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The What If? Podcast

Uncle Rob's Alien Story Time - Pt. 3

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Pancakes and space penguins! We're back with another episode of Uncle Rob's Alien Story Time. 

Check out Rob Kristofferson's podcasts, Our Strange Skies and The Coda

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey friends, Spencer here.

0:09.6

We are back with another episode of Uncle Rob's Alien Storytime.

0:14.9

This is part three.

0:16.8

And this week, Rob is going to take us through space pancakes and space penguins.

0:31.2

The morning of April 18, 1961, was ordinary by most standards for 60-year-old Joe Simonton. He was a chicken farmer by trade,

0:41.8

about to sit down for brunch at 11 a.m. when a strange sound caught his attention. It sounded

0:49.0

like knobby tires on wet pavement. The farmer didn't hesitate to go out and look around, and, well, let's let Joe describe

0:59.2

what happened next.

1:01.0

This is a clip from a 1961 interview with Joe Simonton.

1:07.9

Where do you meet someone from outer space?

1:11.0

Perhaps in the North Woods?

1:13.5

Joe Simonton of Eagle River, Wisconsin, spends a yarn about an April morning in 1961.

1:19.7

A morning when he says he came face to face with another world.

1:24.6

Right here is where this flying saucer that UFO landed. Right here is where this flying saucer, this UFO, landed.

1:29.3

Right here about where I'm standing.

1:31.8

And it was a big huge thing, and I wondered what the heck it was.

1:36.8

I was in my kitchen having a bite of lunch, and I turned around, put the dishes in the sink,

1:43.6

and I looked out the window and

1:45.5

that's when I first saw this thing coming straight down, just like an elevator.

1:50.6

And first I thought the roof went off in my house and I thought, no, the roof is green

1:55.5

and this is bright, what the heck is it?

1:57.4

So I riced out to see what it was and by that time there was a hatchway opening up in the top of it, just like the trunk

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