"EWSCLIPPI"Ci SERVICE o~c:::::;1::9 VALLEY DRIVE • PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS 72127 USA EDITOR/PUBLISHER: LUCIUS FARISH ALESTLE [Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville], Edwardsville, IL - Oct. 28, 1999 We are alone ... or are we? BY BRIDGET BRAVE a person from his or her physical serving on the advisory board ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR location to -another place. It may as the director of abduction include an altered state of research for · several Have you ever experienced awareness for the purpose of organizations. frequent nosebleeds or pain in physical, surgical or Smith says your joints fo{ no medically psychological procedures her investigation explainable rea~on? Had a performed by the nonhuman into these cvenis i~ waking dream in ~hich you were abductors. After the abduction. a ''life journey paralyzed, unable to scream for the person is returned to his or down the path of help? Do you feel as if you are her original physical location and being watched, even when you're frequently has little or no discovery into completely alone? recollection of the experience. the reality of ·If any· of the scenarios sound Smith began her research UFO abductit>n familiar, you may have been into the Uf() phenomenon in experien.:es." abducted by aliens. 1988. She then expanded her Through the course Yvonne Smith, certified private hyp!lotherapy practice to of her work with clients hypnotherapist . and alien include abductees in 1990 and in and CERO memDers, Smith abduction researcher, bwught her 1991 formed the Close Encounter says she has seen ··many positive insight into this strange Research Organization. CERO is changes and much healing." phenomenon to the Morris an investigative support group She states that her primary nationally conferences worldwide. 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Scritchfield,· a re-' becoming fertile nating colored lights. For 40 min there, something visiting us, or and Mike Scritchfield of Roches tired chief warrant officer in: ground for people utes it hovered over Gloversville, something the government isn't ter, a UFO investigator with the Army Jntelligence, is a college then darted away. telling us." group Skywatch. Their objective tennis coach working on his doc seeking life from As the last Halloween of the A Gallup poll in 1996 found 71 is to prove the sightings are any torate in education. They don't say beyond the solar millennium approaches, the hun percent of Americans said they thing but out of this world. They "these are reports of alien ships." dreds of members of UFO groups believe the government is hiding almost always do. But among the They call them as they see. them: system in New York state are watching something and that officials know cases for which no Earthly cause objects that are unidentified, fly the skies more than ever and in about UFOs. Forty. . five percent . is determined, a few patterns ap ing. ByS MTIILCLHWAAETLE GRO, NR.MYL ....E.: .Y. " A :priflO: · iv1n9eg9ss0t isig nah tNaivneegw rpYerpooodrkrut csteh ldaik nem i ntoh raeens eys. i dgTehhcte sisteaeeiddn atnhade y U1 2Fb Oeple.i recIvmeen mUt eFsadOiisda.. t tehhlaeyvy e ah fvativeser ·~s t1a •teR wteoip dboeer tiesnm atehrreeg i1in9ng9c:0r se,a esiignhgt, into th64e for" Sbormeeed isnagy, owr eto'v ew abrene nu s voifs iitmed A shiny oval object is reported ade since a small New Mexico the controversial sighting on a '80s, 55 in the 1970s, 46 in tbe"1960s pending doom; or j.ust .studying us. over the treeline of Saratoga town called Roswell made uniden stormy night in Roswell, N.M. in and 17 in the 1950s. Some are by It ~pends on "'bose idea you want Lake. Witnesses said it moved tified flying objects a mainstream 1947, the vast majority of Ameri police officers, engineers, air traf to consider," said Bouck, of the sideways, hovered, then descended topic. cans said they didn't believe in fic controllers and military per Schenectady County town of Rot and disappeared over 40 minutes. Databases are being compiled aliens. sonnel. terdam. "We want to stay open to April 6, 1978: A police officer to track for the first time siibt UFOs and aliens are linked to •Reports of possible craft, con the possibility of whatever we and his family report a large oval ings nationwide and New York the. Halloween season by more tact with beings, even abdtlctions learn - we don't have enough in object hovering near their home in state's more than 200 reports since than costumes and OrsQn Wells' come from every part of the state. formation, we don't have a 'smok Baldwinsville, Onondaga County. a Saturn-shaped object was re-. 1938 broadcast of a Martian inva • The greatest number of re ing gun.' I want more information A bright flash of light followed 10 ported flying slowly over Nor sion that panicked thousands. ports come from an area matched before I can say w4etber or not minutes later and power was cut wood, St. Lawrence, on July 3, Bouck, who is compiling the state roughly by the Census Bureau's we're being visited." to 3,000 homes. They said a heli 1884. . database, said now is the busiest Albany metropolitan area, fol Critics from government offi copter appeared and the object "More and more people are time for reports. He said that's lowed by suburban New York cials to science-based-mageztne. flew away. Four others in two sep starting to be open to this," said surprising because more people City. like The Skeptical Inquirer also aproartte s imsigilhatrin sgigs hitns tthhee n ceoxut nntiyg hrt.e Jreacmtoers fBoor utchke, aN sewta tYe orerkg iocnhaalJ d*~c arBe uotu tsskideep tiinc sw warimll eter lml oynouth st.h ere tecThhneos-eg eienkv e.cstoingsaptoirrasc ya rt~hne'to ritshtes epvoeinnt otnoe a c hlaucnkk ooff phraorod~w Warhe?er e~: eis Oct. 17, 1973: Sixteen witnesses of the Mutual UFO Network, and a are simple everyday causes for 90 of the "X-Files" or other TV pro- undeniable photo? a footprint? TIMES, Trenton, NJ -Oct 31, 1 9i9 Staff photos by Jane Therese Wendelle Stevens came to New Jersey from Tucson, Ariz:, to sp'eak at yesterday's UFO conference in Bordentown Township. Convention focuses on UFO reports Host says evidence mounting tions such as Orion and Pleiades. By KELLY ROUBA People have not yet begun to ex Special to The Times plore the planets orbiting stars, he said, but he feels thai there is at BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP least one planet per star with life .:__ Governments persist in cover existing on it. ing up evidence that extraterres Several prominent researchers trials are visiting Earth, speakers in the subject of UFOs spoke to a at a l)FO congress said yest~rday. small audience at the conference. · But that evidence is increasing, One of the speakers was Wendelle said Pat Marcattilio, host of the Stevens of Tucson, Ariz. Stevens Conspiracy 2000 Millennium, the has handled more than 100 cases of Pat Marcattilio hosted yesterday's conference. lOth Great UFO/ET Alien and Ab alien or UFO encounters. He went duction Congress. into great detail about two of ing it to their UFO and then dump ence and that spirits seek knowl "Just about every one of our as them. ing it somewhere, keeping the pi edge to prepare for other lives. tronauts has seen UFOs," Marcatti The first concerned a man lot. Sure enough, Stevens said, an "Everything is synchronized. Noth· lio said. "NASA has photographs of named Connor O'Ryan who airplane from the U.S. Air Force ing is accidental." ·UFOs. We pay for NASA, so we claimed to have seen aliens stored was determined missing five miles Other discussions at the confer should be able to see the photo in preservation tubes at a military from the aliens' landing site. ence revolved around UFO history, ·graphs." base. Because of his knowledge, According to Stevens, officials UFO contact, alien life forms and The U.S. government, however, O'Ryan said, he was tracked, would not release information on spontaneous combustion of self. refuses to release photos or other threatened and poisoned. the subject and had people fab· information it has. There will be a The other incident Stevens re ricate alibis. Also on hand were books about alien life and old paintings, such as protest in the near future demand counted involved a woman who the 14th century painting by Carlo ing that the public be allowed to had reportedly met with aliens in STEVENS later said, "All Crivelli titled "The Legends of the ·read government UFO files that her horne for years. One day the (aliens) are different from each True Cross,", which includes a UFO are more than 10 years old, Marcat aliens told her they wanted to land other. They come from different tilio said. six of their aircraft in Tucson, but pla~es in the universe. They have above a religious scene. "I don't think our government they wanted her to warn govern different objectives. Earth seems Furthe'l" discussion of aliens will ever admit that there are ment officials not to harm them. to be attracting them. and UFOs will continue today UFOs," he lamented. "They want to Allegedly, no one would help the ''I am convinced that our exist from 9:30 a.m. until 6:30 p. rn. at hide it as long as they can." woman with the request, so the ence here is transcendent,'' he con the Days Inn, Route 206 at New He said the aliens come from aliens told her they would take an tinued. He believes that humans Je'l"sey Turnpike Exit 7. Bo'l"den planets that orbit stars in constella- airplane in mid-flight by rnagnetiz- move onto different forms of exist- town Township. 2 WEEKLY MESSENGER, Pleasant Hill, IL-Od. 20, 1999 And other selected short subjects by Don Peebles A strange.e xperience I have always read with interest accounts of diffi thought George and Dale had turned right to go to cult-to-explain happenings in thelives of Louisiana. Three or four miles down the road, while ordinary people, and generally discounted most preparing to turn right on IL 96 heading toward Pleasant stories as hysteria or attention-getting behavior. Hill, a truck came up, flashed his lights and sounded his I can remember the stir "flying saucers" created in hom. We pulled over and out scrambled George and the 1940s. The flood of movies Dale. "Did you see it? What was it? Were you scared?" capitalizing on this subject, particularly one called "What are you talking about?" 'The Thing", which I watched through the space "The light, that light, didn't you see it?" they asked. between the two seats ahead of me as I hid on the floor "What light?" of the old Clark Theater. We would watch .these movies "The light that:IDllowed you out to the highway!': knowing full well we had about 11 long, dark blocks to "That was you wasn't "it?" travel on North Madison; past the shoe factory, the "No! we stayed back and watched it follow you, out looming towers of King Mill, by the railroad tracks and the field road, down the lane, out to the highway. We the park, past the box cars, the fuel tanks, the whey were scared and stayed back to watch. The_l ight just barn, and then a burst of speed up the hill and home. I appeared as a cone out of the sky, like a searCNJgtit ~ was not the most gifted runner in the family, but sheer ~d out of the tnictClo wan:f!~ No noise, just a light!" terror made up for my shortcomings in that department. Our friends were visibly shaken. We realized what As I grew older, I could look back on these hap they saw was real to them. My brother and I didn't penings as a rite of passage. One of those chapters in know what to think of the situation. Later in the week, I your mind's book that helps you understand your own related the experience to a lady whose husband farmed children's thinking. in the general .neighborhood of the Leinweber place. One of the few times I have been associated with She said her husband would be relieved to know it had something I could not really explain happened in the fall happened to som~one else. The same type of light had of 1973. My brother .Terry and I met two friends, illuminated him on his combine. He turned off the George Goodin and Dale Willard, late one afternoon on machine; no noise, just light out of the sky. He climbed the Leinweber farm near Rockport. We were "brushing" off the combine and walked through the standing com two duck blinds f~th~ upcoming season. to the farmhouse. He, like George and Dale, had expe We fi~shed up the blinds, visited awhile and pre rienced something unexplainable, and didn't really want pared to head for home - Terry and I to Pleasant Hill, to discuss it with anyone else. George and Dale to Pittsfield. George said he had left a I've thought perhaps it was an aircraft hovering, but saw .in a patch of scrub oak and was going to go back no noise they said. Foxfrre? The light was too bright for and pick it up. We said, "OK, we'll see you later." We phosphorescence of thi& type. A secret government proj drove down the field road a little way when suddenly ect? Perhaps, as we are close to one of the leading we noticed lights behind us. Bright lights; but we knew. defense contractors based in St. Louis. I don't believe it was George, and we knew he would get as dose ~ he we will\ ever know for sure. An extraterrestrial source could and turn up the high beams to aggravate us. No might be as good an answer as any. · doubt we would have done the same to him. This b~ght light stayed behind us down Don Peebles is a retired superintendent of Pleasant Leinweber's driveway, down the gravel to Highway 54. H.ill Schools. 1 • · When we turned left ·on 54, the light disappeared. We !UFO museum ! Observafions 8 a; i names advisers (.) I.. ,... ,... 0 . a: ~ c:i The [nternati age, although researchers remained out over the water. Then I guess that's my story. I still don't <..J walked (about tifteen feet) over here know what to think of it and would have theorized that the image 0 (to the northwest of the building) to like to know more about it, since the is a composite, and that the alien is, in fact, a be able to continue keeping them in news media took pretty light of it. " shaved monkey." -Dallas Morning News eludes Navaio cops ~ UFO 0 By Jim Maniaci Unfortunately, NDLE patrol cars do not have I ~ Dine Bureau cameras to provide photographic evidence of the f event. WINDOW ROCK-Not one, but two Nav E reports of UFOs," Bremerton found too incredible to be z0 Police Chief Rob Forbes said. lieve. Clarkson said he usual co "But that's my own personal ly knows something is amiss c recollection. We've had peo with a sighting story if ple represent themselves as "every time they tell it, it of cC/ ) ober ihnagvsi nfgro cmon taancot twheitrh pbleainnegts, getPsa ar tl iottfl we whaitl dfeure.l"s the UFO ocQa l- 0 from another planet." phenomenon is the desperate .....- Forbes said those people hope among manyl iumaris to &(). co are simply trying to get out of know that we are not alone in r:: being arrested by concocting the universe. The thought of < a story. No one really comes alien life excites, intrigues e3n: ·..0.-..-) pinotrot ath Ue FpOo .l ice station to re andIt o'sf bteene nsc 2a5r eyse aurss. since the Uz. l C/) "I think there's perhaps a "Arecibo Message" was ><..J ·- cQ> ) armenelyunoctn,t eab,ne cnceoa tut ojsue ts aittl 'lksa wasbo eomnueftot hirtic nteog bisncrtoooap dsepc aaincste P2fu1ro,e0mr0t0 oa lRirgaihdctoi o.y teTealhrees 0 that's generally considered SETI Institute began its kind of, I don't know, impos search for intelligent life 15 sible or not realistic," Forbes years ago this November. en 0 said. "Fr@kly, w~. _l}a~~ In the meantime, lonely u.. ple who come in with stories UFO investigators such as that are even more incredible Clarkson give lectures and ::::> than seeing a UFO." preach their message. Don't say that to someone Clarkson said he just like Davenport. hopes to raise the level of Davenport, who said he awareness toward UFOs. "I saw his first UFO when he say, 'Don't believe me. Go was 6 years old in 1954, won and do the reading. Talk to ders why the media and the people. Go and ask ques military are ignoring "the tions."' most bone-crushing story, if He acknowledged that it's true. And it appears to be "people make mistakes" true in spades." when reporting UFOs, often When you talk about the seeing spacecraft in place of National UFO Reporting Cen satellites, astronomical ter, you're generally talking events, military aircraft or about Davenport. Davenport even illusions. calls his tenure as the cen But out of all the tens of ter's director "the most in thousands of sightings credible job I've ever had." through the years, only one Working the hotline phone needs to be proven to con from his Seattle apartment, vince Clarkson that aliens are he can field anywhere from out there - and they're three to 300 calls on a given watching us. day. "I believe there is evi This year, the 25th an dence that somewhere along niversary of the center's the way, we have been con founding, Davenport said tacted by a nonhuman intelli he's been getting more calls. gence," he said. "Now, as far But he stressed that the rea as saying what the origin is, I son the center gets more lo don't know." cal calls is simply because the phone number is a local 0 Sean L. McCarthy writes for The chaelrle. "Wthaen'r ei mn oMrei swsieslsl-ipkpnoi wonr Sun in Bremerton, Wash. 5 INDEPENDENT, Gallup, NM - Oct. 19, 1999 Was UFO an ible from as far away as Iowa. Experts on UFOs The launch was also accompa nied by a spectacular "twilight phe nomenon," caused when a missile in area today launched in darkness climbs out of AF ntissile? the Earth's shadow. A USAF press release describes the twilight phenomenon as occur ring "when unburned missile pro Staff report Don Gonzales, KGAK station pellant particles and water left in GALLUP - Despite explana manager, said phones at the station lOtctSBuihtaoycapellt nl -M.Gfeb. aW 2dairrAi iellmcatalLo~ni aral·r mL yneus tUnhB JidiarPdieeve-nnegnnt Atastei nrlfto ti hnee~aod t "ru hitYlghey h lemiy ·nv i etage'xnsn o pyibnlbtaeg)jnia noa~lg- f . lmdmwwscauaeauaoicussrsnsctssh prceeioelhtsh ehyaseei'fedesrtdu e d lw,r tfr aereiaontrs-hrageumthneenele r t ttecta ehMdedrivepne .e i dtthiMnieTn oiurcht ancthlerete eesh omp. h Mefteaao Baalinrfln e ri' bfstruIohs asrtrto'ell-eswlacmei nskvaaitaderetitn ssc tr rdliTthinhoiush egstOcetie hhcisw-nn eeca mag ollOk tfeliirosecsftoslrsut iz.eo dl dedgefe2n e ral ,o nes unreusfmt renhnsiai n,elpn ugit agemepbAcshrpleeccutse, neose brntton,o sy cact opeitiwnrmasi.ec"etth feeaonilrdlstetl eap cyf lrhPt epeabretrernahzoesldee s . ~apssottihklalno ae iw nemOn iss nu ec tsttfeot~hhtr.ti oea tbi4u twme itnl si eiiitcitg nghhih ehef etotnpth sd.rteU e i o s i._aDtSpnsrf.l li eyewsAtai chni woittgerhhvh i Feootsrrohe lya:rsesj cfaee (teSircNe dvLcraa ainsbtteteiohonio.ooeecunynnne t sttscrdiueatoimaitpdNmdetoeni ,oio r 'nfttttnboo eg·s u r do at ttobt non hpel odttye foh r fitisweinhnwcc tengieiee . UilrG nlnsv FtpgaiitOas elhTltcw eusue pe feesr disxsIto da pnmoabtediyne roett i phnasnaf eegtin aer iw,ldnrp l eseorhhtornwiiees t. vided after the show for irtstitute The U.S. Air Force's 30th Space head over the Pacific Ocean. carried a photo of the glowing Representatives of the institute, representatives to meet with people Wing launched an unarmed Minute The test showed the feasibility of smoke trail, distorted into zigzags who routinely investigate UFO who said they saw the lights. man-2 intercontinental ballistic mis protecting the United States from by high altitude winds. sightings and other stiange phe The Air Force has said it launched sile from Vandenberg Air Force ballistic missile attacks by hostile John Yazzie, an employee of the nomena, also plan to be guests on an unarmed Minuteman-2 intercon Base in California at 7:01 p.m. Pacif nations, Canaff said. Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, said the Samson Jim show on KGAK Ra tinental ballistic missile from Van ic Daylight Time, or 8:01 p.m. local . The Associated Press reported the he saw the UFO in the western sky dio (AM 1330) beginning at 2 p.m. denberg Air Force Base in California time --:- just when the "UFO" be Minuteman launch was visible from as he was headed to his home in the today, talking about the sighting as at the time the allEged UFO becarrC_ came visible to· Navajo police offi Las Vegas, Nev. Sgt. Uoyd Conley, New Lands area that night. Yazzie: well as possible alien abductions of visible to Navajo police officers and cers and others who reported it. a public relations officer with Van who served in the U.S. Navy, said ·earthlings. others. The launch was a historic event, denberg, said his office had received the brilliant object he saw resembled said Jennifer Canaff with the Ballis e-mail reporting fhe missile was vis- the missile launches he had ob tic Missile Defense Organization, be- served while at sea. A similar Southwestern UFO sighting in January 1997 also oc curred at the same time as the launch of a Minuteman missile from Vandenberg. INDEPENDENT, Gallup, NM - Oct. 18, 1999 Spotters of For Valdez, it's a little more personal. agreed that the light seemed to be a cone shape, with During his career as a state police officer, he was the smallest and brightest part of the cone at ground called upon to investigate a number of cattle mutilations level. in the Dulce area between 1976 and 1980 and then again UFO asked About 35 people called in tc the Samson Jim pro when it started in 1992 for a year or two. None of these gram on Oct. 12, Gonzales said, and many more tried to· mutilations has been solved. · get on the air and couldn't because the phone lines were But in many of the mutilations, people in the a~ea re jammed. ported seeing a strange blue-white light in the sky that to speak up "Some peopte got tired of trying to call in and came would disappear when they got close !o it. by the studio to talk about what they saw," Gonzales "I want to talk to some of the people and especially said. "We had people lined up in the hallway wanting to the two tribal police officers who said they saw the to get a chance to speak." light to see if it had any connection to these earlier sight Normally, the Samson Jim call-in show lasts an hour ings," Valdez said. but Gonzales said that because of the enormous interest The cattle mutilations received national attention By Bill Donovan received numerous calls from a in the subject, he allowed it to go on for an extra 45 min and got the interest of a number of UFO investigatory Dine Bureau number of chapters, including Be~ utes and then had to call it off so the station could get in groups. Valdez said one theory that is still being consid GALLUP- A former state ·po centi, Dalton Pass, Standing Rock its commercials for the day. ered is that the mutilations were done by aliens who lice officer who investigated reports and Window Rock. Gonzales said that since the station went to an all wanted the cattle blood because it is so close to human of mutilated cattle in New Mexico The lights were apparently visible Navajo format last year, the afternoon call-in show has blood. says he's trying w iiflcusin·g on the scientific explo Policeman and a retired US Army extreme static during the event. The •ration of . emerging, novel and Chopper pilot, presently a city craft changed locations in split sec unconventional observations· and police officer. onds, covering distances of approx theories. It has a special focus.()n-llie The UFO was traveling west imately half a mile to over two afte~, death and "aeria,I phenomenol over the Gulf of Mexico in a Zig miles instantaneously. At least four ogy, another name for UFO sight Zag fashion at 7:57 p.m. The craft times it hovered for thirty seconds, ings fUld encounters. flew slow, 100 to 300 knots, sliding with longest delay of about a The Oct. 2 incident was not by south and back to north in a contin minute and a half over the south far the strangest that NIDS has in uing forward motion. western boundary of Pensacola vestigated. In response to callers' questions, Kelleher mentioned one The craft moved in a Z pattern, Naval Air Station. incident in which a Georgia woman erratic with no sound. It seemed to One aircraft was launched from said that an odd creature kept ap be suspended in tlight at various Sherman Field about three minutes p~aring ~.her bathroom night after ·positions. The craft was silent with into the event, but seemed unaware rught, leavmg footprints on the bath high intensity blue arcing lights that of the UFO, and turned away in an mat. Unfortunately, by the time she fluctuated around the entire craft. easterly direction. When the UFO 8:12p.m. local time, moving west conventional craft operate in this got around ·to reporting the encoun These lights resembled electrical was first observed, a trailing sound along the coast. manner, nor has my friend." ters, the· bath mat had been thro.wn charges coming off an alternator's of a helicopter could be heard, but One witness suffered from nau Thanks to Peter Davenport, UFO away, Kelleher said. brushes. never could be observed. The UFO sea for about ten minutes, but the Reporting Center, In another case, a woman who Further observation revealed left the area after fifteen minutes at other was tine. "I have never seen a http://www.UFOcenter.com encountered an rtiilg Ross Perot at c and /eng shui consultants are safe to walk the streets He is a slightly built, · the tim~." ~ atnight. balding, soft-spoken man With Jesse Ventura, Warren Beatty and Donald _, _ Just the other evening I was in-Rocco's, the of 34, who in the real.w orld Trump all making sounds like they want to run for uf neighborhood Italian restaurant, when I overheard a works as an accountant for a collection agency. In the president, advice from another planet might be well ~ local swear he had hired a day laborer who used . astral world he is a field investigator for the Mutual worth listening to.· t= telekinesis to transport a pile of lumber from one part UFO Network and has published several books and of his yard to another. It cost a little more but the magazine articles on the subject.· 0 effect was worth it. My interest in this book rests in his contention that ·rhe book cites several dozen instances in which I mention this spooky stuff because of a new book many of the sightings have occurred right in niy own · Topangans have seen UFOs. Dennett, who once · by Preston Dennett called "UFOs Over Topanga neighborhood. They began 'shortly after a film wanted to be a science fiction writer, admits there is .· Canyon," in which he interviews people who say they director moved in and, while I don't hold him directly no way.of proving or disproving what he's told but have seen, heard, felt or perceived flying saucers. responsible for the odd goings-on, I am made uneasy believes the sighters and alien abductees are telling The dreamier among them claim to have actually by the coincidence. the truth. communicated with the saucer people or in some People in show biz often emit strange magnetic I know one of the sighters in the book. His name is cases been kidnapped by them. The a})9uctees.now impulses likely to attract pretty odd individuals. Eric Beckjord. I met him a few years ago wh~n he ran walk around in white robes banging tambourines. Denn~tt tells of one neighbor whose pregnancy a Bigfoot: museum in the back room of a Malibu bar · and talked about communicating with one of the big, hairy creatures telepathically, which, lguess, is how all strange creatures communicate. As Beckjord tells it, he was in a remote section of Northern California looking for Bigfootwhen: "I received a mental message that said,'We're here but we're not here.' I said, 'what the hell are you?' The voice replied, ·we're not real.' " DAILY RECORD, Roswell, NM -Oct. 5, 1999 How he determined it was a Bigfoot was never clearly established, but somehow, given his Artesia couple,·observes UFOs paranormal abilities, he knew. : Beckjord seems to have an affinity for things moving through the night sky unreal, and I susp~ct others in Dennett's book are possessed with-similar powers. That's fortunate, because· the canyon, as the author tells it, is a ''hot JANE WIGGINS .. spot" forUFOs. · RECORD STAFF WRITE~ uThey weren'{high They could learn from us. We coexist beautifully in ·Topanga. Writers drink with oracles at Willows. · . _e nough to be · CPA s dine with hypno-visionists at the Inn of the · Bright, glowing. llel:Y white Seventh Ray. · · · . . . . .- circul~can,d trian_gle _shaped airplanes, they made We all believe md ifferent things~ And if the peopl~ objects _made at least two in Dennett's book w:ant to believe in space-fairies,' Artesfa people shiver Sunday no noz•s e. II '.that's all right with nie. I saw the face of the Virgin Mary in a martini glass once and it changed my life. I night as they watched thein was so shaken, l switched to scotch for a week. . . · traveling from north. and _ Joyce Cole northeast toward the south.; AI Marti~MJ's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. west. . Resident of Artesia· He ean be reached online at al.martlnez@latlmes.com. Joyce Booker-Cole and her t------------------------- Representatives from area husband, David, who live ·in law enforcement agencies Artesia reported seeing the said they received no reports EAST OREGONIAN, PendletOf!z OR· Oc·t·. ·1 6y , 1m988g . objects when they came out of the house to enjoy the cool of sightings in the area. _ Pendleton cJ~ night air between 10:30 p.m. Jennifer Brady, Ro&well and midnight. Industrial Air Center office sauCer conne.ctiorl- . !hey weren't high enough manager. said the airport to be airplanes," Joyce Cole tower closes at 9 p.m. and . ' ': ',' ,n ·;,.~ ._. .·~ !"" said, .. they made no noise." that any aircraft flying after PENDLETON - In ma~ that time receives instruc ways, Pendleton is considered She said ·she had not seen tions from_t he Albuquerque tbe -b~lace ofthe UFO era. anything like this before·. and airport. 'There .. -batl.~. ~en>·.un«t&:.. the obJects traveled slowly and dropped to the ground or Albuquerque air traffic p}~jt-e'd $ig)wjtbie. ~n~ f6"Ytl\f:' ~~t '.that's ~·:·'Kentleth disappeared below the hori controller Tom McKenzie said .Arnold, a 28-year-old pilot ·and· lJ.e zon. knew of no military air businessman fr_om Boi~.e, Uncertain what people craft flyiQg at that time. how emphaticaHy .-~-", PlJb-lk,lf. would think, she hesitated ever a weather balloon mis ·:~~::~:t~~~~t:~~1¥e~ before reporting what she sion was launched from Fort ,. . . ·_. ·_, saw. The sighting gave her Sumner Sunday at 7 a.m. He ~~P~~et him back on "I had one World War II vet . He· figures that's because if track doing what he loves: eran tell me about seeing they've got craft that can ~eTe.hkiisn gs uthmem tle"ur tthh ea biontuetr UnaF Os. hUeF Osasy sw. hile he was on a ship," lmikaen epuevoeprl ea nhdav sep ereepdo ratreodu~n d tional director of MUFON, Some people are scared by they are clearly far more Walter Andrus, appointed what they've seen and don't advanced than humans. Thomas the "state section understand, Thomas says, oth Thomas figures that when director for Umatilla and Mor ers are simply curious and there's conclusive contact row counties and a field inves perplexed. between the pilots of a UFO tigator trainee for MUFON. Thomas knows a large share and earthlings - which the 55- So Thomas is. putting the of UFO sightings aren't year-old says could very well word out. He wants people authentic. That's part of happen in his lifetime - it who think they've seen a UFO MUFON's goal, he says, to will be more like the portrayal to contact him. He's particu weed out the explainable and in the move "Close Encoun larly interested in current put light on the as yet unex ters of the Third Kind'' rathef' sightings - like the one plainable. than "Mars Attacks." reported in Hermiston last But for Thomas, the mystery Until then, he's eager to month by a teen-ager and is in the details. He has no investigate the possibilities. CHRONICLE, Houston, TX-Nov. 7,1999 CR: W. Theriot Planned watchtowers may lure tourists and UFOs SAGUACHE, Colo. (AP) - A plan Stan Becker, a retired roofer, Messoline plans to build two 10- to build UFO watchtowers in the bought a 164-acre ranch north of foot-tall UFO watchtowers, a UFO rural San Luis Valley of south Hooper four years ago. Then, after themed gift shop and a landing central Colorado has made a watching countless episodes of The pad. She hopes to have the gift former convenience store clerk a X·F iles and Sightings, Messoline shop and adjoining watchtowers veritable celebrity. got the idea of cashing in on the open by Memorial Day, in time for Judy Messoline, who worked at public's fascination with inexpli the summer tourist season. a store near the area's Great Sand cable flying objects, weird lights, Dunes National Monument, has underground rumblings and other For their part, her neighbors been inundated with calls since she strange phenomena in the valley. have been low-key about the ven won approval for her project from The San Luis Valley is primarily ture, although one farmer told the Saguache County Commission a fanning and ranching region, but Messoline she was "going to make in October. the 120-mile-long valley is steeped us all look ·like a bunch of loonies Messoline and her companion, in UFO lore. down here." 10

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