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

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Speaker 2: And we are back with Chris Styles, UFO research heer author.

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Speaker 2: You know him for his tremendous work on the Shag

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Speaker 2: Harbor UFO incident and co author of two books, Shag

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Speaker 2: Harbor Incident or Sorry, two books, Dark Object with Don

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Speaker 2: Ledger and Impact to Contact with Graham Simms. The new

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Speaker 2: book is Sweep Clear five NATO's UFO encounter seven years

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Speaker 2: earlier than Shag Harbor and about thirty miles away in Shellbourne,

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Speaker 2: Nova Scotia. We had this incident during a NATO mission.

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Speaker 2: Two divers in the water saw two craft at the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the bay and to a number of beings

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Speaker 2: in the water appeared to be working on the craft.

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Speaker 2: So you met with one of the divers in Halifax.

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Speaker 2: He wanted he got cold feet at one point wanted

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Speaker 2: to cancel the interview, but went ahead. He told you

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Speaker 2: what he saw. Was he emotional as he's telling you

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Speaker 2: what he saw, I mean, pretty life altering encounter.

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Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, yeah, And when you think about that,

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Speaker 3: it was such a contrast with anyone I spoke to

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Speaker 3: about the sheg Harbor incident. Where things seemed much more

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Speaker 3: open and very straightforward. Listen, if there was anything in

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Speaker 3: the modern age that would be the equivalent of men

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Speaker 3: of iron, long past the day of wooden ships, it

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Speaker 3: would be Clarence divers. They do some pretty nasty work.

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Speaker 3: You got to be a pretty solid guy to do that.

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Speaker 3: They often have to sometimes remove a friend from a

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Speaker 3: crashed aircraft. This kind of thing tough work, nasty at times,

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Speaker 3: and these guys are up there pretty much. But I

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Speaker 3: was struck by these men as they spoke to me

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Speaker 3: the first two and eventually others. Was the emotional response,

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Speaker 3: because you would when I would push their buttons a

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Speaker 3: bit and try to get further hard details, these guys

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Speaker 3: would have trouble make an eye contact. They'd look at

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Speaker 3: the floor, you know, they would tear up, you know,

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Speaker 3: and you had to wonder when you think about some

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Speaker 3: of the other stories they told me during the sort

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Speaker 3: of warm up phase of the interviews, of striking and

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Speaker 3: difficult things in their career. This was significant and it

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Speaker 3: just made the hair stand of my neck to see

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Speaker 3: these men react like that, you know, and they would

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Speaker 3: extend a hand and look at the floor and say

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Speaker 3: you have to move on. I can't talk about that part.

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Speaker 3: This kind of thing, well, you know, you had to wonder,

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Speaker 3: you know, and at some point I was hoping to

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Speaker 3: fill in those gaps. Unfortunately, one of the men eventually

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Speaker 3: approached Maritime Command in Halifax and asked for permission to

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Speaker 3: talk further, and then the boom really came down on it.

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Speaker 3: But during those interviews there was a lot of really

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Speaker 3: hard detail of things they felt they could talk about,

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Speaker 3: and one of the shocking things but they gave me

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Speaker 3: the name of the fellow who was underwater with them,

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Speaker 3: who actually shot super eight film in a special sealed

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Speaker 3: camera of this incident, and of course which led to

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Speaker 3: a myriad of questions like well, where's the film now?

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Speaker 1: What did you do with it?

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Speaker 3: And when you'd ask that you get a very specific

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Speaker 3: quick answer they'd say, oh, we gove it to the

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Speaker 3: Defense Research building in Grove Street in Darkness, Nova Scotia

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Speaker 3: and handed it over to doctor Maurice Coffee. You know,

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Speaker 3: he was the unit scientific consultant, And eventually years later

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Speaker 3: his name would surface in the Shag Harper incident as

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Speaker 3: the fellow named in the April report prepared for the

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Speaker 3: late Jim Lorenzen and Coral Lorenzen that here his name

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Speaker 3: appears and says if anything of extreme interest is found

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Speaker 3: or recovered, it would be turned over to him. So

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Speaker 3: you know these things. The credibility kept built is I

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Speaker 3: would suggest alternate things like why couldn't this be an

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Speaker 3: early Soviet sub And they had a hostile reaction to

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Speaker 3: that when I would make those kinds of suggestions, and

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Speaker 3: they said, look, we're at anchor, We're in like forty

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Speaker 3: feet of water. If this thing is sitting on the bottom,

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Speaker 3: we'd have seen the Conning tower. The other thing is

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Speaker 3: with you know, eighteen US and Canadian warships there in

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Speaker 3: the area. You know, if there's ben a Soviets up

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Speaker 3: very bad day. Yeah, you know, I said, yeah, I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you there's another special consideration for that in the

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Speaker 3: case too. Because the designer of the mission, the admiral

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Speaker 3: Rear Admiral Kenneth Dyer, and he's kind of a famous

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Speaker 3: and historic character here in Canada. He was the fella

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Speaker 3: the Cuban missile crisis, and it's very famous in Canada

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Speaker 3: because you know, of course overshadowed by events you know,

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Speaker 3: Navy ships as possible the blockade exactly, and what they

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Speaker 3: were hoping Canadian forces would do would be guard the

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Speaker 3: been coming from across the pond, and that well, our

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Speaker 3: prime minister at the time, which was John Diefenbaker, refused,

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Speaker 3: and just the year before, you know, he had signed

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Speaker 3: a special treaty with Eisenhower before Kennedy took favor, saying

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Speaker 3: we would eat support the other upon asking in any

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Speaker 3: of these incidents. But why the admiral is so fair

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Speaker 3: is he he was upset with it. And when he

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Speaker 3: got back to Halifax, he contacted Norfolk and asked for

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Speaker 2: Them and you know, Prime Minister.

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Speaker 3: And the Minister of Defense. Yes. And the thing is,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's very controversial and probably half the works

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Speaker 3: to deal with this in Canadian history, and he is

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Speaker 3: a chapter where I described that, and the politics around

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Speaker 3: this was it. It could have been World War three,

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Speaker 3: so we had to do it. But the great thing

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Speaker 3: about that incident is it tells us his attitude, and

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Speaker 3: he was very hawkish, and since he was the fellow

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Speaker 3: in command, still help hold in that same position. You know,

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Speaker 3: during the Shelbourne incident. He he eventually, by the way,

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Speaker 3: when this happens, they fly him out to the ship

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Speaker 3: the whatever, and he has what he calls a hot

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Speaker 3: washup meeting with the US forces. Right, And during that

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Speaker 3: incident I heard one of the most colorful stories. And

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Speaker 3: who told me they were down off duty at this point.

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Speaker 3: At this point, the mission is declared one of observation

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Speaker 3: only they're setting over not to interfere, and the men

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Speaker 3: One of the US protocol officers wandering around while his

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Speaker 3: that's the trouble with you Yankee boys. He said, you

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Speaker 3: red menace is not from the Black Sea or Moscow.

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Speaker 3: Could be marriage, he said, probably a lot farther away,

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Speaker 3: And you know it, he said, So I hope you

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Speaker 3: And the men are trying to tear them off. The

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Speaker 3: and he saw the paperwork. He said, how did you

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Speaker 2: And yeah, sarendig here is dole this throughout this story,

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Speaker 2: the serendipity. You know, how you've you've discovered that your

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Speaker 2: father was working on the HMSC Cape Scott. Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: because I want to get back to what the divers saw.

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Speaker 2: What how did they describe the craft and how did

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Speaker 3: The craft they described as typical discshape. Your wefo sitting

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Speaker 3: Betty Hill's description. And this is before Betty Hill's story

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Speaker 3: in terms of the public's attitude in nineteen sixty and

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Speaker 2: Government, right, the Kennedy assassination, that's.

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Speaker 3: Right, all those things. It was a very different world, right,

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Speaker 3: And it's why I gave the dedication I did to

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Speaker 3: You know, it's easy to criticize and think, oh, how silly,

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Speaker 3: But these men were expected to confront and deal with

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Speaker 3: you know, they weren't even allowed to speak or acknowledge it.

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Speaker 2: And did the beings have any kind of underwater breathing

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Speaker 3: To be honest, when I pushed for those details, that

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Speaker 3: In one case, there's more than one man in the

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Speaker 3: here to wind it back, it's not like aha, you know,

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Speaker 3: the light went on for me when I did those interviews.

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Speaker 3: There was another gentleman present he's gone now, that was

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Speaker 3: involved in the early reinvestigation of Shagharper, the late Bob McDonald.

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Speaker 3: He had a military career. I used to take him

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Speaker 3: Then I would have to go and find the proof later.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think at the time that was going to

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Speaker 2: So they didn't want to go there. In terms of

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Speaker 2: the details on the beings and did they say how

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Speaker 2: many beings there were.

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Speaker 3: No, but the idea was there was more than a couple,

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Speaker 3: you know, they were outside. They kept saying, well, there

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Speaker 3: was activity, they were working on this craft or something,

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Speaker 3: you know, but it was very clear there was a pair.

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Speaker 3: It was there a typical classic Sauser type thing sitting

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Speaker 3: on the box, you know, and there were live beings

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Speaker 3: in the water around. Now. Another thing to consider is

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Speaker 3: the location. Okay, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and what's only about

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Speaker 3: two miles away is Canada's most secret base, which is

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Speaker 3: actually at the time a US only base with only

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Speaker 3: US personnel in Canadian soil. The Canadian was called Canadian

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Speaker 3: Forces Station shelburn and that station was the coordination center

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Speaker 3: for submarine detection for the entire Atlantic Pacific Ocean. There

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Speaker 3: were sixty four SOSIS stations around North America and they

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Speaker 3: were all wired in to that central center in Shelburn,

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Speaker 3: So it was very sensitive. It was, for example, the

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Speaker 3: Walker scandal in the US, you know, during the Reagan years.

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Speaker 3: It's a very secret base. It operated under a cover story.

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Speaker 3: They used to claim that it was at Oceanographic Research station,

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Speaker 3: but in fact it was the coordination center for Soviet

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Speaker 3: some marine detection. It also played part even but NASA.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was a backup system in case radar

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Speaker 3: and visuals were lost, you know, for the incoming Mercury

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Speaker 3: and Gemini space program. Okay, it had those kind of roles, right,

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Speaker 3: So were only two miles from this base, so you

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Speaker 3: know they were. They were certainly involved too.

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Speaker 2: How many divers in total in the water that saw

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Speaker 2: this do? You know?

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Speaker 3: Initially just the two but drop cameras were placed after that,

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Speaker 3: Like I say, what, once they kind of liaised with

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Speaker 3: made that you know, their role would be observation only

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Speaker 3: not to interfere. Those ships sat there and did not

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Speaker 3: move for days. They dropped anchor. Now, when I made

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Speaker 3: book from Ottawa, the command ship for October nineteen sixty,

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Speaker 3: I didn't expect to see, and you know the term UFO,

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Speaker 3: which I did not. Interestingly, most of the Navy documents,

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Speaker 3: even and military retallics as it went between the bases

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Speaker 3: the UFO. But that was an unrestricted case and not

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Speaker 3: when I finally got that and I went through remembering

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Speaker 3: the story I said earlier on here Richard that the

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Speaker 3: man said, well, we're about an hour into the mission

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Speaker 3: when all hell broke loose, right, So when I finally

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Speaker 3: got this log and you know, we'll save all the

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Speaker 3: drama and back and forth with Ottaw. Well, the first

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Speaker 3: half of the book is the struggle to get all

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Speaker 3: the things I tried that didn't work. If I get that,

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Speaker 3: the first thing I do, of course, is turn to

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Speaker 3: that and go ahead find the date. It turns out

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Speaker 3: it was October the twelfth, and I see the mission

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Speaker 3: set up. It's called Sweet Clear five. You know they're

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Speaker 3: getting all the ships lined up. They've swept the channel

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Speaker 3: and these ships are about to pass through. I get

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Speaker 3: sixty minutes into the mission and nothing. I don't pan

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Speaker 3: a hit because remember these men, when they first told

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