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You have forewarning in this episode we're taking a look at
UFO encounters and the Lone Star State.
That's correct UFO Encounters in the Lone Star State.
Now the article comes from Texas, monthly written by camera
by Pamela khalaf. We'll just skip through the
introduction here because it's not really important, but she
starts off with some interesting accounts of some of these, some
of these UFO encounters when core back to 1878 first one here
in Denison, Texas. It says thanks to a
long-forgotten 19th century farmer named John Martin
unidentified flying objects. Were first described as saucers
here in Texas. According to the article a
strange phenomena that appeared in Denison.
Daily news on January, 25th 1878, Martin was hunting when he
saw a dark object high in the northern sky.
The news account states that the peculiar shape and the velocity
with, which he, with which the object seemed to approach,
Riveted his attention and he strained his eyes to discover
its character. When first notice, it appeared
to be about the size of an orange after which it continued
to grow large. So it looks like this first UFO,
sighting recorded, at least and Texas back on January 25th, 1878
by this mr. Martin was definitely exhibited
the qualities of a shapeshifter. It's changing the size starts
out the size of an orange, then begins to grow.
Either as it approaches the experiencer after gazing at it,
for some time, the article continues mr.
Martin became blind from looking and left for Left of viewing to
rest his eyes. On resuming his view, the
objects. Almost overhead at increased
considerably in size and appear to be going through space at a
wonderful speed when directly over him.
It was about the size of a large saucer and was evidently a great
height. So he's seeing it as a size of a
saucer, but imagine how big this thing actually was because he
was looking at it from a long distance away.
It says, although Martin saw a quote, unquote saucer Idaho
pilot. Kenneth Arnold is widely and
incorrectly credited. In this first person to describe
an identified flying objects. As such Arnold, ushered in the
postwar wave of you have hip of UFO history in 1947 when you
told a local reporter and in turn the Associated, Press that
he had seen an object and the sky over Washington's Cascade
Mountains that flew like a saucer would if you skipped It
across the water. Arnold's account coining.
The term Flying Saucer, although that honor rightly belongs to
Texan John Martin, who had spotted 169 years earlier?
Pretty neat. 1883 Marfa, Texas. Marfa Texas says, according to
Apache, Legend, the ghostly flashes of light that appear in
the night, sky of West Texas, are the Incarnation of the
wandering Spirit of the Apache chief.
State, who has haunted the Cincinnati mountains?
Since his execution at the hands of Mexican Raleigh's in the
1860s, white settlers. First notice, these lights now
known as the Marfa mystery lights in 1883, when Rancho
Robert Ellison was driving his cattle, a few miles east of
Marfa. He and His companion spotted
flickering, lights along the horizon, and fear that they were
Apache, Camp fires, but when they searched the area, the next
day they found, And no trace of a camp mats.
So it looked like, you know, these Native American Apaches
had been gathered around their, their small campfires at night
dotted across their rise in there.
But when they went up on the place, no sign of any campfires.
It says, since that time, people have flocked to what is now,
what is now Route? 99 miles east of Marfa to try to
spot the lights, which have appeared in white, pink, yellow,
green, and blue, and blue hues. To the east of the Cincinnati
mountains. Sometimes the light stands
erratically while other times they remain motionless, slowly,
brightening with the intensity Skeptics, believe the lights are
simply car headlights skimming across the mountains because,
you know, because you can drive a car anywhere, right?
But that would not explain sightings in the last century or
in or the fact that the lights often move in circles or zigzag.
Formations others, have argued. That the lights are nothing more
than ball lightning Reflections. Mirages swamp gas for static.
Electricity, but scientists have not been able to prove that any
of these phenomena could happen in West Texas during was such
regularity according to local folklore.
The lights your believed to be many things, eyelashes Spirit,
through reflections of Spanish gold.
The treasures of Pancho Villa, bruja mean witches, who are who
are learning to fly and most recently UFOs.
Now look the idea that we could explain something like this away
by saying that it's cars. Well of course this is
ridiculous. This has been going Hang on, for
over 100 years. Long before cars are on the
scene. The idea that you could just say
this is happening reoccurring and this is just nothing more
than, you know, ball lightning or some other natural phenomena
like swamp gas. Well, that's a little silly too
because apparently there's a lack of swamps down there.
And you have to ask yourself, how many is, how many of us have
ever seen ball lightning? Even one time?
And do you see something like ball lightning?
Was such a regularity. Obviously, there's something
going on here. Now, maybe there's something
with the geology. That's producing these Flames.
Are these, you know, what appear to be flames.
Maybe they're just static electricity or whatever.
Either something big, regular, like a fault line, or whatever.
This producing this stuff. And you have the same thing
happen in Smoky Mountains or, and something paranormal, but
it's not something silly, like swamp gas, or, you know, the
catch-all like ball lightning or car headlights.
It's either a pretty big natural phenomena and it To be because
it's been going on off and on that for over a hundred years at
least or it's something paranormal along the lines of
UFOs. One of those, I think we can
rule out. We can rule out the headlights
of cars. It goes on and says, 1897 Aurora
Texas. Now, this is what I really liked
was the several different videos about this online on the History
Channel. Did a pretty pretty decent
documentary on this several years ago, and it's just a
really fun case and it It's very interesting UFO case to study
1897 Aurora. Texas, it says, on April 17,
1897 six years before the first plane was flown by the Wright
brothers and Airship. Quote-unquote, visited Aurora
Texas. After having been spotted
sporadically in the midwest, the illuminated cigar-shaped craft
was next seen in Texas First in Denton and then in Weatherford.
Of course, of course, the Kana and Stephenville the editor of
the Stephenville newspaper claimed that the Airship,
hovered, so close to the town that he was able to yell out our
request for an interview, which the Extra-Terrestrial pilot
denied. These are some odd reports.
This, these are ship encounters took place all over the Midwest
and the western United States for a few years there.
Could be one of those cases where people are seeing UFOs.
And these UFOs are somehow interfacing with us in a way
that would be easiest for us to understand.
And of course, at that time, airships, you know, had been
around for a little bit, not, they were not knowing what on a
super common thing, but there was something people would have
known about now. The idea of these things, but
it's been randomly flying across the country is pretty
ridiculous. It would be like a flying car
today. Yep, flying cars exist.
But the idea that does is a people would report different
flying cars and their neighborhood with unidentified
drivers is pretty, highly unlikely.
Okay. It says, moving on to Aurora,
the Airship reportedly circled, the Town Square crashed into a
windmill and exploded leaving behind a pile of charred body
and a note written in decipherable hieroglyphics.
According to an article published in the Dallas Morning
News, two days. Later the pilot.
It was thought to be a native of the planet.
Mars. Actually, they're going to put
him on Mars because that's the planet that people.
You know, at that time would have done the most about they
would assume. Well, this is the most habitable
planet. It must be where he's from
rumors about the Airship persisted and in 1973 a team of
UFO Buffs and television. Crews descended on Aurora to see
if they could substantiate the story.
Some Aurora Elders, claim to remember the close encounter,
While most of the town's 300 residents empathetic and fatik
Lee insisted that it was an Old hoax designed to release
designed to revive Aurora's. Declining fortunes the incident,
May always remain a mystery, however since a district court
blocked and effort to exhume and Aurora grave.
But some believe held the pilots body.
According to local Legend, the grave was marked only by a
headstone bearing. A Cryptid Insignia, several
small circles drawn inside the Greek letter Delta.
The stone has since disappeared You know how convenient it seems
like. So often times when we have the
Smoking Gun evidence first were blocked by the court system and
in the evidence just disappears, 1948 Laredo Texas, gossip
circulated through the 1950s that several officers from an
Air Force Base in El Dorado or instructed on July 7th, 1948 to
coordinate, for a won't strip of land.
Where extraterrestrial, aircraft had crashed rumored to be a
large disk. It has supposedly flown from
Jerky at around 2000 miles per hour before crashing, into the
west, Texas desert where it was then recovered by government
agency, one variation on the story claim that the badly
burned in habits of The Craft was significantly shorter in
height and the average human and had unusually long arms.
A 1978 a man claiming to be a former Air Force photographer.
Sent reporters photos of a severely burned.
Body inside some wreckage pictures that he claimed, he was
instructed to take ever wrecked experimental aircraft.
Outside of Laredo during the summer, of 1948, the singed
alien, and a photo quickly, dubbed Tomato, Man by The Press
because of its extremely large. Head is probably a human pilot
who was killed when his plane crashed and burned, the pilots
noticeable lack of hair and enlarged.
Head are the result to thought to be of the fire.
That's terrible government papers.
Now indicate that the Air Force was experimenting at the time
with V2 Rockets nickname Foo Fighters.
Hence the crushed experimental aircraft.
The photographer was instructed to document one.
Resolved question is, whether the pilot was actually a man or
a monkey? The latter would explain the
river that the pilot was short in stature with extremely large
arms. You know that sounds like a
parallel narrative to me. I mean saying that this large
aircraft had crashed in the desert after traveling at 2,000
miles an hour, it doesn't really sound This is how viable, you
know, they throw in the story of well, maybe the maybe, hey,
maybe the army, or the Air Force, tied a monkey on to a V2
rocket, Just for kicks, and giggles and decided to send it
from Austin to Lubbock, to see what would happen.
So, you kind of see what's happening here.
This very this, very kind of a dark story of this UFO,
traveling, at a 2,000 miles, an hour crashing in the desert
there in Texas. And then this fell taking a
picture of the occupant Turley it ET and sharing it.
Soon as that story gets out. Parallel narrative is released
all. That wasn't a pilot.
That would simply have been a monkey that, we tied to the V2
rocket boy. They could work a little harder.
1951, Lubbock, Texas before Buddy.
Holly put Lubbock on the map. The Lubbock lights.
Gave this Panhandle Town National Fame on August on
August Night and 1951 several. College professors sitting
outside in the porch so I formation of blue lights play
quickly overhead. They waited to see if the lights
would return and later that evening, the observe the lights
again that same night a little bit woman.
Also spotted the blue lights as she was taking her laundry off
the clothesline, the lights. She later told the elf, the Air
Force investigator frame the till end of an enormous Wing
like craft. So it might not just been a
string of lights. What she's saying is this is
these are the lights that were attached to an enormous Wing
like craft. This is way before the stealth
bomber or anything like that, that we've gone into this
particular sighting in some detail in earlier, podcast,
Lubbock lights. You can check that out.
She says a few days earlier, an employee of the atomic energy
commission. Saw the same type of aircraft
and Albuquerque. A wing shaped object with blue
lights, and space by the end of August.
There was another sighting of the object.
In Matador, Texas about 70 miles north of Lubbock, as well as
photographs of the blue lights taken by Texas Tech fisherman,
Carl Hart jr. Before the lights disappeared.
Two weeks later does is a people in north Texas reported seeing
blue lights darting from one end of the rise into the other and
investigation in the phenomenon for Project Blue Book, a 1950s
and 60s are for a study into the possible existence of UFOs.
I would say cover up, came up with two explanations for the.
Sightings one theory, was that the lights were Plovers, West
Texas, birds with shiny white breast that could have reflected
the city's glow as they flew overhead.
Oh my another theory was that the lights were actually a
result of Lubbock's newly installed mercury, vapor Street
lamps that gave off a blue jays. However, neither of these,
explanations accounted for lights immense speed or their
sudden disappearance you know, it's so funny.
The same kind of nonsense keeps coming up today.
And you can just see, it's almost certainly these guys that
were here from the government investigating knew that these
that this was some sort of unidentified flying object.
Now, I'm not saying that they had to know what it was, but
when they put out these debunking theories that well, it
was the newly installed streetlights or it was a flock
of birds. This should show how little
respect and how much Disdain that they have for the
population. I don't know if they think that
people are just so stupid, they'll believe anything.
I think sometimes they might be right or if on the other hand
they think people are so desperate to maintain their
state of normalcy bias that they will accept any excuse not to
make the brain hurt. Because let's face it when you
look up in the sky and you see a giant spaceship fly over, it can
make your brain hurt a little bit.
It's Kind of out of the norm, right?
1957 Levelland Texas, not far from where the Lubbock lights
were seen six years earlier residents of Levelland Texas.
Reported 10 UFO related incidents during the course of
several hours. On November 6, 1957, the first
close encounter took place around 11:00 in the morning.
When farmworker Pedro's osito and Joe Solace saw a giant
brilliantly lit, object fly over their truck as a pastor.
Overhead, the trucks headlights and engines went dead resuming
to normal once the craft had disappeared.
So say to reported the incident to level and policed who
received a call an hour later from leveling resident, Jim
wheeler eight, miles from the original report wheeler said
that his engine and headlights and failed as he approached a
brightly lit egg-shaped object in the road.
Once the craft had ascended into the sky and disappeared wheeler
was able to restart his engine, sir.
This poor guy. Just Driving along these old
vehicle 1957, Right? Comes across S8 egg-shaped
object in the middle of the road.
You know, we had a sighting, I believe, from the 40s or 50s in
Iowa, is the southern part of the state of a guy who reported
seeing an egg shaped UFO land not far from him while he was
fishing along the banks of the ganga River.
So crazy. Sure, if we're claim and the
deputy Pat McCollough drove along.
Route 116 surgery for the glowing object.
When finally at 1:30 a.m. they spotted an enormous egg shaped
craft that look like a brilliant red sunset across a highway.
According to clamp, it lit up. The whole payment in front of
us, for about two seconds, he said and they disappeared
throughout the night, the level and police department continue
to receive calls, describing a similar bright object that
caused lights to dim and cart. Engines to shut off.
This is a mass UFO encounter, not just a sighting because
you're interacting with it, and they're all saying the same
thing. Super-bright car shutting down.
There are Force investigating speculating.
The incident were examples of you guys that ball lightning.
However, dr. Allen hynek the Air Force
primary UFO investigator at the time, recanted his conclusion.
And later writings, I am not proud today that I hastily
occurred, concurred and Captain Gregory's.
Valuation as ball lightning as explanation for the level and
sightings on the basis of information that an electrical
storm had been in progress and the level and area at the time.
There was shown that was shown not to be the case, right
hiding. Perhaps besides I besides
absence of any evidence that ball lightning can can stop cars
and put out headlights the level and sidings remain unexplained.
Well, how hard is it just to say that the first time around.
Okay, we'll do a couple more. More here.
Maybe 1975 segment. Texas is says the world's
largest organization. The mutual the world's largest
UFO organization. The mutual UFO Network or mufon
was originally funded. Neil no way. 1969 after the Air
Force abruptly, ended Project Blue Book.
It's study of the possible existence of UFOs, continuing
where Project Blue Book left off mufon when about researching
investigating and compelling, Holly reports of UFO, sightings
in an attempt to resolve. The question of whether or not
you have those exist in 1975. Mufon relocated to segment where
it resumed, documenting UFO, sightings alien, abductions,
crop circles and animal mutilations throughout the
world, by the, by using the organization's vast network of
investigators. Of course, we know it still
doing that today with, with online reporting and all that.
I really wish that that Congress would just order.
The defense department to turn over their sightings to move on
and let them sort through it. The do a much better job.
I think now considered to be the preeminent, UFO Authority, mufon
host, an International Symposium each year, publishes the so
magazine and 312 Pages investigators manual at the, you
a lot of good work. Let's finish up this last case
and then we'll call in to this podcast 1980 dating Texas on the
night of December 29th, 1989 on a remote Road. 400 miles outside
town. Ten Restaurant, odor restaurant
owner, Betty cash, her friend Vickie Landrum and Landrum
seven-year-old grandson. Colby returning home after a
night out when a large glowing diamond-shaped aircraft sporting
Flames, descended from the sky and hovered above the roadway in
front of them, when they got out of the car, to take a closer
look at the object, which made a loud roaring noise.
They were soon forced to return to the car because of the
intense heat emanating from The Craft.
The cash claimed that she was that she grasped her cars, hot
door, handle her wedding ring burned into her hand soon after
the mysterious aircraft flew away with a swarm of black
action X, our military helicopters.
Now, this is one of these cases, where people were actually
injured from coming in contact with these things.
And it looks like the government was already on the scene, when
these guys got here, but when the experiencers happen to show
up and we've done a podcast on this before, but We'll go on
here. It says cash who had remained
outside the car longer than landrum's, was admitted to a
hospital as a burn victim, all three passengers, manifested
different symptoms of what appeared to be radiation
sickness such as Burns blisters, nausea rashes, severe headaches,
sore eyes and hair, and fingernail loss in cash, was
later diagnosed with breast cancer and Lantern developed
severe. Cataracts.
I've never believed in UFOs, cash layer to reporters.
I was the first one to laugh. Laugh, but she added, I was
terrified. Now, I'm afraid to look up. 230
swirled around the incident. Either the object was an
experimental military device which had gone Haywire on a test
flight or some speculated it was a recovered alien aircraft.
Which the Air Force was trying to fly cash and Landrum hired.
A lawyer who filed suit against the government for 20 money,
damages the case dragged on and district court for several years
and called upon the testimony of officials from NASA.
The Air Force, the Army and Navy before being dismissed in 1986
because no good. Government governmental agency
owned or operated. Any aircraft fitting cash and
Leonard subscription to this stay.
There is no conclusive explanation of that night's
events. Well, the only the only
conclusion you have, is these people got real sick, just like
just like the government employees, that were sent out
there to that study and Stanford.
What 150 or? So of them had injuries from
coming in contact with UFOs, 25%.
On, they said, he eventually died.
So, something's happening here, they're not dying from ball.
Lightning, you're not dying from Swamp gas.
They're not dying because they had elucidation.
They came in contact with something the same way.
These folks down at Texas did. All of these experiences happen
all over recorded. Many, these are mass, sightings
of not all of them, and I just think it's so interesting to
read through these and see the commonalities between each Each
experience that each one of these observers had ranging
from, you know, just shock and awe to Contracting cancer.
Basically, it looks like, until next time, this is UFO warning
over now Each experience that each one of these observers had
ranging from, you know, just shock and awe to Contracting
cancer. Basically, it looks like, until
next time, this is UFO warning over now