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So Triphids, type life that might exist on an alien world. No doubt about it. Living,
mobile plants. Now to cover some classic UFO cases. Here's your basic UFO. Colorization
by rule. The first case, I should mention, is from nineteen forty-seven, June twenty-fourth.
The date was Tuesday. The pilot Kenneth Arnold, up in the Cascade Mountains of Washington.
About two p.m. in the afternoon, he was actually a refrigeration equipment salesman, but asked
to hunt for a downed transport plane in the Cascade Mountains. When he was near Mount
Rainier, he saw nine unusual objects scatting through the mountains. They were moving as
he determined with his calling device at sixteen hundred and fifty-eight miles per hour. And
while he was at nine fifty feet elevation, they were a little higher. Approximately twelve
hundred feet. They did not attack him, he just observed them. And when he got to the
ground he said they looked like saucers skipping over water. He never used the term flying
saucer, but a reporter picked up on that and coined that term that's with us today. Now
that's the classic case of course. Just a few weeks later at the beginning of July,
we're not sure of the exact date, we had the famous Roswell, New Mexico case where one
or even two vehicles may have been downed. What's important about that case, the Army
Air Force, the official release for the first three hours, that they had captured a downed
UFO. Then they tried to cover it up, said it was a weather balloon or some other object.
But of course, that's one of the classic cases. Then, we go to January seventh, nineteen forty-eight,
a Wednesday. Over Louisville, Kentucky actually near Fort Knox, at Godman Air Base. Everyone,
every officer there from the lowest to highest ranking, about one fifteen p.m. saw an enormous
saucer shaped object in the sky. Highway patrolman also saw it, and civilians in the area. Coming
in about two fifteen, four P-51 transport planes from Marietta, Georgia. One, the pilot
was Thomas Mantell. Three of the men did not see the object. Two had to go in for refueling,
one looked for it but did not see it. But Mantell did see the object, which was still
in the sky. He said, ?I?m going in for a closer look." He reported that it was large and metallic
in nature. Important. This is a man who is a veteran of over one hundred combat missions
during World War II. He should have known the difference between a star and a star ship.