S4. Case 9: The Labor Day UFO

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On 1st September 1969, multiple witnesses see lights in the sky above Massachusetts. Some of those witnesses, all of them children at the time, subsequently claim to have been abducted. What really happened that night?

Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: Nick Pope and Benjamin Radford Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Development producer: Sarah Patten Production manager: Tam Reynolds Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

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0:38.0	Hello, hello, welcome to the penultimate episode of Uncanny USA.
0:45.8	We have encountered potential poltergeist and apparitions, debated Bear versus Bigfoot, and pondered
0:52.4	that most tantalizing possibility that the dead can contact us.
0:56.6	This episode though, we are exploring something very different, an aspect of the paranormal that the American psyche has been obsessed by for decades.
1:06.6	We have ourselves a UFO.
1:11.0	There was 250 people who reported it.
1:14.0	How did you feel that others had two-nesty?
1:15.8	Well, I wasn't alone.
1:16.8	We weren't alone in what we saw.
1:19.6	We've got multiple witnesses to speak to and a case that has remained an intriguing mystery for over 50 years.
1:25.5	I was so scared, I was so frightened, I didn't know if I was going to live or die.
1:30.5	I'm Danny Robbins and this is uncanny USA. I have this thought it knocks on walls inside my mind.
1:47.0	I know what I saw.
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