He would not stop. He
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Speaker 1: was totally unresponsive. They tried to call him back. He
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Speaker 1: just kept going, and they were afraid to follow him.
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Speaker 1: He returned later completely confused and had no memory of
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Speaker 1: what had happened, could not say what happened to him.
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Speaker 1: He said he was unable to describe it. Others had
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Speaker 1: encounters with this sphere and experienced missing time. Another woman
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Speaker 1: said strange humanoids came right into her house, at which
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Speaker 1: point she screamed, cried, and began praying, and they immediately left.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot more to this case, but wow, this
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Speaker 1: is a very intense UFO wave over this very small town.
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Speaker 1: Here's another amazing case, 1992, exact date unknown, but traffic
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Speaker 1: workers at the Kosice National Police Station in Sak observed
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Speaker 1: an unidentified aerial object with a very bizarre appearance. They
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Speaker 1: described it as kind of a cross between a seagull
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Speaker 1: and a sports car. That same year, a silver object
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Speaker 1: was reportedly seen over Hvazd, this is near Monaten. And
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Speaker 1: this was seen, again, both visually and on radar. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the military sent fighters and helicopters after it, but they
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Speaker 1: were unable to make any visual contact, despite the fact
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Speaker 1: that this object was still being tracked on radar, which
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Speaker 1: shows that they can turn invisible if they want. One
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Speaker 1: year later, this is an amazing case. Not much detail
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Speaker 1: to it, but it occurred on January 9, 1993. again
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Speaker 1: investigated by Dr. Milos Jasensky, a witness in Popudinsk, this
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Speaker 1: is in Mokodinli, Slovakia. He said he saw an orange
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Speaker 1: glowing ball of fire just sitting on the ground in
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Speaker 1: a field. Shortly later, he saw a tiny flying triangle
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Speaker 1: land on the top of a nearby pigeon house. A
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Speaker 1: door opened and a tiny, almost smoky-looking humanoid exited the object.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't find any other details on this case, but
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Speaker 1: it's certainly interesting because there are a lot of cases
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Speaker 1: involving tiny humanoids and tiny UFOs, and that's another one.
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Speaker 1: That same year, a couple of months later, March 21st, 1993,
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Speaker 1: also investigated by Dr. Milos Jasensky, this very unusual case
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Speaker 1: involves a lady who met with her friend and another gentleman,
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Speaker 1: This gentleman was driving them from Kosice to Prasov, and
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Speaker 1: suddenly the main witness felt herself becoming entranced. And her
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Speaker 1: friend started to explain something, that the man who was
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Speaker 1: driving was actually an extraterrestrial. The witness said that this
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Speaker 1: man was blonde and very handsome, and during this whole encounter,
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Speaker 1: she and this man became intimate. The witness then became pregnant,
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Speaker 1: but shortly later apparently miscarried this fetus. She says that
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Speaker 1: six months later she woke up in the night to
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Speaker 1: hear the voice of a child calling her name and
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Speaker 1: saw a vision of a six-month-old girl. So presumably this
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Speaker 1: is the child she had carried and lost. It's another
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Speaker 1: case where ETs are basically apparently creating hybrid children. Hard
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Speaker 1: to say for sure, because there's not a lot of
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Speaker 1: detail to that case, but certainly fits the pattern we'll
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Speaker 1: see in other cases. And here's another super interesting case,
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Speaker 1: August 5, 1993, again from Dr. Milos Jasensky. Thank you, Dr. Milos,
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Speaker 1: for contributing all these cases. This one involved a group
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Speaker 1: of 10 children who, around 10.30 p.m. on August 5, 1993,
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Speaker 1: were all playing in a field near Dunajka Streda, Slovakia,
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Speaker 1: not far from their homes, when suddenly they came upon
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Speaker 1: two very strange-looking humanoids who they had said had heads
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Speaker 1: shaped almost like cucumbers. They said that these humanoids were
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Speaker 1: wearing silver suits and did not walk but glided over
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Speaker 1: the field, disappearing from sight. A very brief encounter, but again,
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Speaker 1: witnessed by 10 people. And it was that same year,
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Speaker 1: one evening around 6 p.m., a man in southern Slovakia
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Speaker 1: said he was driving to work in Nov Zamki. This
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Speaker 1: is so strange. He said his car suddenly felt like
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Speaker 1: it was floating. At that point, he became immobilized and entranced.
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Speaker 1: But he was able to look out and saw that, yes,
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Speaker 1: he was floating in his car over the overpass. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: without warning, his car fell, he says, from a height
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Speaker 1: of about 15 feet. And this absolutely destroyed his car.
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Speaker 1: He was thrown clear, laid down on the ground, stunned,
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Speaker 1: unable to move. He was found there shortly later by passers-by. Miraculously,
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Speaker 1: he was totally uninjured. He was fine. But his car,
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Speaker 1: he says, was completely totaled. Such an unusual case. Here's
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Speaker 1: another one. This is also very unusual, also involving humanoids.
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Speaker 1: January 16, 1994, an owner of a large greenhouse in
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Speaker 1: an unnamed area of Slovakia exited his home to go
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Speaker 1: turn on the heater for this greenhouse. This was around
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Speaker 1: 1 a.m., and they turned it on each evening because
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Speaker 1: if they didn't, everything in the greenhouse would freeze. So
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Speaker 1: he's walking towards the greenhouse when he noticed what he
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Speaker 1: first thought was a group of five or six children
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Speaker 1: standing next to it, which is so strange because, again,
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Speaker 1: it's 1 a.m., and who are these children out at
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Speaker 1: that time in this kind of weather? Also very strange
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Speaker 1: is they all appeared to be dressed in one-piece coveralls.
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Speaker 1: So he now realized that they were not children, and
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Speaker 1: he became quite frightened, turned around, and ran. And it
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Speaker 1: was at this point something hid him from behind, and
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Speaker 1: the next thing he knew, he was waking up back
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Speaker 1: at home in bed, drenched in sweat, totally still afraid,
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Speaker 1: got up to check the greenhouse, thinking it would be
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Speaker 1: completely frozen. but was shocked to see that no, the
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Speaker 1: temperature was normal. So later he examined his neck where
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Speaker 1: he believes he had been struck, and he found a
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Speaker 1: half-healed scar, which disappeared by the next day. So another
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Speaker 1: very unusual case with physiological effects. Very odd. Here's another one,
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Speaker 1: and this is an important case, I think, because this
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Speaker 1: fits the pattern we see in a lot of cases
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Speaker 1: all over the world. This one occurred on November 19, 2005.
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Speaker 1: when UFOs were seen hovering over the Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant.
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Speaker 1: This object appeared around 6 p.m. and was hovering only 600,
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Speaker 1: maybe 900 feet above this plant. Multiple witnesses saw it,
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Speaker 1: and they started calling the police. Eventually, the Air Force
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Speaker 1: vectored a jet to intercept this object, which was apparently
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Speaker 1: also caught on radar. Now, this object, of course, zipped off,
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Speaker 1: And later the military said it was nothing more than,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, light reflecting off the water vapor coming
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Speaker 1: out of the power plant's cooling tower. How about that
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Speaker 1: for a debunking explanation? Like witnesses wouldn't recognize a reflection because,
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Speaker 1: you know, they were calling the police. Clearly this was
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Speaker 1: very strange. And as it turned out, it was not
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Speaker 1: an isolated incident because only three days earlier, two cigar-shaped
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Speaker 1: objects were seen flying over the Temelin nuclear power plant.
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Speaker 1: And just a few days after the first above sighting,
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Speaker 1: another witness said that he saw two L-39 jets chasing
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Speaker 1: a smaller object over the Bohunice plant. And the next year,
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Speaker 1: you know, just a few months later, on New Year's Day,
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Speaker 1: there was another encounter when a father and son saw
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Speaker 1: an object which they said was shaped like two cones
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Speaker 1: placed edge to edge on And it had portholes around
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Speaker 1: the circumference and was again hovering by this nuclear power station. Clearly,
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Speaker 1: this is another really good example of this. ETs are
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Speaker 1: very concerned about our use of nuclear material. Now we
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Speaker 1: move to one final case in Slovakia. I couldn't get
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Speaker 1: the date on this case, but I wanted to include
24:53
Speaker 1: it because it's a first-hand account of what appears to
24:58
Speaker 1: be an onboard experience. The witness is known only by
25:02
Speaker 1: his initials, G.P., but this witness reports several encounters. This
25:07
Speaker 1: is just one of them. He said he was sleeping
25:10
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend, and when he woke up in the morning,
25:13
Speaker 1: she had a very interesting question. She wanted to know
25:16
Speaker 1: where he had been in the middle of the night
25:19
Speaker 1: because she woke up and the bed was empty. But
25:22
Speaker 1: the problem was he hadn't left the bedroom at all,
25:27
Speaker 1: at least not of his own volition. but he does
25:30
Speaker 1: remember something. And I'll just quote the witness directly. As
25:34
Speaker 1: he says, One beautiful evening we went to bed. At night,
25:39
Speaker 1: I fell out of bed because I was crouched in
25:41
Speaker 1: the corner of the bed. At the time, I didn't
25:44
Speaker 1: even realize what had happened. I woke up, but I
25:48
Speaker 1: wasn't home. I was lying on a table. It was
25:51
Speaker 1: pleasantly warm. I was lying there naked. The table was
25:55
Speaker 1: pleasant to the touch, like velvet. The room was light
25:59
Speaker 1: pale gray. I looked for a light source, but the
26:02
Speaker 1: light came from the walls. The walls were smooth. I
26:06
Speaker 1: couldn't see any furniture or equipment. I could look at
26:09
Speaker 1: the ceiling, to the left, to the right, to the front,
26:12
Speaker 1: but when I tried to look behind me, I don't
26:15
Speaker 1: remember anything from that moment on. In the evening, I
26:19
Speaker 1: found out something else. Since I don't go to the doctor,
26:23
Speaker 1: only they could have done it for me. I had
26:25
Speaker 1: one puncture in my left elbow. My veins are so deep.
26:29
Speaker 1: I have only one place where they can give me
26:31
Speaker 1: an injection into my veins or take blood. And it
26:34
Speaker 1: was in that one place. This is just one story
26:38
Speaker 1: out of all the ones I have experienced. I find
26:41
Speaker 1: that case particularly interesting because all these details he describes
26:45
Speaker 1: about how this table kind of felt soft and pleasant
26:49
Speaker 1: and the room had indirect lighting and the walls were
26:52
Speaker 1: so smooth with no furniture. These are all details people
26:56
Speaker 1: described in an onboard UFO encounter. There you go. Cases
27:01
Speaker 1: all the way back from 1944 up to 2005. So
27:07
Speaker 1: many different kinds of cases. And some are so interesting.
27:12
Speaker 1: I mean, that one of the UFOs hovering over the
27:14
Speaker 1: nuclear power plant. And again, not just one incident of that.
27:18
Speaker 1: They clearly show an interest in all things nuclear. And
27:22
Speaker 1: that case over this one nuclear power plant really, I think,
27:27
Speaker 1: shows this. And many different types of humanoids and just
27:31
Speaker 1: so much going on. It's so amazing because the vast
27:35
Speaker 1: majority of these cases don't really get a whole lot
27:38
Speaker 1: of publicity at all. And as any UFO researcher will
27:43
Speaker 1: tell you, most people don't report it to any official
27:48
Speaker 1: UFO reporting service or authorities. A good number of these
27:52
Speaker 1: cases really only go as far as the local newspapers,
27:56
Speaker 1: so Again, this could not possibly be the only cases
28:02
Speaker 1: that are going on in Slovakia. I would say it's
28:05
Speaker 1: a tiny sample, a representative sample, certainly, quite accurate in
28:10
Speaker 1: that regard, I suspect, but by no means comprehensive. But
28:17
Speaker 1: super interesting, proving once again, UFOs are seen everywhere. Now
28:23
Speaker 1: we move to the next location. I was super excited
28:25
Speaker 1: to explore this, Covington, Kentucky. This is by request of
28:31
Speaker 1: Tanya Martinez. So, mucho gracias, Tanya. I really appreciate you
28:36
Speaker 1: suggesting this location. Thanks for being so patient with me.
28:40
Speaker 1: I was really wondering how many cases I would find here,
28:43
Speaker 1: and I found a bunch. So, I think you'll find
28:47
Speaker 1: this pretty interesting. What's super interesting is this location has
28:53
Speaker 1: a a really famous house that's shaped like a UFO,
29:02
Speaker 1: and this enormous ET that's part of the building there,
29:07
Speaker 1: like 20 foot tall alien structure. So clearly people are
29:12
Speaker 1: interested in this subject, in this location, and the cases
29:16
Speaker 1: I found go all the way back to 1947, pretty
29:19
Speaker 1: much up to the current day, and again, a huge
29:22
Speaker 1: variety of cases. So thank you again, Tanya. I hope
29:26
Speaker 1: you find this interesting. The earliest case I could find
29:30
Speaker 1: in Covington occurred on July 5, 1947. This was during
29:34
Speaker 1: a huge super wave of activity, the Kenneth Arnold sighting,
29:39
Speaker 1: the Roswell Crows. lots of activity going on across the
29:42
Speaker 1: United States and the world. And this is a case
29:46
Speaker 1: going on in Covington. The witnesses were Dorothy Kreeve and
29:50
Speaker 1: May Lawrence. They were at their home in Covington at
29:54
Speaker 1: 434 Johnson Street. It was afternoon. Suddenly they saw this
29:59
Speaker 1: circular object with weird landing legs fly at very low
30:04
Speaker 1: elevation over their home. This was one of a number
30:09
Speaker 1: of cases of people describing what was apparently the same
30:12
Speaker 1: object in various locations in this area. And it was
30:16
Speaker 1: just one day later on July 6th that there was
30:18
Speaker 1: another sighting. The witness in that case is Commissioner William Ross,
30:23
Speaker 1: and he said he was driving along the Dudley Pike
30:26
Speaker 1: Highway This is just south of Covington. When he saw
30:29
Speaker 1: this weird red light, he thought at first it might
30:32
Speaker 1: have been a searchlight, but he couldn't explain it. So
30:36
Speaker 1: this is technically a UFO. Next setting I want to
30:39
Speaker 1: talk about, super interesting, October 14, 1956. On that afternoon,
30:45
Speaker 1: around 4 p.m., a gentleman by the name of Harlan
30:49
Speaker 1: Grimes was driving in heavy traffic when he saw this
30:53
Speaker 1: brilliant object, quite large, about the size of a quarter moon,
30:57
Speaker 1: and hovering stationary in the deep blue sky. It passed
31:02
Speaker 1: out of view behind a building, and when he next
31:05
Speaker 1: got a clear view of where this object was, it
31:08
Speaker 1: was now gone. This interested him because just a few
31:11
Speaker 1: months earlier, he and his wife had seen a strange
31:15
Speaker 1: glowing object above their home, so he was really on
31:18
Speaker 1: the lookout for something strange, and as it turned out,
31:21
Speaker 1: just one month later, on November 12th, he had what
31:25
Speaker 1: he calls his most definite sighting. He saw this very
31:29
Speaker 1: sharply outlined oval-shaped object, flat white, moving overhead. It was
31:35
Speaker 1: in view for only about 10 seconds before it disappeared
31:38
Speaker 1: into a cloud bank. But the witness, Harlan Brimes, is
31:43
Speaker 1: a pilot very familiar with aircraft, and he could clearly
31:47
Speaker 1: see that this object had no wings or tail. He
31:49
Speaker 1: estimated it was about 40 feet in diameter. and moving
31:53
Speaker 1: at about 500 miles per hour. Now here is a
31:57
Speaker 1: very odd case. January 30th, 1959. Truly bizarre, involving a
32:03
Speaker 1: creature of some kind. And there were reports of this
32:07
Speaker 1: coming over from a fairly wide area in Covington. Police
32:12
Speaker 1: started receiving calls. One came from a resident of New Richmond,
32:16
Speaker 1: who said that he saw something he could not even
32:20
Speaker 1: begin to describe. And shortly later, the police got a
32:24
Speaker 1: second call, again from a witness who saw something. He says,
32:28
Speaker 1: I can't describe it. I have never seen anything like
32:31
Speaker 1: it before. But he said he saw it come right
32:34
Speaker 1: out of the water and go across the sky. Now, curiously,
32:39
Speaker 1: streetlights were going out along Kellogg Avenue around the same time.
32:44
Speaker 1: This is where this witness had seen this thing. And
32:47
Speaker 1: it wasn't long before more calls started coming into the
32:49
Speaker 1: police station. One gentleman, a scientist, said he saw what
32:54
Speaker 1: was clearly a creature of some kind. As he says,
32:58
Speaker 1: it was large, not a dog or a cat. It
33:01
Speaker 1: leaped in front of my car and on two legs
33:04
Speaker 1: and was taller than the auto. When I looked back
33:07
Speaker 1: in my mirror, it was moving along the bridge rail.
33:11
Speaker 1: It was three or four times the size of a
33:14
Speaker 1: man and much bulkier. I have an eye and mind
33:18
Speaker 1: for dimensions, and I know it was huge. Another witness
33:22
Speaker 1: was a lady in Covington who said that she saw
33:25
Speaker 1: it in a creek near the Fort Thomas pumping station.
33:28
Speaker 1: She said it looked so strange she had difficulty describing it.
33:32
Speaker 1: She said it reminded her vaguely of an octopus. She
33:36
Speaker 1: said it came up and then went down, was gray
33:38
Speaker 1: in color, lopsided, had what looked like rolls of fat
33:43
Speaker 1: running horizontally over its bald head. So yeah, clearly people
33:48
Speaker 1: were seeing something different Given the huge number of calls
33:52
Speaker 1: coming in, I think that it's hard to explain what
33:56
Speaker 1: was going on here, and ultimately what it was remains
33:59
Speaker 1: a mystery. Moving along, October 22, 1975, it was after
34:05
Speaker 1: dark on this evening that an engineer says he was
34:09
Speaker 1: on the 14th floor of a municipal building overlooking the
34:14
Speaker 1: Ohio River towards Cincinnati, again in Covington, when he saw
34:19
Speaker 1: a UFO move very close to his window at very
34:23
Speaker 1: low level, so kind of like eye level. He used
34:26
Speaker 1: binoculars and was able to see that this object was disc-shaped,
34:30
Speaker 1: had a weird kind of catwalk around the perimeter, rotating
34:33
Speaker 1: lights as well. He could see peculiar-looking kind of wings
34:38
Speaker 1: protruding from the body of this craft. So seeing how
34:42
Speaker 1: unusual it was, he ran to get his camera He
34:46
Speaker 1: got his camera and could see that this object was
34:48
Speaker 1: now actually going around the building at very low level.
34:53
Speaker 1: Close enough he should have been able to hear it,
34:54
Speaker 1: but it made no sound that he could hear. And
34:57
Speaker 1: so he got his camera ready and was about to
35:00
Speaker 1: take a picture when this object darted away very quickly.
35:04
Speaker 1: Seems they always do that. One year later, June 1976,
35:08
Speaker 1: around 8 p.m., this is approximate, A five-year-old boy and
35:14
Speaker 1: his older brother were playing outside, this is just before dark,
35:18
Speaker 1: when suddenly a classic flying saucer zoomed right over their street, stopped,
35:23
Speaker 1: came back, and hovered. It had four lights underneath, moving
35:28
Speaker 1: in this weird way that almost looked like it was
35:31
Speaker 1: making symbols of some kind. It was making a pretty
35:35
Speaker 1: loud buzzing noise, loud enough that a bunch of neighbors
35:38
Speaker 1: came running out to watch it. Reportedly, some of these
35:42
Speaker 1: neighbors did take photographs of this object, though these photographs
35:46
Speaker 1: have yet to surface. This craft then moved off towards
35:49
Speaker 1: the city dump, hovered there for a few moments, and
35:53
Speaker 1: a few minutes later came back again to this exact
35:56
Speaker 1: same spot. Then it moved over behind the house and
36:00
Speaker 1: sent down this brilliant beam of light. And when it
36:03
Speaker 1: did this, according to the witness who reported this to
36:06
Speaker 1: New Fork, he heard a person screaming for help. It
36:11
Speaker 1: was at this point that all the witnesses became fearful
36:14
Speaker 1: and ran back into their homes. But per the witness,
36:18
Speaker 1: he couldn't get back into his house because they had
36:21
Speaker 1: locked themselves out of their house running out to see
36:24
Speaker 1: this object and they had to wait until their mother
36:26
Speaker 1: came home to let them back inside. But as the
36:29
Speaker 1: witness says, I remember this event like it was yesterday.
36:33
Speaker 1: I don't remember anyone ever talking about it and I
36:37
Speaker 1: thought it was weird that no one ever talked about it.
36:41
Speaker 1: That is a weird thing that happens. You know, this
36:44
Speaker 1: really intense UFO sighting can occur, and it's like it's
36:48
Speaker 1: almost taboo, or people forget about it or just don't
36:50
Speaker 1: talk about it. And here's another case, same exact time,
36:54
Speaker 1: June 1976. I'm wondering if this is actually another witness
36:59
Speaker 1: describing the same encounter, but the details are slightly different,
37:02
Speaker 1: so I don't know. But this witness says it was
37:05
Speaker 1: around 9 p.m. when this brilliant, glowing, saucer-shaped craft moved
37:10
Speaker 1: slowly overhead and hovered behind their house. He says his
37:14
Speaker 1: whole family came out to watch. At one point, a
37:17
Speaker 1: plane appeared, heading towards the direction of this object, at
37:21
Speaker 1: which point this object immediately turned off all of its lights.
37:25
Speaker 1: It became dark, which rendered it essentially invisible. And when
37:30
Speaker 1: this plane moved off, this object turned its lights back on,
37:35
Speaker 1: and then, as the witness says, it sped off in
37:37
Speaker 1: the opposite direction. It moved so incredibly fast without any
37:41
Speaker 1: sound that it left a light trail in the sky
37:45
Speaker 1: for a few seconds. Now here is another interesting series
37:49
Speaker 1: of sightings which occurred in mid-January of 1978. It was
37:53
Speaker 1: around this time that a wave of sightings hit the
37:55
Speaker 1: South Ohio, North Kentucky area, most people describing a glowing
38:00
Speaker 1: green object. In fact, on January 19, numerous people in
38:05
Speaker 1: both states saw this object. but one witness in Covington
38:10
Speaker 1: said she saw a, quote, very green, tear-shaped object flying
38:15
Speaker 1: across the sky, and suddenly it dropped down and, quote,
38:20
Speaker 1: floated to the ground. What's so interesting is this is
38:23
Speaker 1: exactly what other people were describing, seeing this object move
38:26
Speaker 1: horizontally across the sky, then stop and go straight down
38:30
Speaker 1: as if coming for a landing. Very odd. Here's just
38:34
Speaker 1: a couple of more cases in Covington. March 22, 1985,
38:38
Speaker 1: around 1 a.m., numerous residents at the 3800 block of
38:43
Speaker 1: Glen Avenue, including a police specialist by the name of
38:48
Speaker 1: Todd Finnan and Police Sergeant William Dorsey, all saw an
38:53
Speaker 1: oval-shaped object hovering overhead. And as Sergeant Dorsey says, it
38:59
Speaker 1: went from red to green to white in color and
39:02
Speaker 1: moved slowly westward, parallel to the ground. So he was
39:06
Speaker 1: very curious, decided to do some investigation, and called the
39:10
Speaker 1: Greater Cincinnati International Airport Tower. And as he says, they
39:15
Speaker 1: confirmed that they had something on radar, but didn't know
39:18
Speaker 1: what it was. Now, interestingly, further investigation revealed something odd.
39:26
Speaker 1: Henry Merrick, the assistant air traffic manager at the control tower,
39:31
Speaker 1: said he could find no record of the radar reading.
39:35
Speaker 1: And as he said, if it did happen, it wasn't
39:38
Speaker 1: on our log. So this could be evidence of a cover-up.
39:42
Speaker 1: Hard to say for sure, because they did tell the
39:45
Speaker 1: original witness, William Dorsey, a police sergeant, that yes, they
39:49
Speaker 1: caught it on radar. And now suddenly, nope, not on radar. Sorry.
39:55
Speaker 1: One more case in Covington, September 25, 2017. It was
39:59
Speaker 1: around 11 p.m. The witness was putting his dog outside
40:03
Speaker 1: when he says he saw a strange light at a
40:06
Speaker 1: low elevation moving in a weird figure-eight kind of infinity
40:10
Speaker 1: pattern up in the clouds. So he watched this for
40:14
Speaker 1: a long time. He says it was a... for about
40:17
Speaker 1: four hours. He looked around the area to see if
40:22
Speaker 1: something on the ground might be causing this, but he
40:25
Speaker 1: couldn't find anything. He did notice one other unusual detail
40:29
Speaker 1: that he feels connected to this. They had an electronic
40:34
Speaker 1: plushie toy in the house, and it kept vibrating, which
40:38
Speaker 1: he absolutely believes was due to the appearance of this object,
40:42
Speaker 1: because he says this toy had never done this before,
40:45
Speaker 1: and that it was, quote, scary. As the witness says,
40:49
Speaker 1: I still don't know what it was to this day,
40:51
Speaker 1: but that night I dreamed of UFOs and aliens. So
40:56
Speaker 1: there you go, Tanya. Amazing. UFOs definitely have been seen
41:00
Speaker 1: in Covington, which is really no surprise. I keep saying it.
41:07
Speaker 1: I think what is happening here is that the ETs
41:10
Speaker 1: are putting on what amounts to a publicity campaign. They
41:13
Speaker 1: want people to see them. Why else would they be
41:16
Speaker 1: showing themselves to every darn location on this planet if
41:20
Speaker 1: they didn't want us to know that we are not alone?
41:23
Speaker 1: That is speculation on my part, but I think the
41:26
Speaker 1: cases speak for themselves. There's so many of them. So
41:31
Speaker 1: now let's move to our next location, which I was
41:34
Speaker 1: super excited to look into because this is in fact
41:38
Speaker 1: my hometown. I was born here, and the location I'll
41:42
Speaker 1: be looking into now is... Chicago, Illinois. The Windy City.
41:48
Speaker 1: And this one gave me a real headache. Not because
41:51
Speaker 1: I couldn't find any cases, but because I found way
41:54
Speaker 1: too many. I'm not kidding when I say I could
41:58
Speaker 1: write a full length to 300 page book on UFOs
42:02
Speaker 1: over Chicago. So I really had to do a lot
42:05
Speaker 1: of editing here. And at one point, I just threw
42:08
Speaker 1: up my hands. I'm like, this is enough cases. I
42:10
Speaker 1: give up. There's hundreds more. I found enough, I think,
42:15
Speaker 1: to show that absolutely Chicago has been visited. And it
42:20
Speaker 1: kind of concentrated on cases that were widely viewed, well authenticated,
42:26
Speaker 1: super interesting, ones that had solid craft as opposed to
42:30
Speaker 1: anomalous lights, and of course, humanoid encounters. Because as I
42:35
Speaker 1: said earlier, they're the most interesting. But I had a
42:38
Speaker 1: lot of you guys requesting Chicago, including... XZDrift, Dulu Blinky,
42:46
Speaker 1: The Van Can Slam, Mr. Corsair, Ryan Cizepanskoy, probably butchering that,
42:56
Speaker 1: sorry Ryan, also Sheldon Doghouse. So yeah, a bunch you
43:01
Speaker 1: guys requested Chicago. Thank you so much. It was really
43:05
Speaker 1: interesting to explore my hometown because I know this area
43:09
Speaker 1: and amazing cases. and so many of them. I probably
43:16
Speaker 1: could have done an entire episode again on just Chicago,
43:20
Speaker 1: so please don't think this is fully comprehensive, but I
43:24
Speaker 1: think there's enough cases to not only show that Chicago
43:28
Speaker 1: is being visited, but honestly, to get a pretty broad
43:31
Speaker 1: perspective and knowledge of all the different types of UFO
43:36
Speaker 1: activity going on. It's like each city represents a sort
43:40
Speaker 1: of microcosm of UFO activity. By that I mean you
43:43
Speaker 1: can look at one location and get a pretty accurate
43:47
Speaker 1: view of the entire UFO phenomenon. This is how ubiquitous
43:52
Speaker 1: UFOs are. So here we go, Chicago, Illinois. All right,
43:58
Speaker 1: here we go. June 25, 1952, it was 7.30 p.m.
44:03
Speaker 1: as a federal revenue agent by the name of John
44:07
Speaker 1: Olivero was relaxing in his backyard at 2917 North Nordica.
44:13
Speaker 1: And this is when he noticed two, quote, silver cylindrical
44:17
Speaker 1: or disc-shaped objects hovering silently overhead. He immediately shouted out
44:22
Speaker 1: to his wife, Frances, who also came out and saw them.
44:26
Speaker 1: Their next door neighbor, Alberta Gregory, also heard them calling.
44:31
Speaker 1: She lived at 2915 North Nordica. So she went outside
44:36
Speaker 1: and also saw them. So that's three witnesses seeing this
44:40
Speaker 1: very unusual disc-shaped object hovering silently overhead. And it was
44:46
Speaker 1: just four days later when there was another sighting. And
44:50
Speaker 1: this one was over Chicago's O'Hare Airport. This has been
44:54
Speaker 1: the target of many UFO visitations. In fact, there was
44:58
Speaker 1: one in 2006 that is world famous. I covered that
45:02
Speaker 1: one in my episode on UFOs over airports, so I
45:05
Speaker 1: won't be covering it here. but you can check that
45:08
Speaker 1: episode out if you'd like to learn more about that case.
45:11
Speaker 1: But again, Chicago's O'Hare Airport has a history of encounters.
45:16
Speaker 1: This one involved three air police officers of the 83rd
45:21
Speaker 1: Air Base Squadron who said that they saw a smooth
45:24
Speaker 1: metallic oval-shaped object surrounded by a blue aura hovering above
45:29
Speaker 1: the two radio towers owned by the WGR and WBBM
45:36
Speaker 1: radio stations. And it remained there for a long time.
45:39
Speaker 1: They watched this object for about 45 minutes from the
45:44
Speaker 1: airport area as it hovered with a kind of rocking
45:46
Speaker 1: motion and occasionally performed instant accelerations before eventually moving off.
45:53
Speaker 1: Here is one of the most bizarre cases. This one
45:56
Speaker 1: was investigated by Project Blue Book. It does involve humanoids.
46:01
Speaker 1: It's one of very few Blue Book cases involving humanoids
46:04
Speaker 1: that was also declared unidentified. This occurred on April 8, 1954.
46:11
Speaker 1: The witness was a lady by the name of Lila H. Stoker.
46:15
Speaker 1: She's very well educated, has traveled across the world, has
46:19
Speaker 1: written articles, speaks multiple languages. The investigators were really impressed
46:26
Speaker 1: by her intelligence. At the time of her sighting, she
46:30
Speaker 1: was living at an apartment building at 3121 North Sheridan Road.
46:37
Speaker 1: She was in apartment number 706. And at 2.30 p.m.,
46:42
Speaker 1: April 8, 1954, she looked out the window and saw
46:46
Speaker 1: this brilliant white parachute-shaped object skimming back and forth at
46:51
Speaker 1: high speed over Lake Michigan. She estimated it was about 2,000
46:56
Speaker 1: to 3,000 feet away from her, maybe 200 or 300
47:00
Speaker 1: feet high off of the lake. But most shocking was
47:04
Speaker 1: that below it, she could see a short humanoid kind
47:09
Speaker 1: of suspended right below this object. So this puzzled her.
47:13
Speaker 1: It clearly was not a person on a parachute because
47:16
Speaker 1: it was zipping back and forth. There was no boat
47:19
Speaker 1: below it. And she was watching this thing just go
47:22
Speaker 1: back and forth. She called out her neighbors. The neighbors
47:26
Speaker 1: William R. Borizak and his wife. They lived at the
47:30
Speaker 1: neighboring unit number 703. And they saw this thing too.
47:36
Speaker 1: So watching this for some time, she finally called the
47:39
Speaker 1: coast guard, and they sent out a little search boat.
47:43
Speaker 1: And as this boat arrived, this object immediately, as if
47:48
Speaker 1: in response to this boat, moved towards the shore. It
47:51
Speaker 1: seemed to decrease in size, and to Leela's shock, this
47:55
Speaker 1: object actually landed among the bushes there, appearing to conceal itself.
48:01
Speaker 1: She could now see this humanoid much more clearly, because
48:05
Speaker 1: it was only about 500, maybe 1,000 feet away from her,
48:09
Speaker 1: and she could see that this humanoid was quite short,
48:13
Speaker 1: dressed in a tight-fitting green jumpsuit, which went up over
48:17
Speaker 1: its head, and it walked back and forth along the
48:20
Speaker 1: lakefront until this Coast Guard boat finally left. At that point,
48:25
Speaker 1: this object rose up, seeming to resume its original larger size.
48:31
Speaker 1: This little humanoid entered inside this object, and it then
48:35
Speaker 1: darted away with tremendous speed, she said. So this could
48:39
Speaker 1: not have been anything normal. This entire event lasted about
48:43
Speaker 1: 30 minutes. Blue Book officers interviewed her, investigated the incident
48:49
Speaker 1: in depth, and were unable to explain it, and ultimately
48:52
Speaker 1: declared it unidentified. Now it was just one day later,
48:57
Speaker 1: after this, at 6 p.m., April 9, 1954, That 14-year-old
49:03
Speaker 1: Frank Reed was at Lincoln Avenue near Damon Avenue on
49:08
Speaker 1: a cloudy day when he saw something very unusual. I'll
49:12
Speaker 1: just quote him directly as he says, I was crossing
49:15
Speaker 1: an alley when I happened to look at the sun.
49:18
Speaker 1: The sun was covered by a layer of cloud and
49:20
Speaker 1: haze that blocked off enough light to make it just
49:23
Speaker 1: a bright orangish disk. As I was looking at the
49:27
Speaker 1: clouds crossing the sun, I noticed a thing to the
49:30
Speaker 1: right of the sun. This thing was slowly moving across
49:34
Speaker 1: the sun, moving very slowly. It was tubular with rounded
49:39
Speaker 1: ends and and was from one-quarter to one-third the diameter
49:43
Speaker 1: of the Sun. It was not a cloud, as it
49:46
Speaker 1: kept a sharply outlined form all the time I saw it,
49:50
Speaker 1: and it was black against the Sun. It was not
49:53
Speaker 1: a plane. So he actually provided the drawing you see here.
49:57
Speaker 1: This affected him profoundly, because years later, as an adult,
50:01
Speaker 1: he became active in the UFO field, joined the Center
50:05
Speaker 1: for UFO Studies, CUFOS, which was based in Chicago, and
50:10
Speaker 1: did many UFO investigations. 1954 was a big year. Here's
50:15
Speaker 1: another case, August 22nd. This is four months later. Two
50:20
Speaker 1: men were working at an oil refinery in different locations
50:24
Speaker 1: when both, independently of each other, noticed a strange object
50:28
Speaker 1: hovering directly above the factory. One of the men, Walter Bedenek, said,
50:35
Speaker 1: and I quote, the object, which appeared like a half-moon shape,
50:39
Speaker 1: with something projecting on the end or in the middle,
50:43
Speaker 1: was just above the refinery. The thing just stood still
50:46
Speaker 1: for a few seconds, then made erratic darts in various directions,
50:51
Speaker 1: finally straight up and straight down. He said it couldn't
50:55
Speaker 1: have been more than 2,500 feet over the factory, and
50:59
Speaker 1: after about two minutes, moved off. As he says, as
51:03
Speaker 1: it was going away, it would speed up, then slow down,
51:07
Speaker 1: shoot off to one side for a short distance, appeared
51:10
Speaker 1: to keep turning it didn't look anything like a balloon
51:14
Speaker 1: or an airplane so again there was another witness working
51:17
Speaker 1: at the factory his name was edward rail and he
51:22
Speaker 1: described the same details both men reported their sighting to
51:26
Speaker 1: company officials it's an important case because there are quite
51:30
Speaker 1: a few cases of ufos investigating our technology hovering over
51:36
Speaker 1: factories of all kinds. So that's apparently what's going on here.
51:41
Speaker 1: Here's another case, which I did cover before in an
51:43
Speaker 1: episode of UFOs over graveyards. But I think it bears repeating.
51:50
Speaker 1: This is such an interesting case. November 4, 1957. There's
51:54
Speaker 1: a lot of cases of UFOs seen over cemeteries. For
51:58
Speaker 1: some reason, they find graveyards of interest. I've got all
52:02
Speaker 1: kinds of theories about that, but you can check out
52:05
Speaker 1: my episode, That covers a bunch of cases. It was 3.12 a.m.,
52:11
Speaker 1: again November 4, 1957, when patrolman Joseph Lukasek and patrolman
52:17
Speaker 1: Clifford Shaw and fireman Robert Volt were at the Elmwood
52:22
Speaker 1: Park Cemetery in Chicago. They were in their squad car
52:26
Speaker 1: investigating a store which had an open window when suddenly
52:31
Speaker 1: one of them spotted a strange... bright red-orange kind of
52:35
Speaker 1: egg-shaped object hovering only 250 feet in the air directly
52:41
Speaker 1: over the Elmwood Cemetery. So they turned the spotlight on
52:45
Speaker 1: the object. They radioed Officer Daniel DeGiovanni at the Elmwood
52:51
Speaker 1: Police Station and told him that they were observing, quote,
52:55
Speaker 1: an unknown object. Now, as at this point, something interesting happened.
53:00
Speaker 1: the headlights and the spotlights that they were shining on
53:03
Speaker 1: this object both dimmed and flickered repeatedly, and the object
53:09
Speaker 1: immediately began to, quote, fold into itself. Now, when they
53:15
Speaker 1: turned the spotlight on it, they watched it, quote, puff out.
53:18
Speaker 1: It then shot up 200 feet and took off. The
53:22
Speaker 1: officers tried to chase this object in their squad car
53:25
Speaker 1: but hit a dead-end street. Still, they were able to
53:28
Speaker 1: watch this object, quote, fold inward from the bottom, and
53:32
Speaker 1: finally disappear. So back at the Elmwood Park Police Station,
53:37
Speaker 1: Officer De Giovanni was able to run outside just in
53:40
Speaker 1: time to observe this object shoot across the town and disappear.
53:45
Speaker 1: This whole sighting lasted for about 15 minutes. Moving along, 1963.
53:51
Speaker 1: This case has very little information, but I included it
53:55
Speaker 1: because the witness did supply an illustration And he said
53:59
Speaker 1: in a letter to the Air Force, quote, I saw
54:03
Speaker 1: a UFO in 1963 in Chicago. My father, brother, and
54:07
Speaker 1: cousin all saw it. It was revolving and its square
54:11
Speaker 1: portholes were lit up brightly, but not in colors. It
54:14
Speaker 1: was going fast and was making sharp turns. Certainly sounds
54:19
Speaker 1: like a classic UFO encounter to me. That same year,
54:23
Speaker 1: May 19, 1963, a remarkably similar account and very well verified,
54:30
Speaker 1: so many people saw this, comes from Reverend R. Dean Johnson.
54:34
Speaker 1: He actually wrote about his encounter in the January 1964
54:38
Speaker 1: issue of Fate magazine. It was around 10.15 p.m., again
54:43
Speaker 1: May 19, 1963, and he and his wife were driving
54:47
Speaker 1: along Highway 131, Green Bay Road, in the Waukegan area
54:53
Speaker 1: north of Chicago, or in North Chicago, when they noticed
54:57
Speaker 1: a bright, fiery object over the lake, over Lake Michigan.
55:02
Speaker 1: Now this object slowly approached closer and closer to them.
55:06
Speaker 1: At one point they thought it might be an object
55:09
Speaker 1: on fire, but then they could now see it had
55:12
Speaker 1: pulsating lights that were going on and off in a
55:15
Speaker 1: kind of steady pattern. And it just kept moving closer
55:18
Speaker 1: and closer. Finally it got close enough that they could
55:21
Speaker 1: see it was an actual flying saucer. You can see
55:26
Speaker 1: the drawings here. This object was illuminated by rows of
55:29
Speaker 1: horizontally placed square portholes around the perimeter of the craft.
55:34
Speaker 1: And still heading south on Highway 131, they crossed Highway 132,
55:38
Speaker 1: and it was here that this object came down towards
55:43
Speaker 1: them at very low altitude. They drove a half mile
55:47
Speaker 1: further and then actually got out of the car to
55:49
Speaker 1: get a better look. And as Reverend Johnson says, I
55:53
Speaker 1: estimated it to be 200 or 300 feet above us,
55:56
Speaker 1: possibly 80 feet in diameter and 15 to 20 feet high.
56:01
Speaker 1: The entire craft revolved counterclockwise. There was something very eerie
56:06
Speaker 1: about this strange craft that neither of us quite identified
56:10
Speaker 1: until later. This enormous vehicle, as large as our church,
56:15
Speaker 1: was absolutely silent. So that freaked him out. And as
56:20
Speaker 1: it passed over them, they continued to drive south and
56:23
Speaker 1: a few hundred feet ahead, they saw a stalled car.
56:27
Speaker 1: And right above them, unnoticed by the people in this
56:29
Speaker 1: stalled car, was this craft. And by this time, several
56:34
Speaker 1: other cars were chasing this object down the road. As
56:38
Speaker 1: the reverend says, a carload of boys went racing past
56:42
Speaker 1: us as one beat on the side of the car
56:46
Speaker 1: and yelled, Look at the flying saucer! They too pulled
56:49
Speaker 1: their car off the road, as had the others along
56:52
Speaker 1: the highway, to get a better look. So the reverend
56:55
Speaker 1: and his wife continued to watch this object as it
56:57
Speaker 1: moved over North Chicago and then out over the lake
57:00
Speaker 1: and was gone. And he later learned that people all
57:04
Speaker 1: over the city had seen this object. And in fact,
57:07
Speaker 1: this was not an isolated incident. Some saw it the
57:10
Speaker 1: day before, some saw it in the days after, and
57:13
Speaker 1: as the reverend says, it was not any known craft.
57:18
Speaker 1: It appeared to be intelligently controlled. The craft glided back
57:22
Speaker 1: and forth over the more densely populated communities and industrial
57:26
Speaker 1: areas strung along the lakeshore and traveled as far as U.S.
57:31
Speaker 1: Highway 41. How amazing is that? So many cases. Here's
57:36
Speaker 1: another one, somewhat similar. June 21, 1963. This was a
57:43
Speaker 1: sighting reported by a student who said he saw a
57:46
Speaker 1: gray spherical UFO with a central row of yellow lights
57:51
Speaker 1: moving east and then turning north over Chicago. Now, he
57:55
Speaker 1: was close enough to hear it making a, quote, sizzling sound.
57:58
Speaker 1: He said that as it moved, it revolved and went
58:01
Speaker 1: directly over the intersection of Fairfield and 21st Street and
58:06
Speaker 1: then north up California Avenue towards a viaduct. Really interesting.
58:13
Speaker 1: Case after case. Here's another very strange one. involving a
58:19
Speaker 1: humanoid and a landed UFO. This was February 1965. It
58:24
Speaker 1: was early dawn as a retired milkman, Harvey Keck, had
58:29
Speaker 1: taken a vacation to Chicago, and he was walking along
58:34
Speaker 1: the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area when
58:37
Speaker 1: he says he saw something he could hardly believe. He
58:42
Speaker 1: came upon a landed flying saucer. He described it as
58:45
Speaker 1: being about six feet high, metallic, your classic saucer shape,
58:50
Speaker 1: sitting on four legs right on the beach. And standing
58:54
Speaker 1: next to it was a five foot tall figure, which
58:56
Speaker 1: he said had a stocky body and very unusual looking.
59:02
Speaker 1: As he says, he had a dark tan flesh, a
59:06
Speaker 1: glass dome helmet, and his eyes were farther apart than normal.
59:11
Speaker 1: He also noticed that this figure had an unusually pointed chin.
59:15
Speaker 1: He decided he's not going to tell anybody this. He
59:18
Speaker 1: did tell his wife. His wife didn't believe him and
59:21
Speaker 1: said he must have dreamed it up, which of course
59:24
Speaker 1: he says he did not, and he would have kept
59:26
Speaker 1: it entirely secret. But it was at that time he
59:29
Speaker 1: read about another account involving a landed craft and a humanoid.
59:34
Speaker 1: He read about this in the newspaper. And as Harvey
59:38
Speaker 1: Keck says, I didn't report it because I figured everyone
59:42
Speaker 1: would think I was crazy or drunk. I wouldn't have
59:45
Speaker 1: said anything. But the resemblance between this robot and the
59:49
Speaker 1: one I saw was so remarkable, I thought I should
59:52
Speaker 1: report it to someone. So he told this to newspaper reporters.
59:57
Speaker 1: And they asked him if he planned to report it
1:00:00
Speaker 1: to the military. And his response was, no, I don't
1:00:04
Speaker 1: want to get involved in this thing. So he clearly
1:00:07
Speaker 1: was not seeking publicity and was very reluctant to report this.
1:00:11
Speaker 1: This is another indication that most people do not report
1:00:14
Speaker 1: what they've seen. And I wonder if there were other
1:00:17
Speaker 1: witnesses to that, Glanded Saucer and Humanoid. Here's another case,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: September 24, 1966. Again, I'm going chronologically through these cases.
1:00:28
Speaker 1: There was a flurry of sightings, but it was around
1:00:31
Speaker 1: 4 a.m. when numerous witnesses reported a UFO over various
1:00:36
Speaker 1: parts of Chicago. Policemen in the northwest and north shore
1:00:40
Speaker 1: suburbs said that they saw this object over Lake Michigan,
1:00:45
Speaker 1: just northeast of the city. One of the witnesses was
1:00:48
Speaker 1: news reporter James Murray of the Chicago American, and he
1:00:52
Speaker 1: said he saw a large black object with a white
1:00:55
Speaker 1: ring around it at about 4,000 feet altitude flying in
1:01:00
Speaker 1: perfect silence towards the east as he was driving through
1:01:03
Speaker 1: Prospect Heights. But there were other witnesses. Four airline pilots
1:01:09
Speaker 1: actually called O'Hare Airport to say that they saw this
1:01:13
Speaker 1: brilliant light at about 4,000 feet about 100 miles northeast
1:01:18
Speaker 1: of Chicago. These were just a few of the sightings
1:01:22
Speaker 1: going on at this time. I don't know how skeptics survive.
1:01:26
Speaker 1: They just got to do their homework. There's so many cases.
1:01:29
Speaker 1: Here's another one. January 23, 1973. On this evening, literally
1:01:35
Speaker 1: hundreds of Chicago residents watched what they described as a
1:01:39
Speaker 1: strange bar of light hovered over the city for more
1:01:43
Speaker 1: than an hour. Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project Blue
1:01:47
Speaker 1: Book initially thought that this could possibly be the Aurora Borealis,
1:01:53
Speaker 1: even though it didn't sound like it. But as he
1:01:56
Speaker 1: examined the reports, he saw that some of these witnesses
1:02:00
Speaker 1: were actually north of this object, looking south. Others were
1:02:04
Speaker 1: south of it, looking north. So this indicated that it
1:02:08
Speaker 1: was in fact at low elevation over the city, not
1:02:12
Speaker 1: the Northern Lights. It's another unexplained object. Here is another
1:02:16
Speaker 1: interesting encounter. January 10, 1978, 25 minutes after midnight, a
1:02:22
Speaker 1: good witness, a 31-year-old paramedic, was driving with her 3-year-old
1:02:27
Speaker 1: son on the way to pick up her husband, who
1:02:29
Speaker 1: was a policeman, and it was her child who pointed
1:02:32
Speaker 1: out what he called a moving star. So she was
1:02:36
Speaker 1: arriving at her home just seconds later, got out of
1:02:39
Speaker 1: the car, could now see that this was actually a
1:02:42
Speaker 1: silver disc-shaped object with cup-like protrusions, one on the bottom
1:02:47
Speaker 1: and one on the top. She said it was as
1:02:49
Speaker 1: large as a full moon, very large, and when it
1:02:53
Speaker 1: would move, it would leave this yellow-orange glow behind it.
1:02:57
Speaker 1: She watches it stop, reverse directions, move forward again, finally
1:03:02
Speaker 1: move behind a nearby building. She didn't notice that it
1:03:05
Speaker 1: would glow orange only when it was in movement. and
1:03:09
Speaker 1: the duration of the sighting was about one or two
1:03:11
Speaker 1: minutes before it disappeared from view. Here's a rare daylight sighting,
1:03:16
Speaker 1: September 9, 1979, 4.30 p.m. This object was sighted by
1:03:22
Speaker 1: numerous people. One of the witnesses was a 30-year-old man
1:03:27
Speaker 1: who shouted out, Gee, that looks like a flying saucer.
1:03:31
Speaker 1: This alerted his family and all the neighbors, and they
1:03:33
Speaker 1: all came out and watched what they described as a
1:03:36
Speaker 1: classic silver disc about the size of a half moon.
1:03:39
Speaker 1: It had a black center. It was pretty high up there,
1:03:43
Speaker 1: and they all watched as it moved off to the northeast.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: As many people described these objects, none of them could
1:03:51
Speaker 1: hear it making any noise. It was totally silent. Here's
1:03:55
Speaker 1: another interesting case. I love it when we have police
1:03:58
Speaker 1: officers as witnesses because they're trained observers. They're the people
1:04:02
Speaker 1: who are watching the area for anything unusual. And this
1:04:07
Speaker 1: is why we have a lot of police officers who
1:04:09
Speaker 1: are also UFO witnesses. This sighting occurred on September 23, 1988.
1:04:13
Speaker 1: The officers were out on patrol in the Lamont suburb
1:04:18
Speaker 1: of southeast Chicago when their attention was drawn to flashing
1:04:22
Speaker 1: lights overhead. One of the officers was Sergeant Tom Hess.
1:04:27
Speaker 1: And as he says, I was with another officer. We
1:04:30
Speaker 1: now know that this other officer was Hal Holbrecht. But
1:04:35
Speaker 1: as Sergeant Tom Hess says, I was with another officer
1:04:38
Speaker 1: in a squad car eastbound on Main Street heading towards
1:04:41
Speaker 1: Route 171, and all of a sudden, coming out of
1:04:45
Speaker 1: the north, I saw a real bright light. We both
1:04:49
Speaker 1: caught a glimpse of an oval-shaped object. So both officers
1:04:53
Speaker 1: said that this object was white on top, blue-green on
1:04:56
Speaker 1: the bottom, and that it quickly entered a cloud, and
1:04:59
Speaker 1: it was so bright it lit up the entire cloud.
1:05:02
Speaker 1: But it then came closer to the ground darted erratically
1:05:06
Speaker 1: from north to south much faster than any plane, finally
1:05:10
Speaker 1: disappearing behind some trees. Now unknown to these two officers,
1:05:14
Speaker 1: there was another squad car on the other side of
1:05:17
Speaker 1: town who saw this object around the same time. One
1:05:21
Speaker 1: of the witnesses was patrolman Mark Janis, and as he says,
1:05:26
Speaker 1: As I looked up toward the cemetery, between two trees,
1:05:30
Speaker 1: I saw a flashing object like a spotlight. It hovered
1:05:33
Speaker 1: and then shot straight up and was just gone. I
1:05:36
Speaker 1: know it wasn't an airplane or anything because it made
1:05:39
Speaker 1: a real swift erratic movement. I was amazed at what
1:05:43
Speaker 1: I'd seen. I didn't tell the other guys because I
1:05:45
Speaker 1: didn't want them to think I was a little bit off.
1:05:48
Speaker 1: But this report eventually did make its way to Mark
1:05:51
Speaker 1: Roddiger of QFOES who said that they had received about
1:05:55
Speaker 1: 10 or 15 reports of similar sightings in the same
1:05:59
Speaker 1: area at the same time. So how about that? The
1:06:02
Speaker 1: police officer saying he didn't want to report it makes
1:06:05
Speaker 1: you wonder how many police officers see this thing and
1:06:08
Speaker 1: just don't talk about it because they don't want to
1:06:10
Speaker 1: be ridiculed or disbelieved. It's a real problem. Here's another case,
1:06:15
Speaker 1: April 16, 1990. It was 7.30 a.m. early morning as
1:06:20
Speaker 1: Bruno Malone was on his way to work and was
1:06:23
Speaker 1: driving near the intersection of South Chicago Avenue and Commercial Avenue.
1:06:28
Speaker 1: Looking up through his windshield, he saw an oval-shaped object, silver,
1:06:34
Speaker 1: with a round dome on top. It was motionless in
1:06:37
Speaker 1: the sky. He was close enough he could hear it
1:06:40
Speaker 1: making a kind of whooshing noise. And he watched it
1:06:44
Speaker 1: for a minute until it suddenly disappeared. But here's a
1:06:47
Speaker 1: really interesting aspect to this encounter because he had some
1:06:51
Speaker 1: weird physiological reactions to its presence. As he says, he
1:06:56
Speaker 1: felt odd. and afterwards suffered from a headache, nausea, and
1:07:00
Speaker 1: neck pain, and also this weird sense of euphoric elation,
1:07:05
Speaker 1: or what he called runner's high. Sort of, you know,
1:07:08
Speaker 1: when you get endorphins from exercising. He said it affected
1:07:12
Speaker 1: him physically in a very strange way. One final case
1:07:16
Speaker 1: in Chicago. This is a humanoid case, really interesting. August 1999.
1:07:22
Speaker 1: This case comes from Albert Rosales, and it was late
1:07:26
Speaker 1: at night. The witness was sleeping on the sofa of
1:07:29
Speaker 1: a friend's house in Chicago. When he woke up, he
1:07:33
Speaker 1: felt all panicky, cold, unable to move, and he could
1:07:38
Speaker 1: see standing by the doorway was a seven-foot-tall figure resembling a, quote,
1:07:44
Speaker 1: praying mantis. He said it was dark gray, was wearing
1:07:48
Speaker 1: this black and purple cloak of some kind, and to
1:07:52
Speaker 1: his fear, this figure slowly approached the witness. It then
1:07:57
Speaker 1: reached out and grabbed his shoulder with these long, thin fingers,
1:08:02
Speaker 1: and the witness immediately passed out and remembered nothing else
1:08:06
Speaker 1: until morning. So a very intense encounter. That's the last
1:08:11
Speaker 1: one that I'm covering here in Chicago. There's so many more.
1:08:15
Speaker 1: And again, perhaps I'll revisit it because I know there's
1:08:18
Speaker 1: a lot more cases. All right, that's Chicago. I might
1:08:22
Speaker 1: have to revisit Chicago because I've Again, kind of just
1:08:26
Speaker 1: threw up my hands in despair. I'm like, there's just
1:08:28
Speaker 1: too many cases here. This is driving me nutty. I
1:08:32
Speaker 1: had to stop. Otherwise, I would never finish. Maybe I
1:08:37
Speaker 1: should just write a whole book on Chicago. That would
1:08:40
Speaker 1: be pretty interesting, I am sure. But yeah, UFOs have
1:08:44
Speaker 1: definitely visited Chicago big time. Now let's move to our
1:08:49
Speaker 1: last and final location in this particular episode. I can't
1:08:53
Speaker 1: believe I could only do four locations this time with
1:08:56
Speaker 1: a list of well over 800... locations I'm going to
1:09:01
Speaker 1: be at this a long time but the next location
1:09:05
Speaker 1: that I looked at is by request of Marlena so
1:09:09
Speaker 1: Marlena we are now going to look into Sarasota Florida
1:09:15
Speaker 1: I've always been curious about UFO activity over Florida because
1:09:19
Speaker 1: there was that huge wave over Gulf Breeze in the
1:09:23
Speaker 1: 80s into the 90s. And it is one of the
1:09:27
Speaker 1: top 10 in the United States in terms of the
1:09:30
Speaker 1: number of encounters. So yeah, there is a lot going
1:09:34
Speaker 1: on in Florida. I've interviewed quite a few people who've
1:09:37
Speaker 1: had encounters there. Sarasota is certainly not left out. And man,
1:09:43
Speaker 1: oh man, Some really interesting encounters here. One which was
1:09:48
Speaker 1: so bizarre. I've never heard anything like this. So that
1:09:52
Speaker 1: alone I think was worth looking into Sarasota. But again,
1:09:57
Speaker 1: a huge variety of encounters. It's really fun to dig
1:10:01
Speaker 1: into all of these. And I think you'll find it
1:10:04
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. So thanks, Marlena. Here we go. The earliest
1:10:08
Speaker 1: case I could find in Sarasota occurred on August 17, 1952,
1:10:13
Speaker 1: around midnight, when the witness, C.E. Pendley, he's a sign
1:10:18
Speaker 1: painter and former Air Force member, he was dozing on
1:10:22
Speaker 1: his porch at 305 Oak Street when he says he
1:10:26
Speaker 1: saw a brilliant light arcing across the sky. Now, he
1:10:30
Speaker 1: first thought it might be a shooting star, but he
1:10:33
Speaker 1: very quickly changed his mind because, as he says, The
1:10:36
Speaker 1: brilliant white light kept the same intensity and traveled southward
1:10:41
Speaker 1: exceptionally fast when it suddenly made a right turn west
1:10:45
Speaker 1: and another to speed north. I realized it was neither
1:10:48
Speaker 1: a plane nor a star. So he quickly called out
1:10:52
Speaker 1: his wife, who also saw it, and as he says,
1:10:55
Speaker 1: then it started to zigzag in peculiar fashion, turned again,
1:10:59
Speaker 1: and then went south a second time and disappeared. No
1:11:03
Speaker 1: airplane could ever do what that thing did. It was
1:11:06
Speaker 1: traveling too fast and making too many right-angle turns. I
1:11:10
Speaker 1: never did believe those flying saucer stories, but after I
1:11:13
Speaker 1: saw this thing, I've changed my mind. Moving along, one
1:11:17
Speaker 1: year later, June 1953, around 10 p.m., Charles Eiley and
1:11:23
Speaker 1: his co-worker and friend James Shoneman were closing up the
1:11:27
Speaker 1: Beach and Sun Motel on Lido Beach where they worked.
1:11:30
Speaker 1: This is such an amazing encounter. So after they finished working,
1:11:35
Speaker 1: they decided to walk up to the beach to watch
1:11:37
Speaker 1: a fleet of B-36s, which were apparently practicing night landings
1:11:42
Speaker 1: because they kept rising up there and then turning around
1:11:46
Speaker 1: and going back towards the airfield. Now they're watching one
1:11:51
Speaker 1: after another of these B-36s when suddenly they see this
1:11:54
Speaker 1: bright star-like object show up and approach one of the planes.
1:11:59
Speaker 1: And I'll just let Charles Eiley describe what happened, because
1:12:02
Speaker 1: he describes it vividly. He says that this object, quote,
1:12:06
Speaker 1: came scooting out of the north at incredible speed. It
1:12:10
Speaker 1: approached the plane as if the plane were standing still.
1:12:13
Speaker 1: And those planes had a pretty good speed. It stopped
1:12:16
Speaker 1: right behind and below the plane and followed along with it.
1:12:20
Speaker 1: If there had been a man in the rear gunner's position,
1:12:23
Speaker 1: he would have been staring straight at a real flying saucer.
1:12:27
Speaker 1: After a few minutes, suddenly the UFO shot straight up
1:12:30
Speaker 1: in the air, a right angle to its previous path,
1:12:34
Speaker 1: and disappeared for a few minutes. It came back and
1:12:37
Speaker 1: sort of played tag with the plane. So this went
1:12:40
Speaker 1: on for the next hour. This UFO would come, play
1:12:43
Speaker 1: this game of tag with each plane that flew by,
1:12:46
Speaker 1: and would almost always fly behind and below the plane.
1:12:51
Speaker 1: So after an hour of this, to their amazement, this
1:12:53
Speaker 1: UFO seemed to grow tired of playing tag and started
1:12:57
Speaker 1: to move off. One of the witnesses, James Shoneman, expressed
1:13:02
Speaker 1: a lot of relief that this object was leaving, and
1:13:05
Speaker 1: this is when suddenly, as if listening to them, this
1:13:08
Speaker 1: object turned and started coming directly towards the two men.
1:13:13
Speaker 1: Jim shouted out at this point,' God, look at the
1:13:16
Speaker 1: size of that thing!' It scared him so much that
1:13:19
Speaker 1: he ran towards a patch of tall grass and ducked
1:13:22
Speaker 1: down inside it to hide from this object. Both men
1:13:26
Speaker 1: could now see that this object was glowing green-blue. It
1:13:29
Speaker 1: was totally silent. And as Charles says, I stayed right
1:13:33
Speaker 1: out in the center of the beach so I wouldn't
1:13:35
Speaker 1: miss a thing. And sure enough, this object came right
1:13:39
Speaker 1: over them, moving, he estimates, at about 200 to 250
1:13:43
Speaker 1: miles per hour, no more than 1,000 feet high. And
1:13:47
Speaker 1: as Charles says, this thing was big, perhaps as big
1:13:51
Speaker 1: as two railroad freight cars. It was roughly cigar-shaped. It
1:13:55
Speaker 1: was a cylinder, tapered on both ends. A row of
1:13:58
Speaker 1: windows or portholes ran the length of the body. I
1:14:02
Speaker 1: ran to the center of the beach and jumped up
1:14:04
Speaker 1: and down and waved my arms, hoping to attract someone's attention,
1:14:08
Speaker 1: but no luck. Jim came out of the bushes, and
1:14:11
Speaker 1: we watched it disappear to the north. We were both
1:14:14
Speaker 1: pretty well shaken up and trembling all over from the excitement.
1:14:19
Speaker 1: He wanted to leave at once, but I made him
1:14:21
Speaker 1: stay another hour to see if it would come back. Unfortunately,
1:14:25
Speaker 1: it did not, but it certainly made believers out of
1:14:28
Speaker 1: both of these men. Here's one of my favorite cases
1:14:32
Speaker 1: in this whole collection. This is so interesting to me.
1:14:35
Speaker 1: January 4, 1954. McKinley Cantor is a very famous Pulitzer
1:14:42
Speaker 1: Prize winning author, perhaps best known for his novel Andersonville.
1:14:48
Speaker 1: And he's the witness in this case. He did not
1:14:50
Speaker 1: believe in UFOs, before 6.07 p.m. January 4, 1954. But
1:14:56
Speaker 1: at 6.08 p.m., he absolutely believed in UFOs. At the
1:15:02
Speaker 1: time of his encounter, he was on his private beach
1:15:04
Speaker 1: at Siesta Key when he noticed this strange object with
1:15:08
Speaker 1: a kind of curved top, a rim around the edge,
1:15:11
Speaker 1: a darker base, and it was hovering over the water,
1:15:15
Speaker 1: gleaming in the setting sun. He immediately saw that this
1:15:18
Speaker 1: was unusual. He could not explain it. He was very
1:15:21
Speaker 1: much impressed by it, so he called over his neighbor, Dr. Gillespie,
1:15:26
Speaker 1: who also saw it and couldn't explain it. So they
1:15:29
Speaker 1: watched this thing hovering for about four minutes when it
1:15:33
Speaker 1: shot off faster than a shooting star at an upward
1:15:36
Speaker 1: diagonal course. And that's basically the sighting, but there are
1:15:41
Speaker 1: some interesting events that occurred afterwards. So convinced he had
1:15:45
Speaker 1: seen an actual flying saucer, McKinley Cantor was determined to
1:15:50
Speaker 1: do something about it and went straight to MacDill Air
1:15:53
Speaker 1: Force Base and told Colonel Michael McCoy, who was a
1:15:56
Speaker 1: bomb wing commander, about what he had seen and told
1:16:00
Speaker 1: him that he needed to contact Project Blue Book. The
1:16:04
Speaker 1: reaction was not good. This colonel just shrugged and told
1:16:08
Speaker 1: him that Project Blue Book would just insist on some
1:16:11
Speaker 1: conventional explanation and it was best that McKinley just forget
1:16:15
Speaker 1: about this encounter. So McKinley told him that he would
1:16:20
Speaker 1: never forget about it. And nine years go by, and
1:16:25
Speaker 1: this is when McKinley Cantor got some amazing vindication because
1:16:29
Speaker 1: he was asked to be the co-writer of a person's biography.
1:16:34
Speaker 1: And this person turned out to be no one else
1:16:36
Speaker 1: than General Curtis LeMay, who was writing his biography, Mission
1:16:42
Speaker 1: with LeMay. Now, if you don't know Curtis LeMay, look
1:16:46
Speaker 1: him up. He's infamous in the UFO field among UFO
1:16:50
Speaker 1: researchers for basically towing the party line and being part
1:16:54
Speaker 1: of the UFO cover-up. So, now that McKinley is co-writing
1:17:00
Speaker 1: his book, he confronted General Curtis LeMay about UFOs. And
1:17:06
Speaker 1: at first, Curtis LeMay towed the party line, told him
1:17:09
Speaker 1: that UFOs can almost always be explained as balloons, birds, stars, etc.,
1:17:16
Speaker 1: but then did admit that there were some credible witnesses
1:17:20
Speaker 1: who had seen odd things and finally told McKinley Cantor, quote,
1:17:25
Speaker 1: there were some cases we could not explain, never could.
1:17:30
Speaker 1: So this book was written. You can read it online
1:17:34
Speaker 1: for free. And in this book, General Curtis LeMay did
1:17:38
Speaker 1: talk about UFOs. He made several mentions of UFOs in
1:17:42
Speaker 1: the book, talking about the wheels of Ezekiel, But ultimately,
1:17:47
Speaker 1: while he admitted that there were some cases they couldn't explain,
1:17:51
Speaker 1: really denied that the Air Force was complicit in any
1:17:55
Speaker 1: UFO cover-up, which we now know is flatly false. This
1:17:59
Speaker 1: cover-up is easily demonstrable through documents released from the Freedom
1:18:04
Speaker 1: of Information Act. So yeah, an interesting story. Here's another case,
1:18:11
Speaker 1: really interesting. March 11, 1957. Two young boys, Michael Ball,
1:18:18
Speaker 1: age 13, and his younger brother, Charlie Ball, age 9,
1:18:22
Speaker 1: who lived at 4567 Camino Real. This is in Sarasota.
1:18:27
Speaker 1: They were out flying a kite at nearby Sarasota Beach.
1:18:31
Speaker 1: 4 p.m., again March 11, 1957, they were flying this kite,
1:18:37
Speaker 1: and suddenly both boys are shocked to see this UFO appear.
1:18:42
Speaker 1: In fact, they were so impressed, Michael called the newspaper
1:18:45
Speaker 1: to report his sighting and said that this object was
1:18:49
Speaker 1: quote some object with a metallic gleam and shaped like
1:18:53
Speaker 1: a half sphere said it flew in from east of
1:18:56
Speaker 1: the bay and headed north it was going too fast
1:18:59
Speaker 1: to be a jet he said and it must have
1:19:01
Speaker 1: been above the stratosphere because there was no sound or
1:19:04
Speaker 1: vapor trail So these boys watched this object. They said
1:19:08
Speaker 1: it traversed from one side of the horizon to the
1:19:10
Speaker 1: other in about one minute. And they reported this sighting
1:19:14
Speaker 1: to the newspaper in hopes that there might have been
1:19:16
Speaker 1: other witnesses who saw it. Unfortunately, none did come forth,
1:19:21
Speaker 1: but I suspect that there were other witnesses. That same year,
1:19:25
Speaker 1: a few months later, November 6, 1957, at that time
1:19:29
Speaker 1: there was a huge wave sweeping across the United States
1:19:33
Speaker 1: and the world. And of course, Sarasotans were not left behind. 5.30 a.m.,
1:19:39
Speaker 1: Kenneth Julian, his wife and daughter, were driving to the
1:19:42
Speaker 1: Tampa airport when they described seeing this eerie blue sphere
1:19:48
Speaker 1: zoom across the sky. As Kenneth says, it was very strange,
1:19:53
Speaker 1: I can tell you. Quite high and just barely visible.
1:19:57
Speaker 1: It seemed to make a slight turn or curve. Just
1:20:00
Speaker 1: after making the arc, it disappeared. So they only saw
1:20:03
Speaker 1: it for a few seconds, but it turned out that
1:20:06
Speaker 1: people all over the area were seeing it. Authorities were
1:20:09
Speaker 1: being flooded with calls from witnesses. A delivery man saw it,
1:20:14
Speaker 1: a sports writer, a newspaper reporter, and an Eastern Airlines
1:20:18
Speaker 1: flight crew, and others. So there were a lot of witnesses.
1:20:22
Speaker 1: So many sightings in Sarasota. Here's another one, June 4, 1958,
1:20:28
Speaker 1: from a lady by the name of Miss Burbank, who
1:20:30
Speaker 1: actually used binoculars to watch this zigzagging UFO. As the
1:20:35
Speaker 1: witness says, the object appeared as a source of white light.
1:20:39
Speaker 1: It was oval in shape, seemed nebulous or fuzzy around
1:20:43
Speaker 1: the edge, and stronger down the center. It was not
1:20:46
Speaker 1: a bright or conspicuous thing, but still was easy to track.
1:20:50
Speaker 1: It moved with tremendous speed, and in this general direction,
1:20:55
Speaker 1: passing overhead in wide, crazy zigzags. It would hesitate and
1:21:00
Speaker 1: abruptly change course. An odd fact is that it always
1:21:04
Speaker 1: pointed the same way, even on the sharp turns. The
1:21:07
Speaker 1: course was not regular. It went something like this in spots,
1:21:11
Speaker 1: straighter in others. Case after case, May 4, 1960, 9.15 p.m.,
1:21:17
Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name of S.B. Parker Jr., an architect,
1:21:22
Speaker 1: saw this very unusual-looking object in the sky. As you
1:21:26
Speaker 1: can see, he drew a very precise picture of it,
1:21:30
Speaker 1: He described this as a yellow elliptical object with four
1:21:33
Speaker 1: evenly spaced squarish windows with rounded corners along the side.
1:21:39
Speaker 1: This was very low when he saw it, treetop level.
1:21:42
Speaker 1: It moved off in just a few seconds, but was
1:21:44
Speaker 1: visible long enough for him to get a very good
1:21:47
Speaker 1: view of it and realize it was unusual. Here's another case,
1:21:51
Speaker 1: May 21st, 1969. Numerous people across Sarasota reported seeing this
1:21:58
Speaker 1: cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky. In fact, people over
1:22:02
Speaker 1: a wide area saw it, people in Port Ritchie, north
1:22:05
Speaker 1: of Sarasota. It remained hovering in place for about two minutes. Now,
1:22:10
Speaker 1: skeptics did try to explain this away as a satellite,
1:22:15
Speaker 1: but as researcher Joan Reitenauer writes, no satellite can sit
1:22:19
Speaker 1: in any one position for even one minute. Certainly an
1:22:24
Speaker 1: interesting case. Here's another one. December 1976. It's not exactly
1:22:33
Speaker 1: sure what day, perhaps the 11th, though. But numerous witnesses
1:22:37
Speaker 1: across Sarasota reported seeing an unusually bright light, or lights,
1:22:42
Speaker 1: which would sometimes hover, sometimes dart around. A lot of
1:22:45
Speaker 1: people saw this. One witness at Siesta Key described seeing
1:22:50
Speaker 1: these lights hover for over an hour. And as she says,
1:22:53
Speaker 1: and I quote, we know it's not a constellation or
1:22:56
Speaker 1: a meteor. but we would like to know what we're
1:22:59
Speaker 1: seeing out there. Another witness said he was parked at
1:23:02
Speaker 1: the intersection of Wood and Brink streets when he watched
1:23:06
Speaker 1: an object with lights on it at very low elevation.
1:23:09
Speaker 1: And as he says, the lights were closer together than
1:23:12
Speaker 1: on a plane and the object darted off in different directions.
1:23:16
Speaker 1: It didn't follow a route or a pattern. Now here
1:23:20
Speaker 1: is a very, very strange case. June 24, 1985. very
1:23:26
Speaker 1: widely viewed. This was around 10.15 p.m. when calls began
1:23:31
Speaker 1: to flood the FAA, the police, UFO reporting centers, and newspapers.
1:23:38
Speaker 1: In fact, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Station fielded calls from
1:23:42
Speaker 1: people describing this object. Some said it looked like a meteor.
1:23:46
Speaker 1: Some said like a comet with a brilliant red tail.
1:23:49
Speaker 1: Another person said it looked like an airplane with its
1:23:52
Speaker 1: engines on fire. They received no less than 14 calls
1:23:56
Speaker 1: in the space of one hour. So clearly there was
1:23:59
Speaker 1: something up there. Now, here's where it gets interesting, because
1:24:03
Speaker 1: research revealed that there was in fact a laser light
1:24:05
Speaker 1: show at Harbor Island in Tampa. And so this is
1:24:09
Speaker 1: what a lot of skeptics and reporters seized upon. They said, oh,
1:24:13
Speaker 1: people think it's a UFO, but they're just seeing laser lights.
1:24:17
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. This laser light show is 60
1:24:20
Speaker 1: miles away. And these witnesses were in Sarasota and they
1:24:24
Speaker 1: insisted that what they saw could not have been lasers.
1:24:28
Speaker 1: As one witness says, a Sarasota resident by the name
1:24:30
Speaker 1: of Trey Miller, he says, and I quote, Don't let
1:24:35
Speaker 1: anybody fool you about a laser light show. It was
1:24:38
Speaker 1: no light show. It was a craft, cigar-shaped, silver, and
1:24:42
Speaker 1: with lights on it. I stopped in the middle of
1:24:44
Speaker 1: the road and the people behind me in traffic stopped
1:24:47
Speaker 1: and saw it too. It was like 400 to 500
1:24:49
Speaker 1: yards in the air. There's no way a laser light
1:24:53
Speaker 1: shell can hover and move at that constant of a speed.
1:24:58
Speaker 1: So other witnesses across a pretty wide area saw this thing,
1:25:02
Speaker 1: with some describing, quote, a large blaze with fragments falling
1:25:06
Speaker 1: from it. Some of the witnesses said they saw this
1:25:09
Speaker 1: object actually land in Hillsborough County. A few others said
1:25:14
Speaker 1: they saw it go into the water. One said Tampa Bay.
1:25:16
Speaker 1: Another said Palma Sola Bay. A couple said they saw
1:25:20
Speaker 1: it go down into the Manatee River. These bodies of
1:25:24
Speaker 1: water are all immediately adjacent to each other. So this
1:25:27
Speaker 1: does appear to be a USO. But whatever it was,
1:25:30
Speaker 1: the laser explanation doesn't even come close to matching the
1:25:34
Speaker 1: details described by the witnesses. Now this next case is
1:25:38
Speaker 1: a very good example of a UFO plane encounter. It
1:25:42
Speaker 1: was 45 minutes after midnight on January 27, 1995. when
1:25:48
Speaker 1: a pilot and his passenger were in a Cessna 172
1:25:53
Speaker 1: at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, 30 miles away
1:25:56
Speaker 1: from Sarasota and heading towards Sarasota, when suddenly the pilot's
1:26:02
Speaker 1: automatic direction finder radio began to pulsate in noise level.
1:26:09
Speaker 1: This was very puzzling. One minute later, the plane began
1:26:12
Speaker 1: to pitch around in a way that he couldn't explain.
1:26:16
Speaker 1: So he's thinking there must be some kind of malfunction
1:26:19
Speaker 1: and began to study the instrumentation on his dashboard to
1:26:22
Speaker 1: try and discern the problem. And looking down at his tachymeter,
1:26:27
Speaker 1: he says, quote, the entire cockpit lit up with a
1:26:31
Speaker 1: brilliant light source. So he immediately muttered an expletive, looked up,
1:26:36
Speaker 1: and saw the source of this light. Just about 2,000
1:26:40
Speaker 1: feet above him and less than one-third of a mile away,
1:26:45
Speaker 1: he saw this red-orange ball of light the size of
1:26:48
Speaker 1: a semi-trailer. He estimates maybe 60 feet long, 20 feet wide,
1:26:53
Speaker 1: and it was moving at a downward angle at lightning speed,
1:26:57
Speaker 1: he said, from east to west, going directly towards Sarasota.
1:27:01
Speaker 1: In fact, it passed right in front of his flight path.
1:27:05
Speaker 1: He could see two trails of greenish light, one on
1:27:08
Speaker 1: each side, coming from this object. Now, his passenger, who
1:27:11
Speaker 1: had been sleeping... immediately woke up when this bright light
1:27:15
Speaker 1: filled the cockpit. And like the pilot, he watched in
1:27:19
Speaker 1: amazement as this object darted down, reached an altitude of
1:27:23
Speaker 1: about 2,000 feet, leveled off over Sarasota, and then darted
1:27:27
Speaker 1: out to sea. The pilot immediately called Tampa Airport, who
1:27:31
Speaker 1: said that they had nothing on their radar and no
1:27:34
Speaker 1: evidence of any planes in this area. But this object
1:27:38
Speaker 1: moved so fast. that the pilot estimated the speed in
1:27:42
Speaker 1: excess of 21,000 miles per hour, and says that there's
1:27:47
Speaker 1: no way that this could have been a meteor. All right,
1:27:50
Speaker 1: just five more cases or so, and this one is
1:27:52
Speaker 1: probably the strangest, certainly the strangest one in this whole compilation,
1:27:57
Speaker 1: and absolutely the strangest one coming out of Sarasota. This
1:28:01
Speaker 1: comes from the November 2007 issue of Your True Tales,
1:28:06
Speaker 1: and was printed up in Albert Rosali's volume of humanoid encounters.
1:28:11
Speaker 1: This may or may not be directly related to UFOs
1:28:14
Speaker 1: or ETs, but it could be, and it's certainly odd.
1:28:17
Speaker 1: It involves a mother by the name of Christine and
1:28:21
Speaker 1: her two children, Ryan and his younger sister. They were
1:28:25
Speaker 1: all renting a house on a two-acre lot on the
1:28:27
Speaker 1: outskirts of Sarasota when something very unusual happened. It was
1:28:31
Speaker 1: a Friday, a summer afternoon. Ryan and his sister were
1:28:36
Speaker 1: playing on the lot when they noticed this unusual look
1:28:40
Speaker 1: bright orange rock jutting out from the soil on their lot.
1:28:45
Speaker 1: But it was so strange and bright, about the size
1:28:47
Speaker 1: of a watermelon, that they decided to dig it up.
1:28:51
Speaker 1: They put it into a wheelbarrow and brought it towards
1:28:54
Speaker 1: the house, set it on the porch. No sooner had
1:28:57
Speaker 1: they set this orange rock on the porch... when all
1:29:00
Speaker 1: the power in the house went out. This was weird
1:29:03
Speaker 1: because no other houses lost power. It wasn't a blackout.
1:29:07
Speaker 1: And at the same time, their phone went dead. So
1:29:11
Speaker 1: they didn't connect these electrical problems to the rock until
1:29:14
Speaker 1: later that night. And they noticed that this rock was
1:29:17
Speaker 1: actually luminescent. It was glowing with orange light. So now,
1:29:22
Speaker 1: wondering if the rock was to blame for their power outage,
1:29:26
Speaker 1: The mother, Christine, told her kids to take this rock
1:29:29
Speaker 1: off the porch and put it into the yard. So
1:29:32
Speaker 1: they did. They removed the rock, put it in the yard,
1:29:35
Speaker 1: covered it with a tarp, and no sooner had they
1:29:38
Speaker 1: taken this rock off the porch, when the power came
1:29:41
Speaker 1: back on, the phone came back on, everything returned to normal.
1:29:45
Speaker 1: But events weren't over yet, because it was the very
1:29:48
Speaker 1: next day of Saturday. Christine was doing the dishes when
1:29:52
Speaker 1: she saw two, what she described as muscular-looking women, pull
1:29:56
Speaker 1: up in a white van. They got out, they walked
1:30:00
Speaker 1: straight up to the tarp that was covering this rock.
1:30:03
Speaker 1: They uncovered the rock, took the rock, carried it up
1:30:06
Speaker 1: into the van, and drove off. This was very strange
1:30:10
Speaker 1: because nobody but Christina and her two kids knew about
1:30:13
Speaker 1: the rock. This tarp wasn't even visible from the driveway
1:30:17
Speaker 1: or the street. So how did they know about it?
1:30:21
Speaker 1: And still events were in progress because later that same day,
1:30:25
Speaker 1: Christine got a call from her rental office and was
1:30:28
Speaker 1: told that her lease, which was supposed to go for
1:30:31
Speaker 1: two more years and was paid up, had been canceled
1:30:35
Speaker 1: due to, quote, evidence of improper usage. She was told
1:30:39
Speaker 1: that they had two weeks to get out and that
1:30:42
Speaker 1: they would receive a refund for the rent already paid.
1:30:46
Speaker 1: Very strange story. Here's another really interesting case. September 7, 1999.
1:30:53
Speaker 1: This case comes from MUFON and involves a former firefighter
1:30:57
Speaker 1: who was heading to Sarasota on Interstate 75 when he
1:31:01
Speaker 1: noticed what he first thought was a jetliner about to crash.
1:31:05
Speaker 1: He actually pulled over to the side of the road
1:31:07
Speaker 1: and could now see that it was about 3,000 feet
1:31:10
Speaker 1: away from him and wasn't crashing but was hovering about
1:31:13
Speaker 1: 800 feet up in the air above a wooded area.
1:31:17
Speaker 1: And it was huge. He estimates this object was about
1:31:20
Speaker 1: 225 feet long glowing all over. It had a white
1:31:25
Speaker 1: strobe-like light on what appeared to be the front end
1:31:28
Speaker 1: and a blue one at the back end. And it
1:31:30
Speaker 1: then proceeded to move off slowly to the southwest and
1:31:33
Speaker 1: was gone. So he drove on. He stopped to get
1:31:37
Speaker 1: a coffee at the 7-Eleven store in Sarasota. And this
1:31:41
Speaker 1: is when he noticed an unusual number of fire trucks
1:31:43
Speaker 1: and medical vehicles circling this area. And he later found
1:31:48
Speaker 1: out that there were many other witnesses. And in fact...
1:31:52
Speaker 1: NASA later released a statement saying that what people had
1:31:55
Speaker 1: seen was probably a Russian rocket booster moving at 17,000
1:32:00
Speaker 1: miles per hour, which certainly does not match the details
1:32:04
Speaker 1: described by this first-hand witness. Just a couple of more cases.
1:32:09
Speaker 1: This one occurred at 10.02 p.m. on July 21, 2005.
1:32:11
Speaker 1: There's two witnesses, and as one of the witnesses says,
1:32:17
Speaker 1: My fiance and I were driving separate cars when we
1:32:20
Speaker 1: both noticed an extremely fast moving object going south across
1:32:24
Speaker 1: the road we were on. My fiance called me on
1:32:27
Speaker 1: my cell phone to verify what we saw. We turned
1:32:31
Speaker 1: down a small unlit road south towards our home when
1:32:34
Speaker 1: we both noticed an astronomical sized object just hovering literally
1:32:39
Speaker 1: right above our cars with beaming stadium lights shooting down
1:32:44
Speaker 1: on the road. I looked in the rear view mirror
1:32:47
Speaker 1: and suddenly it was gone. A brief case, but certainly impressive.
1:32:53
Speaker 1: Now I just want to end this with a couple
1:32:55
Speaker 1: of apparent photographic cases. This is really interesting. December 29, 2022.
1:33:01
Speaker 1: You can see this photograph here. This comes from New Fork.
1:33:05
Speaker 1: There's little info other than the witness saying, quote, eight
1:33:10
Speaker 1: disc-shaped bright white objects with black edging on the front,
1:33:14
Speaker 1: one smaller, more diamond-shaped, Discs were in a 2-4-2 pattern
1:33:19
Speaker 1: with the diamond in the front right. Picture was taken
1:33:22
Speaker 1: at sunset with very few clouds around. It certainly looks unusual.
1:33:29
Speaker 1: But you have to be careful. Consider this next case.
1:33:32
Speaker 1: This one went viral. July 17, 2024. You can see
1:33:37
Speaker 1: this impressive looking photo of what appeared to be a
1:33:40
Speaker 1: fiery UFO sending down a beam of light onto the water.
1:33:45
Speaker 1: This is all over the internet. It took me quite
1:33:47
Speaker 1: some time to track down the source to a lady
1:33:49
Speaker 1: by the name of Jennifer Rogers. She says that she's
1:33:53
Speaker 1: the one who took this photo and thought it was
1:33:55
Speaker 1: a UFO, but did her research and later learned that no,
1:33:58
Speaker 1: this is actually a search helicopter looking for a swimmer. Nevertheless,
1:34:04
Speaker 1: this picture went all over the internet and is circulated
1:34:07
Speaker 1: as a genuine UFO, which shows you can't be too careful.
1:34:13
Speaker 1: But certainly... A beautiful photograph, nevertheless. Not a UFO. There
1:34:19
Speaker 1: you go. Sarasota, Florida. It's funny because there's lots of
1:34:23
Speaker 1: towns next to each of these locations. And I'm looking
1:34:27
Speaker 1: at them. I'm like, well, there's another town I could
1:34:30
Speaker 1: look into. I wanted to include some of these cases
1:34:33
Speaker 1: since they're so close to these other towns like Sarasota.
1:34:37
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I'll just wait. I'm sure somebody's going
1:34:40
Speaker 1: to request this town or that town. And I'll visit
1:34:43
Speaker 1: it at that time. But yeah, Sarasota delivered. Thanks, Marlena.
1:34:48
Speaker 1: Super interesting. All different kinds of accounts. That one involving
1:34:52
Speaker 1: that glowing orange stone was super intriguing to me. I
1:34:56
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever heard a case quite like that. Again,
1:35:00
Speaker 1: can't prove it's UFO related, but it's certainly unusual and
1:35:05
Speaker 1: unexplained or so it would appear. So thank you again, guys.
1:35:10
Speaker 1: Four different locations. Slovakia, Chicago, Sarasota, Florida. Really interesting. And,
1:35:20
Speaker 1: of course, Covington, Kentucky. Always learn a lot. It's amazing
1:35:27
Speaker 1: to me how many cases there are. It's millions. I mean,
1:35:31
Speaker 1: millions upon millions of cases that have been recorded in
1:35:34
Speaker 1: these local newspapers. That's where I'm finding most of these cases,
1:35:38
Speaker 1: by the way. Some in books, some in various databases.
1:35:43
Speaker 1: But it's mostly... the newspapers that I'm finding a lot
1:35:47
Speaker 1: of these accounts. So, really interesting. I hope you enjoyed
1:35:53
Speaker 1: this episode and perhaps learned a little bit, but it's just, again,
1:36:00
Speaker 1: proving my point. And I think this is important, that
1:36:03
Speaker 1: people need to know a couple of things. One, that
1:36:07
Speaker 1: UFOs are far more common. UFO encounters are far more
1:36:11
Speaker 1: common than most people believe. Two, They are being seen
1:36:16
Speaker 1: all over the world, pretty much every location. And three,
1:36:21
Speaker 1: I think these cases show, like I said earlier, that
1:36:24
Speaker 1: ETs want us to know we are not alone, that
1:36:28
Speaker 1: they are conducting a very carefully orchestrated, vigorous publicity campaign,
1:36:34
Speaker 1: essentially just announcing their presence, saying hi. And the variety
1:36:41
Speaker 1: of encounters is also super interesting. The variety of humanoids,
1:36:45
Speaker 1: the variety of shapes of UFOs, all of this shows
1:36:48
Speaker 1: we still have a lot to learn. These cases have
1:36:52
Speaker 1: so much to teach us. They really offer us an
1:36:55
Speaker 1: amazing opportunity to learn not only about what's out there
1:36:59
Speaker 1: in the universe, but about ourselves, how we react to
1:37:03
Speaker 1: stuff like this, how open we are to learning new ideas,
1:37:07
Speaker 1: and so forth. So that's it for today. Thank you
1:37:11
Speaker 1: guys so much. I really appreciate it. It's because of
1:37:14
Speaker 1: you I do this research. It is a lot of work,
1:37:17
Speaker 1: particularly these hometown episodes. But I always have so much fun.
1:37:22
Speaker 1: Always learn something new. And it's because of you guys.
1:37:25
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you. And until next time,
1:37:30
Speaker 1: please keep asking those hard questions. Keep searching for the truth.
1:37:35
Speaker 1: Keep having fun. I think that's important too. So until
1:37:40
Speaker 1: next time, bye for now. See you next Friday.