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Speaker 1: Hello, This is Martin Willis. Former guest Albert Wayne, who

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you may remember had an incredible UFO encounter, has submitted

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this guest blog, A Conversation Worth Remembering by Albert Wayne.

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In twenty fifteen, while handling an inspection claim for damaged

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furniture in Buffalo, New York, I met with a client

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at his home. He was around eighty years old and

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wore a cast on one arm. As we walked through

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his condo inspecting the damaged pieces, he explained that he

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was battling bone cancer in his arm and that his

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wife of many years had recently passed away. At one point,

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he brought me into a room lined with photographs of

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various aircraft. He told me he was a retired Air

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Force officer who had flown many combat missions in Korea

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and Vietnam. This, he explained, was his room of memory.

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He spoke easily about his time in the military, and

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it was clear he was enjoying the conversation. When we

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finished the inspection, I asked if we might sit for

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a while and visit before I headed out. He smiled

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and said that sounds nice. We discussed his wife and

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the life they had shared. His military service, and I

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shared a little about my own life as well. Because

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I've always had an interest in the UFO topic, and

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because he seemed receptive, I decided to ask, so I said,

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have you ever seen anything up there? You couldn't quite

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explain a flying saucer or something like that. You mean,

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like a spaceship or something like that, Yes, I replied.

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He looked up at the ceiling for a few moments,

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his eyes moving back and forth, and then said, nope,

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not that I recall some of the other pilots and

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I would see these things called contrails and couldn't figure

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out where they came from, But no UFOs. I was,

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of course disappointed, and was about to move on to

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another subject or get ready to leave, when his demeanor changed.

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He stared at me with a look that suggested he

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wasn't sure whether he should tell me something or whether

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I would even believe him. I'll tell you something that

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happened while I was with another pilot at an officer's

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club in Korea, he said, if you're interested, yes, of course,

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I said. He told me they had been sitting at

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a table with two young pilots they met that night

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playing pool and drinking beer. As the evening went on,

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the conversation drifted through careers and the usual pilot talk.

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At some point, the two young men mentioned that their

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first assignment out of flight school had been Roswell Airbase.

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My friend and one I chuckled a little, he said,

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and one of us asked, Oh, isn't that where the

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flying saucers supposedly crashed. Both men went silent, their expressions

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turned serious. They looked around the room nervously, then at

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each other, and then back at us. Finally, one of

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them spoke quietly. They were there, he said, we saw them.

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They tried to get the young men to explain, to

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tell them more, but neither one would say another word

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about it, And I guess, he added, that's all I

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can tell you as well. My visit ended shortly after that,

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and I moved on with my business and with my life.

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In reflection, I cannot speak to the sincerity of the

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two young airmen from Roswell, but I will never doubt

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the sincerity of the story I was told by a

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very fine older gentleman and a patriot too.