UFO Newsclipping Service 1994 04 no 297

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FREE PRESS, Detroit, Ml - March 19, 1994 CR: M. Rofe
The ·lights Joey Graves saw through the window have made The Michigan section of the Mutual
Unidentified Flying Object Network
has had "easily 100 more reports"
hi·m famous and have touched off a frenzy in southwestern Michigan.
from Ludington south to the Indiana
border, in the Bay City-Saginaw area,
in the Thumb and even in Downriver
Detroit, said Tilly, one of 200 mem
bers of the group.
And the Graves? They're famous.
They turned down an interview
with "Inside Edition," but agreed to
appear Wednesday on CBS' "48
Hours."
UFO buffs say the lights the family
spotted fit the pattern of UFO sight
ings.
Today, a search team from the
UFO network will follow up an earlier
sweep of the Holland area. On Sunday,
they'll take to the air, looking for
indentations in the ground, unusual
swirl patterns in fields, grasses and
weeds, and burn marks where a craft
might have landed.
The lights Joey Graves saw are
being taken seriously for two reasons:
• Holland police officer jeff Velt
house, who responded to the 911 call,
also saw the lights. "I took the binocu
lars Mr. Graves was using and looked
myself, and there were two lights, a
red one and a white one," said Velt
house. "That's alii can tell you. I don't
know what they were. I only saw them
briefly."
• A meteorologist at the National
Weather Service office at the Muske
gon County Airport 30 miles to the
north tracked unexplained echoes on
his weather radar at the same moment
Velthouse told a dispatcher in Holland
that he saw the lights.
"My guy looked at the radar and
observed three echoes as the officer
GEORGE GRVZENIA,'Spedal to the Free Prilss ·
was describing the movement," Leo
Joey Graves, left, his sister, Michelle, and mother, Holly, keep their eyes on the sky. That's where the Holland family first spotted the strange
Grenier, who is in charge of the Mus
~hts on March 8, and called 911. Since then there have been a series of strange sightings 8CI"'8S 80Uthwestem Michigan and beyond. kegon office, said this week. "The
movement of the objects was rather
.BY DAVID HACKER THEY SAW be rotating in a circle - Holly Graves erratic. The echoes were there about
. Free Prell Staff Writer called 911. 15 minutes, drifting slowly south
HOLL AND-Until the night of "I wasn't thinking UFO or anything southwest, kind of headed toward the
March 8, plenty of clearly like that," she said. "I just wanted Chicago side of the south end of Lake
Identified Flying Objects someone to come and see what we . Michigan."
roamed the home of Holly and SOMETHING were seeing." Grenier said his technician did an
Daryl Graves: 12 cockatiels That call was the beginning d a other scan with the weather radar, and
and three parakeets, pets that live in series of sightings - including several "hit the echoes between 10,000 and
open cages in their own room. unexplained phenomena that sho\ftd 25,000 feet 50 to 55 miles away, near
But it wasn't birds that the family up on weather radar screens - ol South Haven. They were like the ech
spotted from their home about 9:30 STRANGE something that has stirred an interest oes thunderstorms make."
p.m. on March 8. in the night sky over southwestern But, he said, the skies were clear
'1 saw six lights out the window Michigan. that night. "Whatever it was, it proba
above the barn across the street," said "We're getting 10 or 15 new sight bly was not weather."
Joey, the Graves' 14-year-old son. "I ings a day," Virginia Tilly, a UFO About 20 minutes after the first
got up and went to the sofa and looked expert in Grand Rapids, said this week. weather service sighting, Grenier said,
"the echoes appeared to break up into
up at the sky. They were red and white "We have probably 20 people in vari
and moving." ous stages of investigating these re pieces and disappeared."
He said he had never encountered a
He yelled for his parents to come ports."
similar phenomena in 37 years as a
Jook. Startled by what she saw - the People have said they saw the
lights, less than a mile away, seemed to Unidentified Flying Objects from as meteorologist.
His best guess?
close as 500 feet. One observer, Tilly
Military aircraft capable of vertical
said, described an object between Hol
takeoffs and landings.
land and Grand Haven that was "larger
Lt. Col. Charles Gilbert, an Air
than a car, round, with room for sev
Force liaison to the FAA in Kansas
eral people to sit in it."
City, Mo., said Friday that he was
unable to find military aircraft in the
Holland-Muskegon area that night.
Most Holland area residents seem
skeptical of what the Graves family
saw.
"Guys at work want to know what
I've been smoking," said Daryl Graves,
37, who works at a Zeeland factory.
"My nerves are shot, and I'm sick
to my stomach all the time now," said
Holly Graves, 36.
Greg Dushane, an agent with the
U.S. Border Patrol office in Holland,
isn't ruling anything out.
"If any aliens land here they better
have their papers in order," he said,
GEORGE GRYZENIA/Speclal to the Free Press
unable to suppress his grin.
Holly Graves, left, Joey, 14, and Michelle, 10, look outside their Holland
home. Joey first spotted the flashing lights from this window.
JOURNAL, Albuquerque, NM- March 27, 1994
A 17-minute tape of a
shiny silver disc,
zooming around
New Mexico's sky, makes
a believer of a Midway
video producer
Two frames of Escamilla's tape show a fuzzy, sliver
aucer disc-shaped object and a bright ball that hovered In
the sky.
Jose Escamilla searches the skies over Midway for a return of the flying objects
he captured on videotape March 5.
Story by Leslie Unttllcum • Photos by Richard Pipes
IDW AY -In the front of the darkened projec like a blob now looks like a silver disc. It shoots through
tion room, video producer Jose Escamilla has the frame in approximately 1/30th of a second.
pulled a chair close to the TV monitor and is fin "Could be birds. Could be a plane," Escamilla says. "But
gering the controls. Escamilla yanks at his Hard I don't think so. This stuff is hauling way too fast."
Rock Cafe baseball hat and swipes at the sweat Littell nods and wraps the candy wrapper around a fin
trickling down his temples. ger. The tourist says, "Wow." A museum greeter sounds.
Now pay close attention, in case this turns out like she has found religion. "I believe," she says. "I
to be history. believe."
Max Littell, one of the founders of the International UFO While skeptics scoff and naysayers point to the possibili
Museum, sits nearby in a comfortable chair, wearing a ty of weather balloons, secret military aircraft and an the
suit and twisting a candy wrapper in his fingers. other debunking standards, Escamilla believes this
A happy tourist in wrinkled bermudas and a three-day footage, shot with his brother's RCA video camera at the
growth of beard stands against a wall, muttering, "Wow. family compound in the town of Midway outside Roswell,
Ob, that's cool." shows undeniable evidence of unidentified flying objects.
What holds their attention is a videotape of something Escamilla slows his tape again, sweats some more a11d
resembling a fuzzy pingpong ball bouncing around the allows himself to believe he holds evidence of another
screen while, every few seconds, grayish blobs scoot by. "Roswell Incident."
Escamilla is tapping his feet and pulling at his cap. He Forget for a moment that day in July 1947 when tbat 2
slows the tape and runs it frame by frame. What looked
(continued on page 3)
(continued from page 2- JOURNAL. Albuquerque, NM- March 27, 1994)
famous something crashed near Corona and somehow ters." Escamilla also plans to send a copy to the Mutual night," she says. "They'd be there three, four, ttve
whipped the town of Roswell, some 65 miles away, into UFO Network, or MUFON, in Seguin, Texas. hours a night for weeks. After awhile it was, like, com-
national notoriety. Remember, instead, the name Mid The "Sightings" people will clean up the tape frame mon."
way, in case this turns out to be history. by frame, enlarge the picture and, Escamilla hopes, On March S, she says, the difference was the number
The town gets its name because it sits about halfway reveal the flying objects in much greater detail. The of objects she saw and that they appeared in broad day-
between Roswell and Dexter. If it were named based on folks at MUFON will analyze the objects and try to light.
achievement rather than its proximity to its neighbors, identify them. If they can't, they'lllabel them UFOs. "Whoever they were," she says, "they wanted to be
it might be called Flat or Dairy. It is vegetable and Even with all that analysis, says Iittell, "You never seen and they wanted to be captured on tape."
dairy farming country, a rural stretch in the road know if you've got something authentic or not." The tape, Escamilla says, is becoming a hot property.
where Jose Escamilla was raised and where he decided . Midway sits about two miles off the runway at the With the Showtime Network movie "Roswell" due out
to return and try to build Ultimate Dinosaur Produc Roswell Industrial Air Center. Airport manager Dennis soon, and a General Accounting Office inquiry into
tions Inc., a film production business, when earth Ybarra scans the airport flight log for March S and questions of a government coverup of the "Roswell
quakes and high living costs drove him from Los Ange finds a two-engine turboprop and a German Air Force Incident," it isn't untimely to have things that look like
les. tw!Hlngine Challenger were in the air at about 2 p.m. flying saucers on tape, especially if you are a video pro-
On March S, Escamilla was at his sister Becky's when Escamilla began taping. The airport doesn't have ducer.
house in Roswell, in the middle of editing a promotion radar and the workers in the tower reported seeing Now comes the time for the direct question: Jose,
al video, when she called from Midway. She and broth nothing unusual during that time. Becky-is this a hoax? Or are you simply out of your
er Manuel were selling some things at a swap meet on "I can tell you," Ybarra says, "that we don't schedule minds?
the family property when they looked up and saw UFO flights." listen closely to the answers, in case this turns out to
objects swarming around in the blue sky. There are few places in the world where reported be history.
Escamilla rushed over, tu..rned on the video camera sightings of spaceships from other planets are met with "If we were going to have doctored it," says Escamil-
and pointed it at the sky. such ho-hum. And there is nowhere else in the world la, "we would have doctored something good."
He taped for about 17 minutes. Then he analyzed the with two UFO museums on Main Street. In fact, Escamilla has handy a promo he did for a local
tape frame by frame and discovered something like an So it isn't unusual to hear someone telling, not in TV station. His Macintosh computer has superi.1nposed
alien airshow-dozens of saucers, disks and domes zip hushed tones, about seeing UFOs, knowillg someone neat little flying saucers over the Roswell landscape. It
ping past his viewfinder. who saw UFOs, or knowing someone who has found lit- looks nothing like the jumpy, blurry Midway footage.
The tape has captured the attention of the producers tle gray alien bodies strewn beside a crashed space-
of a television show and of the local gang of UFO affi ship. A tape, purporting to capture alien spaceships, he
cionados that has grown up in the wake of the 1947 Becky Escamilla is in the International UFO Muse- says, "is not going to help my career."
crash. urn, leaning against a wall covered with photographs of The Escamillas haven't told many people other than
"There's definitely an object there. There's little reported UFOs and information about the alleged those involved in UFO research about the tape. The
things flying around," says John Price, owner and oper coverup of the 1947 "Roswell Incident." whole episode, they say, is a little embarrassing.
ator of Roswell's UFO Enigma Museum. "I've been seeing them since I was a kid," she says. "Becky has told me many times about this, and I
"Oh, yes," agrees Iittell, "I think he saw something."
"Bright lights with others moving around them." thought she was wacko," Escamilla says. Until he stood
But there have been a number of videotapes purport
Becky Escamilla, now 30, had her first encounter on the dusty side of the road, across from the Midway
ing to show spaceships hovering over Earth. It is too
with what she calls a UFO when she was 8. A bright Assembly of God, and saw it for himself, Escamilla
early to tell, they say, whether Escamilla has anything
light shined into her bedroom and she watched it dane- says, he was no believer.
worthy of working up a sweat.
A copy of the tape has been sent to the producers of a ing around the sky. About a year ago, she began seeing Now, he says, "there's something up there. I just don't
UFOs much more frequently. know what it is."
Fox Network special called "Sightings," the sanie com
pany that produced the short-lived series, "Encoun- "When they first appeared, they were there every
TIMES-HERALD, Forrest City, AR- Jan. 31, 1994
Hints of a UFO coverup
For most of us, Unidentified Flying Objects are no
longer a front-burner preoccupation, as t~ey ~ere ~or
millions some years ago. Although there 1s still a kind
of mystical-fantastical aura hovering around UFOs,
little is heard about them these days.
It thus comes as rather a surprise to learn of an
inquiry the General Accounting .Office, Congres~'s
sober investigative arm, has on 1ts agenda. The 1~tent
is to find out if there was a government coverup m one
of the best known UFO cases.
This may strike many as rather far-fetched, given
the fact that tangible "flying saucer" evidence is rare
as chicken molars. Others think anything that might
shed light on the phenomenon, which once prompted
many alleged sightings and intensive Air Force scruti-
ny, ought to be encouraged. .
We lean toward that point of view. The true scientif
ic method is not to pooh-pooh even a concept which
strikes many scientists as silly bordering on ridicu-
Above: Escamilla. a
lous, but to test it rigorously. ·
video producer,
That's off the subject a bit, though: the GAO invesLi screened his 17 minutes
gation is presumably concerned with the reality of of tape for UFO experts
UFOs only insofar as this bears on a possible effort to in Roswell recently.
They are awaiting an
keep the public in the dark. It was requested by New
analysis before saying
Mexico's Rep. Steven Schiff after he got letters regard whether they believe the
ing the crash of some mysterious object in that state tape shows spaceships.
almost half a century ago. Left: Becky Escamilla
Just an ill-fated weather balloon fitted with radar alerted her brother to the
objects in the sky. She
reflection equipment, said the Air Force at the time of says she has been see
the incident in 1947. But there've been insistent alle ing UFOs since she was
gations, some by people who claim to have seen the 8.
wreckage before the Air Force removed it, that what
really crashed there northwest of Roswell was a flying
saucer.
Such claims ha~ Sllri'aced. again in the letters to
Congressman Schiff. He adds his own claim -of being
told by the GAO that an investigator was "getting
stonewalled" by the Defense Department.
One man's stonewalling can be another man's
acceptable delay; Defense may just be digging out the
records. Still, Schiff's story of obstacles being put in
'the way of the probe adds a further filip of interest.
On with the investigation! What can we lose?
3
HEADLIGHT, Deming, NM- Jan. 27, 1994
NEWS, Hemet, CA
Deming woman recounts 50 years
Jan. 30, 1994
of real-life UFO 'close encounters'
By EDWIN H. LEUPOLD telling them not to forget
Headlight contributor Her stories of UFO sightings may be what it when they left." That was
when she felt as though she
First of all, her name will takes for others who have had experiences had been slammed onto her
SCOTIMOORE not be printed in this article, with Unidentified Flying Objects to come forth bed, but discounted that idea
Valley Voices though some may already and tell their stories also. because she was covered by
know who she is. The reason the bedclothes.
for the anonymity is that,
She was perspiring profuse
Valley man "Anyone who says she has disappeared over the horizon. They moved too slowly for air ly, and when she went to the
seen UFOs is immediately Her young children who were craft. The lights moved up
bathroom at 2 a.m., she found
branded as a 'kook.' " with her do not remember the into the sky, where another
has seen that she was no longer dizzy.
Her ~tori_es of UFQ .aigbt. incident. object joined it and then both
~iS may \>e what it takes for The next round of UFO quickly disappeared. "I think those little men
four UFOs others who have had experi sightings was in Colorado, "And I wasn't the only one took away my dizziness. And
ences with Unide¢.ified. Fly where one landed 300 feet to see the UFO that landed I am grateful for that. I think
~ Ol>jects to come forth and away on the fenced portion of near my home. A lady who that they will come whenever
ots of people claim to have tell therr stories also. the farm. She was alone and worked in a bar in Dolores, I need them."
seen UFOs, but not me,
UFO sightings are not a scared and didn't venture Colorado, watched it and won But that wasn't the end of
unless you count those blg
recent thing with her. When past the fence on the property dered what it could be. That the visit. Now fully awake
Y brown things that buzz
she lived on a farm 30 miles line. And her German shep- lady said it was a peculiar and her dizziness miracu
~d my head at the beach. north of Fort Worth, Texas, herd companion, who ordi- cigar-shaped object silver in lously cured, something
Bob Starbird saw one, no, not a
and her husband came home narily would be going wild, color." heavy hit the roof of her
triwn bug, but a UFO.
- ~'My wife andl,. one fow from work at 2. a.m., she wit. evidently did not spot the Sightings continued in home, something that may
nessed her first UFO. It was UFO, acting as if there was Deming when she observed have weighed 30 or 40
yef1"s ago I!Lre in the Valley!"
Stailiaod, 57 ,:hi wife \'a ilaree in1945. nothing out of the ordinary. three "disk-like things" in the pounds, and ran across the
have lived in Valle Vista since "There were three bright "It was a big, orange ball sky, wavering and reflecting roof, retraced those steps and
1981, when he retired as a food lights in a triangular shape." that stayed on the ground for the sunlight as if made of me was gone.
service supervisor with the US At first she thought it about 45 minutes. And when tal. The Deming UFO observer
Bureau of Prisons. Previously, he might be airplanes from it left, it went straight up and Her most important experi is not happy in thinking that
was in the military. Carswell Air Force Base. But was out of sight in a matter of ence was five years ago when others will dispute her sight
"On Jan. 18,1990 at 11 a.m. there was no sound of~ air seconds, leaving with a medicine she had been taking ing& and term her a "kook."
we were a1 Gilman Springs Rood plane motors or any other ~hooshing sound.' " made her dizzy for a period of Still, she is eager to talk with
tuld Lamb Canyon. driving toward sound as the object or objects On dark nights she was apt two or three months. She was others who have had similar
Balllling. We looked up and saw glided away. to see UFOs. She lived half a afraid of falling, held onto fur experiences. And that is why
one right there! It was a BIG There were others who saw mile from her nearest neigh- niture while walking through she has made her .experiences
ONE! Banana-shaped and three the strange sight, and the bor and would often see ob- her home, drove her car public.
quarters the length of a football next day in a town of some jects zip into the sky, show slowly and carefully.
New Mexico Rep. Steve
f~eld!" 2,000 souls, she learned that red, green and white lights A dream, or was it a dream, Schiff currently is reopening
He stopped the car to get binoc others had seen the lights and suddenly zip away. "They produced four little men, prob
the Roswell UFO incident,
ulars out of the trunk. Alas, it dis- and wondered what they pos always zipped, went fast." ably four feet tall, each wear-
appeared. . sibly could be. One night in Cortez, Colora- ing gray coveralls. A larger and a November Associated
Press article reports that a
"It either landed in the foothills Nighttime wasn't the only do, where she operated a nurs- person, perhaps five feet tall,
«shot out of sight! I didn't report time the strange objects ap ing home that required 14-16 said, "We've been here too study has found that people
it becauSe I didn't want to be del peared to her. On a daylight hour work days, she returned long; we'll have to go." The lit who see UFOs are not odd
qged with phone calls!" trip to Fort Worth, she spied to her home between 10 and tle "men" wore hoods, and Want to share your UFO ex
Over the years, Bob has seen at an orange ball moving slowly, 11 p.m., opened the curtains their faces were covered. periences with the "UFO
least four UFOs. maybe 2,000 feet above the to find three lights, red, green "They had with them a myste lady?" The Headlight can con·
"We saw two at the stJ~M tirM ground. She watched it till it and white on the horizon. rious box which I remember tact her for you.
iff Alblll/uer~, N M.lt was at
night~ they were moving
around fast, too fast to be stars or
airplanes. And they weren' tthe
northern lights either!/' ve lived in DAILY RECORD, Roswell, NM - Jan. 23, 1994
Alaska and I've uen lots of
Schiff on to another coverup?
AURORA BOREAUSES!"
During his military sezvice, he
was stationed in Japan, working as
a mess sergeanL One morning at 6
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ORNAMENT, all lit up and SANTA FE _ u s Rep Martinek or Pflock. Several completing the investigation. answer is that if the crashed
sparkling! It kept moving around, object was ours, the extremely
Steve Schiff. R-N.M. . thlnks h~ recent contacts I've received Apparently it also is getting
that's what was so UNUSUAL!" mights be on to another feder- ~om New Mexicans, who were stonewalled. strong and lightweight mater
About two dozen others al coverup. mvolved with the Roswell Inci- Schiff is quick to note he ials described by so many wit
observed it also. "Mter a couple When last we visited the dent, cause me to believe doesn't believe an alien space nesses would surely have
of minutes, it went sttaight away found their way into our space
case of the Roswell UFO crash Schiff does get such letters. craft or bodies were recovered
from us and disappeared, like a Schi1T'wa~ being shuffled b~ The Fund for UFO Research at the ranch near Corona. program long ago. Instead
shooting star in the sky!" and forth between the Penta- has prepared a 130-page blief Obviously, the congressman we're still sending up a shuttle
Back in 194 7, he worked in the gon and the National Archives ing paper. filled with news arti wants to protect his reputation that flies like a blick.
butchez shop at the Roswell Air with his request for a bliefing des. military documents and and credibility. But it really But maybe Bill Lyne of
Force Base in Roswell, N.M., on what the federal govern- testimony from witnesses, to isn't necessary. Lamy, N.M., has found the
when a UFO allegedly aashed in ment knows about the July 2. give the GAO an idea of the Schiff has the analytical answer. In his new book.
a field outside town on July 8. 1947. incident. amount of military activity mind of a trained lawyer along "Space Aliens from the Penta
Lore has it that three unearthly At an October meeting with that took place - and on with some traits of an accoun gon," he claims the govern
bodies were found. top staff of the General which no government records tant. And he's a colonel in the ment has a top secret "electric
"There was a big coverup! All of Accounting Office Schiff com- are now available. Air National Guard. (The Air flying machine" used for
a sudtkn the law came down that no plained about the lack of Pflock's contribution to the Force is the service branch surveillance - and it invented
one could fly over the area!" responsiveness by the Defense report resulted from contacts that conducted the investiga the UFO story to deceive the
No, Robert never has come face Department in providing him he made with former deputy tion called "Project Bluebook" public.
to face with a little bugger from with infonnalion. He asked if assistant secretary of Defense that debunked all UFO Stay tuned for the next
outer space. there was any way the GAO in the Reagan administration reports.) exciting episode.
Well, it's all a mystery to me. could assist in determining and a fonner CIA employee. In short. the possibility of
Has anyone else seen one? why no agency claims know- Schiff says he originally Schiff jumping on a space
(Scott Moore is editor of The ledge of what is known in gov- believed the government's alien or government conspira
Hemet News). ernment circles as the "Ros- story that material recovered cy bandwagon is very unlikely
well Incident." near Corona and taken to the Schiffs request for the GAO
GAO Controller General Roswell Army Air Field was investigation was called into
Charles Bowsher told Schiff from a weather balloon. "But question recently with the
his agency investigates fiscal because of the government's revelation that Karl Pflock of
matters but that the request obvious disinterest in giving Placitas. the husband of the
sounded interesting so he'd me the information. that leads congressman's district direc
take a stab at it. Schiffs mem- me to think it might've been tor Mary Martinek, has spent
bership on the House Govern- something else," Schiff says. the past year investigating the 4
ment Operations Committee. If he had to guess. Schiff Roswell Incident under a con
which oversees the GAO. may says. it might have been a top tract with the Fund for UFO
also have affected Bowsher's secret military experiment. Research in Washington. D.C.
interest. That seems to be most people's Schiff says his investigation
NEWS. Detroit, MI -March 20. 1994 CR: R. Somerville
Experts downplay UFO sightings over state
On March 8, at least a dozen • In Holland: UFO sightings a He later said the spots were too South Haven, more than 25 miles
By Hugh McCann residents reported large, dark shapes heavenly sign? Page 2C big to be planes. away, he said. "So we weren't even
THE DETROIT NEWS hovering at low altitudes in the night Gulezian said although the radar seeing what people in Holland were
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Muskegon-Grand Rapids area. Initial reports said a weather ser "It's moving ... and it looks like tors) or maybe an airplane."
"There is no relation between the vice tracker trained radar on the a big blob," he said. "Oh my god, what Gulezian played down the signifi The possibility is "very strong"
UFOs and the radar tracks," said objects after being notified by local is that ... now I'm getting three of cance of the echoes by explaining the that some UFOs are top-secret mili
Dean Gulezian, the weather service's police authorities of the UFO sight them ... it's something pretty solid, radar is designed to track rain and tary aircraft strutting their stuff
area manager for Michigan and me ings and watched the mysterious it's not precipitation or anything ... snow, not airplanes or other flying says William Scott of Aviation Week
teorologist in charge of the forecast objects zip 10 miles in just 10 sec they look like a triangle on my objects.
ing office at White Lake. onds. scope." Also, the objects were located over
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unusual hobby, thinks likewise. sleuths speculate, is a billion-dollar, Did Randee Murphy, a legal assis Ve llhouse said he spoke to the them the picture of a telephone pole
Douglass stakes out clandestine 5,000-mph, high-altitude spy plane tant, see a blimp? operator of the Muskegon radar that and they will identify it as a banana."
defense bases and tweaks Radio that leaves a contrail behind resem She and her husband observed a picked up the controversial echoes. Stollak speculates a "contagion"
Shack scanners and PCs to eaves bling a doughnut on a string. Accord "huge" shape for about two minutes. "He said he had three things on effect is sometimes present when
drop on radio transmissions between ing to some reports, Aurora is capa It flew slowly about 100 feet over the his radar, and they were in a triangu people observe an unexplained phe
test pilots of top-secret military air ble of making abrupt changes in its woods outside their home in Ada lar shape," Vellhouse said. "He said nomenon, whether it's a UFO or a
craft in flight and their ground con flight path. Township. "It had four lights," she they hovered over Holland and religious vision.
trollers. Because of this capability and its said, and "made a soft, whirring moved southwest. He said that one People who, when alone, are quiet
The term "unidentified flying ob high speed, it is conceivable some noise. It sounded like a single jet (light) would move out of the trian and reserved, he said, "get excited"
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fly, and they are unidentified." are not distinguished by their ability Holland police officer Jeff Vellhouse ucts of overripe imaginations? perception.
Aviation reporters and hobbyists to maneuver rapidly. got a call to investigate several re It's possible, said Michigan State "People with this same need rush
routinely gather information on ex Bill Sweetman, a journalist who ports from the west side of town. University psychologist Gary Stol out to the water tower."
otic airplanes unknown outside the specializes in aviation for Interna "Several people had reported seeing lak.
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budget" aircraft because they never UFO descriptions fit none of the tracted me." said. "Some people interpret things this report.
surface in congressional appropria- black-budget airplanes with which He said the lights were moving to on the basis of their own personal
UFO sightings a
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Lake Michigan. Leo Grenier, in Holland, mysterious lights may be biblical sign.
"3. charge of the National Weather
cr. Service office in Muskegon, said
demons flying over Lake Michigan to
radar data turned up a fast-mov-
By Valarle Basheda secret military maneuvers to a sign of
.. ing phenomenon over Lake Mich-
THE DETROIT NEWS the "end times," an event when Jesus
igan off South Haven late Mon
..c day and that he notified the HOLLAND - The heavens are is supposed to reappear at the end of
ever-present in the minds of many in the world.
~ National UFO Reporting Center. this small western Michigan commu Biblical passages have said that
~ "(Witnesses) were talking about nity, which counts more than 40 natural disasters, wars; famine and
red and green sets of lights to the
1 south, oscillating," Grenier said. churches for its 25,000 residents. lights in the sky are signals that this
So it's not surprising that some of end is coming.
H "The lights did some rather errat them would attribute the recent UFO Station traffic director Jill De
:Z: ic movements at times." Grenier sightings to warfare between angels Witt said she's believes God had DALE G. YOUNG/The Detroit News
4-l said a weather service radar oper or a sign of the end of the world. something to do with making the "I do not find anything in the Bible that would cause us to worry or
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the ground." He said radar showed
porary Christian rock station WJQ "I don't believe there are aliens
~i ttihteu doeb,j ezcipt,p aebdo furot m15 ,S0o0u0t fhe eHt ainve anl 99.3"T FhMes.e people believe in the su sliaviidn.g " Iofn ( Gaondo) thwearn tpsl aton emt,"a kDe eliWghittst Ehasvleer fSeahru farrotm, r ethtier eUdF pOass,t"o rs aoifd FRiervs.t denWtsh daotenv'te rw rtihtee othffe othrye,i rm neoisgth rbeosris
to about 10 miles off shore in 10 pernatural," Kompik said. "(The appear in thP sky, then that's won Christian Reformed Church in Zee as wacky or insane. They believe the
seconds. Walter Andrus, interna sightings) make us know there are derful." land. witnesses have seen something.
tional director of the Mutual UFO certain things you can't explain, and But some area ministers in this Since the sightings have hap "They're mashed potato and gra
Network in Seguin, Texas, said now the rest of the world has to pay conservative Dutch community cau pened late in the lull between the vy type people," said Wanda Mich
Thursday that four investigators attention to it to." tioned against supernatural interpre summer tourist season and annual merhuizen, church secretary at Hol
were reviewing the sightings. On the airwaves at WJQ,listeners tations. blossomming of the tulips, UFO land Heights Christian Reformed
have blamed the mysterious multi ''I do not find anything in the speculation has set the winter-weary Church. "They aren't going to make
colored lights on everything from Bible that would cause us to worry or town abuzz. up a story just to make up a s1ory."
OU community urged to keep open mind about UFOs
Editor, 1be Transcript: tists and researchers being pre universities across America - conclude that they lack the very "quiet" for years, until they
sented through these video lec yet OU let (go of) a golden op intellectual curiosity necessary reached ~- (Specific exam
Tbe past few months the Mu tures is prestigious and worthy portunity for a highly informa to successfully develop new ples are Dr. John Mack of Har
tual UFO Network (MUFON), of their time. We can only sur tive and mind-stretching class ideas and areas of thought vard and Dr. Michael Zikmmer
bas offeted a monthly video lec mise that the lack of interest is a room experience to be formu man of Tulane U.) Only then
ture free to the public. They result of a closed society at the lated locally and taught by an But let's be fair! It's more could they feel really free to
bave been presented at 1be Nor University of Oklahoma. extremely knowledgeable likely that the truth of their re pursue the controversial yet
man Public Library. The pur In 1991, one of our members, individual. sistance lies in the apparent inti overwhelming 'evidence of UFO
pose bas been to help inform the a professor at OU, was warned Recently, the appropriate de midation which these teachers subject matter. Now wbat ldnd
public of current research into to "back-off'' of his open inter partments (psychology and and researchers are subjected to of atmosphere is that to conduct
this ever-increasing phenomena. est in the UFO mystery, presu physics) have been supplied by the close-minded, "upper learning in? Nevertheless, it is a
While these lectures bave had mably due to ..a ppearances." In with personalized notification crust" of Oklahoma's university fact of life at OU as well as
ample attendees, ranging from 1990-91 Richard Seifried, Okla for their professors and assis communities. Face it, those who some of the other prestigious
40 to 95, there has been a gen homa MUFON's highly quali tants, but, as far as we know, bave come out of the closet re universities across our country.
eral lack of interest from Nor fied assistant director and an none bothered to open their cently, in an open effon to in How about it OU? can any of
man's .. intellectual commUnity." educator for 2S years, attempted minds to this very significant volve their expertise in looking
you convince me otherwise?
Being one of Oklahoma's major to start a UFO study course problem we term, "the UFO at and defining the perameters Show me!
centers of learning, this fact is through OCCE. At first quite in Enigma." Why? Why does the of this overwhelming research
very disturbing. Certainly the terested, for unexplained rea learning community have such a endeavor, are those who have JEAN WALLER-SEIFRIED
calibre of the educators, scien~ sons they too backed away and lax attitude toward the greatest admittedly kept their imerests Norman
let a unique opponunity die. mystery of our time? Thank. 5
UFO courses are being offered God that things are not always TRANSCRIPT. Norman, OK- March 6, 1994
at quite a number of leading as they seem or I would bave to CR: R. Seifried
BULLETIN, Buffalo, WY - March 30, 1994
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this area on the evening of Monday, March 7, were spotted , stationary at times and then speed across the land "faster
l:;r.:l .. . over these Bighorn mountains. The lights were seen by people than any airplane could." Was the source of these lights the
~ ... ·. driving over Powder River Pass, they were observed by others same as those observed in eastern Michigan the next evening?
'"" on 1-25 just north of Kaycee, seen east of Buffalo and by a A lot of people are still speculating and looking for answers.
rarge number of people in town. What was the source for {Bulletin photo)
Many report 'lights'
Whatever was in the night sky over Buffalo and other parts of Johnson basketball game at Moorcroft that evening. He said the group was east of
County the night of Monday, March 7, apparently was also seen by a Buffalo on 1-90 when they saw some very unusual lights to the south.
number of people in west central Michigan the next night. Tinnin said the lights were moving east. "When they got closer we
More than a dozen people responded to a story in last week's Buffalo could see the lights were coming from two airplanes," he said.
Bulletin about some strange lights which appeared over and near this com But Tinnin was the only caller who said the lights were from an
munity early on the evening of Monday, March 7. airplane. The Kaycee group saw them at about 9 p.m.
Nearly every person who called to tell about seeing the lights had one Whether or not these were the same lights observed by a number of
thing in common . . . they hod not reported the incident to authorities or other people in this area earlier in the evening is not known.
talked much about it because they were concerned others night think Most of the callers say they saw the lights about 7:30p.m.
they were either inventing a story or over-reacting to something that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holt were playing cards at their home on Klondike
.msn 'tall that unusual Drive in southwest Buffalo when they noticed the unusual lights in the
But after a story appeared in the March 17 issue of the Buffalo Bulletin, sky.
a number of people called to tell what they saw. "The lights were so bright they seemed to light up the whole area," says
John Tinnin, a Kaycee teacher, was on a school bus returning from a
Jerry Holt. "They turned to the north. We could tell it wasn't a helicopter, out of some fog in Tensleep Canyon.
but the sound we could hear was a little like an airplane." "We could see four distinct bright lights high in the sky," says Garland.
She said there were three groups of lights, and the bright ones were a When we got over Powder River Pass we could see them above the ridge
yellow-white color. Mrs. Holt said they seemed to fly right over the trees line."
in their yard. . Garland says he has seen the Air Force bombers which sometimes fly a
When It-year old Karen Tysdal went outside after her sister, she looked practice route from near Kaycee over the mountains before, but "these
up and saw some strange and bright lights in the sky. "They looked like lights were much different." He said they did not move at all like an
they were not much higher than the tops of the trees. It was really airplane. After they reached their home in Buffalo, Garland said he was
lijffil!. a ml one and ·a strange." Karen says the lights traveled to the east and out of sight. still thinking about the lights and looked out the window of his house and
saw those same lights going to the east. That was about 10 p.m.
·;~ ·A't Vth~let h~ow,ele staiid~. e y• ~•.l .t .-.. . High rate of speed
Lights were ''pulsating"
~~.~~~·· Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Clark of Buffalo \\ere traveling to Casper when
•aboutlb;c·lijtus,a. .. ~ they saw some strange I ights west of the highway a few miles north of Several of the people who watched the lights said they seemed to "pu
~~~ Kaycee. lsate" or slowly grow brighter and dimmer.
"We were near the North Fork oil field. The lights we saw reminded me Ginger Harriet said one of her children was puning their dog outside that
~~td of the very bright strobe lights you see on the smoke stack at the power evening and saw the lights. She called to her mother, and they watched the
plant near Glenrock," says Rodney. lights in the sky "glowing reddish-yellow and seeming to pulsate."
He said the groups of lights did not seemed to be connected to each Mrs. Harriet said that although the lights appeared to be some distance
other. away, they watched them for at least three or four minutes, and she had a
~~=~ "I really don't believe an airplane could fly that fast and that close to the feeling of fear about them.
·m emovttnen ground." he said. The Clarks estimate it was between 8:45 and 9 p.m. "None of the family believed it could be any kind of an airplane," she
~· •·r~ when they saw the lights. said. "We saw two groups of lights."
=:~~:''fit' Children who were in an outdoor hot tub at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Doug Wear were so startled by the lights that evening they came running Some saw them March 2
.=J\ sCan: piCked op eehoes in the house to tell their parents.
•=· •tike the echoes thunder "Our five-year-old son was very excited." says Robin Wear. "They said Phyllis Sims of Buffalo says she didn't happen to see the lights everyone
storms make't before they that whatever it was flew from the mountains right over the house." else spotted on March 7, but she had observed something like this on
•• appeared to. break·u p into The children said it traveled very fast and disappeared to the east. M"aTrchhe y2 .w ere going in a straight line south of town," she said. "I thought
pieces and disappeared/;
Not any kind of airplane it might be several airplanes flying in a row, but it seemed like a very long
Grenier sanid.i • · ·.. .. •. ...... line and didn't look like they were very far off the ground.
Bot he said the skies were. Dallas and Kassy Sanders were in a car when they saw the strange lights She said it was about 7:30p.m.
clear that corning from the direction of the mountains. Dallas says the lights were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Levinson, who live north of Kaycee, reported seeing
. Grenier s&id ~ .believed flashing and in a triangle shape. lights that same evening as they were driving into Kaycee for a meeting.
the echoes were eaused by "We must have watched them for almost five minutes," he says. They It's obvious there were many more people in the Buffalo and Kaycee
military aircJM able to lake finally moved off to the east ...a long ways away. It sure didn't look like area who saw the strange lights in the sky over Johnson County. Were
off and land vertically 2 LL any kind of an airplane or helicopter I've ever seen." they all from some kind of military airplanes? Was it some kind of natural
Col Charles 'Gilbert. &n·Air Mr. and Mrs. Ray Garland were driving east on U.S. 16 and were east phenomenon? Or, is there another explanation? For the time being, it ap
.Force liaison to the Federal of Deer Haven when they first noticed the lights. They had just come up pears no one has an answer.
Aviation AdministratiOn, said
he didn't know of any mili
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day morning near the county wasn't the ftrSt time we bad Marquette, he S8id. .. . .
NEWS BANNER, Covington, LA - March 18, 1994 CR: K. Wilson
UFO and ET interests draw a large crowd
United States. space ships. His first encount mile-per-hour pace. others have reported si~htln~.
By VICKY WILLIAMS Last weekend hundreds of er came In 1957 near an Air Mit was floating just above could not be anything created
News Banner Reporter people from all over the coun Force Base near Southbridge, the trees. I wanted to show my by a human-being. Greenen
tryandasfMawayasEnwand Maine. girlfriend, so I ran up the said excitedly. The technolo
Mits the biggest cover-up in gathered at the New Orleans He took his girlfriend horne steps, pounded on her door gy, he explained, is far too
the world." Jim Greenen. of Airport HJlton to share their after a date, Greene n recalled. and yelled, 'You've got to see advanced for any human to
Orlando, Fla., said. stories and experiences of Whlle walking to his car, he this,'" Green en said. However, comprehend.
According to Greenen and a encounters with extraterrest noticed something out of the once she walked outside, the The space ships can travel
book. Above Top Secret. writ rial beings, UFOs and circle comer of his eye. A large, space ship was gone. ·Never up to 18,000 mph, tum at a
ten by Timothy Good, there formations. metallic space ship moved mind, it was nothing," 45-degree angle and stop on a
have been over 20,000 docu Although Greenen has nev directly In front of Greenen Greenen told her. dime, he said.
mented sightlngs of Unidenti er encountered a being, he has and for the next several These space ships, that Former presidents Jimmy
fied Flying Objects in the seen several strange-looking minutes moved at a slow, two- Greenen and thousands of Carter and Ronald Reagan
have both reported such The child, obviously ill, sat and distorted face, wearing a
sightlngs, he said, both of within a glass box. she said. brown robe.
which are mentioned in Debbie Jordan and her The llttle man began tug
Good's book. Actor Dan family have also experienced ging at FerDon's feet, she said.
Aykroyd recently appeared on numerous encounters In her. She recalled kicking him in
the David Letterman show to hometown of Indianapolis, the face several Urnes. The
plug his newest movie, My Girl Ind. A book, written by Budd next thing she remembered
II. While on the show, Aykroyd Hopkins, called Intruders. was being held by her feet, as
placed Good's book on Letter chronicles several events of she dangled above her bed_
man's desk and said he saw theJordanfamily.ln the book, Suddenly, FerDon was hurled
something in Massachusetts which was also a 1V mini violently onto her bed.
which couldn't be explained. series, Jordan uses the name FerDon said she thinks she
Several ethers at the con Kathy Davis. was abducted Into another
vention reported having Her story begins on June craft for several hours. but
numerous encounters with 30, 1983, when a space ship could not recall what
unhurnan beings. According landed in the Jordan's back happened.
to Greene n there have been up yard. Jordan and her dog FerDon, years later, shared
to a 100 different races of walked Into the yMd, curious some of her stories with a
beings sighted. ly looking at the strange object friend, Gina Laurent. Laurent
Over four million people wltich left a huge bum mark also recalled many of the same
have reported being abducted on the ground. experiences.
by aliens in the United States Jordan fell to the ground Laurent has several child
alone, Greenen added. and recalled six figures, with hood memories of being
Katharlna Wllson is one of pointed chins and huge, abducted into simllar space
these. According to Wilson, beatle-llke, black eyes walking crafts as FerDon. One day,
she has encountered numer around her. They poked, whlle sitting in her church. the
ous beings since she was a pricked and prodded Jordan sight of the communion
small chlld. She refers to sev as she lay motionless on the plate's cover jarred several of
eral of them as doctors. They ground. these memories.
apparently use Wllson as a Simllar experiences were
human specirnan to study the Soon after the encounter, excitedly shared by others at
human race, she explained. Jordan and her dog lost all the conference, organized by
Wilson recently published a their hair. Both became Ul. Project Awareness. One ofthe
Eventually the dog developed
book which chronicles many directors. Buddy Crumbly.
ofthese encounters. Although large, black spots on his back along with his wife. Pat. and
which began to ooze. He later
she is sometimes contacted Vicki Lyons formed the organi
during the daylight hours. died of some type of cancer, zation as a way to bring people
whlle conscious, she is also she said. Jordan lay In bed with UFO interests and
visited during the night; extremely sick for an entire encounters together.
They have taken skin sam year. Their mission. Crumbly
ples from her arms and LaVida FerDon recalled said, is to educate the public
around her hairline. and they being abducted by beings, about UFOs.
have taken hair samples. she which when described are MWe're just trying to edu
PHOTO BY VICKY Wll.UAMS said. Wilson has also been similar to the ones Jordan cate the public that they
TELLING THEIR TALES-Several people who have exper injected, she said. encountered. (UFOs) are here," he said.
ienced ET encounters have written books about the events. MI'll feel the prick of the nee 41l ooked up in my room and Gulf Breeze. Fla.. has
Katharina Wilson (left) wrote, Alien Jigsaw and Budd Hopk dle and when I awake In the there they were,· FerDon become somewhat of a haven
in's book, The Intruders, chronicles Debbie Jordan's morning. I can see the spot on recalled. for UFO sightings and ET
story. my arm and blood on my FerDon said she was taken encounters. The town has
sheet," she said. Into a space craft. When leav gained fame over the years for
The beings sometimes Ing the craft, she saw several the vast number of reports.
wbriitnhg W cilhsiolnd.r eInn hteor bthoeo kv. iWsiltls humans being transported canE ntackoeu nptlearcse aannydw shiegrheU, nthges
son has several illustrations of within the craft. They were in a abductees and contactees
the men and children who glass cylinder compartment say. FerDon had an encounter
hedav teo vhisoiltde ds ohmere. Sohf eth ies aclhloilwd aFse rOtDhnoeeny nssiwagihedtp ,t s whpeah slltfe e Flti enrsD obomende. , saesv celroasle ytoe harosm aeg aos. Mandeville
DAILY NEWS, Anchorage, AK - Feb. 8, 1994 ren, she said. Several sick thing jump onto her and her As people move from place
CIA chief denies U.S. aItleiedn W r.ihlsioldnr.e Sno mhaevteim aelss os hvei si s whuassb athned 'sc abte;d .h Sohwee tvheor.u gahftte Irt tsoo mpela caeb dwuicttheiens tshaey cthoeuinrt rEyT.
allowed to hold them as well. opening her eyes, she found friends follow, continuing to
has_s ecret spy plane In one visit. a small, black herself face to face with a drop In to further their
child was placed before her. small, Mugly-man." with a bent research or to just have a visit.
By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. -CIA Director R. James Woolsey
on Monday denied that the U.S. government is build
c: ing a new-generation spy plane to ·replace the SR-71
~ Blackbird, which was retired during the Bush adminis PRESS-ENTERPRISE, Riverside, CA- Feb. 27, 1994
~ tration. . Was that a UFO? Probably not
..c During an appearance at Wichita State University,
.~ Woolsey was asked to comment on recent news reports
1Z that a top-secret plane dubbed the Aurora is being The Press-Enterprise hazy morning skies may have mis
fielded to provide the high-speed ·reconnaissance mis taken it for a UFO, said Tim Smith,
..J sions that the Blackbird performed. No, it probably wasn't a UFO a supervisor at Riverside Munici·
~ "That is a scam," Woolsey said. . flying over the Riverside area pal Airport's control tower. He said
~ When he said that neither he nor the secretary of the yesterday morning. At least airport the airport had not received calls
Air Force nor the secretary of defense "have ever ufllcials don't think it was.
from concerned citizens or ob
~ heard of Aurora," the questioner in his audience They believe it was an experi served the ftying object, but offi·
u wanted to know if Woolsey was implying just that the mental aircraft bound for Rubi cials did notice more activity in the
name was incorrect. doux's Flabob Airport, site of an skies, apparently from aircraft at
"The name, the project, the notion," is wrong, open house that continues today. tending the event. Riverside police
Woolsey responded in perhaps the most categorical
public denial by a senior Clinton administration "I saw it sitting there (at the reported no calls about a strange
official. . . airport) and I Ulought 'What the flying object.
Some in Congress have questioned the wisdom of heck is that?' " said Ron Caraway, "It's a real unique design," Cara
retiring the Blackbird and leaving the United States a member of the Experimental way said.
with no high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance plane Aircnd't ASsociation, the group 7
t. supplement the intelligenc-e-gathering contd.buti.ons hostfns tb• cpen house.
of-&PY satcellites. 'lltasewhosaw the craft with the
trlM~ilying through the
EVENING NEWS. St. Ignace. Ml -March 17. 1994 CR: N. Fisk
UFO researchers investigate Michigan sightings
Reports continue to filter in from witnesses red lights. Lee Lamberts, sports editor for outside." She said she and her hus
"What we saw was not a whole The Holland Sentinel newspaper, band saw a slow-moving, low-fly
MUSKEGON (AP) - Darrell ter Andrus, director of the Texas craft, but the bottom of it, turning saw intense lights flying in a ing craft hovering about 100 feet
and Holly Graves of Holland would based international Mutual UFO in a clockwise boomerang above the treetops.
like to know more about that huge Network. motion," Mrs. shaped forma Some reported the object or ob
round aircraft with the white and What makes the case so unusual, Graves said. ''It is, right now, tion about the jects to be slow moving, but radar
red lights they saw hovering over a Andrus says, is that the sightings "People might the hottest same time. trackings showed it to move 10
neighbor's home last week. seem to coincide with unexplained think we're nuts, "The miles in just 10 seconds.
case we have
UFO researchers are descending radar trackings from the National but we're not." formation (of Shirley Coyne, state director of
on southwestern Michigan this Weather Service office in The family in the country." lights) stayed the Mutual UFO Network, said that
week as reports continue to filter in Muskegon. called police and perfect,'' Lam of the hundreds of sightings report
from dozens of people who say "It was the weirdest thing I saw a responding of - Walter Andrus, berts said. "It ed each year, most are resolved
they saw something unusual in the in my life,'' said Holly Graves, ficer saw lights director, Mutual UFO Network sounded dis- with conventional explanations.
night sky March 8 from Grand who ran to the window with her in the distance tinctly like one However, a number remain unex
Rapids to the Lake Michigan shore husband after their 14-year-old son and contacted the jet, but there plained.
line between Muskegon and South screamed. National Weather Service office, were half a dozen lights, up to 10." "We've had some very good
Haven. Hovering just above tree level which, in tum, notified the Mutual Randy Murphy of Ada said her cases in the state,'' Coyne said.
"It is, right now, the hottest case across the road was a huge, rotating UFO Network after picking up sig husband awakened her Tuesday "We know things are going on up
we have in the country," said Wal- globe-shaped object with white and nals on radar. night to tell her "there's a UFO and down the lake all the time.''
MORNING NEWS. Dallas. TX - March 24. 1994
Is
that just a twinkle in your sky, or is space
Are flying sau suburban Washington, D.C., gives a prize them. Maybe they don't. Maybe those flick
invading?
cers making a big for the best UFO-related journalism. This ering things in the sky are our taxpayer
comeback? year's winner is a Santa Barbara (Calif.) supported experimental flying machines.
That's right. A News-Press report on the mental health Maybe it's just the neighborhood prankster
big comeback - be profession's debate over UFO abduction having fun with a helium balloon and a
yond the covers of phenomenon. Think about it. You'd have to spotlight. Who knows?
tabloids and cheesy be awfully sure of yourself to report a UFO. R-N.M., requested a General Accounting Of
Based on recent developments in the
sci-fi movies. Locally, Cheyenne Turner, who runs fice investigation of the famed "Roswell
field (maybe above the field), Cheyenne
For some people, The Eclectic Viewpoint, an organization Incident," the alleged 1947 crash of a flying
says, "There's much more official interest
they never went which describes itself as a "forum of ex saucer near Corona, N.M. - some contend
in UFOs."
away. There are traordinary science, unusual phenomena the wreckage was taken to Carswell Air
What have we got to lose by looking?
peQple who still don't know what they saw. and diverse perspectives," bas booked a Force Base in Fort Worth. Mr. Schiff asked
Maybe something will turn up that we
~er it was, it still casts a shadow on UFO-cattle mutilation lecture Friday. (It didn't expect. the GAO to step in after he felt the Defense
theb: lives. Unidentified Flying Objects - begins at 8 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, LBJ Department was stonewalling him by tell
U5'0&1 Who knows? at Midway Road. Call 601-7687. Tickets are Here are a few recent UFO-related items: ing him to go ask the National Archives.
$15.) • On March 8, there were reports of The Archives responded that "we have not
Jtireasy for those of us who have never The guest speaker will be Dr. John AI· huge, strangely lighted objects hovering located any documents related ·to this
see.r • UFO - THAT WE KNOW OF! - to tshuler, a hematologist and pathologist over western Michigan. These sightings, event in the (Air Force's) Project Blue
scOff;. Those lights slowly passing overhead from Englewood, Colo., who first encoun near Holland, Mich., were reported by Book records or in any other pertinent
on a lonesome Texas blacktop way after tered alleged UFO-cattle mutilation cases Reuters and The Associated Press. At first Defense Department records in our custo
midnight probably belonged to airplanes. in the. late '60s. Some people think occu it was reported that the National Weather dy."
Surely. But when you read about a sight· pants of UFOs are responsible for strange Service radar in Muskegon spotted unusual
in.&, does the label "nut case" come to cases of animal mutilation in remote areas. echoes at the same time. A few days later, Project Blue Book was the Air Force's
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.aoa'tknow the people involved and (b) we their blood. Maybe they don't. Maybe UFOs draw comments equating the blips with sightings, there was no proof that anybody
dicta.~ fee what they saw. do zip into rural areas and beam puzzled UFOs. "out there" was threatening national secu
lldl year the Fund for UFO Research in humans aboard to perform experiments on • In January, U.S. Rep. Steve Schiff, rity.
• Omni magazine, described as "the
nation's leading consumer science publica
tion," bas begun "Project Open Book," sort
of a rebuttal to Project Blue Book. The lead
story in the magazine's April issue claims
MORNING NEWS. Springdale, AR -March 31. 1994 CR: J. Walker that a 40-year conspiracy has kept Ameri
UFO Event Linda Moulton Howe (film producer number of them," Farish said. cans in the dark about UFOs. The magazine
and author of the new book "Glimp- Author and Emmy-winning film plans five more issues exploring UFOs and
ses of Other Realities, Vol. I: Facts producer Howe is probably one of the alleged cover-ups. Also, its Project Open
Starts Friday and Eyewitnesses"), Lynn Bishop (an better-known speakers. "She con Book will catalog UFO sightings and en
abductee from northern Arkansas counters through the America Online com
ceived the idea for the program
with the manuscript "A Fearful Sym puter network.
'Sightings' on the Fox network."
In Eureka metty" being considered for publica according to Farish. Any reader reaction? An Omnf staffer
tion), Antonio Hueeus (journalist and
"She was responsible for the con said, "There's been a lot of response," be
UFO columnist for Fate magazine),
cept, which led to the (television) fore insisting that all official comment
Stuart S. Penn Katharina Wilson (an abductee from pilot," he said. "She'll talk about should come from magazine spokeswoman
Special to The Morning News Oregon who will discuss her lifelong cattle mutilations, crop circles and Aliki Besson in New York. Ms. Besson said,
involvement with alien beings) and UFO abductions." however, that the issue hadn't been on the
EUREKA SPRINGS - Mysteri· Robert E. Reid (a retired Air Force People may have seen her video "A stands long enough to gauge the response.
ous crop circles in Rorida. human colonel with an update on the Gulf Strange Harvest," while her book, Surely this isn't part of the UFO cover-up
abductions by flying saucers, cattle Breeze, Fla., UFO events). "Glimpse Of Other Realities," has a just kidding.
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countries including Russia-to par Ozark UFO Conference. annual event, the contacts people heed the advice of the 1951 flying saucer
ticipate in this annual update on visi "Ed Mazur was instrumental in make go on throughout the year in movie classic, The Thing From Another
tors from other planets and bey"nd. starting it," Farish said. "He's just Northwest Arkansas and around the World: "Keep watching the skies."
country.
'The fust year we had 26 states," been interested in this subject for a
said conference coordinator Lucius long time, as I have. Ed has seen vari "We have at least a couple of dis
Farish last weekend regarding the ous things both here (in Arkansas) cussion groups that meet," Farish
gathering's 1989 beginning. "George and in Florida. I've seen some unusu said. "There's one in Springdale that
Wingfield from England speaks al lights and distant objects that I meets monthly. Shirley Riccardi
every year." couldn't identify." organizes them, and she tells me she
has a number of people who attend
In addition to Wingfield (a former However, seeing unusual objects
who have had an (alien) abduction
systems engineer and computer anal the size of football fields hovering in
experience."
yst for IBM-UK, plus editor of Cere the sky and being abducted are two 8
alogist and a leading crop circle totally different things. Bishop, of For more information on the UFO
researcher) this year's scheduled northern Arkansas, and Wilson will conference, call 354-2558. To con
speake-.rs includes Robert Emenegger both give talks on their experiences. tact Shirley Riccardi about her
(ftlmmaker and author of the book "And we have other people in the monthly UFO discussion group, call
"lJPOs: Past, Present and Future"), state who have been abducted- a 751-4287.
AIR FORCE TUMES, Springfield, VA- March 21, 1994 CR: D. Connelly
Unsolved mystery rattles Congress
Lawmaker seeks ing the incident is the result of human gull·
ibility and the ineptitude of a few military
answers: What officers.
James Oberg, a space engineer and au
thor in Houston, suggested in a Feb. 22
landed in Roswell? telephone interview that those who claim
to have been witnesses sincerely may be
By Will Schermerhorn lieve that what crashed at Roswell was of
special to the Times unearthly origin. The Roswell debris was
WASHINGTON - Exactly what hap· discovered just weeks after the first modern
pened on that summer day in 1947 in Ros observation of what came to be known as
well, N.M.? flying saucers, and there were reports of
Steven Schiff, a Re UFO sightings from around the world
publican congressman In the midst of fly·
from New Mexico and ing-saucer mania. ex·
a colonel in the Air cited civilians and mil
Force Reserve, wants itary personnel
to know. But he is not probably jumped to
getting any answers. conclusions about un
A year ago, several usual debris and "off
they went," Oberg
constituents asked
him to look into a said
July 1947 crash near Robert Sheaffer, a
Schiff Roswell Army Air writer for the Skepti
Field At the time, an cal Inquirer, the jour- Oberg
Army Air Forces spokesman said a "flying nal of the Committee
for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of
disk" had crashed in a rancher's field The
service quickly changed that explanation the Paranormal, said in a Feb. 23 telephone
and said a weather balloon had landed in interview that he suspects the early mis
the field identification of a weather balloon as a "fly
But many people still believe the initial ing disk" shauied Army Air Forces officials.
assessment was correct and that an alien "They spoke before they bad their brains
in gear, and it was embaiTassing," he said,
spaoocraft crashed. complete with the dead
or dying alien crew. The government, they adding that it is not surprising the files
believe, has kept the discovery secret. cannot be found "Do you keep every file
A weather balloon, or a flying saucer? you've worked on for 50 years?"
Schiff figured the Defense Department 'Sensational speculation'
would reaffirm its balloon story and "that Schiff said he has not come to a conclu
would be that." sion about the ·incident. His letters to the
But in the year that has followed. Schiff Department of Defense did not mention the
has gotten nowhere, and his search for in· theory that the crash was that of a space
formation has created a stir in Congress craft; but he did say the department's si
and the media lence has led to "sensational speculation."
Schiff has tried to get information and "This is not a UFO hunt," Schiff said
has asked for help from Congress' investi "This is a file hunt. The idea of alien space
gative arm, the General Accounting Office. craft is not my first explanation for any of
In March 1993, Schiff wrote to then-Sec this. ... It's possible it was a weather bal
retary of Defense Les Aspin asking for a loon. attended by a public relations fiasco."
personal briefmg and a report on all actions The man who made the initial announce
taken on the Roswell matter. Schiff re ment that the wreckage of a "flying disk"
ceived replies from Col. Larry G. Shockley s had been discovered was Lt. Walter Haut,
of the office of the assistant secretary of de -----.....:;._ _) { public infonnation officer at the air field.
fense for legislative affairs and from Rudy ~ He had been told to release a statement
de Leon, special assistant to the defense ~ about the wreckage by Col. William H.
secretary. ~ Blanchard, commander of the 509th Bomb
~ Group (Atomic). A few hours after Haut's
Sent to the Archives L--------------------l:!.....--~------~ announcement, Gen. Roger M. Ramey,
Both referred Schiff to the National Ar commander of the 8th Air Force, told re
chives and Record Administration. De Leon 'Flying disk': Former Lt. Walter Haut made the announcement that the wreckage of a porters in Fort Worth that the wreckage
said the records Schiff sought are too old to "flying disk" had been discovered at Roswell Army Air Field, N.M., in July 1947. was that of a weather balloon.
be available at the Pentagon. II_ _______________________ __ Haut, now 71 and a resident of Roswell,
Schiff was not satisfied and wrote to As said in a telephone interview that Blan
pin in May and August, demanding that chru-d and his superiors in Texas and Wash
the Defense Department conduct the re ington had had the materials for two days
search into the incident and produce a de This is not a UFO hunt. This is a file hunt. before the press release wa8 ordered. Cer
tailed report for him. tainly, military personnel could have deter
In May, Schiff also received a letter from [A]l ien spacecraft is not my fitSt explanation. mined within two days whether the materi
R Michael McReynolds, director of the tex als were from a weather balloon. Haut said.
tual reference division of the National Ar -Rep. Steven H. Schiff, R-N.M. That makes the retraction a few hours af
chives. McReynolds said the Air Force had ter the first announcement even more sus
turned over to the archives all records of its pect, he said.
H
investigation into unidentified flying ob Haut said he has conta.."1;ed the Air Force,
jects, called Project Blue Book, but nothing the Department of Defense, the CIA. the
related to the Roswell incident was among White House and the National Archives in
them or any other Defense Department re publicity in the press that he said rivals al A large part of the reason for the atten a fruitless attempt to get answers about the
cords in the archives. most anything he has been involved with in tion is that the 1947 Roswell incident is, to incident.
Until last year, Schiff said, he never had his five years in the House of Representa some, the Holy Grail of UFO incidents. Schiff, Haut predicted, "is going to run
any trouble getting help for constituents tives. By mid-Februar.Y., he had received Many believe the wreckage of an alien into a stone wall. Somewhere, there is ma
from a variety of government agencies. His about 50 letters from New Mexicans and spacecraft and the remains of its occupants terial. Somewhere, there are communica
request and failure so far to find files on others on the matter plus numerous re are being kept under wraps by the military. tions, photographs and the like. But
the Roswell· crash have ignited a flare of quests for interviews with reporters. Others believe the controversy surround- where?"
DISPATCH. Columbus, OH - April II, 1994 CR: J. Fry
UFO rumor still hovers over Wright-Patterson
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reporters. and never has been. But that doesn't had been testing. ""That's what's bothersome to us. We
But later that day, base officials wash with those who have devoted But Glenn Dennis, 69, then a can"t get any facts to nail it down."
announced it was the remnants of a years of investigation to the "Ros mortician in Roswell, said an Almv Miller said it was possible at
weather radar balloon that had been well Incident" nurse stationed at the base told him tempts were made to keep details of
found. the crash secret
Haut didn't believe them. He SchiffL, aRst- Ny.Mea.,r , asUke.Sd . thRee pP. enStatgeovne "thhree e atbtoednidese dt hatht ed oecxtoarms insaaitdi onw eroef "But it's not conceivable ""ithin 9
still doesn't for its records on the crash after "deftnitely not from this planet'" an intelligence organization that you
"I think it was an extremely constituents and others pres..."fff him The nurse, whom he would not would not be able to find some
well-planned coverup," he said. for an explanation. identify, told him the small bodies thread of that,"' he said.
The military disputes claims by Schiff said the Pentagon re- had large head~ anrl finger" \\ith Bruce Ashcroft, historian for
from his kind'
~hermit
Travis Walton wauldn 't take that journey again
=
u
I f he had it to do over, Travis Walton
'3, says he would stay in the truck.
01 This is the Snowflake resident
who five friends say was taken up in some
kind of spaceship on a lonely mountain
0
N road almost 20 years ago. Walton himself
..c described the encounter when he was
~ found nearby,. terrified and disoriented.
~ All the men took polygraphs - and
passed.
I believe Walton.
~ This alienates me, as it were, from USA SCHNEBLYH Elm
some bright people I respect who say we
don't get visitors from other realms. But Special for The Arizona Republic
.~ it is in line with other equally intelligent
g
views that it would be arrogant to assume
o we know enough about the universe to tell
f
whether or not we live alone out here. he believe stories of space kidnappers -
These are not questions Walton set out some lurid testimonials about women
u to answer when he drove down the rutted impregnated by aliens? There's a pause.
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It was November of 1975. His best friend position of fmgcr pointing," he says. "I'm
~ Mike was the crew foreman. From when not really in a position to comment on
Travis disappeared until he turned up,
;!j gossip pointed a crooked finger at Mike other people's experiences."
NO and the other men as murderers. areI abse luinevreep colortseed e ansc oduantet errasp oe,f bmeocsatu ksein ds
H An autobiographical book called The we are afraid of being alienated and
~ Walton Experience tells the story as
typecast as hysterical crackpots. It is that
Travis remembers it. But it's almost
reaction, Walton says, that would keep
impossible to find, until it's reprinted this
him from getting out of the pickup to see
spring. A movie called Fire In The Sky
the huge glowing light up close, if he
tells the story as Hollywood sees it. Is it
could live that night 19 years ago over
accurate?
again.
"As good as you can get out of
"It just completely changed everything.
Hollywood these days," Walton says. I
No aspect of my life could ever be the
watched it, and called him back,
same again," he says. ''To a great extent,
horrified. I'd always wanted to believe
it's because of people's reactions."
that a civilization can't achieve space
travel until it's no longer wasting energy He's lived in Snowflake for about 25
fighting; only peaceful races working years, and used to be the last to leave a
together can make the jump from moon party and the first to start a conversation.
landings to galaxy crossings. Was the "Now I try to keep to myself; don't
aliens' ship really so dilapidated? Were socialize. Sometimes, I've thought about Travis Walton: "Now I try to keep to myself; don't socialize."
they so cruel when they examined him? getting up and going, but I wasn't about
And were those catacombs with to be run out."
decomposing bodies of earlier alien fmds But Walton doesn't blame Snowflake.
real? "Say what you will about small towns, who married Mike's sister. "He didn't Explorers and those who dare have
No. but I would have gotten the same reaction come." always been ridiculed; told to stay home
"It was a sterile environment," Walton in the city." Walton says not a day goes by that he and get over it. Someday, I believe
says. "They didn't actually hurt me. They Walton isn't a new-age dreamer or a doesn't think of the experience, and he Walton will rank with the earliest
had larger eyes and smoother skin than in braggart. He speaks simply; he seems can't calculate how it changed his life. stragglers in other venues we now take for
the movie, and they wore coveralls." humbler, and nicer, than he would have "It's like the road took one direction, granted that were heretical at their
But it seemed painful at the time been if his life had continued on its casual and we don't know where the other ones beginnings. I am reminded of another
because of the terror; Walton was like a rural course. He has a low voice with the would go," he says. Arizonan who connected with the stars:
baby being handled by an unknown flat rich tenor of northern Arizona. He I believe Walton when he says he Percival Lowell. Inscribed on his
doctor under bright lights. No matter married the woman he was engaged to at would choose to be cautious instead of mausoleum on Mars Hill in Flagstaff,
how compassionate the treatment, it the time of the incident, and they have curious given the chance again. But I where he did the work leading to Pluto's
seems horrible to the startled defenseless four children. But his friend Mike may wonder if Cortez wouldn't have stayed discovery, is something Lowell said about
subject with no context for this have been even more scarred than Walton out of what is now Arizona if he could himself-and I believe about Travis
experience. himself. In the movie, disillusioned that Walton:
have foretold the loss of life and illusions
Walton doesn't talk about all this townspeople suspect him of murder and " ... to see into the beyond requires
much. He doesn't go to conventions to then don't believe the alien abduction that awaited him. If John Wesley Powell purity ... and the securing of it makes
meet other people with alien-abduction happened, Mike becomes a recluse in a would have turned back from running the him perforce a hermit from his kind ...
stories, although he's been asked. He forest shack. The real-life Mike has Colorado River through the Grand for in common with most explorers, he
works again at the mill where he was moved to another town, Walton says, but Canyon had he known he would lose will encounter on his return ... the
foreman before, although he's had to start the pieces of his life never fit the same beloved crew members. If pioneers who certainty of being disbelieved."
at the bottom again. way. came to Arizona would have stayed in
"My way of coping is just to put it in a "Our families got together at Boston had they been able to see in Lisa Schnebly Heidinger is a Phoenix writer.
box, and put it behind me," he says. Does Christmas and New Year's," says Walton, advance the searing desolation. Her column appears every Sunday.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, Denver, CO - Feb. 6, 1994 CR: K. & K. Hanohano
KLAM-ITY KOURIER, Willow Creek, CA - Jan. 12, 1994
Rocky Mountain Memories
More See area have seen objeets which
••• were unidentified, and thus
must be referred to as UFOs.
By Frances Melrose UFOs in
Jim Reynolds ofOrlenm and
his son have seen rtlore than one
Requests fly in for UFO information K-T Area and even have a Video of one
they saw on Dec. 27.
Last week, the word got out
Cleve Bolgrien and his wife,
it with, but we could see that it of 1891. that a Willow Creek resident
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experience. "We could see it revolve. It left back by mail informing us of our manager, did not seem overly took off it did so "at a rnte of
bu. Tt whee hthanindkw trhitei nmgo isn thha ,irsd Atou rgeuasdt,. ac oturladi l soef el igphlta ibnelyh inlodn igt , aafntde r wiet mtioisnt oakne t haen fdl yoinffge srianugc enro o fi n1f8o8r4m. a etol abtee din t thhaet p tahpee nr,e bwust wwiatsh gsooimnge speed n~ airplane could mnt('h."
The date is the 14th, and the year should have been dark. While it Any information about the prodding he admitted, yes, he "''ve neve1· believed in them
189"1O. nK inTgh wurrsodtea:y , the 14th of wif aist wine sreig shut rervoeurnydtehdin bgy l oao ykeeldl oaws Breecnekiveelmd agnra teepfiuslolyd.e also would be and his wife and grandson had (toUlFd OTsh)e u Knotiulr Ii esra. w one," K~tthy
tAhuegreu satp p1e8a9r1e,d jtuhset satrbaoruigt esstu tnhsientg, lhiagvhet. nIto woanse veelrsye sthtraatn sgaew, a int,d awnde Frances Melrose is the Rocky bmeacloimgnee dp garrot uopf ktnhoew sno mase "tUimFeOs The Reynolds and Bolgriens
I ever saw. It had been raining, and have never found out what it Mountain News historical colum Watchers", for better or worse. don't have any e:xplnnnticm for
the sky was covered with thick was." nist. Write to her at 400 W Colfax This week, it was learned that they saw, but one thing they
black clouds when we discovered Now that's one for our readers, Ave., Derzver80204. others in the KJamath-Trinity know-they saw them. 10
that a large body was moving isn't it? Maybe someone knows of -------------
about in the heavens. a comet or other phenomenon tlrat
"We had no telescope to look at occurred in the area the summer