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Speaker 1: for everyone. Listener discretion is advised. Cattle mutilations tend to
Speaker 1: surface the same way every time, not as breaking news,
Speaker 1: but as a phone call from someone who knows their
Speaker 1: land and knows when something off. An animal found dead,
Speaker 1: certain body parts missing, no blood when there should be blood,
Speaker 1: no tire tracks, no sign of anything. We're up in
Speaker 1: eastern Oregon, and this is Colby Marshall, a rancher who
Speaker 1: did not go looking for this story, but ended up
Speaker 1: inside it anyway.
Speaker 2: Welcome to High Strange, exact same mutilation. I took some photos,
Speaker 2: documented what I could. We noticed that there was no tracks,
Speaker 2: There was no struggle marks, there was no tire tracks,
Speaker 2: there was nothing. I went back to the ranch, called
Speaker 2: the sheriff's office, and we got in touch with the
Speaker 2: state Police, notified the for service what we had found.
Speaker 2: When you're dealing with thousands of livestock, it's not uncommon
Speaker 2: to find something that has passed away or there's been
Speaker 2: an injury, and so we were very familiar. One of
Speaker 2: the first things that I noticed the cuts on the animal.
Speaker 2: Nothing makes sense about it. They were all very precise,
Speaker 2: like they had been done by a scalpel. Doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense. A lot of times when you see an
Speaker 2: animal that is harvested in the wild and somebody is
Speaker 2: using a blade or they're using a saw to work
Speaker 2: down through the animal, the cuts can be more jagged.
Speaker 2: But this was done with a extremely sharp scalpel, or
Speaker 2: it was done with maybe even some sort of a
Speaker 2: laser cutting tool.
Speaker 3: It was so precise.
Speaker 2: Bulls, cows, even you and I, we have an abdominal cavity.
Speaker 2: We have a layer of very very fine layer inside
Speaker 2: underneath our skin that holds our guts. In that layer,
Speaker 2: which is very very thin, that was not nicked.
Speaker 3: It was not cut open.
Speaker 2: The hide was cut and then perfectly removed without nicking
Speaker 2: or cutting that layer. They just absolutely cut that away
Speaker 2: without nicking it. That is precise, and they did it
Speaker 2: on every single one of those animals. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: whoever's doing this understands anatomy very well, at least on livestock.
Speaker 2: I mean surgical precision. I've spent my whole entire life
Speaker 2: around livestock, cattle, sheep, goats, you name it, and at
Speaker 2: no point in my life have I ever experienced anything
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It just it makes the hair on the back of
Speaker 2: your neck stand up. You start thinking, Okay, how could
Speaker 2: this happen? Who would want to do this, what's the
Speaker 2: reason behind it, Why is it being done, what's the purpose?
Speaker 1: These are expensive, high value animals. Their tongues were removed,
Speaker 1: reproductive organs missing, and not a single drop of blood
Speaker 1: in the soil.
Speaker 2: We put out a twenty five thousand dollar reward for
Speaker 2: information that would lead to an arrest or a conviction,
Speaker 2: and there was no leads.
Speaker 5: In this case.
Speaker 2: Every single one of these mutilated bulls literally melted into
Speaker 2: the ground. Their hides were there months, if not a
Speaker 2: year afterward. If you could go right to the site,
Speaker 2: you can see exactly where the animal was laying. I
Speaker 2: will never look at a livestock death the same. Ever again,
Speaker 2: I think about it all the time, and once you
Speaker 2: hear this story, you will also think about it.
Speaker 1: Nothing around the bodies suggests that there was a struggle.
Speaker 1: There were no tire marks, no tracks, no drag marks.
Speaker 1: Ranchers live with death. They know what predators do. They
Speaker 1: know what scavengers leave behind.
Speaker 2: The CIA operative he'd been around a lot of dead
Speaker 2: bodies a.
Speaker 1: Few years ago. Someone in the CIA reached out to
Speaker 1: Kolby directly.
Speaker 2: Key and I got talking about it, and he said,
Speaker 2: you know, Colby goes, especially during the Afghanistan war and
Speaker 2: seeing some just horrific things out there. There's no blood
Speaker 2: in the carcasses. And I thought yeah, And he said, well,
Speaker 2: if there's no blood in the carcass, it may not
Speaker 2: have the same smell as decomposing bodies do. Given that
Speaker 2: a lot of credibility, because the only thing that makes
Speaker 2: sense to me is why they scavengers wouldn't just come
Speaker 2: after those animals laying out there, is because they didn't
Speaker 2: smell the same. I appreciate the interest in it because
Speaker 2: I don't think that there's enough acknowledgment of this and
Speaker 2: enough people.
Speaker 3: I think there's people that.
Speaker 2: Don't want to talk about it because they see it
Speaker 2: as something that is taboo. I think it's important these discussions,
Speaker 2: and these conversations are so important to get the word
Speaker 2: out so that people feel free to express their opinion
Speaker 2: or look into a close so that at some point
Speaker 2: in time we can find out why it's being done.
Speaker 2: And once we know the why, I think all the
Speaker 2: other pieces will come into play. But until we know
Speaker 2: the why, I think we'll ever figure this out, and
Speaker 2: it will go on as the longest unsolved murder mystery
Speaker 2: in the history of the world. I don't think we're
Speaker 2: alone in the universe. I think the big universe is
Speaker 2: too big and too massive, and I think it would
Speaker 2: be ridiculous to think that we're all by ourselves out here.
Speaker 2: I've thought a lot about whether or not an alien
Speaker 2: culture from outer space would come to do this kind
Speaker 2: of thing, and the way I look at it, and
Speaker 2: maybe I'm naive about this. If you're using that kind
Speaker 2: of technology and you can travel across the universe and
Speaker 2: cover the distances that are out there, why would you
Speaker 2: use that technology to harvest reproductive organs off.
Speaker 3: Of range bowls in eastern Oregon?
Speaker 2: And I've went so far on this, well, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: if they're coming from a billion miles away across outer
Speaker 2: space to sample eastern Oregon beef, we must be doing
Speaker 2: something right. I would tell people that I thought that,
Speaker 2: you know, it must be a testament to the beef
Speaker 2: we're producing, if that's the best beef in the universe.
Speaker 2: I also am not naive to think there isn't some
Speaker 2: other life in the universe and they might have some
Speaker 2: interest in it for a variety of different reasons. Personally,
Speaker 2: I think it is a group. I think it is
Speaker 2: a cult group that is home base right here on
Speaker 2: planet Earth, which goes to the main question of you
Speaker 2: know why. I've also had people ask me do I
Speaker 2: think it's government? Do I think there is a government
Speaker 2: entity out there that is doing this?
Speaker 3: If the government.
Speaker 2: Wanted to do something like this, why wouldn't they just
Speaker 2: do these activities, you know on these big land bases
Speaker 2: that they have places all over the United States that
Speaker 2: they have isolated that they can control every aspect of
Speaker 2: the environment, So why would.
Speaker 5: You run the risk?
Speaker 1: This series is not about jumping to conclusions. It's about
Speaker 1: documenting patterns that refuse to disappear. Cattle mutilations are one
Speaker 1: of those patterns. They're decades old, global and still to
Speaker 1: this day completely unresolved.
Speaker 6: My name is share my Homes. I am currently the
Speaker 6: sheriff of the Kenny. I moved out here to Cowboy.
Speaker 6: Moved out here to work on ranges by a cowboy
Speaker 6: for about five years Ardriage, south central part of Organ.
Speaker 6: That was my first experience of mutilations. I remember going
Speaker 6: out with the boss at the time and looking at it.
Speaker 6: Blake had been removed, the heart had been removed, the
Speaker 6: reproductive organs had been removed, the tongue cheek. For me,
Speaker 6: I have for the most part ruled out predators. I've
Speaker 6: seen firsthand what a cougar can do, and I've seen
Speaker 6: firsthand what a bear can do. I've seen firsthand what
Speaker 6: wolves will do and kitles will do.
Speaker 1: None of this adds up to that.
Speaker 6: When I first saw the first one, an alien thing
Speaker 6: came up. I said no very quickly. But at that
Speaker 6: point in time my thought process I was younger, but
Speaker 6: my thoughts as goes back to the little green men.
Speaker 1: We see on TV screens when we're a little right.
Speaker 6: Do I believe in that? I don't know if I
Speaker 6: necessarily believe in that there's a lot of unexplained things
Speaker 6: that happen across the world. Keeping an open mind and
Speaker 6: following the facts where they are, I'm open to wherever
Speaker 6: they might lead.
Speaker 1: Too physical to be dismissed as imagination and too weird
Speaker 1: to find a reasonable explanation. While some ranchers are dealing
Speaker 1: with unexplained violence on the ground, other people in other
Speaker 1: parts of the world have been staring at something just
Speaker 1: as strange from above, and they've been arguing about it
Speaker 1: for years, crop circles. The thing is, crop circles didn't
Speaker 1: start as a joke. They didn't start on the Internet.
Speaker 1: They started quietly.
Speaker 4: I got pulled in, I think like a lot of
Speaker 4: people did in the late eighties when the sort of
Speaker 4: the newspaper started running a lot of stories huge formations
Speaker 4: that were appearing in Welshire. So I started heading down
Speaker 4: their late eighties early nineties. I kind of went in
Speaker 4: there thinking, oh, there must be something paranormal involved yet,
Speaker 4: because these things are huge for me personally. Everything changed
Speaker 4: when I went out made my first circle with a
Speaker 4: team of established human circle makers. You can see this
Speaker 4: isn't as hard as you're led to believe.
Speaker 1: In the late nineteen seventies and early eighties, farmers again
Speaker 1: waking up to find large geometric patterns pressed into their
Speaker 1: fields overnight.
Speaker 4: Providing you've got a fairly good understanding of geometry, and
Speaker 4: providing you've got enough manpower and enough darkness, you can
Speaker 4: make quite a convincing crop circle. But then it becomes
Speaker 4: a lot more interesting because when people go out to
Speaker 4: these circles and make them, they start having a lot
Speaker 4: of weird experiences. People who go to these circles after
Speaker 4: they've been made have weird experiences. Well, it's not aliens,
Speaker 4: and it's definitely humans, but there's something weird in the middle.
Speaker 4: Are we creating some sort of magical midpoints here where
Speaker 4: weird stuff does happen? And if you step away from
Speaker 4: that argument of oh it's aliens, oh it's humans, the
Speaker 4: story becomes a bit more interesting. In my mind, at least,
Speaker 4: everyone sort of goes into overdrive trying to back track
Speaker 4: real world events and link them. No one will believe
Speaker 4: you that you made that crop circle. That first circle
Speaker 4: really sort of highlighted to me that people will bend
Speaker 4: wherever they want onto that formation, onto that design, and
Speaker 4: make it into something that makes sense to them. It's
Speaker 4: almost like a co creation. Unwittingly, you make something and
Speaker 4: somebody builds a home mythology around it.
Speaker 1: Crop circles sit in a strange place. They've been treated
Speaker 1: as either evidence of something extraordinary or it's proof that
Speaker 1: people will believe anything as long as it looks mysterious enough,
Speaker 1: And like most things in this world, the truth doesn't
Speaker 1: land cleanly on either side. You have some people who
Speaker 1: openly claim they've made these things themselves, and as weird
Speaker 1: as that sounds, there also isn't much physical evidence proving
Speaker 1: that either maybe there are multiple truths here, maybe not.
Speaker 1: Everything in this topic is neatly squared away. Real or
Speaker 1: fake doesn't always cover it. And it gets even stranger
Speaker 1: when you hear that people report unexplained experiences at crop
Speaker 1: circle sites that are supposedly man made physical sensations, equipment,
Speaker 1: acting weird emotional reactions they can't explain. At a certain point,
Speaker 1: the question stops being whether crop circles are real or fake.
Speaker 1: It becomes something more interesting. What are the experiences of
Speaker 1: the people who come in contact with them actually telling us?
Speaker 1: And that's why I love the story you're about to hear,
Speaker 1: not because it proves that crop circles are alien messages,
Speaker 1: but because it captures something honest and it turns into
Speaker 1: a full blown adventure. I met this guy the way
Speaker 1: you meet a lot of interesting people in the world,
Speaker 1: by accident at a hotel lobby bar during a UFO conference.
Speaker 1: He sat down next to me and without much context
Speaker 1: at all, placed a small, shiny, metallic rock on the
Speaker 1: bar between us. He told me he believed it came
Speaker 1: from somewhere else, maybe another planet. Maybe it was debris
Speaker 1: from something that didn't belong here. He said he had
Speaker 1: it tested and that no lab could tell him what
Speaker 1: it was. I'll be honest, this space rock did look strange,
Speaker 1: but I also don't know shit about rocks. What I
Speaker 1: did know was how seriously he took it, and how
Speaker 1: excited he was about the whole damn thing, enough that
Speaker 1: it made me excited too. He called it his lucky
Speaker 1: space rock, and that it had stories of its own.
Speaker 1: His name is a Line, and earlier this year he
Speaker 1: flew halfway across the world chasing an idea he doesn't
Speaker 1: even fully leaven. He had forty eight hours in the
Speaker 1: UK to try and find an actual crop circle, and
Speaker 1: his plan was to use his lucky space rock as
Speaker 1: his guide.
Speaker 3: I bought one way ticket to Israel through London. In London,
Speaker 3: I had only two days. So when I landed in
Speaker 3: England Land in the UK, I rented a car, got
Speaker 3: to the Crop Circle Center that's right her first I
Speaker 3: go in and I meet that woman who works there.
Speaker 3: That's her life. She has a museum there, she has
Speaker 3: this website. When people find a crop circle they let
Speaker 3: her know. She puts it up online. I said, my
Speaker 3: little there's nothing new, but there's an old one from
Speaker 3: like a month ago that you can go and check out.
Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, cool, I'll do that. I
Speaker 3: drive there, I knock on the door. This woman opens up. Yes,
Speaker 3: can I help you? Like crop circle? She goes, oh
Speaker 3: my god, not again. She goes, stop, just stop, it's
Speaker 3: a hoax. There's no crop circles. You all keep coming
Speaker 3: here for this. It's not real. I'm sorry that you
Speaker 3: had to come all this way, but I'm sorry. I
Speaker 3: drive back back to my Airbnb and I'm kind of
Speaker 3: like baffled and literally, did I know all the country
Speaker 3: road in England are tiny and very narrow? And I'm
Speaker 3: also driving on the left side. It's fucking weird driving
Speaker 3: this huge car. This card come in front of me Africa,
Speaker 3: and I moved to the left and I hit the curve.
Speaker 3: Hit the curve and get the flat to attire. So
Speaker 3: I stopped at the flat tire shop and the guy's like, uh, here,
Speaker 3: let me put the spur for you. Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'll fix it. I go back to my band. He
Speaker 3: kind of bummed, and the landlady tells me, well, you
Speaker 3: know you should go to Avery Rock Circle.
Speaker 5: What.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody knows about Stonehenge, but there's also Avery Rock Circle.
Speaker 3: It's in this village. It's freaking gold there. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: So it's like, okay, there's not completely lost. I'll go there.
Speaker 3: So I took my rock. I went to that place
Speaker 3: and it's amazing. It's incredible, these megalithic rocks just in
Speaker 3: this huge circle around the village. My mood got better,
Speaker 3: and then I got inspired. I took my rock and meditated,
Speaker 3: put my iPhone in front of me and I'm like,
Speaker 3: come on, is let's fucking go. I'm here for Walmart Day.
Speaker 3: Give me a crop circle tomorrow to check out. That's
Speaker 3: literally what I.
Speaker 1: Said, so, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 3: Exactly simon a crop circle.
Speaker 1: Trying to manifest a cross into existence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's kind of laughing at myself. I was
Speaker 3: aware that he's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So what day was this?
Speaker 3: That was July eleventh? I can you want to play it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll play it. That's my phone.
Speaker 1: A lawn ends up in a garden, no crowd, no spectacle,
Speaker 1: just him holding his lucky space rock, eyes closed, breathing,
Speaker 1: slowly doing exactly what he came there to do. He
Speaker 1: recorded himself on his phone the whole time.
Speaker 3: I went to sleep. I wake up in the morning
Speaker 3: and I was following the crop circle report and there
Speaker 3: was nothing. There's no crop circle, And I'm like, the
Speaker 3: fuck is the strip is not going very well that
Speaker 3: night from flying out to Israel. So I have like
Speaker 3: ay and a little bit of the night and then
Speaker 3: I'm done. I didn't really think something's gonna happen. I hoped,
Speaker 3: you know, find adventure, no matter what this is.
Speaker 1: When his whole story starts to sound like some Steven
Speaker 1: Spielberg adventure.
Speaker 3: Stop at the tire shop and the guy tells me
Speaker 3: he can't fix my tire, and he's like three hundred
Speaker 3: pounds to get a new one. This is a rental.
Speaker 3: I'm not funny doing that, So just put it in
Speaker 3: the back and I'll use my spare. It's a tiny spare.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna drive on that. Then literally, I get
Speaker 3: a download from the universe. Go to the Crop Circle Center. Now,
Speaker 3: what do you mean a download from universe intuition? I
Speaker 3: don't know how to call it. You're just like, all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, it's not a voice, physical voice,
Speaker 3: but it's almost like it, but very very very clear.
Speaker 3: I need to go to the Crop Circle Center. Now,
Speaker 3: I drive back to the Crop Circle Center.
Speaker 1: I go in.
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, how's it going. All of a sudden,
Speaker 3: she gets a text message and she's like, a crop
Speaker 3: circle just popped up, the coordinates, pictures, videos of it,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what the fuck? Okay, how do I
Speaker 3: get there? The way that report comes? They have pictures,
Speaker 3: a video, and a map with coordinates. But it's not
Speaker 3: like a Google map. It's not a location you can
Speaker 3: just put on your GPS and then go there and
Speaker 3: you'll find it. Here's a picture of the area, the
Speaker 3: arrow the points where the crop circle should be so
Speaker 3: I get in the car, I start driving. I'm playing music. Bro,
Speaker 3: I'm high as fuck.
Speaker 1: I got a crop circle.
Speaker 3: I'm just so happy. So it's an hour drive, very
Speaker 3: country like. I'm in the middle of nowhere. There's no houses,
Speaker 3: no nothing, very small roads. I'm fifteen minutes in. I
Speaker 3: hear puff, my spare explodes. You get another flat. The
Speaker 3: car stops. Now in the middle of fucking nowhere. I
Speaker 3: don't even know the spare. I'm stuck. I'm fucked. I
Speaker 3: might miss my flight. I was devastated. You come all
Speaker 3: the way here to fucking England. Give me a cross circle,
Speaker 3: then I ask you for and then ten minutes before
Speaker 3: I get you, you're gonna fuck me like that, kidding me.
Speaker 3: I thought, it's all bullshit. There's no aliens, it's all bullshit.
Speaker 3: This whole thing was a fucking mistake. My whole obsession
Speaker 3: with this is a mistake. All this lost moments epically,
Speaker 3: and I called my fiance and she's not, Babe, listen
Speaker 3: to me, you've got this. I'm like, I do.
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 3: Look around? Is there anybody there? Mind you? There's no
Speaker 3: houses anywhere, there's not a neighborhood. It's not a street
Speaker 3: and I realized there was a fence right next to me,
Speaker 3: like a picket fence. And I go on my tippy
Speaker 3: toe and I look about the fence and throwing up
Speaker 3: this house. There's a house. There's two cars, the only house.
Speaker 3: Go and knock on their door. Nice gentlemen opens the door.
Speaker 3: There was super nice. It took us like probably an
Speaker 3: hour and a half figure out this local towing company
Speaker 3: and they said, yeah, we'll come get your car and
Speaker 3: we'll take you to the airport. Great when eleven pm.
Speaker 3: So she hangs up the phone like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: thank you so much. And then she looks at me
Speaker 3: and she goes, okay, shall we go find your crop circle?
Speaker 3: Are you serious? But we live there our whole lives.
Speaker 3: You've never seen one. You're saying, it's right here, let's go.
Speaker 3: Not always lost Yet. We get into their car. She's driving.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting next to her husband behind me with the
Speaker 3: map that I gave him, and he's navigating old country roads,
Speaker 3: third roads. Get to this place. We thought that looks
Speaker 3: like the pictures. We recognize the trees. We climb up.
Speaker 3: I bought a drone for that trip, so I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: I have a drone, I'll send it up there in
Speaker 3: three sixty overview and see what I see. So I
Speaker 3: get the drone up and at the end of that
Speaker 3: three sixty the crop circles get into my frame.
Speaker 5: That Oh my god, look at it.
Speaker 3: I kept lippening to me. I feel like the flow
Speaker 3: of the universe Amian's God.
Speaker 5: Or one with me.
Speaker 1: Against his own expectations, the universe plays along. Maybe it's coincidence,
Speaker 1: maybe it's pattern recognition. Maybe it's dumb luck or good
Speaker 1: space rock luck. The important part isn't whether the crop
Speaker 1: circle means anything. It's why people keep chasing them. His
Speaker 1: name is a lawn. If you like, go check out
Speaker 1: Alan's YouTube channel. It's called I'm not joking. It's fucking
Speaker 1: aliens Bro one hundred percent worth it. I'm recording this
Speaker 1: at ten oh seven am. I know that because I
Speaker 1: just looked at my phone, and if you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: it's no longer ten oh seven. It might be morning,
Speaker 1: it might be late. You might be on a walk
Speaker 1: or just counch roding somewhere, which already tells you something
Speaker 1: strange about time. React like time is this solid thing
Speaker 1: we're all standing inside together, like there's one shared now
Speaker 1: that we're all moving through. But according to science, that's
Speaker 1: not actually how it works. Physics says there is no
Speaker 1: universal present, no masterclock, just events happening, stacked differently depending
Speaker 1: on where you are. So when I say it's ten
Speaker 1: oh seven am, that moment is already gone, but this
Speaker 1: sentence is happening for you right now. What that means
Speaker 1: in real life is this time isn't something you're writing on.
Speaker 1: It's something you're coordinating with. We schedule our lives around it,
Speaker 1: and we measure ourselves against it. We panic when we
Speaker 1: feel behind it, but it's not actually moving the way
Speaker 1: we think it is. What's moving is us your attention,
Speaker 1: your decisions. Those are what create the feeling of time passing.
Speaker 1: That's why some days fly by and this monologue is dragging.
Speaker 1: That's why one conversation can change everything and then ten
Speaker 1: years can disappear quietly. Time doesn't speed up or slow down,
Speaker 1: your experience does. So if you feel like you're running
Speaker 1: out of time or just waiting for the right moment,
Speaker 1: think about this. There may not be a single now
Speaker 1: in the whole universe, but there's always a moment where
Speaker 1: you're making a choice, sending a text, avoiding the conversation,
Speaker 1: showing up, not showing up. That's the only part of
Speaker 1: time you actually touch. So wherever you're hearing this, whatever
Speaker 1: time it is for you, that's just the point of contact.
Speaker 1: Not the clock, not the calendar, just a moment where
Speaker 1: something happens because you were there. Once you accept that
Speaker 1: reality is not as fixed as it feels, a lot
Speaker 1: of these stories stops sounding like fairy tales and start
Speaker 1: to look like data points on a graph we just
Speaker 1: don't fully understand yet. For decades, there has been one
Speaker 1: place more than any other, where time, perception, secrecy, and
Speaker 1: experience all seem to collide. A place that was built
Speaker 1: for keeping secrets, a place you can't even get a
Speaker 1: solid satellite image of, a place that officially did not
Speaker 1: exist until it did. Area fifty one. There's one story
Speaker 1: that sits right at the center of Area fifty one,
Speaker 1: whether you want it to or not, a story that
Speaker 1: didn't just introduce flying saucers to American culture, but permanently
Speaker 1: fuse them to this secret military base in the Nevada Desert.
Speaker 1: At the center of that story is a man named
Speaker 1: Bob Lazar. This guy didn't claim to see something strange
Speaker 1: in the sky. He claimed to work inside the system itself,
Speaker 1: reverse engineering flying saucers. Bob Lazar's story is either the
Speaker 1: longest running hoax in modern UFO history or one of
Speaker 1: the most dangerous truths ever spoken out loud. This story
Speaker 1: refuses to die more about to try and make sense
Speaker 1: of all of it. I didn't just want another opinion.
Speaker 1: I wanted the person who has spent years closest to
Speaker 1: this story, closest to Bob Lazar himself. If this is
Speaker 1: all a lie, I'm honestly just impressed at this point.
Speaker 1: And if it's not, then a human revelation has been
Speaker 1: sitting right in front of us. This entire time.
Speaker 7: News articles once again mentioned the talk about alien spacecraft,
Speaker 7: things of alien origin flying in.
Speaker 8: Nevada out of nowhere like a shiroco in the desert.
Speaker 8: He was in Silhouette comes forward on the news and says,
Speaker 8: we are reverse engineering alien spacecraft at a place called
Speaker 8: Area fifty one, which you haven't heard about.
Speaker 5: Nine flying saucers.
Speaker 8: I was part of that program, and now I'm worried
Speaker 8: about my life, a threat to my personal safety.
Speaker 5: That's my story.
Speaker 7: The live interview Drew International attention. Portions were broadcast by
Speaker 7: radio in six European countries and an a nationally televised
Speaker 7: TV special in Japan. His real name is Robert Lazar.
Speaker 7: He says he was hired to work at an area
Speaker 7: called S four. At S four, he says, are flying saucers,
Speaker 7: anti matter reactors, technology that is seemingly beyond human capability.
Speaker 7: Lazar's story is by any stand It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 7: He's telling it in order to protect himself.
Speaker 5: Who's this Lazar guy? I don't know. Can we believe him?
Speaker 5: Can we not? Is he a liar? I'm gonna find out.
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