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Speaker 2: As I was in wrapped, five or six calls start
Speaker 2: coming in about a huge light in the sky. I
Speaker 2: was at a stop sign. A big beam of light
Speaker 2: came upon my vehicle. All at once. My car, shut off,
Speaker 2: my computer, my radio. I saw a huge light in
Speaker 2: the sky just hit my car. I had no idea
Speaker 2: what it was. I slammed my car in park, got
Speaker 2: out of the car. There was no sound. I couldn't
Speaker 2: hear anything. It lit this whole street up. Discovering there
Speaker 2: no sound, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I hop that Appliant J played the appliant o' play
Speaker 3: it cry you right for mission.
Speaker 1: Welcome to High Strange. A little after midnight in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, strange lights were seen over the northeastern sky
Speaker 1: of Ohio. Local residents from all around Trumbull County began
Speaker 1: calling into local news stations to report it. The following
Speaker 1: is the actual tape from the nine to one one
Speaker 1: dispatch center, and I dispatched.
Speaker 4: You report to any objects in the air but minutes.
Speaker 1: Roy Anne Rudolph was working at the dispatch center that
Speaker 1: night and Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 5: I was a dispatcher telecommunicator at the Trumbull County nine
Speaker 5: to one to one center. The first few hours were
Speaker 5: relatively quiet. Everybody was just settling in and we get
Speaker 5: a call from one of our local media personalities from
Speaker 5: a TV station and I get that.
Speaker 3: My health it could be saying normal saw something. Oh
Speaker 3: it's no noise, no noise, it was low flying and
Speaker 3: put the glowing object.
Speaker 5: We started getting a couple of phone calls about people
Speaker 5: who were seeing a light in the sky. How many
Speaker 5: called in, But I, I really don't know what that
Speaker 5: would be.
Speaker 1: At first, she thought this whole thing might be a joke,
Speaker 1: or at the very least a misinterpretation of something normal
Speaker 1: in the sky, like a balloon or a plane. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't long before she started receiving her own calls
Speaker 1: to the police station.
Speaker 5: The calls started spanning out a little bit from that area.
Speaker 5: Then the calls became more and more frequent.
Speaker 4: Ten hundred people already wreak, ran up and down.
Speaker 1: They hi ufo, okay she is, I mean I got
Speaker 1: a purpose.
Speaker 4: You were all masks.
Speaker 1: She tried to rationalize the report she was receiving, starting
Speaker 1: with the most obvious. It's a hoax or a small
Speaker 1: plane or a helicopter. Probably nothing worth a learning her
Speaker 1: police officers about. But the nine one one calls were
Speaker 1: multiplying faster than she could keep up.
Speaker 6: I just can't quite make it ostrolizin ocular that budger
Speaker 6: has not moved.
Speaker 5: They were upset by the object not moving.
Speaker 4: That's thing half thought.
Speaker 3: There's tends.
Speaker 1: Notice that I don't wanted it.
Speaker 3: See a red glow open that guy huge.
Speaker 4: I don't want their predators an osculars.
Speaker 7: I can't quite bake it out.
Speaker 4: They're changes colors from white to.
Speaker 1: Red, the green, but sect.
Speaker 3: That has not moved.
Speaker 1: They have gone any drisk and because I don't want
Speaker 1: the good can look.
Speaker 5: They were really upset because there was no noise.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear it now the only time I had
Speaker 3: with my car, Well, what.
Speaker 1: W it moving?
Speaker 3: Or yeah?
Speaker 4: Bowing like up in the air, blowing getting further away
Speaker 4: from it.
Speaker 1: The townspeople were clearly genuinely concerned. She took it upon
Speaker 1: herself to inform the officers of the situation. At this point,
Speaker 1: it warranted some real investigating.
Speaker 5: What typically happens is you dispatch the units, and I
Speaker 5: picked the officer I thought would respond without getting upset
Speaker 5: that I sent them on this because it just sounded
Speaker 5: so it just sounded like a lot to process. Of
Speaker 5: the three officers, I picked the one officer who was
Speaker 5: a friend of mine who I didn't think would be
Speaker 5: upset that I sent him.
Speaker 2: My name's Stobe Malaro, Liberty Township, Ohio. I'm a police officer.
Speaker 2: We were used to getting calls like that to see
Speaker 2: one thirties would be training and they would shut their
Speaker 2: lights off, sometimes open them up, So there was no
Speaker 2: big rush in going to check this out.
Speaker 1: Toby was dispatched to investigate what exactly was going on here.
Speaker 5: Hey, listen, there's some people who are flipping out. There's
Speaker 5: seen some lights in the sky and they are panicky
Speaker 5: about this. He said, all right, I'll head that way,
Speaker 5: give me a minute.
Speaker 2: As I was en wrapped, five or six calls start
Speaker 2: coming in about a huge light in the sky.
Speaker 5: We continue fielding calls and all of a sudden, other
Speaker 5: police units in the general vicinity start seeing it.
Speaker 4: Bob I Pwhere to god?
Speaker 5: Horror called in on an unidentified object? Every liberty horror
Speaker 5: call or call on an unidentified flying object.
Speaker 4: And you beat off the gun and encloy bottom high to.
Speaker 1: Check out, isn't that a UFO? Yeah, we got like
Speaker 1: these calls on it earlier taste.
Speaker 8: Luckily, what would you believe was the least opinion hid
Speaker 8: out of the.
Speaker 4: UFO And we got like hid calls on earlier.
Speaker 2: Today and they're looking again left within yet a couple
Speaker 2: of different people the officers did they call it?
Speaker 1: One of the hold officers, I did he fall covering
Speaker 1: it like a ten minute man.
Speaker 4: It's pretty messed up. We got across some last playing
Speaker 4: we got.
Speaker 3: The night.
Speaker 7: Over.
Speaker 1: A dozen officers had reported to roy Anne that they
Speaker 1: had seen a UFO, and she passed this information into
Speaker 1: all active law enforcement units in the area an attempt
Speaker 1: to triangulate where this thing was.
Speaker 5: These are seasoned police officers, people who have great credibility,
Speaker 5: and now they're seeing some things. And you start hearing
Speaker 5: these other departments talking over the various frequencies and the
Speaker 5: other dispatchers are speaking and conversing about these lights. These
Speaker 5: officers were ten twenty miles apart from one another, and
Speaker 5: they're all saying they're seeing these formations, they're seeing these lights.
Speaker 5: And that changed.
Speaker 3: Everything from like a white the white at read to
Speaker 3: Paul thinging green labor.
Speaker 5: What did you really think it was?
Speaker 3: I don't know any here, conor kill whatever it is
Speaker 3: the big under Klam provid.
Speaker 1: It became clear that whatever was happening in the skies
Speaker 1: wasn't going away anytime soon. Multiple police stations are reporting
Speaker 1: the same things. What they were seeing in the sky
Speaker 1: that night was reported to be as big as a
Speaker 1: football field, hovering low and emitting no sound at all.
Speaker 5: When you start hearing people who have been respected members
Speaker 5: of the law enforcement community and you say, okay, this
Speaker 5: now has a little bit more credibility, what do you do?
Speaker 8: How do you handle that?
Speaker 1: One of the officers who witnessed the object that night,
Speaker 1: named Lieutenant James Baker, decided to climb an abandoned radar
Speaker 1: tower to get a better look. According to Baker, there
Speaker 1: wasn't just one UFO, but three, forming a triangle and
Speaker 1: flashing color in Unison. Multiple officers were in pursuit of
Speaker 1: the object in their patrol cars speeding through town trying
Speaker 1: to keep up with it.
Speaker 2: I told him to call the airbase to see if
Speaker 2: they had anything on radar or if they had some
Speaker 2: type of plane at or something going on.
Speaker 5: Ah yeah, dude, at the orient, IM look attach to
Speaker 5: plate the department.
Speaker 1: We recorded some flying.
Speaker 4: Object at our action.
Speaker 3: You know, if anything, it should be in our airspace
Speaker 3: at the time, close to.
Speaker 1: The ground, the UHD belt.
Speaker 8: But I go, I am a little young.
Speaker 4: Not out there.
Speaker 3: I'm not there, and go.
Speaker 5: I didn't anticipate I'd get a lot, but I certainly
Speaker 5: didn't expect to hear there's nothing.
Speaker 1: Within a sixty mile radius. Nothing at all was appearing
Speaker 1: on the FAA's radar systems.
Speaker 5: I would like to think it could have been something
Speaker 5: from the air base. My conversation with the gentleman that
Speaker 5: I spoke with at the airbase, it was a little
Speaker 5: bit unsettling, only because his sincerity, the honesty in him
Speaker 5: telling me I see nothing, and made a shudder because
Speaker 5: you expected him to come back with some kind of answer.
Speaker 2: It was a December night, but it was really hot
Speaker 2: out time. It was like sixty degrees was close to midnight.
Speaker 1: Well heading to the scene of the latest sighting, Toby
Speaker 1: was approached by a nervous bystander in the neighborhood. He
Speaker 1: was standing in the street and waved him down as
Speaker 1: he approached in a squad car.
Speaker 2: He actually stopped me when I was coming down the road,
Speaker 2: walked out to the street and said it had just
Speaker 2: been over his house.
Speaker 1: The man was visibly unsettled and claimed that just moments
Speaker 1: ago he had seen the objects hovering directly above his house.
Speaker 2: I said, what was this over your house? I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the skies. I don't see anything. To be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I thought maybe this guy had been drinking
Speaker 2: a little bit. What direction did it go?
Speaker 1: He said?
Speaker 3: South.
Speaker 1: At first, Toby didn't believe this man, but that was
Speaker 1: about to change.
Speaker 2: I told him to go back in his house, go relax,
Speaker 2: and I'll check it out. I continued down the street
Speaker 2: the direction he told me he had it south.
Speaker 5: Toby arrives in the area, marks himself in the area.
Speaker 5: We have what we call a checkup, what's called a
Speaker 5: code six, and that means everything okay with you, and
Speaker 5: if it is, you acknowledge that nothing's wrong. I gave
Speaker 5: Toby several Code six and I was getting nothing back.
Speaker 1: Toby went radio silent.
Speaker 5: I don't know if something bad happened to him. I
Speaker 5: don't know if something happened to his car. I don't
Speaker 5: know if he had an accident. But he was not responding,
Speaker 5: and that's a problem when you're a dispatcher. That is
Speaker 5: the worst fear of any dispatcher.
Speaker 1: She continued to send out the RUOK communication called Code six,
Speaker 1: but for ten full minutes she was getting no response
Speaker 1: at all. At this point, the situation escalated to all
Speaker 1: hands on deck. Officers from all around the county were
Speaker 1: sent to check on him. It felt like an eternity.
Speaker 5: There are times when people, Hey, I stepped into the
Speaker 5: restroom and I didn't bring my portable with me. There
Speaker 5: are times when that happens. But you have a responsibility
Speaker 5: to send people start them in that direction. It's a lifeline.
Speaker 2: I was at a stop sign. A big beam of
Speaker 2: light came upon my vehicle all at once. My car
Speaker 2: shut off, my computer, my radio. I was still in drive.
Speaker 2: A huge light in the sky has hit my car.
Speaker 2: I slammed my car in park, got out of the car.
Speaker 2: I had no idea what it was. Initially I thought
Speaker 2: it was a plane. However, there was no sound. I
Speaker 2: couldn't hear anything. I had that physically shilled my eyes.
Speaker 2: Just an intense, bright light about one hundred feet above
Speaker 2: tree level. It lit this whole street up, just covering
Speaker 2: there no sound. It was long, oval in shape, the
Speaker 2: size of a football fielder better. I was trying to
Speaker 2: determine exactly what it was. I've never seen anything that intense,
Speaker 2: that bright without making noise. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it just shot off. As it moved on, everything in
Speaker 2: my car turned back on. My car started back up.
Speaker 2: At that point, I started a radio my location. They
Speaker 2: were asking me if I was Code six. Was meant,
Speaker 2: are you okay? They said I was off air. I
Speaker 2: think like four minutes. That didn't seem right. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm fine. I told them what I saw the direction
Speaker 2: of travel of the light. I gave them a direction
Speaker 2: of travel, and they start pursuing the lights another jurisdictions
Speaker 2: start picking that up, saying that we see it. I've
Speaker 2: lived there all my life and I know that these
Speaker 2: planes fly. You know, maybe the air Force is trying
Speaker 2: out a different type of airplane and they're not going
Speaker 2: to tell you what they're doing. As time progressed, we
Speaker 2: tried to get information from the military base. They didn't
Speaker 2: want to even say anything about it. That's where my
Speaker 2: rationale came that it was something from the base itself.
Speaker 2: I really didn't think it was anything more than that
Speaker 2: initially until the calls were coming back that there's nothing
Speaker 2: up in the sky. Then I didn't know what to think.
Speaker 2: Why would they be lying it was a strange occurrence.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to get into is it
Speaker 2: from another world? I you know, I didn't want to
Speaker 2: get into that, but hey, anything's possible. My logic, my
Speaker 2: way the rationalized. What I saw was it was something
Speaker 2: from the military base, some type of plane they were
Speaker 2: testing out, and obviously they don't want that information to
Speaker 2: get out.
Speaker 5: I don't know what went on that specific night. That
Speaker 5: was a complete anomaly. I'm hesitant to put any kind
Speaker 5: of title on it or label it. I expected to
Speaker 5: come back with something tangent you could offer people, and
Speaker 5: there was nothing we could provide anybody.
Speaker 2: For me, knowing the area, knowing that we have an
Speaker 2: air base, that just made sense to me. Everybody denied
Speaker 2: that it had anything to do with our military base.
Speaker 2: From the base, they said they had nothing on radar
Speaker 2: at all. Maybe for someone else it being aliens would
Speaker 2: fit their logic, But our base is one of the
Speaker 2: bigger air force bases, you know, could it it came
Speaker 2: from there?
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: I just know that I've been a police officer for
Speaker 2: thirty years. I've never had anything like that ever happen before.
Speaker 2: There's been sightings forever, going back to before christ. I
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what it was, but I know what
Speaker 2: I saw.
Speaker 5: Being in law enforcement, you want solutions, you want finality.
Speaker 5: There's nothing finite about what happened that night.
Speaker 7: Last Thursday, on the Paul Benzaquin Show, Wei heard a
Speaker 7: carefully documented account of the sighting of an object in
Speaker 7: the sky.
Speaker 1: In the long history of UFO sightings throughout the entire world,
Speaker 1: it's certainly safe to say they're not all alien spaceships.
Speaker 7: Her husband and her fourteen year old son had seen
Speaker 7: an extremely bright object sixty three degrees high on the
Speaker 7: eastern sky. She said it could have been as bright
Speaker 7: as the moon and was traveling at a speed her
Speaker 7: husband calculated at twenty two thousand.
Speaker 1: Five hundred miles per hour and no matter how strange
Speaker 1: those lights in the sky may appear, things are not
Speaker 1: always what they seem.
Speaker 7: The sighting would ultimately be identified, for the object was
Speaker 7: well known from the outset. When Missus Clinton was asked
Speaker 7: if the object was as bright as the moon, she
Speaker 7: said it could have been. Of course it could.
Speaker 3: It was the moon.
Speaker 7: The moon, she described, was one day less than full,
Speaker 7: and by simply omitting its name, she caused a flurry
Speaker 7: of calls. Based on the most identifiable object in the
Speaker 7: night sky. It is fair to wonder this among the
Speaker 7: nine thousand UFOs reported over the past ten years or so,
Speaker 7: how many.
Speaker 1: Were like this one.
Speaker 6: She just kind of illustrates the illusionary perception of shapes.
Speaker 1: Here's Mick West, investigative skeptic.
Speaker 6: There was a minor case on Twitter a while ago
Speaker 6: where someone in Orlando was seeing these circles of lights
Speaker 6: in the sky. It looked like a giant alien spaceship
Speaker 6: covering above the clouds. Luckily she got the street sign
Speaker 6: in the video shot, and I tracks down which street
Speaker 6: that was, and where she was standing and what direction
Speaker 6: she was looking in, plugged it into Google Earth. Five
Speaker 6: miles over in that direction was Disney World. The obvious sounds.
Speaker 6: Was use looking at the Disneyland light show and there
Speaker 6: was a low clouds reflecting that light show. You get
Speaker 6: things that match, but you can't come out and say
Speaker 6: one hundred percent that's what it was. It's a coincidence
Speaker 6: that in five miles in that direction was Disneyland, and
Speaker 6: they often have light shows with Reynolds from Forest. It's
Speaker 6: a coincidence that in the direction they were looking there's
Speaker 6: a lighthouse. Does it solve it one hundred percent? Not
Speaker 6: for everybody, but I think it really moves that explanation
Speaker 6: to the top of the list.
Speaker 1: For decades, UFO hoaxes have continued to muddy the water.
Speaker 1: It's like Bigfoot or the Locknest Monster. As soon as
Speaker 1: you find out that really crazy video you saw was
Speaker 1: just a prank, it can start to make you question
Speaker 1: everything in a lot of these UFO hoaxes have been
Speaker 1: pretty damn convincing.
Speaker 5: A strange site, red blinking lights could be seen across
Speaker 5: Moors County, New Jersey.
Speaker 6: Last night.
Speaker 1: I looked up outside and I was really scared, and
Speaker 1: I just saw these five red light One night in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, there were multiple reports of a UFO outside
Speaker 1: the suburb of Morristown.
Speaker 8: At eight twenty eight, the Hanover Township Police received the
Speaker 8: first of seven nine.
Speaker 1: To one one calls. There were dozens of witnesses, panicky
Speaker 1: phone calls to police, an extensive local news coverage.
Speaker 6: It was unsettling, Yeah, for sure, just because you're watching
Speaker 6: something that you have no idea, you've never seen before.
Speaker 1: Eyewitness accounts are not always accurate.
Speaker 6: You got very different accounts from different people. Some people
Speaker 6: will just say they saw a light. Some people will
Speaker 6: say they saw like a triangle shaped craft, or some
Speaker 6: people say they saw things that were the size of
Speaker 6: a football field flying overhead.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, a group of friends decided
Speaker 1: to document their own UFO hoax.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: Here's the flare.
Speaker 2: What we're doing is we're just putting a little fishing
Speaker 2: line around the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: They tied flares to helium balloons and one at a
Speaker 1: time just let them off in the air. We're about
Speaker 1: to go out and do our int all hoax, and
Speaker 1: you what kind of reactually can get. And before they
Speaker 1: knew it, people were calling into local news stations. The
Speaker 1: prank has worked. The unifleet, it's all over the News
Speaker 1: News Twell, New Jersey. Just as they planned. They folded
Speaker 1: the whole town into believing an alien spacecraft was about
Speaker 1: to take over New Jersey.
Speaker 8: Roadside flares attached to helium balloons.
Speaker 1: But how easy are these to really pull off? And honestly,
Speaker 1: how common is it?
Speaker 6: The difficult thing with UFO hoaxes is really have people
Speaker 6: keeping quiet about it. There was a case in France
Speaker 6: where the fated say UFO sighting by attaching a light
Speaker 6: stick to a drone. Some people interpreted them as being UFOs,
Speaker 6: And there's all these different accounts obviously because there's different people.
Speaker 6: It's not hard at all to fake things. Tie something
Speaker 6: to a drone or have a drone with big splashing
Speaker 6: lights or something fly that over a few neighborhoods and
Speaker 6: someone's going to see it. If you wanted to simply
Speaker 6: create something that people would interpret as a UFO, it's
Speaker 6: not that hard.
Speaker 1: Well, let's just see then, if I wanted to make
Speaker 1: my own UFO hoax, could I actually pull it off?
Speaker 1: And will I go to jail? I'd met with my
Speaker 1: team and one of our producers, Dylan, was super into
Speaker 1: the idea, and he took it upon himself to create
Speaker 1: a UFO hoax master plan.
Speaker 8: We were sitting around drin gets some beers at a bar.
Speaker 8: We came up with this idea of creating our own
Speaker 8: UFO hoax. How hard would it be to make our
Speaker 8: own UFO. We considered flying up five or six drones
Speaker 8: with a bunch of different colored lights on it. It
Speaker 8: could we build something and fly it over the city,
Speaker 8: or like, how legal would that be? How illegal would
Speaker 8: that be? Would we all end up in prison for this?
Speaker 8: Building it in Atlanta over the city just seemed like
Speaker 8: a bad idea. In general, there's a good chance we
Speaker 8: could get arrested for flying an airspace restricted airspace. We
Speaker 8: almost needed a more open area somewhere where we could
Speaker 8: get away with this.
Speaker 1: We were filming some promotional videos for the podcast in Sedona, Arizona,
Speaker 1: and decided since we're out here, might as well make
Speaker 1: the best of it.
Speaker 8: Right out the middle of the desert. We figured, Hey,
Speaker 8: this could be the perfect time to try this out.
Speaker 8: We're in the desert, we're not near any airports, so
Speaker 8: we'd come up with all these different concepts of how
Speaker 8: to do this. I finally settled on this idea of
Speaker 8: creating a helium filled saucer shaped balloon. I talked to
Speaker 8: Paint about it, and we decided this would be the
Speaker 8: perfect time in place to do something like this. I
Speaker 8: built a prototype to begin with, just to make sure
Speaker 8: that this concept would actually work, and I built the
Speaker 8: prototype out of a really thin plastic sheeting, basically the
Speaker 8: plastic sheeting you'd put down if you were to like
Speaker 8: paint your house or something. The sheeting that I used
Speaker 8: was incredibly thin, which was great for my weight to
Speaker 8: lift ratio. It made the craft very light, but it
Speaker 8: also made it very puncturable. It made it very likely
Speaker 8: to pop or explode because it was just so thin
Speaker 8: you could almost stick your finger through it just trying
Speaker 8: to work with it. The first thing I think is
Speaker 8: I need a thicker plastic sheet because that's going to
Speaker 8: make this craft more durable. It's going to make sure
Speaker 8: that when we send it up it doesn't catch on
Speaker 8: some tree branch somewhere and just rip a big hole
Speaker 8: in it. But that also means it's four times the weight,
Speaker 8: and this weight ratio is the biggest thing that I'm
Speaker 8: struggling with. How do I make this craft light enough
Speaker 8: that it'll float, but big enough that it can be
Speaker 8: seen and strong enough that it's durable and won't blow
Speaker 8: in the wind and explode in the sky or catch
Speaker 8: on something or rip. The big thing with helium bloom
Speaker 8: is it has to be incredibly light. You need a
Speaker 8: lot of it to pick up even a little bit
Speaker 8: of weight. One hundred and fifty cubic feet of helium
Speaker 8: to fill this thing. I spend pretty much a full
Speaker 8: day just looking on Arizona for helium. Apparently there's a
Speaker 8: helium shortage in America right now. So I finally find
Speaker 8: some industrial warehouse that has an excess supply of helium.
Speaker 8: So I walked in and I'm just an average looking
Speaker 8: guy and I walk in. I'm like, hey, I need
Speaker 8: one hundred and fifty cubic feet of helium, and he's
Speaker 8: what do you need that for it? It's a lot
Speaker 8: of helium. You're filling something up. So that was very
Speaker 8: direct with him about it. I'm building a UFO. He
Speaker 8: laughed and said, well, you know, I'll sell it to you,
Speaker 8: but I better not see this on the news later.
Speaker 1: Well that's kind of the point. The whole goal is
Speaker 1: to get this thing in the air and on the news.
Speaker 8: I have all these materials, thousands of dollars worth of materials,
Speaker 8: just strewn around our Airbnb. Taping every part of it
Speaker 8: that I can think of, looking for holes, looking for
Speaker 8: any place where helium can escape. Any hole that's bigger
Speaker 8: than the atom of helium it'll leak out of. Taping
Speaker 8: every edge, every corner, every crease. I've rechecked. I've done
Speaker 8: the math two or three times. The amount that we
Speaker 8: have will fill this craft, and it should be light
Speaker 8: enough and buoyant enough that it'll float.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a solid plant. I watched this. Dylan and
Speaker 1: the rest of the crew put together this craft outside
Speaker 1: the parking lot of our Airbnb.
Speaker 8: This has to work. This hoax has to work. We've
Speaker 8: spent so much time, so much money has been invested,
Speaker 8: and it's going to work. It's now two am, because
Speaker 8: I spent all day. It's below freezing outside. You can't
Speaker 8: see anything in front of you. Taping the last little bit.
Speaker 8: Put the lights on. I turned the lights on. We're
Speaker 8: ready to go. Pick this thing up. It's nine feet
Speaker 8: across in diameter.
Speaker 1: It's huge.
Speaker 8: We start to fill it up.
Speaker 1: Is it going in there?
Speaker 8: It's filling, It's looking great. I'm getting really excited I did,
Speaker 8: my confidence of this is totally gonna work.
Speaker 2: Really quick.
Speaker 8: Then all of a sudden, the helium tank just fizzles out.
Speaker 8: That was all the helium. This thing isn't even half
Speaker 8: full of helium yet not floating by any means. It's
Speaker 8: definitely still crashing to the ground. All that time invested
Speaker 8: and there's no more helium. It was devastating, and I'll
Speaker 8: admit I definitely had to just like go sit down
Speaker 8: in a corner somewhere and just question all my life
Speaker 8: decisions coming up to that point. I cried in a
Speaker 8: corner by myself. And then after that I just got
Speaker 8: so fed up with it. I was so angry and
Speaker 8: I had nowhere to release my anger, so I released
Speaker 8: it on the UFO. It was such a solid design.
Speaker 8: I felt pretty good about destroying that which I had created. Yes,
Speaker 8: even though our hoax didn't work out, I think I
Speaker 8: still learned a really valuable lesson. Hoaxes are really hard
Speaker 8: to pull off. You hear all these stories all the
Speaker 8: time about everything in the sky must be a hoax.
Speaker 8: It must be a balloon, it's a drone, it's something
Speaker 8: like that. But the truth is, things that don't look
Speaker 8: like commercial aircraft nine times out of ten. Take a
Speaker 8: lot of very capable knowledge to pull off. A million
Speaker 8: things need to go right and nothing can go wrong
Speaker 8: for something like that to really happen. But again, I'm
Speaker 8: no scientists, I'm not an engineer, just some guy.
Speaker 1: Dylan was greatly disappointed. But at the last minute we
Speaker 1: decided to try one more thing. We took our drone,
Speaker 1: then suspended a really bright led light from the bottom
Speaker 1: of it, then just flew it up in the air
Speaker 1: as high as we could get it. And I will
Speaker 1: say it does look pretty uphoe. You can check it
Speaker 1: out for yourself on our Instagram and TikTok page. Just
Speaker 1: go to at high Strange I uploaded the full length
Speaker 1: UFO hoax adventure or shall I say fail, Sorry, Dylan.
Speaker 1: Some of the most infamous UFO cases throughout our history
Speaker 1: have clearly challenged all rational explanations. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: they're entirely true, but they've stood the test of time
Speaker 1: enough that they still puzzle us today. But there's a
Speaker 1: difference between claiming to see strange lights in the sky
Speaker 1: and living out a literal nightmare. Some cases are not
Speaker 1: just weird or hard to explain some of them are
Speaker 1: flat out terrifying, and the following story takes the cake
Speaker 1: for the scariest claim that I've ever heard, Say and Farnie.
Speaker 2: Who will be speaking to us long distance from Forceless,
Speaker 2: New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: Oh, which one have I got on a miner of
Speaker 3: I got your photo? That's you, Barney?
Speaker 6: Are you there?
Speaker 1: On September nineteenth, nineteen sixty one, newly Weed's Betty and
Speaker 1: Barney Hill were traveling overnight along US Route three, a deserted,
Speaker 1: empty road in the mountains of New Hampshire. What transpired
Speaker 1: that night changed their lives forever, and would arguably inspire
Speaker 1: and shape the horror genre of alien encounters in pop
Speaker 1: culture forever. We have to go back to nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 3: It starts as full into this overe Yes, that's ry
Speaker 3: September nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 7: That's when whatever happens happened.
Speaker 1: Yes, Barney Hill worked for the Postal Service and his
Speaker 1: wife Betty was a social worker. It was a cool,
Speaker 1: crisp night, the moon visible in the clear sky. Barney
Speaker 1: was driving down USU three as their dogs slept at
Speaker 1: Betty's feet.
Speaker 3: Betty and I were He's setting from a vacation rip
Speaker 3: in Canada and arrived in New Hampshire closem chopped in
Speaker 3: a town called cold Brook, mil Ham. Here happy with
Speaker 3: Poppy and the hamburger, and we laughed Bob.
Speaker 1: After Barney finished his burger and Betty had a slice
Speaker 1: of chocolate cake. They figured they could make it home
Speaker 1: from the diner at around two or three am. The
Speaker 1: roads were basically empty that night, as it was too
Speaker 1: early for ski or hunting season. While gazing at the moon,
Speaker 1: Betty noticed a bright star to the left of it,
Speaker 1: and then another star appearing right above it that was
Speaker 1: slowly getting bigger and brighter.
Speaker 4: Betty called my attention to the object alike for face
Speaker 4: for for move after it, and decided to come in.
Speaker 1: Barney was a World War Two vet and enjoyed plane watching.
Speaker 1: He was almost instantly convinced that the objects was likely
Speaker 1: something conventional and paid little attention to it.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I was.
Speaker 3: Totally close about and flying frogs and so your left falls.
Speaker 1: Throughout their drive, they both continued to watch the object
Speaker 1: as the trees and mountains surrounding them began obstructing their view.
Speaker 3: Now that you can see in the sky like a
Speaker 3: light lit the sky in the background.
Speaker 1: Betty noticed that the lights on the objects were behaving
Speaker 1: differently than that of a normal plane, but would typically
Speaker 1: be a single red blinking light appear to be changing
Speaker 1: colors in an unusual pattern.
Speaker 3: The objects is how blowing along the same directly that
Speaker 3: we were going.
Speaker 1: For a moment, it felt like they were being followed
Speaker 1: by the object.
Speaker 4: The object went around the wind.
Speaker 6: How in front of them.
Speaker 1: Both Betty and Barney could see the craft clearly through
Speaker 1: their windshield.
Speaker 3: I got out of the gue and the objects which
Speaker 3: brought it over the driver side of the cot, and
Speaker 3: I became determined that to find outlass and had to
Speaker 3: have some natural explaining.
Speaker 4: They stopped the car again again, got out, took with
Speaker 4: them with binoculars that were on the front seat. They
Speaker 4: looked through the binoculars and saw this object covering perhaps
Speaker 4: a hundred feet above that cock and one side of
Speaker 4: the road. The song movement.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it wins monoculus, and I can't believe
Speaker 3: what I am seen.
Speaker 1: Barney described the craft as wide as three telephone poles
Speaker 1: and made no noise wins of monocalyus.
Speaker 3: I can concerned what I call figures moving about at
Speaker 3: a huge plate glass.
Speaker 4: That came to curve around.
Speaker 1: Barney could see a double row of windows on this
Speaker 1: pancake shaped object. He pulled into a nearby field to
Speaker 1: get a closer look, when he saw something much more
Speaker 1: unsettling inside the craft that was hovering there. He could
Speaker 1: see half a dozen living beings wearing what appeared to
Speaker 1: be black uniforms, staring directly at him.
Speaker 3: These thinkers that we're looking savingly sound was me because
Speaker 3: the object was tilted and I could see with the monocalypse.
Speaker 3: When I thought were going up, touching or pulling off, leaving,
Speaker 3: I was just completely fasted to Betty has singed. I
Speaker 3: pulled the monocolates waves on my eyes, stashing back to
Speaker 3: the car, claiming to Betty, Oh my god, I said, Betty,
Speaker 3: this is going to get answer. Guitar put it the
Speaker 3: and the objectised it over his.
Speaker 4: They now got into that car and sped away for
Speaker 4: what they thought was their own wives. The rounded the
Speaker 4: curves to the left, and that car in expectedly just stopped.
Speaker 4: The car vibrated.
Speaker 3: I felt with my hands on the steering wheel.
Speaker 4: I felt the singling.
Speaker 1: Colum After a tingling in the steering column, they heard
Speaker 1: a series of irregular beeps, then a haze came over them.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they realized they had traveled about
Speaker 1: thirty five miles from Indian Head to Ashland, New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: with no recollection of that part of the drive. They
Speaker 1: slowly approached what appeared to be a roadblock in the
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere.
Speaker 4: Alongside the road at round level was this immense, intense
Speaker 4: firange globe. Several men dressed in rather strange uniforms were
Speaker 4: lying across the road.
Speaker 1: They all stepped back, but one stayed behind and remained
Speaker 1: looking at him. Their eyes were unlike anything he'd seen before.
Speaker 4: That wouldn't stop. The man came over, removed him from
Speaker 4: the can escort them to the sauce of this light
Speaker 4: in the woods.
Speaker 1: Betty claimed that Barney was in some kind of sleepwalk
Speaker 1: state and wasn't answering when she called.
Speaker 4: Out to him, and they would taking a boy who
Speaker 4: purported to be a spaceship.
Speaker 1: They were placed on a metal table separate from each
Speaker 1: other as humanoid like creatures began taking samples of their hair, skin,
Speaker 1: and nails.
Speaker 4: For the next two hours, they were submitted to a
Speaker 4: complete physical and intellectual examination. Question about the life when
Speaker 4: they asked, so they just entered another world when they
Speaker 4: into that spaceship.
Speaker 1: Over seventy years later, the Betty and Barney hillcase remains
Speaker 1: one of the most horrifying and hardest to debunk cases
Speaker 1: in American history. Yes, please.
Speaker 9: Never forget that day.
Speaker 1: This is Kathleen Morten, the niece of Betty and Barney Hill.
Speaker 9: I was thirteen years old in nineteen sixty one when
Speaker 9: Betty and Barney were abducted.
Speaker 1: She recalls vividly the day that all their lives would
Speaker 1: change as a family.
Speaker 9: My mother was on the phone with Betty.
Speaker 6: I listened.
Speaker 9: My mother was concerned, and I knew that something was wrong.
Speaker 9: When she hung up the phone, she told me Betty
Speaker 9: and Barney had seen a flying saucer up close the
Speaker 9: night before. They were afraid they'd been contaminated.
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