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Which lines of the following story demonstrate Woofitt's fact-construction criteria for reporting paranormal events? Types of criteria include 1) sequential organization of discourse, 2) X/Y

Which lines of the following story demonstrate Woofitt's fact-construction criteria for reporting paranormal events? Types of criteria include 1) sequential organization of discourse, 2) X/Y format, and 3) active voices. What are these elements achieving?

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Extract 3 UFO 1 Um::, (2.0) i:t wasn't- okay the first bit wasn't really an 2 abduction it was a it was just a (1.0) well I saw it (.)a I saw a 3 UFO 0or whatever spaceship or whatever you wanna call it0 4 and err it was when I was living in South Africa 5 and I guess at the time I 0was about thirteen or something like 6 that0(.) and em(.)I was at boarding school (.) and err (1.5) 7 it was qui- it was dark so I mean it was 8 it was probably(.) it was probably urr about half past 9 eight in the evening(.) and I was walking acr- like down the sports 10 track (.) listening to my walkman just I don't know what I was 11 doing but I was just listening to my walkman and whatever else kinda 12 thing0 I was just walking down the sports track (.) and err (.) 13 basically in my school there was a big hall and on top of the hall 14 was a big clock to:wer (1.5) and err (.) so I was walking (.) 15 walking towards that (.) 0part of the school0 16 an:d then something just caught my eye (.) and (.) I looked up 17 (1.0) and err (0.5) what I saw I cou- I couldn't really see an 18 outline (0.2) but um: it was just some:thing (.) floatin in the air 19 (1.0) and (.) it's what I believed to be (.) a UFO. 20 and it was (1.0) li:ke it had lights going around it 21 in err sort of err (.) circular pattern (1.0) 22 (it sorta haa haa had I dunno0) lots of lights they were 23 (1.0) blue green and yellow these lights flashing around the 24 outside of it (0.5) and err it came down (.) out of these clouds by 25 the >0clock tower it came down0< like really slowly (1.0) 26 and then it just hovered there for like (.) I don't know (1.5) 27 two or three (.) and then (.) like jus 28 quicker then you could think anything could move (.) 29 >it was gone (.) woof it was 0gone0< (0.8) 30 and err I sh::at my pants. (1.0) and (.) i:t (.) was (.) 31 probably one of the scariest things I have ever seen 32 >in my life because< (.) you are scared of things (.) 33 you don't (.) know what they are (.) and (0.5) it it can't be 34 explained >well I don't think it can be explained by anything other 35 than< (0.5) a UFO cause it moved (.) the way it moved was just 36 (0.5) not (.) like anything (1.5) that has been (.) made before and 37 it was really freaky (1.0) and it was (.) really scary. (.) and 38 after that I really (0.5) 39 I I now really do believe (0.5) that err (.) there are beings from 40 another planet or whatever aliens.

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