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SUBJECT: WHY NOT TO REPORT A UFO FILE: UFO2564
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* Subj: WHY NOT TO REPORT A UFO - A CLASSIC CASE REVISITED
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* Forwarded from "INFO.PARANET"
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* Originally by Dale Wedge
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* Originally dated 12 Aug 1993, 14:07
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All of these articles are from the mid 1960's, but have relevance
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in today's society. This is a classic case as to why you should
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not report a UFO sighting.
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These articles show what can happen to people that report
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UFOs. It would make one think twice before reporting a
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UFO, because it can have ramifications on your job and
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life in general.
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The below articles are one of many that occurred in Ohio.
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Other classic cases include the Mansfield, Ohio helicopter
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event with Coyne, which was investigated by Zeidman.
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Monday, April 18, 1966, Pg.
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14:
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OHIO DEPUTIES CHASE, LOSE BRILLIANT UFO
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by Douglas Bloomfield
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Portage County Bureau
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RAVENNA--Hundreds of persons in two states reported
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seeing a "brilliant and shiny" object over eastern Ohio
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early yesterday. Two Portage County deputies chased it 86
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miles.
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Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur said he and
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his partner, Deputy Sheriff W.H. Neff played tag with the
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mysterious object from 5 a.m. near Ravenna to 6:30 a.m. on
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the outskirts of Pittsburgh.
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Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua saw the object
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and photographed it in front of his home. He showed a print
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of his picture to the Plain Dealer but said the Air Force
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told him not to release it or permit photographs to be
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taken.
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BUCHERT DESCRIBED it as "round when I looked straight
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up at it, but when it moved to the left--I feel like an
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idiot saying this--it looked like a saucer, like two table
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saucers put together."
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The photograph showed an object with a very dark
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bottom and a very light top. Each half seemed to resemble a
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saucer seen from the side. The lighter top "saucer" was
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upside down.
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Spaur described the object as about 40 feet wide and
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18 feet high. He said he clocked it at speeds up to 103 mph
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as they chased it from Randolph Township to Conway, Pa.
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A BRILLIANT beam of light from the object lit the
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area. Spaur said, "It was so bright, even with the sun
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coming out, it stood out. Its lines were very distinct," he
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said as he used the bell of a flashlight to describe the
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object.
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"We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,"
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he told the Plain Dealer. "I know nobody's going to believe
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it but its true." Spaur said all his former doubts about
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UFOs were removed.
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"Somebody had control over it. It wasn't just an object
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floating around. It can maneuver. The only sound
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was a steady, faint humming like an electrical transformer
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when we first spotted it," he said. The sound was inaudible
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as the deputies chased the object, they added.
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AT CONWAY, PA., Spaur said the object began hovering
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and was "going for altitude, straight up." After watching
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for about 20 minutes, he and the others went inside the
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police station to telephone U.S. Air Force officials he
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said, and when they came back outside the object was
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gone.
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The Federal Aviation Agency's Air Traffic Control
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Centers at Oberlin and Pittsburgh said they spotted no
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unknown objects on their radar early yesterday.
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, October 9, 1966, Pg. 8-
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A:
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HE CHASED A FLYING SAUCER, NOW HIS LIFE IS SHATTERED
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by John De Groot
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RAVENNA (AP)--In his world of loneliness and twisted
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nightmares, Dale Spaur wonders if the nightmare will ever
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end.
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It began six months ago with "Seven Steps to Hell"
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and ended with a flying saucer named Floyd.
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In the predawn hours of a gentle April morning,
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Portage County Sheriff's Deputy Spaur chased a flying saucer
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86 miles.
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NOW THE STRANGE craft is chasing him. And he is
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hiding from it, a bearded stranger peering past the limp
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curtains of a tiny motel room in Solon.
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He no longer is a deputy sheriff.
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His marriage is shattered.
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He has lost 40 pounds.
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He lives on one bowl of cereal and a sandwich each
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day.
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He walks three miles to an $80-a-week painters job.
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His motel room costs $60 a week. The court has ordered him
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to pay his wife $20 a week for the support of his two
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children.
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That leaves Dale Spaur exactly nothing.
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THE FLYING saucer did it.
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"If I could change all that I have done in my life,"
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he said, "I would change just one thing. And that would be
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the night we chased that damn thing. That saucer."
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He spit the word out, "Saucer." An obscenity.
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Others might understand.
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Four other officers took part in the April 17 [1966]
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drama.
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Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua saw the craft
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and photographed it. The pictures turned out badly, an odd
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fuzzy white thing suspended in blackness. Today, Chief
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Buchert laughs nervously when he speaks of that night.
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"I'D RATHER NOT talk about it," he says. "It's
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something that should be forgotten...left alone. I saw
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something, but I don't know what it was."
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Special Deputy W.L. Neff rode with Spaur during the
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chase.
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He won't talk about it.
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His wife Jackelyne explains, "I hope I never see him
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like he was after the chase. He was real white, almost in a
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state of shock. It was awful."
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"And people made fun of him afterwards. He never
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talks about it anymore. Once he told me, 'If that thing
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landed in my back yard, I wouldn't tell a soul.' He's been
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through a wringer."
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PATROLMAN Frank Panzenella saw the chase end in
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Conway, Pa., where he works. He saw the craft.
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Now he is silent. Friends say he had his telephone
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removed because of calls about that April morning.
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H. Wayne Huston was a police officer in East
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Palestine, O. He had worked there seven years. Several
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months after the saucer passed above him in the night, he
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resigned...going to Seattle Wash., to drive a bus.
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Huston now goes by Harold W. Huston. He tells you,"
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Sure I quit because of that thing. People laughed at me.
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And there was pressure...You couldn't put your finger on it,
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but the pressure was there.
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The city officials didn't like police officers
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chasing flying saucers."
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SPAUR AND HUSTON have turned in their badges.
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Now Spaur hides in Solon, a fugitive from a flying
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saucer named Floyd. He cannot escape the strange craft.
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Spaur and Neff were checking on a car parked
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alongside U.S. 224 between Randolph and Atwater. The car
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was filled with radio equipment and had a strange emblem
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painted on its side, a triangle with a bolt of lightning
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inside it. Above the emblem was written, "Seven Steps to
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Hell."
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Behind them they heard a strange humming noise and
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turning, said they saw a huge saucer shaped craft rise out
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of a woods and hover above them, bathing them in a warm
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white light.
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Then it moved off.
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LEAVING THE mystery car behind, never to be seen
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again, the two deputies hopped into their cruiser and chased
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the object, sometimes at speeds of more than 100 miles an
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hour. The chase finally ended when the cruiser ran out of
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gas near Pittsburgh. They said the craft they chased was
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about 50 feet across and 15 to 20 feet high with a large
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dome on its top and an antenna jutted out from the rear of
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the dome.
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After the chase, Spaur's daily routine was washed
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away in a sea of reporters, television cameramen, Air Force
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investigators, government officials, strange letters from
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places like Little Rock, Ark. and Australia that told him
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what to do if "the little green men" tried to contact
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him.
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"MY ENTIRE LIFE came crashing down around my
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shoulders," he said.
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"Everything changed. I still don't really know what
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happened. But suddenly, it was as though everybody owned
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me. And I no longer had anything for myself. My wife, my
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home, my children. They all seemed to fade away."
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Spaur's wife Daneise now is alone with her two
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children.
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She has filed for divorce and is working as a
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waitress in a bar at Ravenna.
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"Something happened to Dale, but I don't know what it
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was," she says. He came home that day and I never saw him
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more frightened before. He acted strange, listless. He
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just sat around. He was very pale."
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"THEN LATER, he got real nervous. And he started to
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run away. He'd just disappear for days and days. I
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wouldn't see him."
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"Our marriage fell apart. All sorts of people came
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to the house. Investigators. Reporters. They kept him up
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all night. They kept after him, hounding him. They hounded
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him right into the ground."
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"And he changed."
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Then one night, Dale came home very late. He isn't
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sure what happened. He walked into the living room. There
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were some other people there. Things were very tense. Very
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confused.
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HE GRABBED his wife and shook her. Hard. He kept
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shaking her. It left big ugly bruises on her arms.
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He doesn't know how or why...
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That was the end of July. Daneise filed assault and
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battery charges. Dale was jailed and turned in his badge.
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A newspaper printed a story about the deputy who
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chased the flying saucer being jailed for beating his
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wife.
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When he got out of jail, Dale ran...left town, turned
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his back on everything.
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BUT THE SAUCER followed him, locked in his dreams.
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In Ravenna, Daneise can only say, "Dale is a lost
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soul.
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And everything is finished for us."
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In Solon, Dale said, "I have become a freak. I'm so
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damn lonely. Look at me...34 years old and what do I have?
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Nothing."
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"Who knows me? To everyone I'm Dale Spaur, the nut
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who chased a flying saucer. My father called me several
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weeks ago.
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A long time ago we had a fight. I hadn't heard from
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him for years. Then he calls me."
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"DO YOU THINK he called to ask how I was...To say 'I
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love you, son...To see if I wanted to go fishing, or
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something?
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Hell, no. He wanted to know if I'd seen any more
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flying saucers."
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"I tried to go to church for help. I went to church
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and the minister introduced me to the congregation. 'We
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have the man who chased a flying saucer with us today,' he
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said."
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Dale Spaur wept as he told what the flying saucer
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named Floyd had done to him.
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He calls it Floyd because he saw it once more while
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he was still working for the sheriff's department.
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THE RADIO operators knew civilians were monitoring
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their broadcasts. So they agreed to use a code name if the
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flying saucer was seen again. They called it Floyd...Dale
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Spaur's middle name.
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Dale was driving east on Interstate 80-S one night in
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June [1966]. He looked up. There it was.
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"Floyd's here with me," he whispered into the
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radio.
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Then he parked the car and sat there, alone. This time
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Barney Neff was not with him. Dale did not look out
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the window. He lit a cigarette and stared at the floor of
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the cruiser. He sat there for nearly 15 minutes...not
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looking outside, not wanting to see Floyd.
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WHEN HE LOOKED up, Floyd had disappeared.
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Yet it still follows him.
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And it has ruined his life.
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This he believes.
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