UFO Newsclipping Service 1996 01 no 318

20 Pages·1996·17.7 MB·English

DESERET NEWS, Salt Lake City, UT- Nov. 30/Dec. I, 1995 CR: Z. Van Eyck DAILY REPUBLICAN REGISTER, Mount Carmel, IL
Oct. 19, 1995
1¥JESQUITE, NEV.
'UFOs' may have been
Colorado man and his films
area Air National Guard
bring UFO meet back to earth
By Bob Livingston 7:05 p.m. Wednesday. "I saw
DRR StafT Writer them while standing outside my
Apparently what is a routine shop," he said.
training exercise for the In He added that other people in
Footage ofs ighting is big Edwards said a si.rnilar object this," said Heseman, echoing the diana Air National Guard unit the county that he has talked to
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theories and postulations. Colo., and Las Vegas, and has been sure this is an authentic film of a County residents believing that "I reported it to the police,
videotaped in the skies above UFO." Unidentified Flying Objects are and Channel 7 (in Evansville).
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explanations for the creation of the were five more, then after &10 there were no blinking lights,"
universe and the origin of Homo minutes, I saw six more, three he said.
sapiens, the mild-mannered res in each bunch," said Bill Rod Rodgers said he did see some
taurateur from Salida, Colo., gers, who lives in northwest jets criss-crossing the sky.
brought conventioneers back to Wabash County. "They were obviously looking
Earth with extensive home video Rodgers said he saw them for something; they were going
footage of a UFO. REGISTER, Mobile, AL -Oct. 22, 1995 from approximately 6:45 p.m. to
ouTtsaidkee nth ine Edadywliagrhdts o hno Amueg, .t h2e7 Jay Grelen FyTffhe a-t-wpaosp tuhlea tmioonn atbhO tuhta t aRlold gdeirsr.e ctions." said cOeffiivcee ds aside vtehreayl hacda llrse .
video shows a disc-or cigar-shaped 1;400-temporarily became "I just wonder if the That person said the
object hovering-then darting the UFO capital of the world. government might know Army National Guard
about-in the skies above Salida. It all began Feb. 10, 1989, more about what's going unit out of Lawrence
A series of ripples or moving lights with a telephone caller report on than we do, but if ville was conducting
are seen to rotate from left to right ing a UFO to Fyffe's four-man they do they won't tell," some type of exercise.
on the object, which stayed just police force. he continued. "It would However, Sergeant
above the morning sun while Ed Chief Junior Garmany and be kind of strange that First Class Jerry Rigg of
wards, his daughter and four con his assistant, Fred Works; there would be that the Lawrenceville unit
struction workers watched in drove into the countryside and many aircraft." said, "We haven't done
amazement. saw it for themselves. Rodgers said his wife anything at night since
Other footage Edwards took on Then others began to report also saw the lights as last spring."
Sept. 25, and subsequent videos, sightings, and that was all it she was driving home. Sgt. Rigg did say that
shows small, white spheres emerg Staff Columnist took. UFO watchers and re "I'm going out again, the ANG unit from
ing from the object. porters from :all over poured with a camera, and Terre Haute was "shoot
Edwards told an audience of Close into town. On the biggest when I get the pictures ing test shots."
about 300 here Wednesday night night, 4,500 people flooded developed I'll send them "It's kind of a rocket.
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said he is convinced the intelli calls her, remembers it well. "I "There are other peo with my wife," he said.
gence behind the moving objects is the Fyffe kind heard there was a banana ple that had to have The Rigg family re
of extraterrestrial origin. floating through Fyffe," she seen them," he said. sides in Bellmont.
"I never gave much thought to says. "This neighbor and I Calls to Sheriff "They have a range
UFOs before this happened. When FYFFE - The moon is full went riding. We was riding on A check with the Mt. they fly over near Red
something this unusual happens, over the Fyffe Diner, formerly a dirt road way over in the Carmel Police Depart Hill," Rigg continued.
~our life is completely changed in the UFO Diner, when I ask country when we saw it. ment revealed no calls ''I've seen this stuff be
a moment," said Edwards, 42, who Brenda Bryan if she had seen to that office, but a fore; it's strictly routine.
runs the small cafe his father the UFOs. "People had been talking spokesperson for the They do it quite often."
about it, and there it was, and
started 18 years ago. "It's been a She laughs. But she doesn't Wabash County Sheriff's
we were out here in the woolly
very emotional and stressful time, just laugh. She's out of control.
boogers.
but I've never felt better about life. "I didn't," she whoops, "see
I'm totally honored to be a part of nothing!" "I turned the lights off.-1 D--ea·-t·-hs
'!¥hat's transpiring. __ Then she goes over to a ta didn't turn the motor off. I was
The entire San Luis Valley of bleful of customers who are scared to. I couldn't really tell
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HERALD, Sewickley, PA - Nov. 8, 1995
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Moore devotes his life to solving_U FO mystery
W~i~
trips to New Mexico to interview
witnesses first hand. What they
learned through the interviews was
July 2, 1947, in that all of the people recall the same
. ~: · , the Board of event and that pieces of the puzzle
. · ·.: decided rehabili- obtained through these interviews fit
. : ·. . •. • of the town clock together very nicely .
Something did crash in Roswell in
•. •· .•.. :. .•.. ·. ... • : •.• •·. Methodist Church
· · · ·• ·· · · •· ·· ·· ·· ·· was in its scope 1947. But even Moore, like other
and began to raise money for the investigators, concede they lack one
clock's repair. very significant element: physical
But on that same dark, stormy evidence.
night far off iii a remote section of He says talk of a crash of a
the central New Mexico desert near weather balloon is "covenient."
a town called Roswell, an event Moore is quick to cite that the
occurred that has captured the NYU and Cambridge MIT projects
attention of Sewickley native Will were based 80 miles south-southwest
iam Moore for the past 18 years. of the crash site and launching of
"Something crashed to the earth research balloons were held from Ft.
or had to have happened," says Bliss/El Paso, Texas, but they all
Moore, 55, a 1961 graduate of Quaker "hold no water."
Valley Senior High School. "But
Wreckage and aliens?.
what it was has been a matter of
conjecture for 48 years."
A former high school teacher, Moore and Friedman interviewed
Moore has focused his energies full Marcel in 1979, and they asked him if
time since 1979 to research and he had personally seen a crashed
writing trying to figure out why UFO? Marcel replied that he saw
elements of the U.S. military and wreckage, but no complete machine
federal government exhibited such and contends that it must have
bizarre behavior concerning what is INVESTIGATING AN alleged UFO landing site in the California Mojave exploded in the air.
now the most famous UFO case in When asked if it was a weather
Desert with a Geiger counter is William Moore.
the nation's history, "The Roswell balloon, Marcel said "It was not."
Incident." He described the wreckage "as all
kinds of stuff" with small beams
UFO crash? otatlhke rtos wrehpoo hrtaedr sb, eaennd o ins stuheed p ala pnree nsso t to UFO or balloon? with some kind of hieroglyphics on
them that could not be deciphered.
release stating that everything was a
The question still remains 48 years Marcel said it looked like balsa wood
On that July 2nd evening, a misunderstanding and that what had later. Did a UFO crash near Roswell in -very hard, although flexible, but
bright, disc-shaped object passed been recovered was nothing more than the summer of 1947? Has the wreckage would not burn. The metal that was
low over the city of Roswell, travel a weather balloon with an attached and possibly the remains of recovered found resembled tinfoil in a pack of.
ling in a northwesterly direction. tinfoil radar target.
alien bodies been concealed by the U.S. cigarettes, but it would not bend.
More than a 100 UfO ~tings were However, the real wreckage was be government beneath a heavy blanket of As for accounts of alien bodies
reported that week. lieved to be on its
secrecy ever being found, according to Gray
But 75 miles northwest of way to Wright since? Barker of "UFO Report, May 1977,"
Roswell, a flying object, very Field under
So what has a Baron Nicholas von Poppen was
possibly the same one, seems to armed guard. Moore con employed by military authorities to
have suffered a huge explosion Brazel, the cluded? photograph the damage saucer.
which resulted in the crash of a rancher who had "Something Von Poppen said still strapped in
strange device. discovered the
crashed in July each of the four seats was a dead
The wreckage was discovered the crash, was picked of 1947 near a body, varying in height from 2 to 4
following morning by a local up and taken out
remote ranch feet. He said the faces of all four
rancher, "Mac" Brazel, in the of circulation for
near Roswell, were white, they wore shiny black
company of his two children. a week and the New Mexico," attire, one-piece outfits without
Brazel had no means of communi ranch site was says Moore. pockets and closely gathered at their
cation, so he did not report his picked clean of "The military feet, and their hands were human
discovery until days later when he every shred of de
knew of the like soft, complete with five digits
went to Roswell. bris and other evi
A preliminary investigation was dence. crash. It became and normal looking joints.
involved. A
undertaken and a quantity of the A news leak out
wreckage was subsequently recov of Albuquerque series of state To believe or not believe?
ments were
ered by Maj. Jesse Marcel, in via press wire to
made to the
company of counter-intelligence the effect that this So after all his years of investigat
press."
corps officer "Cav" Cavitt. was going on was ing Roswell and other encounters,
And that's
Upon their return to the airbase, plugged by inter does Moore believe in UFO's ?
an official press statement was rupting the trans when Moore, "It is not a belief system," he
over a pizza one
released by Lt. Walter Haut, a base mission and then counters.
cold Minnesota
public information officer, to the warning the radio So why is Roswell's lure continues
station in ques- A SKETCH of an alien believed to be night with Stan
effect that the wreckage of flying to be its mystery? Says Moore:
saucer had been discovered by the tion, and one an- found at the Roswell crash site. Friedman, a "Direct examination of psychologi
Army Air Force north of Roswell. other, not to lecturer at a cally healthy people shows pretty
Marcel was then ordered to load broadcast the local university, clearly that they are positively
decided to piece
the debris on a B-29 and fly it to item. attracted to the mysterious, to the
together the story.
Wright Field in Ohio for examina Ramey quickly diverted attention to unknown, to the puzzling and unex
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TexUapso. n arrival in Ft. Worth, Gen. dbaislclooovne.r eTdh ew naes w-simn efanc bt o-uag hwt ehaisth setro ry athbeo utetl ethpeh oinncei dwehnot. pMroovried ethda inn f3o0r omf ation w(Baasc kdgerroivuendd ifnrfoomrm aMtiooonr feo'sr th"iRse sftloercy
Roger Ramey took charge of the without much questioning and all was them had first-hand involvement. tions of the 'Roswell Incident:' IS Years
wreckage, ordered Marcel and secure by the next morning. Then in 1979, Moore and Friedman of Research and Controversy," and
made the first of literally dozens of "The Roswell Incident.")
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DESERET NEWS, Salt Lake
ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL - Dec. 6, 1995
City, UT - Nov. 29, 1995
CR: Z. Van Eyck
Encounters
will occur, By Carole
ufologlst says
Mysterious Light "Lands" on level in our line of view with the one could clearly observe tree Air Station, Pensacola and the Air
Deer Point tip of Deer Point. We were all trunks and the outline of bushes in Operations Duty Officer told me
By Zack Van Eyck
On the night of November 21, struck by the intensity and bright front of the light itself. This led that Search and Rescue had been
Deseret News staff writer
1995 a group of skywatchers ness of this light. It burned so the group of observers to believe in the area looking for the crew of
MESQUITE, Nev.-To some,
assembled at Shoreline Park. I brightly, like magnesium, only it that the light was over Deer Point a capsized boat. The capsized boat
people who believe in UFOs are
arrived with a companion at was a very definite amber color proper and not beyond it over the was ten miles out in the Gulf of
freaks and nut cases.
To others, like former Air Force approximately 7:25 p.m. and and about a half-inch across at water or Santa Rosa Island. This Mexico, not in Santa Rosa Sound,
pilot and staff scientist Donald M. another skywatcher anived just a arm's length. It was located just would appear to be confirmed by or on land at Deer Point.
Ware, they are enlightened souls few minutes later. One skywatcher about a degree above the horizon, a later observation of a barge, A cursory physical investiga
who must serve as harbingers of a was already there and as we were if not less, and was pulsating regu brightly lit travelling west. As the tion of the area of the woods at the
dramatic shift in global conscious getting our gear from our cars, we larly. Through binoculars you barge proceeded past Dear Point, end of Deer Point was made on
ness. were approached by another, Gene could clearly see some sky behind the trees, the lights on it Wednesday, November 22 by one
Ware is convinced extraterres McDonald, from Acadia, CA who beneath it and then the land and were almost completely obliterat of the skywatch group, but no
trials have made repeated contact had been at the Park for some water. I was also able to discern ed by the undergrowth and trees. obvious physical traces were visi
with earthlings over the centuries
time. He told us he had just seen some shape, it seemed to have a The total duration of the sightings ble. It should be noted that there
and that the frequency and magni
tude of that interaction is increas an extremely bright amber light rounded top and an uneven but was between five and six minutes. was no equipment available at the
ing rapidly in the 1990s. out over the bay between Deer rather flattened bottom. It sat, As an interesting adjunct, about time to measure possible magnetic
He told participants at the fifth Point and Santa Rosa Island. "I motionless, as we all watched in five minutes after the sighting was ar radiation anomalies and that
annual International UFO Con thought it was a light on a boat at amazement for about three min over, two military helicopters in parts of the woods are rather
gress convention here Tuesday ftrst, although it seemed far too utes. Then, another, similar light very close formation came from dense and impenetrable. Two resi
they have a responsibility to help bright," Gene stated. 'Then it rose appeared over the south end of the direction of the Naval Air dents who live adjacent to the area
prepare others for worldwide straight up in the sky, moved left Deer Point. At first, we all debated Station, flying low over Deer were also interviewed but had
close encounters. then right and just blinked out! whether it was beyond Deer Point, Point and shining their search nothing unusual to report.
"It's a transformation of con
Then I knew it was not a light on a over the water, or over Santa Rosa beams down on the exact spot in The Pensacola/Gulf Breeze
sciousness from thinking of our
selves as a member of a nation on boat!" The other skywatcher who Island, further west. As we the woods where we had seen the MUFON group would welcome
planet Earth to thinking of our had been present did not see what watched both lighls, the first one, light disappear. Could it be that any further information anyone
selves as a member of planet Gene saw, probably because it over Santa Rosa Island faded out. someone at Naval Air Station has can provide regarding this sight
Earth, equal partner in an associa was low to the horizon and The second one over Deer Point also witnessed these strange ing. Please call the hotline number
tion of worlds," Ware told an audi obscured from her viewpoint. "It remained, strong and steady, pul lights? It seems odd that these shown below.
ence of several hundred in an was gone before I could get her sating like the first. As we helicopters would search the exact To report a sighting please call
afternoon lecture at the Oasis Re attention," Gene said. Agreeing to watched through binoculars, it spot otherwise. No other aircraft the Pensacola/Gulf Breeze
sort. "That is a big jump in con keep a close watch on the sky, we began, almost imperceptibly to or water craft arrived to investi MUFON Hotline [phone]. For
sciousness, and some of you have
took up our positions, Gene descend and move to the left. The gate the scene and the two heli information on the Project
already made it."
Ware said the UFO phenomenon returning to his spot on the boat descent was very slow and copters headed east along Santa Awareness 1996 Gulf Breeze
is not simply about extraterrestrial dock. A few minutes later, the extremely steady. We watched as Rosa Sound, circling back over Conference to be held at the
life forms from other planets that group was joined by two other during approximately two and Gulf Breeze and out into Clarion Resort on Pensacola
use ad\·anced technology to travel skywatchers. one-half minutes the light came Pensacola Bay toward the Naval Beach, March 15-17, 1996, please
to Earth and check it out. The alien At 8:11 p.m. an extremely down, seemingly to the ground, Air Station. call Project Awareness at 432-
presence, he said, has more to do bright and. intense amber light and then went out. During the last After the Thanksgiving 8888. Keep Looking Up!
with cosmic evolution, reincarna appeared over Santa Rosa Island, of the descent, through binoculars Holiday, I made a call to Naval
tion and spiritual growth than it
does with some science fiction in
vasion scenario. Multiple triangular configurations over Santa Rosa Island
However, what at least one alien
species is doing, according to
Ware, has a discernible sci-fi twist. Jane Maney, a Gulf Breeze res see if anything more would hap until they faded out," Jane said. At er looking than the triangles had
Years of research, he said, have ident had no idea what the pened," Jane said. "I got my 8:17 p.m., Jane's mother was been."
convinced him that skinny bug evening of Friday, November 17th binoculars out, but you know, it alone on the balcony when in the The final sighting was at 8:30
eyed aliens are abducting humans would hold when she went to visit was so amazing, it was towards same general area of the sky she p.m. when one single red triangle
and, through genetic engineering, family on the 6th floor of Tristan the end of it all before I used saw one huge white "star" that appeared, point up and then faded
creating a hybrid species. Towers on Ft. Pickens Road on them!" At 8:00 p.m. two red trian glowed up to extremely bright out.
Ware believes these half-human,
Santa Rosa Island. gles appeared, again in roughly intensity and then just blinked out. All of these sightings lasted
half-alien bodies become vehicles
She, her son and her parents the same position in the sky, point Jane took over the watch on the between five and ten seconds.
for reincarnated human souls who
need whatever the new bodies were on the balcony looking east down. "These two came in a little balcony and at 8:20 p.m. two When it was over Jane and her
might provide -like increased at 6:45 p.m. when they noticed a further north than the first one and more triangles, !!gain with the family drove to Shoreline Park to
brain capacity, perhaps-to fur triangular configuration of five ~lightly higher," Jane said. "The point up appeared and followed make their report to the skywatch
ther evolve. red lights over Alvin's Island. "It left triangle came in first and the the same pattern as previously·. group there. "I used to skywatch
"I think many millions of these was probably further away than one to the right of it. They were "The way they pulsed back and some at the foot of the bay bridg•.!
new, larger-brained hybrid bodies that, but we used that as a point of about the same size as the first forth was amazing," Jane a few years ago," Jane told me. "I
already house human souls," Ware reference," Jane told me. The one, but these two triangles were said. "Very regular, as if they were was really excited to see this dis
said in concluding his speech. "I
lights formed a triangle, point pulsating alternately. First the left talking to each other." The same play tonight though." The group at
hope 'Star Trek' has conditioned
down about two degrees above the one, then the right one, back and two triangles reappeared again at Shoreline Park had not witnessed
us to accept people who look dif
ferent than us. horizon. Each side of the triangle forth," Jane states. They watched 8:24 p.m. At 8:27 a single red tri any of these sightings since their
"I hope we allow the hybrids to appeared to be approximately one this display for about ten seconds angle made up four lights, one on low orientation to the horizon
inhabit this planet before it be half inch long at arm's length. before first the left triangle, then top and three along the bottom blocked them from view at
comes too late to save it from hu "There was nothing visible the right triangle faded out. appeared. "I looked at this one Shoreline Park.
man selfishness .... Perhaps this is between the lights, but you could This pattern was repeated at through my binoculars," Jane said. "It was the pulsing back and
what is needed to bring to light a tell they were fixed in the triangu 8:03 p.m., 8:06 p.m., and 8:10 "It was very clear and the lights forth that really was the most
new world order that resembles lar shape, like they were joined in p.m. 'They just kept coming and were so distinct." amazing thing, and the way they
heaven on earth."
some way," Jane stated. This con going. Coming on, pulsing back At 8:29p.m. a commercial air just kept corning and going every
To the uninitiated, Ware's theo
figuration disappeared after about and forth, then fading out, Jane craft was seen to fly through the few minutes - it was really amaz
ries may sound like a bunch of
New Age science fiction nonsense. seven seconds. Little did Jane and told me. At 8:13 p.m. two more area of the sky where the sightings ing," Jane told me.
But in the UFO community-and her family know that this first tri triangles appeared, but this time had been occurring. "You could To report a sighting please call
it is a growing one both here and angle was a precursor to eleven the point of the triangle was up. see it was a plane, you could tell the Pensacola/Gulf Breeze
abroad-the existence of aliens is more occurrences of triangular "You could see the lights very by the lights and the way it turned MUFON Hotline at 438-3261.
a given, and nearly any attempt at light patterns that the family clearly, the patterns were very to go into Pensacola Airport," Keep looking up!
explaining their presence merits would witness that evening. "We steady in the sky and there was no Jane said. "It went in and out of
consideration. Ware's talk, not sur
stayed on the balcony looking to drifting around, just very steady the clouds and it was much small-
prisingly, was well received by this
crowd.
And unlike some armchair ufol
ogists, the Arlington, Va., native
has followed a life path that con
ceivably could give him the in
formation needed to reach some formation, Ware said he learned Breeze, Fla., sightings and alleged it all.
conclusions about the UFO mys enough to know "somebody in the alien abductions, which began in During a sighting on Nov. 17,
tery. government has known for some the mid-1980s and reportedly con Ware said he was given the impres
As a young boy in 1952, Ware time that some UFOs are con tinue today. sion that aliens soon would make
said, he witnessed a squadron of trolled by a non-human intelli It was through interviewing more direct contact with him. Per
seven illuminated UFOs flying gence." countless Gulf Breeze UFO observ haps to the disappointment of
above northern Virginia. The The day after he retired in 1983, ers and more than a dozen alleged some, that did not take place here
ssihgahrteidng b ayn hdu ontdhreerdss l iuki et hite w Weraesh wWoarrke, joonien eodf tthhee oMlduetusta al UnFdO- Ncreitt oabpdinugc theies st htheaotr iWesa. rAet b tehgea sna mdeev el Tuesday.
ington, D.C., area and reported in ics within the UFO community say time, he said, he was compelled to
local newspapers, he said. His in -most conservative American research such seemingly unrelated
terest was piqued. organizations dedicated to UFO re subjects as reincarnation, telep 3
In a long Air Force career that search. Later that year he became athy, out-of-body travel, near
included two tours of Vietnam, an MUFON director for the state of death experience and spiritual
education in nuclear engineering Florida. He was the organization's healing. The more he studied, the
and exposure to top secret in- lead investigator of the Gulf more he saw a connection between
EAGLE, Crestone, CO - Nov. 1995 CR: W. Jones
Sightings of strange objects described the craft as "10 bright "hermit" who had told him of
and shiny silver objects traveling strange activities on the remote
from north to south around the ranch land on the eastern slope of
near Salida continue
sun." KVRH received four addi the Sangre de Cristos.
tional calls from listeners who also The old man told Perkins he
By ChriBtopher O'Brien witnesses who saw the strange were observing the objects and has also seen ships in the sky over
Tim Edwards continues to giant rectangle. reported them to the radio station. the ranch, and even claimed one
videotape strange aerial objects One woman claims her "ani Edwards claimed that Price, upon had landed near his mountain
from his Salida yard following the mals went nuts" upon hearing the leaving, was concerned about get cabin a couple of years ago. He said
spectacular six minutes of footage low humming sound the craft ting into a wreck in his squad car two human-looking beings had
he shot on August 27, 1995. made as it lumbered overhead. because ''he would be looking up at appeared from the craft and began
Portions of the original sight Shaw immediately called the the sky at the craft while driving." walking toward his cabin shining a
ing footage has already been Huerfano County Sheriffs office to Transmitters Blink Out very bright spotlight. The man
broadcast on several Colorado TV report the object and was told they During the forty-five-minute claims that when they pointed the
stations, and this reporter was had heard the sound (it had appar morning sighting, the KVRH light at his cabin, "the light went
interviewed by the Paramount TV ently rattled the Sheriffs office transmitting tower inexplicably through the wall." He says he was
program Sightings for a segment windows), but they claimed it was ceased to function. That afternoon, blinded and paralyzed by the light
which will air Friday, November "'a helicopter.'" She also contacted at 1:00 pm, the nearby Cellular as it illuminated the inside of his
10. CBS News, Hard Copy and sev the Huerfano World newspaper One phone tower was "knocked cabin.
eral other programs have also con and was told the police had told out" for over four hours. More Mystery Fires
tacted Edwards about his impres them "'it was two helicopters."' No explanation for the myste A spectacular sighting and
sive videotape. Shaw has a hard time believing rious downtimes have been put for possible landing, on October 19,
Photographic evidence of the this explanation. 'This looked like ward by KVRH and Cellular One. has the whole town of Sanford
many objects reported in Southern the mothership," she told me. Nedra Swopoe, manager at Cellu buzzing. Several large brilliant
Colorado is extremely rare, and Shaw has since found out lar One is baffled by the incident. white lights on the hillside west of
this daytime footage is especially about even more area residents They still don't know why it hap Sanford were observed by two
hard to argue with. Expert photo who saw and/or heard the giant pened. Coincidence? Capulin workers driving ten miles
analyst Jim Delatoso in Arizona craft that moonless Friday night. Vehicles of the Air west town. They drove toward the
has determined that the Edwards She and others have had several I have noticed a complete lack five huge "landed" lights, which
footage is of a genuine nature. sightings of iarge helicopters" and of sighting reports from the upper appeared to blink sequentially,
Other unusual events may to a military convoy during this late Arkansas River Valley area over until they were 1/4 mile away.
be taking place to the north as well summer time period. the coUrse of my on-going four-year "The largest one looked like a big
Edwards' subsequent sightings This area of the Huerfano is investigation. Why these reports football field all lit up. But there's
have been shared by many others where the five Andrietta unex now? I did a little research and nothing up there!" The driver
since his original sighting on plained animal deaths (UADs) found that Salida Mountain Mail became very reluctant to get any
August27. were discovered last November. It reporter Arlene Shovald had closer, and decided to tum around
Two women reported seeing a coincidentally sits in the heart of uncovered a curious report all the and "get the hell outta there." His
"huge cigar-shaped" craft over Pon the La Veta low-level military way back on September 7, 1917. cousin wanted to get closer so he
cha Pass, Monday August 28, 1995, flight operations/training area. According to the article "vehi could "throw rocks at it to see if
and a motorist on Highway 285 Maybe 4nother call to Colorado Air cles of the air" had been sighting at they could here them hit metal."
reported to Saguache Sheriff AI National Guard commander night during the entire first week He is positive others saw the light
King of seeing a "giant cigarette "Buck" Buckingham is in order. of September. Nearly every night displays because nine or ten cars
shaped object" hover, than streak The last time we talked, seven some kind of report was filed by were headed toward the site as he
away at "fantastic speed," that months went by with hardly a witnesses of strange lights that and his friend left. "The whole
same Monday. UFO sighting report. were observed in the "blue depths." town must have seen them," he
What Was That Thing? Salida a New Midway? One report by a Rev. Oakley told me that night.
The last weekend of Septem The Escamillas of Midway, described a multi-colored wheel Well, it looks like the mysteri
ber seems to have had its share of NM claim to have captured "thou about three-feet in diameter which ous San Luis Valley flap is back in
aerial excitement as well. I sands of hours" of odd aerial phe appeared to revolve in the night full swing. Please report any
received a call from La Veta inves nomena on video tape since March sky. The article posed a rhetorical unusual aerial aetivity to this
tigator Barbara Adkins •with of 1994 from the front yard of their question at the end of the article. reporter at [phone].
someone who needed to talk with property. Spheres, rods, weird "Is it then some genius who Next month: A complete
me." Friday, September 22, 1995, objects with protuberances ... you has discovered some new principle report on "Crestone III" a paranor
at 8:45 p.m., Huerfano resident name it, they seem to have video of flight, and is trying out his new mal conference with participants
Jeannie Shaw, her 52-year-old sis taped it. invention? It's your guess. What is from all over the USA
ter and two grown children in their Since his initial sighting on it?''
20's were finishing up dinner when August 27, Tim Edwards claims he. Well, whatever they were
she claimed they began to hear a has captured "thousands" of small, observing ba,ck in 1917 certainly
"low humming sound" over their fleeting aerial objects flitting in the wasn't secret military craft, or cot
house, which sits on a ridge just sky over Salida. In just one thirty tonwood fluff.
east of Silver Mountain and La second clip, Edwards has taped lit UAD Surgeons Back?
Veta Pass. The four rushed out on erally hundreds of these anomalies After almost an eight-month
the porch and were astounded to zipping merrily about. Local skep lull in U AD reports our mystery
see "a 100-yard wide rectangle" fly tics have scoffed at the claim say perpetrators may have returned to
ing west-to-east "60-80 feet over ing he's just filming "cottonwood" the greater San Luis Valley. Inves
the house. particles floating in the air, but tigator David Perkins :r:elated to
"My legs buckled; I couldn't this investigator is not convinced of me the following report:
believe it," said Shaw. "There were this explanation. I have myself On Tuesday, September 26,
yellow and white lights oscillating seen these perplexing displays sev 1995, Huerfano rancher Larry DAILY NEWS, New York, NY
around the front which was round eral times. Sure, I did notice some Chacon found his old horse
ed, and my son ran down the drive particulate matter floating by, but "Whiskey" dead with a six inch Dec. IS, 1995 CR: S. Fensten
way underneath the object and what about the tiny spheres that diameter perfect circle rectum cor Space invaders
kept up with it. .. that's how slow it hover, reverse course, or dash ing; half the tongue had been
was flying." They watched it fly away against the wind? Or the removed with a clean diagonal Wanna know how to send a govcrment
east, then loop around to the west ones that break into several, then slice; the upper eye was sucked man into a conniption fit? Mention
where it disappeared behind a reform? out; hair and hide were ''blackened '"Area 51. .. The Nevada block of govern
ment land is a military base. but there
ridge. A bright white light then The Sheriff's a Believer and stiff" as if heat had been
have always heen stories spun about
rose over the ridge, flared and On Monday, September 25, applied. AB per usual, no tracks,
UFOs being housed there. And that's
went out. Eight-to-ten blinking 1995 at 9:30am, Edwards' mother footprints, or signs of predator, or
why the inclusion of Area 51 in the up
lights were immediately seen fly was the first to spot them. "My a struggle, were noted. coming alien flick "'Independence Day··
ing in a criss-crossing pattern over mother Jean Edwards spotted it Deputy Dave McCain of the caused somP. grief for the film makers
the ridge. first. She noticed it at 9:30am just Huerfano County Sheriffs office when they approaeherl th.e govemment
"AB it moved away from us, after KVRH radio lost its (FM) sig investigated the report, which for consultation.
we could see red lights on the rear. nal. She looked up at the sky and occurred about 15 miles north from Writer/producer Dt>an Devlin tells to
They looked just like giant Cadillac observed a tiny silver object near where the 100-yard rectangle was night's ··Inside Edition·· that the gover
tail-lights," Shaw said. Shaw esti the sun." seen by Huerfano residents four ment said, ··we love the script. ...
There·s one little thing. Take out allt·ef
mated the object sighting at about Edwards called the Chaffee days earlier on September 22.
ercnces to Area 51.·· Devlin refused and
"8 to 10 minutes" before they lost County Sheriffs office and deputy ''Whiskey" was found in the same
that's why they had less help than they
sight of it. Chester Price was dispatched to area where I happened to find a expected.
Her Animals Went Nuts the Edwards house, joining a group UAD horse last March.
The Shaws were apparently of about 10 people who were Blinded By The Light
not the only witnesses. She rattled already watching the objects in Chacon has been renting pas
off names and numbers· of other Edwards' yard. Officer Price later ture for his animals from an old
4
DALLES VISITOR, Taylors Falls, MN - #27 (Spring 1995) CR: R. PanLener
Crop Circles ~ two Twin Cities television sta Unlike the stalks in Milaca although there are no pines in
tions who came and looked, which were laid down with pre the area. Corn, dirt, the white
reported on October 6 and cision, these stalks were laid material and weed samples
were-more or less- amused. down in an erratic clockwise were sent to Dr. (W.C.)
By Helen M. White Great Crop Circle Mystery," in Someone said kids must have direction. If I were to jump to a Levengood (at the Michigan
Body, Mind & Spirit, May/ done it but a wiser local woman conclusion, I would say this cir laboratory). We also dragged a
As early as 1678 crop circles June, 1992, one of the best said she didn't know any local cle looked as if a saucer had magnet through the dirt and
accompanied by strange light recent summaries in print of the kids smart enough to do the job. actually landed! The farm is collected magnetic material for
effects were reported in Salis crop circle phenomenon). Bob Schultz, pilot, retired the only one left in the center of analysis. Dr. Levengood has
bury, England. According to a Two recent midwest forma 3M scientist and investigator urban development. If we had not yet had time to evaluate
March, 1994 interview on the tions are described below. for the MUFON network, visit the resources, the next obvious these samples.
Canadian radio program "As it ed the site, flew over it, took step would be to interview all I talked to George Wingfield
Happens, "(heard on Minnesota The Milaca Circles photographs and collected sam the neighbors to see if anyone (English scientist and astron-
Public Radio) a used book deal ples of the com which he sent
er told of finding a pamphlet of On October I, 1994, Perry to a laboratory in Michigan for
that date in the walls of an old Smith, a private pilot, took his analysis. He was then referred
house. The pamphlet described sister for a plane ride over their to a neighbor three miles north
the sightings which are today father's farm in rural Milaca of the circles who reported that
called crop circles. County and saw three circles in she and her husband had seen a
The first midwest report that a corn field. Later Perry took large blue-white globe
the editor has found describes a his father, Harold Smith, into "descending to the ground in
formation in a field of soybeans the field to see the strange for the direction of Harold
on a farm near Van Hom, Iowa, mations, the largest one 65 feet (Smith)'s farm" a few days
July 12, 1969, ( see Dalles in diameter, the two smaller before the circles were discov
Visitor, 1994). Such forma ones on either side 29 feet in ered.
tions, in a great variety of sim diameter. The com stalks in the According to Schultz, pre
ple and complex shapes and in large circle were laid down in a liminary results from the
Michigan laboratory indicate
that some kind of energy had Crop Circles, eight miles east of Milaca, MN, 10/l/94, drawn by
been absorbed by the com cob, Robert Schultz.
similar to that which could be had seen anything unusual. No omer who has investigated
----= obtained "if one were to radi sightings have been officially European and American circle
warMea: \b -.., three= awtaev ae ocvoemn .c"o b using a micro repWortheedn. . . . (one of the own afonrdm haet iorenms)e· mabboeuret dt hai ss icmiricllaer
Choamve s btaelkesn icnu tth diso wanr.e a'"": holes.=- Choamve s btaelkesn icnu tth diso warne.a Later in the month Schultz ers) first investigated the circle, formation. He gave me an arti
heard about another crop circle she saw no indication of anyone cle which had appeared in a
at Blaine, Minnesota. His report being in it. We took ground and 1990 issue of a Milan, Illinois,
Crop Circle, Blaine, MN 10/24/94, drawn by Robert Schultz. to the Minnesota Mufon aerial photographs and discov newspaper. This circle had ~)so
Newsletter 51: Jan.-Feb., 1995, ered three 6 inch diameter holes been 47 feet in diameter, clock
various fields,and even more counterclockwise direction. is reprinted here with his per near the center of the circle, wise, in com.
recently on snow and ice,have Those in the smaller circles fell mission. spaced about 6 feet apart. The When the lab re_ports are
been reported from around the in a clockwise direction. The stalks in the center were returned we'll publish a final
world. Numerous books have Smiths saw no footprints or smashed to the ground. Many report in this (Minnesota
been written about them and other impressions in the area The Blaine Circle of the stalks near the edge of Mufon) newsletter.
many photographs taken, but no where the corn stood. They the circle were bent at an
one has seen them being could not explain what they By Robert Schultz approximate 20 degree angle For anyone interested in fol
formed. "While numerous sci saw and neither could the sher I heard about this crop circle with the ground. lowing crop circle and other
entists, dowsers, engineers, iff's deputies from Kanabec on Thursday, October 27th. The There were perhaps ten vel UFO events, Schultz, net con
cham1elers, military experts and and Mille Lacs counties who next day I checked it out and vet leaf cockle burr weeds trol operator of MUFONET
other interested individuals responded to Smith's call. Nor interviewed the owners of the standing within the circle. The can be reached on Saturday
have expounded vastly differ could Jeffrey Hage from the farm ... (who) did not want any stalks of these weed appeared mornings at 7:00 CST at 7.237
ing theories as to how these Mille Lacs County Times who media attention and therefore, to have been scraped. Near the MHZ. The Minnesota Mufon
agriglyphs are formed, to date wrote about the mystery in his no newspaper or TV coverage center of the circle, a strange organization meets the second
not one single cause has been paper on October 5. Neither did was made. white layer of material lay on Saturday each month at 1:30
proven. " (P. J. Birosik, "The reporters and photographers for This formation was a per the ground. The material pm at the Irish Well, University
fect, 47 foot circle in the com. smelled like pine tree sap at Prior Avenues, St. Paul. It
should be noted, no drinks are
served for the duration of the
meetings. Those who attend are
cold sober.
DAILY NEWS, New York, NY - Dec. 18, 1995
• ,• _. ' &0 ~' /" ·*" ... - "'!.." ~ t 1 ..~ ~~ .... \,. I
RUSH MOLLclV:·
B y G E 0 R G E R u s H A N o" J 'o A .N N. . A 0 M 0 Ci. ci y
1993, Fall, Osceola, WI,
Charles Jackson was driving his
charter bus on HY 35 about 2
miles south of town when he
saw a blue-green object 2 1/2 to
3 feet across, bigger than a
bushel basket about 50 feet
above the ground. It passed in
front of the bus going in a
straight line from west to east
directly toward a farm. He
thought it would hit the barn,
but there were sparks and it
appeared to hit the ground. In
memory of the event Jackson
had a scene of a UFO over the
Dalles painted on the back of
his bus. "Green Fireballs" simi
Jar to that seen by Jackson,
have been a subject of special
study by Dr. L. LaPaz of the
Department of Meteoritics, U
of New Mexico. Steiger, 251,
278; (Author interview; they
Roswell Incident.'' This month.· "'PortedlY tried to get lUll_,
he's due to &end It to White Cnnton aboard the UFO luue are also mentioned in Timothy
Pr~ Clinton said last House Science adviser Jobn when the President wa$ vaea. Good. Above Top Secret, 121,
month t~. ''llS far as 1 know, Gibbons. as well as every U.S. tlonlng in Wyoming. and may have been seen in
an allen spacecraft did not congressman and senator. While he waits for $0me New Jersey in 1866).
crash In Roswell, N.M., In "The Best Available answe.rs, the Commander In
1947. ... If the United States Evlclenee" features testimony Chief can satiilty his curiosity
Aft Force did reccwer alien bod from former military officials · · by ordering a 4-foot long ~·repiJ..
Ies, they didn't tell me about It and astronauts that contra ca of the Roswell allen" from
elther, and I want to know." dicts Alt Force denials of an the Sharper Image Chrl&tmB$
"-''*"• Rockef.tler allen landing, says Michael catalogue. The &paceman, who 5
want. to tell him. The 85-year Luckman, director of the New alaeps In Ills own IIIOlted cham
old phllanthroJQt haa funded a York Center for UFO Research. ber, Is juat $1,696.
1501Ntge $1udy of ..t he Lut summer, Rockefeli4N .
DESERT CORRESPONDENT
VALLEY CHRONICLE, Hotchkiss, CO - Dec. 1995 CR: A. Ulrich
Alien lights
and black helicopters
By THOMAS WILLS
T e grey haired man with the Tberc apparently ~ 10mething in the sky over Salida
· cane phrased his .question on Aug. 27th, aod quite a few people reported ICCia& iL
Then there is tbe c:uc of the appearance of ao object
carefully: tbe same day over Graod Juoc:tion aod the Grand -
Given the fact that the ncar Valley.
Several hours after the sighting at Salida, a man
est star to our own is 4,000 light years
employed u a OJ at a Grand Junction radio llation wu
away (actually only 4.2 ) and given biking in the Colorado National Monument when he
Einstein's work that tells us that we can looked across the valley and saw a ball of light in the
sky. While be watched, several much smaller balls of
not travel at ncar the speed of light, has light broke off at high speed from the main object and
it ever occurred to anyone that these impacted on the face of the Bookcliffs to the north.
Thc:re was no audible sound from all of this. On his
UFOs and aliens may be coming from
radio show the next morning the DJ related over the air
an entirely different dimension?" what he'd seen and asked listeners to call in if they bad
also witnessed it. There was no word on whether any·
O.viDa Ryszka, b:aJ representative of the Mutual UFO one else bad.
Network (MUFON). and lbe speaker of tbe day at this Then there were the mysterious lights that appeared
special meeting of tbe Paonia UFO Contact Center, con near Glenwood Springs. These apparently appeared for
ceded tbat tbe possibility bad indeed been put forth by several consecutive nights near a remote ranch so regu·
OCher people intcrcmd in UFOs. larly that the ranch inhabitants began to invite company
1bat IUCb a question bad been posed in aU seriousness out for a look. The lights disappeared right before (or
- aod received aod answered in the same spirit - is right after ... the story was unclear) a reporter from the
tbe beoclunark of meetings of people who believe that Glenwood Post came out for a look. Another account
our planet is being visited by beings from other worlds
(or otber dimensioD5). :<~j~~~~~~~~~~i~=~ii••desc~m riebre dm ao v"iMngo tshielernshtliyp "a ctrhoast sw thaes ssikgyh otevde rin C loaltoe rsaudmo -
One might even describe such meetings as support Springs. Despite its size, the ship was inexplica·
groups for folks whose: views uen 't taken very serious· bly sponed by only a. c.o.u ple of UFO enthusiasts.
ly by the public at large. If you were to expound on
your otber~imeD5ional views down at the convenience
store coffee shop, for iD51ance, you would probably be During a short break in the meeting we aU had coffee
greeted with blank stares and a quick change of subject. and cookies (including some of the best homemade soft
And then after you left, yot1 would become the main oatmeal cookies I've ever eaten). I looked at the free
topic of conversation. UFO literature arranged on the piano - some of which
Ryszb is a relative newcomer to the area, having was not UFO-rclated at all but appeared to have a new·
moved to.Dclta.Uolu Sawb pUotuad)l in l~. She age spiritual slant. The most interesting of the papers
is ao otrk:fAJ field investigator for MuFON, one of the and prostelizing pamphlets were the various UFO
1uJest UFO groups - with chapters and members all newsleners from around the country. On an adjoining
over tbe world. According to Ryszka. the group's focus table were P10nia UFO Contact Center publications,
is on tbe sc:icotilic investigation of UFO sigbtings and inc:ludin~ recent issues of The SUJr BeQcon, its monthly
a.c:tual contacts with aliens. It also studies crop circles. newslener. Say what you will about UFOs, but there arc
canle mutilations and the newest phenomenon - silent. a bunch of people out there whose Jives are centered on
unmarked black helicopters. Over the course of the the idea of visitors from out therrt.
lhrcc·bour meeting, Ryszb gave the 30 or so people at Above the lllble was an interesting map of the area,
the Paonia TowR Halla comprehensive update on loc:al, which I examined for several minutes trying to decide if
regional and international news relating to these sub the various shadings were alien landing zones or some
jects. A lot of it was news to me. thing. Then I realized the map was one being used by
For example, I'd miased the story of the flying saucer Paonia's planning commission ... oh.
thai passed over the central Colorado town of Salida on I stood behind Ryszka and munched my cookie,
Augusa 27th ... and the UFO that appeared several hours looking over her shoulder as she showed people some
later on the same day over the Grand Valley and shot alien autopsy photos. The photos arc part of an article
acveral object& into the Bookdiffs. Also, on September in the current issue of MUFON's own magazine, and
12, an object wu sigllted over Leadville, and another were taken from a film purported to have been made io
about that time over Colorado Springs. Some unex 1947 of an autopsy of aliens who crashed their flying
plained ligbsa wen: also seen in the sky over Glenwood saucer that year near Roswell New Mexico.
Sprinp. And a mao traveling over LiDrd Head Pasa Ryszka said the current wisdom among ufologists in
reported that be bad beca followed part way by "silver the know is that the film is probably a hoax. The pic·
diaa" in the sky. turcs show naked human-looking bodies with bulbous
Oo other aubjcc:u: 1bc continuing occurrences of crop bald heads resembling many a science fiction movie
c:itclea in Gtal Britain. the rub of sightinp and canle alien. At the very least it appears that somebody did a
mu&ilatio• over tbe 1asa year in the San Luis Valley and major make-up job on some corpses in a morgue some·
the problem of Blad Hdic:op«crs appearing nearly where. A couple of the UFO newsletters carry advenis
everywberc. ing offering the Roswell autopsy film on video. Now
I'd beard bill aod piccca about these phenomena from there's a Christmu gift idea!
various sowccs., bUl nothing with u much detail u
Ryszb put forwud at the meeting. Hot Zo• ·'lbe S.. LuU Valley
Durin& tbe nearly tbrcc-hour talk Ryszb prcsenled While it seems thai Colorado in general has bad a lot
videocapcd oews Aories aod palled around pbotocopied of UFO activity over the past year or so, one area seems
pidwa and aniclea that bave appeared in various newa-. to have gonen more thao its share. 1bc Sao Luis Valley.
papas aod mapziDeL MOll imprcuive wu a clip from a When Ryszk.a lllrted in on tbe Sao Luis Valley, I woltc
Deaver TV saatioa 'a oews broadcal that contained about right up. I wu bora io the San Luis Valley, or more
30 ICICODds oua of more tbaa lbrcc minuaea of video takaa accurately, I would have been born in the valley if
by a guy in Salida of a dis:-4haped object boverins in tbe there bad been a hospital closer than Alamosa, in the
sty abcwc bil boule. southern end of the valley.
Jtyszka daimed that cloK examination of the video M it wu, I ended up being born at the D&RG
showed tiny balls of light leaving the disc at high speed. Railroad Hospital in Salida; in the Arkansas River
Pods? Remember lavuioa of the Body Snatchers? Valley, just over Poncha Pass. lt doesn't maner. I saill
claim the San Luis Valley and the tiny North Valley
town of Villa Grove as my birthplace.
Tllomu Wllllls aa artist aDd owou of Wllli' And now aliens are apparently running rampant there.
Galle., aDCI Booklla Hokbkbs.
II accma to be a quesaion of which came to the Valley dents out to commit particul;uly bad practical jokes. One the various occuruncc~ within the arcu.
lirlt, the Craaone-bued UFO lovers, or the UFOa? I rancher from Monte Vista, said Ryezka, is said to have One of the more interesting phenomena that O'Brian
guess it docsn 't matter because they appear to have both lost 35 head of caule wonh S30,000 to mutilators this has come across is ~silent black hdicopters." These are
been tbcrc in force for the last few years. Recently the summer. That's beyond bc:ing funny. apparently a variation on the conspiracy theorists" black
wbolc thing bas taken an especially ugly tum with several h::liccpter~-which 11re supposed to be: pan of a Umted
dozen reported cattle mutilations. I never thought of canle Blllck helicopters Nations takeover of the country. The alleged UN heli
mutilatio01 u having much to do with flying uuccn, but There have bc:en so many reponed UFO sightings over ropters art just regular helicopters painted black. v.·hik
otlhlfle np dUoauFriOdb llfeion ldek asIa 'tvhaaerv dheley aa ddrdod ieinsdg tcsh aabnty l teah limise usntosirl. atI tonio ft nhthse i tnpoga ts hits e tithrhe eJ ist ctkhoneuo nwptarnsy t(. ayTmehaoirsn tgihs a Ubt eFtihOneg cS :fanuntnh uhLscuirai s~ft uVse)al elald~e yth hyies Chnrooetws ta ornneaeat: i oirnnc :at~hlield:y e nt t(ihsqi u~re icnpkeo wrdte aUdrt iFIJDiOa b -mteyhopaveve ebm lmaecnuktcs b he elticlki.c)e o Map tsaetyarb niesd aatroodtma flelly yri ennagol lisysa lseubscsae rrap n d 6
result of Satanic Cult Rituals. My personal view is that Chris O"Brian. who has staneJ publication this year of (continued on page 7)
cattle arc being mutilated by immature medical or vet stu- The Mytsltmous \!u/ley Report, in which he ducument>
(continued from page 6 - VALLEY REGISTER, Mobile, AL- Oct. 21, 1995
CHRONICLE, Hotchkiss, CO - Dec. 1995) Close encounters
caulc-mutilali.Da aliens bave fiprcd out that if you make
acout abip1 &ook like bciK:op&cn - particularly bUzd
bclicoptcn - tbc,n even if they do Jcl ICCD aod reported,
.-o ODC .wiU tQ.bclicve iL
1bc Paonia.UFO Center's Slllr Be11con in fact had a
cover story do I&K:b, a black bcJK:optcr sipting right here
in the North Fork. Ooc explanation for .Ome of tbc local
sightings, apccially ia late summer, coma from tbe
Delta County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff Bill Blair anoounc:cd proudly awhile back that
he bad formed a sort of partnership with the Colorado Air
National Guard. The Guard boys have been doing quite a
few Mdope• sweeps over the valley this past summer
while flying very dark colored helicopters that-being
military owned:_ do not have conventiohal commercial
marking~. They do, however, make ju~t as much of a
racket as any other helicopter.
In an even more bizzare San Luis Valley v~:in, O'Brian
also reports (according to Ryezka) that white vans and
trucks with no license plates have been seen cruising the
valleys' roads. Meanwhile, here in our own valley, there
do seem to be an awful lot of black four-wheel-drives
with dark tinted windows ...
When quc~tioncd <~bout <~ny local field investigation~
that she's undertaken since relocating to Colorado,
Ryezka said she's only done: one so far, but is hoping
people will call her more: ofh:n once they know that she
(and MUFON) arc here. (The single call was foom the
Olathe a'rea, where a possible crop circle was reportt:d.
Crop circles are a mostly English pht:nomt:na where cir
cular: sometime very intric;lle,.panerns appear myslcri
oualy in Carmen •' ficlck ovemighL 1bc .p1tte1111 arc made
by abc aop (usually rye or wbcat) bcina bent neatly over
to the pound. Alu ... Ryczb wu dissapointcd to find · · . MARY HATTLER/Staff PhotOgrapher
that the Olathe crop c:irc;le appeared to be lbc rault of a An extraterrestrial-crossing sign caught Brenda Oenzl.er's eye F:rfday dunng the opening day of the
ligbmin~ llrike. Danai Project Awareness UF=O convention at the Mobile Convention Center. . . . .
Our,owa.alieaiiJbt
UFO believers find
During cbc week after the UFO meeting in Paonia, I
c:asually mentioned to friends and customers ia my book·
store aome of tbc stuff that Davina Ryezka bad talked
about. What I got in return was not what I had expcc:tcd. a place to bond
Not a siqgle person uid "Boy!TIIat's pretty weird!"
Instead, almost without exception, everyone had aa unex·
plained encounter story to tell. These ranged from strange
lights in the sky to having an object hover over their car ~ Tales of abductions at the Mobile Convention Center ..
out in the dobes on the way to Della. These: also weren't Relocated to Mobile fro.m Gulf
the SQrt ~f people who'd.fecl_oorqfonable going to a UFO and sightings heard as Breeze, Fla., by Hurricane Opal,'
meeting·or even to be quoted by name: in the newspaper. meeting in Mobile · · the convention, which ends Sun
The most often-repeated story concerns the Crawford day, is expected to. draw 1,000
Ligh!. Tbjs, acrording tO the people who told the sto{ies, is begins people who have either seen,
a good-siUd ball of light that appear.; fairly often ovc·r the been a~ded · by oInr . are ,just
mountains to the east of of Crawford. People who have By RENEE BUSBY generally interested unidenti
seen it say it's not the moon or the planet Venus. Maybe if Staff Reporter fied flyihg objects. .
somebody could figure out its schedule, the Cra'Wford The exhibits are open to the
Light could be turned into a touri~t attra(tion. Cnawford Michelle ·Guerin was sml~ing public, but there ·is a charge for
Light T-Shirts, poster.;, books and maybe a mico-brewcry and relaxed. She was finally in a lectures.
sclliflg - what elM: - Crawford Light Beer. place where she could talk open Ms. Guerin didn't want to talk
The small West Texas town of Marf;a has turned a simi ly about her alien abductions to outsiders about her abduc
lar mysterious light into a major tourist allraction. and UFO sightihgs without being tions. "It's hard to talk about,"
ridiculed. she said.
Skcpti-.., say their light is prob<~hly just the rellc:ctions of
car headlights coming up from the Mexican border, but "You get the bonding that's She said she felt mu<!h easier,
that hasn't ~lowed.down the annual Marfa Lights Festival tnreacveeslesadr yt,o" sMaido bMilse. Gfruoemri n,P wohinot hUoFwOe sviegrh,t indge isnc·rJiubliyn. g her last Bob .HMillA RsYh. HoAwTsT L'EaR i!Sitcaaff rP hhoie(> gsra.aphyesr
one whit!
Lookout, N.Y., to attend the ,Pro resulted when aliens . abducted
ject AW<;ireness lJFO convention him as a child.
"Th'ere were two spherical rounded by various colors, she ing."
shaped 9bjeets. One red. One explains that the colors in the She recalle4 telling the a~iens
white. They were traveling at dif photograph depict a person's aura. she was sleepy.•nd when she woke
ferent speedst she said. "When I "This person is a very spiritual up she was on~ examining table
DAILY RECORD, Roswell, NM - Nov. 28, 1995 lcoooukledd t,e tlhl rtohuegyh w ethree sbpininonciunlga rlisk eI tpheer sopnh,o"t oshgera spahid wofh toh eh waos mvaion leint ahnedr hoen r abrnoottnh~ellr 'twaabsl ea.c ross rrom
GOvernment publishes tops." color-s outlining her face. "The creatu\'d1old us not to tell
. Others attending the conven At another booth, author Leah A . anybody before-they released us."
tion ~ere willing to teU of their Haley is selling books detailing her
Roswell Incident report emxapeinriinegn ~uens,id ebnuttif.i iends isthteedm soenlv eres . afilrisetn aabbdduuccttieodn sw. Shheen sashide s hwea ws a3s duSchtieo nssa, ibdu tt hse~eft..d iwdenr 'et reoathlizeer sahbe
Two .women from Fort Walton years old while vacationing in Ala was actually bel.--g taken by aliens
The United States Government has decided to cash 1n on Beacti, Fla .. said their husbands bama with her family. ·· until she was "hypnotized a few
the UFO craze by releasing an official United States Air wouldn'tapprove. "They are in the Her book, "Cetb's New Friends," years ago.
ForcedocuJilCllt, "Tbe.Roswell Report: Factvs. Flctloniri the· m.ilitary," one of the women said. is a fictional book loosely based on "I tried to col'ltllillce myself it was
New Mexico. Desert.'' . The contere(lce. mainly focuses that abduction. · a dream," she iafd. "I had never
ibe mammoth 996-page report addresses the alleged on. lectures from noted authors. Mrs. Haley, wlw now lives in heard about abtlur.:tion experienc
emc1xr9eap4rsel7hyr.i Amoa fes ynatontnspo .-pu TpSnrwiiisdoe iernnintty tyti-h ffeiciev lrdaees paSflpoiyfpriintee gudn n dovpibcerjoeielsjsce atpc ntri nodoj epRfc hobtos MawtlolOegolGrol anUipn-Lhb ,J o afuronnlrdye ctbhia·.Jr nIt9n wup·ag aa ht'tvtt iihdee awpx avhiniindbgteis taos ar. o elsfa ol,J FpcOaanr st iicgbihrpotaiwnnsgtess eaTlanerk dnwe n ewesrshaeswe esn et aas, nhsn ead iaildnol lgsoeh knaee.t d at nhinde thheeedrg wbero oootfdh sa ceinasgu,G esovetoiedn n gm h theepor u uwbtgoalh isc1 w$· -s'hsWoea itthhr wee aarh sl.me "hr aa rpsrpitaoegnrey
and. look at photographs that de "It didn't talk through its mouth, and her job teadang accounting to
photograph sections are incl~ded 1n the document. pict. UFOs:' · but spoke telepathically." she said. college studen-, ~'fJne of my
And it is now available for $52. Copies may be purchased _ Before entering meeting rooms "It asked if we would like to go for a daughters rarew·~lks to me any
by sending a check or money order to United States Govern for the lecture sessions, partici ride in a big s.ilver ball." more and my f'!Other's totally
ment Bookstore, 201 W. 8th St., Pueblo. Colo. 81003 or by pants have to walk past an array of Mrs. Haley said when she re against it."
calling or faxing a credit-card order to 719-544-3142. vendors selling T-shirts, mugs and sponded that herrpotherwould get Sitting at a bocpfb•cross the aisle
John Price of the UFO Enigma Museum said he wasn't books. angry, the alien replied, ''I'll make· from Mrs. Haiey-.ca& j>sychic Rob
aware of the book but remains skeptical. "This is our sole support," Jim things OK with your mother." ert E. Hill Sr.
tedhxidea'T ncgt'htlo yapv twre owrhvnaaimdst ewet nhaatesn'si yar etbd xReoposclstau wnameaseltsline,o tssnaso.tm iIo'emnn tco ora ntt rotahniel i ttt.oi"m Pperr,oi cvbeeu s tta hitdhate o'ysf GssUpoFrBaueOecvu eenct,sneo hnniari fsspoe , fr ow· ecYnnhraeocilc asemhhs, iatiinhng, gechF rltlueas de i.ag,e xrsnep aas euli.id cen tonu f sa.a uhtn aidasl slriokguy"ShIn.ht dkeb ,ne ssoaaiwmlvid etc hrat ihosmbe sejyeo dcuwotn ewhdronsev caetrnaradikzn eytgon, i obntk uot htu eaas pDFar.ii oHnentni lnidl,ee swg hNaoWen ahtdrwa WsJod~~irfIk~>c;:(t .11'pa4sur ~eldlde " odPan su rsyopicnu hgnhediicsr
Price said that because of the hefty prtcetag and the fact items for sale. up." disco!o~ed patdt.Gf~n on his leg:
that every Roswell Incident video and book coming out goes For example, Kay Simon's aura Once inside, she said, they were Hesatd Itwascal.lsedbyalienswho
into depth on Project Mogul, he would probably only stock a photographs. free to explore. abducted him in ·1937.
few at his museum. "The camera reads aura, a lot the "The panel had pretty-colored He said he has ~o memory of
'They've almost beat that to death," he said. same way as people who see aura," buttons. The alien asked if I wanted what actually hapi4tned. But, he
said the Tampa woman. to drive the craft and I was allowed added, "I remem~ the bloody J
coDntiasipnlsa ytihneg faac ep ohfo ato pgerarspohn tshuar-t dtoo npu'ts khn tohwe ibfu I ttwoan$sa;·c stuhae llsya iddr. iv"-I tniomsee s II gtootl dfo rt haabto usttloiSry y.e"a rs every·
GAZETTE, Oroville, WA - Oct. 26, 1995
From F i l e s
•
O.nogan the Great Ball of Fire
the •
by Bill Stevenson truckS marKea NA~:>A (Nauoruu Aero Frustrated and tired, I d1dn't feel pulsiOn Laooratory, t<atrchua Atr t<orce
Staff Writer nautical and Space Administration) like having a discussion with him on the Base, McChordAir Force base, Whidbey
OKANOGAN COUNTY-Bigfoot, travel through town and turn on High laws concerning public information and Island Naval Air Station and a NASA
UFOs, phantom invasion forces and way 20, heading towards Republic. what was to be made available to the research center in San Francisco all
Ogopogo, the famous lake monster are I followed my sources instructions public. so I left Republic and headed denied that there was any planes in the
all part oft he Okanogan County legends and headed to Republic to find the NASA back hoine. - area on the night of Sept. 13 or that any
that seem to be required learning to live trucks and to see if they had permission To say that the trip was useless, NASA trucks had been in the state of
here. to be in Okanogan County. would be wrong. I found a possible Washington.
To keep up with our yearly doses of My source said that it had report explanation for the phantom military An Associated Press story later in
unexpl~ ~es. we have started edly landed approximately three miles troops, in that U.S. Army reserve troops formed me that they had given me mis
our very own "0 Files". · south of Republic and was in an area are building a fence along the Canadian information and that there have been
The files will someday contain docu near Mill Creek. There is no Mill Creek border and that some oft hem are staying NASA personnel, in the Columbia Ba
mented evidence, photos (ift hey are ever near Republic, but I attempted to locate in Republic. sin, that were working on experiments.
provided) and notes on the investiga anything close to that. When I returned to Okanogan As to the ball of fire, none of them
tions into the unexplained phenomenons Not having any success, I talked County I contracted the Okanogan could explain it or what a possible cause
that are told to our newspaper staff. with local people in Republic's business County Director of Unexplained Phe could be. .
Sinee the beginning of the year we cotnmunity and was unable to find the nomena Mike Murray (o k, he's actually A meteor maybe? A piece of satel
have sought the truth concerning a greedy trucks or the ball of fire. the Okanogan County Undersheriff). lite? A test model of a rocket engine?
Bigfoot, that wants to keep its gold, a A dispatcher for th~ F~rry County Murray said that he had also heard According to the NASA personnel I
phantom military invasion force, that Sheriffs Office, lets call him Bob, told of the smoke trail and put me onto talked with, none of these are possible
was to invade our county, mysterious me of a complaint registered by a resi several other sources. answers.
black spy planes, that were keeping track dent that lived south of Republic. The AWashington State Patrol Trooper The public relations officer from
of our every move, and most recently a resident had reported seeing a large trail had reportedly been one of the witnesses WashingtonD.C. saidthatameteorora
UFO that came down somewhere east of of smoke in the sky and that it ended to the ball of fire and I was told that an piece of satellite wO'Uld, 99 till\eS-oot of
Tonasket, yet south of Republic. beneath the tree line. off-dutyTonasketPoliceofficerhadseen 100, burn up before hitting the Earth and
But of all of the unexplained phe This gave me hope and I asked him the NASA trucks roll through town at that if it didn't burn up, then 3 out of 4
nomenons that have occurred in our if he could give me the road that the roughly 3:00p.m. on Sept. 14. times, it would land in an ocean.
county, the closest-to liang proven is the personlivedon. Heagreedandaskedme From there I tried to find and talk The lack ofwiuiesses and informa
"0 File" entitled Great BaN of Fire. to stop by the Sheriffs Office to pick up with the officers, but that came to a dead tion concerning the Great Ball ofF ire
On Wednesday, September 13, the information. end. I begat' making calls to NASA wasn't a totallo5s.
around 7:00 p.m. a ball of fire was When I arrived, the Undersheriff of installations around the country in effort I did manage two stories from the
spotted descending towards the ground Ferry County was there to greet me and to find ift he trucks had been in the area experience. We now know about the SR·
leaving behind it a trail of smoke and inform me that the information was attd wbatmig..ltt.h:lv~ ~cd ~to 'oe 71 Blackbirds and the Naval jets that fly
being chased by several planes. unavailable and that I would need a here. over our heads.
On Thursday, September 14, sev court order for any information ffiit lie Spokespeople from Washington
etarpeople claim to have seen white c:OUld give me. D.C., Edwards Air Force Base, Jet Pro-
;l§gENTION
U.S. trying to cover up
~SLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL - Nov. 8, 1995
UFOs, researchers say
BY CAROLE BAKER
By Zack Van Eyck the human species, are somehow ~
Deseret News staff writer involved in it." ~
MESQUITE, Nev. -Are UFOs Brown said sightings and t"'
real? Are extraterrestrials visiting incidences reported from around ~
Sightings from around the country and around the to restart the machinery, it needs to be manually earth and abducting humans? Is the world indicate many forms of ~
world that took place during the week of November started, however, after the UFO flew off, the drilling the government harboring knowl extraterrestrial life, each with a n
5-11. equipment restarted on its own. (Unsolvea UFO edge about alien contact? separate agenda, are visiting this ~-''
Sightings, Fall1995, pgs. 40-42). Those questions might spark de planet. And that, he said, should ~
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Mexico for between three and five seconds early on p.m. on November 11, when he noticed an unusual they believe UFOs are something then in my mind it is only logical to :z:
November 5. For 11 minutes before the object was glow behind the trees across the street. When he more than hoaxes, hallucinations assume that he made life through- ~
seen and for 16 minutes before the object was seen went to investigate he saw a bluish gray craft gliding and strange weather patterns. out the universe," he said.
and for 16 minutes after the sighting, the UFO was through the air. He took his Polaroid camera and was But here at the International Brown believes that while Amer- N
bSeEiBngA tGraOc.k eTdh eonn arta d5a:3r 7b ya .tmhe. tCheo acsut tGteur alrods tC ruatdtaerr atobglrea tpoh st atok ed astoem. Teh oesfe t hane dm fuotsutr efa pmhooutosg rUaFphOs phhavoe faUobFromOua tC t6io0on0ng UsreeFseOsk ce roresns vaeeraenr ctgihoaenthr,s ew arhendedr ien iircnaagdn ifo os crtei ael enpsthicsootnps eea src eaa ltpl t ofhrieno tmsitna fgra shr -luiosgftefe n- ..r :IJ
~ontact. A witness described the object as being "a been analyzed by many people including Dr. Bruce this week, the answers to those civilizations, intelligent beings
brilliant white object of no distinguishable shape". Maccabee, an optical physicist. The object pho questions are less in doubt. To the from space-or some other di
This sighting occurred about 200 miles south of the tographed was described as being "crown shaped" organizers and many of the partici mension or reality-are knocking n
mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of with a light on top and a bottom ring of lights. Dr. pants in this fifth annual event, on our back doors, and sometimes ::o
Mexico. (Pensacola News·Journal 6 November Maccabee concluded that the diameter of the bottom alien visitation is a reality, a gov opening them without permission.
195K7U). WAIT-10 NOVEMBER 1978 In an oil-· triionng owfa st haeb coruatf ts ewveans a1n3d f eoente ahcarolfs sfe eatn, dt hteh em hidesigech t aethbrneormuete iUsn atF cOfoesve sleihrn-oguu ptlh dias b tae tcchcoeem p"ttere cudot ahmn" d pBurTbolhwiecn md soaaiejdso, r nbioteytc s aohufa strhee et ht Aheam pt uebrbeillciiacenf i,s <~~
field in northern Kuwait, seven oil company workers from the bottom to the top of the top light was esti mon knowledge. uninformed. Those in power fear
observed a UFO that was described as being "larger mated to be 9 feet. (The Gulf Breeze Sightings, Ed & The speakers invited here are ~~r~:eti~f.t~o;~~~~~~~~:~uld ~
than a 747 Jumbo Jet" land nearby. When it landed, Francis Walters, Avon Books 1990, pgs. 1-4, 275~ not asking, "Is this happening?"
automatic drilling equipment shut down. Normally, 28). Instead, ufologists such as retired recognized, he said, so the U.S. ~
University of Wyoming professor government and those who control
Recent UFO sighting at Shoreline Park viewed by many Leo Sprinkle and former U.S. the mass media have made an in
fighter pilot Donald Ware will ad tentional effort to keep the public
dress such topics as: the personal in the dark.
By Russel K. Bunge on each edge. The third edge, the trailing edge, has ity profile of extraterrestrials; Ryan Layton, a Utahn who has
DATE OF SIGHTING -22 OCT 1995 AT 9:43 P.M. no lights. The surface of the object is solid dark gray, military involvement in alien ab conducted his own research into
nearly as dark as the sky. The trailing edge is dis ductions; past-life regression as UFO and Bigfoot phenomena,
SChaoPlirefeorlisrnnoein aPs;a rMpk rre. sReincth:a rMd rH. arKveelyl,y C aQliufiorronsi a;f rMoms. coebrjneicbtl ea nbdy tthhee ccoolnotrra ostf bthetew neiegnh tth sek cyo. lSotra orsf athree stUhpFeirOriat pucoyanl finosemrc a;t btiohdneu ;cI tntheceea s"n;t erUumFtphOi"sr eaa'bnso du t waligci.rt heehse ltdh afrto inmf othrme Aatmioenr iisc abnei pnugb
Susan Byrne, Illinois, and Mr. Russell Bunge, blocked from view and reappear as the object passes human origin; interdimensional Layton, a Layton resident and a
California. by my line of sight. The sighting lasts approximately travel; and the deeper implications participant in this week's confer
Viewing conditions: Very good. Clear sky. Stars, 4-9 seconds. of extraterrestrial contact. ence, said Americans are left to do
and planets visible. No moon. Warm soft breeze There is no sound of an engine or of anything Robert Brown, president of the their own reading and research
from the south off the Gulf of Mexico. Quiet, except else. There is no contrail or exhaust. If a person does nonprofit UFO Congress, is among into the phenomenon. But because
for water lapping the shore and an occasional breeze n't see the object, then there is no other way to be vthaoriseet cyo onfv eixntcreadt ethrraets ctorinatla scpt ewciitehs a tmhoast te dxotrna'tt,e hrree ssatirdia, ltsh ael sruegadgeys htiaovne
in a nearby white pine. Some light pollution from aware of it when using the ordinary five senses. is taking place throughout the made contact with earthlings re
sodium lamps lighting the parking lot. The relative distance and size of the object is of world, including the back yards mains, in the eyes of the general
Description: First spotted by K. Quiros, then course very difficult to estimate. My impression is and back woods of America. Why public, a delusion of the lunatic
myself, R. Bunge, and S. Byrne. Standing on the that it is very large. The shape of the object is trian it is happening and what it all fringe.
beach at South Shoreline Park, facing toward the gular with the leading angle being approximately 40 means are what his 5-year-old Cali "Look at the recent sightings
water and Santa Rosa Island beyond (south)-and the degrees. fornia-based organization is deter that have been occurring in the
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While facing due south I saw a large dark triangu Rosa Island). plex question ever even thought these craft in really good condi-
lar-delta shaped object silently moving from east to Relative size: the object is 1.5 times as large as the about by man," Brown said before tions, and a lot of these observa
west across the night sky and then disappear. The angled space between my extended thumb and index the start of the weeklong confer tions have been seen on video," 8
two leading edges of the object has very faint amber finger with my right ann fully extended. I am 73 ence, held at the Oasis Resort. Layton said. "That's big news in
wine colored lights. The lights are as faint as some of inches tall. The length of my index finger to the base "There is indeed some sort of Mexico and Central America and
the faintest stars. There are approximately four lights of my extended thumb is 5.75 inches. struggle going on and we, meaning Europe, but not here."
PIONEER PRESS, St. Paul, MN - Nov. 2, 1995 CR: R. PanLener
ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach,
FL - Dec. 13, 1995
''TRIANGULAR PAITERN''
LIGHT SIGHTINGS
CONTINUE
By Carole B~er
On two consecutive nights
recently, a Gulf Breeze resident
was witness to amber colored tri
angular light patter;ns in the skies
over Gulf Breeze.
Driving home from work on Legitimate scientists
the night of Thursday, November
30 at about midnight, he was dri . gathered here this week to
ving east on 98 near Tiger Point.
To his right, or south of Hwy. 98, .I. discuss UFOs. Among their beliefs:
he saw an amber configuration of
lights with an amber configuration
of lights with an undefined UFOs are a legitimate issue for
cloudy amber light within the tri:
angle. "The lights themselves investigation and for public funding.
were very clear, although not real
bright. They were definitely not I I
flares, there was no smoke corning BY ANNE
from them and they were steady in 8RATAAS
the sky, not falling or drifting at
all," the witness told me. "I just STAFF WRITER
looked at it and then it was gone."·
Continuing on his drive home, he
kept looking at the sky hoping to
see the lights appear once more,
but they did not. The sighting last
ed about 10 seconds and the trian
gle appeared at about 10 degrees
above the horizon, not far above
the tree line. The witness ". ......: ~' ,, .., _• •1 ..:--'· of' UFO
described the size of the triangle at Research, sp,ooso~ by the ScienCe M~ of
arm's length as being "about the
size of a quarter." ~esota. Among their beliefs:
The next nigttt, the -witness was • tJFOs.. ·&re real - but the nature of the phe
again returning home from work. nomenon is unknown. Ale·t hey from outer s~ce?
At approximately 11:30 p.m. on Are they advanced craft made and tested secret
Friday, December 1, he was dri ly by the United States or other governments?
ving east on 98 close to the junc Are they from other dimensions? Are· th~y a
tion of College Blvd. when he saw combination of these?
a similar triangular configuration · • UFOs are a legitimate topic for mainstream
in the sky. "This time ·it was on the scientists to investigate and the public to fund,
other, north side of 98" the wit just as researchers WQrk to understand· AIDS,
ness states, "it looked exactly the moon landings and climate change. Only ~ kind
same as the one I saw the night of effort will produce the evidence to ultimately
before." This evening, the config prove ~ or disprove - their existence and
uration appeared higher in the sky, understand their significance.
at about 30 degrees elevation. "It
• Scientific discussions of UFOs have been sub
just blinked on. It was the same
by a systematic effort of the U.S. govern
triangle of lights, with that same
UFOs since 1947. Why would a
indistinct cloudy glow inside. It
to foil rational debate on the
just stayed there in the sky for
about five seconds and then just makers fear the public will
blinked off. It did not move in the ~tOV•emmeJilt that cannot explain or
sky or fade out." The witness stat
ed that on both evenings, he had cannot now; no one can.
not noticed any aircraft in the sky people - many at the confer
before or after the sightings. 'The eraphlcevl ence w~re scientists and academics working in
second night, I was really looking dence taken by the mainstream - even attempt explanations is
as I drove along, noticing the stars people around a decidedly radical act; they risk isolation and
and looking for planes 9r any the world ridicule.
thing. I was really surprised when from Italy to Says Chuck Penson, director of the Computer
I saw the triangle again." Mexico to Education Center at the Science Museum of
The witness estimated that on Arizona - over
the past 45 Minnesota and one of the conference's coordina
both occasions he was about five
years that tors:
miles the triangles, but this is hard
many people "The goal of this conference .w as to give
to estimate. believe argues people insight into how the
This is not the first time this for the exis
witness has seen something tence of UFOs. process of sc•entific discov
unidentified in the sky. He was . ery works in the real world.
witness, along with hundreds of A lot of people have the
other people to an unusual "red notion that science and scien
light" sighting that took place dur tists are open-minded and want
ing the firework display in to get at the truth at any cost
Pensacola on July 4, 1992. and will stop at nothing to find
To report a sighting, please call out the real nature of something.
the Pensacola/Gulf Breeze And that's just nQt the case,
MUFON JI9tline at 438-3261. . which comes as a shock to many
. For ~nfoimatiori of tJte upcom people.
ing 1996 Gulf Breeze Conference, The UFO problem is an abso
please ·call. Project Awareness at
lutely ideal model for demonstrat
432-8888. The Conference will be
ing how vulnerable science is to
hefd ~arch· 1_5~ 17 at the Clarion
politics because it points out what
RespJ't· on Pensacola Beach.
happens to scientific inquiry when
Speakers will include Whitley
Strieber, Dr. John Mack, Dr. Edith that inquiry moves out to the edges of the main
Piore, Dr. Michael Grosso and stream. Because it cannot control UFOs, early
more. Keep Looking Up! on, the government decided to put UFOs in tbe
''The UFO problem is an absolutely ideal most ludicrous light possible in a careful pro
model for demonstrating how vulnerable science gram to debunk them and to encourage a lunatic
fringe around them-and it has been very, very
is to politics because it points out what happens to
successful at it."
scientific inquiry when that inquiry moves out to Consider some of the presentations offered by 9
the edges of the mainstream." speakers at the two-day conference as they
attempt to explain why the public does not
CHUCK PENSON
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA (continued on page 10)
(continued from pa~e 9 - PIONEER ner the laws of physics as now known do not from personal experience." But, be adds, even if
PRESS. St. ¥au1. MN -Nov. 2, 1995) predict or explain. the Roper polls are wrong by 75 percent -
Says Maccabee: "The point is, when they put that's still about 1 million Americans who
receive rational information about UFOs. the pedal to the metal, they go right through believe they have been abducted by UFOs.
Instead, the public learns about UFOs by hys the metal. Good luck - we're going to need it." "We're at an odd phase in abduction
terical tabloid treatment and fantastic movie • Historian Dr. David M. Jacobs from Temple research," be says. "The sky is no longer the
screenplays: University studies people who believe they have landscape on which the battle with UFOs is
• Researcher Ann Druffel describes th..e work been abducted by operators of UFOs, then being fought; now, it's the landscape of the
of the late Dr. James E. McDonald, an Arizona returned to Earth. This is a highly controversial mind."
government atmospheric physicist who began to area within the study of UFOs. Not everyone Just what kind of minds are these, anyway?
investigate UFOs on the side in the 1950s and who believes UFOs exist and are deserving of Says Jacobs: "There is a wacko element that's
1960s. systematic scientific inquiry believes that always with us - it comes with the territory."
Reviewing Air Force records - and reports abductions are real. But sensationalism can't detract .from the
from U.S. Navy sonar logs of underwater UFOs Jacobs bas studied hund- fact that serious scientific questions about
- and interviewing crew members who experi· reds of "abductee UFOs remain to be answered scientifically,
enced odd things, McDonald found "hundreds of be says.
reports that bad been written off as The Science Museum's Penson remembers
absurd," Druffel says. "Solid his own period of skepticism about the
reports of craftlike UFO problem. It ended 20 years ago on a
objects. Many cases were November night in Great Falls, Mont.,
described as metallic when be listened to a police scanner all
objects doing bard-to night long while a sheriff, deputies and
believe maneuvers. They Air Force officials talked about sighting
were written off as stars, a strange glowing object over a nuclear
garages, etc." Most reports missile silo.
consisted of eye-witness Reports of the object crackled all
accounts, photographs and night long on bam radios and police
radar information. scanners, and Penson followed them
McDonald also compared all. The next day, the newspaper con
the Air Force "Blue Book" tained a few short paragraphs on it. It
files - its own internal inves called the glowing object "an uniden
tigation of UFO sigbtings - tified helicopter."
with oral accounts of sigbtings. This worried him more than a
He found that the Blue Book UFO. "I don't know about you, but
files were incomplete. This when I bear officials are content
made him suspicious of a good with the explanation that unex
faith effort on the part of the plained helicopters are flying over
Air Force. a highly secured military nuclear
When the Air Force named a facility, I get pretty concerned.
Colorado researcher, Edward That was an eye-opening experi
Condon, to take over the Blue ence for me."
Book project, McDonald sent He likens the UFO problem to
Condon a list of 100 best cases to other great controversies in the
investigate - only to learn later history of science. Galileo, for
that Condon bad little interest in example, in 17th century Italy.
asking scientific questions about Galileo practiced radical sci
them. Instead, Condon ridiculed tbeni ence by challenging church
and eventually authored a report con authorities for freedom of sci
cluding - but not proving - that entific inquiry and by support·
UFOs were not worthy of further ing the Copernican system of
study. This became the basis of official astronomy.
U.S; government policy. Under this system, the Earth is no
"McDonald was dismayed," longer the stationary center of the universe -
researcher Druffel says. "After the UFO ...,.Uitg* are just another planet among many revolving
Condon report, McDonald became its documented In a lot of ways - around a minor sun. This was a troubling view
most vocal critic." and quick sketches are common. This one to church officials at the time who believed it
McDonald did succeed in getting the was made by zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson Oct. diminished humankind's role and God's plan. A
topic of UFOs scheduled for debate before the 2, 19581n a sighting near Blairstown, N.J. church commission convened to study the
U.S. House of Representatives in July 1968. "He (Courtesy of Center for UFO Studies). Earth's motion found the Copernican system
reasoned that the bearing could finally bring and Galileo's support of it heretical, ordered
UFOs up as a scientific topic," Druffel says. him to stop teaching it and ultimately imp~
But with the impending November elections, oned him for writing about it.
too many politicians became fearful of the eports." He also bas participated in Roper pub Says Penson: "Imagine if Galileo's research
effect discussing UFOs would have on their lic opinion polls in which a random sample of bad been funded by a grant
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eral months after be appeared before Congress happened to a lot of these people; be just can't where we are today with Big conference
to discuss a new problem of atmospheric pollu say what exactly. Science and government policy speakers, call the
tion: the emerging ozone bole. Says Druffel: ''He A common theme of abduction reports are on the UFO problem. There is Science Museum
was openly ridiculed at the bearings. Not for that sane and sober people suddenly notice they tremendous resistance to
ozone, but for his UFO work." have substantial amounts of time - two hours, change in the scientific ·commu of Minnesota
• Dr. Bruce Maccabee, an optical physicist say - missing that they can't explain. After it, nity." Education
with the Naval Surface Weapons Lab, bas they are troubled, but they don't know why. But there is also tremendous Division at 221-
examined hundreds of photographs and videos Under hypnosis they recount tales of being curiosity that can surmount 4742.
of reported UFOs. In his analyses, be deter examined on operating tables by aliens in what resistance. Penson encourages
mines if the images have been doctored - are appears to be some sort of reproductive or people to learn about UFOs by
deliberate hoaxes - or if there are optical genetic research program. The communication reading about them in sources other than
anomalies, solar or atmospheric properties that is done psychically with aliens, who erase near tabloids.
can explain them. ly all memory from the abducted people before Says Penson: "I don't understand what the big
Once they pass the test as reliable images, releasing them. problem is, why this subject is so untouchable
be uses elements of the photos - such as land Descriptions of the aliens vary. Some are in the mainstream. I personally, would like to
. marks, position and angle of the sun and shad small and gray with elepbantlike skin. Others know the truth. But the politics of science fund
ows or cloud movement - to mathematically have a pointed, oval face with large, dark ing make it very difficult for scientists to study
produce characteristics of the craft, such as almond-shaped eyes and a small nose. No one this. As a country, we invested billions of dol
size, shape, speed and direction of travel. really knows their motives or goals - or lars in the space program and can point to
Patterns keep appearing. One such image is whether they are friends or foes. things like Velcro that we got from it that
an egg-shaped object about 26 feet wide and 13 Says Jacobs: "Critics say that these affect everyday life. It isn't like that with
feet high with a skirt of spheres - fuel tanks? abductees just want to be on "Oprah" and that UFOs. We might not get Velcro. Then again, we
- ringing it, traveling at speeds and in a man- they get their ideas from UFO researchers, not might get better than Velcro."
11'1
Buffs: They Are Not Alone
~UFO
C7'
N By Christopher Smith to an American Indian who claims his
> THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE grandfather rescued an· injured alien
:i from a crashed spaceship.
MESQUITE, Nev.-There is a heated
They are here to buy videos like the
discussion in the hotel lobby about anti-
"UFO-Bigfoot Connection" or "Count
!1:; gdroazveint yp perooppleu lsairoen .c lIinm bthineg p ainrtkoi nag wlohti, tea down to Alien Nation"; magazines like
Angel; with a cover story about "Elvis'
van with a hand-lettered .. U.i.'O" sign in
Angelic Connection"; and books on ev
>. the window, off to the Nevada desert to erything from sinister black helicopter
."::: hunt flying saucers. Inside the Oasis Casi·
· sightings that portend a global govern·
u no, blackjack dealers wear buttons pro
!! claiming: "We Are Not Alone." ment to a primer on what will be expected
of earthlings from alien invaders.
n~ This week, it would be easy to imagine The·estimated 500 participants also are
~ Rod Serling as mayor of Mesquite. The in town to conduct a sort of Outer Limits
,:: 5th Annual International UFO Congress Academy Awards, doling out a pewter
n~ has landed, and its tractor beam has colored. oval-eyed alien equivalent of Os
til pulled in throngs of strange-phenomenon car statuettes in such subjects as Best
aficionados the world over. They have Contactee/ Abductee Documentary and 10
~ come to hear lectures on "Preparing for Best UFO Documentary/Short Subject.
Christopher Smith/The Salt Lake Tribune
~ Contact" and "The Personality Profile of And a few, like Las Vegan Gary Ed·
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