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It Was on the Ground! Ten UFO Landing Cases from Across the World · 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. I've got a pretty special episode for you today.
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Speaker 1: This is something I've only done once before, but I
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Speaker 1: got a pretty good response from it, so I am
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Speaker 1: doing it again. This episode is all about UFO landing cases.
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Speaker 1: So the title for this episode is, It was on
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Speaker 1: the ground, 10 cases of UFO landings from across the world.
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Speaker 1: I love these kinds of cases because often there are
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Speaker 1: multiple witnesses, but almost always there are landing traces. This
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Speaker 1: is really good evidence of the reality of UFOs. It
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Speaker 1: always surprises me when people say there's no evidence, because
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Speaker 1: there is. And yeah, the cases I have are definitely
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Speaker 1: from a wide variety of areas, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Romania, Slovenia,
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Speaker 1: South Africa, and Minnesota. Now the first case I'd like
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Speaker 1: to talk about today I call Something Dreadful. UFO landing
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Speaker 1: at Jacarepagua. This is in Brazil. This occurred in 1930
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Speaker 1: in Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I love this because
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Speaker 1: it's a very early case. It's really an extraordinary encounter
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Speaker 1: which lasted for quite a long time and involves not
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Speaker 1: only physical landing traces but physiological effects. This case was
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Speaker 1: reported by the first-hand witness to Brazilian researcher Irene Granci
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Speaker 1: and appeared in her book UFOs and Abductions in Brazil.
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Speaker 1: She's a terrific researcher. The witnesses were Cesario and Ruth Vega.
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Speaker 1: They were a couple. They were homesteaders in what was
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Speaker 1: then a very rural area outside of the then very
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Speaker 1: small town of Jaca, Rapagua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At
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Speaker 1: that time, there was no electricity in the area. So
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Speaker 1: when one night in 1930, they woke up to see
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Speaker 1: beams of brilliant blue and yellow light streaming into their bedroom.
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Speaker 1: Both were immediately alarmed. Cesario cautiously opened the window and
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Speaker 1: looked out. Root was about to join him when he
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Speaker 1: roughly pushed her back and told her not to look
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Speaker 1: as what he saw was, quote, something dreadful. He told her,
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Speaker 1: don't look, this thing is ghastly. But now Root was curious,
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Speaker 1: so she got up and looked anyway and was astonished
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Speaker 1: and frightened to see a large, whitish, rounded object sitting
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Speaker 1: on their lawn where they had a beautiful covering of
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Speaker 1: green grass known as capim veludo, or velvet grass. Now
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Speaker 1: this object had two bright lights which kind of reminded
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Speaker 1: Root of eyes and it sat on a single pillar.
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Speaker 1: Now whether this was solid or made of light they
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Speaker 1: couldn't really tell. At the time UFOs were of course
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Speaker 1: unheard of so they had no idea what they were seeing.
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Speaker 1: The only explanation they could think of was that it
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Speaker 1: was some kind of ghost or monster. They watched it
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Speaker 1: as it proceeded to move up and down across their
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Speaker 1: property and and then began to head for the nearby
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Speaker 1: Camerim Dam. And then it came back down to their
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Speaker 1: water tanks. It proceeded to do this over and over again.
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Speaker 1: Now Cesario was not one to just stand by, so
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Speaker 1: during one of these episodes, he went outside and he
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Speaker 1: aimed his revolver at the craft and shouted out a warning,
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Speaker 1: I shall fire at you. He got no response from
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Speaker 1: the object, so he proceeded to fire four shots over
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Speaker 1: the object in the sky and then two shots below
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Speaker 1: it into the ground. This object made no reaction except
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Speaker 1: perhaps a slight quiver in this pillar below the craft.
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Speaker 1: Now these glowing, quote, eyes were actually rectangular shaped and
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Speaker 1: were either portholes or lights. The thing, the pillar coming
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Speaker 1: down from the object was touching the ground. Again, whether
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Speaker 1: a beam of light or something else, this object was
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Speaker 1: at or just above ground level. As they watched this,
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Speaker 1: the couple was so terrified that neither uttered a word. Cesario,
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Speaker 1: who was normally very brave, was clearly frightened. Finally, after
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Speaker 1: several trips back and forth from their water tank to
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Speaker 1: their property and back up to the dam, this object
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Speaker 1: left for the dam and disappeared off into the distance
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Speaker 1: and didn't return. So they went back to bed. They
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Speaker 1: did their best to get some sleep. When morning came,
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Speaker 1: Cesario rose early and went outside and checked with the neighbors,
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Speaker 1: asking if any of them had seen anything unusual. Nobody had.
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Speaker 1: Now when Root, his wife, woke up, she discovered that
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Speaker 1: her entire body was swollen from head to toe, covered
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Speaker 1: with hives or a blistering rash. She had never suffered
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Speaker 1: from anything like this before in her life. She really
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Speaker 1: isn't sure if the UFO caused it, but it was
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Speaker 1: definitely unusual. So she called to her housekeeper to make
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Speaker 1: some lemongrass tea. Lemongrass is a well-known antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant.
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Speaker 1: So after taking this tea, this caused the swelling and
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Speaker 1: blisters to subside. The Vegas then went to police chief
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Speaker 1: Lucille Cardoso, who was their friend, and they told him
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Speaker 1: what happened. He not only believed them, but he sent
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Speaker 1: two soldiers to protect them and their property. These soldiers
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Speaker 1: remained on duty for 10 days following the incident, but
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Speaker 1: the strange craft never returned. Now, besides Ruth's physiological reactions
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Speaker 1: to the object, there were also very strange landing traces.
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Speaker 1: Their very healthy green and pink velvet grass had turned
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Speaker 1: to an ashen gray where this object had landed or hovered.
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Speaker 1: Cesario swore his wife to secrecy about the events, But
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Speaker 1: decades later, Root shared her story with Irina Grantsy, even
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Speaker 1: providing a sketch, which clearly shows a typical disc-shaped craft.
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Speaker 1: That was clearly quite a traumatic incident for this couple.
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Speaker 1: I can't blame the gentleman for shooting his revolver at
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Speaker 1: the UFO. So interesting that it was going back and
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Speaker 1: forth to the reservoir. We see quite a few cases
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Speaker 1: of UFOs hovering over bodies of water. Perhaps that's what
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Speaker 1: it was after. So interesting that this case was so
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Speaker 1: early in time that the subject of UFOs had not
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Speaker 1: been popularized at all, so they really had no idea
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Speaker 1: what they were seeing. It's very cool to see the
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Speaker 1: first-hand eyewitness drawings as well. I do wonder about the
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Speaker 1: physiological effects, but certainly the landing traces are not unusual.
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Speaker 1: When UFOs are that close to the ground, they often
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Speaker 1: do leave markings. So I think it's an important case.
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Speaker 1: Now let's move to the next one. I call this
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Speaker 1: next one, No Astronomical Explanation is Possible. UFO Landing in Hamel.
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Speaker 1: This occurred on August 11, 1948 in Hamel, Minnesota. This
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Speaker 1: is a multiple witness case. Also, of course, landing traces.
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Speaker 1: This case is super interesting because Project Sign, the precursor
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Speaker 1: of Project Blue Book, found this case to be of
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Speaker 1: considerable interest, and they documented it and studied it quite extensively.
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Speaker 1: This case comes from the government UFO study group Project Sign,
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Speaker 1: which was the precursor to Project Blue Book, and was
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Speaker 1: later published in Time magazine and in other publications. It
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Speaker 1: was 15 minutes afternoon on August 11, 1948, when two
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Speaker 1: young farm boys, Jerome Luhr, age 10, and his younger
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Speaker 1: brother Benno, age 8, were playing in the backyard of
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Speaker 1: their parents' farm in rural Hummel, Minnesota. Without warning, they
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Speaker 1: both noticed a small metallic object about 12 feet above
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Speaker 1: the ground. It was 2 feet wide, 1 feet thick,
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Speaker 1: and disc-shaped, like two plates put together is how they
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Speaker 1: described it. It was dull gray in color, with no
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Speaker 1: windows or markings of any kind. To their shock, this
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Speaker 1: disc-shaped object slowly floated down softly, kind of like a balloon,
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Speaker 1: and landed on the ground between them. but as it
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Speaker 1: hit the ground, it made a metallic clinking sound, so
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Speaker 1: it clearly was not a balloon. The boys were about
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Speaker 1: 8 feet away from the object at this point. Upon
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Speaker 1: hitting the ground, this object appeared to spin once. It
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Speaker 1: then began to make a whistling noise, which the boys
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Speaker 1: described as similar to a boiling tea kettle. The object
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Speaker 1: then shot up quickly to a height of about 20 feet.
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Speaker 1: The sound stopped briefly as the object hovered, The sound
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Speaker 1: resumed as the object shot upwards another 10 feet. It
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Speaker 1: was now 30 feet high. It then suddenly darted off
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Speaker 1: to the northeast, maneuvering around tree branches and telephone wires
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Speaker 1: before disappearing off into the distance. The two astonished boys
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Speaker 1: ran to tell their parents. Their father, Philip, and their
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Speaker 1: mother could see that the boys were visibly frightened as
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Speaker 1: they spilled out their story. So they went outside and
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Speaker 1: saw a distinct area of depressed soil. where the boys
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Speaker 1: said that the object had landed. They wisely covered it
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Speaker 1: with a washtub to protect it, and then they reported
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Speaker 1: it to the local postmaster, Mr. E.R. Sheridan, who quickly
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Speaker 1: notified the St. Paul, Minnesota FBI office. This FBI office
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Speaker 1: immediately sent Special Agent M.B. Rhodes to investigate, and in
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Speaker 1: his report on the case, Agent Rhodes writes, When this
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Speaker 1: agent arrived on the scene, He was taken to a
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Speaker 1: spot covered by a washtub, which Mr. and Mrs. Lure
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Speaker 1: advised was the spot where the alleged flying saucer had landed.
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Speaker 1: This spot was approximately two feet in diameter and appeared
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Speaker 1: to this agent as though some heavy object had landed
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Speaker 1: there or set down there as the ground was dented
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Speaker 1: and the rocks protruding from the ground had been leveled.
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Speaker 1: This agent advised the Lure family that that the matter
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Speaker 1: would be reported to higher headquarters and requested them to
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Speaker 1: keep the matter confidential. Now, samples of the soil were
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Speaker 1: later taken and forwarded to the FBI's Washington, D.C., crime
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Speaker 1: laboratory for analysis. And they took this case very seriously.
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Speaker 1: The Air Force did. Colonel William M. Creasy of the
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Speaker 1: Army Chief Chemical Corps, soon to be a major general,
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Speaker 1: he wrote... The report has aroused the interest of some
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Speaker 1: of our scientists who would like to have more details
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Speaker 1: of the reported occurrence. We request photographs and samples be
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Speaker 1: sent to this office for examination and analysis. The intelligent
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Speaker 1: report on this case is a prime example of the
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Speaker 1: doublespeak of Project Sign and Blue Book as they try
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Speaker 1: to explain away these kinds of events. As the report says,
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Speaker 1: No astronomical explanation is possible for this incident. A meteorite
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Speaker 1: would not have descended so gently, nor would it have
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Speaker 1: risen again. It seems incredible that this could have been
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Speaker 1: an actual physical occurrence. But if it was, it is
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Speaker 1: doubly unfortunate that no mature observers were at hand. If
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Speaker 1: the object did land just a few feet away, one
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Speaker 1: would think that even children would have given a more
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Speaker 1: detailed description. Is it known whether the children had normal vision?
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Speaker 1: To one with myopic vision, Even a buzzard or hawk
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Speaker 1: gliding to a landing might appear as a strange object.
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Speaker 1: This apparent bit of fantasy is hardly worth further consideration.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, they're trying to explain this away as nearsighted
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Speaker 1: boys who saw a bird. Unbelievable. Now this conclusion is surprising,
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Speaker 1: given how seriously the military took this report. In fact,
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Speaker 1: declassified correspondence from the FBI, which you can see here,
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Speaker 1: shows that J. Edgar Hoover himself was personally involved in
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Speaker 1: the administration of the soil analysis. The analysis showed no
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Speaker 1: radioactivity and no unusual properties. Truly amazing case. And since
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Speaker 1: it's that early in time, I wonder what this could
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Speaker 1: have been. Some of these might be reverse engineered craft.
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Speaker 1: Back in 1948? I don't know. Very hard to say,
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Speaker 1: but it's a very small UFO. Also interesting is that
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Speaker 1: despite the government's explanations that, you know, there's really nothing
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Speaker 1: to this, they showed incredible interest in it, all the
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Speaker 1: way to sending down officers to study it, take soil samples,
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Speaker 1: send them to a wide variety of people to study
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Speaker 1: this more extensively. So clearly, they were taking it very seriously.
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Speaker 1: It's an extraordinary case. Now let's move to the next one.
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Speaker 1: This one's super interesting. I find all of these interesting.
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Speaker 1: But I call this next one The most amazing thing
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Speaker 1: I ever saw in my life. UFO landing in Windsor.
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Speaker 1: This took place on August 27, 1952 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Technically,
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Speaker 1: it is a single witness case, though people in the
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Speaker 1: area were seeing UFOs at the time. So I'm going
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Speaker 1: to call this a multiple witness case. And of course,
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Speaker 1: it has some very interesting landing traces as well. This
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Speaker 1: case was published in the Windsor Daily Star newspaper and
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Speaker 1: other newspapers and in other publications. It was around midnight
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Speaker 1: on August 27, 1952, as Gabriel Durochet walked along Wellington
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Speaker 1: Avenue on the way to his home located at 1110
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Speaker 1: McKay Avenue. This is parallel to Wellington Street, one street over,
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Speaker 1: located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. At the time, the only
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Speaker 1: thing separating these two streets was was a railway line
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Speaker 1: surrounded by empty field. This railway line is still there.
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Speaker 1: Now suddenly, as Gabriel was walking down Wellington Avenue, he noticed, quote,
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Speaker 1: this thing out in the field. And as Gabriel says
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Speaker 1: in his own words, I didn't really believe it when
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Speaker 1: I first saw it, but when I looked again, it
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Speaker 1: was there all right. I ran up this path across
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Speaker 1: the field. It was as plain as day. It was
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Speaker 1: sort of blue all over and glowed like phosphorus. It
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Speaker 1: was a big, round thing. In my opinion, it was
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Speaker 1: about 30 feet in diameter, and it had a dome
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Speaker 1: on it that was about 20 feet. When I got close,
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Speaker 1: only about 30 feet away, I started yelling at it.
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Speaker 1: Now Gabriel's yelling had an immediate reaction to the craft.
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Speaker 1: As Gabriel says, Then I saw these sparks come out
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Speaker 1: one part of the side. They were blue, yellow, and red.
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Speaker 1: The saucer started spinning, and there was a sort of
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Speaker 1: blue mist formed under it. and it went straight up
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Speaker 1: and away. It was the most amazing thing I ever
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Speaker 1: saw in my life. Now, absolutely stunned, Gabriel rushed home
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Speaker 1: and called the Windsor Daily Star newspaper. It was now 12.20 a.m.,
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Speaker 1: so he shakily spilled out his story to a reporter
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Speaker 1: and asked that they send a reporter to the area,
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Speaker 1: and he would show them where he had seen this
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Speaker 1: object on the ground. Now, normally, the newspaper would ignore
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Speaker 1: such a request, but unknown to Gabriel... In the last
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Speaker 1: 20 minutes, three other people had just called the newspaper
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Speaker 1: saying that they had also seen a strange glowing object
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Speaker 1: hovering over the same general area of the city. So
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Speaker 1: the newspaper sent out a reporter. They found Gabriel near
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Speaker 1: the area and he led them into the field. Now
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Speaker 1: per the reporter, Gabriel was very shaken up. As the
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Speaker 1: reporter says, his eyes were as large as saucers. His
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Speaker 1: hands shook and he kept repeating, I saw it. I
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Speaker 1: swear I saw it. Leading reporters to the very spot
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Speaker 1: where he had seen this object, Gabriel told them, was
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Speaker 1: right out here in this field. There should be some
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Speaker 1: sort of marks. Going out there, they did find, quote,
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Speaker 1: a few crushed bushes. But the reporter was most impressed
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Speaker 1: by Gabriel's obvious shock. As the reporter says, there could
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Speaker 1: be little doubt his excitement and shaking were genuine, and
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Speaker 1: his story appeared to be. He had not a drop
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Speaker 1: to drink, he said. and had not been seeing things.
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Speaker 1: His description coincided with those who phoned the star and
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Speaker 1: said that they had been seeing something hovering over the
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Speaker 1: same general area of the city. Now, needless to say,
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Speaker 1: Gabriel himself is convinced that he saw a genuine flying saucer.
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Speaker 1: As he says, I've read all the stuff in the
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Speaker 1: papers about saucers, and I always said it was bunk.
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Speaker 1: But not now. I saw it with my own eyes.
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Speaker 1: I really feel for the witness in that case. You
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Speaker 1: can tell that he was affected profoundly. If only we
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Speaker 1: were able to take this subject more seriously, I think
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Speaker 1: we'd have a lot more confirmation. I'd love to see
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Speaker 1: photographs of these landing traces, soil samples. But truly, this
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Speaker 1: worldwide UFO cover-up has led to a lot of cases
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Speaker 1: being lost to posterity. Now let's move to the next case.
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Speaker 1: This one got a lot of attention at the time.
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Speaker 1: It is also a multiple witness case. I call this
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Speaker 1: one Fresh Creepingly Alien UFO Landing in Pernong. This occurred
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Speaker 1: on March 13, 1959 in Pernong in South Australia, Australia.
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Speaker 1: A super interesting case where these gentlemen got a very
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Speaker 1: close up look at this landed UFO and it occurred
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Speaker 1: during the middle of a pretty active UFO wave. This
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Speaker 1: case was published in several newspapers, also in the Flying
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Speaker 1: Saucer Review, the MUFON Journal, and other publications. It was
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Speaker 1: 2 a.m. on March 13, 1959, as two men, postal
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Speaker 1: carrier Percy Briggs and a Mr. C. Towell, the postmaster
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Speaker 1: of clay pans, drove along Pernong Road in Pernong, Australia.
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Speaker 1: This is a tiny town of about 55 people. Percy
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Speaker 1: was driving a truck filled with vegetables. They had just
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Speaker 1: crossed the ferry over the Murray River. They were about
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Speaker 1: one mile north of the ferry and had just crested
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Speaker 1: Coronamount Hill when they simultaneously noticed the silhouette of a
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Speaker 1: very large dome-shaped object sitting off to the left side
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Speaker 1: of the road about 1,500, maybe 3,000 feet ahead of them.
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Speaker 1: The object was studded with about eight or nine lights flashing.
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Speaker 1: alternately flashing red and blue, quote, like the lights on
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Speaker 1: top of a circus tent. Now, one of the witnesses, Mr. Towle,
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Speaker 1: wondered if it might be something from the Woomera military
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Speaker 1: rocket range. The only problem is Woomera was almost 600
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Speaker 1: kilometers away. This object was big. Each of the lights
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Speaker 1: seemed to be about 20 feet apart. They estimated the
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Speaker 1: size of the object is anywhere from 160 to 320
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Speaker 1: feet across. The red and blue lights were bright enough
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Speaker 1: to light up the trees and vegetation surrounding this object. Mr.
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Speaker 1: Towle drew the object for reporters and said it was
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Speaker 1: bigger than an airliner and studded with red and blue
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Speaker 1: flashing lights. So both men stared in amazement. One of
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Speaker 1: them said, what is that? Because this area is entirely
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Speaker 1: rural with no structures. Whatever it was, it was not
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Speaker 1: supposed to be there. Percy stopped the truck momentarily as
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Speaker 1: they stared at the object and tried to figure out
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Speaker 1: what they were seeing. It was up ahead of them,
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Speaker 1: so Percy slowly continued moving forward along the road, and
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Speaker 1: after moving a few hundred feet, approaching within 600 feet
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Speaker 1: of the object, it suddenly rose upward from the ground
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Speaker 1: at an angle. As it rose, the red and blue
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Speaker 1: lights disappeared and and the craft itself glowed with a
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Speaker 1: bright white light, and the craft began to move off
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Speaker 1: to the southwest. The men kept driving and watched this
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Speaker 1: light slowly recede into the distance for about 10 minutes
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Speaker 1: until it disappeared from view. Following the encounter, researchers did
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Speaker 1: check the landing site for radiation or evidence that the
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Speaker 1: object had sat there, but didn't find anything. News of
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Speaker 1: the sighting spread quickly, and those who knew the witnesses
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Speaker 1: were quick to vouch for their honesty. One of them
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Speaker 1: was Mr. Laurie Topsfield, who was in charge of the
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Speaker 1: Pernong Ferry, and he told reporters, There's no hooey about it.
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Speaker 1: These men saw something. Another man who knew these men
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Speaker 1: well was Donald Keith Crook, who told reporters, I have
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Speaker 1: no doubt whatever that these two men saw something extraordinary.
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Speaker 1: They are both very reliable and neither would make a mistake.
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Speaker 1: Both men are convinced that they saw a spaceship from
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Speaker 1: another planet. Mr. C. Towell said, The thing was bigger
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Speaker 1: than an airliner. Percy Briggs and I are convinced it
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Speaker 1: was intelligently controlled. We both felt that something inside the
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Speaker 1: craft was aware of our presence and was watching us.
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Speaker 1: There was something flesh-creepingly alien about it. Now, it turned
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Speaker 1: out that it wasn't long before other people in the
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Speaker 1: area started seeing strange things. And in fact, just one
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Speaker 1: week later, on March 20, 1959, Mr. Elio and his wife,
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Speaker 1: of Murray Bridge, this is about 40 miles away from Pernong,
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Speaker 1: had a very dramatic UFO sighting while driving in the
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Speaker 1: area at night. As Mr. Elio says, My wife gave
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Speaker 1: a cry of alarm and I slammed on the brakes.
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Speaker 1: In the sky ahead of us was what looked like
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Speaker 1: a blazing golden coin. It arched upwards at tremendous speed
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Speaker 1: and was gone. Neither of us have seen anything like
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Speaker 1: it before. It was only five days after this at
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Speaker 1: 10 p.m. on March 25th that the original witness, Percy Briggs,
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Speaker 1: was working on his car in his driveway when he
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Speaker 1: saw two shimmering disks performing intricate maneuvers in the sky.
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Speaker 1: He called his wife and three children out of the
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Speaker 1: house to watch, and all five of them watched these
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Speaker 1: two disks darting around for almost a half hour, during
22:25
Speaker 1: which time these objects changed constantly from red to blue. Later,
22:30
Speaker 1: investigators from Woomera Rocket Range arrived to interview Percy and
22:34
Speaker 1: his family. and reportedly came away convinced that the sightings
22:38
Speaker 1: were genuine. The wave wasn't over yet. It was just
22:41
Speaker 1: six days later that Barry Neal, an operator of the
22:44
Speaker 1: Port Elliot Cinema, was driving to his home in Goolwa
22:49
Speaker 1: on the South Australia coast. He was on a remote
22:52
Speaker 1: road when he saw this object sitting on the ground
22:55
Speaker 1: only about 1,500, maybe 1,800 feet away. He described it
22:56
Speaker 1: as dome-shaped, bright reddish-orange, with evenly spaced glowing portholes. He
23:06
Speaker 1: said it was at least 15 feet wide. He tried
23:08
Speaker 1: to take a back dirt road to get closer to
23:11
Speaker 1: the object, but as he approached, he saw that the
23:13
Speaker 1: object had lifted up off the ground and was moving
23:16
Speaker 1: off into the distance. And he later learned that three
23:20
Speaker 1: other witnesses had seen an object, quote, This was in
23:24
Speaker 1: the same area and just a few days earlier. Now,
23:28
Speaker 1: in further and startling support of the original UFO landing
23:32
Speaker 1: by Percy Briggs and C. Towell, just a few miles
23:35
Speaker 1: away from the landing site and a few hours earlier,
23:38
Speaker 1: a young child was preparing for bed in his home
23:42
Speaker 1: when he told his parents that he had just seen
23:44
Speaker 1: a strange man wearing red coveralls. He immediately told his parents,
23:49
Speaker 1: but they did not see any strange figure. When we
23:52
Speaker 1: hear about these UFO landings, I always wonder why. What
23:56
Speaker 1: are they coming down for? Is there something in this area?
23:59
Speaker 1: Do they need repairs? What's going on here? Of course,
24:03
Speaker 1: we can only speculate, but given that there was a
24:06
Speaker 1: huge wave of activity in this area at that time,
24:09
Speaker 1: clearly something was going on. I've often said that one
24:13
Speaker 1: person's UFO sighting is another person's onboard experience, so maybe
24:17
Speaker 1: they were coming for people. Also interesting is that there
24:21
Speaker 1: was this child who reported seeing a humanoid in this
24:25
Speaker 1: area around that time, So perhaps there's a connection there.
24:28
Speaker 1: Very hard to say, but these cases are always so fascinating.
24:33
Speaker 1: So is this next one, which I call, It Landed
24:36
Speaker 1: by the Mausoleum, UFO Landing at Acucomac, Mexico. That's a mouthful.
24:44
Speaker 1: This occurred on March 1972 in this very small village
24:49
Speaker 1: called Acucomac in Mexico. It is also a multiple in
24:54
Speaker 1: this case, and it also has some very interesting landing
24:58
Speaker 1: traces as well. This next case first appeared in the
25:02
Speaker 1: April 20, 1972 edition of the Mexico weekly publication Juves
25:08
Speaker 1: de Excelsior, and was later published in the MUFON UFO Journal,
25:12
Speaker 1: and was also presented in the 1973 Proceedings of the
25:15
Speaker 1: Annual MUFON Symposium, and was given brief mention in Ted
25:20
Speaker 1: Phillips' book, physical traces associated with UFO sightings. Mufon called it, quote,
25:26
Speaker 1: one of the highest quality cases of 1972. It was
25:30
Speaker 1: around 10 p.m. on March 19, 1972, when a young
25:34
Speaker 1: boy by the name of Mario Sanchez Perez ventured out
25:38
Speaker 1: onto the patio of his home in the small Mexican
25:41
Speaker 1: village of Axu Comac to retrieve the broom. Looking up,
25:47
Speaker 1: his attention was caught by a bright bluish star-like light
25:50
Speaker 1: which was clearly descending as it quickly grew brighter and closer.
25:55
Speaker 1: In moments, Mario realized that this object was in fact
25:58
Speaker 1: heading directly for him, and in fact, it looked like
26:01
Speaker 1: it was coming in for a landing. And he was right,
26:05
Speaker 1: because moments later, the object came down to the ground
26:08
Speaker 1: at the vacant lot opposite of Mario's house, where there
26:11
Speaker 1: was a mausoleum for the local cemetery. Now at this point,
26:16
Speaker 1: he wasn't thinking it was a UFO, but was wondering
26:19
Speaker 1: if it might be a hot air balloon or something else.
26:22
Speaker 1: So running to the mausoleum, he didn't see anything unusual.
26:27
Speaker 1: But he didn't give up. He began to explore the
26:29
Speaker 1: area around it. And approaching the corner of the mausoleum,
26:33
Speaker 1: he was able to see a brilliant blue light. So
26:36
Speaker 1: peering cautiously around, he was now amazed to see this
26:40
Speaker 1: very bright blue spherical object. In fact, it was so bright,
26:45
Speaker 1: it reminded him of a welder's arc. Now frightened, he
26:48
Speaker 1: ran back to tell his mother. On the way, he
26:51
Speaker 1: saw his neighbors, Zacharias Mendoza and Manuel Carlotta de Mendoza,
26:57
Speaker 1: and called out their attention to this bright light, which
27:00
Speaker 1: you could see from a distance. The two neighbors did
27:03
Speaker 1: see the glow of this object, but Zacharias was skeptical
27:06
Speaker 1: and dismissed this light as rabbit hunters with searchlights. Too
27:11
Speaker 1: bad for him. Mario got his mother, Josefina Sanchez de Perez,
27:16
Speaker 1: and together they went to this site and could now
27:20
Speaker 1: see that this object was taking off. The object, they estimate,
27:23
Speaker 1: was on the ground for about seven minutes, and this
27:26
Speaker 1: object now rose vertically, producing a humming sound. It became
27:30
Speaker 1: even more bright, seeming to shoot off blue sparks. It
27:34
Speaker 1: rose up slowly and then moved off until it was
27:37
Speaker 1: too far away to hear the humming, finally becoming a
27:40
Speaker 1: star-like light in the sky before finally disappearing off into
27:44
Speaker 1: the distance. Both witnesses were impressed by the strangeness of
27:48
Speaker 1: the sighting, and Mario vowed to explore the landing site
27:52
Speaker 1: the next morning, as he told his mother, to see
27:55
Speaker 1: if I can find something. And he did find something.
27:59
Speaker 1: And going to the spot the next morning, exactly where
28:02
Speaker 1: he had seen the object landed, he found four deep
28:05
Speaker 1: marks in the soil in a perfect square formation of 2.5
28:10
Speaker 1: meters at each edge and 20 centimeters deep. This is 8.2
28:16
Speaker 1: feet per edge and 7.9 inches deep. Now at the
28:20
Speaker 1: very center of the square, there was a dark black mark,
28:23
Speaker 1: apparently a burn mark. And given the deepness of the marks,
28:27
Speaker 1: it was clear that this object was pretty heavy. Now
28:30
Speaker 1: when Mario was later asked by reporters what he thinks
28:33
Speaker 1: he saw, his only response was, who knows? And his
28:37
Speaker 1: mother's response was not that different. And she added, I
28:41
Speaker 1: wish that it had not gone away so that I
28:43
Speaker 1: could have seen it better. I only managed to see
28:46
Speaker 1: it when it was rising up, but my boy really
28:49
Speaker 1: saw it on the ground. I find that case to
28:51
Speaker 1: be very compelling. We have multiple witnesses, landing traces. It
28:56
Speaker 1: clearly wasn't anything conventional, such as a helicopter or an
29:00
Speaker 1: airplane or a balloon, so very hard to explain away.
29:06
Speaker 1: Also fascinating to me is that it landed next to
29:08
Speaker 1: this graveyard, this mausoleum. I did a whole episode on
29:12
Speaker 1: UFOs over graveyards. or landing at graveyards with humanoids being seen.
29:16
Speaker 1: There is clearly a connection there. I'm not sure what
29:19
Speaker 1: it is, but here's another case to add to that category.
29:24
Speaker 1: Now let's move to the next case. This is probably
29:26
Speaker 1: my favorite in this compilation because it is so extensive,
29:30
Speaker 1: so unusual, really well-confirmed landing traces, and a lot of witnesses.
29:36
Speaker 1: I call this one, I Never Saw Anything Like It.
29:40
Speaker 1: ufo landing at fort beaufort this is in june 26
29:46
Speaker 1: 1972 at fort beaufort in south africa and wow this
29:50
Speaker 1: case is so extensive and so unusual This case got
29:55
Speaker 1: an enormous amount of publicity. It was widely published in
29:58
Speaker 1: newspapers and various UFO publications, such as the APRO Bulletin,
30:03
Speaker 1: the Flying Saucer Review, the MUFON UFO Journal, and many others.
30:08
Speaker 1: It took place at the Brayside Farm owned by Bernardus, quote,
30:12
Speaker 1: Benny Smit, outside Fort Beaufort in South Africa. It was
30:17
Speaker 1: around 9 a.m. on June 26, 1972, as one of
30:18
Speaker 1: the farm laborers, A Mr. Boer de Klerk was sent
30:26
Speaker 1: by Benny Smith to check on the farm's reservoir. This
30:30
Speaker 1: farm worker saw smoke coming from a cliffside near the reservoir,
30:35
Speaker 1: so he called out to what he believed must be
30:37
Speaker 1: a trespasser. And this is when he saw what he
30:40
Speaker 1: first described as a big ball of fire. Seeing this,
30:44
Speaker 1: he rushed back to the farm to tell the owner,
30:46
Speaker 1: Benny Smith, what he had seen, what he called, quote,
30:49
Speaker 1: some ugly thing. At some point, it did appear to
30:53
Speaker 1: be a, quote, shiny object. And as the witness himself says,
30:57
Speaker 1: Nobody answered, so he moved nearer, and this is when
31:00
Speaker 1: he saw the object rise up. And as he says,
31:03
Speaker 1: So Benny, of course, went to this spot, as Benny says,
31:17
Speaker 1: I went with him to the spot. Sure enough, there
31:20
Speaker 1: was a fiery ball hovering at treetop level. It was
31:23
Speaker 1: about two and a half feet across with flames shooting out.
31:27
Speaker 1: My man shouted at it, and it moved sideways for
31:30
Speaker 1: about 300 yards and disappeared behind a big bush. All
31:34
Speaker 1: that was left was a smoke trail. Later, it appeared
31:38
Speaker 1: from behind a tree and kept changing color. When I
31:41
Speaker 1: first looked, it was a big red ball, but now
31:44
Speaker 1: it was green. and it suddenly changed to a yellowish white.
31:49
Speaker 1: I was shocked, and I felt that the thing could
31:51
Speaker 1: be dangerous. I hurried back to the house to get
31:54
Speaker 1: my rifle and phoned the police. I went back to
31:57
Speaker 1: the spot and fired several shots. I am sure my
32:01
Speaker 1: eighth shot hit it as I heard a thud. It
32:04
Speaker 1: moved up and down and disappeared behind the trees again. Now,
32:07
Speaker 1: during this time, Benny Smith's dog, Wolfie, was present, but
32:12
Speaker 1: at some point during the encounter, He disappeared. Nobody could
32:15
Speaker 1: find him. It was around 10 a.m. that Warrant Officer P.R.
32:20
Speaker 1: Van Rensburg, the Fort Beaufort Station Commander, and Sergeant P.
32:25
Speaker 1: Kitching arrived on the scene. The object was still there,
32:29
Speaker 1: so now the men again began to fire shots at
32:33
Speaker 1: this object. As P.R. Van Rensburg says, We saw a round, black,
32:39
Speaker 1: shiny object about two and a half feet in diameter
32:42
Speaker 1: emerge from behind a tree. It slowly disappeared from sight
32:46
Speaker 1: and then reappeared. The shots had no effect, and when
32:49
Speaker 1: anybody approached, it shied away behind the bushes. Sergeant Kitching
32:53
Speaker 1: confirms this, as he says, It was hovering lengthways, just
32:58
Speaker 1: partly hidden behind some bushy trees. The color of the
33:01
Speaker 1: object was a gunmetal blue-black, and after we watched it
33:05
Speaker 1: for a while, it started to glow a coal red
33:08
Speaker 1: all over, the same as when Mr. Smit saw it
33:11
Speaker 1: early on. Then we noticed a vivid star-like light to
33:16
Speaker 1: one side of the object. This was flashing at intervals.
33:19
Speaker 1: Now Sergeant Kitching and the other men felt certain that
33:22
Speaker 1: this object was under intelligent control. And as Benny says,
33:27
Speaker 1: my laborers tried to drive it from the dense bush.
33:31
Speaker 1: We noticed a star-like protuberance at the right of the
33:34
Speaker 1: oval-shaped thing, something that seemed to grow in size as
33:37
Speaker 1: the white light it emitted grew in intensity. As it
33:41
Speaker 1: disappeared downwards, I fired at the star. The thing no
33:45
Speaker 1: longer changed colors once the star had been hit. It
33:48
Speaker 1: stayed a darkish, gunmetal color. Finally, it disappeared in the
33:52
Speaker 1: very dense bush, and we could hear it crashing through
33:55
Speaker 1: the undergrowth. Now, those present at the scene said that
33:59
Speaker 1: while the bullets did not seem to phase the object,
34:02
Speaker 1: when they shouted at it or tried to approach it,
34:04
Speaker 1: the object would take evasive action. At one point, Benny
34:08
Speaker 1: decided to try and ambush the object. So he carried
34:11
Speaker 1: a stick with a white handkerchief on it so the
34:14
Speaker 1: police could track him, and he moved into the thick brush.
34:18
Speaker 1: And as Benny says, Suddenly I saw it about 20
34:21
Speaker 1: yards away, now grayish white. I fired two quick shots,
34:26
Speaker 1: but with a loud whirring noise, it veered off over
34:29
Speaker 1: the treetops, cutting a pathway through the foliage, and it
34:32
Speaker 1: disappeared quickly from sight. So the witnesses were able to
34:35
Speaker 1: get as close as 25 feet of the object when
34:38
Speaker 1: they were firing at it. They estimate that about 15
34:42
Speaker 1: shots total were fired at this object. Benny did notice
34:46
Speaker 1: something interesting. He saw that when the object approached the trees,
34:50
Speaker 1: it appeared that the branches and bushes would part before it,
34:54
Speaker 1: almost as if there was some kind of force field
34:56
Speaker 1: surrounding the object. At least seven people saw this strange object.
35:00
Speaker 1: There was some confusion about the size of this object.
35:04
Speaker 1: Final estimates were that it was about three feet wide
35:07
Speaker 1: and perhaps seven feet high. The object remained in and
35:10
Speaker 1: out of view for no less than four hours. And finally,
35:14
Speaker 1: after this object left, more policemen arrived on the scene.
35:17
Speaker 1: There was over a dozen police officers combing the area
35:21
Speaker 1: looking for this object, which was gone. Strange marks were
35:25
Speaker 1: found on the hard clay ground where the object had
35:28
Speaker 1: been seen. And these marks were kind of flower-shaped impressions
35:32
Speaker 1: in the soil about one quarter inch deep. Now this
35:35
Speaker 1: soil was very hard. In fact, it was hard enough
35:39
Speaker 1: that no footprints could be easily made by the bystanders.
35:43
Speaker 1: These marks on the ground were deepest in the center
35:46
Speaker 1: and shallower towards the edge. These were photographed. Samples were gathered.
35:51
Speaker 1: Plaster casts were made. They were studied quite extensively. Now,
35:55
Speaker 1: at first, the police ordered the Smith family not to
35:58
Speaker 1: talk about the incident or allow anyone to go to
36:01
Speaker 1: their farm. But apparently this order was disregarded because Benny
36:06
Speaker 1: and other witnesses apparently began to talk as news spread
36:09
Speaker 1: very quickly. And soon researchers were arriving at the scene
36:13
Speaker 1: to investigate. Now it was also discovered that UFOs had
36:18
Speaker 1: been seen previously at the farm. And in fact, not
36:21
Speaker 1: only at this farm, but the neighbors had heard strange
36:24
Speaker 1: buzzing noises. Other people in the area saw UFOs following
36:29
Speaker 1: this incident. One week following the encounter, Benny's dog Wolfie
36:34
Speaker 1: finally reappeared. The wave continued, and so many people at
36:38
Speaker 1: this point were seeing UFOs that some people were afraid
36:41
Speaker 1: to go outside at night. One of the researchers who
36:45
Speaker 1: studied the landing traces was Charles S. Kingsley. He was
36:49
Speaker 1: a geologist from Fort Hare University and a government geologist
36:53
Speaker 1: involved in the South Africa 1967 Antarctic Expedition. He studied
37:00
Speaker 1: the imprints at length and he noted the presence of
37:03
Speaker 1: fine parallel streaks and concluded that whatever made the marks
37:07
Speaker 1: was likely metallic, as these streaks were very clearly defined.
37:11
Speaker 1: Scientists from South Africa's National Physics Research Lab conducted exhaustive
37:17
Speaker 1: tests on the soil, and they said they found nothing unusual.
37:21
Speaker 1: They tested for radioactivity, humidity, organic content, and acidity, and
37:27
Speaker 1: also tested nearby control samples. As their statement reads, Now,
37:31
Speaker 1: as news of the story spread, numerous articles were written
37:34
Speaker 1: about it in South African newspapers. Scientists said that shooting
37:36
Speaker 1: at it was foolish and dangerous. As Professor Arthur Blexley
38:01
Speaker 1: of the Johannesburg Planetarium said, anyone who shoots at UFOs
38:06
Speaker 1: should be warned against doing so. He also had something
38:09
Speaker 1: to say about the ETs or potential ETs. As Arthur says,
38:14
Speaker 1: What surprises me about these people who are supposed to
38:16
Speaker 1: have traveled millions of miles to see us is that
38:19
Speaker 1: they always land in obscure, unheard of places, like Fort Beaufort,
38:24
Speaker 1: where they hide themselves until they are shot at by policemen. Well,
38:28
Speaker 1: of course that's not true. We know that. Now, newspaper
38:31
Speaker 1: reporters said that the unfriendly reception may have scared off
38:35
Speaker 1: visitors from other planets. Everybody seemed to have an opinion.
38:39
Speaker 1: The police maintained that their officers were within their rights
38:42
Speaker 1: to shoot at it. In fact, the deputy commissioner of
38:46
Speaker 1: the police said, I know of no law which forbids
38:49
Speaker 1: you to shoot at an invader from outer space. Now, again,
38:53
Speaker 1: following the sightings at the Smith's Farm, there were more
38:55
Speaker 1: sightings in the area. And it wasn't long before the
38:58
Speaker 1: UFO returned to the farm. Per Benny Smit, 12 days
39:02
Speaker 1: after the incident, on July 8, he saw the UFO
39:06
Speaker 1: flying over his farm. His wife saw it too. Suddenly,
39:09
Speaker 1: he heard two loud explosions. Going to investigate, he found
39:14
Speaker 1: that his reservoir had been totally destroyed, with masonry scattered about.
39:20
Speaker 1: This reservoir was made of bricks and cement and held
39:23
Speaker 1: thousands of gallons of water. He said chunks of masonry
39:26
Speaker 1: were found up to 60 feet away. He did call
39:30
Speaker 1: the police, but with the culprit gone, there was little
39:33
Speaker 1: to be done. Now, Benny Smith says that he received
39:36
Speaker 1: an enormous amount of publicity. His phone rang off the hook. Reportedly,
39:41
Speaker 1: folks from the U.S. Space Agency showed up to inquire
39:44
Speaker 1: about the case. Now, Benny Smit is not necessarily personally
39:48
Speaker 1: convinced that the UFO was extraterrestrial in origin, and he
39:52
Speaker 1: speculates that it may have been a man-made remote-controlled object.
39:57
Speaker 1: Why it destroyed his reservoir remains unknown. Benny Smit died
40:02
Speaker 1: in 2002, and this mystery remains unsolved. Again, the kind
40:07
Speaker 1: of case that is really hard to deny. I certainly
40:11
Speaker 1: can't blame the witnesses for shooting at this object. Obviously,
40:16
Speaker 1: this didn't work out that well. It didn't appear to
40:19
Speaker 1: harm the UFO, and certainly it's not the only case
40:22
Speaker 1: where we see people shooting at UFOs. It's amazing how
40:26
Speaker 1: everyone has an opinion about what happened at this farm.
40:31
Speaker 1: Also really interesting is the whole aftermath of all of this,
40:34
Speaker 1: with this UFO wave going on, and apparently this UFO
40:37
Speaker 1: coming back and destroying the man's reservoir. Is that revenge?
40:41
Speaker 1: Is that a coincidence? It seems hard to me to
40:46
Speaker 1: explain that away as pure coincidence. But again, I don't know.
40:51
Speaker 1: It's an amazing case of a UFO landing and I
40:54
Speaker 1: think definitely is one of the most famous cases in
40:58
Speaker 1: South Africa. All right, now let's move to the next one.
41:02
Speaker 1: This one is also quite astonishing. I find all of
41:06
Speaker 1: these really amazing. I call this one like a very
41:10
Speaker 1: bright star, UFO landing at Possesti. This occurred on September 28, 1972,
41:18
Speaker 1: in a rural area known as Possesti, Romania. I'm telling you,
41:23
Speaker 1: these cases are taking place all over the world. This
41:26
Speaker 1: is a single witness case, but the landing traces were
41:29
Speaker 1: certainly seen by a lot of people, hundreds of people,
41:32
Speaker 1: in fact, and were also very extensively studied by researchers
41:38
Speaker 1: UFO researchers, who were not able to explain this away
41:42
Speaker 1: as anything natural. This case was published in the June
41:45
Speaker 1: 1974 issue of the Skylake UFO Monthly in an article
41:50
Speaker 1: by Joe Brill called UFO Landing in Romania, and was
41:55
Speaker 1: also published in the January 1981 issue of UFO Sightings
41:59
Speaker 1: in an article called UFOs in Communist Countries. It was
42:03
Speaker 1: 1 a.m. on September 28, 1972. that night watchman Vasil
42:09
Speaker 1: Karabus had a quick but remarkable sighting of a UFO.
42:14
Speaker 1: As Vasil says in his own words, I saw a
42:17
Speaker 1: bright object in the sky, like a very bright star
42:20
Speaker 1: with a tail. This object had a diameter slightly larger
42:24
Speaker 1: than Venus and a burning tail of about two meters
42:27
Speaker 1: when it moved. I first noticed it in the northeast
42:31
Speaker 1: sky and after being stationary for a short while, began
42:34
Speaker 1: to descend slowly at a 45-degree angle until it disappeared
42:39
Speaker 1: from my sight at a place called La Odaya. During
42:43
Speaker 1: the entire time I watched this thing, I heard no
42:46
Speaker 1: sound at all, nor were the animals in the area disturbed.
42:50
Speaker 1: That was it, he thought. But it was just a
42:53
Speaker 1: few days later that people from the nearby village of
42:55
Speaker 1: Valea Plopului were inspecting their cornfields and apple orchards when
43:00
Speaker 1: they found strange markings on the ground just 650 feet
43:05
Speaker 1: off the road between the two towns of Possesti and Starchoid.
43:10
Speaker 1: The UFO witness, Vasil, only heard about these markings on
43:14
Speaker 1: the ground later. And as he says, I didn't pay
43:17
Speaker 1: much attention to this event, and I didn't mention to
43:19
Speaker 1: anyone what I had seen. It was not until three
43:23
Speaker 1: days later that I heard the news about the markings
43:25
Speaker 1: and the blown ground that was found at La Odea.
43:30
Speaker 1: That is what made me decide to tell what I
43:32
Speaker 1: had seen as there might have been some connection involved.
43:35
Speaker 1: After hearing about Vasil's sighting and the markings on the ground,
43:39
Speaker 1: people in the area became very interested, and soon hundreds
43:43
Speaker 1: of onlookers came to look at these markings on the ground,
43:46
Speaker 1: and it was a few months later that UFO researchers
43:49
Speaker 1: showed up. They studied these markings, which were still visible.
43:54
Speaker 1: They were between three trees and consisted of three trapezoidal
43:58
Speaker 1: sections which formed a circle just under 15 feet in diameter.
44:03
Speaker 1: The corn stalks in this area were clearly crushed to
44:06
Speaker 1: the ground and torn to pieces, thrown around in a
44:09
Speaker 1: weird radial way, as if something rotating at high speed
44:14
Speaker 1: caused them to become torn up. In the exact center
44:18
Speaker 1: of this circle was a hole 5.5 inches wide and 6.5
44:23
Speaker 1: feet deep, ending at a point. The trapezoidal depressions were
44:28
Speaker 1: each 4.5 feet long. So these markings were investigated in
44:32
Speaker 1: depth by researchers who believed that, based on the depth
44:36
Speaker 1: of these depressions, an object of several tons must have
44:40
Speaker 1: rested there. There was no sign of any exposure to heat.
44:44
Speaker 1: One person who studied this was engineer Justin Capra. He
44:48
Speaker 1: looked at the spot testing for radiation and did find
44:51
Speaker 1: that the gamma radiation in the center of the circle
44:54
Speaker 1: was well above normal levels, more specifically, 8 millirentgens per minute.
45:00
Speaker 1: This is only slightly radioactive. Ufologist Kalan Turku followed up
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Speaker 1: on this case years later, and he saw that even
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Speaker 1: four years afterwards, the area was completely absent of vegetation.
45:13
Speaker 1: And even after this, while plants began to grow, they
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Speaker 1: were very sparse. Now, we can't say for sure that
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Speaker 1: those landing traces are directly connected to what the night
45:23
Speaker 1: watchman saw, but it certainly looks like it. It's an
45:27
Speaker 1: incredible case because these landing traces are absolutely undeniable and
45:32
Speaker 1: quite deep. It's really unusual for landing traces to be
45:35
Speaker 1: that extensive. All right, now let's move to the next case.
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Speaker 1: This is one I've known about for a while. I've
45:41
Speaker 1: always been intrigued by it because it's so unusual. I
45:45
Speaker 1: call this one The Car Went Dead, UFO Landing at Aish-on-Rithale.
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Speaker 1: This occurred on January 24, 1974. in a rural area
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Speaker 1: known as Ache-en-Raphael in Belgium. This occurred while a lady
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Speaker 1: was driving along this narrow road and had an encounter
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Speaker 1: with a very unusual and quite small UFO. This case
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Speaker 1: comes from the Societe Belge d'Etudes des Phénomènes Spéciaux, SOBEPS,
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Speaker 1: or the Belgian Society for the Study of Space Phenomena.
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Speaker 1: They have since changed their name to the Belgian Centre
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Speaker 1: for the Study of Space Phenomena. This case was later
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Speaker 1: published in the February 1976 issue of Skylook UFO Monthly
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Speaker 1: in an article by Richard Hall titled, Woman Says UFO
46:35
Speaker 1: Restarted Her Auto. It was around 4 p.m. on January 24, 1974,
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Speaker 1: a clear day, as the witness, Mrs. N.D., was driving
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Speaker 1: her Volkswagen Beetle along the short stretch of rural road,
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Speaker 1: the Route de Parwes, between the two small Belgian towns
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Speaker 1: of Parwes and Lernieu, right before the small town of Aiche-en-Raphael.
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Speaker 1: This is a narrow road winding through farmland. Now looking
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Speaker 1: about 350 to 400 feet ahead of her, the witness
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Speaker 1: saw what appeared to be a red dome-shaped object sitting
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Speaker 1: on the ground on the left side of the road.
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Speaker 1: It was quite small. She could see immediately that it
47:16
Speaker 1: was unusual, but she really only caught a fleeting glimpse
47:19
Speaker 1: of it because at that moment her attention was diverted
47:22
Speaker 1: to the behavior of her car which mysteriously began to fail.
47:27
Speaker 1: For no apparent reason that she could see, the speed
47:30
Speaker 1: of her car began to drop, even though she repeatedly
47:33
Speaker 1: pressed down the accelerator. She thought perhaps that she had
47:36
Speaker 1: run out of fuel, but a quick glance at the
47:39
Speaker 1: fuel gauge showed that she still had plenty of gas.
47:42
Speaker 1: So she now wondered if the carburetor had become clogged.
47:45
Speaker 1: Whatever was happening, the car continued to slow down. At
47:49
Speaker 1: the same time, the car radio, which had been playing,
47:52
Speaker 1: began to fade, and within a few seconds it became
47:55
Speaker 1: completely silent. Next, the car engine completely failed and her
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Speaker 1: car slowly rolled to a stop. Her car was still
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Speaker 1: in gear. The ignition key was still in the correct position.
48:08
Speaker 1: There was a dashboard warning light that did come on,
48:12
Speaker 1: so she figured that there must be a problem with
48:14
Speaker 1: the car. She was preparing to exit, but she instinctively
48:18
Speaker 1: looked up ahead of her on the road and she
48:20
Speaker 1: saw something very strange. and immediately changed her mind and
48:24
Speaker 1: decided to stay in the car. Because about 30 to
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Speaker 1: 35 feet ahead of her, on the left side of
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Speaker 1: the road, almost touching the asphalt, was a very small
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Speaker 1: craft of some kind. She estimates that it was just
48:37
Speaker 1: over 3 feet wide, maybe 1 to 2 feet tall,
48:40
Speaker 1: and was perfectly dome-shaped. It had three distinct sections. The
48:46
Speaker 1: bottom section consisted of a white band covered with small
48:50
Speaker 1: round black circles. The center section was yellow, and the
48:54
Speaker 1: top of the dome was red. The entire object appeared
48:57
Speaker 1: to be composed of dull, matte metal, with no reflections
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Speaker 1: or shiny areas, despite the fact that the setting sunlight
49:05
Speaker 1: was shining directly on it. So shocked by its unusual appearance,
49:09
Speaker 1: the witness remained perfectly still in her car and just
49:12
Speaker 1: observed the strange craft. After about five seconds, this craft
49:16
Speaker 1: slowly rose about 50 centimeters up into the air, about
49:20
Speaker 1: one and a half feet, and then it quickly dropped
49:23
Speaker 1: back to the ground. Then it repeated this maneuver, rising
49:26
Speaker 1: slowly and dropping quickly. By this time, the witness was
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Speaker 1: terrified and wondered if, quote, this was the end of
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Speaker 1: her and that she would be reduced to dust. The
49:37
Speaker 1: craft then rose slowly a third time, this time up
49:40
Speaker 1: to a height of about 10 to 15 feet, and then,
49:43
Speaker 1: to the witness's extreme fear, it began to move horizontally
49:48
Speaker 1: directly towards her car. She said it moved very quickly,
49:52
Speaker 1: and she only caught a brief glimpse of the bottom
49:54
Speaker 1: of the craft, which appeared to be a flat, featureless,
49:58
Speaker 1: uniform gray color, before this object positioned itself directly over
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Speaker 1: her car. Then, without warning, and without her having touched anything,
50:08
Speaker 1: The car's engine sprang back to life and began to
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Speaker 1: move forward, slowly picking up speed. She saw that other
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Speaker 1: cars were now approaching, and looking around, she managed to
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Speaker 1: catch one last glimpse of this object as it moved
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Speaker 1: off to the northeast, still at very low level. She
50:25
Speaker 1: did not stop to watch it. Still frightened, she headed
50:28
Speaker 1: straight home. She did report it to authorities, and within
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Speaker 1: 48 hours, investigators were on the scene, but they were
50:35
Speaker 1: unable to locate any evidence of the craft. The witness
50:39
Speaker 1: reported no physical effects except an unusual tiredness following this
50:43
Speaker 1: encounter and she does admit that she had some anxiety
50:46
Speaker 1: and several nightmares about the incident which persisted for several days.
50:51
Speaker 1: Investigators were very impressed by her sincerity and in fact
50:54
Speaker 1: they interviewed her for nearly six hours obtaining every possible
50:59
Speaker 1: detail of the encounter. The car had been in good
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Speaker 1: working condition before the encounter and had been recently checked
51:06
Speaker 1: but a few months later the car did start having
51:09
Speaker 1: problems and the distributor had to be replaced. Whether this
51:13
Speaker 1: is because of the encounter is very hard to say.
51:17
Speaker 1: Although the witness found the incident very frightening, she admits
51:21
Speaker 1: that she had never believed or had any interest in
51:23
Speaker 1: UFOs and is still not sure that she does, but
51:27
Speaker 1: she does say that she was very intrigued by the encounter.
51:30
Speaker 1: She says, Ultimately, it was very beautiful, a spectacle I
51:34
Speaker 1: will never forget as long as I live. I think
51:37
Speaker 1: this time I would have gone outside. Do you think
51:41
Speaker 1: there could have been someone inside such a small craft?
51:44
Speaker 1: The intriguing part of that case to me is the
51:47
Speaker 1: shape and size of this UFO. I mean, its appearance
51:50
Speaker 1: was really quite unusual. I don't know of any other
51:54
Speaker 1: case quite like it. I guess I shouldn't be surprised
51:57
Speaker 1: because there are tons of cases of uniquely described UFOs,
52:02
Speaker 1: ones that we've never seen before or since. I suppose
52:05
Speaker 1: it's that this was a reverse engineered craft or maybe
52:10
Speaker 1: this was just a tiny UFO with tiny UFO occupants.
52:14
Speaker 1: We really don't know. So interesting that it did affect
52:18
Speaker 1: the lady's car in this way as well. Such a
52:21
Speaker 1: shame that there were no other witnesses. It's always nice
52:25
Speaker 1: when there's confirmation of that kind. But this is one
52:28
Speaker 1: of those cases that really just make you go, hmm,
52:31
Speaker 1: and you have to just wonder what's going on here.
52:36
Speaker 1: A pretty interesting case. All right, now let's move on
52:39
Speaker 1: to the next one. This one is really quite extraordinary.
52:42
Speaker 1: I call this one, I have never had such an
52:46
Speaker 1: experience in my life. UFO landing in Goberk. This occurred
52:51
Speaker 1: on February 11, 1977 in the small village of Goberk
52:56
Speaker 1: in Slovenia. This is formerly Yugoslavia. This one is a
53:01
Speaker 1: pretty well-verified case investigated by UFO researchers, and a multiple
53:08
Speaker 1: witness case, a pretty darn convincing case of a UFO landing.
53:14
Speaker 1: This case comes from Slovenian researcher Milos Kremelj and was
53:18
Speaker 1: published in the September 1977 issue of the MUFON UFO Journal.
53:23
Speaker 1: The main witness is Slavka Gorsek, a health service cook
53:27
Speaker 1: from Gaburk, Slovenia. It was 8.40 p.m. on February 11, 1977.
53:33
Speaker 1: Slavka was putting her two children, Andres, age 6, and Zoran,
53:39
Speaker 1: age 4, to bed. Her husband was at work. And
53:43
Speaker 1: as Slavka says, We were standing beside my bed when
53:48
Speaker 1: suddenly an intense white beam of light came through the window.
53:52
Speaker 1: For a moment, it lightened the room so thoroughly that
53:55
Speaker 1: it became as bright as broad daylight. It lasted for
53:59
Speaker 1: a second, and the light disappeared. The light was coming
54:02
Speaker 1: from a glowing egg-shaped object that landed behind the hen
54:06
Speaker 1: house some 15 meters from the house. At the time
54:10
Speaker 1: of the landing, I did not get a perfectly clear
54:12
Speaker 1: picture of it. My children and I, we became very
54:15
Speaker 1: scared by what we saw. First I thought of a fire,
54:19
Speaker 1: but later I began to fear that something would explode
54:22
Speaker 1: any moment. I was afraid of some supernatural power because
54:26
Speaker 1: I have never had such an experience in my life.
54:29
Speaker 1: So as the light from this object went out, for
54:31
Speaker 1: the next two minutes it remained dark, but then suddenly
54:34
Speaker 1: it brightened again, and Slavka was able to get a
54:37
Speaker 1: very good look at this object. As she says, the
54:41
Speaker 1: object flashed up again. The object was egg-shaped, 2.5 to 3.5
54:47
Speaker 1: meters wide, that's about 8 to 11 feet. A luminous
54:50
Speaker 1: white glow was coming from its outer edge. Then came
54:54
Speaker 1: a very bright bluish-colored stripe, encircling the exact center. which
54:58
Speaker 1: was dominated by a field of blue color. On this area,
55:03
Speaker 1: I spotted three more or less circular bright spots of
55:06
Speaker 1: similar shape, more or less regularly spaced. The whole object
55:10
Speaker 1: was emitting an intense glow, but the outlines of the
55:14
Speaker 1: object were nevertheless sharp. It made a vertical takeoff and
55:18
Speaker 1: flew away. This time I made a closer observation of
55:21
Speaker 1: its takeoff because I anticipated it, but I must point
55:25
Speaker 1: out that the three of us We were very frightened
55:28
Speaker 1: all that time, and even long after the event. We
55:32
Speaker 1: were so scared we could not fall asleep. We went
55:35
Speaker 1: to the living room to watch TV and wait for
55:37
Speaker 1: my husband to return from work. Noslavka said that the
55:41
Speaker 1: object did appear to have landing legs quite long, about
55:44
Speaker 1: 9 feet, which looked as though they telescoped down from
55:47
Speaker 1: the bottom. The third day after the event, she went
55:51
Speaker 1: to the area where the object had landed and was
55:53
Speaker 1: surprised to see a, quote, glimmering dust at the landing site.
55:58
Speaker 1: She also found five holes dug into the ground, apparently
56:01
Speaker 1: by the landing legs, which formed a kind of pentagram.
56:05
Speaker 1: Each hole was about five centimeters, that's two inches. Investigators
56:09
Speaker 1: were later able to investigate the landing site and took
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Speaker 1: soil samples. An analysis showed no radioactivity or the presence
56:17
Speaker 1: of any unnatural elements. However, the glittering substance was identified
56:22
Speaker 1: as mica, Apparently, that hadn't been there before. The investigators
56:26
Speaker 1: did note that the landing site is only a few
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Speaker 1: kilometers away from several thermoelectric power plants. And as Milos
56:34
Speaker 1: Kremelj writes, I must say that the case sounds very
56:38
Speaker 1: authentic to me. I do, again, wonder what's going on
56:42
Speaker 1: in these UFO landing cases. Perhaps there is a connection
56:47
Speaker 1: between the fact that there is a thermoelectric plant nearby...
56:51
Speaker 1: UFOs do seem to have an interest in studying our technology.
56:56
Speaker 1: Hard to say. Maybe it was landing next to the
56:59
Speaker 1: hen house for a reason because it wanted some chickens.
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Speaker 1: Of course, there was no evidence that any chickens were taken.
57:05
Speaker 1: But a lovely, very well-confirmed multiple witness case with landing traces.
57:12
Speaker 1: Now let's move to the last and final case. I
57:16
Speaker 1: call this one, It Was Impossible to Look Straight at It.
57:20
Speaker 1: UFO landing in Dambrotten. This occurred on July 29, 1978
57:24
Speaker 1: in Dambrotten, Norway. Again, we see these cases all over
57:30
Speaker 1: the world. This one has some pretty interesting elements to it.
57:34
Speaker 1: This final case comes from Norwegian researcher Anton Lidström. Throughout
57:39
Speaker 1: early 1978, people in the Dambrotten area of Norway had
57:44
Speaker 1: reported finding strange circles of crushed vegetation in the rural
57:48
Speaker 1: areas outside of town. These were written up in a
57:51
Speaker 1: few local newspapers, but nobody had any answer as to
57:54
Speaker 1: what was causing them. Then, around 1 a.m. on July 29, 1978,
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Speaker 1: George Teague and his wife were asleep in the bedroom
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Speaker 1: of their home in Dambrotten. It was George's wife who
58:08
Speaker 1: woke up for no apparent reason, which she felt was
58:11
Speaker 1: odd as she normally is a very heavy sleeper. She
58:14
Speaker 1: got out of bed and went to the kitchen. and
58:16
Speaker 1: was amazed to see the entire kitchen and the courtyard
58:19
Speaker 1: of their home illuminated by a dreadfully bright light. Looking outside,
58:25
Speaker 1: she saw this brilliant object about 200 feet away. It
58:29
Speaker 1: was mostly white, but had tinges of red around it.
58:33
Speaker 1: And as she watched, she saw it moving around, moving
58:36
Speaker 1: about as fast, she said, as a cyclist, going from
58:39
Speaker 1: the northeast to the northwest and and passing behind some trees.
58:43
Speaker 1: So she immediately woke up her husband, who kind of
58:46
Speaker 1: just brushed her off and told her, it is nothing
58:49
Speaker 1: but the moon. But at her insistence, he finally got
58:53
Speaker 1: up to take a look at it, and he immediately
58:55
Speaker 1: changed his mind. This object now came towards them from
58:58
Speaker 1: the northwest, moving directly towards their house, and then it
59:02
Speaker 1: began to slow down. And as they watched, this object
59:05
Speaker 1: stopped about four to five feet above the ground, about
59:09
Speaker 1: 80 feet away. Then the brightness decreased and the object
59:13
Speaker 1: lowered to the ground. As it hit the ground, the
59:16
Speaker 1: light dimmed further. The object seemed to almost bounce slightly.
59:19
Speaker 1: Then it brightened and landed again, now about 60 feet
59:23
Speaker 1: away from the house. That was enough for Georges. He
59:26
Speaker 1: grabbed his shoes and ran outside to investigate. And as
59:30
Speaker 1: he says, it was a dreadfully sharp light, so sharp
59:34
Speaker 1: that it was impossible to open the eyes fully and
59:36
Speaker 1: look straight at it. My wife saw it first, and
59:40
Speaker 1: then both of us observed the shining globe above the treetops.
59:44
Speaker 1: It moved towards the left and neared before it landed
59:48
Speaker 1: on the meadow, some 40 meters from the house. Then
59:51
Speaker 1: it disappeared. In fact, it was like putting out a
59:54
Speaker 1: paraffin lamp. When I came outside, there was nothing to
59:58
Speaker 1: be seen. The next day, I saw the print in
1:00:01
Speaker 1: the grass and the burn marks on the ground. So
1:00:04
Speaker 1: this object had been so bright, George and his wife
1:00:07
Speaker 1: couldn't really see the shape of it clearly, but they
1:00:09
Speaker 1: had the impression that the object was circular. And the
1:00:13
Speaker 1: mark on the ground was in the shape of a
1:00:15
Speaker 1: small circular ring about 50 centimeters wide, or almost 16 inches.
1:00:21
Speaker 1: One half of this ring showed evidence of burned grass.
1:00:25
Speaker 1: George added that the object seemed to be under intelligent control.
1:00:29
Speaker 1: They did not hear any sound, nor did their dog react.
1:00:33
Speaker 1: As George says, there was much dew, and that must
1:00:37
Speaker 1: be the reason why the grass did not catch fire.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: Both were very much convinced that this was unusual and
1:00:44
Speaker 1: not easy to explain. As George says, I am 72
1:00:48
Speaker 1: years old, but I never saw anything like that. There
1:00:52
Speaker 1: you go. Another amazing UFO landing case. Again, multiple witnesses.
1:00:58
Speaker 1: landing traces. What's interesting to me about this case is
1:01:03
Speaker 1: that this object was so bright that people couldn't even
1:01:06
Speaker 1: look at it. And it's also confirmed by the fact
1:01:09
Speaker 1: that there were quite a few other landing traces being
1:01:12
Speaker 1: found in this area at that time that, yeah, weren't
1:01:15
Speaker 1: necessarily directly connected to UFO sightings that we know of
1:01:20
Speaker 1: because it's very possible people did see these things but
1:01:23
Speaker 1: didn't talk about it because most people don't. So there
1:01:27
Speaker 1: you go, 10 landing cases from all over the world.
1:01:31
Speaker 1: This is just the very tip of the iceberg. There
1:01:34
Speaker 1: are literally tens of thousands of these kinds of cases.
1:01:39
Speaker 1: And you can deny one or 10 or 100, but again,
1:01:44
Speaker 1: there's so many that it's very clear something really profound
1:01:48
Speaker 1: is going on here. These landing trace cases are super
1:01:52
Speaker 1: important because these are not just lights in the sky
1:01:56
Speaker 1: at night. These are very close up, generally speaking, and
1:02:00
Speaker 1: the fact that they are leaving traces on the ground
1:02:03
Speaker 1: and sometimes affecting electromagnetic instruments, animals, or again, leaving traces
1:02:10
Speaker 1: on the ground or physiological effects, all of these add
1:02:14
Speaker 1: up to say that something very genuine is going on here.
1:02:20
Speaker 1: I think this subject is so important. It's really... I
1:02:23
Speaker 1: think one of the most important subjects going on today
1:02:27
Speaker 1: that has the potential to really change our lives in
1:02:30
Speaker 1: so many ways. That's why I do this kind of research.
1:02:34
Speaker 1: I really think it's important that everyone have at least
1:02:37
Speaker 1: the opportunity to learn about the extraterrestrial presence on our planet.
1:02:42
Speaker 1: And I do think that's what's going on here. I
1:02:44
Speaker 1: think these cases show that we are being visited by extraterrestrials.
1:02:48
Speaker 1: So there you go. Thank you so much. I hope
1:02:51
Speaker 1: you enjoyed this episode. Perhaps learned something Truly appreciate you
1:02:55
Speaker 1: taking your time out of your day to watch this video.
1:02:58
Speaker 1: Till next time, keep asking those hard questions, keep searching
1:03:02
Speaker 1: for the truth, most important of all, keep having fun,
1:03:05
Speaker 1: and I hope to see you next time for another
1:03:07
Speaker 1: episode of UFOs in the Paranormal. I'm signing off.