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

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George

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Speaker 1: Nori with you. Lon Strickler back with us, a forty

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Speaker 1: yean researcher, author, publisher of the syndicated Phantoms and Monsters blog.

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Speaker 1: He began the blog in two thousand and five, and

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Speaker 1: he has steadily grown its popularity and is read daily

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Speaker 1: by tens of thousands of paranormal enthusiasts, investigators, and those

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Speaker 1: seeking the truth. You've been busy this year, LN, Welcome back, Hey, George,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Yeah, it's been quite busy. My gosh,

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Speaker 1: Mothman Dynasty, Alien disclosure, wing cryptids, they keep coming. What

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Speaker 1: else you're working on these days? Oh? My, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm working on whenever comes my way. But this Chicago

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Speaker 1: O'Hare International Mothman thing is just really it's really gone

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Speaker 1: into a different phase as compared to what it was

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Speaker 1: even just a year and a half ago. Yeah, kind

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Speaker 1: of update us us the overview. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of new people coming to the show who probably aren't

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Speaker 1: familiar with this thing. Tell us what this creature was,

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Speaker 1: how it was first sighted, and where we are today

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Speaker 1: with us well, we started seeing reports coming into move

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Speaker 1: On around two thousand, early two thousand and seventeen, there

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Speaker 1: were several reports throughout the city of Chicago, and since

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Speaker 1: they were coming into move On, of course we weren't

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Speaker 1: privy to the witness contact information, though we were lucky

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Speaker 1: enough to track one down. So as time went by,

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Speaker 1: we started reporting the sightings, especially on the blog. We

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Speaker 1: started getting sighting reports coming directly to us, and the

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Speaker 1: overall the overall description of these beings are they run

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Speaker 1: anywhere from six maybe seven foot tall. They're dark in color,

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Speaker 1: very emaciated. They have wings that are for the most

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Speaker 1: part shaped like that of a bat, membrane type wings.

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Speaker 1: The whip is anywhere from ten to fifteen foot. Many

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Speaker 1: of them have the red eyes, and they seem to

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Speaker 1: have an ability to jettison themselves without even using the wings,

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Speaker 1: and many times they leave out a screeching sound as

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Speaker 1: they take off. So yeah, at this point, we're you know,

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Speaker 1: I was trying to count it down today. I think

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Speaker 1: we're at a little over one hundred and twenty sightings.

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Speaker 1: But and those are the settings that we consider incredible.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we've had many more than that, but Since

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Speaker 1: October of last year, we've had had forty four sightings

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Speaker 1: and most of those are in and around the hair

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Speaker 1: International Airport. That's that's astounding. Why the airport, What do

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Speaker 1: you think is so special about that? Well, that we

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Speaker 1: were trying to figure out early on. The sightings were

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Speaker 1: concentrated in the Rosamond suburb just east of the airport,

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Speaker 1: and we had several sightings from different people and they're

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Speaker 1: also there was also an extraterrestrial, possibly extraterrestrial involvement with these.

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Speaker 1: One sighting we did receive. The witness stated that she

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Speaker 1: saw this wing being with a grade like extraterrestrial and

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Speaker 1: two female human noises that appeared to be human. But

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Speaker 1: you know, that was one instance, but then things started

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Speaker 1: taking off to the point where there seems to have

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Speaker 1: been some UFO involvement as well. There was a UFO

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Speaker 1: sited in the small cemetery. Now O'Hara has a small

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Speaker 1: cemetery and it the arrest Haven Cemetery. Not many people

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Speaker 1: knew that, and a cargo worker happened to be on

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Speaker 1: his break and he was across the road from the

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Speaker 1: cemetery and noticed that this oval shaped UFO was hovering

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Speaker 1: over the cemetery and a humanoid was literally ascended up

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Speaker 1: into the UFO. And since in time, we've had people

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Speaker 1: telling us that they have seen great like aliens around

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Speaker 1: the airport property. So but the wing being itself. We've

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Speaker 1: had some very good witness reports, including ts TSA security

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Speaker 1: people to pilots, and as of this week, and I

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Speaker 1: just posted the day before yesterday, we had a an

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Speaker 1: air traffic controller tell us of his encounter in July.

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Speaker 1: Now we have had reports of near lax for example,

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Speaker 1: but it seemed to be attached to some apparatus. The

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Speaker 1: Chicago sightings are totally encompassed with wings, right, yes, it is.

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Speaker 1: It's it's totally different. It's an actual being itself that

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Speaker 1: has the ability to fly. Many of the slottings are

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Speaker 1: on the ground when this thing see you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of times when they see this on the ground,

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Speaker 1: it appears to be looking down looking for something. Many

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Speaker 1: times people have described that to us, and then when

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Speaker 1: of the times these things had these red eyes. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to get one of these,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we're going to continue to get more sightings so

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Speaker 1: we can figure out what's going on. What's your gut

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Speaker 1: tell you. I believe that these are probably a non

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Speaker 1: getting many, many more settings, but that's just not the case.

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Speaker 1: be something associated with the airport itself. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Hares got a history of a lot of strange things. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's true. You know, it's been many UFO sightings over

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Speaker 1: the years. There have been people that have also reported

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Speaker 1: alien like beings in and around the airport itself. A

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Speaker 1: it's definitely got a lot of activity. And these these sightings.

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Speaker 1: Are they being seen any place other than Chicago? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: into southern Illinois and into Indiana. The Chicago suburbs are

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Speaker 1: probably the most active at this point, but we do

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Speaker 1: occasionally get other sightings within a two hundred mile radius

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Speaker 1: of the city. That's that's dramatic. And when did they start. Well,

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Speaker 1: the first sightings weren't two thousand and eleven. These were

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Speaker 1: were three sightings within this South Chicago and those were

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Speaker 1: so they reporting seeing this thing flying around up there.

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Speaker 1: We had one pilot who saw it in the air

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Speaker 1: He had a copilot both saw it. He reported it.

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Speaker 1: So we've had those, we've had those reports. We had

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Speaker 1: Then we had another security guard who does security for

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Speaker 1: one of the cargo companies, saw this thing standing by

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Speaker 1: the fence near one of the tarmacs. So yeah, and

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Speaker 1: of course now we've we've got this air traffic controller

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Speaker 1: who has just reported one and I mean an amazing setting,

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Speaker 1: and he's telling us that people in the airport are

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Speaker 1: referring to it as the O'Hara mothman. Interesting, is it

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Speaker 1: showing up on radar line or is it too small?

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Speaker 1: You know, I have not heard that. I have not

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Speaker 1: controllers who have said they've seen this, though they had

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Speaker 1: not come forward. We're attempting to get more interviews with

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Speaker 1: and they've been talking about it, I mean within themselves

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Speaker 1: and some of the some of the social media where

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Speaker 1: these people hang out at it's been mentioned as well.

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Speaker 1: Can you rule out a fact that it might be

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Speaker 1: a sophisticated looking drone? Now I can rule that out,

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Speaker 1: You can't, Okay, It's just not that. That's something we

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Speaker 1: And the people who are reporting this, they're dead serious,

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Speaker 1: to them, they do not embellish on the sighting there.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like imprinted on them and they are

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Speaker 1: dead serious. They will not embellish what they had stated

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Speaker 1: affect the profoundly effect the witnesses. What has been the

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Speaker 1: a sighting that was reported in Chicago itself where the

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Speaker 1: two witnesses were within ten foot of this thing. Wow, okay,

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Speaker 1: it look more animal than human? You know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: any signs of aggression? Very little, you know, And that's

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Speaker 1: some type of aggression where it would chase cars and such.

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Speaker 1: But and tragedies would happen whenever this thing was around. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and but for the most part in Chicago, we haven't

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Speaker 1: had much aggression. They may take a step or two

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Speaker 1: Has the Chicago media reported on this line. They did earlier,

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Speaker 1: and occasionally we'll get asked to talk about it. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad they don't because I can you know,

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Speaker 1: if they really expounded on the settings and such, I

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