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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: You are tuned in to Coast to Coast AM. Connie

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Speaker 2: Willis here with you find me at Connie Willis dot com.

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Speaker 2: I think you'll enjoy the shows that I've got for you,

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Speaker 2: good time, Blue Rock Talk, Connie after Dark and Connie

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Speaker 2: Willis the podcast that's free, and I appreciate that you

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Speaker 2: do that. When you do that, you'll hear people like

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Speaker 2: who I'm talking to right now tonight. He'll be on

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Speaker 2: eventually here with my podcast and my Blue Rock Talk.

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Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to that to Preston, and so

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Speaker 2: are the people that you know, my blue rockers. So

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Speaker 2: thank you for looking forward to that in the future.

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Speaker 2: You are all over the place. You've got a YouTube channel.

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Speaker 2: You're also you have a website, Preston Dinnitt dot weeble

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Speaker 2: dot com.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, yes, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Get that wee bley in there. Don't forget the weebly

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Speaker 2: you all. Preston Dennitt dot we bleed. Oh you're the

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Speaker 2: weebley guy. Yeah, you're the You're the weeblely Preston Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's me. That's me, and Preston is a p R

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Speaker 2: E S T O N. And the Dinnett is with

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Speaker 2: the two ends and the two t's and the two

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Speaker 2: e's d E N N E T T you can

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Speaker 2: do a song and the Weebley has two e's too.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you know it it today. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's like you got to find like one word that

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Speaker 2: everybody will remember right to get to your your stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's really kind of difficult. The memories are gone memories,

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Speaker 2: they're just gone nowadays. But you're finding people that are

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Speaker 2: pulling up some memories and remembering these encounters at the

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Speaker 2: drive in, and I just think that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's truly amazing.

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Speaker 2: Nice new content.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, it really shocked me. I thought

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Speaker 3: I pretty much covered the field uptown inside, and no,

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Speaker 3: there's always something new to learn. I don't know why

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Speaker 3: I keep thinking that, oh, I've heard it all, because no,

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Speaker 3: you haven't. Something always comes along and turns everything on

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Speaker 3: its head, and this absolutely did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what are so okay? So you know, there's

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Speaker 2: just like a handful it seems like to me there's

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Speaker 2: around or or are more starting to pop up again.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine that, But are they I loved them,

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Speaker 2: they were great. But it's a whole different world now.

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Speaker 2: But are there still some out there? And is this

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Speaker 2: phenomenon still happening?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, there used to be thousands. The real

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Speaker 3: heyday was the city. Yeah, sixties and seventies, thousands upon thousands.

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Speaker 3: This was the thing to do. People will go there

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Speaker 3: and there were playgrounds, prize giveaways, they work shows, petting zoo's,

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Speaker 3: balloon rides.

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Speaker 2: Mud wrestling. There was mud wrestle these.

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Speaker 3: Really, I kid you not, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not joking. We found this out last night.

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Speaker 3: It was the thing to do. But it did start

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Speaker 3: to fade away in the eighties when we got you know,

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Speaker 3: VCRs Home Entertainment. But there's still several hundred that have

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Speaker 3: hung on, and I've got current cases all the way.

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Speaker 3: I think the most recent one that was real solid,

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Speaker 3: because I found some later, but twenty fifteen that was

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Speaker 3: the most recent, really good case I found, which is

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Speaker 3: still fairly recent. Don't tell us, Oh you know, what

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Speaker 3: I'd really like to do, Connie is kind of take

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Speaker 3: you on a journey through time.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Because I mean it's like a movie how this rolls out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a story within a story with stories in there.

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Speaker 2: So no go please, thank you. The stage is yours.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead. It starts in the nineteen fifties, right, and

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Speaker 3: this is when it did really ramp up. As you know,

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Speaker 3: the Modern Age of UFOs was nineteen forty seven and

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Speaker 3: onwards with roswell in a huge super wave, and this

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Speaker 3: is when society really started to take notice. Of course,

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Speaker 3: it does go back thousands of years, but this has

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Speaker 3: Drive in on July twenty second, nineteen fifty Spartanburg, North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: There was a colonel or gosh, let's see, I believe

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Speaker 3: Several people in the theater saw it. So he sent

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Speaker 3: I thought, well, maybe that's a coincidence, but I don't

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Speaker 3: Terrorists driving in Bakersfield, California. It's a big theater space

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Speaker 3: for six hundred and fifty cars, and again there's a

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Speaker 3: military officers, I think because the reporters didn't believe regular

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Speaker 2: All right, right, makes sense, yep, right, I agree with

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, this is in Bakersfield and there's about six

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Speaker 3: This one was prescribed as cigar shaped. There's all different

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Speaker 3: the local sheriff's office. Deputy Sheriff Leroy Hatfields has taking

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Speaker 3: So they knew wow beginning, because back in the fifties,

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Speaker 3: Go away, there's no such thing. But they knew, they

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Speaker 2: sit back, hold on, let me go get some pop going.

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Speaker 3: All right, here's another one. Things aren't even getting exciting yet.

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Speaker 3: This is just the introduction. This is the little cartoon

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Speaker 3: really struck me profoundly. This was July seventeenth, nineteen fifty four,

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Speaker 3: Saint Louis, Missouri, at the Skyline Theater. All the people

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Speaker 3: to sweep over the parking lot and off to the side,

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Speaker 3: this time not next to the screen as usual. This

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Speaker 3: is much more interesting. And some people are getting scared

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Speaker 3: it up and Peter, his last name is Devenport. I'll

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Speaker 3: of like this guy needs to know where real, he's

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Speaker 2: H no, I can see that. Yeah, I totally I

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Speaker 2: totally get that. That makes sense. That's you know, no coincidence,

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Speaker 3: One more part of the pre show because this is

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Speaker 3: when I stud this is when I started to really

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Speaker 3: wonder what's going on here. There was a case at

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Speaker 3: Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island in Canada. I don't have

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Speaker 3: UFOs hovering over this theater so many times it came repeatedly.

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Speaker 3: Some of these theaters are visited repeatedly. It came over

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Speaker 3: so many times that the owners actually put it in

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Speaker 3: their marquee started to advertise, I want to see a

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Speaker 3: UFO come to our theater. I'm like, okay, because yeah.

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Speaker 3: I did find a number of cases like the Uma

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Speaker 3: Drive in in Arizona, where was visited repeatedly. Normally they'll

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Speaker 3: that's what they're doing. Okay, they are doing this intentionally

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Speaker 2: Is anybody getting pictures of any of these? By the way,

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Speaker 2: any pictures?

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Speaker 3: Oh and a few of the later ones they didn't

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Speaker 3: really come out, so I mean, I guess it's hard

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Speaker 3: to take a picture at night of a glowing object.

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Speaker 1: But back then.

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Speaker 3: Nothing great. Unfortunately there were with the school yard encounters.

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Speaker 3: They did get some great ones, but which is very

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Speaker 3: similar to this. But no, it wasn't until the sixties

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Speaker 3: that it really started to get exciting. And this is

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Speaker 3: when I'm like, I know what's going on here, because

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Speaker 3: there was this one case that really tipped it off

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Speaker 3: for me, and that was in May of nineteen sixty

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Speaker 3: three at the Wellington Circle twin And this was investigated

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Speaker 3: by George Fawcett, who, if you're a fan of the

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Speaker 3: early UFO guys, he's a hero. He investigated a lot

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Speaker 3: of cases, a great pioneering researcher. And this is in Medford, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 3: And these two discs dropped down and then moments later

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Speaker 3: down right on top of the first two. The first

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Speaker 3: two were in a row. The second two came right

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Speaker 3: on top, and then two more came, so there's sort

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Speaker 3: of two columns now and then two more. So we

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Speaker 3: have two columns of a total of eight discs. And

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Speaker 3: at this point the people were all looking at them,

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Speaker 3: not really watching the movie. And that's when these discs

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Speaker 3: put on a forty five minute long display, started playing

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Speaker 3: like musical chairs, darting around, rotating, darting back and forth,

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Speaker 3: dancing is how people described it. And after forty five

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Speaker 3: minutes they came back into the two columns and took off.

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Speaker 2: Well, isn't that interesting because like old Spielberg did the

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Speaker 2: uh don't du dn't du du you know, put on

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Speaker 2: this whole spectacle with close encounters right exactly? Remember that

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Speaker 2: that was like this whole thing. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 2: that reminded me of them doing that. I wonder if

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Speaker 2: they picked that up from there, could be there's an

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Speaker 2: idea why not as a good one? Wow? Forty five minutes?

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine?

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Speaker 2: No, that'd be great?

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Speaker 3: Wow. I mean that's when I started to realize, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I think I understand this because in that case that

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Speaker 3: people weren't too freaked out. Sometimes they absolutely lose their

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Speaker 3: minds and just screach out of the theater. But that's

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Speaker 3: when I started to realize, Okay, they are targeting the

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Speaker 3: theaters specifically, because there was a case not long after

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Speaker 3: that two years June twenty nine, nineteen sixty four at

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Speaker 3: lant To, Georgia. All the kids were in the bleachers

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Speaker 3: because the bleachers back in those days for some of

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Speaker 3: the people who wanted to watch the movie not from

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Speaker 3: their car.

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Speaker 2: And that's right.

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Speaker 3: This is disk sort of showed up in the back,

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Speaker 3: you know, over the trees, and one kids shouts out, hey,

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Speaker 3: just look like, hey, yeah, and it goes off and

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Speaker 3: then this same kids jumps up. He's like, it's back,

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Speaker 3: it's coming, and it comes right over the bleachers twenty

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Speaker 3: fifty feet high and just the ere everyone in the

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Speaker 3: bleachers scatters. These are mostly kids. They're running for their cars.

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Speaker 3: The main witness who reported this, I think, was to

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Speaker 3: move on ran with his cousin or sibling to the

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Speaker 3: snack stand and hid in there well, and he's looking

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Speaker 3: for his parents' cars because everyone's just losing their minds.

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Speaker 3: And finally he's like, let's creep out and see if

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Speaker 3: we can get there. But this disc is right over right,

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Speaker 3: exactly overhead, and he finally sees his family and they're

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Speaker 3: waving at him and make rush into their car and

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Speaker 3: take off. That one cleared the theater.

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