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SUBJECT: SIX SOLDIERS AWOL FROM INTELLIGENCE UNIT FILE: UFO2200
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This was from the Tampa Tribune for Thursday, 26 July 1990:
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FORT KNOX, Ky. (AP) - Six soldiers charged with going AWOL
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from their intelligence unit for what a friend described as a
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rendezvous with UFOs could lose pay and rank under disciplinary
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terms offered Wed-nesday by the Army.
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The six were reported missing from their units in Augsberg,
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West Germany, on July 9 and arrested in Gulf Breeze, Fla., four
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days later.
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They were offered the "non-judicial punishment" after an in-
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vestigation failed to find evidence of espionage, said Major Ron
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Mazzia, a spokesman at Fort Knox, where they were being held.
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The soldiers were given three days to consider the proposed
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disciplinary action and could later be discharged, Mazzia said.
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It was still unclear why the six, all from the 701st Military
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Intelligence Brigade, traveled to Florida.
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Stan Johnson of Bybee, Tenn., said the oldest member of the
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group, Specialist Kenneth G, Beason, 26, told him they had been
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"chosen by ... divine intervention to help prepare for the end of
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the world, which was supposed to occur in about eight years from
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now. ...
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"They were going to Florida to kick off preparations," said
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Johnson, a friend of Beason's for several years who picked him up
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at the Knoxville, Tenn., airport upon arrival from Germany.
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"The real interesting part of this," Johnson said, "was that
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when the second coming of Christ occurred, Jesus Christ was going
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to arrive in a spaceship."
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Gulf Breeze, a beach town near Pensacola where Beason and
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others in the group received training, has been the site of many
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reported UFO sightings.
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Besides Beason, those charged were identified as Pfc. Michael
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Hueckstaedt, 19, of Farson, Wyo.; Pfc. Kris Perlock, 20, of
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Osceola, Wis.; Pfc. William Setterberg, 20, of Pittsburgh;
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specialist Vance Davis, 25, of Valley Center, Kan.; and Sgt.
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Annette Eccleston, 22, of Hartford, Conn.
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Capt. Kenneth Hicks of the Gulf Breeze Police Department said
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that when he questioned Hueckstaedt and Eccleston, neither spoke of
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religion or UFOs.
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"Really, the only thing they said is they were heading out
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West and they were just going to kind of live out in the woods -
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kind of like a survivalist group," Hicks said. They mentioned Santa
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Fe, N.M., and Texas.
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Mazzia said the soldiers were AWOL for varying amounts of
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time, but the longest was seven days.
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