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SUBJECT: YOU BE THE JUDGE FILE: UFO3368
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You be the judge. But remember: We are entering the realm of
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"high strangeness."
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It's Friday. You and the spouse jump in the RV and hit the road.
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Ah, rural Arizona! Say goodbye to traffic and crowds; say hello to
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pure skies, sweet silence -- oh, and the occasional secret
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convention of UFO spotters.
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It's true. They are out there.
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"It was kind of spooky," radio talk-show czar Preston
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Westmoreland said about the close encounter he and his wife had in a
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remote canyon near Wickenburg.
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They had made arrangements to camp near Robson's Arizona Mining
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World, a mining museum and ghost town many miles from Anywhere. When
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they pulled up at the end of a five-mile dirt road, they found a
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lone man waving a flashlight.
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Aha! Cue up the horror-movie music. Westmoreland should have
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suspected something when the man asked: "Are you here for CSETI?" Or
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when Westmoreland noticed the man's wife scanning the twilight skies
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with binoculars.
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Or when the man told of the group's huge generator-powered
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lights and miles of cable. Or when he advised that the best way to
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find UFOs is not to look straight up, but to scan low above the
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horizon. Fact is, that's where they tend to hover.
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Or surely when Westmoreland casually mentioned his line of work:
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"Everybody just shut up."
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Fact is, the Westmorelands had made contact. They'd stumbled
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across a secret five-day session of the Center for the Study of
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Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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"The rented the whole place," said owner Jeri Robson. "It was a
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training session for people who might have opportunity to speak to
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someone from a flying saucer."
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Were they . . . strange? "Not at all," Robson said. "They were
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very reasonable, very intelligent -- I mean, seemingly."
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But they weren't happy with the media in their midst. By the
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time the Westmorelands left the next day, there were about 80 people
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there from all over. A "scientist-looking guy" pulled up in a cab.
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Westmoreland was told the group included former federal
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officials -- some of whom would not want to be identified. He did
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note that some people wore badges with colored dots. "The higher up
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they were (in the group), the more dots they had."
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Bizarre? Ridiculous? Creepy?
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Far from it, said Bobbie Ammons, executive assistant at the
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center's headquarters in Asheville, N.C. The center, she said, is a
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3-year-old international group of about 450 members -- and "growing
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daily."
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Its purpose: "To establish a peaceful diplomatic relationship
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with extraterrestrials."
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The group sends out teams to seek contact with UFOs through
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"light, thought and tones -- one of which derived from what we
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believe was a spacecraft recording."
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In late January, she said, it almost worked. A team from the
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center was approached near Mexico City by a huge triangular-shaped
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craft. But it sped off as they were setting up the camera.
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Such events, Ammons said, partake of "high strangeness -- when
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things happen in your experience that are unexplainable."
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Bunk? Hogwash? Of course! What kind of people believe in UFOs?
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Surely not Westmoreland, "newstalkmeister" and private pilot?
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"I've been interested in UFOs since my teens."
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What about Jeri Robson, who sounds every bit the no-nonsense
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rural Arizona woman? "I'm open minded. I tell you frankly we saw
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something out here one night that I can't explain. And no one has
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been able to."
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Actually, Robson's first response was even more apt. Asked if
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she believed in UFOs, she said: "Do you?"
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