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SUBJECT: WOMAN & DOCTOR CERTAIN OF ALIEN VISIT FILE: UFO1281
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: March 17, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Daily News
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LOCATION: Hays, Kansas
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BYLINE: R.E. Ramcharan
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(C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service
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All Rights Reserved.
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SKEPTICS ASIDE, RUSSELL WOMAN, OTTAWA DOCTOR CERTAIN OF ALIEN
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VISITS
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By R.E. Ramcharan
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Hays Daily News
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RUSSELL--Exactly what several dozen citizens saw or hoped to
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see in the night sky over Russell County Feb. 24 may never be
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known for certain.
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What is known is that one woman claims to have been invited
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aboard alien ships on several occasions, and several people claim
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to have been followed or chased by unidentified flying objects.
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In a story published that day in the Russell Daily News,
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Donna Butts, 36, Russell, said that large numbers of alien
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spaceships would appear in the sky after dark "so people will
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know they are here, and that they do exist."
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In fact, according to Russell Daily News reporter Irene
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Jepsen, nothing happened. Jepsen and three friends spent much of
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that night driving around Russell County, watching for the ships.
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She saw "a lot of activity."
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But, she added, "I did not at any time think they were
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anything but ordinary aircraft."
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Several people called her after that night with accounts of
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UFO sightings, including one man who said he was sitting in a
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pickup with his wife and children in a field north of the city.
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Jepsen said he claimed that at about 9:45 p.m. a cluster of
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lights came out of a gully and headed for the truck. When he
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turned on his headlights, the apparition vanished.
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The next day, Jepsen said, "I did go to the area and there
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was nothing to see. As far as marks on the ground, there was
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nothing."
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Another woman claimed that she had seen a UFO near the
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Pioneer exit, about 5 miles east of here, Jepsen said. That UFO
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was described as a "strobe light" traveling northwest.
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None of these people are willing to say publicly who they
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are and what they saw. Nor has anyone called Russell County
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Sheriff Robert L. Balloun.
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Balloun said he was aware of the rumored sightings, but, he
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said, "We haven't had any reports of anything unusual in the
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county at all. It's been pretty quiet; we'd like to keep it that
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way.
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"I did have a deputy out that night and he didn't see
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anything at all. Apparently some people can see it and some
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people can't."
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That so many people claim to have seen UFOs does not
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surprise Philip Klass, a contributing editor to Aviation Week and
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Space Technology magazine and a member of the Committee for
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Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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"There is a psychological impact," Klass said in a telephone
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interview from his home in Washington. "I have often said that
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if I could get the Washington Post to publish a story that UFOs
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had been sighted over Washington, I can guarantee that 20 or 30
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people will call in the next day to report that they, too, have
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seen it.
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"Some of them may really have seen something--others, sort
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of a 'me, too' effect. If the Post, or any newspaper, follows up
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with another story saying UFOs have been sighted over Washington
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or Hays or wherever again last night, then more people, again,
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not kooks, but just curious people, will go out looking."
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In 22 years of investigating UFO reports, Klass said, he has
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yet to find one whose explanation was aliens from another planet.
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"Any person who will stand outside at night on a clear night
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for two or three hours, I can guarantee they will see something
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they cannot identify or explain. It may be a meteor fireball.
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It may be reentering space debris. It may be an advertising
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airplane. It may be a (Strategic Air Command) aircraft engaged
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in refueling maneuvers."
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Butts was one of two people quoted in the Dec. 13, 1988,
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edition of the grocery store tabloid Weekly World News. "They're
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coming! Space alien invasion only three years away, says top UFO
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expert," read the headline.
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A recent issue of the newspaper featured the headline,
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"Space alien baby found on Mt. Everest" on the front page.
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In the December story, Butts was quoted as saying she had
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been in contact with the aliens since 1984 and that the visits
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were connected with prophecies scattered throughout the Bible.
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She refuses to meet with reporters, but in a telephone
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interview she said that she had been receiving messages from an
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alien named Peter or Cephas.
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"Peter called himself a multidimensional being," she said.
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She described him as being 6 feet tall, with silver hair and blue
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eyes, about 60 years old--"nice build, not great, but nice."
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On several occasions, she said she had been invited aboard
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the alien's spaceships.
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"They take hold of you, and they have this little black box
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on the right side of their belt. Then they push a couple of
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buttons and next thing you know, you're aboard the ship."
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Once aboard, she said, the aliens told her about future
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events, among them an impending collapse of the Bush
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administration that would result in Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.,
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becoming the next president.
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Klass was skeptical.
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"See if you can find out what horse is going to run first at
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Hialeah tomorrow," he said.
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Also quoted in the Weekly World News was Ottawa physician
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Scott Corder. In a telephone interview, he said Peter was an
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"Amorcan," one of 70 species of aliens now visiting Earth. They
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came to Russell, he said, because it is the focal point of a
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"transmutational channel" that covers much of Kansas.
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"It's some kind of an entry point that has to do with
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electromagnetic fields that allows them to gain entry to our
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plane of existence," he said.
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"They want to focus some attention to that area, because
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it`s significant to them for prophecy."
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The prophecies are scattered throughout the Bible, Corder
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said. Many are connected with the Book of Revelation and deal
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with the end of the world.
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Corder added that Peter/Cephas is the same person as the
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apostle, Saint Peter.
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Monday, the state Board of Healing Arts suspended Corder's
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license to practice medicine for his public statements about the
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aliens.
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Ted Schultz, a writer on unconventional beliefs, is familiar
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with similar accounts. His book, "The Fringes of Reason,"
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examines a number of fringe social phenomena, including flying
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saucer religions.
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"It's interesting that this case combines both things--the
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classic '50's contactee and the abduction," he said.
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During the 1950s, people claimed to have been contacted by
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alien beings, often with predictions of future events or messages
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for the rest of the world.
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"It's hard to take any particular one at face value," he
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said. "It seems to me that, as far as the question of whether to
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actually believe them or not, the fact that hundreds of these
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predictions that have never come true works against it."
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Abduction, the notion that people are kidnapped by aliens,
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has been around almost since the first science fiction novels. A
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ghoulish twist, that the aliens conduct experiments on their
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prisoners, surfaced in 1968 with John Fuller's book, "Interrupted
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Journey." Similar accounts have recently been on the best seller
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lists.
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"Now it's a big thing," Schultz said. "It tells you
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something about human nature and the human mind, a lot more than
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it tells you about visitors from outer space."
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