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    W  o  r ld' s  est 'True

    UFO Stories

    Jenny Randles &eterA. Hh

    Illatd by Jas st

    g Pbhg C, Ic.Nw Yk

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    Library of Congress Catalogng-nPblication Data

    Randles, Jenny.World's best "ue UFO stories I by Jenny Randles and Peer A.

    Hough ; lustaed by Jason Hurst.p. m.

    Inludes ndex.ISBN 0-806912588 . Unidentifed ying objectsSghtings and encounersJuvenile

    literau. [1 Unidenifed yng objets.] I. Hough, Peer A.I. Hurst, Jason, ll. I I Tle.TL789R345 1994 001.9 42dc20

     1 3 5 7 9 10 8  6 4 2

    Publshed by Stelng Publishng Company, nc 387 Pak Avenue Souh, New Yok, N.Y. 1006©  1994 by Jenn y Randles and Peter A. HoughDsibuted n Canada by Sering Publishing

    %Canadian Manda Group, O. Box 920, Saion Uronto, Onao, Canada M8Z 5P9Dstibuted in Grea Brian and Europe by assell PLC

    Vliers House, 4147 Strand, London W C2N E, EnglandDistrbued n Australia by Capricon Link (Austraia) Py Ld.

    O. Box 6651 Baulkham Hlls Business Cenre, NSW 2153, AusraliaMuud h Ud S Am

    A h vd

    Stelng ISBN 080691258-8

     94-9807 CIP

    AC

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    Contents

    Before You Begin

    1. Close Encountes of the First Kind

    -Strange Sightings

    Encounter in 1909The First "Flying SaucerMr. Preident Spots a UFODanger on the Highway

    2. Close Encounters of the Second Kind

    Physical EvidenceLanding at SocorroBurned at Facon LakeNot of this Earth

    If You Go Down to the Woods day

    3. Close Encounters of the Third KindAlien Contact

    Invasion at VonezhSiege at Sutton Farmhe Alien on Ilkley Moor

    Hijacked by a UFO

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    4. Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

    -Abucted!

    Spenapped!

    i in the SkyA light into OblivionManhattan ansfer

    5. Mark of the O

    Boys in the Field

    The Animal MutilatorsThe Night a lying Saucer CrashedNightma Over heran

    Idex

    4 Wold's Best "Te FO Stoies

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    Before You Begin

    The title of ths book s World's Best "True UFOStries. It as a tough job pckng out theworlds best." Indeed, there ere many we hadt eave out due o shorage of space and the needto vary the stores. Bu e beleve the book ncudes some of the best-documented cases

    avalableTue" e e s n qoao aks e

    cause ofe u" s a personal judgmenWhat one person accep as ru, ohers ayrefuse becase ey eman ore proof In tecases e resen ere, ere are ayng de

    grees of roof Soees e edence s sooerweng, as Lanng a Socoro" or

    Danger on e Hgha,�' a ou may oney soe peoe sl e he exsence o

    UFOs. n oe accous, suc as Fre n eSky" an Te Aen o Ilke Moor," yo a be

    oe ccaWe ae pofessona UFOogss an e a

    ors of any oe books on UFOs and smarsubjecs ut e are no beeers" n e senseta e swalo eerng o qusoWe oud ke you o be e sae Ask qesos

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    abou people's sange soies. I is fai o de-

    mand some poof ha an inciden happened inhe way i was epoed

    Howee, do no foge o ask quesions of he"unbeliees, oo, he skepics and debunkes.

    They can be jus as guily in obscuing facs hado no fi in wih hei "aional explanaions

    Finally, we would jus like o say, ead on andenjoy he wold's bes "ue UFO soies .

    6 World's Best "Te UO Stories

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    I. CLOSE

     ENOUNTERSOF H FIRST

    KIND-

    STNGE 

    SIHING

    • UFOs in another age

    • The ying saucer gets its nameby

    mistake . . • Not only pilots and farmers see

    UFOs, presidens can, too . .

    • When you see a UFO-keep yourdistance!

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    Ee i 1909

    Saing in he 188s a pague of myseiousaiships swep acoss Noh Ameica and Euope and as fa away as New Zealand. One of hemos ineesing cases occued in 199.

    M. C. Lehbidge was aeling aound

    ales duing he summe wih his Punch andJudy show packed on a handuk. As he wakedoe Caephily Mounain he saw a sigh hafighened him.

    A fis I hough i was a big bid he odepoes ae. I saw a funnylooking objec on

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    the roadside ad two me who seemed to be atsome id of wor close by The object was logad lie a big ciga. They were tall men

    militarylooig me ad were dessed i thicfur coats ad capsOf course I didt ow theywere officers but they were two methatscertai ad military me too.

    I was about 2 or 3 yards away whe I firstsaw the me. The ise of my trucit rattles a

    lotmust have disturbed them for they commeced to spea very fast some id of ligowhich I could ot uderstad. They appeared topic up somethig off te groud ad jup itothe object close by. The it rose up lielie aswitchbac movemetad whe it had got up a

    pretty ood height it wet straight i the direc-tio of Cardiff.

    I thought at first it was some big bird but itmust have bee a aiship Well after it hadge up a way two lights bega to shie from itThey loed lie electric lights. It made a awful

    oisea whirrig oisea oise lie a egieworig. Saw ad heard it I have o doubt aboutit. I was frighteed I ca tell you ad afterwatchig it go away towards Cardiff I cotiuedt wal home."

    ethbridges strage eperiece too place

    betwee 13 ad 11 oclc o uesday ightMay 1th. Iterestigly it was cofirmed b thestatemets f resides i Salisbury oad Cat-hays Cadiff wh said hat tey also sa aobect i e air hat looed lie a airship be-twee 1: ad 1:5 .

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    he the South Waes Daiy News of May 2referred to several Cardiff doc worme whosighted a airship i the wee hours of Wednes-

    day morigLethbridges vague descriptio of the object

    as log ad lie a big cigar" has often bee usedi moder UO accouts.

    A search was made o Caerphilly Mountai atthe locatio that Lethbridge idicated and a red

    label prited i rench was discovered alongwith a piece of mutilated otepaper ad severalother slips of paper but these oly served tocofuse the issue.

    At the time it was thought that the airshipshad bee built secretly by ivetors or that they

    were flyig machies belogig to foreigpowers. Neither was the case sice the objectshad capabilities beyod the techology of thetime he sightigs ad ecouters differed olyslightly from presetday UO experieces

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    The First "Flying Saucer

    The early afternoon of June 24, 1947, was fineand sunny over the western United States. PilotKenneth Arnold flew slowly   over the splendid

    Cascade Mountains, heading towards Pendleton,Oregon. He was enjoying the peace and loneli-ness of the air as his small plane buffeted in the

    wind.Suddenly his attention was drawn by a glint of

    light, followed swiftly by another, then a third.

    He looked towards Mount Baker and there saw aformation of nine strange aircraft swishingacross the sky.

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    He was baffled by their odd form. Hed neverseen anything lie it. At first he thought theymight be reflections of the sun on the cocpit

    window, so he wound that down and dran in therushing blast of cold air. The strange craft werestill there.

    They were moving together on a steady courseand had a weird appearace Their wings werecurved and shaped lie a crescent moonArnold

    told himself they had to be some newfangled aircraft that the government was testing. Hewatched them with the admiration and respectthat one pilot gives to another in a vastly supe-rior machine.

    Linig up the group against the top of a moun

    tai pea, he started to time them on his dashboard cloc. He wored out the distance betweenone pea and another, which they covered remarably quicly.

    Arnold did a rough calculation in his head tofigure out their speed. Then he checed it again.

    It didt mae sense. The objects were flyingmuch faster than any aircraft he had ever heardabout. Perhaps they were some ind of rocet ormissile If so, then he sure hoped that they wereUncle Sams

    When he landed for a brief stop at Yakima in

    Washington state, he mentioned what hed seento some people on the ground. By the time he hadflown on to Pendleton, he was greeted by newspaper and radio reporters. Everybody wanted tonow about the strange machines.

    Arnold told them about his sighting. He had

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    guessed that the thigs were 2 miles away If hewas right, it meat that their speed was fatastic Later he was told by eperts that if they had

    bee that far away, their size would have beeabsolutely eormous At that distace, eve thelargest aircraft ever built would have bee impossible to see without bioculars Arold hadpretty good eyesight, but ot that good

    But, however fast they flew, the objects were

    still vry uusual i desig, ad they hadbouced through the air i a most peculiar wayArold told oe reporter that they simmedacross the sy lie a saucer would if you sippedit across water"the same way a small flat stoewould if you threw it at a sharp agle

    Arolds choice of words was to prove fatefulThe reporter called the objects flyig saucers"He wrote his story tellig the world that aerialitruders had arrived As a result, may people

    bega to loo up ito the sy for themOf course most of those who read the ews

    paper story imagied that Arold had seethgs shaped lie saucers, whe they had otresembled saucers at all Yet witesses owstarted reportig saucershaped objects, adcomic boos ad films featured this imageregularly

    The flyig saucer" had gripped the popularimagiatio A simple mistae made by a ewspaper writer became the origi of a leged

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    M. Peide Sp aUFO

    Anybody cn see UFO You simply hve to be inthe right plce t the right time nd be verylucky. Those who clim to hve witnessed something strnge include boxer Mohmmed Ai fim

    str Shirley McLine rock musicin John Lennon the stronomer who discovered the pnetPluto Dr Clyde Tombugh nd mny more utperhps the most fmous person to report sighting is Jimmy Crter who lter becmepresident of the United Sttes

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    The date was January 6 969. Carter was g-ernr of the state f Gergia He was standingutsde the ins Club in eary Gergia pre-

    paring t gie an address at 7:3 that eeningwhen the bject appeared in the western skyamid a mass f twinkling stars Ten ther clubmembers were with him and they all saw it t

    Jimmy Carter says tat the bject was like abg star abut the same sie as te mn

    maybe a little smaller t aried frm brgter[and] larger than a planet t te apparent sie fte mn"

    At first te ig run mass was statiary nte sky and clre bue but as tey watced tbegan t rush twars the startled men

    swinging back and frt like a pendulum andturning a deep red. e future president nted

    that t was luminus ut] nt sld." He ha niea wat it was.

    After abut 1 mnutes te strange bjectseeme t me aay ackards at a tangent

    frm teir psitin itut ming acrss thesky casing it t srink in se. t was neerseen agan.

    Carter did nt reprt te incident until 1973three years befre he ascende t the WteHuse. One f te ter witnesses as since

    cme frwar t supprt im. at man is reHart in 1969 was te president f te insClub were ernr Carter was guestspeaker. Hweer e des nt seem t ae eent excite by the dd lght in te sky.

    Accrdng t O skeptic Rbert Saeffer

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    y arer n see a rea fyn sauer aa He as auae a e pan Venus was nus e r par f e sky a n an a

    s us ae been wa e en sawt's rue a FO nesgars beee ha

    as many as nne u of eery en sghngs repre be FOs urn u be FOs r iden-tfed fyn b es. Bu why shoul it appear sosrange Carer an tese her men Carter

    was a raned sens wh a unersy degreen nuear physcs. He had sered with the . Say. Surely he ul be expeed t regnze apane suh as Venus whh s a mmon sigh nhe eenng and mornng sky wheneer t cmesclse e ear!

    Wa ay ae appene n anuary 969 sa Venus was snn ru a pa f sky a unusua pal rperes ese areknwn pue raesus as n a e-ser you nk yu're seen a pl f waer aeaa s n reay ere e rays f fr he

    pane wu ae been ben n er way -wars e ear an anfe n se ausnus e sr f effe a Jy arerrepre

    Weer s paruar FO was an FO rwas nee sen ese ay be ess pran

    an e effe a a n e beefs f Jmmyarer Wen e beae presen n 976 epee a e u e e ru abuFOs e publ a elee He wen nrer as sayn a nne a FOs ex-s ae seen ne"

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    Danger On the Highway

    As we have lready seen, some UFO encounters

    can be harmful to your health. The story of arestaurant owner, Betty Cash, shows how realthat danger can be.

    Betty an he frie and emploee VickieLandum set off on te evening of Decemer 29 ,1980 towars Dayton exas. Wit them was

    Vickie's svnyao gandson, Coly. ttywanted to check out a new restaurant an decided to make a social vening of it.

    At aoun 9 P. M. t ey were d i ing ometoug a pine forest wen a fiery oject ap-peare in the sky aea of them. It quickly de

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    scended t treetp egt and ered men-acngly oer te rad blckng ter pat Teystopped te car just 135 feet (40 5 m) away

    Ter descrptns f te bject as gen laterared. Betty sad t lked lke a ery brgtlgt wt n bus sape. Vcke tugt tas lng wt a runded tp and pnted lweralf. Clby sad t remnded m f a ugedamnd

    Een tug tey were afrad te wtnessesclmbed ut f te car fr a better lk. Bursts fflame jetted dwn frm beneat te bject ac-cmpaned by sunds lke a flame trwer.Trugut te encunter tey eard a rarngand bleepng sund.

    t was t muc fr Clby w was ery ds-tressed. Vcke gt back n te car wt m.Betty remaned lkng at te bject fr a wlelnger. Wen se tk ld f te dr andle t

     jn te ter tw t was s t t was dffcult tgrasp. Te eat frm te O was ferce nw

    and burned er weddng rng nt er fnger. Bynw Clby was ystercal and s grandmtertugt te end f te wrld ad cme

    Suddenly te bject began t me ff andBetty decded t fllw t As se dd tey ntced 23 twn rtr elcpters cmng ter way

    Tese were later dentfed as Cnksmltary elcpters. Tey were eter chasingr escorting te bject away

    After stppng a few mre tmes t watc tespectacle te tree went me Betty arred at950 , after frst drppng ff te ters.

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    Wthn hours all three became ll.Young Colby had a sunburn" on hs ace and

    hs yes pued up. Vce also had swollen eyes

    and some o her har ell out. Her boss, who hadstayed outsde the longest, suered the most.In the rst our days Betty complaned o

    blndng headaches and beng sc. here werealso nec pans, sore eyes and blsters on herscalp. She was admtted to Parway General

    Hosptal n Houston as a burn vctm. Her symptoms were smlar to radaton exposure, butnone o the doctors could say or sure. She letthe hosptal, but soon had to return snce shewasn't gettng better. Her har began alng outn clumps and she deveoped cancer.

    All three vctms ere advsed to sue theAmercan governmet or compensaton. IUFOs dd o exs, as he Amercan governmentpublcly clamed, then the object had to be a newsecret arcrat. I that was the case, then thegovernment had aled to protect three o ts ct-

    zens rom the arcrat's damagng eects.hey decded to sue or $20 mllon. he casedragged on or several years n the U. S. DstrctCourt n Houston and attracted a lot o attentonrom the meda. In court were representatvesrom NASA (the Natonal Aeronautcs and Space

    Admnstraton, the U. S. Ar Foce, Amy adNavy. he judge dsmssed the case n 1986 onthe grounds that no such object was owned, oper-ated or lsted by any department o the Amer-can government.

    wo NASA scentsts, John Shuessler and Dr.

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    Alan Holt nvestgated te case as parttmeUFO researcers. hey were very unappy wtthe judge's decson. By acceptng te expert

    testmony," Judge Ross Sterlng dd not ave tomeet Betty Cash, Vce Landrum and ColbyLandrum. Also, te evdence of te Chnoo helcopters was vrtually gnored by te court, eventoug oter people ad come forward who alsoclamed to ave seen tem tat ngt.

    Wat ten exactly dd appen to Betty, Vceand Colby? Rumors spread tat the object was anuclearpowered space suttle tat was notworng properly, or tat t was a captured alenspacecraft tat te mltary were tryng to fly.

    If ether of these explaatons are rgt, then

    te helcopters ere protectng and tryng to es-cort te object away. But f t was not of tsworld" and ploted by nonuman bengs, teCnoos ere casng t. ter way te gov-ernment ad the court conspred n a majorcoverup.

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    2. CLOSE

     ECOUNTERSOF THE

    SECOND KIND-

    PHYICAL

     EVIDENE

    • Desert touchdown-and realproof .

    UFOs can be hot property !• UFO evidence captured by French

    scientists . .

    • If you meet a UFO in the forestrun!

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    Landing at S

    olice officer Lonnie mor ws going bout susul routine on April 2, 6, ner te town of I·

    Socorro New Mexico Suddenly speedng crrced by nd e decided to give cse t ws siny new blck Cevrolet As e folowe o

    wrds te rodeo grounds mor's ttentionws dverted by oud ror nd bluis orngeflme in te sky

    Te officer concluded tht dynmite sckhs explo ed nd decided to investigte te c-cident He knew there ws sck in tt re

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    but the lame was vey pecula. Zamoa de-scrbed t as motonless, slowly descendng,le a unnelnarowe at the top than the bot-

    tom." he nose was dentely a oar," not ablast, and t was unle the nose made by a jetacat. Ate about ten seconds, t changedom hgh to low equency, and then stopped.

    Zamoa contnued towads wee te lamehad dsappeaed behnd a hll. he tac up the

    hll was made o gave and he made seveal at-tempts to dve ove t. Steeng caeully alongthe ough trac, both wndows wound down, helooed or the supposed dynamte shac. At lasthe reached the top o he hll.

    Between 100 and 200 yads (100200 m away

    n a gully was a shny object. He thought at stt was a car tha had turned ove. ee wee twopeople" nearby n wte coveralls. ey looedle small adults o chlden. One o them staredat Zamora, obvously startled. e ocestarted drvng towads them. As e dew

    closer, he assumed he was loong at a whte ve-hcle standng on ts adato or trun.He radoed the sher's oce, epoted a pos

    sble automoble accdent, and then stopped thecar. Whle he was gettng out, he dopped themcophone and stooped to pc t up. At ths

    pont, he head three loud thumps, le someonecosng a car door. hen the roa soundedaganony much neaer. It stated o vey lowand ose n ptch. He looed up and saw a lamebeneath the object that was now sng nto tear. hee was no smoe, just swlng dust.

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    Zamoa now ad a bette loo at te stangecat It was ovalshaped and metallc, le alumnum. ee wee no doos o wndows, but an

    unusual ed nsgna was maed on t.Alamed by all ts, Zamoa duced bend te

    se o te ll to potect msel, tnng teobject was about to explode. He ntended to keepon unnng, but nstead tuned n tme to see tly o, mssng te dynamte sac by just tee

    eet (1 m) As t lew away e came bac to teca and adoed te she's oce agan to update s epot ee was no sgn o te smallmen."

    He ased te do opeato, Ned Lopez, toloo out o te wndow to see you can see te

    object" But Zamoa dd not tell m which wndow so e pobably looed n te wong decton. Zamoa watced as te object cleaed teSx Mle Canyon Mountans and dsappeaedom sgt.

    Segeant Cavez was st on te scene, o-

    lowed by Deputy James Lucy. He called CaptanR cad Holde, n chage o te tacng statono te Wte Sands Mssle Base located to tesout o Socoo

    At te landng ste ou clea mpessons weeound n te sand ese landng mas" wee

    late potogaed. Mas esemblng ootpnts wee also dscoveed neaby. ee wasalso some bush bunng.

    Late FBI agent Atu Bynes too a detaled epot om Zamoa. One o te nvestgatos was D. Allen Hyne, wo was then wong

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    or the U. S. Ar Force nvestgatng UFO reports. He concluded that Zamora was tellng thetruth that he saw what he sad he saw.

    hree local peple also reported to the polcethat they had seen the strange lame n the sy.here were also two wtnesses who called n at aservce staton and told the attendant that theyhad seen a srange crat lyng low over Hghway85. hey were later dented as Paul Kes and

    Larry ratzer o Dubuque, Iowa.Major Hector Quntanlla, head o Project

    lue ook"the ttle gven to the Ar Force n-vestgaton o UFOshad ntaly thought theobject was an expermental crat belongng toASA, but that proved not to be the answer. He

    sad Ths was probably the bestdocumentedcase n the Ar Force les and I've checked t outeverywhere.

    T h e c a s e r e m a n s n o c a l l e s a sUIDIFID.

    hyical Evidece 2

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    Bued at Fao Lak

    Seve chlk ws 2yerold dustrl echc hose hoy \s geology O y 20, 6, he \s pospect g oud lco ke, 80les es o Wpeg, e he Trs Cdghy

    Just fter e te l, s tteto wsdrw to some geese cklg o erbyswmp Tere were two scrlet lgts bove the cler sy. Tey beg o desced d Stevecould see t tey wee cgrshped objectswt ump o top Whle oe hovered over soe

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    trees, the other landed about 130 eet (43 m)away Suddenly, the hoverng crat sped o ntothe sy.

    The landed crat then changed color rom scar-let to greyred to grey and nally slver Thesame eect taes place when hot metal coolsdown. Steve could see now that the crat wasdscshaped, about 35 eet (11 m) n dameter,wth a dome on top and nne ventle openngs

    around ts slopng sdes. Each contaned about 30small holes set n a grlle. There were also a con-tnuous whstlng o ar and a whnng sound.

    Steve staled the slent object and made somesetches He observed t or hal an hour throughthe weldng goggles that he usually wore to pro-

    tect hs eyes rom roc chps. As he setched,Steve elt waves o heat comng rom the crat,along wth vle stench lke sulphur. Then adoorway appeared n the sde, and a brllant volet beam shone out. It was brght enough tolght up the ground n sunlght He saw no one,

    but heard voces nsde speang n a languagehe dd not recognze.Ganng condence, Steve approached the

    crat. There were no weldng and no jonts, andthe surace o the object was hghly polshed. Helooed nsde. Small lghts were lashng ran-

    domly. Convnced now that e was dealng wth asecret expermental arcrat, he tred to communcate wth whoever was nsde, speang n several languages, but the only reply was the sudden closng o the door. He stepped bac, butnothng else happened, so he came nearer agan

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    As he dd, he placed hs gloved hand on the shinysurface.

    hs was a mstaethe glove melted! At that

    nstant the craft tlted slghtly upwards and ablast of heat ht hm from one of the vents. It senthm reelng and set hs shrt on fre Seve torehs shrt off and saw the craft dsappear oversome trees

    A tremendously strong odor of sulphur hung

    over the swamp, and waves of nausea swept overSteve. He gathered up his things and began thetwomle (3 m tre to the hghway. Along theroute he vomted an estmate 200 tmes It toohm two hours to go the two mles On the hghway he flagged down a police patrol car. he off-

    cer lstened to hs story, but explained he hadother dutes to perform and left hm stranded! ventually a motorist pced hm up. Returnngto Wnnpeg, Steve was mmedately admitted toa hosptal.

    hs was the start of the treatment for a mys

    terous llness that was to plague him for a yearand a half. Durng hs lness he was examnedby 27 doctors and ran up huge medcal blls Af-ter treatment for frstdegree burns, the hosp-tal released hm. He had lost a great deal ofweght and a rash appeared on hs chest. ausea

    and mental blacouts were contnual durng thstme Durng August 1968, the pattern of a grlleappeared on hs chest.

    He was tested for radaton contamnaton bythe Whiteshell Nuclear Research sablsh-ment, but only normal levels were found How

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    ever, Dr. Horace Dudley, former chief of theRadio-isotope Laboratory, US Naval ospital,New York, believed that Michaak's symptoms

    were "a classic picture of severe whole body exposure to radiation.Radioactvity was found a the landing site

    with fragments of metal, mostly siver, that hadbeen expoed to great heat Inetgation werecondcted by the Department of Heath and We

    fare and Nationa Dfence, the ational esearch Council, the niversity of Colorado andthe Canadian Aerial Phenomena esearchOrganisation

    The Defence Minister refsed to make pubcthe findngs of hs government departments. Af

    ter much persistence, a fie on the case was presented in the Canadian Houe of Commons.FOogist rthur Bray who had seen the origina comped by the Nationa esearch Counci,examned ths verson and clamed that important data had been eft out.

    Skeptic tried to prove that Steve Michaakhad made the whole thing p, and had deiberatey brned himsef with a red-hot barbecuegrie to provide "evidence. Many others, howeer, beieve that he was teing the trth.

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    N This Ea

    Renato Nicolai was lucy. He owned land astridea beautiul valley n te south o France near teviage o ransenProvence From his ome ecoud stare out over the terraced hisdes thatsoped towards the river and aziy watch the sun

    sin down into the rich tapestry o cropands.However, this area hid a secret that ew

    armers wished to discuss. A oca pea at Draguinan, caed La amont (iteray meaningthe evi mountain), had or years generatedstrange lights and terriying apparitions o

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    mysterous dar fgures Other witnesses hadseen alien entites and met forces that staled car

    engnes for no apparent reasonut somethng was lacng rom all o theserepotsphyscal poo. Unexpectedly, RenatoNcola was about to oe that evdence to theFrench government, who would spend sevealyears pondeng what to do wth t.

    It was aound 5P M

    on January 8, 1981. heame was attacted by a stange hummng owhstlng nose as he woed at the ea o hsyard. he nose was comng om above, so heglanced upwads, just n tme to catch sght o abzae object at teetop heght descendng ontoone o the caeuly ayed teaces at th baco hs steeply slopng land.

    h thn was only a ew eet n damte. Itwas oval n shape and gey n colo, and on theundesde wee small legs set nto the base Itwas allng slwly an puposeully towad aandng and Ncoa mached o towads t, cu-ous about what t coud be.

    He nve got close enough to touch the object.As he appoached the devce the constant hgh-ptched whstle ose to a cescendo and the thngcmbed sywads, acceleatng apdly. hen ttuned n lght towads a hozontal mode andshot away acoss the sy nto the daenngclouds.

    Renato dd not want to mae a uss, but told aneghbo about the expeence. hat man caledthe polce, who aved pobably expectng tohea anothe tal tale om a wneswllng ocal.

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    sa, g a v s maan s sp ng a cmn.

    Fanc plcr gendarmerie as a callav a uqu uncn. In 1977 h

    Fc gvnm s up a UFO vsganam a aal spac c n ulus.Gam cs a a cay usus p sggs an call h scn

    ss sm mpan. Rsac labas all v cu a o al as-sss ay pyscal vnc a mg prvUFOs a aly.

    gam qucl cclu ha hlag a ansnPvnc ad n xplanan

    a mg suc po sampls sl m ac aa an sn m ulus. S aas, scss w wngng a acss cun hs ll amng aml, a cnvc a as sc a xaa cls cu.

    Ra as nvsga a pschlgs, as sas a as llg u. laas als sampls sla plas m UFO uchd ha an cl sampls m a lcal raca m h UFO ad land. hs

    u sm assng suls.y un a gun ha bn cushd

    m abv a a a mpau bwn300° an 600° C (572° 1112° F). Bu hy culd ll a c a ma s happ. U-usual lvls sm cmcals, suc as znc, w

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    ound only n the landng areanot outsde t.Proessor Mchel Bounas rom the Natonal

    Instute o Agrcultura Research then oundeven more mpressve evdence. Chlorophyll, avtal chemcal n plants and leaves, had been re-duced by up to 5 percent nsde the andngrng. Outsde o t there was nothng abnormal.

    Possbly as sgncant was the ndng that thevaratons n the levels o chlorophyll showed aprecse mathematcal relatonshp. he urtherrom the center pont o the landng rng, themore chlorophyll was ound n the samples. hssuggests that the damage was caused y thethng that descended rom above and et tsmar on the armer's hllsde.

    Over the years snce 1981 Renato Ncola's landhas gradually returned to norma, but no answerhas been oud as to what strange power causedthe dramatc physcal evdence at ths ste.

    Varous scentsts have vsted the spot to tryto solve the mystery and et competely baled.But evdenty somethng touched down upon theslopes and changed the crops that ay beneath na ute remarabe manner.

    Many researchers now beleve that t wassomethng not o ths earth.

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    I Y G Dwn t thWds Today

    ob Tlor loved he ores ws hs job d hshobb Ths org he ws o rou e rek ospec he rees d ke sure h everhg

    ws e He hd bee o du sce 0 A.,bu hs hoe ws o oo r w d he couldreur here ecessr

    s dog lwas we wh h, jus cse heshould ee uwelcoe ruders u cocevble dger ws lurg he ores

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    t was a typically crsp Scottis morning inmidautumn, November 9, 979. Bob ad paredis picup truc at te edge o a sigty muddy

    trac and proceeded on oot. Altoug cose bythe main reeway tat inks Edinburg witGlasgow and astride the astgrowing town oLivingston, tis area ad itte traic. Nobodyese was lely to see watever too place witintese sadowy woodands.

    Rounding a bend and approacing a cearing,Bob came upon te weirdest object e ad everseen, overing just above te grass. Sapedrater ie te panet Saturn, it was essentialyrounded, wit a at rim across te midde. Sometiny windmilie arms were ocated on a centra

    band. Tere were aso a ew small windows. Bobcoud not see around te bac, but te rimseemed to ncirce te crat competey, impying tat t was sperica. t was not muc biggerthan a mediumsized car.

    However, there was someting sinister about

    it Te oor was greyish but not consistent tfaed in and out in an odd way and shrubberybehin it became visibe through its body t wasas i this gant sphere were trying to camouageitse but not uite uing it of

    Bob Taylor watced intenty, ear submerged

    in wonder, as te object blined in and out oreaity. Ten to monsters came from beind thecrat and eaded straigt towards te woods-man. He was under attac wt nowere to run.

    They were not human, not even aien. n act,tey resembled sea urcins (minesround bals

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    a oot or so (. 3 m) in diameter and covered withspies. hey bounced along the wet ground,mang a terrble sucing noise. Later ob real-

    ized that this sound was probaby the spes embedding themselves in the damp soil.

    he two werd things moved apart and went toeither side o the orester. eore he had achance to react, there was a strange smel. Heexperienced a sicening eeling a burning in his

    throat and the sensation o being grabbed by theside o the legs and tugged orward. hen therewas just blacness. ob ayor had plunged ntounconscusness.

    he 6yearod man came to with the sound obaring n his ears. Hs dog was racing around

    the little cearing, snarling and yappng n anger and rustration.

    he woodsman's head was pounding. He waswoozy his throat was sore and he coud not evenscream or help. As he tried to stand he collapsedonto his nees, stl wth a bitter, dry taste n his

    mouth.ob had no idea how much time had passed, but

    it stil seemed to be midmorning. Later est mates suggested he was unconscious or about 20minutes. He could see nether the crat nor themonsters. Had his dog rghtened them away ?

    ob crawled painully towards his truc, histrusty dog traling anxiously behind. Hescrambed into the cab and jered it into gear,but his coordination was awry and he succeededonly in drving into a muddy ditch and gettngstuc there

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    Stumblng out, Bob slowly scrambled towardshs house on the edge o the woods. He just hadto get away rom there. That machne mght

    come bac.When Bob staggered nto hs house, hs we

    saw at once that he had been attaced Hs harwas matted and he was splattered wth mud Adoctor called on Bob at about noon, althoug bythen he was recoverng well. However, the prac

    ttoner stll nssted that the woodsman vstthe hosptal Bob Taylor reluctantly agreed.

    In the orest, the polce cordoned o the steThey had ound evdence to bac up Bob's storyOn the ground at the spot where e ad drectedthem to loo there was a seres o lattened

    marks and ndented hoes These were consstentwth the traces that would have been let by thecrat and he werd sped objects tat hademerged rom t

    The local polce department treated ts caseas a serous assault by person or persons un

    nown Ths remans te only tme n Brtsh story that a UFO encounter was subjected to acrmnal nvestgaton.

    The meda were soon swarmng around the orest, but were prevented rom nspectng tetrace mars. Bob sgned msel out o te hosp

    tal eelng better. He and s we went sout ongland to vst relatves, as they had plannedto do beore the nghtmare too place. sprompted ncorrect meda reports that Bob adled the country n terror.

    he press nterest soon vansed, but UFOlo-

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    gsts and polce pursued the story or manymonths. Bob aylor's trousers were gven a o-rensc examnaton and showed tear marks that

    were the product o a downward orce. hs cer-tanly supported hs clams about what had hap-pened. he UFOlogsts, usng tny samples oderent gases, dented the smell that Bob hadreported durng hs attack as beng sulurdoxde.

    Bob aylor made no money rom hs story andshunned most oers o publcty. He soon retredand moved away to avod the constant attenton.

    As or the townsolk o Lvngston, they cameto be proud o ther very own close encounter. In1992 a small plaque and carn o stones was

    erected n the woodlands proclamng what hadhappened there n 1979.A ew wees ater the ceremony, the plaque

    vanshed n the mddle o the nght and wasnever seen agan. Perhaps t s now the center-pece o a prvate museum somewhere on earth

    or ndeed, somewhere o t

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    3. CLOSE

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     HIRD KIND-

     ALIEN

    CON TAC

    • Sightings  in Russia .

    • Goblins from the  stars lay siege to a

    farm

    • The rst portrait of an alien

    • Horror on a lonely highway as a UFOtakes control of a family's car

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    Ivai a Vez

    It happened in the industrial cty of Voronezh,some 00 mles southeast of Moscow, in RussiaOn October 9, 1989, the news agency ass an-nounced that there had been several UFO en-counters around the city he story was big

    news Prevously, the Sovet Unon would neverhave admitted that such a thng had happened

    Many of the witnesses were chidren he casewas investigated by Soviet UFOlogst VladimrLebedev and Dr Henry Silanov, Drecto of theS p e c t r a l D e p a r t m e n t o f t h e V o r o n e z h

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    GeologcalGeopyscal aboratory. Dr. Slanovprovded te autors wt the ollowng reportan eyewtness statements

    In te perod between September 21 to October 28, 1989, n te Western Par, sx landngsand one sgtng (overng were regstered,wth te appearance o walng bengs. We avecollected a weat o vdeo materals wt eye-wtness accounts, partcularly rom pupls o te

    nearest scool. We ave no doubts tey are tellng te trut."

    Vasya Surn was one o the students. He ands rends watced as a red sper appeared outo a pn og and some enttes and robotlecreatures came out o t.

    Several young wtnesses sgned statements onanoter ncdent, wc too place at about 230on te atrnoon o October 28. Vova Startsevwas playng ooy rom scool wt hs rendswen tey also saw a large pn spere, lyng.

    It was pn," Vova sad, but ept cangng

    sades. On te letand sde o te body weretwo antennae. It pused out our legs, a atcopened, a ladder came down and two bengs anda robot came out. ey carred te robot, set mon s eet and gave m artcal respraton.en e waled le a man. He came up to me

    ollowed by one o te extraterrestrals. He was just under two metres (6 eet tall. He stretcedout hs hand towards me, but I ran towards atree and clmbed t, sang wt ear. e alenad a bg ead, twce as bg as ours, and treeeyes n a row."

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    Vova was joned by one o hs rends, SergeMaarov, who added that the alens wore slversuts, slver wastcoats wth slver buttons and

    boots her aces were the color o grlled beeburgers, " but ther sn was smooth. When thedoor opened n the object, a blndng lght shoneout. As the students watched, the legs retractednto the object. hen t hovered beore rsngand lyng o.

    Was ths same object seen earer, towards theend o September? Dens Valyerervch Murzenohad changed hs clothes to go to a concert wthhs mother. He decded to go or a wal whle shewas gettng ready Loong up nto the sy hesaw somethng pn, shaped le an egg, wth

    rays o lght comng rom t he object camecloser and began to swng rom sde to sde le aallng lea. At ths pont two supports came outrom underneath. Dens could see the outlne osomeone nsde the object.

    he person' seemed to e about our and a

    hal eet (1. 2 m hgh, wth an old ace. I stoodstll and t ept comng down lower and lower. Igot rghtened and ran o. When I turned I sawbrght beams o lght. he object stopped next tothe lagstones. here was some nd o soundle musc."

    Several days later Dens notced a suspcousman hangng around at the loaton o the UFOlandng. here was a metal plate on hs chestwth some marngs on t.

    He stood or a whle, got on hs nees,touched the grass and then started to wave hs

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    arms about. en he got up, ran o, and thenwaled normally. I ollowed hm and he went ntoa shed. I was only 20 metres (60 eet behnd

    hm, but when I arrved, he had gone."here were many more accounts rom other

    wtnesses. I t was clear that somethng verystrange had occurredthe stores were too sm-lar to be made up. But what ad happened exactly Dr. Slanov, who examned the landng

    ste, sad n hs report that tests regstered ncredbly hgh levels o magnetsm. It s evdentthat somethng produced t." Imprnts n theground were also measured. hese were made, twas concluded, by an object weghng aroundeleven tons.

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    Siege at Sutton Farm

    Kely s a hamlet a few mles north of Ho-knsvlle, Kentucky. On the nght of August 21,

     1955, one of the most amazng cases of aen con-tact took lace there. Eght adults and threechldren at the Sutton Farm wtnessed t

    It began at 7:00 P .M., when Blly Ray Taylor, afrend of the Sutton f amly, went out to the wellfo some water. As he was takng a drnk he sawa huge shnng object land n a dredup verbedclose  to the farm. He ran insde and told theothers. They laughed,  thining he had seen

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    somethng ordnary, e a shootng star. Lessthan an hour ater, they were alerted by the u-rous barng o their dog n the yard This usu-

    aly happened when strangers vsited the armLucy Sutton, the eldest son and head o thehouse snce the death o hs stepather, wentwth Bly to investigate They were absouteyamazed at what they saw. Wang towards thearm was a igure wth ts arms n the air as i in

    surrender More bzarre than ths, the gurewas not humanShnng, as iumnated rom nsde, t was

     just over threeeet (1 m tal with a ald eggshaped head The eyes were yelow and big assaucers The mouth was a large gash stretchng

    etween elephante ears ts short egs werethn and ts long arms ended in cawshnn along te les o Shoot rst, as

    questons ater, " the men let oose at the bengwth a shotgun and a . 22 r e. It was ony aboutseven yards (6. 3 m rom the house when the

    red, so there was no chance o mssng hemen descrbed the sound as exactly as you hadshot nto a pal" he vstor somersauted bacwards and scurred away nto the darness

    hs was the start o several hours o terrorOther dentca creatures converged on the

    arm rom al sides. ey peered throug tewdows at the terred, gunhappy occupantsand were only scared away when red at or whenan outsde ght was stched on Lght seemedto have a worse eect than ulets

    he creatures uttered no sound when they

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    wee so, and aloug e undegowt cac-led as ey waled houg , tee was neveany sound o ootseps. All he bengs appoaced te ouse w ams ased, as ex-pessng peaceul nen. Once so at, oweve,te ams dopped and hey would scury o onall ous. e enes neve ted o oce anyentry nto te ouse nor attac he occupans.

    Ae the s shootng, anoteo thesameceatue appeaed a a wndow. he mened, causng o lp bacwards. hnngey ad dsabled t, hey decded o cee out-sde o a loo. e women uged hem not toshoot anymoe, snce te bengs had not acted na hostle manne. As Blly seped ousde, a sil-vey hand eached down rom he lowhangngoo and bushed hs ha. hose stll nsde sawhs and dragged hm bac. Lucy ushed outsde and ed a volley o shos a ponblankrange, nocng he eny from he roo. Inteesngly, even houg he ceaue coud ave

    hamed Blly wth ts shap talons, had ot.Anote ceaue was hangng n the branche

    o a neaby maple tee. Boh men ed a ths oneand t  floated o he gound and scued oAnothe came aound he sde o he house, andthey so that one too, wh he same negatve

    eec. Undestandably concened tha theweapons wee useless aganst the nvades, themen ran bac nsde to decde what to do next.

    Glenne Lanod, the mother o the amily,odeed the men to end the hostlty towardsthe ceatues. he entes ke eerng though ods Bs " O Sois

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    the wdows, however, ad the three chldrebcame hysterca t was ow 1 PM They de-cde to make a ru or t The amy pled to

    two cars ad headed at top speed to the Hopksve poce stato.

    The poce retured wth the amy adsearched the arm Athough there was evdeceo gure, there was tte else, asde rom a u-mous patch o groud where oe o the crea

    tures had ale whe t was shot. At 215 Mthe searchers et, eavg the amly aoe atthe arm

    They et reassured eough to go to bed Glee Lakord was yg awake, watchg thewdow, whe se otced a lumious glow com

    g through t t was oe o the creatures star-g at her She camly caed the rest o theamly, a despte er protestatos, Luckyshot at the beg, to o eect. The sege cotued ut just beore surse.

    Later that day, oce aga o the way to te

    Sutto Farm, polce ocers saw several brghtlghts comg rom that drecto. But whe theymade a thorough search, they coud d o physcal proo o the realty o the creatures. A eghbor, however, dd otce some strage ghts aeld at the tme the enttes were sad to have

    been mag or te arm buldgCoud the Suttos have abrcated the etrecdet ad carred t through so perecty? Ordd UFO ettes actuay terrorze the amy atKely

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    A former ritish police officer had a settliexperiece on eceber , 8. Philp Specerlived in lkley at the time a villae i the orkshire moors

    At 5 A M Philip said oodbye to his wifeand childre ad set off across lkley Moor toisit his fatherinlaw who lived in a villae on

    the other side t was stl dark whe he beahis journey but he carried his camera with himhoping to take some photoraphs of lkey fromthe moor tops as dawn broke

    an area know as White Wells somethincauht his attentio Philip was passing a small48 ords Bs "r O Soris

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     th century quarry ct into the hiltop when amovement made him look around. There, just tenfet ( m) away, was a small green creature."

    nstinctively, he brought his camera up, but thecreature shuffled away and then stopped again.t turned to him and made a dismissive movement ith its right arm Without checking thecamera setting, Phlip only ad time o ake onephotograph before the entity disappeared be-

    hind �n outcroppingPhilip later described the creature to investi-gators. t was about 4 eet 6 inches ( 5 m) tallwith large pointed ears, big black eyes, no noseand a small mouth ts arms were very long, withenormos hands ts fee were cloven, and it was

    covered with roughlooing green skin.The instant the creatre disappeared, Philipran into t quarry ad followed i around heoutcropping There a bigger shock awaitd him.The entity had disappeared, but hovering beforehim was a silver saucershapd object t was

    like to cereal bowls stuck together. n a spitsecond it rose into the sky and vanishedSomewhat bewildered, Philip reurned to l-

    kley There he glance at the chrch clock andsaw it was 0 M Almost two hours had beenlost from his life! He began to wonder if he ha

    ben hallucinaing, and ook his camera film obe processed He was both relieved and isturbed when h collected the fim an hour later.Although he photograph was underexposed andslightly blurred, it showed the creature, andproved he had not imagined the encounter

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    The negative was latter examined b Kodak,who said it had not been tampered with. Whatappeared in the picture had reall been there.

    Philip began having strange dreams. n thedreams he saw a pattern o stars in the sk. Theworried him. He wondered what had happenedduring the missng time. UFO investigators in-troduced him to a clncal pschologist whoagreed to hpnotize him and make him reive the

    close encounter. O course, since hpnosis is nota truth drug, no one knows or sure how muchimaginaton might color a real memor

    Nevertheless, the hpnosis sesson came upwith some surprsesnot least o which was therevelation that Philip had been approached b

    the creature before he took the photograph! Hereare Philp's actual words under hpnosis:

    ' m walkng along the moor. Oh! t's quitewind. There's a lot o clouds. Walking up to-wards the trees, see this little something, can'ttell, but he's green t's moving towards me Oh

    can' t move, ' m stuck! He's still coming towards me. And still can't move . . . . 'm stuck,and everthng's gone uzz. 'm . . . 'm loatingalong in the air. . . . want to get down! And thisgreen thing's walking ahead o me, and don'tike t.

    still can't move 'm gong around the cornerand this green thing's in ront o me. Oh, God, Iwant to get down. There's a . . there's a big sil-ver saucer thing, and there's a door in it, and don't want to go in there! Everthing's goneblack now. . . "

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    lp escrbe a mecal eamnaton nsete object by several of te green creatures Afterars e was taen on a tour and sown a

    move" It was an ecologcal warnng of watwoul appen to our worl f we do not curb pol-luton an control popuaton growt

    Afterwards, lp was put bac on te moorswt no conscous memory of wat ad occurre

    Te nvestgaton of te case nvolved scen-

    tsts from te Unversty of Mancester as wellas UFOlogsts, nclung eter Houg an JennyRandles of te Mancester UFO Researc Assocaton, potograp eperts an te clncapsycologst

    Some people beleve te case s a oax, al

    oug no proof was found for tis Te wtnessnever sout to mae any money, even toug twas offered, and nssted tat s true identitybe kept secret Jm Sngleton, te psycologst,commented

    lp was certany recountng te ncent

    as sometng wc a actually appene. Hedescrbe tngs typcally as someone woul recall a past event He compares very wel wtoter nonUFO subjects"

    Untl evdence as been uncovered to resolvete case one way or anoter, ts wll reman one

    of te most perpeng UFO ncents on recorlp s one of te very few abuctees wo apparently manage to tae a potograp of one ofs abductors

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    Hijaced by a UFO

    Faye Knowles shifted her position in the car awatched the dark road unwind ahea t hadbeen a long journey and there were hunreds ofmiles still to go

    She had packed her three adult sons into the

    car, bundled in the family dog, and eft Perth theday before They had set off on the 2, 000 mile(3,2 km) trek headin for South Australia tovisit distant relatives

    t was now after 4 M on January 20, 88and a time of great celebration Australia was

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     just 200 years od as a settlement and there werebig parties and spectacular events happening alover he country But at this hour of the morning

    there was little traffic on the Eyre Highway, aribbon of road in a long, straight line dividingsea from searing desert.

    The vast brooding pains of the Nularbor wereinvisibe in the darkness, but they had eft thermark. n the southern hemisphere it was high

    summer and journeys of any length in this regionwere best contemplated at night when it wasmuch cooler.

    The only other vehices on the road were twotrucks, one in front and one some mies behndte Knowes famiy. They were n rado contact

    with each other, the drivers being friends whomade long �istance runs quite often.Suddeny, ahea of he Knowles car, oomng

    on the eastern horizon, was a strange ight twas pale yelow and seemed to be jerking aroundfrom side to side ot nlike a swirng

    whirwind.What's that? came from the back seat,merey curious at first. But curiosity soontrned into fear. The thing headed straight atthem! Zigzagging from side to side, it hovered infront of the car ike an avenging ange. t resem

    bed an egg n an egg cua oa baoon on toof a tapring comn reaching down to theground.

    One minte the thing was about to hit them,the nt it was behind them an receding atgreat seed. Panic rose in the voces of the tra

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    eer. en e dog wa growing nervo ffng abo and wimperng.

    Nigmare mine foowed a e objec

    ed and rned. Tey ot ig of it for ae b en e ing came back a tem frome oer drecon. In one momen of erroraye' on wo wa dring e car wervedarond a ig peed and reered core. Hewa deperae o ge away. Tere eemed o be

    no ecape from e ng.A one pon a ey weaved acro e road a

    car owng a raer came fang o of edarkne raig a em. Tey managed odrag emee o of pa narrowyaodng a diaro coion.

    Te UO wa now above em and inblebu ey cod a ear a gpced mmngcoming from oeread. Te car wa being bf-feed a if by ig wind and a errbe mepngen eecrica brningwa filing e caraong wi a fan grey m.

    aye nowe ad er paenger wndow openryng o ee wa wa gong on. Se codn' eeanying b e cod cerainly fee . Her finger oced e car roof and me omengtrane. I fe of and pongy. Immedateye yanked er and back in and h e

    wndow.Bt now omeing een more orrfc wa tak

    ng place. Te car wa being cked p off teroadway. Te ing above tem wa acng like age vacm ceaner png them pward aey red o fg off.

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    The wheels spun aound without taking themfowad. They wee foating seveal feet n theai, whle stll beng popelled ahead n some

    way! The Knowles famy wee no onge in contol of the ca was!These moments of fea seemed to last foeve.

    Yet, even as they cied out, thee was anothewed effect The voices seemed distoted andtwisted. They sounded to each othe lke catoon

    chaactes. They had neve expeenced any-thing like it befoe.Then, as quicky as the teble events had

    stated, they came to an end. The ca casheddown onto the oad again, and they slewedacoss, blnd nawae whethe o not an taf-

    fic was comng n the othe diecton. f t hadbeen, they woud have smashed nto it headon.The cahed off the edge of the hghwa nto

    scub bush and sceamed to a halt, one te educed to sheds and the ca studded with dustand impact damage fo small stones.

    Fo many mnutes the sat stil n the quietnight, beathing heavy and eganing compo-sue. Afte a whle, the fou of them got out andeplaced the damaged te, still watching the skyand keepng an eye out fo the UFO. They knewt was out theein the dstancewatng.

    As soon as the wee abe, the Knowes fampled back nto the ca and shot back onto theoad. They dove east, uttng as many mles aspossibe between theseves and the object.Thankfuly, they neve saw it agan.

    A half hou late, as the sun ose, they puled

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    nto the small town o Mundrablla. Here theytold ther story to the owners o a roadsde dner,who could see the shoc etched onto the aces o

    the hjaced amly. he truc drivers werealso n town and one o them had brely seen theUFO.

    Insde the battered car there was a ne sprnlng o powder or dust and a ant musty smellOn the roo, where Faye Knowles sad that she

    had elt somethng spongy that seemed to be tuggng them upwards, were our ndntatonsabout the sze o a st.

    Later that mornng the amly stopped at a po-lce staton to report the ncdent. Both polceand UFO nvestgators too samples o the pow

    der rom the car, but laboratory tests could notreach a rm concluson. However, one group onvestgators sad that they ound traces o thesame chemcals used by NASA n the desgn othe space shuttle. hese chemcals coat the surace as a protecton aganst great heat on re

    entry.Other people on the road tha nght descredhow ther cars were ht by terrc blasts o wndthat struc out o nowhere. hs led to the theoryby a proessor rom Adelade Unversty that theUFO had really been a erce and very unusual

    orm o electrcally charged tornado.O course, other people had derent deasMany  f elt sure that the Knowles f amily  had had a  1 ,very narrow escape t the hands o an alencrat, one that had been ntent on snatchng theunsuspectng amly and tang them away.

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    4. CLOSE

     ENCOUNTERSOF THE

    FOURTH

    KIND-ABDUCTED!

    • A couple gets taken for a riden space

    • A woodsan is captured by aiensin front of witnesses

    • One of our aircraft is issing

    • Space ight over Manhattan!

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    pacenapped!

    , . . . . . � : .

    B etty and Barney Hill claim to be the firt American to be abducted by aien and taken inietheir flying craft. They ere victim of what inow called pacenapping."

    Betty wa a welfare worker and Barney wa anemployee of the pot office in Portmouth, New

    Hamphire. During September 6, they hadbeen on vacaton n Canada, touring aroundNiagara Fall. After a happy few day away fromhome, they were taking the long drive backthrough the White Mountain.

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    Suddenly they became aware of a lightlie abig starthat seemed to be following them asthey drove the twistng highway. They tried tofigure out what it might bea helicopter or air

    craft? But as ong as the white ight stayed highin the sky it was just a curiosity.

    Near Indian Head the dancing bal swoopeddown much coser. Rather frightened by thischange they sowed the car and stopped. Barneygot out to loo at the thing through binoculars

    noting how i resemble a banana with pointedends and that it had windows in the middle. Hethen started to wal toards the hovering objectas if in some ind of trance.

    Betty Hil was frightened by her husband'sodd behavior Paniced she cried out for him to

    return but he didn't seem to hear her voice andkept walg into the dary outlined trees.

    Finally Barney shoo himsef free of the compulsion that was puing him into the woods andreturned to the car But he caimed to have seenfaces in the windows. Aien creatures were in

    side the craft. That was enough for the two ofthem They decided to get away from there asfast as they oud.

    As they drove away they heard strange beep-ing sounds that went on for a few seconds thenstopped They ignored them and rushed home.

    Ony in the co ight o morning i they reaizethat their journey had taen longer than itshoud have. More than an hour of time had beenstolen from their minds The car also had someodd botches on the hood

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    Betty told her story to a local UFO investiga-tor, who discovered that Pease Air Force Base,whose radar covers the ndian Head area, ad

    tracked an unknown objec in the midde of thenight at about the same time that the Hills sawtheir flying banana But the case was simply puton record and added to all of the others that werepilng up

    Betty Hll started to have nghtmares n which

    she saw strange whiteskinned faces with largesanted eyes, narrow noses and slitlike mouthsBarney was suffering from anxiety and depression and was having trouble working n the endthey both sought medcal help

    After onsultng several doctors, they found

    their way to Dr Benjamin Simon in Boston, whoused hypnosis wth his atients, takng themback over memores that disturbed them to relieve their stress

    Dr Smon was astonished by what the coupledescribed Under hypnosis both husband and

    wife reacted in terror as they told of being takenby force nto the bananashaped UFO at tepont where they had stopped their car The be-ngs were smaler than humans and seemed intent on studying their catives and finding outa about them

    nside the UFO both Betty and Barney weregiven medcal tests and samples of blood weretaken from them Some of these tests were unusual and hurt a little The aliens seemed verypuzzed by this pain

    Before they took the couple back to their car,

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    one of the alens showed Betty somethng on thewall that had dots and nes on t. She was toldthat t was a map of the stars and the tradng

    rotes that the alens travelled along n oterspace. Bt she cold not nderstand t nless sheknew the correct poston of the earth n thenverse.

    Betty tred to take somethng wth hera sortof alen book. She sad that nobody wold beleve

    what had happened to her wthot some ev-dence. After some dscsson the alens decdedthat they cold not let her take ths away fromthe UFO.

    n 65 a famos New England wrter, JohnFller, wrote ther story nto a book that was

    called The Interrupted Journey. t was a greatsccess arond the world and was later madento a V ove caed The UFO Incident.

    Schoolteacher Marjore Fsh recreated thestar map that Betty Hl recaled nder hyp-noss. Usng her knowledge of astronomy, Fsh

    tred to work ot what the tradng rotes mghtbe and whch of the stars wold then be home tothe alens. She conclded that they came from aplanet that crcled the star Zeta Retc, manylght years from the earth.

    When the strange story of the Hll spacenap-

    png was told to the orld, t as not nqe.here had already been a smlar case reportedto UFOogsts n Soth Amerca. A yong Bralan farmer had been spacenapped n October 57 and reported t soon afterwards to a doctor.he ncdent had been nvestgated n Janary

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    958 n Ro de Janeiro by scieniss who fled areort with UO invesgaors in England.

    he Englsh researchers had deliberately chosen no o ublish he sory, hing ha somebody else would reor a simlar case wihounowing anyhing abou he Brazilian evens.he Hlls dd exacly tha. he comarisons werevery close and suggesed ha boh sores mgh

    be more han jus dreams. Bey and Barney Hillcould no ossibly have heard abou the Bra-zilian farmer's claims when hey reored seengthe UFO near ndan Head. hese two amazngcases were comleely solaed from one anoher.

    his was vial evidence for UOlogiss, implying ha spacenapings really were taing lace.Bu if they were, he sory told by Bey andBarney Hill was alarming. For i suggesed hamos eole who had enered n alien spaceshipmight no remember t or ever know what hadhapened to them, excet perhaps through 

    dreams or under medcal hy pnosis.  It mght have  -

    haened o anyoneeven you!

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    Fir in th Sky

    Heber in Arizona was te location for a very different kind·of UFO abduction at as since beenmade into a movie.

    Mike Rogers and is crew of six forestryworkers loaded their gear onto a truck and setoff for ome at about 65 . . on November 5,975 Te ad only traveled 00 yards (90 m)throug te pine forest when crew member AanDalis pointed out a gow troug te trees. Atthe top of a hil, tey came to a cearing and tedriver braked ard.

    Tere, overing about 20 feet (6 m) above awoodpile was a discsaped object. A frameworkdivided it up into panels and it glowed amber.Whie te rest of te crew stared in fear andwonder, 22yearold Travis Walton jumped outand moved towards the object. t began to w

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    ble and mae some very pecular nosesSuddenly a brght ray of greenshblue lght

    arrowed down from the dsc and struc Waltonabout the head and shoulders. t flung hm bacwards. At ths pont, drver Mke Rogers pan-ced and drove the truc away at a fast speed onthe rough loggng road After a quarter of a mlehe stopped, and the men decded they had to goback and look for ther frend They retured butthere was no trace of Walton or the object

    Ths was the start of a very strange story t sextremely rare for anyone to observe a UFO abducton; t s even more pecular for the abductedperson to dsappear for more than a couple ofhours. Walton dd not turn up untl fve dayslater.

    n the meantme, there was a polce nestga-ton and a thorough search of the area The storycaptured the magnaton of the world t onepont the authortes thought the men had murdered ther colleague and concocted the fantastctale Afterwards, t seemed there were only twopossbltes: Walton had really been abducedby nonhuma bengs, or the whole thng was ahoax

    avajo County herff's eputy Chuck Elsodescrbed the men as extremely upset, dadded f they were ly, they ee dedod ctors" Oe of the e as so affected hews weepn

    leedly, there were soe tl polyaphtests carred out o the foestry oes thtwee ot decsve he socalle ledetector test

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    measures te stress generated by answers a erson gives to secific questions Later the crewassed tests given by Cy Gilson of te Arizona

    Deartment of Pubic Safety.Wen Travis Walton called from a teleone

    boot a few miles outside of Heber at 11 P M onovember 10, is broterinlaw and olderbroter, Duane, found m dstraugt and confused He ad an unbelievable story to tell te

    world.He remembered being struck by the beam,

    wic it im like a bolt of electricity, tenblackness. et, e found imself in pain, lyingon his back staring at a brigtly lt ceiling,struggling nto consciousness. Walton assumed

    he had been icked up off te forest floor andtaken to a hsital. When e lifted his head andaw, instead of doctors and nurses, three non-uman bengs, e anicked and leaed off thetable on whic e ad been lyng.

    The bengs were about fve feet ( 5m) tall

    with domed hairless eads, large eyes, tiny earsand nose, and a slit for a mouth. Walton grabbeda iece of equipment to use as a weapon, and thebeings urriedly left the room. Some minuteslater Walton followed tem out into a corridor,but turned in te opposite direction. He entered

    another room that gave m an amazing vew ofte universe. Operating te controls set in a reclining cair, Walton found he could alter theperspective of billions of stars.

    Suddenly, a being entered te lanetarium. Helooked uman but wore a sace elmet. He g

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    nored Waon's quesions and signaed him ofoow They sepped ou of he objec ino a hugehangar ha housed several oher discshapedcraf He saw hree more humans"wo menand a woman They al looked similar They weresix fee (. 8 m) al wih brownishbond hair,goden eyes and ancolored skin

    Once again Walon asked where he was andwha had happened o him, bu he quesionswere si ignored nsead, he beings gesured o him o ie down He did One of hem placed amask over his face and he blackness reurned

    He came o on he highway ouside of Heber Abas of hea hi hs face from a disc hoveringoverhead, which hen disappeared ino he skyHe found a eephone and caed his broherinlaw

    Wha realy happened o Travis Waon Washe whole hing a hoax ha go ou of hand, orwere he men elling he ruh f i was a hoax,i is remarkable, as any poice officer wil verify,

    ha in he inervening wo decades no one ofhe perperaors has hined a he ruh

    Did beings in an unidenfied flying objecrealy abduc Waon f so, hen why?

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    A Flight int Oblivin

    Frederck Valentch loved flyng. A young manhe could not afford hs own pane but had anagreement to use a Cessna from Moorabin Feldn Melbourne Australa He often took t up tobe at one with the clouds.

    Frederck had anoter passon less weknown to hs frends. He read al he coud aboutyng saucers een ad a scrapbook of storesthat he took wth hm on is trps. n October1978, he was in hs element because here was anongong wae of sghtngs aboe Bass Srat be

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    tween te anland and te sland o Tasana.On October 21, ad eda reports o orange

    lgts and cgarsaped obects, Valentcplanned to ly to Kng Island, aed or ts sng. It was n te ddle o Bass Strat. He adagreed to pc soe crays to sell to rends.Te trp was only a sort op.

    Te 2yearold ad lted experence n soongt lyng, so e arranged to leave stragtater college and led s arrval te wt Kg ·Island so tat e wold reac tere beore dar-ness closed n. He lled te tans wt anytes ore gas tan needed, st to be sre.

    Bt ten, nexplcably, as s departre tedrew close, te yong avator let te eld or alesrely eal. en e retrned to te watngarcrat gt was closng . He wold now crosste ocean n te dark.

    Ts pzzlng decson as never been acconted or, becase Valentc was abot to takeo on s na ssona gt nto oblvon.

    All went well ntl e plot passed a lt ose by te coast. He was n steady contactwt Steve Robey, on dty at Melborne AirTrac Control tat evenng. As Valentcsoared ot across te Strat e was alone n teety sy wt te speckled slvery sea st aew tosand eet below. He now ad 3 orentes o lyng over water. I anytng wentwrong tere wold be no sae place to land.

    At 7:6 P M Valentc called Robey to ask, Istere any trac n my area below 5 eet?"

    Robey conslted s carts. Tere sold be

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    nothng nearby, he told the plot. But the smallsngleengned Cessna was far from alone. t wasbeng taled by a UFO.

    Valentch spoke calmly of Four brght . . .seems to me lke landng lghts . . . just passedover meat least a thousand feet above."

    The ar traffc controller was baffled. Whathad Delta Serra Juletcall sgn of theCessnajust seen Na thing else should be upthere

    Te plot grew more concerned and reported,'s approachng now from due east, towards me. . . t seems to me that he's playng some sortof game . . . He's fyng over me . . ." Then he cutn swftly, t's not an arcraft, t's . . ." Thesemsterous words traled away nto the nght

    Steve Robe checked evey possblty, trygto keep the nexperenced avator calm. Hechecked data on any mltary flghts that mghtbe ove Bass Strat. There were one. What wasup there?

    The young plot had by now reganed some ofhs composure and told Robey what he was see-ng. t's a long shape . . . cannot dentfy . . .the thng s just orbtng on top of me . . t's gota green lght and sort of metallclke . . . t's allshny on the outsde."

    hen dsaste struck. Valentch radoed thaths engne was not wokng propery. He sa hewould try to mae Kng sland. t was all hecould do.

    Sudeny, he ced out, Ah Melbounethatstage arcaft s hoveng on top of me agan

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    . . . It's hovering and it's not an aircraft!" henthere was a frantc cry of the aircraft's cal sign,

    a eriod when the microhone was oen but nowords were soken, a weird metalic grindingnoiseand then unbroken sience.

    Cessna 2Deta Sierra uiet"had van-ished ro te skies

    A major search and rescue mission was

    aunched when the aircraft faied to reach KinIsand. Desite severa days of this, no trace ofthe ane or ts iot was ever found.

    Ideas abot what mght have haened rangedfrom Vaentch ottng his own disapearanceand aking a cose encounter to a fatefu meeting

    with drug smuggers. here were, of course, asomany rumors that Frederick Vaentich had beensnatched away by an aen saceshi.

    he accident reort, ubished in May 2,merely concuded that nobody knew the truth.Very robaby nobody ever wi.

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    he Manhaan ansfe

    Linda had been through this terribe nightmarebeforethe strange sience that invaded herbedroom, the eerie sense of knowing that some-thing awfu was about to happen, the tinging,ticking presence of that unknown force that hadonce taken over her life.

    She had first seen the itte greyskinned crea-tures when she was a chid. hey had not seemedso terrifyg then, but they were cearly notfrom arth. hysicaly, they ooked amost fee-ble and dimnutive. In height they were a ttle

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    more than f our feet ( 1. 2 m),  although their headswere out of proportion  to their bodies and  tee-tered there  as if they might fall off   under their 

    own weight.  Then there were the  eyes-huge,round and dark. W hen  Linda looked into them,she felt cold-not an evil cold, but more one of  scientists  doing  experiments with rats  or mice,caring more about the outcome than about themethods they used.

    hey were exerimenting on her, too Sheknew that But her memory was fuzzy, enhanceda little by regression hynosis erformed underthe suervison of artist and UFO writer BuddHokins He too lived in Manhattan, just acrossthe city from her highrise aartment She had

    read one of his books, and then, in Aril 8she had goten u the courage to talk with him

    From his workhynotic regression andmeetings wth other abducteesshe now understood more about what was going on There wasan alien lan to develo hybrid babies formed of

    human genes intermixed with alien stock wasFrankenstein in sacesuits Yet, unike theGothic horror story, this was real life

    Now, seven months later, at about 3 . M. onNovember 3 8 the visitors had come backShe was owerless to resist them hey could

    take her anywhere they chose and do what theywould

    hey were in her bedroom now Horrified, shethrew a illow at one of them, but her body wasnumb and it fell short of its target Then shecollased onto the bed, comletely aralyzed n

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    a bnk of an eye, she was on the famlar tabe nthe strange cold room wth lght flowing aroundher lke lquid ice. They were coming at her with

    their probes and nstruments. Then there wasnothing.

    Linda awoke n her bed, terrified that theymight have harmed her family. She crept wearlyout from under the bedclothes, energy dranedfrom her being. Her husband and two chldren

    were mmoble and dead to the world eargrpped her soul: Were they klled Had thealiens murdered them She got a mirror and heldt up to their mouths. Gradually, slowly, breathcame out and steamed up the glass. They werealivedeeply asleep, hopelessy unaware of

    what had happened.The next · morning, inda called Budd and

    poured out her heart. He was knd to her, knowng how to coax her through the postabductiontrauma. Nobody in the world had more experence doing that. Eventually, she felt able to

    gree to more hpnoss. She needed to fnd ouwhat they had done to her this tme.

    The images surrounded her mnd. She saw herself, nightgownclad, floatng out through theclosed wndow as f t had melted awa. The creatures were all around her. They were hodng her

    aloft wth nvsble beams, suspended n glownglight 2 stores above the streets of Manhattan,transferrng her into ther craft that hoveredover the apartment rooftop.

    That was t. One more cse to add to the growing fle that Budd Hopkns was collectng. Only

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    this one was estine to be far more than that.Fifteen months later in February the ab-

    uction researcher receive a startling letter.Letters arrive by the sackloa week after weekfrom all over the worlpeople suspecting thataliens might have spacenappe them esperateto share their story with someone who would listen an not laugh.

    But this particular letter immediately struca chor with Hopkins. t came from two menRichar an Dan who offere first names onlyan claimed to be New York police officersTheyha live with a terrible experience for somemonths now. One of them was so shocke he was

    on the edge of a nervous breakown. He would sitin his car in a Manhattan street staring up at thetop of an apartment block watchng for them toreturn.

    Then they tol Bud what they had witnesse.In  the early hours of November  30,  1989  they

    had seen a young woman in a nightgown f loat out , 

    of  her 12th floor window in the presence of wird 

    little  creatures. They   had  taken  her  inside  a 

    saucer-like  craf t  that  sped  away   to the  river,

    submerge  completely   an  never  came  out 

    again.  They   waited  45  minutes,  pray ing  that

    they   would see her brought back. They   did not. 

    Bu Hopkins was stunne Never before hainepenent witnesses claimed to see a spacenapping as t happened. f this case coul be ver-ifie it woul unoubtely be the most importantone ever put on recor t could singlehandely

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    owever te police officers refused to meetwith Budd They told him they could direct himto the room where the woman ived. Tey ad

    been steeling themselves to go and chec it outbut how do you approach a stranger and as ifshe has ever fown out of her bedroom windowinto a spaceship? The UFOlogist of course didnot tell them that he had no need to be directedto the spot e aready new where Linda ived.

    Richard and Dan supplied more detas including an audio tape and then revealed the realreason for their reluctance. They were o ordinary policemen. n fact they were bodyguardsfor a major political figure who was being transported to the New Yor heiport. But the car had

    stopped mysteriously on its own. The politicafigure had itnessed the entire thing. f he toldthe world about it his redibiity was suh thateveryone woud listen.

    Meanwhie in 99 a woman wrote to say thatshe had been driving over the Broolyn Bridge

    at 3 . M. on November 3 989 when al thelights and engines of the few cars that werecrossing at that time simply faied as did thestreetlights on the bridge. Getting out to oo atwhat was happening she watched aong withsevera other drivers as a woman floated out of

    her highrise apartment into a UFO aongsideseveral litte creatures

    A thrd confirmation of the same incrediblestory was completely unprecedented. But againthe evidence was amost impossible to verify.There was aso the nagging question as to why

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    the power ailure was never recorded or why inover two years none o te occupans o the vehcles on the brdge had reported the matter to thepolie And why were all o these stories indngther way to Budd Hopkns and none o them toanybody else?

    I this abucton s honestly reported, as tewtnesses allege, then it will be the case o thecentury" Bt at present it reles exclusvely Qnunsuppored, oten anonymous, tesmony. Anumber o U Ologists have attempted their ownenqures and learnt a ew dsquieting things.or example, a major newspaper oice is opposte the ste and people were working there atthe time. Nobody saw anythng. No one else ninda's buling was a wtness, either. herewere no reords o helcoper lghs tha nig.he trp hat Rchard and Dan's passenger hadbeen takng is not recorded anywhere (they sayt was a secret one). And, o course, the mysterious thrd man has not supported the story.

    Rumors that Hopkns has not conrmed aegethat the thrd man" was Perez de Cuellar, ormer secretary general o the Unted Nations. DeCuellar's oice has clamed that e was not inNew York on he date n queson. He hmsel hasalso dened any knowledge o the reportedncident.

    All that Budd Hopkins will say on this crucalmatter s that he knows who the tird man is. Iand when that man reveals what happened, theworld may change orever.

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    The Bs in the Field

    me Muce Msse hd bt of poblemSomebody ws steg hs lede plts de hd no de who t ws

    Msse lge jovi mn hd piece of ldt ensole in the south of ce hee he

    ge the seetsmelig cop tht s used ome scets d pefumes he ept fidigpches of hs fields b e s f someoe hd eecomg n t night d kg l y

    Oe hot summes mog uy 6 hews sttg besde hs tco plg he dys

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    wok when he notced two bys standing n thefied some dstance away t was not yet 6 A Mand nobody up to any good woud be in the mid

    dle of hs feld so eary in the day, he suspectede figured that at last he had caught the thevesand stode across the fiel to put a stop to theiactvities.

    Maurce had assume that the two strangerswere chdren because of their small sze

    probably nne or ten years old But the two werestandng next to an oddlookng helcopter thathad appeared from nowhere. Ths was pzzling

    Sometmes a mltary helcopter dd land nMaurce's felds and he was not too happy aboutthat, but as long as it stayed off hs plants he

    ddn't mnd too much and woud chat wth theplts But hs one was lke none that had everlanded before. It was a whte egg shape, abotthe sze of a small car and t sat on three lttlelegs

    As he marched towards the boys and ther pe

    cuar devce Maurce quckly realzed thatthese people were not chldren. n fact they ddnot even seem human They were very stranglookng bengs wth large bald heads, pastyfaces and uge slanted eyes that stared out athm. They wore onepece coveralls, and one had

    a tubelke nstrument planted frmly by ts sde.t mght well have been a gun!

    As the farmer approached the creature wththe tbe pcked t up and ponted t straght athm A ght ray shot out of t and the farmer losths balance as he stumbled backwards, topplng

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    to th grond Maric knw right away that hhad n hit. Bt this gn had ird no llts.All it had don was rz him into plac, nal

    to mov H lay thr rootd to th grond, hlplss, as th strang cratrs hadd straighttowards him

    Aftr som  tim-h  was not sr how long_Maric gan to rgain his ability to movaot, t h cold not walk proprly and l

    wak and groggy H hard a strang whistlingnois choing in his ars, which ros to a highpitch. Painflly glancing pwards, th stricknfarmr watchd th odd hlicoptr climb into thsky and ly away

    Th lavndr thivs had disappard, taking

    som o his crop with thm, prsmaly havinglt th way thy caminsid thir lying gg.

    Maric nvr orgot that day. H latr admit-td that he flt as if somthing ls mst havhappnd to him in th tim that h lay on thgrond. His mmory o it was hazy and nclar,

    bt it was thr H was not rightnd by wathad takn plac, vn though h suspctd thath

    h a d b n t a k n a b o a r d t h s t r a n g

    hlicoptrthat h had bn spacnappd"For a long tim h rsd to talk about this

    part o his story vn to his wi. All h would

    say was that th alins would nr mak somon go aboard nlss thy had rally antd todo so. H, apparntly, had b n willing to hlpthm in thir xplorations

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    a ya al t am was tlld. Sm s as s my UFO" sad tdl. was ta tat t was t sam j t tat ad

    ladd ad s lavd lats.Maus am wv was v qut t

    sam aga. Altug t tts stdMau was v al t gw s aga t aa t UFO ad add. A laga cl was lt d w t lats sm-

    ly dd t tv. It was as t at ad atd y sm d adat.

    Ev yas lat tgas ta at tsladg st vald t sam t t sl.h als ad lt t ma.

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    The Animal Mutators

    Near a town in Saga Preecture in Japan aarmer was awakened in the early hours o December 2 0 by the furious barking o hisdogThe armer ignored the animal even thoughit never barked like that and it continued to bark

    or a long time. At 6 A. M he was up and ready forthe usual day's work orgetting about the ealier noise When he entered the cow shed thearmer was amazed and upset to discover themutilated corpse of a 2monthold cow lying onthe loor Hal its tongue was missing and its

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    fur nipples had been cred ut frm its udder.There was n evidence f a struggle

    N further incidents ccurred at that time

    ut when the dg started baring again, twyears later n January 4, 2, the farmer wasnt slw t investigate. Entering the cw shed,he saw a small white bject, lie a ellyfish,flating in the air The bject drifted utsidewhere it vanished A cw was discvered n the

    flr t had a badly bren legizarre animal mutilatins are nt new A cl-

    lectr f dd stries, harles Frt, recr