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Fifty UFO Photographs from California · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, my name is Preston Dennett and welcome to
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Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs in the Paranormal. Today's episode
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Speaker 1: I call 50 UFO photos from California. People are always
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Speaker 1: talking about if UFOs are real, where's the evidence? And
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Speaker 1: the truth is there is an enormous amount of evidence
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Speaker 1: and many different types of evidence. Landing traces, of course.
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Speaker 1: medical evidence, electromagnetic effects, animal reactions, radar returns. But I
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Speaker 1: think certainly among the most interesting types of evidence is
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Speaker 1: photographic evidence. And that's what I want to talk about today.
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Speaker 1: California has had an enormous number of encounters. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it leads the nation in the number of encounters, according
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Speaker 1: to the National UFO Reporting Center. So it should come
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Speaker 1: as no surprise that there are a lot of photographic cases.
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Speaker 1: And I'd like to present to you what I think
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Speaker 1: are probably the 50 best UFO photographs taken in California.
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Speaker 1: A few of these are quite well known. Many are
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Speaker 1: very well verified, vetted by UFO researchers and photographic experts.
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Speaker 1: Some are not. Some have just a little bit of
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Speaker 1: information and have not been fully investigated. But I think
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Speaker 1: all of them are quite interesting. So let's just get started.
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Speaker 1: The first photograph I'd like to present to you, there's
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Speaker 1: not a lot known about it. All we really know
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Speaker 1: is that this was taken over Catalina Island during the day,
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Speaker 1: apparently by a tourist. And it shows a metallic craft
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Speaker 1: high in the sky. What I like about this photograph
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Speaker 1: is that it was taken very early in terms of...
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Speaker 1: UFO history. This was before the modern age of UFOs,
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Speaker 1: sometime in the 1940s, perhaps earlier. It's a very interesting
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Speaker 1: daylight photo of a solid metallic craft, and it's one
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Speaker 1: of the earliest taken in California. This next photograph, pictured here,
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Speaker 1: was taken in February 1942 during what is known as
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Speaker 1: the L.A. Air Raid, or the Battle of LA. On
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Speaker 1: that evening, the entire city of Los Angeles went into
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Speaker 1: an enforced blackout because numerous unidentified craft were seen coming
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Speaker 1: in over the city from the Pacific Ocean. Some of
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Speaker 1: these were quite small, but one was very large, the
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Speaker 1: one pictured here with searchlights trained on it. This very
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Speaker 1: large object moved in over Culver City and sort of
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Speaker 1: parked there for a period of about two hours, during
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Speaker 1: which the army trained searchlights on it and fired about 1,400
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Speaker 1: rounds of ammunition at it. They were unable to bring
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Speaker 1: it down, whatever this object was. It was totally silent.
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Speaker 1: The only result was that five people died from falling debris,
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Speaker 1: car accidents, heart attacks, this sort of thing. After about
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Speaker 1: two hours, this object moved away back over the Pacific
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Speaker 1: Ocean and off into the distance. There was some debunking
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Speaker 1: explanations that this was perhaps a dirigible or Japanese aircraft.
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Speaker 1: There's no evidence of that. In fact, I talked to
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Speaker 1: a firsthand witness, and he said there was no way
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Speaker 1: these were balloons or normal conventional aircraft. He saw one
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Speaker 1: of these smaller objects swoop down quite low over his home.
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Speaker 1: The next day, this photo appeared on the cover of
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Speaker 1: the LA Times. And while there was initially a cover-up
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Speaker 1: enacted of this event, today there are documents released through
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Speaker 1: the Freedom of Information Act, declassified documents showing that our
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Speaker 1: own government did not know what this object was, and
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Speaker 1: it remains a mystery to this day. It's one of
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Speaker 1: the best authenticated documents UFO photographs in California history. And
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Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to include it on this list.
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Speaker 1: And now we move to the next case. July 8, 1943,
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Speaker 1: when three visiting Army veterans reported their observations of six
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Speaker 1: flying disks over Catalina Island. The six disks appeared around
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Speaker 1: 1 p.m. and flew in formation in First, there was
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Speaker 1: one set of three disks, followed later by another set
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Speaker 1: of three disks. Each moved at high speed, appeared from
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Speaker 1: the northeast, and passed directly over Avalon. And according to
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Speaker 1: the veterans, hundreds of people were present and also observed
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Speaker 1: the disks. One of the gentlemen, Alvio Russo, had flown
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Speaker 1: more than 35 bombing missions over Germany, and he estimated
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Speaker 1: that these objects were were moving at 850 miles per hour.
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Speaker 1: That evening, Bob Young, an aerial photographer, said that these
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Speaker 1: objects flew as fast as the Navy Tiny Tim rocket,
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Speaker 1: which he had photographed many times. And when the UFOs
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Speaker 1: appeared again, he managed to quickly snap this photograph pictured here.
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Speaker 1: Moving along. Here is a very famous picture of a
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Speaker 1: UFO which was taken in Burbank, California in 1945. The
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Speaker 1: gentleman featured here is Jack Lamond who is on his
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Speaker 1: horseback near the Pickwick Riding Stables in Burbank, California. This
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Speaker 1: was a June morning in 1945. The UFO was not
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Speaker 1: noticed at the time this picture was taken. But as
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Speaker 1: you can see, Jack LeMond was in full military uniform.
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Speaker 1: He had served in the South Pacific with the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Marine Corps. But when this photograph was developed, you could
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Speaker 1: see this clear picture of a classic flying saucer, what
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Speaker 1: looks like a solid metallic object in the sky. It's
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Speaker 1: really quite intriguing. This next photo, there's not a whole
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Speaker 1: lot known about it, only that it was taken by
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Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name of Joe McBride. This photograph
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Speaker 1: has been featured many, many times. It was taken in
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Speaker 1: the Mojave Desert in 1950, but otherwise there's not a
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Speaker 1: whole lot else known about it. But I wanted to
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Speaker 1: include it here because it's a very famous photograph. This
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Speaker 1: next photograph was taken in 1951. As you can see,
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Speaker 1: we're moving through time. But this photograph was taken near Riverside,
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Speaker 1: California on November 23, 1951 by a gentleman by the
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Speaker 1: name of Guy B. Marcond, Jr. This is an excellent
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Speaker 1: photograph which has never been debunked or explained. And according
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Speaker 1: to Guy, he said, He saw this object just above
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Speaker 1: the skyline, a flying saucer. Guy Marcand was enlisted in
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Speaker 1: the U.S. Army in L.A., and he was single. He
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Speaker 1: had four years of high school, came from Riverside. He
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Speaker 1: saw this object and managed to capture this photograph pictured here.
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Speaker 1: He lived to be quite elderly, lived in Carlsbad, California,
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Speaker 1: with his wife. and has never backed down saying that
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Speaker 1: this photograph displays exactly what he saw way back in 1951.
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Speaker 1: This next photograph was taken in August of 1952 by
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Speaker 1: the 15-year-old son of a California surgeon. His name is
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Speaker 1: Michael Savage. And he snapped a photo of this object,
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Speaker 1: which was hovering near these power lines in San Bernardino.
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Speaker 1: And he tried to get a second shot, but in
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Speaker 1: his haste, he overcranked the camera and drew a blank negative.
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Speaker 1: But he said that this object was hovering near his
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Speaker 1: house for about 30 seconds. And this photograph was in
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Speaker 1: fact published in the newspapers. It caused quite a sensation
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Speaker 1: and No one has ever been able to explain it
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Speaker 1: Here's an interesting photograph which was taken place September 3rd
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Speaker 1: 1953 in Modesto, California This photograph was taken by Charles
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Speaker 1: Rogers and And it shows an unidentified elliptical shaped yellowish
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Speaker 1: light on the right. And the light appeared to remain stationary.
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Speaker 1: So when he first saw it, he quickly set his
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Speaker 1: camera up on the roof, left the shutter open, and
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Speaker 1: got this result. No other information about this photograph is available,
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Speaker 1: but it's certain. an interesting photograph of something unexplained in
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Speaker 1: the sky. This next photograph is actually taken from a
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Speaker 1: moving film. It caused quite a sensation at the time.
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Speaker 1: This series of photographs, or moving film rather, was taken
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Speaker 1: on April 15, 1956, by Leland Hansen, a Navy photographer.
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Speaker 1: Leland Hansen was on assignment filming Catalina Island from a
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Speaker 1: helicopter when he saw this object hovering in place. And
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Speaker 1: when it started to move, he decided that he would
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Speaker 1: film it. He started filming this object as it slowly
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Speaker 1: moved away, And a later analysis of the film revealed
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Speaker 1: that this object was featureless and oval-shaped with no apparent
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Speaker 1: wings or tail structure. It was about 30 feet in
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Speaker 1: diameter and moving at an estimated 130 to 170 miles
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Speaker 1: per hour. The footage was first aired in 1979, 13
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Speaker 1: years after the incident, on the popular television documentary UFOs
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Speaker 1: Are Real. produced by Brandon Chase. Scientists at the Jet
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Speaker 1: Propulsion Laboratory analyzed the footage and observed what they thought
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Speaker 1: might be a tail rudder. However, the fact that the
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Speaker 1: object was first seen hovering in place pretty much rules
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Speaker 1: out the plane theory. Nor could JPL explain how Leland Hansen,
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Speaker 1: a trained observer familiar with aircraft, would be unable to
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Speaker 1: match what he saw to any known aircraft. So while
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Speaker 1: some have tried to debunk the footage, this object has
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Speaker 1: never been identified. This next photograph is an excellent photograph,
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Speaker 1: which was taken by Joe Kerska on October 10, 1956,
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Speaker 1: over the city of San Francisco. On that day, Joe Kerska,
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Speaker 1: a commercial photographer, had climbed up to Twin Peaks to
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Speaker 1: take a panoramic photograph of the city of San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: It was around 12.30 p.m. when he heard a strange
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Speaker 1: humming noise, and looking up, he saw a large disc-shaped
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Speaker 1: craft with a dome on top zooming overhead. He was
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Speaker 1: so shocked that at first he forgot about his camera,
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Speaker 1: which was already set up and ready to go. And
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Speaker 1: he was so disappointed that he didn't even think of
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Speaker 1: getting a photograph when suddenly another identical craft moved ahead.
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Speaker 1: This time he didn't hesitate and he quickly snapped a photograph.
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Speaker 1: And as you can see, this photo shows a silver
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Speaker 1: metallic saucer less than 100 feet distant from the witness.
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Speaker 1: It's a very famous photograph which has never been explained
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Speaker 1: and it's certainly one of the best photographs taken. over
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Speaker 1: California at that time. Here's another very interesting photograph, which
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Speaker 1: was taken in September of 1957 over Edwards Air Force Base.
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Speaker 1: This was taken by a test pilot. A UFO was
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Speaker 1: apparently following a B-57 twin jet. The UFO was not
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Speaker 1: seen at the time this photograph was taken, However, when
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Speaker 1: the photograph was developed, this object could be seen, and
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Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot known about it because no
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Speaker 1: one actually saw it, but it's absolutely an excellent photo
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Speaker 1: for this time period. Not everyone sees the UFOs when
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Speaker 1: they're taking a photograph. They only see it when the
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Speaker 1: camera is developed, and that is exactly what happened in
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Speaker 1: this next photograph, which was taken by a gentleman with
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Speaker 1: the initials B.C. He was at Lake Isabella in California
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Speaker 1: in 1957, did not see anything unusual, but as you
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Speaker 1: can see, he took a photograph and this photo shows
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Speaker 1: an unidentified disk-like object that looked like it was about
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Speaker 1: to land. At the time, the The gentleman who photographed
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Speaker 1: this object and his fiancée were riding their Harley Davidson
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Speaker 1: motorcycle in the south of the Sierra Nevadas when they
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Speaker 1: decided to take a picture of the old dirt road
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Speaker 1: that led to the dry lake bed. Again, they did
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Speaker 1: not see anything strange when the photo was taken. Not
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Speaker 1: until it was developed did they see this object. So
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Speaker 1: I think that itself lends a degree of authenticity to it.
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Speaker 1: It's clearly not a glitch in the photograph. It's very
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Speaker 1: hard to explain. This is anything other than the genuine UFO.
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Speaker 1: Now here is another very interesting photograph, which is allegedly
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Speaker 1: taken from a moving film taken at Edwards Air Force
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Speaker 1: Base in 1958. Allegedly, this is a clip from a
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Speaker 1: film that was leaked of a UFO landing at Edwards
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Speaker 1: Air Force Base. Reportedly, this was a film which was
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Speaker 1: viewed by the late astronaut Gordon Cooper who was present
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Speaker 1: at the time. In an interview with journalist Lee Spiegel,
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Speaker 1: Gordon Cooper said that when he was project manager of
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Speaker 1: the flight test center at Edwards in 1958, a large
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Speaker 1: metallic flying disc actually landed at the base. Several Air
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Speaker 1: Force personnel observed the landing and were able to take
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Speaker 1: motion pictures. And as Gordon Cooper says, the disc was
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Speaker 1: hovering above the ground and then it slowly came down
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Speaker 1: and sat on the lake bed for a few minutes.
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Speaker 1: There were various estimates by the cameramen on what the
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Speaker 1: actual size of the object was. but they all agreed
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Speaker 1: it was at least the size of a vehicle that
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Speaker 1: would carry normal-sized people in it. It was a typical
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Speaker 1: circular-shaped UFO. Not too many people saw it because it
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Speaker 1: took off at quite a sharp angle and just climbed
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Speaker 1: out of sight. I think it was definitely a UFO.
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Speaker 1: So although Gordon Cooper didn't witness the actual craft, he
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Speaker 1: did view the film, which he found very convincing. As
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Speaker 1: per orders, he sent the film to Washington, D.C., and
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Speaker 1: never heard from it again. However, on a later occasion,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Greer, M.D., conducted a follow-up interview and confirmed the
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Speaker 1: details of this encounter. And as astronaut Gordon Cooper is
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Speaker 1: quoted as saying, At Edwards Air Force Base, I was
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Speaker 1: having some of the cameramen film precision landings, and we
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Speaker 1: were right on the edge of a dry lake. A
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Speaker 1: saucer flew over them, put down three landing gears, and
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Speaker 1: landed out on the dry lake bed. They went out
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Speaker 1: there with their cameras towards the UFO. It lifted off,
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Speaker 1: put the gear back in the well, and flew off
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Speaker 1: at a very high rate of speed and disappeared. So
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Speaker 1: while I was going through all of the regulation books
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Speaker 1: and finding out the number to call in Washington to
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Speaker 1: report this, I had the cameraman go over and develop
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Speaker 1: the film and By the time they got back with
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Speaker 1: the developed film, I had higher and higher and higher
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Speaker 1: level officers talking with me. Finally, a colonel told me
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Speaker 1: that when the film arrived on my desk, to put
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Speaker 1: it in a courier file. There would be a courier
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Speaker 1: there at my office, and they would arrange for him
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Speaker 1: to fly in our base airplane back to Washington with
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Speaker 1: these films. The colonel said to not run the prints.
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Speaker 1: so we stuck them in the courier packets. Now, Gordon
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Speaker 1: Cooper did examine this film firsthand, and as he says,
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Speaker 1: these were good, close-up shots. Nothing like I had ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Double inverted saucer-shaped. It didn't have wings on it or anything.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty much the same saucer shape. At that
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Speaker 1: point in time, there was no doubt in my mind
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Speaker 1: that it was made someplace other than And although this
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Speaker 1: encounter was amazing, Gordon Cooper said that it wasn't unique.
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Speaker 1: As he told Lee Spiegel, And I can absolutely confirm that.
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Speaker 1: I did a whole YouTube episode on the events at
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Speaker 1: Edwards Air Force Base. events which started at least as
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Speaker 1: early as 1942 and continue up to the present day.
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Speaker 1: So here is another excellent photo, which was taken over
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Speaker 1: Lake Casitas, located just inland of the coast in Ventura.
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Speaker 1: this is very near Santa Catalina Channel an area of
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Speaker 1: very high levels of UFO activity in 1959 a dam
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Speaker 1: was built which formed Lake Casitas but one day in
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Speaker 1: 1964 an Air Force pilot from World War II by
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Speaker 1: the name of Frank S. Kinsey was at Lake Casitas
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Speaker 1: with his brother-in-law when they heard a loud sound of
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Speaker 1: splashing water. And as Frank Kinsey says, I looked out
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Speaker 1: into the lake and here's this object coming out of
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Speaker 1: the water. So this case was actually investigated by MUFON
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Speaker 1: field investigator Robert D. Neville, who interviewed Frank Kinsey. Frank
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Speaker 1: Kinsey told him that this object emerged from the water
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Speaker 1: with such speed that it sucked up this large column
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Speaker 1: of water, which came loudly crashing down. And this is
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Speaker 1: what Frank and his brother-in-law heard. And as Frank says,
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Speaker 1: I was flabbergasted. It was a round object, and it
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Speaker 1: looked like it had a cone on top where a
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Speaker 1: person was looking out at us, a being looking out
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Speaker 1: at us. I could see the eyes staring at us.
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Speaker 1: I happened to have a pair of binoculars with me
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Speaker 1: at the time. I picked them up and looked, and
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Speaker 1: I could see a person looking out at me. According
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Speaker 1: to Frank, this object was about 30 feet wide. The
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Speaker 1: outside perimeter of the object appeared to be rotating, and
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Speaker 1: it was emitting a painfully loud noise. You could see
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Speaker 1: several portholes situated around the top cone section of the object.
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Speaker 1: and it was through one of these portholes that he
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Speaker 1: saw the being. He said that the window itself, quote,
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Speaker 1: looked like it was real thick, heavy glass of some kind,
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Speaker 1: or maybe it might have been a plastic of some kind.
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Speaker 1: As he watched, this object suddenly accelerated, glowing first a
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Speaker 1: lavender color and then bright orange-yellow. In just a few seconds,
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Speaker 1: it was about 15 miles away, he estimates, and disappeared
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Speaker 1: over the mountains. However, he was able to snap a
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Speaker 1: photograph of it as it moved off. And as Frank
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Speaker 1: Kinsey says, it had a gleam to it. It had
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Speaker 1: a shine to it like nothing I'd ever seen. I've
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Speaker 1: seen a lot of metals here on Earth that had
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Speaker 1: a high gloss, but nothing like this that I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: As you can see, this photograph clearly shows a solid object.
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Speaker 1: You can just make out the portholes. It's a shame
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Speaker 1: he didn't get a photograph of it sooner, where you
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Speaker 1: could see this figure looking out of the portholes. But nevertheless,
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Speaker 1: this is a very well-authenticated, well-vetted photograph of a UFO,
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Speaker 1: or USO perhaps, coming out of Lake Cusitas. A daylight photo,
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Speaker 1: which is quite rare and again has never been explained.
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Speaker 1: Probably California's best UFO photos were taken on August 3rd,
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Speaker 1: 1965 by Los Angeles County Highway Investigator Rex Heflin. Part
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Speaker 1: of Rex Heflin's job Included taking photos of car accidents
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Speaker 1: and because of this he always carried a Polaroid camera
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Speaker 1: next to him on the seat and on August 3rd
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Speaker 1: 1965 during the day he was driving along an isolated
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Speaker 1: stretch of road outside of Santa Ana When he saw
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Speaker 1: a silent hat shaped UFO pacing his truck this object
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Speaker 1: was sending down a white beam of light and He
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Speaker 1: was quite impressed by this, so he tried to radio
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Speaker 1: his supervisor, but the radio went dead, a fact that
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Speaker 1: was later confirmed by his supervisor. Rex Heflin quickly grabbed
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Speaker 1: his Polaroid camera and managed to snap a series of
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Speaker 1: four photographs before this metallic disc disappeared off into the haze.
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Speaker 1: At that point, Rex immediately radioed his supervisor again. The
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Speaker 1: radio now worked perfectly. After the incident, he sought no publicity. However,
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Speaker 1: reporters from the United Press International in Los Angeles heard
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Speaker 1: about the photos and they persuaded him to turn them
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Speaker 1: over for study. He agreed, and the UPI photo experts
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Speaker 1: conducted an extensive analysis of even attempting to restage the
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Speaker 1: whole incident at the same area. And after the study,
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Speaker 1: the photo experts at UPI declared them genuine. And as
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Speaker 1: you can see, these photos clearly show a large metallic
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Speaker 1: object hovering an estimated 20 feet above the road. One
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Speaker 1: of these photos actually shows a strange disturbance underneath the object,
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Speaker 1: something like a little dust devil. So Rex Heflin, like
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Speaker 1: many witnesses who have hard evidence of UFOs, did receive
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Speaker 1: a mysterious visit a few weeks later from a man
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Speaker 1: claiming to be from NORAD. The man demanded the photographs.
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Speaker 1: Rex Heflin turned them over. Later, they denied that they
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Speaker 1: ever had or studied the photographs, and the Air Force
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Speaker 1: denounced the pictures as a hoax. In response, NICAP photographic
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Speaker 1: analyst Ralph Ranko and other scientists studied the pictures in
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Speaker 1: detail and also declared them genuine. Today, the Rex Heflin
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Speaker 1: photographs have been very widely published. In fact, journalist and
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Speaker 1: UFO author and investigator Frank Edwards calls the photos, quote,
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Speaker 1: the best UFO photographs ever. in civilian hands. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: while these are controversial, I think these are absolutely genuine
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Speaker 1: photographs and perhaps the best photographs in California. So here's
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Speaker 1: another very controversial photograph, which was taken in Joshua Tree
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Speaker 1: in 1965 by a controversial contactee and rocket scientist named
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Speaker 1: Daniel Fry claims to have been taken on board a
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Speaker 1: UFO in New Mexico and became a contactee, very well known,
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Speaker 1: and wrote, in fact, two books about his case, which
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Speaker 1: somewhat divided the UFO community up to this day. Today,
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Speaker 1: many UFO researchers take his case very seriously. He did
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Speaker 1: manage to capture many excellent photographs and even films of UFO,
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Speaker 1: and this is one of them, which was taken in
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Speaker 1: 1965 over Joshua Tree. So you can make up your
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Speaker 1: own mind about whether or not this is a genuine photograph,
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Speaker 1: but I think it does deserve a place on this list.
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Speaker 1: And moving along through time, we now move to January 24, 1967.
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Speaker 1: This photograph was taken in Yorba Linda at around twilight
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Speaker 1: by a teenager named Tom. He was 14 years old,
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Speaker 1: and he saw this dark, hatchet object hovering outside the
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Speaker 1: second-story window of his home. This is a small, relatively
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Speaker 1: isolated town on the edge of Orange County, California. So
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Speaker 1: we quickly rushed to another room to get his little
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Speaker 1: inexpensive Mark VII fixed focus camera and returned within seconds.
28:20
Speaker 1: By this point, the object had moved farther away from
28:24
Speaker 1: the window, but he was still able to snap one
28:28
Speaker 1: black and white picture before running downstairs shouting for his
28:32
Speaker 1: family to come and view this strange craft. Unfortunately, by
28:37
Speaker 1: the time they had climbed the stairs, this UFO had
28:40
Speaker 1: moved out of sight. But Tom did have the impression
28:44
Speaker 1: that this object was, quote, gigantic. But he could not
28:50
Speaker 1: really say for sure how big it was because he
28:55
Speaker 1: wasn't quite sure how close it was. But he did
28:58
Speaker 1: have the impression that it was quite close and quite large.
29:02
Speaker 1: It's an excellent photograph. And that same year, on May 11, 1967,
29:12
Speaker 1: a witness was able to take a photograph of a
29:15
Speaker 1: UFO over Torrance, California. There's not a whole lot of
29:20
Speaker 1: information about this photograph, but it was taken on a
29:24
Speaker 1: Saturday night. There were three kids, Alan, Bobby, Rick, and Danny,
29:31
Speaker 1: who were hanging out when they saw this object that
29:35
Speaker 1: they said glowed a reddish white. One of the boys
29:39
Speaker 1: had a camera and took this photo which is a
29:43
Speaker 1: fairly clear shot but we don't really have a lot
29:46
Speaker 1: of details about it still it's a very interesting photograph
29:54
Speaker 1: moving along this next photograph was taken in August of
30:00
Speaker 1: 1976 over the city of Petaluma, California. And as the
30:06
Speaker 1: witness says, and I quote, I was shooting ectochrome film
30:12
Speaker 1: on a warm summer evening north of Petaluma in August
30:17
Speaker 1: of 1976. I shot several exposures in a five-minute period
30:23
Speaker 1: when I was able to capture this shot, Everything is silhouetted,
30:27
Speaker 1: as the sun had already gone down, but this was
30:30
Speaker 1: easily seen. There are four blue dots on the flat
30:34
Speaker 1: side of the object, and the edge would tend to
30:38
Speaker 1: show it was moving very quickly. An enlargement of this
30:44
Speaker 1: photograph shows quite a bit of detail. A copy was
30:49
Speaker 1: sent in the early 1980s to Walt Andrus, who was
30:53
Speaker 1: the head of MUFON. And as the witness says, having
31:00
Speaker 1: this on film and going through some strange events made
31:04
Speaker 1: me a believer. And since then, over the past 20 years,
31:08
Speaker 1: I have seen a few odd things in the sky
31:11
Speaker 1: that keep me looking up. Now here's a very interesting
31:16
Speaker 1: and clear series of photographs. There were actually four photographs
31:22
Speaker 1: taken by Gigi Brobeck, over Santa Monica in February of 1979.
31:28
Speaker 1: These are from the files of Joe Clower. And these
31:36
Speaker 1: two photographs pictured here are overlooking the Santa Monica Bay.
31:42
Speaker 1: In fact, on the left of the photo, you can
31:44
Speaker 1: actually see the Santa Monica Pier. There's Santa Monica Beach below.
31:49
Speaker 1: These are very clear photos of your typical, classic, metallic
31:54
Speaker 1: flying saucer. totally silent, and Gigi managed to take four
32:00
Speaker 1: photographs as this object moved off into the distance over
32:05
Speaker 1: Santa Monica Bay. This next case is very well verified.
32:13
Speaker 1: It's taken by a trained observer, a pilot. This photograph
32:19
Speaker 1: was taken on July 16, 1988 over San Jacinto, California.
32:26
Speaker 1: It was taken by John R. English, who was a
32:30
Speaker 1: past director of the International Aerospace Hall of Fame in
32:37
Speaker 1: San Diego Air and Space Historical Center. At the time
32:42
Speaker 1: of this photograph, he was involved in the research, selection,
32:46
Speaker 1: and installation of several U.S. and foreign astronauts, as well
32:51
Speaker 1: as other significant aviation-related candidates. He was a licensed pilot
32:57
Speaker 1: and a diamond-level soaring pilot for 18 years with approximately
33:02
Speaker 1: 400 flight hours logged, 350 in high-performance sailplanes and multiple
33:10
Speaker 1: flight envelopes and conditions. So he was up there with
33:16
Speaker 1: two aircraft and observed this weird anomaly. And it was
33:21
Speaker 1: actually photographed by the chase plane. And I'd like to
33:26
Speaker 1: just quote John English directly. As he says, I'm a
33:31
Speaker 1: past director of the International Aerospace Hall of Fame, and
33:36
Speaker 1: during several flights, a great deal of time is spent
33:39
Speaker 1: flying in close proximity with other aircraft, necessitating a continual
33:45
Speaker 1: visual search for other aircraft under the C and B
33:50
Speaker 1: scene discipline. And what follows is a brief description and
33:56
Speaker 1: file of an event over Mount San Jacinto in California.
34:02
Speaker 1: A number of photos were taken without anything unusual. Then,
34:06
Speaker 1: a bank and turn to the right, away from the
34:09
Speaker 1: chase plane, was made, and during this turn, both aircraft
34:14
Speaker 1: and chase plane photographed the included anomaly. This object came
34:22
Speaker 1: from the 7 o'clock position relative to the sail plane,
34:25
Speaker 1: and at a distance of about one to two miles
34:29
Speaker 1: in front and exited vision at the one o'clock position
34:34
Speaker 1: relative to the sailplane. The best description I can give
34:39
Speaker 1: is that it looked like a large reflective sphere about
34:43
Speaker 1: the size of a quarter held at arm's length. The
34:48
Speaker 1: object was observed for five to 10 seconds until out
34:52
Speaker 1: of sight No extreme maneuvers were observed, no sound was heard,
34:58
Speaker 1: and no wake turbulence was encountered. I have no idea
35:02
Speaker 1: what the object was, nor have I ever seen anything
35:05
Speaker 1: like it either before or after this flight. This event
35:11
Speaker 1: took place in July 1988. The original photograph and negative,
35:18
Speaker 1: as well as the flight log, are still in my possession.
35:24
Speaker 1: So this is a very hard to debunk event taken
35:29
Speaker 1: by a pilot with considerable experience, a trained observer, very
35:36
Speaker 1: hard to explain away. Some photographs are taken out of
35:41
Speaker 1: sheer luck by amateurs, such as this next photograph, which
35:46
Speaker 1: was taken in 1991. very close to Los Angeles International Airport, which,
35:55
Speaker 1: by the way, has an enormous amount of UFO activity.
35:59
Speaker 1: I did a whole UFO episode on YouTube of UFOs
36:06
Speaker 1: over LAX. This photograph was taken by Dorothy Drudge. She
36:13
Speaker 1: saw this object hovering at very low altitude. She said
36:16
Speaker 1: it was so foggy on that day, The visibility was
36:19
Speaker 1: very poor, but this object was quite close, quite low,
36:25
Speaker 1: and she saw it flying by. It was totally silent.
36:29
Speaker 1: She quickly snapped a photograph of it, and this object
36:35
Speaker 1: moved off very quickly. She only saw it for a
36:37
Speaker 1: few moments, so it was sheer luck that she was
36:40
Speaker 1: able to capture this very clear photograph of a metallic
36:45
Speaker 1: disk hovering at low altitudes. The number of UFO photographic
36:51
Speaker 1: cases is truly astonishing. And for each one that's presented here,
36:55
Speaker 1: there are many others I did not present. So this
36:59
Speaker 1: should just be considered a small sampling. Here's another case
37:05
Speaker 1: involving a UFO photograph. This one comes from Joe Clower,
37:11
Speaker 1: who contributed to the UFO photo archives of Wendell Stevens.
37:18
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to find out a whole lot of
37:19
Speaker 1: information about this particular case, who took the photograph, but
37:23
Speaker 1: it was taken in Los Angeles, California. And as you
37:28
Speaker 1: can see, this is a daylight photo, quite close up,
37:32
Speaker 1: quite low level of a dark metallic saucer shaped object.
37:38
Speaker 1: And what I like about this photograph is you can
37:41
Speaker 1: clearly see from the light scattering that this is an
37:45
Speaker 1: object that is some distance from the camera itself. And
37:50
Speaker 1: like many very clear UFO photographs, it's almost as if
37:53
Speaker 1: this object is posing and allowing itself to be photographed.
37:58
Speaker 1: It's certainly an interesting case, even though there isn't a
38:01
Speaker 1: whole lot of information about it. I love this photograph,
38:06
Speaker 1: which was taken in May of 1993 by a woman
38:08
Speaker 1: who does not want her last name She's known only
38:16
Speaker 1: by her first name, which is Judy. At the time,
38:19
Speaker 1: there was a huge wave of sightings going on in
38:22
Speaker 1: this area of the Santa Monica Mountains. Judy was in
38:26
Speaker 1: her home in Malibu one evening when she saw a
38:29
Speaker 1: group of about a dozen reddish glowing half-discs. And she
38:35
Speaker 1: quickly snapped several photos. This is just one of them,
38:41
Speaker 1: which shows... clearly a group of metallic discs moving in
38:47
Speaker 1: over the Santa Monica Bay and as you can see
38:52
Speaker 1: these are bright glowing disc shaped objects and have never
38:58
Speaker 1: been explained to this day moving along this next photo
39:06
Speaker 1: was taken on July 6 over the Armagosa Range in
39:11
Speaker 1: California by a gentleman by the name of Jim W.
39:16
Speaker 1: I don't have any other information on this photograph, but
39:20
Speaker 1: I wanted to include it because it's a very clear
39:23
Speaker 1: daylight photo of a metallic disk at low level. Two
39:31
Speaker 1: years later, in 1998, Michael Davey of Los Angeles was
39:39
Speaker 1: hiking through a remote area in Titus Canyon when he
39:43
Speaker 1: observed a large metallic UFO hovering overhead He always carried
39:48
Speaker 1: a camera with him on his hikes. And on this occasion,
39:52
Speaker 1: when he saw this disc, he quickly lifted up his
39:54
Speaker 1: camera and was able to obtain one clear photo of
39:58
Speaker 1: this disc as it hovered in the daylight sky over
40:02
Speaker 1: two radar towers in the distance. He turned this photo
40:09
Speaker 1: over to Wendell Stevens, a very well-known UFO researcher who
40:15
Speaker 1: specialized in UFO photographs. This is from the UFO photo
40:20
Speaker 1: archives kept by Wendell Stevens. He had photographic analysts check
40:28
Speaker 1: these pictures out, and there was no evidence of trickery
40:32
Speaker 1: or hoaxing, and he declared them genuine. It's a very
40:37
Speaker 1: clear photo of a metallic disk. So as you can see,
40:42
Speaker 1: year after year, excellent photos are being taken of UFOs
40:47
Speaker 1: over California. Here's a case which occurred in September. This
40:53
Speaker 1: was taken by a contactee by the name of Steve Thompson,
40:58
Speaker 1: and this photograph was taken over Pacific Palisades. This is
41:03
Speaker 1: located in the Santa Monica Mountains, and there's a lot
41:07
Speaker 1: of UFO activity in this area. And it's a very
41:11
Speaker 1: clear photo of a shiny metallic disk hovering right over
41:17
Speaker 1: a residence. Again, this was taken in September of 1996.
41:21
Speaker 1: And it's an excellent photograph of what appears to be
41:27
Speaker 1: an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Here is a photo that was taken
41:32
Speaker 1: again by a contactee, Steve Thompson, over Topanga Canyon, California.
41:40
Speaker 1: I was a resident of Topanga Canyon. I know exactly
41:43
Speaker 1: where this photo was taken. I've been there many times.
41:46
Speaker 1: And in fact, I had my own UFO sighting less
41:50
Speaker 1: than a mile from this area. And I know of
41:52
Speaker 1: several other cases involving UFO encounters in this exact location.
41:59
Speaker 1: And this is a very clear photo taken by Steve
42:02
Speaker 1: Thompson of a UFO over Topanga State Park. this photo
42:10
Speaker 1: is again from the UFO photo archives of Wendell Stevens
42:18
Speaker 1: and this next photo was taken on January 1st 2001
42:24
Speaker 1: over Mammoth Mountain California by Ron Resnick he's a computer
42:30
Speaker 1: tech and a professional photographer and up to this time
42:35
Speaker 1: this object has never been identified The taker of this photo,
42:42
Speaker 1: Ron Resnick, says that this photo was taken on his
42:47
Speaker 1: Nikon D1 camera, very expensive camera, $ 5, 000 digital SLR camera.
42:56
Speaker 1: He says the lens was brand new, a Nikkor 17-35mm f2. 8D
43:00
Speaker 1: AF-6 EDIF, in perfect condition this is he says one
43:15
Speaker 1: of the world's finest wide angle lenses and the lens
43:20
Speaker 1: itself cost fifteen hundred dollars and he bought it just
43:25
Speaker 1: a few days before he took this photograph of this
43:29
Speaker 1: object over Mammoth Mountain that same year May 18 2001
43:34
Speaker 1: over Foster City California this photograph was taken. And all
43:44
Speaker 1: that is known about this photograph is it was taken
43:48
Speaker 1: by a gentleman who calls himself Ilem. And this photographer
43:55
Speaker 1: took several photographs of a UFO seen in the night sky.
44:01
Speaker 1: There are two excellent photographs. And as you can see
44:06
Speaker 1: from the blow-up, it shows what appears to be little portholes.
44:13
Speaker 1: And while these photographs have not been officially analyzed, they
44:20
Speaker 1: show what appears to be a genuine UFO. Alright, moving along.
44:26
Speaker 1: April 21, 2002, San Dimas, California. This object was not
44:34
Speaker 1: seen by the naked eye. It appeared in the photographs
44:38
Speaker 1: after they were taken. This was taken by Aaron Eskridge,
44:45
Speaker 1: and he had a brand new digital camera, and he
44:49
Speaker 1: was snapping a series of shots to put together a
44:52
Speaker 1: large landscape photograph and captured this object. And he showed
45:00
Speaker 1: it around to various newspapers and to JPL and Cal
45:05
Speaker 1: Poly in Panoma. And they told him that since he
45:08
Speaker 1: did not see it at the time or hear anything,
45:12
Speaker 1: there isn't really much to go upon in terms of
45:15
Speaker 1: analyzing this, which he agrees on. However, as he says,
45:20
Speaker 1: I still think the object in this shot is very
45:23
Speaker 1: typical of what is described as a UFO and believe
45:26
Speaker 1: it deserves to be posted for others to critique and
45:30
Speaker 1: not buried in my hard drive. Here's another photograph that
45:35
Speaker 1: has gotten quite a bit of This was taken on
45:40
Speaker 1: the afternoon of January 3rd, 2004 by a gentleman by
45:46
Speaker 1: the name of Young Shirin. He was on the beach
45:50
Speaker 1: of Santa Monica when he observed a metallic disc-like object
45:56
Speaker 1: hovering a few thousand feet directly above a yacht. This
46:01
Speaker 1: object was stationary in the sky, just sitting there right
46:05
Speaker 1: over this boat. So he quickly grabbed his camera and
46:09
Speaker 1: snapped this photograph. And because he knew approximately the length
46:14
Speaker 1: of this yacht, he estimates that the size of the
46:17
Speaker 1: UFO is probably about 30 feet wide. And after just
46:22
Speaker 1: a few moments, this object darted away at high speed.
46:27
Speaker 1: So clearly not a balloon or a plane or a
46:29
Speaker 1: helicopter or anything like this. And again, this was taken
46:34
Speaker 1: in an area of very high UFO activity. Here is
46:40
Speaker 1: another photograph which is credited to a woman by the
46:44
Speaker 1: name of Jennifer. This was taken on January 29, 2005
46:51
Speaker 1: over Chula Vista. It was taken with a Canon Mini
46:56
Speaker 1: DV camcorder with 4.0 megapixels. And as the witness says,
47:04
Speaker 1: the photos were taken near my home on January 29, 2005,
47:10
Speaker 1: starting at 5 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m. Jen
47:16
Speaker 1: says she felt this urge to go outside and then
47:20
Speaker 1: saw these objects. She followed this object around in her
47:24
Speaker 1: car for about an hour, and she never returned. drove
47:29
Speaker 1: more than five miles away from her home. So it
47:33
Speaker 1: was as if this object was posing for her, which
47:36
Speaker 1: I think they are sometimes doing in these photographic cases.
47:41
Speaker 1: But she was quite impressed and sent it off to
47:43
Speaker 1: UFO researchers. And as you can see, this object is
47:48
Speaker 1: quite impressive. All right, that same year, July 2005, Photographs
47:57
Speaker 1: of a UFO were taken over Modesta, California. The witness's
48:04
Speaker 1: name is R. David Anderson, and I'll just quote him directly.
48:09
Speaker 1: As he says, I took some additional photos of this
48:13
Speaker 1: unusual object that had been above my residence at night.
48:18
Speaker 1: This time the craft was towards the south, and the
48:20
Speaker 1: stars in the pictures are a part of the Scorpius constellation,
48:25
Speaker 1: The roof of my house is barely visible in one
48:28
Speaker 1: of the pictures. This places the UFO at fairly low
48:33
Speaker 1: position on the southern horizon. It is remarkable how it
48:37
Speaker 1: appears to be moving at a 30 degree angle towards
48:40
Speaker 1: the ground. Was the craft diving towards some other object
48:45
Speaker 1: that is not visible? I can't really think of any
48:49
Speaker 1: other reason why the craft has such a slant. It
48:53
Speaker 1: has to be moving downwards because its direction of travel
48:56
Speaker 1: is towards the right of the frame. All right, moving along.
49:03
Speaker 1: This next photograph was taken by Watson Morris, who sent
49:09
Speaker 1: his photograph to Coast to Coast. This photograph was taken
49:15
Speaker 1: on December 12, 2005, over half Moon Bay. And as
49:23
Speaker 1: Watson says, here is the best of about five or
49:27
Speaker 1: six photos that I took of three mysterious disks flying
49:31
Speaker 1: over Half Moon Bay Beach in Northern California last week.
49:37
Speaker 1: I was out shooting some black and white shots of
49:39
Speaker 1: the rocks when I heard some people on the beach
49:42
Speaker 1: yelling to each other to look up in the sky
49:44
Speaker 1: above the water. These disc-type aircraft came from over the
49:50
Speaker 1: rocks very slowly. It was hard to tell how high
49:55
Speaker 1: they were, but the closest one didn't seem much higher
49:58
Speaker 1: than 200 feet and then moved out towards the water.
50:03
Speaker 1: The whole sighting lasted no more than 30 seconds. So yeah,
50:10
Speaker 1: some very clear photos. Moving along, one year later, February 8, 2006,
50:16
Speaker 1: these photos were taken by Eduardo Garcia, and credit goes
50:23
Speaker 1: to Ana Luis Cid. These photos were taken with a
50:28
Speaker 1: digital camera, and Apparently, this was a chance encounter because
50:34
Speaker 1: these UFOs were not noticed at the time when this
50:38
Speaker 1: witness took the photograph. He was taking pictures of the
50:42
Speaker 1: Zeppelin and didn't notice this UFO off in the distance
50:47
Speaker 1: until he developed the photographs. These were taken, again, over
50:52
Speaker 1: Los Angeles at about 5.52 p.m. using a Nikon D-75.
51:00
Speaker 1: camera that same year april 26 2006 modesto california a
51:09
Speaker 1: gentleman who wants to remain anonymous his first name is
51:12
Speaker 1: johnny sent these off to the ufo casebook and as
51:17
Speaker 1: he says i was feeling pretty good about my captures
51:22
Speaker 1: and went back outside to retrieve my camera and tripod
51:26
Speaker 1: I had just grabbed the tripod and started to walk
51:28
Speaker 1: back when I noticed a huge reflection in the north
51:32
Speaker 1: by the northwest skies. And I thought to myself, I'm
51:36
Speaker 1: here with my camera and tripod in my hand, so
51:39
Speaker 1: what the hell, let's take a few more shots. I
51:42
Speaker 1: had the camera in burst mode, so was able to
51:44
Speaker 1: fire off five shots instantly, and then came back inside
51:48
Speaker 1: to see if I'd gotten lucky again. The very first
51:52
Speaker 1: shot nearly made me fall out of my chair, It
51:55
Speaker 1: seems to have many of the characteristics of a classic disc.
52:00
Speaker 1: I quickly opened up the small photo program to zoom
52:04
Speaker 1: in on the object and was surprised to see what
52:05
Speaker 1: appears to be a cupola on top of this object.
52:10
Speaker 1: This next photograph again comes from the files of Anna
52:14
Speaker 1: Louise Sid with the collaboration of Alex Sender. These photos
52:19
Speaker 1: were taken by Larry Wexdaz. near the towns of Hercules
52:25
Speaker 1: and Vallejo. On July 1, 2006, at approximately 1.30 p.m.
52:31
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, Larry saw this object hovering near some tanks,
52:38
Speaker 1: and he used his Nikon E5200 camera and took these photographs.
52:46
Speaker 1: He sent his report and photographs to Ana Luisa Cid,
52:50
Speaker 1: And as you can see, this photograph appears to show
52:54
Speaker 1: a disc-shaped object. It's a very clear daylight photo. That
53:02
Speaker 1: same year, December 29, 2006, over Santa Cruz, California, John
53:11
Speaker 1: Tisdale was sightseeing and taking photographs along the north coast
53:16
Speaker 1: of Santa Cruz He was on a back road just
53:20
Speaker 1: south of Bonny Doon and was taking a photo of
53:24
Speaker 1: this picturesque landscape. The camera was pointing east. He did
53:30
Speaker 1: not see any object in the sky at the time.
53:34
Speaker 1: The camera was a Hewlett Packard Photosmart R967, 10 megapixels
53:41
Speaker 1: in auto mode. The shutter speed was set at ambient
53:45
Speaker 1: lighting conditions. He didn't see it at the time, but
53:49
Speaker 1: it was captured in the photograph. This next photograph was
53:56
Speaker 1: taken by the gentleman by the name of Caesar. This
54:00
Speaker 1: appears in the UFO Casebook. This was taken on June 1,
54:06
Speaker 1: 2007 over Los Angeles. And as Caesar says, I visited
54:12
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Arcadia
54:17
Speaker 1: On Friday, June 1st, 2007, my wife and I were
54:21
Speaker 1: looking to find a place to take our wedding pictures
54:24
Speaker 1: and we found this beautiful park. We were taking a
54:27
Speaker 1: tour of the place. I snapped several pictures and drove home.
54:32
Speaker 1: When I was downloading the pictures and viewing them, I
54:35
Speaker 1: noticed an object in one of them. I do not
54:37
Speaker 1: know what it is. I am interested to know what
54:40
Speaker 1: it is. I hope you can help me. Please share
54:44
Speaker 1: this object with your listeners. So again, we see that
54:48
Speaker 1: many people who take UFO photos don't actually see them
54:52
Speaker 1: at the time these photos are being taken. The camera
54:57
Speaker 1: can capture things that the eye can't see because these
55:00
Speaker 1: objects are sometimes moving so fast that the eye cannot
55:05
Speaker 1: pick them up, but the camera can. Here's a photograph
55:12
Speaker 1: which was submitted to MUFON, case number 721. seven this
55:19
Speaker 1: was taken in 2007 by an anonymous witness and this
55:25
Speaker 1: was over San Pasqual high school as the witness says
55:31
Speaker 1: it was a relatively clear afternoon my girlfriend and I
55:36
Speaker 1: were at the local high school getting ready to jog
55:39
Speaker 1: on their track we were on top of a hill
55:41
Speaker 1: that overlooks the stadium when we saw a bright star
55:44
Speaker 1: like object approach from the east As it came closer,
55:48
Speaker 1: its shape became more apparent, more boomerang-shaped, but very smooth.
55:54
Speaker 1: The top side was made of what appeared to be
55:56
Speaker 1: a highly reflective gold-colored metal. The bottom of the object
56:01
Speaker 1: was the color of dull bronze and didn't seem to
56:04
Speaker 1: reflect the light. I had my backpack with me, and luckily,
56:09
Speaker 1: inside it was my camera. So in haste, I quickly
56:13
Speaker 1: retrieved my camera, ran closer to the object, It made
56:17
Speaker 1: absolutely no sound, and it initially moved very slowly, too
56:22
Speaker 1: slow for an airplane to fly. As it approached us,
56:27
Speaker 1: the object banked to the north, and after about 30 seconds,
56:30
Speaker 1: reversed its direction, revealing its side to us. We watched
56:36
Speaker 1: it for some time as it banked back and forth,
56:38
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, it tipped its nose
56:41
Speaker 1: to about a 45-degree angle and quickly ascended out of sight.
56:47
Speaker 1: was quickly out of sight after about three seconds. I
56:50
Speaker 1: wasn't afraid when I saw this object, just fascinated by
56:54
Speaker 1: its erratic movements and its beauty. It was truly a
57:00
Speaker 1: beautiful thing to behold. This next series of photographs created
57:08
Speaker 1: quite a stir. They were taken by a gentleman who
57:12
Speaker 1: leaked them out. His name is allegedly Keith Bradshaw. These
57:18
Speaker 1: were taken in 2007. There is no information about these
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Speaker 1: photos other than that they were taken over China Lake
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Speaker 1: during the day. But what's very interesting about this location
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Speaker 1: is it does have an enormous amount of UFO activity.
57:40
Speaker 1: There's a lot of very high level rocket testing and
57:45
Speaker 1: aeronautical research going on in this area. UFO researcher Richard
57:53
Speaker 1: Thompson interviewed a gentleman by the name of Elmer Green
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Speaker 1: who worked at China Lake and said that UFOs appeared
58:02
Speaker 1: all the time. According to Richard Thompson, in his position,
58:10
Speaker 1: Green frequently heard about incidents in which UFOs flew into
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Speaker 1: camera range during weapons testing and were photographed. He heard
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Speaker 1: about good quality films that had been made of UFOs,
58:24
Speaker 1: and he personally saw black and white still photos of
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Speaker 1: UFOs that were made by people in his group. He
58:31
Speaker 1: was aware of some 40 to 50 professional people who
58:35
Speaker 1: had some connection with UFO sightings made during weapons testing.
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Speaker 1: So maybe that's what's going on here in these photographs.
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Speaker 1: As you can see, one does show helicopter in flight
58:50
Speaker 1: but these are very clear just excellent daylight photos of
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Speaker 1: a very shiny silver metallic disc all right moving along
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Speaker 1: 2009 over San Diego California according to the witness this
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Speaker 1: photo was taken on January 10, 2009, with a camera
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Speaker 1: phone while I was hiking with a friend in San
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Speaker 1: Diego County. The UFO appeared briefly, hovered, and then vanished
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Speaker 1: just as I took the picture. If you zoom in
59:27
Speaker 1: on the picture... you can see an electrical discharge coming
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Speaker 1: out of the high power lines below the UFO. I
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Speaker 1: have seen other UFOs in San Diego, but only at night.
59:40
Speaker 1: This one was up close in broad daylight and scared
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Speaker 1: the heck out of me. According to the witness, the
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Speaker 1: camera was an LG Electronics BG-VX8350. It's an interesting photo,
1:00:00
Speaker 1: not only because it's a metallic disk, daylight, close up,
1:00:04
Speaker 1: low level, but it's hovering over power lines. There are
1:00:08
Speaker 1: many cases of UFOs hovering over power lines, and UFO
1:00:13
Speaker 1: researchers speculate that the UFOs are perhaps scooping up the
1:00:18
Speaker 1: electricity that's being emitted out of these power lines. And
1:00:23
Speaker 1: this could be good evidence of that, given that you
1:00:25
Speaker 1: can actually see just faintly in electrical discharge above these
1:00:31
Speaker 1: power lines. All right, moving along. This is an interesting photo,
1:00:38
Speaker 1: which was again taken during the day in the Catalina Channel. Again,
1:00:46
Speaker 1: an area of very high levels of UFO activity. This
1:00:50
Speaker 1: was taken on February 2009 by Nancy Bradley. And if
1:00:55
Speaker 1: you look closely, you can see what appears to be
1:00:58
Speaker 1: a USO diving into the water. So there's some very
1:01:04
Speaker 1: interesting elements to this photo. Nancy Bradley, the witness, is
1:01:09
Speaker 1: a seasoned traveler to Catalina. Her family traveled there each
1:01:13
Speaker 1: year doing dives with the Catalina Conservancy to help preserve
1:01:18
Speaker 1: the pristine beauty of the area. And on that day,
1:01:21
Speaker 1: the water was unnaturally calm. She also said that there
1:01:25
Speaker 1: were strange large random waves. And she says, and I quote,
1:01:32
Speaker 1: this was a very strange behavior for the sea, very
1:01:36
Speaker 1: strange indeed. And they were about halfway to the island
1:01:42
Speaker 1: when the steward of the boat pointed out a group
1:01:44
Speaker 1: of dolphins. And Nancy was amazed. While she had seen
1:01:48
Speaker 1: dolphins many times and even whales, this display was different.
1:01:53
Speaker 1: because there were hundreds of dolphins as far as the
1:01:57
Speaker 1: eye could see, and they were jumping frantically. It appeared
1:02:01
Speaker 1: to her, as she says, they were, quote, seemingly trying
1:02:05
Speaker 1: to get away from something. And suddenly they disappeared. However,
1:02:10
Speaker 1: a few miles ahead, the same thing happened. Large numbers
1:02:14
Speaker 1: of dolphins were swimming at high speed, jumping from the
1:02:17
Speaker 1: water and diving, and Nancy Bradley could hardly believe what...
1:02:21
Speaker 1: What happened next? As she says, and I quote, a
1:02:25
Speaker 1: large object, white, almost not detectable from the clouds in
1:02:29
Speaker 1: the sky, hovered. We watched it as it swayed from
1:02:33
Speaker 1: side to side, and after about a half minute, it
1:02:36
Speaker 1: made a beeline, disappearing into the sea. By pure chance,
1:02:42
Speaker 1: Nancy was snapping a photo at that very moment, this
1:02:45
Speaker 1: photo that you can see here. And an interesting end
1:02:50
Speaker 1: note to all of this, as Nancy Bradley says, they
1:02:54
Speaker 1: went to Catalina Island and were eating at the local restaurant,
1:02:58
Speaker 1: and she learned that this area was well known for
1:03:02
Speaker 1: high levels of UFO activity. As she says, several of
1:03:07
Speaker 1: the locals who overheard our conversation asked to join us
1:03:10
Speaker 1: at our table, anxious to relate their own stories. They
1:03:16
Speaker 1: said late at night we see lights going into the
1:03:18
Speaker 1: bay about a mile out, one gentleman told us, others
1:03:23
Speaker 1: shaking their heads in agreement. The waitress chimed in. One
1:03:28
Speaker 1: night there was a naval ship just offshore patrolling. This
1:03:32
Speaker 1: is not uncommon. But what I saw that was strange
1:03:36
Speaker 1: was what went on behind them. Large-scale triangular objects, three
1:03:40
Speaker 1: of them, craft, floating above the ship. And then after circling...
1:03:46
Speaker 1: They made a quick retreat into the sea. I noticed
1:03:49
Speaker 1: several small boats showing up shortly after this event, looking
1:03:53
Speaker 1: for what happened. It is all so strange. A man
1:03:57
Speaker 1: who has lived there most of his life on the
1:03:58
Speaker 1: island told us, Generally they are white, those craft, he said,
1:04:03
Speaker 1: and when they hit the water they turn a light blue.
1:04:06
Speaker 1: I know because they are fluorescent and you can see
1:04:09
Speaker 1: them for a short time going down into the water.
1:04:14
Speaker 1: So Nancy and her family were very impressed. They had
1:04:17
Speaker 1: heard of activity in this area, but this was their
1:04:20
Speaker 1: first sighting and it left them forever changed. And as
1:04:23
Speaker 1: Nancy says, for now we know one thing, there are
1:04:28
Speaker 1: USOs around Catalina Island. What they are all about, we
1:04:33
Speaker 1: are determined to find out. Now here's another interesting photo
1:04:42
Speaker 1: which was taken on October 29, 2011, over Beverly Hills, California.
1:04:51
Speaker 1: This photo was actually taken by Victoria Beckham, who is
1:04:57
Speaker 1: Posh Spice of the band Spice Girls. And she insists
1:05:03
Speaker 1: that she saw and photographed this glowing object over her home.
1:05:09
Speaker 1: She described it as an extremely bright orb, much too
1:05:14
Speaker 1: bright to be an airplane light, a star, or the moon.
1:05:17
Speaker 1: She said it was casting light on the trees below,
1:05:20
Speaker 1: and it appeared to be fairly close to the ground.
1:05:25
Speaker 1: She tweeted this photo of the UFO with the following message,
1:05:29
Speaker 1: UFO hovering above our house last night. And she says
1:05:35
Speaker 1: that there were other witnesses to this object. some people
1:05:39
Speaker 1: have tried to describe this as the moon I'll let
1:05:42
Speaker 1: you make your own mind about it all right now
1:05:46
Speaker 1: we move to 2014 and again many cases exist in
1:05:53
Speaker 1: the UFO literature in which people take a photo only
1:05:56
Speaker 1: to have the UFO shown up that was not seen
1:05:59
Speaker 1: when they took the picture so consider this case which
1:06:05
Speaker 1: was taken in July of 2014. And I was actually
1:06:12
Speaker 1: personally contacted by this woman. Her name is Lori. And
1:06:16
Speaker 1: she contacted me, not because she had actually seen this UFO,
1:06:21
Speaker 1: because this UFO and others were actually showing up in
1:06:26
Speaker 1: her photographs. Lori says she loves taking pictures. She's an
1:06:32
Speaker 1: amateur photographer and enthusiast. and constantly takes pictures wherever she
1:06:37
Speaker 1: goes on her digital camera, and occasionally there are glitches
1:06:41
Speaker 1: on her photographs. But in around 2014, she had taken
1:06:47
Speaker 1: some photos of what looked like Tic Tac objects over
1:06:53
Speaker 1: Zuma Beach. It was a very crowded day when she
1:06:56
Speaker 1: took these photos. There were many people on the beach.
1:07:02
Speaker 1: When she looked at these two photographs, which were taken
1:07:08
Speaker 1: one after the other, two of these photographs show a
1:07:13
Speaker 1: very large tic-tac-shaped object apparently leaving the water. And it
1:07:21
Speaker 1: doesn't look like a glitch. If this were truly a glitch,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: why would it appear in two separate images in slightly
1:07:28
Speaker 1: different positions? Again, she never saw anything when she took
1:07:32
Speaker 1: this photo. No one else on the beach seemed to
1:07:35
Speaker 1: react to anything, so Lori is still seeking answers about
1:07:40
Speaker 1: what she photographed. Here's another excellent photographic case. This was
1:07:46
Speaker 1: taken in March of 2015 by an anonymous witness. As
1:07:52
Speaker 1: he says, I was driving on Palomar Airport Road in Carlsbad, California,
1:07:58
Speaker 1: driving to my son's baseball game at 7.15 p.m., and
1:08:03
Speaker 1: I observed a saucer-like object in the sky through the
1:08:07
Speaker 1: driver's side window north of my location. Fortunately, I had
1:08:13
Speaker 1: my DSLR with me because of the baseball game, so
1:08:17
Speaker 1: I rolled my window down and took three pictures in
1:08:21
Speaker 1: rapid succession. My daughter and I both watched it until
1:08:27
Speaker 1: we were forced to proceed with traffic and it was gone.
1:08:32
Speaker 1: So he first thought it might be a drone, but
1:08:35
Speaker 1: after examining the photos, he is reconsidering and thinks it
1:08:39
Speaker 1: may be an actual UFO. This next series of photographs
1:08:45
Speaker 1: were taken that same year on September 1st, 2015 at
1:08:48
Speaker 1: 3 o'clock p.m. And what's really interesting is these photographs
1:08:56
Speaker 1: were taken in the vicinity of San Quentin. Prison. As
1:09:02
Speaker 1: I talked about in a previous YouTube episode, there are
1:09:05
Speaker 1: a lot of cases of UFOs hovering over prisons. This
1:09:08
Speaker 1: was right next to the prison near the San Rafael
1:09:15
Speaker 1: Bridge near Corte Madera. And as the witness says, not
1:09:24
Speaker 1: quite sure how to start other than to tell you
1:09:26
Speaker 1: what I saw today. I was driving over the Richmond-San
1:09:30
Speaker 1: Rafael Bridge from work towards Corte Madera, California today, and
1:09:36
Speaker 1: I saw this extremely bright, almost chrome-like sphere hovering over
1:09:40
Speaker 1: San Quentin Prison. It had a little bit of a
1:09:43
Speaker 1: blue hue to it, and it looked like it was
1:09:46
Speaker 1: rotating or pulsing. I couldn't pull over on the bridge
1:09:50
Speaker 1: and lost sight of it behind the hill. I was
1:09:52
Speaker 1: sure I'd catch it in the pass between the bridge
1:09:55
Speaker 1: and Larkspur Landing. So much so, I got out of
1:09:59
Speaker 1: my car at the shooting range there and was perplexed
1:10:02
Speaker 1: that it wasn't there. I got back in my car,
1:10:04
Speaker 1: hoping to see it again. I was looking all over,
1:10:08
Speaker 1: and I saw it over by the village shopping center
1:10:11
Speaker 1: south of the 101. I lost sight of it at
1:10:14
Speaker 1: the hill next to the parking lot. because it was
1:10:17
Speaker 1: heading towards Mount Tam. It was very low in the sky.
1:10:22
Speaker 1: I was looking frantically to my left and only glanced
1:10:25
Speaker 1: to my right to turn off the freeway and spotted
1:10:28
Speaker 1: it on the opposite side on my far right between
1:10:31
Speaker 1: me and the north hill of Corte Madera. I pulled
1:10:35
Speaker 1: over immediately and used my work iPad to quickly snap
1:10:40
Speaker 1: five photos in rapid succession. After 15 to 30 seconds,
1:10:46
Speaker 1: it appeared to almost fade into itself and disappear. I
1:10:51
Speaker 1: sat there baffled. The pictures don't show how bright this
1:10:55
Speaker 1: thing truly was. It was like looking into the sun.
1:11:02
Speaker 1: All right. One year later, May 24, 2016, an anonymous
1:11:09
Speaker 1: gentleman took these photographs at around 6.30 a.m., when he
1:11:14
Speaker 1: stepped out of his home in Carlsbad. He could see
1:11:18
Speaker 1: the ocean, as well as Santa Clemente Island and Catalina,
1:11:23
Speaker 1: and as he says, I always look out to the
1:11:26
Speaker 1: ocean for the view, but today I saw something I
1:11:29
Speaker 1: had never seen before. Way out on the horizon, I
1:11:32
Speaker 1: noticed a glow on the water. At first glance, I
1:11:36
Speaker 1: thought it was the sun's reflection, as it was really bright,
1:11:40
Speaker 1: but that would have been impossible due to the sun's
1:11:42
Speaker 1: position at the time. Plus, it was clearly sitting on
1:11:46
Speaker 1: top of the water. It looked like a large strip
1:11:49
Speaker 1: of light. My wife also saw the object. At first,
1:11:55
Speaker 1: he thought it might be a cruise ship, though he'd
1:11:57
Speaker 1: seen cruise ships and he'd never seen one out there before,
1:12:00
Speaker 1: and it certainly didn't look like one. He grabbed his
1:12:03
Speaker 1: binoculars and got a close-up look at it. It was
1:12:07
Speaker 1: just a strip of light. It clearly wasn't a cruise ship.
1:12:11
Speaker 1: As he says... I didn't see any body of structure,
1:12:15
Speaker 1: just bright lights, either one long large one or many
1:12:20
Speaker 1: very close together to form a strip. It didn't move.
1:12:25
Speaker 1: And after he confirmed that this was unexplained, he got
1:12:28
Speaker 1: his camera and snapped this photo. He watched it for
1:12:32
Speaker 1: a few minutes, went inside briefly, returned outside. Five minutes
1:12:36
Speaker 1: later and the object was gone. So if it was
1:12:40
Speaker 1: a ship, it would have been seen, you would think,
1:12:43
Speaker 1: in a nearby location. But it had disappeared rather quickly,
1:12:47
Speaker 1: so yeah, perhaps it's unexplained. All right, just a few
1:12:52
Speaker 1: more cases I'd like to share with you. This next
1:12:55
Speaker 1: case took place on 2017, and I will just quote
1:13:01
Speaker 1: the witness directly. When I looked through the binocs, I
1:13:06
Speaker 1: have two pair, one with a stabilizer, one with extra magnification,
1:13:12
Speaker 1: I expected to see lanterns, flares, balloons, or even drones
1:13:15
Speaker 1: or skydivers. Instead, what I saw were sparkling rings of
1:13:20
Speaker 1: smoke that had some shape and apparent structure, but they
1:13:24
Speaker 1: spun like tops in the sky as they moved. They
1:13:27
Speaker 1: almost had a jellyfish-type body that seemed to pulse and
1:13:32
Speaker 1: was translucent. Here's a very excellent and clear photograph of
1:13:42
Speaker 1: a UFO over Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is on the
1:13:46
Speaker 1: border of California and Nevada. And this photo taken here
1:13:51
Speaker 1: is actually a still from a moving film. The witness
1:13:57
Speaker 1: says she took this on October 20th, 2018. And as
1:14:03
Speaker 1: she says, we went to Lake Tahoe for vacation We
1:14:06
Speaker 1: got a tour on a boat to ride on the lake.
1:14:09
Speaker 1: I didn't see the object until we got home. I
1:14:11
Speaker 1: was checking the video and this object appeared on the video.
1:14:16
Speaker 1: It moved with great speed. It appeared for about 18
1:14:22
Speaker 1: seconds on the video and she provided the 18 seconds
1:14:27
Speaker 1: of video. The entire video itself was about 10 minutes
1:14:32
Speaker 1: long and It does look like one person actually did
1:14:38
Speaker 1: see this object, but all they know is that these
1:14:43
Speaker 1: photographs were taken on vacation, and the lady said she
1:14:48
Speaker 1: had to reduce the speed of the video to about
1:14:50
Speaker 1: 20% to be able to actually see the UFO. This
1:14:56
Speaker 1: next case occurred in the same year. It was taken
1:15:01
Speaker 1: in December, and this is also a moving film. This
1:15:04
Speaker 1: is a a still frame of several strange bright orbs
1:15:08
Speaker 1: which were filmed in the sky above Mojave Desert in California.
1:15:15
Speaker 1: And according to the witness, this was a, quote, major sighting.
1:15:19
Speaker 1: Clear video footage of light orbs in the desert disappear
1:15:24
Speaker 1: into the air. They appeared suddenly out of the blue
1:15:29
Speaker 1: after a meditation at Crystal Hill at Giant Rock. This
1:15:33
Speaker 1: is the last few seconds caught just before they disappeared.
1:15:37
Speaker 1: It was stunning and beautiful. Following a group meditation as
1:15:41
Speaker 1: we walked down Quartz Crystal Hill at Giant Rock in
1:15:45
Speaker 1: the Mojave Desert, these light orbs suddenly appeared. The next
1:15:51
Speaker 1: case I'd like to talk about, I don't have a
1:15:53
Speaker 1: whole lot of information about it other than it was
1:15:55
Speaker 1: taken in January 2020 in Woodville, California. And this photograph
1:16:02
Speaker 1: shows what appears to be a huge unidentified flying object
1:16:07
Speaker 1: in the sky. The last case I'd like to present
1:16:11
Speaker 1: created quite a sensation on the internet when it was posted.
1:16:14
Speaker 1: And this is actually from a moving film. This was
1:16:18
Speaker 1: taken on October 30th of 2020 by a motorist who
1:16:24
Speaker 1: was walking along the 29 Palms Highway. This is near
1:16:29
Speaker 1: Mount San Jacinto in the direction of Palm Springs, California.
1:16:35
Speaker 1: And it shows a very large, glowing, disc-shaped UFO. Again,
1:16:44
Speaker 1: this created quite a sensation. This object has not been
1:16:48
Speaker 1: identified and appears to be your classic UFO. So there
1:16:54
Speaker 1: you go. Those are 50 UFOs. cases involving UFO photographs
1:16:59
Speaker 1: over California alone. I did include a very small sampling
1:17:05
Speaker 1: of these in my book, UFOs over California, but certainly
1:17:09
Speaker 1: not the whole list of 50 that I presented here.
1:17:13
Speaker 1: And as you can see, some of these are really
1:17:16
Speaker 1: quite impressive and I think very hard to debunk. For example,
1:17:21
Speaker 1: the Battle of LA in 1942 There's no way you
1:17:26
Speaker 1: can say that didn't happen. Many other really good cases.
1:17:31
Speaker 1: I think the case involving the photo of UFOs over
1:17:36
Speaker 1: Catalina Island, which is actually taken from moving films, that
1:17:41
Speaker 1: took place in 1956 and was photographed by a professional photographer,
1:17:47
Speaker 1: Leland Hansen. Very hard to debunk. The 1959 photo, by
1:17:54
Speaker 1: a Navy pilot, Frank Kinsey, of a UFO over Lake Casitas.
1:18:00
Speaker 1: I think that's a real good legitimate case. There was
1:18:03
Speaker 1: other witnesses there. He's a fantastic witness. Another case that
1:18:08
Speaker 1: is really hard to debunk or explain away is the
1:18:13
Speaker 1: case involving Rex Heflin in 1965 in Santa Ana. These
1:18:21
Speaker 1: photographs are, I think, probably the best photographs taken in California,
1:18:27
Speaker 1: and no one has ever been able to debunk those,
1:18:31
Speaker 1: and many others. I mean, the case of John English
1:18:35
Speaker 1: in 1988 is another really good case. So I really
1:18:41
Speaker 1: wanted to present these photos to you today to show
1:18:45
Speaker 1: that there is, in fact, a lot of evidence. In fact,
1:18:51
Speaker 1: I think you could probably pull up the same number
1:18:54
Speaker 1: of photographs for each and every state in the United States,
1:18:58
Speaker 1: and for that matter, any location on this planet. So yeah,
1:19:03
Speaker 1: there is photographic evidence of UFOs. That's why I wanted
1:19:08
Speaker 1: to present this episode to you today. I hope you've
1:19:11
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I want to thank you once again for watching.
1:19:14
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate it. And until next time, keep having fun.