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You have a warning and this episode we're talking about the
1973 UFO landing. That's correct.
The 1973 UFO landing. Now, the first article comes to
us from howstuffworks.com the title, says the 1973 Missouri,
UFO, sighting, of course, will soon.
See, this was a little bit more involved than just a sighting.
The article Begins by saying an odd, Ding sound, brought James,
Richard 41 and his sixteen-year-old daughter
vanilla to the north window of them Columbia Missouri's mobile
home at 12:30 a.m. on June 28, 1973 some 50 feet away and five
feet apart to brilliant. Silver Li silvery-white beams of
nocturnal light shown when these lights suddenly faded away and
oval shaped object about 15, feet in diameter became visible
near the Pound. It was so bright that Richard
had to look away. The entire area was lit up as
bright as day. He reported you can.
Imagine this is 1973 long before the internet at 12 a.m. pretty
unlikely that there was even a television channel broadcasting
at that time, least, not in Missouri, they look out the
window. They see these two extremely
bright silver, silver, colored lights coming down beams.
And next thing, you know, they see this 15-foot Ask levitating
they're just off the ground in their yard that had to be
breathtaking to say the least, the trees and the UFOs vicinity
suede is if caught any powerful wind one almost touch the
ground. And limbs snapped off all the
while Richards dogs like quietly inside the house.
Their behavior seemed oddly out of character unnerved.
Richard went for a gun which he kept close as a UFO continue to
have it by the trees. Richard then called the Trailer
park switchboard, and asked that the police be notified as he
spoke the lights in his house, dimmed twice.
This is almost like something out of Close Encounters of the
Third Kind. I mean, you don't know if it's
just maybe the trees have come in contact with the power lines
or if this thing is just sucking so much energy out of the
environment that it's literally drawing the electricity out of
this man's house. He says the UFO headed off
toward the north. It's caller dimming slightly and
revealing a silvery surface with blue and orange bands of light.
At one point, it moved toward riches residence, then retreated
and after a few minutes is gone altogether.
So it's almost like you wonder if the same wasn't on some kind
of an abduction Mission, but when they saw Richard armed,
they knew it wasn't going to be an easy go of it.
I wonder if Investigators subsequently, found broken,
limbs broken tree, limbs crushed, foot crushed, foliage,
and some trees burned leaves as high as 35 feet above the ground
and the days ahead more leaves wilted and died.
The UFO left imprints two feet deep in the hard ground.
I think about that 2 feet deep in the hard ground.
So, Whatever this thing was it had to have some weight to it.
I mean, you can kind of see the chronology of events.
This guy is at home in his trailer house with his daughter.
They see these two bright beams of light.
Come down. They see this UFO descend down
from the trees. Obviously it landed because it
left to two foot deep imprints on the ground.
It's six. Explain this bright light.
It goes back up into the air and it's putting off so much.
Whether it's wind or some kind of electromagnetic force that
it's just bending the trees over around it.
It darts off then acts, like it's coming back toward the
trailer house and then leaves again.
And after it's gone, if I'm broken tree branches, burnt
wilted leaves. And even after the event, the
tree is continue to suffer damage from this encounter
almost seems like maybe radiation poisoning.
This is something that we see happened a lot in these types of
encounters. Now, the other article I want to
read maybe a little bit more full, involved a little bit
more. Analytical, this is from
Missouri move, on.org. And it says you fond UFO landing
Columbia, Missouri. 1973 that has a source here.
Angelfire.com glowing, UFO, physical, trace evidence
Columbia Missouri. June 28, 1973.
It goes on and says Columbia Missouri. 2873 looks like about
12:30 to 105. So this must have went on for
about a half hour, 35 minutes, witness James G Richards age, 41
animal care, technician, University of Missouri.
So this guy must look worked at the local University on their
veneer Richards age. 16 daughter and Jamie Richards Age, 3, son
weather conditions provided by Don semanek.
Colby original weather bureau sky, clear visibility, 20 miles
temperature, 66 degrees wind 5 knots at 290 degrees.
So the one is blonde five six. Seven mile an hour.
You wouldn't expect the trees to be bent over like that.
That's just kind of a nice little breeze.
It says, astronomical conditions, moon phase 7.4%
rising at 0 to 36, single bright star, in portion of Sky,
cappella below Horizon rising at So in other words, it's pretty
much a clear Dark Night with not a lot of stars out when they saw
this thing goes on and says on-site investigation from July
9th, 1973 Ted, and ginger Phillips July 14th, 1973 dr.
J Allen, hynek Ted and ginger Phillips and July 28 1973 Ted
and ginger Phillips location of observation, 1/2 Mile southeast
of Columbia Northeast 1/4. Southeast 1/4 section, 17 Route,
12 West t48, North Boone, County, Missouri.
So you could actually just type that in and go to Google Maps
and see exactly where it's at. I'd imagine setting the
witnesses live setting the witnesses live in a mobile home,
located outside. The city limits of Columbia.
The home is located at the end of a dead-end lane, about 1,000
feet, north of State, Road, West, West WWE.
The home is, Rounded by scattered trees, with the
exception of the front, yard to the east, to the eea house is
located across the lane, to the East and is occupied by an
elderly lady who was asleep at the time of the observation.
This is others contacted regarding this event, mrs.
AP directory assistance, operations.
Operator Columbia, mrs. LM operator, Columbia Federal
Aviation Administration and then it says, the following
information was gathered during Three visits at the home of the
James Richards, family portions of the report are taken,
directly from the taped interviews, the observation the
event began as of Ania went into the kitchen located at the North
End of the mobile home to place a baby bottle in the
refrigerator, which is located by the north window.
And that window was open at the time, Vanilla heard a rather
loud. It could be heard over the
record player in the living room, thrashing, sound in the
Correction of scattered trees, some 80 feet, north of the
window. At this point, she could see
nothing in the dark wooded area. As she listened at the window,
the sound seemed to be moving around a large tree.
So, this is a sound of Sasha's putting off.
Is this coming in for a landing? Apparently, at the sound, as a
sound, persisted, she became frightened and called to her,
father, to come to the window. Mr. Richards and Jamie were
sitting in the living room. Richard That stated that is it
was late. He was tired and was slow and
was slow going to the window video.
Rented, the screen porch at the front of the home and locked the
outside screen door and the front door.
That's just normal. Normal human behavior man.
She hears this loud unfamiliar noise as swishing sound and
she's going to lock the screen door for whatever good that's
going to do by this time. Richards had reached the window
And was looking from the left side of the window toward the
north Northeast of any. I took up a position on the
right side of the window and was looking toward the trees as he
watched mr. Richards noted two beams of
Light which were located at a point between the fence and the
trees. So he specifically sees these
lights between offense and the trees, it's not like you just
saw something off in the distance, it's not like he saw,
you know, a radio tower or Just generalize thing.
He's specifically says, he sees these two, lights located at a
point between the fence and the trees.
The light beams would have been about 50 feet from the window.
The beams were tapered white at the top about four feet wide
tapering to, to tapering to, about two and a half feet at the
ground, there were some five feet apart at the top.
The beams were bright and silver white and color.
He could not see any form above or Find the beams.
So whatever they were doing, whatever this UFO was doing.
What those beams. It was doing a pretty good job
of hiding itself. You couldn't see the UFO because
these beans were so bright, and you can see how they're coming
directly from the craft all the way down to the ground, and
they're kind of falling down to a point.
He says, suddenly the beams disappeared faded out rapidly in
a bright oval form was seen just above the ground position of the
beams. So here, the beam says appear.
He sees us bright oval form. Richards and Vanna estimated the
glowing form to be 12 to 15 feet in diameter and very near the
ground. The object was described as
extremely bright Richards, had to turn his eyes away, briefly
and and it was silver weight and color.
The edges were fuzzy and no surface details were visible.
The glow did not fade or brighten during the observation.
The trees were around the form to the left.
And right, we're quite the trees around the form to the left and
right, we're quite visible in the glow.
The area was lit up, bright as day, no sound could be heard
other than the threshing noise and the trees and the grass.
So, whatever. This thing was the noise was
produced around it. It sounds like it's producing
this intense intense bright silver, white light.
No, other forms were seen. They notice that the trees were
moving back and forth as though blown by a strong wind reminding
you the wind speeds or five not snow storms in the area.
So five dots is not very fast. Tree tree.
A showed a different motion. It was described by Vanessa is a
tugging motion. It seemed that something was
pulling that one tree forward to the ground.
Now whether they were using this thing to Anchor, it self to the
tree, or maybe this tree was just a whatever kind of breed of
tree. It was it was somehow
biologically inclined to be almost like magnetized toward
the same. We don't know, but there's
They're saying the trees are blowing away except one tree
seems to be just bent over being drawn right to it.
Shortly. After the Forum was visible, the
threshing noise ceased the tuggy motion on the tree on tree.
A was still evident mr. Richards and vanilla heard a
loud cracking sound and the tug emotions stopped.
It was his tree, which was damaged the following morning.
A large limb was found broken at a point 17 feet above the
ground. So imagine this thing Being
pulled from 17 feet above the ground, at least.
So it wasn't like somebody was out there with the car pushing
on it. It wasn't like somebody could
climb this thing and pull on it. This is what it required.
A tremendous amount of force, the area was very quiet.
Now, Richards moved to the various Windows around the
trailer, it was at this time that he notices dogs lying, very
still between the trailer and a shed near by to the West.
He told me that dogs were normally barking during the
night at their various night animals in the area.
Not tonight, though, those dogs got one, look at that UFO.
And they were, they were being real quiet.
And it seemed very strange to him that his dogs were not
barking at all. This noise and bright lights.
The dogs are large security animals.
Not easily, frightened Richard's, then went to the
bedroom at the south end of the trailer to get his guns.
He brought the guns to the kitchen removed several shells,
from a cabinet, loaded the guns, and place them on a deep freeze
by the north window, he joined Vinny at the window once again
and noticed that the object was still there.
In the same position, the light from the glowing form
illuminated trees as Or away is 100 feet.
So this is a pretty bright light now.
Mr. Rich is going to his guns, he's got his guns loaded, he's
watching this thing, so he's intensely involved.
And this UFO encounter. This is far beyond a sighting at
this closed position about 50 feet.
It was silver, white or aluminum and caller.
No, other callers are visible, mr.
Richard said it was real real bright at the center dull.
White at the edges Way. Beyond a normal light such as an
automobile. Mobilio headlight at the same
distance in brightness of their brightness.
Phineas said it was bright, but it didn't hurt my eyes.
Now, a lot of folks that I've seen these UFOs can attest to
this very strange bright. Illuminating Light, my own
personal experience is not like something that you've ever seen
before brighter than stage lights.
But not to the point where, if you've had the experience of
staring into the high beams, on a car coming at you, totally
different. These are the kind of So just
seem to be made for the purpose of lighting up everything in a
specific area. Very a very weird phenomena in
itself. It says, after the form had
remained in this same position for several minutes, Richard's
decided to call for help the object suddenly begin to move
away toward the north passing below tree, limbs through an
open area, some 20 feet, it moved, parallel to the ground
until it reached the edge of a field and then raised slightly.
And huh? Heard some 200 feet away from
the house. It almost seems like it was
stalking the Richard family just watching him and seems weird
that, you know, he goes and gets the guns and then he calls for
help. And then the same moves off a
little bit. At this point, it was not as
bright, and they could see it. And they can see it was silver
white at the center with a blue band of light and an orange glow
extending around. The outer edge.
It was still low enough to be below a line of trees at the
North edge of the field. And when it was at this Far
Point, Richard said, while the object was some distance away
Richards delved 1134 directory, assistance has been long enough.
This is before 9/11, this is AP took the call and later told me
that Richards was very excited and seemed to be frightened as
he described the event. He told her that he needed help
and ask her to contact the police, the FBI, or anyone who
could help him. You know it sounds like mr.
Richards at some level knew that he was very close to being
abducted by these things and he wanted no part of that I have to
think of my own mind that if he would have walked out in that
yard and looked up like a Curious.
George he'd been on that ship before.
He knew what hit him. Just my thoughts.
And says after about one minute, she told him she would contact
an operator and have her call him back.
As he talked with mrs. P the house lights dim twice.
He hung up and To the window, mr.
Well, mr. Richards and banana were
watching the object. Mrs. P contacted mrs.
LM, and gave her the phone number mrs.
Immediately, dialed the number. There was no busy signal.
No ring. Nothing in her opinion there.
Richards line was dead. Well, it was like this thing.
I just suck the power right out of it.
She tried dialing. The number five times pausing.
After the third try to contact, mrs.
P to be sure she had the right number.
She did. After the fifth try, she stated
it would have taken Perhaps three minutes to do all five
times waiting briefly after each style and contacting mr.
P. She did not get through.
So it's almost like this thing is this disc has just come down,
landed, observe the Richards family.
Just levitated off into the distance, instead of suspended
there about 200 feet away and now it's like, it's still
stalking them. Shut the electricity down shuts,
the phone down. Richard's in told mr.
Mrs. M, what happened, what had been happening?
What's this during this time? During this time, Richards was
quite concerned is no one had called back.
So, they picked up the receiver to call out.
Again, over his end of the line. He could hear, no sound, no busy
signal. He tried again and again
suddenly as he recalls, mrs. M was on the line saying
Richards, and he answered Jefferson City Richards.
Then told mrs. Him.
What had been happening and that he was frightened for his
children. Remember this is 1973.
You can still call the operator wasn't all computerized back
then. Mrs. M thought she could not be
sure that she contacted the Richards home at at about about
1:45 a.m. a 12:45 a.m. to her best recollection.
He repeated his story over and over pausing to ask vinay if she
was still there and what it was doing.
Both operators thought that Richard was sober and telling
the truth after what seemed to be several minutes.
She couldn't be sure of the time.
Mrs. M contacted the flight service station at the Columbia
Regional Airport. Mrs. HS was on duty at the time.
Mrs. S stated that Richard sounded sincere and sober.
He seemed to be frightened as he described the event after
several minutes. Mrs. S told Richards that there
had been another sighting on June 24th of Jefferson City.
She then told him that she would contact the police for him and
they hung up. So as we So often see in these
situations, the sightings are occurring on multiple days, and
this is no different. Had one on the 24th that was
reported in Jefferson City, not that far away and here we are in
Colombia on the 28th and who knows how many times have I seen
in between? But people just didn't report
it. Because on a says, object was
again moving toward the home and Richards, became very
frightened, Richard stated that came back and we had it.
I'll tell you, we didn't know what to do, we both got kind of
scared eyes. What's going to happen?
Something's going to happen here.
This could this cold feeling came over me.
I got I got speechless at this time.
I just had this cold feeling when it came back that second
time, I was just sure. Like, you almost feel like you
were going to get killed or something like death was at you,
this was it. I didn't know what to do.
I just froze. This man knows that this UFO
entity whatever it is. He knows, and he's bones.
That's hunting him, it's talking him.
No doubt my mind about that. He says, I just know, I just
knew this was it and no one could come no policeman.
I was scared to go to the door. I wouldn't have gone outside no
way. Then it says the object move
through the trees to a point near the trees near its original
position 50 feet away from the window.
So now it's coming back to the house it remained there for an
undetermined period of time. It's suddenly moved away through
the trees toward the field. It moved with the smooth slow
motion, no sound Richards noted that the trees did not move.
During the second closer approach and there was no
thrashing sound as the object reached a point at the near edge
of the field, it raised slightly until it reached a point over
the field, some 200 feet away, it hovered and no motion could
be seen. It was still below the tree line
to the north, the orange and blue bands.
Could be seen again, it will silver white at the center.
The glow seemed to shrink, even though it was getting smaller,
the orange and blue bands, were visible until it just
disappeared by growing smaller and smaller.
It does not appear likely it was growing smaller because it was
moving away into the distance as no motion can be seen.
And it would have hit the trees to the Northeast hadn't flown
away. After the glow had faded out,
the object was not seen again. Almost makes you think these
things are interdimensional because it's not going away.
As I say, it's just fading in and out of existence.
At about 0145, it's about 1:45 in the morning.
So this is almost two hours after all this started over to
our over an hour. Yeah, over an hour and a
quarter, I guess, the police arrived.
One young officer walked to the area with Richards and looked
around briefly. He told Richards that there were
some tracks, but they look like they were made by rabbits
Richards told him to forget the whole thing and he returned to
the trailer, followed by the officer.
He told the officer if he thought they were rabbit tracks
is Forget the whole thing. It is very possible the officer
didn't see the Deep imprints. They did not see the broken limb
at the time, Richard's called the flight service station after
the object had disappeared and mrs.
S stated that and mrs. S stated that he seemed relieved
that he could talk with someone about the event.
So it's calls the cops up in the cops.
Basically just blew him off is what it sounds like.
You know, this is a pretty big story to digest for people that
want to deny the existence of the The UFO phenomenon, it says,
the site July 9th, 1973. My wife and I interviewed the
witnesses and investigated the area on our way to Chicago Allen
hynek had divided us for a visit and to meet Jazz drummer Buddy,
Rich. I being a drummer and had
mentioned Alan that buddy was my favorite on the planet, but he
had a sighting and had contacted Allen week earlier and was
playing in Chicago for a week. I spent most of the time
observing measurements and taking photographs of the site,
the imprints and damage to the trees.
Is located in an area of scattered trees, north of the
trailer. Offense is located, 25 feet from
the window. And the first imprint was found
some 50 and a half feet beyond the fence.
This seemed to be a series of there.
Seemed this seemed to be a series of impress rather than
just one the imprints at this point.
Number four. They were, they were six inches
or 0.05 feet by .4 feet with a depth of Point 2 to point 3
feet. This first, set of imprints are
not nine and a half. Feet from a large broken tree.
Limb. This lamb is point four feet in
diameter and was still attached to the tree trunk.
So this limb was, you know what 5 inches across and was still
attached to the tree, but just kind of ripped off.
It sounds like it appeared to have been twisted and pulled
towards the ground. Don't take a lot of strength to
pull a 56-inch. Limb off a tree.
The limb was broken at a point, sixteen and a half feet above
the ground to smaller limbs. Each point, one feet in diameter
located on the large limb of Off a small limb 17 feet above the
ground and extending from the tree trunk, at the point of the
brake shows signs of being rubbed.
All the breaks were fresh leaves in the area above the path taken
by the object to, and from the field, but especially over the
point where I had been, but where it had been a had hovered
are dying. There are signs of heating,
three, limbs on the tree. Be had leaves that were Brown.
These are 25 to 35 feet above the ground.
To the north. Now, the first imprints along
the objects reported path, we found a complex series of
imprints. He says it is difficult to
determine a pattern as the object move through this area.
Four times coming in and going out, Bob Gassaway, a reporter
for the Columbus, the Columbia Tribune visited the area, the
day after the sighting. He told me that he tried to make
a heel Mark by one of the imprints.
And although he weighs 300 pounds, he could force his heel
to a depth of only about a half inch Does imprints are generally
point five, two point, four feet.
So you know, four, five, six inches, deep with a depth of 4
inches point three feet. We must assume a weight on each
imprint above 300 pounds, rabbits, don't think.
So, basically what he says, there were no marks in the
fields and their radiation, and no radiation can be detected
plaster. Casts were taken and the
imprints were outlined with flour for photographs when we
arrived in Chicago. Do I process the film at the
Northwestern University dark room?
We describe the event with the photographs and Buddy and Alum,
both plan to go, get back with us, go back with us, Allen made
it, but buddy couldn't get around and schedule, buddy.
And I discuss cases many times. After this on July 14th, we
returned with with Jay Allen. The leaves were all quite dead
than in the limbs were Barren over the area.
Wow. So whatever this thing was it
cause permanent don't damage to these trees and I just find this
to be a fascinating, a detailed account of what happened and
what what this gentleman and his daughter saw on June, 28 1973
back in Columbia, Missouri. Until next time, this is UFO
morning over and out.