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NASA Scientist Becomes A Believer After This Shocking Incident · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today's story is about one of the most famous paranormal
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Speaker 1: events in history, but it's not famous because of how
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Speaker 1: outlandish the details are. Instead, it's famous for its credibility.
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Speaker 1: Not only were there twelve witnesses who saw this thing happen,
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Speaker 1: but also there was a NASA engineer who investigated this
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Speaker 1: event and ultimately concluded that it must have happened because
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Speaker 1: of tangible proof. But before we get into that story,
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Speaker 1: today's story. Around nine pm on December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty,
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Speaker 1: a fifty seven year old woman named Vicky Landrum rode
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Speaker 1: in the front seat of her friend Betty Cash's car,
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Speaker 1: while her seven year old grandson named Colby, who she
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Speaker 1: was racing, sat between them. The three of them had
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Speaker 1: just had dinner at a truck stop and were now
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Speaker 1: on their way home, driving down a dark wooded highway
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Speaker 1: near Huffman, Texas, which is a small town about thirty
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Speaker 1: miles northeast of Houston. As they drove down the road,
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Speaker 1: Vicky began to notice the windshield was fogging up from
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Speaker 1: how cold it was outside and how warm it was
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Speaker 1: inside the car, and so Vicky turned on the defroster,
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Speaker 1: and as the windshield began to clear, Vicky noticed this
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Speaker 1: bright light right out in front of them, up over
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Speaker 1: the trees. And at first Vicky just figured, you know,
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Speaker 1: they were close to the Houston Airport and so that
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Speaker 1: light must just be an airplane. But as the trio
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Speaker 1: continued driving down this winding highway road, that light that
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Speaker 1: VICKI really thought was a plane landing appeared to just
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Speaker 1: kind of hover in the trees, and actually, as they drove,
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Speaker 1: the light almost appeared to get closer and closer to them,
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Speaker 1: so it didn't really seem like it was a plane. Now.
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Speaker 1: At first, Vicky thought this was just kind of interesting
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Speaker 1: and was curious about this light. But as they got
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Speaker 1: closer and closer to this light, it became very obvious
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Speaker 1: that the inside of the car was getting much warmer
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Speaker 1: and stuffier than any of the heat settings would allow
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Speaker 1: it to get to the point where Vicky was actually
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Speaker 1: sweating and panting from the heat. Now, all of this
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Speaker 1: was happening really quickly, and so Vicky sort of went
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Speaker 1: from being curious to being kind of anxious, like what
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Speaker 1: was going on here? Like does this light have something
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Speaker 1: to do with the heat they're experiencing in the car.
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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, the light that appeared
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Speaker 1: to be sort of behind the trees suddenly came right
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Speaker 1: out in front of the car, and Vicky screamed at
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Speaker 1: Betty stop, and Becky jammed on the brakes and they
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Speaker 1: came to a stop and blocking their path maybe one
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Speaker 1: hundred feet in front of them, just hovering over the road.
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Speaker 1: Is this strange looking aircraft aimed right at them? This
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Speaker 1: craft was the strange light. For a moment, all three
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Speaker 1: of them just stared in shock at this craft, like
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Speaker 1: it was so unexpected and so unbelievable that this had happened.
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Speaker 1: But then Vicky, who's sitting there still panting and sweating,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's looking out and she's realizing this craft
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Speaker 1: she's looking at looks nothing like any other aircraft she
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Speaker 1: had ever seen. The craft was a bit bigger than
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Speaker 1: a car. It was diamond shaped, and it was letting
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Speaker 1: out these strange, loud, roaring sounds, almost like an engine.
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Speaker 1: It appeared to be glowing red hot, and periodically with
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Speaker 1: those loud roaring sounds it was making, fire would appear
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Speaker 1: to shoot out the bottom of the craft, scorching the
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Speaker 1: pavement right under it. And again, this strange craft is
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Speaker 1: just hovering there, right over the ground, appeared to be
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Speaker 1: aimed directly at Vicky, Betty and Colby. Pretty quickly, Colby
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Speaker 1: began to cry, he was scared. But Betty, the driver,
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Speaker 1: she said she couldn't go anywhere, you know, the road
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Speaker 1: was too thin, She couldn't really turn around very easily,
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Speaker 1: and she couldn't drive straight and go under the craft
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Speaker 1: and risk being burned by the flames. And so they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of trapped there, and so Vicky and
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Speaker 1: Betty sort of looked at each other like, Okay, we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna We're gonna wait it out and hope this
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Speaker 1: craft just eventually flies away. But after several minutes and
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Speaker 1: the craft still not departed. It was still blocking their
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Speaker 1: way and periodically spitting fire. Into the ground. Vicky and
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Speaker 1: Betty are like, well, let's get out and see what's
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Speaker 1: going on here. Let's investigate. By this point, their fear
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Speaker 1: and anxiety around this had sort of been replaced, but
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Speaker 1: just genuine human curiosity. I mean, what the heck is
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Speaker 1: this thing? And so Betty the driver, she gets out,
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Speaker 1: and Vicky she tells her grandson staying the car. So
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Speaker 1: Colby's right here, and Vicky gets out. And the second
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Speaker 1: she does, and she now has an unobstructed view at
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Speaker 1: this craft, she suddenly remembered this Bible verse. So Vicky
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Speaker 1: was very religious, and she had read in the Bible
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Speaker 1: that one day Jesus would return to the earth and
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Speaker 1: when he did, he would return in a rain of fire.
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Speaker 1: And so all of a sudden, Vicky believed that what
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Speaker 1: she was looking at was not some aircraft, but the
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Speaker 1: second coming of Jesus Christ. This was like a highly
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Speaker 1: spiritual moment for her. But just as Vicky was about
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Speaker 1: to go forward and actually inspect this thing up close,
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Speaker 1: she heard Colby call out for her. He was crying hysterically.
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Speaker 1: He was totally scared and upset, and so this kind
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Speaker 1: of broke Vicky out of her trance. She turned around
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Speaker 1: and went back to the car to comfort Colby, And
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Speaker 1: when she got back to the car, she found Colby
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Speaker 1: scrunched up on the floor underneath the dashboard like he
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Speaker 1: was trying to shield himself from this craft, and so
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Speaker 1: Vicky she got right down there with him. She wrapped
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Speaker 1: her arms around Colby and began praying with him to
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Speaker 1: try to calm him down. But while Vicky and Colby
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Speaker 1: were praying inside the car, Betty remained outside of the car,
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Speaker 1: just staring at this craft. And it went on like
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Speaker 1: this for about ten minutes until Vicky, who still tucked
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Speaker 1: down there with Colby, heard that roaring sound coming from
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Speaker 1: the aircraft get noticeably louder, like he was about to
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Speaker 1: do something, And so Vicky poked her head up and
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Speaker 1: she looked out the windshield, and sure enough, this craft
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Speaker 1: was beginning to take off. It was getting higher and
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Speaker 1: higher off the ground, Flames were shooting out the bottom
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Speaker 1: of it. Betty was still outside staring at it, and
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Speaker 1: then before long this craft had shot straight up into
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Speaker 1: the air and began taking off up and away from
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Speaker 1: them at a really steep angle. And at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Vicky suddenly saw the swarm of all these helicopters, these
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Speaker 1: military style helicopters, go right up around this craft they
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Speaker 1: were escorting it. And then the craft and all these
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Speaker 1: helicopters took off into the horizon and disappeared. After they
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Speaker 1: were all gone, Vicky realized that what she had just
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Speaker 1: witnessed was not the Second Coming of Christ because of
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Speaker 1: these military helicopters that arrived as this craft took off.
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Speaker 1: It told Vicky and also Betty that very likely this
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Speaker 1: was just a US military exercise of some sort. And
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Speaker 1: so a few moments later, Betty came back to the
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Speaker 1: car and sat in the driver's seat, and Vicky she
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Speaker 1: climbed back into her seat and lifted Colby up to
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Speaker 1: the middle seat as well, and for a moment, the
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Speaker 1: three of them just sat there in silence. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing blocking their way anymore. They're just sort of
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Speaker 1: trying to process what just happened. Eventually, Betty just put
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Speaker 1: the car in drive and began driving straight ahead, crossing
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Speaker 1: right over that scorch mark on the pavement where the
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Speaker 1: craft had been. About forty five minutes later, Betty pulled
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Speaker 1: up to Vicky's house and parked the car. Vicky and
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Speaker 1: Colby they got out, they said goodbye to Betty. They
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Speaker 1: didn't really talk about what they had just seen. They
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Speaker 1: just said good night, and then Vicky and Colby headed
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Speaker 1: inside the house, and as much as both of them
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Speaker 1: did have things to say about whatever it was they saw,
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Speaker 1: they just continued not to talk about it. They both
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Speaker 1: were just kind of eager to go to bed. However,
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Speaker 1: as Vicky was putting Colby to bed, he began to
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Speaker 1: complain that his stomach hurred, and at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Vicky began to realize that she also didn't feel very well,
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Speaker 1: and shortly after that, both of them were vomiting in
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Speaker 1: the bathroom, and this scared Vicky. You know. She tried
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Speaker 1: to tell herself that, you know, maybe the reason they
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Speaker 1: were sick is because they ate some bad food at
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Speaker 1: that truck stop, But deep down, Vicky was very concerned
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Speaker 1: that their nausea was somehow connected to that strange craft.
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Speaker 1: And so it was a very long night, with Vicky
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Speaker 1: and Colby being nauseous most of the time, but eventually
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Speaker 1: they both did fall asleep, and then when Vicky got
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Speaker 1: up the next morning, she still felt awful, and so
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Speaker 1: Vicky she rolled out of bed and made her way
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and when she looked at herself in
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Speaker 1: the mirror, she gasped her skin was bright red and blistered,
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Speaker 1: like she had had this horrible sunburn. At this point,
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Speaker 1: she knew whatever was going on here, it had to
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Speaker 1: do with that craft. She just knew it. And so
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Speaker 1: Vicky instinctively rushed to Colby's room to check on him
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Speaker 1: to see if his skin was all blistered and red,
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Speaker 1: and she found he was still sleeping, but she could
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Speaker 1: see his skin was red and blistered in some places,
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Speaker 1: but not nearly as bad as Vicky's. And so Vicky
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Speaker 1: she began thinking about the night before, and she remembered
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Speaker 1: she had gotten out of the car and gotten closer
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Speaker 1: to the craft, so she was sort of more exposed
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Speaker 1: to the craft, if you will, than Colby, who stayed
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Speaker 1: in the car and tucked himself down underneath the dashboard
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Speaker 1: the whole time. And so maybe Vicky's exposure to the
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Speaker 1: craft was higher than Colby's, which is why she looked worse.
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Speaker 1: But as Vicky was thinking this through, she remembered that
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Speaker 1: Betty had actually stayed outside the car for ten fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 1: much longer than Vicky had the whole time just staring
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Speaker 1: directly at this craft, and so immediately Vicky was worried that,
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Speaker 1: you know, if this is what happened to me, I
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Speaker 1: can only imagine what shape Betty is in. And so
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Speaker 1: Vicky ran to the phone. She picked it up, and
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Speaker 1: she dialed Betty's number, and she listened, and it just
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Speaker 1: kept on ringing and ringing. Betty didn't answer. Now, at
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Speaker 1: this point, Vicky was in a full blown panic, not
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Speaker 1: only because she was worried about Betty, but also, you know,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't really know what's wrong with her or with Colby.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't know if their sickness is going to get
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Speaker 1: worse or better. Currently, she felt horrible, she was nauseous,
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Speaker 1: her skin seemed to be practically falling off. Colby was
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Speaker 1: in less bad shape, but still not healthy. And also
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Speaker 1: Vicky didn't have the money to even go to the
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Speaker 1: doctor to get looked at. And so as much as
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Speaker 1: Vicky really wanted right now to just go check on Betty,
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Speaker 1: go drive to her house and check on her, she couldn't.
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Speaker 1: She needed to focus on herself and her grandson first
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Speaker 1: and make sure they were okay before she did anything else.
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Speaker 1: And so, over the next few days, Vicky and Colby
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Speaker 1: stayed home. They slowly regained their strength, and over those
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Speaker 1: few days, Vicky actually would get Betty on the phone
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Speaker 1: and Betty would tell her that, yes, she's also dealing
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Speaker 1: with similar symptoms, but she was okay, which was very
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Speaker 1: reassuring to Vicky. However, Vicky also knew that Betty was
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Speaker 1: not a complainer, and even if she did have horrendous symptoms,
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Speaker 1: she was not the type of person who would necessarily
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Speaker 1: tell Vicky. She would sort of tough it out. Finally,
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Speaker 1: after five days, Vicky felt strong enough to go check
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Speaker 1: on Betty in person. However, when she got to Betty's
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Speaker 1: house and went inside, she called out for Betty, but
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Speaker 1: there was no answer. The house was eerily quiet, and
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Speaker 1: so Vicky began walking around Betty's house looking for Betty,
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Speaker 1: and eventually Vicky walked down a hallway and reached Betty's
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Speaker 1: bedroom and the door was shut. Vicki called out for Betty,
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Speaker 1: but there was no answer from inside, and so, feeling
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Speaker 1: kind of scared at this point, Vicky reached down, she
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Speaker 1: turned the handle and opened the door, and immediately she
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Speaker 1: saw Betty on her bed, and Betty looked horrible. She
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Speaker 1: was barely conscious. Her entire body was red and blistered
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Speaker 1: and bleeding. There was vomit all over the bed sheets,
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Speaker 1: and there were all these huge clumps of Betty's hair
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Speaker 1: littering her pillow, and so Vicky was horrified. She rushed inside.
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Speaker 1: She scooped her friend up in between the two of
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Speaker 1: them that kind of hobbled out of the house. Vicky
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Speaker 1: put Betty in her car and they sped to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: A few hours later, Vicky was waiting in the emergency
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Speaker 1: room where Betty was being treated when Betty's doctor walked
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Speaker 1: into the waiting room, at which point Vicky stood up
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Speaker 1: and rushed over to him and said, Hey, what's going
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Speaker 1: on with Betty? You know what happened to her? What's
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Speaker 1: going on? But the doctor just shook his head and said,
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Speaker 1: you know, your friend, her skin is literally peeling off,
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Speaker 1: her face in sheets, and there are blisters breaking out
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Speaker 1: all over her body. He told Vicky that her symptoms
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Speaker 1: reminded him of radiation poisoning. However, he also told Vicky
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Speaker 1: that that was basically impossible. You know, for Betty, a
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Speaker 1: woman who lives in rural Texas, you know, where would
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Speaker 1: she go to come in contact with something that radioactive.
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Speaker 1: It just seemed not possible, so that couldn't be it.
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Speaker 1: But Vicky, when she heard this, felt like she knew
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Speaker 1: exactly how Betty came in contact with something highly radioactive.
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Speaker 1: It had to be that craft, and so without even
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Speaker 1: thinking about it, Vicky began pouring out the story of
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Speaker 1: how her and Betty had seen this light and then
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Speaker 1: this craft appeared on the road and it was shooting fire,
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Speaker 1: and then it flew off with helicopters all around it.
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Speaker 1: But as she was wrapping up her story, Vicky I
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Speaker 1: suddenly overcome with embarrassment because the doctor was now staring
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Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty one, Vicky was at her kitchen table
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Speaker 1: with the phone pressed to her ear. She was calling
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Speaker 1: her local senator, who she had already written to, to
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Speaker 1: try to tell him about the strange aircraft she had
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Speaker 1: seen that made her friend sick. But Vicky did not
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Speaker 1: have high hopes about this phone call because she had
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Speaker 1: already been ignored so many times by so many people
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Speaker 1: when it came to the story. So by this point,
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Speaker 1: Vicky and her grandson Colby had basically recovered from their
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Speaker 1: nausea and their burns. However, Betty had not recovered. She
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Speaker 1: was still cycling in and out of the hospital, she
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Speaker 1: was in constant pain, she still had burns all over
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Speaker 1: her and in fact, because of all these symptoms, she
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Speaker 1: had had to move in with her brother. Now, Vicky
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Speaker 1: was certain that all these symptoms Betty had were radiation
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Speaker 1: sickness caused by the radiation from this aircraft they came
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Speaker 1: in contact with, but it was like everybody they told
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Speaker 1: about this aircraft didn't believe them. Just then, Vicky heard
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Speaker 1: a woman's voice break through the hold music. It was
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Speaker 1: the local senator secretary, and so Vicky quickly explained why
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Speaker 1: she was calling and why she really wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: to the local senator. But the secretary just told Vicky
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Speaker 1: that yep, she'll pass this along to the senator and
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Speaker 1: he'll be in touch, and then she hung up. And
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Speaker 1: for Vicky, this was the moment she snapped. She felt
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Speaker 1: like trying to navigate the proper channels to try to
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Speaker 1: figure out what this aircraft was and what happened to
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Speaker 1: Betty was not working because clearly nobody was taking her seriously,
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Speaker 1: and so Vicky slammed the phone down and just sat there, frustrated,
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Speaker 1: having no idea what to do. But as she sat there,
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Speaker 1: Vicky remembered there was actually one place she had not
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Speaker 1: called yet, specifically because she didn't want to call this place.
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Speaker 1: It was a UFO research center, and Vicky hadn't called
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Speaker 1: because she did not believe the craft she had seen
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Speaker 1: was a UFO. She believed it was a military aircraft
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Speaker 1: because she had seen the helicopters escorting it away, and
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Speaker 1: that made the most sense. It had to be military.
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Speaker 1: But if she called the UFO Research Center and people
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Speaker 1: found out about that, it would make her look even
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Speaker 1: crazier because now she's claiming the craft was aliens or something.
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Speaker 1: But now Vicky felt like she had run out of options,
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Speaker 1: so she picked up the phone, grabbed the piece of
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Speaker 1: paper with the number on it, and dialed. A couple
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Speaker 1: days later, a scientist named John Schusler drove down the
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Speaker 1: winding wooded highway into Huffman, Texas. He was going to
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Speaker 1: meet up with Vicky. John was an aerospace engineer for NASA. However,
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Speaker 1: he also spent a lot of time investigating UFO sightings.
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Speaker 1: Vicki's call to that UFO Research Center had created a
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Speaker 1: lot of excitement in the UFO community, and the story
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Speaker 1: had eventually found its way to John, who decided he
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Speaker 1: would take on the case. Now, to be clear, John
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Speaker 1: was not into researching UFO sightings in order to prove
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Speaker 1: they really happened. Actually it was sort of the opposite.
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Speaker 1: He would look into reported UFO sightings in order to
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Speaker 1: prove they were not UFOs. He would find a rational,
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Speaker 1: scientific explanation that debunked the sighting. That's sort of what
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Speaker 1: he did. And so with Vicky's case, that was his
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Speaker 1: intention to go to Huffman Texas, talk to Vicki, and
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Speaker 1: explain away with science and rationale what happened here, that
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Speaker 1: this was not you know, aliens, this was something ordinary,
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Speaker 1: like a government aircraft. And so John eventually got to
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Speaker 1: Vicky's house and he went inside and he chatted with Vicky,
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Speaker 1: and she talked him through all the details of the story,
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Speaker 1: and then eventually they both left Vicky's house. They hopped
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Speaker 1: in their respective cars and headed out to go to
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Speaker 1: the actual site where this had happened. And when they
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Speaker 1: got there and John got out of the car, he
17:19
Speaker 1: didn't need Vicky to direct him to the specific site,
17:22
Speaker 1: because right in front of him was this really obvious
17:25
Speaker 1: black circle right in the middle of the road, as
17:28
Speaker 1: if the road itself had been melted and then re
17:30
Speaker 1: solidified and actually looked different. And Vicky said, that's where
17:35
Speaker 1: it was, that's where the craft was hovering. Those marks
17:37
Speaker 1: are from the craft. Now, this was great evidence that
17:40
Speaker 1: a craft really had been here, but John wanted more.
17:43
Speaker 1: He needed to figure out what kind of craft this
17:45
Speaker 1: really was, and so he told Vicky he was going
17:47
Speaker 1: to leave and go canvass the area for witnesses, and
17:50
Speaker 1: he told her he would keep her updated. So Vicky
17:53
Speaker 1: left and John drove up the road until he reached
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Speaker 1: some campsites and farmhouses, and John systematically went from door
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Speaker 1: to door and tent asking anybody if they had seen
18:03
Speaker 1: or heard any aircraft or anything strange on the night
18:06
Speaker 1: of December twenty ninth. Now, going into this, John didn't
18:09
Speaker 1: really know what to expect from these people he was asking.
18:11
Speaker 1: I mean, he's some random scientists showing up uninvited at
18:14
Speaker 1: people's homes asking if they'd seen strange lights in the sky. However,
18:18
Speaker 1: every single person he spoke to said that yes, they
18:22
Speaker 1: had seen that aircraft on December twenty ninth. However, they
18:25
Speaker 1: were obviously just farther away than Vicki and Betty and
18:28
Speaker 1: Colby had been. So now John felt like he had
18:30
Speaker 1: enough information to speak directly with military officials. However, when
18:35
Speaker 1: he contacted all the military bases in the area, all
18:38
Speaker 1: those officials he spoke to told him absolutely that on December
18:42
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, there were zero military operations happening. John found
18:46
Speaker 1: this very frustrating because to him, it seemed very clear
18:50
Speaker 1: that these officials were just lying to him, but what
18:53
Speaker 1: they were lying about and why was unclear. So John
18:57
Speaker 1: actually went to these military bases to speak to the
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Speaker 1: officials face to face, and when he did, he showed
19:03
Speaker 1: them all the witness testimonies saying what they had seen
19:06
Speaker 1: on December twenty ninth, and he also told them that
19:08
Speaker 1: with his own eyes he had seen the black scorched
19:12
Speaker 1: mark on the pavement where the pavement seemed to have
19:15
Speaker 1: literally melted in a ring and re solidified from the
19:18
Speaker 1: heat of this craft. And to John, I mean that
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Speaker 1: scorch mark almost proved something had been there, very likely
19:25
Speaker 1: a military craft. But all these military leaders, despite hearing
19:28
Speaker 1: this and hearing John's testimony, they just said, you know what,
19:31
Speaker 1: you can gather up all the evidence you think you
19:33
Speaker 1: have here, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't prove that
19:36
Speaker 1: we were in the area. There was no military craft
19:38
Speaker 1: there that night. And so the bottom line was the
19:41
Speaker 1: military was adamant they were not involved, and so the
19:44
Speaker 1: case really began to stall. John went home, but he
19:47
Speaker 1: couldn't stop thinking about the case, and so he kept
19:50
Speaker 1: in touch with his witnesses and periodically checked him with
19:52
Speaker 1: military officials, but nothing seemed to change, except that Betty
19:56
Speaker 1: continued to get sicker and sicker, and Vicki actually began
19:59
Speaker 1: to to develop other serious symptoms, like developing cataracts in
20:03
Speaker 1: one of her eyes. And then John got a frantic
20:06
Speaker 1: call from one of his witnesses. They told him they
20:08
Speaker 1: had just seen something truly incredible, and as John listened
20:12
Speaker 1: to the story, he felt his heart sink because now
20:15
Speaker 1: he knew the military had been lying to him about
20:18
Speaker 1: being out there on December twenty ninth. Clearly they had been,
20:21
Speaker 1: and very likely it was their aircraft that had made Betty,
20:25
Speaker 1: Vicky and Colby so sick. But now John also knew
20:28
Speaker 1: that any hope he had of proving this was now
20:31
Speaker 1: literally gone, because the witness told him that black government
20:35
Speaker 1: vehicles had rolled up to the incident site out on
20:38
Speaker 1: that road, and they had come along with construction vehicles,
20:41
Speaker 1: and for no clear traffic related reason, they had cut
20:44
Speaker 1: up one particular stretch of that road, taken it with them,
20:49
Speaker 1: and left. And that particular stretch of road that was
20:52
Speaker 1: removed just happened to be the exact spot where that
20:56
Speaker 1: scorch mark had been left by the craft. It was
20:59
Speaker 1: like they were taking the evidence and getting rid of it. Now,
21:02
Speaker 1: John himself was not able to literally go back to
21:04
Speaker 1: the road and see for himself where the pavement had
21:07
Speaker 1: been cut. However, not long after John learned this information,
21:11
Speaker 1: a group of UFO scientists descended on the road to
21:14
Speaker 1: find this scorch mark, or to prove it had been
21:17
Speaker 1: cut out and taken away like the witness had said.
21:19
Speaker 1: And sure enough, when they got out there, they didn't
21:22
Speaker 1: find the scorch mark. Instead, they found nice, fresh, brand
21:26
Speaker 1: new pavement. The strange event that Vicky, Betty, and Colby
21:29
Speaker 1: experienced on the night of December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty
21:33
Speaker 1: is widely considered to be one of the most famous
21:35
Speaker 1: and credible UFO sightings of all time. It's now known
21:38
Speaker 1: as the cash Land Room Incident after Betty and Vicki's
21:41
Speaker 1: last names, and to this day, nobody has been able
21:44
Speaker 1: to come up with a rational explanation for what happened
21:47
Speaker 1: if it wasn't a UFO. To this day, the US
21:50
Speaker 1: government maintains that they did not have any military operations
21:53
Speaker 1: happening on December twenty ninth. However, they did say when
21:57
Speaker 1: it comes to cutting out the road and paving over it,
22:00
Speaker 1: that that was just for routine maintenance. They were not
22:02
Speaker 1: trying to hide evidence. As for Vicki and Betty, over
22:05
Speaker 1: the years, their health continued to deteriorate. They ultimately filed
22:09
Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the government, but because they couldn't actually
22:12
Speaker 1: prove that the aircraft even existed or that it caused
22:15
Speaker 1: their health problems, their lawsuit was ultimately dismissed. Both women
22:19
Speaker 1: would eventually die from cancer, which Colby believes is a
22:22
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22:26
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24:26
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24:29
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24:32
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24:35
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24:42
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