1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,240 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,760 In this episode, we're talking about the 1957 Platte River 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,360 encounter. That's correct, the 1957 Platte 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,440 River encounter. Now you might you might remember 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,520 that this year, 1957, there was this vast UFO way that just 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:21,720 seemed to take over the United States. 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,000 Many famous cases, many encounters, even abductions. 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,800 But we're going to focus on this Reinhold Smith contact claim to 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,990 begin with. And this is from the website 10 00:00:31,630 --> 00:00:35,510 ignaciodarnade.com. I'll put a link there that buy 11 00:00:35,510 --> 00:00:37,910 me a coffee website. As always, thank you to the 12 00:00:37,910 --> 00:00:40,830 people that support the program over there and at Spotify. 13 00:00:40,830 --> 00:00:44,510 And let me also remind you to like, follow and subscribe on 14 00:00:44,510 --> 00:00:48,230 whatever platform you're on. Doesn't cost anything, Okay. 15 00:00:48,230 --> 00:00:51,830 So they begin by saying in early 1957, this is November. 16 00:00:52,150 --> 00:00:56,030 A wave of UFO sightings hit the United States, beginning in 17 00:00:56,030 --> 00:00:59,070 Texas and quickly spreading throughout the country. 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,080 One of the most spectacular reports came from a 60 year old 19 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,560 grain buyer, Reinhold O Smith, a Bakersfield of Bakersfield, CA. 20 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,200 Late on the afternoon of the 5th, Smith showed up at the 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,320 Sheriff's Office at Kearney, NE. Pale and shaken. 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,720 He asked to see a minister, then explained that he had just had 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,600 an incredible experience. While driving along a sandy 24 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,080 expanse near the Platte River, he saw a flash of light in the 25 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,320 sky. When he went to investigate, he 26 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,300 observed A blip shaped flying object resting on the ground. 27 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:38,300 It was, he said, 100 feet long, 30 feet wide and 14 feet high, 28 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:40,700 and it caused his car engine to die. 29 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:44,300 When he got too close to it, he got out of the car and started 30 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:48,380 toward the UFO, only to be hit by a beam of light which briefly 31 00:01:48,380 --> 00:01:51,620 paralyzed him. Two men came out of the craft 32 00:01:51,860 --> 00:01:55,700 and ushered him inside. Inside he met the crew, 4 33 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,580 conventionally dressed men and two women who spoke high German 34 00:01:59,780 --> 00:02:02,940 to each other and German accented English to him. 35 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:06,100 After a brief conversation about the United States space 36 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,900 satellite program, Schmidt was asked to leave and the craft 37 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:13,620 departed on his way to Kearney. The full impact of the 38 00:02:13,620 --> 00:02:16,820 experience hit Schmidt and he decided he had to walk with a 39 00:02:16,820 --> 00:02:20,580 man of the cloth. After calling on one who wasn't 40 00:02:20,580 --> 00:02:24,910 home, he went to the Sheriff's Office, accompanied by Deputy 41 00:02:24,910 --> 00:02:29,070 Sheriff Dave Drag and Police Chief Thurston Nelson, Schmidt 42 00:02:29,270 --> 00:02:32,190 returned to the site of the landing where three sets of 43 00:02:32,190 --> 00:02:36,590 footprints, 2 meeting the first, then advancing together and 44 00:02:36,590 --> 00:02:39,510 suddenly disappearing, were visible in the sand. 45 00:02:39,990 --> 00:02:43,750 The investigators also found a greenish, greaselike substance 46 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:46,430 where the UFO allegedly had come down. 47 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:50,820 Smith was held overnight in jail and grilled by skeptical police 48 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:53,980 officers, as well as two officers from the Continental 49 00:02:53,980 --> 00:02:57,060 Air Defense Command and U.S. Army Intelligence. 50 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:01,060 By morning, authorities learned that Smith had received had 51 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:03,660 served time for embezzlement in the Nebraska penitentiary in 52 00:03:03,660 --> 00:03:06,820 1938 and 39. They also recovered an empty 53 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:10,220 cannon, green motor oil not far from the landing site, and 54 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:13,260 another empty cannon of the same material in Smith's trunk. 55 00:03:13,580 --> 00:03:15,940 Smith refused to take a polygraph test. 56 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:19,890 On the evening of the 6th, 2 psychiatrists examined him and 57 00:03:19,890 --> 00:03:22,850 after two hours of questioning decided that he believed what he 58 00:03:22,850 --> 00:03:27,490 was saying and therefore was mentally ill Within 24 hours, he 59 00:03:27,490 --> 00:03:29,690 was placed in the Hastings State Hospital. 60 00:03:29,970 --> 00:03:32,050 He was released a few days later. 61 00:03:32,650 --> 00:03:36,290 That's 1957. So that's how people were 62 00:03:36,290 --> 00:03:39,530 frequently treated, I think when they reported seeing UF O's or 63 00:03:39,530 --> 00:03:42,960 having made contact with aliens. And you can kind of understand 64 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,400 why that might not have been a thing that a lot of people 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,480 wanted to do. Now, as far as he's alien 66 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:53,360 speaking German to him, I wonder if that's if that's not how he 67 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,320 interpreted it, because it was a language that he understood with 68 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:57,640 the, you know, last name of Schmidt. 69 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,320 Secondly, the fact that these things would be talking to him 70 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,080 about the US satellite program, also interesting. 71 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,800 I don't know what he would know about that. 72 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,040 It would be a particular interest to any kind of an ET. 73 00:04:10,890 --> 00:04:14,330 This whole thing could just be his interpretation of the 74 00:04:14,330 --> 00:04:18,130 encounter that he had. I mean, I think sometimes these 75 00:04:18,130 --> 00:04:21,290 things are so advanced that how we see them, how we interpret 76 00:04:21,290 --> 00:04:24,330 them in the conversations that people have with these ET are 77 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:28,730 often time more just projections of our own beliefs, systems, our 78 00:04:28,730 --> 00:04:32,290 own selves on to whatever these things are, he says. 79 00:04:32,290 --> 00:04:35,650 Within short order, Schmidt was on the was on the Contact T 80 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:38,770 circuit, lecturing in the company of fellow space 81 00:04:39,190 --> 00:04:43,390 communicant Wayne S Aho and Chicago UFO enthusiast John 82 00:04:43,390 --> 00:04:47,430 Otto, who charged that all the apparent incriminating evidence 83 00:04:47,430 --> 00:04:50,230 had been planted as part of a government conspiracy to smear 84 00:04:50,230 --> 00:04:54,430 the contactee Otto 1958. Smith was now claiming 85 00:04:54,430 --> 00:04:57,030 additional contacts. The first of these occurred on 86 00:04:57,030 --> 00:05:01,230 February 5th, 1958, when he saw a flying saucer land a few miles 87 00:05:01,230 --> 00:05:05,310 from Kearney and encountered Mr. X, captain of the crew he had 88 00:05:05,310 --> 00:05:08,100 encountered. In November, Smith was taken for 89 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:11,060 a short ride, during which X and his traveling companions 90 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:13,500 informed Smith they were from Saturn. 91 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:17,300 One evening in April, after a lecture in Tulsa, OK, Smith went 92 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:21,500 for a walk and spotted X and a space woman in a black sports 93 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:23,460 car. The three of them drove out into 94 00:05:23,460 --> 00:05:26,460 the country and a saucer beamed them in the car. 95 00:05:26,460 --> 00:05:28,780 Inside, they talked for two hours. 96 00:05:29,140 --> 00:05:32,590 Other contacts followed. On one occasion, Smith was flown 97 00:05:32,590 --> 00:05:35,190 to the Arctic Circle. The ship plunged into the ocean 98 00:05:35,270 --> 00:05:38,390 and remained there for three hours, where Smith saw Russian 99 00:05:38,390 --> 00:05:42,150 submarines and other adventures. He went into space and to Egypt 100 00:05:42,350 --> 00:05:44,230 to learn the secrets of the Great Pyramid. 101 00:05:44,670 --> 00:05:47,630 Like all contactees, Smith's was given a mission. 102 00:05:47,830 --> 00:05:51,190 Our space friends can show us the way to a new and wonderful 103 00:05:51,190 --> 00:05:53,630 world, he wrote. But they said that it is up to 104 00:05:53,670 --> 00:05:56,700 us to bring it about. There's so much to be done and 105 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:59,780 due to the present crisis on earth which affects the welfare 106 00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:02,940 of all our people, not a moment should be wasted And applying 107 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:05,860 the solution to our problems which have been given us. 108 00:06:06,220 --> 00:06:09,300 That just sounds so familiar to what we hear today from many of 109 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:13,020 these experiences. Sometimes people have 110 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:15,740 experiences and they just say, wow, that was interesting. 111 00:06:15,980 --> 00:06:18,660 Sometimes people have experiences and they feel 112 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:22,220 compelled to go on the UFO circuit and tell the rest of us 113 00:06:22,380 --> 00:06:25,170 what we need to do and what we need to do. 114 00:06:25,290 --> 00:06:28,490 Usually is not always that clear. 115 00:06:28,810 --> 00:06:32,490 Now he goes on. He says Smith's career had 116 00:06:32,490 --> 00:06:35,290 peaked six months later, in October, Smith's went on trial 117 00:06:35,290 --> 00:06:38,690 in Oakland, CA for Grand Theft. Alameda County prosecutors 118 00:06:38,690 --> 00:06:41,570 charged that he had built a widow, Eva Newcomb, out of 119 00:06:41,570 --> 00:06:43,930 $5000. The money was to go into a 120 00:06:43,930 --> 00:06:47,090 worthless mining venture in Tulare County, where he claimed 121 00:06:47,090 --> 00:06:50,530 to have viewed quartz crystals from a spaceship, Smith further 122 00:06:50,530 --> 00:06:53,050 claimed. According to prosecutors, though 123 00:06:53,050 --> 00:06:56,730 Smith denied it, that these free energy crystals had healing 124 00:06:56,730 --> 00:07:01,050 powers, He acknowledged he had collected over $25,000 from 125 00:07:01,050 --> 00:07:04,490 elderly women, but insisted he had not done so through loving 126 00:07:04,490 --> 00:07:07,250 talk as they charged. The jury saw Edge of Tomorrow, 127 00:07:07,250 --> 00:07:09,690 which Smits apparently thought would convince it of the 128 00:07:09,690 --> 00:07:12,730 authority of his contacts with the Centurions, but the 129 00:07:12,730 --> 00:07:15,850 prosecution countered this by summoning a young astronomer, 130 00:07:15,850 --> 00:07:19,410 Carl Sagan, to the stand. Sagan testified that Saturn 131 00:07:19,410 --> 00:07:22,290 could not possibly harbor human life. 132 00:07:22,870 --> 00:07:27,430 That is really funny boy. Carl Sagan, Corbec in 1958. 133 00:07:27,990 --> 00:07:32,150 On October 26th, after a 7 day trial and 4 1/2 hours of 134 00:07:32,150 --> 00:07:36,710 deliberation, a jury of seven men and five women convicted 135 00:07:36,710 --> 00:07:39,510 Smith. Subsequently, Judge Donald K 136 00:07:39,510 --> 00:07:43,670 Quayle sentenced him to 1 to 10 years in prison on 2 counts of 137 00:07:43,670 --> 00:07:46,390 Grand Theft. Smith's four years on the UFO 138 00:07:46,390 --> 00:07:49,070 stage and ended and he slipped into obscurity. 139 00:07:50,190 --> 00:07:52,070 I think that's kind of a fascinating story. 140 00:07:52,450 --> 00:07:56,050 Whether this guy saw anything or not, I don't know, But it's just 141 00:07:56,330 --> 00:07:59,770 interesting to me how his life just seemed to have spiral out 142 00:07:59,770 --> 00:08:03,370 of control after that. Whether he whether he really 143 00:08:03,370 --> 00:08:05,730 knew what he was doing, whether he believed that he'd found this 144 00:08:05,730 --> 00:08:08,330 place where he could, he could, you know, mine valuable minerals 145 00:08:08,330 --> 00:08:11,090 out, or whether this was just a way that he took advantage of 146 00:08:11,090 --> 00:08:15,050 people that he met on this UFO circuit, I guess is something he 147 00:08:15,050 --> 00:08:16,490 knows. And we can only speculate on 148 00:08:17,450 --> 00:08:20,370 pretty much the story of the Platte River UFO contactee. 149 00:08:20,770 --> 00:08:24,570 Now I want to take a look at another pretty famous case that 150 00:08:24,570 --> 00:08:27,850 happened in 1957, which seems like it has a little more 151 00:08:27,850 --> 00:08:30,930 veracity to it. Now, this was a site that also 152 00:08:30,930 --> 00:08:35,289 happened in 1957, and it might be more believable to some 153 00:08:35,289 --> 00:08:40,169 people because the star witness here was astronaut Gordon 154 00:08:40,289 --> 00:08:42,010 Cooper. I found this and 155 00:08:42,010 --> 00:08:45,930 thinkaboutitdocs.com. It says 1957 astronaut Gordon 156 00:08:45,930 --> 00:08:49,580 Cooper. Witnesses UFO landing at Edwards 157 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:53,940 Air Force Base. It just lists the date is 1957 158 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:57,460 location. Edwards Air Force Base gives it 159 00:08:57,460 --> 00:09:00,980 a highly classification that says observation of an object in 160 00:09:00,980 --> 00:09:04,860 close proximity to witness where physical traces, impression, 161 00:09:04,860 --> 00:09:08,900 burn, medical effects are are left or electrical effect or 162 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:11,020 heat or felt. In this considered a close 163 00:09:11,020 --> 00:09:13,970 encounter of the second kind they don't have a time on the 164 00:09:13,970 --> 00:09:15,610 duration. It just says number of objects 165 00:09:15,610 --> 00:09:19,370 one size of object 30 feet across distance 20 to 30 yards. 166 00:09:19,650 --> 00:09:23,530 Shape of object saucer shiny silver and smooth and then 167 00:09:23,530 --> 00:09:27,450 number of witnesses Multiple Source John Cook I had a camera 168 00:09:27,450 --> 00:09:30,410 crew filming the installation when they spotted the saucer. 169 00:09:30,930 --> 00:09:34,290 They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered extended 170 00:09:34,290 --> 00:09:38,210 three legs as landing gear and slowly came down to land on a 171 00:09:38,210 --> 00:09:42,060 dry lake bed. It was a classic saucer, shiny 172 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:44,980 silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. 173 00:09:45,380 --> 00:09:47,740 It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. 174 00:09:48,340 --> 00:09:50,500 So this other words, this thing was so advanced that he didn't 175 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:52,500 think there's any way it could have been man made. 176 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:54,380 And then Intel says the Ford Port. 177 00:09:54,380 --> 00:09:58,140 In 1957, Cooper was one of an elite band of test pilots at 178 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:01,700 Edward Air Force Base in California, in charge of several 179 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:04,780 advanced projects, including the installation of a Precision 180 00:10:04,780 --> 00:10:06,580 landing System. Quote. 181 00:10:06,580 --> 00:10:09,660 I had a camera filming the installation when they spotted a 182 00:10:09,660 --> 00:10:12,010 saucer. They filmed it as they flew 183 00:10:12,010 --> 00:10:16,050 overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and 184 00:10:16,050 --> 00:10:18,450 slowly came down to land on a dry lakebed. 185 00:10:18,930 --> 00:10:21,250 These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture 186 00:10:21,250 --> 00:10:24,370 quality was very good. The camera crew managed to get 187 00:10:24,370 --> 00:10:27,090 with him 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all the time. 188 00:10:27,370 --> 00:10:31,330 It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet 189 00:10:31,330 --> 00:10:33,290 across. It was pretty clear it was an 190 00:10:33,290 --> 00:10:35,650 alien aircraft. As they approached closer, it 191 00:10:35,650 --> 00:10:38,130 took off. When his camera crew handed over 192 00:10:38,130 --> 00:10:40,710 the film, Cooper followed standard procedures and 193 00:10:40,710 --> 00:10:44,150 contacted Washington to report the UFO and all heck broke 194 00:10:44,150 --> 00:10:46,630 loose, he said. After a while, a hand ranking 195 00:10:46,630 --> 00:10:49,390 officer said when the film was developed, I was to put it in a 196 00:10:49,390 --> 00:10:52,830 pouch and send it to Washington. He didn't say anything about me 197 00:10:52,830 --> 00:10:55,190 not looking at the film. That's what I did when it came 198 00:10:55,190 --> 00:10:58,270 back from the lab and it was all there, just like the camera crew 199 00:10:58,270 --> 00:11:00,990 reported. When the Air Force later started 200 00:11:00,990 --> 00:11:05,430 Operation Blue Book to correlate UFO evidence and reports, Cooper 201 00:11:05,430 --> 00:11:08,380 says he mentioned the film evidence but the film was never 202 00:11:08,380 --> 00:11:10,380 found. Supposedly Blue Book was 203 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:14,060 strictly a cover up. Anyway, Cooper revealed he's 204 00:11:14,060 --> 00:11:18,340 convinced an alien craft crashed at Roswell, NM in 1947 and 205 00:11:18,340 --> 00:11:20,060 aliens were discovered in the wreckage. 206 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:22,540 Had a good friend at Roswell, a fellow officer. 207 00:11:22,940 --> 00:11:26,780 He had to be careful about what he said, but it's but but it 208 00:11:26,780 --> 00:11:29,540 sure wasn't a weather balloon like the Air Force cover story. 209 00:11:30,020 --> 00:11:33,380 He made it clear to me that what crashed was a craft of alien 210 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:36,740 origin and members of the crew were recovered. 211 00:11:37,370 --> 00:11:39,970 Why has the government kept this UFO secrets for so many years? 212 00:11:40,370 --> 00:11:42,610 It started in World War 2 when the government didn't want 213 00:11:42,610 --> 00:11:44,410 people to know about UFO reports in the case. 214 00:11:44,450 --> 00:11:46,050 In the case, they panicked, said Cooper. 215 00:11:46,490 --> 00:11:49,610 They would have been fearful it was a superior enemy technology 216 00:11:49,610 --> 00:11:52,530 that we had no defense against. Then it got worse in the Cold 217 00:11:52,530 --> 00:11:55,530 War for the same reason. So they told one untruth. 218 00:11:55,890 --> 00:11:58,290 They had to tell another to cover that one, then another, 219 00:11:58,290 --> 00:12:00,010 then another. It's just snowballed. 220 00:12:00,370 --> 00:12:03,290 And right now, I'm convinced a lot of very embarrassed 221 00:12:03,570 --> 00:12:05,910 government officials are studying there in Washington, 222 00:12:05,910 --> 00:12:08,030 trying to figure out a way to bring the truth out. 223 00:12:08,390 --> 00:12:11,870 They know it's going to come out one day, and I'm sure it will. 224 00:12:12,270 --> 00:12:16,470 America has a right to know. Wow, that's really neat. 225 00:12:16,630 --> 00:12:18,790 It's got some pictures here from different UFO sightings. 226 00:12:19,590 --> 00:12:23,270 So you kind of have a contrast between 2 two different UFO 227 00:12:23,270 --> 00:12:26,630 encounters, one from a guy who's been convicted, you know, of 228 00:12:27,190 --> 00:12:30,150 crimes, larceny and whatnot. Crimes of deception, basically. 229 00:12:30,590 --> 00:12:33,630 Who says he has this had this experience where he had a UFO 230 00:12:33,630 --> 00:12:37,150 encounter was taken on board and was shown things, was given this 231 00:12:37,150 --> 00:12:41,190 kind of a generalized message that we needed to shape things 232 00:12:41,190 --> 00:12:44,190 up here on Earth. And then you have national hero 233 00:12:44,470 --> 00:12:46,830 Gordon Cooper an astronaut who says no. 234 00:12:46,830 --> 00:12:51,070 I've seen film of 1 landing here at Ed Edwards Air Force Base 235 00:12:51,590 --> 00:12:54,430 just showing it, basically saying yes, here we are. 236 00:12:54,950 --> 00:12:57,700 It's and it's just two of these different encounters that happen 237 00:12:57,700 --> 00:12:59,580 1957 that I think are so far apart. 238 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:03,180 But the debunkers like to focus on the ones like the first 239 00:13:03,180 --> 00:13:05,300 fellow Mr. Smith. There were some questions around 240 00:13:05,300 --> 00:13:08,220 his personal character, even though he did show up that up at 241 00:13:08,220 --> 00:13:11,500 the Sheriff's Office that day and did they said he said he 242 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:14,740 seemed to be frightened, upset as if he had actually seen 243 00:13:14,740 --> 00:13:17,460 something. So what happened after there, we 244 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:19,340 don't know. Now I want to look at this one 245 00:13:19,340 --> 00:13:21,700 last case from 1957 before we close this out. 246 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,160 And so we talked about the Platte River encounter. 247 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,840 We've talked about the Gordon encounter there at Edwards Air 248 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:33,120 Force Base. Here's one from Texas in 1957. 249 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,760 This is from housedupworks.com. It says the 1957 Loveland UFO 250 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,560 encounter. On November 2nd, 1957, the 251 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:44,680 Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 into orbit. 252 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,040 Within hours, coincidentally or otherwise, a UFO wave erupted in 253 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,870 the United States. At first, the wave appeared to 254 00:13:51,870 --> 00:13:55,630 be concentrated in a small backwater area of West, TX where 255 00:13:55,630 --> 00:13:58,430 a series of remarkable UFO encounters took place. 256 00:13:58,910 --> 00:14:02,390 The Sheriff's Office in the town of Loveland scoffed that evening 257 00:14:02,390 --> 00:14:04,830 when a frightened man called to report that he and a friend had 258 00:14:04,830 --> 00:14:08,390 driven on a country Hwy. 4 miles West of town, and it's seen a 259 00:14:08,390 --> 00:14:13,150 200 foot long rocket rise up from a field and rushed toward 260 00:14:13,150 --> 00:14:15,990 their truck. Terrified and of an imminent 261 00:14:15,990 --> 00:14:19,890 collision, the two flew out of the cab and hurled themselves 262 00:14:19,890 --> 00:14:25,330 into the ditch as the UFO passed just above the truck, rocking it 263 00:14:25,330 --> 00:14:29,050 with a blast as loud as Thunder, the vehicle's engine died and 264 00:14:29,050 --> 00:14:33,050 its lights went out, only to resume a few seconds later when 265 00:14:33,050 --> 00:14:35,570 the mysterious object disappeared from view. 266 00:14:36,250 --> 00:14:38,610 Wow, that's amazing. That almost sounds like this 267 00:14:38,610 --> 00:14:41,530 thing is is one of these interdimensional craft where 268 00:14:41,530 --> 00:14:45,410 what they are interpreting as this sound of a rocket, Who 269 00:14:45,410 --> 00:14:48,490 knows if it's if it's if it's from one of her power sources 270 00:14:48,490 --> 00:14:51,770 thing is using, or if that's just the Sonic boom being 271 00:14:51,770 --> 00:14:54,450 broken. But obviously these guys had an 272 00:14:54,450 --> 00:14:55,930 amazing encounter with this saying. 273 00:14:56,130 --> 00:14:58,650 And what did the sheriff do? Well, they laughed at him, which 274 00:14:58,650 --> 00:15:02,130 I guess is better than putting them in a psych word for a few 275 00:15:02,130 --> 00:15:04,210 days. An hour later, another caller 276 00:15:04,210 --> 00:15:07,610 recounted his experience with an identical UFO that had also 277 00:15:07,610 --> 00:15:10,130 interfered with the electrical functioning of his car. 278 00:15:10,730 --> 00:15:13,250 The scoffing stopped and sheriff's officers soon found 279 00:15:13,250 --> 00:15:16,090 themselves handling comparable stories from frightened 280 00:15:16,090 --> 00:15:19,730 observers who had seen a giant light and engine killing UFO at 281 00:15:19,730 --> 00:15:22,130 locations WE and north of Loveland. 282 00:15:22,530 --> 00:15:26,370 At 1:30 AM, Sheriff Weir Klim and a deputy saw the UF O's 283 00:15:26,370 --> 00:15:29,290 themselves. A few a few minutes later, Ray 284 00:15:29,290 --> 00:15:32,290 Jones, Loveland's fire marshal, experienced motor difficulty 285 00:15:32,290 --> 00:15:35,170 when the same or similar phenomena was in view. 286 00:15:35,730 --> 00:15:37,610 The official Air Force explanation? 287 00:15:37,690 --> 00:15:40,810 Ball lightning. But ball lightning never exceeds 288 00:15:40,810 --> 00:15:44,130 more than a few feet in diameter and is usually only inches 289 00:15:44,130 --> 00:15:47,330 around. Project Blue Book claimed an 290 00:15:47,330 --> 00:15:49,930 electrical storm was in process during the sightings. 291 00:15:50,170 --> 00:15:53,610 There was no storm by 1957. Project Blue Books 292 00:15:53,610 --> 00:15:57,650 investigations quote, UN quote or perfunctory at best, even as 293 00:15:57,650 --> 00:16:01,190 Chief Scientific Advisor, astronomer Jay Allen Heine would 294 00:16:01,190 --> 00:16:04,390 later remark on the absence of evidence that ball lightning can 295 00:16:04,390 --> 00:16:06,670 stop cars and put out headlights. 296 00:16:07,710 --> 00:16:10,390 I mean, that's more ball lightnings than most people have 297 00:16:10,390 --> 00:16:14,390 in a lifetime sightings. So that's just a quick little 298 00:16:14,990 --> 00:16:17,310 synapses there. And let's look at another 299 00:16:17,550 --> 00:16:20,630 episode here from Loveland, Texas because I think this is 300 00:16:20,630 --> 00:16:24,990 where a lot of the stuff kicked off in these 1957 sightings at 301 00:16:25,550 --> 00:16:29,530 Now we'll take one last look at this 1957 case from Texas as we 302 00:16:29,530 --> 00:16:33,290 just compare these different cases from 1957 and how they 303 00:16:33,290 --> 00:16:36,570 affected the UFO community. This is from 304 00:16:36,650 --> 00:16:41,570 everythingglobic.com as dated November 2nd, 2017. 305 00:16:41,570 --> 00:16:44,570 Keep in mind that be six years ago it says whatever happened in 306 00:16:44,570 --> 00:16:47,970 Loveland, it became a world famous mystery on November 2nd, 307 00:16:47,970 --> 00:16:51,370 1957. 60 years ago, Loveland became home to one of the 308 00:16:51,370 --> 00:16:53,450 strangest mysteries in U.S. history. 309 00:16:53,890 --> 00:16:56,810 A large, bright object appeared to hover above several different 310 00:16:56,810 --> 00:16:59,650 roads outside of town, causing cars to lose power and shut off. 311 00:17:00,090 --> 00:17:03,170 The object was described as egg or Oval shaped by some. 312 00:17:03,530 --> 00:17:06,810 Others said it was more like the shape of a torpedo or rocket. 313 00:17:07,170 --> 00:17:09,569 All the witnesses reported the object was very bright. 314 00:17:09,930 --> 00:17:12,010 It was described as orange or blue to green. 315 00:17:12,329 --> 00:17:13,890 Some described it like a fireball. 316 00:17:14,170 --> 00:17:16,690 One witness said it made a thundering or rumbling sound. 317 00:17:17,210 --> 00:17:20,250 I hit the ground, man, said eyewitness Pedro Susido. 318 00:17:20,609 --> 00:17:23,980 Susido spoke in 2003. At that time, he said. 319 00:17:23,980 --> 00:17:26,859 I started saying something's going on here, so I hit the 320 00:17:26,859 --> 00:17:29,340 ground. I got almost to the top of the 321 00:17:29,340 --> 00:17:31,220 truck. That's when the truck started 322 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:33,380 shaking. Lebanon Police reported a total 323 00:17:33,380 --> 00:17:35,980 of 15 phone calls related to the bright object that night. 324 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:39,820 The then sheriff of Hockley County, Weir Clem, reported 325 00:17:39,820 --> 00:17:42,860 seeing something strange about 300 yards ahead of him when he 326 00:17:42,860 --> 00:17:45,940 went to investigate. Possible explanations have been 327 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:48,500 offered over the years, such as weather phenomena like St. 328 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:51,340 Elmo's fire, which is created by electrical discharge in the 329 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:53,630 atmosphere. Other possible explanations 330 00:17:53,670 --> 00:17:57,390 included a reflection of burning gas from low cloud cover, or an 331 00:17:57,390 --> 00:18:00,470 extremely rare weather event known as ball lightning. 332 00:18:00,910 --> 00:18:03,630 UFO buffs say it remains one of the best cases to show the 333 00:18:03,670 --> 00:18:06,310 extraterrestrial life visited our planet. 334 00:18:07,030 --> 00:18:09,750 Interesting. So you had this UFO wave 335 00:18:09,750 --> 00:18:13,190 happening basically down there in Texas, clear up into 336 00:18:14,550 --> 00:18:17,110 Nebraska. Something was going on, and it's 337 00:18:17,110 --> 00:18:19,350 interesting to see how people react to it in different ways. 338 00:18:20,610 --> 00:18:24,130 Whether you're an astronaut, whether you're a farm worker 339 00:18:24,130 --> 00:18:29,210 down in Texas, or whether you are a grain bar with a somewhat 340 00:18:29,210 --> 00:18:32,850 sketchy criminal record in Nebraska is going to make a big 341 00:18:32,850 --> 00:18:33,930 difference in how you're treated. 342 00:18:34,530 --> 00:18:37,930 But what I find out so fascinating about these cases is 343 00:18:37,930 --> 00:18:40,650 the similarity in all of them. You know how these people had 344 00:18:40,650 --> 00:18:43,770 these encounters where they were really impacted by them or 345 00:18:43,770 --> 00:18:46,090 they're impacted enough to report to the authorities? 346 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,800 And sometimes the reactions of the authorities was simply to 347 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,880 scoff somebody and sometimes it was to have that person locked 348 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,680 up for a few days. That's why I think that the 349 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,080 Platte River encounter there with Mr. Smith is important 350 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:03,400 because even though this guy had a somewhat sketchy past, let's 351 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,440 say, and even though it seemed like this encounter that he had 352 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,080 definitely spiraled into an overall a negative impact on his 353 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,200 life. It just goes to show, I think, 354 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,270 that these things are seen and encountered by people from all 355 00:19:17,270 --> 00:19:20,030 different walks of life. Whether you're a hero astronaut 356 00:19:20,030 --> 00:19:24,790 like like Mr. Cooper there, or whether you are somebody who's 357 00:19:24,950 --> 00:19:28,630 been locked up for crimes like Mr. Smits, these things don't 358 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:31,230 seem to be any respecter of people. 359 00:19:31,550 --> 00:19:35,470 And each person's encounter and observation of them does, at 360 00:19:35,470 --> 00:19:39,430 some level, seem to be a very intensely personal thing. 361 00:19:39,710 --> 00:19:41,870 And there were an awful lot of encounters with these things in 362 00:19:41,870 --> 00:19:44,550 1957. Until next time, this is UFO 363 00:19:44,550 --> 00:19:45,630 warning. Over and out.