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From WJCT Public Media in Jacksonville, this is episode five, the season finale of Oddball.

I'm Lindsay Kilbride.

We don't know what else is inside of it.

Yeah, it could be anything.

If it had really been what Harder says it was, it certainly would have made an impression.

Did it move of its own accord?

I think we have conferred that largely as a little bit of wishful thinking.

And that makes it sound like he was covering, like there was something about it, he didn't want to talk about.

Yeah, so are you insinuating, Lindsay, that my father was like some kind of UFO kleptomaniac? So you did bring up the fact that I want to talk to her.

I did. She was like, you know, Nan, I just, I just don't feel comfortable really sharing this with anyone.

One of the main reasons the Betts sphere caught so much attention in the 70s is because a lot of people,

including Jerry Betts herself, speculated the ball might have been from outer space. So as I near the end of my own inquiry into this mystery,

I'd really like to know for sure, is that even possible? A lot of people have said the ball is

definitely made on earth because it's stainless steel. Remember, like Brian Dunning from the Skeptoid podcast.

That's a common industrial steel, and it's probably not likely to be something that aliens would use,

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