by Alfred Lehmberg
ATTENTION: TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL UFO HEARINGS... The military has a long if unstoried record with UFOs. Why, then, is this entirely famous Flatwoods case sidelined, especially given it is the single most well-documented and competently vetted civilian/military UFO close encounter episode in the history of same. Richard Dolan, Robert Hastings, Whitley Strieber, and the late Stanton Friedman, among significant others, consider the research abundantly credible... is it too real for a comfortable reality? Facts will out, has been the understanding, and how far ahead could we have been if we'd jumped, or at least stumbled over, this hurdle in 1952. Bad news won't be better with age; that's for good news.
Anyway, the Flatwoods monster? That affair was only the denouement for a much longer story we will conclude here; presently. Shortly, the end of a long and undeclared story fully exacerbated by an undeclared, though prosecuted, war.
In conclusion then, how many of us must remain wholly unaware of other alien encounter episodes in Braxton County, WV... episodes occurring in, and around, the incident of their more famous brother monster in Flatwoods! There were others... one such follows.
Observed: this will be more evidence of collateral damage to the American populace, just like Flatwoods would be, a result of a not-officially-declared air war with ET in 1952 (perhaps, read that again). This would be a war itself a result of presidential orders to the military to shoot UFOs down. True story! These orders were provoked by UFO intrusions into our prohibited airspaces... and? We would have wanted one...
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| Old clipping headline held by Feschino and Friedman |
IN AN AFFAIR ONLY ADJACENT TO THE WHOLE AIR WAR CULMINATING IN FLATWOODS, THE "FRAMETOWN MONSTER" INCIDENT OCCURRED THE DAY AFTER ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1952 AND IT INVOLVED A CLOSE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A 9-FOOT-TALL ALIEN BEING AND THE GEORGE SNITOWSKY FAMILY.
REGRETFULLY, THIS CLOSE ENCOUNTER WAS NEVER TO BE RECORDED IN PROJECT BLUEBOOK. Remains, it happened....
So! In our entirely inadequate way, the writers will try to correct its omission to Project Blue Book... call it a supplementary report, well after the fact, to wit:
THE FRAMETOWN MONSTER INCIDENT
by Alfred Lehmberg with Frank Feschino, Jr.
(NOTE: Again! This sighting was not recorded in PBB. Here though, for our late addition to the record, the writers will appropriate the old ATIC's Project Bluebook "10073 RECORD CARD" format to, at last, document and record this sighting as it should have appeared in the PBB official files.)
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE: 13 SEP 1952
2. LOCATION: FRAMETOWN, WEST VIRGINIA (NEAREST LANDMARK-JAMES KNOLL)
3. TIME: 2000. [8:00 AM. EST]
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: GROUND VISUAL.
5. PHOTOS: NO
6. SOURCE: 2 CIVILIANS. GEORGE SNITOWSKY. EDITH SNITOWSKY (AND BABY.)
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: APPROX TEN MINUTES
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1 OBJECT HOVERING NEAR THE GROUND AND OF UNKNOWN BEING
9. COURSE: None detected
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: FAMILY'S AUTO STALLED NEAR UFO ON THE GROUND LOCATED IN NEARBY WOODS. A SULFUROUS GAS/SMOKE ENGULFED THE AREA. THE MALE APPROACHED UFO AND FELT ELECTRICAL SHOCKS, THEN BECAME SICK. A 9-FOOT-TALL UNKNOWN BEING APPROACHED THE WITNESS AND FOLLOWED HIM BACK TO THE CAR. THE BEING TOUCHED HOOD OF THE CAR, BURNING IT, THEN IT DEPARTED INTO THE WOODS. THE UFO DEPARTED THE AREA INITIALLY WITH A PENDULUM MOTION, THEN DISAPPEARED.
11. COMMENTS: THE FRAMETOWN MONSTER SO-CALLED. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED APPROX 24 HOURS AFTER FLATWOODS MONSTER INCIDENT AND 17 MILES AWAY. ORIGINAL INVESTIGATOR: PAUL LIEB. FOLLOWUP INVESTIGATOR: FRANK FESCHINO, JR. DOCUMENTED BY WRITERS ALFRED LEHMBERG AND FRANK FESCHINO, JR.
12. CONCLUSIONS: THE BEING WAS LIKELY THE SAME BEING SIGHTED THE NIGHT BEFORE IN FLATWOODS WITH THE UPPER PORTION OF ITS METALLIC SUIT REMOVED IN FRAMETOWN.
13. CONCLUSION: UNKNOWN
There! We feel better!
Commentary:
It was, "...a good eight or nine foot tall...If I ever prayed in my life, I was praying then." A witness quote from George Snitowsky Mr. Paul Lieb.
Flatwoods researcher Frank Feschino, Jr. was able to suggest a track of the flight path for the "Flatwoods Monster," subsequent to its departing the Fisher Farm in Flatwoods on September 12, 1952. After its close encounter with Mrs. May and the six boys, the giant "iron-clad" alien boarded its damaged craft and took off. To go... where?
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| Just a smattering of the headlines! |
It is reasonable, reader, given the plethora of reported activity that night that is reported, well mapped, tagged, and indicated, it followed the Elk River southwest over Braxton County and deeper into the county's further recesses. Ultimately, the craft made its way into the vicinity of the secluded mountainous region of the "Frametown," area, approximately 17 miles away. Local witnesses reported that it landed on James Knoll...
Well... concurrently, one day later on September 13, 1952, New York tourists George and Edith Snitowsky were traveling home from Ohio, road-weary, with their baby. Passing through Frametown at about 8:00 p.m., their car inexplicably stalled and refused to restart. Shortly thereafter, the young couple entered into an unexpected nightmare as they encountered an imposing and otherworldy 9-foot-tall alien being, revealing itself, reportedly, near the area of their stalled vehicle! The reader is reminded that stranger things have likely happened.
Subjects as yet unaware of an "alien" presence, the area where their car had stalled became inexplicably engulfed with a sickening sulfurous gas, (reminiscent of Flatwoods!)! George Snitowsky exited his stalled car and lifted the hood to examine the battery. He wanted desperately to restart the car and get away! Perhaps this was some kind of chemical spill he'd reflected... and there was the baby to think about!
After several unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine, he then noticed a glowing elliptically-shaped UFO "thing" that floated out in the distance of the woods. Entranced with the other-worldliness, George elected to walk towards the strange glowing craft to get a better look at it. The wife was adamantly opposed.
Moments later, and closer to the object, George felt debilitating electrical shocks pierce throughout his body, and he was overcome by the gaseous odor! He fell to a knee and vomited profusely!
As he stood up, Edith let out a blood-curdling scream and yelled to her husband to turn around! Something was approaching him from behind!
As George quickly turned to take a look, his knees buckled suddenly, and he froze in fear at the sight of a huge alien that was hovering ominously towards him! He then ran away from it, finally, got back into the car, and tried to calm his terrified wife and crying baby. They watched in horror as the being quickly approached them!
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| Charcoal by Frank Feschino Jr |
George instinctively pushed his wife and child onto the passenger side floor to shield them, then grabbed a hunting knife from the glovebox for self-defense. As they huddled on the floor in terror with George laying atop his family protectively, the alien hovered around the perimeter of the car examining it, all the while spewing a horrendous-smelling gas presumably from pipes surrounding its lower metallic torso.
George put his head down and prayed! After what seemed like an eternity he lifted his head up a few moments, later, to see if the alien had left the area.
As George looked up across the dashboard to his dismay, he was utterly shocked to see the huge alien hovering in front of the car and looking back down at him through the windshield!
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| Flatwoods/Frametown Monster by Feschino |
The alien reached down and touched the car's hood, chemically burning it, presumably, scarring the paint! Then, without making any hostile moves toward them, just like at Flatwoods on the previous day, the thing hovered back into the nearby woods leaving them unmolested.
Shortly thereafter, a floating UFO took off from the woods and, displaying a peculiar pendulum motion before disappearing into the night sky... zapped off in an eyeblink!
Feschino spoke to George Snitowsky while researching this incident, extensively. He has concluded that the 9-foot-tall being that the Snitowskys saw and encountered that night was probably the "Flatwoods Monster" of Flatwoods fame from the previous day!
When the alien was seen in Frametown on September 13, its ace-of-spades black outer helmet, red inner helmet, and metallic upper torso spacesuit "parts" had been removed, it's suggested. In the Frametown appearance, the large occupant being was seen in the "flesh," from its head down to its waist area.
As per the illustration above, its lower body was still encased in the lower portion of the, now familiar to us, apparatus. This suggests it acted, just as in Flatwoods, like a vehicle emitting a gaseous exhaust from the pipes of its propulsion system? Who can know, but that Occam's hypothesis explaining this good faith report must be complicated out of needs, as Occam himself had outlined! Don't complicate the hypothesis without necessity, he'd admonished. Well, it is offered we have a necessity.
During this terrifying incident, the alien being's large head, bloated upper body, long spindly arms, and forked-fingered hands were clearly seen by the witnesses. The entire story can be read in Feschino's book.
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| Sculpure bust by Frank Feschino Jr. |
These then are the results of making war on extra-planetary beings: angry soldiers, terrified humans, and surprisingly benevolent aliens. Consider the alien... presumably shot from the sky by military jets and evading conjectured capture on the ground... they still didn't abuse the locals.
That's worth keeping in mind. Read on.
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