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SUBJECT: UFO CRASH - A CELESTIAL VISITOR FILE: UFO3197
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Non-Computer / UFO's, #85 of 103
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Date: 22 Aug 92 00:53:31
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From: Bob Dunn of 1:285/203
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To: All
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Subj: UFO Crash
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This is an article I found in the Nebraska State Journal, July 7-9
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1887. All I can vouch for is the authenticity of the article itself.
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A CELESTIAL VISITOR.
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A Startling and Curious Story from the
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Ranges of Dundy County.
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It is Evidently a Machine of Human
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Manufacture.
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All Particulars that are Yet Learned.
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Special to The State Journal.
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BENKELMAN, June 7. -- A most remarkable phenomenon occurred about
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1 o'clock yesterday afternoon at a point thirty-five miles northwest
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of this place. John W. Ellis, a well known ranchman, was going out
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to his herd in company with three of his herders and several other
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cowboys engaged in the annual roundup. While riding along a draw
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they heard a terrific rushing, roaring sound overhead, and looking
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up, saw what appeared to be a blazing meteor of immense size falling
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at an angle to the earth. A moment later it struck the ground out of
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sight over the bank. Scrambling up the steep hill they saw the
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object bounding along half a mile away and disappear in another
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draw.
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Galloping towards it with all their speed, they were astounded to
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see several fragments of cog-wheels and other pieces of machinery
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lying on the ground, scattered in the path made by the aerial
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visitor, glowing with heat so intense as to scorch the grass for a
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long distance around each fragment and make it impossible for one to
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approach it. Coming to the edge of the deep ravine into which the
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strange object had fallen, they undertook to see what it was. But
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the heat was so great that the air about it was fairly ablaze and it
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emitted a light so dazzling that the eye could not rest on it for
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more than a moment.
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An idea of the heat may be gained from the fact that one of the
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party, a cowboy named Alf Williamson, stood with his head
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incautiously exposed over the bank, and in less than half a minute
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he fell senseless. His face was desperately blistered and his hair
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singed to a crisp. His condition is said to be dangerous. The
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distance to the aerolite, or whatever it is, was nearly 200 feet.
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The burned man was taken to Mr. Ellis' house, cared for as well as
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circumstances would allow and a doctor sent for. His brother, who
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lives in Denver has just been telegraphed for.
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Finding it impossible to approach the mysterious visitor, the
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party turned back on it's trail. Where it first touched the earth
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the ground was sandy and bare of grass. The sand was fused to an
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unknown depth over a space about twenty feet wide by eighty feet
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long, and the melted stuff was still bubbling and hissing. Between
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this and the final resting place there were several like spots where
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it had come in contact with the ground, but none so well marked.
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Finding it impossible to do any investigating, Mr. Ellis returned to
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his house and sent out messengers to neighboring ranches. When night
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came the light from the wonderful object beamed almost like the sun,
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and the visitors who went out to see it were entirely powerless to
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bear the glow.
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This morning another visit was made to the spot. In the party was E.
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W. Rawlins, brand inspector for this district, who came into
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Benkleman tonight, and from whom a full verification of particulars
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is obtained. The smaller portions of the scattered machinery had
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cooled so that they could be approached, but not handled. One piece
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that looked like the blade of a propeller screw of a metal of an
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appearance like brass, about sixteen inches wide, three inches thick
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and three and a half feet long, was picked up by a spade. It would
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not weigh more than five pounds, but appeared as strong and compact
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as any known metal. A fragment of a wheel with a milled rim,
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apparently having had a diameter of seven or eight feet, was also
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picked up. It seemed to be of the same material and had the same
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remarkable lightness.
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The aerolite, or whatever it is, seems to be about fifty or sixty
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feet long, cylindrical, and about ten or twelve feet in diameter.
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Great excitement exists in the vicinity and the round-up is
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suspended while the cowboys wait for the wonderful find to cool off
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so they can examine it.
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Mr. Ellis is here and will take the first train to the land office
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with the intention of securing the land on which the strange thing
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lies, so that his claim to it cannot be disputed.
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A party left here for the scene an hour ago and will travel all
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night. The country in the vicinity is rather wild and rough, and the
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roads hardly more than trails. Will telegraph all particulars as
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fast as obtained.
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PSI-NET
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Category 2, Topic 9
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Before you all strap on your hiking boots and break out the picks
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and shovels to dig up the Benkelman saucer, here's the rest of the
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story. From the Nebraska State Journal, June 10, 1884.
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THE MAGICAL METEOR.
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It Dissolves Like a Drop of Dew Before
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the Morning Sun.
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The Most Mysterious Element of the
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Strange Phenomenon.
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Special to The State Journal.
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BENKELMAN, June 9, 1884. Your correspondent has just returned from
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the spot where the aerial visitor fell last Friday. It is gone,
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disolved into the air. A tremendous rain storm fell yesterday
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afternoon beginning around 2 o'clock. As it approached, in regular
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blizzard style, most of those assembled to watch the mysterious
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visitor fled to shelter. a dozen or more, among them your
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correspondent, waited to see the effect of rain upon the glowing
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mass of metal. The storm came down from the north, on it's crest a
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sheet of flying spray and a torrent of rain. It was impossible to
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see more than a rod through the driving, blinding mass. It lasted
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for half and hour, and when it slackened so that the aerolite should
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have been visible it was no longer there. The draw was running three
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feet deep in water and supposing it had floated off the strange
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vessel the party crossed over at the risk of their lives.
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They were astounded to see that the queer object had melted,
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dissolved by the water like a spoonful of salt. Scarcely a vestige
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of it remained. Small, jelly-like pools stood here and there on the
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ground, but under the eyes of the observers these grew thinner and
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thinner till they were but muddy water joining the rills that led to
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the current a few feet away. The air was filled with a faint,
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sweetish smell.
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The whole affair is bewildering to the highest degree, and will no
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doubt forever be a mystery.
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Alf Williamson, the injured cowboy, left yesterday for Denver,
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accompanied by his brother. It is feared he will never recover his
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eyesight, but otherwise he does not appear to be seriously injured.
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There has been a continued stream of investigators here for the past
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two days, among them a number of members of the press. The Denver
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Tribune representative was among the witnesses to the evanishment of
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