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<v Speaker 1>You'll be away five seventeen. Do you want to report

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<v Speaker 1>a UFO hanging in? We don't want to report every

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one. Do you wish to report a UFO over hey,

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<v Speaker 1>we want to one of those areas thirty one.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you wish to find a report of any kind

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<v Speaker 2>of it? I wouldn't know what kind of reports clouds

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<v Speaker 2>time areas thirty one me neither.

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<v Speaker 3>There were seven one golf.

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<v Speaker 2>If it was anybody above us to pass us, like

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<v Speaker 2>thirty seconds ago.

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<v Speaker 3>We were sending one top of golf negative.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, off fi the UFO.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's murder two nine o'clock. Yes, if you passed over.

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<v Speaker 2>I got I don't know what it was, but it's

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<v Speaker 2>from at least to three thousand feet above us. See,

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<v Speaker 2>I passed right over the top.

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<v Speaker 3>Of us ninety one one.

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<v Speaker 2>You just called both to be the fours they're after

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<v Speaker 2>staying the airplanes.

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<v Speaker 1>He is to God on an unidentified object every liberty

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<v Speaker 1>four call or calm on an unidentified flying object.

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<v Speaker 4>A Welcome to UFO Chronicles, a place where people share

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<v Speaker 4>their experiences of the strange and unexplained. If you've had

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<v Speaker 4>an encounter, I would like to be on the show.

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<v Speaker 4>You can email me at UFO Chronicles at gmail dot com.

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<v Speaker 3>Hello everyone, and welcome to the show. How are you

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<v Speaker 3>all doing. I'm Nick Canter and this is the UFO

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<v Speaker 3>Chronicles podcast. Tonight we meet Lee in Illinois to hear

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<v Speaker 3>about a mysterious project that Lee and his stepdaughterre witnessed

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<v Speaker 3>on a summer's day in July of two thousand and eight.

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<v Speaker 3>The sighting left Lee perplexed and is hoping to find

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<v Speaker 3>other people that possibly could have seen the same object. Lee,

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<v Speaker 3>now retired, spent more than three decades with the United

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<v Speaker 3>States government as a technical enforcement officer and criminal investigator

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<v Speaker 3>in undercover operations, where he specialized in electronic surveillance and

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<v Speaker 3>control deliveries. Lee would also recount his near death experience

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<v Speaker 3>from twenty nineteen, where he found himself in a purlescent

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<v Speaker 3>white room and was asked are you ready to go?

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<v Speaker 3>Lee is up next, but first, if you enjoyed the

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<v Speaker 3>a link in the description of this episode any help

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<v Speaker 3>is very much appreciated. Now on with the show. Hello, Lee,

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<v Speaker 3>welcome to the podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, how are you today? I am great?

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you Lee. It is great to have you join

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<v Speaker 3>us today and you'll call in from Illinois in the US. Yes, sir, Now, Lee,

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<v Speaker 3>you have some experiences to share with us. Would you

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<v Speaker 3>like to start at the beginning please, sir?

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<v Speaker 1>Sure, you bet it.

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<v Speaker 2>My career has been with federal government and over spans

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<v Speaker 2>over thirty years. I started with the Army and went

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<v Speaker 2>to work for US Custom Service, and then went back

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<v Speaker 2>to the Army and was a Defense Department employee. And

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<v Speaker 2>my pretty much my entire career was spent doing special

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<v Speaker 2>investigations and undercover operations along the way. I had obviously

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<v Speaker 2>access to and assigned Thermo imagery, night vision equipment, pretty

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<v Speaker 2>good optics, cameras.

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<v Speaker 1>All along the way.

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<v Speaker 2>And we got initially in contact because I was searching

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<v Speaker 2>for witnesses that possibly have ever seen a sphere that's described.

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<v Speaker 2>I've recently written a book it's called Orbit, and in

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<v Speaker 2>chapter one it describes a sighting that happened in sighting

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<v Speaker 2>was true. It was something that my daughter, my stepdaughter,

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<v Speaker 2>and I had happened to us approximately.

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<v Speaker 1>Twenty eleven, twenty twelve. I believe it was.

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<v Speaker 2>There might even been a year or two earlier than that.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was a hot summer day, July, probably ninety

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<v Speaker 2>five degrees out and we had a pool in our

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<v Speaker 2>backyard and the stepdaughter and I was in the pool

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<v Speaker 2>and we were playing catch with the nerf ball, and

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<v Speaker 2>she stopped and pointed up and asked, what was that?

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<v Speaker 1>And I turned around and I looked.

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<v Speaker 2>And the best way to describe it, if you go

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<v Speaker 2>to my Twitter account X account, you'll see pictures of

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<v Speaker 2>it on there. Imagine three perfectly round spheres oriented two

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<v Speaker 2>at the bottom, one at the top in a triangle orientation,

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<v Speaker 2>and they were all connected with like these pipes or arms.

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<v Speaker 1>And the size of the spheres were.

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<v Speaker 2>I would say the size of a maybe a smaller

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<v Speaker 2>two story home. I often describe it the size of

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<v Speaker 2>my barn that we had out back. They were very large,

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<v Speaker 2>and they were approximately two hundred meters from us. When

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<v Speaker 2>we saw this, it wasn't moving in the sky. It

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<v Speaker 2>was just sitting there. And she, my daughter, asked me,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what is that? And I told her, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I have no idea. Let's just watch it. And the

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<v Speaker 2>thing was reflective. All three spheres were almost like a

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<v Speaker 2>stainless steel or even chrome reflection, had no flex skin

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<v Speaker 2>like a balloon, did not flex at all.

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<v Speaker 1>It was close enough that you could see it appeared solid.

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<v Speaker 2>In that particular day, there was a due south wind,

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<v Speaker 2>probably ten fifteen miles an hour. We live in the prairie,

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<v Speaker 2>and every day in the prairie is a windy day.

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<v Speaker 1>If you live out in the country and not in

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<v Speaker 1>the city, which we did. And we continued to watch it.

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<v Speaker 2>At this point, me and her both at the edge

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<v Speaker 2>of the pool and looking up at it, and we

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<v Speaker 2>noticed the music we had playing it stopped, probably within a.

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<v Speaker 1>Minute.

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<v Speaker 2>It flexed almost violently from side to side. Imagine putting

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<v Speaker 2>a ping pong ball in a mason jar and giving

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<v Speaker 2>it a shake. It flexed like that, and all three

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<v Speaker 2>spheares flexed and wobbled from side to side. And then

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<v Speaker 2>it moved a little bit due north. And when it moved,

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<v Speaker 2>I noticed that the pool itself had a certain vibration

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<v Speaker 2>to it, like the water was rippling, kind of imagine

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<v Speaker 2>a ultrasonic jewelry cleaner when you turn moseon.

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<v Speaker 1>How that water's sort of ripples.

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<v Speaker 2>The water in the pool was doing that, and I

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<v Speaker 2>noticed it, but my stepdaughter was just completely fixated on

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<v Speaker 2>watching this craft. And it wobbled one more time, and

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<v Speaker 2>then it accelerated due north. And I can't say that

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<v Speaker 2>it was an instantaneous acceleration, but it did start slow

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<v Speaker 2>and then it went to almost hyper speed. And like

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<v Speaker 2>I say, it went due north, and it also went

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<v Speaker 2>up and where our sky is there, it's unobstructed, and

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<v Speaker 2>I would guess within two and a half seconds it

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<v Speaker 2>was gone completely out of sight. And so this was

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<v Speaker 2>something like I say, that was each one of those

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<v Speaker 2>spears were larger than a two story home, and they

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<v Speaker 2>all three were connected in a triangle formation. And when

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<v Speaker 2>it took off, it took off and it did not

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<v Speaker 2>change any position at all. Imagine two balls on the

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<v Speaker 2>horizon and then one ball orientated in the middle above

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<v Speaker 2>the other two, and then these pipes connecting them, and so.

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<v Speaker 1>The acceleration that occurred.

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<v Speaker 2>Is I mean to me, is almost unimaginable. I've been

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<v Speaker 2>on numerous Air Force bases and test base facilities, and

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen a large percentage of the inventory of the

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<v Speaker 2>aircraft that we have and how they move and This

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<v Speaker 2>was absolutely nothing like that. And the conversation that as

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<v Speaker 2>soon as it was gone, she looked at me and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, what was that? And I go, before we

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<v Speaker 2>even talk about it, I want you to draw it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm going to draw it. And so we both

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<v Speaker 2>right then and there, before we did anything else, we

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<v Speaker 2>took the time and drew what we saw, just because

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to compare, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>What she believed she saw what I believed I saw.

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<v Speaker 2>At the time, she was only twelve years old, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>so old enough to understand things, you know, approaching junior

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<v Speaker 2>high grade, and not certainly.

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<v Speaker 1>Not little kid. She was not a little kid at

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<v Speaker 1>that time.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, she drew exactly what both of us saw,

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<v Speaker 2>and we've we've talked about it occasionally, you know, throughout

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<v Speaker 2>the years.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, you remember when we saw that.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh and when the thing left, the music came back on,

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<v Speaker 2>and so, you know, we both thought that was kind.

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<v Speaker 1>Of freaky, and that happened, Like I say, probably, I'm going.

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<v Speaker 2>To say it was a year or so before twenty ten,

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<v Speaker 2>twenty eleven, around two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.

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<v Speaker 2>After that, she was hot too. Let's go see if

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<v Speaker 2>we can find UFOs. You know, she was at that

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<v Speaker 2>perfect age, and so of the evening we would get

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<v Speaker 2>in the truck and drive. We lived basically right on

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<v Speaker 2>the Illinois River, and there's a military installation to our west,

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<v Speaker 2>and we have nuclear facilities to the east, and so

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we would drive back and forth and just

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<v Speaker 2>look for UFOs, you know, and of course we didn't

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<v Speaker 2>really see anything.

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<v Speaker 1>One night, we thought we saw a triangle, but you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we can't verify it for sure. But that thing that

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<v Speaker 1>we saw was the middle of the day, hot summer day.

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<v Speaker 2>There was no doubt what it was and what we saw,

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<v Speaker 2>and how large it was, and the way that it

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<v Speaker 2>moved in the way that accelerates it.

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<v Speaker 1>I looked for.

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<v Speaker 2>Rivets, I looked for scenes, I looked for little logos

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<v Speaker 2>on the thing, and there was nothing at all like that.

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<v Speaker 1>It was probably the one of the most fascinating things

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<v Speaker 1>I saw. And as I said to you earlier when

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<v Speaker 1>we were chatting, I wrote a book.

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<v Speaker 2>Called Orbit, and it's out there now, and that sighting

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<v Speaker 2>is basically chapter one of the book, and that's how

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<v Speaker 2>the book starts. And so we uh, as I said before,

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<v Speaker 2>I was assigned all kinds of gear for my my job,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, I had the ability to use thermo

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<v Speaker 2>images any any hour of the day that I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>It was basically all this stuff was housed in my

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<v Speaker 2>rexsac or the vault in the back of my pickup truck,

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<v Speaker 2>you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And so with something that happened.

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<v Speaker 2>Early on in my career combined with what happened in

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<v Speaker 2>that backyard the swimming pool, I was never a UFO

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<v Speaker 2>guy before this, but I sort of became a UFO

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<v Speaker 2>guy that day.

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<v Speaker 3>If that makes any sense, it certainly does. That is

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<v Speaker 3>surely an interesting sightingly, Yeah, it.

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<v Speaker 1>Was special, that's for sure. Special and unique.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not a particular design to your conventional sightings that

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<v Speaker 3>we get does seem to be very rare but not

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<v Speaker 3>unheard of. Now, obviously this is an audio show, so

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<v Speaker 3>people at the minute can't see the design, but I

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<v Speaker 3>will make these links available down in the description and

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<v Speaker 3>on the website so you can see the drawing Lee

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<v Speaker 3>has done. But think of something like a molecule structure

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<v Speaker 3>that is probably the closest to it. And also so

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<v Speaker 3>it's something that we've seen before in actually in a

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<v Speaker 3>crop circle, believe it or not.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh really, see I'm not aware of that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, crop circle in nineteen ninety two, that was Olwen

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<v Speaker 3>Barnes in Wiltshire and that's the identical design. And I

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<v Speaker 3>think it's also the logo of doctor Stephen Greer the

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<v Speaker 3>c Setti they used that for their logo.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have seen that, and when I first saw it,

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, okay, that looks similar. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>you're familiar with Grant Cameron, but I was speaking to

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<v Speaker 2>did a little bit of research on it and he

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<v Speaker 2>thought that there was possibly a couple of sightings in England.

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<v Speaker 1>That were similar.

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<v Speaker 2>But I never did get any other reports on him

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<v Speaker 2>or was able to read anything else about him. So

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<v Speaker 2>occasionally when I'm on X, I post a bolo be

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<v Speaker 2>on the lookout for this object, and then I'll post

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<v Speaker 2>that picture. And I've just got very very few responses

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<v Speaker 3>What we'll do is I'll post out and see if

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<v Speaker 2>I'm one of those that I'll go on X, but

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<v Speaker 2>I'm more of a stalker, you know, sort of just

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<v Speaker 2>go into some of the spaces to listen, and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>some of it gets you want to call it wacky,

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<v Speaker 2>but I've for my entire life and my entire career

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<v Speaker 2>similar to you know, how I would do any type

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<v Speaker 2>to see some evidence, which I understand I don't have

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<v Speaker 2>evidence on these three spheres other than a second witness,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, two people seeing something is way better

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<v Speaker 2>than just one seeing it. You know, I've been asked

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<v Speaker 2>before if I was a whistleblower, and I'm definitely not

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<v Speaker 2>a whistleblower. However, I did witness something in the very

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<v Speaker 2>early nineties, and I'm hoping that at some point I'll

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<v Speaker 2>be able to come forward and talk more about it.

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<v Speaker 2>It was something that I witnessed in a couple others.

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<v Speaker 2>were doing a special investigation. It was basically for a

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<v Speaker 2>environmental type impact study. I can't go into all the details,

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<v Speaker 2>but something came up during the investigation and it got

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<v Speaker 2>shut down very very quickly, and we were basically told to,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, go go investigation something else, and of course

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<v Speaker 1>But there's a couple people that are.

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<v Speaker 3>It certainly does intrigue in.

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<v Speaker 1>N Yeah, I know, it's a hell of a tease, right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>And with that incident, it was very brief, very short,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, I was young enough at that time

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<v Speaker 2>that I'm just wait whatever the colonel said, Man, that's

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm doing. And life went on, and we were told,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, not to discuss it anymore, and so we

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<v Speaker 2>never did, you know. And then after this thing that

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<v Speaker 2>we saw in the backyard in two thousand and nine ish,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll say, you know, sort of reinforced something that that

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<v Speaker 2>really when for me I sort of became more interested

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<v Speaker 2>in the topic than just following it on the news.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I started at around that point, and even

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<v Speaker 2>a little before that point, I would turn the thermo

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<v Speaker 2>imagery up to the sky, the night vision if we

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<v Speaker 2>were out in the evening doing operations and we had downtime.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I don't know if you've ever looked through

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<v Speaker 2>see literally billions of stars instead of all the shiny

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<v Speaker 2>ones that you know, you're sure you can see the

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<v Speaker 2>Big Dipper at night, but if you look through night vision,

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<v Speaker 2>that Big Dipper is going to be full of stars,

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<v Speaker 2>if that makes any sense.

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<v Speaker 6>There.

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<v Speaker 3>They are wonderful tools.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you can any moment that you would look

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<v Speaker 2>up in the sky with night vision at night, on

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<v Speaker 2>a clear night, you'll immediately see satellites and they're very distinct.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't blink, they they move at a consistent pace

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<v Speaker 2>across the sky. Some of them are faster than others,

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<v Speaker 2>and they certainly don't make any turns. And occasionally you'll

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<v Speaker 2>see something similar to that that will all of a

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<v Speaker 2>sudden make a one hundred and eighty degree turn and

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<v Speaker 2>then you know you you found one.

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<v Speaker 1>Whatever that was, you found one.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, we've we've made notes of those, and

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<v Speaker 2>we even have several that we've videoed that I can

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<v Speaker 2>share with you, you know, certainly offline here recently within

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<v Speaker 2>the last probably two or three years, we've been noticing

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you follow Chris Blood.

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<v Speaker 2>So he posts a lot of the orbs that he sees,

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<v Speaker 2>and we've we've been seeing similar and we've certainly put

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<v Speaker 2>several of them up on x.

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<v Speaker 1>X seems to be the my go to platform.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm on Instagram and I'm on a few others, but

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<v Speaker 2>it seems like I spend the most of.

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<v Speaker 1>My time on X. It is.

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<v Speaker 3>It's the place where I'm all the time. I've always

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<v Speaker 3>got to open on my desktop.

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<v Speaker 2>I did.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm the same. I have Facebook and Instagram, but

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<v Speaker 3>they don't get the attention like I give to X.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's, like I say, the ones that I post

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<v Speaker 2>that our videos are usually videos that I have taken myself. There.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a recent one that me, I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>pretty profound.

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<v Speaker 2>I was driving down our highway, a little two lane

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<v Speaker 2>highway out in the middle of the plains of Illinois,

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<v Speaker 2>and I saw bald leagles coming. The thing was flying

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<v Speaker 2>straight at me. And you know, we see them occasionally.

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<v Speaker 2>We live near a small river, so where our house is,

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<v Speaker 2>i'll probably see a ball to eagle maybe once a week,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe two three times a month, and so anytime you

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<v Speaker 2>see one, it's special. And so I saw this one

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<v Speaker 2>coming straight down the highway flying. I mean, he was

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<v Speaker 2>hauling the mail man. He was flying very very fast.

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<v Speaker 2>So I pulled the truck over and I got my

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<v Speaker 2>iPhone ready to take a picture when he come up close.

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<v Speaker 2>And so he got alongside of me, and I real

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<v Speaker 2>quick hit the picture taking button like twice, once and

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<v Speaker 2>then another time, and then he flew on by. And

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<v Speaker 2>so later, you know, I looked at that picture, and

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<v Speaker 2>the first picture, I was a little disappointed because I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't zoom in. I just you know, if you zoomed

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<v Speaker 2>in on the eagle, you could see it was an eagle,

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<v Speaker 2>and you can see it was bald eagle.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, I was a little bit disappointed in

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<v Speaker 1>the picture.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I swiped over and I looked at the second one,

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<v Speaker 2>and imagine, it's hard to explain and audio only. If

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<v Speaker 2>we were on video, I could have you look at

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<v Speaker 2>the pictures, but there was a telephone pole in both pictures.

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<v Speaker 2>That imagine that as your reference point, okay, And then

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<v Speaker 2>on the first picture you see the bald eagle and

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<v Speaker 2>you see the distance the eagle is from the telephone pole,

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<v Speaker 2>and bald eagles will fly anywhere from fifty five miles

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<v Speaker 2>an hour all the way up to ninety miles an hour,

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<v Speaker 2>depending how you know fast are going and if they're

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<v Speaker 2>headed straight down or whatever. But this thing, like I say,

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<v Speaker 2>it was flying fast. So then I swiped over to

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<v Speaker 2>the second picture, and you can see the bald eagle

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<v Speaker 2>did not change very much in terms of distance away

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<v Speaker 2>from that telephone pole. And then in the second there's

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<v Speaker 2>three anomalies that showed up underneath the bald eagle, and

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<v Speaker 2>they're very faint when you look at the picture, but

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<v Speaker 2>when you zoom in on it, you can clearly see

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<v Speaker 2>one as a saucer shape, and the other two are blurry,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's hard to make a definite shape of what

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<v Speaker 2>the other two are. But the reason I say that

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<v Speaker 2>this image to me is profound evidence is because you

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<v Speaker 2>have the camera is stopped in a fixed point away

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<v Speaker 2>from the camera, you have a telephone pole that is

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<v Speaker 2>also at a fixed point, it's not moving, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Then you have a bald eagle that has a known

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<v Speaker 1>speed in flight that very very much did not move

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<v Speaker 1>in the picture.

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<v Speaker 2>So my point is that by the position of the

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<v Speaker 2>eagle to the telephone pole. You can tell that I

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<v Speaker 2>snapped those two pictures nearly at the same time.

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<v Speaker 1>And now in the second.

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<v Speaker 2>Picture you have three anomalies show up. Okay, those anomalies.

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<v Speaker 1>Are not anywhere visible in first picture. So let's imagine that.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll just say one of those anomalies was another bald

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<v Speaker 2>eagle flying in the opposite direction.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>If that was would have been the case, you would

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<v Speaker 2>have still saw it in the first picture. At best,

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<v Speaker 2>it would have made twice the distance that the original

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<v Speaker 2>eagle made going southbound.

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<v Speaker 1>If does that make sense to you? Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>And so I had somebody in the ex community that

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<v Speaker 2>has the ability to analyze photographs, analyze the photograph, and

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<v Speaker 2>this person believes that whatever those three anomalies are, they

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<v Speaker 2>have a high electric field based off of whatever the

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<v Speaker 2>software is that she uses to analyze them.

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<v Speaker 1>And so you know, I'd be more than happy to

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<v Speaker 1>send you these photos. Nick. They're to me, like I say,

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<v Speaker 1>I think they're quite profound and have.

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<v Speaker 2>Indicate evidence, mostly because I know that I took them,

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<v Speaker 2>and I can recreate that same photograph by the location

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<v Speaker 2>of where it occurred, and even the very most fast.

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<v Speaker 1>We have falcons in our area that are certainly faster.

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<v Speaker 2>Than a bald eagle, But what's the odds of three

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<v Speaker 2>falcons overtaking a bald eagle position in literally less.

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<v Speaker 1>Than one second. It's not very likely. And the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that the one anomaly you can clearly see is a

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<v Speaker 1>saucer shape.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I posted that photo on x I thought

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<v Speaker 2>it would probably get some sort of traction, but you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it really didn't. There were a couple of people interested

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<v Speaker 2>in it, and I'd be more than happy to send,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the photos out to anyone else that would

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<v Speaker 2>like to see them. I don't know if I'm lucky

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<v Speaker 2>or unlucky, but I seem to be in the right

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<v Speaker 2>place at the right time on a lot of this stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Certainly do interesting stuff. Yeah, I'll post them. I'll post

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<v Speaker 3>them as well on the website so people can take

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<v Speaker 3>a look at that. That's interesting. Yeah, nothing like nothing

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<v Speaker 3>like seeing a bold eagle.

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<v Speaker 7>Beautiful creatures, yes, absolutely, And obviously when I took it,

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<v Speaker 7>that was what I had hoped to capture, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>and instead, known my luck, I captured some something else

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<v Speaker 7>good capture.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, wonderful stuff. Okay, now you're your two thousand and

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<v Speaker 3>eight sighting. Now, you didn't really have any interest in

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<v Speaker 3>the subject before before you witness.

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<v Speaker 2>Not really other than, you know, if I would hear

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<v Speaker 2>something on the news. And even in two thousand and eight,

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<v Speaker 2>two thousand and nine, the Nimitz report hadn't come public yet,

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<v Speaker 2>and some of the other stuff really hadn't come public.

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<v Speaker 2>But I did take an interest in the freedom of

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<v Speaker 2>press disclosure where a lot of the missile silo officers

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<v Speaker 2>come forward. I did watch that, and I was interested

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<v Speaker 2>in that because the whole time, what I witnessed in

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<v Speaker 2>ninety one ninety two has always been in the back

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<v Speaker 2>of my mind. But I just never, you know, didn't

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<v Speaker 2>really care that much about the topic to you know,

429
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<v Speaker 2>change my trajectory. I guess I'll call it.

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<v Speaker 3>What about during your time in the service, do you

442
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<v Speaker 3>ever hear anyone else, maybe any whispers people are kind

443
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<v Speaker 3>of saying that it's and stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, when the original thing happened in ninety one

445
00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:09.960
<v Speaker 2>ninety two, I was a young, younger guy for sure,

446
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.559
<v Speaker 2>And when your command tells you forget about it, don't

447
00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.640
<v Speaker 2>talk about it, that's just kind of what we did.

448
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean, the guy that I was partners with, we

449
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.039
<v Speaker 2>hung out on the weekends, we hung out all the

450
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.519
<v Speaker 2>time because kind of you know, when you're in a

451
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:32.799
<v Speaker 2>group like that, your group sort of becomes your family.

452
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.960
<v Speaker 2>Your teammates are your teammates on and off the field.

453
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<v Speaker 2>I'll say, and command told us don't talk about it,

454
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:44.200
<v Speaker 2>so you know, we're good people. We're not going to

455
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.240
<v Speaker 2>talk about it, And we never did even years after

456
00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:52.119
<v Speaker 2>when at that time I was out in Oklahoma and

457
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:57.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm originally from Illinois area and I had an opportunity

458
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<v Speaker 2>to go back to sort of the prairie lands, and

459
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.920
<v Speaker 2>I took that. So I basically went from that team

460
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<v Speaker 2>to a different team. Even looking back, we never really

461
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:16.240
<v Speaker 2>ever talked about it afterwards, And so I can imagine

462
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:19.519
<v Speaker 2>when command comes to any young guy and says, hey,

463
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<v Speaker 2>shake your mouth about this. You didn't see this, this

464
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.440
<v Speaker 2>didn't happen, You're going to be like Roger. That's or

465
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<v Speaker 2>a good copy.

466
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<v Speaker 1>I'm not.

467
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:28.079
<v Speaker 2>I don't see shit.

468
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:30.480
<v Speaker 3>If they say, don't talk about it, just for a reason.

469
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:32.119
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I had a guest on a couple of

470
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<v Speaker 3>weeks ago. He was up on Jaybear up in Alaska,

471
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<v Speaker 3>and he witnessed something. He was with his colleague. He

472
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<v Speaker 3>was worried that if he did tell anyone, no one

473
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<v Speaker 3>to believe him, so they just didn't go on site

474
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<v Speaker 3>and start telling people.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. Yeah, I again that there's a group that's trying

476
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<v Speaker 2>to clear a path for what we witnessed in the nineties,

477
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<v Speaker 2>and I'm letting that group do what they have to do,

478
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:01.160
<v Speaker 2>and if they're successful, then I'll be more than happy

479
00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:07.799
<v Speaker 2>to talk about it. But it was something that at

480
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:13.039
<v Speaker 2>the time I had maybe a friend from my hometown

481
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.920
<v Speaker 2>that Oh yeah, me and so and so we saw

482
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:20.119
<v Speaker 2>UFO one night. Well, yeah, we're did it involve beer?

483
00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:23.400
<v Speaker 2>You know, I'm not from Missouri, but I want to,

484
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:25.680
<v Speaker 2>you know, show me. I want to see it, right,

485
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:29.839
<v Speaker 2>And so I never ever took the UFO topic to

486
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:36.200
<v Speaker 2>really be anything more than all right. I've always had

487
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:41.559
<v Speaker 2>this philosophy that when they stop the space shuttle program, right,

488
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.640
<v Speaker 2>that seems to be about when you know, according to

489
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.359
<v Speaker 2>the powers to be that you know, the space shuttle

490
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:51.640
<v Speaker 2>program ended, Well, do you really believe that they just

491
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:54.559
<v Speaker 2>ended it? Or do they have something better now that

492
00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:58.640
<v Speaker 2>they're not ready to show us yet. So I'm a

493
00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:01.319
<v Speaker 2>believer that most of the stuff that people see is

494
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:06.119
<v Speaker 2>probably going to trace back to the government. I fully, fully,

495
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:10.400
<v Speaker 2>in my heart, believe that they have machines that would

496
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:14.599
<v Speaker 2>just blow the normal person's minds. And so I don't

497
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:20.079
<v Speaker 2>know that they're necessarily an HI non human intelligence. I

498
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:25.240
<v Speaker 2>think that a great majority are probably you know, built

499
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.880
<v Speaker 2>in the good old USA or maybe China. The book

500
00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:34.400
<v Speaker 2>that I wrote or it sort of takes you in

501
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:37.319
<v Speaker 2>that direction. I don't want I don't want to give

502
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.480
<v Speaker 2>the plot away. It's it's a fiction and it's fun

503
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:42.960
<v Speaker 2>it's a fun book. It has heroes in, it has

504
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.000
<v Speaker 2>good guys, has bad guys. But the premise of the

505
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:52.640
<v Speaker 2>book is a defense contractor possibly has a recovery team,

506
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:57.599
<v Speaker 2>and so a defense contractor certainly is outside of the

507
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.200
<v Speaker 2>scope of US government. So the book sort of take

508
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.839
<v Speaker 2>leads you down a path that has a good argument

509
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:11.640
<v Speaker 2>for both non human intelligence and defense contractors playing games.

510
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.599
<v Speaker 2>And so you know, like I say, I don't want

511
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:19.119
<v Speaker 2>to spoil the whole book, but it's going to take

512
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:24.359
<v Speaker 2>you on a wild ride of very very accurate investigations

513
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.599
<v Speaker 2>into defense contractors and how they operate and how the

514
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:36.240
<v Speaker 2>government operates. And so like the book, I personally believe

515
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:38.680
<v Speaker 2>that there's probably a little bit of both going in.

516
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.400
<v Speaker 3>And you know, this type of book, you obviously had

517
00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:45.079
<v Speaker 3>to get it security reviewed by the Defense Office, isn't it.

518
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:48.559
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, the Defense Office of pre Publication is one,

519
00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:52.440
<v Speaker 2>and then Apartment of Homeland Security also has one for

520
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.559
<v Speaker 2>people that have worked there. And when I retired, I

521
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:00.079
<v Speaker 2>retired from Apartment of Homeland Security. And so the the

522
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.960
<v Speaker 2>fact that the book is a fiction, fact of it's

523
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:07.920
<v Speaker 2>a fiction that's funny its face, is way less scrutiny

524
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:12.920
<v Speaker 2>because the storyline certainly is a fiction, but any of

525
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:17.840
<v Speaker 2>the material that's in it is that's described in it

526
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:22.840
<v Speaker 2>has been described in public domain, and so everything that's

527
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:26.760
<v Speaker 2>in there, Like there's a portion where they discuss the

528
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:31.639
<v Speaker 2>Knimics incident in Commander Fraverer citing of the TIC TAC.

529
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.079
<v Speaker 2>All that is public information. There's nothing in it that

530
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.280
<v Speaker 2>is going to reveal any of the classified sensor data.

531
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:48.639
<v Speaker 2>There's talks of sensor data in there, but it's all

532
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.079
<v Speaker 2>sensor data that is out there in public domain.

533
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:57.559
<v Speaker 3>Very very interesting. So UFOs n hi the government who

534
00:34:57.760 --> 00:34:59.760
<v Speaker 3>is behind them exactly?

535
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:02.559
<v Speaker 2>And the second book is almost finished?

536
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:07.280
<v Speaker 3>Neck the second book? Okay, so Orbit is your first book,

537
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.679
<v Speaker 3>so a curved path following a single point first book.

538
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.079
<v Speaker 3>What's the name of your second one? Do you have

539
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:13.800
<v Speaker 3>a title yet?

540
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:14.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

541
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:14.880
<v Speaker 1>Right now.

542
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:18.239
<v Speaker 2>The title of the second book is Spectra, and the

543
00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:22.880
<v Speaker 2>spectra is the intensity of light along the wavelength. My

544
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.199
<v Speaker 2>wife is like, where the hell did you come up

545
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:26.119
<v Speaker 2>with these titles?

546
00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:26.519
<v Speaker 1>Now?

547
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:32.079
<v Speaker 2>And my titles are based off of an incident that

548
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:35.920
<v Speaker 2>will be used in the book somewhere. And then it's

549
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.880
<v Speaker 2>basically the definition and so you know, orbit is a

550
00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:44.239
<v Speaker 2>is a fixed path along a fixed curve path along

551
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:47.199
<v Speaker 2>a single point. Well, that's the definition of an orbit.

552
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:49.039
<v Speaker 5>You know, great stuff.

553
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:51.639
<v Speaker 3>What I'll do is, as always, I'll put the links

554
00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:54.920
<v Speaker 3>in the description and on the website. You know, there's

555
00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:57.000
<v Speaker 3>a lot of people which interest is kind of Cloak

556
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.719
<v Speaker 3>and Dagger type stories, and i'd imagine it's one of

557
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:04.039
<v Speaker 3>those books where travels around the world as well, kind

558
00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:06.360
<v Speaker 3>of like an Ian flem and James Bond type.

559
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:10.639
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, and so far I was quite shocked. I've had

560
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.920
<v Speaker 2>I have several sales in Germany and several in England,

561
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:18.920
<v Speaker 2>and even yeah, in Eastern Europe. There's there's been several

562
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:22.599
<v Speaker 2>purchases in Eastern Europe. And so you know, for for me,

563
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.440
<v Speaker 2>like I say, I thought maybe my four cousins and

564
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:27.480
<v Speaker 2>my three friends might buy it. When I wrote it

565
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.679
<v Speaker 2>as a retired guy, it was something I always wanted

566
00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:35.960
<v Speaker 2>to do. Is I enjoy writing short stories and stuff,

567
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:39.079
<v Speaker 2>and so I sat myself down and spent almost a

568
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:43.280
<v Speaker 2>year writing thing. And I have an editor who's been

569
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:46.920
<v Speaker 2>a very very close friend for years and years and years.

570
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:51.079
<v Speaker 2>She stepped forward and said, I'll edit the thing for you.

571
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.079
<v Speaker 2>You know, here's the warning. Some you got to remember

572
00:36:55.400 --> 00:37:01.880
<v Speaker 2>this is about Tier one operators doing investigation work, and

573
00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:04.239
<v Speaker 2>so there's going to be some salty language and some

574
00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:08.400
<v Speaker 2>military humor, i'll say in it, So be prepared for.

575
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:10.719
<v Speaker 5>That as you'd expect.

576
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:15.519
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, absolutely. You know, the teams that I worked with

577
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.360
<v Speaker 2>my whole career, we spent probably more times with each

578
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:21.920
<v Speaker 2>other than we do with our families. We go to

579
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.840
<v Speaker 2>work on Sunday and might not come home until next Sunday,

580
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:28.840
<v Speaker 2>you know, And so there's a lot of salty language

581
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:30.039
<v Speaker 2>happens throughout the week.

582
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:33.039
<v Speaker 3>And actually, this sounds like my type of book, and

583
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:35.480
<v Speaker 3>I think it would make good reading.

584
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:36.159
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

585
00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:39.000
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we just goes to show, isn't it, because you're

586
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:42.360
<v Speaker 3>you know, you've got got an interesting story around it,

587
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.320
<v Speaker 3>and you've got all this background into the kind of

588
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:48.800
<v Speaker 3>the things that go on, regardless whether it's fiction. It's

589
00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:51.840
<v Speaker 3>a kind of insight into what happens behind the scenes

590
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.239
<v Speaker 3>and the things you know, you don't generally hear about.

591
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:59.000
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, absolutely. When I told my editor that, you know,

592
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.840
<v Speaker 2>I was in the process of writing this, she kind

593
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:07.119
<v Speaker 2>of laughed and said, okay, I'll edit it. How bloody

594
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:10.119
<v Speaker 2>is it going to be? And because we always talked

595
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.360
<v Speaker 2>about going to write a very vicious, bloody book, right

596
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:18.559
<v Speaker 2>and I'm through chapter four and nobody's died yet. Okay, Well,

597
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:21.679
<v Speaker 2>you know your readers are going to expect something, so

598
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:26.400
<v Speaker 2>get killing people, you know, and we basically, I don't

599
00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:29.159
<v Speaker 2>want to give it all away, but the focus turned

600
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:35.480
<v Speaker 2>from violence to very very thorough, methodic investigations with being

601
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:40.320
<v Speaker 2>performed by a cast of very good characters. I think

602
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:44.639
<v Speaker 2>you'll be surprised that the characters that are in the book,

603
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:46.880
<v Speaker 2>A lot of people are telling me, you know, I'm

604
00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:49.840
<v Speaker 2>not sure which one's my favorite one, but they're all

605
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:53.440
<v Speaker 2>pretty good. The guy named Deuce is one of the

606
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:59.760
<v Speaker 2>bosses for the government, and he's a real guy that

607
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:03.079
<v Speaker 2>I worked with. A lot of these characters are based

608
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:06.000
<v Speaker 2>off of people that were either on my team or

609
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:10.280
<v Speaker 2>on a past team, and so a couple of them

610
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:13.199
<v Speaker 2>I had to have them autograph my first book. Right,

611
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.480
<v Speaker 2>I took it to them. I'm like, here, does she

612
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:16.280
<v Speaker 2>need to sign this?

613
00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:19.639
<v Speaker 3>So is this kind of like a like a Tom

614
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:20.880
<v Speaker 3>Clancy type style?

615
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:24.199
<v Speaker 2>Right here? Yes, yes, I would say so. I mean

616
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.159
<v Speaker 2>that can't put yourself on a pedestal. But Tom Clancy

617
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:32.159
<v Speaker 2>his books are just unbelievable. But imagine I want to

618
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:36.760
<v Speaker 2>be Tom Clancy. You know, it's probably more like that

619
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:39.679
<v Speaker 2>or Jack Carr. Or Jack Carr is in the news

620
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:43.719
<v Speaker 2>now and has he's does the terminal lists and his

621
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:49.039
<v Speaker 2>stuff is you know, obviously he lived all that, and

622
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:54.320
<v Speaker 2>so he has a very accurate take on his fiction,

623
00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:57.360
<v Speaker 2>and I think I have a very accurate take on

624
00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:02.039
<v Speaker 2>on my fiction. It's it's going to be super accurate

625
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:08.199
<v Speaker 2>in terms of gear used, in terms of drones, used, weapons, communication,

626
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.559
<v Speaker 2>all that stuff is going to be pretty spot on.

627
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.039
<v Speaker 2>I've got a cousin who's a Chinook pilot down at

628
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:19.079
<v Speaker 2>Fort Rutger, and you know, he read it, and of

629
00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.000
<v Speaker 2>course he had one comment to say about one of

630
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.199
<v Speaker 2>the Chinooks that are in it. He goes, you know,

631
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:27.360
<v Speaker 2>you didn't get that right, don't you? And I go, well,

632
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:30.079
<v Speaker 2>I go think about this, Tommy, if I got it right,

633
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.760
<v Speaker 2>how many more pages would that have been to explain it?

634
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:36.320
<v Speaker 2>And he goes, good point, good point, and so so

635
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:39.840
<v Speaker 2>I guess my point is, you know, even my military

636
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.320
<v Speaker 2>cousins thought that everything was really really super spot on.

637
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<v Speaker 3>We wish you the best to luck with that, Lee.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, thanks, It's enjoyable, and you know, Nick, I really

639
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:53.719
<v Speaker 2>appreciate you getting a hold of me, and I've certainly

640
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:58.480
<v Speaker 2>enjoyed the chat. Seems like there's several topics that we

641
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.119
<v Speaker 2>could go down different roads and we'd probably be here

642
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:02.000
<v Speaker 2>all day long.

643
00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.400
<v Speaker 3>Well, I would be interesting in hearing about your near

644
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:07.320
<v Speaker 3>death experience.

645
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:07.519
<v Speaker 1>Lee.

646
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:12.559
<v Speaker 2>Let me just say that it happened May tenth, twenty

647
00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:19.880
<v Speaker 2>twenty nineteen. Okay, and I retired in December of twenty eighteen,

648
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:25.679
<v Speaker 2>and I had planned on hiking Appalachian Trail at the

649
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:31.920
<v Speaker 2>end of May twenty nineteen, So my whole January threw

650
00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:35.400
<v Speaker 2>all the way up until the near death thing happened.

651
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:38.559
<v Speaker 2>You know, I was probably in some of the best

652
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:41.880
<v Speaker 2>shape I've ever been in. I'd been training very, very

653
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:47.679
<v Speaker 2>hard for the Appalachian Trail, and we're talking hiking with

654
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:52.559
<v Speaker 2>Rock probably three to four days a week for anywhere

655
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.920
<v Speaker 2>from four to eight miles a time. You know, I

656
00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:59.199
<v Speaker 2>felt that I was in really, really great shape. I

657
00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:05.679
<v Speaker 2>also feel looking back that I once I separated from service,

658
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:11.199
<v Speaker 2>I had PTSD, and you know, I was in that

659
00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:15.880
<v Speaker 2>camp of no, I don't have PTSD. Everybody else's just

660
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.840
<v Speaker 2>messed up, right, and it was something that I had

661
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:23.400
<v Speaker 2>to deal with. I don't want to say that it

662
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:27.679
<v Speaker 2>was anything that I did or seen or had happened

663
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:31.199
<v Speaker 2>to me throughout my years in the government. It was

664
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.360
<v Speaker 2>more a loss of team and family. I think, you know,

665
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.280
<v Speaker 2>when guys like us, when we sign up for these

666
00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.400
<v Speaker 2>kind of jobs, we sign up understanding you may see

667
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:48.519
<v Speaker 2>some really crappy stuff. You may get yourself into, you know, gunfights,

668
00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:51.320
<v Speaker 2>you may you may have a lot of things happen

669
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:54.760
<v Speaker 2>to you. And so we understand that for the most part.

670
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:57.480
<v Speaker 2>We're not like signing up to be a truck driver

671
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:00.920
<v Speaker 2>in the army and then you know, you run over ied.

672
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:04.599
<v Speaker 2>You know, truck drivers don't sign up for horrible things,

673
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:07.559
<v Speaker 2>but guys in the kind of work that we do,

674
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:11.639
<v Speaker 2>we sign up for anything. And so I for me,

675
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:15.400
<v Speaker 2>it was a tremendous loss of who's going to take

676
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:18.199
<v Speaker 2>care of my guys now that I'm not there. I

677
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:21.039
<v Speaker 2>always felt like I'm the one that's going to make

678
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.920
<v Speaker 2>sure they go home at night, even though that's you know,

679
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:26.960
<v Speaker 2>all of us feel that way, but you know, each

680
00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:30.039
<v Speaker 2>of us feel that way for all the guys on

681
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:33.840
<v Speaker 2>the team. And so I told you that to now

682
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:37.199
<v Speaker 2>we'll fast forward to the near death thing. Myself and

683
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:42.360
<v Speaker 2>family were out for dinner. It was my wife, my son,

684
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:47.280
<v Speaker 2>my daughter, and we were at a local restaurant. Our

685
00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:50.400
<v Speaker 2>community is like, I don't know, six or seven thousand people.

686
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:54.039
<v Speaker 2>It's it's not very big town, and so it's one

687
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:57.159
<v Speaker 2>of those towns where most people know everybody. So we

688
00:43:57.239 --> 00:43:59.400
<v Speaker 2>went out for dinner and when we were walking back

689
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:03.519
<v Speaker 2>to the car, are this This guy was walking down

690
00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:06.840
<v Speaker 2>the sidewalk towards the car. Now, the kids got in

691
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:09.800
<v Speaker 2>the car. I got in the car, but the guy

692
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.679
<v Speaker 2>approached my wife and I'll never forget how the guy look.

693
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:15.559
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you know who Cliff Howard is.

694
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:18.840
<v Speaker 2>Cliff Howard is an actor, Ron Howard. It was the

695
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:23.639
<v Speaker 2>opin the Andy Taylor Show or the Andy Griffith Show,

696
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:27.760
<v Speaker 2>and he became a fabulous director and producer. Well, it

697
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.880
<v Speaker 2>was this guy looked just like Ron Howard's brother, Cliff Howard,

698
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:36.920
<v Speaker 2>which is kind of a strange looking dude. So he's

699
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:39.800
<v Speaker 2>talking to my wife. The three of us are in

700
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:44.079
<v Speaker 2>the car. She gets in the car and says, wow,

701
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:48.079
<v Speaker 2>that was weird, and we're like, what what was weird? Well,

702
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:53.360
<v Speaker 2>the guy says to me, does your husband know what

703
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:57.119
<v Speaker 2>your family is to him does he know or and

704
00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:00.639
<v Speaker 2>everything is? And of course the kids were, you know,

705
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:04.519
<v Speaker 2>junior high. They touched their nose and said not it,

706
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.320
<v Speaker 2>meaning you know, that's sort of a thing. If you

707
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:10.920
<v Speaker 2>hit your nose and say not it. Whoever the last

708
00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:13.280
<v Speaker 2>one is to touch your nose, they're going to be

709
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:16.280
<v Speaker 2>the one that's it. Well, I didn't touch my nose,

710
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:19.199
<v Speaker 2>and so I was it. She put the car and

711
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.840
<v Speaker 2>gear and started to drive away, and I almost immediately

712
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:28.320
<v Speaker 2>started having black and white vision. I describe it if

713
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.000
<v Speaker 2>you remember the old televisions, a black and white TV.

714
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:34.800
<v Speaker 2>You had to move the rabbit ears. The picture was

715
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.760
<v Speaker 2>kind of snowy, but you could see the picture. It's

716
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:43.280
<v Speaker 2>exactly what was happening. The vision started to deteriorate and

717
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:48.360
<v Speaker 2>everything was black and white, kind of snowy. And we

718
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:51.280
<v Speaker 2>had to go pick up another kid that was coming

719
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:54.440
<v Speaker 2>to our house for an overnight. And the entire time

720
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:58.119
<v Speaker 2>that we're picking up that kid, inside my head, I'm

721
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:02.039
<v Speaker 2>recognizing that I'm having some vision issues. And then I

722
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.400
<v Speaker 2>started having not chest pains, but I call it a

723
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:11.280
<v Speaker 2>sour stomach. If I maybe eat acidic foods on an

724
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:14.360
<v Speaker 2>empty stomach, my stomach gets real sour and then I

725
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:17.039
<v Speaker 2>have to have a couple times and then I'm fine.

726
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.039
<v Speaker 2>And so we picked the other kid up and then

727
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:23.800
<v Speaker 2>we started driving. We had probably I don't know eight

728
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:26.960
<v Speaker 2>mile drive to our house out in the country, and

729
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.400
<v Speaker 2>as soon as we start to get out in the country,

730
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.280
<v Speaker 2>have this acidic stomach starting real bad, and my wife's

731
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.960
<v Speaker 2>asking me, are you okay? And I go, yeah, I go,

732
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:41.599
<v Speaker 2>I'm just I got a sour stomach and I'm having

733
00:46:41.719 --> 00:46:42.800
<v Speaker 2>trouble my vision.

734
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:43.920
<v Speaker 1>Now.

735
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.920
<v Speaker 2>Nick, the entire time that this is going on, my

736
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:55.360
<v Speaker 2>brain is functioning perfectly. I'm self analyzing everything I'm going through.

737
00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:59.320
<v Speaker 2>You know, why is my stomach hurt and how is

738
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:02.639
<v Speaker 2>it connected to what my vision is seeing. This isn't

739
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.119
<v Speaker 2>making any sense, and you know, my wife is continuing

740
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.519
<v Speaker 2>to drive and continuing to ask and check on me,

741
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:13.079
<v Speaker 2>and it got to a point where I just checked

742
00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:18.280
<v Speaker 2>out from even acknowledging her. I went into one hundred

743
00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:22.719
<v Speaker 2>percent self analysis of what's going on with me. And

744
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:26.880
<v Speaker 2>about the time that I thought, WHOA, maybe I'm having

745
00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:29.519
<v Speaker 2>you know, maybe I'm having a serious problem here, like

746
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:33.159
<v Speaker 2>maybe a heart attack or something. In a snap of

747
00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:37.159
<v Speaker 2>a finger, I was no longer in that car. I

748
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:42.599
<v Speaker 2>was in a room that I've described as it was

749
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:47.519
<v Speaker 2>a very, very white room. The walls were like this

750
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:52.360
<v Speaker 2>purlescent white, just like it was alive, like the white

751
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.199
<v Speaker 2>was alive. And it was a rectangular shape room. I

752
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:01.599
<v Speaker 2>looked up to the ceilings in walls, and you couldn't

753
00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:05.159
<v Speaker 2>even see where the seams were. It was almost like

754
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:10.880
<v Speaker 2>imagine a room three D printed. There was no seams anywhere.

755
00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:15.199
<v Speaker 2>The wall in front of me, it was like that

756
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:20.639
<v Speaker 2>wall was almost like a big screen TV that was

757
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:24.920
<v Speaker 2>showing everything that was going on in the car. I

758
00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:30.039
<v Speaker 2>was perfectly seeing the response of my wife, the response

759
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:33.079
<v Speaker 2>of my kids, the panic that was going on in

760
00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.280
<v Speaker 2>the car. I could see all of that. And then

761
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:39.519
<v Speaker 2>there was this I call him. This dude was next

762
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:43.800
<v Speaker 2>to me asking me questions. Now, Nick the whole time.

763
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:48.159
<v Speaker 2>I have broken a few bones over the years, and

764
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:54.039
<v Speaker 2>I have like so arthritis stuff, you know. And the

765
00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:56.760
<v Speaker 2>first thing I noticed when I realized I was in

766
00:48:56.840 --> 00:49:00.840
<v Speaker 2>that room, nothing hurts nothing. My knee don't hurt, my

767
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:04.480
<v Speaker 2>wrist doesn't hurt, you know, my back doesn't hurt. I

768
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:08.920
<v Speaker 2>felt a thousand percent great. That felt wonderful. It was

769
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:17.280
<v Speaker 2>the most undescribable wonderful feeling. Ever, and the guy's talking

770
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:21.039
<v Speaker 2>to me, and I almost couldn't focus on him because

771
00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:25.000
<v Speaker 2>of how I felt. Right. I was like, I'm checking

772
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:30.199
<v Speaker 2>out everything, my feet, my knees, my back, my wrist,

773
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:33.599
<v Speaker 2>all this stuff. I'm just and I'm also taking in

774
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:35.960
<v Speaker 2>what's going on in the car because I can see

775
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:40.119
<v Speaker 2>it and I can hear it. And I felt like

776
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.679
<v Speaker 2>there were three or four other people to my left side,

777
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:47.199
<v Speaker 2>but I could never quite see them. I could see

778
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.360
<v Speaker 2>their outlines. And the guy that was to my right

779
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:55.400
<v Speaker 2>asking me questions, I could see him perfectly, but I

780
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:57.960
<v Speaker 2>couldn't see his face. It was like his face was

781
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:04.960
<v Speaker 2>literally blurred out, and you know, they were asking. That

782
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:09.280
<v Speaker 2>guy was asking me various questions, and I was answering

783
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:12.880
<v Speaker 2>and looking at the wall seeing what was going on

784
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:16.559
<v Speaker 2>in the car. And then behind us and to the

785
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:20.559
<v Speaker 2>right there was sort of a ramp up to a doorway,

786
00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:24.320
<v Speaker 2>and I just had the sense that we're going to

787
00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:28.159
<v Speaker 2>go through that door that whenever we're done here with

788
00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:31.599
<v Speaker 2>whatever this is, that's where we're going to go next.

789
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:37.599
<v Speaker 2>And and so several minutes probably went by, and I,

790
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:41.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, the questions he was asking had to do

791
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:48.280
<v Speaker 2>mostly with like family stuff. At some point he said, okay,

792
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:51.679
<v Speaker 2>you know, I think we're done. Are you ready to go?

793
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.800
<v Speaker 2>And I was like, well, where are we going to go?

794
00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:59.440
<v Speaker 2>And he gestured towards that doorway, like, well we got

795
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:02.440
<v Speaker 2>we got to go this way. And it sort of

796
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:06.960
<v Speaker 2>hit me that, well, I'm watching this chaos and these

797
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:12.199
<v Speaker 2>people my family seemed super upset with what's going on

798
00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:14.800
<v Speaker 2>in the car, and I said, well, I think I

799
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:19.440
<v Speaker 2>probably need to go back there. And he was like, well,

800
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:22.679
<v Speaker 2>you know, what do you have to go back there for?

801
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:26.840
<v Speaker 2>And my only answer was, well, my family. My family

802
00:51:26.960 --> 00:51:32.920
<v Speaker 2>needs me. And he made this suggestion that well, the

803
00:51:33.079 --> 00:51:36.199
<v Speaker 2>only way you can get back there is if you

804
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.840
<v Speaker 2>got to want it bad enough and you have to

805
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:42.159
<v Speaker 2>fight to get there. And I was like, well, what

806
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:44.280
<v Speaker 2>do you mean I have to fight to get there?

807
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:48.840
<v Speaker 2>And he told me the I'm the only one that

808
00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:51.079
<v Speaker 2>can put me back there. If I want to go

809
00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:55.239
<v Speaker 2>back there, I have to focus and concentrate and fight

810
00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:59.320
<v Speaker 2>to get back there. Now, while he was telling me that,

811
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:03.599
<v Speaker 2>I could hear a siren through the wall or you know,

812
00:52:03.719 --> 00:52:07.039
<v Speaker 2>looking at the TV. I call it a TV, the

813
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.920
<v Speaker 2>big screen of the wall of what was going on

814
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:14.400
<v Speaker 2>in the car. I could hear a siren and that

815
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:17.880
<v Speaker 2>didn't really make sense, but anyway, I closed my eyes

816
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.119
<v Speaker 2>and I started like concentrating really really hard of clenched

817
00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:24.400
<v Speaker 2>my fists that I have to go back, I have

818
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:27.159
<v Speaker 2>to go back. And all of a sudden nick, the

819
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:31.440
<v Speaker 2>door of the car opened and there was an ambulance

820
00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:36.199
<v Speaker 2>dude standing there, and my eyes open. I was back

821
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:39.159
<v Speaker 2>in the car and all I said was I'm fine.

822
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:42.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm good, and everybody in the car got quiet, and

823
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.280
<v Speaker 2>my wife looked at me and I was looking at her,

824
00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:47.880
<v Speaker 2>and she goes, what do you mean. I go, no,

825
00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:51.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm good. I go I had a problem, but everything's

826
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:55.440
<v Speaker 2>good now. I'm fine, and I felt one thousand percent fine.

827
00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:00.599
<v Speaker 2>My eyes, my vision was fine. The ambulance guy, you know,

828
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:03.599
<v Speaker 2>ask me, all right, you know, sir, what's going on.

829
00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:05.840
<v Speaker 2>What's your name? I go my name, my name's Lee.

830
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:08.519
<v Speaker 2>He goes, what have you been doing today? I go, well,

831
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:11.440
<v Speaker 2>we went to the you know, the restaurant, we had dinner.

832
00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:12.000
<v Speaker 1>I ate this.

833
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:17.159
<v Speaker 2>It's friday. It's Friday afternoon. So I'm good. Everything's good,

834
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:21.000
<v Speaker 2>and so he's, well, we should really probably check you out,

835
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.760
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, that's fine, Roger that let's do that.

836
00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:27.119
<v Speaker 2>I go, and I go to climb out of the

837
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:31.079
<v Speaker 2>seat walk with him to the ambulance, and he's like, no, no, no, no,

838
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:34.079
<v Speaker 2>you stay hearing it to go get the gurney and

839
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:36.199
<v Speaker 2>we'll wheel you. And I go, no, no, no, I go,

840
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:39.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to do that. I go, let's just go.

841
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:43.119
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, I am fine. I'll walk with you

842
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.519
<v Speaker 2>if you want, you can hold on my arm or whatever.

843
00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:48.360
<v Speaker 2>So we walked over to the ambulance and I got

844
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:50.840
<v Speaker 2>in the back of the ambulance and the guy in

845
00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:53.519
<v Speaker 2>the back of the ambulance hooks me up to the EKG.

846
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:56.599
<v Speaker 2>I guess that's what it was. And he starts to

847
00:53:56.639 --> 00:53:59.159
<v Speaker 2>ask me the same questions. You know, what's your name,

848
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:02.000
<v Speaker 2>what day of the week it is, what's going on today?

849
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:06.079
<v Speaker 2>Why are we out here? And so I'm telling him,

850
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:10.039
<v Speaker 2>you know, I the vision got blurry. It felt like

851
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:13.800
<v Speaker 2>I had acid stomach. And then I told him I

852
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:16.199
<v Speaker 2>must have just passed out or something. I did not

853
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:21.920
<v Speaker 2>tell them obviously what I believed really happened, but I

854
00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:24.079
<v Speaker 2>did tell him this. I said, listen, I go, I

855
00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:26.599
<v Speaker 2>wear a fitbit. My phone's in the car.

856
00:54:26.800 --> 00:54:27.000
<v Speaker 1>I go.

857
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:32.760
<v Speaker 2>I know fitbit isn't necessarily science, but maybe if I downloaded,

858
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:35.559
<v Speaker 2>we'll see my heart rate or something, you know. And

859
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:38.599
<v Speaker 2>so they went and got my phone and we downloaded

860
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:40.840
<v Speaker 2>the fitbit, and you could see where my heart rate

861
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.920
<v Speaker 2>dropped to nothing and then it picked back up again.

862
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:50.679
<v Speaker 2>I know that the fitbit isn't science, but the fitbit

863
00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:55.000
<v Speaker 2>definitely showed a change in my heart rate. And so

864
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:58.079
<v Speaker 2>then they took me to the hospital. They said, you know,

865
00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.760
<v Speaker 2>if he had a heart attack, there's going to be

866
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:03.599
<v Speaker 2>enzymes that your blood will kick out, and we'll see that.

867
00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:07.159
<v Speaker 2>They did. I think they did cat scan for my brain.

868
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:11.440
<v Speaker 2>All the tests came back. They had no idea what happened,

869
00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:13.760
<v Speaker 2>and so I had to follow up with my doctor,

870
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:17.480
<v Speaker 2>and so I called my doctor and I actually got

871
00:55:17.559 --> 00:55:21.159
<v Speaker 2>in that next day on Saturday. Went to my doctor

872
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:25.199
<v Speaker 2>in this doctor I've had for years. I had cancer

873
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:29.519
<v Speaker 2>several years prior to that, and this was like the

874
00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:32.840
<v Speaker 2>doctor that helped me through that. So I've always been

875
00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:36.440
<v Speaker 2>loyal to this guy. And so I went up talked

876
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:39.079
<v Speaker 2>to him and I told him, I said, hey, I

877
00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:43.119
<v Speaker 2>go in addition to you know, all the all of

878
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:46.440
<v Speaker 2>these symptoms, I go, I kind of went somewhere and

879
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:48.840
<v Speaker 2>he's like, what do you mean you went somewhere? And

880
00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:52.039
<v Speaker 2>I go, it got to a point where I thought

881
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.800
<v Speaker 2>maybe I was like actually having a heart attack, and

882
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.199
<v Speaker 2>I just showed up in this big white room and

883
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:03.679
<v Speaker 2>you know, it felt wonderful and it felt more real

884
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:08.239
<v Speaker 2>than real and blah blah blah. And he's like, all right,

885
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:10.679
<v Speaker 2>we're going to do a whole bunch more tests. It

886
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:14.440
<v Speaker 2>sounds alarming, you know. And I told him, I said, well,

887
00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:17.239
<v Speaker 2>can we get all these tests done because in a

888
00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:20.199
<v Speaker 2>week I'm supposed to go down and do the applation trail.

889
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:22.800
<v Speaker 2>And he's like, dude, you're not going to do the

890
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:25.280
<v Speaker 2>appellation trail. And I go, well, if we get all

891
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:28.400
<v Speaker 2>these tests done, I go, I'm going to go do it.

892
00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.679
<v Speaker 2>And so we sort of argued back and forth a

893
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:36.400
<v Speaker 2>little bit. He got all the tests done except the

894
00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:41.039
<v Speaker 2>stress tests, right, and we met like I think it

895
00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:44.320
<v Speaker 2>was the next Thursday, and I said, well, I'm going

896
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.679
<v Speaker 2>for the appalation trail on Monday. So I go, I

897
00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:50.000
<v Speaker 2>guess we can do the stress test when I get back.

898
00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.039
<v Speaker 2>And he's like, listen, I'm telling you you can't go

899
00:56:53.239 --> 00:56:57.440
<v Speaker 2>do this. And I said back, listen, I go. If

900
00:56:57.519 --> 00:56:59.159
<v Speaker 2>I go out and they do this and I have

901
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:02.159
<v Speaker 2>a heart attack or a stroke and I die, take

902
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:03.639
<v Speaker 2>comfort knowing you were right.

903
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:04.159
<v Speaker 1>I go.

904
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:07.559
<v Speaker 2>But if I come back, you know you can do

905
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:09.920
<v Speaker 2>all the tests you want. And then I was right,

906
00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:15.159
<v Speaker 2>how's that? And so he'd begrudgingly. He never did agree

907
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:18.079
<v Speaker 2>to it. But I went and we hiked Appalachian Trail,

908
00:57:18.159 --> 00:57:22.159
<v Speaker 2>the Shenandoah section of the trail, and I did not die.

909
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:26.239
<v Speaker 2>I felt like I died numerous times on the trail,

910
00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:28.360
<v Speaker 2>but you know I lived.

911
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.440
<v Speaker 3>Well, we know we're certainly glad you're much better and

912
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:35.679
<v Speaker 3>that you enjoyed your time hiking up on that trail.

913
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:47.239
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914
00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:51.920
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915
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916
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917
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:03.800
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918
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919
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920
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:22.960
<v Speaker 3>You know we have had several nared experiences on this show. Lee,

921
00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:27.039
<v Speaker 3>And one thing is for sure that during that period

922
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:30.119
<v Speaker 3>of time, we do seem to go somewhere. I mean,

923
00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:33.599
<v Speaker 3>sure enough. You know, these accounts vary, can vary somewhat,

924
00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:36.360
<v Speaker 3>and to be honest, I would kind of expect them to,

925
00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:40.239
<v Speaker 3>but it does seem that people do go somewhere. This

926
00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:43.079
<v Speaker 3>guy that was next to you, now you didn't see him.

927
00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:45.719
<v Speaker 3>You were just mostly focused on how good you felt

928
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:48.880
<v Speaker 3>and what was happening with this screen. This guy next

929
00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:51.039
<v Speaker 3>to you, What did he sound like? Did he have

930
00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:53.320
<v Speaker 3>an accent? Is there anything you can tell us about him?

931
00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:58.880
<v Speaker 2>You know, I look back on it in almost immediately afterwards,

932
00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:04.239
<v Speaker 2>every thing was so vivid, right vivid in Like I

933
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:08.360
<v Speaker 2>told my wife, it seemed more real than me and

934
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:14.719
<v Speaker 2>you sitting here talking. I can't explain how real it seemed.

935
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:18.639
<v Speaker 2>Did not seem anything like the most vivid dream you

936
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:23.920
<v Speaker 2>ever had. It really seemed and felt like you are

937
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:30.280
<v Speaker 2>really somewhere else now this guy. The questions that I

938
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:35.119
<v Speaker 2>was being asked almost felt like self reflection type questions,

939
00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:41.039
<v Speaker 2>Like I told you I had several ongoing PTSD things,

940
00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:46.760
<v Speaker 2>and it almost seemed to me questions that would make

941
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:53.599
<v Speaker 2>me reflect on, not necessarily my behavior, at that time.

942
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:59.800
<v Speaker 2>But my outlook towards everything now I say I had PTSD,

943
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:03.800
<v Speaker 2>it was never like suicidal or anything at all like that.

944
01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:08.480
<v Speaker 2>I felt like I'm the only one in my world

945
01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:12.320
<v Speaker 2>that understands how the world really is, when in reality,

946
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:16.960
<v Speaker 2>everyone is in your world and everyone is living in

947
01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:21.920
<v Speaker 2>the same world, right, And so I was throughout my

948
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:27.400
<v Speaker 2>career so much, always in control of everything that when

949
01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:32.480
<v Speaker 2>my career ended, I just assumed that, you know, it

950
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:39.239
<v Speaker 2>just translates over and in reality, your family is a family.

951
01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:42.880
<v Speaker 2>Your wife is there doing all the things that you

952
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:46.320
<v Speaker 2>should have been there doing during your career, but you

953
01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:52.360
<v Speaker 2>weren't because your career was definitely a unique career. And

954
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:55.119
<v Speaker 2>so I would come home and I would see the

955
01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:59.840
<v Speaker 2>kids and the wife arguing, and in my brain, I'm like,

956
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:02.719
<v Speaker 2>why are they arguing? Don't they know what really goes

957
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:04.480
<v Speaker 2>on out there in the world, you know? And so

958
01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:11.039
<v Speaker 2>I think that the questions asked to me were maybe

959
01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:18.360
<v Speaker 2>reminders or maybe not necessarily reminders, but little seeds to

960
01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:22.519
<v Speaker 2>input in my brain that you know, the world is

961
01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:27.159
<v Speaker 2>way bigger than my only outlook. Life is so much

962
01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:31.519
<v Speaker 2>more precious than whatever my small little mind thinks it

963
01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.199
<v Speaker 2>might be. At the moment, and so I think they

964
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:39.519
<v Speaker 2>were very profound suggestions from him. It did not end.

965
01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:45.199
<v Speaker 2>Then weird things started happening after that. I would wake

966
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:49.199
<v Speaker 2>up every night at like two point fifty eight and

967
01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:53.079
<v Speaker 2>be drawn to our back window for no reason at

968
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:56.519
<v Speaker 2>all other than something would wake me up, and something

969
01:01:56.559 --> 01:01:59.440
<v Speaker 2>would tell me go look out the back window. And

970
01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:04.039
<v Speaker 2>that sun's completely ridiculous. It's when you're living it, it

971
01:02:04.159 --> 01:02:08.199
<v Speaker 2>feels stupid. It's like, why the f am I always

972
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:11.119
<v Speaker 2>waking up at two fifty eight somehow have to go

973
01:02:11.239 --> 01:02:14.519
<v Speaker 2>look out this back window, right. Nothing, I never saw anything.

974
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:19.639
<v Speaker 2>I never noticed any lights or you know, anything strange.

975
01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:23.559
<v Speaker 2>I would just sit there look out and think, you

976
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:26.719
<v Speaker 2>know about things, and then crawl back in bed and

977
01:02:26.840 --> 01:02:30.440
<v Speaker 2>try to go back to sleep. Other things started happening

978
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:33.039
<v Speaker 2>that were weird. My whole life. I've been a hunter,

979
01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:38.559
<v Speaker 2>right first, hunt people, second hunt deer, you know, hunt turkey, hunt,

980
01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:43.000
<v Speaker 2>whatever the season may be, and no longer had a

981
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:46.599
<v Speaker 2>desire to really hunt or take game.

982
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:47.440
<v Speaker 5>Now.

983
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:52.679
<v Speaker 2>I have a friend that we've been friends for a lifetime.

984
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:55.840
<v Speaker 2>Every year we do get together and go to deer camp.

985
01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:59.880
<v Speaker 2>And I still do that, and I still do take

986
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:05.000
<v Speaker 2>one dear, but it's taken on a whole new meaning

987
01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:08.840
<v Speaker 2>for me. Instead before trying to hunt and find the

988
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:13.360
<v Speaker 2>biggest buck and that whole trophy thing. Now it's more

989
01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:19.400
<v Speaker 2>of a kinship of the animal, is providing food for us,

990
01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.760
<v Speaker 2>for our family, you know. And I've never had that

991
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:26.599
<v Speaker 2>outlook before in my life until after this happened. John

992
01:03:26.880 --> 01:03:31.440
<v Speaker 2>Alexander was a colonel in the Army Special Forces and

993
01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:38.199
<v Speaker 2>he started the National Institute of Research of Near Death Experiences.

994
01:03:38.599 --> 01:03:42.239
<v Speaker 2>It's like the go to institute for near death things.

995
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:47.199
<v Speaker 2>And after I had this, I really wanted to learn

996
01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:50.280
<v Speaker 2>more about it because it was profound. I mean to me,

997
01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:54.679
<v Speaker 2>it proved you go somewhere. Now, maybe I did not

998
01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:56.880
<v Speaker 2>make it quite to the pearly gates. I didn't even

999
01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:58.760
<v Speaker 2>make it out of what I call the waiting room,

1000
01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:03.800
<v Speaker 2>right I got back. But I became interested in people

1001
01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:08.119
<v Speaker 2>who had near death things. And there's a fireman who's

1002
01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:11.880
<v Speaker 2>a hot shot firefighter, one of those guys that get

1003
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:15.360
<v Speaker 2>dropped into the forest fire. His name is Bill Letson,

1004
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:19.320
<v Speaker 2>and he's been on several podcasts for his near death experience.

1005
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:23.840
<v Speaker 2>And I reached out to Bill. I kind of wanted

1006
01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:29.360
<v Speaker 2>to find people in a similar lifestyle situation that I had.

1007
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:33.920
<v Speaker 2>Instead of maybe, you know, the drowning victim or somebody

1008
01:04:34.239 --> 01:04:36.519
<v Speaker 2>who had a heart attack and died and came back,

1009
01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:41.000
<v Speaker 2>I wanted to find somebody that just sort of spontaneously

1010
01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.320
<v Speaker 2>happened and talked to them in any way. I talked

1011
01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:50.840
<v Speaker 2>to Bill several times through email, and he provided me

1012
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:55.880
<v Speaker 2>contact information to the National Institute of Research at Near Death,

1013
01:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.360
<v Speaker 2>and I reached out to them, and John Alexander back

1014
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:04.000
<v Speaker 2>to me, and you know, then I'm thinking, you know,

1015
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:07.119
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I should even talk to anybody

1016
01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:10.400
<v Speaker 2>about this. This is all kind of dumb, and this

1017
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:14.599
<v Speaker 2>isn't really who I am, and I just had doubts

1018
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:18.440
<v Speaker 2>about it. And then I was listening to Chris Bloodsoe

1019
01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:22.400
<v Speaker 2>on a podcast one day and he started mentioning the

1020
01:05:22.679 --> 01:05:25.280
<v Speaker 2>one of the very first government people that reached out

1021
01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:31.880
<v Speaker 2>to him about his UFO experiences was John Alexander. And

1022
01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:36.159
<v Speaker 2>I thought, wait, what name did you just say? And

1023
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:40.039
<v Speaker 2>I rewound and I listened and John Alexander, and I

1024
01:05:40.119 --> 01:05:42.559
<v Speaker 2>thought that sounds like the same guy that reached out

1025
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.639
<v Speaker 2>to me. I wonder, Nah, there's no way that could be.

1026
01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:48.159
<v Speaker 2>And so I went back through the emails and I

1027
01:05:48.239 --> 01:05:51.719
<v Speaker 2>found the email and then I, did you know, ten

1028
01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:54.760
<v Speaker 2>minutes worth of Google research and I got it was

1029
01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:59.239
<v Speaker 2>the same guy. And so then I sort of went

1030
01:05:59.320 --> 01:06:02.679
<v Speaker 2>down to John Alexander rabbit Hole and wanted to hear

1031
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:06.480
<v Speaker 2>what his thoughts and beliefs and stuff were. And in

1032
01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:10.800
<v Speaker 2>terms of near death stuff, he's a very thorough researcher

1033
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:14.199
<v Speaker 2>on it. And so I reached out to him, apologized

1034
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:16.920
<v Speaker 2>that I didn't write back to him as quickly as

1035
01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:20.159
<v Speaker 2>I probably should have. In any way, long story short,

1036
01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:25.719
<v Speaker 2>we got contact with each other and had several long conversations,

1037
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:32.800
<v Speaker 2>and he helped me become aware of things like, listen, people,

1038
01:06:33.599 --> 01:06:36.039
<v Speaker 2>strange things happen after you have the near death thing.

1039
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:38.679
<v Speaker 2>The two point fifty eight in the morning thing is

1040
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:41.760
<v Speaker 2>perfectly normal. A lot of people have this. A lot

1041
01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:47.719
<v Speaker 2>of people wake up expecting to see something or downloads.

1042
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:51.079
<v Speaker 2>They get downloads and I'm like, well, what are downloads?

1043
01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:56.159
<v Speaker 2>And he started describing what downloads were, and I get

1044
01:06:56.239 --> 01:06:59.599
<v Speaker 2>those often. When it came to writing the book Orbit

1045
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:02.639
<v Speaker 2>if I got to a spot where I was stuck

1046
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:06.559
<v Speaker 2>and I couldn't you know, I was like writer's block.

1047
01:07:07.400 --> 01:07:10.239
<v Speaker 2>Every night, I have the same routine. I'm a Christian,

1048
01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.719
<v Speaker 2>so I say prayers every night, and then after I'm

1049
01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:18.679
<v Speaker 2>done saying prayers, I would reflect on why where I'm

1050
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:22.199
<v Speaker 2>blocked at in the book, and I just focus on

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01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:26.760
<v Speaker 2>that blockage point. And I'm telling you every day, the

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01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:30.599
<v Speaker 2>next day I'd wake up and instantly have four or

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01:07:30.639 --> 01:07:34.320
<v Speaker 2>five options of where to go with the book. And

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01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:38.800
<v Speaker 2>so these downloads are things that I believe are true.

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01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:42.039
<v Speaker 2>You know, I think other people have them. Does that

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01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:45.400
<v Speaker 2>any of that make sense to you? Does it sound ridiculous?

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01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:49.199
<v Speaker 3>It certainly doesn't sound ridiculous on this show. When these

1058
01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:51.199
<v Speaker 3>things happen to us, you know, where we get very

1059
01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:54.679
<v Speaker 3>close in your case, very very close. She did cross

1060
01:07:54.760 --> 01:07:57.079
<v Speaker 3>over it. And then when people come back, they do

1061
01:07:57.239 --> 01:08:01.119
<v Speaker 3>seem to have this reflection on life. You know, all

1062
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:04.960
<v Speaker 3>of a sudden, people which have generally career based where

1063
01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:07.519
<v Speaker 3>they have been more focused on their career, and when

1064
01:08:07.599 --> 01:08:10.159
<v Speaker 3>they come back there's a lot of self reflection to

1065
01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:12.960
<v Speaker 3>do with families and life, you know, life, you know

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01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:15.800
<v Speaker 3>you mentioned in wildlife and nature and that kind of thing.

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01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:19.319
<v Speaker 3>Things seem to change, there's something which happens, and then

1068
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:23.239
<v Speaker 3>when it comes to strange occurrences that happen after it'slight.

1069
01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:26.359
<v Speaker 3>You've opened something that made a connection gone somewhere and

1070
01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:29.600
<v Speaker 3>it's possibly still linked, you know, maybe opened it up.

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01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:32.399
<v Speaker 3>And I do think we all have this, but in

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01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:35.279
<v Speaker 3>certain situations that gap gets bridged.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's for certain, right.

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01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:38.119
<v Speaker 1>You know.

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01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:41.560
<v Speaker 2>I mentioned to you that I'm a Christian, and I've

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01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:45.159
<v Speaker 2>been a Christian my entire life. I liked a man

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01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:48.279
<v Speaker 2>team Jesus hope for the others out there, it's not

1078
01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:51.600
<v Speaker 2>offensive to them, but you know, I've put my hopes

1079
01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:54.760
<v Speaker 2>and dreams and that. After this happened, I went and

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01:08:55.800 --> 01:09:01.560
<v Speaker 2>my preacher is literally a neighbor and he's a really

1081
01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:05.159
<v Speaker 2>great guy. I went and talked to him and I said, listen,

1082
01:09:05.239 --> 01:09:06.920
<v Speaker 2>I go, I got to talk to you about something.

1083
01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:10.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't want you to think I'm crazy, but this happened,

1084
01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:14.119
<v Speaker 2>you know. And I told him, I'm I'm not the

1085
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:16.880
<v Speaker 2>guy that is going to bring people into your church.

1086
01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:19.399
<v Speaker 2>You don't want me going out there and recruiting people

1087
01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:23.079
<v Speaker 2>because I'll probably scare him away. But I feel like

1088
01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:26.920
<v Speaker 2>it's something that's so profound that I need to share it.

1089
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:29.880
<v Speaker 2>And he goes, you know, I agree, And so I

1090
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.399
<v Speaker 2>did write kind of a short story about the whole

1091
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:37.039
<v Speaker 2>thing and published it here locally and I got, you know,

1092
01:09:37.359 --> 01:09:43.119
<v Speaker 2>a tremendous response on it, and it was mostly a

1093
01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:47.039
<v Speaker 2>message to just let people know that, man, there's something

1094
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:51.600
<v Speaker 2>out there when we're done here. Not entirely explainable, but

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01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:56.000
<v Speaker 2>for me, it's absolute hope that the lights just don't

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01:09:56.039 --> 01:09:56.399
<v Speaker 2>go out.

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01:09:56.680 --> 01:10:00.640
<v Speaker 3>You know, this does happen two people in all different cultures,

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01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:04.239
<v Speaker 3>in different religions, regardless of what people see, you know,

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01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:07.359
<v Speaker 3>during their time when they do crossover, whether religion has

1100
01:10:07.399 --> 01:10:10.239
<v Speaker 3>anything to do with how that relates, we do seem

1101
01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:13.600
<v Speaker 3>to go somewhere. So not only it's nice to know

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01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:17.039
<v Speaker 3>that this life isn't the end, you know, there is something,

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01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:21.079
<v Speaker 3>there is something more, but also we we should certainly

1104
01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:25.199
<v Speaker 3>sit back sometimes and reflect on our own lives and

1105
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:29.279
<v Speaker 3>the people around us and how actions affect people. Yeah,

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01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:32.960
<v Speaker 3>I really do enjoy hearing these accounts of near death experiences.

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01:10:33.279 --> 01:10:35.640
<v Speaker 3>It is fascinating, absolutely fascinating.

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01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:39.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, as someone that went through it, I mean, you

1109
01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:44.720
<v Speaker 2>can't begin to explain how profound it is. The minutes

1110
01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:48.880
<v Speaker 2>and the hours after it happens. It's so profound to

1111
01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:51.359
<v Speaker 2>you that you feel like you want to share it

1112
01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:54.880
<v Speaker 2>with everyone, but you also understand that I don't want

1113
01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:58.800
<v Speaker 2>people to think I'm crazy, right, but you really do

1114
01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:03.359
<v Speaker 2>wait up and go somewhere. For me, it somehow it

1115
01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:06.800
<v Speaker 2>involved technology because a lot of people that have had

1116
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:09.840
<v Speaker 2>the near death thing say they've raised out of their

1117
01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:12.680
<v Speaker 2>body and they look down and they can see, you know,

1118
01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:17.560
<v Speaker 2>the doctors working on them, blah blah blah. Well, for me,

1119
01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:21.439
<v Speaker 2>it was like the wall seem the only way I

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01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:25.039
<v Speaker 2>could describe it as like a big screen TV, only

1121
01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:28.479
<v Speaker 2>it took up the wall and I could see exactly

1122
01:11:29.079 --> 01:11:32.359
<v Speaker 2>everything that was going on in the car. So for me,

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01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:39.479
<v Speaker 2>it's somehow associated strangely with technology. And one of the

1124
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:44.880
<v Speaker 2>things that John Alexander mentioned, And John, a lot of

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01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:51.239
<v Speaker 2>people have opinions of John, and I understand a lot

1126
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:55.479
<v Speaker 2>of those different opinions of him. But for me personally,

1127
01:11:56.439 --> 01:11:59.680
<v Speaker 2>he was almost a godsend in that he was someone

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01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:04.039
<v Speaker 2>I could relate to because of his background in my background.

1129
01:12:04.600 --> 01:12:08.000
<v Speaker 2>He was someone that certainly was not judging me in

1130
01:12:08.199 --> 01:12:11.520
<v Speaker 2>any way, shape or form. He just was listening and

1131
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:16.720
<v Speaker 2>then was recanting other people's experiences that may or may

1132
01:12:16.800 --> 01:12:19.720
<v Speaker 2>not have been similar to mine. And you know, we

1133
01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:23.600
<v Speaker 2>got into the UFO topic during one of our conversations

1134
01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:27.119
<v Speaker 2>because of Chris Bledsoe. I'm like, hey, I know you've

1135
01:12:27.199 --> 01:12:30.079
<v Speaker 2>met Chris. What do you think? What can you say?

1136
01:12:30.199 --> 01:12:33.439
<v Speaker 2>And he was like, Hey, all that stuff that Chris

1137
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:35.880
<v Speaker 2>is going through is one hundred percent real. You know,

1138
01:12:36.439 --> 01:12:39.840
<v Speaker 2>this is what he's going through. And I said, you know,

1139
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:46.520
<v Speaker 2>with regards to this like near death thing. And there's

1140
01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:53.199
<v Speaker 2>been a darker tone recently of possibilities of these UFOs

1141
01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:56.720
<v Speaker 2>in terms of could they be here to figure out

1142
01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:01.600
<v Speaker 2>how to snatch our souls? And these conversations have popped up.

1143
01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:05.800
<v Speaker 2>I sort of halfway jokingly said something like that to

1144
01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:07.720
<v Speaker 2>John and he goes, well, he goes, if you think

1145
01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:11.159
<v Speaker 2>about yours, you were just in a card going down

1146
01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:14.880
<v Speaker 2>a road, and suddenly you were in a room that

1147
01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:21.359
<v Speaker 2>you described as sort of technology. He goes, you know,

1148
01:13:22.039 --> 01:13:26.479
<v Speaker 2>who's to say, maybe that wasn't UFO related. I was like, well,

1149
01:13:27.119 --> 01:13:31.039
<v Speaker 2>I hope not, but I have a small percentage in

1150
01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:33.399
<v Speaker 2>my head that could be open to something like that.

1151
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:36.239
<v Speaker 3>Also, so much we just don't know. I mean, it

1152
01:13:36.279 --> 01:13:39.840
<v Speaker 3>brings new question about is our reality a simulation and

1153
01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:41.000
<v Speaker 3>all that kind of stuff.

1154
01:13:41.079 --> 01:13:46.319
<v Speaker 7>So very peculiar, absolutely, but we will all will probably.

1155
01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:50.279
<v Speaker 2>Find out, you know, in the end, right, I completely believe.

1156
01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:53.279
<v Speaker 2>So you think about it, write down Bill Letson's name

1157
01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:56.760
<v Speaker 2>and do a little search on him and listen to

1158
01:13:56.960 --> 01:14:01.560
<v Speaker 2>his experience. It's just it's crazy. I mean, not only

1159
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:03.760
<v Speaker 2>did he make it through the waiting room, like I

1160
01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:07.119
<v Speaker 2>joked that I was, I didn't get past the waiting room, right,

1161
01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:12.800
<v Speaker 2>He met several individuals or people or things, and his

1162
01:14:13.119 --> 01:14:17.880
<v Speaker 2>is quite shocking. Looking back on the whole thing, I

1163
01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:22.920
<v Speaker 2>can't help but think that somehow it's all connected. That

1164
01:14:23.119 --> 01:14:27.000
<v Speaker 2>guy that stopped my wife was somebody that none of

1165
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:31.000
<v Speaker 2>us knew, none of us recognize, And the conversation he

1166
01:14:31.119 --> 01:14:35.279
<v Speaker 2>had with her was just so absolutely pointed and fixated

1167
01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:40.720
<v Speaker 2>on me understanding things of life right, And the conversation

1168
01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:43.600
<v Speaker 2>wasn't even with me, it was with my wife. And

1169
01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:48.960
<v Speaker 2>then you know, that happened, and then the fallout of that,

1170
01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:53.159
<v Speaker 2>in terms of waking up searching for things in the night,

1171
01:14:53.920 --> 01:15:00.399
<v Speaker 2>downloads these orbs that seemed to appear quite often. I

1172
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:03.880
<v Speaker 2>make jokes with my family about I still run and

1173
01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:08.039
<v Speaker 2>hike quite often, and where we live there's several forest

1174
01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:11.439
<v Speaker 2>preserves that you know, you could go and run five

1175
01:15:11.880 --> 01:15:15.439
<v Speaker 2>ten miles if you needed to. And all these places

1176
01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:18.720
<v Speaker 2>are loaded full of deer, and I'll get pictures of

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01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:22.319
<v Speaker 2>me literally like two foot away from some of these deer.

1178
01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:25.960
<v Speaker 2>And you know, people joke, well, that's forest preserved deer.

1179
01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:29.880
<v Speaker 2>They're tame. You know. Well, we have a BlackBerry patch

1180
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:34.960
<v Speaker 2>in our backyard that is very, very large, probably seventy

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01:15:35.079 --> 01:15:40.239
<v Speaker 2>foot by fifteen foot wide. And me and wife were

1182
01:15:40.319 --> 01:15:43.760
<v Speaker 2>back there just this spring, cleaning things up, and there

1183
01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:47.439
<v Speaker 2>was a robin up on the vines of the blackberries,

1184
01:15:47.800 --> 01:15:51.479
<v Speaker 2>and I was pretty close to the robin, and something

1185
01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:54.159
<v Speaker 2>told me, just, you know, slowly, go over to the

1186
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:56.760
<v Speaker 2>robin and hold my hand out, and so I did,

1187
01:15:57.159 --> 01:15:59.840
<v Speaker 2>and the damn thing jumped up on my hand and

1188
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:02.239
<v Speaker 2>I held it up and I yelled for my wife,

1189
01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:04.840
<v Speaker 2>and she turned around and looked and saw the rabbit.

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01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:09.119
<v Speaker 1>She just sort of rolled her eyes and said, all right,

1191
01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:09.760
<v Speaker 1>stop it.

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01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:11.359
<v Speaker 2>I believe you.

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01:16:12.239 --> 01:16:14.600
<v Speaker 3>You know, you find this great for these long walks

1194
01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:17.600
<v Speaker 3>countryside and on these trails, and it recharges your battery,

1195
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:17.960
<v Speaker 3>doesn't it.

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01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:21.000
<v Speaker 2>It fills you with energy, Yes, definitely.

1197
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:21.359
<v Speaker 1>You know.

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01:16:21.720 --> 01:16:24.560
<v Speaker 2>I go out for these long walks and I'm into

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01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:27.680
<v Speaker 2>like all year long, different mushrooms, pop up, and so

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01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:30.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm always like, you know, and look out for those

1201
01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:34.039
<v Speaker 2>and I'll post pictures on Facebook of you know, different

1202
01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:36.680
<v Speaker 2>weird things I might see out in the woods and stuff.

1203
01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:40.039
<v Speaker 2>So I'm happy with life and I'm tuned into life.

1204
01:16:40.279 --> 01:16:42.319
<v Speaker 3>And I think a lot of people take it for granted.

1205
01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:46.720
<v Speaker 3>Your generation, my generation, you know, we we weren't around technology.

1206
01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:49.880
<v Speaker 3>You know, we spent time outside, go off for hours

1207
01:16:49.960 --> 01:16:52.680
<v Speaker 3>and hours on the trails and into the woods, go

1208
01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:55.439
<v Speaker 3>off and the adventures. But now we're surrounded by all

1209
01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:58.279
<v Speaker 3>this technology, all this information has been pumped into us.

1210
01:16:58.840 --> 01:17:01.279
<v Speaker 3>It is super important for people. And I know they'd

1211
01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:03.399
<v Speaker 3>be listeners now that would be you know, out in

1212
01:17:03.439 --> 01:17:06.039
<v Speaker 3>the trails. They'd be dog walking and they're going for runs.

1213
01:17:06.279 --> 01:17:08.399
<v Speaker 3>It is super important to get out, get away from

1214
01:17:08.479 --> 01:17:10.880
<v Speaker 3>this stuff sometimes, you know, get away from the computers

1215
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:15.279
<v Speaker 3>and the phones and get out there and get your information,

1216
01:17:15.399 --> 01:17:16.880
<v Speaker 3>get your energy from nature.

1217
01:17:17.159 --> 01:17:21.319
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's My wife loves going to the mountains, so

1218
01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:23.279
<v Speaker 2>we go to the mountains as much as we can.

1219
01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:27.640
<v Speaker 2>And you know, you can get lost out there. It's

1220
01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:30.800
<v Speaker 2>good to get lost sometimes, you know. We did one

1221
01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:36.239
<v Speaker 2>hike out near Teeton. I believe it was nearly twenty

1222
01:17:36.319 --> 01:17:39.560
<v Speaker 2>miles in one direction and you get the point where

1223
01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:44.640
<v Speaker 2>you really don't see anyone else and then just listen

1224
01:17:44.720 --> 01:17:47.840
<v Speaker 2>to the sound of quietness. Take it all in because

1225
01:17:48.279 --> 01:17:52.439
<v Speaker 2>sitting in your apartment or you're flat or in your house,

1226
01:17:52.520 --> 01:17:56.239
<v Speaker 2>staring at a screen just doesn't recharge the battery.

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01:17:56.760 --> 01:17:59.960
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't agree more great stuff, Lee, fascinate.

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01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:04.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I appreciate you reaching out to me and lining

1229
01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:06.760
<v Speaker 2>this up. This was great, Lee.

1230
01:18:07.039 --> 01:18:10.199
<v Speaker 3>I really appreciate you coming on sharing that for our listeners.

1231
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:13.840
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, and thanks Nick for having me. It was great

1232
01:18:14.119 --> 01:18:18.520
<v Speaker 2>to meet you and all your followers. Hopefully they listen

1233
01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:20.319
<v Speaker 2>all the way to the end here. I appreciate them

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01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:20.840
<v Speaker 2>tuning in.

1235
01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:23.079
<v Speaker 3>Thanks Nick, was our pleasure.

1236
01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:23.239
<v Speaker 1>Lee.

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01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:25.760
<v Speaker 3>It was wonderful to meet you. Okay, please keep in

1238
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:28.119
<v Speaker 3>contact and we will speak soon, sir.

1239
01:18:28.479 --> 01:18:30.520
<v Speaker 2>All right, take care and Nick okay, take care.

1240
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:31.239
<v Speaker 3>By finale.

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01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:33.359
<v Speaker 5>That is all for this week.

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01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:37.079
<v Speaker 3>Keep updated and connected with a show on x, Facebook

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01:18:37.239 --> 01:18:39.760
<v Speaker 3>and Instagram, and if you have an encounter that you'd

1244
01:18:39.840 --> 01:18:42.600
<v Speaker 3>like to share on the podcast, you can email me

1245
01:18:42.840 --> 01:18:46.960
<v Speaker 3>at UFO Chronicles at gmail dot com, or you can

1246
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:49.960
<v Speaker 3>reach out to me via the contact page on my website,

1247
01:18:50.279 --> 01:18:53.880
<v Speaker 3>UFO Chronicles podcast dot com. A big thank you to

1248
01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:56.920
<v Speaker 3>Lee for sharing tonight, and thank you all for listening.

1249
01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:01.239
<v Speaker 3>I will be back next week. Till then, stay safe

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01:19:01.560 --> 01:19:04.119
<v Speaker 3>and keep watching the skies. Goodbye,
