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The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality—Foreword... Part II of II
byAlfred Lehmberg
Last time – Depressing betrayal… Intellectual Bigotry duly faced… Dicey first encounters… and doubt benefits!
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...Really, what possible interest could a man with the stature of Stanton Friedman have in a bunch of “uneducated hillbillies” who can’t tell the difference between a juvenilely stupid-looking "space monster," and a barn owl in a big tree? Unless… what? More unrecognized personal bigotry? This writer came to be ashamed.
…The “barn owl theory,” we’d all come to find, was a deflective red herring given by the USAF officials at Project Blue Book as a distracting “explanation” for the entity called… the “West Virginia Monster.” That “Barn owl” was distracting bupkis, in other words! The authorities had no idea what it was… but they knew that it was something they wanted one of... boy howdy... and something to be smothered going forward. There would be a lot of that, and early on, too!
Truly, smothered… even if a heavy contingent of armed West Virginia National Guardsmen and their extensive equipments were dispatched to the Flatwoods landing site area immediately (and we mean immediately!) after the event, and with only a few hours' notice!
How does THAT work?! They were onsite in Flatwoods on the Fisher Farm where it landed... that NIGHT! …Wait! What?
Moreover?! These soldiers would be fitted out with pieces of equipment from bazookas to gunboats, to deal with any unforeseen “consequences”! What's up with that!
Now, stop! Would they do all that, and so quickly, for mere bupkis... mere“hillbillies” and a barn owl?
Why, it was almost like the activity was somehow expected and that they were ready… it sure explains the quick reaction by this massive light brigade-sized military contingent so quickly deployed! These deployments of men and equipment are not thrown together at the drop of a hat!
I was a military officer and have an appreciation for the logistics required for such a quick reaction to singular events, myself! The Commanding Officer, Colonel Dale Leavitt, demonstrated the quick and flawless execution of his orders, and his performance is an intriguing aspect of this case, forgetting the credit to his ability of command that he had earned! He was thrown curveballs by fate and completed the mission, admirably… if suspiciously!
Wait... What? Reader, this only remotely begins my cognitive “gob-smack,” eh? Entirely, then, throwing caution to the winds, and on the recommendation of Stanton T. Friedman, I contacted Feschino and asked him for a review copy of his book, The (publisher flawed) Braxton County Monster. I had to see what it was about and what could compel a man like Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist who had worked on functioning nuclear-powered rocket engines, to stand behind Frank Feschino’s work… or even write forewords and epilogs for it later as he would do repeatedly, reader, down the road!
Enticed to the edge of this new rabbit hole, then, and cutting to the chase, I found ample reason to dive in, headlong. It’s my way. Attack! No prisoners!
What I discovered in my long fall was not a group of “uneducated hillbillies spooked by haunts in the mountains,” but responsible, adequately educated, and wholly with it country people, country people, reader… People who knew what a freakin’ “barn owl” was, by God!
Silently? No sonic boom! No rush of roaring rockets or horrific impact? Such had been puzzlingly so!
The witnesses, a group of schoolboys playing football on the school playground that night, were largely “meteorite believers” when they saw the object fly over the playground and land. In a foreshadowing of actual events, one of the younger kids in the group actually suggested it might be a UFO that landed! ...The child is father to the man?
For the record. The astronomy “history” books do not have any records of a passing meteor or meteor shower resulting in meteorites... for the date in question...anywhere in the region! Keep that in mind!
Furthermore, numerous nearby Braxton County residents had also reported several other low-flying UFOs passing over their county and even reported yet another crash of what was thought to be a “Piper Cub” airplane… which had reportedly gone down in flames, nearby! By watch and warrant, reader… some weird kind of game was afoot!
This particular crash, seen at close range and reported to authorities, occurred just a few miles from Flatwoods along the Elk River. This incident was in the small community of Sugar Creek. The reader is enjoined to remember that this was 1952’s “Summer of Saucers,” after all! UFOs are going to be... everywhere!
A heavy contingent of West Virginia National Guardsmen separated from the group of troops going to Flatwoods and diverted to the Sugar Creek crash area! Their mission was to deal with any situation and look for crash survivors. …Nothing was found!
There was neither evidence of a crashed airplane in the area that night nor evidence of a meteorite smashing into Flatwoods. Furthermore, to this day, suspicions of either have not been remotely found! Stanton Friedman would later quip onsite at the farm that a meteor in Flatwoods would have provided for a “flattened” woods! Yea and verily.
Wait...What? This becomes a familiar refrain, the reader discovers. Something crashed! Yes, there was a heavy and immediate military involvement in Braxton County that very NIGHT! The military must have been prepared beforehand, inexplicably, for these eventualities, is the suggestion!
Moreover, Flatwoods would be swamped with thousands of the idly curious for weeks, justifying the "occupation," the media would be obsessed with the incident, and there was even an episode of a nationally popular TV News magazine broadcast, “WE THE PEOPLE,” within days, highlighting it (inaccurately)! Moreover, the case was heavily documented in the officiality of the infamous Project Blue Book… the record of which Feschino would be able to avail himself, later on, when it was declassified!
All of this begs the question. What did occur in those Flatwoods hills on September 12, 1952? There is much, much more than can remotely be alluded to in this foreword, reader, apart from the interplanetary war... Wait...What?
A famous paranormal researcher of the time, one Ivan T. Sanderson, visited Flatwoods and investigated the crash-landing area, the site of the Sugar Creek crash, and other locations throughout Braxton County where the UFO sightings had occurred. He would write that something highly unusual involving several unidentified craft had demonstrably occurred on that fateful night! He also discovered that a plethora of UFO sightings were made over other nearby Mid-Atlantic States!
Though even if Sanderson was aware that UFOs had flown over other nearby States that night, his hypothesis of a “one-off,” that evening would still miss the mark. With no access to Blue Book documents, Mr. Sanderson couldn’t get a clear perspective of the “big picture.”
Eventually,
decades later, Frank Feschino, Jr. became involved in the case! He would
discover, given his access to now declassified Blue Book files…
and decades of accredited hind-sighting… the
consolidating military angle! He would see things clearly for
what they were, at last! …Air war with ET? Well… it was WAR publicly “declared,”
if not “officially” declared, reader!
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Truth! How is this not official disclosure! |
Feschino would incisively continue where Sanderson and other researchers had left off, years before! He would leap gratefully from their shoulders (while giving full credit!) to a new level of understanding on the case, and one well justified by the official records! His decades of ceaseless due diligence to his very singularly focused investigation would pay off, finally, in his being able to see that “big picture” alluded to!
What
Feschino had painstakingly gathered and compiled since 1993 was a mass of data
points patently revealed, or otherwise drawn, from reliable military and
civilian sources. He was able to reconstruct the events of that night and
put the big picture together succinctly, and he actually
mapped it out so the rest of us could see it!
Verily, Frank's research indicates that something surpassed those hoary requirements to enter the hallowed black-felt halls of the “highly-strange,” friends and neighbors! …A bizarre supposition of harassed UFO occupants shot from the sky by the agitated Air Forces of the United States on September 12, 1952, on the authority of presidential orders to “shoot down” those UFOs! This begs a plethora of ready questions!
Verily, besides the "Flatwoods Monster" incident, another story involving a "monster" appeared in newspapers via the Wheeling, West Virginia area a couple of days later! More specifically, this was in the community of the Vineyard Hill housing project. Wheeling Police and the Wheeling Intelligencer newspaper reported that "anxious residents" there "flooded switchboards" and were "asking for confirmation of rumors that a '10-ft monster from another world’ was roaming about their community."
Oddly enough, there were never any further reports, death notices, or obituaries for a dead woman's burned body being found that week. Cover stories aside, I ask; did this incident actually involve the discovery of a burned and deceased... alien body being found by Vineyard Hill residents? The appearance of yet another "monster"? …Who can know, given the compartmentalization of official secrecy prosecuted for… the worst reasons imaginable? There were other... strange occurrences!
Wait...What? Feschino further points out that only six weeks earlier, the Air Force had publicly revealed that, “The jet pilots are, and have been under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t talk them down”! This is also true by watch and warrant! "Official disclosure" should smell as sweet!
Here, it was the senior public information officer for the military, Lt. Colonel Moncel Monts, who had made this startling statement (of official UFO disclosure!) on July 28, 1952! This disclosure would circle the globe, fulsomely carried by the International News Services! Wait...What? Reader, it gets weirder than that.
Many men and aircraft had been lost in “Lurid duels of Death,” according to the 1956 book written by former USAF Blue Book Chief, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt! It’ll get even weirder?
In and of these data points, comparatively unremarkable and ufologically prosaic when taken by themselves, much like dabs of pointillist paint… with perspective, then, a tale unfolds! See, as one zooms out from these points in a reflection on their obvious relationship to one another, remember, they actually paint a picture in the existential corporeal as weird and detailed as that of a Salvador Dali painting! The image is there; the so-called “Monster” is real. This is the picture Frank Feschino, Jr. paints for us!
Summing up, Feschino is, flatly, the undisputed leader and subject matter expert in the "Flatwoods Monster" case and other UFO events of that night regarding the affair. He takes the lead by right of his undisputed provenance in what has found, rediscovered, unearthed, filmed, documented, sentiently interpreted, and otherwise illustrated regarding this key bit of aviation history… history which has come to be known as the "Flatwoods Monster" Affair! Recall that we only know of this affair, at all, a result of Feschino's singular initiative!
Yes, in fact, reader, I have been to Flatwoods on three separate occasions. I have spoken to the sober and unblinking principals, walked the Fisher Farm, and touched the infamous and decaying oak tree. Additionally, I saw Feschino’s extended videotaped footage of journalist A. Lee Stewart and Colonel Dale Leavitt, on-site principals, testifying to this horrific occurrence of high strangeness… as it had been happening! Wait...What?
No, the “Flatwoods Monster” affair is a “myth,” reader, only since a wholesale and ridiculous fiction, which the Flatwoods story only but resembles...would already have been wholly forgotten, right?! Revealed… the “Flatwoods Monster” incident is a highly strange, fine print, reality, reader!
Verily, this is a book about changing history and righting some forgotten wrongs. Let a truly intrepid and professionally sober Frank Feschino, Jr. lead you through it!
Closing, truth can be painful and inconvenient, especially to those angered and enraged in direct proportion to how guilty (or wrong!) they’ve been about it. Read this book to see for yourself… and be as astounded as this writer was!
Alfred Lehmberg, CW4, U.S. Army, Retired
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on NBC’s “We The People” (1952)
by Alfred Lehmberg
On September 19,
1952, two brave witnesses—Mrs. Kathleen May and fellow witness Gene
Lemon—appeared on NBC’s coast-to-coast television program We The People
to recount their chilling encounter with the infamous “Flatwoods Monster.”
Interviewed by host Daniel Seymour, they described a towering, otherworldly
figure they had seen just days earlier in the hills of Braxton County, West
Virginia. We The People, we’ll recall, was a hugely popular human
interest program of the time, and from coast to coast!
The Misdrawn Myth
Before the broadcast, a backstage artist interviewed May and Lemon and produced a “sketch” (sneer quotes!) of the creature. There was no excuse for this... they'd had better information at hand... going in!
Unfortunately, we find that the illustration ended up as a whimsical distortion, oblivious to newspaper accounts regarding the "monster's" truer nature published at the time and before WTP aired—wrongly depicting the figure as a claw handed, skirted “monster” with a hood and tunic! Risible... on its FACE!
This image, shown during the televised
interview, became the public’s lasting impression of the affair. The real
story? Buried beneath artistic license, media sensationalism… even cover-up?
Enter Frank Feschino, Jr.
Decades later, investigator, author, and illustrator Frank
Feschino, Jr. took up the mantle of truth on this issue. Working closely with
surviving eyewitnesses, Feschino conducted forensic-style interviews and
produced detailed renderings of what these witnesses actually saw: a nearly 12-foot-tall,
metallic, hovering machine—more spacecraft than Halloween “spook”!
According to the witnesses, the figure resembled a mechanized suit or probe, not a biological entity. It may have contained a biological entity... Remains, it was silent, imposing, and unlike anything they’d ever seen.
Here’s a myth begging to be recognized as a reality, eh? Feschino would do just that. ...In spades, with little bells and whistles!
Correcting the Record
Why... Feschino’s work wholly redefined the Flatwoods Monster narrative! He shifted it from a facile tale of forgettable folklore meaning nothing... into a potential for the factual revelations of extraterrestrial technologies meaning perhaps everything!
His illustrations, based on firsthand testimonies, corrected the decades-old misrepresentation and reignited interest in the case. Even a duly impressed (and now late) Stanton Friedman would come around to contribute to Feschino's initiative, as would others, this writer included!
Feschino with his second book... A new book LOOMS! |
Museum Moment
Recently, local paranormal author Mr. Dave Spinks worked with Flatwoods
Monster Museum curator, one Mr. Andrew Smith [seated below with Feschino], and arranged to borrow the original 1952
drawing from its owner for a special event held at the museum for the Flatwoods anniversary on the 12th! During that
time, several photos were taken of Frank with the original drawing before it
went back to its owner. Special thanks to them all!
Also during the
event, and as mentioned, Feschino was photographed with the infamous drawing—an image that once
misled millions, now recontextualized by Feschino's aspiration to the truth.
As the Flatwoods legacy is reexamined, another ufological
mystery looms: the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS! Discovered this year, our comet-"like" visitor has sparked speculation ranging from alien probes to cosmic
anomalies. Is it a coincidence, or cosmic synchronicity, that such phenomena
must echo across decades… centuries! Eons! ...As below, so above?
Feschino is all in on
his wedge of it, reader… nose to stone!
Read on!
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From Myth To Reality—Foreword, Part I of II
by Alfred Lehmberg
It was 2004. I was, at the time, fresh from deep wounds suffered in a substantive and emotionally messy donnybrook of the ufological kind, just ended for me. Short story, I was roundly betrayed by one of ufology’s ubiquitous liars, cheats, and scurvy “valor” thieves, if an especially nasty one, that fulsome swine! I’d been swindled! It was precisely because of this lurid UFO donnybrook that the late Budd Hopkins was also taken for a “Mr. Toad’s wild ride”! That ride would not go well for either of us. The point? I was close to being burned out on UFOs, entirely, as a result.
It was a betrayal of my trust that was the issue—brazenly and before, during, and after the fact—a stark betrayal as regards some kind of corporeal thread or inroad into this “THING” we’re all interested in involving UFOs… but UFOs pursued sensibly, with sensibility, and aspiring to the honest sensible!
“Mr. Toad” nearly ruined me on the subject of UFOs... Later on, Frank C. Feschino, Jr., ironically enough, would rescue me from all that! I digress. I’d bet on the wrong horse, frankly, as Mr. Hopkins had! I’d been as humiliatingly hoaxed as he was. More, as it turned out…
I am a serious person. Husband, father, grandfather, Vietnam air combat veteran, retired military officer, a Summa college graduate with reasonable intelligence… and an aspiring UFO writer because inattention to them seems unintelligent, unprogressive, unimaginative, and unbrave! Remains, I was now badly burned… and as a consequence? Maybe three times shy!
Decidedly, and to the point, I was not at all ripe for any subsequent UFO story referencing the likes of a tabloid “Flatwoods Monster,” sincerely! Consider… this ridiculous and unlikely entity was said to be a garment-wearing, claw-handed, and hovering space nixie with bad flatulence, a horrific appearance, and a miserable attitude! That was how Flatwoods had been sold or blithely portrayed when it was talked about, publicly, at all… that was the official projection!
Bigotry? Thy name is legion and for the worst reasons, too.
Also, this “green monster” was alleged to have been sporting a sweet-sixteen pleated skirt… a skirt tricked out with a huge bodice collar high in the back, ostentatiously resembling a big ace-of-spades! It was further said to have shot orange beams from its eyes, ooze a poison gas, and it “spooked a bunch of West Virginia hillbillies” in the mountains of West Virginia just weeks before Halloween!
OK... and hoo-woo-woo! Seriously, this seemed like something out of a bad 1950s creature feature… sincerely and boy howdy! I would be a fool to involve myself, eh? Yes, indeed, I would be. Such are the usual wages for the honestly uninformed and innocently credulous. See, remains that it’s the liar, sinning, always… NOT the one lied TO!
I know Frank Feschino, Jr. and have known him... well… I knew him even when I didn’t realize that I knew him, and a good thing, too! We had a bad start!
At a "Project Awareness" UFO conference in Florida back in 1996, right out of the gate and wholly unwarranted, an unintroduced (and so unknown to me!) Frank Feschino embarrassed me, somewhat, in front of Stanton T. Friedman. I was decidedly nonplussed.
The reader might suspect that, just perhaps, this would put a person even further “off” the “Flatwoods Monster” incident, an incident already carrying fishy baggage! It certainly would have added to it. Knowing who he was, I’d likely never have gotten a copy of Feschino’s betrayed first book, The Braxton County Monster, by Quarrier Press... and perhaps even written off Stanton T. Friedman in the bargain, had I known of or remembered him. Too many unnecessary hurdles!
Flatwoods was a tough sell to me in the beginning, anyway! Knowledge of Frank's identity would have been the sour kicker, surely!
Here is my ironic provenance with Feschino. Briefly, after meeting Mr. Friedman for the first time in 1996 at the Florida conference alluded to and making the classic blunder of calling him “Doctor Friedman,” I suffered his obligatory admonishment not to do so! Friedman stated, “No free degrees,” an admonition he would become famous for saying! Continuing, I would gush, admittedly fanboyish, having consumed all his books, that I had been “following you for decades, Mr. Friedman.”
“Ohhh boy…!” …This seated dark stranger wearing an unrecognized "Flatwoods Monster" T-shirt and at Mr. Friedman’s table, would immediately quip! He’d further add, "Hey Stan, it’s lookin’ like you might need another one of those restraining orders!” Subsequently, there was some small laughter in the sizable group around Friedman. Feschino remained seated... or I would have remembered him. Feschino is a TALL man.
I hope I didn’t go, too pathetically, red-faced. I was nonplused! Hey! Even General officers, perhaps catching me short on something, didn’t mock me like that! I was a professional! I was used to more respect… Embarrassed, I didn’t hang around.
The years ticked by. After that 1996 "Project Awareness" UFO conference, I continued to “follow” Mr. Friedman as part of my “triad” of ufological stalwarts, including, at that time, friends Robert Hastings and Richard Dolan. Later on, I’d be astonished to find that one “Frank Feschino, Jr.” would be added to this group of credited persons for my new “quadriga” of trusted UFO subject-matter experts.
It would be along this circuitous interest in all things Friedman where I would discover that Friedman was also cultivating an interest in that unlikely affair regarding that aforementioned “hovering space nixie”! The “Flatwoods Monster.”
Luckily for Feschino, during this time, I didn’t know he was the guy who had huckle-berried me in front of Friedman… that he was the “Flatwoods guy”! These words might never have been written for this book's foreword!
Some irony? Passing all recognition, I would never have remembered Feschino’s original transgression as Feschino’s… but that Frank, years later, reminded me, himself! He was that guy! That was a rush! We had a good laugh… the joke at my expense wasn’t mean-spirited. I’m glad he came forward and lanced that boil...
Back at the ranch? Friedman would eventually suggest to me that I team up with Frank and assist him with a website presence highlighting his findings.
Whoa! I was still reluctant. It remains that my incredulity and vague (wholly unsupported!) disappointment concerning Mr. Friedman’s interest in the Flatwoods case, at the time, was not “real” or justified by the facts! Overriding was that Friedman was, well...so profound for me otherwise… …But c’mon, the 1952 “Flatwoods Monster” affair just had to be wild blueberry and rained-on horse-muffin… nutz!
Well, real irony is the subsequent personal breakthrough that one makes just beginning to pull back the cover on this Flatwoods thing! A quick aside reader: unusually, and in the inverse compared to most other UFO cases, which tend to get more nebulous and dismissible the closer one gets to them… the closer one gets to the Flatwoods incident and IT is examined and studied, the more detail-heavy it gets!
To my surprise, the discovery that this “Flatwoods thing” was a stark and very citation-heavy body of serious work… work reflecting all due diligence… well, it just rekindled my fire! Frank Feschino’s work was a very well-documented reality of an actual incident... now?
My “fire” just gets bigger as time rolls on! It works like that sometimes.
By now? We were all into the cynical new century, the 9/11 terrorist attacks were behind us, even if still a fresh injury… and, as I already alluded, I was still raw with my own wounds wrought of a hoaxer's singularly psychopathic betrayal, a result of that disgracing “Mortellaro Incident.” …But Stanton T. Friedman was Stanton T. Friedman, reader, after all! Didn’t I owe him (and myself!) the benefit of a doubt?
Next – War goes undeclared… military readiness is redefined… the value of credible hindsight… and one's commitment reengaged?
Flatwoods Monster Investigator Gray Barker,
and on his shoulder, Frank Feschino, Jr: covering 1952-2025
In September of 1952, Barker went to Flatwoods and investigated the close encounter incident shortly after it occurred. He would have an in, in that community, that no others would have! He was, essentially, a neighbor and a homeboy! He was one of them.
While there, he met and worked alongside veteran cryptozoologist and author Ivan T. Sanderson, who was also in town! Sanderson was there performing his own investigation into this singular affair. In a digression, this writer bets that Barker was able to grease Sanderson’s wheels, somewhat. Central West (“By God”!) Virginia wouldn’t cotton to outsiders.
Back at Mr. Barker’s ranch, he would later write a short article about the "Flatwoods Monster" case. This was published in the January 1953 issue of "FATE Magazine." It was titled "The Monster and the Saucer." In this article, Barker would detail his research investigation into the Flatwoods case.
Then, in September of 1953, Barker self-published the first volume of his new UFO magazine, "The Saucerian." It was titled, "W.V.A. 'MONSTER' - A Full Report of the Investigation." The entire issue featured the "Flatwoods Monster," which gave additional information about his research into the Flatwoods case.
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Only trying to be reasonable, a skirted space nixie just won't make credulity's cut in the first place, and it was described as a mechanical entity from the very beginning, in the second! |
Barker wrote,
"Was it a robot controlled mechanically...Or was it a man, or 'thing'
in a space suit?" Then, in 1956, Barker's book, "They Knew Too
Much About Flying Saucers" was published; it contained two chapters
about the "Flatwoods Monster" with even more information about his
investigation.
The opening two chapters were titled, "A hilltop, West Virginia" and "Flatwoods, West Virginia." In the book, Barker wrote this about the craft going down on the Fisher Farm that night, "If saucerian in nature, why did it land? Was it in mechanical difficulty? Or, did its pilot wish to make observations?"
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"Funny damn meteors!" News clippings of the time... |
Though here’s the twist? Even though Barker and Sanderson were aware of the numerous other sightings across the country, they were not able to put the big picture together at the time! He'd admit this!
See? Barker had no access to Project Bluebook files... plus he didn't have Feschino's dogged decades of quality and well-documented hindsight! Barker made the following statement, “I can only begin to cope with the mass of data and the correspondence, the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle containing the answer to the entire mystery—if it could only be put together!”
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Well, reader, 40 years later (and in spades!), Frank Feschino, Jr. picked up the "Flatwoods Monster" investigation where Gray Barker and Ivan T. Sanderson had left off! Moreover, Feschino has never stopped looking into the case! From this writer’s guns, Feschino was able to take the massive amount of data he had accumulated on the UFO events of September 12, 1952, and, with all due diligence, PUT all those puzzle pieces of that abstruse jigsaw... together!
Respectfully, Feschino remains hugely grateful for being in a position where he was able to stand on such brave and capable shoulders. They'd provided a lot of the pieces, after all... even as Feschino put those pieces together...
Now, after 32 years, Feschino's ongoing investigation into the "Flatwoods Monster" incident can be more fulsomely told. There’s more to come from Frank Feschino, Jr. and from this writer, come to it, where one can hold Mr. Feschino’s coat and scabbard… spirit willin’ and the creek don’t rise! Remains… Stay tuned! UFO’s, (and with a deliberate sneer to the UAP... only a facile term of plausible deniability, flatly, where the UFO is a brick through a window!), are getting ready to pop!
Closing, Flatwoods is one of the better-documented UFO cases available (period!) and the ONLY substantive analysis of Flatwoods, at all… This is remembering, of course, that Flatwoods was the end of the story and a story providing all the justification necessary for a respectful take in the UFO’s regard.
This may be required when the reader further recalls that Flatwoods was the end result of a well-admitted if “undeclared” air war with UFO’s… Directed by the President of the United States... where men and lots of equipment just vanished into thin air… this, apart from the loss of life, crashing military aircraft, and civilian property damage occurring during that war... or so the records say.
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