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By DAVID ASHENFELTER Morning Times Staff Writer (Last of a series) EDITOR’S NOTE: The Morning Times wishes to thank Reggie and Larry Lawrence, members of the National Investigating Committee, for Aerial Pheno mena who helped compile in formation for the two following reports. In October of 1959 on a clear day a Bunker Hill farmer spotted three brightly shining objects while picking corn from his field. Kelton Jenkins des cribed the objects as being disc shaped, and wobbling, in a cluster of three. He stated that the center object appeared larger than the other objects. At the same time, the objects were seen by Dan Miller, Bunker Hill who was standing at the other end of the field. His description of the objects was very similar to that of Kelton Jenkins. On Oct. 8, 1959 Freight train #91 was heading south of Ross ville, Ind, when the engineer spotted four objects ahead of the train. He immediately con tacted a man in the caboose who verified the objects. Minutes later, the objects broke up and disappeared, only to form again at the rear of the train. The men in the caboose stated that two of the objects flew at 30 degree angles, flanking the other two objects which were cartwheeling vertically behind the train. The disk-shaped ob jects disappeared 70 minutes after they were first seen. At 10 p.m. in mid October of 1965, two women were driving into Marion from the east on State Road 18. As they drove around the curve near the 4-H Fairgrounds they noticed a large, cigar-shaped ball of white light above the WMRI radio towers. At the same time the radio announcer on duty began receiving calls from people who wondered why the radio station wasn’t on the air. He checked the power gauges and returned to the phone room, finding everything normal. Everything ran smoothly un til the two ladies told the announcer their story. Two weeks later the an nouncer began getting telephone calls again from persons won dering why the station wasn’t on the air. This time he went outside to the towers to check. He saw nothing and returned to the building. The announcer, Jim Boyer (Captain Redbeard) was visited by a frightened man who saw an object over the towers that night. The visitor described the object as a bright star mov ing across the sky in odd pat terns, Boyer called Bunker Hill Air Force Base and reported the sighting. After going through several layers of red tape he reached the officer who was taking the UFO calls. The first comment Boyer receive was. ‘Don’t forget that this is Halloween night, was your UFO riding around on a broom?’? Boyer told the officer that the joke was cute, but not to the man who was nearly frightened to death. The Air Force accepted the report, thanked Boyer, and assured him that an investigation would fol low. That was the last that Boyer heard from the Air Force. Yes, the Air Force tells many funny jokes about UFO’s, once they even tried to build one. The result was a flying saucer that flew on a cushion of air one foot above the ground. But the Air Force doesn’t take UFO’s as a laughing mat ter. One evening in Washing ton D.C. many top ranking Air Force officials confirmed a sighting while the Washington D.C. flag was in full swing. This took place in 1952. When Frank Edwards, UFO expert and television newsman, was in Kokomo last year for a UFO lecture he told a tale of an Air Force official who had released UFO information against orders. The Air Force proceeded to court martial the officer, but changed its mind. Many patriotic citizens who have taken photos of UFO’s and presented them to the Air Force are still waiting for the negative to be returned. There are four factions to the UFO question. There are those who believe, those who do not believe, those who do not know, and those who do not care. If the day ever comes that people of earth receive definite facts that interplanetary space ships have been buzzing them for hundreds of years, the believers will say to the world: “WE TOLD YOU SO”’,
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Kokomo Morning Times
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Oct 03, 1966
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