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The United States' most well-known UFO investigation panels, Project Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book,
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ran from 1949 to 1969 and collected data on more than 13,000 UFO sightings.
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Of this massive body of sightings, 258 cases reported UFO sightings by ships,
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and a small percentage of these highlight unidentified submerged objects, or transmedia objects.
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Of course, as I highlighted in my last USO video, go check that out.
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1952's OpNav Directive 3820 restricted Navy UFO sightings to only be shared with Air Force
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Technical Intelligence Center, USAP Intelligence, and Director of Naval Intelligence.
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So does no wonder we are left wanting for officially reported USO.
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But what about the cases we do have? And what are the cases that don't appear in Blue Book that
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span our history our worth our time? Hey guys, it's UAPGurb, and join me as we take a closer look
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at USO sightings throughout history. From Blue Book to the modern day to Green World War I,
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let's analyze reported cases of unidentified submerged objects. And guys, today we will not
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just be sticking with the US, but analyzing global cases I find worth studying.
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As mentioned in the intro, only 2% of Blue Book cases, aka 258 reports,
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involved sea sightings of UFOs, and 13 of these reports can be classified as good,
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meeting merit standards for UFO reporting, and a handful of these cases with relevant data
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describe USO and transmedia object. Found in the annals of Blue Book indexing is a sighting that
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occurred in the North Atlantic from the ship Mark Calla on August 4th 1950. Shockingly this case
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is listed by Blue Book as unidentified, and may in fact be my favorite case I will discuss today.
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At 10pm EDT, the shipmaster, chiefmate, and third mate of the MV Mark Calla saw an unidentified
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elliptical object approach their vessel from the southwest heading northeast.
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Passing within 1000 feet of the ship, the object hovered no more than 100 feet above sea level,
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with speeds ranging from 25 to 500 miles per hour. This object was described as ovular,
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cylindrically shaped, and elliptical, like half an egg cut lengthwise.
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The object's appearance varied in testimony from shiny aluminum to metallic white.
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All three witnesses describe the object as having a rotary and wobbling motion as it passed
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closely over the ocean. This event lasted roughly a minute. We can also hop on board the
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SS City of Almaco, heading from Yokohama to LA just north of the Hawaiian Islands on November 7th,
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1959. Three witnesses onboard the craft observed a bright object streaking across the water from four
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miles north of the ship. The light emitted three flashes before submerging under the surface,
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and remember those three flashes as they'll come up later. The Almaco changed its course to investigate,
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but nothing was discovered. Bluebook labeled this case as a meteor, but while such a
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prosaic explanation might be possible, the idea of a meteor taking a low pursuit angle and
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streaking across the water for an extended time period warrants more investigation.
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And if that case is not anomalous enough for you, let's investigate near the vicinity of
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Ascension Island in the Atlantic on the 25th of June 1960. At 2334 local time, an operation
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range vessel, co-named Whiskey, was retrieving the data cassette from a missile test labeled 1802.
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The small boat was launched to recover the floating cassette, illuminated by strobes,
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and monitored from the whiskey and aircraft above. As the smaller boat got within three to 500 yards
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of the strobe, the crew observed a steady white or yellowish light, up here 100 yards from the
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cassette from under the surface and roughly 25 degrees from their boat. This light appeared to be
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on or very close to the surface, and no waves appeared to break over the light. The event lasted
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for 10 seconds and was spotted by the RCA photographer, test observer, divers of the recovery crew,
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as well as the pilot and co-pilot of the recovery plane. Bluebook claimed this sighting was a flare
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however, it was established none of the planes or vessels released a flare over this sight,
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and this story reminds me very closely of the encounter I relayed from Luella Zondo in my last
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video, where a diving team sent to retrieve missile data observed a massive USO emerged from the
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depths and intercept the missile, and speaking of rushed Bluebook conclusions we can look at the
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SS Morgantown victory on the 11th of January 1966. Near 1000 miles southeast of Tokyo, the third
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mate Helmsman and BOW look out observed a cigar-shaped object approach their ship. The cigar object
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glowed with an orange yellow color, with a bright glow on its front and a body with a dollar glow.
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The body had two lights on top and the entire craft was estimated to be 200 to 250 feet long
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and 35 to 40 feet length. The object neared the starboard side of the ship from the horizon,
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and then turned 180 degrees to avoid going over the vessel. It approached the ship within one
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mile at an elevation of far less than 400 feet. After hovering for 30 seconds, the object crossed
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in front of the ship and once again changed directions. This incident occurred for three minutes
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until the object entered the sea. The shipmaster believed a plane had crashed and ordered the ship
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to conduct a search. Bluebook identified this case as the Cosmos 33 satellite decay, however,
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this explanation does not account for the object hovering and speed and directional changes.
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If you would like to read more on ship-based UAP sightings, I highly recommend this PDF on
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Maritime UFO and USO Research in Bluebook. This stat-rich report highlights some exceptional data,
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such as the split between bluebook sightings between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Of the 258 ship-visual cases, 104 occurred in the Atlantic and 155 in the Pacific.
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This data highlights while there is an increase in Pacific sightings and possibly a hot spot.
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UFO and USO sightings are not unisolated incident on water.
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Historically, the Soviets kept a tight lid on UAP reports. In fact, Russian UFO
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stigma has been as oppressive if not more than our own here in the United States.
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One day I would like to cover the USSR UFO stigma and files at length, but that is not the topic
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of our video today because fortunately, the former Soviet Union has a trove of USO reports
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that are indeed worth investigating. I will primarily be pulling from the case log of Russia's
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USO secrets by Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, however, I will only be discussing cases that I
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find especially worthy of note and can track down additional reporting on. Many of these
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cases are just stories and we don't have direct access to Soviet declassified files like we do
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with bluebook, so I will be doing my best to vet these cases. Let's dive into a handful of the
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most interesting. On October 7th 1977, the Soviet submarine Repairship Volga was piloting the
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Barrett Sea. Its radar detected an unknown object approaching at a distance of roughly 60 miles.
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The Volga's Captain Tarantin approached the bridge to see nine bright discs moving in from
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the northeast. The discs arrived and circled the vessel for a span of 18 minutes. During the
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encounter ship Comlinx malfunctioned, similar to the major jafarie in the 1976 Tehran UFO incident.
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After the discs depart, the ship comms and operations return to normal.
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Raising concern in the Soviet Navy, fleet Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov,
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known not the liquor, issued a directive on mandatory reporting of UFO sightings by Soviet,
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hydrographic scientific research and reconnaissance ships. Similar to Janab 146c and Obnav Directive
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3820. The directive was authorized by Naval Officer and Ewhologist Vladimir G. Asaza and signed by
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Naval Deputy Chief of Staff Piotr Navojtsiv. This case was not only discussed and rushed as
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USO secrets, but also in Jacques Velay's book UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union,
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a cosmic samis dot on pages 29-30. The link to the book, free of course, will be in the video
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description, so check that out for yourself. Kym Chautka Peninsula is a fascinating region of Russia.
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The almost 500 square kilometer area separates the sea of Akhatsk from the Pacific Ocean.
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According to Russia's USO secrets and an article written by Soviet scientist,
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Valentin Salomshakov, on a bright day in August of 1970, we follow a group of hydrologists
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conducting research within a motorboat on Kym Chautka Lake. Suddenly, around a kilometer
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away from the boat, a massive dome of water shot out of the lake, in which rose a gray colored
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oval object, estimated to be 40-60 meters in length. The object rose to an altitude of nearly
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100 meters in hovered motionlessly. As it did, the motorboat engine stalled, horrified the team
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gazed at the object until it accelerated away rapidly, restoring functions to their engine.
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What fascinates me about this case is the disruption to the boat engine something we see
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Kevin Knuth discuss at the Seoul Foundation and an aspect of many UFO encounters from vehicles.
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In the same year of our Soviet submarine case of 77, is one of the strangest encounters I have heard.
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This information is relayed from the manuscripts and books of Felix Ziggle, one of Russia's
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most well-respected uphologists. On June 1577, the Soviet ship Novo Guznetzk navigated the
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Gulf of Gayaqil, Ecuador. A radiogram sent by the ship relayed at night, strained ahead of the
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vehicle. A white, luminescent sphere rose from the water. It flew around the ship,
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hovered 20 meters over the vessel, flew higher, zig-zagged, and dove back into the water.
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And with the Russians, my friends, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I'd like to leave you with
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this clip from this Russian documentary on USOs from 2006, where we see a Russian submarine captain
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in Discuss the Phenomenon. I highly recommend checking out this whole documentary and of course
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the link will be in the video description.
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But one country that has an abundance of declassified UFO slash USO government documentation
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is Australia. The Australian UFO files consist of a multitude of reports, papers, and files of
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anomalous sightings. In fact, the Royal Australian Air Force's first official unknown reported,
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UAS, unusual aerial sighting, occurred on January 23rd 1964 and describes, quote,
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seen at sea by crew of a vessel northeast point of Groot Island, Western Australia.
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Large lights and water made compass go haywire. Shadow in center of lights rotated clockwise,
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causing lights to pulsate. The tampering of instrumentation is something we see again and again,
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pop up in UFO USO encounters and certainly not missed by Australia, a report was drafted on
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magnetic disturbance and local compass activity from the sighting. Around this time in the 50s and 60s,
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the Australian authorities began to take USO and UFO sightings seriously. See these newspaper
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clippings of civilian UAP encounters near water, clipped and included alongside government and
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military encounters. Such as this 1963 clipping, about a fisherman observing a light shoot up from
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the water, hover and disappear. Australian intelligence agencies actually tracked reports of Australian
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encounters very similar to both the fisherman encounter and our 1977 Soviet encounter.
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This 1967 incident details a sighting in which both staff from the Department of Works
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and local Aussies observed lights pop up from out of the sea, rise to a great height,
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curve and return to the oceans. Many of these sightings were accompanied by three distinct
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flashes once returned to sea. Remember back to our SS City of Almaco case in Project Blue Book.
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It is worthy to note that Lieutenant Commander of Australian Intelligence AF Perry hypothesized
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these could possibly be experiments conducted by several oil search teams. However, this does not
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seem consistent as this sort of sighting has been seen by Australia, the Soviets, and Americans.
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Outside of the Australian government, the citizens of the landowner have some fascinating stories
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of USOs, especially regarding objects shooting out of the sea and performing intelligently controlled
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maneuvers. In 1947, Port Augusta, South Australia, Frederick Walter and Emma Flavall observed five
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gray oblong objects, rise from the sea and move from northwest to southeast. This sighting was
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also observed by two railroad workers who described five white or light pink egg-shaped objects,
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rise from the sea but with the added detail of quivering, similar to our MV Marcola case mentioned
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earlier in the video. Sagar's shapes have been seen in our skies and oceans throughout world
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and Australian history. Around the time the Australian government began taking UAP seriously,
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we can find a case that appeared in the July to August issue of Flying Salsa Review,
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1966-67. Private pilot C Adams and television cameraman Mr. Les Hendy reported seeing four
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or five mysterious objects three miles east of Fraser Island. Approaching the objects from the
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sky, there appeared to be two dark colored cigars, narrow, and up to 100 feet long accompanied by
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three smaller objects. The two noticed the object standing still in the water and started to submerge
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as the aircraft approached within two miles. Initially thought to be whales or submarines,
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the men and independent sightings from nearby SeaBray Hotel observed that the objects did not
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disturb the surface when submerging. Almost like they did not interact with the water,
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this interaction with fluid is extremely similar to the HMNZS Southland case,
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Knuth describes it the sole foundation which oddly enough occurred near New Zealand.
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We all know of the famous alleged UFO encounter by explorer Christopher Columbus,
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where he and his crew saw what they described as a wax candle, rising and falling in the middle of
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the ocean and the middle of the night. But I don't have enough evidence or resources to talk about
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this case. What I do want to talk about are two cases that occurred around the turn of the 20th
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century that are documented by the US hydrographic Bureau. On November 12, 1887, Captain RF
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more of the English steamer the SS Siberian encountered a USO 10 nautical miles off Cape
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Race, Newfoundland. The captain observed an enormous fireball. Rise from the sea to 50 feet,
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moving towards the craft then speed away into the sky. At the time the hydrographic Bureau in
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Washington named it, quote, one of the most rare and most difficult to explain electrical phenomena.
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But as far as I know I have not seen any cases of ball lightning exiting the sea.
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In Africa the Gulf of Guinea 1902, four men aboard the ship the Fort Salisbury witnessed
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any men's objects sinking into the ocean. The cigar shaped object measured nearly 200 meters
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long and 300 meters wide. As the object passed under the ship the men on the vessel described two
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orange lights lit at the front and two blue green lights shining at the other end. This case in my
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opinion could represent a submarine. However, seen as popular submarines at this time such as the
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early German U-boat measured solely 41 meters long, I still find this case anomalous.
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And now we get to an anomalous and perplexing USO called the Maritime Lightwheel.
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Throughout the late 19th and early 20th century there was a hot spot of peculiar phenomena
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observed by sailors all over the eastern hemisphere. And it's worthy to note this just wasn't an
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isolated incident. In fact, the Maritime Lightwheel is reported on in that Russian USO documentary I
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mentioned earlier. We had information about what was in the ocean in the seas of our inner
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seas. In the case of some foreign waves connected with the lighting of the water.
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October 1969, the Arab Sea. The Soviet Union's command of the Soviet
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vessel Vladimir Vorobyev did not expect a sudden fear. The devices were shown to be
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häritted soaked in 27 meters in relation to theona project. We assumed a
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zag of cracker touhsite hitting very dense fields.
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But the crew of the Querky Lake emerged as a little wave.
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Does the river show its resistance?
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No, the captain said, the catch transport occurred.
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They said that if they would do something they would die,
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Long time ago a map of the ocean hasn't Destroyed the sun.
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What was it? The question remained without answer.
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The sea was not exactly looking at the light of the wheels,
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which our famous construction worker Krolov called the underwater Prizes.
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The size of the wheels is sometimes huge, up to several kilometers.
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And many times they see even from space.
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They are not rarely moved much faster,
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but the brightness of the light on the surface is the fact that it is a bit visible on the clouds.
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What is it? Without the light of the micr-organisms?
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But as explained by the amazing symmetry of the huge speed of rotation of the light wheels,
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the rays of the wheels on the surface of the sea with the speed of the racing car.
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The micr-organisms can't move so quickly.
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The wheels are not rarely shown that there are no even traces of the light of the plant.
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As described in the documentary in many cases,
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the maritime light wheel is described as a wheel surrounded by spokes of brilliant white light.
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That can appear below the water surface or hovering in the air,
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serving as a possibly trans-medium craft.
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I must note also as they talked about in the video,
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some attribute these USO wheels to a rare interaction between bioluminescent algae
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and pressure waves in an otherwise calm water.
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However, I do not think this explanation has any sort of consensus or full acceptance.
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But let's review the earliest sightings of these wheels.
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And mind you, there are many, many, many more sightings of the maritime light wheel that have been observed,
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but I just want to recount a few of the earliest.
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On March 27, 1873, the ship Adelhyde, void from LeBond to Singapore.
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Captain LeBman noticed a peculiar blinding milky white light.
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Appeared beneath the waves about two ship lengths from the vessel,
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emitting waves of light described as,
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quote, flakes of snow when driven over the rocks by a strong wind.
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The light followed the ship traveling up four to five knots for roughly half an hour before slowly disappearing.
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LeBman stated he had not seen anything like this in his 26 years of maritime life.
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We can find the description of this case in the National Library of Australia,
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mentioned in an 1873 news article in the Argus.
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An almost USO flap was experienced in the Persian Gulf from 1879 to 1901.
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An initial USO sighting was reported to the Admiralty by Captain Evans,
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a hydrographer for the British Navy on May 15, 1879.
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J.E. Pringle of the HMS Vulture reported, quote,
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luminous waves or pulsations in the water,
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moving at great speed, end quote, passing under the vulture.
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It was at this time Pringle noticed two objects to the east and west,
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what appeared to be, quote, revolving wheels with a center on that bearing
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and whose spokes were illuminated, end quote.
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Worthy to note, these two wheels were rotating in equal and opposite directions,
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and the spokes were about 25 feet in length.
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It is unclear if these wheels were submerged into the water
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as the language of this 19th century English gets a little tricky here.
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The second instance in the Persian Gulf occurred in May of 1880
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from the British India Company steamer Patna.
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Captain Avern, Mr. Manning III officer, and others observed two enormous luminous wheels
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appear on each side of the ship near 1130 pm.
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The wheels were, quote, whirling around,
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the spokes of which seemed to brush along the ship.
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The spokes would be 200 to 300 yards long,
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and resembled the birch rods of the Dame School.
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Each wheel contained about 16 spokes, and although the wheels must have been
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some 5 to 600 yards in diameter, the spokes would be distinctly seen all the way around, end quote.
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The men described the appearance of the spokes could almost be represented
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by standing in a boat and flashing a bull's eyes lantern horizontally
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along the surface of the water, round and round.
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The final Persian encounter with this USO was observed on April 4th, 1901,
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where Captain Hoseyne of the steamship Kila encountered, quote,
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vast shafts of light suddenly appeared, shaft followed shaft upon the surface of the sea,
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but it was only a faint light and in about 15 minutes died out,
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having appeared suddenly and having died out gradually.
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These shafts revolved at a velocity of about 60 miles an hour.
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From earlier the year of 1880 I just mentioned,
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this wheel-like object was possibly seen off the Malabar coast of India,
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on January 5th by Commander of the SS, Shahjihan.
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Ari Harris describes a clear night over calm waters, star shining bright and no moon present.
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At roughly 10pm Harris in the shifts 3rd officer noticed a milky white circle in the sky,
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resembling, quote, the nebulae sometimes seen in the heavens.
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Approaching the object, the sailors stopped the vessel to try and gain an understanding
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of this anomalous object and its waves of light.
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The last old example here I will cover occurred on the 10th of June 1909
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and was actually featured in Scientific American, issue 106-51,
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which relays the nautical meteorological annual,
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published by the Danish Meteorological Institute, a report on a, quote, singular phenomena.
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While sailing through the streets of Malaka,
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Captain Gabe of the SS Bin Tang observed a vast revolving wheel of light
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under the water, quote, long arms issuing from a center around which the whole system appeared to rotate.
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Surfacing, this wheel was so vast, only half of it could be seen at a time,
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with the center laying near the horizon.
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The wheel was able to move forward in very in speed and rotation,
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disappearing when the center was right under the vessel.
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And like our last 1880 case, these maritime lightwheels aren't just seen below the water.
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In the same Danish Meteorological Institute,
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the report's another instance in 1910,
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where Captain Breyer of the Dutch steamship Valenschen was sailing in the South China Sea.
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Here, the Captain, first and second mate,
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and the first engineer all observed an object hovering above the water, quote,
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it looked like a horizontal wheel, rapidly turning.
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My friends, thank you so much for watching today,
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as we took a deeper dive into USO's throughout history.
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Please excuse the rash guard I'm wearing, I just got home from training,
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but Fallenks if you're watching, I'm always open for a sponsor.
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But anyways guys, I got such a great reaction to my first video on USO,
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I had to make a follow up and show that it doesn't matter what time period we're in,
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it doesn't matter what country we're in, there are stories of unexplained things in the water.
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As far as the maritime lightwheel goes, I'm pretty torn on that,
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whether that is a craft object or possibly some sort of more anomalous, natural phenomena.
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I'll include in the video description a kind of not really debunk, but a paper,
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kind of possibly exploring explanations for this phenomena,
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but still the fact these are seen in the Persian Gulf in Russia,
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all around the world is fascinating to me,
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but even more fascinating to me are Australian, Blue Book, and Soviet files.
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All depicting very similar experiences, tick-tax-shaped craft slash cigars,
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fireballs exiting the water,
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fireballs exiting the water that are almost curious about the ship.
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Egg shapes leaving the water that frightens the Soviet hydrologists,
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but we see multiple cases of these sort of lightballs leaving the water dancing around
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and shooting off into the sky or back into the water.
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As far as the tick-tax go, we often see these things hovering slightly above water
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in multiple cases, saying they're quivering or gyrating,
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or slowly submerging under the water, but not affecting the water surface
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similar to the case Kevin Knuth talks about.
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So I think we can find a lot of answers to the UFO phenomena by looking in our oceans.
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There's so many more cases, so many I wanted to talk about,
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but couldn't really find reputable sources for such as some Chilean incidents
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that supposedly in the military a fleet of saucers approached a craft.
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But until then we'll just keep digging in case files.
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It's a shame that there's not a lot of information at Blue Book.
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We can thank OpNav 3820 and Janop 146C for that,
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but we'll work with what we're given.
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If one day I can get in contact with George Napp and see if any of those UFO files
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he smuggled out of Russia pertained to the USO.
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I would very much like to do that, but where I stand now,
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USO is one of the most fascinating aspects of the phenomenon.
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The fact these craft can operate in air or under sea,
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transmittium objects without really changing their flight characteristics is insane to me.
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So if you guys haven't yet watched that Russian documentary,
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it's actually really darn good.
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I highly suggest watching it.
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It does a great job exploring the Soviet side of the USO.
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And of course you get to listen to someone talking to Russian accent for 45 minutes.
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As always guys, thank you so much for watching.
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I've seen a lot of added support with the channel lately with the Kingman video
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and getting retweeted by Ross.
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So that's been great.
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I love all of you guys.
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Thanks so much for being here.
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Remember to like and retweet.
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Leave a comment on the video.
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Let me know what you think.
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Let me know what cases, crashes, whatever you want me to tackle next.
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That has to do with the phenomenon, of course.
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So just let me know.
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And again, thanks for being here guys.
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I'll catch you on the next video.
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