Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar.

Join Zilia as she walks us through some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness.

Malvin Stevens, a truck driver for the Cook Truck Line, was on the road from Memphis, Tennessee to Meridian,

Mississippi. Suddenly, up ahead on the road, he saw a large silver egg-shaped object.

Thinking that it must be a weather balloon blocking his path, he stopped the truck and got out of the vehicle,

only to be met by three strange men coming out of the object.

Today, we are going to be discussing the fascinating case of the Meridian Flying Machine.

This case involved a 48-year-old truck driver by the name of Malvin Stevens from Dyersburg, Tennessee,

and occurred on November 7, 1957.

He was about 15 miles northwest of Meridian, Mississippi, coming from Memphis, Tennessee,

when he saw what he first thought was a weather balloon.

He very shortly realized it was not.

Now, here we have the fantastic inversion of the narrative where someone did not think a weather

balloon was a UFO, but rather that a UFO was a weather balloon. And I love that.

Anyway, this, you know, quote-unquote weather balloon was a large silvery egg-shaped object that was

blocking the road up ahead of Mr. Stevens. He said that it stood about five feet tall and 24 feet

long. He stopped his truck about 20 feet away, got out to investigate,

and noticed that this weather balloon was equipped with three single blade propellers, one on

each end and then one on the top. Now, no sooner did he kind of go up to it and start investigating.

Did three little men get out of the object? Stevens claimed that these entities stood about four and a half feet tall,

were wearing gray suits, and had pasty white faces and jet black hair.

He said that they approached him, appearing friendly and as though they wanted to talk,

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