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SUBJECT: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CHILLING KIND FILE: UFO2381
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PART 8
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Abducted By UFOs!
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Sooners Report Close Encounters
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01/23/94
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THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN
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Richard Seifried was sound asleep on the lonely Black Mesa in the
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Panhandle.
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Suddenly he awoke to find himself floating out the end of his tent and
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up into a spaceship, where he was given a physical exam by short, hairless,
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gray-colored beings with fragile necks, long arms and black eyes the size
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of grapefruit.
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"I went right through the mosquito netting" without tearing it, he said.
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Now for the strange part. Seifried's been snatched like this at least
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five other times.
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Sometimes the beings beamed him off a mountain while he worked for the
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Forest Service. Sometimes they grabbed him from home.
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Sometimes they scooped skin samples or poked him with tiny needles in a
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pattern.
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Seifried's not alone. As director of investigations for the Oklahoma
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chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, Seifried has come across many Oklahomans
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who've had uncomfortably close encounters with strange entities from who
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knows where.
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Well, that's what they say.
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Some who believe in UFOs - in the sense that unidentified flying objects
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are advanced aliens from some unknown part of the cosmos - estimate up to
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millions of people have been so "abducted."
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In Oklahoma, Seifried and his wife, Jean Waller, longtime state director
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of the network, know of at least 30 or 40 such people who believe they're
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victims.
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UFOs - in the sense of things in the sky that did not make sense to the
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observer - have been around forever, or at least as long as people have had
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eyes and a brain big enough to wonder, "What the ...?"
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Seifried has written a book, "Native Encounters," about the history of
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UFO things in Oklahoma, one of several unpublished manuscripts by the
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retired school teacher.
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Interest in UFOs seems to run in cycles, but it's been pretty hot since
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the early 1950s, when humanoids began building rockets in earnest. Recently,
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a congressman succeeded in launching a government investigation into what
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believers say was the crash of a flying saucer in New Mexico in 1947 that
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was covered up by the same government.
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UFO conventions and meetings have boomed in the past decade.
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"I'm interested in anything that's unexplained," James Rea, 18, of El
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Reno said, explaining why he showed up at a recent network meeting in
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Norman. "I don't really know if I believe them (UFOs) or not. I believe
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anything's possible."
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Oklahoma has its share of UFO stuff, network people say. Like animal
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carcasses with eyes or sexual organs removed or like circles on rural land
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that cows mysteriously avoid, all of which some people attribute to
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celestial interlopers for lack of other explanations.
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Philip Klass blames it on a kind of extra-terrestrial baloney
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sandwich beamed directly into people's brains by tabloids, talk
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shows, books and movies. Despite the huge numbers of people who
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have seen UFOs or their creators, not one lug nut from an
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interplanetary craft has been recovered.
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Klass, publisher of the Skeptics UFO Newsletter, said the
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National Enquirer offered $1 million and a British liquor magnate
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offered about $2.8 million for any hard evidence. Zilch.
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Klass is a former senior avionics editor for Aviation Week &
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Space Technology magazine and still writes for the magazine. If one
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alien visit to Earth could be proven, "It would have been the
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biggest story I had ever written. In 28 years I have yet to find
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that story."
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Aside from the elderly woman who died from exposure while
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waiting for a spaceship, belief in UFOs had been relatively
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harmless, he said. He said most UFO investigators are
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well-intentioned people, albeit many with a tendency to avoid
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obvious, earthbound explanations.
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But this abduction thing, which popped up about 1987, leaves
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mild curiosity in the dust.
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"It's a UFO abduction cult," says Klass. "This is New Age
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witchcraft."
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"Pretty Crazy" Images
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Whatever it is, belief in UFO abduction is seriously disturbing or
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moving to those who think they have been chosen or picked on by aliens.
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Like Joel and Carilee Delano. For the Choctaw couple and their two young
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daughters, it all began on a clear fall night on a South Dakota highway in
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1992 on a trip to Montana.
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That's where, the parents say, a mysterious craft that had followed them
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for miles made its close encounter and "interacted" with the family. On
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their living room wall, framed in oak, hang a half dozen enlarged glossy
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photos of what they say is the craft, or at least light from it.
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What's obvious is only a chunk of roadway, with three dots or
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squiggles of light in the darkness.
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Joel's brother called MUFON about it. MUFON suggested hypnosis.
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And, like many others, the Delanos discovered under this altered
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state that they too had been abducted.
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Those abducted often have difficulties with their marriages, as
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spouses assume they're Lost in Space without a shuttle. It helped
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lead to Seifried's divorce from a former wife.
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"I thought this is how you felt before you went into the nut
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house," Carilee Delano recalls of her first reaction to her
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husband's abduction "memory." After accepting it, the Mary Kay
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cosmetics representative began viewing the incident "like it was a
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rape."
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"This is getting into the Looney Toons area," Joel said,
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worrying about what all this sounds like.
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During four sessions of hypnosis, at $35 apiece, Joel recalled: "I felt
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a levitation up. I felt I was in a room, foggy, my legs paralyzed."
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The construction worker saw beings with large heads, thin necks and
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"large black eyes staring at me. Images, images, images," he says, gazing
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at the wall as he searches for words.
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"In my mind it really happened," he said.
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Now the Delanos feel the beings were "obviously corresponding
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with us." Although they had no specific message, Joel says since
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then he's had a lot of thoughts about evolution and creation. The
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Delanos are convinced the aliens have been back. Several times.
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"I feel we've had visitations here at the house," Joel said.
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Strange things like nightmares and flashes in the sky around
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their rural acreage provide clues, they say. That plus hypnosis
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that revealed "a being sitting beside my bed," Joel said.
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Joel, 43, also figures "I was medically altered" because dizzy
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spells and a nagging cough he used to have disappeared.
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They fear their daughters are involved in this pattern of
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experiments and visits, since they have bad dreams too. "You're
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helpless," Carilee, 33, said."Our children probably are genetically
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altered."
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Chana Sue, 9, lacing up sneakers for a basketball game, said she
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didn't know what the family saw that night in South Dakota. Her
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mother shows a crude drawing Chana Sue did of a pear-shaped craft
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with a row of windows on it.
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Carilee said that's the craft she saw in a dream. Joel said he
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saw that shape while under hypnosis.
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Asked how the figure came to her, Chana Sue explained, "That's
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always been what I thought they (UFOs) looked like."
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Joel's sister once saw an alien in her room in Tulsa and his
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mother in Arkansas saw a UFO too.
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Emily (not her real name) is another Oklahoman abducted by
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aliens. Or who believes she was.
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Married with two kids, the 36-year-old maternity nurse recalled
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being awakened by a strange red light and noises when she was 7.
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She was living in New Hampshire.
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Under hypnosis, she further remembered "floating up in a light
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with my cousin beside me." She was paralyzed, as beings in the fuzzy
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memory "apply pressure to the back of my head" and work with a long
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instrument with a ball on the end of it.
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During another hypnosis session, she remembered at age 11 waking
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to "a dark hand over my face in the middle of the night." She
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closed her eyes and prayed, shaking until it was gone. She counts a
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total of four alien abductions.
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"It's pretty crazy," she says.
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Memories or Metaphors
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Many have stirred these images with the help of Jean E. Byrne, a
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Norman nurse who works in home health care most of the time. Byrne
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also is trained in massage and hypnotherapy, studying at the American
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Institute of Hypnotherapy and at the Association of Research and
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Enlightenment.
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She said the "scariest part" of hypnotherapy on UFO cases is
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"when we work with children. They're just terrified." Kids who
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apparently have been abducted by aliens have been known to refer to
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them as "Big Boy" or "the one who comes ... at night and takes her
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to the ball in the sky."
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Dr. Vernon Enlow, Oklahoma City psychologist who uses hynposis,
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said there is a raging controversy over "created memories," ideas
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subtly planted in subjects' minds by hypnotists.
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Byrne said she is aware subjects are very receptive to suggestion. And
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these days, "there's so much of what we call contamination," that is
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reading, hearing or seeing films about aliens then thinking it happened to
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them. "You don't know how much of that is real memory," she said.
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Enlow said stories elicited under hypnosis aren't necessarily true, even
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though subjects believe them and the therapist doesn't suggest them. They
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can be "a metaphor" for something else.
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"Hypnosis is not a truth serum," he said. "Hypnotism can sometimes
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release a lot of creativity." Any therapist who encounters numerous people
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believing UFO abductions would cause him to wonder. Wonder is about all
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most people do with UFOs.
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Tom Renbarger, 42, graphic artist for the state Department of
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Transportation, said his interest in UFO stuff is more "a social
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phenomenon."
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"I think it sort of fills a need for some people to have something
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supernatural or something to believe in," he said.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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