UFO Newsclipping Service 1997 10 no 339

20 Pages·1997·18.4 MB·English

October 1997
Number 339
Look - up in the sky:
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What was that, anyway?
a: MONMOUTH - They Whatever it was simply
0 ::;nid it was just a meteorite. turned off its headlights.
IIi But the truth is out The light - and it was
Navarre Bridge. They first spotted regular colurrm in the Plano Star ~ there. bright - just blinked off,
W:ell, another quiet week iii
them while driving on the Courier, every week for over a c Actually, the truth is just French said. "That's the
at Shoreline Park. We
Bayfront Parkway in Pensacola year and a half. Kind of like ci ot the end of the cui-de first time I've ever seen
had some visitors
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Naples, FL area who was very The lights were stationary in the "Unexplained Mysteries" and was w walking with his wife morning were full of
interesting to talk with. He told us sky and maintained their eleva devoted to the discussion of well m(/) around 10:45 p.m. July 27. sightings of a glowing red
that his interest in UFOs had real tion. No drop of fade was noted as detailed UFO incidents. His 0 He's certain of the time. ball in the sky. Authorities
would be the case with flares. As Sunday, October 16th, 1994 arti ci: He was watching televi explained it as a meteorite.
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him a newspaper containing his of the lights went out and then the "Lubbock Lights" sightings as i They saw a bright light have been. It buzzed his
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1880's in Virginia. There was also five minutes. dent in Aurora, Texas in 1897, in Monmouth. It was no no Carl Sagan, but he does
a story in that newspaper of some Another witness called the Gulf where there were reports of an meteorite, French said. At know that meteorites just
one having had a UFO sighting! Breeze police department to report "airship" and some people believe one point, it was a mere don't do those sorts of
Speaking of sightings though, seeing amber lights in the sky at that "the remains of an alien who 200 feet off the ground. things.
there are none to none to report around 8:40p.m. They appeared was killed by the townspeople ... It was so mere that But if it wasn't a mete
at an approximate forty-five (are) buried in an unmarked grave
from Shoreline Park. We have French thought it was orite, what was it? Is there
degree elevation and were going in the public cemetery." This story
enjoyed the cooler, less humid going to smash into a intelligent life on other
off and coming on in sequence. has, we believe, been featured on
evenings this week courtesy of house at the end of a near planets and, if so, what's it
We believe there is some video of the Unsolved Mysteries show.
two cold fronts that made their by cul-de-sac. doing buzzing neighbor
this event, although details right Michael also details a 1946 sight
way down to the Gulf Coast. Very Then things got weird. hoods in Monmouth?
now are sketchy and we hope to ing by the crew of a B-29 recon
unusual for this time of the year,
have more information at a later naissance plane of a "mother ship
but a most welcome relief from
date. which dwarfed the Air Force
the heat and high humidity that we
A third witness called, Art bomber, and undertook docking
expect in August. Some reports of
Hufford, president of maneuvers with fie smaller craft at
sightings in the local area have fil N.W. FLORIDA DAILY NEWS, Ft. Walton Beach, FL
Pensacola/Gulf Breeze MUFON an incredible speed of some 5200
tered through to us, however. One to report that at 8: 15 p.m. they had m.p.h." This sighting was classi Sept. 7, 1997 CR: B. Reid
set of reports from the Gulf seen bright amber lights in the sky fied until the Freedom of LETTERS The Armed Forces Journal
Breeze area and the other from
near the Navarre Bridge from Information Act, and interestingly Internatio~, July 1997 issue,
Perdido Key, west of Pensacola. their vantage point just east of The pre-dates the 1947 Roswell inci Page 26, "Mining Silver Bullets,"
The weekend that Hurricane ZOO in Gulf Breeze. The sighting dent. Eglin's big secret features a photo of a "silver
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vidual lights staying lit for more sightings in Texas in his "Eglin says no radar, 'no idea'
three sightings on Perdido Key approximately two to three min October 1994 article, ranging on object." Several nights ago, about 2:30
involving a cylindrical shaped a.m., while enjoying the night
utes at a time. The lights were from the 1946 report to the If the public really wants to
object. One of these sightings was sky from my condo balcony, I
coming on and going off in a famous Betty Cash incident in !mow what's going on at Eglin
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cylindrical shaped object descend tern that we have seen many times just like these which are not well Sen. Strom Thurmond pens the dim lights streaking on a flat
ing from high above about a half foreword attesting to Phil's
in the Gulf Breeze area and is not known to the general public. It is trajectory, traveling from west
mile offshore and then following many contributions to the
dissimilar to the effect given by evidence like this, though, and the to east, far out in the Gulf of
the shoreline from west to east the recent Phoenix, Arizona sight sheer volume of it, that may even nation. He goes on to say: "We Mexico. The lights. were
toward them. It stopped and hov ings. tually give even the strongest should all be grateful that there traveling at very high speed.
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sighting on the previous evening. his research ad infinitum. the ideals we all hold so dear."
between light lime green and I think there's a story here.
Despite our best efforts, we have Information on the upcoming Phil, in his book, discloses
white. It hovered for over a You may want to pursue it.
been unable to reach this witness, Project Awareness Tampa UFO how the U.S. government
minute and then shot off due
but will continue to try so that we Conference can be obtained from covered up the facts about its
south, rising and reaching the can hear if his story corroborates Project Awareness by calling recovery of the first UFO near JOHN McCORMICK
horizon in about a second and a the other three reports. [phone] or by e-mail at Roswell, N.M .• in 1947. Destin
half. One of the witnesses states
It should be noted that no con [email protected].
that it "took off at incredible
clusion has been reached regard The Conference will be held
speed." There are some details
ing these Gulf Breeze reports and October 31st, November 1st and
missing from this report which we ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE,
they are still under investigation. 2nd, 1997 at the Camberly Plaza
hope to be able to track down and The local military bases including Hotel Sabal Palms, in Tampa, Little Rock, AR - Sept. 27, 1997
thus provide a more detailed Eglin Air Force Base, Hurlburt Florid~. · Agency: UFO seen by Swiss was balloon
account at a later date.
Field and NAS Pensacola were If you have a sighting or
The Gulf Breeze reports all
contacted and apparently no encounter to report, or wish to ZURICH, Switzerland -The mystery of one UFO has been solved ..
occurred on the evening of maneuvers were taking place on contact the local Experiencer A unidentified flying object passed dangerously close to a Sw~ss.air
Wednesday, July 30th, 1997. Two this particular evening. We will Support Group, please call the jetliner traveling between Philadelphia and Boston on Aug. 9, the a1rlme
of our regular skywatch group, said Friday.
give more information regarding Pensacola/Gulf Breeze MUFON
Ray and Elise Pollock, saw three Swissair spokesman Erwin Schaerer said the crew reported that an
amber lights in the sky as they these sightings as it becomes Hotline at 438-3261. If you would object sped by about 50 yards from the Boeing 747 after the plane had
available. like information, please write to: taken off from Philadelphia and had reached 23,000 feet.
were driving to Gulf Breeze at
We were contacted recently by Carole Baker, P.O. Box 17152. The pilot told the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board that the ob
around 8:45 p.m. The lights were
Michael Williamson, an author Pensacola FL 32522-7152. Keep ject as long and wingless, but the copilot said it was more spherical, he said.
to their south-east, toward the from Plano, Texas. He wrote a Looking Up! And what was it?
It probably was a weather balloon, board spokesman Pat Cariseo said
Friday.
"[The sighting] does not lead us to believe that was something self-pro
pelled," Cariseo added. CAP>
Crop circles cause speculation
By Jodi Fuson out." called ion plasma vortices. W.C.
Staff Reporter The two boys said there were no Levengood, a scientist from Grass
trails or footprints going into the Lake, Mich., investigated a similar
wheat field. Myer Nore of Lincoln crop circle in an Arlington, Iowa,
WAVERLY--Was it an alien was at the site Saturday to investi com field in February of 1996.
landing or natural phenomena? gate with his mom, Janaree': Myer According to an article in the Arlin
No scientists showed up to inves was on his way to a piano lesson in gton Telegraph Herald, Levengood
tigate the mysterious circular de Waverly. Both mother and son has studied approximately 150 crop
pressions just south of Amberly made sketches of the patterns. circles around the world.
Road on 140th Street Waverly, but Myer noted that in the big circle Ion plasma vortices are defined as
a few hundred curious spectators the wheat in the center was pushed collections of electronically charged
did. down in a counterclockwise direc particles high above the earth'!:
B.J. Kruse and his friend, Nick tion and on the outer rim it was surface (similar to lightning).
Bartlett, both 15, discovered the flattened in a clockwise direction. "When these particles are pulled
patterns in a wheat field just south The wheat was neatly folded down together by the earth's magnetic
of Kruse's home on July 6. They and showed no signs of being cut. field, the ions become swirling
finally convinced Kruse's mom, In the little circle the patterns masses that emit energy, • stated the
Brenda, to come and investigate were just the opposite. The circles article. "When the vortices move to
with them last Friday. They said were about 15 feet apart and were earth and strike crops, the intense
they did not go into the field before not connected until the boys made a energy weakens the plant stalks,
then because they did not want to path between them. The larger one causing them to lie in the circular
disturb the pattern. "We didn't think was about twice the size of the direction of the vortex and parts of
anyone would take us seriously if smaller one. the. plants are browned by micro
we came out by ourselves," said . The keylike projection extended wave-like energy. • News Photo\Jodi Fuson
Nick. out from the back of the larger The Iowa circle was 55 feet in WHEAT FIELD FIND--Nick Bartlett and B.J. Kruse were the first to
When asked what they thought circle. From end to end, the entire diameter. The large circle in Wave discover some odd depressions in a wheat field just down the
made the two circular patterns in pattern measured approximately 128 rly measured approximately 40 feet street from Kruse's house in Waverly Heights. The two stand in the
the wheat and a long key-like pro steps. in diameter. largest of two circles. Behind them extends a key-like projection.
jection, Nick said, "You could say One explanation for the unusual A spokesman from the Lancaster On the opposite end of the large circle was a smaller unattached
\t's UFOs, but that's a little far pattern is a natural phenomena circle. The find was the talk of the town for several days.
the Nebraska Wheat Board, didn't being trampled. He has farmed the
County Sheriff's office said a have an explanation for what may land for his aunt since 1971.
deputy did a brief report on the have happened near Waverly, al T.respassing hasn't been much of
NEWS, Ann Arbor, Ml - Aug. 13, 1997 incident. The image was approxi though he's heard of similar inci problem in his field until the new
mately 30 feet long, according to dents. "It happens periodically addition went in, he said, referring
Is the truth that report. No one in the area around the world," he said. "It's the to Waverly Heights. "You always
reported seeing anything out of the first time I've heard of something see more near town," he said.
ordinary prior to the wheat field like this close to home." Zuercher did not see the patterns
discovery. Whatever made the pattern, did in the field until a local television
out there The spokesman added that there not break the wheat stalks. Wet station told him about them. If he
was a report of an unidentified conditions would allow the wheat to had been the first to come upon
flying object near Pawnee Lake that bend rather than break, Maas said. them, he said he probably wouldn't
same weekend but that the caller A second set of circles discovered have thought much of it.
was never identified. Authorities Sunday showed definite signs of He's never had anything like it in
for UFOs? spoke with several campers and the breakage. They are believed to be his fields before but said after
campground supervisor, and no one the work of teenagers seen in the talking to other farmers, he's dis
could verify the story. According to field the night before. covered they have. One of those
the caller, an UFO hovered over By Monday afternoon the 19-acre farmers was Waverlyite Randy
some trees near the lake and created section of winter wheat was cut. W amer. According to Zuercher,
• Couple describes possible UFO strong enough winds to blow out Farmer Tom Zuercher was hoping other farmers combine right over
scenarios in state. two campfires. to deter additional trespassers and the patterns without giving them
Ron Maas, executive director of save his remaining wheat from much thought.
By MELANIE FELICIANO
NEWS STAFF REI'OitTER
An Oscoda woman wakes in October 1994 to find her
bedroom bathed in white light. She looks out the win
dow where a soundless craft hovers near her house then three small children. We lived next of older Babylon. You will read of Girka
with steady green and red lights flashing then backs door to a couple often visited by a son and his Vimana (spacecraft), which
away at high speed a; Letters to in-lHawe , sgaiivde nh eto w woerkaeridn fgo dr athrke sFuBitIs .u nder aconudl dp ahsotv tehr,e gsou nu pl ikaen da dsotwrena, ks iodfe lwigahyts.
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sound like a microwave oven. The two older boys re .:.::,J (then), and he proceeded to tell me of struct the craft, how to overhear con
turn to their home much later than their younger sib the Roswell incident. He said UFOs versation in other crafts, terrible
lings because they found themselves sitting on.t heir ~ Another perspective (alien ships) exist and that one (or weapons reminiscent of our atomic
sled naked, their clothes stacked neatly next to them.
These are only two of more than 50 possible UFO -zg on existence of UFOs mboodriee?s) wcrearseh efodu innd N. e<wN oMt edxuimcom aineds tbhuatt wdeenatpaollnys s. eGt iorfkfa t hsep eraokcsk eotf (whoewap hoen )a acncid
scenarios reported in Michigan between 1994 and 1995, In response to the George Ayoub col real aliens of some sort.) He knew, he destroyed the triple city (Sodom, Go
according to Bill and Linda Murphy, state co-directors «~ umn in the June 28 Independent-"We said, because he was there himself. For morrah and another city recently dis
of Mutual UFO Network Inc., known as MUFON. :$ are not alone - or maybe we are," I al what it's worth, that's what he told me. covered) and how badly he felt about it.
At a slide-illustrated talk at Bor "0 ways enjoy the wit and humor used in As time went by, a few incidents oc Who was it who said, "There is noth
ders Books and Music on East c your columns. Few can compare to your curred, and I became more interested ing new under the sun"?
Liberty Street Tuesday night, Bill ~ abilities to write this type of material, in the subject from different material As for Diogenes, I often wonder if he
Murphy said Michigan is the <.!' and I, for one, have enjoyed reading it. that I read, and I read a lot. Some mate knew that truth can be stronger then
fourth leading state in reports of ..._.. While you are able to dissect almost rial covered the Bible, ancient history, fiction .
UFO sightings, following Florida, z any subject and make it humorous, Solon, Plato, Einstein, other religions, Dee Powell
California and Oregon. ~ there are a few of us who in some cor etc. 311 N. Lincoln No. 6
"Strange things are in fact hap z ner of our minds have serious thoughts My curiosity was aroused when I
pening in our skies," Murphy told ~ about some of these subjects. I myself read of Ezebiel and what he described
an audience of about 40 people w - like Diogenes of old - carry a (men - ''wheels" - and what Moses had to
who have reported - or said they ~ tal) lamp looking for the truth. Perhaps say. I read the Epic of Gilgamesh and
have friends who have seen - ob it is a lost cause, but as you well know, the Mahabharata - the Iliad of ancient
jects in the sky that might be alien MURPHY
our curiosity to "learn and know" leads India. Since you are a writer, I have to
spaceships. "Michigan has been something of a play
us into many discoveries (good or bad). assume you like to read also, and if you
ground for UFO reporting."
To go straight to the subject of have not read the Mahabharata, do so!
Bob Olejniczak of Rockford was among those at UFOs, a number of years ago, I lived in This epic was found inscribed in
"UFO's and Related Phenomena." The former MU Central City with my husband and my stone slabs unearthed from a few layers
FON member said he and his brother thought they had
seen an object "coming down from the clear blue sky
and into the clouds," while they were looking for the
planet Venus one evening.
Harry Willnus, a former MUFON state director in
the late 1970s, estimated that one out of 10 people have
had some kind of alien experience. Murphy showed slides of cray
"I think this is widespread throughout the country on-renditions drawn by "abduc Even though all the pieces of evidence
and possibly throughout the world," he said. tees'' and night-sky spectators
The subject has risen in appeal because of the mass that illustrated sightings in Dex MUFON gathers cannot prove anything,
media. ter. Holland, Kingsley, Traverse Murphy said, it is important for everyone to
"I think the masses are somewhat easy to control in City. Bad Axe and elsewhere.
some ways because once something becomes popular MUFON. a Texas-based non report sightings to trace patterns.
it becomes the thing to do," said William Robinson of profit corporation, is an interna
Ann Arbor, adding that shows like the "X-Files," books tional scientitic organization com
and the daily news have created a more recent hype on posed of people interested in Murphy said that "exper structure types.
a centuries-old phenomenon. researching the pher.omenon iencers'' should call the UFO bot "Ninety percent are honest.
The former U.S. Air Force contractor said he read known as "unidentified flying ob line (800) UF0-2166 after finding mistakes, but we welcome re
the reports on the 50-year-old Roswell, New Mexico, jects." Even though all the pieces cover, estimating the distance of ports. No one should be afraid to 2
case and even though there is conflicting evidence, he of evidence MUFON gathers can the object from their viewpoint, make an honest report," Murphy
thinks something unusual happened there. not prove anything, Murphy said, figuring the time the object ap said. "When you've dismissed
"Everything is open for speculation," Robinson said. it is important for everyone to re peared and disappeared, record that it's Venus or good beer, then
·-rm somewhat skeptical. but I'm somewhat open." port sightings to trace patterns. ing direction changes and noting it's an unidentified flying object."
Grand Rapids' Virginia Tilly
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Leads FO Investigative Efforts
BY:Stelle Slootmaker
Virginia Tilly
early 70s, three years after witness Stadium hovering over tree episode a few years back, growth and behavior. Yes, baby ani
f'Jov~ ov~r ing such a craft, along with hun tops. She traced about a this spaceship reportedly mals. Those claiming these alien
dreds of other motorists, on the US dozen reports referred to held alien remains: child-like, encounters report their abduction
s~ully ... 31 expressway near Lake Michigan. her that tracked the UFO's hairless "Grey" aliens. These experiences very often began when
"I saw up ahead of me an unusually flight from the Indiana bor traditional other-worlders they were children. In many cases,
bright light. I though it was a small der, through Kalamazoo, stand approximately four feet tall, siblings report being abducted
Tilly's research has brought her a plane - then realized it wasn't northwest and across Lake have deep-set, slanted eyes. and together, while parents, in the next
measure of fame. A published moving," Tilly recalls. Michigan, and on to four-fingered hands. Tilly says that room, tell of having an urge to
author and international lecturer, "It was hovering about 250 feet Milwaukee. "In Michigan, the military and the scientific com check on their children, when they
she's currently producing an audio above the treetops. Such a classic there's been the highest per munity covered-up this incident, are overcome by a feeling of con
cassette series. She's been inter sighting: near water, power lines, a centage, historically, of and continue to repress evidence of tentment and fall off into a heavy
viewed as a media source for traditional disc shape, tilted slightly, reported sightings," notes aliens today. "Scientists have sleep. Many awake with a horrid
national and local TV as well as by with colored lights around the Tilly. become the high priests of our dread, only to find their babes
the press. Tilly holds membership in perimeter and a bright light on the society. If you dare consider any asleep in their beds and safe - but
the IMDHA (International Medical bottom center. Everyone began All tS no+ thing outside their realm, you're not untouched. One mother told
and Dental Hypnotherapy pulling off the road real slow. There out of line. There's a commitment Tilly that her child rose in the
Association), APRT ( Association was never an official statement in to money," asserts Tilly. "Scientists morning and said," Mommy, the little
for Past Life Research and Therapy), released- the media only said w~JJ should be leading the way." doctors were here again last night."
and ASTD (American Society for there were no qualified witnesses." Abductees relate similar tell
Training and Development). As a On a beautiful July night in the 'Rosw~ll. .. tale signs. Bloody noses, small,
member of MUFON (Mutual UFO late 80s, Tilly took her nephews out scoop-shaped bruises, symmetrical
Network), Tilly has served on the to look for satellites. The evening puncture patterns, as well as a psy
board of directors and as Director was warm and clear.As a bright light Contemporary fascination ~1 i~ nS ... chological trauma that's more pro
of Public Education, Research approached from the east, the boys with UFOs still gets a boost nounced in adults than children.
Specialist, State Section Director, became excited over sighting their from 1947's famed saucer Young abductees often develop an
and Field Director. "I don't think first satellite. "I told them, 'That's no crash in Roswell, New This phrase has become a humor intellectual precocity: one small boy
aliens are here to attack us. I don't satellite. It's too low, too bright, and Mexico. According to Tilly, ous epitaph, used to allude to indi reportedly woke up and knew all
think they're here to eat us. I do it's coming from the wrong direc pieces of the craft were viduals a few miles west of wacky. about the solar system (he had
think they've been here throughout tion,"' recalls Tilly. scattered throughout the But according to Tilly, abductions toured it the night before). Some
history," says Tilly. The huge, wing-shaped craft was area. The metallic fragments do occur ... locally and on a regular people share incidents of healing,
soon met by another; a military jet were unlike any known, a basis. As a certified hypnotherapist, though, when aliens heal, it seems
took pursuit. Now that the Stealth metal with memory,.virtually Tilly helps those with sketchy more an alien after-thought, not the
U bomber has become public knowl indestructible. It could be abdiJction memories recall their Intent of the visitation.
Si3~+- ns~~n edge, Tilly thinks that this sighting crumpled, but would regain close encounters. She also helps Many adult abductees become
may have been a military test of the its form. People claiming to facilitate a support group for those substance abusers and develop
Or SO S~j then top-secret jet. She presumes have gathered fragments say enduring these experiences. marital problems; others relate an
that many of today's sightings may the military went to all According to Tilly, once the subject onset of psychic and prophetic abil
be the military's new Aurora craft. homes in the area demand- of an abduction, a person will be ities. Those seeking professional
f-~~ pOW~rS
But, she does not believe the mili ing the extraterrestrial sou- most like-ly to encounter aliens help are often told they're
tary is responsible for all UFO venirs be relinquished. again. delusional, and end up fur-
+-~~+- b~ ... activity. Others, working on the mili- Tilly's description of abductee's ther traumatized by the
Though she didn't see it herself, tary base, say they were pro- stol"les reminds you of contempo therapies and medica 3
TiHy tells of a 1986 sighting, with hibited from talking about rary zoologists tagging baby animals tions prescribed to
many, many witnesses describing a the incident. in the wild, and then checking up on
(continued on page 4)
Tilly began researching UFOs in the craft as large as Wings Just like in the X-Files them every so often to study their
(continued from page 3 - MILLENIA, TIMES, Seattle, WA - July 17, 1997
Grand Rapids, Ml - June 1997) 'They Came Here First!'
help them. The world
as they had known it,
their belief systems and their cred
ibility with friends and family are
turned upside-down. On the other Weird science has nothing aver weird art
hand, Tilly sees most abductees as
coming out of the experience as in memorial to Mount Rainier UFOs
kinder, more humane persons. They
seem to possess a broader, more
accepting understanding of the
"They Came Here
world. They retain their faith in
First!"
God, but can no longer accept nar
row, parochial theological con Exhibition commemo
straints. Many develop a concern rating the 50th
for the environment and some anniversary of the
become vegetarians. "I would not first sighting of the
say it's a good experience to go flying saucer, through
through. But, it expands you. You're Aug. 16 at the Center
definitely different. It changes your on Contemporary Art,
world view," says Tilly. 65 Cedar St.; 206-
After spending most of her life 728-1980.
investigating these phenomena, Tilly
believes ... but faces the frustration
that she's not getting any closer to
the truth. There have been times "Military Cover-up"
when she's decided to 'get out', but by Markus Tracy is
she's always drawn back in ... by an a photograph created
interesting phenomenon or a per- with a pinhole cam
son who's encountered era. A four-inch
one and needs her plastic spaceship and
help. "I have more BY VICTORIA ELLISON • Special to The Seattle Times toy soldiers were
questions now models.
than answers,"
admits Tilly. Fifty years ago, a private plane spotted nine fly absolute conviction fundamental to the best art.
"But, I know ing saucers over Mount Rainier. Days later, iu These are works u[ exuuerant i1naginatio11.
there's something july 1947, a rancher reported a UFO crash on his A Wall Street graphic designer by day, New
Roswell, N.M., property. A resulting military York artist David Huggins claims he first met
out there."
investigation deemed the "crash" insignificant. aliens at age 7 and later fathered more than 200
Yet these events snowballed into a cultural inva half-alien babies in forced sexual experiments.
sion of historic proportions. "Weirdly," notes CoCA director Susan Purves,
N.W. FLORIDA DAILY NEWS, Seattle curator and artist David Kane has gath "the abductees' stories, using 12-step lingo, close
ered at the Center on Contemporary Art works ly parallel those of recovered-memory ritual-abuse
Ft. Walton Beach, FL
by 40 local and national artists with aliens on the victims we've lately heard so much about."
Sept. 6, 1997 CR: B. Reid brain. Some are playful, toy like paintings of danc
ing little green men and cast urethane saucers Haunting images, odd vulnerability Are we alone?
Witnesses
that look like hard candies. Some derive minimal Though Huggins' paintings are technically ama On Tuesday, the Cen
abstract works from space imagery; others use teurish, by no means conventionally "good" art, ter on Contemporary
the wildfire spread of the Roswell legend and they are powerful statements about a disturbed Art presents "An
positive accompanying conspiracy theories for text-based psyche, and some of the most haunting images . Evening With the
conceptual, political and parodic themes. from the exhibition. In a blandly furnished bed Experts," a panel dis
The profusion of alien paraphernalia is great room, a boyish man lies inert and rigid in bed. A cussion "on the mil
something
fun. The exhibition includes a huge cache of fragile, praying mantis-like phallic figure enters the lenarian meaning of
movie posters, '50s space toys-ray guns, lunch room through a black doorway. In the foreground is aliens." Shedding light
boxes, beanies - and such campy illustrated an alien with cavernous, gaping insect eyes in a on the matter v:. 1J be
fell from sky
publications as "Other Worlds" and "Fate Maga naked human female body. The ordinariness of the Tony Nugent, Univer
zine." Portland's Alex Schomburg, 90, con scene, its Edward Hopper-like emptiness, plus its sity of Washington
tributes a terrific original gouache illustration for sheer odd vulnerability, is broodingly disturbing. professor of religion;
• Eglin has stopped its search; a long-ago pulp-fiction novel cover. The pinhole photograph reconstructions of Dale Goudie of the
Walton's sheriff's department saucer landings by nonbeliever Markus Tracy are UFO Reporting and
Reliving an abduction especially beautiful and romantic. In sepia tones, Information Service;
plans to keep on looking . But the most compelling works are by true these slightly blurred silhouettes of saucers touch Peter Davenport of
believers. New York's lone! Talpazon's primitive ing down in backlit grass fields have a sweet, story the National UFO
By JOHN KEEGAN mixed-media drawings of UFOs are as structured book nostalgia. Reporting Center; and
Daily News Staff Writer as a Boeing engineer's sketch. He relives what Like manv group shows of this scale, CoCA's Dr. Susan Lepselter,
he believe3 ·~o have been his abduction by aliens would inve benefited by grouping artists themati an ethno-anthropolo
The truth is out there, but it's still not through obsessive studies of the craft that took cally. Some work depends on its preoccupation gist from Austin,
known what was seen hovering in the him. His bright. primary-colored works recall with aliens to justify its presence; other work is Texas. It's 7:30p.m.
north Walton County skies on Tuesday cross-sectioned shapes of children's metal spin visually strong in its own right. Written material to Tuesday at CoCA. 65
night. ning tops. replete with notations. arrows and fun help the viewer sort through the rather over Cedar St.; $3 (CoCA
Eglin Air Force Base remained satisfied neling current that bring to mind Leonardo da whelming collection would have been welcome. members free): 206-
Friday that there isn't a need to further Vinci'~ studies of how water works. Though ren But if you can't stand the sensory overload, stay 72R-1980.
investigate unusual lights seen Tuesday in dered 111 a childlike manner, thcv are immensely away from CoCA-it's hee;-: taken over by UFOs. )
the clear night skies above the Freeport sophistJcatcd. with the economy of means and Tl-Je u·uLh rr.?y be 0ut there. but 1h e :1,·t is in ht"·t.
area because no civilian or military planes
are missing, Eglin spokeswoman Leigh
Ann Redovian said.
However, eyewitnesses and members of The National Weather Service other firefighters on Tuesday's miles south of Test Site C-6, but
Tuesday's search team still say something in Mobile, Ala. reported that there search caught a strong and dis Eglin spokesman Maj. Matt
was up there. were clear skies Tuesday night tinct odor of smoldering pine Durham refuted that Wednesday
Kent Scebbi and his wife, Phyllis, were with visibility of 8 to 10 miles. straw, but never found a fire. as being "a bad assumption."
southbound on the Rocky Bayou bridge
about 8:45 p.m. when they saw two lights in After receiving calls about the Blaylock said the C-130 was "We felt satisfied that nothing
the eastern sky, north of State Road 20. lights and a possible plane crash, about a half-mile north of his loca went down," he said. "As far as
"My wife said. 'There are your UFOs' Eglin Range Patrol, a C-130 from tion on J.W. Hollington Road east we're concerned, the matter is
because I'm always talking about the stuff I Duke Field, Walton County sher of Freeport and never flew over closed."
saw in Nevada and Arizona," he said. iff's deputies, and more than 30 the heavily wooded area. Durham said tapes of Tuesday's
"They looked like tower lights but I never volunteers from Freeport and "It appears to me and everyone radar activity were reviewed and
saw a tower out. there .... I thought they Woodlawn searched the areas else there that it was a haphazard nothing was detected.
m16i gohrt haa vsei nbgeleen-e nthgein aef tjeert ,b ubrunte rtsh eo f laing hFts- wmeosrte atnhda ne a2s6t, 0o0f0 F arecerepso rotf aAndm ethrie search," he said. Eglin's Range Operations Con
weren't fading and weren't moving in a can Farms north of Freeport. Blaylock, a former Civil Air Pa trol Center "speculated" that the
horizontal direction." trol member, said the lights may lights may have been a meteor,
Scebbi, 40, said the northern-most light The search ended Tuesday have been from a low-flying plane but their was no tangible evi
was slightly lower than the south- night. making a drug drop. dence, he said.
ern light and both maintained a Redovian said the Air Force "My speculation is it was a Finding a meteorite soon after
horizontal distance from each didn't continue Wednesday be plane dropping a particular pack it has been seen falling is a "very
other. He described the lights cause the Walton County Sheriff's age with a flare," he said. "If it rare" occasion, said Wayne Woo
having light blue centers, with Department planned to keep look wasn't, it isn't going to rest on my ten, staff astronomer at Pensacola
white rings around them. Each ing. shoulders or the others who were Junior College's Space and Sci
was the size of a quarter on the However, Col. Bill Chapman out there. Eglin was in charge. ence Theater. Wooten suggested
windshield, he said. said Friday that his department They were calling the shots." that witnesses could have seen an
Scebbi said he watched the didn't continue the search. Eglin radar operators reported exploded meteor which can look 4
like the lights on an aircraft.
lights for about three minutes, Jim Blaylock, a Freeport volun Tuesday that a falling object was
until they were obscured by trees. teer firefighter, said he and six detected on radar about four
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50 years later, the world's
fascination with creatures
from beyond hasn't
flagged one bit
By Merry Hayes
Journal Reporter
Fifty years ago today, a Boise pilot
flying near Mount Rainier spotted
nine shiny objects in the sky.
Shaped like pie pans and as large
as DC-4 passenger planes, they wove
in and out of formation over the
Cascades. The pilot, a businessman
named Kenneth Arnold, thought they
were jet planes. He clocked them at
1,200 mph - faster than any known
aircraft at that time.
Military officials discounted
Arnold's claim. And he found it hard
to believe himself, telling reporters:
"It seems impossible, but there it is."
That sighting on the afternoon of
June 24, 1947, received worldwide
publicity and sparked a deluge of sim
ilar sightings. News reports of
Arnold's account coined the term
"flying saucer."
A week later, a crash of what some
believe was an alien spacecraft
occurred near Roswell, N.M.
The modem UFO craze had begun.
other beings," says Barry Karr, One of the many alleged cover
Today, people across the country executive director of the ups is the reported discovery of a
report seeing spaceships, strange Skeptical Inquirer magazine. crashed flying saucer and several
lights and alien beings. UoFfO Davenport seeks that evidence. dead aliens near Roswell in 1947.
researchers spend much. their lives He compiles reports of UFO sight "I think the government knows
compiling sighting evidence, enthusi ings from across the country and everything. They know about
asts try to contact extraterrestrials posts them on the Internet. extraterrestrial life," says Larry
wreictohr hdiignhg-sp,o awnder beedl ileigvhetrss adneds csroiuben d UFO researchers say well over tCohri lodfs tohfe B Motuhteulal,l aUnFdO s tNateet wdiorerkc .
what they claim are UFO abductions. 90 percent of reported UFOs are "The powers that be don't want
identifiable objects such as air
UFOs have also invaded popular plane lights, ball lightning, mete the run-of-the-mill people to know
culture, from "The X-Files" to tabloid about it. They (government offi
ors and planets. Researchers have
reports of humans having alien babies cials) might lose control."
gathered mounds of anecdotal
to the Disney World ride data on the reports they can't But Childs says many people
ExtraTERRORestrial Encounter. explain, along with a few pho do know about UFOs first hand.
Is it science fiction? Or have we tographs and bums in the ground "A lot of people see things. A
made contact with beings beyond our - but no proof. lot more than we realize," he says.
selves? "We're in the very beginning of "People have seen them over
"It appears we ar:e dealing witk our understanding of this field Bellevue. They've seen them
some form of intelligence," says Peter despite the immensity of data," going along I-90."
Davenport, director of the National Davenport says. "I think the phe Childs and his wife, Marilyn
UFO Reporting Center in Seattle. nomenon is very large and very Childs, an astronomer and for
"Who are they? Where do they come complex, and we have yet to mer physics teacher, claim to
from? I have no more idea than the understand even the basics." have seen many UFOs them
next guy who walks down the side Davenport receives as many selVes_ M·Mf~ Chlt45 ~ he'
walk." as 40 calls a day on the 24-hour relatives saw flying cigar-shaped
Some say they're extraterrestrials. UFO hot line (206-1l2-~00) he ships in the 1800s, and she notes
Other theories are time travelers, has operated in the basement of that ancient cultures reported wit
beings from other dimensions or crea his home since taking over as nessing gods in airships.
tures who live inside the Earth. Some director in 1994. Calls come in The couple investigates sight
believe all of the above. from airline pilots, law enforce ings as part of MUFON, which
Skeptics don't dispute that people ment officers, air traffic con has about 170 members statewide
trollers, UFO investigators and and 6,000 around the world.
are seeing strange things they can't
identify. But they say it's a tremen other citizens. They report trian Although the group draws a
dous leap of faith to claim that UFOs gular ships of all types, discs of all fringe element that believes every
are from other planets or other dimen kinds and balls of light. sighting, MUFON says it takes an
sions. The most dramatic sighting objective, scientific approach.
"There's no physical scitntific evi he's investigated occurred in They interview witnesses about
dence that we have been visited by March in Arizona. On the night sightings and make written
of March 13, thousands ofpeople reports, often employing the
saw unusual lights in the sky. expertise of consultants such as 5
Many UFO enthusiasts believe psychologists, engineers and
the government knows much astronomers. (continued on page 6)
more about UFOs than it is telling.
(continued from page 5 - SOUTH COUNTY JOURNAL, ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL - MAY 28, 1997
Kent, WA - June 24, 1997)
1he most wonderful
thing_ and the worsr
Woman is convinced Filip, who uses hypnosis to
help clients uncover memories, The case previously reported in that the original witness has been wise direction. The investigators
she was abducted says people all over the world, the Foley/Fairhope, Alabama seeing around his property and stated that the effect was not as
many who've never read or area is still ongoing and so is the that which is depicted in the video pronounced as that seen in a crop
BJyo Murnearl rRye Hpoartyeer s ihleaar rdex apbeoruietn UcFeOs.s ,A rnedc osuhnet shiemr irnevceesivtieg aati orne.p Io rwt atsh iesn cwoeuerkag ferdo mto awnidtn setislsl 'p theosttoigmraopnhys .p Tuhtsis as eUcoFnOd creilractleed, taon tdhe m UaFyO o lar nmdianyg . not be
self has been transported very near the location where the The next day, the investigators
the local MUFON President, Art
Evelyn McNutt used to through a wall and seen a being Hufford, who had personally visit first witness found the strange returned to the site again. This
ignore the strange experiences materialize in her bedroom. ed the area on two occasions depressions in his backyard. time they carried a compass into
in her life that she couldn't "I'm a very skeptical person recently. His visits were prompted Unfortunately this second witness the affected area and found that
explaio.. myself," she said. "But I don't by the discovery of apparent land wishes to remain anonymous so is there were, in fact, some magnetic
Missing time. Odd lights that deny the truth when it's in front ing trace evidence on the property not available for interview or anomalies. The compass needle
filled her room at night. of me." of the witness who has been comment. acted in an erratic manner as the
Dreamlike memories of alien Others say psychological phe reporting the sightings and taking Upon visiting the scene, the compass was carried toward the
beings, spaceships and medical nomena can account for what video and still pictures of UFOs in investigators found two depres center of the area, deflecting up to
exams. many call abduction experi sions, equi-distant from a central between eighteen and twenty
that area.
But two years ago, after a ences, and they're skeptical of The witness now logs a total of point. The depressions were thir degrees away from true north as
terrifying vision of small gray the use of hypnotherapy in these 18 unexplained sightings included ty-five feet and six inches apart, the central fourteen inch scraped
creatures coming to get her as cases because people are sus those previously reported here. On or seventeen feet and nine inches area was approached. The next
she lay in bed, the Bothell ceptible to suggestion under hyp the morning of April 29 the wit away from the central point. Each day this anomaly had disappeared,
hmoymsteemrieask.e r sought to solve the nUonisviesr.s iBtyo obf KWoashhlienngbtoenr gp,s ya ness contacted the local investiga dsheappree sasnido nm ewaassu rreedc 7ta-1n/g2u ilnacrh eins witsh icbhe iwngo unlda tauprpaallryen tolyc c~ulreri nogut.
She says research and adeep chology professor, says alterna tors who have been working with by I 2 inches by 3-112 inches Unfortunately, even though the
look within herself brought her tive explanations have to be him on the case to report that he deep. These depressions were services of Nancy Talbot, the
the answer: She had been explored. had been out in his backyard hit made into extremely hard ground, researcher who works in conjunc
ting golf balls when he found
abducted. "It's possible that there is an '!shoebox-sized" depressions in ground that barely shows automo tion with Dr. Levengood (analysis
"It's like the most wonderful actual abduction," he says. "But bile tire tracks. The edges of the of cereal crops affected by crop
thing that can happen to you it takes a lot of work to rule out the ground. The same morning the depressions were sharply cut and circle formations) were made
and the worst thing," she says. other explanations." investigators received an anony . dead straw on the ground around available, no soil or vegetation
mous message on their answering
"You realize that we're not Most of McNutt's abduction them was cleanly cut and pressed samples were taken and forward
alone. There's other beings out memories didn't come out of machine from another witness down into the depressions. The ed for analysis.
there." the one hypnosis session she who stated that he had been dri amount of force that would be It is still quiet as far as sight
A 1991 survey by the Roper underwent, and she took psy ving down a local highway required to cause these depres ings go at Shoreline Park and the
Organization estimated that 4 chological tests given by a psy ~which turned out to be the high sions is undetermined but the evi construction is continuing. I was
million Americans have had chiatrist. He diagnosed her with !"ay that adjoins the property dence at the site suggests that a unable to attend the
twiohant- sroemlaet ebdel ieexvep earreie anbcdeusc. pSohset -staryaus mshatei ck nstorwesss thdies ocraduesre. 1re,1spiodne sw) haitc h1 :3th0e a .omri.g tihnaatl mwoirtnniensgs formidable weight or force would Pensacola/Gulf Breeze MUFON
Woodinville hypnotherapist has been her contact with aliens, and saw a UFO either hovering have been required to make them. monthly meeting which took
Sharon Filip says she has coun spiritual beings and creatures yery low or landed behind a house At the central point between the place on May 18 personally, but
seled more than 100 of them. from other dimensions. - ~ong the road. This second wit two depressions, there was a patch next week I will include a write
of earth that was scraped clean up of the meeting by the Secretary
Homemakers, lawyers and ness called the investigators back
doctors, engineers and business later that day, providing more measuring 14 inches in diameter of Pensacola/Gulf Breezed
CJWners. Most iiJ tltelr 1JQs 81ld ~etails of the sighting. He had together with three other smaller MUFON, Boots Eckert, who also
40s who want explanations for t>een driving his wife into town on scraped patches approximately heads up the local support group.
unusual happenings in their a family emergency early that four feet out from the center, Her perspective on Ms. Dennis'
lives. morning, the man explained, and forming a perfect equilateral trian presentation should be interesting.
Filip says abductees are first therefore could not stop as they gle. A circular area with a diame If you have a sighting or
taken as children and abducted passed by the UFO. This witness ter of approximately 34 feet unusual experience to report or
again and again through adult describes the craft as having a across showed signs of the vegeta you would wish to contact the
hood. Usually at night in their tion (berry vines, weeds, tree local Experiencer Support Group,
pulsing red strobe light on top
bedrooms, transported through seedlings and straw) being pushed please call the Pensacola/Gulf
with orange/white light coming
walls and closed doors and win outward from the center with a Breeze MUFON Hotline at 438-
dows. Sometimes while driving out of the bottom. This description slightly swirled effect in a clock- 3261. Keep Looking Up!
a car. coincides exactly with the UFO
They lose an hour of time
here and there. They sometimes
wake up in the morning with
puncture wounds, rashes in
unusual shapes, bruises like fin
gerprints as if someone had held
them down. Some women who
had been pregnant awake to dis STATESMAN-JOURNAL, Salem, OR - July 15, 1997
cover their babies gone. Shaw residents appear unfazed by recent brush
Often traumatized by the
experiences as children, they
blocked many of the memories.
But they have flashbacks and Lloyd Henkel lives near MARIE GRAVELLE the circle itself and are like up this little community," with
recurring dreams. the site of the Willamette ly to lose more if people keep said Robin Garver, a florist
Dreams of seeing and being Valley's most recent alien AGRICULTURE WATCH trampling about, trying to who laughs every time she
touch-down. connect with Martians. drives by the Henkel spread.
examined by different beings -
small gray creatures with round And he's making the most them free But a quarter-mile away But lest we get too cheeky alien
or almond-shaped eyes, beautiful of it. hookups," he in the Shaw Market, Roger here, there are those out
The 71-year-old Shaw res said with a Cone is getting some extra there with profound con
blond human-like beings, scaly
reptilians and insectoids. Some ildawennt mjuomwpeerd l aosnt hwise erkid, isnogo n cgarinn .e v"Tenh ey blauusginhess asl.o ng with the extra ccleersn sp.o Hp uunpd eraecdhs yoefa crr.o p cir life
say they've also seen humans after reports surfaced about take their "I think it's hilarious," he They've led to UFO clubs,
in military uniforms with the the crop circle on nearby choice of any said ofboth the rumors of research firms and others
creatures. farmm-DmrWavra's wheat of my beef UFO landings and Henkel's dedicated to unraveling the
Many who claim to have been field. out here." handiwork. mystery.
abducted say they underwent Henkel kicked his cows He'd do As for those who think Someday, we may know
medical exams. Some had surg out of their pasture and nate a goose, as well. It aliens dropped into Shaw, whether the Shaw Incident
eries, and others gave birth to carved his own circle on would do everyone a favor if he quipped, "I think maybe was a UFO landing, a mili
hybrid children. Some were property that borders High aliens abducted a few of they've been beamed up one tary weapons test, a
taught information about the way 214. Henkel's ever-growing flock too many times. tornado-type phenomenon, a
Earth and its future. The Henkel Circle is a of geese. "I'll tell you, nobody out cellular telephone that went
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say some of the beings express Wavra's wheat. But it has on the event. In Roswell,
way on a nice, south-facing For Henkel, and most of
compassion and love. more of an obvious purpose. New Mexico, another pos
slope, the wheat pattern is Shaw it appears, it's a lot
Filip says siblings, parents In the middle of the circle quite pretty. And it'::; attract sible alien touchdown spot, more fun not to know.
and grandparents are often stands an alien, looking sus ing a load of sightseers. millions of dollars have been "If they come and they
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the incidents, even within a fam sign, "Free Alien Parking." one. But the few residents in said.
ily, because of fear of ridicule.
Henkel is waiting for are "We have people camping Shaw are too busy chuckling Marie Gravelle covers agriculture for
"ThPy'r«:> afraid to hring it up sponse, sort of hanging out there at night," the couple to make a buck off their the Statesman Journal. She can be 6
hf'<·aus<' somPonf' will think in a holding pattern. said. They've already lost aliens. reached by phone at 399-6716, by fax at
rlit>y·rf' crazy," slw says. "If Lhe.' land, I'll give some of their wheat crop to "It's something to cheer 3o9p9e-n6.7o0rg6 or by e-mail at newsroom@
DESERET NEWS, Salt Lake City, UT - July 6, 1997 CR: Z. Van Eyck At that instant, on a.pitch-black,
moonless morn in the fall of 1972,
Lennis Gines knew what it was like to see
a UFO.
"I turned the light on and this thing,
whatever it was, went right up in the air
to the top of the trees," said Gines, a 63-
year-old widow. "That's when it scared
me. I turned the lights back off and it
went down again.
"If it hadn't gone up without a sound, I
may have convinced myself in my mind
that it was just kids driving around. But I
know what I saw."
Gines soon was joined by her teenage
son Sam, who was ready to round up the
cows for milking. Together, they waited
and watched in the dark for 45 minutes
as the blue and yellow lights, some 150
yards to the east, cascaded across the
river bottom.
Eventually, Gines' 16-year-old de
cided he'd waited long enough. His fa
ther, who was working the night shift,
insisted the cows be milked on time. But
Sam got no help from the family's other
wise loyal cattle dog, who whimpered
and ran inside to hide.
"My boy gets in the truck and goes
over, and he said he could see a doorway,
windows and shadows going in and out,"
Gines recalled this week, nearly 25 years
after the event. "It was like someone was
going in and out on the ground.
"The cows were bunched together, he
said, and he had quite a hard time get
ting them out (of the field) without the
dog, but they did come down the road
and into the corral. The cows were ner
vous and didn't give the milk they usu
allygave."
Gines, still frightened, helped her
younger son Will get dressed, then hus
tled to the barn to bring Sam back to the
house. But when she re-emerged from
the barn, the lights were gone-all ex
cept the distant glimmer of sunlight.
The incident is one of several UFO
tales that made the rounds through this
highland village in the early '70s. Craig
Gines, an unrelated man who lives
nearby, had his own run-in with a UFO
around the same time. A group of young
campers were visibly shaken by an aerial
observation and a local shepherd often
WOODlAND-At first, Lennis Gines Then she saw a beam of white light shin spotted UFOs, or so the stories go.
didn't think much of the blue and ing on the family's horses, moving from "When I was growing up there was a
yellow lights in the field behind her animal to animal. lot of people saying they'd seen things
but didn't know what they were," Gines'
rural Summit County home. But in her half-awake state, Gines was daughter, Mary Jones, said in a tele
Probably some kids in a lOur-wheel dave, unalarmed-until she reached the down phone interview from her home in San
she thought. stairs sewing room at Jose, Calif.
It was a little early - about 4:30 a.m. the back of the house. Jones was a teenager.at the time but
- for teenage visitors. And the silent, With her widening eyes ••MIIIIIIIIIIYI•1161w,llii6! slept through the event. She still wishes
her mom had rousted her out of bed.
rotating lights weren't anywhere near the fixed on the brightness beyond the window, The next morning, she went out to the
narrow country lane that meandered past she reached through the doorway of the pasture with her mother. In a dampened
the family's two-story home and on to the adjacent bathroom and flicked on the light. area, just across the fence on a neigh
Lennis Gines believes she saw a bor's property, the pair saw a 25-foot
Provo River.
UFO on her property in 1972. wide, clockwise swirl of flattened grass.
"I don't know how a car could have According to Layton, Craig Gines and
gotten in there because it was real some friends were driving through
swampy. There were no tire tracks," Woodland not far from Lennis Gines'
Jones said. "My mom doesn't make up farm when a UFO appeared above them.
INDEPENDENT, Chewalah, WA - Aug. 21, 1997 stories. She's always been real down-to At the same moment, the car's engine
UFOs reported over Chewelah earth, so I really believe her." stalled.
Mary's father, however, was skeptical. "Apparently, the craft was right over
And Sam, who was tragically killed a few the vehicle," Layton said. "There was a
A number of Chewelah area circles just below the clouds directly years later, didn't like talking about it. shadow and they felt some type of turbu
residents were treated to a "close above her house. She indicated that For years, the family kept the story to it lence over them from it, and (Gines) even
self. was of the opinion it felt like it might
encounter" with one or more the objects were "about four times Then, in 1988, a relative told the story have touched or bumped the top of the
unidentified flying objects (UFOs) the size" of their house. to some co-workers. And one of them
car."
just before midnight on August 12 Believing that there had to be told Ryan Layton, a Davis County man
Thousands have made the pilgrimage
after being awakened by strong winds some "reasonable explanation" for the wUhFoO h raesp moratds eo an hhoisb obwy no.f investigating to Roswell, N.M., to commemorate the
and strange noises. strange lights, her husband's first Layton called Mildred Biesele, a Salt alleged crash of a flying saucer 50 years
The object (or objects) was de thought was that the lights could be a Lake County resident and state director ago this month. No one is flocking to
scribed by one resident as a "series of result of reflections from a lawn for the Mutual UFO Network, one of the Utah. But perhaps the only difference
spots of light rotating in a clockwise sprinkler. An extensive investigation. country's oldest and most respected between the two states is that Utah's oth
direction" in progressively larger UFO research organizations. Together, erworldly visitors have a better piloting
they visited the 15-acre Gines farm and record.
recorded the story for the first time. In addition to this area's reported ac
Biesele, like any sincere UFO investi tivity, the Uintah Basin has a long his
however, revealed "no earthly lighted objects were described by gator, knows there's a mundane explana tory of UFO observations, including
explanation" for the objects that several witnesses as flat on the bot tion for the large majority of sightings. some recent ones. Biesele has investi
In this case, she couldn't find one.
seemed to hoover and maneuver over tom with a domed top as they danced "It sounded credible," she said of gated dozens of Utah UFO sightings over
Chewelah. about the skies just below the clouds. Gines' account. "They weren't making a the past 20 years. Layton has researched
Adding to the mystery, the wind Although almost anything is big deal of it. They were inclined to sort three eyewitness reports of UFO land
suddenly stopped and a strange possible, there is a very good chance of underplay it. We had to find them. ingLse innn Uist Gahin aensd d aoneosnth'te mr iank Ied aanhyo .c laims
soiblejenccte fbeellg aonv erh othoev earirnega jouvset r ast htehier tChhaet wtehlea h" oabrjeecat s"w eoreb senrovte do bojveecrt s thaet TtehmTehype tw yae ts rtpeiulnlb 'atlr icceointmy't..i" nG gi fnoersw, warhdo saes hauns a t aebvoeru itt w whaos othr awt hflaatt wteanse cdo gnrtarossl,l isnpgo wt hat
house. all! band died six years ago, reluctantly lighted horses and gave her a good scare
In response to a frantic telephone spoke to the Deseret News. Will Gines, nearly 25 years ago. But she does have
call, a neighbor volunteered to visit Perhaps by coincidence, the Spo who also got a look at tne lights that one regret.
the local UFO witnesses in "the nut kane Tribal Bingo Casino recently morning, now lives next door to his "I wish to this day I'd called somebody
house" ftrst thing in the morning. installed a rotating lascx light on top mother but declined an interview. to have (the site) tested," she said. "To
The neighbor fust consented to take of their facility south of town and Craig Gines, one of Sam Gines' best me, it was really an experience. I really
friends, likewise refused to talk about think it was a small craft that had come
a peek outside and quickly reported the sightings occurred on the ftrst
his own brush with the unknown. He told down and was taking samples."
back that the strange objects were, in cloud covered evening following th.e his story to Layton and Biesele years ago 7
fact, directly over her house! ~ installation. and isn't going to relate it again, he said
through a family member.
Family saw silver discs zipping
~ ~ More stonewalling
~ on UFO information
> through Utah's skies ...i In my last UFO-coverup update
(Letters, July 31), I lamented the
a: fate of my Freedom oflnformation
0 Act request sent months ago to the
""' Army in my quest for certain docu
Pilot, wife and son kept 1947 were in the cluster. Beulah thinks there others were later uncovered by UFO re cn mentary evidence supportin~ re
might have been three. searcher and author Ted Bloecher. In a m tired Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso s al-
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By zack Van Eyck view of the sky. "Those were the days be ports of multiple objects flying together. a> In order to loosen the Army's
Deseret News staff writer fore we. had jet airplanes or anything Most were spotted during the day and CJ) tight grip on that evidence, I'm
like that. I'd seen fighter aircraft in those between July 4-8. According to seeking help from Sen. Charles
theR wosowrledl lt,h Nis. Mwe., eisk ,t halel UbeFcOa ucsaep oitfa al no f dI asayws, .b" ut they weren't anything like what Bloecher, 160 sightings were made on >~ wRorobbte. tDo -HVae.l eAn lsFo. , FOahne yS,e pUt..S 1. 0a t-I
i: event the U.S. government says never Once they arrived in Salt Lake City, July 7 and very few occurred after July ~ torney for the Eastern District of
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above Utah Lake. talking about the event, although the work as an electrical engineer at the gov ct report on [Corso's] revelations.
CiiJi) According to Page's two passengers, it story is well-known in the family. ernment's then-secret nuclear weapons _; I explained the need to "activate
almost happened. "I remember it made them nauseous facility. The plutonium production out ~ this 'people's panel' that by its re
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1- a two-seater from Las Vegas to Salt Lake completely new they'd never seen. It was vada and finally to Utah. But those lofty words failed to
UaJ: City. UFO sightings and the alleged kind of a shock." Earl Page later served as a mainte stir any curiosity or any sense of
UJ crash near Roswell were big news in By keeping the story to themselves, nance supervisor at Hanford. He died of duty on the part of Ms. Fahey. One
CJ) America that summer, but the Pages had the Pages avoided the public scrutiny a heart attack at the age of 49. To that almost could hear a sigh of kiss-off
UcJ no idea what was about to take place. and grief experienced by Kenneth Ar day, he remained convinced he saw relief when, on Sept. 22, she sent
At roughly 3:30p.m., a group of silver nold, the Boise pilot who had a similar something extraordinary in Utah's skies. me this reply: "Based on the infor
tchoelo Praedg,e sd'i spcl-asnhea,p ceodm oibngje wctist hziinp paebdo upta 5st0 sigEhatirnlg P oang eJ udnide t2e4ll, t1h9e4 s7 t.o ry to Frank PWahgeet'sh weri doorw no atn idt w soans ecxatnr'at tsearyr efostrr siaulr,e . vcmleiasntteiio gtona teeym othupe ap n'Rreoolv saiw dgeerdlal,n' idIn jcmuidrueysn ttto . d"in e
feet of the aircraft at the same altitude. Salisbury, who married into the family in "Do I think they were real? Yeah, I Now, one wonders what kind of
It was a near-miss Beulah, now 81, and 1949. Salisbury, who will retire this sum think they were real," said Ronald, who information would convince Fahey
Ronald, 59, will never forget. mer as a professor of plant physiology at lives near Richland, Wash., and works at to change her mind. How about a
"At first we thought it was birds. We Utah State University, had a keen inter Hanford. "What they were I can't say, mass landing of "flying saucers"
just saw the movement," Beulah, a Salt est in UFOs and would later write "The on the White House lawn? Or what
but in today's world I probably would
Lake native, said in a telephone inter Utah UFO Display." His 1974 book con if The Journal got a leaked copy of
view from her home in Olympia, Wash. tains the only previously published ac have thought less of it than at that time." the medical examiner's report on
"My husband turned (the plane) to count of the Pages' near-miss. Earl Page's wife remarried and is now the retrieved alien bodies (as re
Beulah Ditto. She grew up in a Salt Lake vealed by Corso)?
where they were going and they zoomed "It was apparently a tremendously home at 600 South and 700 Ea5t near the LARRYW. BRYANT
away like crazy. moving experienoe for them," Salisbury old streetcar barns. That house is now a Alexandria
"It got kind of scary when we turned said. "Apparently those objects zipped parking lot, but she still has family in
toward their direction. They just under his wing not very far away, so it Utah-and the memory of an event that
disappeared." was really very impressive." nearly changed history.
The entire sighting lasted only a few Dozens of UFO sightings were re
seconds. The Pages didn't notice mark ported by the media during the now
ings, windows or even how many objects famous "wave of '47 ," but hundreds of
!
Hypnotheropist believes patients moy hove been alien obdudees
a
By KAREN TESTA Lynne Bishop remembers that What are aliens like? Carpenter approaches his pa
~ Associated Press Writer warm, spring day in 1972. She tients skeptically, he says, inter
and her mom were in their car dri viewing them to see what they've
CfJ The light-hearted conversation ving toward the north-central Ar John Carpenter, a licensed social worker and UFO researcher, said read or heard about UFOs. During
::.:; between a mother and her teen kansas town of Marshall, where his studies have revealed similar stories from nearly all people who hypnosis, he tries to trick them
ca age daughter suddenly turned they'd normally make a turn believe they have been abducted by aliens. He reports: with leading questions.
.JI! solemn. Both women were fright toward home . • The aliens are stick-figures, between 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 feet tall, with For example, he will ask his
~ ened, skittish - and had no idea "All of a sudden-blank," Mrs. gray bodies, oversized heads and dark, almond-shaped eyes. patients what they S;J\\' in the cor
~ why their mood had changed. Bishop said. "Nexl thing you • The creatures do not talk, but rather communicate through ner of the spacecraft. It's a trick.
know we're driving on a road we telepathy. he says, because most of what
ua:) didn't know. We're both very ner • Abductions tend to continue through generations of families. Carpenter deems to be legitimate
vous, very scared. • In nearly all abductions, a beam of light is used as a transporter. UFO research shows the crafts are
UcJ. "I said, 'Mom, where are we?' "They never go out the front door," he said. round, with no furnishings.
c. She said, 'I have no idea."' • There has never been an instance of deliberate harm or malice by Skeptics say it's those kinds of
(<.t) They turned around and found an alien. questions that cast doubt on Car
their way back to Marshall - but • Aliens do not want to conquer the world. "They have no need to penter's research.
were on the opposite side of town do that," he said. "Can this be confirmed by any
from which they'd come. When body other than the person doing
they arrived home. they realized the hypnotizing?" asked Barry
they were an hour late. It was an Mrs. Bishop met Carpenter at a not wackos who relish the idea. Karr, executive director of the
hour they could not account for UFO conference in Eureka "They don't claim to want it," Buffalo, N.Y.-based Committee
until 20 years later, when they Springs, Ark., in 1992. said Carpenter, whose business for the Scientific Investigation of
met John Carpenter, who helped "When my mother corroborat card identifies him as the national Claims of the Paranormal, which
them unlock the mystery: They'd ed it, in a way made it worse,'· director for abduction research for publishes the Skeptical Inquirer.
been abducted by aliens. Mrs. Bishop, now 43, said. "It Mutual UFO Network, based in "We have no scientific evi
"I really didn't want it to be took away the ability for me to Seguin, Texas. dence other than anecdotal evi
-John S. StewarVAP anywhere near the truth," said say it didn't happen at all." In the past nine years. Carpen Jence. stories. There· s no
'ALIEN' THERAPIST: John Mrs. Bishop, who uses a pseudo Carpenter, a licensed clinical ter has screened some 300 sup physical evidence to it.··
Carpenter describes places nym when she talks publicly of social worker and psychotherapist posed "abductees" and found
and beings that people under her experience!>. in Springfield. Mo .. who is him about 120 credible enough for
hypnosis recall seeing. Pa Yet she helieved what she IT self a believer in aliens, said the further study. For those, he em
tients claim they've "lost time" vealed to Carpenter under hypno story of Mrs. Bishop anu her ployed the same hypnotic tech
somewhere. They have no rec sis was true, especially after her mother is quite common. He says nique he uses on patients who
ollection of a few hours in their mother told the same story of that most people who are abduct want to quit smoking or lose
lives, fearing they may have being lifted into a craft and exam ed by aliens - participants. as weight.
been abducted by aliens. ined by strange creatures. Carpenter likes to call them -are On weekdays. Carpenter, 42.
Carpenter, a licensed clinical is a therapist who does marriage
social worker in Springfield, and family counseling. He does
Mo., hypnotizes patients and UFO research on his own time
interviews them about their and doesn't go out of his way to
"lost time." let his regular patients know of
his hobby.
Still. Carpenter does not try to
keep it a secret. He speaks at con
8
ventions all over the country.
holds support groups for abduc
tees and presides over public
meetings to discuss his work.
STAR LEDGER, Newark, NJ - June 27, 1997 TRANSCRIPT, Norman, OK - July 9, 1997 CR: A. Seifried
[Tech a rea! tan of the debate could possibly Norman had its own
troay know the answers. A survey about
11 whether I would agree to join aliens
on a romp through interplanetacy
Th e search ~lO r space was easier to handle. Web~
gn f troisI nsatneda d,m Io vperde ss-ed amdym ittecey at U FOs 50 years ago
• S
S1 0 1! ~e something less than warp speed - to
ill a site calling itself the Roswell tncl-
• dent site (http:I/WWW.roswell.orS}. It
Cyberspace
ill looked quite offici~. and in mo~ seri diameter and appeared to disintegrate as it feU earthward,
othurso utgohn easl,l tohfe thSeit e evwidaelknsc e,~ -tretsti By ROB COLLINS she said.
By Teny Schwadron mony, myths and counterclaims d Of The Nonnan Transcript Mrs. Clawson said her son, Stuart, saw a similar ob
alien invasions. ject on July 5. He initially believed it was a ftrefly but
I'll admit it. I haven't decided for Not to spoil things for you, but Before Air Force officials in Fort Worth, Texas, de later realized it was too large. It was also too high for
sure whether aliens crashed 50 years these are folks who don't believe. clared that the wreckage found near Roswell, N.M., was any kind of fireworks.
ago in the desert outside Roswell, In the same issue of 1be Transcript, the United Press
Within the site is a copy oftMde. nothing more than a weather observation balloon, Nor
iNt .tMoo. Tmhuecnh a. gain, I don't worry about fOinffitiicvee 1R9e9p5 oGrto voenr nmReonstw Aelcl co(Ubhtttipn:gU mioauns belxapset riine nthcee de atrwlyo draeypso rotefd J usliyg h1t9in4g7s. and a myster erexppolratiende dth eth ree gwiorneaclk aAgrem yo fA ainr Foobrjceec at nfnoouunndc eomn ean tN theawt
Why interplanetary travelers www.roswell.org/gao.html), oraered Mexico ranch near Roswell.
W.H. Carson, who was dean of engineering at the
would pick such a spot is beyond me, by Rep. Steven H. Shiff (R-N.M.} who AAF headquarters in Washington reportedly delivered
but, for lots of folks, the question wanted to find if the government bad University of Oklahoma at the time, reported spotting a "blistering" rebuke to officers at the Roswell base for
seems consuming. Next montn, thou~ covered up the Roswell events. unidentified flying objects on July 6, 1947, acording to suggesting that it was a "flying saucer." Over the years,
sands of people are expected to de The report itself is pretty pla;in by the July 7 edition of The Norman Tran..~ript. Roswell made a comeback as people began talking about
scend on Roswell for a celebPaiion Web standards, all text and no fun. Carson, who served as dean from 1937 to 1962, alien bodies that were allegedly recovered.
and quasi-scientific debate over ex But the hard-core fan of the debate wouldn't swear that they were "flying saucers," but his In the early days of the Cold War, the UFO frenzy
aagctoly. what did happen half a century jwuiilcl y ptriodbbaibtsl.y Saepvperraelc ieatnet erittasi nmmaennyt wif1eb aen ds tara cnoguep loeb ojefc ntse iwghebreo rrse pcoorrrtoedbloyr asteeedn t hfley sintogr yo.v er had gone nationwide. According to the July 8, 194 7,
edition of The Transcript, strange discs had been report
Whatever you want to believe, be sites weigh in, among them Holly Norman about 6 p.m. on July 6. Carson said he was
sure of this: You can find supporting w o o d 0 n -L i n e , ( http : 11 resting in a hammock back of his home at 943 Chautau ed over most of the 48 states, parts of Canada and Mex
evidence on the Web. www.hollywood.com/holidaylroswell! qua Ave. when he saw a silver object at an estimated ico City.
There are several sites question- html), which is owned by the Los An height of 15,000 to 20,000 feet. A "flying saucer" in the hand was worth $3,000, the
ing whether a large dent in the ground geles Times. There is absolutely no in When his wife Emma joined him, Carson mentioned United Press reported. There were no takers for rewards
was caused by an out-of-control formation about Roswell, but there the unusual object. About that time, two more appeared of $1,000 each offered in Chicago, Los Angeles or Spo
weather balloon or a misguided are recommendations about good kane for "a genuine flying saucer."
and were witnessed by Mrs. Carson and the neighbors.
sp.acecraft, whether a quartet ef ex- UFO-type movies. Russian Vice Consul Eugene Tunantzev in Los Ang
"I don't know what they were, but we saw them,"
traterrestrials were inside and later At an Air Force links site (http:// eles scoffed at sugestions that the saucers might be from
autopsied and whether the govern- www.af.mil/navigate), one can do a Carson told The Transcript Russia.
Carson, who died in 1%9, said the objects were trav
mentis covering it all up. site search for Roswell information U.S. Army officials discounted theories that the fly
The Web is the perfect forum tor and retrieve some original Roswell eling from east to west into the setting sun. ing discs might be secret weapons for use in bacteriol
the believe-it-or-not quality of the Army Air Field documents about the Due to the height, the engineering dean said it was ogical warfare. They said it was significant that none of
Roswell debate. For the casual visitor, New Mexico brouhaha. By now, I was impossible to determine the shape of the flying objects.
the discs had yet registered on Army radar.
facts may matter less than presenta- having trouble believing in any gov Carson, in whose honor Carson Engineering Center was
On July 10, 1947, President Harry Truman compared
tion; the story may have to be sort-of- ernment documents. named, did not notice any apparent noise or smoke
the UFO controversy to the famous moon hoax that was
true-enough to support the sales of By contrast, I loved visiting a site trails.
more than a century old.
UFO-related paraphernalia and ex- at http://www.sierra-vista.et9mf Another story that appeared in the July 7, 1947 edit
That hoax, which was printed in the New Yott Sun,
citement. roswell, which came complete with ion of The Transcript described a "big noise" beard by a
I am pretty certain that 'theta java applets carrying the 50-year-old large number of Normanites the same evening as Car told of the discovery of man-bats living on the moon
sites are assembled by earthbound news from the Roswell Daily Record son's sighting. and seen through a secret. powerful telescope.
terrestrials who want to control your across the bottom of the screen as if it Police made an extensive check of the west and Truman also said he knew nothing more about the
personal computer. Here's a rundown were breaking news, along with some saucers than be bad seen in the newspapers.
southwestern parts of town after the sound. which shook
of some of what you might find: well-executed graphics and music:
walls and made windows tremble.
Perhaps you can avoid my mts- An area calling itself the Roswell
One man facetiously remarked that maybe one of
take. 1 started at the Popular Science Autopsy Film site (http://
those flying saucers landed in Norman. That same edit
site (httpJtwww.popsci.com), tblrlk- www.execpc.comi(TILDE)vjentprl
ion of The Transcript included a United Press story that
ing that the magazine-sponsored &1te j~oswell) has lots of anonymous analy
would probably have a solid and lm sis of photographs and films taken in quoted George Kuger of Denver describing a flying disc
presentation. I was right, with one ex- and ai?und Roswell to argue that with an American flag on it.
ception. something happened. In another local incident, Mrs. Dewey Clawson of
The magazine's Web Roswell spe- F~r the basic UFO aficiona?o, 321 N. Flood Ave. reported seeing a falling object that
cial report has been turned into a there IS a plethora of space-wandenng bore no resemblance to a falling star just before "good
game - an intelligent, informative sites. I'd start at UFO Resources dark" on July 7, according to the July 9, 1947 edition of
scavenger hunt - that actually de- (http://wwv.:.newagemfo.c?~!resl The Transcript.
mands that we know some of the sig- ufo.~tm). which has enough~ info~­ Mrs. Clawson said she was sitting on her back porch
nificant or silly facts about the ev~nt.. mat10n to hold reader attentiOn until when she noticed the object falling from the sky. It had
The presentation was great, but only ET gets home. the appearance of being approximately 6 to 8 inches in
ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL - June 4, 1997
born. She also discovered that she Some visitors to Shoreline Park
was one such twin. She shared this week include a c()uple from
On Saturday evening, a group a local sheriff's department, who researcher of UFO-related phe fascinating details of how her Georgia and a young family from
of us travelled to the wishes to remain anonymous in nomena, especially on extraordi twin, Katyl, communicates with Clearwater, Florida who intend to
Foley/Fairhope area to skywatch order to protect their job, reported narily gifted children, the vanish her and helps her. make Gulf Breeze their home.
and hopefully have a sighting of seeing a UFO less than one quae ing "twin phenomenon, and the Caryl's latest book, The They have a deep interest in the
the craft that is being reported ter mile away above some trees science of colors. She is the Millenium Children: Tales of the UFO phenomenon and feel drawn
from that area. Sadly, by the time while driving home from their author of three books: The UFO Shift, addresses the fact that a to move to the Gulf Breeze area. I
darkness fell, the only thing illu- shift. The other witness also Reference Book, Colorology: The great many extraordinarily gifted . am sure that they will become
minating the sky ·was lightning, reported seeing three or four study of the Science of Colors, children are being born. Their regular skywatchers once they are
and it was quite a show. It was lights which shone spotlights on and The Millenium Children: intelligence level is in the genius settled in. Still no sightings to
soon followed by heavy rainfall, the ground intermittently as if Takes of the Shift. During her pre range and they have a variety of report from Shoreline Park. Hope
so all that was accomplished was searching for something. This sentation she shared her intriguing creative and inventive talents, springs eternal.
the setting up and taking down of I continues to be an interesting case story, as well as her research into including healing, inventing, If you have a sighting or
cameras and lawn chairs, etc. and as I come across any further these areas. retention of pre-birth memories, unusual experience to report or
Avid skywatchers, we may be, but \ information~wi!.!__£ontinu~o In her book Colorology: The unusual physical strength, and you would wish to contact the
foolhardy enough to sit out in a report it here. study of the Science of Colors, marked -psychic and telekinetic local Experiencer Support Group,
field during a lightning storm, I 1 MY thanks to Boots Eckert for Caryl tells how our lives are abilities. please call the Pensacola/Gulf
don't think so! Hopefully the the following report from the affected by colors and explains Caryl believes that these chil Breeze MUFON Hotline at 438-
opportunity to skywatch over Pensacola/Gulf Breezed MUFON how and why. She reveals details dren are the forerunners, the ones 3261. Keep Looking Up!
there will arise again, and we will monthly meeting a couple of about her frequent visions of 'The who will make it possible for us
be able to return hopeful of a weeks ago. 'The guest speaker for Spiral of Life," which consists of to get through the Earth changes.
sighting. the May 18 meeting of all colors of the rainbow, and how
While there, one of the investi- Pensacola/Gulf Breeze MUFON we fit into that spiral.
gators working on the case was Caryl Dennis of Clearwater, During her research Caryl dis 9
advised me of another sighting 1 Florida. Caryl is a popular speaker covered that in many cases of
that occurred around 2 a.m. on at conferences around the United pregnancy that had been diag
Thesday, May 20. An employee of States. She is an experiencer and a nosed as twins, only one baby was
..
Man not alone retelling tale of alien ahduction
BY DARRYL CAMPAGNA too many telling details. he eqjO:yed a round of appearances on
BStaff writer The gray-haired, grandmotherly radio and television in the early
efore the lecture began, the looking woman sitting two rows far 1990s. That celebrity came soon after
> · young ~man sitting in the ther back at the Howard Jeluison's a professor at the Massachusetts
z s~ audience told of lying meeting room had brought a photo Institute of Technology agreed to
>. in bed waiting to fall aSleep graph to prove why she believes ih examine the implant Price says the
s: one night four years ago when she Unidetltified Flying Objects. She alienS:Iad Jiut int6,him. He's begun
as
c.Q suQ.denly ~It this energy or pres showoo a picture taken at a family speaking again rejently about his
ence, and.it felt like it wanted tc) reunion at Great Sacandaga Lake in abductit>n becaus~lle disagrees with
z come into the back of my head." July 198~, in which a brigbt~ oval-. the profei!Jsor's finding-published in
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;::) into her skull. After that experience, children. But nobody saw that object N,'ow 50, Price says tfitabduction
she s8id she found a rounded lump when the picture was taken, the has ·shaped his entire life!.It affected.
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u.l under her scalp, about a half-inch in woman said. She insisted it wasn't a his perfor'Ibance in school, rendering
:E diameter. She's never had a doctor flaw on the n~tive that appeared him unable to concentrate; it affected
~ examine it, believing medical inter during developing. It was, &he said, a his·t wo marriages, one of which
vention is not necessary. She paRed UFO. ended in divorce and the other in
her nearly waist-length hair with her "They're there," she said. "They're estrangement; and it had a lasting
fingers and pointed out the spot f,c> right around you, but you don't see effect on his emotional state.
anyone who wanted to touch it. them." He's not making a fortune telling
About the size of a dime, it felt Fourteen believers and skeptics his story. He used to work as a cable
smooth and hard and was centered a turned out Tuesday night and paid television installer, but he has been
couple of inches above the nape of $5 at the Howard Johnson Hotel and unemployed and living on Social
her neck. She said she's not sure lf Conference Center in Albany to hear Security disability for the past sever
she has an alien implant, but she' Colonie resident Richard Price Sr. al years.
does believe she had some kind of talk about his alien abduction, which "I don't consider myself having
1lrnel Union I TOM lAPOINT supernatural experience. he says occurred in a cemetery in the mental problems," Price said
IIICIWI» PIICE speaks abOut what he claims was a visit from alien The woman did not give her name Lansingburgh section of Troy when Tuesday. "'consider myself having
beings at the Howard Johnson Hotel and Conference Center in or say where the incident took place, he was 8 years old. emotional problems. I'm a person
Albany. saying she did not want to provide. Price is well-known in UFO circles;
who didn't expect this to happen to and with the help of some other
me." researchers until 1994. He present
ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL - July 9, 1997 Price's account is detailed, and for ed his initial findings at an abduc
an hour he gave it to the audience of tion studies conference at MIT in
14: He was playing with a boy down 1992, and published them in 1995 in
the street from his childhood home a compilation of papers presented at
® KYWA.TCH ~IA.RY on lOth Avenue in Lansingburgh the conference.
when he heard a peculiar sound His conclusion? The implant was
similar to, but not exactly like, an consistent with the hardened pus
approaching train. His playmate and other natural substances that
stayed behind, but Price followed the body produces when it is encas
the SO'IUld the distance of several ing an irritant such as an ingrown
city blocks to the Oakwood Ceme hair. The tiny projectiles that Price
Well another interesting week in the sky near his residence in pitch than the Navy planes which taebroyu. t Thhiesr eh, ehigeh ts,a wcl atdw oi nc ruenaitfuorrems csaoynss iswteenret wtriathn scmoitttotenr fwibierress, • wPreirte-
of~~rung&Shoreline south-east Alabama. The lights fly over here so much." Clopton tunics and helmets, with slanting chard said. • ·
Park. and more visitors to report. appeared to be less than one quar Jones conjectures that what the dark eyes. However, that doesn•t mean Prit
We spent a great evening with ter of a mile to the north-west of witness was hearing was actually . At first terrified, Price tried to chard, a professor of physics, is
1'erry and Catherine Waite from his residence and after watching the Cessna flying above the UFO. run. But the creatures used some ready to discount Price's abduction
Sacramento, California. They are the ring of lights for approxim&e The witness also stated that there force to draw· him to them. They story. A number of alien abduction
.vid astronomers and also very ly four minutes, they were lost to appeared to be a strange <lark cir esco~ him to a clilk +sredclraa .narratives hav'e .a ..s urprising
Jnterested in UFOs. We really sight behind the treeline. The wit cle in his yard that measured about 50 yards long that was sitting a$lil1t of similarity, even among
enjoyed talking waist h them and ness was awoken later that night approximately 45" across that had in a clearing in the nearby woods. PeoPle who have never spoken or
"swapping lies" the saying by a very bright light behind his not been there the day before. They took him on board, where they h~._.each _o~~i_&. __a__~ti..Prit-_
toes. Unfortunately we were not residence, which upon closer Clopton Jones went immediately were joined by two other aliens. The chard said.
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overhead. other lights forming a square con Barbara, who is also a UFO inves tiny implant a few millimeters long don't consider it at all unreasonabte
Everyone has been talking a lot figuration around them, shining tigator, based in Arkansas. under the skin of his penis. that some extraterrestrials will fi~~
~boot the Roswell Anniversary, downward. There was no noise There was in fact a discolored ne"rvI et ehnidnikn gtsh,"e yh ew saeirde. looking for ure out how to send robots here.
the new Air Force Report and audible from either of these sight circle of grass approximmely 45" "My view is it's hard to disel'edh
Although the aliens spoke among
Philip J. Corso's new book 'The ings. in diameter with a 10" circle at its themselves in a language unintelli the man's testimony as testinibriy,"
pay After Roswell," Philip Corso The following morning, center in which the centipede gible to him - Price described it as Pritchard added. "It's been consis
also appeared on the NBC show Tuesday, June 18th, 1997 at 9:30 grass appeared completely dead, similar to the sound of stereo equip tent over the years. So what do you
..D ateline" 'las.t w~ek. The T.V. p.m., Clopton Jones received a apparently having been burned. ment being played too slow - he make of the story? To him it's· real.
and news coverage as well as the call from a private pilot whose Clopton Jones proceeded to pass a understood one 'when it warned him To me, as a Western·trained scien,
contents of this new book have identity is now known to Clopton compass over this central circle tO never remove the implP.Dt or he Ttihste,r et'hse ar ep'sh ennootm pehnyosni coafl peevoipdleen cree .
given rise to much interest and Jones, but who wishes to remain and the compass varied as much would die. He ,does not remember porting similar stories as real. To
ddeisnct.u ssion of the Roswell inci baneotwnyeemno u1s :3. 0 Tah.me .p ialnodt s2t:a0te0s at.hmat. case nftifetry. dFegurrethese ra st eistt sc rohsasveed nthoet ftuhle oexr pferrigiehntceen i-ansg .p aTrhtieC Uallaierlnys p· aalisno cthraezmy,. " they're real, but they're not
A friend of the regular sky that morning he was getting in been carried out, so this magnetic handed him a ,small piece of parch
watching group, Rick Bos and his some night flying in his Cessna at evidence is inconclusive. ment-like material that contained Price's audience Tuesday didn't
an alphabet Of geometric symbols. seem to think he was crazy. Even
children stopped by at Shoreline an altitude of between 800 and This continues to be an inter Price .said he hid the parchment in those. who said they might need a
Park on Saturday evening on their 1000 feet over south-east esting case and any further reports the back of a radio in his childhood little more convincing found his talk
way to Roswell for the 50th Alabama. He observed a strange that I receive I will share as they home and did not retrieve it when interesting.
Anniversary celebration. We object below his plane. Circling come in. his family moved. frQm__ that house "The pure truth is a very rare
hope Rick and his kids will share back to get a better look, he states In lieu of a regular meeting this some years later. ---- thing," said one man in the audience
their experience of-the event with that the object below him month, Pensacola/Gulf Breeze Price initially talked about the who described himself as a singer
us at a later date. appeared to be a disc-shaped MUFON plans a "Potluck Supper abduction to his father, who dis and songwriter and goes by the
The sightings are still continu object between thirty five and Party" for its members at the missed it as the product of an active stage name of "It's Only Me Dino.''
ing in the Foley/Fairhope, forty· feet across, and had three or home of its president and his wife, childhood imagination. He later con "Interesting, OK? But like I said.
Alabama area. This week I four bright lights on the outside of Art and Mary Hufford. More fided in his grandmother, who I'm a healthy skeptic.''
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Jones. to see that below the object on the line number below. This will be a and talked about it to a classmate duction experience that he's been
It appears that the original wit ground were two house trailers great opportunity for our members that word of his experience spread writing off and on for the past eight
ness is still having sightings and a shed. This description of to get to know each other better widely, triggering ridicule and isola years or so. He also publishes a
around his home, and there have this site rang a bell with Clopton and discuss some of the interest tion. newsletter a few times a year that
been other witnesses in the area, Jones, as it matches exactly the ing stuff that is going on right "The experience itself wasn't bad, mixes updates about his life with
as previously reported here. This buildings at the residence of the now. but the aftereffects were bad," he items about UFO findings and ab
new report includes some very original witness in this string of If you have a sighting or said. duction experiences. He has a mail
.interesting confirmation from a sightings. Clopton Jones then unusual experience to report or Price said he was in his early 40s ing list of about 200 people and
charges $2 a year for a subscription.
private pilot, who is not acquaint casually called the original wit would wish to contact the local when the implant worked its way
ed with the original witness at all. ness and was not surprised when experiencer support group please through the skin and he was able to He also had some advice for any.
On Monday, June 17th, 1997, a the witness volunteered that he call the Pensacola/Gulf Breeze pull it out. David Pritchard, a_n .M-uITe- one who's had an experience like
report was telephoned to Clopton has a sighting the previous night UFO Hotline at 4338-3261. If ~ ,Qh an ~in his. "Come out in the open and talk
Jones by a reliable witness stating at around I :30 a.m. The witness you would like any information tion experiences, heard about Price about it, because there just might be
and agreed to examine the implant that one individual who can fill in
that between 9:30 p.m. and I 0:00 was concerned because as he stat please write to: Carole Baker,
in 1989. He studied it on his own the blank," he said.
p.m. on the evening of June 16th, ed to Clopton Jones, ''This time it P.O. Box 17152, Pensacola, FL
1997, he had seen a ring of lights was different, there was this 32522-7152. Keep Looking Up! 10
whine type noise that had a higher