Hello and welcome to the program.
Your phone warning Hennis episode were looking at the
alien abduction case of Bill Harmon, that's correct, the
alien abduction, case of Bill Herman, I have to warn you, this
does reach levels of high strangeness.
The first article comes to us here from guy's weird life dot
info written on April 15. 20 22 title says, the strange Saga of
alleged UFO contactee Bill Herman and that's spelled aah.
Grr man2, it says March 18th 1978, excetera Summerville South
Carolina, USA Bill, Herman, William Herman, AKA bill hormann
or Herman, or Herman has to be Spelling's, are was a diesel
mechanic, born-again Christian Church.
Custodian living in a mobile home in North Charleston.
South Carolina, USA, who claimed contact with aliens.
So there you have a contact. He's named, Bill Herman, you
have the date, March 8. If 1978 Circa, and you have a
little bit of a bio about the sky and most importantly, where
it happened at Charleston, South Carolina, now, North Charleston,
South Carolina. Actually, a lot of these
articles, they don't even bother to put the state in because
they're written locally. And I guess I just assumed that
there are audiences local and nobody and and everybody knows
where they're at. Anyway, says though, at the time
he reached some Fame and oppress magazines and even Japanese TV
and managed to get Get the attention of UFO all just
because of his claims he was soon forgotten like many
so-called contactees, 1977 age, 26.
He claimed he saw a glowing disk on several occasions and once
managed to capture it on nine-footer graphs he claimed he
wasn't alarmed first thinking it was some sort of military
aircraft flying at a nearby Charleston Air Force Base, which
will see here. This sighting actually happened,
pretty close to Charleston Air Force Base and he actually got
pictures This thing, he says he explained to a newspaper later.
I had never been interested in science fiction.
I thought that was all hogwash garbage, but I've had to contact
experiences and 15, sightings of UFOs.
And have also investigated 40 citing Statewide.
The first encounter was remembered that first encounter
wasn't rather remembered until months after it happened.
March 18th 1978. He says, at about 9:25 p.m., he
had gone out of his home, to a feel to get a better look at a
UFO in a marshy area. Flying flying low, over his
home. He washed it through binoculars
and walked toward it for a closer look.
The next thing he remembered was Finding himself in a strange
area with the UFO whirring away above him and Somerville 15 or
20 miles depending on the versions away from his home.
One report says he found himself standing at a plowed field about
midnight surrounded by a light glow and ran hysterically toward
a distant Road where he could see cars there.
He was picked up by a policeman. Before his family's.
In other words, you see this UFO, he goes out to have a
closer look and the next thing he remembers, he's dropped off
about 15, 20 miles away, strange, another report says he
was terrified flag down a car and found that he was in a
wooded. Clearing your Bacon's Bridge,
Road near Summerville several hours later than he thought it
should be later. He recalled under hypnosis what
happened during the several hours.
He could not account for, he watched the UFO from some
railroad tracks when it suddenly Zoom toward him and Acted as a
blinding beam of aquamarine light at him, the UFO dropped
and I was scared a green. Light came up around me.
I was disoriented at my feet. There was an orange circle of
light. I tried to run but my legs
wouldn't move. I was like, paralyzed.
I wouldn't yell I thought, oh my God, I'm going to die later.
He says he was on his low examination.
He was on the slow examination. Table.
Only two feet above the floor inside.
The UFO with three strange looking beings.
Watch over him using a blinking x-ray like device.
They told him, there are three races of intelligent beings from
outer space at visit Earth, and Kant and conduct experiments and
observe life here. He said, he distinctive.
He distinctly remembered the craft was a molded metal to
deck, Contraption, about 70 feet in diameter and 25 feet high.
The arguments were about four and a half feet tall with
So-called colored skin hairless and without eye pupils their
skin was the color of a marshmallow, or the ice were
long and dark with a brown. Iris their heads.
Look like overgrown, human fetuses, with no ears or hair.
He told later almost sounds like you're describing one of the
graves that we hear about. So often, they spoke English
with new accent and told him not to be afraid but he was the UFO
crew callously referred to him as a subject and said that he
along with certain other. Earthlings have been chosen for
their experiments, the anticipated, this questions and
they spoke without moving their lips.
So we're talking about telepathic communication are as
far as being chosen? I think he may have just been
unlucky enough to have come outside and looked up at the
sing for a little too long. He claimed he had no memory of
his UFO Abduction for a year. But on April 21st 1979 a
mysterious metal bar shaped like an ignorant and bearing the
letters man2 all capital letters.
Letters and some mysterious symbols suddenly materialized in
a globe of blue-green light and his bedroom.
So the sandwiches beam down time.
He says, once we're set after the first close encounter, he
suffered insomnia in general nervousness and unrest and was
submitted to hypnosis under the guidance of James, a harder of a
pro, it's a PR o, all caps some days later in this version, we
learned that one of the three being spoke to him with his one
of the three beings spoke to him.
While his mouth did not appear to move that he was given a
brief tour of the space craft and then lost Consciousness.
He had learned that the beings were from Zeta reticuli and had
been observing Earth for half a century.
Being concerned about Humanity's Tendencies toward war and
warning, that are violent Nature's would destroy human
civilization. Hard to imagine that.
These things would be that empathetic to me, actually in
light of the many really horrendous abductions and also
all of the cattle. Mutilations anyways says in the
weeks following the hypnosis session permanent claimed other
UFO sightings and told he had a compulsion to write from right
to left pages of a script and an unknown language channeling
messages from the people who had abducted him.
Herman said he had just finished writing about three.
A pages of such messages on April 21st 1979 when he felt his
home Shake saw his lights flicker and go out and saw
Globe. A blue-green light began to grow
on his desk. I was so frightened, I couldn't
look at it when the glow subsided, I saw the bar lying on
the edge of the desk, I thought it would be hot, but it felt
cold and he's describing automatic writing there.
And this is something associated with a call for many, many years
and was quite popular. I think back in the mid to late
1800s. Definitely something.
We don't typically think of with UFOs.
But something we do think of when we think of the occult or
cultic type activity, he says Herman claimed a second
encounter on May 16th 1979 after that barb appeared in his home,
he voluntarily climbed aboard, the UFO after feeling an urge to
go to a spot where the UFO met him.
He said, this is another case, it seems like mind control to
me. I mean, why would you ever want
to get back on that thing? But people people report doing
this over and over again. This is it was a three and a
half hour trip, down to Florida and back.
We flew above an Orange Grove and over the Kennedy Space
Center. I remember, looking down through
some kind of monitor at the faces of people looking up at
us. The aliens told him that they
were from Zeta reticuli. Solar system, 32, light-years
from here, Herman said they said I'll see them again but I
haven't not that. I'm looking for them.
In December 1982, was my last sighting but I won't be afraid
next time. Wow.
Now you can watch that. There's several videos online of
him talking about his experience and I have to say they're
compelling Omni magazine. Had a sample of the bars scrape
from the scraped off and analyzed at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, which found the bar is made of
ordinary elements cast alloy of lead 6% antimony.
Approximating the composition of lead.
Apes or grid from an auto battery Herman said, the aliens
told him the bar is a substance of worthless as a substance
worthless to humans of Great Value to the extraterrestrials.
That's interesting. A major player in the case was
retired, Air Force, Colonel wind LLC, Stevens of Tucson.
Then investigator for aerial phenomena research organization
or a pro Stevens. Like who we often did with the
contactees who were proven liar? Supported Herman's story
entirely? Lee.
Well, that's interesting. It seems like a kind of a kind
of a pretty solid negative opinion of this guy.
He said he spent 11 days investigating Herman's first
encounter story, and that it really happened because he had a
lot of data to support it. And Stephen said, he collected
testimonies from a number of Charleston area residents who
told that they saw a similar UFO, including sites on the same
night as Herman's reported his encounters.
He also said Herman's color photos, which include a shot of
your, of a purported. You Vote railing and Air Force
jet near Charleston Air Force Base are genuine, apparently
sent Herman's UFO photos to the jet propulsion laboratory in
Pasadena, for enhancement computer evaluation, but I found
a report of the findings. You can see these pictures
online and I did post one on my buy me a coffee, buy me a coffee
account, you can go in and take a look at it that links on the
anchor website. It says it seems Stevens.
Also had a protest metal bar though.
I did not find what was concluded, but Stevens.
Had the markings on a barbed molded in the middle included.
Map of the star group reticulum from which Harmon says, the
aliens told him they came Stevens argue that is the star
group is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere and the
start map puts a star in a configuration.
Never seen from Earth, Herman could not have made it up.
Only one star short chart shows such a projection and the
charters in Hungary and printed in Hungarian, most people have
never heard of the chart. And there's no way Herman could
have ever seen it. The chart is only known to
Highly Advanced astronomers. He explained that the bar is
from is a form of recognition, given only to a few Earth people
for having overcome, the trauma of maintaining communication
with aliens Herman's so many claimed, he was told by the
aliens had, his second counter with him.
At the bar was a gift for me significant signifying.
They were thankful for and appreciative of the way I handle
situation after the first abduction.
Nice. Another, your kidnappers are
grateful. Stevens, also, investigated,
hermas. Automatic writings and said, an
IBM design engineer examine. Some of the script and told it
could represent a formula for accelerating matter to a demerit
or D materialize state. It was reported that he
underwent psychological stress evaluation polygraph test that
convinced investigators. He believes he was actually a
board a UFO but the task however are capable of determining
whether the encounter actually took place.
Apparently the test was given by one Charles in the question of
West Palm Beach after Herman reported his first encounter to
the aliens. Then it goes on says that they
had a major Film deal in the works, apparently dr.
Bernstein mr. Nye New, York's of physician
teacher hypnosis therapy at Columbia University and UFO.
Witness question Herman under hypnosis.
And was also convinced Herman believes his own story to be
real. Then talks a little bit about
some of the stuff that he did afterwards.
He had some interviews in this and that it seems that I'm
November 10th. This is 1981, Herman was fired
from his position of Church of children's church teacher
because they believed he was involved in satanic things when
he spoke about UFOs on. TV, four days later.
He allegedly received a telepathic transmission from his
alien friends, a sketch. If a power unit, which contained
a pair of eyes the same day, apparently he wrote an essay
title, inevitable destruction, and what she wanted.
That the entire Earth would soon be involved, and he turned in an
eternal fire storm because of geopolitical events course.
This would have been 40 years ago were still here.
Obviously, after his last UFO sighting 1982, Herman was
occasionally interviewed in local newspapers.
He told I've gone through All kinds of medical batteries and I
don't have any radiation or side effects and no implants.
He told that his life had changed that you regretted the
harassment of subjected to and insisted that he had not looked
for any publicity. This is like many cases at first
appears Class, C III to apologize, but then develop into
repetitive Encounters of messages from benevolent aliens.
The Herman case was soon forgotten as one, more contactee
tall tale, it was however, still mentioned in several catalogs,
OD, Close Encounters of the Third Kind with no word of
caution or down. Down.
And then he says, the last Echo I could trace was remark on the
Above Top Secret, you have ology Forum in which an anonymous
participant gave news of Bill Herman, says bill.
Now denies, everything and shocks the whole experience up
to demonic possession. Well, of course, that's an
anonymous source and I haven't found anywhere else where Bill
said that this is a fascinating case.
You could imagine how having this sort of reduction case, my
really cause a person to spin into some sort of psychotic
event or some sort of a almost like a nervous breakdown I guess
you could say, Bill did go into some of these regressive
hypnosis type memory things. We don't know if those are true
or not because we don't have any physical evidence.
I find the bar that was left him to be interesting, especially
the fact that it has this starch.
On it that supposedly he had no way of knowing about overall the
case. I think it's fascinating, I'm
nothing else. Even though the case by now is
over 40 years old not want, they can take a look at another
article on this. Now I want to take a look at
this next news article from latest UFO, sightings dotnet
latest UFO. Sightings dotnet title, says
incredible Bill, Herman UFO and alien abduction case.
It's got some sketching here apparently that bill did.
Along with illustration of what the aliens look like to him.
It's also got some pictures here of the UFOs that he photographed
reportedly. This is from 1980, it says,
Charleston, South Carolina. They look like pretty good
pictures, what the real not I guess you can be the judge.
I can't tell it's there. This is 1980, you know, been a
lot harder to photoshop things back then.
You didn't have modern computers and all that.
The article starts offices, William J Herman's experience
with the UFO and alleged alien alien abduction in 1978.
Is a remarkable story that's told generates interest among
people interested in the UFO phenomena.
Herman Story is unique and that he claimed to have taken
photographs of the UFO which were eventually authenticated by
photo experts. Furthermore, a story of being
taken aboard, the UFO and examined by the humanoid beings.
During a hypnosis session is intriguing Herman's experiences
began in. Member of 1977 when he claimed
to have had a series of sightings of UFO over
Charleston, South Carolina, it's almost like these things were
stocking and January, 22nd 1978. He was finally able to take nine
photographs for the object, two months later.
He claimed to have had a close encounter with the same UFO,
according to Herman the disc, he had cited earlier, reappeared,
and came toward him as sent out a light beam that paralyzed him
and causing him to lose Consciousness.
He awoke three hours later. 15 miles away and watch the UFO
depart pretty clearly. According to him, he was
abducted. It says, after reporting the
incident to the police, Herman began suffering from insomnia
and general nervousness and unrest, he eventually submitted
to hypnosis under the guidance of a James, a harder, a
prominent UFO researcher associated, with the aerial
phenomena research organization during the hypnosis.
He recalled being aboard, the UFO, and examined by three,
humanoid creatures with large, It was heads, oversized eyes
pale skin and red clothing. That's interesting.
Red Clothing, one of the three spoke to him, but his mouth did
not appear to move. He was given a brief tour of the
spaceship and then lost Consciousness.
He claimed to beings for more from Zeta reticuli and had been
observing Earth for a half a century.
They were concerned about Humanity's Tendencies toward war
and warned that are violent nature would destroy human
civilization. This is one of these common
themes that we here. Are coming through these UFO
stories. Now, this site has a 30 minute
video here, I think it's supposed to be recording.
One of one of the hypnosis ations, he underwent, it says in
the weeks, following the hypnosis session Herman claim to
have other sightings and begin channeling messages from people
who had abducted him. He also produced a metal bar
that he claimed came from the aliens which was eventually
shown to be made of lead and antimony similar in content.
The material and an automobile battery and may 1979 Herman
claimed to have had a final contact with the saucer beings
who took him for a ride and it's got another interview with him.
I got the link to this, I believe at the website, I'll try
to put one up there. If I haven't for the buy me a
coffee site. You can take a look at some of
these, some of these videos, pretty neat as Herman Story
became more widely known. He co-authored a more complete
account of his story with Wendell Stevens.
A Uh sure of UFO contactee material, then it's got a link
there. To the book says the volume
circulated in the contact. He's subculture but was
generally dismissed by ufologists is seeking as
lacking, any collaboration. Unfortunately, he was by himself
in this happen overall, William Herman's experiences.
A fascinating example of an alleged UFO encounter, an alien
abduction. That was captured that has
captured the imagination of people interested in a UFO
phenomena for decades while Skeptics May dismiss.
His story is clearly Herman truly believe.
What he experienced that it remains an intriguing part of
UFO lore. I would agree.
Okay, I want to look at one more article here before we close
this out. Now, this last article comes to
us from Charleston City Paper.com, Charleston City
paper.com, my destiny Waters date on its March 23rd. 2016
title says shining a light on UFO.
Sightings it begins by saying I'm March 18th 1978 at
approximately 1:15 a.m. Deputy Pike Limehouse us with
the Dorchester Sheriff's. Office was called out to remote.
It was called out to a remote area near Summerville to
investigate something that could not be explained.
Speaking to a film crew later that year the officer said that.
Once he arrived on scene, he was approached by a North Charleston
resident by the name of Bill Herman.
Who told the deputy he would? He would not believe what had
happened. Limehouse said he had never seen
seen a man that excited before as a to stood together in an
open field under a half a full moon.
The officer expected the worst but what he got was The
Unbelievable Herman. A fresh-faced diesel mechanic
reported that he had been standing in his yard in North
Charleston before finding himself in a field, 15 miles
away. So here we have a report of this
abduction happening and it's in real time so that to me lends a
lot more credibility to it as Herman's employer and longtime
friend described him as a good member of his church, his family
and the community Herman later told Reporters that he had never
believed in UFOs. Before that strange night in
1978, when he found himself mysteriously transported from
outside his home, went into curd, he was unsure, what had
even happened? But the gaps in his memory would
fill in over the following years and 1981 Herman, shared the
story of his abduction with an AP reporter.
Describing the night that he watched a metal disc 60 feet in
diameter, drop down in front of him, falling backwards.
He told the reporter, he was engulfed in a blue light and
pull Toward the ship Herman said he then found himself alone and
Afraid in an empty field. He couldn't recall what had
happened. He didn't know what he what he
had been. He didn't know there had been
taken. He told the reporter, he felt
dirty, he felt like he had been around something, he shouldn't
have been around face, was something he couldn't explain.
He wept clearly, he was traumatized by this situation.
Herman would go on to recount otherworldly encounters that
took place after For this initial abduction.
He was interviewed by film Crews and resources of the
supernatural, but living with these experiences and sharing
these stories will take a toll on his personal life in the
Years surrounding his alleged UFO encounters.
He says, my wife put up with more than anyone would put up
with. He said in a 1981 article
published and Greenwoods index Journal.
It's hard. It's hard to live with someone
whose idea of a good night is to go out and sit in the car with a
pair of binoculars, and wait for something to arrive.
But how do you move past? Such a life-changing experience
UFO. Sightings continue to pour in
from all across the low country and many other people involved.
Just want one thing and explanation.
They just want to know that they're not the only ones who
have seen Bright Lights dance across the night sky.
And when they go looking for answers, many South Carolinians
end up talking with Cheryl Gilmore state director of the
mutual UFO Network or move font officially formed in 1969, mufon
investigates and collects data on reported UFO.
Sightings across So World ironically it was that same year
that United States Air, Force terminated Project Blue Book, a
government program at study UFOs over. 22 years, the Air Force
investigated 12600 18 total. Sightings, it's a lot more than
700 of which were never identified as a state director
of North Carolina, Gilmore documents, each reported
encounter and either signs of cases to a trained, local field,
agent, or investigate some herself for Gilmore.
And the other members move on, it's important to take a
scientific approach to each siding.
And to gather all the important facts of mouflons are
approximately 3500 members about 37 or located in South Carolina,
Gilmore says her interest in UFOs started, in 1959 in her
hometown or Fresno high. Oh playing in a pasture one day.
With her cousin, she felt compelled to look up and what
she saw next change her life. She says here is this beautiful
blue sky here in the speed of blue sky was a shiny silver
disc. It was just hovering up there
and it Like Chrome on a car. That was back when there was
Chrome on car. She says, it was silent.
Just, hovering there, I didn't feel fear of any kind.
We ran back to the house and told my aunt and my grandmother,
they came out. And my aunt said that's one of
those flying saucers. That's what we call them back.
Then struck by curiosity. Gilmore went to school the next
day and shared the story with her science, teacher, and
classmates. They laughed.
She was labeled a flying saucer kid until she graduated high
school. Fortunately Gilmore didn't, let
their ridiculed in a sense of wonder.
Her desire for the truth. Yes, thankfully she did not
allow them to D person. Her she said people are more
understanding nowadays. There are some stigma related to
it but not nearly as much most of the recent sightings reports
in the Charleston area of All Bright.
Orbs moving across the sky. Last July, and orange ball of
light, was spotted over Mount Pleasant moving Northwest, the
orb change the shape before disappearing.
Two weeks later at Charleston, Resident was leaving work.
When he witnessed a series of Lights drift slowly across This
guy and what he described as a perfect, precise movements,
shifting formation the lights, forming a triangle and
eventually faded Gilmore, recommends, anyone who sees a
UFO to try to take a photo or video with their smartphone, but
she says, many witnesses are to awestruck to properly document
their sightings. That's correct.
It goes on and says after years of studying sightings Gilmore
remains reluctant to say she believes in UFOs as most people
understand them. But she believes that there is
something that has been interacting with this planet,
for thousands of years. It would it could be They force
from outer space. Another dimension, or Time
Travelers. She doesn't have a different
finity of answer, but Gilmore knows there's something out
there. And for those unwilling to
entertain such possibilities. Remember Hamlet's words to a
skeptical friend, there are more things in Heaven and Earth
Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
That's pretty interesting. Well, I thought that was a
pretty decent. Look at what happened.
Two. Mr. Herman back there, in 1978
overall. Fascinating case.
If anybody has any information on an update with this fellow,
you can leave a comment over at buy me a coffee.
Maybe it would be. Fascinating to know what he's
doing now. If you still alive he'd be in
his 70s. I suppose and how he looks back
on this account that he had in the subsequent Communications.
He had with what he found these to be alien entities at the
time. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over now