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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Unexplained Extra with Me Richard McClain Smith, where

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<v Speaker 1>for the weeks in between episodes we look at stories

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<v Speaker 1>and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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<v Speaker 1>it into the previous show. In last week's episode, Ash

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<v Speaker 1>on the Floor, we traced the extraordinary tale of Stefan mccarlac, who,

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<v Speaker 1>in late May nineteen sixty seven claimed to observe two

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<v Speaker 1>unidentified flying objects while prospecting in White Shell Provincial Park

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<v Speaker 1>in Manitoba, Canada. Mccrlac's incredible claim, which would become known

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<v Speaker 1>as Canada's best documented UFO case, was investigated by both

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<v Speaker 1>the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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<v Speaker 1>For many it is the involvement of the Air Force

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<v Speaker 1>that is most intriguing about this particular case. It suggests

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<v Speaker 1>there was a willingness at quite a high level to

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<v Speaker 1>at least entertain the notion that mcarlac might well have

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<v Speaker 1>seen an unusual aircraft of which the Air Force had

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<v Speaker 1>no record. We might assume this was due in part

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<v Speaker 1>to the heightened tensions of the Cold War and the

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<v Speaker 1>paranoia of the Canadian and their allied governments over the

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<v Speaker 1>technological capabilities of the Soviet Union. But then again, perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>given the peculiar events that occurred one night over Lake

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<v Speaker 1>Superior back in nineteen fifty three, there was good reason

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<v Speaker 1>for the Royal Canadian Air Force to keep an open

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<v Speaker 1>mind when it came to tales of mysterious unknown aircraft.

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<v Speaker 1>It was early in the evening of November twenty third

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen fifty three when US Air Force pilot First

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<v Speaker 1>Lieutenant Felix la and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson

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<v Speaker 1>received the command to scramble their F ninety eight Scorpion

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<v Speaker 1>fighter jet to intercept an unidentified flying object. The object

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<v Speaker 1>was picked up by US Air Defense Command radar operators

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<v Speaker 1>located in Sue Saint Marie, Michigan, having crossed over at

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<v Speaker 1>speed from Canadian to US airspace about one hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>sixty miles to the northwest over Lake Superior. With the

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<v Speaker 1>object flying close to a commercial gateway completely unannounced, it

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<v Speaker 1>was deemed an immediate and obvious threat. Twenty seven year

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<v Speaker 1>old First Lieutenant Felix Monkler had served during World War

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<v Speaker 1>Two and later joined the United States Air Force as

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<v Speaker 1>an officer pilot trainee. By November of nineteen fifty three,

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<v Speaker 1>he'd clocked a total of eight hundred and eleven flying

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<v Speaker 1>hours over his career, including one hundred and twenty one

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<v Speaker 1>hours in an air aircraft similar to the F ninety

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<v Speaker 1>eight Scorpion that he was flying that night. As such,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no reason to suspect anything would go wrong

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<v Speaker 1>on what was seemingly a routine investigative mission. However, once

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<v Speaker 1>in pursuit of the object, moncla and Wilson had great

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<v Speaker 1>difficulty in tracking it with their onboard radar due to

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<v Speaker 1>the frequency with which it kept changing course. In the end,

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<v Speaker 1>it fell to the US Air Defense Command radar team

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<v Speaker 1>to help direct the pair toward the object from the ground,

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<v Speaker 1>and before long monclass Scorpion was gradually homing in on it.

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<v Speaker 1>Over the course of thirty minutes, the radar operators watched

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<v Speaker 1>as the green blip of the Scorpion drew nearer to

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<v Speaker 1>the blip of the UFO, steadily descending from twenty five

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<v Speaker 1>thousand feet to around eight thousand feet, where the object

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<v Speaker 1>was situated with the blips almost upon each other. The operation,

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<v Speaker 1>as then watched, transfixed as the two of them drew

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<v Speaker 1>closer and closer together, until the Scorpion finally caught up

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<v Speaker 1>with it. In Upper Michigan, seventy miles off keywan Or Point.

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<v Speaker 1>With the ground control team waiting to hear details from

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<v Speaker 1>Lieutenant Moncla, they could only watch on as the two

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<v Speaker 1>blips continued on their trajectories toward each other until they

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<v Speaker 1>completely merged into one. By the next sweep of the radar,

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<v Speaker 1>where they expected to see the two blips separate again

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<v Speaker 1>as if Monclass Scorpion had flown over or under the object,

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<v Speaker 1>the scorpion completely vanished from the screen or the while

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<v Speaker 1>the green blip of the mysterious, still unidentified object continued

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<v Speaker 1>casually along its way until a short time later it

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<v Speaker 1>too completely disappeared from the screen. As furious efforts were

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<v Speaker 1>made to establish communication with Lieutenant Monkler, it was obvious

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<v Speaker 1>to all those present that the only reasonable explanation for

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<v Speaker 1>the Scorpion's disappearance was that the plane had crashed somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>in Lake Superior. Numerous search and rescue teams from both

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<v Speaker 1>the US Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force, who

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<v Speaker 1>had by then been informed at the mystery aircraft, were

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<v Speaker 1>immediately dispatched to recover the missing plane and, if possible,

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<v Speaker 1>its two crew, Although it was unlikely there was still

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<v Speaker 1>some hope that the men had successfully bailed out of

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<v Speaker 1>their aircraft or had been able to complete an emergency

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<v Speaker 1>landing on water, but even if that were the case,

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<v Speaker 1>neither could be expected to last long in the freezing

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<v Speaker 1>winter temperature of the lake. The search continued throughout the

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<v Speaker 1>night as efforts were kept up to try and make

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<v Speaker 1>contact with the missing scorpion. However, with it being night

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<v Speaker 1>time and with visibility low due to an intensifying snowstorm,

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<v Speaker 1>the search was eventually called off until the morning, and

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<v Speaker 1>though it continued at first light, it wasn't long before

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<v Speaker 1>it became clear that they would not be finding first

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<v Speaker 1>Lieutenant Moncler and second Lieutenant Wilson scorpion any time soon,

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<v Speaker 1>with it assumed to have either broken up entirely or

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<v Speaker 1>sunk to the bottom of the lake, taking Moncler and

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<v Speaker 1>Wilson with it. Despite one pilot involved in the search

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<v Speaker 1>and rescue mission claiming to have heard a short transmission

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<v Speaker 1>from Monkler around forty minutes after he and Wilson went missing,

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<v Speaker 1>no one else was able to verify the broadcast. The

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<v Speaker 1>following morning, the first official statement regarding the incident was

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<v Speaker 1>published in an early edition of the Chicago Tribune under

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<v Speaker 1>the headline Jet two aboard vanishes over late Superior, with

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<v Speaker 1>the US Air Force stating simply that Lieutenant Monkler's plane

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<v Speaker 1>was followed by radar until it merged with an object

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<v Speaker 1>seventy miles off Keywan Or Point in Upper Michigan. No

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<v Speaker 1>sooner had this statement been made, However, the Air Force

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<v Speaker 1>promptly retracted it, and that was when things started to

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<v Speaker 1>get really strange. With the first statement retracted, a new

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<v Speaker 1>statement was promptly released by the US Air Force. Monkler's

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<v Speaker 1>scorpion hadn't merged with the object at all, they said,

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<v Speaker 1>but had in fact succeeded in its mission to intercept

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<v Speaker 1>the UFO, which had by then been formally identified as

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<v Speaker 1>a Dakota or Royal Canadian Air Force C forty seven aircraft,

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<v Speaker 1>that had innocently veered thirty miles off course, and since

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<v Speaker 1>it was unaware of its position, it had not informed

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<v Speaker 1>the US Air Force. Accordingly, Moncler and Wilson's scorpion had

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<v Speaker 1>then tragically crashed on their return from completing the mission,

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<v Speaker 1>with a suspected pilot error being the most likely cause.

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<v Speaker 1>First Lieutenant Moncler was said to frequently suffer debilitating bouts

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<v Speaker 1>of vertigo, a little unusual for a professional fighter pilot,

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<v Speaker 1>to say the least, and it was this that had

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<v Speaker 1>most likely been the main contributing factor to the presumed crash.

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<v Speaker 1>Only no sooner had this explanation been given, Lieutenant Monkler's

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<v Speaker 1>wife was being given a completely different account of events,

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<v Speaker 1>being told instead that a husband had crashed into the

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<v Speaker 1>lake after a mid air collision. Things only became even

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<v Speaker 1>more murky when the Royal Canadian Air Force weighed in

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<v Speaker 1>with their own assessment, declaring rather alarmingly that they had

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<v Speaker 1>no record of a Dakota plane or any other Canadian

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<v Speaker 1>Air Force plane in the area at the time. That

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<v Speaker 1>the wreckage of the Scorpion was never recovered only added

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<v Speaker 1>to the mystery, and so without a formal conclusion to

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<v Speaker 1>the tragic event, speculation naturally grew as to what exactly

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<v Speaker 1>had happened on that cold November evening, and there were

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<v Speaker 1>no shortage of theories to plug the gap. In nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>fifty five, former American Marine Corps naval aviator turned UFO

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<v Speaker 1>investigator Donald Kehoe included an account of his investigation of

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<v Speaker 1>the crash in his book The Flying saucer conspiracy. In it,

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<v Speaker 1>he made the startling claim that on the night of

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<v Speaker 1>the incident, only hours after it occurred, he received a

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<v Speaker 1>phone call from an anonymous individual claiming they'd heard a

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<v Speaker 1>rumor out of Selfridge Field, a National Guard base in Michigan,

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<v Speaker 1>that an F eighty nine scorpion had just collided with

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<v Speaker 1>a flying sorcer. Others later claimed that the scorpion hadn't

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<v Speaker 1>just collided with the UFO, but had in fact been

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<v Speaker 1>taken on board it and whisked away into space. Years later,

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<v Speaker 1>the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of which Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Kehoe was a member, attempted to access the official records

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<v Speaker 1>relating to the Lake Superior incident, only to find that

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<v Speaker 1>all mention of it appeared to have been completely removed.

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<v Speaker 1>The US Air Force's own unit for analyzing military intelligence,

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<v Speaker 1>the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, when asked about

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<v Speaker 1>the incident, stated that there is no record in the

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<v Speaker 1>Air Force files of a sighting at Kinross Air Force Base,

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<v Speaker 1>from where the scorpion was dispatched on November twenty third,

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen fifty three. There is no case in the files

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<v Speaker 1>which even closely parallels these circumstances. The bodies of First

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<v Speaker 1>Lieutenant Felix Mongler and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson, along with

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<v Speaker 1>their F eighty nine scorpion, remain missing. If you enjoy

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