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The Smell of UFOs · 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: another episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. I've got a
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Speaker 1: pretty unusual episode for you today. It's called The Smell
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Speaker 1: of UFOs. There's been a lot of research into the
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Speaker 1: various aspects of the UFO phenomena. People have studied landing
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Speaker 1: trace cases, medical effects, animal effect cases, electromagnetic effects, UFO
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Speaker 1: crash retrievals, UFO propulsion cases. Virtually every aspect of UFOs
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Speaker 1: has been studied intensely. However, I was surprised to find
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Speaker 1: out how little research there has been done into alien
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Speaker 1: odors or what UFOs and ETs actually smell like. And
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Speaker 1: there are quite a few cases. I did some sniffing
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Speaker 1: around and came up with more than 30 cases involving
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Speaker 1: alien odors. And that's what this episode is about today.
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Speaker 1: But before I get into the actual cases, I would
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Speaker 1: like to make one point about alien smells and smell
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Speaker 1: in general. The ability to smell is deeply connected to
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Speaker 1: human memory. In fact, the olfactory nerve leads directly to
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Speaker 1: the core of the brain. So memory and smells are
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Speaker 1: inextricably connected And this is why memories are often easily
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Speaker 1: provoked by odors. And of course, scientists have long known
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Speaker 1: that smell plays a powerful role in human behavior. It
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Speaker 1: influences the appetite, the sex drive, physical attraction, and many
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Speaker 1: areas of everyday life. And it should also be pointed
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Speaker 1: out that smell for animals is often the superior sense.
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Speaker 1: They rely on it much more than even vision or hearing.
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Speaker 1: So the point is, smell is a very important sense,
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Speaker 1: and it's been largely overlooked into how this is part
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Speaker 1: of the UFO phenomena. So what I'd like to do
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Speaker 1: is look into these cases of alien odors and see
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Speaker 1: what they tell us about the UFO phenomena. And I've
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Speaker 1: got a lot of cases I want to go through,
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Speaker 1: so I'm going to go through them fairly quickly and
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Speaker 1: see what we can figure out. And the first case
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Speaker 1: I want to touch on is that of Whitley Striever.
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Speaker 1: He's one of America's best known experiencers and has experienced
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Speaker 1: a wide range of UFO encounters and has of course
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Speaker 1: written several best selling books about his extensive experiences with
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Speaker 1: the visitors. And on several occasions, he reports he has
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Speaker 1: actually smelled them. On December 26, 1985, Streber reports being
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Speaker 1: taken from his cabin in upstate New York. And on
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Speaker 1: board the UFO, he was shocked to find out that
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Speaker 1: the interior of this craft was actually quite dirty. And
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Speaker 1: as he says, I quote, I know this is no dream.
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting on a bench in a little room and
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Speaker 1: it smells funny. Smells something like cheese in here. Smells
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Speaker 1: kind of nasty, to tell you the truth. It's not
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Speaker 1: clean in here. The space I entered smelled like warm
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Speaker 1: cheddar cheese with a hint of sulfur. It was later
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Speaker 1: on during this same experience that Whitley had a very
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Speaker 1: strong fear reaction when the ETs informed him that they
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Speaker 1: were going to perform an operation on him. He panicked
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Speaker 1: and began screaming. And one of the ETs asked him,
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Speaker 1: can we help you stop screaming? And Streber surprised himself
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Speaker 1: by saying, you could let me smell you. The alien
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Speaker 1: then pressed her cheek up to Whitley's face, allowing him
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Speaker 1: to smell her. And this worked. It calmed him down.
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Speaker 1: So what do the aliens actually smell like? Whitley Streber
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Speaker 1: definitely has an answer on February 7, 1986. He had
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Speaker 1: an experience where he distinctly smelled them. As he says,
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Speaker 1: there is one earlier incident worth recounting because it was
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Speaker 1: this incident more than any other that opened the door
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Speaker 1: to the past, and it did this via my sense
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Speaker 1: of smell. The night of Friday, February 7, we spent
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Speaker 1: in our apartment in the city. I was absolutely frantic.
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Speaker 1: I had an awful feeling. I felt their presence. It
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Speaker 1: was palpable. Most upsetting, I could smell them. I could
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Speaker 1: smell a distinct odor, as if of smoldering cardboard, and
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Speaker 1: it was familiar from my past. My wife could also
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Speaker 1: smell this odor. It was one we had both smelled
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Speaker 1: many times. Until now, I had not understood its significance.
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Speaker 1: There was also another odor, as if of cheese and cinnamon,
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Speaker 1: that I remembered from December 26. So for Whitley Striebert,
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Speaker 1: The smell of the aliens actually played a powerful role
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Speaker 1: and was actually the impetus that led him to consider
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Speaker 1: the physical reality of his experience. As he says, I
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Speaker 1: remembered the odors I had smelled the night before. Odor
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Speaker 1: is an excellent trigger of memory and the odor of
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Speaker 1: smoldering cardboard seemed to unlock a lot of doors. I
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Speaker 1: last smelled it in 1972 or 1973. My wife and
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Speaker 1: I had gone down to San Antonio to see my family,
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Speaker 1: and we were sleeping in my sister's old bedroom. In
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night, I suddenly awoke with the
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Speaker 1: impression that I'd just heard a loud noise. I decided
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Speaker 1: to get a glass of water. As I left our bedroom,
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Speaker 1: I noticed a strange smell, like smoldering cardboard. As I
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Speaker 1: went toward the bedroom to get my water, a small
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Speaker 1: dark figure with a red light in its hand burst
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Speaker 1: out of my old bedroom and dashed downstairs. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: ETs do have an odor. Another case comes from an
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Speaker 1: abductee by the name of Jean Marie Robinson, an abductee
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Speaker 1: from Branson, Missouri, who wrote a book called Alienated. She
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Speaker 1: has had lifelong contacts with a variety of extraterrestrials, and
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Speaker 1: one of her first clues that she was having contact was...
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Speaker 1: identifiable odor as gene says and I quote several times
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Speaker 1: as a youngster I noticed a strong odor on my
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Speaker 1: hands and a brown substance under my fingernails I recalled
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Speaker 1: this substance smelled similar to beans and onions I had
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Speaker 1: not eaten anything that would have left this residue on
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Speaker 1: my hands and For some reason, memories of those childhood
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Speaker 1: incidents came back to me while I was listening to
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Speaker 1: a boring lecture at college. I knew this was significant.
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Speaker 1: Smell is a good memory trigger. So later under hypnosis,
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Speaker 1: Jean recalled the source of this odor. She recalled being
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Speaker 1: taken on board a craft where she was surrounded by
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Speaker 1: gray type ETs and was shown several apparent hybrid babies.
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Speaker 1: It was then that she smelled this same odor. As
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Speaker 1: she says, and I quote, Two greys in another part
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Speaker 1: of the room were busily preparing something. It was a
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Speaker 1: bowl of foul-smelling substance. The smell was very offensive. It
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Speaker 1: smelled of onions, garlic, beans, and some other odors I
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Speaker 1: could not identify. The substance was the color of apple butter.
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Speaker 1: A grey held the bowl, and I received a thought
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Speaker 1: that I was to stick this substance and rub it
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Speaker 1: on the babies. Jean Marie Robinson learned that this was
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Speaker 1: how the babies received nourishment, and she was instructed to
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Speaker 1: feed them in this manner on several occasions. But initially,
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Speaker 1: her only clue that something had occurred to her was
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Speaker 1: this strange odor coming from the traces of the substance
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Speaker 1: left on her hands. So as you can see, odor
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Speaker 1: is playing a powerful role in people's experiences. Another very
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Speaker 1: famous case involving odors is occurred on August 13, 1973,
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Speaker 1: to Police Sergeant Charles Moody, who experienced a UFO abduction
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Speaker 1: while driving through the desert outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Speaker 1: He had stopped to watch a meteor shower, and instead
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Speaker 1: a large metallic disk swooped down and landed, and Moody
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Speaker 1: was taken on board by ETs that looked very much
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Speaker 1: like the modern-day Greys. This is a very well-known case,
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Speaker 1: so I won't go too deeply into it, other than
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Speaker 1: to report that Charles Moody did smell a strange odor
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Speaker 1: while he was on board the craft. As Coral and
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Speaker 1: Jim Lorenzen write from their report on this case, from
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Speaker 1: the time that Moody had come to in the white
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Speaker 1: table room where he found himself on a table, he
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Speaker 1: had noticed a sweet odor in the air which he
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Speaker 1: compared to burnt sugar. And throughout his stay on the craft,
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Speaker 1: his breathing was labored. Another very famous case involving powerful
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Speaker 1: odors is probably best known as the Flatwoods Monster or
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Speaker 1: the Braxton County Monster. This case occurred on September 12, 1952.
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Speaker 1: And the main witness is Ms. Kathleen May. and two
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Speaker 1: of her children aged 12 and 13 years old and
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Speaker 1: four other children ranging in age from 12 to 17.
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Speaker 1: All of them sighted a large reddish glowing object which
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Speaker 1: had landed on a nearby hilltop in Flatwoods, VA And
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Speaker 1: the seven of them hiked up to see what it
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Speaker 1: was and were confronted with a very, very tall man-like creature,
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Speaker 1: robotic-like creature, with large eyes and a vaguely human appearance.
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Speaker 1: The red glow was coming from a craft behind the creature.
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Speaker 1: And the sight of this, quote, monster sent this little
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Speaker 1: group of individuals into a panic and they fled from
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Speaker 1: the area. After they returned home, To safety, they were
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Speaker 1: pretty much in a state of shock and had some
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Speaker 1: disagreement on the actual appearance of the creature. However, what
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Speaker 1: they all agreed upon was this weird odor, which was
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Speaker 1: something like, I mean, none of them could ever forget it.
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Speaker 1: Kathleen May said that the stench was unlike anything she
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Speaker 1: had ever smelled, but that it was close to sulfur.
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Speaker 1: The police were called and arrived on the scene with
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Speaker 1: a reportage a local reporter, and the reporter, A. Lee
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Speaker 1: Stewart Jr., who had served in the Army in a
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Speaker 1: capacity where he became familiar with the odor of a
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Speaker 1: wide variety of gases, he smelled an odor which he
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Speaker 1: described as sickening and irritating, but was otherwise completely unique
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Speaker 1: to his experience. Another A famous case involving odors occurred
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Speaker 1: on December 20, 1958, in the Swiss countryside, when two
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Speaker 1: young men by the name of Hans Gustafsson and Stig
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Speaker 1: Rydberg were driving along a remote road when they came
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Speaker 1: upon a strange illuminated mist, and upon investigating they saw
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Speaker 1: a metallic disc. and suddenly they were grabbed by two
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Speaker 1: very strange creatures which looked like, and I'll just quote here, blobs,
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Speaker 1: like protozoa, just a bit darker than most, sort of
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Speaker 1: a bluish color, hopping and jumping around the saucer like
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Speaker 1: globs of animated jelly. The drag the things exerted was terrific,
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Speaker 1: and they gave off such a terrible smell, like ether
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Speaker 1: and burnt sausage. The two men were terrified and escaped
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Speaker 1: the grip of these gelatinous-like creatures and fled the area.
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Speaker 1: At first, they decided that they weren't going to tell anybody,
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Speaker 1: but this odor was so bad that it was making
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Speaker 1: them ill, and they had to seek medical attention. As
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Speaker 1: Hans Gustafsson says, we endured it for three days, and
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Speaker 1: then we decided we should see a physician. as a
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Speaker 1: report on the case reads, the terrible stench seemed to
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Speaker 1: stay with Hansen's dig. It seemed to have scarred their
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Speaker 1: nostrils with its terrible odor. Investigators did research this case
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Speaker 1: and found landing traces where this object had landed. It's
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Speaker 1: one of the most unusual contactee cases because most involve
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Speaker 1: humanoid creatures, but nope, this one involved gelatinous blob-like creatures.
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Speaker 1: It's a very unusual case, but once again, we have
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Speaker 1: these very powerful and somewhat disagreeable odors. Not all of
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Speaker 1: them are disagreeable. There's a very interesting case which occurred
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Speaker 1: in April of 1955 to a cook from Loveland, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: His name is Robert Honeycutt. According to the report on
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Speaker 1: the case, Robert Honeycutt was driving home from work when
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Speaker 1: he saw what he thought were three men praying by
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Speaker 1: the side of the road. He noticed that one of
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Speaker 1: the figures was holding a glowing rod and that all
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Speaker 1: these figures were about three feet tall in uniforms and
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Speaker 1: were grayish in color and, as Honeycutt says, quote, fairly ugly.
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Speaker 1: He walked towards the creatures and then decided he should
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Speaker 1: stop and rushed back to his car. So he was
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Speaker 1: hoping to get some additional witnesses. But as he was
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Speaker 1: on the scene, he did notice a very powerful odor,
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Speaker 1: which he described as, quote, an extremely strong odor which
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Speaker 1: smelled like a combination of fresh-cut alfalfa and almonds. He
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Speaker 1: decided he'd drive straight to the Loveland Police Department and
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Speaker 1: reported his encounter to Chief Fitz. And Chief Fitz did
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Speaker 1: confirm that Honeycutt reported this, quote, terrible odor. So, more
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Speaker 1: and more cases keep turning up with weird odors. Here's
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Speaker 1: a case which occurred in Hampshire, England, on November 6, 1967,
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Speaker 1: to a truck driver by the name of Carl Farlow.
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Speaker 1: He was driving his route when suddenly his headlights failed
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Speaker 1: and looking up he saw a floating egg-shaped object. According
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Speaker 1: to one report on the case, the object made a
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Speaker 1: sound like a refrigerator and gave off a smell like
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Speaker 1: a drill boring through wood. Another car arrived which had
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Speaker 1: two passengers in it and they also observed this object
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Speaker 1: which quickly moved away and disappeared off into the distance.
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Speaker 1: By this point, however, Carl Farlow went into a state
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Speaker 1: of clinical shock. It turned out the road itself was
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Speaker 1: marked and the surface was actually partially melted. What's interesting,
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Speaker 1: Timothy Goode wrote about this case. Within a week of
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Speaker 1: this encounter, all the evidence of the road having been
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Speaker 1: melted was covered up and the entire road itself was resurfaced.
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Speaker 1: for a 200-foot stretch. So it's apparent that the landing
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Speaker 1: traces were covered up in this case. It's unfortunate because
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Speaker 1: we could have gotten some real good evidence from that.
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Speaker 1: But there are many cases involving odors. Another case occurred
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Speaker 1: actually at Whitley Streber's cabin when he had invited a
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Speaker 1: couple of people over to spend the night. This was
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Speaker 1: in 1988, and one of the witnesses was Raven Dana.
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Speaker 1: She woke up in the middle of the night to
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Speaker 1: see a gray ET entering her room. It actually approached
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Speaker 1: her quite closely, and she could smell it. She says
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Speaker 1: that it stared at her a few moments, and that
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Speaker 1: was when she noticed its odor, which she described as, quote,
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Speaker 1: kind of a musty odor, like the wet fur of
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Speaker 1: an animal. Not unpleasant, but very woodsy. It turns out
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Speaker 1: another person at Whitley's cabin also had an encounter that night.
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Speaker 1: Her name is Lori Barnes. She was asleep in another
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Speaker 1: room when she woke up to see what was apparently
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Speaker 1: the same gray entering into her bedroom. And she gave
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Speaker 1: an identical description, including its body odor, which she described
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Speaker 1: as a musty odor. I would liken it to damp. Woodsy.
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Speaker 1: This really impressed Whitley-Strieber because they both used pretty much
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Speaker 1: the same words to describe this odor. As Whitley says,
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Speaker 1: It is interesting that they both used such a specific
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Speaker 1: description independently. This implies a very identifiable odor and, more importantly,
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Speaker 1: a real one. Two people might well both imagine a scent,
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Speaker 1: but not the same precise one, not after six years.
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Speaker 1: have been interested in their odors because I think of
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Speaker 1: smell and touch as confirming senses much more so than
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Speaker 1: sight and sound over the years I've tried to smell
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Speaker 1: them and touch them as much as I could and
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Speaker 1: have noticed many different odors the most notable of which
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Speaker 1: is the human smell of them another interesting case took
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Speaker 1: place in Ross Ohio on November 19th 1973 when two
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Speaker 1: anonymous gas station attendants witnessed a large glowing white light
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Speaker 1: which moved towards their gas station and then blinked out.
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Speaker 1: It was a brief encounter, but both witnesses did remark
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Speaker 1: upon a powerful odor left by the object. According to
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Speaker 1: the report on the case, and I quote, When the
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Speaker 1: UFO disappeared, both attendants smelled the strong odor of sulfur. Also,
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Speaker 1: a motorist driving in for gas remarked about the strong
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Speaker 1: offensive odor. Researcher Leonard Stringfield has uncovered some cases involving
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Speaker 1: alien odors. As he says, and I quote, Research records
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Speaker 1: show again and again, when humanoids are near, so is
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Speaker 1: an odor. He quotes one case which occurred on October 2,
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Speaker 1: 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio. when a housewife by the name
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Speaker 1: of Miss Everett Stewart was talking on the phone with
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Speaker 1: a friend when she noticed a foul odor in the
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Speaker 1: room which was so strong it made her dizzy and nauseous.
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Speaker 1: She hung up the phone and went to her bed
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Speaker 1: where she had the feeling of being watched, and looking
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Speaker 1: out the window, she saw a large oval-shaped object with
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Speaker 1: portholes hovering only a few hundred feet away. She woke
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Speaker 1: up her husband, who also saw the object. She called
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Speaker 1: her neighbor Janet, and as Ms. Stewart says, I was
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Speaker 1: feeling quite sick when I called to alert Janet. The
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Speaker 1: odor seemed stronger, and I was so dizzy I had
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Speaker 1: to sit down. So there were quite a few witnesses
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Speaker 1: to this case. Ms. Stewart called the police, who told
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Speaker 1: her that they had already received more than 40 calls
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Speaker 1: reporting UFOs in this area. By this point, the odor
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Speaker 1: in her home was so strong it was intolerable, she said.
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Speaker 1: And I quote, It was an ill-smelling chemical odor, a
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Speaker 1: smell that made me lose my equilibrium. Her neighbor Janet
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Speaker 1: described the smell as exactly like, quote, bad garbage. Eventually
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Speaker 1: the object did leave, but Ms. Stewart was left in
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Speaker 1: a state of near shock. It took her quite some
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Speaker 1: time to recover. Not all smells are disagreeable. In 1950,
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Speaker 1: six-year-old Virginia Horton said, That's a pseudonym used by Bud Hopkins.
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Speaker 1: This case occurred, I mean, this is one of the
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Speaker 1: cases that he wrote about in his best-selling book, Missing Time.
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Speaker 1: So six-year-old Virginia Horton had traveled outside her family barn
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Speaker 1: to collect some eggs and experienced a typical UFO abduction.
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Speaker 1: She gave a very detailed description of the inside of
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Speaker 1: the craft, including an odor. As she says, and I quote,
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Speaker 1: I was lying on a couch, a little couch. It
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Speaker 1: was comfortable, like a bed or almost like a medical thing.
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Speaker 1: But it did not have the quality of a doctor's office.
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Speaker 1: It's not chromey and white. And the light's bright. There's
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Speaker 1: plenty of light. I think it might be a pale
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Speaker 1: or a soft gray. It's pearly, those kinds of colors.
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Speaker 1: There was a luxuriant feeling to it. Elegant and simple
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Speaker 1: and rich. I'm trying to think if it had some smell. Clean.
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Speaker 1: Really an ozone smell. That was the smell. Kind of
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Speaker 1: a clean smell, but nothing very specific. So some of
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Speaker 1: these odors start to get a lot of repetition, particularly
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Speaker 1: of a sulfuric type odor. One such case was investigated
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Speaker 1: by Jacques Vallée during a wave of sightings over Colares, Brazil.
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Speaker 1: involving objects that the locals called chupas. And according to
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Speaker 1: Jacques Vallée, and I quote, I found little consistency in
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Speaker 1: the descriptions of the beam itself. One of the witnesses
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Speaker 1: compared it to an electric arc. On an interview tape,
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Speaker 1: another witness said he remembered a bad smell, like an
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Speaker 1: electrical odor, ozone. and saw a blinking light with pulsating
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Speaker 1: colors inside. Vallée quotes another case involving a gentleman, a
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Speaker 1: prospector by the name of Manuel, and he also reported
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Speaker 1: an odor. He was struck by a beam of light,
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Speaker 1: and as Jacques Vallée says, every time the light hit him,
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Speaker 1: he felt weak and fell. He also smelled a foul odor.
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Speaker 1: in the whole incident which manual calls the worst thing
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Speaker 1: is life it was the smell that affected him the
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Speaker 1: most was penetrating like burning sulfur and it made his
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Speaker 1: nose run it did not impairs breathing but forced him
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Speaker 1: to clear his throat at frequent intervals he believes it
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Speaker 1: was the smell rather than the light that made him
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Speaker 1: fall so another really famous case involving odors is none
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Speaker 1: other than Travis Walton. On November 5, 1975, Travis experienced
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Speaker 1: a five-day-long abduction that became very well known. This occurred,
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Speaker 1: of course, outside of Snowflake, Arizona. Travis had a number
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Speaker 1: of witnesses to his encounter who also saw the craft,
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Speaker 1: saw him get struck by the beam of light, The
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Speaker 1: men in the truck drove away and did not observe
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Speaker 1: him actually get taken on board. But according to Travis,
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Speaker 1: one of the first things he noticed when he was
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Speaker 1: taken on board was the odor of the craft. As
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Speaker 1: he says, Where in the hell am I? Oh my God,
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Speaker 1: it's the hospital. They brought me here to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: It was very hot and humid. The heavy air was
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Speaker 1: almost stifling. It smelled slightly stale and muggy. The heavy
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Speaker 1: air was difficult to breathe. So this is a type
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Speaker 1: of description we hear quite a bit. Another very similar
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Speaker 1: description comes from Casey Turner, who is the husband of
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Speaker 1: Carla Turner, author of Into the Fringe, Masquerade of Angels,
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Speaker 1: and other books on the UFO phenomena. And according to
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Speaker 1: Casey Turner, he had a UFO... encounter, an abduction, and
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Speaker 1: his description of the inside of the UFO, the smell
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Speaker 1: of it, is actually pretty familiar. As he says, and
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Speaker 1: I quote, it feels small and dank, like a cellar,
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Speaker 1: but not a cellar. It's not wet, but it smells yucky.
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Speaker 1: Closed quarters, like an old gym, an old locker room,
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Speaker 1: Another abductee who has reported ET odors is Kim Carlsberg,
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Speaker 1: who wrote an excellent book called Beyond My Wildest Dreams.
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Speaker 1: Also another book, The Alien Art. And she also reports
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Speaker 1: a very powerful odor. As she says... Have you ever
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Speaker 1: experienced strange, pungent odors like burning wire or rotting organic
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Speaker 1: material without being able to locate the source? Because she
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Speaker 1: points to this as one of the clues of being
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Speaker 1: an abductee. And she describes one of her experiences. And again,
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Speaker 1: I quote, Instantly, I felt claustrophobic, not due to the
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Speaker 1: small enclosure, but due to the fact that I was
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Speaker 1: packed in with many other bodies. and jammed into a
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Speaker 1: blind corner. Although I felt I was trapped by sentient beings,
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Speaker 1: the stench of rotting organic matter was suffocating. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know where I was, how I got there, or how
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Speaker 1: I could have been taken from my bed in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night. One case involves a very specific odor.
27:31
Speaker 1: This case occurred in Beaumont, France on October 5th, 1954
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Speaker 1: when several witnesses saw a glowing object approach to within
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Speaker 1: about 400 to 500 feet. And it left them in
27:47
Speaker 1: a state of temporary paralysis and then darted away. However,
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Speaker 1: according to a report on the case, the object left
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Speaker 1: a smell compared with that of nitrobenzene. The smell of
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Speaker 1: nitrobenzene has been compared to the smell of almonds, by
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Speaker 1: the way, which is interesting because that does turn up,
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Speaker 1: as we have seen, in another case. We're definitely beginning
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Speaker 1: to see some patterns in these odors. Another really famous
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Speaker 1: case was the star of Bud Hopkins' book, Intruders. Kathy
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Speaker 1: Davis was the pseudonym. She's since come forward. Her name
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Speaker 1: is Debbie Jordan Cobble. She's written a book about her experiences,
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Speaker 1: which has just recently been released. I spoke with her
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Speaker 1: directly and yeah, she also reports smelling an odor during
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Speaker 1: her encounter. And again, this was one of the first
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Speaker 1: clues she had was this strange odor. And as she says,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, I can smell burning matches. It smells
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Speaker 1: like burning matches and it stinks. Another case occurred in
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Speaker 1: January of 1969 to a lady by the name of
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Speaker 1: Ann Marie. This occurred in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Ann Marie
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Speaker 1: was driving alone when she was stopped by three glowing
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Speaker 1: objects which hovered over her car. She felt a blast
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Speaker 1: of heat, and at this point a strange odor filled
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Speaker 1: her vehicle. And as she says, there was this very
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Speaker 1: funny smell, almost like a skunk, but like a sweet skunk.
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Speaker 1: you know it was weird. And at this point, the
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Speaker 1: objects darted away. But Raymond Fowler, who investigated this case,
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Speaker 1: says of this odor, Have you ever played with an
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Speaker 1: electric train and smelled the odor? I think it was ozone.
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Speaker 1: So this ozone odor turns up again and again. Another
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Speaker 1: very well-known case investigated by Raymond Fowler has come to
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Speaker 1: be known as the Allagash Abduction, involving four witnesses. There's
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Speaker 1: four witnesses to this case, all of whom have apparently
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Speaker 1: had a lifetime of encounters. Two of the witnesses are
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Speaker 1: actually twins, and one of the witnesses, his name is
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Speaker 1: Jack Wiener. And he lives in Cape Cod, Vermont. And
30:30
Speaker 1: on May 21st, 1988, Jack experienced an abduction from his home.
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Speaker 1: And he was pulled out of his home and led
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Speaker 1: to a glowing craft that was actually landed on the ground.
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Speaker 1: And as he was being taken into this craft, he
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Speaker 1: smelled a very peculiar odor. As Jack says, I smelled
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Speaker 1: something weird. It smells like a freezer, maybe something like
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Speaker 1: a freezer, like when you open one of those freezers
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Speaker 1: with a lid and it smells tangy, sour, like cold
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Speaker 1: or a chemical. It's a weird, weird smell. Another very
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Speaker 1: well-known case is that of Betty Andreessen and her husband
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Speaker 1: Bob Luca. And it was Bob Luca who actually reported
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Speaker 1: smelling a distinct odor. In the summer of 1967, Bob
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Speaker 1: Luca was abducted from his car while driving near Wallingford, Connecticut.
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Speaker 1: It was a very typical experience. He was taken on
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Speaker 1: board and examined. But while on board the craft, Bob
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Speaker 1: Luca noticed a very distinct and recognizable odor. As he says,
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Speaker 1: there was no noise, but I smell ozone or something
31:48
Speaker 1: after an electrical discharge. In my work, I run into
31:52
Speaker 1: that a lot. It's just inside the room, like after
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Speaker 1: a lightning storm, like after an arc of high tension
31:59
Speaker 1: or high voltage. There was an odor like that. Another
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Speaker 1: case occurred in Caracas, Venezuela, to Miss Alicia Rivas Aguilar.
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Speaker 1: On September 8, 1973, Alicia was frightened by the appearance
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Speaker 1: of a strange humanoid figure in a silver suit which
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Speaker 1: was floating outside her window. She began screaming. This brought
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Speaker 1: in additional witnesses in her home, all of who saw
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Speaker 1: the figure. But according to the report on the case,
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Speaker 1: a strong smell which resembled that of hot iron was
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Speaker 1: detected by all. Another very famous case occurred in Cherry Creek,
32:47
Speaker 1: New York on August 19, 1965. This is a very
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Speaker 1: strange case. A whole family saw this object. There was
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Speaker 1: a farmer and three children who observed this saucer-like object,
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Speaker 1: which landed in a neighbor's field. It was very brief.
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Speaker 1: It instantly took off. And as this object took off,
33:11
Speaker 1: it left, quote, an odor like burning gasoline. This incident
33:18
Speaker 1: was investigated by police and other officials and it was
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Speaker 1: actually written up by the Air Force's Project Blue Book,
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Speaker 1: who marked it as unidentified. I investigated a case personally
33:33
Speaker 1: involving a lady by the name of Pat Brown. She
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Speaker 1: was a physical therapist from Panorama City, and in 1992,
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Speaker 1: she began having a series of bedroom encounters with mostly
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Speaker 1: gray-type ETs. She would later see human-looking ETs, but it's
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Speaker 1: a quite complex case. I actually did a video on this.
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Speaker 1: It's called Be Careful What You Wish For, the Pat
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Speaker 1: Brown story. So I won't go into all the details
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Speaker 1: on the case other than to say that it does
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Speaker 1: involve strange odors. On one occasion, she returned to her
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Speaker 1: home and found it filled with this very peculiar odor.
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Speaker 1: As Pat Brown says, and I quote, One time I
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Speaker 1: came into the house and the house smelled so bad.
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Speaker 1: It smelled like someone had left garbage, and I was
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what it was. An awful, awful smell,
34:27
Speaker 1: but I perceived that they had been there. I perceived
34:31
Speaker 1: that that was their odor. Another case involving odors occurred
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Speaker 1: on June 29, 1964, to a businessman by the name
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Speaker 1: of Beauford Parham of Livonia, Georgia, who was driving near
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Speaker 1: his home when a UFO swooped down from the sky
34:51
Speaker 1: and hovered over his car, causing the engine to sputter.
34:54
Speaker 1: And after a few minutes, the object departed, leaving, quote,
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Speaker 1: a strong odor like embalming fluid and a gaseous vapor.
35:05
Speaker 1: The witness himself says he felt a burning sensation, and
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Speaker 1: the paint on his car actually bubbled following the incident.
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Speaker 1: So it's a very interesting case involving physiological effects. physical
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Speaker 1: effects and a strange odor. So there are many cases
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Speaker 1: involving odors. Another occurred on November 19, 1980 in Longmont,
35:33
Speaker 1: Colorado when a husband and wife were driving along and
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Speaker 1: a UFO hovered over their car and pulled it up
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Speaker 1: into the sky. They were taken on board this craft
35:44
Speaker 1: and the witness, once he was taken on board, did
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Speaker 1: notice an odor. As the report on this case reads,
35:52
Speaker 1: it was, quote, a strong odor that he thought was
35:56
Speaker 1: electrical in nature, and it pervaded the entire area. Another
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Speaker 1: very famous case occurred in January of 1996 in Varginha, Brazil.
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Speaker 1: This is a very well-known case involving two live ETs,
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Speaker 1: who were seen by the local townsfolk. This ET was
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Speaker 1: up against a brick wall, and many people saw it.
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Speaker 1: And what's really interesting is the odor that was described
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Speaker 1: in this case. These beings were described as humanoids, about
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Speaker 1: three feet tall with dark brown hairless skin that was
36:38
Speaker 1: very oily looking. They had triangular heads with short protuberances
36:43
Speaker 1: on top, and red vertically oval eyes. More than a
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Speaker 1: dozen people in this town of Varjinha saw these ETs.
36:54
Speaker 1: And what's important here was that an odor hung over
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Speaker 1: the area, which was described as, quote, a smell like sulfur.
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Speaker 1: One anonymous witness had a close encounter with gray-type extraterrestrials
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Speaker 1: And according to this witness, the ET did have an odor.
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Speaker 1: As she says, her skin felt like very soft leather
37:23
Speaker 1: and she had a pleasant but cheesy smell. One case
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Speaker 1: that has become fairly well known occurred to a gentleman
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Speaker 1: by the name of Eugenio Douglas. This occurred on October 12,
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Speaker 1: 1963 in Argentina. And Eugenio, Eugenio, had a close encounter
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Speaker 1: with a UFO while driving. He stopped his truck and
37:46
Speaker 1: observed three figures exiting a craft, which had landed along
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Speaker 1: the roadside. These three figures spotted him and fired a
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Speaker 1: beam of red light at him, causing a burning sensation.
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Speaker 1: And according to the report on the case, Douglas could
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Speaker 1: also smell a pungent gas. He had to be treated
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Speaker 1: for severe burns. And it And later an investigation revealed
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Speaker 1: that there was physical evidence at the site of the encounter.
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Speaker 1: Another very well-known case is the Coronado Island UFO incident.
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Speaker 1: Yvonne Smith wrote a book about this incident. I also
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Speaker 1: co-wrote a book with Mike Evans on this particular case
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Speaker 1: called the Coronado Island UFO Incident. which occurred on March 26, 1994,
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Speaker 1: at the Village Inn on Coronado Island. It involved multiple witnesses.
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Speaker 1: What's interesting here is one of the witnesses, Lori, had
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Speaker 1: fully conscious recall of greys entering into her hotel room.
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Speaker 1: And she reported an odor, for sure, as she says,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, I see these small greys come in.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen them before. They smell really bad. They
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Speaker 1: smell like, I want to say sulfur, rotten eggs. They
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Speaker 1: come in through this window. They were small, gray beings.
39:22
Speaker 1: They're really small, maybe three feet high and very limby,
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Speaker 1: very spindly looking. Their torso is quite big. Their heads
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Speaker 1: are large. They look disgusting. And they took her friend
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Speaker 1: who was sleeping. Her friend has very little memory of this,
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Speaker 1: just some partial memory. and at some point the greys returned,
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Speaker 1: and again she could smell them. As Laurie says, they
39:54
Speaker 1: smelled the same. They were terrible. Another case which involves
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Speaker 1: odors is, of course, the very famous Roswell UFO case.
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Speaker 1: According to the mortician Glenn Dennis, who was on the scene,
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Speaker 1: he says that there was an odor that he spoke
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Speaker 1: with the nurse who actually saw the bodies and the
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Speaker 1: nurse told him that the ETs had a terrible terrible
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Speaker 1: stench that was so bad it permeated the whole building
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Speaker 1: and made several people sick so yeah I mean there
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Speaker 1: are many more cases it starts to get a little
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Speaker 1: bit redundant here's a case which comes from a gentleman
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Speaker 1: who heads what he calls the Orion project which is
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Speaker 1: all about reptilian ETs and as he says And I quote,
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Speaker 1: reptilians are notorious for having a very strong body odor,
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Speaker 1: which most humans find very uncomfortable, almost like meeting a skunk.
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Speaker 1: I'd describe the smell of hamish, the reptilian, that's the
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Speaker 1: ET he reports seeing, as, quote, the smell of vomit
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Speaker 1: and old cheese, a very visceral smell. I found another
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Speaker 1: case which is anonymous from a gentleman on the internet
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Speaker 1: on the above top secret forum. And as he says,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, I've been told there are several abductees
41:25
Speaker 1: here who might know what I'm talking about. The grays
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Speaker 1: have this odor that is so bad it's enough to
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Speaker 1: make you physically ill. It's a cross between a well-aged
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Speaker 1: French cheese and the sulfurous smell similar to what a
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Speaker 1: natural hot spring smells like. Are they a race of
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Speaker 1: habitual non-bathers? Do they not have a good sense of smell?
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Speaker 1: Is it from what they eat, like when you eat
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Speaker 1: garlic or asparagus? Or is it because there are no
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Speaker 1: shower facilities on spaceships? You'd think if they could build
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Speaker 1: a flying saucer, they could invent perfume or antiperspirant or something.
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Speaker 1: My last question is, do we smell as bad to
42:07
Speaker 1: them as they smell to us? It's a good question.
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Speaker 1: But apparently ETs do have a body odor. I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: say it's necessarily bad. The sulfurous odor could be a
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Speaker 1: product of them actually manifesting and all these electrical arcing odors.
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Speaker 1: Researcher Eve Lorgan says, who is quite a prominent researcher,
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Speaker 1: made a list of all the signs that indicate a
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Speaker 1: possible UFO experience. And on her list is, of course,
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Speaker 1: these unusual odors. I did a whole study of this
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Speaker 1: case in my book, Not From Here, Volume 2. And
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Speaker 1: I think these odors do have quite a bit to
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Speaker 1: tell us about the nature of this phenomena. I literally
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Speaker 1: went through hundreds of cases looking for odors and came
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Speaker 1: up with these few dozen. And I would say that
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Speaker 1: these odors can be broken down into two main categories.
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Speaker 1: Organic odors and electrical odors. So these odors are described variously,
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Speaker 1: the organic odors are described variously as cheesy, like cinnamon,
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Speaker 1: like beans and onions, burned sugar, burned sausage, muggy, woodsy,
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Speaker 1: like wet fur, alfalfa and almonds, rotten organic matter, a
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Speaker 1: locker room, bad garbage, rotten eggs. I think this is
43:43
Speaker 1: important because what these odors tell us is that we
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Speaker 1: are dealing with organic beings, beings who have a living body,
43:53
Speaker 1: beings very much like us. Remember, when someone smells something,
43:59
Speaker 1: because they are actually bringing in actual molecules into their
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Speaker 1: nasal cavity. It's striking their olfactory nerve. So these odors
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Speaker 1: indicate that this is an actual physical phenomena. So the
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Speaker 1: second main category would be what I would call electrical odors.
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Speaker 1: And this is a slightly smaller percentage, but As I
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Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, this odor is a common side effect of
44:30
Speaker 1: electrical discharges. This odor is very consistent in a number
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Speaker 1: of independent cases, so it's important that it provides really
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Speaker 1: good corroborative evidence, but it's also important because it points
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Speaker 1: to the nature of UFOs as being actual physical machines
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Speaker 1: using high levels of electricity. It also points to the
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Speaker 1: nature of UFO propulsion and the probability that we are
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Speaker 1: dealing with an advanced technology of some kind. So some
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Speaker 1: of the odors are difficult to categorize. I mean, like
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Speaker 1: a clean smell or a chemical odor, like burning cardboard
45:18
Speaker 1: or burning wood, nitrobenzene. these types of things. It's very
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Speaker 1: possible that these are just misidentifications of what we would
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Speaker 1: think of as an ozone-like odor. But yeah, again, these
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Speaker 1: odors are surprisingly consistent. I remember when I was talking
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Speaker 1: to an abductee and I asked her about this and
45:42
Speaker 1: she said what she smelled was beans and franks. And
45:46
Speaker 1: I thought she was kidding at first, but no, she
45:49
Speaker 1: was entirely serious. And I was quite surprised later to
45:52
Speaker 1: get additional reports involving this same odor. So, yes, as
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Speaker 1: we can see, these odors do turn up. It's a
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Speaker 1: fairly consistent feature of UFO encounters. The only other research
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Speaker 1: I could find into UFO odors was done by UFO
46:15
Speaker 1: researcher Thomas Bullard. who considered more than 200 cases of
46:20
Speaker 1: UFO abductions, and of those 200, only 11 involved odors.
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Speaker 1: Z writes, and I quote, The witnesses smell and odor
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Speaker 1: in 11 cases, usually ozone or something described in similar terms, sulfurous, pine-like,
46:40
Speaker 1: or rain-like. Exceptions include a burnt sugar smell, a smell
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Speaker 1: like chicken, or something burnt, or simply a bad odor.
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Speaker 1: These smells may contribute to breathing difficulties mentioned in several cases,
46:57
Speaker 1: but the problem of air being difficult to breathe is
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Speaker 1: widespread enough to occur in 21 cases. And Bullard's study
47:07
Speaker 1: shows pretty much the same thing we found out here,
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Speaker 1: that these odors are organic on one hand and ozone
47:15
Speaker 1: or sulfurous on the other. which again indicates that these
47:19
Speaker 1: ETs are biological creatures and their craft are technological machines.
47:27
Speaker 1: So I think the most important conclusion we can draw
47:29
Speaker 1: from UFO smells is that the UFO experience is taking
47:34
Speaker 1: place in physical reality. Again, odors are molecular compounds which
47:40
Speaker 1: strike the olfactory nerve. And in many of these cases,
47:44
Speaker 1: these odors are being detected by humans multiple witnesses, which
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Speaker 1: again confirms that UFOs and these occupants are material in nature.
47:56
Speaker 1: Some people have remarked upon the connection between bad odors
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Speaker 1: and other manifestations of ghosts and even Bigfoot. So perhaps
48:06
Speaker 1: there are some weird correlations there. It's hard to say.
48:11
Speaker 1: But what we can definitely say is that UFOs do
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Speaker 1: smell Unfortunately, it's not always pleasant, but it's certainly very
48:24
Speaker 1: interesting and consistent. It's easy to speculate in this field. However,
48:31
Speaker 1: the facts speak for themselves. Odors are being detected in
48:37
Speaker 1: UFO cases. If you ever have the opportunity to see
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Speaker 1: a UFO or are taken on board, Remember to use
48:46
Speaker 1: all your senses. Don't just look around and touch things.
48:50
Speaker 1: Try to smell what's going on because these odors do
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Speaker 1: provide a clue as to the nature of this phenomena,
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Speaker 1: which is why I really wanted to do this video.
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Speaker 1: I think it's an important piece of evidence that has
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Speaker 1: been ignored for too long. So that's it for now.
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Speaker 1: Hope you've enjoyed this episode. And until next time, keep
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Speaker 1: having fun. Smell you later.