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SUBJECT: CLOSE ENCOUNTER ON INTERSTATE 84 FILE: UFO2057
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By:Philip J. Imbrogno
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In the past, the state of Connecticut has always been an area of few UFO
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reports, however this is no longer true. Since 1985 the counties of
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Fairfield and Litchfield and Hartford has seen a dramatic rise in the
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number of UFO reports. This UFO is described as being a semi circle or
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boomerang with multi-colored lights. Even more incredible the size of this
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UFO has been reported to be the length of a football field!. This UFO that
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has been seen recently in Connecticut is without a doubt the Hudson valley
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UFO which is described in my book NIGHT SIEGE THE HUDSON VALLEY UFO
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SIGHTINGS (Ballantine Books 1987).
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For some reason unkown to this researcher the giant boomerang UFO has
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shifted it's activities from New York to Nearby Connecticut. The most
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recent sightings took place on May 26 of this year around interstate 84 one
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of the most heavily traveled highways in the northeast.
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Between 9;30 and 10;15 PM more than 200 people phoned local and state
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police to report a huge object with bright lights flying low over the
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highway near the towns of Newtown and Southbury in Connecticut. Those
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witnesses that called state police in Southbury were told that it was
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nothing more than a group of Ultralight aircraft from Candlewood airport
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flying in close formation and hanging colored lanterns from the bottom of
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the plane. The police also told witnesses that the aircraft were painted
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black so that all that can be seen is the lights. Many of the witnesses to
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the phenomenon found it very hard to believe the offical explanation.
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One witnesses to the UFO was Mrs. Betty Proulx of Middlebury who said that
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the object hovered over her house without a sound for over two minutes.
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There was no doubt in her mind that what she was looking at was one solid
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object.When Mr. Proulx heard about the explanation he could not accept it
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since he was in the air division of the Navy. "It was one craft and like no
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aircraft that I have ever seen in my life".
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Another witnesses was Mr. Randy Etting a commercial airline pilot with over
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thirty years of experience. Mr. Etting said that the idea of the ultralight
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theory "is the prattling of idiots" Mr. Etting observed the lights from his
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home in Newtown Connecticut at about 9:45 pm. He said that there were at
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least eight lights of different colors flying very close together and
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without a sound. As the object passed his home he observed it in a pair of
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7X35 binoculars. Mr. Etting told me that the UFO was one object and he saw
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some type of heat waves coming from the object which distorted the area
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around the lights. Mr. Etting watched the object with neighbors and his son
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for over ten minutes as it slowly drifted to the north west. All the
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witnesses agree that the UFO was one solid object and round in appearance.
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The Etting party was observing the UFO while it was passing close to I-84.
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At this time over a dozen cars pulled over to view the UFO as it passed
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overhead. One witness a Charlie Tuperman described what happened that
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night.
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"It was about 9:30 or so and I was driving East on 84 around the Southbury
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area when I noticed these lights ahead of me. They were low and it looked
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like a 747 was going to land on the highway.This thing had about ten lights
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in kind of a half circle and the lights were yellow, green, blue, white and
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red. This thing was going very slow and moving from the east to the west.
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All of a sudden every one on both sides of the road began slamming on their
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brakes and pulling over to the side. It was a dangerous thing to do since
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there were several trucks apparently trying the same thing. I pulled over
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and watched this thing pass directly over the west bound lanes. I saw a
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dark mass behind the lights and there was no sound. I saw the lights of a
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state tropper just ahead of me and I fiqured he was called to see what was
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going on. Then all of a sudden this thing gets real bright, I mean all the
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lights just got ten times brighter for about ten seconds or so, then they
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faded to where they were before and that is about as bright as a planes
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wing lights. That really scared me. I wanted to get going because I thought
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there was some type of invasion or something,I just wanted to get home.
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Besides I was afraid of some trucker plowing into my car. I watched it head
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west and lost it . I turnd on the radio for news, but didn't hear anything
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about any UFOs on any of the local stations".
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Close Encounter in New Milford
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At about 10:00 after the series of sightings in the I-84 area. The UFO was
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seen heading to the west. It was then seen in the New Milford Connecticut
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area by a Robert Nellis his friend Jeff and Mr. Nellis dog. They were all
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in Nellis car off a side road off Route 7 in the northern area of New
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Milford. They were driving home after a long day of boating upstate along
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the Connecticut river.The dog began to bark and cry and at that point Jeff
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looked over to the northeast to see a number of bright lights hovering over
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a stand of pine trees less than a quarter mile away. They stopped the car
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and at that time their car radio began to sound "funny" with all types of
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strange sounding static that interfered with the station that they were
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listening to.
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They stopped the car and continued to watch the lights. At this moment the
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lights began to move slowly towards them. They were amazed at the size of
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the object, "larger than a football field". The dog continued to bark as
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the object passed over their car . Neil looked up and saw a very dark
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structure connecting the lights that extended toward the rear of the
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object. He said it was teardrop in shape and the lights in the front were
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in a half circle.The object was so large he said that" it covered the sky
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and blocked out everything overhead" The object he said was made of some
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type of "dark grey material with very little reflectability". There was no
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sound and they estimated that the giant UFO was no more than 500 feet above
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their car. The UFO then passed over their car and then shifted towards the
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north. They both noticed some type of flashing lights under the object that
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gave the impression as if something was moving. They watched the UFO slowly
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move away. The total duration of the sighting was ten minutes, however both
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men arrived home forty minutes later. This is could be a case of missing
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time, or the witnesses observed the object longer than they thought. Neil
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would call me for several days after my interview with him since he felt
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"uneasy and upset" about his Close Encounter. My research team and I are
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still investigating this case and it seems that it may be another of the
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many missing time cases that are escalating in the area.
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Photographic Proof
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This UFO was so bright and large that it was only a matter of time before
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someone would come forward with a photograph. To our surprise we were
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contacted by a person of high standing in the Southbury area who took a
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picture of the object as it moved very slowly over I-84 at about 9:30 PM.
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The photographer wishes to remain anonymous since his position is very
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sensitive. He his a very highly trained college educated man who fears that
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the publicity surrounding the photograph could hurt his career. He gave us
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full rights to the photograph and his sighting account providing we do not
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use his real name. We will refer to him as David.
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David was on I-84 on Official busines when he saw the lights. The lights
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were in the northwest and heading east. As he watched, the object tilted
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and all the lights got much brighter.He was pulled off the road at the time
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and had his camera ready. The UFO was about 45 degrees above the horizon.
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Due to traffic he had time to take only one picture. His camera was a 35mm
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with a 50mm lens at 1.8, the film type was Kodacolor asa 400 and the
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exposure was 1/60th of a second, or 1/125. He was not sure of the setting,
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but feels it was 1/60th of a second. The object then moved toward the east
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without a sound. During an interview with this researcher, David told me
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that the he was sure there was a solid object behind the lights. He also
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said that when the object turned it looked like the lights on the sides
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were pulling out from the main mass, but he realized that this effect was
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due to the object changing posistion from his point of view.
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What about the Photo:
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Several photo-analysis experts are now looking at the photograph. Our
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initial study showed that the image is without a doubt hanging in the sky
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above the ground. Also the photograph was looked at by Dr. Willy Smith a
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scientists and UFO researcher of some repute. Dr. Smith's initial
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calculations show the object to be anywhere from 650-1600 across!
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We believe that this photograph is one of the best nightime UFO pictures
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taken in the past twenty years. There were quite a few witnesses to the
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sighting over a twenty-five mile radius, all reporting the same thing. A
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close examination of the original negative shows that the lights are
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reflecting off of some type of structure in the central part of the
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object.Also the lights are in a perfect half circle. There is no doubt that
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what ever the UFO photograph represents it is one solid object. We hope to
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get more data on the photograph and the sightings in the weeks to come. I
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have taken an add in the local papers asking for videos and photographs and
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sighting accounts from that night.
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A Rational Explanation?
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What about the theory that the UFO is nothing more than Ultralights from
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Candlewood airport. We questioned state police on this theory. An officer
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stated that they made a mistake about the airport, it wasen't Candlewood
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but Stormville airport. A flight instructor at Stormville later told us
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that there is only one Ultralight at Stormville and it only flys in the day
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since it is illegal for them to fly at night.
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The UFO sightings in the Northeast continue. In the days to follow I
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received several calls from witnesses who saw formations of military
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helecopters in the sighting area. One witnesses took a pictue of this
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formation. Is the goverment involved in the mysterious happenings over the
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Connecticut area? Many of the residents feel that the goverment is well
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aware of the UFO and is doing its best to play down the sightings by
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explaining them away. I called nearby Bradley international airport to find
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out if they had any information about the sightings. I was informed by air
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traffic control that no formations or large aircraft were tracked on radar
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at that location and time. I was also told that unless the "aircraft" have
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transponders (a device placed in aircraft that help identify them on radar)
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in them they would not be picked up at that location at an altitude of less
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than 2,000 feet. I have enough witnesses in different locations at the same
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time observing the UFO to determine that the approximate altitude was
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between 1,000 and 1300 feet. Based on this information my calculations
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indicate that the span of lights was at least 900 feet! Its apparent size
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in the sky was quite large,this is evident by the image on the 35mm frame
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that takes up almost half the negative. It is obvious from the photograph
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and by the witneses statments that something more than ultralight aircraft
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was in the sky over Connecticut that night.
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If any of my readers would like to contact me concerning this series of UFO
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sightings I can be reached at PO Box 4218 Greenwich, Ct 06830.
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