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Independence Day UFO Encounters · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, My name is Preston Dennett, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. Got a
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting episode for you today. I think I call
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Speaker 1: this one Independence Day UFO Encounters. So this episode is
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Speaker 1: actually all about people who have seen UFOs on the
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Speaker 1: fourth of July. As it turns out, according to UFO
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Speaker 1: data centers like the National UFO Reporting Center, Newfork and
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Speaker 1: Moufan the Mutual UFO Network, the single most common day
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Speaker 1: of the year to see a UFO is actually the
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Speaker 1: fourth of July. When I found that out, my first
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Speaker 1: thought was, well, people are seeing fireworks. There really is
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Speaker 1: no worse day to see UFOs, I thought, than on
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Speaker 1: the fourth of July, because nobody's gonna believe you. They're
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Speaker 1: just going to assume that you've seen fireworks. Perhaps the
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Speaker 1: only other worse day would be, of course, April first,
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Speaker 1: April Fool's Day. But after hearing about so many people
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Speaker 1: claiming to see UFOs on the fourth of July, I
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Speaker 1: thought I'd take a deeper look, and boy was I
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Speaker 1: shocked to find out that this is the most common
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Speaker 1: day to see a UFO. According to these UFO reporting centers,
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Speaker 1: they get about ten twenty cases a day, but on
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Speaker 1: the Fourth of July it's closer to fifty or one hundred.
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Speaker 1: So clearly is something is going on here. And what
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Speaker 1: I did was dive deep into these cases that occur
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Speaker 1: on the fourth of July trying to see if people
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Speaker 1: are seeing fireworks or not. And I have to tell you,
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Speaker 1: I went through thousands upon thousands of cases trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out what's going on here, and it's clear to
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Speaker 1: me that in a good number of these cases people
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Speaker 1: are seeing what we call skylanterns or party lanterns. These
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Speaker 1: are little paper balloons that you put a tiny little
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Speaker 1: candle in and send them aloft and they can go
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Speaker 1: up to about four thousand feet. They last for about
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or so, and from a distance they look
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Speaker 1: quite impressive. They do look like UFOs. They can appear
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Speaker 1: to hover, move in tandem, dart around at fairly high speeds,
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Speaker 1: and basically mimic a UFO. However, a lot of these
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Speaker 1: cases were clearly not skylanterns, and even some that appear
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Speaker 1: to be skyland terns could very well not be. So
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Speaker 1: it was a little puzzling. But after going through the
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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of cases, I came to the conclusion
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Speaker 1: that yes, the fourth of July is in fact a
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Speaker 1: really good day to see a UFO. Many of these
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Speaker 1: cases involve objects that are moving at very high speeds,
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Speaker 1: darting at right angles. Some are clearly structured objects metallic
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Speaker 1: with portholes or colored lights on them, And it's really
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Speaker 1: interesting because some of them will stay for hours. Many
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Speaker 1: of the witnesses feel like these UFOs are coming to
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Speaker 1: basically watch the fireworks show. And it's really interesting because
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Speaker 1: in some of these cases it's as if the UFO
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Speaker 1: occupants are not only coming to watch the fireworks show,
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Speaker 1: but know that people are out there watching and will
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Speaker 1: put on a little show themselves, like you want to
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Speaker 1: see something spectacular in the sky. Watch this. So after
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Speaker 1: examining all these cases, I thought, this is a really
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Speaker 1: interesting aspect of UFO's uphology that hasn't really been explored before.
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Speaker 1: And I found about forty cases i'd like to present
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Speaker 1: to you today, which all took place on the fourth
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Speaker 1: of July over a period of decades. So we're going
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Speaker 1: to start from some of the early cases and move
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Speaker 1: to the later ones and see what's going on here.
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Speaker 1: So I've got a lot of cases. Let's just get started.
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Speaker 1: The first case I'd like to talk about took place
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Speaker 1: in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July fourth, nineteen sixty three.
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Speaker 1: An anonymous gentleman was with a group of young boys
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Speaker 1: watching a fireworks show on the grounds of the Starmount
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Speaker 1: Forest Country Club in Greensboro. While watching the fireworks, their
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Speaker 1: attention was diverted to a very strange looking saucer shaped object.
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Speaker 1: It glowed orange and had a row of about thirty
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Speaker 1: small red lights along the circumference, so clearly not fireworks.
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Speaker 1: And I'll just quote the main witness directly here as
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Speaker 1: he says, when I saw this UFO, I was with
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Speaker 1: a group of boys. We were watching fireworks which were
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Speaker 1: to our east. I noticed the UFO to the north,
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Speaker 1: but said nothing to no one. I observed it for
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Speaker 1: two minutes as it moved silently eastward, then suddenly reversed
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Speaker 1: direction as it picked up speed. Then assuming its original
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Speaker 1: course once again, it moved slowly upwards and out of sight.
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Speaker 1: It was very large and was yellow or orange with
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Speaker 1: a row of red lights at its perimeter. The sky
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Speaker 1: was clear and somewhat lit up from the fireworks. The
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Speaker 1: UFO was about a mile away at tree top level.
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Speaker 1: I don't claim that the UFO was extraterrestrial, but its
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Speaker 1: size and pattern of flight would suggest that it was
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Speaker 1: not a conventional craft. So this witness was so convinced
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Speaker 1: of the object's strangeness that he actually reported the sting
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Speaker 1: to the Air Force's Project Blue Book and provided a
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Speaker 1: detailed report and drawings. And according to the witness, it
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Speaker 1: moved away in a zigzag pattern, accelerating quite quickly. Project
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Speaker 1: Blue Book, however, did not include this in their list
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Speaker 1: of unidentified cases unexplainable cases. Now, all these cases took
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Speaker 1: place on Independence Day, and this next one took place
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Speaker 1: at a farm in Cornwall on Hudson in New York.
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Speaker 1: This was in nineteen sixty five. A thirteen year old
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Speaker 1: girl who I call Catherine, that's not her real name,
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Speaker 1: was there watch watching the fireworks. Was a somewhat stormy
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Speaker 1: night with thunder and lightning. However, the instance the fireworks began,
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Speaker 1: Catherine was shocked to see something else in the sky, and,
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Speaker 1: as she says, there was a tremendous flash of lightning
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Speaker 1: at the same time a firework went off in the sky.
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Speaker 1: I looked up and saw an absolutely huge saucer shaped
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Speaker 1: object sitting right over the mountain we were next to. Now,
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Speaker 1: this mountain is really just a large hill locally known
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Speaker 1: as Round Top. In fact, Catherine had hiked up to
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Speaker 1: the top of this hill before because it offered a
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Speaker 1: good view of the local Hudson Valley, and she said
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Speaker 1: that this object actually hung directly over this hill, not
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Speaker 1: very far at all away from where they were. And again,
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Speaker 1: as Catherine says, it was huge. It was hanging there,
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Speaker 1: not moving at all. There was what I thought to
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Speaker 1: be a window which wrapped all the way around the saucer,
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Speaker 1: which was opaque. There were no panes in the windows
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Speaker 1: or any kind of divisions, but there was an orange
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Speaker 1: strobe type light which went around inside the window in
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Speaker 1: a rotating or pulsing fashion. After I looked up and
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Speaker 1: saw the craft, I looked at it, briefly, turned my
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Speaker 1: head away, looked back up, and it was gone. Catherine
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Speaker 1: and her friends, who also saw it, were shocked and
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Speaker 1: a little bit frightened, And as Catherine says, after seeing
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Speaker 1: the object, my friends and I all almost at the
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Speaker 1: same time, decided it was time to leave the area.
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Speaker 1: Although we really didn't discuss what we had seen, and,
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Speaker 1: come to think of it, this topic was never discussed
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Speaker 1: amongst us in any of the remaining years we were together.
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Speaker 1: At the age of thirteen, I was pretty unnerved by
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Speaker 1: what I had seen and had to walk home alone.
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Speaker 1: Needless to say, I ran most of the way, and
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Speaker 1: when I got home, I told my mom and dad
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Speaker 1: what I had seen, but they didn't believe me. So Catherine,
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Speaker 1: this is not uncommon for parents not to believe their children.
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Speaker 1: This did affect her profoundly. It's not unusual for people
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Speaker 1: not to talk about a sighting after it occurred, and
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Speaker 1: Catherine believes that many other people had to see this
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Speaker 1: object because it was quite apparent. Three years later, nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty eight, there was another sighting in Arlington, Massachusetts. Jessica
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Speaker 1: that's again a pseudonym, and her future her husband, her fiancee.
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Speaker 1: We're driving around in the town of Arlington, looking for
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Speaker 1: a good place to watch the fireworks, but, as Jessica says,
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Speaker 1: we saw something we didn't expect. It was a curved
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Speaker 1: string of lights set at an angle just above the rooftops,
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Speaker 1: and it was moving uphill at the same speed that
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Speaker 1: we were. It popped in and out of view as
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Speaker 1: it went behind the tops of trees and houses along
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Speaker 1: the street. Then it began to pick up speed, so
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Speaker 1: we accelerated until we were going seventy miles per hour uphill.
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Speaker 1: Then it went faster and faster until we couldn't keep
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Speaker 1: up and it disappeared. Now, Jessica is the only one
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Speaker 1: who saw this. Her boyfriend was driving and had to
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Speaker 1: keep her eyes on the road. However, she's absolutely convinced
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Speaker 1: she saw a genuine UFO, as she says, I saw
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Speaker 1: something very odd, and the fact that it was at
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Speaker 1: treetop level and accelerated more quickly does seem to point
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Speaker 1: to something very strange. So, yeah, there's something going on here.
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Speaker 1: Here's another case. Just a few years later, nineteen seventy one, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: I call Steve and his girlfriend. We're hoping to see
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Speaker 1: fireworks near their home in Liberal, Kansas. There's a little
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Speaker 1: lake there. Unfortunately, the walk to the lake took longer
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Speaker 1: than they expected, and by the time they arrived, the
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Speaker 1: fireworks show had finished and people were getting ready to depart.
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Speaker 1: The fire department was securing the area, he says, So
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Speaker 1: they missed the fireworks show, but they were just in
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Speaker 1: time for an even better show. And I'll just quote
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Speaker 1: quote Steve here directly as he says, we, along with
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Speaker 1: numerous kids and adults, were about to leave when a
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Speaker 1: cigar shaped object with shining multicolored lights underneath appeared over
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Speaker 1: the lake. It hovered for what seemed like fifteen or
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Speaker 1: twenty minutes, very low over the small lake. So all
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Speaker 1: the witnesses who were there remained to watch this until
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Speaker 1: someone exploded a loud M eight firecracker. At that moment,
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Speaker 1: the object left quite quickly. As the witness says, the
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Speaker 1: object raised up a few feet and then swish, it
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Speaker 1: was gone. So this seems to be a good example
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Speaker 1: of a UFO putting on a display to an audience.
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Speaker 1: And here's another case. Exactly one year later to the day,
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Speaker 1: of course, July fourth, a young girl I call Beth
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Speaker 1: was in the back seat of her parents' car along
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Speaker 1: with her older sister. Her dad was driving and her
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Speaker 1: mom was in the front seat, and they were on
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Speaker 1: their way home after a fireworks show at Rehobeth Beach
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Speaker 1: in Delaware. The show had just ended, the road was
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Speaker 1: crowded with traffic from other people who had seen the
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Speaker 1: fireworks show. When, without warning, Beth and her entire family
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Speaker 1: observed a quote silver metallic saucer. It hovered in complete silence,
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Speaker 1: only twenty five feet above the highway and really only
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Speaker 1: about six car lengths in front of them, and as
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Speaker 1: the witness says, we had a very clear view. There
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Speaker 1: were three horizontal parts. The middle horizontal part of the
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Speaker 1: craft rotated slowly with red, yellow, and other colored rectangular sections.
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Speaker 1: The top and bottom parts were not rotating. After a
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Speaker 1: few minutes, the craft shot up and away at high
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Speaker 1: speeds at about a forty five degree angle. Again no
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Speaker 1: sound or vibrations, so another case of a clearly structured
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Speaker 1: craft could not be fireworks. The next case took place
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Speaker 1: exactly one year later in Patterson, New Jersey, and this
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Speaker 1: is a case that does involve an object that looks
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Speaker 1: very much like a sky lantern, except it clearly wasn't.
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Speaker 1: The witnesses included a family that was standing on their
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Speaker 1: porch to watch the nearby fireworks display, with something they
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Speaker 1: had done for many years. However, this year something different happened.
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Speaker 1: As one of the family members writes, we casually noticed
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Speaker 1: a bright venuslike object slowly rise over the horizon and
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Speaker 1: appearing to move towards us. It appeared to grow somewhat
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Speaker 1: larger as it approached, and after a while it appeared
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Speaker 1: to have stopped dead in the sky in our clear view.
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Speaker 1: As darkness set, the fireworks started. After about forty five
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Speaker 1: minutes to an hour, the display ended and we continued
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Speaker 1: to sit on the front porch. We then noticed that
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Speaker 1: the object appeared to be floating away, back in the
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Speaker 1: return direction from which it had came. Now, could this
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Speaker 1: be a sky lantern? The movement, it's definitely consistent with one. However,
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Speaker 1: there's a problem to this theory. And as the witness says,
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Speaker 1: I estimate that from the time we first noticed the
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Speaker 1: light and the time it finally disappeared, it was probably
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Speaker 1: about two hours. So sky lanterns last only fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 1: So clearly not a sky lantern. And sometimes yeah, it
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Speaker 1: is the length of the sighting that proves these objects
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Speaker 1: aren't sky lanterns, But other times it's the way they move.
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Speaker 1: Consider what happened to a husband and wife in a
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Speaker 1: campground in Rio Grande, New Jersey. It was around midnight
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Speaker 1: July fourth, nineteen seventy five, when the husband noticed quote
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Speaker 1: hundreds of starlike objects, said they were flying in intricate
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Speaker 1: formations across the sky. His wife saw them too. As
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Speaker 1: the husband says, and I quote, hundreds of Starlik objects
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Speaker 1: in one fourth flew intricate military like flight patterns from
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Speaker 1: horizon to horizon. They flew in perfect synchronization, changing direction
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Speaker 1: and speed. So as they're watching this, they discussed what
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Speaker 1: they were seeing and agreed on the details. Did not
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Speaker 1: appear to be any types of fireworks or laser show,
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Speaker 1: but it was really the maneuvers that impressed them the most, because,
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Speaker 1: as the witness says, after a few minutes, the objects
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Speaker 1: separated into multiple groups and flew different patterns in quadrants.
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Speaker 1: Each group was still in perfect sync with their group.
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Speaker 1: Then they reunited into one formation and zoomed away beyond
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Speaker 1: our visibility. So this could be sky lanterns, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like it. And here is yet another case
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Speaker 1: one year later, July fourth, nineteen seventy six. This took
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Speaker 1: place in o Sable Fork's New Year, and this involved
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Speaker 1: a group of at least fifty people who were watching
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Speaker 1: a fireworks show and all at once, everyone's attention was
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Speaker 1: drawn to a large glowing orb at high altitude and
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Speaker 1: as the main witness says the object moved quickly across
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Speaker 1: the sky and stopped instantly, from super fast speed to
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Speaker 1: a full stop. It howevered for some time and then
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Speaker 1: started moving again. It made a ninety degree turn in
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Speaker 1: mid flight without losing any speed and continued its flight.
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Speaker 1: So they watched this for at least fifteen minutes. But
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Speaker 1: it's the movement that really gives it away, especially the
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Speaker 1: way it left. As the witness says, it just warped out.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain it any better. It
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Speaker 1: just instantly zipped off into outer space. If it had
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Speaker 1: winked out, I'd be a little more suspicious, but that's
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Speaker 1: not what the witness is describing. And here's another case
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Speaker 1: one year later. Again I'm picking and choosing. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of cases to choose from. These are some of
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Speaker 1: the best. And the main witness here was seven years
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Speaker 1: old watching fireworks from his backyard in Federal Way, Washington,
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Speaker 1: and he saw we first thought was a small plane approaching.
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Speaker 1: It was well above the fireworks, but too low to
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Speaker 1: be a jet, and as it came close he saw
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Speaker 1: its true shape. As the witness says, when it finally
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Speaker 1: reached us, I saw it was a circular craft. It
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Speaker 1: hovered right above the poplar trees at the end of
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Speaker 1: the street where we were all gathered. I could see
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Speaker 1: the bottom of it. It hovered there with a quiet
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Speaker 1: humming sound, but not like any engine. It had different
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Speaker 1: colored lights on the edges and the bottom. It was close.
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Speaker 1: So this object hovered for about fifteen minutes in full
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Speaker 1: view of everybody, and then left in a very dramatic fashion.
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Speaker 1: As the witness says, it started to ascend upward somewhat slowly,
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Speaker 1: and then suddenly it just shot extremely fast straight up
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Speaker 1: above the earth and became like a small star within
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Speaker 1: just a few seconds, and then I lost sight of it.
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Speaker 1: I have never seen or heard of any mechanical thing
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Speaker 1: moving this fast in my life ever since I saw that.
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Speaker 1: So this is showing all the observables of a genuine
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Speaker 1: UFO craft. Strange sound, strange appearance, strange movement, strange accelerations.
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Speaker 1: Definitely not a sky lantern or a firework. And here's
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Speaker 1: another very interesting case. This occurred in Granby, Massachusetts on
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Speaker 1: the exact same evening, and the fireworks were about to
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Speaker 1: start when a saucer shaped craft appeared from the east,
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Speaker 1: hovering about five hundred to eight hundred feet in altitude,
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Speaker 1: and as the witness says, it was quote close enough
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Speaker 1: to see at least two figures through the window that
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Speaker 1: ran around the edge of the saucer craft. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: these are not just simple sightings. Sometimes humanoids are being seen.
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Speaker 1: And the witness estimates that this craft was about forty
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Speaker 1: feet in diameter. It hung in place for about three minutes,
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Speaker 1: then tilted slightly and zipped off to the southeast. Thirty
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Speaker 1: seconds later, two jet fighters appeared and went in the
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Speaker 1: same direction, so apparently chasing this craft, which does happen
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Speaker 1: in some of these incidents. Even more interesting, there's an
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Speaker 1: interesting end note. The main witness says that this incident
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Speaker 1: did in fact make the newspapers and that more than
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Speaker 1: fifty people had seen the object, and he later read
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Speaker 1: a follow up article in the same newspaper where he
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Speaker 1: learned that Westover Air Force BACE and a nearby airport
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Speaker 1: had now contacted about the incident and were allegedly refusing
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Speaker 1: to release any radar records for that day. So year
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Speaker 1: after year, this is happening. One year later, Independence Day
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, two siblings had parked their car east
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Speaker 1: of the local General Motors plant in Danville, Illinois, so
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Speaker 1: they could watch the company fireworks show. Was a clear night,
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Speaker 1: a soft wind was blown from west to east, and
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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes into the show, the brother and sister
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Speaker 1: noticed a strange looking object on the horizon, moving against
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Speaker 1: the wind from east to west. It had no lights
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Speaker 1: on it, and they didn't really see it until the
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Speaker 1: lights from the fireworks actually illuminated the objects. They happened
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Speaker 1: to have a pair of binoculars and took turns looking
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Speaker 1: through them at the object, and they both agreed on
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Speaker 1: the appearance of this UFA. As one of them says,
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Speaker 1: the object looked like three spheres connected together by a
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Speaker 1: Y type structure. One sphere was attached to each end
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Speaker 1: of the y, and the object appeared to rotate, and
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Speaker 1: it actually moved low enough over the GM factory that
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Speaker 1: the lights from the plant illuminated the object itself, and
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Speaker 1: this is when they got a really clear view of
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Speaker 1: its shape, and after about two minutes of observation, it
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Speaker 1: moved off into the distance. Here's another case the same
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Speaker 1: exact year or same year, same date, some distance away.
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Speaker 1: This occurred in Nashua, New Hampshire, and This involved a
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Speaker 1: craft that hovered an apparent full view of a large
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Speaker 1: crowd of people, yet only a few people saw it,
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Speaker 1: or may have seen it and not remember. The main
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Speaker 1: witness in this case, I'll call Henry. He was with
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Speaker 1: his family at the Holman Stadium to watch the annual
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Speaker 1: fireworks show. The sky had just gotten dark and the
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Speaker 1: show had not quite begun when suddenly they saw a
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Speaker 1: quote disc shaped object displaying multicolored lights in a circle,
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Speaker 1: hovering at what seemed to be one hundred feet above
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Speaker 1: us and the gathering crowd. It stayed for thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: and then shut off at an angle towards space, and
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Speaker 1: in an instant it was gone. It made no sound,
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Speaker 1: So this is very interesting. What are UFOs doing hovering
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Speaker 1: over crowds around the time of a fireworks show. So
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Speaker 1: this was an amazing sighting in and of itself, but
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Speaker 1: it was the aftermath that left the witness really baffled.
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Speaker 1: As he says, the odd thing about it is that
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Speaker 1: only one sister and myself recall the event. The rest
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Speaker 1: of my family, although I know they looked right at
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Speaker 1: the object in wonder, can't remember seeing it. I know
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Speaker 1: for a fact that multiple people saw this UFO has
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Speaker 1: everyone forgotten well, as you may know if you know
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Speaker 1: anything about UFOs and UFO encounters, missing time amnesia is
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Speaker 1: a common pattern, so that could be what's going on here.
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Speaker 1: It's really quite strange. Here's another case from Sherman Oaks, California.
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Speaker 1: This occurred in nineteen seventy nine. A family who were
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Speaker 1: all lying on the roof of their house to watch
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Speaker 1: the fireworks. They lived less than a quarter mile away
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Speaker 1: from a community park where fireworks were launched each year.
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Speaker 1: The rooftop gave them a fantastic view of this fireworks show,
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Speaker 1: and the sun was watching the fireworks when he saw
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Speaker 1: something else. As he says, I noticed a semi transparent
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Speaker 1: blimp shaped object moving very slowly from north to south.
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Speaker 1: I had to look for a few seconds to figure
24:05
Speaker 1: out that there was an object actually there. So this
24:10
Speaker 1: was off in the distance. It appeared quite large, but
24:13
Speaker 1: was hard to see because it seemed to blend into
24:15
Speaker 1: the sky. But there were no running lights or anything
24:20
Speaker 1: that's associated with normal blimps. And it was also very low.
24:25
Speaker 1: He estimates about one thousand, maybe fifteen hundred feet. And
24:29
Speaker 1: it got stranger, as the witness says, as it moved
24:33
Speaker 1: close to us. I alerted my family to look, and
24:36
Speaker 1: they all turned and saw it. There were four of
24:39
Speaker 1: us on the roof at that moment, and two more
24:42
Speaker 1: people in the backyard. It came directly overhead and then stopped.
24:47
Speaker 1: At that exact moment. It lit up as a very bright,
24:51
Speaker 1: solid white light that appeared to be rectangular shaped. I
24:55
Speaker 1: would roughly estimate it to be about the size of
24:57
Speaker 1: one or two football fields. After it became stationary, small glowing,
25:04
Speaker 1: bright red lights began to shoot out from all around
25:07
Speaker 1: the craft. They moved out in all directions, in straight lines,
25:11
Speaker 1: at a rapid rate of speed, until each was out
25:14
Speaker 1: of sight, maybe twenty or thirty total. I guess you
25:19
Speaker 1: could call them orbs, but they seemed too large to me,
25:22
Speaker 1: maybe the size of VW's. After they stopped coming out,
25:27
Speaker 1: the mother ship blinked out and appeared to be gone,
25:31
Speaker 1: And the whole experience lasted about twenty minutes. So this
25:37
Speaker 1: does not sound like a uf or fireworks or anything
25:41
Speaker 1: like that. Sounds like a genuine UFO. Certainly, the witnesses
25:46
Speaker 1: believe it was unexplained, As the main witness says, it
25:50
Speaker 1: is quote a mystery to this day. So every year
25:56
Speaker 1: this is happening. I'm picking the best case that I
25:58
Speaker 1: could find for each year because there's so many. And
26:02
Speaker 1: here's one which occurred at the State Fairgrounds in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rebecca,
26:11
Speaker 1: as a pseudonym, was with her ex husband and thousands
26:14
Speaker 1: of other people to watch the fireworks show at the
26:17
Speaker 1: State Fairgrounds. People were sitting in bleachers. Rebecca and her
26:23
Speaker 1: husband ex husband had parked their car out in the
26:26
Speaker 1: surrounding fields to enjoy this show free of charge, as
26:31
Speaker 1: had many others. And we're watching the fireworks when a
26:35
Speaker 1: gigantic object abruptly approach at very low level right overhead
26:41
Speaker 1: from east to west, and as the main witness says,
26:46
Speaker 1: when I realized something was happening, I couldn't move. It
26:49
Speaker 1: was so low you could see how it was riveted
26:52
Speaker 1: together the seams of the craft and all the lighting.
26:56
Speaker 1: It made no sound. I was scared to death and
26:59
Speaker 1: finally lean to the right and fell off the car.
27:02
Speaker 1: I wanted to hide under the car, I could only
27:05
Speaker 1: get near the tire. I wanted to scream, but couldn't.
27:09
Speaker 1: I realized I was not supposed to remember this happening,
27:12
Speaker 1: and I kept telling myself. I will remember the craft's
27:17
Speaker 1: size was huge, bigger than the fair ground's bleacher area
27:21
Speaker 1: where they hold concerts and races. So this craft finally
27:26
Speaker 1: passed overhead, and it was weird because Rebecca said that
27:29
Speaker 1: everyone seemed to come out of some sort of hypnotic trance.
27:34
Speaker 1: And as Rebecca says, it started to rise up while
27:37
Speaker 1: heading west and after a period of time, I heard
27:40
Speaker 1: a launch of fireworks, then slowly another, and little by
27:44
Speaker 1: little people started moving and talking the ooze And as
27:48
Speaker 1: I was able to slowly get up and ask my
27:51
Speaker 1: ex if he remembered it, he said yes, but he
27:55
Speaker 1: acted like he was in a trance. So Rebecca did
27:59
Speaker 1: feel like she wasn't supposed to talk about the sighting
28:01
Speaker 1: or even remember it, and she fought this feeling and
28:04
Speaker 1: insisted that they both draw what they had seen. And
28:07
Speaker 1: as the years passed, she would remind her ex of
28:10
Speaker 1: the story and still think about it, but still had
28:13
Speaker 1: that weird feeling that she was not supposed to remember.
28:17
Speaker 1: This was very prominent in her mind, as she says,
28:20
Speaker 1: I know I am not supposed to remember this, but
28:23
Speaker 1: I do. It's simple. I know what I know. I
28:27
Speaker 1: expected it to be on the news and in the paper. Nothing.
28:31
Speaker 1: I would have thought it would have showed up on
28:33
Speaker 1: radar or something. For years, I have wondered if someone
28:38
Speaker 1: who was there just like me remembers. And here's yet
28:43
Speaker 1: another case July fourth, nineteen eighty two. The location as
28:49
Speaker 1: at Hermosa Beach in southern California. What I like about
28:54
Speaker 1: this case is that the witness came close enough to
28:57
Speaker 1: make misidentification nearly impossible. And as the witness writes, this
29:03
Speaker 1: happened around nine o'clock. My brother was watching the fireworks
29:07
Speaker 1: when all of a sudden, he went as white as
29:10
Speaker 1: a ghost. My mother went over to him to see
29:13
Speaker 1: what was the matter, and then she shouted, oh my god.
29:17
Speaker 1: I went to see what was going on. It was
29:20
Speaker 1: the weirdest thing ever, a disc shaped with a small
29:24
Speaker 1: portholes going around its midsection. It just sat there for
29:28
Speaker 1: a minute and then went over the house and disappeared.
29:33
Speaker 1: It was so close, about one hundred feet away and
29:35
Speaker 1: one hundred feet in the air. If we had a camera,
29:39
Speaker 1: it would have been the best picture ever taken. I
29:42
Speaker 1: can remember that I got a very weird feeling looking
29:45
Speaker 1: at it, like fear. So many witnesses do feel that
29:51
Speaker 1: the UFOs are there to watch the fireworks, but some
29:54
Speaker 1: cases have other elements to it that make it look
29:59
Speaker 1: like it's more than just a simple sighting. This next
30:02
Speaker 1: case occurred in North Pontiac, Michigan, in nineteen eighty three.
30:09
Speaker 1: A young girl was out in the parking lot with
30:11
Speaker 1: a large group of people to watch the local fireworks,
30:14
Speaker 1: and as the fireworks were all going off, she observed
30:17
Speaker 1: a blimp like object approaching from over a group of trees.
30:22
Speaker 1: She estimates it was about fifty feet high and actually
30:26
Speaker 1: looked kind of disk shaped and maybe about thirty feet wide.
30:32
Speaker 1: So she screamed out look and, as she says, everyone
30:37
Speaker 1: that was there saw it. We all looked at it
30:40
Speaker 1: in awe. It was silent. It came closer, so even
30:45
Speaker 1: a blimp makes noise, and a blimp is not going
30:47
Speaker 1: to be fifty feet overhead, right over the trees when
30:52
Speaker 1: fireworks are going off, and Stacy remembers that it did
30:56
Speaker 1: have red lights underneath it. Her mother viewed the eye
31:00
Speaker 1: and was quite alarmed and went to call the police.
31:03
Speaker 1: The police were not receptive and said that you were
31:06
Speaker 1: probably looking at helicopters, and here's where it gets weird.
31:11
Speaker 1: While the witness remembers the object arriving, she has no
31:15
Speaker 1: memory of it leaving, and nor does she remember anyone
31:19
Speaker 1: ever talking about it. As she says, it just seemed
31:23
Speaker 1: to not have happened. And later, after remembering the incident,
31:29
Speaker 1: she asked her mother about it, who recalled very little
31:31
Speaker 1: except calling the police, and she contacted another witness who
31:36
Speaker 1: became angry with her and told her it was just
31:38
Speaker 1: a blimp and that he remembered this blimp had the
31:41
Speaker 1: words happy fourth of July written on it. Now, the
31:46
Speaker 1: main witness doesn't remember that at all, nor does she
31:49
Speaker 1: believe a blimp would travel that low among the fireworks.
31:53
Speaker 1: Definitely not a helicopter, as she says, it was so close,
31:58
Speaker 1: maybe one hundred to two one hundred feet away. She
32:03
Speaker 1: wonders now if she had missing time, and as she says,
32:06
Speaker 1: I really want to be hypnotized to remember everything. I'm desperate.
32:11
Speaker 1: Not knowing consumes me sometimes, and I just want to know.
32:15
Speaker 1: I'm not scared. I just want the walls in my
32:17
Speaker 1: mind to be taken down. It's in there, I know
32:21
Speaker 1: it is. I really want to remember. I've had many
32:25
Speaker 1: dreams about ships and them so very interesting. And here's
32:32
Speaker 1: another case just one year later, or actually five years later,
32:37
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight. This case took place in Glen Mississippi,
32:44
Speaker 1: and to celebrate the holiday, Glenn, who is just a teenager,
32:50
Speaker 1: went onto the front yard of his home and began
32:54
Speaker 1: shooting off Roman candles and bottle rockets while his mother
32:59
Speaker 1: watched from the porch. I love this case. It's really
33:02
Speaker 1: interesting because after shooting off a number of these fireworks,
33:07
Speaker 1: he was shocked to see a sort of triangular shaped
33:11
Speaker 1: object with a light on each apex suddenly swoop down
33:15
Speaker 1: out of the sky and fly along with the bottle rocket.
33:20
Speaker 1: And a few minutes later, four additional triangular objects showed
33:24
Speaker 1: up and began to put on a fantastic display for
33:28
Speaker 1: the witnesses. As the witness says, they were chasing each
33:33
Speaker 1: other like a tag a game. They moved so fast,
33:36
Speaker 1: going from side to side, up and down, and just
33:39
Speaker 1: staying still, no noise at all. My mother and I
33:43
Speaker 1: were standing in the driveway watching this for at least
33:46
Speaker 1: a half hour. These objects were low enough that we
33:49
Speaker 1: could see the bottoms just fine. They were all about
33:52
Speaker 1: the same size, about two full size pickup trucks. So
33:58
Speaker 1: after watching this obviously intentional display. For about thirty minutes,
34:03
Speaker 1: they heard a loud rumbling sound of approaching aircraft. They
34:07
Speaker 1: rushed inside, and, as the witness says, out from the treetops,
34:12
Speaker 1: a group of helicopters came flying by. The objects were
34:16
Speaker 1: still in sight, and they all left together very fast,
34:20
Speaker 1: straight up. So again, as we have seen, not the
34:23
Speaker 1: only case where military aircraft show up to chase these
34:26
Speaker 1: objects away. But this sighting left a deep impression on
34:30
Speaker 1: the witness, as he says, it is something I will
34:34
Speaker 1: never forget to this day. I look up into the
34:37
Speaker 1: sky every day and night, but I have never seen
34:40
Speaker 1: them or anything of this nature. Again, so many cases.
34:46
Speaker 1: Here's another case, same exact day and year, though this
34:50
Speaker 1: occurred in Tacoma, Washington, quite some quite far away. The
34:55
Speaker 1: main witness is a pilot, so a good witness, and
34:58
Speaker 1: he was watching a fireworks display along the Tacoma waterfront.
35:04
Speaker 1: The fireworks show had just ended, people were beginning to
35:07
Speaker 1: go home when his attention was drawn to a strange
35:11
Speaker 1: quote ring of lights in the sky. He said, it
35:14
Speaker 1: was very low, maybe two hundred feet and totally silent,
35:19
Speaker 1: and as he watched, this object moved northeast along the
35:23
Speaker 1: shoreline until disappearing behind the bluff. He's absolutely convinced he
35:29
Speaker 1: saw something unusual. So in some cases, it does appear
35:35
Speaker 1: that the UFO occupants are aware that many people will
35:39
Speaker 1: be outside watching fireworks, and they purposely show themselves as
35:44
Speaker 1: if announcing their presence. Considered this case, which took place
35:49
Speaker 1: one year later in Los Angeles. So they were out
35:56
Speaker 1: there watching the fireworks, and as the witness says, the
36:00
Speaker 1: next thing that I remember is a large saucer shaped
36:04
Speaker 1: craft with a slight dome on the top appeared right
36:07
Speaker 1: in front of me from nowhere. On top of the
36:11
Speaker 1: craft was a red light, and around the dome was
36:13
Speaker 1: what I would describe as arched windows. Now, these windows
36:18
Speaker 1: appeared to be opaque, but they did glow brightly. The
36:22
Speaker 1: object was no more than one hundred feet distant and
36:25
Speaker 1: seventy five feet high, and she estimates about the sides
36:29
Speaker 1: of a large bus. It hovered silently and rotated slowly,
36:34
Speaker 1: and as the witness says, I ran to get my
36:37
Speaker 1: mom and brother, who came out to watch the rest
36:40
Speaker 1: of the event. We all watched the craft move toward
36:44
Speaker 1: us and fly over the right side of the house.
36:47
Speaker 1: We all went into the back garden and watched the
36:50
Speaker 1: craft move off and disappear another fifty feet away. They're
36:55
Speaker 1: convinced it was a genuine UFO. As the witness says,
36:59
Speaker 1: this was not from this earth. So yeah, it's clear
37:04
Speaker 1: something is going on here. Here's a case which took
37:07
Speaker 1: place just a few years later again July fourth, nineteen
37:11
Speaker 1: ninety one, and this is a very interesting case which
37:16
Speaker 1: took place in Wichita, Kansas. The main witness was sixteen
37:21
Speaker 1: years old. She had just had a baby and was
37:23
Speaker 1: at her father in law's house. Her husband was with
37:27
Speaker 1: his dad fixing the car while she cared for the
37:30
Speaker 1: baby and her little sister in law, and they were
37:33
Speaker 1: watching the fireworks through the back door of their home
37:35
Speaker 1: in Wichita, when suddenly she saw a triangular shaped light
37:39
Speaker 1: flashing multicolors vivid blues, reds, yellows, and other colors. Not
37:46
Speaker 1: only looked strange, it was moving in strange patterns and
37:50
Speaker 1: appeared to be showing itself off on purpose. As the
37:53
Speaker 1: witness says, I was like hypnotized. I don't know how
37:58
Speaker 1: long I stared, and at some moment I thought that
38:00
Speaker 1: whatever it was it knew I was watching because it
38:05
Speaker 1: started doing all these moves up down, side to side.
38:10
Speaker 1: Then suddenly, just like a shooting star, all I saw
38:13
Speaker 1: was a line of colors and it was gone. So
38:17
Speaker 1: she was very much impressed by this, very curious. She
38:21
Speaker 1: quickly put her baby and young sister in law in
38:23
Speaker 1: the car and drove around looking for what they had seen.
38:27
Speaker 1: And after a few minutes of driving, they saw it again,
38:30
Speaker 1: and like before, she felt that whoever was inside this
38:33
Speaker 1: object knew that they were being observed and were allowing
38:37
Speaker 1: themselves to be seen. As the witness says, was like
38:41
Speaker 1: it was letting me see it. She was amazed to
38:45
Speaker 1: see these little windows around the craft, and then she
38:48
Speaker 1: received a kind of impression that the occupants of the
38:52
Speaker 1: craft were not happy because she was coming too close.
38:56
Speaker 1: She became consumed with fear and quickly drove away, only
39:00
Speaker 1: to discover that this object was now following her over
39:03
Speaker 1: her car. And as she says, that was hysterical, and
39:08
Speaker 1: my sister in law was crying and my baby cry
39:11
Speaker 1: an mss. Suddenly, without warning, the object darted away and
39:16
Speaker 1: was gone. She calmed the kids down and drove home.
39:19
Speaker 1: She later told a few people about the encounter, nobody
39:22
Speaker 1: believed her except her mother, who revealed that when she
39:25
Speaker 1: herself was a little girl, she had seen a saucer
39:28
Speaker 1: in Mexico and had an encounter with a glowing entity.
39:35
Speaker 1: So the witness reported her encounter, and she writes, I'm
39:38
Speaker 1: not lying. Why should I. I don't want anything, but
39:43
Speaker 1: I know what I saw. So this is occurring all
39:47
Speaker 1: across the United States mostly. Here's another case from Barnegut
39:52
Speaker 1: Bay in New Jersey. This occurred in nineteen ninety two.
39:57
Speaker 1: A couple was standing on the deck of their home
39:59
Speaker 1: which overlooked the bay. A nearby fireworks show was in
40:03
Speaker 1: progress when they saw three quote distinct gray discs in
40:10
Speaker 1: a triangular formation, and the wife describes what happened next,
40:16
Speaker 1: as she says, they were kind of translucent but could
40:19
Speaker 1: clearly be seen. They hovered and it seemed to be
40:24
Speaker 1: three separate objects off in the distance. A stark object
40:28
Speaker 1: was moving up and down, seemingly very far away. The
40:32
Speaker 1: three discs seemed much closer. Both the stark object and
40:36
Speaker 1: the three day gray discs remained in place for several hours.
40:40
Speaker 1: It was almost as if they were watching the fireworks display.
40:44
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the star like object dipped below
40:47
Speaker 1: the horizon then shot up at amazing speed. The three
40:51
Speaker 1: discs remained for a while. I did not notice them leaving,
40:54
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden they were gone. As the
40:58
Speaker 1: witness says, lots of people had to have seen them.
41:03
Speaker 1: So these are very interesting cases, and some have very
41:07
Speaker 1: high levels of strangeness and in fact humanoids. And here's one.
41:13
Speaker 1: This occurred in nineteen ninety six in a pastoral area
41:18
Speaker 1: of Fayetteville, Arkansas. A group of family and friends were
41:23
Speaker 1: celebrating the holidays on the family farm. They shot off
41:27
Speaker 1: a bunch of fireworks and then decided to take a
41:30
Speaker 1: small walk, a short walk into the woods near their farm,
41:35
Speaker 1: and as they approached a grove of trees, they saw
41:38
Speaker 1: a light in the woods about three hundred feet in
41:40
Speaker 1: front of them, and, as one of the witness says
41:44
Speaker 1: in their own words, as we approached, this is what
41:47
Speaker 1: we saw. Three triangular shaped craft were sitting in a
41:52
Speaker 1: break in the trees. Lights were pointing down off each
41:55
Speaker 1: point of the triangles. The strange beings that piloted these
42:00
Speaker 1: these ships were conferencing outside. They were tall and very
42:05
Speaker 1: thick hair that covered their bodies and seemed to speak tonally.
42:10
Speaker 1: As we approached, they smelled the air and glared in
42:14
Speaker 1: our direction. Although they never saw us, they sensed and
42:17
Speaker 1: smelled danger and quickly ran to their ships and exploded
42:21
Speaker 1: into the night. I used the word explosion, but there
42:24
Speaker 1: really wasn't any sound. It was just an instant burst
42:27
Speaker 1: of light, and then we were knocked to the ground.
42:31
Speaker 1: But I got a glimpse of the craft as they
42:33
Speaker 1: sped from sight, and they seemed to elongate as they accelerated.
42:38
Speaker 1: We kept the encounter to ourselves and have rarely spoken
42:42
Speaker 1: of it. So as these cases grow in number, it's
42:46
Speaker 1: becoming very difficult to deny that upos are in fact
42:50
Speaker 1: attracted to fireworks displays. Consider what happened in nineteen ninety
42:55
Speaker 1: seven to a mother and her two children who were
42:59
Speaker 1: driving to their home in o fallin Illinois, when they
43:03
Speaker 1: decided to stop along one of the back roads to
43:05
Speaker 1: view a fireworks display going on about a mile away,
43:11
Speaker 1: and after watching it for a few moments, the mother
43:14
Speaker 1: noticed a strange light shining on the car, but didn't
43:18
Speaker 1: see any other cars around them, so they began looking
43:21
Speaker 1: to the source of the light, and, as one of
43:23
Speaker 1: the witnesses says, we were starting to worry then out
43:27
Speaker 1: of the corner of my eye, I saw something both
43:29
Speaker 1: amazing and terrifying at the same time. A large blue
43:34
Speaker 1: something was in the sky above us and a little
43:37
Speaker 1: to the left. The object was shaped sort of like
43:40
Speaker 1: a saucer with a tail. We only saw it for
43:43
Speaker 1: a brief moment. They quite frightened them, and they took
43:47
Speaker 1: off and drove back home. They're unsure what they saw,
43:51
Speaker 1: but they know it wasn't fireworks, not a balloon, a helicopter, rocket, meteor, satellite,
43:56
Speaker 1: or anything conventional. And in fact, the next morning they
44:01
Speaker 1: saw an article in the Saint Louis Post Dispatch describing
44:05
Speaker 1: the object they had seen down to the tiniest detail.
44:10
Speaker 1: Apparently hundreds of other people had seen it, including the
44:13
Speaker 1: reporter who actually wrote the article, and as it turned out,
44:16
Speaker 1: officials at the nearby Scott Air Force Base were contacted
44:22
Speaker 1: but denied any knowledge of the incident. And this case
44:27
Speaker 1: is only one of many that occurred that year nineteen
44:30
Speaker 1: ninety seven, and in fact, hundreds of people across Illinois
44:34
Speaker 1: and Missouri reported seeing a green, blue light shoot across
44:39
Speaker 1: the sky. Now, there have been some who said that
44:43
Speaker 1: this could have been a meteorite or fireball, but most
44:46
Speaker 1: witnesses disagree. As one witness says, another witness in myself
44:51
Speaker 1: saw a blue green light move across a large field
44:56
Speaker 1: of view in the sky and then disappeared at impossible speeds.
45:00
Speaker 1: Was under the clouds because the light from it reflected
45:03
Speaker 1: off the clouds. So most of the witnesses describe it
45:07
Speaker 1: this way as being far too low to be a meteorite,
45:11
Speaker 1: and if it was that low, it should have crashed
45:13
Speaker 1: much sooner and not been visible over a wide area.
45:18
Speaker 1: And in fact, one witness described the object as a
45:21
Speaker 1: quote blue bullet shaped light that appeared two hundred to
45:25
Speaker 1: four hundred feet above ground level. And another witness said,
45:30
Speaker 1: our family was directly in the path and we were
45:33
Speaker 1: all illuminated blue. We looked up into the light. They
45:37
Speaker 1: moved off towards the woods north of the house. It's
45:41
Speaker 1: amazing how many cases there are. Here's another one which
45:44
Speaker 1: occurred in nineteen ninety nine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This is
45:50
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting sightings because it does involve humanoids.
45:56
Speaker 1: I call the main witness Jeff, that is a pseudonym.
45:59
Speaker 1: He was with his ex wife and two children visiting
46:01
Speaker 1: a relative's home to watch the fireworks, and he was
46:06
Speaker 1: standing out in the back yard alone while his family
46:09
Speaker 1: stood about forty feet behind him near the house. And
46:13
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people there at the party,
46:15
Speaker 1: almost a hundred, when without warning, a green, triangular shaped
46:20
Speaker 1: object approached at about forty five miles per hour. The
46:25
Speaker 1: witness estimates it was about two thousand feet high. It
46:28
Speaker 1: had blue and white lights, and he says, emitted a
46:31
Speaker 1: soft quote whizzing and whooshing sound. Most amazing, however, is
46:37
Speaker 1: he saw windows or portholes in the object, And as
46:41
Speaker 1: he says, most people don't get to see a craft
46:45
Speaker 1: that close and distinct. I even saw them molding around
46:49
Speaker 1: the windows. Mostly, however, he was impressed by what he
46:55
Speaker 1: saw looking at him through the windows of this craft,
46:58
Speaker 1: or rather, who, as he says in his own words,
47:03
Speaker 1: three Nordic looking men in white with blonde hair, staring
47:08
Speaker 1: at us as if we were mere cattle. I could
47:11
Speaker 1: see them from the belly up, not sure if they
47:14
Speaker 1: were standing or sitting. They had no apparatus on at all.
47:18
Speaker 1: I never took my eyes off it until it was
47:20
Speaker 1: gone from sight. At that point, his son ran up
47:25
Speaker 1: to him and said, Dad, was that a UFO, and
47:29
Speaker 1: he said, I don't know what the bleep that was,
47:33
Speaker 1: but it ain't ours. Now, he's an Army veteran and
47:37
Speaker 1: has been around a lot of aircraft, and he is
47:39
Speaker 1: absolutely convinced that what he saw was extraterrestrial in origin,
47:44
Speaker 1: especially because he saw these humanoids and no one else
47:48
Speaker 1: seemed to notice it. As he says, what gets me
47:53
Speaker 1: is everyone saw it there, and there was almost a
47:55
Speaker 1: hundred people, but strangely, nobody seemed to be that interesting
48:00
Speaker 1: in the sighting, so we'd see this in some of
48:02
Speaker 1: these encounters. He still remembers the way the Nordic beings
48:06
Speaker 1: looked down at him, and as he says, that image
48:11
Speaker 1: stayed with me and grew over time, and now it's
48:14
Speaker 1: been bothering me so much and details are getting stronger.
48:18
Speaker 1: I can't get that one guy in the middle staring
48:21
Speaker 1: at me as if he could see me like a
48:23
Speaker 1: calf in the field alone. It's damn near haunting. So
48:29
Speaker 1: on and on this happens. Here's another case which occurred
48:33
Speaker 1: in Des Moines, Iowa. This was the year two thousand.
48:38
Speaker 1: Hundreds of people had gathered to observe a large, glowing
48:43
Speaker 1: red orb hovering overhead at an estimated altitude of three
48:47
Speaker 1: thousand to six thousand feet, so this was of course
48:52
Speaker 1: during a fireworks show, and this attracted a lot of
48:55
Speaker 1: attention because it was very widely viewed and in fact
48:59
Speaker 1: UFO research Beverly Trout studied the incident in detail and
49:05
Speaker 1: learned that there were literally hundreds of witnesses from get
49:09
Speaker 1: this twenty seven different locations across Des Moines. She interviewed
49:15
Speaker 1: more than forty eight witnesses and turned out several people
49:20
Speaker 1: had actually videotaped the objects the object. They reported that
49:25
Speaker 1: this UFO moved back and forth several times. At one
49:29
Speaker 1: point it released a smaller red orb which left the
49:32
Speaker 1: main one and began turning at right angles. As one
49:36
Speaker 1: witness said, this ball of light hovered for the one
49:41
Speaker 1: hour time we were there and was still present when
49:44
Speaker 1: we left, so clearly not a sky lantern. And the
49:48
Speaker 1: next day there were in fact several newspaper articles and
49:52
Speaker 1: also television reports about the incident. The Federal Aviation Administration
49:58
Speaker 1: was contacted for no glimpse or laser shows in the
50:02
Speaker 1: area and couldn't have been a balloon because this object
50:06
Speaker 1: was reportedly moving against the wind over the city and
50:10
Speaker 1: had kind of a horse shoe pattern, though sometimes stopping
50:14
Speaker 1: and hovering. So what was this if it wasn't a
50:19
Speaker 1: genuine UFO And consider this next case. I believe this
50:25
Speaker 1: is the same year Pacific City, Oregon. Two hundred people
50:30
Speaker 1: were spread out along the beach to watch the fireworks
50:33
Speaker 1: show at Cape Kiwanda, and as one of the witnesses
50:37
Speaker 1: says in their own words, just before dark, we saw
50:42
Speaker 1: a light coming down from the sky with unreal speed
50:47
Speaker 1: and pause way out on the horizon. Then it zipped
50:51
Speaker 1: back up and out of sight. This thing traveled hundreds
50:54
Speaker 1: of miles in seconds. It was amazing. Myself, my wife,
50:59
Speaker 1: my brother in law, and a stranger next to us
51:01
Speaker 1: all saw it. There's a good chance more people saw it,
51:05
Speaker 1: but it was only there for five to ten seconds.
51:09
Speaker 1: I remember it as a white, round light, quite big
51:12
Speaker 1: considering how far away it was. At first I thought
51:15
Speaker 1: it was a falling star, but it was faster, and
51:18
Speaker 1: then it paused and I was thinking, what the heck?
51:21
Speaker 1: Then it zipped off. Nothing I have ever seen can
51:25
Speaker 1: move like that. It had to be an advanced light form,
51:29
Speaker 1: for sure. I'm sure I saw a real alien aircraft.
51:36
Speaker 1: So very interesting and here's another case which is quite involved.
51:41
Speaker 1: This occurred July fourth, two thousand and one. There was
51:45
Speaker 1: a large group of people at a campground in Big Pine, California,
51:49
Speaker 1: a very beautiful area, and they could actually see two
51:54
Speaker 1: fireworks shows. And what's really interesting is they were camping
52:01
Speaker 1: along the Owens River, was a clear night watching these
52:04
Speaker 1: fireworks shows oft in the distance, and around nine o'clock
52:09
Speaker 1: the fireworks shows stopped. And this is when the main
52:12
Speaker 1: witness and his girlfriend saw what they call a quote
52:16
Speaker 1: strange object hovering about five hundred to eight hundred feet
52:21
Speaker 1: above the top peak of the nearby White Mountain Range.
52:26
Speaker 1: And as the witness says, the object had a three
52:29
Speaker 1: layered disc shape similar to a hamburger shape. Round the
52:34
Speaker 1: middle of the object were a series of revolving lights.
52:37
Speaker 1: It turned in sequence, yellow, orange, pink, red, white, et cetera.
52:43
Speaker 1: They hover over the mountains for thirty minutes, during which
52:46
Speaker 1: time it darted sporadically from place to place, accelerating rapidly
52:51
Speaker 1: then gliding to a stop in diagonal, horizontal, and vertical movements.
52:57
Speaker 1: And at one point the object came closer to our site.
53:01
Speaker 1: At this point, his rottweiler, a dog named Tank became
53:05
Speaker 1: aware of the object and stood in full guard position
53:09
Speaker 1: watching the area, and they were conversing with the other
53:13
Speaker 1: campers about this UFO, And as they watched it move
53:17
Speaker 1: closer and actually sent down bright beams of light onto
53:20
Speaker 1: the mountain side, and as the main witness says, the
53:24
Speaker 1: pattern appeared very clearly on the ground, consisting of about
53:27
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty white circles spaced out and forming a
53:32
Speaker 1: hexagon in its entirety. The lights moved over the ground
53:37
Speaker 1: and the side of the mountain like a searchlight, and
53:40
Speaker 1: at one point actually lit up the tree just above
53:44
Speaker 1: where we were sitting in the bed of my truck.
53:47
Speaker 1: The witnesses felt like it was almost surveying the mountain
53:50
Speaker 1: in a grid pattern. They watched it emit red beams
53:52
Speaker 1: of light, and finally it moved back up towards where
53:56
Speaker 1: it had first appeared, at which point a second craft appeared,
54:01
Speaker 1: emerging from the top peak like the first craft had,
54:04
Speaker 1: and as it drifted upward, a third craft appeared and
54:07
Speaker 1: began to follow the second. All three craft moved exactly
54:12
Speaker 1: or had the same exact appearance. They slowly gained an altitude.
54:16
Speaker 1: At one point they turned off their colored lights and
54:19
Speaker 1: became just a solid white color. They continued to move
54:23
Speaker 1: slowly upwards until they took on the appearance of stars,
54:27
Speaker 1: but remained in view in a triangular formation for at
54:30
Speaker 1: least a few hours, apparently masquerading as stars, and the
54:36
Speaker 1: witnesses were so impressed that they remained awake all night.
54:40
Speaker 1: The objects stayed there all night. By the time morning
54:43
Speaker 1: came the sun was shining they had taken on a
54:46
Speaker 1: kind of shiny, metallic appearance, but when daylight finally arrived,
54:52
Speaker 1: the objects were no longer visible, but looking up to
54:55
Speaker 1: the mountaintop, they saw what appeared to be a trail
54:59
Speaker 1: of smoke rising from where the objects had been. They
55:04
Speaker 1: decided to get some sleep at this point, but just
55:06
Speaker 1: a few minutes later we were woken up by two
55:09
Speaker 1: military jets flying low through the valley and circling the
55:12
Speaker 1: mountaintop where they had seen these objects take off from earlier.
55:18
Speaker 1: And these fighter jets left and returned several times throughout
55:22
Speaker 1: the day, and as the main witness says, it was
55:26
Speaker 1: a very strange Fourth of July for me, and one
55:30
Speaker 1: that my girlfriend and I will never forget. On the
55:34
Speaker 1: same night as the above case, but quite far away
55:38
Speaker 1: and near against Rhode Island. A group of five people
55:42
Speaker 1: had an equally interesting holiday when they went to watch
55:45
Speaker 1: the local fireworks show from a cliff by the ocean shore.
55:50
Speaker 1: They were setting off a few fireworks themselves. One of
55:53
Speaker 1: them had just launched a Roman candle, when, as we
55:57
Speaker 1: have seen in other cases, a UFO showed up right
56:00
Speaker 1: alongside it, and as one of the witnesses says, I
56:05
Speaker 1: saw a trapezoid shaped black object moving slowly and silently
56:09
Speaker 1: at an altitude of no more than two thousand feet.
56:13
Speaker 1: I called out to my two sons, a friend, and
56:16
Speaker 1: my nephew, who all watched with me as this object
56:19
Speaker 1: continued to move east out over the ocean between the
56:23
Speaker 1: haze and dark clouds at a speed of no more
56:27
Speaker 1: than fifty or sixty miles per hour. The object then
56:31
Speaker 1: accelerated to about one hundred, one hundred and fifty miles
56:34
Speaker 1: per hour and seemed to vanish within the clouds. We
56:37
Speaker 1: were all deeply awed, and all of us reported the
56:41
Speaker 1: same shape, height, and speed of this object. We all
56:45
Speaker 1: dismissed it as too large to be a stealth fighter
56:48
Speaker 1: or bomber, or even a large dirigible. We estimated to
56:52
Speaker 1: be about eighty to ninety feet tall and about the
56:56
Speaker 1: length of two football fields. It's amazing how many cases
57:00
Speaker 1: like this there are. And here's another case which took
57:04
Speaker 1: place one year later in two thousand and two. This
57:10
Speaker 1: case occurred in Howell, New Jersey. A family was celebrating
57:14
Speaker 1: the holiday as they always did by watching the local
57:16
Speaker 1: fireworks show. However, this year that this fireworks show had
57:22
Speaker 1: the added attraction of a UFO, and, as the father says,
57:27
Speaker 1: a saucer shaped craft appeared from the eastern sky and
57:31
Speaker 1: hovered within a five mile radius from us I'd say
57:35
Speaker 1: three hundred feet up and at least thirty feet in diameter.
57:39
Speaker 1: The color seemed to be silver and had a pulsating
57:42
Speaker 1: white light at the bottom. He grabbed his camera and
57:47
Speaker 1: managed to film this object before a military aircraft appeared
57:51
Speaker 1: and apparently chased it away. A briefcase, but very interesting.
57:56
Speaker 1: Here's another interesting case, also brief. A gentleman was in
58:01
Speaker 1: his apartment in Southeast Manhattan, New York, which looked over
58:06
Speaker 1: the East River. There was, of course, a fireworks show
58:10
Speaker 1: going on, and after about fifteen minutes, a triangular shaped
58:15
Speaker 1: glowing object appeared, as though waiting to watch the show.
58:19
Speaker 1: So the witness actually began to film this object, and
58:23
Speaker 1: as he says in his own words, it was a
58:26
Speaker 1: glowing red triangular body with green on the edges, like
58:30
Speaker 1: an inverted top, with white lights rotating at the base.
58:34
Speaker 1: I also noticed portholes just above the rotating white light
58:39
Speaker 1: and smaller portholes underneath it. It hid behind the clouds
58:43
Speaker 1: before the fireworks began. So he sent his footage to
58:48
Speaker 1: Peter Davenport, who heads the group National UFO Reporting Center,
58:54
Speaker 1: and after viewing the footage, Peter Davenport rights, we are
58:59
Speaker 1: grateful for the report and the images. The object is
59:03
Speaker 1: triangular nature with several lights on the bottom. We do
59:08
Speaker 1: not know what it is. So yeah, I'm in case
59:12
Speaker 1: after case after case. Here's another very briefcase which occurred
59:18
Speaker 1: in Henrietta, Oklahoma. This is in two thousand and four.
59:22
Speaker 1: It's a good sighting though. A family was having a
59:26
Speaker 1: picnic watching the fireworks show when, as one of the
59:28
Speaker 1: witnesses says, we all looked up and the sky was
59:32
Speaker 1: full of stars moving in circles, shooting from side to
59:35
Speaker 1: side and darting across the sky. It was crazy. They
59:40
Speaker 1: would change direction in a moment there were lots of
59:43
Speaker 1: them everywhere. I don't know how many. All of us
59:47
Speaker 1: just stood there watching. It was as though they were
59:51
Speaker 1: giving us a Fourth of July show. I really believe
59:55
Speaker 1: they were so yeah. As we see, sometimes the UFOs
59:59
Speaker 1: not only watch the fire but put on a little
1:00:01
Speaker 1: show for the witnesses themselves. Here's another case which occurred
1:00:06
Speaker 1: in Texas in two thousand and five. A gentleman was
1:00:11
Speaker 1: watching fireworks off in the distance when a UFO appeared.
1:00:15
Speaker 1: It actually rose up from between him and the fireworks,
1:00:19
Speaker 1: and he says it was a metallic, triangular shaped object
1:00:23
Speaker 1: with rounded corners and had a dark strip running down
1:00:27
Speaker 1: the center of the object. And as he says, it
1:00:30
Speaker 1: just materialized out of nowhere, and then two more identical
1:00:34
Speaker 1: objects followed close behind it. My heart raised when I
1:00:38
Speaker 1: saw it, and I doubted my vision for a long time,
1:00:43
Speaker 1: but I am convinced of what I saw and would
1:00:45
Speaker 1: stake my life on it. What I believe I saw
1:00:49
Speaker 1: was an interdimensional craft coming in and out of our
1:00:53
Speaker 1: realm moving along. Same year, actually, two thousand and five,
1:01:00
Speaker 1: a father and son were watching a fireworks show from
1:01:03
Speaker 1: their rural home overlooking Granite Falls, Washington, when they saw
1:01:08
Speaker 1: an orb of white light moving in ways that no
1:01:12
Speaker 1: sky lantern can. It appeared to be like a satellite
1:01:17
Speaker 1: at first, but was moving extremely fast from the west
1:01:23
Speaker 1: to the southwest. As one of the witnesses says, as
1:01:28
Speaker 1: we watched, it started to move about unlike any conventional
1:01:32
Speaker 1: aircraft we've ever seen. It veered left at extraordinary velocity,
1:01:38
Speaker 1: then right, then arched in a rainbow type trajectory at
1:01:42
Speaker 1: incredible speed, maneuvers completely unseen and probably impossible in any
1:01:48
Speaker 1: traditional aircraft. We both watched this ball for about sixty seconds,
1:01:53
Speaker 1: after which it darted behind a mountain. They were both
1:01:58
Speaker 1: very much impressed and called this sighting quote a very
1:02:02
Speaker 1: remarkable holiday. And here's another one from two thousand and
1:02:08
Speaker 1: five that I just had to mention. This occurred in Davy, Florida.
1:02:13
Speaker 1: A witness was watching the local fireworks show when he
1:02:16
Speaker 1: noticed a saucer shaped light hovering just north of the
1:02:20
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale Airport at an elevation he estimates of about
1:02:24
Speaker 1: two thousand feet, And I will just quote him directly
1:02:28
Speaker 1: as he says, I noticed it when I looked outside
1:02:33
Speaker 1: to see the fireworks and wondered what it was. I
1:02:35
Speaker 1: had never seen a craft in the air that was
1:02:38
Speaker 1: stationary for so long. I checked every half hour or
1:02:41
Speaker 1: so to see it sitting in the air at exactly
1:02:44
Speaker 1: the same place. When the fireworks slowed down, I looked
1:02:48
Speaker 1: and it was gone. I did not see it leave.
1:02:51
Speaker 1: It appeared to be watching the fireworks and left before
1:02:54
Speaker 1: they ended, so it stayed there a long time, he
1:02:57
Speaker 1: estimates about three hours. One year later, July fourth, two
1:03:03
Speaker 1: thousand and six, a family was on their boat in
1:03:06
Speaker 1: Key Largo, Florida. The fireworks show had just ended when
1:03:11
Speaker 1: a gray, triangular shaped object flew at very low elevation overhead, and,
1:03:17
Speaker 1: as one of the witnesses says, it was directly over
1:03:20
Speaker 1: the boat and moving south. The object was triangular in shape,
1:03:24
Speaker 1: like an elongated crescent, and was completely silent. When the
1:03:29
Speaker 1: back of the object became visible, a single centered, small
1:03:33
Speaker 1: orange light could be seen and observed for only ten
1:03:36
Speaker 1: seconds before the object swiftly ascended out of vision. So
1:03:42
Speaker 1: I think you're getting the point here. This is quite common.
1:03:46
Speaker 1: I'd just like to mention a few more cases. Here's
1:03:49
Speaker 1: one which occurred in Michigan actually in two thousand and seven.
1:03:55
Speaker 1: And this one you might think was a skylantern. It
1:03:58
Speaker 1: was a little bright light which dropped out of the
1:04:00
Speaker 1: sky and right above the fireworks for about ten seconds,
1:04:06
Speaker 1: but then it shot back in the sky a different
1:04:09
Speaker 1: way than it came from. So this does not appear
1:04:13
Speaker 1: to be a sky lantern, because, as the witness says,
1:04:16
Speaker 1: when it took off, it moved very fast. It looked
1:04:19
Speaker 1: to me like it was seeing what the fireworks were.
1:04:22
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how big it was, but it
1:04:24
Speaker 1: seemed to be not that big, maybe the size of
1:04:27
Speaker 1: a small car. It looked just like a bright star,
1:04:31
Speaker 1: but no star moves like that. Another real briefcase, Fort Knox, Kentucky,
1:04:38
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. A family was watching the fireworks
1:04:41
Speaker 1: from their backyard and none of these fireworks shows were close.
1:04:46
Speaker 1: They were watching from a distance when something approached much
1:04:49
Speaker 1: closer to them what they described as a large, quote
1:04:53
Speaker 1: black triangle. As one of the witness says in their
1:04:57
Speaker 1: own words, the craft was moving slow, low to the ground,
1:05:01
Speaker 1: and with no noise coming from it at all. I
1:05:05
Speaker 1: describe it as having white lights at the corners of
1:05:07
Speaker 1: it and alternating red flashing lights. Was so creepy. It
1:05:13
Speaker 1: flew in a straight path, sort of leaning in my
1:05:15
Speaker 1: direction as it flew. There isn't any craft I know
1:05:19
Speaker 1: that could fly that low and not make any noise.
1:05:23
Speaker 1: It had to be a UFO. Okay, here's yet another case,
1:05:31
Speaker 1: very recent two thousand and eight. This occurred in Colorado
1:05:36
Speaker 1: in the suburbs. The witness was attending a neighborhood at
1:05:42
Speaker 1: block party when he saw quote, a strange ripple in
1:05:46
Speaker 1: the sky. This was directly over the two story homes
1:05:50
Speaker 1: across the street. And again I'll just quote him directly
1:05:54
Speaker 1: as he says, something weird caught my eye. Looked kind
1:05:58
Speaker 1: of like when one sees a hot air on a
1:06:01
Speaker 1: highway in the summer. In this ripple was something that
1:06:05
Speaker 1: had pale blue lights. The lights did not blink and
1:06:09
Speaker 1: appeared to sort of outline this object. All of this
1:06:12
Speaker 1: was very dim and it was very difficult to make
1:06:15
Speaker 1: out exactly what it was. The object was completely silent
1:06:19
Speaker 1: and moving slowly. I watched it pass over all the
1:06:23
Speaker 1: people dancing in the street. I was just mesmerized by
1:06:26
Speaker 1: this thing and did not want to take my eyes
1:06:28
Speaker 1: off of it in case I could not find it again.
1:06:33
Speaker 1: So the only reason, according to this witness, that he
1:06:36
Speaker 1: was able to see this object was because the air
1:06:39
Speaker 1: was very smoky and that seemed to make the object
1:06:42
Speaker 1: become more visible. He says this because after it moved
1:06:47
Speaker 1: out of the smoky area, it disappeared blended into the sky.
1:06:51
Speaker 1: So I don't think in this case it wanted to
1:06:53
Speaker 1: be seen. Was perhaps just looking at the fireworks and
1:06:56
Speaker 1: was only in view for about ten seconds. Here's yet
1:07:02
Speaker 1: another very impressive case, same year, same day. This also
1:07:08
Speaker 1: took place in Colorado, North Glenn, Colorado. The main witness
1:07:14
Speaker 1: and his wife were watching a fireworks display in North
1:07:17
Speaker 1: Glen when they saw a quote, an orange oval shaped
1:07:22
Speaker 1: light was moving at a downward angle and he thought
1:07:26
Speaker 1: it might be a plane when quote, it just stopped
1:07:29
Speaker 1: and sat in place. At this point, a second orb
1:07:35
Speaker 1: swooped in from the right side very quickly, as the
1:07:39
Speaker 1: witness says, and stopped instantly directly next to the first
1:07:43
Speaker 1: light in a vertical line. So the witness's wife tried
1:07:48
Speaker 1: to videotape the object, but couldn't get the camera up
1:07:52
Speaker 1: into video mode in time. Meanwhile, a third object arrived,
1:07:57
Speaker 1: as the witness says, it stopped suddenly next so the
1:08:00
Speaker 1: other two and the three lights formed a vertical line.
1:08:05
Speaker 1: So clearly not sky lanterns. And again, after about a minute,
1:08:10
Speaker 1: two of the objects began to quote chase each other
1:08:13
Speaker 1: or playing tag, while the middle light remained motionless. So
1:08:19
Speaker 1: they're a little unsure what they saw, but don't believe
1:08:22
Speaker 1: it was a plane. And as the witness says, currently,
1:08:25
Speaker 1: there are no aircraft that can move like that. To
1:08:27
Speaker 1: my knowledge. They moved very quickly in tight patterns and
1:08:31
Speaker 1: stopped instantly. I can tell you it wasn't fireworks because
1:08:36
Speaker 1: they can't stay in the air and form perfect vertical lines. Okay,
1:08:44
Speaker 1: now I just have Let's see two more cases I'd
1:08:48
Speaker 1: like to present. This next one occurred in two thousand
1:08:52
Speaker 1: and eight. Again, this was outside of Buffalo, New York.
1:08:58
Speaker 1: The main witness was outside her home. This was around
1:09:01
Speaker 1: ten thirty pm and she was just lying in bed
1:09:04
Speaker 1: watching the fireworks from her bedroom window. When looking out,
1:09:07
Speaker 1: she was shocked to see a pulsating, shiny disk shaped object,
1:09:12
Speaker 1: as she says, just sitting there watching the fireworks, I assume,
1:09:17
Speaker 1: and it looked almost starlike, but then began to zigzag
1:09:21
Speaker 1: and move closer to both her and the fireworks. At
1:09:25
Speaker 1: this point she could see it at a pulsating green light,
1:09:28
Speaker 1: and it stayed there. It stayed in place for about
1:09:31
Speaker 1: two hours when it was suddenly joined by three other discs,
1:09:35
Speaker 1: each of which had little lights around the circumference. And
1:09:39
Speaker 1: the lights on this object became very difficult, making them
1:09:42
Speaker 1: difficult to see, and some even seemed, she said, to
1:09:46
Speaker 1: become invisible. And this is when a fleet showed up
1:09:51
Speaker 1: without warning. The main winness says, ten additional craft zoomed
1:09:56
Speaker 1: down from the Lake Eerie area in hubb next to
1:10:00
Speaker 1: the first disc. Now, at this point she was jolted
1:10:04
Speaker 1: fully awake, she says, because she had the feeling these
1:10:07
Speaker 1: objects were there to watch the fireworks show, and they
1:10:11
Speaker 1: remained in place till about three a m. And at
1:10:15
Speaker 1: this point she became too tired to stay awake. But
1:10:18
Speaker 1: as she says, I thought to myself, how nice they
1:10:22
Speaker 1: like all the fireworks too. What's interesting about this sighting
1:10:27
Speaker 1: is the main witness did receive some interesting mental impressions.
1:10:32
Speaker 1: Like many witnesses, she felt that the UFOs were watching
1:10:35
Speaker 1: the fireworks, but she had some other impressions that she
1:10:38
Speaker 1: felt may have even come from the occupants of this object.
1:10:43
Speaker 1: She felt as though the first craft came first scouted
1:10:46
Speaker 1: the area and chose the best location to begin the
1:10:49
Speaker 1: viewing party, because when this other craft, these other craft arrived,
1:10:54
Speaker 1: the first craft moved back and stopped moving, allowing the
1:10:58
Speaker 1: other craft to view the fireworks from a closer location.
1:11:02
Speaker 1: And she had the distinct impression they came from an
1:11:05
Speaker 1: underground or under sea base, perhaps in Lake Erie. And
1:11:10
Speaker 1: she also got a very interesting impression that they were
1:11:13
Speaker 1: going to have to leave their base soon and weren't
1:11:16
Speaker 1: happy about it. She was really surprised that during this
1:11:20
Speaker 1: whole sighting she became quite emotional. She was very excited
1:11:24
Speaker 1: to see the craft. She became angry that she could
1:11:28
Speaker 1: not see them any closer, and a few times she
1:11:31
Speaker 1: became a little bit frightened. However, at the same time
1:11:35
Speaker 1: she was also worried and felt a feeling of quote
1:11:38
Speaker 1: protection for them. I think one final case will cement
1:11:44
Speaker 1: in the fact that this is definitely a thing. The
1:11:47
Speaker 1: fourth of July is a good day to see fireworks,
1:11:50
Speaker 1: or the fourth of July is a good day to
1:11:52
Speaker 1: see UFOs, Because it was one year later, on July fourth,
1:11:57
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, that UFOs showed up up at
1:12:00
Speaker 1: La Connor, Washington, clearly to view the fireworks as the
1:12:05
Speaker 1: witness says me, and about a thousand people maybe more
1:12:11
Speaker 1: saw a dozen lights fly in a pattern from east
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Speaker 1: to west. They flew above the fireworks and then went
1:12:17
Speaker 1: up out of the atmosphere. Two craft at a time
1:12:21
Speaker 1: would come in from the west skyline, ascend the area
1:12:25
Speaker 1: above the fireworks as if they were interested in what
1:12:27
Speaker 1: we were doing, lighting off the fireworks, and then left
1:12:32
Speaker 1: the earth's atmosphere. This went on for about two hours,
1:12:37
Speaker 1: so they watched these objects until midnight, and at one
1:12:40
Speaker 1: point they saw what appeared to be a large black
1:12:43
Speaker 1: object about four hundred feet wide with two flashing lights
1:12:48
Speaker 1: on either side, so clearly not a conventional object. Those
1:12:53
Speaker 1: are the forty cases that I decided to present to
1:12:56
Speaker 1: you today in which people have seen UFOs on Independence
1:13:00
Speaker 1: Day on the fourth of July, and I can tell
1:13:03
Speaker 1: you there's a lot more than I presented here. I
1:13:07
Speaker 1: decided to stop at some point because it starts to
1:13:09
Speaker 1: get a little repetitive, but it's absolutely clear to me
1:13:13
Speaker 1: that fireworks do attract UFOs. I did cover these cases
1:13:18
Speaker 1: in my book Not from Here, Volume four, which is
1:13:23
Speaker 1: all about the stranger and more unusual cases of UFO contact,
1:13:28
Speaker 1: and I think these cases absolutely qualify. And what I
1:13:33
Speaker 1: think is going on here is a couple of things. Yes,
1:13:36
Speaker 1: UFOs ets are attracted to fireworks, there's no doubt about that.
1:13:42
Speaker 1: I think it's clear that in some of these cases
1:13:43
Speaker 1: that's why they're there to watch the fireworks. Certainly the
1:13:47
Speaker 1: witnesses feel that way. But I think it's more than
1:13:50
Speaker 1: just this. I think actually ets are using the fourth
1:13:55
Speaker 1: of July as an opportunity to basically announce their presence.
1:14:01
Speaker 1: There is a type of encounter known as a UFO display.
1:14:06
Speaker 1: These are cases when UFOs ets basically put on a display,
1:14:12
Speaker 1: a little publicity stunt, a way of announcing their presence.
1:14:16
Speaker 1: We see this in UFO waves, in the school yard encounters.
1:14:21
Speaker 1: I did an episode on driving movie theater encounters. It's
1:14:25
Speaker 1: the same sort of thing. They know there are millions
1:14:29
Speaker 1: of people outside at night looking up in a good mood,
1:14:34
Speaker 1: and I think they use this as an opportunity to say, hey, hello,
1:14:38
Speaker 1: here we are and we see this. So while many
1:14:42
Speaker 1: of these are what we would call simple sightings close
1:14:46
Speaker 1: encounters of the first kind, I think probably it could
1:14:50
Speaker 1: be more accurately called close encounters of the fifth kind.
1:14:55
Speaker 1: CE Five's human initiated encounters. Basically, what's going on here
1:15:02
Speaker 1: is they are being drawn down by these fireworks. So
1:15:07
Speaker 1: this is in essence a good opportunity to study UFOs
1:15:13
Speaker 1: in a laboratory setting. These are human initiated encounters. That's
1:15:19
Speaker 1: certainly one way to look at it, and I think
1:15:22
Speaker 1: that's an interesting factor. So yeah, there's a few really
1:15:26
Speaker 1: interesting things going on here. I think these cases do
1:15:30
Speaker 1: have a lot to tell us about the nature of
1:15:32
Speaker 1: the UFO phenomena and ets. They are curious, they do
1:15:38
Speaker 1: appreciate the beauty of fireworks, and they do apparently want
1:15:42
Speaker 1: us to know that they are there, so that I
1:15:45
Speaker 1: think is a really important factor. I think these cases
1:15:49
Speaker 1: also show us how important it is to be discriminating
1:15:54
Speaker 1: and really investigate these cases, because it's clear to me
1:15:59
Speaker 1: some are sky lanterns, but perhaps they're not because from
1:16:05
Speaker 1: a distance a skylantern does look like a UFO, and
1:16:08
Speaker 1: the ETS may be aware of this, so it's an
1:16:11
Speaker 1: opportunity for them to sort of hide in plain view.
1:16:18
Speaker 1: But what I think is most interesting about these cases
1:16:20
Speaker 1: again is it provides a wonderful opportunity for people to
1:16:25
Speaker 1: study UFOs. Very hard to predict sightings, but you can
1:16:29
Speaker 1: predict that on the fourth of July there will be
1:16:32
Speaker 1: a huge spike in sightings. So if you want to
1:16:34
Speaker 1: see a UFO, the fourth of July presents a wonderful opportunity,
1:16:40
Speaker 1: so get your cameras ready, be prepared, and who knows,
1:16:44
Speaker 1: you might just have an encounter. So that's the show
1:16:48
Speaker 1: for today. I hope you've enjoyed it. It's quite an
1:16:50
Speaker 1: unusual one. But until next time, keep searching for answers,
1:16:54
Speaker 1: keep looking for the truth, and most important, keep having fun.