William Strathmann
Paranormal Adept
I'm not well-versed on UFO reports, and I just came across the following one about two weeks ago.
The article below by John Keel (evidently written before he went "round the bend") describes an incident that had been reported in local papers, and in Fate, before Keel interviewed the two patrolmen. To me, the reported circumstances of the event, and this interview, indicate the two patrolmen reported what they encountered. But their report leads to larger questions. This is a close encounter with a being who looks human, has no headgear or breathing apparatus to protect itself from alien microorganisms, speaks educated English, but says nothing worth remembering.
An encounter with an actual visiting interstellar alien?
Fae folk entering the technological age?
A hoax?
Something else?
Flying Saucer Review
FSR 1968 Vol. 14, N2. pages 17-19.
Special thanks to Isaac Koi (Home - IsaacKoi)
for helping me obtain the article.
THE LITTLE MAN OF GAFFNEY
A Special Report from S. Carolina
by John A. Keel
On the night of November 16-17, 1966, an intensive
meteor shower was visible in many parts of the
United States. Excellent press coverage prior to the
event prompted millions of people to spend the evening
out of doors, watching the display. The city of New
York even organised a huge "falling stars" party in a
major park, but overcast skies in the area spoiled the
view. UFO researchers braced themselves for a wave of
mistaken "sightings" and misinterpretations of the
phenomenon. It may be significant that not a single
false report was received that evening. In fact, only one
sighting was reported ... and that was the story of two
police officers encountering a "little man" in South
Carolina.
The following evening, November 17, two schoolgirls
from Quarryville, Pa., reported seeing a low-level white
and green object.1 Two days later, on November 19, a
"flap" broke out in six states ... Ohio, Oklahoma,
Texas, Arizona, Kansas and Michigan. The Michigan
sightings were accompanied by power failures throughout
the state.2
Although the Leonid meteor showers failed to inspire
an outburst of Menzel-type sightings (and maybe this
does prove that the public really knows the difference
between natural phenomena and UFOs), the report of
the two police officers more than made up for the lack
of other reports.
Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and Charles Hutchins were
on a routine cruise around Gaffney, S.C., about 4.00 a.m.
on the morning of November 17 when, according to
their story, they suddenly saw a circular machine land
and a "little man" step out to have a brief and enigmatic
chat with them. They dutifully reported the encounter
to the Gaffney Police Chief, and it quickly leaked out
to the local newspapers. The story was not widely
circulated outside of Gaffney, however, and few
Ufologists had heard of it until it was mentioned in the
April, 1967, issue of Fate magazine.3
In November, 1967, I found myself in Atlanta,
Georgia, about two hundred miles from Gaffney, and
I decided to drive through South Carolina and seek
out the two men. As is my practice, my first stop was a
visit to the local newspaper office, the Gaffney Ledger,
where I presented my press credentials to the managing
editor, Jack Truelove, and discussed the case. He told
me that he received very few UFO sightings and tended
to avoid publishing them, particularly since Hutchins
and Huskey had been exposed to so much ridicule after
their story appeared. Later I learned that there had been
extensive sightings throughout the entire area in the last
few years, particularly around the village of Blacksburg
to the north and Gastonia, North Carolina, a few miles
SW of Charlotte, N.C.
(The editor of the Gastonia Gazette was to tell me that
he had been receiving at least one UFO report per day
for the past year, but he only bothered to print two or
three a month.)
Mr. Truelove phoned Officer Hutchins and arranged
a meeting for later that evening. A. G. Huskey had
resigned from the police force a few months earlier and
was now operating a local business. At the appointed
time I drove to the Gaffney Police Station where I
found Officer Hutchins standing outside waiting for me
in the bitter cold. He regarded me with some suspicion
at first, asking for reassurance that I was "not with the
government". He had heard of the well-publicised
tragedy of the Ohio police officer, Dale Spaur, who had
suffered all kinds of unpleasantness after being involved
in the celebrated Ohio UFO chase of April, 1966. I
handed my sheaf of credentials to him, showed him a
number of my published UFO articles, including
magazines which contained my picture, and he relaxed
and became co-operative and talkative.
An ebullient man, stocky, about 5ft. 10in. and
somewhere in his early thirties, Officer Hutchins quickly
revealed a healthy sense of humour and, unlike many
police officers, did not seem to take himself too
seriously. We adjourned to an empty room in the police
station where I set up my portable tape recorder and
began the interview. He began with a confession. The
"little man" had not had a "green complexion" as was
reported in the newspapers, he said. When he and
Huskey had first told their story they had been subjected
to so many jeers that they deliberately added the
"green complexion". Actually, he admitted, the
creature's face seemed rather ordinary and human-like
and neither man was able to tell whether his complexion
was light or dark.
The landing
Hutchins had been on the Gaffney Police Force for
about six months at the time, and Huskey had been a
policeman for five years. He could no longer remember
the exact date, but he did remember that they had been
watching an unusual number of "falling stars" all
evening. Some time after 4.00 a.m. (the newspaper
stories gave the time as 4.45 a.m.) they were making a
routine patrol along the isolated and unpopulated road
through an outlying section of Gaffney known as the
West Buford Street Extension when, as they neared a
right-angle bend in the road, they suddenly saw a
metallic object directly in front of them. This object
was descending and was about 20ft. above the ground
when they first observed it. Hutchins described it as
being spherical, like a ball, with a wide, flat rim around
it. There were no portholes or lights visible on it. It was
completely dark, reflecting a dull gold colour in the
headlights of the police car.
Illustration, based on a sketch by Officer Hutchins, of the Saturn-shaped object (a center sphere with a flat rim around it) with open door at bottom and descending ladder, with a scale arrow indicating it was about 20 ft. diameter.
As the object settled to within a few feet of the
ground, both men got out of their car in a state of
benumbed amazement. Later Hutchins estimated that
the object must have been about 20ft. in diameter.
A small door suddenly opened noiselessly on the
underside of the sphere and a short ladder, 4 to 6ft.
long, dropped down. White light poured out of the
opening, but neither man could see anything in the
interior. A figure appeared in the doorway, descended
the ladder and walked slowly and deliberately toward
the two police officers. When the figure reached a point
about 15 or 20ft. from the two men it stopped.
"He didn't move stiffly," Officer Hutchins told me.
"He moved just like anybody else, but kind of slow ...
like he was taking his time. He wasn't scared of us or
anything like that."
In appearance "he was about the size of a 12-year-old
boy ... maybe four feet." He wore no helmet or head-
gear and was dressed "in a gold suit with no buttons
or zippers". His costume was shiny, like metal, in the
reflection of the headlights. It was not self-luminous.
"We were both kind of shakey and scared," Hutchins
admitted. "So he did most of the talking. When we
asked him questions, he wouldn't answer us, but just
went right on talking."
Hutchins could not remember seeing the feet of the
creature. It was standing in high grass and the feet
must have been hidden. Unfortunately, since my
interview took place a full year after the incident, both
men had understandably forgotten small details. They
could not even remember the full context of the
"conversation".
"He talked real good ... like a college graduate,"
Hutchins claims. "Didn't have any accent or anything.
He acted like he knew exactly what he was saying and
doing ... didn't make any quick moves or false moves.
He just stood there and talked to us."
What exactly was said? Officer Hutchins thinks that
he stammered out a question like, "What are you
doing here?" The creature did not reply, but asked a
question of his own. "He wanted to know why we were
both dressed alike," Hutchins says, "so I guess we told
him we were police officers."
"His speech was very ... very precise. He pronounced
each word very carefully. I can't remember everything
he said now ... but it wasn't anything very important. I
think I asked him where he was from but he didn't
answer. He just laughed. He had a kind of funny
laugh."4
The confrontation was brief, perhaps only two or
three minutes. Then the creature announced: "I ... will
... return ... in ... two ... days." He turned, walked
slowly back to the ladder, climbed into the object, the
door closed and the craft began to whirr. "It wasn't like
those whirring sounds in science fiction movies ...
there was no screeching to it. It was soft, like an engine
with a muffler on it." The object rose slowly into the
air and vanished into the black sky.
The two policemen stood there for a few minutes in
stunned silence before they finally pulled themselves
together and returned to the Police Station.
They returned to the site the next day with a local
Councilman named Hill and found several fresh footprints
in the exact spot where the "little man" had stood.
They "looked like children's footprints". No casts were
made.
After the story had appeared in the local papers both
men were subjected to considerable ridicule, but neither
one received any hoax phone calls or crank letters.
However, about two weeks after the incident two
strangers turned up in Gaffney, made a few inquiries,
and called Hutchins from a local restaurant. "They said
they were doctors of some kind," Hutchins told me.
"I think they were from the government or something.
By that time both of us were fed up with the whole
business and we didn't want to talk about it any more.
I told those fellows we couldn't see them." These two
strangers were apparently not very persistent. They
went away and neither man was a approached by any
investigator of any kind.
Later I spoke to A. G. Huskey on the phone (I did
not meet him personally). He confirmed Hutchins' story,
recited the same details. but showed a great deal of
reluctance. He wanted to forget the whole thing. He
had left the force after suffering an accident totally
unrelated to UFOs and now operates his own business
in Gaffney.
Hutchins appeared to be a straight-forward, honest
witness. There were many details he could not remember
and he did not seem to attempt to embellish his story
at all. His reputation in Gaffney is excellent. Careful
cross-examination failed to uncover any discrepancies
in his narrative. He told it like it happened, no more, no
less.
The meaning of the contact
Accompanied by Hutchins and another police officer,
I carefully inspected the site of the alleged landing. It
looked very familiar to me ... for I have stood in a
hundred similar, if not identical places, during my
investigations in the past two years. The West Buford
Street Extension is a desolate place, covered with
thickets and trees. There is only one house in the area
and that is some distance from the site. As Dr. Jacques
Vallee noted in his study of the 1954 French landings,
most of these incidents occur in isolated, thinly
populated areas.
The object came down directly in front of a telephone
pole which sits about 50ft. in from the bend in the
road. The two officers took a few steps forward from
their car but made no attempt to approach the entity.
Their voices could have carried easily for 15 or 20ft.
in the still night air.
I now have in my possession two remarkable photographs
of "little men". One was taken at Oriental, N.C.,
in the summer of 1967, the other was taken in Lambertville,
N.J., in September 1967. I am currently running
a complete check on the photographers, and so on. If
their stories are true, it would appear that in both cases
the "little men" were not only aware that they were
being photographed but that they deliberately posed
for the photographers. In this Gaffney, S.C., incident
it also seems as if the contact was a very deliberate one.
At 4.00 a.m. that morning there was probably little
or no life in Gaffney and the cruising police car moving
casually along a deserted road in an isolated area
would have been most conspicuous. If the Ufonauts
had wanted to make a deliberate contact in the area
this was an ideal situation.
In view of the many other incidents now coming to
our attention, such as low-level flights over cities and
towns, and a steadily increasing number of landings
and contacts, we might assume that the UFOs are
finally coming out of "hiding" and beginning to make
their presence known in a very deliberate manner.
"They" do not seem especially interested in communi-
cating important information to us, but they do seem to
desire notice and attention.
Neither Hutchins nor Huskey had read any UFO
literature before the incident, nor do they seem very
interested in such literature now. They were not aware
of the numerous other far-flung contactee stories in
which the witnesses also reported that the Ufonauts
declared they would return at a specific time.
Both men revisited the landing site nightly for two
weeks after the incident without seeing anything
unusual. However, they did see a large orange ball
sailing across the sky a few days later.
A woman in Gaffney has been complaining to the
police that her house has been "haunted" for the past
year. She lives alone in the heart of the town and
insists that a strange, oppressive "electronic sound"
frequently permeates the house and seems to "wrap
around" her. No one takes her seriously, even though
others have reported hearing and "feeling" this sound
when visiting her.
Farther north, around Gastonia, N.C, low-level
sightings are continuous in the vicinity of Spencer
Mountain, a high hill topped with radio and TV
antennae. There has also been an epidemic of "haunted
houses" in that area in the past year or two. The strange
sound of a baby crying has been frequently heard in old
cemeteries at night. While in Gastonia I checked into
one fresh report ... a Mrs. Delores Jamison said she
had seen a brilliantly illuminated object, flashing red
and blue lights, manoeuvring over the end of N. Broad
Street on the night of November 15, 1967.5 I visited the
spot and discovered that the object must have been
hovering directly above the Hollywood Cemetery.
Cemetery sightings have become commonplace throughout
the world–perhaps because cemeteries are deserted
at night and offer excellent landing space.
Gradually, the pieces of this enormous puzzle are
falling into place.
NOTES
1 Quarryville. PA. Sun and Christiana Ledger. January 14, 1967.
2 Jackson, Mich., Citizen-Patriot, November 21, 1966.
3 Fate, April 1967, page 25.
4 This "funny laugh" has been frequently mentioned by contactees.
Apparently it is a strained or artificial laugh, sometimes described as
hysterical or insane.
5 Gastonia, N.C., Gazette, November 16, 1967.
The article below by John Keel (evidently written before he went "round the bend") describes an incident that had been reported in local papers, and in Fate, before Keel interviewed the two patrolmen. To me, the reported circumstances of the event, and this interview, indicate the two patrolmen reported what they encountered. But their report leads to larger questions. This is a close encounter with a being who looks human, has no headgear or breathing apparatus to protect itself from alien microorganisms, speaks educated English, but says nothing worth remembering.
An encounter with an actual visiting interstellar alien?
Fae folk entering the technological age?
A hoax?
Something else?
Flying Saucer Review
FSR 1968 Vol. 14, N2. pages 17-19.
Special thanks to Isaac Koi (Home - IsaacKoi)
for helping me obtain the article.
THE LITTLE MAN OF GAFFNEY
A Special Report from S. Carolina
by John A. Keel
On the night of November 16-17, 1966, an intensive
meteor shower was visible in many parts of the
United States. Excellent press coverage prior to the
event prompted millions of people to spend the evening
out of doors, watching the display. The city of New
York even organised a huge "falling stars" party in a
major park, but overcast skies in the area spoiled the
view. UFO researchers braced themselves for a wave of
mistaken "sightings" and misinterpretations of the
phenomenon. It may be significant that not a single
false report was received that evening. In fact, only one
sighting was reported ... and that was the story of two
police officers encountering a "little man" in South
Carolina.
The following evening, November 17, two schoolgirls
from Quarryville, Pa., reported seeing a low-level white
and green object.1 Two days later, on November 19, a
"flap" broke out in six states ... Ohio, Oklahoma,
Texas, Arizona, Kansas and Michigan. The Michigan
sightings were accompanied by power failures throughout
the state.2
Although the Leonid meteor showers failed to inspire
an outburst of Menzel-type sightings (and maybe this
does prove that the public really knows the difference
between natural phenomena and UFOs), the report of
the two police officers more than made up for the lack
of other reports.
Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and Charles Hutchins were
on a routine cruise around Gaffney, S.C., about 4.00 a.m.
on the morning of November 17 when, according to
their story, they suddenly saw a circular machine land
and a "little man" step out to have a brief and enigmatic
chat with them. They dutifully reported the encounter
to the Gaffney Police Chief, and it quickly leaked out
to the local newspapers. The story was not widely
circulated outside of Gaffney, however, and few
Ufologists had heard of it until it was mentioned in the
April, 1967, issue of Fate magazine.3
In November, 1967, I found myself in Atlanta,
Georgia, about two hundred miles from Gaffney, and
I decided to drive through South Carolina and seek
out the two men. As is my practice, my first stop was a
visit to the local newspaper office, the Gaffney Ledger,
where I presented my press credentials to the managing
editor, Jack Truelove, and discussed the case. He told
me that he received very few UFO sightings and tended
to avoid publishing them, particularly since Hutchins
and Huskey had been exposed to so much ridicule after
their story appeared. Later I learned that there had been
extensive sightings throughout the entire area in the last
few years, particularly around the village of Blacksburg
to the north and Gastonia, North Carolina, a few miles
SW of Charlotte, N.C.
(The editor of the Gastonia Gazette was to tell me that
he had been receiving at least one UFO report per day
for the past year, but he only bothered to print two or
three a month.)
Mr. Truelove phoned Officer Hutchins and arranged
a meeting for later that evening. A. G. Huskey had
resigned from the police force a few months earlier and
was now operating a local business. At the appointed
time I drove to the Gaffney Police Station where I
found Officer Hutchins standing outside waiting for me
in the bitter cold. He regarded me with some suspicion
at first, asking for reassurance that I was "not with the
government". He had heard of the well-publicised
tragedy of the Ohio police officer, Dale Spaur, who had
suffered all kinds of unpleasantness after being involved
in the celebrated Ohio UFO chase of April, 1966. I
handed my sheaf of credentials to him, showed him a
number of my published UFO articles, including
magazines which contained my picture, and he relaxed
and became co-operative and talkative.
An ebullient man, stocky, about 5ft. 10in. and
somewhere in his early thirties, Officer Hutchins quickly
revealed a healthy sense of humour and, unlike many
police officers, did not seem to take himself too
seriously. We adjourned to an empty room in the police
station where I set up my portable tape recorder and
began the interview. He began with a confession. The
"little man" had not had a "green complexion" as was
reported in the newspapers, he said. When he and
Huskey had first told their story they had been subjected
to so many jeers that they deliberately added the
"green complexion". Actually, he admitted, the
creature's face seemed rather ordinary and human-like
and neither man was able to tell whether his complexion
was light or dark.
The landing
Hutchins had been on the Gaffney Police Force for
about six months at the time, and Huskey had been a
policeman for five years. He could no longer remember
the exact date, but he did remember that they had been
watching an unusual number of "falling stars" all
evening. Some time after 4.00 a.m. (the newspaper
stories gave the time as 4.45 a.m.) they were making a
routine patrol along the isolated and unpopulated road
through an outlying section of Gaffney known as the
West Buford Street Extension when, as they neared a
right-angle bend in the road, they suddenly saw a
metallic object directly in front of them. This object
was descending and was about 20ft. above the ground
when they first observed it. Hutchins described it as
being spherical, like a ball, with a wide, flat rim around
it. There were no portholes or lights visible on it. It was
completely dark, reflecting a dull gold colour in the
headlights of the police car.
Illustration, based on a sketch by Officer Hutchins, of the Saturn-shaped object (a center sphere with a flat rim around it) with open door at bottom and descending ladder, with a scale arrow indicating it was about 20 ft. diameter.
As the object settled to within a few feet of the
ground, both men got out of their car in a state of
benumbed amazement. Later Hutchins estimated that
the object must have been about 20ft. in diameter.
A small door suddenly opened noiselessly on the
underside of the sphere and a short ladder, 4 to 6ft.
long, dropped down. White light poured out of the
opening, but neither man could see anything in the
interior. A figure appeared in the doorway, descended
the ladder and walked slowly and deliberately toward
the two police officers. When the figure reached a point
about 15 or 20ft. from the two men it stopped.
"He didn't move stiffly," Officer Hutchins told me.
"He moved just like anybody else, but kind of slow ...
like he was taking his time. He wasn't scared of us or
anything like that."
In appearance "he was about the size of a 12-year-old
boy ... maybe four feet." He wore no helmet or head-
gear and was dressed "in a gold suit with no buttons
or zippers". His costume was shiny, like metal, in the
reflection of the headlights. It was not self-luminous.
"We were both kind of shakey and scared," Hutchins
admitted. "So he did most of the talking. When we
asked him questions, he wouldn't answer us, but just
went right on talking."
Hutchins could not remember seeing the feet of the
creature. It was standing in high grass and the feet
must have been hidden. Unfortunately, since my
interview took place a full year after the incident, both
men had understandably forgotten small details. They
could not even remember the full context of the
"conversation".
"He talked real good ... like a college graduate,"
Hutchins claims. "Didn't have any accent or anything.
He acted like he knew exactly what he was saying and
doing ... didn't make any quick moves or false moves.
He just stood there and talked to us."
What exactly was said? Officer Hutchins thinks that
he stammered out a question like, "What are you
doing here?" The creature did not reply, but asked a
question of his own. "He wanted to know why we were
both dressed alike," Hutchins says, "so I guess we told
him we were police officers."
"His speech was very ... very precise. He pronounced
each word very carefully. I can't remember everything
he said now ... but it wasn't anything very important. I
think I asked him where he was from but he didn't
answer. He just laughed. He had a kind of funny
laugh."4
The confrontation was brief, perhaps only two or
three minutes. Then the creature announced: "I ... will
... return ... in ... two ... days." He turned, walked
slowly back to the ladder, climbed into the object, the
door closed and the craft began to whirr. "It wasn't like
those whirring sounds in science fiction movies ...
there was no screeching to it. It was soft, like an engine
with a muffler on it." The object rose slowly into the
air and vanished into the black sky.
The two policemen stood there for a few minutes in
stunned silence before they finally pulled themselves
together and returned to the Police Station.
They returned to the site the next day with a local
Councilman named Hill and found several fresh footprints
in the exact spot where the "little man" had stood.
They "looked like children's footprints". No casts were
made.
After the story had appeared in the local papers both
men were subjected to considerable ridicule, but neither
one received any hoax phone calls or crank letters.
However, about two weeks after the incident two
strangers turned up in Gaffney, made a few inquiries,
and called Hutchins from a local restaurant. "They said
they were doctors of some kind," Hutchins told me.
"I think they were from the government or something.
By that time both of us were fed up with the whole
business and we didn't want to talk about it any more.
I told those fellows we couldn't see them." These two
strangers were apparently not very persistent. They
went away and neither man was a approached by any
investigator of any kind.
Later I spoke to A. G. Huskey on the phone (I did
not meet him personally). He confirmed Hutchins' story,
recited the same details. but showed a great deal of
reluctance. He wanted to forget the whole thing. He
had left the force after suffering an accident totally
unrelated to UFOs and now operates his own business
in Gaffney.
Hutchins appeared to be a straight-forward, honest
witness. There were many details he could not remember
and he did not seem to attempt to embellish his story
at all. His reputation in Gaffney is excellent. Careful
cross-examination failed to uncover any discrepancies
in his narrative. He told it like it happened, no more, no
less.
The meaning of the contact
Accompanied by Hutchins and another police officer,
I carefully inspected the site of the alleged landing. It
looked very familiar to me ... for I have stood in a
hundred similar, if not identical places, during my
investigations in the past two years. The West Buford
Street Extension is a desolate place, covered with
thickets and trees. There is only one house in the area
and that is some distance from the site. As Dr. Jacques
Vallee noted in his study of the 1954 French landings,
most of these incidents occur in isolated, thinly
populated areas.
The object came down directly in front of a telephone
pole which sits about 50ft. in from the bend in the
road. The two officers took a few steps forward from
their car but made no attempt to approach the entity.
Their voices could have carried easily for 15 or 20ft.
in the still night air.
I now have in my possession two remarkable photographs
of "little men". One was taken at Oriental, N.C.,
in the summer of 1967, the other was taken in Lambertville,
N.J., in September 1967. I am currently running
a complete check on the photographers, and so on. If
their stories are true, it would appear that in both cases
the "little men" were not only aware that they were
being photographed but that they deliberately posed
for the photographers. In this Gaffney, S.C., incident
it also seems as if the contact was a very deliberate one.
At 4.00 a.m. that morning there was probably little
or no life in Gaffney and the cruising police car moving
casually along a deserted road in an isolated area
would have been most conspicuous. If the Ufonauts
had wanted to make a deliberate contact in the area
this was an ideal situation.
In view of the many other incidents now coming to
our attention, such as low-level flights over cities and
towns, and a steadily increasing number of landings
and contacts, we might assume that the UFOs are
finally coming out of "hiding" and beginning to make
their presence known in a very deliberate manner.
"They" do not seem especially interested in communi-
cating important information to us, but they do seem to
desire notice and attention.
Neither Hutchins nor Huskey had read any UFO
literature before the incident, nor do they seem very
interested in such literature now. They were not aware
of the numerous other far-flung contactee stories in
which the witnesses also reported that the Ufonauts
declared they would return at a specific time.
Both men revisited the landing site nightly for two
weeks after the incident without seeing anything
unusual. However, they did see a large orange ball
sailing across the sky a few days later.
A woman in Gaffney has been complaining to the
police that her house has been "haunted" for the past
year. She lives alone in the heart of the town and
insists that a strange, oppressive "electronic sound"
frequently permeates the house and seems to "wrap
around" her. No one takes her seriously, even though
others have reported hearing and "feeling" this sound
when visiting her.
Farther north, around Gastonia, N.C, low-level
sightings are continuous in the vicinity of Spencer
Mountain, a high hill topped with radio and TV
antennae. There has also been an epidemic of "haunted
houses" in that area in the past year or two. The strange
sound of a baby crying has been frequently heard in old
cemeteries at night. While in Gastonia I checked into
one fresh report ... a Mrs. Delores Jamison said she
had seen a brilliantly illuminated object, flashing red
and blue lights, manoeuvring over the end of N. Broad
Street on the night of November 15, 1967.5 I visited the
spot and discovered that the object must have been
hovering directly above the Hollywood Cemetery.
Cemetery sightings have become commonplace throughout
the world–perhaps because cemeteries are deserted
at night and offer excellent landing space.
Gradually, the pieces of this enormous puzzle are
falling into place.
NOTES
1 Quarryville. PA. Sun and Christiana Ledger. January 14, 1967.
2 Jackson, Mich., Citizen-Patriot, November 21, 1966.
3 Fate, April 1967, page 25.
4 This "funny laugh" has been frequently mentioned by contactees.
Apparently it is a strained or artificial laugh, sometimes described as
hysterical or insane.
5 Gastonia, N.C., Gazette, November 16, 1967.
