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46 lines
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SUBJECT: SAUCER, SICKNESS, SECRECY FILE: UFO2429
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A UFO sighting on the evening of December 29, 1980, changed the lives of three
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Texans forever - and not for the good.
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While driving through the southern tip of the east Texas piney woods, north
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of Houston, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's seven-year-old grandson
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Colby came upon a huge diamond-shaped object just above the trees and 130 feet
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away. Cash hit the brakes, and she and the elder Landrum stepped outside.
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Immediately, they noticed intense heat. Their faces felt as if they were
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burning. When Vickie reentered the car and touched the dashboard to steady
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herself, she left a handprint.
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Blasting fire and heat, the UFO slowly ascended. Suddenly, numerous
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helicopters - 23 in all - appeared from all directions, positioning themselves
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near the strange craft. By this time the witnesses were back in the car and
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watching the spectacle from their moving vehicle. (Other motorists saw the
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object and the helicopters from different, more distant locations.)
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Eventually, the flying objects were lost to view. Unfortunately, the episode
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was only beginning.
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Back home the three fell sick, Cash most severely. She suffered blisters,
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nausea, headaches, diarrhea, loss of hair, and reddening of the eyes. On
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January 3, unable to walk and nearly unconscious, she was admitted to a
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Houston hospital. Vickie and Colby were experiencing the same symptoms, though
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less severely.
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The witnesses' health problems continue to this day. In September 1991 Cash's
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personal physician, Dr. Brain McClelland, told the Houston Post that her
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condition was a "textbook case" of radiation poisoning, comparable to being
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"three of five miles from the epicenter of Hiroshima." For years the three
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have pursued their case through the courts, seeking answers and redress, but
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official agencies deny any knowledge of the incident - even through the
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helicopters have been identified as twinrotor Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, used by
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both the Army and the Marines.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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