Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're looking at the Dexter, MI UFO case of
1966. That's correct, the Dexter, MI
UFO case of 1966. Now, we've looked at this case
before, but I've recently found an article that I thought was
really well written. I want to take a look at it
because it sends to some real specific details.
But before we go to that article, just to give you a
summary of what happened, this was back in Dexter, MI 1966 and
even the day. It's one of the most, I think
intriguing and well documented incidents in the history of UFO
investigations. Now it's centered around this
little town of Dexter, which is located West of Ann Arbor and
this series of events that captivated local residents and
UFO enthusiasts alike. I mean it got a lot of
attention. There were lots of discussions
and debates that still continue. And then the in the early hours
of March 20th, 1966, multiple witnesses reported witnessing
strange lights and unidentified flying objects in the skies over
Dexter. So you have a mass sighting.
Witnesses described the objects as glowing orbs or disclike
shapes exhibiting erratic and seemingly intelligent movements.
Now the sightings were not isolated and they occurred
across various locations within the town and were reported by
individuals from all different walks of life, including police
officers, a bunch of students, and professionals.
Now, one of the most notable aspects I think, of the Dexter
UFO case was the consistent and detailed nature of the witness
accounts. And many reported observing the
objects for extended periods during which the UFO has
reportedly performed impressive maneuvers that defied the
capabilities Have known human aircraft at the time.
Remember 1966? No drones.
Witnesses also claimed that the objects he made it to unusual
sounds that were unlike any conventional engine noises.
Local law enforcement responded to the reports with officers
from Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department investigating the
sightings, and that despite initial skepticism, officers
themselves reported seeing unusual lights in the sky, which
added further credibility to the claims.
The case gained widespread media attention, drawing both curious
onlookers and serious researchers to the area.
And it's actually a really good short video that I included
here. I'll put that on the Buy Me a
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Twitter, that'd be great. We find out that local law
enforcement respond to the reports with officers from
Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department investigating on the
site. Of course, the case gain
widespread media attention, drawing both curious onlookers
and serious researchers to the area, and efforts to explain the
sightings range from attributing them to natural phenomenon like
meteors or atmospheric disturbances.
The speculating about experimental military craft,
However, no definitive conventional explanation was
found to account for the combination of observed
characteristics, movements, the sounds reported by the
witnesses. I mean, the fact is there were
just too many people reporting these things, different types of
UFOs reporting them up close in detail.
There's just no way that the authorities could convince the
people to solve these things, that what they saw was the
planet Venus or swamp gas or anything like that.
Now, with me, just like with a lot of these UFO cases, the
skeptics and believers clashed in their interpretations of the
events. The skeptics often lean toward,
you know, prosaic explanations, I guess you could say.
Well, believers pointed to the consistency of the accounts and
the absence of conventional explanations is evidence of
extra terrestrial activity even. Really.
The fact is, I mean, we think about this, that people that
were skeptic, some of them were skeptic because they're afraid
to believe in something that there was just just foreign to
them. So they had normalcy bias and
they just try to think of anything it could be besides
what it actually was. The people that see these things
sometimes I think are a little more openminded and they're able
just to say, well I saw it, they don't drive themselves crazy
thinking about it. Hopefully now the Dexter UFO
case of 1966 still remains an open mystery and sparking
ongoing discussions about the nature of the undentified aero
phenomena and the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial
life. The cases impact actually is
extended beyond you know 1966 is something that we still look
back to today as a as a as a well documented mass sighting
that was observed by reliable witnesses such as police
officers, people who had high stations in life, people who had
a lot to lose by reporting this thing.
And when we get into the article a little bit, we'll also look at
what happened to the people that did report this.
Some of the people, such as the college students that reported
this thing, there's a girls college up there.
They were questioned. They were interviewed and put on
record on, you know, on on film. They didn't seem to just to
really incur the wrath of the government.
I really feel like they because of their social standing,
because it's 1966 and they're young women, the federal
government couldn't send in their hench men to attack these
young ladies and make them seem like so they had the mental
illness issues or does it seem like they were scoundrels who
were trying to get attention for themselves or somehow profit off
this? Some people like Frank Manner
was so lucky. You know, he was a I think a
working class person, had a large family to look after and
he was attacked and they tried to do person him and some of the
things that was done to him was just shameful.
So you you see the the different ways people are treated when
these things are cited and the different ways the situation is
handled when they report what they saw.
A lot of this, a lot of this behavior by the government was
just by the government actors was unseemly.
And so when people ask me are people accused me of being a
conspiracy theory? Because my first inclination is
to not trust the government, whether it's UF, O's or whatever
it is. I could point to 1000 cases like
this where people have trusted the government and suffered the
consequences. Now let's go ahead and take up
this. Take a look at this article.
Here it is actually from thesuntimesnews.com.
This article came out March 14th, 2022.
So this would have been last year.
And the title says then and now Investigative author talks about
1966 Dexter UFO Incidences by Doug Martin.
And it's got a really cool illustrated drawing of this
saying it's one of these, I'd say almost classic flying saucer
shaped craft with a Dome on top. And they've pointed out where
the lights were at. What I like about this, This is
a composite drawing by Sheriff Corporal David Severance from
Witnesses descriptions image project, Blue Book.
Yeah, they had so many good descriptions of this craft, it's
just amazing now, he says. Dexter made national news 56
years ago with reports of strange lights in the sky and
flying saucers. The government discredited
scores of eyewitnesses with this famous dismissal of the incident
as marsh gas. Now, I don't know.
I wouldn't say that they discredited them.
I would say that they attempted to deep person them.
It's got the headline here that came out regarding and there's
some pictures, and you can find some pictures online.
Although the pictures are, you know, it's 1966, black and white
photos, streaks of light. They've got one pretty good
picture here. It looks like just a chain of
orbs, so something was definitely spotted.
Now, since author Ray Siminski, a retired Air Force senior
engineer in Detroit native who writes about UF O's, believes
records he has analyzed prove aliens flew a UFO across
southern Michigan that night, he writes about it in his book
Swamp Gas My Ass. I spoke at Link with Mr.
Zeminski specifically about the Dexter incident.
March 20th, 1966, Dexter Township.
Caldered lights hovering over a wooded swamp catch the attention
of Frank Manner and his son Ronald on the farm where they
live. The two men run towards the
strange object, after which Manner reports the incident to
the police. So there's your first report,
March 20th, 1966. You've got Frank Manner and his
son Ronald. They're out there on the farm.
They see the strange object and they run toward it and they see
it and they report it to the police.
And they got a picture here of this lane that says it was at
the end of this country. Lane McGinnis Rd.
In Dexter Township, where the strange lights were spotted by
multiple witnesses over Manor Swamp in 1966.
Photo by David Marin. Now, it's important to remember
that Michigan does have a lot of swamps.
It's kind of a flat area in a lot of places.
And you know, it's kind of divided between timber swamps
and farm ground. And so yes, they do have swamps.
I've been to Michigan a bunch of times, fishing trips, camping
trips, whatever. I've never seen swamp gas.
Somebody that lives up there has seen it.
They can let me know. But I never met anybody who had
witnessed swamp stamp swamp gas. I did meet a couple people who
had witnessed UFOs, it says. The police report states.
Quote, Frank Manner and his son Ronald plus 40 to 60 others.
Just just enough. Plus 40 to 60 others, including
twelve policemen, question mark saw hovering over a swamp about
1500 feet away. A brown luminous car size object
with a scaly or waffled surface cone shaped on top, flat on the
bottom, or football shaped, and two bluish green lights on right
and left edges that turned bright red and helped illuminate
the object in between. Lights blinked out and the
object reappeared instantly across the swamp 1500 feet away,
so it's moving over 1/4 of a mile just instantly.
The whole object lit up with a yellowish glow at one point and
also rose up 500 feet, then descended again after 2 to 3
minutes of viewing when two flashlights appeared in the
distance. The object seemed to respond by
flying away at high speed directly over the witnesses with
a whistling sound like a rifle bullet.
Ricocheting object remained in the swamp area for half hour.
So this thing was there. It obviously knew these people
were looking at it. It was reacting to light which
we hear so often. Something had had had had
obviously been encountered. Scores of credible eyewitnesses
also saw the flying objects that night.
The Dexter sighting was just one of many in southeast Michigan
for two weeks in March of 1966. However, the Dexter incident
drew national attention and was a turning point that thrust UF
O's into the public spotlight. Yeah, I've got a friend who
lives not far from there, his mother.
She's passed on now, but I remember 30 years ago her
telling me about how her daughter were out on a lonely
country Rd. and saw this giant UFO just descend in a in a field
and just stay hover there for. I don't know.
I mended her to and she described how to had lights all
the way around the edge of it. It was something like close
Encounters. That's before I'd had my first
experience. I thought, wow, she's got quite
an imagination for, you know, for for an old lady.
But you know, looking back, I really wish I could have picked
her brain more. I mean she was just, she was
such a good and honest person, very a very moral person.
She, I don't think she ever told a lie in her life.
So looking back she told me that story with such conviction to at
that time someone me who was a non believer.
And I think it could have been right around this time.
But I do know that Michigan's had lots and lots of UFO
activity. Now this article goes on.
It says the US Air Force was in charge of investigating
anomalous area phenomena under its initiative Project Blue
Book. On March 23rd the Air Force sent
astrophysicist Dr. Allen Heine to Dexter to investigate the
matter for Project Blue Book. Doctor Heine arrived in Dexter
and found what he later described as nearest area.
Well, these sightings were still continuing here because if we
look at this article and like I said, I'll put this on buy me a
coffee on the buy me a coffee a website you it says Officer
Robert who Hunawall and his wife saw these strange lights in the
sky on Baker Rd. And they got a picture of these
orbs and it's just like a tower of orbs that they've taken.
So that happened on the 28th. It says the lights were observed
for five to 10 minutes at most, according to Hunawall.
And then it has, it's this, apparently this picture is all
over the place. So the government sends their
guy on March 23rd to debunk all this stuff.
Right. But the sightings are still
occurring because on March 28th at 1:00 AM in the morning,
you've got a police officer, his wife, they spot a whole swarm of
these UFO orbs or whatever they are and there's like
1-234-567-8910, eleven of them I can count just kind of in a in a
formation of a tower and they take a picture of it.
So this whole series of events, this Dexter UFO sighting from
1966, it didn't just happen over the course of one night, OK, it
happened the course of several days.
Now it tells us the US Air Force was in charge of an
investigating anomalous aerial phenomena under its initiative,
Project Blue Book. On March 23rd, the Air Force
sent astrophysicist Doctor JL Heine to Dexter to investigate
the matter for Project Blue Book.
Doctor Heineke arrived in Dexter and found what he later
described as near hysteria. After two days of investigation,
on March 25th, Heineke announced at a press conference in Detroit
that the unidentified flying objects had been identified.
He declared the phenomena as swamp gas, an answer that caused
an outcry from my witnesses and others across the country.
And swamp gas, my ass. Mesquite compares eyewitness
accounts to the official explanation showing the two
don't match up. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty That
was pretty sleazy. I think actually that Heineke
did that, he just comes in, he's there for, you know, I don't
know, what, a couple days. After two days investigation.
Oh, it's swamp gas. But you can see the picture
right here taken by a police officer this 1955.
I think they still had the death penalty in Michigan.
A guy that could send you to the hangman's noose if he thought he
saw you kill somebody. He's that he's considered to be
that reliable. Okay.
He takes a picture of these things.
They don't look like swamp gas to me, it goes on.
It says. I believe the reports are
incorrect, claiming the manners only got within 500 yards.
The object and it was as big as a car system in SKI.
I believe that falsehood was generated because Frank Manner
reported being near that UFO and he went on to describe it in
excruciating detail. He described the skin of this
craft as waffle, like. Now, if it's as big as a car,
only Superman is going to be able to describe it as such in
such fine detail. If he's a quarter mile away, he
couldn't be more right. Reporters say the UF O's were
spotted around 8:30 PM. The sunset that it was at 6:47
PM, meaning it would have it would have been dark when
manners saw the object. I believe what Frank said when
he told them it blinked out and showed up 500 yards away, he
adds. I found an article saying that
they were within a couple of 100 feet.
I believe it did a 500 yard quantum jump when they got too
close and that distance is what reports and the news focused on.
So Miski believes air forces flippant denial of what happened
caused problems for the manners by discrediting their report.
We've I've read reports where these people were just
completely ridiculed and harassed in the public after
this all happened. They were the focal point of the
deep personing. So what the government did in my
opinion, in my estimation is they had all these good reports.
I mean they had a whole dormitory full of girls there at
this local college. And instead of focusing on these
girls because it's 1966, nobody's going to get by with
depersoning 20 or 30 sorority girls.
OK, that's not going to be allowed, but they can deperson
4056 year old working class man with a large family who lives
out in the country. They can deperson him and boy, I
think they did it. Now it goes on and says, I do
believe that the Air Force's explanation of swamp gas was a
major contributing factor to the way that public treated the
manners, said So, Misky. And what and what subsequently
happened to them with the broken windows and people climbing on
their roads was a direct result of the fact that the United
States has no shortage of misinformed and misguided
citizens looking to cause trouble.
Yeah, or maybe these people were just maybe it.
Maybe we're giving them too much credit.
Maybe these jugheads that vandalized and terrorized the
Manor family. Maybe they weren't locals who,
you know, a bunch of high school kids just being idiots.
Maybe they were actually paid to do that by somebody within the
deep state who wanted Frank Manor to shut his mouth.
Sominski says that another mistaken belief is that the
Dexter incident is often characterized as people chasing
lights through the woods of swamp.
He points out that on duty Officer Robert Hunterwell from
the Dexter Police Department heard the sightings come in over
the radio. Hunterwell picked up his wife to
serve as a witness. Good thinking and drove out to
the North End of Quigley and Brand roads where all the
activity was happening. When Hunterwell arrived,
however, the objects had left. The skies were quiet while the
manners a dozen deputies and 35 citizens searched the area.
So a bunch of people have seen this thing at the same time,
quote the objects, then reappeared and hovered over a
Hunter Will's squad car, says Zubinsky. 4 and all.
They did a little spin over the top of Frank Manor's woods and
then they took off. Another key then is that Hunter
Will, who was not searching the woods and swamps, saw the
objects and reported they were no more than 1000 feet over the
top of his car. So the police officer found him,
it says the real impact of that the extra incident was the
national attention it received. The ludicrous response by the
Air Force dismissing such a fantastic event from scores or
credible witnesses. Swamp as swamp gas do national
outrage. Respected news man Walter
Cronkite and then Congressman Gerald Ford call for an
investigation summarized in the Condon report.
We've talked about Joel Ford's call for an investigation of
UFO's since then, and how he was just basically stonewalled by
the deep state. The southeast Michigan incidents
made them hunker down, explain Senski.
The government put on a show of openness, but it was still a
cover up. The congressional committee in
charge of the investigation questioned the Secretary of the
Air Force to Major Quintanella, in charge of Project Blue Book,
Doctor Heineke, and a few other people about the incident.
But Senski emphasizes. That the committee did not know
they were being lied to. As the Air Force stuck to their
marsh gas explanation. There was no follow up except to
get Edward Condon to undertake the study which the US Air Force
used to get out of the business of dealing with the public about
UFO's, says Zaminsky. The conclusion of the Condon
report said These crafts don't demonstrate any technology
beyond our knowledge, he continues.
Wow. When did we just hear that?
Didn't we hear something like that in the air report just
recently? That was all BS.
Because if you look at the cases, you can see where they
didn't understand what was happening or what it was.
But it was Kanda's job to close down Project Blue Book, and
that's what he did. Yeah, you can almost see the
same thing happening right now with these senators and
congressmen demanding answers from the DoD in these recent UFO
hearings. After Project Blue Book was
closed down, public reports of UF O's fell to local law
enforcement for investigation. But Sminski is quick to note
that the Air Force only used its public engagement of UFO
reporting when it shut down Project Blue Book.
The quote. The military continued
investigating its own UFO reports.
He says the military never stopped its UFO reporting or
investigations and continuing these activities under guidance
provided by J Knapp 146. I think that's one of the
military legal codes he's talking about.
So why cut? Why the cover up?
What was the Air Force's concern here?
So Minsky says there are several reasons.
Quote, the Air Force had questions they couldn't answer,
explains Zaminsky. These objects can cloak in most
cases are not picked up by infrared church and track.
You can't keep them locked on your radar either.
They can go 25,000 miles an hour and make a 90 degree turn,
usually without slowing down. They have also proven that they
can shut down our weapons systems.
Now imagine your job. Is the Air Force charged with
keeping our skies clear and free of enemies foreign and domestic.
But with these UF O's you can't, he continues.
If you were the Air Force, would you want to constantly have to
answer why you can't defend us and having and after having been
given all of this money? That is one of the reasons
Saminsky believes that US Air Force dismissed and discredited
reports. The other reasons can be found
in these books and many more fascinating stories and
insights. Wow, I think there was just a
great article and then it goes on here.
It gives a little bit of a bio on the author of that book.
This is what you call unbiased reporting where the author just
comes in here. They create a really well
written argument. They show you a bunch of the
evidence that was given. Of course there's a lot more
than this, but this, they're just giving you this, this
outline of what happened. And then they have, they have
links to pictures on here and he's got a link here to this
short video that I reposted on Twitter.
It would be so cool if we had more material like this.
Until next time, this is UFO Warning.
Over and out.