UFO Newsclipping Service 1992 04 no 273

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APRIL 1992 NUMBER 273
CHRONICLE, San Francisco, CA- March 17, 1992 CR: K. Hennesey
A Scholarly Look at UFOs
BY SAM WHITING People who say they deda t6a0 fsiunbajlelyc tsl eudn dheimr h ytop ncoosnisc. lTuhdee
CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER there is either some truth to their
were abducted all
J on Rock has not yet read the claims or one heck of an intricate
new book "Secret Life: First tell the same story, practical joke has been foisted up
hand Accounts of UFO Abduc on the good professor.
tions," but he already knows a professor says. "Everybody is saying the same
what's in it. thing over and over with monoto
"What's amazing is the consis nous regularity," he says. If it isn't
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details are the same." before the tenure committee. "But Jon Rock's first abduction -
This is corroborated by the au as a historian, you must go where not chronicled in Jacobs' book, but
thor, David Jacobs, Ph.D, a profes the evidence leads you even similar to those that are - occur
sor of 20th century American his though you kick and scream en red 16 years ago, on one of those
tory at Temple University, who route." sweltering summer nights in
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''This field is loaded with crack ly skepticism. For "Secret Life" (Si His parents were out, and he has been 'overwhelmed' by the stories of other
pots and idiots. I'm embarrassed to mon & Schuster, $21) he interview- abductees that parallel his own.
was finishing a drawing. He heard
mental aberration, then it will re
an electrical hissing sound, and 'I think they know
vise the way in which we think
took it for the water pump gone
haywire. When he went outside to where I am, but I about how people think."
investigate, the noise surrounded The big question is what the
don't·think they're
him, as if every bug in the swamp Temple University faculty makes
were being zapped·at once. It was a interested in me.' of Jacobs, 17 years in the depart
clear night, but hovering above ment. "They look upon me as a reg
was a low, flat cloud shrouding an -JON ROCK ular fellow," he says, "who also
illuminated disc the size of a large happens to be a devotee of a very
full moon, pistachio green. Once off the table they are tak strange religion."
"Of course, I was pr.etty as en to another room for a mental
tounded," he says. "I just stood exam where an inspector stands
there staring at it." very close and stares into their
Following telepathic orders, he eyes, then to another room filled
walked toward a clearing on the with hybrid babies. Each must Public Invited To Meetings
edge of some trees, and heard a hold a baby, which are reported to ~
deep voice calling his name. That be neither very attractive nor hap 0'1
was enough. py with the arrangement. Local UFO sightings for 1991 were
"I wanted no part of it," he Professor David Jacobs believes Then the prisoners are return 0 recorded by '{he Pensacola/Gulf Breeze
says, and was hurrying back to people whe claim they were ed home, with several hours not N Mutual UFO (MUFON) chapter at 100.
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looking down at what once was his has been seen when they said an ings occurred that have not been docu·
normal existence. and from what he has heard, he abduction took place." r:;: mented.
Sometime later that night he wouldn't be surprised at even that. The local chapter meets three to four
was dropped into some bushes by The standard hypnotic testimo A lay Are• Visit ~ times a week at the Gulf Breeze side of
his house. He made it into his bed ny is of people being nabbed while ~ the Pensacola/Gulf Breeze bridge near
in "a real spent state," and slept alone, walking, sleeping or driving Rock was visited several more ~ the boat ramp and/or Shoreline Park.
until the next morning when the a car. times that summer, for what he ~ If you are interested in seeing how the
mirror reflected a face caked with "If you're in the stands of the presumes was maintenance on the ,..., professionals work, and maybe see a
blood. Then he remembered the Super Bowl," he promises, "the implant. He then decided reloca J UFO, come to either of these locations
BB pellet at the business end of a chances of being abducted are tion might be in order, and moved from 6 p.m. on and you might get
long needle of light, being inserted small." to Spain, then San Francisco. ...:I lucky. As the old fisherman siad, "You
up his nostril. One man in the book was pluck Four years ago, the aliens came Ill wanta catch fish, you gotta go where
"It was the implant," he says. ed off his wife while in the course again, fetching him out to the bun· E:: they is."
"That's how my nose got bloody." of making love, but this is thank kers at the Marin Headlands, ~ A daylight sighting, reported in the
The nasal implant, it turns out, fully the exception. where the implant was removed, cn Sentinel, occurred at the K·Mart shop-
is one of the details recalled by The aliens are usually de he thinks. Or hopes. All he knows ping center off Highway 98. The llirge
most of Jacobs' subjects. scribed as small, frail, thin beings for sure is he hasn't had any trou. UFO was about 64 feet wide and 40
Rock never said a word about it with huge heads, no hair, ears or ble since. feet long. A smaller one accompanied
to anyone until12 years later when noses, and a small slit-like mouth. "I think they know where I the larger, and they were seen by an
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rig. If Rock's story pans out, Jacobs
"I was so overwhelmed that I subject, know someone who saw one,
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noses. It gave me emotional proof group of small beings converge for childhood that continue to old monthly meetings held at the Unity
that my experience had happen a basic physical, which involves age." Church between Garden and Cervantes
ed." running their fingers over people Perhaps that's when people on 9th at 7 p.m. every second Tuesday
as if playing a piano, one woman of every month. We welcome every
will start believing it, though Rock
Scholarly Approach reported. The subjects are flipped is not entirely convinced himself. body and hope that you will make it a
over, and thumbs and forefingers date. You are promised a very inter
What makes Jacobs' book are run down and up their spine. "I won't even say they're extra esting evening. You will also get a
unique is his scholarly approach. Then they are flipped again for sex terrestrials," he says. "I just call it chance to pick up some material, and
"In my world view," he says, "if testing, before the implant is ad· an unknown phenomenon. That's if you join the chapter, a library full of
somebody says they flew with an ministered. "They all say this," he what it is."
books. magazines, articles and other
gels, they have to convince me." says, "all of them," and many, like "I think these people are de materials are available on a loan basis
He is now fairly convinced of at Rock, are returned with the nose scribing as best they can objective without charge.
least the flying if not the angels, bleeds to prove it. reality," Jacobs says. "If this is a Joe Barr011
OZARK ADVERTISER, Mountain Home, AR - March 18, 1992 CR: L. Willett
New UFO study group formed in north Arkansas
Ongoing sightings of lights, crafts in six-county area warrant further investigation
By Ray Dean Davis lights and crafts flying sound They weren't frightened, but unable to get near the craft, "'Ozark UFO Network," held at
Editor lessly over the area. One upon their arrival home the which always takes off in a NACC in Harrison.
object, described as "looking woman realizes that, though direction bearing "50 degrees Approximately 100 people of
Mountain Home, Ark., like a flying wing with lights the drive would normally take west of north." various ages turned out for the
March 11, 1992, 10'.30 p.m.-7 A lining its front," is said to be as 15 minutes or less, an hour has Southeast Pennsylvania, meeting. Many of them had
veteran policeman and another large as an aircraft carrier. passed since they saw the 1926--A six-year-old boy sees a personal experiences related to
witness watch a large, uniden A witness tells of watching a lights. She can't explain why. large, flying craft with "flames the subject, though some were
tified, lighted craft fly noise jet-- from which branch of the Yellville, Ark., 1977 to coming out the back" circling understandably reluctant to
lessly across the city's night military is unknown-- appar present--A former Army heli an area near his family's home. stand before the crowd and tell
ime sky. ently try to intercept one of the copter pilot and some of his Now a re!>ident of Arkansas, them.
The officer estimates the lights. It was unable to, accord neighbors see "dancing" lights the man recently saw a news (Eds. note: Those who did
object was "bigger than a ing to the witness, as the light and a strange craft over the paper story saying there had speak gave their names and
house" and flying at an alti "kept going off, then reappear woods near their rural homes, been reports of such a craft in told where they lived, but, to
tude of about 800 feet. (Below ing somewhere else. When the five miles from town. that same area. Also, hundreds protect their privacy, that
the FAA's legal minimum for jet would go that way, the Appearance of the objects of homes there have been information will not be includ
flying above a residential same thing would happen seems to cause a stir among found to contain high levels of ed here.)
area.) again." dogs in the vicinity. radioactivity.
The craft had four square, Harrison, Ark., January, When approached, the red, Also addressing the group
unblinking lights on its unde1' 1992--A young woman and her white and pale blue lights These were just a few of the was Lawrence Willett of Moun
carriage, and went from hori daughter are hurrying home back up and maneuver as if to experiences shared Friday tain Home, former pilot and
zon to horizon in about seven after driving the woman's purposely avoid contact. If a evening, March 13, at the first one-time Flippin Airport man
seconds. nephew home from a late ball strong light is shined on them, discussion/meeting of what is ager, now State Section Direc
Marshall, Ark., 1981 to game. They notice strange they seem to have no sub tentatively being called the tor/Investigator for the Mutual
p~- Dozens of residents lights in the sky near-- and stance. UFO Network (MUFON).
continue to report strange just above--their car. The residents have been
A veteran flier with 7,000 some of the residents if they UFO sightings are not simply in this area," Eslinger told the to study them scientifically, to
hours in the air, Willett related had seen anything out of the figments of people's imagina crowd, "and the frequency is prove their existence. Each
some of his own experiences ordinary on the night in ques tions, nor are all the stories increasing, not only here, but individual can then decide
with UFOs. tion. made up for publicity. world-wide. what that means to him or
One of his first local sight At least one person told him There's something to them, "Since the major news her."
ings involved two large crafts the crafts had been spotted in he'll tell you. Just what that media and the government He said thousands of sight
he spotted on the ground near the area on numerous occa something is remains to be dis have chosen not to report on ings are reported around the
Ozark, Mo. one night while sions, but, before Willett, no covered. this activity, any success in world each year."
returning to Flippin from the one had been by to inquire coming up with answers "There's no doubt something
Springfield airport. about them. Friday's meeting was orga depends largely on individuals is going on, and we need to
Willett was flying at 5,500 That's when he decided nized by UFO researcher sharing their own knowledge." know about it," Eslinger said,
feet, yet was able to clearly see someone should try to keep Glenn Eslinger of Harrison. Its Eslinger called denial of the looking out over the large audi
the shapes of the large crafts track of local sightings and see purpose was to determine if existence of UFOs "the biggest ence. "If everyone here is inter
and the bright, "blood-red" if there were common factors there's enough public interest cover-up the government has ested, we have the beginnings
lights coming from them. · that could add up to new infor in the area to form an on-going ever been involved in." of a healthy education project."
"The lights lit up the woods mation about them. study and information group He said members of the
for a couple of hundred yards Since then, Willet says he focusing on UFO sightings in localgroup will share informa Those interested in learning
around," he said. "Some people has "run down UFO reports in Baxter, Marion, Boone, New tion and provide an "education more about the group and its
wondered if I saw police or several states, as well as the ton, Searcy and Van Buren al vehicle" for those interested future meetings, or who have
ambulance lights, but from my local area" to go along with his Counties. in the subject. personal UFO stories to tell,
height they would have been own additional experiences. Judging by the attendance, "Our intention will not be to may contact Glenn Eslinger at
just pinpoints." Although he still doesn't apparently there is. connect UFOs to religion, the 424 North Spring Street, Har
Days later, Willett drove have all the answers he's seek "There have been a lot of occult, outer space or any other rison, AR 72601, or call him at
back to the area and asked ing, Wilett's convinced that important sightings reported theory," he said. "We just want 741-7278.
DAILY COURIER, Grants Pass, OR - Feb. 25, 1992
Green fireball DAILY JOURNAL, Stevens Point, WI - Nov. 18, 1991
UFO sighting reported in Linwood
illuminates sky A UFO waa reported sighted about aigbtinga. It eou1d be Northern Ugbta.
3.5 miles west of Highway C early It eould be anything. It
Sunday momng, according to reports
Meteorology offieiala at Weather n
pfraormtm tehnet .P ortage County Sheriff's De Service Inc. In Wauaau were unable to :::o
be reached tbia momiag to determine
Meteor fragments, makes sonic boom A department dispatcher said sbe if there was aome unusual atmoepher- :C
received a call around 3 p.m. Sunday ic activity in the Highway C area late
from a man who said be and three Saturday night or early Sunday mom- E;'
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routine paper transfer early Mon cate it may have fallen over land weather activity could have eauaed :::o
day when a fireball areed aeross south of Coos Bay. Pugh said if be The four witnesses said they were the sighting.
the Dlinois Valley and turned the gets enough eyewitness reports to traveling on Highway C in the town of
nilbt to day. plot a possible position, be may go Unwood when the sighting occurred. "It could have been almost any- :
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Korte, who was on Saur's Flat A Josephine County sheriff's
near the Kerbyville Ghost Town at deputy for three years, DeKorte "I remember back as far as 20- Heounrich said the Sheriff's Depart
the time. "It started to come out of bas seen meteors and meteor some years ago there were lights out ment has received ealls about alleaed
the field and cross the roadway." showers, but none with the heaven there I checked into," said Capt. UFO aightinga in the Highway C area
By the time be turned to look ly pyrotechnics of Monday's Mark Hemmrich of the Sheriff's De before. Sunday's ineident is not under
over his shoulder, "it was bright display. partment. "We get those strange intense investigation, he aald.
as daylight as far as I could see. It "When it lights everything as far
was incredible." as you can see as bright as day
People from Reedsport to Eure light, it's eerie," DeKorte said.
ka, Calif., and as far inland as At least one sonic boom was re
Klamath Falls reported seeing ported by a Coos Bay woman. Sev STAR, Kansas City, MO- Feb. 29, 1992 CR: V. White
what was probably a meteor fall eral ships at sea radioed to the
Panel upholds dismissal of Russell teacher
out of the sky at 12:15 a.m. Mon Coast Guard that they thought
day, said Diet Pugh, chairman of they were seeing a distress flare.
the seienee department at Cleve Coo~ Bay Police officer Mike The Associated Press too soon to say if an appeal would
land High School in Portland. He is Riensebe saw the fireball and fig be filed in state couJ1.
a. member of a Smithsonian Insti ured it might have fallen in the RUSSELL, Kan. - An appeals
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"It was bright," said Pugh. "It patcher Michelle Kirby. last fall was linked to her reported ing to do with unidentified flying
east shadows. It llt things up like Pugh said there are generally belief in UFOs. ~bje.cts, despite news reports
broad daylight." one or two reports a year of fire A three-member committee hnkmg her to other Russell
The brilliant green light zipped balls producing sonic booms, and unanimously upheld the firing of .residents who believe in UFOs.
across the sky, wavered and this was the first he'd beard of this Marcia Brock, 46, as a teacher at However, she testified that she
seemed to split into a couple of year. Russell High School. She disap believes in the possibility ofUFOs
pieees near the horizon before The object would have bit the at peared without advance notice and agrees with a book by other
fading. mosphere at perhaps 40 times the Sept. I 0 and was fired after she ~ansans that says UFOs may be
"It was a good three seconds speed of sound, Pugh said. The returned Oct. 17. hoked to the second coming of
from the beginning of the light un force would cause it to break up Brock refused to comment after Christ.
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til it went out," De Korte said. like a dirt clod bitting a wall. As her hearing Wednesday. Her She testified she left town Sept.
"It's real bard to tell just where the speeding debris moved attorney, David Schauner of the 9 with her two college-age daugh
it came down," be said. "I know it through the atmosphere, it would National Education Association ters after receiving a call from a
was~ south of Cave June- have created a sonic boom. in Topeka. said Thursday it was "'trusted .personal friend'.'
HELLO, UP THERE
UFOria reigns: Lights baffle earthlings
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~ Something flew over He says he may have seen a less, moving slowly without flash "It blinked on all sides and
UFO. Several people in the Greens ing beacon lights. At one point, it seemed to rotate," but it wasn't a
Greensboro this week. boro area think they did, too. almost stopped. chopper, Benson said Wednesday.
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~ ~ Staff Writer what he first thought was an air seeing weird lights. the sky I can't readily identify.
plane . Near Pleasant Garden, sheet That doesn't mean they're flying
..e "B Before dismissing Corey Lefkof "It had a red and orange glow, metal worker Robert Benson and saucers."
en ~ as a weirdo, consider this. He's a and it wasn't in the regular flight his girlfriend, Cathy Kenny, saw a
~ :~~eorologist and knows the heav- pattern," he said Wednesday. It humming object moving slowly in
was 2,000 to 3,000 feet up, noise- the sky Tuesday night.
UP THE CREEK, Denver, CO - March 27-April 2, 1992 CR: P. Noonan
Arcturians express a deep belief in God Council;" Herdonitic, an Elder from Arc
and the happiness and peace that most turus; and Juluionno, the Commander of
Beings from Star
religions yearn for. the Starship Athena and the mission
Milanovich says she's no Shirley leader for all the Arcturians on or near
MacLaine, yet she brings to Colorado a the planet Earth. .
Arcturus Present bizarre proposal, based on a strong sug
gestion from the Arcturians. To assist the T
he crisis facing the planet is this:
Earth in "increasing its vibrational fre
Plan to Save Earth quency as it undergoes a birthing process Earth's inhabitants are emitting
negative energy in such quantity
into the Fifth Dimension," Arcturians
that the gravitational field of the planet
have directed Milanovich to build a large
is threatened. Negative energy is thick
pyramid, the T emplar, in the San Luis
Bad vibes are killing the planet, Valley town of Crestone. and heavy; if enough people fail to
change their behaviors and tum to love
says New Mexico woman, who The planned structure is huge, measur and light, the critical mass of negative
ing approximately 500 feet square at the energy could cause the planet to tilt on
claims Arcturians directed her base and towering 450 feet high. It is to its axis.
be built of pink granite with a capstone The situation will change if Earthlings
to build pyramid in Crestone of obsidian. embrace God, love and light.
The task at hand is to •velop a higher
Milanovich and others have already
consciousness in Earthlings. The Arc
purchased property in Crestone for the turians "are the transmitters of higher
Templar, which is "absolutely" essential consciousness ... "
to assist the planet as it enters the new Higher consciousness is achieved by in
millenium. Milanovich says Kuthumi creasing one's "vibrational frequency."
warns the edifice must be built by the year
And the Arcturians say their mission is
2000 in the southwest United States to
to raise the entire vibrational frequency
help lead the rest of the world in love and of the planet.
harmony.
Interestingly, Herdonitic and
She refers to the T emplar as the "rebuilt Juluionno, via Milanovich, say several
Solomon's Temple." While she is unclear other celestial beings are here to assist the
about the actual purpose of the structure, planet's birthing into the New Age. They
she stresses it will not be a place of wor include Orions, Alpha Centurians, Beings
ship associated with establishment of a from Sirius (who, according to lore, aid
new religion. ed the ancient civilizations of Egypt),
Lyra, Hydra and the Pleidians.
Milanovich will be delivering a lecture
To survive in the New Age, Arcturians
to the Crestone community on March 30
call on Earthlings to "adorn themselves
describing the Arcturians, the T emplar
with the robes of this higher frequency."
and her writings, but rumors about the
This, it is stressed throughout
project have been circulating for some
Milanovich's book, is a matter of each in
time.
dividual's free will and involves a change
The selection of Crestone as home for
of behavior. Yet, "those who do not
the T emplar is interesting, given the
choose to raise their vibrations must exit
makeup of the tiny town. Crestone, notes
the Earth plane. Many souls will be ex
Kizzen Dennett, editor of the Crestone
iting before the year 2000, as the decade
Eagle, is home to a wide diversity of in
of the 90s has been reserved for the
dividuals. Ranchers, cowboys, military
cleansing.
retirees, and on the flip side, Tibetan Bud
"It is not a negative statement we are
dhists, Carmelite monks, Hindus, ex
making. IT IS WHAT IS. IT IS THE
hippies-and average, everyday folks
By David ller all reside there. LAW."
The Arcturian message, as described by
It is to the consternation of some
Milanovich, has a strong Christian
You are about to embark on a Ascended Master Kuthumi (or Koot residents that the town has become stuck component-Jesus Christ is "Head of the
with the "New Age" label.
journey-a journey complete with Humi). She says she receives Arcturian awakening of this planet for the dawning
celestial beings, sacred places (in messages through automatic writing while Understandably, "there is a certain of the New Age. He is the glorious ray
Colorado, no less) and apocaJypuc seated at her home computer. Messages amount of skepticism" about the project, from the Great Central Sun that is the link
planetary astrophysics. This is a journey transmitted from the beings, often in says Dennett. She says, in general, between the souls on Earth and their
into the heart of the deep New Age. Upon response to her questions, are contained Crestone residents are "a real sarcastic destinies back to the All."
return, your perception and convictions in a book she has published, We, the bunch of folks, but also open to new Towards the end of Milanovich's book,
will return to normal-maybe. In the Arcturians. ideas." the Arcturians note, "A message sent to
meantime, strap into your cosmic Passages in We, the Arcturians describe you centuries ago is still one of the most
armchair. Koot Humi has appeared in the the beings' appearance, home, starship powerful tools you have to use for seek
writings of other 20th century mystical and mission. They have told Milanovich
ing guidance for this new day that is fast
The planet Earth is in trouble. This, of writers, notably Madame H.P. Blavat that they are in a starship, in another approaching." That tool is the Twenty
course, is not news. Crime, drugs, sky, founder of the Theosophical Socie dimension, southeast of Albuquerque. third Psalm.
jealousy, greed, environmental degrada ty. According to writer Robert Anton They describe themselves as a race that
tion are all around us. Dr. Norma Wilson, about 90 percent of today's oc has achieved a higher state of existence
Milanovich, president of a training and cult groups in the Western world are and consciousness. In this higher state,
organizational development company in wholly or partially derived from Blavat "we manage to find more more enlighten P:edictably, Dr. Carl Raschke, pro
Albuquerque, says she's the bearer of a sky, Aleister Crowley or George I. ment in our everyday affairs" than do essor of religion at the University
bleak message about the current state of Gurdjieff. humans. of Denver, long a student of the
the planet-and a message of hope for the They have been called to Earth by New Age movement, expresses cyncism
future. The source of the message, she We, the Arcturians reads like very "Ascended Masters, Angels, and Celestial at Milanovich's writings. Arcturians, he
claims, is a race of celestial beings-the good science fiction, recalling the later Beings, to come to this part of the galaxy suspects, have been spending a lot of time
Arcturians. works of Philip K. Dick, who, before his to help our brothers and sisters of Earth in Denver's metaphysical book stores.
death, wrote three strange novels dealing to move through the window of space Raschke sees a re-editing of much of the
Arcturus is the brightest star in the with the Second Coming of Christ and the and into the fifth dimension." This is an "deeper New Age lore" in the book,
Bootes Constellation, approximately 36 nature of God. What makes Milanovich's opportunity for the planet, which, if miss which is typical of channeled UFO com
light years from Earth. Arcturus is called book different is her claim that it's ed, will not be possible again for another munications. These communications are
the "Guardian of the Bear" because of its non-fiction. 26,000 years. often characterized by a belief that a great
position behind the tail of Ursa Major. Essentially, the Arcturian message is In addition to Kuthumi, the 'World crisis on Earth is imminent, and great be
that Earthlings must cease the flow of Teacher," Milanovich claims to have ings are here to help us through. The con
For the past six years, Milanovich negative energy being produced on the communicated with other Arcturians, in cept of Jesus as an extraterrestrial being, 3
claims to have received transmissions planet-or be faced with dire cluding Monka, "The Communicator of part of a higher mystical brotherhood, is
from several Arcturians, including consequences. the Technical and Head of the Tribunal common in the lore of the deep New Age.
(continued on page 4)
(continued from page 3 - UP THE CREEK, Denver, CO - March 27-April 2, 1992)
This concept of Jesus, Raschke points out, energy by Native Americans and modem- her first Arcturian transmissibn, she says earth is so critical, and measured so ac
is not the one with which most Christians day spiritualists alike. Milanovich says she was not a reader of occult and curately, that any slight movement would
are familiar, in that it incorporates Kuthumi refers to Crestone as having "the mystical works. be noticed by astrophysicists.
elements of Eastern mysticism. vibration of the Crown Chakra of the Like Raschke, Michael Corbin, direc "My attitude is extremely objective,"
Raschke says Milanovich's message, Universe." Arcturians consider Crestone tor of ParaNet and M.I.C.A.P. (Muti says Corbin. "There could be some truth
and the suggestion that the T emplar be one of the purest places and holiest cites national Investigations Cooperative on to some of this (Milanovich's work)," he
built in Crestone, "is typical of the kind on Earth, untrampled by the masses. Aerial Phenomena), recognizes bits and acknowledges. At the same time, any
of thing going on in the Baca" (Crestone Milanovich says it's important not to pieces from other sources in We, the Arc conclusions must be made on observable,
and its environs were originally part of have tourists around during building of turians. Corbin ·says the "contactee move measurable scientific data.
a huge land grant the Spanish made to the the Templar, nor does she seek them after ment" is gaining a lot of momentum, with Echoing Raschke, Corbin says too
Baca family), which is probably not what its construction. tens of thousands of reports in recent many people, particularly contactees,
the good folks in Crestone are longing to Milanovich stresses she is merely the years from all over the world. He cites the have concluded that intervention of
hear. messenger for the Arcturians, that she has exploitivE! nature of some in the move celestial beings is crucial to solving the
Dennett says the community's reaction, no intention of being a ·preacher and com ment, particularly Elizabeth Claire Pro Earth's problems. A common trait of con
so far, is mixed. Several Arcturian jokes peting with traditional religions. "This is phet, who asks her followers to give away tactee groups is to throw away traditional
are making the rounds in the valley, weird shit, to put it bluntly," she all their earthly goods and go live in a science and buy into an etheral prophecy.
cowboys down the valley are shaking acknowledges. quonset hut. Before expending the money to build
their heads at the notion of a pink All contactee scenarios include predic an edifice like the Templar, Corbin asks
pyramid, some residents are excited and She adds that it took a certain amount tions of an imminent calamity on Earth·. why scientists have not been invited to sit
others are taking a wait-and-see attitude. of courage for her to publish the book. Everyone, says Corbin, is "playing a down and analyze the axial shift.
Milanovic.h's book has had an effect on Milanovich graduated from the Univer millenial endgame." The fact that the Corbin says all contactees declare, "I'm
CDreensntoetnte, rbeesicdaeunstes wit hdoe hfianviete rleya dc oitn, tsaainyss esictoyn oofm Wiciss ceodnusciant iwonit.h I na tdheeg ereaerl iyn 1 h9o7m0se, 2M0a0y0a, n ccoaulpenledda r wenitdhs awroaurnnidn gtsh e fyroemar odinslayr mthineg ,m mesessesnegnegre.r" "Ais aclhl apramrti nogf, thoer
"food for thought." However, some are she was awarded a teaching fellowship at Eastern and Christian fundamentalists package."
"not in favor of having the pyramid the University of Houston while working that the year 2000 is the end, contributes Milanovich insists she is not trying to
built." Dennett herself is remaining on her master's and doctoral degrees. to the calamity theory. sway opinion or force the Arcturian
neutral. After receiving a doctor of education A shifting of the Earth's axis has been message down anybody's throat. She
This is not the first time an unusual degree, she and her husband moved to suggested by several groups, says Corbin. prefers to let readers of her book decide
proposal has been brought forth for Albuquerque where she worked in the There is some speculation within the for themselves.
College of Education at the University of On one level, she seems overwhelmed
Crestone, Dennett points out. Several scientific community, he says, that a shift
New Mexico. She then became director by her claims. "Part of me feels stupid
years ago, Shirley Maclaine proposed occurred in ancient history. For instance,
of the New Mexico Consortium for talking about it," she says.
building a New Age complex that would a mastodon was found frozen in a glacier
Research and Development in Occupa But "if it is the truth, people have the
hthaev et oatwtrna<. :hT!dh aste vdeirda l nhoutn dsriet dw peelol pwlei ttho btiuosnianle Essd. ucation before forming her own aw situhd fdreensh, pflloawneetrasr iyn o ictsc umroreuntche, .i nBduitc mationsgt rig"hI tt htoin kk nI okwno. w what Noah felt like ... ,"
ereds iodfefn. ts, and Maclaine has since back tisMt oilra pnhoyvsiicchi sstt. reAsnseds, sphreio irs tnoo tr eac esicviienng sci"eWnties tws poouoldh -phoaovhe tmhea njoort iosing nosf, ·a~ sNhiYftS. wsahyast M?"i lanovich. "You want me to buiDld
Crestone is viewed as a center .of high Corbin. The angular momentum of the
~Whatever it was, WILLAMETTE WEEK, Portland, OR - Feb. 6, 1992
UFOs in the
it amazed the cat Belfry
~ Aside from the more sensational overgrown biosphere. Who's to say
effects UFOs reportedly have on they're wrong?
humans-poor radio reception, im
N pregnation, Swahili language instruc Friedman's argument has three
0'1 By Brad Tyer tion-they divide us into two neat cate prongs. His first conviction is that
:and tailed the car gories: the kooks (those who have seen) some-and he stresses the some
Stanton T. Friedman and the skeptics (those who have not). unidentified flying objects are intelli
Lloyd Center Red Lion Hotel The interesting lesson of Stanton T. gently controlled vehicles originating
.&: Sunday, Feb.2 Friedman's lecture "Flying Saucers Are in other solar systems. Others. of
u Real" is that the kooks, like so many course, are simply misinterpreted
J'"!l' e This man's not a nut, but what he saw is driving him nuts. other groups burdened with the Wiffle balls, but these do not concern
UFOS, FLYING SAUCERS, flying "minority" label, are probably in the Friedman. Conviction No. 2 holds that
1 BY JIM SCHLOSSER He later called the News disks-they go by many names. majority. Close to 2,000 citizens paid none of the skeptical arguments of
~ ScaffWricer tDTIIQmlgbt & Record. At about the Something seen by someone un eight bucks a pop to watch Friedman those Friedman calls the "noisy nega
lock me up In same time, an anonymous able to put a tag on it. just what un present the evidence at the Lloyd Cen tivists" hold water when subjected to
Robert Benson's first 1 person called and re- identified flying objects do seems to ter Red Lion. scientific scrutiny. For conviction No. 3
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~ they've seen a UFO. Robert 8tnson, hovering near Lees Cha mthrooduegrhn thaee rsoknya iunt ibcl atteacnth ndoislroeggya rda nodf swaemrep litnhgis omf athnoys eb esltiaenvdeirnsg? iAn trhaen dtwoom mnaetniotns so fh atvhee aUcntiivteedly Sctoavteesr eadn du po tthheisr
pel Road and Church
~ M~~a~~~~~~~b~~t :~:~ some throw Space Age Tupperware block line outside the Holladay Room "cosmic Watergate." Surprisingly
UFO 1igh~ Street in north Greens revealed a substantial number of ap enough, it is Friedman's third argu
c.!l lings in white coats com- boro. PSEUDO SCIENCE parently stable adults who claim to ment that is most persuasive to that
ing for him with a straitjacket. Guilford College astronomer parties for their unwitting earthbound have seen a UFO. Another chunk of indecisive "not sure" segment of the
8~ "They might lock me up in a Sheridan Simon doubts this report guests. Others are accused of inflicting the crowd was composed of indiscrimi audience.
loony bin," he said. but wishes there would be a genu unspeakable atrocities on cows. The nate freethinkers who seemed perfectly The fact is, when it comes to UFOs.
~ Fortunately, he had witnesses, ine UFO sighting. galactic GM behind this vehicular free willing to entertain not only the idea we're a nation of Missourians; show
and there was at least one other "I would love to find some. If for·all deploys quite a product line: that earth receives regular visits from me a stalk-necked, sunken-eared alien
~ report of a strange object in the there is one thing that would bring boomerangs. top hats and cucumbers, interstellar tour groups but also the and. when I confirm that it's not a
c.n Greensboro sky Tuesday. Benson interest in astronomy, it would be along with the plain jane saucer-style notion that they themselves might Wiffle ball, I'll believe. Short of that.
~ also has a photograph. Not a great the discovery of alien spaceships saucer:,. hav~: all be~:n r~:ported. indeed be alien transplants in this no amount of deductive logic or cir
:z: one, but tiny specks of light, amid out there." cumstantial evidence will convince
cigarette smoke, show up. A check of the weather station at beyond a doubt.
"I ain't much of a photographer," Piedmont Triad International Air Friedman is certain that we. or at
the chain-smoking Benson said. port turned up no unusual meteoro least the more unaccountable branches
He and his girlfriend, Cathy logic activity in the area. of our elected government, have seen
Kenny, and another friend, Melvin Dave Short, tower chief at the DAILY ITEM, Sunbury, PA and even captured such aliens. In
Ferguson, were in the yard of Ken airport, warned that Hollywood Feb. 7, 1992 CR: LIUFON 194 7, near Roswell. N.M .. to be exact.
nbyil'es mHoobmilee hPoamrek ino fWf oRoadnladklee mMaon tshpiontkliignhgt s tohfetyen'r ef oosle epinegop lUe FiOntso. Professor: Space station, jets aFsr iead nmuacnle adrr opphpyesidc iast sauncdc ehssafsu ld ecdairceaetr·
Road about 8:40 p.m. Tuesday Scores of people reported strange ed the past 20 years to interviewing
may have spurred UFO reports the people involved in that case and
when they spotted an object encir objects in 1991 after Blockbuster
others and searching for documenta·
cled with strobelike lights flying Video stores filled the Triad sky
tion that would either prove or dis·
low, making a humming noise and with spotlights.
prove the existence of intelligently cOn·
going slow. But Blockbuster, based in Spar By Karen Blackledge trolled UFOs.
"It looked about the size of a tanburg, S.C. (ah-ha, the site of SraJJ r~porrer Among the intriguing (and only
tDhCou-9g,h"t wBaesn, so'Tnh asta ipdla. n"eM isy awfifrustl hUaFsOn 'ts iugshetdin sgpso ltalisgth tws eleakt)e,l ys.a ys it natLioEnWs IfSorB wUhaRt Gsom-Ae dBeusccrkinbeedll aUsn aiv UerFsOity f lpyriongfe sosvoerr hhaeasd' ~W eedxnpelas gmaitnhimeraeldly bsye nFsariteiodnmalainst-)a meviidde nthcee
low.' It was about 250 feet off the Dave Schnider, a flight instruc day evening. seemingly inexplicable case studies.
ground. I thought it was going to tor at Southeast Greensboro Air David Lien said Thursday that the Soviet Space Station Mir statistics and photographs-stands the
crash.'' most convincing clue that Friedman
Kenny's cat, Meryl, was mes port, which is not far from where would have been visible in the area at the time at least a doz~:n peo just might be onto something worth
Benson and Kenny were Tuesday ple reported sightings.
merized. investigating: page after page of U.S.
"She was on the steps and night, said he was at the airport Also. Lewisburg residents reported seeing four jets flying over in government documents relating to
wouldn't move a muscle," Kenny until about 8 p.m. Tuesday and a tight formation at about the same time, he said. UFO studies. obtained after great
said. observed nothing unusual. He said The jets would account for the rumbling and the pattern seen in delay through Freedom of lnfonnation
"I grabbed my cat and threw her military helicopters were in the the skv, he said. Act requests, blacked out with the cen·
under the trailer." area Tuesday, but they were gone Upon checking the space station's orbit. Lien said he found it sor's pen from margin to margin.
The object disappeared over a by the afternoon. would have been visible in this area from 6:47 to 6:50p.m. Thc Jl:!S Friedman thinks the government's not
nearby hill, then turned around and Benson, who at first was reluc tlew over Lewisburg at about 6:20p.m .. he said. telling us something.
H..: -;aid the space station is "as big as a house and reflects a lot of Who's to say he's wrong?
came back. Kenny and Benson tant to reveal his name, hopes peo
jumped into a car and drove along ple don't think he's a nut. lil!ht. .. .-\t a ma.\Jmum height of 16 degre~:s above the horizon. "It
Creekridge Road. "I'm not saying it was a UFO," he w~>uld have looked likt: it-had come out of the e.round from the
us "Idto swene mtheed lriokaed i,"t wBaesn sfoolnlo wsaiindg. sayBsu. t he's darn sure it wasn't a suoteusth."c aLsite. nri.s ewnh ou pi s inBtuoc tkhnee sllk'sy oabnsde fravdaetodr yo udti raellc tino -ra abnodu ta nth aressei smtainn t 4
"No plane in the world can go only plane. physics professor. said no noise would have been associated with the
35 mph.'' space stalion ~ighting.
He jumped out and snapped his Staff writer Bernie Woodall con There was a g<.'<xi cham:~;~ Sunbury man saw the space statinn·hc
point-and-shoot camera. tributed to this report. caus..: he report-eJ .it heading toward Seltnsgrove, Lien said.
Haines City police officer may have encountered a UFO
~
By Jeff Osterkamp hovered around his car, about 10 feet above the ground, for era! Aviation Administration and the National Weather Ser
about one minute before speeding away, he said. vice said they knew of no weather balloons, military projects
The laager
Delgado said that after he pulled onto the side of the road to flr other phenomena that could explain what Delgado saw.
HAINES CITY - Luis Delgado let a speeder get away avoid crashing into the object. his car mysteriously shut off Joseph Carr, the former director of the University of South
Thursday morning, but it wasn't his fault - Haines City po and his walkie-talkie stopped working. Florida Planetarium, said he knew of no astronomical expla
lice cars are not equipped to catch UFO's. "I grabbed the radio to talk, but everything went out. The nation for Delgado's sighting.
Before Thursday, Delgado was unsure whether extraterres (car) lights went out," he said. "After that I just stood there Diane Green, the chief of community relations for MacDill
trial craft existed. But after watching a large green disc and it was really cold. I could see the breath coming out of my Air Force Base, said the Air Force stopped investigating UFO
shaped ship light up and shut down his patrol car, he is a mouth." sightings in 1979 when it concluded that claims of flying sau
skeptic no more. Haines City Lt. Frank Caterino said Delgado passed physi cers were never accurate.
"I consider it a UFO, because as far as I know. we don't cal and psychological tests police administered to him after "They found out that every sighting was explainable," she
have the technology for anything like that," Delgado said. "It his sighting. said. "The investigations were proving that there is a logical,
was a heck of a night. I'll tell you that. Everything was routine Other officers who were later on the scene speculated that rational explanation for all of them."
up to that point." Delgado's UFO might have been a large green trashbag they But Fearon Hicks. an Auburndale resident who is a field
Delgado said he was driving a police car north on 30th found nearby. But Delgado said the trashbag could not have investigator for a national UFO organization, disagreed. He
Street in southeastern Haines City at 3:52 Thursday morning explained his sighting. investigated Delgado's sighting and believes the story.
when a bright green light came up behind his car. The vessel Officials from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. the Fed- "It sounds like a bonafide UFO
sighting," Hicks said. "It didn't dis
play flight characteristics of any
thing we know so far that the U.S.
military has."
ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL- Karch 27, 1992 CR: E- Walters
Gary Posner, the founder of Tam
Five UFO's Hover, Glow, Blink In Area Sliies pa Bay Skeptics, said he thinks that if
Delgado's story is true, Haines City
was definitely visited by a spaceship.
Residents, Tourists Report Unusual Sighting But Posner doubted that Delgado's
story was accurate.
"It's a pretty wild conclusion to
minutes and were confirmed by over
by Patti Weatherford make from one person reporting one
30 witnesses including members of'
incident," Posner said. "I'm highly
t11e Gulf Breeze Research Team andi
UFO's do not exist! The only skeptical that what he reported as
others conducting a skywatch from
problem is nobody has told them. If having happened is exactly what
btheeeyn hlaisvtee,n tihneg .U FO's have simply not Spoarnttead Rseoesian gI sal atnodta. l oTfh 5e UgFroOu'sp arned haHppiceknse ds.a"i d he found no indications
said that unlike some sigh lings, these a spaceship had been at the area, be
Saturday night, March 14, ended
lights were not stationary. tween Robinson Drive and Roe Road
a 12day "dry spell" for the citizens of
"In fact, two started moving di on 30th Street, but said he would con
Gulf Breeze. After 8 p.m. residents rectly toward us", said Art Hufford, tinue to investigate the sighting.
and Spring Breakers reported seeing GBRT member. "As an experiment "We're waiting two to three days
as many as 5 red glowing UFO's in using a 500,000 candle power spot to see if the tops of the trees start to
the air at the same time. Reports of light, we had been directing a rcpcti-· die," he said.
the sighting were received from wit Delgado said he is both glad and
ti vc seq ucnce of high intensity flashes
nesses at 6localions. These included unhappy about what he saw. The ex
at the uppermost UFO. The move
Santa Rosa Island, Shoreline Park, perience was very stressful - he was
Hwy. 98 ncar Delchamps (cast of ment toward our location began after found by another officer shaking and
Gulf Breeze), Pensacola Bay Bridge the object appeared to respond to our. crying in his car after the incident -
signals by repeating our sequence of, but exciting, he said.
Fishing Pier, the Tom Thumb Food
flashes. The approach lasted about30 "We're trained to deal with stuff
Store ncar Naval Live Oaks, and
seconds, then the two lights stopped that you know, but what do you do
Aquamarine Dr. and 'winked' out. when you encounter something you
From his vantage point on Santa Through the usc of triangulation, don't know?" he asked.
Rosa Island, Andy Abercrombie from
the GBRT was able to determine the
Houston, Texas, described the sky as
approximate location to be just south,
"cloudless, perfectly clear with un
of tl1e Gulf Breeze peninsula, be
limited visibility. Suddenly a white
tween Villa Venyce and the Del
light appeared about 50 degrees above
champs Food Store, how ever this
the horizon, then turned bright red. It
sighting is still under investigation as,
was followed by a second, third and
reports continue to come in.
fourth, then finally a fifth red light in "ll1is was a first", exclaimed
roughly the 4, 5, 8, and 9 o'clock Bruce Morrison, Pensacola/Gulf
positions."
Breeze MUf-ON member and GBRT
"They didn't fly in, t11cy just
member. "Wc'vcncvcrsecnthismany
kind of 'blinked in' from nowhere",
UFO's appear together at t11e same
said George Crumbley of Baton
time".
Rouge, Louisiana. "There were so · UFO's responded to slgnalllgt1ts beamed at them In the skles ll1c sighting is still being inves
many at one lime t11at it looked like over Gulf Breeze ond Pensacola Beach In one of the most tigated. If you were a witness and
the sky was blooming wil.h them." spectacular slghtlngs over reported In the Panhandle. have not contacted MUFON, please
ll1c sightings lasted about 10 . p do so at438-3261.
UFO Sighted Here j UFO 'expert' settles
<lawsuit with sheriff
Thursday Night!
c:G
uc:G u Belief in extraterrestrials cost him
N N~ a promotion, plaintiff maintains
~ There were 14 UFO sightings in too many UFO sightings have been
North Carolina during 1991, accord documented over the years. to laugh ~ TUCSON (AP)-A self-professed UFO expert who claims his belief in
" ing to George Fawcett of Lincolnton, this off. We plan to report the sight extraterrestrial life helped cost him a promotion has settled a lawsuit
~ spokesman for the N.C. Chapter of ings to Mr. Fawcett. We'd like to -5 against Pima County's sheriff.
.o theT hMusu tfuaarl, tUheFrOe hNaes tbweoernk .t wo sight dkneonwts siaf wa nthye olitghhetrs TAhlluergshdaanyy n irgehsit . ~ Robert 0. Dean, who says age discrimination also figured in his being
~ ings in Alleghany during 1992. Actu They were visible from the Stratford ~ turned down for promotion to the county's emergency services director,
ally, two residents reported seeing -New Hope and Whitehead Commu said Monday he settled the lawsuit for $100,000 plus two years' back pay.
the same UFO at approximately nities. They may have been visible N Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, the defendant in the suit, declined to comment
~ 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February from other points as well. If you saw < Tuesday on the settlement.
20th. I say these are the only sight the lights Thursday night, please He referred all questions to Deputy County Attorney Beverly Anderson,
co ings for 1992, they are the only ones call The Blue Ridge Sun at 372-5490. :3 who was in court Tuesday and unavailable for comment.
';:: reported to The Sun. Both folks who Your names will be kept confiden S Dean, then 61 and the county's emergency services coordinator, was
~co sthaewi rT nhaumrsedsa yn'ost s btrea nugseed l.i gThhtse ya sakreed, atiballe. S-owmee dboe lnieovt.e IUn FtOhe's ianrtee rleasutg hof c~t turHneed r edtiorwedn frfoomr tthhee Aprrommyo atsio an c oinm mFeabnrdu asreyrg e1a9n9t0 m. ajor after a 28-year
however, sane, sober reputable peo science, we need to know if other
career.
z pie! What they saw Thursday night people saw the lights.
~ were two large lights, close together There may be another explanation c:.:: Dean said he considers himself a professional researcher of UFOs and
tzJ resembling a set of car headlights. for the lights. We will also try to ~ had "cosmic top-secret clearance" while he was in the military.
S ;::os~ig~~ sk;~r;he~~;~~g w!~!n~~ research this angle. In the mean 8~ He said he developed his interest in UFOs while serving in Europe in the
time, we need to know if others saw I960s and part of his Army job dealt with reports of UFO sightings.
c:G brilliant, colored or flashing. They the lights. According to record<; filed with the suit, Dupnik told County Manager
t5zJ ~re just white hghts coming irom If you too believe that UFO's are Enrique G. Serna he didn't want to hire Dean because of his beliefs about
the north toward the Peach Bottom not something to laugh off. watch the UFOs.
=::~ eMr osuonutatihnw reasntgeren t hqaut acdrorassnets othf eA lolwle- skNy!e xTt hwe eleikg hwtse 'lml haoyp reefualplpy ehaarv. e an "nDo-efaanu'lst faitntodrinnegy" , inR ownhailcd h Jt. heS tcoolukinnty, sdaoicds tnhoet sacdnmlcitm teon tw rionnclguddoeisn ga. 5
ghany. The lights passed over the update on this UFO sighting. Watch
Stolkin said the back pay will amount to $16,000, covering the
mountains and disappeared. The Sun for all the news of Alle
We certainly don't want to sound ghany and outer space 1 difference between Dean's current county salary and what he would have
like the National Enquirer here, but, MBR made in the higher joh for the last two years.
EMPIRE, Juneau, AK - Feb. 19, 1992
Juneau's strange history of UFOs, sea
serpents
T hree weeks ago, several residents of An·
chorage and Valdez reported seeing some SHERRY SIMPSON
thing strange in the sky. Observers de
scribed the unusual sightings as four
bright-green objects flying overhead in formation,
each followed by a long tail. The objects suddenly ac· Reports of UFO sightings in 1916 are intriguing
celerated and disappeared, leading the watchers to
think they weren't comets or airplanes or anything because they occurred nearly four years before the
else easily explained.
Over the years there have been quite a few Alaska
first airplane flew over Juneau.
sightings of unidentified flying objects. The hard part
------------------------
is determining that such sightings couldn't possibly
have been falling space junk, satellites, military air looked more like an airship (or dirigible) than an years. Mind you, not every strange object was spotted
craft, meteors, weather balloons, hoaxes, planets, aeroplane, but it was too far away to see clearly - es in the skies. On Aug. 24, 1928, Stroller's Weekly report
mass hysteria, natural phenomena, a flock of geese pecially in that light. ed "Sea Serpent Killed in Chatham Straits." This sto
with the sun shining on their wings, odd clouds or any The newspaper speculated that the ai~ ry had a seemingly impeccable source: Territorial
other more mundane explanation. have been a Canadian aircraft scouting the coast to Fish Commissioner A. J. Sprague, whom the article
But a 1916 rash of UFO reports in Juneau are in see if Germans or other invaders were building a base referred to as both "temperate and reliable."
triguing because they occurred nearly four years be in Alaska - which, the paper pointed out, wouldn't be The account said that Sprague was on official busi
fore the first airplane flew over Juneau - though the too difficult to do among the many hidden coves and ness on the vessel Yakobi with its captain, Tom Smith,
first airplane flights in Alaska had occurred in Fair inlets of Southeast's lesser-known islands. ( Remem near Morris Reef at the junction of Chatham and Peril
banks in 1913. ber that at this time World War I was raging in Eu straits. Then, not more than 100 yards away, they saw
The puzzling Juneau sightings were first recounted rope, though the United States had not yet entered the a "monster of the deep" that they estimated at 300
in the Feb. 22, 1916, edition of the Daily Alaska Dis fray.) But why an airplane would be flitting through feet long. They described it as greenish-blue and
patch. Headlined "Strange Craft Seen Soaring the skies at 2:30 in the morning is anybody's guess. about four feet in diameter. The creature glided slow
Through Air," the account reports that First Officer The article concluded, "At first, there was an indi ly side to side, the report said, "swimming very much
Steve York and two deckhands were on the steamer cation to make light of the subject and treat it as a like a snake."
Georgia headed to Skagway when they spotted some joke or as a 'sailor's yarn,' but such things are not Sprague grabbed a rifle and fired shots at it. He
thing odd. placed in the official log books of steamers, and when said he was sure one or more of the pellets struck the
The ship was passing near the north end of Douglas so many different persons at different points see the serpent in its vitals because it seemed to writhe, final
Island when the witnesses first noticed lights over same object, there must be something to it." ly rearing its head several feet high before disappear
head. This is what the Dispatch reporter copied from Two more sightings occurred that spring. In an ing.
the ship's logbook: April 16 article headlined "Queer looking star seen The boat remained nearby in case the creature
"At 2:15a.m., Feb. 20, 1916, strange lights ap over Juneau," the newspaper reported that several floated to the surface. If it was dead, the men planned
peared in the sky about three points on the port bow. reputable citizens of Douglas and Juneau claimed to to tow the monster to where they could take a closer
The lights changed from white to red to green every have seen "something in the heavens which looked look. Alas, even a later visit to the spot failed to find
few minutes, at a perpendicotar angle of about 45 de first like a star, but which seemed to move up and it.
grees on the starboard bow, then disappeared about down somewhat and grow dimmer, finally, and flash "Mr. Sprague 1s certain it was unable to digest the
2:30 o'clock, almost two points on the starboard beam. out red ... " bullets by which it was hit and that its dead body now
The steamer was heading west southwest. . The paper wryly added, "This taken in connection reposes with other mysteries of the deep," the account
"At 4 the light again appeared about two mtles with the reported aircraft in other nearby points lately concluded.
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She said her earliest encowiter balls of fire.
Eureka to was at age five or six. She said she The creatures can be ''benevo alone, says i~
fowid herself outdoors at night, lent or evil,'' she said. Her experi
looking up at "what looked like a ences have been fearful.
Host UFO
giant grasshopper. And it was tell ''l do not think what they are
ing me it was my mother. And I doing this with us is for our own journalist ;
screamed back, 'No, you're not!''' benefit,'' she said.
Conference
Her husband also began recall Some researchers theorize that
ing past encounters, she said. the creatures are taking human
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - For ''The nature of our experiences genetic material to further their By CHRIS WOLF 0:
years, Karla Turner thought a ter include sightings of UFOs, miss own survival. she said. Colorado Dally Stlltl Writer ~
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But now. she said she believes ly conscious or totally unconscious ing genetic samples to propagate to journalist Linda Moulton-Howe.
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Conference in Eureka Springs. found reports of similar experi encounters. and believes conven Moulton-Howe has written two books and produced award- -.o
Other lecturers will discuss unex ences. she said. tions such as the one in Eureka winning 1V documentaries on alien visitations. She will pre- ;e
plained animal mutilations, mys ' 'There seems to be a general Springs provide them a sympathe sent a multi-media compilation of 40 years of sittings and
terious circles formed in crops in pattern," she said. "People have tic car. encounters at 7 p.m. Wednesday at CU's Fiske Planetarium.
Britain and reported UFO activity abduction encounters throughout · ·We may get more answers Moulton-Howe said the U.S. government has been inves
in the United States and other their lives. It doesn't seem to be a when more people are able to talk tigating visitations from other universes, or other dimen
countries. random thing, that they pick up this about this without fear," she said. sioi.IS, for decades. But the investigations have been kept top
Ms. Turner said she is not sure person at age 35." Ms. Turner has written a book secret because widespread awareness of the phenomenon
whether the "beings" she reports The encounters often "cluster" about her family's experiences. would challenge fundamental beliefs, she said, and thereby
seeing are from other planets. in families, Ms. Turner said. "Into the Fringe" is scheduled to threaten existing i.Dstitutional structure and control.
·'One thing I do believe: These The first encounter usually com be published in November by the Ridicule is the accepted and encouraged social response
things actually exist,'' Ms. Turner es in early childhood, she said, fol Berkley Publishing Group in New to claims of sittings of alien crafts or beings, Moulton-Howe
said in a telephone interview. lowed by another at puberty and York, according to Andrew Zack, said, "because it doesn't fit our accepted social paradigm of
The former college English again in young adulthood. In most her editor at Berkley. the way things work.
teacher said other members of her cases, the creatures conduct some ' ·I think she makes a good case, It makes me think there is something about this period
family. including her husband, kind of physical examination. and ..;he certainly gives you a lot of of time that is like the time of Galileo," she said. Galileo
have encountered the insect-like Sometimes, sperm and ovum arc fond for thought," Zack said. was the Italian astronomer and physicist who in the
creatures. which render them help taken, she said. Seventeenth century was convicted by a Roman inquisition
less and sometimes abduct them Ms. Turner said several types of for demonstrating that the Earth revolved around the sun.
for hours at a time. creatures have been reported. The In addition to discussing testimonies of eye-witnesses to
Ms. Turner, fearing possible most frequent reports, she said, visitations, crop circles, and a world-wide phenomenon
harassment of her family, will say involve smooth, gray, hairless cre Icnown as "cattle mutilation," in which farm animals have
only that she lives in the '·general atures about 31'> feet tall, with thin been killed and their vital organs removed, Moulton-Howe
Little Rock area.'' She also refused bodies. no ears and "extremely said she'll tell the story of a man who claims to have worked
to ptovide her husband's first large black eyes.'' inside a secret laboratory inside a mountain in Nevada tak
name or identify where he works. Others have reported encounters ing apart flying saucers that crashed and were recovered by
Ms. Turner said her encounters with creatures resembling either the government.
were buried in her subconscious insects or reptiles. "What does the government know that the rest of us
for decades. She said memories Large and small aircraft have don't?" she asked rhetorically. 6
began flooding when she under been reported, she said. Most are The talk will be sponsored by the Denver chapter of the
went psychological counseling for disc-shaped, but some are Multi-National Investigations Cooperative on Aerial
stress-related problems in the late described as triangular, cigar Phenomena. Ticket prices are $8 for MICAP members, $10
J9~n~ shaped, or bright red-and-orange in advance, and $1250 at the door.
NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS, Manchester, NH- March I, 1992 CR: B. Greenwood
leaf caught in the ice absorbs ra
diation or energy from the sun
better than shiny objects, which
-reflect.
As the leaf gains more heat, it
would melt ice even in 5 degrees,
Houston said. The leaf gradually
would sink down into the ice and
"can generate a real hole, kind of
a plug in which it is possible for
watef' -to come up through," he
said.
The water, being cold, but
warmer than the ice, in turn can
cause more melting, Houston
said. A pond in southern Mas
sachusetts has water spouts com
ing up 10 inches when there is
no pressure to cause the spout
ing, he said.
The spouting causes what ap
pear to be chicken-foot tracks,
making it look like something
has splashed into the ice. Hous
ton said drawings by McCarthy at
the time showed the same unusu
al track patterns, but Houston
doesn't recall McCarthy saying
he had seen a portion of the box
on the surface.
McCarthy said he had just fin
ished plowing his driveway on
Jan. 10, 1977 when he spotted
something black on the pond
about 100 feet from his house.
McCarthy, 67, who moved
across the street where he can Dick
still look out at the small horse WILLIAM McCARTHY of Wakefield looks •t some of the old newspa
pond he dug. still insists he saw a per clippings from the Jan. 10, 19n Incident that garnered national
12-inch by 12-inch black radioac headlines when his pond began melting. McCarthy still Insists it was
tive box half submerged in the caused by a black radioactive box dropping from the sky, but authori
pond that day. ties and • retired physics professor from 1he University of New Ham~
But he says by the time he shire found the melt was from natural causes..
went to get a rake and returned
he believes is the the truth quiet Instinct told him right away
File Photo to poke around, the box sank, all these years; He is convinced the ice was melting naturally,
leaving a square hole that contin
19n SENSATION - William McCarthy stands beside a hole cut that someone spirited the black Presby remembered.
ued to melt even though the tem
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pie speculated had fallen fi'Of'l'l the sky and melted through. water, the other half was in the onlookers was temporarily dis a lunchbox. It was outmoded and
Did Secrecy Turn water, in a sort of like a bowl atrwaacyte ad bbayg sotfa mteu odf friectirailesv ehda uflrionmg oreuatddinagtesd t.h aHt we esrtea urntesudb sgteantttiinatg
shaped depression in the ice ....
My theory is I should have had a the bottom of the three-foot deep ed later," Presby said.
pond. "It generated a tremendous
Natural Occurrence camera. I let it get away from In fact, McCarthy has a photo amount of curiosity. The news
me. Something was there and it graph of them, but it doesn't media showed up in large in
was quite warm. It landed when show what's inside the bag, nor fluxes - television reporters,
Into UFO Folklore? MnocbCoadrtyh yw, aa sr eltoiroedk ibnrgic,"k lsaayiedr asareid .t he people identifiable, he ppreionpt lme ewdeiar e- roallll inofg a ins ufdrdoemn
whose first sighting of the box Former Police Chief Dana M. everyvchere," he said.
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unidentified flying object, a retired physics ports, even though police tion, some fluctuated, but the People still drive by
professor says the state probably was right all clamped a lid of secrecy on the most sophisticated instruments McCarthy's Pond, but not as
along-the unusual melting was natural. case and at first shooed people later found no radiation at all, much as in the old days when
The state's theory was similar to that of re away. according to the official reports. they would come at all hours of
tired University of New Hampshire physics professor Robert E. "Seeing is believing as far as No radioactive black box ever the day and night.
Houston. who never made a report to the state. I'm concerned. I don't think it was found, even though the pond "We heard from all kinds of
Houston scoured the scene a few months later at McCarthy's was a UFO. I think it was a piece was drained and the bottom people on this, one who had been
request and also concluded the melting was the result of a natu of somebody's space hardware, probed, the reports concluded. to Mars and back. It is a fascinat
ral phenomenon. not just ours, maybe the Chinese Even when the pond dried up ing subject. We've heard stories
Given the circumstances and the secrecy that surrounded or the Russians. I figured it was a one summer, nothing was found. from other people who have been
McCarthy's discovery that his pond was melting in 5-degree nuclear battery or generator," he Three days after the melting, through something similar," said
weather after a huge snowfall, he understands why McCarthy, said. Thomson issued a news release McCarthy.
to this day, believes there was a radioactive black box that fell The reports by police and state saying there was no radiation
from the sky into his ice-covered pond. officials, stored in the state ar found at the site or in the water, McCarthy is doubtful he will
"All you have w do is jump at one wrong conclusion - and it chives, consistently say blaming the readings on faulty ever find out what happened to
McCarthy saw a submerged box equipment and insisting that the the black box he insists he dis
seemed logical from his perspec through a hole in the ice where melting occurred as a result of a covered 15 years ago.
tive - and it makes everything
he believed the object had fallen, natural phenomenon, the same "We'll never hear the ultimate
else fall into place," Houston
but McCarthy recalls telling some conclusion reached independent conclusion. We're left hanging.
said.
people at the time that he saw it ly by Houston a few months later. That's the way this is," he said.
Houston said he always has
briefly while part of it was still " ... The hole in the ice was the
had trouble with the way some
above the surface. result of natural movement of the
officials keep secrets, especially
"There was a lot of chaos. It ice on the pond caused by action
in matters relating to space.
happened a little bit at a time. of water currents on the layers of
"For some reason, there are a
There were many, many people the ice. This kind of natural ac
burch of people in this ~ountry trying to get me to answer ques tion of the pond water often re
who are paranoid about this sort
tions all at once. I don't think sults in shifting and cracking of
of thing and feel it is in the best
interest of the country to make anyone got the whole picture. It very heavy ice layers on the sur
statements that are not correct," sort of evolved," McCarthy said. face. The early reports of radioac
Houston said. The official repo:-ts never men tivity have been attributed to the
While investigating the inci tion McCarthy's contention that inherent unreliablility of the less
dent for McCarthy, Houston and his German Shepherd dog died a accurate instrum€nts when they
another University of New few davs later from what he be are used in the cold \J.>eather."
Hampshire professor concluded lieves .;,as radiation poisoning. Thomson went on to say, "Re
that a rotting leaf easily might The reports also showed the grettably this incident has
have caused the melting, even in deep concern by state officials spawned a large number of false
such cold weather. until the investigation was con rumors. There is no evidence of
He said Thursday he remem cluded. A memo from George E. any unidentified flying object in
bered finding no unusual radia McAvoy, former director of the volved in this incident. nor was
tion levels at the pond, although Civil Defense in New Hampshire there any military plane crash at
high levels detected by the local to former Gov. Meldrim Thom the site, ... The investigators did
police chief had prompted the son, said if the incident wasn't an not carry a small black box from
huge investigation that followed. "outlandish hoax," then it could the site although the officer from
Had there been high radioactiv be dangerous radiation and could the Department of Public Health
ity in January as reported, some be space debris. carried a plastic bag containing
elevated levels still would have "All agencies have agreed to no soil samples from the pond."
remained, or investigators would publicity," McAvoy wrote, an in State Police Commander Lynn 7
have found a "hot spot," Houston dication that officials were trying M. Presby was a sergeant when
said. to keep details quiet, which U!1- he was assigned w the case and
The incident could have been doubtedly fueled speculation. he remembers it 1s the one that
explained by a well-known physi McCarthy believes officials generated the most public inter
ral principle in which a rotting have succeeded in keeping what est overthe years.
Susquehanna Valley residents report seeing low
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g:::l By Karen Blackledge John Reitz of 241 Lenker Ave .. Sunbury. ter point. .. Reitz said.
~ Staff rrportu said the craft made noise that was so loud it ··The thing was at a controlled speed.
drowned out the "People's Court" show he Then picked up speed and went over
tf) N Was it a plane or something from the had taped. As he was lying down watching Kerchner"s Hill. As it disappeared. it illumi- said. .
~ ~ "Twilight Zone'") television. he could "feel the vibration nated the entire top of the hill. You ~:ould Tom Atello. who works at Roadway Ex
;:::: At least a dozen people reported seeing through the wall" at 6:30p.m. see the outline of the trees. It looked like it press at 320 Lenker Ave .. was on the truck
..; wmething flying low in the sky Wednesday "[ ran out of the house and I saw this was heading toward Selinsgrove... ing terminal's dock when he heard what he
~ evening. Some swore it was a UFO passing thing shaped like a boomerang with three By the time his grandmother. Louella. got thought were three low~flymg fighter planes
"'"" ,.c over the Sunburv. Milton and Shamokin bright lights. It was about two or three times outside. the craft was out of sight. However. overhead. The supervtsor there satd the
~ ~ areas. One caller -said it was headed toward the width of a a football field. It looked like she too heard the noise. ;aving. ··she craft had three lights that weren't blinking.
Selinsgrove and another saw it·flying in the a search light ar the tip and there were other thought it was big old trucks corr',ing~·· Reitz He talked to two truckers who also heard
- the noise. The truckers also thought the
noise was generated from planes. Aiello
said.
Airports at Montoursville. Selinsgrove
• Rob Zaleski UP CLOSE and who question why a UFO I n any event, Schmitt says and Harrisburg got calls about similar sight
would be flying over New Mexi there's been one other positive ings.
co, of all places. development: a mlijor film "Somebody reported four F-14 military
Schmitt says he can only company wants to do a movie type jets going overhead ... said a spokesman
speculate, but that New Mexico about the incident - a factual at the Penn Valley Airport. Selinsgrove)
would have been a logical spot movie, he emphasizes. who wouldn't give his name.
for alien forces to be exploring in He says he can't provide any The Montoursville-Williamsport-Lycom
the late '40s. other details, other than that the ing County Airport received several calls.
After all, the United States company is talking to several
was conducting atomic bomb major stars, including Robert Du t~.we don't normally investigate things like
tests in the desert. The state was vall, Martin Sheen and James this. The Air Force used to investigate an
a hot spot for military research. Earl Jones. actual UFO si_ghting/' said Federal Aviation
And Roswell was home to the Whatever happens, Schmitt Administr;Hion Supcrvesor Mike
509th Bomb Group. says he and Randle will continue W<~lker. He ~ re.poris of such
What's more, it's hardly sur to crisscross the country pursu sigtltings are. rare.
prising that the military would ing witnesses - and that they At Fort Indiantown Gap, Capt.
want to cover up such an inci won't stop until Congress ad Jo<~quin Reis said. "It's very possi
dent, he maintains. dresses the issue. ble C-lJOs were flying out there.
"You have a crash, an acci And while some have charged There's really no way to tell where
dent, and it's not your proverbial that he's out to make a name for they would have hecn from."
'Take me to your leader' confron· himself, Schmitt says the last His fort had no planes flying
tation," he says. "You have no few years haven't ~xactly been a Wednesday evening. Helicopters
explanations, no answers. You picnic. arc usually flown from the Gap and
have nothing but questions. He claims he's been followed none were flying at that time.
bili"tYy oouf' raen fiancveads iwoint h. .th. fer opmos sai bhyis gpohvoenren mhaesn tb aegenen ttasp apnedd .t Ahantd , oacffciocredr iantg M tou iRr eAisrm. tyhe A aiirrffiieelldd. safety
fleet of spaceships. And you frankly, there are days when · Reitz asked if it had been a plane,
have no idea whether they're he'd just as soon sit back and why weren't its lights blinking.
malevolent or benevolent. So all enjoy his 45-acre farm or hang "There would have been multiple
you can do is close down the lid out with his softball buddies. lights on planes. It was just one
as tight as you can until you get enormous piece of slow-moving
answers:' But there's still work to be structure,'' he said of the craft he
• • • done, he says. There are 15 key tracked flying overhead for 10 to 15
witnesses out there, all ex-mili
8 ut why would the military tary people, who claim they're seconds.
He has ruled out the possibilit»
still want to cover it up 44 sworn to secrecy - unless, of
Donald Schmitt probes the supposed crash and military cover years later? course, they're given permission that it wn a £lane because it .,.ad no,
up of a UFO in the New Mexico desert in 1947 in his new book. That's the question, Schmitt to talk by the government. tail section. · Thirlhirig was roaring
says. ~it wari!IO'II'Iy ·approad'ling: -It""a~
Actually, the Air Force did However, "we're in a race getting quieter as it was overtop and
Did UFO crash make public its UFO files in with the undertaker," he says. fading as it was going away," he
1976. But the file on Roswell Most of the witnesses are in their said.
contained a single clipping .. 70s and 80s, and some are in Another Sunbury man, who
poor health.
Again, absolutely ridiculous, didn't want to be identified. report
in N .M. desert? Schmitt says. At the very least, Schmitt ed seeing up to eight lights all of the
While he's encouraged by the says, he hopes his book will pro same color and "kind of a washed·
reception his book has received, out -yellow," Reitz said. That man,
Schmitt admits one disappoint-
whom Reitz talked to shortly after
ment: Mainstream media have all
'We're so cynical the incident. described the noise as
but ignored the story, just as
HuBERTUS - As UFO fanatics go, Donald Schmitt b h "I 0 locomotives running at the same
seems surprisingly rational, even articulate. theIyn' v1e9 7d8o,n feo ar liln asltoanngc.e , Jesse a OUt t e time in the same direction and com
Which raises an intriguing question: Is Schmitt Marcel, a former intelligence offi government in so ing right at you." The other man re
the director of special investigations at thr ltynek cer at Roswell, revealed publicly ported seeing the craft over Fifth
Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, to be lumped that he was involved in the origi many other areas Street in Sunbury.
with many of the "kooks" - as he himself calls
nal investigation and that pieces A spokeswoman at the Union
them-who often are involved in uFO sightings'? of a UFO had been recovered. yet we're so quick County Emergency Communica
Or. rather, is he a serious investigator whose
Zaleski cnaeuws es omfta-ncyo vpeero bpoleo kt.o "rUe-FeOv aCluraasteh tahte R sotrsawneglle, "h awpi-ll Twhaefe pri-ethceins,, hmee staaly-lsi,k we esrueb ostfa an ce to accept what it twiohnicsh C tehne tcear lslearid d eshscer igboetd o int ea sc a"lAl iinr
Mexico in thep esnuimnmgse irn o tfh 1e9 h4i 7g?h desert region of southeast :--iew huinslD isketeos prayint eyw tMehniantr gca elfllo 'sbu ucntrd eu donennn oEttiaiacrletshd, ., says about UFOs.' aFboorcuet 7p lpa.nme.s doing a maneuver" at
Whatever the case, many U.S. military officials undoubtedly Schmitt says - though it did, DOftSCHMm Three other callers from Sunbury,
wish that Schmitt and his co-author, Kevin Randle. a former Air naturally, get top billing in the Milton and Shamokin reported see
Force intelligence officer, were themselves abducted by aliens. ing a boomerang-shaped object with
The book, which came out in July and is already in its eighth NaItit? sn farl uE~ntqrua~tr~egr,. Schm.i tt sars. -vokaen pdu pbelrich adpesb aetvee onf c thhaen igses uthe e three very bright lights. A Seven
printing. chargee; the U.S. military with a massive covPr-up in But he believes 1t als~ ~hows JUSt minds of a few skeptics. Points man, reporting a similar
volving the alleged crash of a unidentified flying object and, how ~ucc~ssful_the m1htary ~as Did a UFO really crash near sighting. ~id it looked like-the crl!ft
sevAenradl wdahyilse liatt'es rn, otth ea anlelewg ecdh arregceo,v Secryh mofi tfto cuorn atelinedns cdrueraitnugr easn. vboeelvne md wdiisthcr tehdeit iisnsgu ea.n yone m- Ros w ell ' N · M· ? · . ·was headed toward Trevorton.
interview at his country home 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee "We're so cynical ab t th If so, wh~t happened to 1t-
that he and Randle are the first to thoroughly document what . ou e and the bodies?
government m so many other "A d ·f ·t ll · t
happened and - more important-the first to name witnesses. areas," he says. "Yet we're so n 1 1 rea y was JU~. a
"We're convinced it's the biggest story in the last 2,000 quick to accept what it says weather ~~lloon,. as the ~~htary
years," he says-which may raise eyebrows among those who about UFOs." contends, Schmitt s~ys, then
were present at Woodstock. , why not reopen the files?
W~ether or not t~at s true, "What do they have to lose?"
Still, whatever one may think of UFOs, there's no denying Schmitt does have h1s support-
that something crashed in the desert near Roswell, N .. M., in ers. TIMES, Pekin, IL - March
early July 1947. Jerry McCormack, editor of CAPITAL TIMES, Madison, 12, 1992 CR: P. Russell
In fact, it was the Air Force that announced on July 8, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record, said in
that it had "captured a flying saucer" -a report that was car a phone interview that much of WI - Nov. 8, 1991 UFO reported
ried on the front pages of newspapers throughout the country. what appears in Schmitt's book
Less than 24 hours later. however, the Air Force retracted its is factual and that "the man's CR: M. Anderson . PEKIN-A UFO allegedly was
story and said the object was nothing more than a weather bal reputation as an investigator sighted Wednesday morning by a
loon. speaks for itself." woman who refused to give
.. .\ bsolutely ridiculous." s.ay s. S c.hm itt. However, McCormack, a life Tazewell County deputies her name .
~onetheless, 44 years later the military stands by its story. time resident o{ the area, seemed drivSihneg toonl di lldineopiust iReso utthea t1 2s2h ea bwoaust
almost paranoid in discussing the
10:30 a.m. between Delavan and
alleged crash and declined to dis
Sc hmnt. a 37 -year-old bachelor who works as a free-lance close his own feelings about it. illinois Route 29 when her car radio
medicaltllustrator when he's not involved in his volunteer Fritz Thompson, a veteran re turned to static and her car started
CFO job. began researching the issue in 19R8. porter for the Albuquerque Jour "stuttering as if1 t were going to die."
He says he and Randle have interviewed more tha:t :JOO peo nal, wrote a review of the book. About 30 to 40 feet above her car
ple. including numerous ex-military personnel who were in ~ew And while he finds it hard to be she said she saw a round silve;
~texico at the time of the alleged crash. lieve that aliens were found, he object, reports said.
And while the investigation still isn't complete. Schmitt he said there's no question that
!ieves they've uncovered enough evidence to justtfy a congres something crashed in the desert 8
~:onal heann~ •m ::he c:.L~P. in 1947-and it wasn't a
Io be sure. there are rhos~:- wno · !nnk Schmnt is a cracxpot weather balloon.
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..0c .-:0 en Staff Writer at all and it seemed like there was a few, are hoaxes, emotional ,;itua crete, Mr. Fawcett said. They've
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::J: Q) PTA meeting in Clarkton UFOs, but I thought, 'This has got those. there are some left that fit scorched the ground. .
c:~~:.JIn : a 10 ! ptnle.em rc. .r owSUshse.repSont.a. sd7h2s0e3 1c ,.ag llIhlietde deaw ddWa itnsho groa obtseuOonguu'hstt haC8 :ol4oirtn5 gtutohop e "basyTeni d hdjsuee owsiynmt a tboeywl tisnhte.hk innJeetug dss sotstta trnwrar aasiegnn."nhdg t te o s.fu'tf pr "aa. nigdDh tithd eonnn't cmciniegterToaas hrn -toashsn'sh edeca ap'hhtueauandgvge oseexhr ,py iilpnf.ao"scio ,nl utabbdbraelilegdl h fbtfi leylyil igdneh-gast sirzs tahaenduldy , FFp14aaO rIwiNennnc coteihlnntyetve se bs ssabaatikeidngne.d adeyIta no tthar hsBre et fahasorae,um n nhsedduer rataEfot as l ckhese,iar l,idi Mec MsoaU npore .f
E-< ~ "I was just driving along slow, • • • flying objects that made 90-degree three depressions placed as if they
tf) en taking my time, about 45 mph. turns while moving at what ap were made by a giant tripod.
<>< when I just happened to glance to UFO s are normally the stuff of peared to be thousands of miles per Both Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Mor
52 my right and I saw these huge tabloids. In fact: the National hour. ton have not only seen evidence of
t~f) I 0 ligThthse,"y shheo vsearide.d over the trees, SherodE'sx asmtoirnye.r Inp itcakbelodi dsu,p stoMriress. CaAroclcinoar,d itnhge rteo wMerUeF 1O4 NU FoOf Nsiogrhtth UUFFOO sh; imeaseclhf. says he has seen a
bright as a pair of high beams, and like hers usually find space beside ings in North Carolina in 1991, mak Mr. Morton saw his close to
~ filled the interior of her car with reports on the various states of El ing the state fourth in the nation in home, in Wadesboro, in 1986.
white light. vis Presley (alive, dead or living as UFO sightings. Among them: "I was called by the local police
~ At first, Mrs. Sherod thought a woman) and Fidel Castro's own • On Jan. 12 in Winston-Salem, department," he said. "They said! a
she was looking at a radio station ership of John F. Kennedy's brain. Cecily Murray and her 13-year-old lady had called in frantic. Some~g
tower in Chadbourn. But an instant But there are people in North daughter, Ellen, reported that their was over her house.'
4--4 later, she realized she was facing Carolina who take stories of UFOs car was paced by a large object cov When Mr. Morton reached ~e
0 the wrong direction - and that re seriously - seriously enough to in ered with two "great white lights house, he saw a "huge object emit
alization piqued her curiosity. terview witnesses, debunk frauds and a series of 40 to 50 smaller ting monochromatic green light,"
"I am by nature a curious person and mistakes. and catalog the infor lights." The UFO paced him as he ap
~ and I stopped the car and I got out mation in a computer data base. • At 11:45 a.m. on March 24 in proached, drawing away as his cac
and looked," she said. Since it was founded in 1969 in Ellenboro, former Army engineer neared it and following him when he
0 The lights winked on and off, she Texas, the Mutual UFO Network Douglas Dyers reported seeing a backed away. The cat-and-mou$e
said, as if whoever was behind (MUFON) has been poking mto the half-globe-shaped UFO hovering game went on for a minute and a
them was looking for something. phenomenon of unidentified flying about 500 feet away. The UFO en half before the UFO flew away.
~ She had taken no more than a cou objects. The organization has 6,000 tered an orange fog and disap Mr. Fawcett, who has collect¢d
ple of steps when a chill jumped members worldwide. many of them peared. Mr. Dyers said the object reports ofUFOs since World Warll
~ along her spine. professional people - engineers. was about "two times the size of (he's amassed volumes of clippingf;,
z<J ) "I just got a funny feeling and I teachers, medical researchers, the full moon" and that it had white photos and written reports), saw
got in the car and hit the gas," she chemists. lights all over it. his one and only UFO while attend
said. "We feel that seriously concen • On Aug. 2 in Lincolnton, Tere ing Lynchburg College in Virgini~.
The rest of the way home, Mrs. trated. scientific study will ultimate sa Yode and her brother, David "I saw what looked like a large
Sherod couldn't shake the feeling ly provide the answer to the UFO Hodge, spent 30 to 45 minutes tractor tire," he said.
that the lights would suddenly drop enigma," said George D. Fawcett watching a brilliant, ball-shaped The object was about 300 feet
down in front of her car. She studi of Lincolnton. MUFON of North UFO give off red. white, blue and away and a brilliant orange against
ously avoided looking in the rear Carolina Inc.'s public relations di green colors, like the end of a spar the blue sky. It hovered for neaiily
view mirror, afraid she might see rector. kler. five minutes, then moved up aJild
them floating behind her. MUFON of North Carolina has • At 11:45 a.m. on Dec. 10 in down like a yo-yo and took off at a
When she pulled up in front of her more than 200 members in 65 Iron Station, Wayne Johnson 45-degree angle.
house, her boyfriend, Harry Best, cities. Members range from those stepped outside the plant where he Mr. Fawcett later learned that
stepped out to greet her. He'd been who only subscribe to the organiza worked and heard a friend comment other people described the sante
waiting for her, as she'd asked. be tiOn's monthly journal to those who on how blue the sky was. Mr. John object landing in a woman's yard,
cause she doesn't like cummg home investigate possible UFO sightings. son looked up and saw a silver, tri setting the grass on fire. It was also
alone at night. And there have been quite a few angular UFO hovering about 2,000 seen following a formation of bomb
They talked for a few minutes sightings. feet above the plant. After hovering ers on maneuvers.
outside unt\1 Mr. Be1;t suddenly "We know that there are mayhe about three seconds. the UFO gave But it wasn't just their own sight 9
looked past her and said: "My 5.000 UFO reports in a year.'' said off il brilliant flash of light and disap ings that convinced Mr. Fawcett
!lnodness, just ld at1hose lights MUFON investigator Henrj H. peared. and Mr. Morton that UFOs exist.
ius."t1 ,a~siengd ~ a_ro.u.ri d and there were Meno~rtoene rJ.r .". Wa eW madoewsb o-ri1o1 aet leac tgriocoadl docMuUmFeOntNed i snavuecsetirg-ashtoarpse dha dveep raelsso Bo(thc oanret 'iTnlf'uHe' dir nro>nn• <-p;'-'aedg we ith1 0th)e
1hose. \tpts just a little over the numbN of those are mistakes -- ~inn'-' in hilrk vilrrl" :>nd on farms iJ1
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SUNDAY STAR-NEWS,
Wilmington, NC
- Karch I, 1992)
astonishing number of annual sight
ings, which they said is bringing
them more and more credible wit
nesses.
Add to that what they say is the
mathematical probability that man
kind isn't the only form of intelligent
life in the universe.
"Our solar system is 15 billion
years old," Mr. Morton said. "Man
has been alive for 4 million years.
That's like comparing a second to a
year. There are billions of stars out
in space. Some are too hot (to sup
port life), some are too cold. But
there's got to be some in between."
It's not harcttD ~e1hc!t SOMe
of bse stan aght ~ soci
diel .u:h more adviMci!dthan our
own, Mr. Morton said. "If we ac
complished controlled flight to land
ing on the moon in 66 years, give us
another 100 years and where will Orson Welles' realistic radio presentation, "War of the Worlds," thrilled and frightened New Yorkers in 1938.
we be?"
So what do these intelligent visi UFO believers abound
tors want?
"Did they come here to eat our
brains? Get our women?" Mr. Mor
ton joked. "We're probably nothing
more than an archaeological curios
ity to them. We may provide inter
egsintisn. gO inr swigeh tsm ainyt oj utshte ibre oawnno tohrei r The Cap1W Tunes ecnhtise fc rieteads opnu bfolirc tfheea ra lales gtehde gonR wobaesr et vLe.n W maolrkee rc roifti Ocarle. hpohaexneosm, emnias,t aakneds ,e xlipees,r inmaetunrtaall
organism, floating in the universe, We're being watched. military cover-up. The government has sup rockets, balloons and aircraft.
that poses some scientific curios That, at least, is the opinion But they cited other rea pressed the information, he Also, Klement said, "It is
ity." of all but two of the nearly two sons as well. wrote, because "they think more fun to believe in UFOs
On a darker note, UFO pilots dozen readers who responded Perhaps the government it we're stupid and blind." than not to believe in them."
may be tampering with human ge to a LifeStyle poll on the exist self "can't totally explain" David L. Klement of True or not, eight of the re
netics, he said. More than 3,500 ence of UFOs. the UFO mystery, suggested Monona was one of the two spondents said they have
people claim to have been abducted The poll ran in conjunction Jeff Wittchow of Columbus. respondents who doesn't be spotted a UFO, though only
and examined and "there's real with an lip Close column by "They don't want people to lieve in UFOs. five gave a location. Three
positive evidence" that they're not Rob Zaleski on Donald Schmitt, think there is something the He cited a varietv of rea were in Wisconsin - two in
just saying that to get their names a UFO expert from rural Wash government can't control," sons to explain the ·thousands northern Wisconsin in the
in the tabloids, Mr. Morton said. ington County. Schmitt con wrote J .S. Ong of the town of of alleged UFO sightings over mid-'60s and the other near
Evidence collected by MUFON tends in a new book, "UFO Dunn. the last several decades: Watertown.
Crash at Roswell," tl.at four
includes surgical scars, physical aliens were killed wlwn a liFO For all the ridicule the sub
changes, unexplained implants and crashed in the 1\ew Mexico ject evokes, only one respond
knowledge of things that happened desert in 1947-and that the Almost all of the poll respondents cited ent, Lloyd Bethke of Richland
in other times and places, as if the incident has been covered up by Center, took it lightly.
abductees traveled through a time the U.S. military. public fear as the chief reason for the Bethke wrote that UFOs
waMrpU. FON members don't think belMievoset nroest poonnlyd einn tUs FsaOisd, tbhuety alleged military cover-up. srianr ebleyc aarues es pGootvte. dT oinm Wmiys con
awliiethn sa nh eayvee tboe teank instgu odyvienrg E harutmh,a nass thaTt yapliiecnals ohfa tvhee vrie~sipteodn sEeasr ~wha. s Tpohwomerp tsoo nk eheaps tuhseemd ha1ws avye.t o
has been the scenar:o in countless that of Russ Carney of Madi He also suggested that if
science fiction stories son. they ever do show up, they'll
''What have we got to offer?" Carney, who says he once be after our "drugs and cran
Mr. Morton asked. "If they've mas spotted a UFO, contends the berries."
tered getting across the universe, U.S. military has lied about Get a grip, Lloyd.
what can we possibly have that they the existence of UFOs to Perhaps the best example
need?" avoid an Orson Welles-like of just how controversial the
The Air Force apparently came panic. subject remains was the re
to the conclusion that UFOs posed He was referring to the sponse of a 40-year-old Madi
no threat to national security. In chaos that occurred in New son woman, who requested
1969, the year MUFON was found York City in 1938 when anonymity.
ed, the Air Force closed Project Welles reported in a fictional
Blue Book, its own UFO investiga ized radio broadcast that Mar The woman, a college
tion effort. tians were invading Earth. graduate and career profes
"After 22 years of study, we Many listeners thought the re sional, said she spotted a UFO
found that there was no basis for port was authentic and took in central Indiana in 1965.
any of the observations," said Capt. to the streets in panic. ''I'm a closet believer," she
Betsy Freerrup1 of the Air Force Interestingly enough. al wrote. "Please don't blow my
press office in the Pentagon. most all of the poll respond· cover!"
Of the 12,000 sightings the Air
Force investigated, 95 percent
were explainable phenomena like GAZETTE-TIMES, Corvallis, OR - April I I, 1992 CR: J. Deardorff
meteors, satellites or weather bal
OSU scientist witnesses mystery circle
loons, Capt. Freeman added.
Mr. Fawcett put the Air Force's
unexplained rate at 25 percent,
owwhnic hfi nhdein gssa.i dO fc tohrer e1l,a2t0e0s swigihthti nhgiss RuOssr eKgaorno wS twataes eUxnciivteedrs aitbyo uctr ohpis ssacbiebnattiisct ctroamteprlreexs tcriiarcl lebse irnegpsr.e sOetnhte rtsh et hweoorrkiz eo f thexat scairwcl ew.a sI na "mcloarses icr"e cceronpt cyieracrlse, -hao swimevpelre,
he's investigated, about 22 percent leave to study wheat farming in England. balls of lightning, whirlwinds, or other at many crop circles have become more elab
have proved inexplicable. But the last thing he expected was to have mospheric phenomena create strange pat orate, sometimes coined "pictograms."
Most sightings may be intention a strange experience in an English wheat terns. A few even blame mating hedgehogs. Some even portray complex mathematical
al, Mr. Morton said. A UFO was field. "The amazing thing was how distinct the relationships. Most have been in southern
seen by thousands of people in the edge of the circle was. The plants were ei England, but sightings have occurred in
early 1970s when it flew over a Karow, a cereals specialist with the OSU ther completely up or down," he said. "Not Europe, North America, Russia, New Zea
crowded soccer stadium in Peru. Extension Service, went out to see a fresh a plant stem stood erect in the entire area. land and elsewhere, he said.
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investigate. We may see some hard data
be nothing more than an ant fann What shocked Karow was not the almost could have created something so intricate yet."
for a teen-ager on a distant planet," perfect circle, 115 feet across. Rather, it and symmetrical overnight.
said Mr. Morton. was the pattern of the flattened wheat that "The three of us couldn't figure out how Though Karow is a scientist, he enjoys
was fascinating. The grain was interwoven in the world you might do it, especially the enigmatic aspects of the problem.
into a spiral pattern, almost like braiding, overnight in the dark," he said. "We "In this day and age when we seem to
with a definite center and sharp edges. thought about the lawn mower on a chain have an explanation for everything, it i>: 10
Explanations for crop circles vary, ex trick or a stake or rope. But it didn't seem hard to find good mysteries," said Karow.
plained Karow. Some are known to be reasonable. How you'd get the braiding? "And crop circles appear to be just that.
made by prankster humans, while others We didn't know.·· Someday I'm sure a cause will be found.
are mysteries. To some people. the more Karow discovered later that the circle he but until then. they are a mystery."