31 lines
1.6 KiB
Plaintext
31 lines
1.6 KiB
Plaintext
SUBJECT: CLOSE ENCOUNTER, 1897 STYLE FILE: UFO2283
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Late on the evening of April 13, 1897, as they were passing through Lake Elmo,
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Minnesota, on their way to Hudson, Wisconsin, Frederick Chamberlain and O.L.
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Jones spotted a shadowy figure in a clearing two blocks away. The figure
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carried a lantern and seemed to be looking for something. Thinking there might
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be some emergency, Chamberlain and Jones turned toward the clearing, but the
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figure and lantern disappeared into the trees. Moments later they heard the
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crackling of twigs and branches, followed by a "rushing noice...like the wind
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blowing around the eaves of a house," Chamberlain told the St. Paul Pioneer
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Press (April 15). "A second later and we distinguished a long, high object of
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a gray white color.
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Although the two men could not get a clear view of it in the darkness, the
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object, which had two rows of red, green, and white lights on each side,
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looked like "most of the top of a 'prairie schooner,'" Chamberlian said. It
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rose at a sharp angle, then headed south just above the treetops.
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At the clearing, the two witnesses found, impressed in the wet ground, 14 two-
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foot-long prints, six inches wide, and arranged in an oblong pattern seven on
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a side. Apparently, these were traces left by the craft.
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Around that same time Adam Thielen, a farmer in the Lake Elmo area, heard a
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buzzing sound above him. When he looked up, he saw a dark object with red and
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green lights sailing overhead.
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