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Speaker 1: Be sure to listen until the very end of this

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Speaker 1: final season one episode. We have a special announcement. You

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Speaker 1: won't want to miss it. Last time on OBSCURUM: Invasion

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Speaker 1: of the Drones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I can confirm that the drone sightings were

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Speaker 2: not related to f you, Warren or the Air Force

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Speaker 2: in anyway. So that would include you know, contractors or

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Speaker 2: one other you know, third parties.

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Speaker 3: That might be gentlemen. But a vivid n ran the

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Speaker 3: electric line in he nicked the communications cable and it's

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Speaker 3: pressurized and I think they said twelve minutes of the Chumberber.

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Speaker 3: This all falls back on the federal government who refused

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Speaker 4: There's a narrative and it's an fa narative and as

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Speaker 4: if they know everything, they're in the face. I mean,

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Speaker 4: this is the way it works.

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Speaker 5: A story that a UFO or UAP was in.

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Speaker 6: It's not something they want to do with.

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Speaker 1: There are many nights.

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Speaker 7: I just wonder.

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Speaker 1: Where will this story lead.

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Speaker 7: I'm anxious, but.

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Speaker 1: I can't worry about what might happen or the consequences

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Speaker 1: of revealing the truth. My curiosity into looking for a

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Speaker 1: connection between the strange sightings that occurred in Arizona in

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Speaker 1: September of twenty nineteen, and the objects that began appearing

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Speaker 1: over my hometown a couple months later led me to

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Speaker 1: uncover a string of unexplainable encounters which seemed too related

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Speaker 1: to actually be a coincidence. I was able to confirm

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Speaker 1: that in the same thirty day timeframe of December twentieth,

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to January twentieth, twenty twenty, shortly after the

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Speaker 1: craft first arrived in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, clusters of

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Speaker 1: unknown objects began popping up at night in large numbers

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Speaker 1: and other remote areas of the country. In the FAA

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Speaker 1: was aware of it, Chapter seventeen, What's out There.

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Speaker 3: My name is Marc Colotti.

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Speaker 6: Last name is spelled Hla d y. I'm the sergeant

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Speaker 6: with the Rice County Sheriff's Office. I've been doing this

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Speaker 6: twenty eight and a half years with this department. Race

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Speaker 6: County is mainly rural. We do have two towns of

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Speaker 1: In Minnesota, Sergeant Halaate of the Rice County Sheriff's Office

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Speaker 1: witnessed a wild spectacle in the night sky on New

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Speaker 6: It was New Year's Eve, excuse me, so about six

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Speaker 6: point thirty pm, dispatch gave out a report of several drones.

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Speaker 6: There's a small town, a very small town, unincorporated, basically

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Speaker 6: started to come in between Cannon City and Fairbell that

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Speaker 3: I got out to the Cannon City area.

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Speaker 6: They would hover, they would move, then one of them

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Speaker 1: As a seasoned investigator, Sergeant Haladi knew what needed to

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Speaker 6: Next, I called the FAA and Air Traffic Control, and

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Speaker 6: And I told him, I said I heard one they

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Speaker 6: I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not saying they were

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Speaker 3: That's all I can say.

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Speaker 8: When you talked to the FAA official, did you feel

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Speaker 6: I kind of got the idea that he wanted to

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Speaker 6: have to file a report. That is the god's honest

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Speaker 6: some I'm Mike, I think I have perturbed him more than.

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Speaker 3: It was informative.

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Speaker 6: What he was trying to get me to say is

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Speaker 3: And he's like, yeah, the distance gets can make it

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Speaker 8: He never even, like you know, months later, no one

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Speaker 3: No follow up none.

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Speaker 6: I started reading about on the news about all these

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Speaker 3: I'm like, well, sumpthing's up? What's out there?

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Speaker 2: Thank you for calling City of Algians for one to

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Speaker 5: If this is an emergency, please hang up and down nine.

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Speaker 6: To one to one.

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Speaker 1: After leaving a few messages, I was tipped off about

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Speaker 9: I'm a sergeant Anthony Regano and that's rig A n O.

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Speaker 9: So I'm you can just go with Tony. I'm a

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Speaker 1: I sent in a Freedom of Information Act request with

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Speaker 7: Take me back to that day, January eighth, twenty twenty.

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Speaker 7: What was that day like for you?

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Speaker 9: So at the time, I was a patrol sergeant, So

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Speaker 9: about twenty thirty minutes, our dispatchers will routinely ask us

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Speaker 9: So I called upstairs and spoke with dispatch, and they said, hey,

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Speaker 5: So when I got out there, there were a lot.

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Speaker 5: Six feet from like tip to tip.

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Speaker 9: Those were kind of strange because again I don't really

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Speaker 9: at that point that I reached out to the FAA.

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Speaker 9: I had our dispatchers called the FAA because we have

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Speaker 5: So I thought, well, maybe they know about whatever this is.

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Speaker 9: And our local FAA said, we don't know anything about that.

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Speaker 9: We don't show any scheduled flights, we don't show anything

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Speaker 9: to tell me what's going on with this?

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Speaker 5: Because this is not normal.

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Speaker 9: I thought, what are some high target areas in our town?

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Speaker 9: So I started to kind of go to some different areas.

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Speaker 9: I mean, it started at the school, a large high

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Speaker 9: There were probably thirty of them by my estimation.

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Speaker 1: What Sergeant Ragano didn't tell me about his report was

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Speaker 1: It's been over five years since I began looking into

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, Gabe, how's it going good?

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Speaker 8: How are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing okay, doing okay. You know, I've been listening

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Speaker 4: to the podcast. I think it's great, really interesting. But

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Speaker 4: I actually have something you may want to look into.

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Speaker 4: You know my background, well, you know my background and

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Speaker 4: You'll never hear from these people in person, but you

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Speaker 1: That call in your many tips have opened new doors.

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Speaker 1: In late twenty twenty four, mysterious drones began appearing in

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Speaker 1: We're dropping a raw teaser of what we first experienced

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