Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the Gulf Breeze UFO
incident. That's correct, the Gulf Breeze
UFO incident. So back in late 1987 and early
1988, a series of UFO sightings occurred in the town of Gulf
Breeze, FL. The most famous of these
sightings was made by Ed Walters, a local contractor.
On November 11th, 1987, Walters took five Polaroid photos of a
triangular object hovering in the sky near his home.
The photos were widely circulated in the media and were
seen by millions of people. Now, Walters claimed that he was
immobilized by a blue beam of light before taking the photos.
He also said that he saw the object land on the ground and
then take off again. Other witnesses came forward to
report seeing similar objects in the sky Around the same time.
The UFO photos were analyzed by a number of experts, including
Bruce McCabe, a well respected UFO researcher.
And if you've ever seen McCabe's work, he's really seems like a
credible, intelligent guy to me. Now, McCabe concluded that the
photos were genuine and could not be explained by any known
hoaxes. However, other experts
disagreed, and some even accused Walters of faking the photos.
The Gulf Breeze UFO incident remains a mystery to this day.
There's no definitive proof that objects seen by Walters and
others were actually UF O's, but the photos and eyewitness
accounts are certainly compelling.
Now, for UFO believers like us, the Gulf Breeze incident is one
of the most convincing cases of alien visitation ever recorded.
And we go on, we find out that some of the evidence that the
UFO believers point to, his proof, and I think really makes
this case so unique, is that the photos taken by Ed Walters were
clear. They're well focused, and they
show a strange object that doesn't match any known
aircraft. Now, the photos were taken by a
credible witness, and Walters doesn't have a history of
hoaxing. You talk about a guy that's a
member of the community, he's taking his pictures.
And you got to admit, if these things were hoax, it would take
an awful lot of work. Now, other witnesses came
forward to report seeing similar objects in the sky around the
same time. The experts who analyzed the
photos were unable to find any evidence that they were fake.
So here you go again. I mean, the guy comes forward,
he has these pictures, they are examined by an expert.
He says they look real to me. And then the debunkers come in
and say, oh, well, those are hoaxed, but they don't give any
evidence. It looks like to me, Mr. Walters
is the one presenting all of the evidence.
Now of course, there are also some skeptics who believe that
the Gulf Breeze UFO incident was a hoax, and they point the fact
that Walters had a history of financial problems and they
argue that he may affect the photos in order to make money.
However, the evidence for the Hook theory is not as strong as
evidence for the UFO theory. Ultimately, the truth about the
Gulf Breeze UFO is unknown. However, the photos and
eyewitness accounts are certainly compelling and they
continue to be a source of fascination around the world.
I think this is just a really cool case.
We're going to get into a couple articles about this right now.
Now the first article that we're looking at comes to us from the
Palm Beach Post and it's dated October 15th, 2020.
Written by Elliott Kleinberg. It says Florida time the Gulf
Breeze UFO sightings. It's got it's got one of the
pictures here of this UFO of that was purportedly
photographed. I'll put up links on the buy me
a coffee website and somebody made a comment there today that
hey, why don't you put up the links?
Well, normally I do. This week I was trying to find
another car, so I got a little bit busy doing that.
But if you go to buy me a coffee website, you can normally find
the links over there. And as always, thanks to the
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doesn't cost anything now, the article says.
Ed and Francis Walters claimed that the dozens of photographs
and a one minute 38 second video that Ed shot in a six month span
from November 1987 to May 1988 were those spaceships over their
home and Gulf Breeze, a Pensacola suburb.
They weren't alone. A City Council member said he
saw Bright saw a bright orange object fly over on March 17th,
1988. A retired newspaper publisher
said he saw it too. So did a doctor, a chemical
engineer and his wife. About 100 witnesses and all
backed Walter's claims. Now just think about that. 100
people. These guys sound pretty
reliable. I mean, a chemical engineer, a
newspaper publisher, a doctor, City Council member.
You know, you got to give some, you got to give some weight to
these eyewitness accounts. Gulf Breeze is not the first
place in Florida to report sightings.
Indian legends, settler folklore, police affidavits and
numerous formal reports to the Mutual UFO Network all detailed
people's convictions that something's out there in the
skies over Florida and they saw it.
Ed Walters didn't just see the ships, he says.
They burned his grass and shot a beam of unearthly blue light
that once froze his legs to the ground, and another time missed
his wife by inches while he captured the encounter on film.
Almost seems like maybe this was an attempted abduction.
He reported hearing in his mind both the instructions of the
aliens and discussions of earthlings he believes were
being held aboard the ships. Now that would be a terrible,
just terrorizing thought. He said he saw an alien standing
outside his window and his bed. There's a 90 minute stretch for
which he said he can't account. That, he said ended with him
waking up face down on the beach, sand in his mouth.
He believes he was a victim of alien abduction.
I would really be interested if the guy has had any kind of
examination for implants. The Walters called the
encounters the most astounding multiple sightings of UFO's in
U.S. history in their book The Gulf Breeze Sightings, which
were followed by another book four years later.
What naively we did was think by writing it down it would stop
people like you from calling. Francis Walters laughed in a
1996 telephone interview with this writer for my book Weird
Florida. How wrong we were, she said.
Cities critics said the whole thing was a hoax.
A reporter said he found a UFO model in Walter's attic, and
others challenged the photographs as double exposure
prints the products of a faulty Polaroid and pictures of red
balloons. The naysayers hadn't changed
their mind. And then it has a a link here to
another article. Others still insisted it really
did happen. Walters, a building contractor
by profession, told me in 1996 that he could not explain why
his personal ordeal stopped at the end of that six month
stretch quote. Often there are questions like
that that can only be answered by the beings responsible for
the UF O's, whatever they might be, he said.
It's not something that's within our grasp to even understand,
wow. Well, what gets me about this
case is all of the hundred other people that saw these things.
So, I mean, you can question the photographs.
You're going to question the the experience of Ed and Francis
Walters, but what about the hundred other reliable witnesses
that seen these things and the pictures?
You know, it is 1987. It's not like he's got a, you
know, an Apple or iPhone or Samsung 23 or whatever that he's
out here photographing these things with.
So even in spite of that, we this is still, no matter even if
the pictures would were to be disproven today, this is still a
mass sighting. Now let's look at this next
article. So we see this article from
ufoinsight.com. I think they do a lot of good
work over there. The title says one of the most
divisive cases in history, the Gulf Breeze UFO Encounters.
It's written by Marcus Lauth. He begins by saying an apparent
wave of close contact, UFO encounters and even possible
alien abductions that unfolded in Gulf Breeze, FL in the late
1980s remains one of the most intriguing and divisive cases in
UFO history. What was initially regarded by
many as one of the best UFO sightings, complete with
photographic evidence of recent times captured by the main
witnesses, Ed Walters quickly descended into claims of a hoax
and counterclaims of attempts to discredit the main witness.
Indeed, the case remains a topic of discussion and UFO circles
today, almost 4 decades later. Yeah, you had this sighting, you
had these pictures and you had a hundred other people.
See the saying. Many, many reliable witnesses,
but it kind of all became about Walters and the pictures that he
took. Now, he says, what is further
interesting about the Gulf Breeze at UFO sightings, and
something that lends a touch of potential credibility to
Walter's version of events, is that many other residents of the
region also begin making reports of very similar aerial
anomalies, almost all of whom had no connection to the
witness. And adding a further twist are
the hints that Walter Sightings, at least some of them, might
have also been cases of alien abduction.
The Gulf Breeze at UFO Sightings takes us down many twists and
turns and just could be a case with secrets left to reveal,
Gazanna says. A bizarre craft hovering outside
and the curious events began over Gulf Breeze on the evening
of November 11th, 1987, when a local building contractor, Ed
Walters, was working late at his home when he noticed a strange
light outside his property. Intrigued, he made his way to
the window to see what the source of the glow might be.
Amazed, he could see a glowing object hovering in the sky,
although his view was partially obscured by a tree outside his
house. Wanting to get a better view,
Walters immediately ventured outside.
As soon as he stepped outside, he realized he was viewing
something out of the ordinary. He would later describe the
object as a top shaped craft with a circle of bright lights
on the underside. Around the edges were what
appeared to be dark square windows that were separated by
portals. So he's having a full on UFO
sighting here. I mean, detail one of these
common sightings we see. We're talking about seeing the
portals around the craft. You know, basically tell us hey
there's somebody in there and they're looking outside, it
says. After taking in the surreal
events, he quickly rushed inside his property in order to
retrieve his Polaroid camera. He then rushed back outside and
quickly snapped several pictures of the aerial anomaly from his
front yard. Remember pre cell phone?
Wanting to get a better view, he left his yard, stepped out onto
the street and headed close to the hovering otherworldly
vehicles, taking several more pictures as he did so.
A moment later the object headed in his direction and then
hovered directly over where he was standing.
Then things would turn even stranger as he looked up at the
craft. A sudden bright blue beam of
light came from the underside and struck him.
He would state that the force of the light was so strong that he
was even lifted several feet off the ground.
And this reminds me of these people who see these blue beams
come out of these things and and even pick up cattle say beaming
them up to the ship. And I don't know what it is
about the color blue, but that is so common in these sightings.
He later described the moment to a local newspaper, saying that
it was that as soon as light hit him, he was unable to move his
arms and that his entire body appeared blue.
He further recalled that he was trying to breathe, but my chest
wouldn't expand. At the same time, a voice
appeared in his head stating that he should not worry and
that we will not harm you. Despite these assurances, Walter
screamed to be put down. He also recalled A piercing
smell, a little scent of pneumonia mixed with the heavy
cinnamon that he said scorched, then stuck to the back of his
throat. Now, this doesn't sound like a
situation where they're all sitting around the campfire
singing Kumbaya. This is a this is clearly an
abduction, a clear, clearly a criminal abduction.
This guy's being taken against his will aboard this craft, the
article continues. It says things then turn even
more bizarre as he began seeing pictures and images of dogs in
his head, further describing this as if he was turning pages
in a book. In his mind while humming sounds
begin resonating in his head. This is almost some sort of
cognitive distance technique I think, where they're putting
this guy in a state of hypnosis so that he's not aware of what
they're doing to him. Really devious.
The next memory he had was waking up on the ground.
He looked up around him. The strange craft was nowhere to
was now nowhere to be seen, days perplexed and a little ah, what
he just at what had just transpired.
Walters returned to his house with his photographs after
remaining quiet about the incident for almost a week.
On the afternoon of the 17th of November he made the decision to
contact the local newspaper, the Gulf Breeze Sentinel.
He met with the editor and told him of the bizarre events six
nights previously, as well as presenting him with his
photographic evidence. However, he would do so under
the guise of having been given the pictures and relaying an
anonymous person's account. However, as the days and weeks
went on, Walter would claim for would would claim further
sightings, eventually admitting that it was he, and not his
anonymous friend who was a witness to these bizarre
happenings. It sounds like maybe he was just
a little bit too freaked out by this whole situation to come
forward and say hey, it's happened to me.
So he gets off to a little bit of a bumming start, but finally
then he makes the revelations. And then, of course, everything
just breaks loose. Says on the evening of the
November 20th, Walters claimed to suddenly be able to hear
voices coming from somewhere, as well as a hum that had filled
his head during his initial encounter.
This is something else that we hear sometimes, but these
abduction cases and that is that that that people are spoken to
telepathically by things. And then after they get back
home, even away from the ship, they're still hearing these
telepathic voices. And this just sounds like a
terrible situation to me. I mean, I would be looking for
relief from that, he says. He left what he was doing and
made his way outside. Once there, he could see a
glowing orb like object that was descending.
Then it stopped and hovered in place for several moments
allowing him to take a picture of it.
So second encounter several weeks later, at around 3:30 AM
in the early hours of the 2nd of December, the family's pet
dragged Williams from sleep with his sudden barking.
Walters got out of bed and headed to the fridge doors where
the dog had his focus. Cautiously he opened the blinds
and was beyond shock to see a strange figure standing directly
outside looking at him. He described this creature as
being around 4 feet tall, with a particularly large head and
large black eyes, and they have an image of a Gray alien here.
You can imagine open your curtains up in your front door
and seeing this Gray alien standing there staring at you,
stalking you. He would further claim that he
was so surprised at the sight that he momentarily fell to the
ground and shocked after two. After the two locked stairs for
several moments, the strange figure turned around and began
to walk away. Wow, that is so weird at this
point. Walters opened the doors and
began to pursue the creature after taking only a few steps.
However, the same bright blue bleam of after taking only a few
steps, however, the same bright blue beam of light rapidly
descended from above and instantly paralyzed him.
He looked on as a small figure headed off into a field and
disappeared from sight. A moment later, the blue beam
retracted and he could move once more.
Already with his camera in his hand, he took a picture of the
object now hovering over the field where the creature headed,
shooting a blue beam down to the ground.
Walter stated that it was his belief that the second beam was
picking up the creature that had been outside his house, and
these pictures are really something.
I definitely go to the buy me a coffee website and link this
article and look at these pictures.
Only two nights later, in the early hours of the 5th of
December, yet another incident occurred.
Once more. He was dragged mysteriously from
sleep and witnessed the object again, this time hovering over
the high school that was near Walter's home.
After several moments, the object descended, although
Walters could tell it hovered just above the ground or it
actually landed. By this time, not only had many
in the local community heard of Walter's claims, but so did UFO
investigators and organizations, and one of these was MUFON, who
had contacted Walters in order to conduct an investigation into
the Intimatic affair. After examining the photographs
and listening in detail to Walter's accounts, they were
largely impressed, even describing it as one of the most
credible cases in modern UFO history.
They had even provided Walters with specialized cameras and
equipment so that he could capture clearer images should he
have any further encounters. Now it has an image here, just
kind of a bright yellow ball of light.
I think the ship pictures he took are actually better, but
you can you can judge for yourself.
Investigators also begin to collect other sightings from
Gulf Breeze and nearby residents.
One of these even occurred on the same day as Walter's initial
sighting on the 11th of November.
Several hours earlier, at around 4:30 AM, Arthur Hufford claimed
that on the afternoon in question, he and his wife
witnessed an object that looked exactly like the one
photographed by Walters hovering over the trees in Pensacola.
In an article of Hufford's Report, Jackie Brooks wrote in
the News Journal that he was a quiet, sober, involved,
intelligent man and somebody you would trust to tell the truth.
Then it goes on, it says. In the same article, she also
highlighted a similar sighting by Doctor Ferner McConnell and
described him as a well respected man in the community.
And like Hufford, his account was corroborated by his wife.
So you got two different couples here.
Both people were well respected in the community seeing the same
thing that Walters has and then it goes on talks a little bit
about some of the debunking claims.
I'm not going to get into that. I I really don't even care about
it because the pictures are good.
What I like about this case the most and what I find to be the
most, the the the most impressive is not necessarily
the pictures but the fact that this was a mass sighting.
You had Walters see these videos or see these the the these, a
UFO take pictures of it, but you had a hundred other people
witness this thing and that's what seems to get so little
attention about all this. It goes on and says.
Despite the skeptics however, further sightings of bizarre
objects hovering and moving over the regions continue to unfold,
with Walters himself recording the several more apparent close
encounters. Indeed, although he although he
began by giving his information under the guise of a go between,
he would quickly become a celebrity in the state of
Florida and even appearing on several television shows that
wish to examine his apparent evidence of visitation.
Well, here's, here's the problem with this.
Anytime you have somebody that just that just becomes so famous
for one of these sightings, the thing I find is a lot of times
that individual just becomes a lightning rod, unfortunately.
And just think about it. If you've got the entire power
of the national media behind it and they wanted to person you,
they're probably going to find something to the person you
with. And if you look at the story and
do a little bit of background research on it like I have, it
seems like that as so many times, the media just focused in
on this one guy and these pictures and just glossed over
or ignored the fact that this was a mass sighting over 100
people. And you had lots and lots of
very credible people, doctors, engineers, City Council member,
people seeing this with their wives.
At the same time, people that had had a lot to lose
reputational wise had nothing to gain financial wise.
Now they'll come out and they'll say, well, Walters wrote a book,
Walter was on TV, he was trying to get out of debt, blah, blah,
blah. I don't know about any of that.
But there was no reason for this medical doctor or this local,
you know, City Council member or the engineer.
None of these guys, they had nice quiet lives.
They were doing just fine. They didn't need the attention,
but they had the the courage and the character to come forward
and report what they saw. And it matched what Walters was
telling us. So at some point, if there's a
criminal trial and 10 people saw a guy rob a bank in broad
daylight and nine of those people say, yeah, I saw the I
saw the guy that robbed the bank and this is a description.
And the 10th person that says, yeah, I was there and I saw the
guy that robbed the bank, his description matches, but maybe
he has a history that, well, this guy, he's got an
alternative motive, maybe he's got financial problems or maybe
he's an attention seeker. That's not going to probably do
much good for the bank robber. The evidence of those nine
people that all agree is going to outweigh any evidence to the
contrary of that tenth person who happens to agree with them.
So this idea that we can destroy this report based on questions
about one person who took the pictures, all right, it just
kind of shows you where we're at in this whole discovery of the
UFO phenomenon. Now before I finish up just to
show that this stuff's been going on, this Gulf Breeze
region down there seems to be a real hotbed for UFFUFO activity.
All the time I'm seeing reports show up and I don't know if
there's some kind of a underwater UFO base down there
or if this is just a convenient place for them to go in and out
of. But I found this account from
May 14th, 2019 on weartv.com. It says Florida Man captures
video of UFO sighting in Golf Breeze and you can watch the
video here at the link. It says an unidentified flying
object was seen flying over the Midway area in Santa Rosa
County. According to George Sheldon the
Third, a witness who captured the whole incident on his cell
phone, video stated he saw a bright light flashing like a
beacon in the sky on Monday night around 11:30 PM Central
Daylight Time. So it come a long way since
1988. I mean Polaroid pictures back
then. Today we have these highfalutin
cell phones. It can tell you exactly where
you were at when you took the picture, but we don't get any
credit from the debunkers, do we?
Sheldon said the craft appeared over the southern sky near
Midway and Gulf Breeze. The witness told us the object
was in front of the clouds and caused them to illuminate.
Think about that. See this big bright light?
And it's so bright that it's lighting up the clouds behind
it. And that's got to be something,
Sheldon said. He quickly grabbed his camera to
capture the sightings and repeated quote.
He's never seen a light like this before.
I can believe it. Channel 3 News asked Sheldon
when he thought the object was. And he said it's the first time
he's ever seen anything odd or out of the ordinary due to him
being an avid skywatcher. But Dallas, it's a military
aircraft. Yeah, I have to kind of doubt
that too. You can watch the video.
I think it's pretty cool. So there we have the Gulf Breeze
UFO incident of 1987 and 88, and it's still going on today in
2023. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning over down.