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Episode 3: UFO Sighting: Steve Armstrong · Hidden Creatures: Stories, Sightings, and the Search for What Hides in the Dark

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Hidden Creatures, Stories, Sightings, and the Search for What Hides in the Dark.
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  SPEAKER_06: Join us as we explore mysterious encounters, legendary creatures, and unexplained stories from around the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: From eyewitness accounts to local folklore, we'll follow the clues in search for the truth behind the unknown.
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  SPEAKER_06: Some stories may be unsettling, eerie, or hard to forget.
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  SPEAKER_06: Listener discretion is advised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something is out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Join us as we step into the shadows and follow the trail into the unknown.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Hidden Creatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's begin.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hello and welcome to the Hidden Creatures Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm your host, Lori Chen, and as always, with me my co-host and superior researcher on this podcast, Kristen Jones.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good evening.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are very excited today in our virtual studio.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have guest Steve Armstrong, and he has a story for us today that you might find a little disturbing or potentially fascinating.
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  SPEAKER_03: See what you think.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hi, Steve.
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  SPEAKER_03: How are you?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing very well.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_03: We would love to hear a little bit about you and your background.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anything you'd like to share before we get into your experience.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um Steve Armstrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a fleet manager for an art handling company.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's how I know Kristen was uh through that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I've been as a CDL driver for 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I spent a lot of time, a lot of time on the road, roads at night too.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: When we were doing this podcast, Kristen and I were talking about, you know, who's going to see more than anybody else and and truck drivers came to mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're out there alone a lot and um see some interesting things.
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  SPEAKER_03: Feel free to to take us back, maybe year, time, location, where you are, kind of if anything happened leading up to it, and and just kind of go from there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, it was probably and I've I've been trying to remember exactly when, but it's hard to tell sometimes, you know, because you drive for 20 years and they all start out start kind of running together.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh probably 2007, 2008, somewhere in that time frame.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was driving uh a night shift.
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  SPEAKER_01: We drove teams all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you know one of us was sleeping, the other one was awake.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh back then I drove mostly the nights.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we were coming through Colorado, and I remember I don't know how long I remember noticing it, but it didn't, you know, didn't really think too much about it at first.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there was uh just a couple of lights that you know were just off to my left, the driver's side.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I you know, it's like and they just kept following, just kept staying in the same place, same place, same place, same place.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, usually stuff, you know, even you know, like a star or something like that, you know, it kind of at least changes when you're when you turn with the road.
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  SPEAKER_01: This didn't, it stayed in the same place.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's when I really started paying attention to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um the more I paid attention to it, the more you know, weird stuff it started doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It would dip really fast, go back up really fast, stop, and then it would come back, and you know, just just drastic turns down, drastic to up, you know, and it just probably for about at least an hour, maybe uh two, it stayed with me the whole trip.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and just yes, I mean I I didn't want to stop because I was like, okay, I don't want to stop just because I don't want it to stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't want the the uh the event to stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was totally into you know being in that event happen and it happening while it was going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't want to uh to stop and it's and and then and then they just keep going and leave me behind.
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  SPEAKER_01: So so uh it was almost like they were riding with me for a good uh couple hours.
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  SPEAKER_01: It makes the night go by faster, I'll tell you that.
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  SPEAKER_03: So wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: So there were two and they stayed the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two lights, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: What was visibility like and weather?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um no no no clouds up in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and it's rur very rural um Colorado, two-lane highway, not even not even on the interstate.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were uh driving through this little mountain pass, you know, so lots of turns.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's why I kept that's why when when it stayed with me, and no matter when I was turning, that's why it kind of stay stood out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because usually, you know, if if you make a turn you know, whatever's turning, you know, goes and I can't see what my other arm, but you know, you're doing this and this, but this stayed in in conjunction with what I was doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was it was almost like they were following me on.
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  SPEAKER_04: That is a longer experience than than most people have, so that's pretty exciting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I said, I didn't want to stop because I didn't want it to be over.
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  SPEAKER_03: How did you what would what did you feel like?
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  SPEAKER_03: It you said like a companion almost.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It it's I've I've I've kind of opened, you know, been open to those types of experiences my whole life, you know, and and uh I don't shy away from it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I mean it was it was almost like somebody's just like, hey, how you doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: But like maybe they were driving the night shift too and just you know looking for a companion as well.
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  SPEAKER_04: So that's a good way to look at it.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: How far away would you guess they were like from you?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to judge, but uh I I mean closer than an airplane, further away than uh say a helicopter.
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  SPEAKER_03: What about speed?
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  SPEAKER_01: They you know, except for when they were doing the dips and turns, and you know, they they I mean they matched my speed perfectly.
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  SPEAKER_01: From my perspective, they were matching my pace perfectly.
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  SPEAKER_01: It felt like they noticed me, yes.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm assuming you were the only one out on the roads.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, it was pretty desolate out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: And your your sleeping companion was in the back, I'm guessing.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can't just like nudge him awake.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, it's a sleeper, it's it's a separate compartment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean there's there's just a a curtain between us, but you know, it's it's uh I mean I could have flipped the lights on and switched, you know, and but you know, again, I was afraid if I did something like that, it would make the make the event stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was enjoying the companionship.
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  SPEAKER_03: So have you ever had anything like that happen before or since?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing since.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was probably out near Mount Blanca.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have another friend who was very, very into the uh what they what they call the close encounters.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So so he was he's very, very into that type of um encounter and and trying to bring one on through meditation, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's it it it's that area, it was that area of Colorado where there have been a lot of sightings.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was not it was when I told him about this, he was like, he said, You were right there, you were right there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um apparently it's it's a it's a well-known area that uh that these type of sightings take place at.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_03: I have a few more questions because I'm so curious.
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  SPEAKER_03: Any physical uh reactions and you know, body or mind during or after anything different about your life after that?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: No, I just it it it it's and and I have since gone back.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: We I went with my the the friend I was telling you about, we went camping up up in that area just to see if maybe we could have another experience, but no, it nothing since and it it's I can't say there was any lingering feelings about it other than just you know, like I I will never forget that it happened.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's peaceful and and like I said, it felt it felt like companionship.
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  SPEAKER_03: Someone saying hello to you on a long drive.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It definitely kept me uh kept me awake for those couple hours, that's for sure.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: So it would have been interesting to hear you get on the was it the CB radio and call that in.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_03: Anyone else in the area?
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: It was nobody.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: There were liter literally nobody on the road that night.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you ever try to tell yourself it was a natural phenomenon?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Was it a light that was reflected, you know, if from inside the cab?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was there something else?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was there was it a shooting star?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was it a helicopter?
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: Was it some kind of military um you know, test or something that was happening?
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you've ever driven in a big truck, the thing you know you notice about them is they vibrate a lot.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: So something if something is reflecting off the interior of your truck, that you know, like like let's say I plugged in um uh a power adapter and it had a little light on it, it vibrates.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so if it's reflecting on this on the the the uh the glass and it was that, I've I think it would have vibrated.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is this did not vibrate like that, like not like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Plus the dips and ups and and you know I think and I'm trying to remember if it it's been it's been a a good long while, almost 20 years, how it stopped.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it you know, it did it if they just if it just went away or dipped behind the mountain and I stopped seeing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that and that is what I remember the most I feel like I remember the most that it just dipped behind one of the mountains and didn't come back.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: And that's so I think that's when I finally stopped and used the restroom.
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  SPEAKER_03: I've not heard of one that long, Kristen.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_03: Have you?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_04: I haven't.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_04: Um, not at all.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_04: But it felt comfortable around you to do it.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_03: I think they liked you, Steve.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I hope so, but yeah, I mean, you know, it was it was um it was an interesting night.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, that's uh that I will absolutely never forget.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um that's for sure.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for sharing your story.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, it's incredible, and I love that it was um not a scary story for you.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it was good to hear a happy, happy story about uh UFO sightings.
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  SPEAKER_02: These are the encounters as they happened, told by the people who lived through them.
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  SPEAKER_02: Whether they reveal the unknown or simply deepen the mystery, that's for you to decide.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: And if you've had a parable experience you'd like to share on this podcast, email us at hidden creatures podcast at gmail.com.
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  SPEAKER_02: Until next time, stay safe and don't wander too far alone in the dark.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_02: We have plenty more thrilling stories to share with you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Maybe one day we'll share your story too.