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Trumbull County
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Speaker 2As I was in wrapped, five or six calls start coming in about a huge light in the sky.
I was at a stop sign.
A big beam of light came upon my vehicle.
All at once.
My car, shut off, my computer, my radio.
I saw a huge light in the sky just hit my car.
I had no idea what it was.
I slammed my car in park, got out of the car.
There was no sound.
I couldn't hear anything.
It lit this whole street up.
Discovering there no sound, Oh my god.
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Speaker 1Welcome to High Strange.
A little after midnight in nineteen ninety four, strange lights were seen over the northeastern sky of Ohio.
Local residents from all around Trumbull County began calling into local news stations to report it.
The following is the actual tape from the nine to one one dispatch center, and I dispatched.
Speaker 4You report to any objects in the air but minutes.
Speaker 1Roy Anne Rudolph was working at the dispatch center that night and Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 5I was a dispatcher telecommunicator at the Trumbull County nine to one to one center.
The first few hours were relatively quiet.
Everybody was just settling in and we get a call from one of our local media personalities from a TV station and I get that.
Speaker 3My health it could be saying normal saw something.
Oh it's no noise, no noise, it was low flying and put the glowing object.
Speaker 5We started getting a couple of phone calls about people who were seeing a light in the sky.
How many called in, But I, I really don't know what that would be.
Speaker 1At first, she thought this whole thing might be a joke, or at the very least a misinterpretation of something normal in the sky, like a balloon or a plane.
But it wasn't long before she started receiving her own calls to the police station.
Speaker 5The calls started spanning out a little bit from that area.
Then the calls became more and more frequent.
Speaker 4Ten hundred people already wreak, ran up and down.
Speaker 1They hi ufo, okay she is, I mean I got a purpose.
Speaker 4You were all masks.
Speaker 1She tried to rationalize the report she was receiving, starting with the most obvious.
It's a hoax or a small plane or a helicopter.
Probably nothing worth a learning her police officers about.
But the nine one one calls were multiplying faster than she could keep up.
Speaker 6I just can't quite make it ostrolizin ocular that budger has not moved.
Speaker 5They were upset by the object not moving.
Speaker 4That's thing half thought.
Speaker 3There's tends.
Speaker 1Notice that I don't wanted it.
Speaker 3See a red glow open that guy huge.
Speaker 4I don't want their predators an osculars.
Speaker 7I can't quite bake it out.
Speaker 4They're changes colors from white to.
Speaker 1Red, the green, but sect.
Speaker 3That has not moved.
Speaker 1They have gone any drisk and because I don't want the good can look.
Speaker 5They were really upset because there was no noise.
Speaker 3I didn't hear it now the only time I had with my car, Well, what.
Speaker 1W it moving?
Speaker 3Or yeah?
Speaker 4Bowing like up in the air, blowing getting further away from it.
Speaker 1The townspeople were clearly genuinely concerned.
She took it upon herself to inform the officers of the situation.
At this point, it warranted some real investigating.
Speaker 5What typically happens is you dispatch the units, and I picked the officer I thought would respond without getting upset that I sent them on this because it just sounded so it just sounded like a lot to process.
Of the three officers, I picked the one officer who was a friend of mine who I didn't think would be upset that I sent him.
Speaker 2My name's Stobe Malaro, Liberty Township, Ohio.
I'm a police officer.
We were used to getting calls like that to see one thirties would be training and they would shut their lights off, sometimes open them up, So there was no big rush in going to check this out.
Speaker 1Toby was dispatched to investigate what exactly was going on here.
Speaker 5Hey, listen, there's some people who are flipping out.
There's seen some lights in the sky and they are panicky about this.
He said, all right, I'll head that way, give me a minute.
Speaker 2As I was en wrapped, five or six calls start coming in about a huge light in the sky.
Speaker 5We continue fielding calls and all of a sudden, other police units in the general vicinity start seeing it.
Speaker 4Bob I Pwhere to god?
Speaker 5Horror called in on an unidentified object?
Every liberty horror call or call on an unidentified flying object.
Speaker 4And you beat off the gun and encloy bottom high to.
Speaker 1Check out, isn't that a UFO?
Yeah, we got like these calls on it earlier taste.
Speaker 8Luckily, what would you believe was the least opinion hid out of the.
Speaker 4UFO And we got like hid calls on earlier.
Speaker 2Today and they're looking again left within yet a couple of different people the officers did they call it?
Speaker 1One of the hold officers, I did he fall covering it like a ten minute man.
Speaker 4It's pretty messed up.
We got across some last playing we got.
Speaker 3The night.
Speaker 7Over.
Speaker 1A dozen officers had reported to roy Anne that they had seen a UFO, and she passed this information into all active law enforcement units in the area an attempt to triangulate where this thing was.
Speaker 5These are seasoned police officers, people who have great credibility, and now they're seeing some things.
And you start hearing these other departments talking over the various frequencies and the other dispatchers are speaking and conversing about these lights.
These officers were ten twenty miles apart from one another, and they're all saying they're seeing these formations, they're seeing these lights.
And that changed.
Speaker 3Everything from like a white the white at read to Paul thinging green labor.
Speaker 5What did you really think it was?
Speaker 3I don't know any here, conor kill whatever it is the big under Klam provid.
Speaker 1It became clear that whatever was happening in the skies wasn't going away anytime soon.
Multiple police stations are reporting the same things.
What they were seeing in the sky that night was reported to be as big as a football field, hovering low and emitting no sound at all.
Speaker 5When you start hearing people who have been respected members of the law enforcement community and you say, okay, this now has a little bit more credibility, what do you do?
Speaker 8How do you handle that?
Speaker 1One of the officers who witnessed the object that night, named Lieutenant James Baker, decided to climb an abandoned radar tower to get a better look.
According to Baker, there wasn't just one UFO, but three, forming a triangle and flashing color in Unison.
Multiple officers were in pursuit of the object in their patrol cars speeding through town trying to keep up with it.
Speaker 2I told him to call the airbase to see if they had anything on radar or if they had some type of plane at or something going on.
Speaker 5Ah yeah, dude, at the orient, IM look attach to plate the department.
Speaker 1We recorded some flying.
Speaker 4Object at our action.
Speaker 3You know, if anything, it should be in our airspace at the time, close to.
Speaker 1The ground, the UHD belt.
Speaker 8But I go, I am a little young.
Speaker 4Not out there.
Speaker 3I'm not there, and go.
Speaker 5I didn't anticipate I'd get a lot, but I certainly didn't expect to hear there's nothing.
Speaker 1Within a sixty mile radius.
Nothing at all was appearing on the FAA's radar systems.
Speaker 5I would like to think it could have been something from the air base.
My conversation with the gentleman that I spoke with at the airbase, it was a little bit unsettling, only because his sincerity, the honesty in him telling me I see nothing, and made a shudder because you expected him to come back with some kind of answer.
Speaker 2It was a December night, but it was really hot out time.
It was like sixty degrees was close to midnight.
Speaker 1Well heading to the scene of the latest sighting, Toby was approached by a nervous bystander in the neighborhood.
He was standing in the street and waved him down as he approached in a squad car.
Speaker 2He actually stopped me when I was coming down the road, walked out to the street and said it had just been over his house.
Speaker 1The man was visibly unsettled and claimed that just moments ago he had seen the objects hovering directly above his house.
Speaker 2I said, what was this over your house?
I'm looking at the skies.
I don't see anything.
To be honest with you, I thought maybe this guy had been drinking a little bit.
What direction did it go?
Speaker 1He said?
Speaker 3South.
Speaker 1At first, Toby didn't believe this man, but that was about to change.
Speaker 2I told him to go back in his house, go relax, and I'll check it out.
I continued down the street the direction he told me he had it south.
Speaker 5Toby arrives in the area, marks himself in the area.
We have what we call a checkup, what's called a code six, and that means everything okay with you, and if it is, you acknowledge that nothing's wrong.
I gave Toby several Code six and I was getting nothing back.
Speaker 1Toby went radio silent.
Speaker 5I don't know if something bad happened to him.
I don't know if something happened to his car.
I don't know if he had an accident.
But he was not responding, and that's a problem when you're a dispatcher.
That is the worst fear of any dispatcher.
Speaker 1She continued to send out the RUOK communication called Code six, but for ten full minutes she was getting no response at all.
At this point, the situation escalated to all hands on deck.
Officers from all around the county were sent to check on him.
It felt like an eternity.
Speaker 5There are times when people, Hey, I stepped into the restroom and I didn't bring my portable with me.
There are times when that happens.
But you have a responsibility to send people start them in that direction.
It's a lifeline.
Speaker 2I was at a stop sign.
A big beam of light came upon my vehicle all at once.
My car shut off, my computer, my radio.
I was still in drive.
A huge light in the sky has hit my car.
I slammed my car in park, got out of the car.
I had no idea what it was.
Initially I thought it was a plane.
However, there was no sound.
I couldn't hear anything.
I had that physically shilled my eyes.
Just an intense, bright light about one hundred feet above tree level.
It lit this whole street up, just covering there no sound.
It was long, oval in shape, the size of a football fielder better.
I was trying to determine exactly what it was.
I've never seen anything that intense, that bright without making noise.
And then all of a sudden, it just shot off.
As it moved on, everything in my car turned back on.
My car started back up.
At that point, I started a radio my location.
They were asking me if I was Code six.
Was meant, are you okay?
They said I was off air.
I think like four minutes.
That didn't seem right.
I said, I'm fine.
I told them what I saw the direction of travel of the light.
I gave them a direction of travel, and they start pursuing the lights another jurisdictions start picking that up, saying that we see it.
I've lived there all my life and I know that these planes fly.
You know, maybe the air Force is trying out a different type of airplane and they're not going to tell you what they're doing.
As time progressed, we tried to get information from the military base.
They didn't want to even say anything about it.
That's where my rationale came that it was something from the base itself.
I really didn't think it was anything more than that initially until the calls were coming back that there's nothing up in the sky.
Then I didn't know what to think.
Why would they be lying it was a strange occurrence.
You know, I don't want to get into is it from another world?
I you know, I didn't want to get into that, but hey, anything's possible.
My logic, my way the rationalized.
What I saw was it was something from the military base, some type of plane they were testing out, and obviously they don't want that information to get out.
Speaker 5I don't know what went on that specific night.
That was a complete anomaly.
I'm hesitant to put any kind of title on it or label it.
I expected to come back with something tangent you could offer people, and there was nothing we could provide anybody.
Speaker 2For me, knowing the area, knowing that we have an air base, that just made sense to me.
Everybody denied that it had anything to do with our military base.
From the base, they said they had nothing on radar at all.
Maybe for someone else it being aliens would fit their logic, But our base is one of the bigger air force bases, you know, could it it came from there?
Speaker 1That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2I just know that I've been a police officer for thirty years.
I've never had anything like that ever happen before.
There's been sightings forever, going back to before christ.
I don't know exactly what it was, but I know what I saw.
Speaker 5Being in law enforcement, you want solutions, you want finality.
There's nothing finite about what happened that night.
Speaker 7Last Thursday, on the Paul Benzaquin Show, Wei heard a carefully documented account of the sighting of an object in the sky.
Speaker 1In the long history of UFO sightings throughout the entire world, it's certainly safe to say they're not all alien spaceships.
Speaker 7Her husband and her fourteen year old son had seen an extremely bright object sixty three degrees high on the eastern sky.
She said it could have been as bright as the moon and was traveling at a speed her husband calculated at twenty two thousand.
Speaker 1Five hundred miles per hour and no matter how strange those lights in the sky may appear, things are not always what they seem.
Speaker 7The sighting would ultimately be identified, for the object was well known from the outset.
When Missus Clinton was asked if the object was as bright as the moon, she said it could have been.
Of course it could.
Speaker 3It was the moon.
Speaker 7The moon, she described, was one day less than full, and by simply omitting its name, she caused a flurry of calls.
Based on the most identifiable object in the night sky.
It is fair to wonder this among the nine thousand UFOs reported over the past ten years or so, how many.
Speaker 1Were like this one.
Speaker 6She just kind of illustrates the illusionary perception of shapes.
Speaker 1Here's Mick West, investigative skeptic.
Speaker 6There was a minor case on Twitter a while ago where someone in Orlando was seeing these circles of lights in the sky.
It looked like a giant alien spaceship covering above the clouds.
Luckily she got the street sign in the video shot, and I tracks down which street that was, and where she was standing and what direction she was looking in, plugged it into Google Earth.
Five miles over in that direction was Disney World.
The obvious sounds.
Was use looking at the Disneyland light show and there was a low clouds reflecting that light show.
You get things that match, but you can't come out and say one hundred percent that's what it was.
It's a coincidence that in five miles in that direction was Disneyland, and they often have light shows with Reynolds from Forest.
It's a coincidence that in the direction they were looking there's a lighthouse.
Does it solve it one hundred percent?
Not for everybody, but I think it really moves that explanation to the top of the list.
Speaker 1For decades, UFO hoaxes have continued to muddy the water.
It's like Bigfoot or the Locknest Monster.
As soon as you find out that really crazy video you saw was just a prank, it can start to make you question everything in a lot of these UFO hoaxes have been pretty damn convincing.
Speaker 5A strange site, red blinking lights could be seen across Moors County, New Jersey.
Speaker 6Last night.
Speaker 1I looked up outside and I was really scared, and I just saw these five red light One night in New Jersey, there were multiple reports of a UFO outside the suburb of Morristown.
Speaker 8At eight twenty eight, the Hanover Township Police received the first of seven nine.
Speaker 1To one one calls.
There were dozens of witnesses, panicky phone calls to police, an extensive local news coverage.
Speaker 6It was unsettling, Yeah, for sure, just because you're watching something that you have no idea, you've never seen before.
Speaker 1Eyewitness accounts are not always accurate.
Speaker 6You got very different accounts from different people.
Some people will just say they saw a light.
Some people will say they saw like a triangle shaped craft, or some people say they saw things that were the size of a football field flying overhead.
Speaker 1In two thousand and nine, a group of friends decided to document their own UFO hoax.
Speaker 4All right, here we go.
Speaker 1Here's the flare.
Speaker 2What we're doing is we're just putting a little fishing line around the bottom of it.
Speaker 1They tied flares to helium balloons and one at a time just let them off in the air.
We're about to go out and do our int all hoax, and you what kind of reactually can get.
And before they knew it, people were calling into local news stations.
The prank has worked.
The unifleet, it's all over the News News Twell, New Jersey.
Just as they planned.
They folded the whole town into believing an alien spacecraft was about to take over New Jersey.
Speaker 8Roadside flares attached to helium balloons.
Speaker 1But how easy are these to really pull off?
And honestly, how common is it?
Speaker 6The difficult thing with UFO hoaxes is really have people keeping quiet about it.
There was a case in France where the fated say UFO sighting by attaching a light stick to a drone.
Some people interpreted them as being UFOs, And there's all these different accounts obviously because there's different people.
It's not hard at all to fake things.
Tie something to a drone or have a drone with big splashing lights or something fly that over a few neighborhoods and someone's going to see it.
If you wanted to simply create something that people would interpret as a UFO, it's not that hard.
Speaker 1Well, let's just see then, if I wanted to make my own UFO hoax, could I actually pull it off?
And will I go to jail?
I'd met with my team and one of our producers, Dylan, was super into the idea, and he took it upon himself to create a UFO hoax master plan.
Speaker 8We were sitting around drin gets some beers at a bar.
We came up with this idea of creating our own UFO hoax.
How hard would it be to make our own UFO.
We considered flying up five or six drones with a bunch of different colored lights on it.
It could we build something and fly it over the city, or like, how legal would that be?
How illegal would that be?
Would we all end up in prison for this?
Building it in Atlanta over the city just seemed like a bad idea.
In general, there's a good chance we could get arrested for flying an airspace restricted airspace.
We almost needed a more open area somewhere where we could get away with this.
Speaker 1We were filming some promotional videos for the podcast in Sedona, Arizona, and decided since we're out here, might as well make the best of it.
Speaker 8Right out the middle of the desert.
We figured, Hey, this could be the perfect time to try this out.
We're in the desert, we're not near any airports, so we'd come up with all these different concepts of how to do this.
I finally settled on this idea of creating a helium filled saucer shaped balloon.
I talked to Paint about it, and we decided this would be the perfect time in place to do something like this.
I built a prototype to begin with, just to make sure that this concept would actually work, and I built the prototype out of a really thin plastic sheeting, basically the plastic sheeting you'd put down if you were to like paint your house or something.
The sheeting that I used was incredibly thin, which was great for my weight to lift ratio.
It made the craft very light, but it also made it very puncturable.
It made it very likely to pop or explode because it was just so thin you could almost stick your finger through it just trying to work with it.
The first thing I think is I need a thicker plastic sheet because that's going to make this craft more durable.
It's going to make sure that when we send it up it doesn't catch on some tree branch somewhere and just rip a big hole in it.
But that also means it's four times the weight, and this weight ratio is the biggest thing that I'm struggling with.
How do I make this craft light enough that it'll float, but big enough that it can be seen and strong enough that it's durable and won't blow in the wind and explode in the sky or catch on something or rip.
The big thing with helium bloom is it has to be incredibly light.
You need a lot of it to pick up even a little bit of weight.
One hundred and fifty cubic feet of helium to fill this thing.
I spend pretty much a full day just looking on Arizona for helium.
Apparently there's a helium shortage in America right now.
So I finally find some industrial warehouse that has an excess supply of helium.
So I walked in and I'm just an average looking guy and I walk in.
I'm like, hey, I need one hundred and fifty cubic feet of helium, and he's what do you need that for it?
It's a lot of helium.
You're filling something up.
So that was very direct with him about it.
I'm building a UFO.
He laughed and said, well, you know, I'll sell it to you, but I better not see this on the news later.
Speaker 1Well that's kind of the point.
The whole goal is to get this thing in the air and on the news.
Speaker 8I have all these materials, thousands of dollars worth of materials, just strewn around our Airbnb.
Taping every part of it that I can think of, looking for holes, looking for any place where helium can escape.
Any hole that's bigger than the atom of helium it'll leak out of.
Taping every edge, every corner, every crease.
I've rechecked.
I've done the math two or three times.
The amount that we have will fill this craft, and it should be light enough and buoyant enough that it'll float.
Speaker 1Sounds like a solid plant.
I watched this.
Dylan and the rest of the crew put together this craft outside the parking lot of our Airbnb.
Speaker 8This has to work.
This hoax has to work.
We've spent so much time, so much money has been invested, and it's going to work.
It's now two am, because I spent all day.
It's below freezing outside.
You can't see anything in front of you.
Taping the last little bit.
Put the lights on.
I turned the lights on.
We're ready to go.
Pick this thing up.
It's nine feet across in diameter.
Speaker 1It's huge.
Speaker 8We start to fill it up.
Speaker 1Is it going in there?
Speaker 8It's filling, It's looking great.
I'm getting really excited I did, my confidence of this is totally gonna work.
Speaker 2Really quick.
Speaker 8Then all of a sudden, the helium tank just fizzles out.
That was all the helium.
This thing isn't even half full of helium yet not floating by any means.
It's definitely still crashing to the ground.
All that time invested and there's no more helium.
It was devastating, and I'll admit I definitely had to just like go sit down in a corner somewhere and just question all my life decisions coming up to that point.
I cried in a corner by myself.
And then after that I just got so fed up with it.
I was so angry and I had nowhere to release my anger, so I released it on the UFO.
It was such a solid design.
I felt pretty good about destroying that which I had created.
Yes, even though our hoax didn't work out, I think I still learned a really valuable lesson.
Hoaxes are really hard to pull off.
You hear all these stories all the time about everything in the sky must be a hoax.
It must be a balloon, it's a drone, it's something like that.
But the truth is, things that don't look like commercial aircraft nine times out of ten.
Take a lot of very capable knowledge to pull off.
A million things need to go right and nothing can go wrong for something like that to really happen.
But again, I'm no scientists, I'm not an engineer, just some guy.
Speaker 1Dylan was greatly disappointed.
But at the last minute we decided to try one more thing.
We took our drone, then suspended a really bright led light from the bottom of it, then just flew it up in the air as high as we could get it.
And I will say it does look pretty uphoe.
You can check it out for yourself on our Instagram and TikTok page.
Just go to at high Strange I uploaded the full length UFO hoax adventure or shall I say fail, Sorry, Dylan.
Some of the most infamous UFO cases throughout our history have clearly challenged all rational explanations.
It doesn't mean that they're entirely true, but they've stood the test of time enough that they still puzzle us today.
But there's a difference between claiming to see strange lights in the sky and living out a literal nightmare.
Some cases are not just weird or hard to explain some of them are flat out terrifying, and the following story takes the cake for the scariest claim that I've ever heard, Say and Farnie.
Speaker 2Who will be speaking to us long distance from Forceless, New Hampshire.
Speaker 3Oh, which one have I got on a miner of I got your photo?
That's you, Barney?
Speaker 6Are you there?
Speaker 1On September nineteenth, nineteen sixty one, newly Weed's Betty and Barney Hill were traveling overnight along US Route three, a deserted, empty road in the mountains of New Hampshire.
What transpired that night changed their lives forever, and would arguably inspire and shape the horror genre of alien encounters in pop culture forever.
We have to go back to nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 3It starts as full into this overe Yes, that's ry September nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 7That's when whatever happens happened.
Speaker 1Yes, Barney Hill worked for the Postal Service and his wife Betty was a social worker.
It was a cool, crisp night, the moon visible in the clear sky.
Barney was driving down USU three as their dogs slept at Betty's feet.
Speaker 3Betty and I were He's setting from a vacation rip in Canada and arrived in New Hampshire closem chopped in a town called cold Brook, mil Ham.
Here happy with Poppy and the hamburger, and we laughed Bob.
Speaker 1After Barney finished his burger and Betty had a slice of chocolate cake.
They figured they could make it home from the diner at around two or three am.
The roads were basically empty that night, as it was too early for ski or hunting season.
While gazing at the moon, Betty noticed a bright star to the left of it, and then another star appearing right above it that was slowly getting bigger and brighter.
Speaker 4Betty called my attention to the object alike for face for for move after it, and decided to come in.
Speaker 1Barney was a World War Two vet and enjoyed plane watching.
He was almost instantly convinced that the objects was likely something conventional and paid little attention to it.
Speaker 4Obviously, I was.
Speaker 3Totally close about and flying frogs and so your left falls.
Speaker 1Throughout their drive, they both continued to watch the object as the trees and mountains surrounding them began obstructing their view.
Speaker 3Now that you can see in the sky like a light lit the sky in the background.
Speaker 1Betty noticed that the lights on the objects were behaving differently than that of a normal plane, but would typically be a single red blinking light appear to be changing colors in an unusual pattern.
Speaker 3The objects is how blowing along the same directly that we were going.
Speaker 1For a moment, it felt like they were being followed by the object.
Speaker 4The object went around the wind.
Speaker 6How in front of them.
Speaker 1Both Betty and Barney could see the craft clearly through their windshield.
Speaker 3I got out of the gue and the objects which brought it over the driver side of the cot, and I became determined that to find outlass and had to have some natural explaining.
Speaker 4They stopped the car again again, got out, took with them with binoculars that were on the front seat.
They looked through the binoculars and saw this object covering perhaps a hundred feet above that cock and one side of the road.
The song movement.
Speaker 3I'm looking at it wins monoculus, and I can't believe what I am seen.
Speaker 1Barney described the craft as wide as three telephone poles and made no noise wins of monocalyus.
Speaker 3I can concerned what I call figures moving about at a huge plate glass.
Speaker 4That came to curve around.
Speaker 1Barney could see a double row of windows on this pancake shaped object.
He pulled into a nearby field to get a closer look, when he saw something much more unsettling inside the craft that was hovering there.
He could see half a dozen living beings wearing what appeared to be black uniforms, staring directly at him.
Speaker 3These thinkers that we're looking savingly sound was me because the object was tilted and I could see with the monocalypse.
When I thought were going up, touching or pulling off, leaving, I was just completely fasted to Betty has singed.
I pulled the monocolates waves on my eyes, stashing back to the car, claiming to Betty, Oh my god, I said, Betty, this is going to get answer.
Guitar put it the and the objectised it over his.
Speaker 4They now got into that car and sped away for what they thought was their own wives.
The rounded the curves to the left, and that car in expectedly just stopped.
The car vibrated.
Speaker 3I felt with my hands on the steering wheel.
Speaker 4I felt the singling.
Speaker 1Colum After a tingling in the steering column, they heard a series of irregular beeps, then a haze came over them.
All of a sudden, they realized they had traveled about thirty five miles from Indian Head to Ashland, New Hampshire, with no recollection of that part of the drive.
They slowly approached what appeared to be a roadblock in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 4Alongside the road at round level was this immense, intense firange globe.
Several men dressed in rather strange uniforms were lying across the road.
Speaker 1They all stepped back, but one stayed behind and remained looking at him.
Their eyes were unlike anything he'd seen before.
Speaker 4That wouldn't stop.
The man came over, removed him from the can escort them to the sauce of this light in the woods.
Speaker 1Betty claimed that Barney was in some kind of sleepwalk state and wasn't answering when she called.
Speaker 4Out to him, and they would taking a boy who purported to be a spaceship.
Speaker 1They were placed on a metal table separate from each other as humanoid like creatures began taking samples of their hair, skin, and nails.
Speaker 4For the next two hours, they were submitted to a complete physical and intellectual examination.
Question about the life when they asked, so they just entered another world when they into that spaceship.
Speaker 1Over seventy years later, the Betty and Barney hillcase remains one of the most horrifying and hardest to debunk cases in American history.
Yes, please.
Speaker 9Never forget that day.
Speaker 1This is Kathleen Morten, the niece of Betty and Barney Hill.
Speaker 9I was thirteen years old in nineteen sixty one when Betty and Barney were abducted.
Speaker 1She recalls vividly the day that all their lives would change as a family.
Speaker 9My mother was on the phone with Betty.
Speaker 6I listened.
Speaker 9My mother was concerned, and I knew that something was wrong.
When she hung up the phone, she told me Betty and Barney had seen a flying saucer up close the night before.
They were afraid they'd been contaminated.
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Original score by Makeup and Vanity Set, Sound design, mixing and mastering by Cooper Skinner.
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This episode features the song Space Cadet by metro Booman featuring Gunna.
Written by Wesley tyre Glass, Sergio Kitchens, Leland Tyler, Wayne Alan Ritter, and Jack Quies Webster.
Performed by metro Booman featuring Gunna courtesy of Republic Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises for metro Booman in three hundred.
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