UFO Newsclipping Service 1997 08 no 337

20 Pages·1997·18.8 MB·English

August 1997
Number 337
HERALD, Boston, MA - July 2, 1997 CR: J. Trainor
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By DANA BISBEE N.H. artist's \\ith facts as he lived them."
Baker made seveml char
T lw thuu,;and::; of coal-on-paper sketches at dif
alit•n enthu::;iasts sketches ferent times.
ir~\·ading .Roswell. ''I was like a police artist
N .M.. thrs week dra•\ing a description from a
for tlw 50th anni are far vidim," Baker said.
,·ersary of an alleged flying The Hills used the drav•ings
saucer crash all know what on their speaking engage
the spaceeraft's f'xtraterres from alien ments. They were published
trial pa::;sengers luoked like. along with the Hills' story.
But fc\\' kno,,· the alien They ha\·e since come into the
f~1ccs \\'(·!~ first drawn bv a to fans and domain of UFO researchers,
New Hampshire mtist more ~ience-fiction filmmakers and
than :ro year:; ago. on the World Wide Web,
researchers
If vou don't belim·e in including http://discribe.calufo/
L'FOs: then David C. Baket: sketch.htm, one of the few
81, is the creator of the most places where Baker is credited
of E.T.s
recognized image in ~ience fic as the artist.
tion. Barney Hill died in 1969.
But. if vou du belie,·e, then Five years ago, Baker sold all
Baker is the fir!:'t to draw a por memories through hypno::;i:s. the sketches to Betty for $400.
trait of an extraterrestrial The Hills went on the UFO Baker is not interested in
based on an eyewitness lecture circuit, meeting Baker credit or copyright. Because he
account. during a speech two years is a UFO believer, he insists
A hairles::; face v.ith smooth after the abduction. the sketches are not original
skin, large eye:-; set tar apmt Baker was a believer. His work.." of art: They are pieces of
and small nose and mouth is \\·ife, Mm·y Jane, and Betty Hill independent evidence that,
now the accepted desc1iption were both social workers. The added to other testimony,
of an E.T.; the archl't)1Jal alien. two links became the ba.o;;is of a become proof.
It :;tares out from the cover fiiendship that, one night after "I assumed other people
of this week's Time magazine. supper with Simon, brought had done it somewhere else,"
smiled at the end of "Close the artist into contact with he said. "Other people have
Encounters of the Third Kind" Hill's terrifying memmies. seen and told other artists. I
ami lay dead in a pmvmted "Dr. Simon put Barney into was just one of many miginals;
film of a lto:-:well cmsh victim':-: a hypnotic state," Baker said, part of a larger common
antOP.".V. "and said, 'Just listen to David.' source."·
Baker's clol'e encounter "I asked him to desc1ibe the His aliens look like the
\\ith an alien face came from people, what they were like corpse in the Roswell alien
hi:; friendship \\ith Retty and looking up at them, what they autopsy film, which recently
Barney Hill. perhaps the most were like looking down. aired on tele\;sion.
famous vidims of alien ahdnc "I was just listening to But, he drew them 20 years
tion. desctiptionR, then I would after the Roswell crash and :-:o
In September HKil. while draw something. I'd make mi,; years before the film surfaced.
dridng through the White takes on purpose and he'd get The two facts, he says. con
'Other people have seen and told other
Mountains. the Hill:-; were so angry, hP'd break into a firm each other:
artists. I was just one of many originals, part allegedly intercepted by an sweat. "That's the strength of
alien spacecraft. They were "He was very concerned encounter stories," Baker said.
taken aboard. subjecte!l to that I wasn't drm\ing them the "No matter what part of the
of a larger common source. '
medical tests and made to for way he was telling me, but I world they occur in, no matter
get the experience. Dr. was testing him. I didn't want that all are recorded in differ
- David C. Baker, whose 1963 sketches, top, Benjamin Simon, a Roston psy the explanation to be rote. I ent languages, they are all
are similar to a New York artist's recent drawing, above right chiatJist, later uncovered their got him in a position of dealing about the same thing.''
Ca tilri re-p rf. ct tJF·os
than
For mote 30 years, UFO ,pidures are Jucky a<:<:F . '0 To avoid red eye 'in alltl'lS';
UFO lfelietJers have relied on ~ts, SO, if yell don'! get that shoot at an angle :.or .have ·t.e
David C, Baker's drawings to great shot the first time, it may aliens look slightly aW9¥ from
show a dubioU$ world what happen a second .or two later. flash.
aHen visitors look like. Maybe 0 Try for eye contact. Al~ns . Cl Keep bad<Ql'OlJOds sim-
there would be more believers are curious - otherwise, why ple. Avoid clutter behind the
if· we had just one nice, clear would they be here? If you UFO. A field, hedge, and the
photo of them. make soft noises, tap or scratch sky are good. A single prop like
CPI Photo and Fox Photo, a the camera, they'll probably an intergalactic lightsaber or
national chain of photo stores, look for the source of the droid can be included.
wants to help. They're offering sound. 0 Look for the focal point.
tips to help amateur shutter CJ Use flash cautiously to UFO spaceships have many
bugs get just the right crisp shot reduce reflection around eye-catching elements, but
of our visitors. spaceships made ot shiny sub don't try to include them all in
U Since UFO sightings are stances. one shot.
NOWAY unpredictable, always have a :J For group shots of aliens, :J Store all film in lead-lined RIGHT WAY
loaded camera ready. pose the tallest in the center for containers marked "Ciasstfied
.J Take lots of pictures. Most a more pleasing effect. Information."
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QQ)) July population swelled with big er research institutions he said
time crowds of visitors and locals performed the tests. "We can't"
happy to eat, shop and breathe say," said Davids. "This is so con~
al;<?.ns riming this 50th anniver troversial that men's reputations·
sary celebration. have been ruined over their seri~
UFOlogist Michael Lindeman, ously making these conclusions."
founder of the online Institute for Nor would he say who produced
the Study of Contact with Non the object and how he could know.
human Intelligence, called the that the object, if indeed unearth
a) claim "extraordinary, if true." ly, came from the crashed
:0::1' "The fact is that it is possible to Roswell ship.
4i alter isotopic ratios," said Linde The object was given to Derrell
:::1 man. "It is possible someone went Simms, a certified hypnothera
gLJ...l.:;_..3.:a...:...:~2l:C5.1a.i to an extraordinary length to pro pist, who would not identify the·
.tl RICII/\111) PIPES/ JOURNAL duce a very elaborate hoax." person, but said he or she told him
ct Researchers say this 11f4--lnch wide Paul Davids, executive produc it came from the Roswell crash
_j' object is debris from the Roswell er of the "Roswell" movie and site.
c:( cra<>h, and that tests prove It has spokesman for the "discovery," Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., whose
~ come from out of this world. The red was cornered after the presenta father was an Air Force lieu
:::> line running through It Is from a llght tion by a swell of the some 500 tenant colonel who brought some
Q ed pointer. reporters, photographers and of the debris home after the Air
producers sent here to cover the Force cleanup of the crash in
• University of Cal~fornia 50th anniversary celebration. 1947, said the chunk looked like
The piece, which appears on a what he saw when he was a Sllf·
chemist claims tesis on a videotape to look like a shiny prised 11-year-old.
charcoal was nowhere in Chuck Wade, an engineer from
small chunk qfpurported sight at the Gallup, listened to the presenta·
crash debris prove it is not presentation. tion and Marcel's testimony with
"You've rapt atte:1ti:m. Wade grew up in
of earthly orit:in seen what Corona, and his father owned the.
we've bar that rancher Mac Brazel visitJ
offered," said ed after he found the debris.
BY LESLIE LINTIIICIII\1 Davids. Wade grew up hearing his father's
Journal Swff Writ a "Please," he tales of Brazel's discovery.
ROSWELL- A chemist, a movie pro said, "accept After seeing a slide presenta
ducer and a hypnotherapist announced what you've tion and a videotape of the object
Friday they have obtained and tested a been that is said to came from Corona,
Wade was wide-eyed, if not totally
piece of debris from the 194 7 Roswell VERNONCLARK: offered." convinced.
crash and determined it is "of extrater Declined to Why didn't
restrial origin." answer que&- they produce "I think it's fascinating," Wade
A 50th anniversary prank? No, the tlons concerning the actual said. "I think it's just fascinating."
men say. They are serious about finding debris chunk of Max Littell, one of the founders
"the proof' everyone has been looking rock? of the International UFO Museum
for. Security reasons, Davids said. & Research Center, said Roswell
But after dropping the bombshell "The evidence is so sensitive, so has seen evidence of the crash
they say is the UFO equivalent of find unique, that it's being treated like before. "We have followed many
ing the Holy Grail, no one involved the Moon Rock. When you have leads and the last one was the jew
would answer questions about their evi one sample and one sample only, elry incident," Littell said. "You·
dence, methodology or origin of the the risks are just too great. This is just have to look at them as you
alleged piece of debris. . as rare as the Shroud of Thrin." go. We never know if you've gor
Russell VernonClark, who said he has Davids would not name the oth- trash or treasure."
a doctorate in chemistry from the Uni
versity of California, San Diego, told an
auditorium packed with dozens of
reporters and photographers and hun TIMES-DISPATCH, Richmond, VA - July 7, 1997 CR: R. Bonck
dreds of UFO hclievers on the campus
of the New Mexico Milit;~ry Institute 'Whatzits' in sky
that he performed tests on an unidenti·
fied fragment and found startling
results: The material's atomic
•
makeup was so different from remam a mystery
that of any known earthly matter
that he concluded it was extrater
restrial.
"The atomic mass so differs
from that found in known earthly THE ASSOCIATED PRESS restrials or not, the sightings remain
elements," VernonClark said, unexplained. The 20th NORAD Divi
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school's department of chemistry, Scratch the X-Files. was a 26-year-old Petersburg police
said the fragment was 99 percent Twenty years ago, Tereschenko's officer in 1973, can't explain the sau
pure silicon with traces of nickel, story about a saucerlike structure cer-shaped object he witnessed in
s:lver, germanium and zinc, with with "Christmas the sky buzzing along U.S. 460.
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those that naturally occur in those trees attracted years later, explaining that he was
elements on Earth. dozens of visitors near Fort Lee when he saw the
After the presentation conclud and hordes of strange circular object inching along
ed, VernonClark sped out a side news media to about 500 to 600 feet in the air.
door, leaving a comet's tail of her home. He sped up for a closer look. Wil
q:.~estions. The university's Inter For about a liams' cruiser would reach speeds of
net Web site shows a listing for a week in October 100 miles per hour before the UFO
Russell VernonClark, who is not a 1973, the Teres "made a left turn ... and just blew
professor but is employed in the chenkos' home off."
department of chemistry and bio ntf state Route 35 Tereschenko Williams said the object couldn't
chemistry. became a gathering place for UFO have been a weather balloon, airplane
The Roswell Incident has been seekers. or helicopter because of its speed.
the victim of hoaxes before. "It was unbelievable," Teres
There was the alien autopsy, chenko said. "The whole front yard "It wasn't like anything I know on
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be photos of the props used in the occurrence here. The Associated saying I believe in what I saw." samples during the winter ~­
Showtime movie "Roswell." And Press reported on Oct. 20, 1973: Only recently has Tereschenko re cause of the finding of such
the last piece of purported alien "Virginians kept on witnessing weird visited old memories. massively increased concentra·
aircraft was revealed last year to and wondrous whatzits whizzing Some friends convinced her to tions of magnetic material in
be a piece of metal from a Utah around the skies, or sometimes sim rent the movie "Independence Day." the first soil samples. 2
jeweler's shop.
Debate about this latest "evi ply sitting silently in the air ... as the When the alien spaceship hovers BTL Research Team is part of
dence" was the talk of the town unidentified flying object craze con atop Washington, before blowing it to laboratories specializing in an
tinued unabated." bits with its death rays, Tereschenko
Friday, as Roswell's Fourth of -alyzing crop circles worldwide.
Whether one believes in extrater- had a flashback.
NEWS TRIBUNE, Tacoma,
JOURNAL STAR, lincoln, NE - June 30, 1997 CR: l. Willett
WA - June 29, 1997
Roswell mania if.:oltos · Hundreds have claimed
in Nebraska
a reminder of This 'is a sampling of sightings of UFOs to spot UFOs across state
and related phenomena documented
in Nebraska since 1884. For more
trusted friend's on these sightings, see Page 5A. BY STACEY RANGE ntiinngg., he thought he was hallucina
L•ncoln Journal Star
• An astronomy class at the Uni
top-secret tale ce1961 1 1965<4 1991 There's something strange going versity of Nebraska at Omaha saw
.. ·-d-98~ on iLni gNhetbs rians Lkian . coln. Saucers in Sew ssoumree tthheinyg c oualndd noctl baess wmraotnegs. Twheerree
198~ _) ard. Aliens in Alliance. was certainly no chance that what
• A mother was hanging clothes ever the entire class had seen was
Roswell, Roswell, Roswell. We are on the line outside her house south not real.
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years ago this month personnel at stood, she looked toward the sky. zling lights, large hovering space
the Roswell Air Force Ba~e in New Then, her jaw dropped to the craft and little gray beings. In the
Mexico were reported to lrave cap ground. past 50 years, hundreds of Nebras
tured an alien being from a crashed • A Columbus man stepped out kans from Chadron to Omaha have
spacecraft. For the past 50 years DANIEL JENKINS/Lincoln Journal Star side for a cigarette after dinner. In
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THE
ered a prime location for extrater ficial agent of strange stories from and the media influence the mind to
CURIOUS restrial activity. With its large rural across the region. His bookstore, see things when actually they are
PSYCHIC crelasitmriaedL to have seen the extrater irne gitohneos rayn, da vrea sts uopppeons sepda ctoe , UbeF Oast , fTohre aW laoyc aHl osmuep,p ios rat ggarothuepr itnog sphlaacree ltohoinkgin igd eantt infoiathbilne.g at all or at some
Jacquie Witherrite Nearly 50 such occurrences in the tracted here. extraterrestrial experiences. And "Now, if you go thinking 'I'm
and Shirlee Teabo state have been documented in However. man-made theories his radio show, "Explaining the Un going to figure this thing out,' you
newspaper reports since the nation and those of a different source do explained Phenomena," is the na will and there will probably be a
al debate over UFOs began full not always coincide, said another lo tion's longest-running paranormal very mundane answer," Nickell said.
speed with what is commonly cal UFOlogist and UNO physics pro radio show, airing at 10 a.m. Satur Often, he said, the object ends up
thought to be the government's first fessor John C. Kasher. While days on KZUM. being a weather balloon or some
crietcfa government cover-up have recovery of a crashed UFO in Ros Nebraska has had its share of the Both have collected hundreds of type of identifiable aircraft.
kelt ~well in the center of the well, N.M., on July 7,1947. unknown and unexplainable, nothing stories. But two of Nebraska's earliest re
UFO controversy. While the debate over Roswell about the state seems to make it "I've heard a lot, but for every re ports occurred before both inven
We couldn't miss this 50th birth continues after 50 years, more and more or less attractive to aliens. port there are a dozen to perhaps 100 tions. Eight years before the
day without repeating our own per more strange occurrences also con Encounters of the unknown can more unreported," Colborn said. invention of the airplane, an alleged
sonal Roswell-type story. tinue to go unexplained. happen anywhere. "These things happen all the time UFO crash occurred 35 miles north
Charlie was a loner, a secretive, Some have been fairly recent Kasher has spent the past 10 out there, but many of the stories die west of Benkelman in Dundy County
quiet, intensively private and trust sightings. In May, the mother south years studying the phenomena in on the vine." on June 7, 1884. Three years later but
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seen UFOs or alien beings. Colborn of Lincoln. ~And it's taking from people in the area," Kasher you go out thinking you'll see some ing I don't know what it is," Kasher
"We used sophisticated, psycho place in Nebraska." said. "I hear a lot of bizarre stories." thing, then you will." said. "Sometimes there's not much
logical techniques and drugs to con
In fact, Nebraska is often consid- Colborn, too, has become an unof- Movies, television, radio, books more you can do."
vince them what they had experi
enced had never taken place," he
said. "We were tn change their per National debate over UFOs spans 50 years
ception of even's until they sup
ported the 'correct truth."'
One incident in particular seemed
to trouble him. He said he was in
formed that somewhere near Odgen, emIpnlo Jyuenee K 1e94n7n,e Uth.S A. Frnoorleds to Sf eBroviiscee, wleaorrnkesd d ifsopular ym. Aotr et hoe fefincde ros f sthaewir isth, iftto oth.e yIt he a1n9d8 4h:i sA sno nA lwliaenrcee afwaramkeern reedp obryt eadn thexa t dviamryminegd frformeq ureedn tltyo agnrede nc htoa nbgleudis h-cwolhoirtes,.
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who had been killed in the crash, he taken - the debris was from a burned in his alfalfa field east of Barada. ing eastward. The crazy thing made a ridiculed, his wife divorced him and he was
added. downed weather balloon. August 1990: Mysterious lights filled loud, angry roar. It kept shooting off forced to leave the state.
The base was temporarily reacti Thus began the national debate the sky in at least three states including sparks of fire and gave off Uttle, if any, 1~57: Jets from the National Guard
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worked inside the hangar. Then, as Nebraska gathered from the Jour Offutt Air Force Base. Omaha's south side. Two large objects braska."
suddenly as the camp had been re nal Star library and the National January 1~88: Reports of two air seemed to hover together and follow one 1897: Five years before the invention
activated, he said, it was deactivat UFO Reporting Center, some dating planes colliding in Omaha prompted four another. It was In sight for about 15 min of the airplane, there was an epidemic of
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hangar were hauled away in closed west of Lincoln reported a flying saucer the object as it moved southwest toward not weather balloons but was not sure tings, North Platte, Kearney, Grand Island,
containers. swept across her lawn and down the Gretna. The officers followed the object to what they were. Beatrice and Omaha. Some were reported
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itary reason for all the secrecy - that cers, Dave Munn and John Clarke, spotted looked like a falling star at first, then a V 1965: Two Valentne teens photo noise overhead. It was never deterT)'lined
it was to save our planet from ruin. an object high in sky around 18th and J shaped object. Then it dropped out of the graphed what they believed to be a UFO exactly what the craft was because It dis
The reasoning, he explained, was streets with a tail of fire and colored lights sky and was never found nor identified. Al 8nd spotted ttne more the following eve solved In a rainstorm. The strange occur
that proof of another intelligent life oflfic kviesriionng baeth iitnsd btahsee s. tAatse i tC paapsitsoeld, itt hdeiisri nlitnee sliaenecne t hMe ulignhictisp,a lb uAt itrhpeoyr t dirde pnoortt eadp pheaavr iongn lnikineg .a Tshtea rg, lr1ra sthaiedr tIht em oobvjeedc t udpid annodt dmoowvne arenndc em eadttiara ccotevde raa gset rbeuatm n eovfe ri navne esxtipglaatnoars
form would cause global chaos. The grated into a spectrum of colors, like a fire- radar. and had other unusual maneuvera. It tion.
religious, political and economic
threads that bound the civilizations
of the world together would snap.
It was imperative that the knowl ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT- GAZETTE,
edge be kept secret until the peo
ples of the world could acoept it with Little Rock, AR - July 3, 1997
out panic, he said, adding that the engaged in sucli cloak-and-dagger A few years later in Tacoma, Char Other days
government planned to slowly re activities, he just smiled. lie was found dead on his sailboat.
lease data designed to change how Several years later, he was sent to
people thought about alien life forms. prison for a crime we are convinced Shirlee Teabo is a Federal Way 50 years ago
When we would press him for de he couldn't possibly have committed. psychic, and Jacquie Witherrite is a July 3, 1947
tails, he would refuse to answer and "My Al:hilles' heel is my need for student ofp sychic phenomena. Their TUPELO - Postmaster T.A.
beg us to keep secret what he'd told freedom," he told us after his release. column appears Sundays. Address Morris reported that he saw a
us as long as he was alive. One night "Prison changed me from a patriot to questions to: The Curious Psychic, "flying saucer" at about 6 p.m.
he finally told us why: "There were a paranoid. Years ago, I thought I c I o The News Tribune, PO Box Monday, flying toward the
seven of us," he said of the task force was protecting my country. Later I 11000, Tacoma. WA 98411. northeast. He said the object 3
he said he'd served on. "I am the realized I was a pawn in a game of was silver colored and flying at
only one that is not either dead or in power and deception. But we can't a high altitude. At Mountain
some way incarcerated." change it by shouting 'The emperor Home, a resident and his wife
When Jacquie scoffed at the im has no clothes!' from the rooftops. It and daughter reported sighting
plication that our government had is too dangerous out there." a similar object Friday.
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR - July 10, 1997
Bob Sallee
Backward Glances
Sky searchers unite at flying saucer conventions
Ci ty officials in Roswell, of the Roswell incident. ed on April21, 1897, by Alexander hundred feet long, with a carriage in the wire fence."
N.M., braced for an influx Kenneth Arnold, a pilot who Hamilton, a Kansas farmer whose underneath. The carriage was "We tried to get it off but could
of 50,<XX> revelers for the was helping search for a downed spread was near Le Roy in Coffey made of some transparent sub not, so we cut the wire loose and
50th anniversary of the leg Air Force plane in June 1947, re County. He filed an affidavit at the stance alternating with a narrow stood in amazement to see the
endary report of a UFO crash in the ported seeing nine flying objects courthouse about his experience, strip of some material. It was bril ship, heifer and all, rise slowly,
desert - with five alien bodies. But over Mount Ranier. He has been and attesting to his veracity and liantly lighted within and every disappearing in the northwest.
only 20,<XX> showed up for maybe credited with coining the term fly the truth of his report were all of thing was plainly visible ~ it was "We went home, but I was so
the world's largest craft show. Alien ing saucer - a fitting comparison the town's leaders: the state oil in occupied by six of the strangest frightened I could not sleep. Rising
faces adorned everything from shot because most UFO reports involve spector, the sheriff, the deputy beings I ever saw. They were jab early Tuesday, I started out by
glasses to toy saucers. flying objects that are round, like sheriff, the banker. the pharmacist, bering together, but we could not horse, hoping to find some trace of
a saucer. What if Arnold had the lawyer, the justice of the understand a word they said. my cow. This I failed to do, but
The hot weather may have con
called the objects he saw flying peace, the registrar of deeds and coming back in the evening I found
tributed to keeping the other plates or platters? the postmaster. Hamilton, known IN THE SPOTUGKT that Link Thomas, about three or
30,000 fun-seekers away, but be
and respected all over Coffey, "Every part of the vessel which four miles west of Le Roy, had
lievers made the trek anyhow. Just COINED IN 1878 Woodson, Allen and Anderson was not transparent was of a dark found the hide, legs and head in
like 425 of the faithful did back in
Actually, the term flying saucer counties, was also a member of the reddish color. We stood mute with his field that day. He, thinking
the spring to the Ozark UFO Con
was coined in 1878 by a -Texas Kansas House of Representatives. wonder and fright, when some someone had butchered a stolen
ference at Eureka Springs.
farmer named John Martin. Ac He staked his sacred honor upon noise attracted their attention and beast, had brought the hide to town
UFOs are as hot a topic as ever, cording to a story published in the the truth of his story. they turned a light directly upon for identification, but was greatly
even in Arkansas, a state rich in Jan. 25, 1878, edition of the Denni "Last Monday night, about 10:30, us. Immediately on catching sight mystified in not being able to find ·
UFO lore. Adherents attend con son Daily News, Martin was "a gen we were awakened by a noise of us they turned on some un any tracks in the soft ground.
ferences like those at Eureka tleman of undoubted veracity." He among the cattle. I arose, thinking known power, and a great turbine "After identifying the hide by
Springs and Roswell to make ac reported seeing a dark flying ob that perhaps my bulldog was per wheel, about thirty feet in diame my brand, I went home. But every
quaintances. to swap stories about ject cruising high in the northern forming some of his pranks, but ter, which was slowly revolving time I would drop to sleep I would
new sightings and to obtain fresh sky ·'at a wonderful speed." upon going to the door saw to my below the craft, began to buzz and see the cursed thing, with its big
opinions about new technologies. ·'The peculiar shape, and the utter astonishment an airship the vessel rose lightly as a bird. lights and hideous people. I don't
Newly published books on the velocity with which the object slowly descending upon my cow "When about three hundred know whether they are devils or
UFO phenomenon have renewed seemed to approach, riveted his lot about 40 rods from the house. feet above us, it seemed to pause angels, or what; but we all saw
the public's interest, especially attention," the story says. Describ "Calling my tenant, Gid Heslip, and hover directly over a two them, and my whole family saw
the book by a retired Pentagon of ing the object when it was directly and my son, Wall, we seized some year-old heifer, which was bawl the ship, and I don't want any
fleer entrusted with the official over him, Martin said it was axes and ran to the corral. Mean ing and jumping, apparently fast more to do with them."
files on the Roswell incident. Be ·'about the size of a large saucer." while, the ship had been gently de in the fence. Going to her, we Sound familiar?
lieve him or not, Col. Philip J. Cor Glancing back. the 19th century scending until it was not more than found a cable about a half-inch in Bob Sallee's Backward Glances ap
so, a retired chief of the Army's was rife with reports of flying thirty feet above the ground, and thickness made of some red mate pears Tuesdays and Thursdays in Style.
Foreign Technology Division, now saucers. a k a UFOs. we came within fifty yards of it rial. fastened in a slipknot around He has been a reporter, writer and editor
tells all - in great detail - about One of the best stories of a close "It consisted of a great cigar her neck, one end passing up to for the Arkansas Democrat and the Ar
the government's alleged cover-up encounter with a {T FO was report- shaped portion, possibly three the vessel, and the heifer tangled kansas Democrat-Gazette since 1960.
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR - July 15, 1997
Bob Sallee
Backward Glances
UFO sightings a natural in The Natural State
.
If you want to see an unidenti maneuvers for longer than three
fied flying object, your chances hours.
may be better here in Arkan In Little River County, between
sas than anywhere. The record of Ashdown and Foreman, a number
sightings in the Natural" State of people watched two UFOs fly
brims with UFO reports, from ing low in the sky together the
north to south, east to west-here night of Jan. 23, 1988, then speed
a sighting, there a sighting. Scores off in different directions. A wom
of them have been recorded by an visiting there said one of the
newspapers around the state. But objects chased her car along the
for all anyone knows, more sight highway for several miles.
ings may go unreported than the And at Flippin back in January
-ones noted by public agencies or 1970, a California woman snapped
newspapers. a picture of a small jet plane as
Think about it. Suppose you it landed at the Marion County air
saw a strange object making un port.
usual maneuvers low in a clear She learned later that she had
sky, and you could clearly see that unknowingly photographed a
it was a metal craft and recognize UFO high in the sky directly
its protruding antennas. Or maybe above the airport. Officials at Ko
you saw a pulsating light in the dak examined the film and con
night sky - or near ground level firmed that it contained no flaws.
- one that performed aerobatics After examining a color print of
and changed colors from red to the picture, the assistant director
green or blue, then to white, be of Aerial Phenomenon Research
fore turning back to red or orange. Organization wrote the woman
Would you report what you saw and said that their preliminary
and risk being tagged a kook? Or finding was that. "You have actu
would you share the story with ally photographed an unidentifi
only family and close friends? able object in the sky."
Here's one example of why And in Ashdown on April 8,
some folks might not share such Oemocrat-Gazene file photo 1990, Jim Williamson, publisher of
an experience: Margaret Sharp (left) checks out brightly colored light in the sky being pointed out by Robbie and Belinda Taaffe in Foreman the Little River News, pho
Twelve years ago, residents in 1988. tographed two UFOs during a
~b<r;irgohsts orPaonignes eltitg htC olouwn tiyn tshaew s kya the object for a half-hour or the source. forget it, or distort it a classified ad in the Arkansas tfhlaepy ozfi spopmeed 20a0ro suignhdt ining s.t Hhee ssakiyd,
that hovered and moved in dif longer through a telescope he kept completely out of shape.·· Democrat seeking witnesses to made sharp turns, and even rose
ferent directions - sometimes in his squad car. He feared being A close encounter of almost the ·'the star incident" at the medical skyward from the ground. Dozens
slowly, sometimes rapidly. About ridiculed or teased like the other third kind was reported in 1961 by center. of witnesses saw the UFOs, he
25 calls were logged by police two officers were by their peers. several people on a parking lot at Rep01ts of UFOs around the said, adding that some people re
agencies from folks who had seen Some people refuse to believe University Hospital. A North Lit state have been consistent the past lated their experiences in confi
it. what they've seen if it's something tle Rock man was among the wit 40 years or longer, not just in ru dence - including a captain on
Two law enforcement officers strange or bizarre. In a 1973 in nesses. He said an object that ral areas but also in Little Rock. the Dallas fire department. who
in different places also saw the ob terview, Dr. Patrick Caffey, pro seemed at first to be a brighter Newspaper files are bulging with feared being ridiculed.
ject. One tried to follow the thing fessor of psychology at the Uni than-usual star in the night sky UFO reports. One night in August Ridiculed?
as it zipped along just above a versity of Arkansas at Little Rock, suddenly came down and hovered 1966, UFOs were reported by Yes, for Williamson said
gravel road, but his car couldn't explained why: about 50 feet above the parking scores of residents. The objects ridicule of the witnesses was in
keep up. Another lawman also saw Some people may have seen a lot. He said the object looked as were in view for longer than an tense, but "I know these people,
the object - James Walker, the UFO, but refused to believe their though it was made of dark gray hour. and were watched down and I know they're not flakes ... :·
police chief at Tyronza. "I noticed eyes, he said. They try to discred metal. and he described a circle town by the night shifts of police Bob Sallee's Backward Glances appears
it," he said, "but I wasn't going to it what they saw, or explain it of lights around the edges. and officers and fire fighters. Similar Tuesdays and Thursdays in Style. He
say anything. You know how that away. "People don't like things light emanating from what ap reports came in from Fort Smith, has been a reporter, writer and editor
goes." that don't agree with what they be peared to be port holes. For se\' where as many as 1.500 people for the Arkansas Democrat and the Ar
Chief Walker said he watched lieve. They would try to discredit erai weeks afterward. the FBI ran watched the objects perform their kansas Democrat-Gazette since 196n.
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Residents relate sightings of UFOs
~
ENTERPRISE, Brockton, MA - July 5, 1997
a:i CR: R. Dumas/B. Robbins
They have closed the
The Apostle vanced civilizations are going to ing SO million of our own kind.
Paul advises be studying our biology and the earthlings, that we are a primi
t;:-. to ''Exam world of mind and spirit. tive society. Yesterday, 3,000 ba wrong book on UFOs
ine all things - Dr. Cameron says, "We are bies died from starvation and
and echo that not the only kids on the blot:k and last year we spent 3 trillion dol By Bert Kinzey
which has, it is time we grew up." lars on things military. What I SPECIAL TO NEWSDAY
with its ap Many members speculate that fear is that some big shot in the
pearance a mind-machine interfacing is at sky will say 'Shut it down, before T HE 50th anniversary of what some believe is
genuine and work on UFOs converting cl'::~ft these guys do it again.' " Fried the first crash of a UFO on this planet has
good pur- and pilots from material mto man believes that before the gov neither advanced our understanding of life
David pose Jesus pure energy. ernment lifts the lid on its secret beyond our solar system nor established scientific
Prather includes in the At last week's meeting at the UFO research, people will al evidence that the singed soil of Roswell, N.M., was
.,: ----- events pre- Costa Mesa Community Center, ready know the truth. the site in July 1947, of our first intergalactic traf
~ View fmm ceeding his about 40 people out of an audi .To contact the mutual Orange fic fatality.
:::::i the Pew coming, ence of 300 reported personal en County UFO Network, call Deb Furthermore, the latest explanation from the
"Fearful sight counters with UFOs. bie Stock at 520-4836. U.S. Air Force - that unidentified flying objects
~ and great sign shall be from the MUFON takes a scientific ap were basically parachute-test dummies that finally
.,_ sky." Luke 21: 11 proach to UFO investigation and close the case - only adds to the cynicism regard
Nuclean physicist Stanton T. says telepathic alien-to-human :;-_)·David C. Prather is a free ing decades of official denials.
Friedman said nothing about contact such as claimed by the lance writer. Your comments Sadly, the attention focused on this curious an
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Mutual UFO Network of Orange Like the honored Friedman, a standing of the universe we inhabit. Couple this
Couaty in the Ritz Restaurant at number of MTJFON members anniversary observance with the use of the Hale
Fa4tion 1~ in Newport have association with such U.S. Bopp comet as a fatal UFO attraction by the Heav
&eGch. corporations as McDonnell en's Gate cult, and serious observers of UFO phe
Friedman, who has appeared Douglas and are people of con nomena are intimidated into silence.
on programs such as "Larry sidera0Je scient-fie and technical While cults and crackpots may drift from one
King Live" and spoken to more
expertis~. attraction to another, the study of UFO sightings
than 600 universities and the Friedman :,ays, "Man's future was taken seriously enough by the United States
U.N., was honored for his life is inextricably linked up with government to create a standing review of reported
time work with UFOs. His princi space. We are not the big shots in incidents after Roswell. Entitled "The Blue Book,"
ple challenge was to ask his audi the neighborhood. I hope my it was a compilation of numerous sightings re
ence to consider the eYidence grandson's generation will be ported by credible and incredible eyewitnesses (
that we have been contacted, in have enough for citizenship in alike. It never confirmed that a UFO sighting was
this generation, by intelligent cosmic kindergarten. We have a traveler through our solar system, but it did pro
life, not from this earth. demonstrated, by recently kill- vide a pathway to analysis of what we might be
"If it is true, this is the most looking at. Like many programs, it was dismantled
important event of this millenni during the early days of the Reagan administration
um," he said. He made many ref and, without a congressional mentor, it never re
erences to a released govern surfaced.
ment document describing a Not surprisingly, when a senior military heli
crashed UFO complete with copter pilot reported he saw missile contrails
alien bodies. around doomed TWA Flight 800, investigators
Jan Harzan of Newport Beach couldn't and still can't deny or accept what he saw.
is a Christian and a Presbyterian A number of investigators maintain that what the
to boot. Harzan, who describes pilot really saw were streaks from remaining jet
himself as a client solution exec fuel that had vaporized in the heat of the initial ex
utive for IBM Global Services, plosion. The inability to substantiate what we are,
says extraterrestial life is out DAILY NEWS LEADER, Roanoke, VA - July 26, 1997 and are not, seeing in the sky leaves this tragedy
there and we are tyring to get to Military now says flares may be an open book as we approach its first anniversary.
the truth. There are many who remain equally frustrated in
He was 11 years old when he cause of mysterious Arizona lights getting answers to very personal questions regard
and his brother were visited by a ing UFOs. I was trained as an aircraft observer by
landing craft that hovered a PHOENIX (AP) - Military miles southwest of Phoenix. the Army, but I'm left with no explanation some 20
mere 15 feet above the ground flares - rather than UFOs - might The planes were dropping high years after spotting visually, and on radar, a UFO
near them with landing gear and be behind those mysterious, bright intensity flares from 15,000 feet to that came within tracking range of my command, a
pods extended. Like many MU lights that caused such a stir in illuminate the target area, Sullins. Hawk missile battery in Korea. Fellow eyewit
FON members, Jan's sighting Arizona four months ago. said. The flares fall slowly by para nesses were stunned at what they saw, and by its
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grade psychology class and was range near Phoenix the night of that night, the planes dumped all personnel on helicopter and aircraft identification,
selected to be a part of the teach March 13, when many people their remaining flares at high alti and having written numerous books on air power
er in space program. Near Area reported seeing lights, military offi tude, which would have created and aircraft, I still have no explanation for what
Sl, Cameron and a woman friend cials said Friday. what one pilot called "one hell of a was seen in the air over Korea decades ago.
watched a "flying saucer" hov The flares would have created light show," Sullins said. In millennia past, our ancestors looked skyward
ering a football field's length quite a light show in southwestern But the flare explanation may not and, in their ignorance, gave the stars names and
away. Out of the dark, a white Arizona, where many people report solve the mystery. It doesn't explain personalities. Today, as our civilization becomes in
van approached them. ed seeing the lights in a boomerang sightings that came from northwest different to discovering worlds beyond our planet,
When the two occupants exited formation. The lights, captured on ern Arizona - up to 200 miles away. we must stand fast against the smirks and cyni
the van to speak with the women, videotape, created a media frenzy And Frances Emma Barwood, the cism created by Roswell space mannequins and
they noticed the "aliens" had when the tape aired nationally last Phoenix city councilwoman who's Heaven's Gate cultists so that we can ask serious
marshmallow colored faces and month. been pushing for the Air Force to questions about what is visiting Earth. Reopening
four digits on their hands. Cam Capt. Drew Sullins, a spokesman investigate the lights, said the expla ''The Blue Book" is a good place to start.
eron and her friend left with the for the Maryland Air National nation was just too convenient. Bert Kinzey is a Georgia-based lecturer and author of
van and spacecraft close behind Guard, said eight of its A-10 ground "If that is their explanation then numerous books and articles regarding air power and air
their car. attack jets were flying training mis they need to do a re-enactment so craft.
Suddenly the van transformed sions that night over the Barry M. people can say that's what they saw
itself into a second spacecraft Goldwater Air Force Range, 60 or not what they saw," she said.
and both followed them "all the
way to Kingman." Cameron, like CR: R. Bonck
most other members of Orange
County MUFON, believes there
is proof of a government coverup
of alien contacts. And she agrees
with Friedman that these ad-
POST, New York, NY - July 5, 1997
lJFO wakhers in olien-oted stote
Page JUST in time for the Roswell, New Mexico the Defense Intelligence Agency. This makes As one science writer put it, "For Jeffrey to
UFO festivities, a bitter feud has erupted be Hibler perhaps the least objective person on disavow Roswell is, well, like Abraham Lin
tween rival alien-watching camps. the face of the earth to regress Marcel and coln disavowing the Gettysburg Address."
Like an East Coast-West Coast rap war, Mi learn what really happened in 1947. It raises Though he cites a host of evidence to sup
chael Luckman, director of the New York serious questions about possible tampering port his conclusion, Jeffrey says the final nail
Six Center for UFO Research, is accusing Kent with the number one surviving witness in the m the coffin was the hypnosis, which helped
Jeffrey, the Fairfax, Cal., airline pilot who Roswell incident." Marcel Jr. remember exactly what he had
spearheaded a campaign for full government Jeffrey is the Delta Airlines pilot who gave seen as a child. Defending the hypnotist, Jef
® tdriasictloors utore t hoen s aUucFeOr- sienefkoirnmga ctiaouns,e . of being a ltehgreiteim yaecayrs atgoo btyh ep enUnFinOg- sae aprecthit iomn otov ePmreesn t fbrleey w toitlhd nuost:h "iWnge two adnot ewdi tsho mUeFoOnse. vTehrey ecnretidrie
event, at the suggestion of Hibler, was re
Luckman is fuming at Jeffrey for arranging ident Clinton, eventually signed by 20,000
corded on videotape. And Jesse Marcel's
for clinical psychologist Neil Hibler to hypno people, asking the government to declassify
By RICHARD JOHNSON tize Jesse Marcel Jr. - who claims he saw any files that may prove or disprove the exist dsealufg thot ewr,a atc lhic. eSnos emd uhcyhp nfootri sct,o wnsapsi rtahceyr et hheeor
with Jeane Macintosh wreckage from a UFO crash in 1947 that was ence of extraterrestrials. But after exhaustive ries." While under, Marcel Jr. only described
and Sean Gannon first retrieved by his father, a Roswell Army research, he's now convinced the Roswell objects that sounded like material from an ex•
Air Force intelligence officer. crash is a myth and has written a lengthy re perimental radar-reflector balloon.
"The problem," says Luckman, "is that Hibl port debunking it. In the journal of the Mu Meanwhile, the faithful in New York can 5
er's clients are precisely those organizations tual UFO Network, the largest UFO organiza gather for the 50th anniversary of the alleged
that would like to bury the notion of the Ros tion in the U.S., Jeffrey bluntly writes: "No crash at a party_Wednesday at Hudson Grill,
well aliens and spaceship once and for all - UFO crashed at Roswell - with or without where Richie Havens and others will per
the FBI, the National Security Agency and aliens. It did not happen. Period." form.
HIGHUNE NEWS, Burien, WA - June 28, 1997
SeaTac artist paints alien lmug
Bothell woman says artistic representations are something shots'
they will always have as a memento.
Chace's art gives 'life'
"It helps tremendously," said Evelyn
to her alien abductions McNutt of Bothell, who said she has
seen or been abducted by aliens on
By Jason Robinson several occasions. Chace has painted complete with huge black eyes on the
side.
STAFF WRITER McNutt's descriptions of the aliens she Chace, who meets many abductees
SEATAC-Attention alien claims to have seen. at MUFON (Mutual UFO Network)
abductees. If you want a painter's ren Chace's artwork "leaves something meetings, said he believes that these
dition of your kidnapper, David Chace tangible for people," McNutt said. or other aliens may use time travel
1s your man. However, memories of aliens are not and other technologies far more
necessarily desirable, she warns.
Chace, 26, paints portraits of aliens "It's extremely frightening," said at advanced than ours.
described by people who report being McNutt. on ''My own take on it is that it's some
abducted by alien visitors in UFOs. other order of civilization that just
During one of her reported encoun
"In 1991, the TV show 'Sightings' ters, McNutt said she was dreaming operates on a higher level of techno
came on, and they showed some alien about some strange being only to logical achievement," said Chace, who
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artwork from 40 artists. face had numerous wrinkles. She them in his paintings. our interplanetary neighbors, if they
The first of which is the above-men even exist, Chace said he realizes that
It opened last Saturday in conjunc added that it manipulated her dreams
tioned "triangle head." most people will not believe him or
tion with the 50th anniversary of a before she woke up. It was an event
sighting near Mt. Rainier of a "flying she would like to put behind her. The second fits many alien stereo folks such as McNutt. Not without
saucer" by Boise, Idaho businessman ''Your mind doesn't want to remem types, with its big dome-shaped head, concrete evidence.
Kenneth Arnold. ber, like the way some car accident round eyes and skinny neck. "Unless you have some kind of phys
For the people who say they have victims forget some details of their The last one resembled a praying ical proof, there's no way that the sci
been inside flying saucers, Chace's crash," she said. mantis, with a green insect-like head entific community is going to accept"
the idea of visitors from other planets,
said Chace.
However, he said that people cannot
claim that no extraterrestrial life
3: Roswell revisited exists just because there is no solid
evidence.
BREEZE, Costa Mesa, CA - July 3, 1997 "We don't know what other forms of
.,...- For all you UFO buffs, didn't you just love the recent NO intelligent life might have evolved out
>- Air Force explanation of the reputed aliens found at there or what technologies they may
"5 Roswell, New Mexico back in 1947? I have no idea have developed or what capabilities
~ what happened out there but I'm pretty sure that the they may have," Chace said.
=' Air Force, coming out now and saying the little aliens ALIEN CONCEPT On the possibility of government
were test dummies used in parachute tests in the cover-ups, such as the famous Roswell
c early 1950's, and that those who talk about the case, Chace remains undecided.
~ Roswell incident remember THEM ...a nd not the little But he did say that "there's definite
a; aliens they claim to remember several years earlier. ORGANIZATIONS: .,.. On the afternoon of Sept. 6, ly something that's not explained"
aCi) Such an explanation is pure silliness on the part of Local investigators be s1e98e7in ag Lao gnrga By emacehta mlliacn b orexp aobroteudt wseheeinng a slaormgee tnhuinmgb eurn oufs upeaol plaen rde ptohret
the Air Force. It hurts military credibility. They should
~ have just continued to deny the whole thing. That lieve UFO~ have buzzed 1fa0 sft eeat clroonsgs, 5t hfeee t hhoirgihz omn.o vHinigs goHveer nlemavenest soipmepnl yt hdei spmoissssiebsi liitt.y that
oD. would have been much better. around right here in friend, a United States Marshall, the aliens are the ones behind the lack
5 Since this is the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Orange C.ounty's back also saw the object, which he de of evidence.
thing, I would like to revisit an experience I had (and scribed as a flying box car.
w wrote about) on Aug. 16, 1966. It was one of those yard. .,.. It was a clear evening in July pr"oTohf etyh atd'so ng'ot inwga tnot coton vipnrcoev ioduer stchie
things that make~ you question all the negative spins By YOMI S. WRONGE s1a99w6 awnh eonb jeac tB iune ntha e Psakryk thmraene entific institutions or police depart
government puts on all other UFO sightings since it's The Costa Mesa Breeze times bigger than a star and as ments because that would interfere
hard not to believe what you see yourelf. bright as the sun. The dome on with their operations if the police
Without getting into all the details, let me just say T hey are everyday peo top emitted light rays that encir would start investigating," Chace
that on that date in 1966 I saw a large, oval-shaped ple. cled the perimeter of the object, said.
orange object to the west of Prophetstown. I had a Lawyers, cops, which returned two more times Chace recognizes there will be skep
new pair of binoculars with me and with them 1 could teachers and firefight before the witness called Bell tics, but he said that society should
make out two parallel lines running horizontally ers. They are your Alanis to check it out. not brush off UFO reports premature
through the object. ..a n object I un-scientifically neighbors, friends, possibly even "We try and find out using ge ly, either.
calculated to be about one mile from me. It remained your relatives. ometry how big the craft was, "I think it would be very naive for
motionless for nearly five minutes and then quickly livRese.g ular folks leading routine hAolwan isf,a scth ieift intrvaevsetilgeadt,o"r wsaitidh epneocepsle a tnod s simayp, l'yT hdaist'ms iisms ptohsessieb leex."p' eri
zigged and zagged to the south and below the Yet they have experienced MUFON Orange County, a local
horizon in a matter of seconds. something out of this world: chapter of an international orga
Here's the point: Assuming I know something about .,.. On Feb. 5, 1995 at 6:30a.m. a nization known as Mutual UFO
aerial phenomenon (w~ich I do) and assuming 1 dark, misshapen lump was seen Network Inc.
wasn't drunk or halucinating (which I wasn't), how do floating through Orange County The group meets monthly at
skies.
you explain such an object? A balloon? A plane?
Helicopter? Prank? Swamp gas? New military test FON Field Investigators Man er-up.
vehicle? Other than the last possibility, I easily ruled ual, and submit all reports to Dr. David M. Jacobs, a leading
out the others. · their headquarters in Sequin, UFO researcher, said the gov
Making these general assumptions and assuming Texas. From there, information ernment could care less.
good, young eyes, what was it? the Costa Mesa Neighborhood is databased at Rutgers Univer "This is a nonsense subject to
Community Center on Park Ave sity. them ... this is totally crazy, the
The military never responded to my inquiry,(official nue. Its 100 members are profes Mufon officials are clear to dis fringe of the fringe," said Ja
report), never did a follow-up through Project Blue sionals from 45 areas of science, tinguish themselves from cult cobs, associate professor of his
Book, the agency established to handle such things astronomy, medicine, psychia groups. tory at Temple University.
back in the 1950's and 60's. try and physics. "We think extraterrestrials "The evidence for a govern
So. taking that broad leap that I wasn't somehow They discuss the latest in UFO have been around for a long time, ment cover-up is not compel
deficient in my observation ... what the heck was that investigation technology and re or it could be us coming back ling."
thing? cent Orange County sightings. from the future ... I don't know," MUFON does not deal with
Having seen it it makes reports like Roswell and Alanis and his investigative Alanis said. "But we don't wor alien abductions and refers call
team follow leads from witnesses ship them or want them to save ers who think they've been
other well-documented cases a bit easier to swallow. who claim to have seen outer us." "beamed up" to other agencies.
At least I can't dismiss them out-of-hand like some of worldly crafts or light shapes. His interest in the subject was When sightings calls come in the
my friends do. "We can take specimens from sparked at age 11, when he and group checks with local military
I won't say what that object was back in 1966 but 1 broken branches if a space craft neighborhood kids saw a large, and law enforcement agencies to
will say it was SOMETHING. It makes you a bit angry hit a tree," Alanis said. gold object the shape of a football see if other people are reporting
when someone who wasn't there tells you you didn't But that hasn't happened yet. in the sky. the same thing.
see anything ...a nd it hurts their credibility with me "Most of them were just bal "We're just trying to figure out "They don't laugh anymore,"
loons, or constellations, or big this phenomeneon and we think Alanis said, "but they don't help
when they take such an approach.
lights from grand openings," he the government knows some much either."
A lot of people claim to have seen something at said. "People were mistaken." thing and we want them to come He believes government offi
Roswell in 1947. Should we just assume that all When the big one does hit - forward with information," said cials try to sidetrack him, but
those people were just plain goofy, as the Air Force and Alanis is sure it will-MU Alanis, an engineer at Uni.>ys says he will hold fast until he fig
implies, or should we at least keep an open mind? FON will be prepared. Corp., a computer company in ures out if there's life somewhere
The latter seems the logical approach. Air Force test Field investigators are trained south Orange County. beyond the stars. 6
dummies several years after the fact just don't cut it to be objective, scientific re But some others interested in "I would like to know before I
searchers. They follow strict the field of ufology disagree with die what it was I saw when I was
whether there were little green men found or not. All
guidelines outlined in the MU- the notion of a government cov- 11."
it does is make most people wonder why the Air
Force would concoct such a tale.
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gone very, very wrong. apparently in defense of a clairvoy photos of an "alien autopsy" bought..
become part of American folklore,
The leaders in general-purpose ant named Ed Dames.) by the publisher of Penthouse Maga
notwithstanding 50 years of Air
skepticism have long been James Csicop's site gathers together zine, Bob Guccione, are called not
Force insistence that all anyone ever
found were parts of a secret high Randi and the Committee for Scien links to carefully reasoned analysis just a hoax but a retreaded one on
altitude research balloon. tific Investigation of Claims of the of all sorts of implausibilities, includ Parascope's site.
The vast edifice of flying saucer Paranormal, or Csicop, which he ing the Roswell incident and many There are even how-to sites fm:
and alien abduction lore built up over helped to found. Mr. Randi was once other aspects of the U.F.O. phenom U.F.O. hoaxers. Truly Dangerous of·
the years is actively trafficked on the the Amazing Randi, a performing enon. The site features highlights fers advice on fabricating an alien
Internet, at Web sites like those of illusionist, but his impatience with from Csicop's magazine, The Skepti "corpse" for autopsy purposes
Uforia, the National UFO Reporting the psychic pretensions of fellow per cal Inquirer, which dissected mat along with links to lots of Roswell 1
Center, the Mutual UFO Network or formers led him to devote more and ters Roswellian in its July-August debunking sites. Whipping up a mys
the International UFO Museum and more time to exposing those he con 1995 issue. An analogous antipodean terious floating light in the sky is
Research Center in Roswell. siders hucksters and charlatans, in group, Australian Skeptics, main easy once you have seen Roel van
Fittingly, then, the latest and most cluding purveyors of dubious space tains another reality-check site, as der Meulen's directions in the
comprehensive debunking of the sup alien stories. do scientists' groups around the Project Galactic Guide. Creators of
posed Roswell incident to come from Mr. Randi's Web site mirrors his world. And the writings of profes Britain's "mysterious" crop circles
the Air Force is also available on the witheringly sarcastic take on spoon sional U.F.O. skeptics like Philip fess up on the Circlemakers site.
Web. "The Roswell Report: Case benders, spirit mediums, mind read Klass are widely linked on the Web.
Closed," published last week, is post ers and their too-trusting marks, and Individual bits of Roswell ·"evi A longtime ufologist, James W~
Moseley, offers a peek behind the
ed on the Air Force Library site, includes contributions from the like dence" come in for their own custom
photos and all, along with its previ minded team of Penn and Teller. The debunkings on the Web. An article on curtain on his Saucer Smear site,
ous attempt at a stake through the site also gives the ground rules for a The Albuquerque Journal's site finds with gossip about his peers that he
monster's heart, the 1994 "Roswell prize that Mr. Randi has long offered a simple terrestrial explanation for a calls "shockingly close to the truth.';
Report." for compelling proof of anything "mystery metal" fragment that Unfortunately, a well-known, unin
Naturally, people who believe that paranormal - as yet unclaimed, and made its way into the Roswell Mu tentionally hilarious 52-question test
the Government covered up a grown now to more than $1.1 million. seum. The much-ballyhooed "alien to see if you have ever been abducted
crashed alien ship for 50 years will (Mr. Randi's attitude has been so autopsy film" and its checkered his by aliens appears to have vanished
be inclined to dismiss these reports derisive for so long that he has be tory get the treatment on the Mani from the Web recently, leaving be
as just more covering-up. But the Air come a lightning rod for the fury and kin Who Fell to Earth page by James hind a lot of dead~nd links to it. But
Force Library is far from the only vitriol of the passionately crt>dulous. Easton; assertions that that East you cari still determine whether you
place to find cold water thrown on A typically incoherent attack on Mr. man Kodak "authenticated" the film yourself are really an alien by taking
overheated imaginings of extrater Randi's prize offer can be found on are disposed of neatly on Paul the Sleeping ET Quiz. One sure sign~
restrial desert sightseeing tours the Web page of Bruce D. Kettler, Fuller's page. A competing set of still "People say you're naive."
:Wise experts treat 'saucers' seriously
N
Maybe some day we'll appear that the planet is moving. several MSU students dropped her ba
Q) In contrast, if one called, say, a univer sic class when they found out it had
§ find evidence we need sity entomology department about some nothing to do with predicting the fu
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lngells carefully explain what the intruders were "staff astrologer.")
Happy birthday to you. and how to deal with them. Perhaps as we enter the second half
·cii Happy birthday to you. I can't prove this, but I think over the century of the "flying saucer," the sci
Happy birthday dear flying years the public was driven away from ence and aviation community should
s:: saucer. serious scientists and into the arms of continue to treat UFOs as a serious sub
j Happy 50th birthday to you. folks who wanted to make money off ject, rather than turning the task over to
the UFO (>henomena. And make mon the money-grubbing entertainment in
_; Yup. It was on June 24, 194 7 that a pilot ey they d1d. Billions! Today UFOs and dustry. (Don't get me wrong. I love good
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5a: in Washington state. He told the local A few probably were. - at least locally. For example, Dave· But maybe, some day, an average
media that they "flew like a saucer would As a reporter who specialized in avia Batch, director of Abrams Planetar woman or man will find something truly
.., if you skipped it across the water." tion writing for many years, I can assure ium, has decreed that callers who want significant - the hard evidence the late
w Thus was the "flyin~ saucer" born. you that most callers got the cold shoul to report unconventional sightings Carl Sagan said we needed to answer our
~ And it marked the begmning of one of der by all but a few officials. And scien should be treated with courtesy and questions. After all, folks with back-yard
~ the most screwed-up chapters in the tists who tried to take it seriously got respect. The Air Force, too, treats you telescopes have discovered comets.
en history of science and aviation. criticized by their colleagues, Allen courteously and tells you if what you I'm reminded of the coelacanth saga
I don't know if .UFOs are real or not. I Hynek of "swamp gas" fame being a saw might have been one of their satel -the lobe-finned fish believed to have
know many people - including my good example. lites-or somebody else's. The FAA is crawled out of the water and onto dry
own father and several friends - who From the Air Force and FAA, there gentle and listens. land. For years scientists thought it had
have seen something in the sky they was a chilly official "we have no But the hangover fr.om those early been extinct for millions of years ...
couldn't explain. That's not important. knowledge of ..." or "the official posi years has clearly harmed what should right up until the day a fisherman
What is important is to look back and tion is ... that they don't exist." have from the start been a mutually caught one off South Africa.
see what happened because several Astronomers, at best, treated believ beneficial citizen/scientist relationship The fisherman could have just
generations of officials didn't use cour ers like a pest; at worst, like an igno leading to a serious examination of a tossed it back - or eaten it. Instead, he
tesy and common sense. rant slob who should know better. very unusual phenomena. just let folks know what he found. 7
For years, average citizens who Anybody with an ounce of sense, The victims, unfortunately, were That's called scientific progress.
asked the Air Force, the Federal Avia they'd imply, should realize that heat probably our children, who to this day What do you think? Write to Norris
tion Administration, astronomers and waves rising from the earth in front of a often confuse hard science with show Ingells, 120 E. Lena wee St., Lansing MI
other scientists about something they bright Venus near the horizon make it business. (An astronomy prof told me 48919. Or call him at 377-1155.
thP preliminary design evolutions
STAR, Mena, AR - June 26, 1997 CR: E. Mazur
of our prf'sent-day defense sys
Roswell 50 years later tems, so naturally our interest in There had been at least two off. His description of their
the concept of extraterrestrial earlier waves of UFO-like sights highly unusual appearance and
Case activity was piqued, and cultivat in other parts of the world. The performance was the highlight
World War IT-era "foo fighters" of the first American wave of
ed continuously.
chased and flew formation with what were quickly nick-named
"In 1952, Marine Major Donald
Allied bombers and fighters, "flying disc" and "flying
Kehoe, who founded the National
mainly at night, in the European saucers."
Investigative Committee for Aerial
and Pacific Theaters, without It was later learned that other
Phenomena, gave a lecture for the
ever showing signs of hostility. sightings of groups of unrecog
aerospace industry and got the Many of the European sightings nizable, disc-shaped flying craft
closed? attention of many of us," Mazur were assumed to be of German had been made earlier on the
continued. "When I got to Florida jet and rocket fighters, until it morning of June 24 in the
in 1957, the Russians launched was learned they never flew at Pacific Northwest. At least two
their Sputnik and simultaneously night. In 1946, the of these formations were seen
there was a considerable flap of Scandinavian countries experi in the same area where Arnold
UFO reports all over the skies, enced more than one thousand was to make his sighting. Other
which again got our attention. sightings of "ghost rockets." reports quickly followed,
"There was so much interest in Some of the most puzzling were including the observation by a
'They have once again changed UFOs at that time that Patricks believed to be improved World United Air Lines crew of two
AFB near the cape elected to have War IT German rockets and mis formations of discs over
their story,' head of state UFO a symposium or conference on the siles being tested across the Oregon.
subject. It was well attended by Baltic Sea by the Soviets. It is Within two weeks of Arnold's
group says of Army announcement people from Martin-Marietta as now known that no such tests sighting, newspapers around
well as military people. took place. the U.S.A had published well
Edward Mazur Bhya sMS tibacfhefa eWenlr iRtienerit seigre sted in UFOs for itno d"atThyh.e i nToghpsee w ng eotrhev eednron nmtehe aann tl ittithsl ee ryme loaurrcee tinra Ktnhesepn snoeeratt hrpc lAha nrfneoo rwl dah wleonas sth meas ihslaiistpat irnyg oaonvf dethr h e1img,0h 0dl0ye ssmcarauincbeeinurg vr eehrpiagobhrlt-ess,, p ameleuod s t
pened to spot a group of nine minum-colored, round or oval
years. tant nowadays to get into that
unfamiliar craft flying in a long objects seen the broad daylight.
He has been in kind of military-civilian inter line. Intrigued by the objects' Several of the reports came
trigued by the phe change." lack of tails, Arnold watched from Army test pilots and avia
nomena of unidenti Mazur said he suspects the gov them weave in and out of famil tion specialists at the U.S. Army
fied flying objects ernment has refused to offer any iar mountain peaks. He then Air Forces' Muroc Dry Lake
since he first heard validity to the concept of UFOs carefully clocked them between flight test center (now known
the report of pilot because the disclosure of some Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams: 48 as Edwards AFB), north of Los
Kenneth Arnold in A half century thing of this nature would have a miles in 1 minute, 42 seconds, Angeles.
1947. dramatic effect on the social and which works out to 1,700 mph, Military spokesmen, bad
Arnold said he of unidentified religious structure of this country. almost three times the World gered by the press for informa
saw a formation of "I believe most people could Speed record for airplanes at tion, struggled to put the
nine strangely- flying objects handle it," he said "but the respect the time. saucers into perspective. They
shaped objects for the government, which is His detailed report to military were said to have been the
while flying over the already at a low ebb, would all but intelligence included a simple glow from jet exhaust, or spots
Cascade mountains Fifty years ago, on dissolve. sketch of one of the objects, before the eyes, or hailstones
of Southwestern June 24, 1947, a busi "First off, in the face of recog showing it to be an oval, longer that had become flattened and
Washington State nessman/pilot named nizing that there is an intelligence than wide, with its rear clipped were skimming across the sky.
and coined the Kenneth Arnold said far superior to anything we have
phrase "flying he saw a formation of on earth, the government's power
saucers." nine strangely-shaped would be diminished and their doesn't necessarily make them cepted until 1978, when a UFO
Mazur, an ex objects while flying control base eroded. Something of true." researcher interviewed the man
marine and a retired over the Cascade this nature would make our lead Mazur said he was never very who served as field intelligence
aerospace engineer ers in Washington not much fur far away from his interest in officer at the crash site. His de
with a degree in Mountains of south ther advanced than us. unidentified flying objects, but for scriptions of space-age materials
electrical engineer western Washington "Secondly, if they have known a long time he didn't belong to any and equipment were inconsistent
ing, worked for State. His report all along of extraterrestials and particular organization. with anything developed on earth
Martin-Marietta kicked off the 20th have fed us erroneous information "I finally became personally at that time, and interest in the
Aerospace Century's most persis for 50 plus years, it will destroy involved with MUFON in J 983, incident was once again piqued.
Corporation for over tent scientific mystery: what little credibility they have after attending a conference. In 1994, Republican Steven
20 years. UFOs. left. Later on, I became their state sec Schiff of New Mexico, at the con
He was a part of "People would likely look up to tion director for Scott, tinued request of his constituents,
the Pershing Missile some new race that could provide Montgomery and Polk counties. I requested the General Accounting
program, was ~--------------------~ us with new ways and advanced eventually became director for the Office to search for Roswell-re
involved in design technologies, when our govern State of Arkansas. lated documents. The GEO failed
and analysis of the Sprint Missile and active in the ment is stumbling along from one "Many people get interested in to find a single significant
SAM-D missile program that Martin operated in con crisis to another, incapable of UFOs because it's such a sensa Roswell-related document, and in
junction with Raytheon Corporation. solving any of them." tional subject. Let m~ say that we its investigation, learned that ali
Today, he is the ArkanSas state director of the In regard to contact with ad passed that point years and years the message traffic for Roswell
Mutual UFO Network, Inc., (MUFON.) vanced extraterrestial life, Mazur ago. Our focus is far more of an Army-Air Force Field in 1947 had
"Specifically and particularly, MUFON is charged also mentions another hypothesis intellectual nature now, such as been destroyed.
with acquiring detailed information on every report of the government arrived at when the overall effect of this concept "In order to explain this," ex
anomalous objects in our skies, or anything directly they enlisted the help of the on the societies and governments plained Mazur, "The Air Force said
or indirectly resembling or related to unidentified fly Brookings Institute, a high level of this planet basically, 'we didn't want to tell
ing objects," said Mazur. "We question witnesses and think tank in 1960. "I would venture to say," he you this, but we lied to you in
file a detailed report in the MUFON computer, and to "Brookings Institute did a study continued, "that half of the pre 1947. The Roswell incident was
correlate and attempt to disseminate this information on the results of an encounter occupation of this government really a crash of a top secret bal
with other similarly involved groups throughout 1fte with, and earth's recognition of, has direct or indirect ties to this loon project designed to fly over
world. an extraterrestrial race," he very phenomena" Russia to determine whether or
"We coordinate with the Center For UFO Studies, explained. "They determined that Mazur claims the Roswell inci- not they were exploding nuculear
and the Fund For UFO research in Washington, D.C.," it would have a deleterious effect dent is a good example. _ _ bombs.'
he added. "All three organizations are international on society. To paraphrase their "As of Monday, the government "The prevailing wir.ds in this
and independent of each other, but work closely to detennination, it was said that no said 'case closed on Roswell,' that country are west to east," added
gether." indigenous society was able to it never happened, that the bodies Mazur. "Where would you launch
Mazur said that members of his organization range survive intact in the presence of a eye witnesses saw were dummies a balloon to go over Russia, cer
from NASA people and physicists, to jet propulsion superior race. In our limited histo dropped by parachute. tainly not in that area How could
experts, doctors and lawyers. All are dedicated to an ry, when a society came into con "At this point, 50 years later, that balloon have possibly flown
intellectual approach to this puzzling phenomena tact with a far advanced culture they have once again changed over New Mexico? They didn't
"I worked in a field where there was a great deal of that society eventually vanished. their story, telling us that they schedule nuculear bomb blasts
interest in aeronautics and weaponry. We were into The best example is the American dropped wooden dummies by every week in Russia, or evf'n
Indian. p:rrachute from balloons. This is a every month. There's no control
"That is not to say," he added, case of really scraping the bottom over a balloon. The whole concept
"that extraterrestials have any of the barrel for explanations. was way too arbitrary. It was ludi
intent on coming here and taking "Joe Six-pack on the street may crous, another cover-up story.
over. In fact, with what little buy this," Mazur contin11ed, "but "Now they tell us that they
knowledge we have garnered in anyone who uses logic or intellect dropped wooden dummies that
these few years, the reverse is not going to accept this. They just happened to land together.
appears to be true." have given us numerous explana Talk about a loss of credibility."
Mazur thinks that it is possible tions for the same incident over Mazur, who came to the
that there has already been con the last 50 years. They have no lronsfork area near Mena in 1975,
tact, in fact dialogue, between our credibility left." claims to have documented sever
government and a superior race According to Mazur, the first al sightings in Arkansas, though
from the stars. intelligence reports and subse there have been few in recent
"In some areas, we have ad quent newspaper headlines of the years and none were in this vicini
vanced so rapidly that it is not Roswell incident were of a ty.
inconceivable that we have had crashed "flying saucer or disc," "We had a major UFO flap in
extraterrestrial support," he said. That was quickly changed to a Foreman in 1989 or '90," he said.
"But there are a lot of hy downed weather balloon the next "The objects began appearing 8
Edward Masur of Mena is shown holding a copy of pothesises a person could adopt day and a cover-up quickly over a power station and thP sur-
"The Home Planet." (Star photo/Michael Res1g) or fommlate, aJlfl some may have ensued.
L!<>od support behind them. That Thf' cover-up story was ac- (continued on page 9)
(continued from page 8 ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR - Aug. 3, 1997
- STAR, Mena, AR Military lied about UFOs, CIA admits
- June 26, 1997)
rounding area, and the sightings •
continued for about four or five Cold War secrecy prompted cover-up stories about spy planes
months. We made numerous trips
there and spoke with several peo BY WILLIAM 1. BROAD were developed by the intelli Haines is a historian at the N a public, partly to avoid causing
ple, documenting their experi SL\\ \CJRK 11~11 ~ NLI~S ~I RVIl I" gence agency and often flown by tional Reconnaissance Office, the panic. That view was celebrated
ences. In the darkest days of the Cold the Air Force. intelligence agency that builds and last month on the 50th anniversary
"'We have also documented a War, the military lied to the Rather than acknowledging the runs the nation's spy satellites. of an incident in Roswell, N.M., in
number of sightings in the American public about the true existence of the top-secret flights The admission of federal de which conspiracy theorists say a
Flippin/Witt Springs and Mountain nature of many unidentified fly or saying nothing about them pub ception on the issue appears to be saucer crashed and was seized by
Home areas. They had a lot of ing objects in an effort to hide its licly, the Air Force decided to put a first, experts said in interviews. the government.
activity from 1987 to 1991." growing fleet of spy planes, a CIA out false cover stories, the CIA "It's very significant," said The deceptions about the spy
A few years ago, he and a pub study says. study says. For instance, unusual Richard Hall, chairman of the flights were issued in some of the
The deceptions were made in the observations that were actually spy Fund for UFO Research, a group tensest days of the Cold War. The
lisher friend documented a
1950s and '60s amid a wave of UFO flights were attributed to atmos in Washington. "Certainly they've Soviet Union exploded its first hy
remarkable sighting experienct>d
sightings that alarmed the public pheric phenomena like ice crystals lied about not having any interest drogen bomb in 1955, the year that
by two young women from and parts of official Washington. and temperature inversions. in the subject. But I don't know of the U-2 flew for the first time.
Harrison, who were followed by a The CIA study says the Air Force "Over half of all UFO reports any other deception like this." In 1960, a U-2 was shot down
large aerial object early one mot n knew that most reports by citizens from the late 1950s through the John E. Pike, head of space pol over the Soviet Union, leading to
ing on their way to the War Eagle and aviation experts were based on 1960s were accounted for by icy at the Federation of American the cancellation of an East-West
Arts and Crafts Festival. fleeting glimpses of U-2 and SR-71 manned reconnaissance flights" Scientists, also based in Washing peace conference. In 1962, a U-2
"They claimed the object dart spy planes, which fly extremely high. over the United States, the CIA ton, said the admission raised spotted a buildup of Soviet nu
ed in front of them, then behind, Those planes were developed in study says. "This led the Air Force questions about other federal cov clear arms in Cuba, precipitating
almost as if it was playing with the 1950s and '60s to photograph en to make misleading and deceptive er-ups involving UFOs. the diplomatic crisis regarded by
emy targets. From secret bases, statements to the public in order "The flying-saucer community some experts as the closest the su
them. It shook them up. The
mainly in California and Nevada, to allay public fears and to protect is definitely onto something" in perpowers came to nuclear war.
upshot of the incident was that
the aircraft repeatedly flew across an extraordinarily sensitive na charging that the military is hiding To make the spy planes harder
when they arrived at War Eagle, a the country and eventually overseas tional security project." something, Pike said. · to see and less likely to prompt
30 minute drive for them, they to bases in countries that included The study, "CIA's Role in the There are two schools of UFO reports, they were eventually
were two hours late. They could Britain, West Germany and Taiwan. Study of UFOs, 1947-90," was writ thought on the nature of such a painted black. The CIA study said
n't explain the missing one and While commercial airliners in ten by Gerald K. Haines and ap cover-up. One, from Pike and other U-2s initially had silver bodies
one-half hours." the 1950s flew at altitudes of up to pears in Studies in Intelligence, a aerospace experts, holds that "and reflected the rays from the
Aside from his interests in ex 30,000 feet, the U-2 soared to more secret CIA journal. Five years ago, many sightings over the decades sun, especially at sunrise and sun
traterrestrial activities, Mazur is a than 60,000 feet and the SR-71 to t!1e agency began releasing unclas involved secret federal projects set."
dedicated HAM radio operator more than 80,000 feet, or 15 miles, sified versions of the journal year featuring advanced aircraft and The report added that "they of
and an accordionist of some nearly the edge of space. ly. The 1997 edition, with the study reconnaissance missions. The new ten appeared as fiery objects to
The planes carried powerful on unidentified objects, is at admission strengthens that view. observers below."
merit
cameras to spy on foreign military The other school holds that the But the SR-71, which first flew
"My wife and I love Mena, it's a installations and sensitive elec http://www.odci.gov/ government has come into posses in 1964, was apparently painted
wonderful town" said Mazur. "We tronic gear to capture radio and csVstudiesl97unclas/ sion of extraterrestrial craft and black from the start. Its nickname
have nothing but the best re radar transmissions. The spy craft on the World Wide Web. beings and is hiding them from the was the Blackbird.
lationship with all our neighbors.
They would give you the shirt off
their backs. We can't think of any
where else we'd rather be." We are always glad to receive ar11cles from your ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR - Aug. 9, 1997
Mazur and his wife Elaine con local papers. Although - obtain clippings Aliens and UFOs
tinue to monitor local and nation from a nallonal bureau, they are not always as
thorough as-would like. While-cannot
al reports from their Ironsfork
pay for clippings, - will give you full contrib-
home. utor credit for any items used In the Issues. 'Very bright silver, disc-shaped'
I was born and raised near Mountain by government agents and the Air Force
Home. Jobs were scarce, so I joined the to keep their mouth shut tight about what
Army. Late in 1944, I was discharged. I they saw.
stayed out of the service for a year and For 10 years the U.S. government de
then enlisted in U.S. Air Force. nied that U-2s were flying over and spy
Later, in Anchorage, I worked as a ing on Russia But on May 1, 1900, Francis
civilian on aircraft and helicopters. I Gary Powers was shot down. Even then
liked flying so I became a private pilot In for a day or so, the government said it
1957, my wife and I returned to Arkansas, never happened. President Eisenhower
><l: where I got my commercial flying license. had egg all over his face.
I flew charter flights over most of the U.S. If that was not bad enough, the Air
c
time and again, 7,~plus hours. Force and government said there was no
a0 , On several occasions at night I saw F-lllA Stealth Fighter, even after two of
.= lights that did not look, act or fly like the them crashed in the western desert dur
< aircraft I knew. I had a passenger with ing their training phase. They lied again
me when we saw a large, orange-colored when they disclaimed the B-2 Stealth
> ball coming at us, and then it veered off Bomber.
to the right. Even now the Air Force and the gov
<l:
oQ UFO? Not realty. It's a computer-created image of mysterious sighting ovBey rS oAotr! izTrooynaano.s aboNuotw in f omr tyh me oinnde. t hI awt aths eirne Fisl inpop dionu obnt eart nGmroeonmt s aLya tkhee, rNe eisv .n oItth iisn ag hsaepcpreetn Ainigr
~ leave. On June 7, 1981, en route to Moun Force base, very, very well guarded, and
~ UFO sightings probable, yet hard to explain tain Home, I turned east on Arkansas 178 no civilians can get within miles ofit The
and while going through a series ofturns Aurora spy plane is rumored to be based
:;::)
about three-fourths mile from Arkansas there.
I read with interest the article see. I commend USA TODAY for pub
126, there in front of me about 500 yards The U.S. government also said there
Wednesday "Arizonans say the truth lishing it.
away was a UFO. was no SR-71 Black Bird that flew better
about UFO is out there" (News). Why the military continues to feel
It was about 9 a.m., clear, visibility un than 2,000 mph at over 90,<XXI feet So why
Having reported to the original Pro humanity would not be able to accept
ject Blue Book, the Air Force's UFO in the truth mystifies me. People are not limited. It was a very bright silver or alu should they not tell more lies to the
vestigative service which it shut down going to become hysterical in the minum color, disc-shaped and on edge American people? There seems to be no
in 1969, and as director of the New Pro streets at the revelation. It might just do when I first saw it. I went around anoth law that says they can't. Right?
ject Blue Book, I fully appreciate the in the opposite. Worldwide acknowledg er turn and it stayed in front of me. I BOB HUGHART
terest and concern of the residents of ment of alien existence could at last stopped and got out of the car. It was over Cherokee Village
Arizona who say they witnessed objects. make this planet realize its truly small a cow pasture one-fourth to a half-mile
The Air Force never has said ftying place in the universe and bring all the away, 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the ground. An alien was at the door
saucers or UFOs do not exist, only that people of the world together. It was not moving then, but was so bright
the objects do not represent a threat to Imagine an Earth without divisive it may have been internally lighted.
the United States. I wondered how the ness and war, where the common goal A pickup was coming from the east, so Yes, I believe in aliens. You know, it's
Air Force could say the objects were is the betterment of society at large. I held up my left hand while pointing at funny how everyone is asking, "Is there
not a threat if the Air Force did not Knowing that aliens exist and have the UFO with my right hand. The instant life out there?" or "Are there aliens out
know what they were. Also, the Air been visiting us could fortify global co the pickup stopped, the UFO disap there?" All you have to do is look in your
Force always reported that the objects operation. This is the very premise of peared. I apologized to the driver. He had Bible. God said, let us make man in our
did not represent an unknown technol the latest Star Trek film, First Contact, not gone 50 feet before the UFO reap image, after our likeness. The words "us"
ogy. The irony is that the Air Force nev in which the idea is that only after hu and "our" tell me that there is someone
peared. Then it started at a slow pace to
er could explain some of the sighting re manity has its first contact with an alien other than man on earth, so what's the
go south toward Whiteville.
ports. Now it just passes them otr as if race does it unite. problem?
nothing was observed by good and In the worst<ase scenario, should I don't know where this craft came When I was little I saw what I would
clear-thinking citizens. any potential future alien encounters from, but it was for sure from other parts. call an alien. One night I heard a knock at
I do not doubt that the people in Ari be hostile, global knowledge of this now I'm telling the truth. I'm sorry I can't say the front door where I and my mother
zona, and throughout the world, ob would strengthen the resolve for our de the same for our government. were living at the time.
spelarvine.d Msoosmt ertehpinogrt etdh esyi gchotiunlgds naorte ebxy Wfenosreld aWll art hIeI. more, as it did during LAWREMNCouEn WtaiInU HEo1mTe meM, ayn gdr manyd mfaotthheerr w waesn int t toh gee hto suosmee w witah
persons of integrity and accuracy. Most I am not part of a lunatic fringe. I am
Akniro wFo" rbcaes oisf taicnedr sw aoruel dn ont ootn kan o"wne ewdh taot ath ocuogllhetgfeu l gmraidnuda taen dw iath g oaond inctaerlleiegre nitn, A government cover-up ter.W ·h en I heard the knock I went to the
was sighted. public relations. I saw a UFO myself door thinking that it was my mother, but
Bill Pitts when I was younger and believe it is I have never seen a UFO, but I do there was a tall, gray, manlike creature
Fort Smith, Ark. about time that our government 'fess up think there is a U.S. government cover-up standing there. I looked at him and he
Is there life out there? before all the lies and obfuscation about on this subject as too many commercial looked at me. He was about 7-foot-2, 200
alien existence create a lunacy and airline pilots and other knowledgeable pounds, gray color, no hair. He didn't say
Your story on the UFO blew my dangerous paranoia far worse than re persons have seen them. anything to me and I didn't say anything 9
mind. It is the sort of evidence about vealing the truth. The 1947 Roswell cover-up involved to him.
the existence of alien life that millions Patrick J. Gillease too many people who witnessed this UFO EDWARD DOBBINS SR.
around the world have been waiting to Poughkeepsie, N.Y. crash. Some are still alive who were told LittleRock
BEE, Fresno, CA - May 18, 1997
Kurt.....,.-The Fresno Bee
Saucer aightlngs? Above, Roy
Yates once scanned the skies for
signs of UFOs d part of his job
as section director for the Mutual
UFO Network. But poor health
has forced him to cut back on his
UFO activities in recent years. At
right, spinning disks can be seen
in this photo that was given to
UFO buff Joe Thor. It reportedly
was taken in April of 1970 from
an airplane near Fresno.
Special to The Bee
As the 50th anniversary
of the UFO era approaches, just north of Kerman. When the firefighters ar
rived, however, there was no fire.
s slghtlngs continue, and When word of Anlparano's sighting leaked out
from the hospital where he was treated, media
explanations still don't from all over the world began calling.
Definitely no career-enhancer
satisfy believers.
Amparano eventually werit public and described
what he saw. The attention settled down, but over
the years he was constantly asked to tell his UFO
story. He's convinced the incident damaged his
career.
"There's no question I was passed over for a
promotion because of it," he says. "As an officer, I
can go out, see somebody shoot someone. Write a
report. And send them to prison. But something
1-~ HE ·y like this happens and, all of the sudden, I'm a nut."
In 1982, Amparano was hired as a deputy for the
Fresno County Sheriff's department.
"They asked me about it before they hired me,"
01lt
he says. "I just told them what I saw. They seemed
to understand."
!PTH n~? Amparano has compiled letters from officers
i l.EL\.J....I around the country who have experienced sight
BY JAMES S. HOWARD THE FRESNO BEE ings.
According to a recent "H you're an officer in rural areas for any length
early every night, Manuel Amparano searches the skies Gallup poll, 48 percent of time, you're going to see some weird things," he
for a UFO, hoping to find proof that he's not insane. of Americans believe said.
The fonner Fresno County sheriff's deputy has that UFOs are real. The Amparano's experience is a classic sighting, says
been trying since 1978 to gather evidence that the poll, taken in Don Berliner, a director of the Fund for UFO
flying object he saw really does exist. September, 1996, UReFsOea rrcehs eianr cWh afsohri nmgtoorne, Dth.aCn. H40e 'sy ebaeresn aancdti vsea yins
With the 50th anniversary of the modern UFO age found the following sightings by police officers are to be expected.
approaching June 24, media attention on the subject results: "If there weren't a lot of good sightings from
is increasing. And Amparano finds himself thinking cops, you'd wonder why, because those people are
It was May 13, m19o7re8 .a Andm mpaorraen oab woaust wwohrakt ihneg wasi tan epsosleicde. o· fficer for QU.F OIns ysooumr eotphiinnigo nr,e aalr,e o"BuAtu mtth tpehareerya, nedoso'p ses ecdeiea sltclhyrei pminti. o"r un roalf awrheaast ,"h eB searwlin aenr ds adyisd.
the city of Kennan, patrolling the streets in the early morning hours. or just people's "is very familiar," says Berliner, who has read
A few minutes before 3:30 a.m., he saw what appeared to be a grass imagination? thousands of UFO encounter reports.
fire about half a mile away. As he drove toward the red glow, he Real48% "His behavior, his reactions, seem to be perfectly
noticed it was higher up, not on the ground but coming from the tops Imagination 31% reasonable," Berliner says. "His progression of
of the trees. When he arrived at the intersection of Del Norte and No opinion 21% bthuorungs hot ns eehmiss utop pbeer fbaomdiyli aarr ea nndo rte acsoomnambolen., Tbhuet
California avenues, he saw "a circular-type thing, about 100 feet from certainly people, particularly cops, have been close
the ground." The object was football-shaped, larger than his patrol car Q. Have you ever seen enough to feel heat."
and glowing bright yellow in the center and reddish around the edges. anything you thought For his part, Amparano has never said that he
"I just stayed in my car and looked at it for a few minutes," was a UFO? saw a UFO or flying saucer.
"To this day, I can't tell you what it was I saw,"
Amparano says. "It just hovered there above the trees and I started to Yes 12% he said. "I just know it was something that wasn't
adjust my spotlight to shine on it. But just when I got ready to turn No 87% supposed to be there - unidentified."
the spotlight on, it flashed blue-white, then went up and over and flew No opinion 1% But since then, Amparano has become something
away to the southeast." of a UFO buff-one of the many Valley residents
Amparano did not intend to tell anyone what he saw. Despite a long Q. In your opinion, who scan the skies or troll the Internet for signs of
an alien presence.
history of UFO sightings by people in the Valley, Amparano knew that does the U.S. govern
Roy Yates is one of the original UFO activists in
those who claim to see spaceships, UFOs or flying saucers are dis ment know more about the area. He is the Fresno section director for
missed and ridiculed. UFOs than it is telling MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, a nationwide
"I knew they'd think I was crazy," he says. "As far as I was con us? group that collects reports of UFO sightings. It's a
cerned, it never happened." Yes 71% strictly volunteer job that used to mean going out
to interview witnesses and driving up to the Sierra
He did, however, return to the police station and call the weather No19% foothills on UFO expeditions.
bureau, the Air National Guard and the Fresno Airport. There was no No opinion 10% "It's a scientific exploration of an unexplained
weather balloon, test aircraft or anything spotted on radar in the phenomenon," Yates says. "It could very well be
Kennan area at that hour. · that there are extraterrestrial civilizations way in
advance of us. But we have to be careful of wishful
As he was talking on the phone, two of his fellow The next day, when Amparano woke, his skin thinking."
officers, AJ. Buinyton and Bob Muller, came into still felt hot and burning. Tiny white blisters had Yates' interest in UFOs began when he was 17,
the station and asked him what happened to his appeared on his arms and neck. He went to Com· with what experts consider the beginning of mod
face. It was then that Amparano noticed that his munity Hospital in Fresno. Medical records con ern UFO history - the summer of 1947 .
face, arms and upper torso were red and inflamed firm that he suffered some sort of burn. He was On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, a U.S. Forest
- as if he'd been sunburned. treated and released. Service pilot, reported seeing nine bright, saucer
The officers and a local minister had been with According to newspaper and magazine accounts like objects over the Cascade mountains in Wash
Amparano earlier that night and had not seen any of the incident, at least two other people, Phil ington.
sign of burns or abnormal behavior. Mahler, an independent Fresno Bee newspaper de On July 5, 1947, hundreds of people in at least
Amparano told Buinyton and Muller what he'd liverer and Ken Westbrook, a farm worker, went
seen. The three officers drove to the field to look on record as having seen the large glowing object 10
for scorching or other evidence. They found noth Amparano encountered. The same night, the North (continued on page 11)
ing. Central fire district received a call for a grass fire