Man has always seen things in the sky that he did not understand. Ancient man looked up at the moon and sun and worshipped them as god’s. We have seen comets and meteors streak across the sky believing that these strange fiery objects were omens of our ultimate demise. And of course after the birth of the modern UFO era in 1947 there have been a myriad of reports of seeing strange lights and oddly shaped craft haunting the night skies that have left us with the ultimate question, are we the only intelligent species in the universe? Or is it possible that these strange lights and oddly shaped craft that have been witnessed over the last six decades been piloted by a people who are way more advanced than us?

According to the Cover-up they would have us believe that what we are seeing are not lights or craft at all, but rather clouds, satellites or my favorite they explain that huge triangular craft that you may have seen drifting without noise across the sky as the planet venus. Those who are “In the know” would have us believe that we are nothing but a bunch witless assholes who are completely unable to trust our own eyes and instincts. However, there appears to have been mass sightings over the last sixty years that would defy all explanations despite the Cover-up’s attempt to shut the witnesses up and shut them down. These folks are credible witnesses and deserve to be heard.

The Battle of Los Angeles

In the Winter of 1942, The war against the Nazis and the Japanese Empire was heating up, the mighty hand of the US military was now involved and despite our policy of isolationism we were kicking ass and taking names. However the government and the military greatly believed that the east coast of our nation was threatened by German submarines and with great reason, numerous U-boats had been seen coming a little to close to New York and other coastal cities. On the West coast tensions were raised a little bit more when on the night of Feburary 23, 1942 an oil production company in Santa Barbabra, was fired upon by a Japanese sub. However the real terror would come the next night when something far stranger was witnessed in the skies over the entertainment capital of the world, Los Angeles, California and a hellstorm of collasol proportions was released that killed three people with heart conditions.

In the wee hours of the morning on Feb. 25, 1942 the city of Los Angeles was torn from their slumber when the air raid sounds ripped through the cold dark night sky. This was it the Japanese had finally found their courage and was invading mainland America. Citizens along the west coast knew this night would come and it was finally here. Their fear was realized at 3:16 AM, when the anti-aircraft guns began to fire into the black night sky at some strange lights that flew quietly overhead. One reporter from the L.A. Herald Express later reported that whatever the craft were it was obvious they were hit but seemed unfazed by the shelling.

When the all clear was given at 7:21 AM, thousands of shells had been expended with no evidence of an agressive force attempting to invaded the homeland. No wreckage littered the ground, no soldiers were sighted and believe it or not whatever these strange were they never fired back despite the beating they took. There can be no doubt that something was seen and fired upon in the night skies of Los Angeles well over sixty years ago. A threat was perceived and the military took action the only way it knew how, shoot first and ask questions later. It does seem obvious that whatever these craft were they were not an invading force. So, what were they?

Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall, would go on record as saying that whatever was fired on were real aircraft and could have proven fatal if we had not taken action. But if they were not invading planes what were they? The usual suspects were sited in the strange case weather balloons, sky lanterns and a technology that didn’t even exist in 1942, Japanese fire balloons. Whatever these craft were their should have been somekind of damage weather balloons are not invincible there should have been something except thousands of expended bullets, damage to private property and fraid nerves.

The Lubbock Lights

Perhaps the most famous UFO sighting in American history occured on the night of August 25, 1951 and was witnessed by dozens of people in and around the modestly sized city of Lubbock, Texas. And “They” say it didn’t happen. At 9:00 PM three professors from Texas Tech College were sitting in a colleague’s backyard having a laugh when one of the professors looked up and noticed something strange flying overhead in the night sky. When all three looked up they could see what looked like 20-30 lights flying soundlessly at an altitude of two thousand feet traveling at a rate of somewhere in the ballpark of six hundred miles per hour. The proffs would go on record as saying that the lights were the size of dinner plates and seemed to fly as if they were under the control of an intelligent force. They would also comment that the lights were blue and green.

The three eminent professors were not the only folks to witness the lights. A student from Texas Tech, saw the same lights at around the same time and grabbed his camera and snapped off a few pictures of the lights constituting some of the best evidence on record for the existence of aircraft that is not our own. Several others in the Lubbock area witnessed the strange lights and went on record as saying that never in their life had they seen something so strange. However this is the United Sates in 1951, and the Cover-up was in full swing.

In September of 1951, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Ruppelt a member of Project Blue Book (We’ll talk about them later) and astronomer, Doctor J. Allen Hyneck would be the ones called upon to investigate the Lubbock lights and they would offer an explanation that would go down in history as being patently ridiculous and proof that a cover-up was afoot. When the two men arrived in Lubbock they discovered that the city had installed some new road lights that projected up they also discovered that Plover Birds, which fly at night, were in great abundance. Well there’s your explanation the Lubbock Lights were blamed on lights reflecting off Plover birds as they flew overhead at night. Case closed. Not quite.

Many who were pleased with this answer decided they experiment on their own to see if Plover’s were the true culprit behind the Lubbock Lights. Several citizens took pictures of Plovers as they flew near the city and did not get the effect that was displayed in the picture from the Texas Tech student. In fact their was no reflection at all unless they came within ten feet of the lights. It was also reported that the lights traveled at a rate of 600 miles per hour at an altitude of 2,000 feet no Plover can achieve this kind of flight, in fact, no bird in the history of the world could achieve such a fantastic speed and altitude. In my opinion as well as the opinions of millions, the case of the Lubbock Lights will never be closed.

Portage County UFO chase

It is a true statement that oftentimes folks do mistakes when they see something strange. A great deal of UFO sightings are legitimate misidentifications of either planes that we are unfamiliar with or some kind of meteorilogical phenomenon that we are otherwise unfamiliar with. But when it comes to the police the brave boys and girls in blue do not make such mistakes. A good friend of mine as well as my cousin are cops and cops are professional witnesses of events they are highly trained observers and would not make a reports unless they actually witnessed something and such is the case of the Portage County UFO Chase.

In the early morning hours of April 17, 1966 two Portage County, Ohio police officers, Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff, called into dispatch to report that were in pursuit of a large silver shaped disc with numerous lights around it’s mid section. Upon hearing the chatter over the radio other police officers joined in the chase and radioed to their dsipatchs that they were seeing something clearly not of this world. Several officers chased the flying saucer for approximately thirty minutes when to the amazement of all involved the craft shot straight up at an amazing velocity. All Agreed whatever the object was it was clearly not of this world.

Upon hearing of the sighting investigators from the Air Force’s, Project Blue Book commented that what the officers were chasing was not a flying saucer but, at first they were chasing a communications satellite and then the planet Venus. Here we are again, those involved with the cover-up just expect us to suspend common sense and buy their ridiculous line. These officers saw something truly out of this world and they were told despite their training and years of dedication on the force all they were seeing was Venus. Dude, give me an F-ing break.

North Hudson Park Sighting

It is very rare that a UFO is seen within the borders of a major metropolitan area that is of course until our next sighting that took place on Janurary 12, 1975.

George O’Barski, a local business owner was driving past Manahattan’s Hudson County Park when he saw a sight he would not soon forget. Mr. O’barski reports that in the early morning hours he watched as a craft shaped like an egg descended from the skies and landed in the park. At first George thought this was either a strange military aircraft or his eyes were playing tricks on him that was until he saw what came out of the egg. George watched as several small humanoid shaped beings exited the craft down a long ladder and began taking soil samples with strange instruments. O’Barski said after the little men got what they wanted they crawled back into the craft that shot off into the night sky like a missile.

World famous UFO researcher, Bud Hopkins, arrived to investigate the alleged sighting. After speaking to O’Barski he felt that perhaps this was nothing more than a wild goose chase until he spoke to the doorman of the Stonehenge Apartments, an upscale apartment complex near Hudson Park. The Doorman claimed that he, as well as others had seen a strange red light buzzing over and in and out of Hudson Park over a two week period. Perhaps, O’barski was not a crack pot not with such a great corroborating witness.

The Hudson Park sighting has gone down as a Close Encounter 2 event because the witness came into close proximity of a landed spacecraft and had witnessed the alien occupants of the craft. The Hudson Park sighting will go down in history as one of the strangest encounters on record.

Cash-Landrum Incident.

By 1980, thousands of people, not only in our nation but nations around the world, had made reports of being witness to strange craft buzzing the skies. Of course those involved in the Cover-up explain away the eyewitness accounts saying that people witnessed either known aircraft or atmospheric phenomenon. However the Cash-Landrum Incident would change all that when physical evidence as well as a multi-million dollar lawsuit would be presented to the American people.

On the evening of December, 29 1980, Betty Cash, Victoria Landrum and Landrum’s seven year old grandson, Colby were driving home from a night out when they would witness something that not only terrified them but caused all three to experience physical ailments for years to come. The three witnessed a giant diamond shaped object descend from the night sky spewing out flames and caused the car to become so superheated it damaged the chassis of Cash’s vehicle. Vickie Landrum, who was a born again christian believed that the craft was a manifestation of the second coming of Jesus Christ and reassured her terrified grandson that the lord would harm them. The sighting was broke off when the object flew up and was chased away by numerous military Chinook helicopters. The sighting lasted all of five minutes.

As the weeks passed the three witnesses began to experience what many witnesses would claim . When the three witnesses went to their doctor the doctor was shocked to see that all three were suffering the effects of radiation sickness. All three had vomiting, migraine headaches and burn marks on their skin. The doctor remarked the only way such an illness could be caused is if they were exposed to a nuclear blast. Cash and Landrum described to the doctor, who was skeptical, their witnessing of the UFO. The doctor told the two women they needed to call the military and report this strange incident. The two elderly women did more than just report the incident, they brought a lawsuit against the United States government for the sum of twenty Million dollars.

After spending a few years tied up in litigation the Judge finally dismissed the case stating that despite their extensive medical problems being caused by the alleged sighting they could not prove that the Chinook helicopters were associated with the United States military therefore the government was not at fault. I have to question was it the judge’s own skepticism that cuased the case to be thrown out or did someone get to him perhaps an agent of the Cover-up threatened the judge if he did not dismiss the case. The world may never know.

The Phoenix Lights

My brother, Steve is a citizen of the city of Phoenix, Arizona and he was the first to tell me of the strange series of sightings that ocurred not only in Phoenix but the rest of Arizona and Nevada as well.
On a hot summer night in 1997 the entire population of Phoenix was treated to a sight of strange bright lights burning in the skies over their fair city. Between 7:30PM-10:30 PM MST the lights shown brightly until they all dissapeared one at a time. Sevral pictures and videos were taken of the lights and some of the footage of the lights do appear to show that the Phoenix Lights may have been a part of a much larger craft. Shortly before the lights appeared over Phoenix several witnesses claimed that they saw what looked like a giant triangular shaped craft with bright lights flying and hovering over the desert. Perhaps this craft was reponsible for the lights.

A few weeks after the initial sightings a nearby airfield claimed that on the night in question A-10 Warthog aircraft were operating in the vicinity and the flares they were dropping were responsible for the strange lights in the sky. The funny thing about this explanation was a few days after the sighting some of the city officials contacted the airfield and asked if any of their aircraft were operating in the area. The officials at the airfield responded that they had nothing in the air that night. Hmm, sounds like Roswell, one minute they have a downed space craft of an other worldly origin the next minute it’s, Oops our bad it’s just a weather balloon. Suspicious, woudn’t you say.

O’Hare Sighting

I thought I would bring our final sighting a little closer to my home turf of Chicago, Illinois and the
craft that was seen hovering over the busiest airport in the world, O’Hare airport. At 4:30PM on November 7, 2006 several airport employees including pilots of aircraft and their crew witnessed a large saucer shaped object hovering a few hundred feet off the ground near gate C-17. The airport was so alarmed by the sighting and the credibility of the witnesses several planes were put on stand by and not allowed to leave or land until officials could get to the bottom of what was being seen.

The craft stuck around for approximately five minutes and then vanished. Several area newspapers reported on the sighting and the sighting caused quite a stir after all this happened a mere five years after 9-11 and many who were still flying the freindly skies had doubts that the skies were really that friendly. However the FAA came to the rescue and dispelled the fears of many when they claimed the craft sighted was nothing more than a cloud. Aircraft pilots, like police, are highly trained observers and would not mistake a cloud for a solid aircraft. It would appear that all facets of the federal government are involved in the Cover-up.

As I said earlier the majority of any kind of sighting pertaining to the paranormal can be explained or blamed on naturally ocurring phenomenon. However there are some things that DO defy any logical explanation and after careful and responsible investigation can and should be put into the category of the unexplained. Those involved with the Cover-Up expect us to buy the BS they are shoveling with their pretty little explanations wrapped up in pretty little bows but some of us are not having it. Common sense should never suspended because someone in a suit with an impressive tells us what we think we saw is not what we saw. We should not forget the Philosophy of Occam’s Razor, “The simplest explanation is the obvious explanation.” However that being said neither should we be to ready to believe unless either we see it for ourselves or investigate the situation while suspending our own beliefs until that objective proof is found. Just another brick in the wall of the Cover-up.

Rick E. Hale
t_seeker@hotmail.com

They are watching you, you know that right? They bug your phones and listen to your phone conversations. They read and scrutinize every last word in your e-mails, hell they are probably reading this post even as I sit behind my computer and write it. And when you least expect it a long black car with blazing headlights pulls quietly into your driveway and three strange men dressed in freshly pressed suits as black as night ring your doorbell. These strange characters that seemed to step out of a nightmare are the Men In Black and If you were unfortunate enough to witness a UFO and dared to tell the tale, they have arrived to Shut You Up.

In 1997, director Barry Sonnenfeld, released a very funny and very entertaining movie that would introduce a whole new generation to one of the most enduring and some would say most frightening legends that surrounds the governments attempt to Cover-Up the truth about UFOs. The film, MIB which starred two of my favorite actors, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, tells the tale of two black clad super secret agents whose primary goal was to keep the innocent and unsuspecting citizenry of planet Earth blissfully ignorant of a long term alien presence living and working on our little planet. Although, the movie was funny and took a lighthearted view concerning the MIB it left out the more sinister activities of these enforcers of the lie.

Researchers who have actually made it their purpose to study these shadowy government agents believe that they may have some precedence in history. For centuries folks have reported coming into contact with shadowy figures dressed in black from head to toe. The witnesses who were unfortunate to meet these nightmarish men believed they had made contact with a manifestation of the prince of darkness or one of his evil minions. Historical records, which are subjective at best, tell us that if a good christian should chance a meeting with one of these beings in black the entity would demand that the person reject God and worship them. However, shortly after the dawn of the modern UFO era these black clad beings would take on a whole new mission. Instead of showering good christian souls with riches if they bowed down and worship his infernal majesty, the MIB used the tool of intimidation to shut those up who just so happened to either witness a UFO or come into contact with it’s occupants.

The strange and oftentimes surreal encounters with the Men In Black always seem to have some kind of pattern with their appearance. Usually one of these dudes or three will appear at your doorstep wearing a black suit and tie over a crisp clean white shirt and large black sunglasses that hide their probing eyes. Usually, but not always, the strangers would claim to be a member of some government orginization investigating a claim of a visitation by a UFO. After they gain access to your home using friendly and sugary words the real intentions of their visit come to the forefront and the real strangeness begins.

Many who have claimed to have been visited by the MIB report the strange behavior of these otherwise seemingly normal men and in a few cases women. When the agent is offered something to drink they inspect the glass and whatever beverage is in it as if they had never seen a glass or water. If you had a dog or a cat the MIB would immediately ask you to put the animal away because they are afraid of the animal who appears to be more afraid of the agent.

Perhaps the oddest thing about the MIB is their odd and sometimes strange personal appearance. The skin of an MIB has been described as being pale and waxy with virtually no lines on their face. In some rare cases the witness states that the MIB have removed their sunglasses after asking the witness to either close the shades or dim the lights. Their eyes have been reported to be large with black pupils and have an almost hypnotizing effect that seemed to keep a person transfixed.

After the initial greeting and niceities the MIB would immediately go about the real business of their visit. The agent would ask a few short questions about the witnesses UFO experience using outdated language that made them sound more like a movie gangster than a professional in the armed services. Shortly after the question and answer session it has been reported that the demeanor of the MIB turns dark as they threaten the witness with jail time or financial ruin and sometimes with bodily harm if they dare tell another soul about what they had seen. After the witness was properly interrogated and intimidated the MIB leaves the frightened person in a large black four door sedan that seemed to appear out of thin air.

You may ask if such a thing could be true. Is it possible that there is a group of men and women running around our country scaring the hell out of the hapless UFO experiencer? The answer appears to be yes. Out of the many reports of meetings with these nightmarish characters two seem to stand out from among the rest and would convince tens of thousands that “They” want to shut you up.

Albert Bender, was a gentleman who became intensly interested in the UFO phenomenon as it began to heat up in the early 1950s. Bender, believed that the craft buzzing about our skies were vehicles piloted by an advanced alien culture and he was the man who could get to the bottom of the mystery. Bender, was credited with starting and operating one of the first civilian UFO investigation orginizations, the International Flying Saucer Bureau and a monthly newsletter that was gaining a respectable readership. In his newsletter, Bender began dropping hints that he had figured it all out and gotten to the bottom of the UFO question and shortly he would make his discovery known to the world. The one thing Mr. Bender, had not counted on was that those involved in the Cover-Up did not want the truth to be known and they would go to any lengths to keep his big yapper shut.

One night as Bender, was working in his office he was overcome by a strange tingling sensation that started in his toes and worked it’s way up to his head. Later to investigators, Bender would remark that it felt as if someone had hit him with a mild electrical charge. After shaking the odd sensation off, Bender looked out his window to see a large black four door Sedan sitting in his driveway. As he sat there wondering who his late night visitor could be a loud knock came to the door startling him.

Not knowing who this could be Bender opened the door to discover a tall, gaunt, pale faced man in a black suit standing on his door step wearing large black sunglasses despite the fact it was late at night. Before Bender could greet this late night visitor the man said, “Mr. Bender, if you value your freedom you will not make your findings on UFOs known to the public.” The MIB moved in closer to Bender’s face and hissed, “If you do, you will incarcerated in a maximum security prison for the rest of your natural born life.” Without saying goodbye the man returned to his vehicle and backed out of the driveway all the while staring Bender down from behind his black sunglasses.

Bender, was terrified by what the mysterious man said he never made his findings known to the public, in fact he stopped printing his newsletter and shut his investigations down completely. The secret he promised to share his readers would never be known even over fifty years after his amazing discovery and late night visit by the mysterious Man In Black.

This particular MIB had done his job, he succeded in shutting Albert Bender up using a tried and true method complete intimidation and fear. If this account of an MIB is thouroughly terrifying our second well known account is not just frightening but down right bizzare.

In 1976, Doctor Herbert Hopkins a respected psychologist and hypnotherapist was acting as an independent consultant dealing with a few cases of alleged alien abduction and it was a dark night when the good doctor would have his visit from a Man In Black. One dark night as everyone else in the house slept Dr. Hopkins sat in his study going over some notes concerning a young man who claimed to have been abducted numerous times by alien visitors. The Doctor was startled when his desk phone let out a long strange eerie ring, a ring it had never sounded before. When Doctor Hopkins answered the phone a strange almost robotic monotone voice on the other end identified himself as the vice president of a New Jersey paranormal research labratory. Before Doctor Hopkins could get a word out the man stated that it was of the utmost importance that he speak with him. The man said that he would be over shortly and the line went dead.

I’m certain that a man of Herbert Hopkins breeding and education thought this individual rude but all that changed when a knock sounded at the door. When Dr. Hopkins opened the door he was greeted by a fast talking man dressed in a frumpled black suit and sunglasses that were almost to big for his face. As the Doctor asked the man how he had arrived so quickly the strange man brushed past him. Doctor Hopkins, was shocked by such rudeness and stood at the door for a moment as he watched his visitor look around the front room acting as if he was lost.

After closing the door Dr. Hopkins turned to face his rude visitor and terror gripped his heart. The Doctor would later describe the man as having a deathly white pallor that gave him the appearance of the living dead. The strange nature of the man would become ever more so evident when he removed his hat and glasses. Doctor Bender felt like fleeing his visitor when he noticed the man was without hair on his head, no eyelashes or eyebrows his pale skin was completely smooth without a hint of blemish. Dr. Hopkins would also later relate to investigators that as they made small talk the man rubbed his ruby red lips and smeared what looked like lipstick exposing ghost white lips.

When the corpse like man noticed his error he explained to the terrified doctor that he was agent with a special branch of the United States Air Force and that it would be in the doctor’s best interest as well as his families that he burn whatever research he was working on dealing with UFO abductees otherwise he would be sent to jail for the rest of his life. Angered by the threat Dr. Hopkins gathered together his courage and demanded that the man produce some credentials or he would call the police. The strange man pointed a black gloved finger in the Doctor’s face and and growled, “You had better heed my warning.” The anger that Doctor Hopkins had felt fled and fear took over. The black clad man began to shake his head and said, “Hmm, I had better leave. My energy is getting low.” The nightmarish man quickly brushed past Doctor Hopkins and jumped into a black sedan that drove away into the night without making a sound.

At first Doctor Hopkins thought this man was nothing more than a lunatic and went back to his research. As the weeks past his wife and adult children started to tell him stories of strange men dressed in black suits following them around town in large black cars. Mrs. Hopkins related a particularly frightening story to her husband when she said one of these nondescript vehicles attempted to run her off the road into a tree. Dr. Hopkins came to the conclusion that his late night visitor was more than just a crack pot but someone to reccon with. Doctor Herbert Hopkins immediately went into his office and destroyed every shred of research he had accumulated over the years concerning alien abduction cases. Score another one for the Cover-up.

These are only two examples of meetings with the mysterious Men In Black. Over the last fifty plus years there have been dozens of reports of folks who have dealt with these frightening individuals and have only recently dared to tell the tale. Who are these Men In Black and what do they want? Some researchers believe they could possibly be the aliens they witnessed who are putting on bad looking human suits and scaring the hell out of us innocent humans. Others suggest they are agents of the Cover-up in league with the aliens and it is their job to shut us up. Me, I think they are just fashion victims. Hang on be right back someone is knocking on my door. Oh shit gotta run.

Rick E. Hale
t_seeker@hotmail.co

When I was twelve years old my family and I went on a road trip to my mom’s home turf of Dayton, Kentucky and this trip would prove to be a turning point in my interest in the strange and unusual when I would meet, Uncle David. Uncle David was an interesting ornery old cuss however he had some unique ways of looking at life. David believed it was more important to treat others better than oneself and to live at peace with all mankind. Big deal you may say, however what really caught my young ear was the story of the day when he witnessed, close up, a UFO.

Uncle David’s, family was responsible for building all the highways that ran through Kentucky one day while he and his crew were taking a lunch break they watched as a large cigar shaped UFO flew out of the clouds and landed in a nearby field about three hundred away. David, said that there bright lights of practically ever color shining brightly from the strange craft and it made absolutely so noise whatsoever. David, and his crew watched as the craft lifted off the ground and took off for the sky.

After hearing such a fantastic tale of course I was hooked. Up to this time I was only interested in life after death, but When I returned home I jumped on my Huffy bicycle and pedaled my ass up to the library and spent the day reading everything I could on the subject of mankind’s contact with otherworldly craft and their pilots. In the process of reading about UFOs and alien visitors I learned one fundemental fact, not only had folks seen these craft but they had come into contact with their crew and the US government was in the business of silencing these brave witnesses who came forward and Covering Up the experience.

In 1972, world famous astronomer and UFO researcher, J. Allen Hyneck took it upon himself to classify the various experiences of those who either saw or came into direct contact with a UFO and their otherworldly crew. Dr. Hyneck, created the Close Encounter Classification System and it would certainly be useful to future researchers when they met with these witnesses and alleged contactees.

-Close Encounter of the First Kind: This experience is simple enough and those who experience are changed by what they witness. The CE1 states that the witness has no direct contact with a UFO but rather the witness sees the craft at an altitude of 600 feet or less.

-Close Encounter of the Second Kind: This experience kicks things up a notch. The observer not only sees the craft but is effected physically by the experience. Those who have a CE2 experience claim that the UFO effects the electrical equipment of their car or home and physical damage is reported when the UFO causes radiation or heat damage to a car or home. The term Lost Time is first used in this experience. Those who experience Lost Time are not necesarilly abducted by the UFO but rather the very fabric of time is effected by the craft.

-Close Encounter of the Third Kind: In a CE3 event the witness comes into direct contact with a landed UFO or may come into contact with an alien being. Those who report this event claim that the alien or aliens attempt to impart some kind of intergalactic wisdom or warn the observer that unless mankind changes it’s ways man will eventually destroy itself in a sea of nuclear fire.

-Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind: A CE4 event is perhaps the most terrifying experience in the classification system, this is the abduction event. Those who have experienced a CE4 event, such as Betty and Barney Hill in the 1960s and Travis Walton in the 1970s, claim to have been forcibly removed from their surroundings by an alien intelligence and subjected to various medical examinations of a very intrusive manner. Abductees claim that the aliens seemed to be intensly interested in sex organs, bodily fluids and yes most abductees report the use of anal probe. Female abductees have claimed that their alien have removed eggs from their reproductive system only to fertilize them with their own semen. Men have had their semen taken probably to fertilize alien female eggs. One interesting case that came out of the 1950s concerning an abduction of a sexual nature was the case of Antonio Villas Boas. Boas, a Brazilian farmer, was taken aboard an alien craft and after ungoing numerous examinations he got to tap some sweet alien ass when he made love to an alien female that he described as unbelievably beautiful.

When we look specifically at a CE4 event we can not help to wonder, What do they want? Various theories have been offered to explain this rather frightening experience. First off some abductees who underwent a sexual experience claim that they had the impression that perhaps the alien’s civilization was dying out and we are the only species in the universe that they are able to procreate with in attempt to rescure their culture and society from certain doom.

On the other side of the coin other abductees feel that perhaps the alien’s are testing are strengths and weaknesses for the day they invade and turn us all into their slaves. They could also be looking for a way to cover their asses against the microbes and viruses that run free on our world so they don’t fall ill and die when they attack. These seem like plausible reasons but I’m left with one question, why the anal probe? Ouch.

Not all abductions by alien’s prove to be a scary expeience some contactees such as George Adamski, claim that the aliens have another intention in mind, they want to save us from ourselves. in 1952, Adamski came into contact with Orthon, a citizen of the planet Venus who called himself a “Space Brother.” Adamski, claims that Orthon took him aboard his craft or beamship, and took the earthling on a wierd, wild and wacky tour of the solar system all the while preaching to Adamski that if mankind did not change it’s evil ways we would all die by our own hand in the ultimate destruction. Unfortunately Adamski has been widely discredited by his detractors, however he still has many devoted followers.

Oftentimes some contactees have attempted to create their own personal religion stemming from their contact with alien beings, such is the case of Truman Bethurum. In 1953, Bethurum claimed to have come into contact with the crew of a space craft from the planet Clarion which was in our solar system but mankind lacked the technology to detect this world. The captain of the ship a beautiful female named Aura Rhanes, took Bethurum on a dizzying tour of the solar system and of her homeworld of Clarion which appeared to be nothing more than a sanitized version of planet Earth.

While aboard the ship, Captain Rhanes, explained to Bethurum that whatever happened on Earth effected the rest of the civilizations in the solar system. If mankind destroyed itself the citizens of Clarion would eventually die out than a chain reaction of destruction would take out the citizens of Saturn, Venus and Jupiter. It was of the utmost importance that Bethurum return to Earth and teach his fellow humans to live at peace with one another and destroy such antiquated ideas as rascism and radical nationalism. Sounds good to me.

When Bethurum returned to Earth he went about the business of setting up a commune in Prescott, Arizona called “The Sanctuary Of Thought.” At the commune, Bethurum began to preach the message of universal brotherhood and love for our fellow man despite race, religion and country of origin. Bethurum amassed quite a few followers with this outstanding message that was until it appeared that Bethurum began to lose his mind. The Sanctuary took on a cultish overtones and Bethurum heavily critisized the US government and equoted himself with divine luminaries such as Muhammed and Jesus. Shortly thereafter the Sanctuary of Thought was no more.

Mainstream scientific researchers would claim that folks who claim to have either witnessed, come into contact with or been abducted by aliens are frauds or hoaxers. Sure it is possible that those who create a religion out of their experience may be a little off their rocker. But what about normal everday Joe Q. Public, he couldn’t possibly be out of his mind, right? I know this sounds a little paranoid, but perhaps mainstream scientists are in league with the Cover-Up and Adamski and Bethurum were willing participants who made wild claims to discredit folks who have had a real abduction experience. I mean it is possible, Right? I don’t know all I know is that the Cover-Up rolls on.

Rick E. Hale
t_seeker@hotmail.com

The Story of Travis

Travis Walton was an opinionated loud mouth, always willing to voice his ideas. His soon-to-be brother-in-law, Mike was just the opposite. That is, that’s how things were before Travis’ abduction.
The two men worked tough, modest jobs as loggers in Arizona. One night, while driving back home after work with a few friends, they passed a glowing light on the side of the road. Everyone within the truck grew silent as they slowly edged closer and closer. When they came to an opening in the trees, the men were astonished to see what appeared to be a flying saucer.
Curious beyond his wildest dreams, Travis hopped out of the car to the dismay of all his friends. He crept underneath the machine, which seemed to be twenty or so feet off the ground as all those left behind shouted for him to return. Without warning, a blue-green bolt of light shot out from underneath the craft, rendering Travis unconscious. Frightened out of their wits, his friends drove away, praying that the craft wasn’t following them.
Although Travis’ friends returned only a few minutes later, he could not be found. For the next five days, Mike and the rest of the friends had extensive talks with local police. They were put under lie-detectors and interviewed for hours upon hours. Still, not a single one changed their story. The police began to suspect foul play.
At the end of the five days, Travis miraculously called from a phone booth outside of a gas station asking for his friends to come pick him up. When they did so, all he could talk about was his experiences on board the ship. He talked of strange grey beings; he was unshaven and had lost a considerable amount of weight. He was astounded to hear he was gone for days. To him, it only felt like hours.
When anyone poked fun at his story or challenged him, Travis would no longer shout his opinion. Instead, he was calm. If you didn’t believe him, so be it. He knew what happened, and that was enough. He wasn’t going to fight you on the issue. He was a completely changed man.

Copyright © 2008.

  Note to the reader:  The chapter topics in this series have no discernible order due to the fact that so much is involved with the cover-up and basically because I want it that way.  Enjoy.

  Being a vegetarian appears to be pretty popular these days.  With orginizations like PETA running around showing videos of the deplorable treatment of animals it really should come as no wonder why hundreds of people are throwing away their steak knifes and reaching for the nearest container of tofu.  Me, I’m a hardcore meateater.  There is nothing like cracking  the bottle of my favorite frosty brew of choice and sinking my teeth into a lucious, thick, juicy medium rare steak slopped with all the A-1 sause I can handle(Damn, now I’m hungry)  But I digress.

  Way back in the far out sixties and the groovy seventies a strange phenomenon hit the American Southwest that not only scared the bejeezus out of the cattle ranchers but would have had PETA protesting a force that they could not possibly contend with.  Cattle mutilations is a phenomenon that stunned and shocked the nation at large and has become intricately entangled in what we know as the UFO cover-up and all the craziness that it entails.  To some the events of these two decades has come to be known as proof positive of this tissue of lies and deceit of the US government’s involvement in whatever the hell this is all about.

  In the late sixties while the conflict in Vietnam raged, Ranchers in the American Southwest began making reports of strange lights hovering in the skies over their ranches, and according to them these lights or craft appeared to have an intelligence all their own as they zipped and buzzed about.  The next morning after seeing these strange lights buzzing about reports began to flood into local cop shops that would make the citizens of these states cringe in fear.  Livestock, specifically cattle, were coming up dead in a most disturbing manner.  Some unknown agency or sick bastard, whatever your point of view, not only murdered the prized moo cows but in all reports it was discovered that the person or persons responsible mutilated the cows with surgical precision and removed various organs and apparently the blood as well.  When the police came to investigate these strange series of events various things were discovered that defied any hope for a rational explanation.  Whoever the people were who were involved in this crime was able to go about their Jack the Ripperesque business without leaving so much as a footprint but they appeared to have the talent to slip and slip out with anyone the wiser.  This truly stumped the local law enforcement officials and left them scratching their heads all the while wondering, “What the hell?”

  Who could be capable of slipping in and out without leaving a trace of their presence?  The answer seemed clear, it must be the minions of Beelzebub, satanists, yeah let’s blame them.  And that is exactly what the ranchers and the police did although this explanation would show a complete lack of common sense.  Even worshipper’s of the prince of darkness would leave footprints and other indications of their presence.  Nope the explanation would prove to be far stranger than cultists.  At this time someone suggested that little green men(Forgive me, gray. I have been corrected many times)  had to be involved and a media hellstorm of colosal proportions broke out and descended upon the effected towns.

  The media, as it oftentimes does when dealing with the unexplained, had fun with the story sometimes at the expense of the beleagured ranchers and their kin.  The media ran around the towns and the counties where the phenomenon was most prevalent and interviewed as many folks as possible to get the story they wanted.  All those interviewed stated that before the gore fest began strange lights and saucer shaped craft were seen flying over the skies of the ranches.  Some even went so far as saying that the martians were on the offensive and ripping livestock apart just to show how truly powerful they were.  The media now had it’s story and it would get as much gas mileage out of it as possible.

  As the groovy sixties turned into the disco fantastic seventies more stories of livestock mutilations poured into the newspapers and were plastered all ove the ten o’clock news.  Fifteen states in our nation were now effected by the strange phenomenon with cattle turning up dead practically every day.  Not a day would go by when some pissed off burly old rancher called the local sheriff and reported that he and his hands had discovered poor old Bessie laying dead in the back forty.  When the police arrived and investigated they discovered that the udders, eyeballs, heart and other major organs were gone and declared that the animal had fallen victim to the normal predations of coyotes and other predators.  Now unless Wile E. Coyote super genius went to medical school their was no why in hell that these animals had fallen prey to a predator.  As I mentioned earlier the incisions that were made on the animals were so precise that it showed that a person or persons took the time to kill these beasts.  And stranger yet whatever instrument had made these incisions had an interesting trait the wounds appeared to be cauterized by something of extreme heat.  Lasers perhaps?

  In the summer of 1975, Floyd Haskell a senator from Colorado heard the outcry of his scared and pissed off constituents, 130 heads of cattle were dead in his state alone, and called in the cavalry.  The Federal Bureau of Investigations was now on the case and if anybody could get to the bottom of this little freakshow, the G-men were it.  When the FBI arrived at the scene of the most recent mutilation they quickly went about the business of gathering tissue samples from the dead cow and whisked them away to their super cool crime lab for analyses.  Operation: Animal Mutilation, was underway.

  When the samples were analyzed by investigators they discovered unusually high levels of minerals and proteins in the soft tissue as well as strange chemicals not normally found in livestock.  Scientists believed that whoever or whatever had mutilated the animals went about the trouble of anesthetizing the animals.  Why on earth would someone go to the trouble of giving knock out gas to these animals when the wounds and organ removal would kill them anyway?  Weird.

  As the disco fantastic seventies turned into the totally rad eighties reports of livestock mutilation began to taper off it would appear that the terror was now over but not yet one more mutilation would take place that truly stunned all those involved.  In 1981, the New Mexico State Police requested that the FBI come out to the Gomez ranch to take a look at a truly strange mutilation.  When the FBI arrived and spoke with the rancher they discovered that the dead cow was not killed on the spot where it lay in fact whoever had murdered the cow had picked it up and dropped it from a great height.  Upon investigation they FBI determined that the trauma inflicted upon the cow was consistent with the theory that it had been dropped from a great height, perhaps 500 feet or more.  Every bone in it’s body was shattered.  The other factor in this strange affair was that the major organs in the cow’s body had been turned to a paste that had a peanut butter like consistency.  The FBI removed the carcass from the ranch and poor Mister Gomez never heard back the FBI about what had killed his cow.

  There are various theories that have been offered to explain the weirdness of cattle mutilations.  As I mentioned earlier satanists were the first culprits considered in this strange affair.  Although they worship his infernal majesty, satanists are still human and would leave evidence of their presence.  The second most prominent theory concerning the mutilations have been offered by the more earth bound conspiracy theorist.  They believe that the government of good old US of A was involved in the development and testing of a new agent for biological warfare and cattle seemed to be the most convenient test subject, seems plausible.  And of course the most prominent theory is that the US government was covering up the fact that an alien presence was collecting organs in another attempt to cover their asses from any sickness that could bring them down on the day they attack and the explantion of animal predation was offered as an attempt to cover up their activities.

  Satanists out for a good time, biological warfare or a Martian Death Ray no one has a solid explantion for what happened all those decades ago.  One thing is certain something weird happened and aliens may have been involved one way or the other.  The cover-up rages on.

                                                            Rick E. Hale

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  A great battle has raged in our nation for a number of years now and both sides are as passionate and unbending in their ideology as their opponent.  In this corner we have the theory of Evolution.  According to his book, “On The Origin of the Species”  Charles Darwin states that at one time mankind, us, swung from trees, ate bananas and picked lice from each other’s hair, in a word we were a bunch of monkeys.  And then approxiamately two and half million years ago man fell from those trees and learned to walk upright.  As time and the years progressed our ancestors learned to think critically, formed civilization and eventually became the dominant species on planet Earth Beating the odds of an unforgiving planet.  In other words we are nothing but a bunch of shaved apes walking around like soulless robots getting what we want while the getting is good.  When I consider the way people act now a days I can almost buy this.

  And in this corner the challeger, the theory of Creation by Intelligent design.  Supporters of this theory sight the Bible as their end all be all and last word of authority on the subject.  Creationism, from a biblibal point of view, states that an all knowing all seeing Supreme Being created the world and everything in it in a literal six day period and took a rest from his labors on the seventh day.  Yep, I would be pooped to.  Proponents claim that we, mankind, is God’s only expression of creation in the vastness of the universe and only we are deserving of His love.  In other words the denizens of planet are IT, the only creatures in the entire universe.  Does this seem egotistical to anyone else, or is it just me?

  However in recent decades a third theory of the origin of the species has been gaining ground and making many think about their place in the universe.  This theory may not have as many devoted followers as the most accepted Big Two, but it certainly has a multitude of detractors.  One of the gentlemen who is on the forefront of this new theory has laid out his hypothesis in a series of best selling novels, “The Earth Chronicles.”  Although he is not the first to come up with this theory, Zechariah Sitchin, is certainly one of it’s most educated and articulate heroes. 

  Sitchin, claims that in our planet’s distant past a powerful and technologically advanced race of aliens known as the Annunaki, descended upon our virginal world to search for a precious metal they needed desperately on their planet, gold.  While mining for gold the Annunaki hit upon a great idea, they would create a race of slave laborers from their own DNA and the DNA of one of the beasts that called this planet home.  So the Annunaki went into the forests and the jungles of the primitive world and gathered a subject that appeared to plentiful, monkeys.  Some of their best mad scientists got together in the lab, took their genes and the genes of the monkey, gave it a shake in a test tube and BLAMO mankind as we it was born.

  As time progressed and the slave race began to populate the world oftentimes outnumbering their alien masters, the human slave race became self aware and decided, hey man this just is not right.  Wars and battles broke out as humans took up arms against their alien taskmasters and demanded to be set free from the bondage of slavery.  Despite all their technology and higher intelligence, the Annunaki had grown fat and lazy and lacked the means to put down this rebellion and bring their test tube created slaves back under their thumbnail.  In a temper tantrum, the Annunaki decided it would be better to just leave than deal with this lower class of being so they gathered together all their super cool toys and took off for home.  Mankind was now free from the Annunaki and were in effect masters of their own destiny, never again would they be anyone’s slave.  According to Sitchin, those humans who worked closely with the aliens became kings and rulers over their fellow man.  A new day had dawned and man was in control.

    The second most prominent voice in the Ancient Astronaut or Paleo-Contact Theory is of course, Erich Von Daniken, author of the wildly popular book, “Chariot’s Of The God’s”.   Unlike his colleague Zechariah Sitchin, Von Daniken does not make the wild claim that mankind was created in some mad alien scientist’s lair, rather when the ancient “gods” came to our world mankind had already discovered itself but lacked the intellect to create religion, government and culture.   Von Daniken asserts that many thousands of years ago a powerful race of aliens came to our world and taught mankind wisdom, mathematics and religion.  Like Sitchin, who sites ancient Sumerian texts, Von Daniken claims that he has his evidence to prove that an ancient alien intelligence visited our world and his evidence is indisputable and rock solid.

  The Nazca lines in the South American country of Peru, as Von Daniken claims, were created by man and utilized as landing strips for the aliens and their bitchin’ rides.  Some of the shapes such as a monkey, a whale and a hummingbird were used as a beacon, more or less by the aliens, as an indicator that this was their colony.  Now, of course the skeptics come out of the woodwork and cry foul concerning this theory.  They claim the Nazca Lines were used as irrigation canals or perhaps for some kind of religious ceremonies.  My question is this, why can you only see the shapes from the air?  The lines and shapes which are miles long would be of no interest to those standing on the ground they couldn’t even see them let alone worship them.  Unless these ancient tribesman mastered flight, which of course is entirely possible, there really is no reason what so ever to build them.  And as for the theory of them being an irrigation canal why make it in the shape of a giant monkey or humminbird?  This just does not make sense. 

  Von Daniken sites another beautiful work of art from South America, the Palenque Sarcophagus lid.  The  shows a highly styalized representation, of what Von Daniken says, shows one of these ancient astronauts sitting in the cockpit of a rocket ship blasting off for the heavens.  To be honest when I look at this sarcophagus lid that is exactly what I see it does look like some kind rocket with a dude operating levers and pushing buttons.  Of course the skeptics cry, no way, again.  They claim that the carving on the lid is a representation of a ruler who recently died and is ascending to life after death.  Well played worthy adversary, but if this were the case why make it look like a vehicle rather than some ghostly image flying up to be with the gods?  Another question that goes unanswered.

  Not only has Von Daniken used these two works of art as prime examples he also claims that the great megalithic sites of the world, such as Stonehenge and the monuments of Easter Island, is prime evidence as well.  But as with all things, the shoe must drop.  These two men have been widely discredited by mainstream researchers and their theories are considered crack pot at best.  Skeptics claim that mankind was more than capable of creating such megalithic works of art.  Thor Heyrdahl a twentieth century adventurer proved this by building his own stonehenge and creating and erecting exact replicas of the Easter Island monuments.  I have always said that ancient does not mean stupid and I agree up to a point with mainstream researchers, but I pose this question, wasn’t mankind more concerned with survival and finding shelter from a harsh environment?  Although I am sure they were capable of building these things without help, why bother it would seem like a colassal waste of time.  No these ancient people saw something that made them act.

  Oh, woe is us who delve into the strange and unusual, is their no hardcore objective proof to prove the paleo-contact theory?  There may be hope yet and that hop appears to come from the wastelands of Mali a tiny country on the west Coast of Africa.  And if what was discovered is true this just might constitute the evidence we were looking for.  In his 1976 book, “The Sirius Mystery” author Robert Temple relates the interesting saga of the Dogon a small group of Tribesmen living in the wastelands of Mali. 

  In his book, Temple details the work of two French ethnographers, Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen with this odd tribe of African Bushmen.  The Dogon claim that many years ago a race of creatures called the Nommos, descended from the skies in a great burning ark and made overtures of peace and brotherhood with the tribesmen.  The Dogon claimed the Nommos, although grotesgue to look at, taught them the art of writing and arithmetic and then left the Dogon a much more advanced people.  Now of course, Griaule and Dieterlen were skeptical of these outlandish claims, but soon became believers when the Dogon priests presented their evidence.

  The Dogon possessed knowledge that would otherwise not be possible for them to know.  For example, the Dogon knew our world was round, they knew there were nine planets in our solar system and they knew Saturn was a planet who had rings.  Big deal you may say, but the best evidence is yet to come.  The Dogon had advance knowledge that the Sirius star system, which was the home of the Nommos, was a binary and possibly trinary star system they even knew the orbit of these two stars.  When these facts were made public the skeptics and mainstream scientific community said that it was entirely possible that the Dogon had contact with astronomers who told them this stuff.  Can you imagine how something like that happened, a bunch of astronemers just discovered the Sirius Star System, threw a huge party and got blitzed out of their minds and before making this discovery known to their colleagues they decided instead to go out into the wastelands of Africa and share this discovery with a bunch of illiterate tribesmen.  I don’t know about you but to me that sounds highly unlikely.

  No, the ancestors of the Dogon had an amazing experience.  And when you consider that this mythology has filtered down through their people and the surrounding tribes for thousands of years and they have pottery and blankets that are centuries old with obvious representations of our solar system as well as the Sirius star system the only thing you are left with is, WOW.  Perhaps the legends of the Dogon are fact and the slick shiny conspiracy or cover-up has attempted to silence the evidence.  You be the judge.

  Perhaps in the dim past our history our world and ancestors were visited by an advanced alien intelligence who showered us with wisdom, culture and religion and all the other neat-o-keen things that make us who we are.  It certainly could possibly explain how in a matter of two million years and less we have gone from being a bunch of chimps chattering in the trees to the overworked stressed out humans we are today.  I don’t know.  The Cover-up rages on.

                                                          Rick E. Hale

                                                      t_seeker@hotmail.com

  Since time immemorial mankind has looked up at the stars and questioned, “Am I and others like me the only beings in this vast universe?”  Have been visited before?  Have we been visited in our ancient past by a culture that is not of the human persuasion?  These are questions that are on the minds of millions of our brother humans even today as we look up at the sea of stars that shine brightly at night.  Many would say a resounding hell yeah to these questions.  However, when it comes to the idea of our world being visited by an alien civilization far superior than ours there appears to be a tissue of lies, denial and a cover-up perpetrated by the governments of the world to keep up the appearance that we are it, the pinnacle of whatever divine being that sits in the sky.

  Millions, not just from our nation but other nations have claimed to be witness to incredible sights in the sky that seem to defy any logical explanation.  These witnesses are not just ignorant uneducated people who have claimed to see strange lights and even stranger craft.  Military personal, police officers even clergy have come forward over the years and claimed to see something they can not explain.  And if you can’t trust those who protect our borders, arrest bad guys and feed us the word of God, who can you trust? 

  Some folks, like you and I, go to the extremes of credulity and claim that as they slept or driving in their vehicles on a lonely country road they were witness to a strange saucer shaped craft descend from the skies and take them aboard to perform seemingly sinister medical exams.  Why would an ET go to the trouble of kidnapping innocent humans and play doctor?  This is a heavy question that no one seems to have an answer for for two reasons either the victim doesn’t want to come forward to speak of his or her experience for the fear of ridicule from friends or family or even the general population of planet earth.  Or perhaps even more frightening the victim receives a knock at their door in the middle of the night and when they answer it they stare into the face of some government agent who tells them to shut up or spend the rest of your days behind bars.

  If we are in fact being visited by beings from another world, why be silent about it?  Why don’t these aliens just descend upon the White House lawn in their super sweet intergalactic hotrods and declare to the world, “We are here, what up dawg?”  Many who have an intense interest in the subject claim that our government as well as the other governments of the world already know that these aliens are here and have been among us for not just decades but perhaps thousands of years.  My only question to such a far out theory is, Why.

  In the 1997 film, “Men In Black” Tommy Lee Jones’s character tells Will Smith’s character that humans are nervous and panicky and I would have to admit this is a true statement.  I don’t care who you are or where you are from all human beings have this in common, shoot first and ask questions later.  It does not matter if you are a card carrying NRA member from the good old US of A or a tribesman from the Congo when met with something we fear and do understand we act on instinct and kill or be killed.  It would be pretty sad if a seemingly benevolent alien culture came to our world offering peace and a share in their awe inspiring technology and some jerk took a pot shot at them because they don’t look like us.  A sign of such agression might just trigger our doom.  This could be reason number one.

  A second reason is a purely religious one.  The big three religions of the world Christianity, Judaism and Islam all say the same thing we are it we as humans are the pinnacle of God’s love and creative expression.  If the world, and the devout followers of these religions, were to find out that we were not alone in the universe and there were other beings in the universe paying us a visit on a day to day basis the big three religions would fall and they would fall hard.  If we knew that such beings existed the devout followers would feel jaded and the religious teachers would be proven to be liars and perhaps this all loving benevolent God does not exist after all.  Religious chaos would reign.

  The third possible reason is if it were to become exposed that we are not alone the governments of the world who have been telling us for years that such a thing could not be, would fall.  These governments, ours included would be seen as liars and their power base would be gone forever either because a pissed off citizenry would rebel and tear them down or we would flock these visitors because they can offer something better.

  And last but certainly not least, despite what New Agers and some contactees would have us believe, these alien races are not some benevolent fraternity of “Space Brothers” but something far more sinister.  Perhaps the governments of the world are in cahoots with these aliens and are getting us ready for some kind of invasion event.  Perhaps these aliens mean us harm, why else would they want to abduct us from our comfy beds in the middle of the night and run anal probes up our old chocolate whiz way.  Maybe to gain knowledge of our strenghts and weaknesses and find a way for their culture to survive our terrestrial virus’ and bacteria after they zoom down here and kick some ass.  These of course are my theories, and in no way is representative of what “Those in the know” know.

  The modern UFO age, as we know it, began in 1947 with two earth shattering events that made us question our place in God’s great big universe.  First, Kenneth Arnold made his report of seeing a squadron of bat shaped craft flying over Mount Rainier in Washington state as he piloted his own craft over the mountain range.  And of course a few months later the United States Air Force shocked the world when it released a news report that they were in possession of a flying disc that crashed landed on a rancher’s farm just outside Roswell, New Mexico.  Many around the world felt justified that their suspicions of alien cultures visiting the earth was true.  However, sadly just a few hours later a second report was made this time a retraction that basically read, Whoops sorry, our bad it was just a super secret weather balloon.

  In this series, “So, What’s Up With The Cover-up?”  I want us to explore the alleged history of alien visitation to our world and the cover-up that would threaten to keep this amazing thing hush hush.  When you consider the hundreds if not thousands of people each year who claim to see and experience something strange in the skies not all these folks could be nuts, right.  Some of the more skeptical researchers on the subject say that you can dismiss about 80-90% percent of reported UFOs cases worldwide.  With this I would have to agree it is enitrely possible that misidentifications are made of known aircraft or known atmospheric phenomenon.  I warn you do not leave your mind so open that your brain falls out.  However that still leaves us with 10-20% of phenomenon that is truly unexplained that is a huge margin.

  Something strange did in fact happen to the multitude of folks who claim to have seen or experienced something and although I hated the show I will quote the poster on Agent Mulder’s wall, “I want to believe.”  Please come back for more because the good times are just beginning.

                                                                         Rick E. Hale

  Depending on what area of the country you are from most of us will never see a lizard outside of a pet store.  It wasn’t until I was sixteen and went on a family vacation to Florida that I saw a lizard for the first time.  As I was getting out of pool I saw this little green and yellow creature go scurrying across my path and came up with a great idea, I’m going to catch this little dude and bring him home as a pet.  I ran after the little beast and watched as he scurried up a tree well out of my reach, Undoubtably he knew my intentions and was not having any of that.

  It was not until recently, probably within the last two years, did I learn that this cute little lizard that I almost caught was up to no good.  Apparently some authors of conspiracy theories and their followers claim that these little creatures have big plans for mankind.  According to their claims and theories the warm blooded populace of the world is in very real danger of the lizards taking over and turning mankind either into slaves or a delicious tasty treat for their bellies.  It’s true they say, someday I may be the pet of that cute little lizard  I chased up a tree.

  There are no shortage of conspiracy theories floating around our world and believe me no shortage of those who believe them.  There was a second man on the grassy knoll, the Central Intelligence Agency has a powerful computer that can read your thoughts and Roosevelt knew the Japanese were coming to make Pearl Harbor it’s personal bitch.  All these conspiracy theories are enough to make my head spin or bang my head against the wall until my IQ plummets like the stock market.  Of course the conspiracy I speak of has garnered the attention of Cryptozoologists as well as the UFO community.  The conspiracy I speak of is the attack of the Reptoids.

  In 1999, former journalist and British soccer player, David Icke wrote a book that would capture the imagination of the world and make thousands believe that a whole new species was out to get them, “The Biggest Secret”.    In his book, Mr. Icke writes, in amazing detail, a theory that the governments of the world are being manipulated and operated by a secret society that goes by two names, “The Illuminati” and “The Babylonian Brotherhood.  Icke, claims that this shadowy orginization has been running the show for centuries if not thousands of years dipping their greedy little paws into everything from world commerce to religion to mass media.  Sounds Plausible, Right?

  This theory of a gigantic monolithic shadow government has grown with amazing leaps and bounds over the last thirty or forty years.  I suppose it could be possible that some power hungry megalomaniacs could be working night and day to amass as much power as possible and possibly turn us ignorant non-elitists into their unwilling slaves.  Everyone from the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians to the Jewish people have been blamed for having aspirations of world domination and this has proven to be patently ridiculous.  However, Mr. Icke takes things a bit further and adds a new spin to this old conspiracy theory.  Mr. Icke claims that this secret society is not run by our fellow human beings but by something far more terrifying, giant bipedal lizards or the Reptoids as he calls them.  And again he takes the theory even one step further and makes the wild claim that some of the leaders of our world are not only in cahoots with these man-lizards but are human Reptoid hybrids.

  Apparently, George W. Bush, the leader of the free world is not the shaved chimp in a man suit that I thought he always was.  No, the Prez is actually descended from a race of reptilians that came to our world from a distant star many many moons ago and was placed in power to discredit the United State’s status as the big dog on the block.  The author also claims that the British royal family is descended from this race of reptilians and will one day hand power over to their cold blooded brethern.  Perhaps the silliest person to be called a reptoid/human hybrid is actor and country music star, Kris Kristopherson(Perhaps that would explain the career).

  Just where did this race of reptilians come from and what exactly do they want?  Many followers of this conspiracy theory claims that millions of years ago the sisnister race of Reptoids came to our world from a planet in the Draco Constellation looking for some new digs to call home.  When they arrived they discovered our ancient ancestors still eating bananas and swinging from the trees chattering away at the strange visitors.  The Reptoids, by accident or design, discovered that they could mate with this tree swinging brutes and whiz bang the human/reptoid hybrid was born.

  The Reptoids decided it would be a good idea to stick around to keep an active eye on their hybrid progeny as well as the humans who evolved without the reptilian DNA.  The Reptoids, over time, found that due to certain climate changes on our planet they could not stay above ground and went about the task of building an intricate network of cities underground where the pure bloods still live keeping tabs on mankind and controlling their puppet governments of the world.  And as to the question of what do they want, the answer is quite simple, world domination of course, duh.

  Such an idea would be patently ridiculous if it it was not for the fact that many ancient cultures the world over have legends concerning mankind’s contact with reptilian like creatures.  In South America the ancient Toltecs had Gucumatz.  Gucumatz was worshipped as the “Serpent of Wisdom” and was said to manifest in the form of a giant serpent.  The Hopi of the American southwest has a legend of the, Sheti or Snake Brothers.  The Sheti was a race of man-like reptiles who lived in vast underground cities and were considered to the friend of the Hopi.  Cecrops, a king of Athens in ancient Greece, was supposedly a ruler who had the attributes of both humans as well as the serpent.  And of course it was widely believed in China that the Emporer was the divine offspring and descendent of the creator dragon.  And what about Cobra Commander and Serpentor those guys will stop at nothing to dominate the world (I’m joking of course).

  Not only can we trace reptilian legends back to the good ole’ days but giant bipedal reptile like creatures have been witnessed in our own enlightened times.  Between 1955 and 1972, there were numerous reports out of Loveland, Ohio of a giant frog-like creature swimming in the Little Miami river.  Those who claimed to see this creature said that the beast walked upright like a man and had the body and face of frog.  However the Loveland Frog, as he has been dubbed appears to be completely benign and has never attacked a soul in fact it would appear that this creature flees from human contact.  Unfortunately this can not be said about the reptilian humanoid who attacked a seventeen year old boy in the summer of 1988.

  On June 29, 1988 a seventeen year old boy was driving past the Scape Ore Swamp in Lee County, South Carolina when he was startled by the sound of his tire blowing out.  The young man pulled the car safely to the side of the street and inspected his blown tire.  When he went to change the tire his car violently shook as if something heavy had falled on top of it, when he looked up his eyes met something that would make his blood run cold.  Standing over him was a seven foot tall lizardman looking down at him with malevolent red glowing eyes and large claws for hands.  The creature hissed at the boy and jumped over the bridge into the swamp.  The boy got back into his car and drove away as fast as he could on the rim of his blown tire.  Later the young lad would tell police that he felt the creature would kill him if he stuck around and that he barely escaped with his life.

  Recently the Lizardman would make a comeback and be blamed for all kinds of nefarious dirty dealings.  Several families who live near the Scape Ore Swamp claimed that the Lizardman was reponsible for stealing their pets and causing property damage by digging it’s large claws into the sides of the cars and houses.  One resident even claimed to see the Lizardman run back into the swamp carrying a small dog in it’s mouth.  However the residents treat their mysterious cryptid with a lightheart making the horrible Lizardman the official spokesman for the South Carolina state lottery.  I wonder if the Lizardman could sue for image rights?

  Whether or not you believe that Reptoids are out to corral us like cattle when they take over the world is your business all I know is that thousands believe this and live in fear of this happening one day.  And this I am certain of, after I press publish and it is posted to this honorable website there will be a few who will accuse me of being in league with the Reptoids or being a Reptoid and will see this posting as being propaganda.  Perhaps I am a reptoid and tonight as you sleep I’m going to make you and your yappy little dog my snack.  Boo, Did I scare you.  HaHaHa.

                                                 Rick E. Hale

  This morning when I got home from work a great flick was on television, a movie that I had not seen in a few years, “Gremlins.”  I love this little monster movie it has everything love, adventure and little green beasts running amok is a midwestern town destroying everything in sight.  I can’t help it the evil streak in me  always cheers for the gremlins.  Is That wrong?  Anyways, although this movie is entirely fictional would you believe that a similar event happened many years ago in the hill country of Kentucky?  Well according to the witnesses that experienced the bizarre event such a thing did in fact occur only with the cheesy prosthetics.

  On the night of August 21, 1955 the Sutton farm near the towns of Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky came under attack by an aggressive alien species.  On the evening in question Elmer “Lucky” Sutton and his family were entertaining the Billy Ray Taylor family (No fooling guys these are the real names) who was visiting from out of town.  At around 7:00 PM Billy Ray decided he needed to wet his whistle and took a mosey out to the well for a cool drink of water about thirty seconds later, Billy Ray rushed back into the house and declared that while he was outside he saw a UFO land just beyond the trees in the woods.  At first the two families were speechless at the wild story of their friend and then suddenly everyone in attendence broke out in great torrents of laughter saying that ole Billy Ray had seen nothing but a shooting star.

  At 8:00 PM the hoedown in the house was broken up by the frightened barking a howling of the family dog.  Lucky’s wife peeked out the window to see what all the fuss was about and watched as the otherwise brave hunting dog turned tail at some unseen threat and ran under the house.  Lucky and Billy Ray could not understand what would make the old hound run away in hysterics.  They both agreed that something strange was afoot and thought it might be a good idea to investigate.  Lucky and Billy Ray grabbed the shooting irons and ventured out the door to see what all the commotion was about.

  As the two men stood on the front porch scanning the woods and the property for any sign of trouble, Billy Ray was the first to see a strange creature emerge from the tree line.  The two men watched as a three foot being with a large head and big floppy ears wearing a silvery jumpsuit started to make it’s way towards the men with a raised hand.  At first the two men didn’t know what to make of the strange sight and wondered whether or not if the raised hand was a greeting or a threat of some kind.  They knew that could not take the chance and raised their rifles to their shoulders and all the fun or mayhem began.

  Lucky’s bullet was the first to meet it’s mark and the two men were satisfied that the threat to their farm and family had been taken care of.  Lucky’s wife opened the door to inquire what they were shooting at.  Lucky turned to explain when he felt a clawed hand reach down from the roof and grab his hair.  Billy Ray looked up to see the creature, or one of the creatures, perched on the roof looking down at him.  Billy Ray pointed his gun square in the face of the little beast and squeezed off a shot.  The creature seemed to float up and then away from the house.  A terrified Lucky and Billy Ray were torn away from their shock when one of the women screamed and said that some kind of monster was peering through the window.  Lucky ran to the side of the building and fired at one of the little beasties that appeared to be floating up by the window and shot at the creature which, like it’s companion, floated away unharmed.

  An hour after the shooting started a voice of reason shouted over the rifle fire and demanded that the two men cease firing.  Mrs. Lankford, a guest claimed that whatever the creatures may be they did not appear to mean any harm.  However Lucky and Billy Ray remained on the front porch gripping their rifles like a couple of heroic cowboys scanning the area for anymore signs of the creatures.  Occasionally the two men could see creeping forms in the shadows of the trees and wondered if another attack would soon commence.  Although the night was now silent the peace was broken by what sounded like a strange buzzing sound that seemed to scare the hell out of the dog and kept the men on their vigilant watch.

  Fearing another attack would soon come, Lucky and Billy Ray gathered their kith and kin together and piled in three seperate cars around 11:00PM and tore ass off the property not wanting to take the chance that whatever the creatures may be would gather together and make another assault against the farm.  Thirty minutes later the frightened group stormed through the doors of the Hopkinsville Police Department nearly scaring the Chief of Police to death.  The Chief ordered the chattering group to calm down and tell him what had happened.  Lucky Sutton stepped forward and gave the police chief a complete rundown of the night’s events.  The Chief listened to the story all the while taking notice that no one appeared to have been drinking.  The Chief knew Lucky and his wife well and knew that the two were God fearing christians who would not make such a fantastic story up.  The Chief snapped into action and followed the frightened farmers back to the scene of the amazing story.

  After the initial investigation by the local coppers, which did not turn anything up but a bunch of bullett holes and broken windows, the Kentucky Era a local newspaper arrived on the scene to see what had happened and interviewed all those involved.  The next day the paper published the story detailing how a local farmer and his family and friends were viciously attacked by twelve to fifteen little somethings that appeared to not be of this world.  The Sutton Family would later tell investigators that they were not sure how many of the invaders were involved in the assault of the farm technically they really only saw three.

  Within days Air Force personnel and UFO investigators descended upon the Sutton farm and took a serious look around the farm to see if there was any physical evidence to back the story of an alien invasion up.  No bodies of the little men in question could be found which would back up the story that the creatures appeared to be unfazed by the weapons.  However one investigator did discover a scorched patch of grass that looked like it was in the shape of a saucer.  Another investigator had learned that a Highway Patrolman who was in the general vicinity of the Sutton farm claimed to have seen a strange light in the sky that appeared to travel in an upward trajectory.  Although the Air force had this corroborating eyewitness they deemed the case to be one of mistaken identity and claimed that the eyewitnesses had a little too much to drink.

  The event at the Sutton Farm near Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky is considered, by investigators, to be a real case of a possible alien invasion.  Researchers feel that the Suttons and their guests are reliable witnesses who would be incapable of making such a wild story up and although despite the testimony of the Highway Patrolman and the saucer shaped burnt grass found in the woods the Air Force remains unconvinced.  They believe the event to be a hoax.  The Air Force further claims that what the Sutton’s and their guests saw that night were not aliens bent on world conquest but Chimps that had escaped from a circus although no circus was anywhere near the area in fact the closest circus was one hundred miles away in Tennessee.  But wait the explanations get better.  Skeptics state that what the Sutton clan and their guests saw that night was an aggressive flock of great horned owl attacking the farm.  The Sutton clan had lived in the area for generations and were well acquinted with the flora and fauna of the area this was no attack of the Great Horned Owl Variety.  Explanations be damned.

  On that night in August of 1955 the Sutton Family and their friends witnessed something extraodinary that scared the hell out of them and it was not escaped chimps nor was it an attack of Great Horned Owls.  However I do have a concern,  If the creature came out of the woods holding up a hand as a peaceful gesture, why shoot first and not even bother to ask questions?  Maybe the crapper on the saucer was busted or they were lost and needed directions to Area 51 or something, who knows.  As a warning though to all who travel through Kelly and Hopkinsville if you are on your way to a SciFi convention and you are dressed as your favorite martian do not wander onto any farms you may just get your ass blasted off.

                                                                                                            Rick E. Hale