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Speaker 1: Previously on OBSCURUM: Invasion of the Drones.

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Speaker 2: I think the funnest one is the fact that they

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Speaker 2: were missing a nuclear warhead.

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Speaker 3: I like that one.

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Speaker 4: Well, they're quiet, but they had definite two spotlights coming

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Speaker 4: out of the bottom of them. It was just going

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Speaker 4: over the lake. The geese were just going crazy. To me,

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Speaker 4: it seemed like they were looking for something.

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Speaker 1: She was a lot more concerned. You'll, for in case

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Speaker 1: they're trying to find people and find kids to nab,

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Speaker 1: like sex traffickers are gone extremely high tech. I'm canning

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Speaker 1: at least one two, three, four five.

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Speaker 5: That actually rotated, looking as if it was appearing in

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Speaker 5: each window of our home.

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Speaker 3: Hello, where are you? I'm out by the canty line

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Speaker 3: and walking around looking at a few of these abandoned barns.

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Speaker 6: You need to be really careful out there.

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Speaker 7: You know what I told you when I talked to

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Speaker 7: my students in Benckelmann.

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Speaker 2: Especially the boys. They said those places can be inhabited by.

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Speaker 6: People that are making mess all sorts of stuff, so

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Speaker 6: you really need to be aware of your surroundings.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to go down by the river and.

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Speaker 6: So can you text me?

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Speaker 7: Though, even if you can't call me please, I.

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Speaker 3: Need to know where you are.

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Speaker 1: Stories are like puzzles. Nothing makes sense until most of

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Speaker 1: the pieces are in place, when you really start to

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Speaker 1: see the big picture. With the unknown aircraft, I was

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Speaker 1: hoping to quickly find which pieces were missing while trying

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Speaker 1: to verify that the FBI had given the order to

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Speaker 1: shoot these objects down. I dialed in on what I knew.

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Speaker 1: I'd learned this forms of these mysterious aircraft varied in size,

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Speaker 1: and we're being seen nightly over many counties. Most sightings

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Speaker 1: started at dusk and ended around ten pm.

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Speaker 8: It just makes me really uneasy because I feel like

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Speaker 8: somebody is watching us all the time. That's just super unnerving.

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Speaker 1: I'd been able to chat with a few residents and

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Speaker 1: at this point people were wanting more information from local authorities.

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Speaker 1: The following excerpt is from you MC County Sheriff Todd

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Speaker 1: Combe's Facebook post and was read by a voice actor.

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Speaker 9: I will tell you right up front, I do not

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Speaker 9: have a lot of answers for you at this time.

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Speaker 9: I wish I did, but I don't. I think we're

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Speaker 9: all feeling a little bit vulnerable due to the intrusion

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Speaker 9: of our privacy that we enjoy in our real community.

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Speaker 9: But I don't have a solution or no of one

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Speaker 9: right now. All I can say is, don't live your

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Speaker 9: life in the fear of the unknown. I will keep

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Speaker 9: you informed as soon as I hear anything.

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Speaker 1: Chapter three. Above the prairie, the big white one is

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Speaker 1: hovering low to the ground. If I had to guess,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Two to three hundred feet in the air.

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Speaker 1: There are these red and green flashes moving around it

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Speaker 1: to the switch was flipped. On my vacation, that calm

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Speaker 1: feeling you get from being at home turned into pir adrenaline.

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Speaker 1: With each hour, I found myself getting sucked into this

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Speaker 1: odd series of events that seemed more like a sci

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Speaker 1: fi movie than real life. I wasn't sure what my

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Speaker 1: next steps should be, or if I should even be

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Speaker 1: the one looking for next steps, as I'd soon be

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Speaker 1: traveling back to Los Angeles. I started googling, searching through

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Speaker 1: a ton of information about airplanes in UFO sidings. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to know if anything similar to these craft had

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Speaker 1: been seen in the area before.

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Speaker 3: What were your grandparents' names, and what were they like.

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Speaker 10: The man's name was Milt Clayton Moreland. Clara Moreland was

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Speaker 10: his wife. I do have a picture of him sitting

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Speaker 10: on the eve of a house with a team of

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Speaker 10: horses moving a house across the prairie. So he was

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Speaker 10: a can do it man.

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Speaker 1: I discovered an old article about unexplained flying objects published

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Speaker 1: in a local newspaper from nineteen fifty. Apparently the report

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Speaker 1: was given by Milton Clara Morland of Imperial, Nebraska. They

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Speaker 1: passed away, but I was able to talk with their grandson,

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Speaker 1: Terry McNair about their story. What do you remember them

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Speaker 1: telling you about what they experienced that day in nineteen fifty.

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Speaker 10: Well, I remember mostly my grandmother talking about it, and

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Speaker 10: she would get quite excited, and she would say that

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Speaker 10: these things just came buzzing along and they weren't large,

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Speaker 10: they were small, you know, like saucer basketball shaped, and

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Speaker 10: you know, they were just kind of flittering along all together,

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Speaker 10: a whole bunch of them, and they came in from

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Speaker 11: So she's just, you know, sitting at home one day,

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Speaker 11: it's it's daylight, and these saucer type basketball looking objects

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Speaker 10: They just kind of appear. They hurted noise, and they

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Speaker 10: went out to investigate it. That's what they found.

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Speaker 1: If Terry hadn't used the word saucer, his description sounded

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Speaker 1: eerily similar to the drone behavior I'd heard about.

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Speaker 11: He is of you know what, you think they saw.

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Speaker 10: Flying saucers. I thought that my whole life.

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Speaker 3: Had you heard any other stories of flying saucers in

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Speaker 5: Not?

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Speaker 10: Really. I would remember my mother talking about lights in

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Speaker 10: the prairie when she was a kid, that they would

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Speaker 10: see lights in different areas where they're knew there was

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Speaker 10: no population. They were just lights.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean by by lights?

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Speaker 10: They were more along the land rather than high in

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Speaker 10: the sky. They were they were close to the earth,

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Speaker 10: but off in the distance. She just said that they

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Speaker 3: So she just saw weird, weird lights in the prairie.

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Speaker 5: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: As I looked further into the history of the area,

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Speaker 1: I came across more interesting facts. In the nineteen sixties,

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Speaker 1: a number of locals saw weird objects in the sky.

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Speaker 1: One of those people was Barb Stanley.

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Speaker 6: I was ten years old and I looked out on

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Speaker 6: the horizon. There was a hilp and as I was

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Speaker 6: sitting there, I saw some type of craft that I

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Speaker 6: think had landed. Then it slowly rose and I thought

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Speaker 6: it was going to just keep going higher, but it

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Speaker 6: just disappeared. Just one minute was there and one minute

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Speaker 6: it wasn't. It was bigger than a car, but didn't

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Speaker 6: look like a car. You know. Back in my ten

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Speaker 6: year old mind, I was just like, wow, you know,

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Speaker 6: I've never never seen anything like that before, not what

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Speaker 6: the Jetsons were like. Yeah, it seemed to be the

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Speaker 1: Barb experienced this siding on the family farm, which oddly enough,

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Speaker 1: was close to where these so called drones were first spotted.

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Speaker 6: A week later, there was a newspaper article that said

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Speaker 6: there was a lady in Imperial that had basically seen

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Speaker 6: the same thing. I took it out to my husbands

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Speaker 6: to read this, so that was kind of an affirmation

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Speaker 6: that I wasn't just making up the story.

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Speaker 3: You said you were sitting on the porch looking out.

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Speaker 3: You know what's going through your mind when you see this?

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Speaker 6: I'd say astonishment, because I had the feeling that I

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Speaker 6: was alone, you know, like my parents were gone, and

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Speaker 6: so who would help me. I thought, oh, wow, this

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Speaker 6: is thereous and they mean harm. I'm basically by myself.

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Speaker 1: That had to be such a surreal feeling, especially at

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Speaker 1: a young age without anyone around. When I continued looking

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Speaker 1: into these sightings, I came across an article about one

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Speaker 1: of the first UFO crashes in modern history. It was

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Speaker 1: said to have taken place in southwest Nebraska near Binkleman

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Speaker 1: in the late eighteen hundreds. As the story goes, in

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Speaker 1: early June of eighteen eighty four, a rare phenomenon occurred.

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Speaker 12: A few cowboys were out at a round up when

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Speaker 12: they were startled by a loud noise and saw what

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Speaker 12: looked like a blazing body fall into the earth. The

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Speaker 12: next day, a brand inspector found machinery scattered throughout the

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Speaker 12: pasture after the object was cooled, including a wheel fragment

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Speaker 12: with a mill rimp. The object was reported to be

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Speaker 12: fifty to sixty feet long, cylindrical, and about ten or

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Speaker 1: Because that story was from so long ago, I took

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Speaker 1: it with a grain of salt. I obviously had no

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Speaker 1: way to check the facts with the locals who'd experienced it.

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Speaker 1: Whether people were seeing drones, flying saucers, or something else.

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Speaker 1: I began to notice a common theme. Most of these

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Speaker 1: sightings occurred near isolated farmhouses outside the city limits. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't sure how this info could plain into what was happening,

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Speaker 1: but it proved one thing unexplained. Aircraft weren't out of

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Speaker 1: the ordinary for this part of the country. Chapter four

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Speaker 1: surrounded it's more residents saw drone like objects flying. I

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Speaker 1: began contacting police stations in neighboring counties. Despite my persistence,

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Speaker 1: There was one person I knew I could lean on

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Speaker 1: outside of law enforcement. His name is Bill Bowerley, and

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Speaker 1: he's a family friend. Bill also just happens to be

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Speaker 1: an aviation expert. He was an Air Force pilot, Delta

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Speaker 1: Airlines pilot, and former member of the local airport authority.

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Speaker 10: How are you good?

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Speaker 2: I'm actually working on another aviation product.

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Speaker 1: Bill's an outdoorsman. When I walked into his house, there

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Speaker 1: were fish and animal heads up on the walls. So

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Speaker 1: have you been good?

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Speaker 2: This has been my busiest year flying.

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Speaker 1: After we caught up, Bill dove into his background.

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Speaker 2: I started got my license in seventy six on a

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Speaker 2: program that was the pre military. It was part of

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Speaker 2: my scholarship. I had to go to the military. Takes

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Speaker 2: a year to get through Air Force pilot training. Seventy

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Speaker 2: eight I graduated. They plowed me back as an instructor

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Speaker 2: because I did too well in the course, and then

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Speaker 2: in Germany for three years, and then from that I

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Speaker 2: went to a test squadron and flew in the test squadron.

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Speaker 2: Left the military on a Friday, started on Monday with Delta,

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Speaker 2: and I've been flying for Delta every month since.

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Speaker 1: It was Bill's military history that I thought might shine

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Speaker 1: some light on what was going on. So they've been

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Speaker 1: doing drones in the military for a really long time.

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Speaker 2: Really, that first Golf War was where they really brought

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Speaker 2: him in, so you didn't have to risk a man's

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Speaker 2: life and you could provide reconnaissance. And that's where it

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Speaker 2: got started. In the intel gathering and the censors they

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Speaker 2: can put on it. The miniaturization of all of that

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Speaker 2: just kept improving improvement, so they'd make him smaller and smaller. Well,

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Speaker 2: they kept making him a little bit bigger and giving

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Speaker 2: them more range. So that's where they came up with

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Speaker 2: these twenty four or thirty six hour drones and could

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Speaker 1: I'd heard the term drone tossed around a lot. I

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Speaker 1: pulled up an official definition. A drone is technically any

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Speaker 1: unmanned aircraft that can fly remotely or autonomously. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: that description left a lot of room for interpretation. Was

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Speaker 1: the word drone just the new and more casual term

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Speaker 1: for UFO. I'd now seen these drones as people were

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Speaker 1: calling them. Three nights in a row, there were larger

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Speaker 1: or black objects illuminating the fields and smaller ones surrounding them.

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Speaker 1: Each night. They were flying in groups.

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Speaker 2: We were testing the ability to be able to tie

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Speaker 2: remotely piloted vehicles to a mothership, and that was in

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Speaker 2: the late eighties, so we know that you can have

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Speaker 2: a mothership fly and tether wirelessly other ones off of it.

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Speaker 1: Bill then gave me more than I bargained for a

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Speaker 1: first person report on what he thought maybe flying in

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Speaker 2: These are most likely the ones that they'll put a

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Speaker 2: gas engine on them with a small field cell, and

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Speaker 2: that engine then powers electric that powers all the props.

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Speaker 2: We've got military drones that can stay up thirty six

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Speaker 2: hours if you just use the premise that they are

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Speaker 2: a six hour drone, and they can travel at sixty

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Speaker 2: you could launch the use from one hundred miles away,

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Speaker 2: go do your work, and then fly that hundred miles home.

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Speaker 1: Imagine a six foot vehicle with wings, which job takes

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Speaker 2: Somebody's making money doing this. Otherwise it wouldn't exist.

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Speaker 3: That's what I keep saying.

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Speaker 13: I follow the money trail.

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Speaker 2: Follow the money trail. That's the first step. It comes

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Speaker 2: down to what confidence.

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Speaker 7: Do you have.

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Speaker 2: In believing what your government tells you want.

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Speaker 1: By the time I left Bill's, I'd received a few messages.

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Speaker 1: Apparently when people hear you're back home from la and

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Speaker 3: Girl you were talking about. That's your daughter in law,

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Speaker 3: your daughter, Okay. When she was an inner car and

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Speaker 7: She said, they were just like a little above like

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Speaker 1: A lady named Trisha Michael told me that she'd received

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Speaker 7: It was her phone number, but it said Palestinian territories

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Speaker 5: But she I didn't answer it. So when I called her.

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Speaker 5: So I called the Palestinian number back just to kind

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Speaker 5: Once she got home and there was nothing above her,

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Speaker 3: So when she called you, it said Palestinian territories on

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Speaker 7: Correct, Yeah, normally it would say like local, like if

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Speaker 6: It had listed Palestinian territories.

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Speaker 3: What did your daughter describe, you know, feeling like when

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Speaker 8: I don't think that that one bothered her nearly as much.

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Speaker 8: Later in that evening, she had gotten home and she

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Speaker 3: When you say parked, you mean that they were hovering

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Speaker 5: Covering, Yeah, Yeah, they just don't move. So that made

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Speaker 1: Could these aircraft be interfering with cell towers? It sure

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Speaker 6: I just don't get, like, why they're so interested suddenly

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Speaker 7: He said that we have the military drums out here

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Speaker 4: There is a river bottom down through here, and they

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Speaker 7: The drums that are here have been described as black.

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Speaker 7: We have been told that the military drones are actually light.

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Speaker 4: Their grid pattern was definitely around Frenchman Creek.

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Speaker 3: God.

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Speaker 1: I love sweet and Cream. I used to go here

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Speaker 1: This one seemed different. The lady mentioned in the message

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Speaker 1: right now named Marcy Kelly. There was a pen close

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Speaker 1: by with a few of Marcy's animals. Her goat named Nanny,

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Speaker 1: could tell that Marcy was a small town gall at heart.

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Speaker 1: Before we began our conversation, she walked me through her house,

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Speaker 14: I don't remember where a question was.

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Speaker 1: No, I was just going to say, you know, is

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Speaker 1: it typical for farmers to use drums?

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Speaker 14: Yes, even through my husband's work, they have a drone

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Speaker 14: that they check the pivots with, and I think that

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Speaker 14: a lot of other people do too. I think that

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Speaker 14: Southwest Power uses them, probably check the power lines. From

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Speaker 14: what I've understood and now and they're not nearly this.

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Speaker 1: Bigh What do you make of this whole thing?

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Speaker 5: Do you?

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Speaker 3: How do you feel?

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Speaker 14: I feel uneasy about it, just because there's so many

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Speaker 14: like later at night when they're trying to go back

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Speaker 14: because then you can hear them, and there's no planes

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Speaker 1: What would lead you to believe that they that they

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Speaker 14: Because when they're high up, you can't hear them, and

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Speaker 14: noise that you're like, oh, they're lower and you can

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Speaker 1: Marcy had seen most of the aircraft near her property,

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Speaker 1: and she noticed something else. Wild animals weren't acting as

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Speaker 14: And it was like the day after the blizzard, like

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Speaker 14: my friend's daughter had gotten a turtle, and I'd seen

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Speaker 14: a frog hopping and I'm like, what, So that was

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Speaker 14: weird to me that all of those things are coming

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Speaker 1: Kind of worried that way. From your perspective, what do

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Speaker 1: the formations look like? And are there different sizes of

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Speaker 1: the drones from what you've seen, I think that.

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Speaker 14: There's different sizes. I think that there's like a docking station,

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Speaker 14: And that one seems pretty just like it hovers. It

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Speaker 14: doesn't really move a lot, kind of just stay stable.

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Speaker 14: And then the other ones. I've seen them go fast,

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Speaker 14: I've seen them go slow. I've seen them shut off

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Speaker 14: I think that they range in sizes. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Could you make out that it was, in fact a drone?

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Speaker 14: Sounds better than a UFO identified flying object.

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Speaker 6: Basically, yeah, Just.

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Speaker 1: When I thought I'd heard every theory, Marcy dropped this one.

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Speaker 14: I have heard and I haven't seen. I seen a

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Speaker 14: I'm like, oh, what if it's something like dangerous?

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Speaker 1: When I got back inside the pickup, I played that

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Speaker 14: I seen a picture of like a green substance that's

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Speaker 1: Marcy didn't reveal who showed her the picture or where

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Speaker 1: they lived. The skeptic and me kept thinking aircraft dropping

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Speaker 1: things from the sky at night? Why do these accounts

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Speaker 7: Really, we have to absolutely verify what is happening in Colorado.

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Speaker 2: Someone has very sophisticated ways to override the FA rules

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Speaker 2: that are in here.

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Speaker 13: I can see it going off ten of our shop

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Speaker 13: as soon as I opened the garage door, there was

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