Road Trip Into The Unknown: Cops Vs. Little Green Men In Illinois.

Day and night, 365 days a year the boys and girls in blue patrol our streets keeping us safe from the drug pushers, murders and the drunk driver(except in Fox Lake, Il.). For the average police officer their job is a dangerous one and they must use their finely honed powers of obversation and reasoning just to stay alive and keep all of us breathing in the process. But every once in awhile though the average cop or cops come across something so strange, so bizarre, so utterly F-ed up even their years of training and life on the street gets stretched to the breaking point and even they are reluctant to make a proper report for fear of ridicule and being called into a police psychologist’s office. Such was the case in January of 2000, when not one but several police officers were treated to a sight in the skies of the southwestern portion of the great state of Illinois. A sight and a chase they will not soon forget.

The first person to notice something strange floating in the sky was not a police officer at all but a Joe Q. Public like you and I named, Melvern Noll. In the wee morning hours of January 5, 2000 Melvern a truck driver by trade and mini golf course owner by choice just finished making his last delivery around 4 a.m. when he decided it would be a fine idea to stop in at his putt putt course and after hearing of several break ins in the area, he wanted to make sure that everything was as it should be. As Melvern pulled into the parking lot and exited his truck he could not help but take notice of a curiously bright light that burned stationary in the sky over his head. At first Melvern, thought that perhaps it was just a star. However when the star began to move and appeared to be coming closer Melvern was stunned when he realized that whatever he was seeing was not a star at all or an airplane for that matter, but something that would challenge every belief that he held dear as a good christian man. Melvern was seeing a UFO. Frightened by the strange triangular shaped craft that moved soundlessly in the sky, Melvern did the only thing he could do he jumped his ass in his truck and hightailed it to the local police station.

Upon entering the door of the Highland, Illinois police department Melvern calmly spoke to the shift commander and told him the full story of what he had seen. At first, the shift commander was understandbly sceptical however Melvern Noll was a well known local business man and not a person easily given over to wild flights of fancy. The shift commander did the only thing he could do he sent the report to dispatch and had the call put out of a strange craft flying over the skies of Highland.

Officer Barton was the first to respond to the strange call and asked the dispatcher if he had been joking or had a little to much to drink when the dispatcher told Officer Barton that this was indeed a serious call the veteran cop snapped into action and began watching the skies for anything out of the ordinary.

As he drove Barton did not see anything that he would term as strange and unusual and was about to radio his findings back to dispatch when he saw hovering over Illinois route four two bright white lights and a bright red blinking one, at first he thought it was nothing more than a plane and then his credulity was smashed to a million pieces when he spied what the lights were attached too. Barton called his dispatch back and reported that a large triangular object the size of a football field and two stories high was moving soundlessly several hundred feet above Route 4.

By this time officer Martin of the Shiloh police department and officer Stevens of the village of Milstadt were already well aware of the strange craft that hung over the skies of Saint Clair County. The two other officers could not believe their eyes however they joined in the chase as the craft moved over their towns.

As Stevens followed the craft he thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of this “thing” whatever it may be for proof of the bizarre experience. As Stevens jumped out of his squad car he noticed that there a strange almost low decibel humming in the air as the craft passed over head. The Milstadt officer was able to squeeze off a few pictures of the huge triangular craft but sadly they did not turn out due to the cold weather and the snow that was falling in the area. Just so you can get a general idea of how police approach such calls I will include the transcript of the initial dispatch put out by Highland PD.

Highland Dispatcher: This is a call from a truck driver who claims to have seen a large flying object in the sky. He stated that it was as large as a football field and as tall as a house. Can you check the area?

Officer Barton: Did they say the truck driver was DUI or anything? 10-4, I’m enroute.

Shiloh officer-I see something but I don’t know what it is. It’s probably headed to St. Louis-Lambert airport.

Milstadt officer-I’ve got the object in sight.

Dispatch-Are you serious?

Milstadt officer-My God, It’s huge.

Dispatch-What does it look like to you?

Milstadt-It’s V-shaped. It’s about 500-600 feet above me.

Well you get the general Idea. Shortly after that last transmission the triangular UFO dissappeared from sight and the three initial officers plus half a dozen others from St. Clair County, Illinois had their brush with the unknown. Shortly after the otherworldly affair, Scott Air base was contacted to see if they had anything strange they had seen or recorded on their radar and the typical answer was “No”

For years portions of southern Illinois have been called what UFOlogists have termed a “Window Area” or an area that has experienced massive amounts of high strangeness and have been witness to a high volume of UFO sightings and alleged abductions. Most skeptics when hearing such stories usually dismiss them out of hand stating that the witnesses were just a bunch of country hicks on a drunken bender howling at the moon. However when it comes to almost a dozen police officers from an entire county witnessing the same thing to dismiss it is not quite so easily. The brave men and women of law enforcement are our last line of defense against all the bad things our world has to offer perhaps one day they will be the last line of defense against bad things from out there.

Rick E. Hale
t_seeker@hotmail.com

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