6-th, 2001 - 16: 0
UFO?s Extra-Terrestrial or Co-Planetarian? Part 2
The Case for the Existence of UFOs

Beginning on July 11, 1991, during the last total eclipse of the sun this Century, a group of UFO?s appeared over Mexico City while hundreds of video camera?s were pointing towards the sky. Thousands of people saw these craft and hundreds of videotapes recorded their arrival.

Brad & Sherry Steiger writing of this event in their explosive book The Rainbow Conspiracy (1994) said:

?What might seem surprising to some though, is that the ancient scientists predicted 3,000 years ago of the eclipse in the Mayan calendar! Also predicted was that on the exact date of the eclipse a new Age of Enlightenment would began. It is referred to as the ?Prophecy of the Sixth Sun.? (Page 254).

Of course the spin-doctors will want to attack all of the witnesses? creditability. The problem with this is that the witnesses come from all walks of life including such professional observers as law officers, doctors, lawyers, pilots and high-ranking military personnel. Even former President Jimmy Carter has admitted a sighting.

As Timothy Good reported in his 1988 expose of UFO government cover-ups, Above Top Secret:

?During his election campaign in 1976, Jimmy Carter revealed that he had seen a UFO at Leary, Georgia in 1969, together with witnesses, prior to giving a speech at the local Lions Club. ?It was the darndest thing I?d ever seen,? he told reporters. ?It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was the size of the moon. One thing'? for sure; I'll never make fun of people who say they?ve seen unidentified objects in the sky.?

?If it isn?t Venus then its swamp gas,? is the consummate skeptic?s reaction. OK. Then let?s enter into evidence a Native-American boy?s account of a UFO encounter he and his father had while deer hunting in the Uintah Basin of Utah. Frank B. Salisbury the respected botanist and biochemist tells of the case in his book The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist?s Report (1974);

? ? they had seen the UFO so close that (the) father had shot at it They had heard the ricochet from the UFO after which it rapidly took off? (Page 94)

The biggest problem most people have is the mistaken belief that there is no physical evidence. This is simply not true. It is true, unfortunately, that most of the hard, solid evidence has been retrieved by various government agencies. The truth of this is slowly coming out through the diligent work of many dedicated Ufologists. In fact the evidence points towards a worldwide conspiracy. As Australian researcher/writer Bill Chalker reported in Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying Saucers (1988);

?It is my contention that had a well-supported programme of scientific inquiry replaced the myopic military ethic that had prevailed, then the course of the UFO controversy would have been considerably different and certainly more progressive. Perhaps by now there would not have been an ongoing controversy and indeed no mystery ? ? (Page 259)

If history has proven anything it?s that hindsight makes things become crystal clear. This is proven to be true when we re-acquaint ourselves with the research and work performed by the pioneers of ufology.

Almost anyone with any knowledge of the subject at all knows the Kenneth Arnold story and most laymen will tell you that his was the first sighting of ?flying saucers.? Of course that is not true. Strange things have been reported in the sky throughout written history. While Mr. Arnold?s sighting in June 24, 1947 in Washington State has received all the hoopla, there was what I believe to be, a much more important occurrence, also in the State of Washington, just a few days before Arnold?s famous sighting. Fortunately for us, and the quick thinking of publisher Ray Palmer, the same Kenneth Arnold was dispatched to Tacoma Washington to look into the report, otherwise it probably would have been completely covered up by our military. Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer reported on what was to become known as the Maury Island Affair in one of the earliest serious studies of the UFO phenomena, The Coming of the Saucers (1952). This study is very important because this is firsthand reporting by the people involved.

I believe that this incident is very important in understanding what is going on for two reasons. (!) There was solid evidence found and (2) the proof of government interference, harassment and intimidation is overwhelming, and it is easy to see through without the sophistication that the government intimidators use today.

The Maury Island sighting has been covered in many UFO books over the years so we?ll spend little time on the event itself. But, just to refresh your memory here are the particulars. Two harbor patrolmen, Mr. Harold A. Dahl and Mr. Fred L. Crisman saw a group of ?flying saucers? around 2 P.M. on June 21, 1947 while on patrol in a boat near the shoreline of Maury Island, one of Washington State?s coastal islands. While observing these strange craft one of them discharged ?what seemed like thousands of newspapers from somewhere on the inside of the center.? At the same time ?black or darker type metal which looked similar to lava rock? began to fall from the vessel. All of these fragments of metal ?seemed hot, almost molten. When they hit the bay, steam rose from the water.? Some of this metal hit the wheelhouse of the patrol boat causing extensive damage. Mr. Dahl also reported that his ?son?s arm was injured by one of the falling fragments and our dog was hit and killed. The witness then told Kenneth Arnold, ?We tried to pick up several pieces of the metal fragments and found them very hot ? in fact I almost burned my fingers ? but after some of them had cooled we loaded a considerable number of the pieces aboard the boat. We also picked up some of the metal which looked like falling newspaper.?

However, this reports focus is neither on the sighting nor the metal. Our real interest lies in the experiences of Mr. Palmer during this investigation. During the time he was interviewing the witnesses and investigating the site his hotel room was bugged. He was discouraged from gathering evidence, lied to repeatedly, had a crude form of ?bait and switch? pulled on him by an Air Force Officer in regards to the recovered metal, and finally told that the witnesses, Mr. Dahl and Mr. Crisman had disappeared. A military aircraft was sent to remove the questioned debris. The B-25 carrying the metal exploded and crashed 20 minutes after taking off killing both the pilot and co-pilot.

Richard Shaver reported in Volume II Number 1 of The Shaver Mystery Magazine (1947);

?On August 2, 1947, The Tacoma Times published the following story under the byline Paul Lance: ?The mystery of the ?flying saucers? soared into prominence again Saturday when The Tacoma Times was informed that the crash Friday night of an Army plane at Kelso may have been caused by sabotage. The Times informant, in a series of mysterious phone calls reported that the ship had been sabotaged ?or shot down? to prevent shipment of flying disk fragments to Hamilton Field for analysis ? ? (Page 27).

In Retrospect probably the most telling thing that happened to Mr. Arnold happened before he made the trip to Tacoma at Mr. Palmer?s request and during the time that his own sighting was raising such a fuss. He was visited by ?two representatives of A-2 Military Intelligence of the Fourth Air Force, Lieutenant Frank M. Brown and Captain William Davidson.? Mr. Arnold had a pleasant meal and meeting with the two men who seemed real interested in what he had seen. Then Mr. Arnold reported;

?Before leaving that night Davidson and Brown went through all the mail I had received outside of what various newsmen had helped themselves to. I noticed the mail they selected to take was mostly of the nature of societies or organizations that had written me asking for full accounts of my original experiences.?

It is interesting to note that metal fragments had also been gathered from an Unidentified Flying Saucer at an earlier date. Daniel Cohen covers the story in The Great Texas Airship Mystery (1981). Mr. Cohen reports that the April 19, 1879 issue of the Dallas Morning News contained the following story.

?About 6 o?clock this morning the early risers of Aurora (Texas) were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing throughout the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor?s windmill and went to pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the Judge?s flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard, and while his remains are badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world ? This ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to it?s construction or motive power. It was built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver and it must have weighted several tons. The town today is full of people who are viewing the wreckage and gathering specimens of strange metal from the debris. The pilots funeral will take place at noon tomorrow.?
(Pages 104 ? 105)

The last I heard of the case was of Encounters: The Hidden Truth, a television special broadcast on December 8, 1994. The story was covered and a piece of metal allegedly dug up out of the long departed Judges well was turned over to investigators. Interesting, but once again the metal, something to hold ? to test ? eludes us. However, in the next report in this series we?ll examine some metal ? and the findings are amazing.

*Mr. Crisman became infamous on November 22, 1963 as one of the three ?tramps? apprehended by the Dallas Police near the railroad tracks above the Grassy Knoll immediately following the JFK Assignation. Does this have anything to do with the Maury Island Incident? Probably not, but it is interesting to note