Justification

Critical Prose & Poetic Commentary regarding UFOs and their astonishing ancillaries, consciousness & conspiracy, plus a proud sufferer of orthorexia nervosa since 2005!

Thursday, September 25, 2025

FROM MYTH TO REALITY!


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THE FLATWOODS MONSTER: 

FROM MYTH TO REALITY

By Frank C. Feschino, Jr. & Foreword by Alfred Lehmberg.
Book cover Reviews by Dave Spinks & Michael Schratt
Cover illustration by Joel Christopher Payne

Starborn Illumination Publishing: "This book is the most complete case study ever written about the "Flatwoods Monster incident."

Author/investigator Frank C. Feschino, Jr. has been investigating one of the world's most terrifying UFO close encounters for more than thirty years now, the September 12, 1952 "Flatwoods Monster" incident. It's been a long, hard, and perilous slog!

Since his last book was published in 2014, Frank continued his investigation and dug deeper into the mysterious events regarding a race of "monstrous" aliens invading America that night in 1952. During the last decade, Frank discovered additional information about the case and compiled it together with some of his previously unpublished research materials, for an ADVANCED initiative! 

During this time, he obtained a fascinating contemporary interview involving a witness who had disclosed that he had had an encounter with a "Monster" in Braxton County the morning after the Flatwoods event! Verily, Feschino's ongoing investigation has uncovered an abundance of new information, including many additional newspaper articles, numerous photographs, and more documentation about the case. 

He then combined his 30-years' worth of accumulated research material, pieced together with everything into the existing storyline, and wrote a massive new book, titled, "The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality." 

Feschino also constructed many refined and updated maps for the book, added several new photos, and more of his forensic illustrations! With cutting-edge scientific analysis added to the "Flatwood Monster" case, this groundbreaking book firmly establishes Frank C. Feschino, Jr. as the foremost authority on the "Flatwoods Monster" case. Accept no substitutes!

In his most definitive work to date, Frank takes the reader on a day-by-day journey through the affair, and then explains the sequence of events as the "Flatwoods Monster" story unfolded during that time in September of 1952. Feschino also sheds new light on this case,  still refuting and debunking Project Blue Book's "astronomical" conclusion regarding the "Flatwoods Monster" incident... as being attributed to a passing single "meteor" over the town and... eyewitness "imagination." That was an explanation demonstrated as risible on its FACE!

He uses additional information of other documented UFO sightings reported over several states to further discredit the government's facile "meteor" explanation, which adds to his intricate timeline of events. Feschino's new information greatly adds to his already detailed timeline as he maps out these sightings and displays the undeniable flight paths of several coordinated UFO flights sweeping across the eastern United States for several hours that very evening!
 
Ultimately, the author reveals what he contends was a massive and well-concerted "flying saucer" cover-up by the United States Government. "The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality" by Frank Feschino, Jr. is the most complete case study ever written about the "Flatwoods Monster" incident. Posted!

This new 2025 book is published by "Starborn Illumination Publishing" and sold exclusively through Amazon. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/mr3945ht

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality—Foreword... Part II of II

 

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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 readyit 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! 

     Additionally, and prior to the “Monster” encounter, several other competent witnesses in Flatwoods had observed what they described as either low-flying and flaming unidentified objects… or a “meteor” (put a pin in THAT!), pass over their town! Subsequently, it had fallen silently to earth and landed on the mountaintop of a nearby property, the Fisher Farm. 

       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? 

     Regardless, the majority of the boys, accompanied now by two adults, one of these a National Guardsman, were en route on foot to the landing site on the farm, perchance to pick up some of the meteorite’s fragments! Upon reaching the location, the group continued the short trek to their destination towards the landing site …when the fateful “Monster” encounter unexpectedly occurred! 

    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!


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! 

     Feschino’s in-depth research investigation documents, timestamps, and pinpoints more than a dozen locations where four damaged UFOs had repeatedly crash-landed throughout the Southeast United States on the infamous night of September 12, 1952, just to start! It is evident, and not unreasonable, that some of those downed UFOs involved occupants... who may have departed their damaged crafts? 

   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." 

     Furthermore, it was also reported that the "'horribly burned body of a woman' was found on Vineyard Hill." Additionally, one person's inquiry into the matter asked the police department if it was true that a "policeman had been burned mysteriously about the arms." This unheralded incident involving a "10-foot monster" and the discovery of a "burned woman's body" seems to be yet another cover story. …Who can know anymore, given the official mendacities already evidenced... everywhere!? 

     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!

 

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Alfred Lehmberg, CW4, U.S. Army, Retired

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Anniversary!



The 73rd Anniversary 

of the Flatwoods Monster 

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.






Excelsior! Flatwoods! …And now?  What of 3I/ATLAS?

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!


Dave Spinks and FCFJr with subject drawing


Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality—Foreword Part I of II

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The Flatwoods Monster:

From Myth To RealityForeword, 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? 


Saturday, August 23, 2025

...We're Not Alone...

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At issue, agendas
they do as they will, 
and will "give of themselves" 
to dispense "bitter pills"!
...Still, ...I hear a drum 
in the distance, at times, 
...and would dance to the beat 
of that faraway rhyme!
.
See, I'm hearing dirges 
of "sad, tortured souls"—
too many, by far, 
from cruel rocks and harsh shoals! 
Smashed by our cowardice, 
dashed on its stones, 
bashed to oblivion, 
they're rejected—alone!
.
"So, what of it, friend; 
like, what is their deal?  
...What's it 'besets' them?"  
...Your "skeptics" will squeal.
.
They say they're "abducted"... 
by "persons" unknown
invaded, "dissected," abused, (!)
 these disclose!
Then, treated with ridicule
and dismissed as "fringe stuff
they're shoved to the rear
so they don't get "enough."
.
"Enough of what, pray?"
your 'Bunkie will sneer, 
as it wallows its ignorance 
and fondles its fear...
Why... honest attention!
 Some lack of contempt! 
A "contempt" too reflexive
 and bereft any sense!
  .
...And that just to start! 
Then, impassioned concern... 
from circumspect persons 
who wish but to learn!
.
There are too many people 
affected by this 
to casually dismiss 
with a snear and a hiss! 
Though, this is the mindset 
of "mainstreams," who try... 
to trivialize that 
which has impacted lives!
.
They DO the same thing 
with the other "big issues"—
the rape of our planet ... 
our "ethics" of tissue
They DON'T cop to truth 
plainly glaring disgust; 
it's plain (as a "nose"!) 
they're abusing our trust!
.
Quality people 
have pondered these questions, 
suggesting invasion (!) 
or strange infestation (!!), 
but "mainstreams" will wallow 
their "party-line creep"—
then sell us their lullaby's 
aberrant sleep!
.
Too! "Researchers," "debunkers," 
and "skeptics" agree 
to opinions they have... 
that they're comfy with, see? 
They're grasping at straw, 
or whatever they'd find... 
to prop up gross egos 
as bound... as confined!
.
I know folks, myself
They're salt of the Earth! 
They're community pillars 
for what THAT is worth, 
but others demean them 
with judgments and labels
dismiss them, too quickly, 
as fictions or fables!
.
They'd nothing to gain, 
had so much to lose. 
They've been harried 
...and tortured... 
abused and contused
Ignored and dismissed 
or rejected, they fear... 
that they're crazy (or worse!), 
...though what's worse is right here!
.
Big brother awakens 
and becomes autocratic.  
Society subsumes all good sense 
in the static.  
Predators have every law 
on their side 
and the "culture" supports 
this betrayal... with pride!
.
So, YES (!) we're a symbol 
of where we're amiss, 
where WE void control 
to a destiny missed!
.
We would evade 
our great chance to show courage
to wallow in ignorance, 
misled and discouraged? 
We'd be supporters 
of that which confines
...We'd be our own product 
of terror, besides?
.
No! We'd opt for bravery 
and spit in the eye 
of whatever confines us 
for reasons described!
.
See? "We're not alone (!)", 
say the millions of persons 
in studies conducted 
or in polls that we've had. 
"We're not alone (!)," 
say the suffering people 
affected by terror—
who are feeling quite bad!
.
"We're not alone (!)," 
is the message of history. 
"We're not alone (!)," 
as the evidence says! 
"We're not alone (!)," 
but embracing a cowardice
pretending a solitude 
that we shan't possess!
.
Something's occurring 
that hides in the shadows; 
something's occurring 
that they won't admit. 
Something's occurring 
that opens the floodgates 
for interesting futures, 
...and we'd best equip!
.
"Something" is touching, 
just, too many lives—
I know some myself, 
and they're wrongly despised
They're WRONGLY mistrusted
and WRONGLY suspected
They're telling a truth 
as they see it! Respect it!


lehmberg2002@gmail.com
http://www.alienview.net/





...Takes GUTS to stare this anomalously glaring beast into its furtive, misshapen, and too intelligent little eyes, eh? ...One hopes for same... Then!

Then? The "alien conjectured" remains to be considered! That's right. Only then. It is not now being considered; it is only dismissed, merrily, without investigation.

True.  Initially?  We have to take care of the "beams" in our own eyes before we can worry with regard to that odd mote in another's—misidentified motes we likely lack capability to understand presently—those conjectured *others* being so much farther down the future's path we must all travel. 

No. The "beast" is first, us.  We're our OWN alien!

We are the enemy that must be defeated—our arrogance, our hubris, our pride, our impertinence, our cowardice, our faithlessness, our intolerance, our tyranny... well, we risk tediousness to go on, eh? Though we could.

Additionally, it seems "select persons" may still have a significant enough ration of the "guts" aforementioned, and the disingenuous  "status quo" submits to its needed and very well-deserved "tune-up," the invigorating result? I suspect so. I should hope so. I feel it is so. Remains, it is the knowing.  Some know.  Somebody knows...

Restore John Ford.


Friday, August 08, 2025

Flatwoods Monster Investigators

 

Flatwoods Monster Investigator Gray Barker,

 and on his shoulder, Frank Feschino, Jr: covering 1952-2025

byAlfred Lehmberg

 




One of the original investigators of the Braxton County "Flatwoods Monster"... was an actual Braxton County resident! He was also the famous early paranormal author/investigator, Gray Barker.
 

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.

 

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?"

 

"Funny damn meteors!" News clippings of the time...

Gray Barker and Ivan T. Sanderson were well aware of the numerous UFO sightings occurring along the eastern coast on September 12, 1952, as well as the numerous sightings of various craft over Braxton County, including Flatwoods! Barker wrote, "The strange [Flatwoods] event had taken place simultaneously with sightings of aerial objects over several states. These, reported generally as meteorites, flashed over West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Within a 20-mile radius of Flatwoods, numerous persons saw what they described, variously, as shooting stars, flying saucers, and meteorites. Evidently, these were different objects than the one seen in Flatwoods.

The constant reader will recall that meteors have been fulsomely debunked...

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!”

...

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.  

21 HOURS and Change of extreme UFO
Activity with aircraft launched to shoot them down!


Timestamped sightings paint a picture!





Grok In Fullness

Errol

Errol Bruce-Knapp, of UFO UpDates, Strange Days — Indeed, the Virtually Strange Network... ...and the coiner of the expression ...