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37 lines
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SUBJECT: RUSTLERS FROM MARS FILE: UFO2284
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On April 23, 1897, Kansas newspaper, the Yates Center Farmer's Advocate,
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reported an incredible story. On the evening of April 19, local rancer
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Alexander Hamilton, his son, and a hired man saw a giant cigar-shaped ship
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hovering above a corral lnear the house. Hamilton claimed that in a carriage
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underneath the structure were "six of the stranest beings I ever saw." Just
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then, the three men heard a calf bawling and found it trapped in the fence, a
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rope around its neck extending upward. "We tried to get it off but could not,"
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Hamilton said, "so we cut the wire loose to see the ship, heifer and all, rise
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slowly, disappearing in the northwest."
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The next day, Hamilton went looking for the animal. He learned that a neighbor
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had found the butchered remains in his pasture. The neighbor, according to
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Hamilton, "was greatly mystified in not being able to find any tracks in the
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soft ground."
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Hamilton's statement was followed by an affidavit signed by a dozen prominent
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citizens who swore that "for truth and veractiy we have never heard
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[Hamilton's] word questioned." In the following days, his story was published
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in newspapers through out the United States and even in Europe.
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Ufologists rediscovered the account in the early 1960s, and the story
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rebounded to life through books and magazines. In 1976, however, an elderly
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Kansas woman came forward to say that shorly before the tale was reported in
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the Farmer's Advocate, she had heard Hamilton boast to his wife about the
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story he had made up. Hamilton belonged to a local liars' club that delighted
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in the concoction of outrageous tall tales. According to the woman, "The club
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soon broke up after the 'airship and cow' story. I guess that one had topped
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them all."
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