Comments on: Nick’s Pic Of The Day http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/ UFO News, Views, and More Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nick Redfern http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-63 Nick Redfern Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:27:23 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-63 Greg Yeah it's a weird story. Jim Marrs thinks it's a strong case. But, who knows...? Greg
Yeah it’s a weird story. Jim Marrs thinks it’s a strong case. But, who knows…?

]]> By: Greg Bishop http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-55 Greg Bishop Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:41:24 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-55 This story has always interested me, although through the years, as I read more I find I'm more inclined to believe it was some sort of newspaperman's hoax. In the late 1970s I recall, there was a brouhaha over who would get to dig up the supposed "alien"s gravesite. If I remember correctly, it was marked with a headstone that had a flying saucer crudely carved into it. While the debate over disinterring rights heated up, someone stole the marker and shoved probes into the ground over the site. The local cemetery authorities were so horrified that they stopped all efforts to do any more digging. One nice coda is that the Firesign Theatre used the story as the basis for "Everything You Know Is Wrong!" my favorite album of theirs. This story has always interested me, although through the years, as I read more I find I’m more inclined to believe it was some sort of newspaperman’s hoax. In the late 1970s I recall, there was a brouhaha over who would get to dig up the supposed “alien”s gravesite. If I remember correctly, it was marked with a headstone that had a flying saucer crudely carved into it. While the debate over disinterring rights heated up, someone stole the marker and shoved probes into the ground over the site. The local cemetery authorities were so horrified that they stopped all efforts to do any more digging.

One nice coda is that the Firesign Theatre used the story as the basis for “Everything You Know Is Wrong!” my favorite album of theirs.

]]> By: Nick Redfern http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-43 Nick Redfern Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:20:42 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-43 Bill There's a good summary of this case too in Ryan Wood's "Majic Eyes Only" book. It's an interesting story, but who knows...? Bill

There’s a good summary of this case too in Ryan Wood’s “Majic Eyes Only” book.

It’s an interesting story, but who knows…?

]]> By: Bill Hancock http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-36 Bill Hancock Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:16 +0000 http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/picture-of-the-day-2/#comment-36 There's a book out with a title something like "Solving the Great Airship Mystery of 1896-97" that speculates that there was a group of inventors (who actually submitted patent applications on their designs)who built dirigible-type craft and flew them back then. Posits that one of these hit the water tower in Aurora and blew up. Suggests the pilot was human but burned so badly he was likely not recognizable as such. Interesting read, but of course the veracity of the claims is only circumstantial. Bill There’s a book out with a title something like “Solving the Great Airship Mystery of 1896-97″ that speculates that there was a group of inventors (who actually submitted patent applications on their designs)who built dirigible-type craft and flew them back then. Posits that one of these hit the water tower in Aurora and blew up. Suggests the pilot was human but burned so badly he was likely not recognizable as such. Interesting read, but of course the veracity of the claims is only circumstantial.

Bill

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