With a population hovering around 20,000 today, Kingman is well-known for its location as a Route 66 gateway. Western star Andy Devine was born and raised in the town, and Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at the rectory of Saint John’s Methodist Episcopal Church, during a break in the shooting of “Gone with the Wind.” Pamela Anderson did one of her 1992 Playboy photo shoots at the corner of 4th Street and Andy Devine Avenue (US Route 66), and was brought in by the Kingman Police Department for indecent exposure. She was not charged, but was asked to write a letter of apology. (The town should apologize to her!)

It’s one of the most intriguing UFO “crash” cases of all time, which actually involves three separate episodes, starting in 1947 and continuing until today, but having its biggest impact in 1953. It even involves surviving human-alien occupants, gigantic forest fires which the ETs were thought to have been responsible for with the crash of their craft, and their escape from a guarded underground jail cell.

This has to be one of the greatest UFO mysteries of all time, but it is a case that has been pooh-poohed by skeptics who have never even checked into this intriguing tale. So it pretty much went by the wayside until historian Harry Drew stepped in and took matters into his own hands. His investigation has lasted over six years and is still ongoing.

The story of Kingman’s incredible UFO incident is a long and winding one, and is told in all its glorious detail in the massive, 538-page, oversized book, “Alien Lives Matter – It’s OK To Be Grey.” with its twenty odd contributors, including the authors of this article. Weighing in at 3.5 pounds, this is not a coffee table book – this is the coffee table!

The book is broken into two parts: Some call these cases mere “Urban Legends,” but, in shocking contrast, they are “all too real!” Over 20 of the world’s leading UFOlogists establish that humans have done battle with aliens over and over again, shooting at them, molesting them, hitting them, running them over, unleashing dogs upon them, and injuring — even killing them — through any means possible, as humans try to combat their fear of the unknown. In multiple instances, the aliens have fought back on land, in the air and in the seas. They have sought revenge, and, more often than not, gotten it, as these documented cases illustrate.


The second part of the book’s “mission” is to dispel the concept held by many that African-Americans are not prone to have UFO experiences or to hold a belief or interest in the subject. Prof. Stephen Finley, of the University of Louisiana, explains how UFOs are part of the overall “Black experience.” Ours is a salute to the unsung “patriots of UFOlogy,” who have not been given the credit they deserve for their work in this field. We will cover this topic thoroughly in another piece.


Back when all the UFO activity got started, Kingman, AZ, was a “ghost of a town,” with about 3000 residents and a military base that had been closed for a while.

Of all the alleged UFO retrieval cases that have come to my attention, one incident – which is actually several incidents rolled up into one dynamic case – stands out, at least to us, above the rest.

This is a five star ***** case in anybody’s book – especially in ours!

It contains so many riveting elements that it’s hard to believe all these events took place over a period stretching from the late 1940s to 1953, but still continue in the area to this day for those “insiders” who are willing to persist in their investigations.

These “riveting elements” include:

** – An aerial overflight with a squadron of eight UFOs in fight formation.

** – At least one “UFO crash,” and two other “soft landings,” all documented and verified.

** – The connection between not one but two fierce forest fires and arson possibly caused by the arrival of “outside agitators.”

** – An incident in which human-looking Ultra-terrestrials were sighted in the area and taken into “protective custody,” only to have them vanish under the strangest of circumstances.

** – The disembarking in a “peculiar vehicle” to points unknown by unknown alien allies.


No one can be a hundred percent certain why Kingman attracted so much – almost maniacal – attention from the “sky people,” though an atomic bomb test in a neighboring state may have drawn them to the area.

One witness, Judith Ann Wolcott, has gone on record with the following proclamation concerning an atomic bomb test and the sighting of a UFO in close proximity.

“On May 19, 1953, at 05:05 AM local time, at Yucca Flat, Nevada, around 175 miles north of Kingman, one of a series of nuclear tests under the umbrella code-named Upshot-Knothole was set off. Sunrise that day was around 6:21, so, at the time of the blast the whole of the night sky was dark except for a slight pre-dawn glow along the eastern horizon. Within seconds of the blast some sort of a dark airborne object moving at an ultra-high rate of speed swept past to the east, traveling in a southerly direction almost as though it came from the test site tracking on a slightly downward trajectory and headed toward the mountains to the south.

“As the object lost altitude, suddenly a huge flash of light lit up the sky in the nearby mountains forward of the southern horizon. All along the object appeared to be unsteady, fairly thin, and possibly flat-circular. Although the sun was below the horizon the object was still high enough that it was able to catch the direct rays of the sun, wobbling enough that it was able to throw off a brilliant glint of sunlight from some portion of its underside as it tipped upward only to disappear as it tipped back. The flash of light near the base of the mountains was soon followed by a sound like a single clap of thunder.”

One individual has gone a long way in convincing me that that a series of UFO “crashes” outside the town of Kingman, AZ, might well be the most important UFO recovery case of all time, far surpassing even Roswell in notoriety and documentation.

We shall hear from historian Harry Drew as we continue down one long sandy desert road to find out the truth about the UFO retrieval at Kingman.


Turning back the clock to Friday, May, 22, 1953, the headline on the front page of the “Prescott Courier” cried out –

“DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT FLYING SAUCERS RETURN”

While the header just over the story itself reads: – “OBJECTS NOTED IN FORMATION FOR FULL HOUR”


“Return of Flying Saucers over Prescott with graphic accounts of their capers in the skies were reported here Friday to give credence to the stories of spaceships possibly from the outer world.

“Three reliable Prescott residents, one of whom previously scoffed at the stories of flying saucers and spaceships, were a bit reluctant Friday to tell of their witnessing the acrobatics of a ‘herd’ of these mysterious objects.

“The men, Bill Beers, president of the Prescott Sportsmen’s Club, Ray Temple, a post office employee, and O. Ed Olson, told of watching eight disc-like objects in the sky Thursday morning.

“The three had gone to Del Rio Springs Creek, some thirty miles north of the city, to check for trout placed in the stream for this week’s children’s fishing derby when they noticed the objects. They couldn’t believe what they saw: eight flying saucers appearing simultaneously.

“Temple was first to see the saucers and called them to the attention of his companions. Temple and Beers both gave a description of the objects and their activity to a Courier reporter.

“Beer, who has flown planes in the past 20 years, said the objects could not possibly have been planes, birds or balloons. He said that until yesterday he had pooh-poohed reports on flying saucers, but he was ‘no longer a skeptic.’

As it turns out, the Kingman incident is a touchy subject indeed, as it has long been covered up to a large degree by a cloak of disinformation and deception, due to a large degree of ignorance on the part of those who have not bothered to check the “facts” on their own, but have simply relied upon the negative reports issued by others who have never been to the scene or looked into the history of the case. Truly, it is a an incident – actually, a series of incidents – with many layers, a mystery inside a riddle, that has remained for the most part hidden under the desert sands of Arizona for generations, but thanks to one individual the Kingman retrieval is now about to be revealed in a new light.

If it wasn’t for an article published more than halfway across the country twenty years after the incident is said to have taken place, we probably would never have had the opportunity to learn about the incident in question. The original reference comes from an article that appeared in the Farmington, Massachusetts, edition of the “Middlesex News,” published on April 23, 1973. It came to light because a young man was planning to do a science project for school. The article came to the attention of longtime UFO researcher Raymond Fowler, who followed up on the case and was able to locate the key witness to the retrieval who maintains that he was in the military and assigned to the scene for recovery purposes.

The man, first identified as Fritz Werner for “security purposes,” was later revealed as being Arthur Stansel. Meeting with Werner/Stansel, Raymond Fowler was able to get the witness to this incredible event to sign an affidavit swearing to his role in the Kingman incident. It is part of a 95-page report prepared by Fowler at the time for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

“Beers said the objects appeared to be about 10,000 feet in the air, but it was hard to judge not knowing the size of the craft.

“Both Beers and Temple said two of the discs remained alone and stationary during the hour as they were observed around 10 AM yesterday morning. The two stationary objects swooped around in formation, broke formation, ‘peeled-off’ and shot directly up and down in a manner that could not be duplicated by a plane. When the (eight crafts) moved, they varied from very slow to speeds faster than a jet plane, the observers reported.

“After performing these aerial acrobatics for an hour, all eight of the craft then sped off together toward Prescott.

“The day previous, March 20th, a woman and her granddaughter saw a ‘glowing object’ drifting over Copper Basin Road.”


As it turns out, the Kingman incident is a touchy subject indeed, as it has long been covered up to a large degree by a cloak of disinformation and deception, due to a large degree of ignorance on the part of those who have not bothered to check the “facts” on their own, but have simply relied upon the negative reports issued by others who have never been to the scene or looked into the history of the case. Truly, it is a an incident – actually, a series of incidents – with many layers, a mystery inside a riddle, that has remained for the most part hidden under the desert sands of Arizona for generations, but thanks to one individual the Kingman retrieval is now about to be revealed in a new light.

If it wasn’t for an article published more than halfway across the country twenty years after the incident is said to have taken place, we probably would never have had the opportunity to learn about the incident in question. The original reference comes from an article that appeared in the Farmington, Massachusetts, edition of the “Middlesex News,” published on April 23, 1973. It came to light because a young man was planning to do a science project for school. The article came to the attention of longtime UFO researcher Raymond Fowler, who followed up on the case and was able to locate the key witness to the retrieval who maintains that he was in the military and assigned to the scene for recovery purposes.

The man, first identified as Fritz Werner for “security purposes,” was later revealed as being Arthur Stansel. Meeting with Werner/Stansel, Raymond Fowler was able to get the witness to this incredible event to sign an affidavit swearing to his role in the Kingman incident. It is part of a 95-page report prepared by Fowler at the time for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

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- OPENING THE FILES DEPARTMENT -

Brazilian Military Investigates Dramatic UFO Incidents
By George Knapp

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- UNDER THE SEA DEPARTMENT -

Sea Serpent Photographed Off Coast of Devon

An unidentified sea creature with a long neck and small head has been photographed stalking a shoal of fish - just yards off the British coast.

The fish were so terrified they beached themselves just seconds later.

The strange "sea-serpent" creature was spotted just 30 yards off the Devon coast by locals who reported a sighting of what they first thought was a turtle.

But pictures taken by one of the baffled witnesses reveal its neck is far too long for any known sea turtle. Experts are scratching their heads and are totally baffled by the sighting.

Gill Pearce photographed the creature following a shoal of fish at Saltern Cove in Paignton, Devon, on July 27.

She at first thought it was a large sea turtle but baffled experts say it doesn't fit the description because the greenish- brown beast with a small reptile head has too long a neck.

Mrs Pearce reported her sighting to the Marine Conservation Society where it was studied by sea life experts.

"Gill Pearce spotted the creature about 20 metres from the bay at Saltern Cove, near Goodrington," said Clare Fischer from the MCS.

"It was observed at about 15.30 on 27 July but by the time she had got her camera it had moved further out.

"She spotted it following a shoal of fish which beached themselves in Saltern Cove.

"The creature remained in the sea, then went out again and followed the shoal - this indicates it's not a turtle as they only eat jellyfish.

"We would love to know if other people have seen anything like this in the same area and can help clear up the mystery."

Some people think the sea sighting could be linked to that of a sperm whale sighted off south Devon recently but Clare thinks not.

"They [sperm whales] wouldn't come that close inshore and the reptilian-like head counts that out - at least that's what the experts are saying!"

The sighting has caused a stir on the MCS website too where theories range from sea serpent to salt water crocodile.

An MCS spokesman said: "It was reported as a turtle as it had large front flippers and small back flippers and what appeared to be a shell but was also said to have a small head on a thin neck about two-feet long which craned above the surface like a Plesiosaur.

"It's described as being as long as a sea lion with a long neck which floated at the same height in the water all the time."

"This is not a fake.

"The problem is the distance and clarity from which the photos were taken.

"The lady thought it may have been a turtle - but turtles don't chase fish

"It was reported as a turtle as it had large front flippers and small back flippers and what appeared to be a shell.

"But it was also said to have a small head on a thin neck about two feet long, which craned above the surface like a Plesiosaur.

"No sea turtles do that with their heads and we do not know of similarly described freshwater turtles that grow so big.

"So at the moment it is 'unidentified' - the person who reported it has trawled the internet and says the closest ID fit is a giant green sea turtle - but the description of the head doesn't add up."

The organisation has now asked for people to keep a keen watch on the seas off South Devon and appealed for more photos to be taken., adding: "If you live or are visiting down near Saltern Cove Goodrington, near Paignton please keep your eyes on the sea and let us know if you see anything - and keep your camera by your side just in case."

Peter Richardson, MCS biodiversity programme manager, said: "It might be a green turtle but they are usually the size of a dinner plate.

"It could be another Lock Ness monster or a number of things.

"At the moment it's an unidentified mystery creature and we don't know what it is.

"Two people have reported seeing a creature about three metres long with a small head on a two-and-a-half foot neck which came out of the water to look around.

"From the photographs it looks like it could be a basking shark and the tail fin could have been mistaken for a head but the people who saw it said it had large flippers and was about the size of a sea lion.

"It could be a crocodile but they are not seen very often and I called the local zoo to ask if anything had escaped but they said they didn't know what it was.

"It would be great to find out what it is so we are asking people in the area to look out for it."

Source: This is Plymouth (UK)
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Mystery-ancient-sea-creature-stalks-
fish-death-coast-Devon/article-2474888-detail/article.html

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Texting may be a boon in today's world, but the concept was visualised more than a century ago.

And, it was a pioneering American physicist who had predicted about the portable messaging service, like the SMS, via a hand-held device in the 'Popular Mechanics' magazine in 1909, its Technology Editor Seth Porges has claimed.

Nikola Tesla, the physicist and a mechanical engineer, whose name lives on at the electric car maker Tesla Motors saw wireless energy as the only way to make electricity thrive, according to Porges.

Tesla wrote in the magazine that one day it'd be possible to transmit "wireless messages" all over the world and imagined that such a hand-held device would be simple to use and one day everyone in the world would communicate to friends using it, Porges said.

This would usher in a new era of technology, Telsa wrote in the publication.

"Nikola Tesla was able to predict technology which is still in its nascent forms a hundred years later. He talked a lot about his other great passion, which was wireless power.

"It has taken a little longer to get off the ground, but work on fascinating wireless conductive transmission is going on right now in research centres at MIT and Intel and other places," Porges said.

Porges disclosed Tesla's prediction at a presentation, '108 years of futurism' to industry figures in New York.

The magazine, which has nine international editions that is read by millions, has been trying to imagine how the world will look in future years since it was first published in January 1902.

Source: Yahoo News
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20100504/1243/ttc-tesla-predicted-sms-in1909.html

The chupacabra has been called the Bigfoot of Latino culture, an urban legend said to drain the blood of goats and other farm animals from South America to south Texas. It’s name is Spanish for “goat sucker.” And like Bigfoot, the chupacabra also has eluded capture and provided no credible evidence that it exists.

Still, at least one citizen scientist sees the chupacabra as both a cultural phenomenon and a modern spin on the world’s most storied bloodsucker.

“It’s basically a vampire or a small, evil, fairy-type creature, which are popular archetypes in Latino culture,” said Ken Gerhard, a docent at the San Antonio Zoo and a widely recognized cryptozoologist.

Cryptozoology is the study and search for so-called “cryptids,” hidden animals whose existence defies scientific evidence or substantiation, such as Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster, bizarre beasts that live on in alleged sightings and indecipherable photos and videos.

Gerhard has traveled the world in search of such “X-Files” fare, skeptical as Dana Scully yet still wanting to believe like Fox Mulder. “I’ve never found one yet,” Gerhard said. “But I still look.”

When it comes to chupacabras, Gerhard said they just aren’t the most credible cryptids. He noted there’s neither physical evidence a chupacabra exists nor any sort of biological reality or animal group that a chupacabra would fit in to.

“It’s almost a little bit too weird,” Gerhard said.

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Yet more than 25 years since its first alleged sighting, Gerhard said the chupacabra remains a quirky cucuy or boogeyman that fits well into pop culture and especially Latin culture.

So much so that the San Antonio Zoo the zoo opened the first-ever chupacabra exhibit at a zoological facility in September. Located by the zoo’s bat habitat, a replica of the fabled creature greets patrons with a face full of fangs and a back full of quills.

“We’re excited to educate the public and our visitors about the elusive and legendary chupacabra,” San Antonio Zoo President and CEO Tim Morrow said in a statement at the time. “This new one-of-a-kind habitat is sure to spark both the imagination of what wildlife exists that we haven’t yet discovered and the desire to conserve species, both known and unknown.”

Just days after that zoo debut, an anonymous rancher on San Antonio’s South Side reportedly killed a strange creature that was stalking his livestock. His first guess: “Chupacabra!”Rob Coke, director of veterinary care at the San Antonio Zoo, reportedly looked at photos of the carcass and deemed it a coyote with mange.

Which is it? chupa-fact or chupa-fiction? Or maybe it’s both? Here’s what we know about the chupacabra. At least, what they want us to know.

A Puerto Rican export. The chupacabra, or “Venator nocturnus” according to the San Antonio Zoo exhibit, stalks most of South and Central America as well as northern Mexico and the southern United States. That is, according to reports of livestock deaths attributed to the creature.

The first chupacabra sightings date back to March 1995 in Puerto Rico, where reports circulated of several sheep found dead with puncture wounds in their chest and purportedly drained of their blood.

A comedian came up with the name. Puerto Rican comedian Silverio Pérez coined the term “chupacabra” in 1995 while discussing the creature’s attacks. The Spanish word literally translates to “goat-sucker,” as in “chupa” (“to suck”) and “cabra” (“goat”). The name comes from the creature’s purported habit of sucking the blood of goats and other livestock.

An urban legend with different legs. The chupacabra often is described as a hairless reptilian creature around 3 feet tall with gray-green skin and spines or quills down its back. But how it walks depends on where it’s spotted.

South and Central America sightings describe the chupacabra as a goblinlike humanoid that walks upright on two legs, while sightings in Mexico and the US describe the chupacabra as a canine or doglike creature that walks on all fours.

Gerhard was not involved in the chupacabra exhibit at the San Antonio Zoo, but said its canine-leaning depiction of the cryptid is “a wonderful synthesis” of the varying chupacabra descriptions.

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H.R. Giger may have inspired the first description. The first eyewitness account of the chupacabra likens its appearance to Sil, a sinewy alien-human hybrid with spines down her back in the 1995 sci-fi horror film, “Species.” Sil was designed by H.R. Giger, the Swiss artist famous for the title terror of the “Alien” films.

In August 1995, Madelyne Tolentino in Puerto Rico alleged she saw a chupacabra in the municipality of Canóvanas. Researcher and skeptic Benjamin Radford interviewed Tolentino for his 2011 book, “Tracking the Chupacabra.” He concluded her description was based on the creature from “Species,” which Tolentino had seen just the week before her report.

Gerhard believes the internet popularized Tolentino’s description and variations spun from there.

Then again, it’s likely a mangy coyote. As Coke with the San Antonio Zoo noted, most chupacabra sightings in Mexico and the United States are debunked as coyotes with severe mange. Likewise, stray Mexican hairless dogs get mistaken for chupacabras.

Gerhard has examined half a dozen animal carcasses referred to as chupacabras. He said DNA testing and bone and skull analysis revealed all of them were dogs or coyotes with some sort of mange or genetic deformity.

They don’t really suck blood, either. Dead livestock attributed to chupacabra attacks may bear puncture wounds, but those holes tend to correspond to bites made by canine teeth. There also are no reported autopsies that confirm the dead animals were drained of their blood.

So why do so many accounts mention bloodless victims? Gerhard noted when an animal dies, its body goes into rigor mortis and its blood drains to the lowest part of the body where it coagulates. This gives the carcass a gaunt, drained appearance.

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A ufologist put San Antonio on the map for chupacabra investigation. Horror writer and San Antonio native Whitley Strieber is perhaps best known for “Communion,” his 1987 account of alleged experiences with aliens. But Gerhard noted Strieber also was instrumental in a chupacabra investigation.

In 2004, a rancher killed and buried the so-called “Elmendorf Beast,” an alleged chupacabra blamed for livestock attacks in South Bexar County. Strieber had the animal exhumed for analysis at the San Antonio Zoo. Later DNA analysis at the University of California, Davis concluded it was a coyote with mange.

Barely a blip on TV series. Guess Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster get all the plumb roles. About the only major TV series time dedicated to the chupacabra is a 1997 monster-of-the-week episode of “The X-Files” and a 2014 episode of “Grimm.”

But oh what a TV movie. Eat your heart out, “Sharknado.” In the 2013 TV movie “Chupacabra vs. The Alamo,” Erik Estrada plays Carlos Seguin, a tough DEA agent who discovers a that bunch of doglike chupacabras have been making mincemeat of drug cartel members. Seguin and his band of desperate heroes make a last stand against the mythical blood-hounds at, of course, the Alamo.

Source:
https://www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/article/The-chupacabra-lives-on-in-San-Antonio
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