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In nineteen seventy two, I was
sitting outside my mother in law's house in

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the country on a hot August night, trying to catch a cool breeze.

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Not everyone had air conditioning back then. Several of my husband's family members were

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sitting out there with me, also
trying to escape the heat of the summer,

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when something appeared in the sky above
us that made us all look up.

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It was a circular disk covering above
the treetops at the top of the

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hill, and although we could only
see the bottom of it, there was

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a row of different colored blinking lights
all around that part that we could see.

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I felt drawn to go up to
the top of the hill to get

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a better look, and I walked
up and, still carrying my son,

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and I stood there directly under it
for several minutes. I couldn't take my

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eyes off of it, and at
the bottom of the hill, my mother

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in law was calling for me in
terror to get back down there to them.

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Realizing that I might be putting my
son in danger, I backed away,

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and as soon as I did,
it shot straight up and disappeared with

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incredible speed. At that point we
all went inside to see if there was

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anything on TV about it, and
the newsman was announcing that anyone who saw

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something strange in the sky shouldn't be
worried. It was just a weather balloon

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gone astray, he said, a
weather balloon with lights all around it,

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and that can move at unbelievably high
rates of speed. Yeah right. I

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carried that memory with me all the
way up until twenty and fifteen. At

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that time, I was working at
a store and had punched out at ten

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fifteen pm. My grandson Josh was
with me and we were driving home when

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a bright blue craft floated out above
the trees. It was close enough that

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we could even see windows on it. I wish we'd thought to pull over

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and get some pictures of it,
but in hindsight, as they say,

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it's twenty twenty. Over the next
two years, we witnessed two more separate

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events. In twenty sixteen, a
spherical object appeared and ascended near our local

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airport, and at that time my
husband saw a similar object on his way

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to work. And then in twenty
seventeen, we were walking down the road

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from my house and we looked up
to see three cigar shaped crafts all in

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a row above us, and one
by one. They each ascended with lightning

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speed. Just like that, they
were gone. Now, these things were

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not balloons. They had capabilities that
weather balloons don't have, and weather balloons

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don't have flashing lights on them.
I'm sure of it. When they started

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appearing to our Air Force during World
War II, they called them the Foo

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Fighters. I'm sure that some things
have reasonable explanations, but not the craft

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that was directly over my head.
That I can describe, but I cannot

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explain it. In nineteen ninety three, I bought an eight and a half

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acre property with a four bedroom home
in Rice, Texas. It was originally

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part of the estate of a man
named Clyde who died several years earlier.

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Neither his widow nor any of his
children wanted the property. Almost immediately after

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moving in, strange things began to
happen. One evening, I was standing

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at the sink washing dishes, and
a butcher knife slid across the counter toward

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the sint from eight feet away.
Well. I jumped back and pulled my

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hands away just as the knife fell
into the soapy water. There was no

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one in the kitchen but me.
My son and daughter were in their rooms

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doing their homework and my wife was
watching TV in the living room. I

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went into the living room and asked
my wife to come out to the kitchen.

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After I told her what happened.
Neither of a us could understand how

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the knife could have been propelled all
that way down the counter into the sink,

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and it gave us both goosebumps.
A few weeks later, my daughter

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was sitting at the dining room table
and I was standing at the island in

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the kitchen when a measuring cup came
flying out of the laundry room and it

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flew across the room and hit the
cabinets on the other side of the kitchen.

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Well, we were both startled.
What the crap is that? My

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daughter yelled, Well, I walked
over and picked up the cup. It

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was made of plastic, so it
didn't shudder, but it did get a

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crack in it. No one was
in the laundry room at that time.

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That incident also left us scratching our
heads about what was going on in that

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house. The third event happened a
couple of months later. My wife and

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daughter had gone into town to do
some shopping, leaving my son and me

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at home. I had two hundred
and fifty rabbits under roof, and I

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was cleaning the barn and doing chores, checking the rabbits for sore ht,

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checking the water flow in the cages
and such. My son was cleaning out

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another barn on the other side of
the property where our sheets and goats lived.

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I finished up before my son did, and I headed for the house

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to get a glass of iced tea. And I saw him still working at

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the other barn, so I went
inside and took off my boots. That's

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essential one coming in from the barns. I fixed my tea and I sat

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down in my recliner in the living
room. After ten minutes, I heard

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the sound of boots walking across the
kitchen toward the living room where I was

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sitting. Well. I hollered out
that he needed to get those boots off

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in the house, but there was
no reply. So I set it again,

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and still I got silence. The
boots turned and headed down the hallway

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toward the bedroom, and I got
out of the chair and walked to the

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hallway, but no one was there. I checked each bedroom in both bathrooms,

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there was no one. When I
came back to the kitchen, I

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looked out through the window. My
son was still out working in the barn.

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That was when I had had enough, so I yelled out, Clyde.

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If that's you and you're the one
doing these things, you need to

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stop. I know you love this
house that you built, but you can

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see we're taking care of it just
as you would have, so stop scaring

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my wife and kids. And I
don't care if you want to hang around,

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but just watch and don't try to
hurt anyone. For a long time,

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all the antics stopped until one afternoon
we had an insurance agent over.

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As we sat in the living room
talking, my daughter mentioned something about our

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house ghost. The agent started mocking
the existence of ghosts. All of a

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sudden, a glass candy dish full
of candy was pushed off the coffee table

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and it landed at the agent's feet. The guy's face turned every shade of

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pink and then bright red and back
to white. He didn't say goodbye or

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thanks for letting me stop by.
He didn't say anything. He picked up

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his briefcase and ran to the front
door, and he jumped in his car

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and took off like he had just
gotten a green light on a dragstrip.

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We couldn't stop ourselves from laughing,
and I said, good job, Clyde.

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And after that Clyde didn't make himself
known much, but once in a

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while someone would feel his presence.
But the antics stopped