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SUBJECT: TO THE MOON, OTIS ! FILE: UFO2427
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To hear him tell it, Otis T. Car was the smartest man since Isaac Newton,
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Albert Einstien, and Nikola Tesla. Not only that but Tesla, the great
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electrical genius and Thomas Edison contemporary, had confided some of his
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deepest secrets to Car when the latter worked as a young hotel clerk in New
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York City in the 1920S.
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In the mid-1950s, with Tesla long gone, Carr was ready to tell the world and
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collect the rewards. He founded OTC Enterprises, hired a fast-talking business
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manager named Norman Colton, and set out to secure funding for a "fourth
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dimensional space vehicle" powered by a "revolutionary Utron Electric
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Accumulator." The saucer-shaped OTC-X1 would undergo its first flight in April
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1959 and following December go on all the way to the moon.
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Carr and Colton secured hundreds of thousands of dollars from wealthy
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investors and contactee-oriented saucer fans, including Warren Goetz, who
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claimed to be an actual space person, having materialized as a baby in his
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(Earth) mother's arms while a saucer hovered overhead. Another associate,
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Margaret Storm, wrote a biography of Tesla, who turns out to have been a
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Venusian. To skeptics Carr was shameless spouter of double-talk and baffle-
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gab. As one observer put it, "For all most people know, he might well be a
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great scientist. After all, he si completely unintelligible, isn't he?"
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On Sunday, April 19, 1959, while crowds gathered at an amusement park in
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Oklahoma City to watch the OTC-X1's maiden flight, Carr suddenly contracted a
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mysterious illness and had to be hospitalized. He mumbled something about a
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"mercury leak," but burly guards kept reporters who wanted to check for
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themselves out of the plant where the craft supposedly was being constructed.
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One who managed to catch a glimpse saw only a jumble of disconnected wires and
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parts - nothing that looked remotely like a functioning aircraft.
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The OTC-X1 never went to the moon, but Carr went to prison for selling stock
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illegally, He died penniless years later in a Pittsburgh slum. Colton, who had
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skipped out of Oklahoma a step ahead of the authorities, formed the
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Millennium Agency, which sold stock in machines "operated entirely by
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environmental gravity forces." They never flew either.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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