Justification

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

Sunday, October 05, 2025

"FLYING SAUCERS From Outer Space"



 


"FLYING SAUCERS 

             ...from Outer Space"  (...a stunning read, still!)

by Pioneer UFO Researcher Major Donald Keyhoe

...A cameo of same by Alfred Lehmberg


Writer/Researcher Major Donald Keyhoe was a well-known and respected war hero, USMC officer, and naval aviator! 
It follows, given the blatant evidence available at the time, that he would become interested in "flying saucers," even as early as the late 1940s. 

On reflection, this writer, also a combat aviator, suspects that the Major would become attentive to UFOs and their ancillaries because inattention to them and their blatant obviousness would be deemed  to be unintelligent, unprogressive, unimaginative, and unbrave

Subsequently, he'd become a true believer—if learned, logical, and unrelenting in his investigation. A true crown jewel in this nascent ufology. 

He would begin to write rational magazine articles on the subject, but with "reasoning fever" taking hold... he'd double DOWN! Major Keyhoe became heavily involved in a serious "flying saucer" research effort as a consequence! He would write several bestselling books on the subject! 

In his first 1950 book, "The Flying Saucers Are Real," he made the following bold statement, "The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being closely observed by intelligently controlled vehicles from outer space." That's not subtle, reader. This writer offers, moreover, that this is just as obvious... currently!

As well, Major Keyhoe was also aware that the United States government was... well... it was "coverin' up on the greasy deets" of these otherworldly visitations from a betrayed American public, is this writer's take, and he was willing to write about it! In turn, Major Keyhoe would come to be quickly recognized by the American public as a quality source of responsible UFO information... in a fashion similar to a ufological Walter Cronkite or Stanton Friedman, and not just as a result of his very well-received writings and UFO books.  

Indubitably, he was reputed to be a top-drawer pioneer researcher in the field... AND a field man! His memory remains undisgraced to this day! Yeah …he'd have had a different take on these UFOs.

Major Keyhoe would become an increasingly well-known figure throughout his career.  He knew many people within various aviation circles and was well-connected in and around Washington, D.C. ...He was WELL rolodexed, personally and societally! 

During the years of his research, he spoke to many different government officials, military personnel, pilots (civil and military), and numerous other functionaries regarding his research into the "flying saucer" phenomena! Why, he'd flown with Charles Lindbergh as a trusted aide, as rubber meets road! Truly, the man had made "inroads"footings... he had a presence on the cultural stage!

Shortly after the "Flatwoods Monster" incident in September of 1952 through early 1953, Major Keyhoe investigated the Flatwoods case...
...Begins the Flatwoods investigation... the longest-running UFO investigation... ever!

On two occasions, Keyhoe phoned the Pentagon and spoke to USAF public spokesman Albert Chop. Major Keyhoe made deep inquiries about the Flatwoods case... but he was perplexed with the answers he had received concerning Project Blue Book's "conclusions" regarding the incident. Sneer quotes intended!

He stated the following in his 1953 book, "Flying Saucers From Outer Space (pdf above!)." Major Keyhoe admonished Chop, "This could get out of hand. Why doesn't the Air Force squelch it?" Chop retorted, We've already said the object was a meteor..." We've been over this previously... and earmarked this exchange as evidence of a deliberate official cover-up! 

Chop also stated, "All those people saw was a meteor! They imagined the rest. We can't send intelligence officers out on every crazy report.

Keyhoe then wrote, "The Air Force hands-off attitude seemed peculiar to me. For the monster story was having a serious effect, in addition to letters from worried Americans." He then added, "It was far better to brand the whole thing as a hallucinationwhich Intelligence evidently believed was the answer." Major Keyhoe also remarked, "Whether or not the Air Force analysis is correct, one point is certainIntelligence carefully avoided a public investigation in order to prevent hysteria."

We point out that this "hysteria," a result of a "first contact," is a can we keep kicking indolently down the road. It's a hurdle that we could have overcome back in 1952 with a sack more stone... godamnit! 

That can is due to turn itself into an anvil, reader, and GENERATIONS of humanity could have had this all well behind them and living in an inevitable future, a future roaring down on us all like the proverbial freight train, anyway. We could have caught that train in 1952! We can catch it now!

Approaching the close, Major Keyhoe made this powerful statement about the Flatwoods case, "When the time came to admit that the saucers were real, the slightest official hint of possible menace would be quickly remembered. From that angle, the Sutton [Flatwoods] story was dangerous with its picture of a fearsome-looking creature intelligent enough to build and control spaceships." Ouch!

Flashing forward 73 years after the Major's investigation, author Frank Feschino, Jr. has released his last (?) definitive book about the "Flatwoods Monster" incident! This is after his relentless 30-year investigation into this watershed case. 

Yes, Major Keyhoe was right, the "Flatwoods Monster was "a fearsome creature intelligent enough to build and control space ships." Perhaps the sooner we cop to that and gain a little more self-awareness, an awareness that we may be in some dire need of accepting the likely reality... ...that we are probably NOT the jewel in the crown of creation we self-style ourselves to be, eh?

Finally, the terrifying "Flatwoods Monster" incident involving a downed UFO and its alien occupant... can be read about in its entirety via Feschino's new book, "The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality....And recall that undeclared air war with ET denied for 73 years harkens back to that section written above... about "can kicking" and perhaps NOT being the center jewel in creation's crown?

See? There IS that weird comet, 3I/Atlas, approaching with its weird smaller "comet" companions. Look it up! What's all THAT about? These may possibly have a potential for giving some significant pause... going forward, nes't pas? Read on!

Thursday, October 02, 2025

THE FLATWOODS MONSTER: FROM MYTH TO REALITY!

Flatwoods... Looking southerly, the school is photo right,
on the street where the street and RR tracks begin to converge! 
The "landing" is generally in the flatter clearing at the top center of the photo...

THE FLATWOODS MONSTER: 

FROM MYTH TO REALITY!


By Frank C. Feschino, Jr. & Foreword by Alfred Lehmberg.
This book is published by "Starborn Illumination Publishing"

*Michael Schratt: UFO Researcher, Author and Military Space Historian writes in 2025: "Frank's ongoing 30-year investigation into this case is the longest one ever conducted, and this book is the most complete book ever written on the subject."


Author/investigator Frank C. Feschino, Jr. spent the last three decades of his life on the sober investigation of the "Flatwoods Monster" incident of September 12, 1952. His work, we admonish, is ever the portrait of a complete sincerity! 

Indubitably, his research into this case is unparalleled in the worldwide UFO community! ...And, employing all due diligence and cogent intelligence, he is considered the topmost authority and subject matter expert on this terrifying close encounter incident, by far and away! Truly, "that which others saw from afar, [he] has left far behind [him]."

Feschino had discovered that this case, once thought to be a dismissible and forgettable West Virginia "cryptid" folklore tale, was actually involving a damaged UFO going down on a farm in Flatwoods, West Virginia... uh, ...with its non-human occupant! That, singularly, might just explain its speedy relegation to a forgettable folklore tale... eh?

Shortly thereafter, a group of unsuspecting local residents who'd gone in search of the downed UFO, abruptly encountered its occupant (!) near a wooded areaa metallic, nearly 12-foot-tall, armor-clad being! Fescino worked with and interviewed many of the eyewitnesses! They described it as looking like a "small spaceship resembling a helmeted space suit"! He was also told that this mechanical figure had hovered and emitted a sulfurous gas from its lower torso pipes... which sickened them! 

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Officialdom was easy with disclosure... once.


This terrifying "close encounter" quickly made local newspaper headlines and was broadcast by radio across the region. The first local newspaper accounts about the incident were reported to the Charleston Gazette newspaper by one A. Lee Stewart, Jr., the photojournalist for the Braxton Democrat newspaper... and who we've written about previously. He was the first person of authority, remember, to go to Flatwoods shortly after the incident that night, he was the first one to go to the farm where the encounter occurred, and he was the first person to interview the witnesses!

Subsequently, after Stewart's story broke in the Charleston Gazette that night, he followed up the story with additional information that appeared in their newspapers over the next few days. On Sunday, September 14, 1952, The Gazette's first headline read, "Did It Ride Meteor?Boys Spot Appalling Creature Near Flatwoods, Link It to Passage of Fiery Object in Skies.In this article? The "Creature" was also said to be a "strange visitor." 

On the same day, the Charleston Daily Mail newspaper headline read, "Braxton Co. Residents Faint, Become Ill After Run-In With Weird 10-Foot Monster." This article made a reference to the "Monster" as being "metallic"! One day later on Monday, September 15, 1952, the Charleston Gazette headline read, "Braxton Monster Left Skid Tracks Where it Landed." In this article, the "Braxton Monster" was also referred to as the "Phantom of Flatwoods.

This article also reports that the initial detailed description of the "Phantom of Flatwoods" was first made by the witnesses to Mr. Stewart! It states that the subject "wore a suit of green armor" and that it "looked like a mechanical man." It also reported that it, "...was 10 feet tall, four feet wide," and "...had a blood red face"! Also added? "It sported a black spade-like cowl, which extended a foot or more above its head." Uh... from where, then, would we get a claw-waving space nixie in a sweet-sixteen party skirt?! 

Meanwhile, the United Press picked up the Flatwoods story, and it was shotgunned around the world on Monday, September 15, 1952... only... the information contained in the reports had taken on a new perspective... a peculiar negative slant. Behind the scenes, a plan had already been implemented by the United States government to defuse the incident and cover it up. There is data! 

Why, they admit it themselves! Consider that comment a foreshadowing!

Agents of disinfo?

The United States Government worked through the West Virginia State Police shortly after the incident and sent them to Flatwoods that weekend. The police "secured" the details about the story, debunked the entire incident, and then planted the disingenuous seed of doubt in the heads of the sponge-like reporters who were covering the story! 

The Press now "reported" that the Flatwoods incident was the result of "saucer hysteria"! One headline explicitly reported, "Police Say Braxton Monster Product of 'Mass Hysteria'," while numerous newspapers reported, "Police laughed. They said the so-called monster had grown from seven to 17 feet in 24 hours.

Where did THAT come from?! Furthermore, the UFO that flew over Flatwoods and landed that night was to be blamed on a, now, fulsomely debunked "meteor.

As a result of this cover-up? The "Flatwoods Monster" story had become convoluted and filled with inaccuracies in the press! The witnesses were in turn ridiculed, laughed at, and made fools of. ...Ah, humanity!


Sequentially, on September 19, 1952, the "Monster" was featured on a nationwide TV program, "We The People." Two of the guests who appeared on that program were witnesses Mrs. May and Gene Lemon (a young National Guardman) of Flatwoods. They were interviewed by host Daniel Seymour (above) and retold their frightening encounter to a record "live" TV audience that very night!

Before the show aired, as we've written before, an artist hired by the TV show sat and interviewed Mrs. May and Gene Lemon backstage in the studio! He drew an "illustration" of the figure they "saw." This illustration was to be shown during their live interviews, as has been reported, later that night. 

Sadly, during the artist's backstage interviews with the two witnesses, he misinterpreted (?) their descriptions of the figure and drew it incorrectly. The artist portrayed the figure as a garment-wearing being with a large red head and glowing eyes, ludicrously covered with a big black pointed cloth hood! He drew it wearing a tunic-type top across the upper torso area and sporting a long-pleated dress from the waist area down. Risible!


Additionally, this mechanical figure, which actually hovered via a silent propulsion system... was illustrated as floating in mid-air next to a 6-foot-tall man for scale proportions. Moreover, the artist drew the figure as having arms and claws! This depiction turned the "monster's" total appearance into a complete "disingenuousness"! A scary, wholly contrived "monster," a stereotypical 1950s Hollywood-style monster from space! We'd already allowed for risible!

Later on, The "Phantom of Flatwoods," first correctly reported to have "looked like a mechanical man" and "wearing a suit of green armor" had now been turned into a complete "unreasonable" by the errant artist. This inaccurate drawing of the figure was then shown to the nationwide TV audience during May and Lemon's interview! It was now "culturally" thought to be the "true likeness" of the figure they saw. Risibility turns abruptly to societal irresponsibility! Was this deliberate?!

As a result of the massive media coverage that the "Braxton Monster" received from this TV show... it began to scare the American public. Although, even as many American citizens didn't believe the "meteor" and mass "hysteria" explanations, there were still many Americans who were starting to panic! This ugly floating space monster alien with arms and claws caused many Americans to worry because of the massive number of UFO sightings that were occurring across the United States that year

Is this what the aliens looked like who were plaguing the skies in their saucers over America that year, 1952, the "Summer of the Saucers"?

Keyhoe... wholly credible!

In 1952, sober pioneer UFO researcher and author Major Donald Keyhoe competently researched the "Flatwoods Monster" case and then wrote about it in his 1953 book, "Flying Saucers From Outer Space." Keyhoe stated the following, "The Sutton [Flatwoods Monster] story wasn't so easily downed. Radio and commentators repeated it all over the country. A newspaper syndicate ran a series of articles. Then Mrs. May and the Lemon boy appeared on 'We the People' and retold their frightening experience." 

Shortly after, Major Keyhoe phoned the Pentagon and spoke with Air Force publicity man Albert Chop about the Flatwoods case. During that conversation, Mr. Keyhoe stated the following to Mr. Chop... 

"This could get out of hand. Why doesn't the Air Force squelch it?"

Chop retorted, "We've already said the object was a meteor..." Full stop! This was a reported quote and an admission of that official cover-up we'd alluded to, ladies and entities lurking. A small but meaningful diversion...

To continue, Keyhoe replied, "A lot of people don't believe it. And the way this has built up is bad." Chop replied, "It'll die out." ...Keyhoe responded, "But people will remember it if something breaks."

Eventually, the panic brought on by the "Flatwoods Monster" incident started to fade from newspaper headlines... and the story slowly died out. Subsequently, Project Blue Book intelligence officials recorded the case and explained the incident away as "astronomical." They "recorded," in sneer quotes, "The West Virginia Monster so-called. Actually, the object was the well-known Washington area meteor of 12 Sep., Landing near Flatwoods." Risible now by an order of magnitude and at toxic levels! Blatant obfuscation! 

It concluded that all of the events happening that night only involved a meteor, mass hysteria, and witness misidentification. Risible! We may have mentioned that!

As for the "We The People" TV show; this Television talk show began in 1948 and continued for five seasons through 1952. The "Flatwoods Monster" episode was aired during season 5, episode 19 on September 19, 1952. 

Oddly enough? "We The People," a hugely popular National program, only aired but one more episode the following week after the "Flatwoods Monster" episode... and was then cancelled

Was this a coincidence? ...We're reminded of Colbert and Kimmel!  

Although history had heavily documented this terrifying UFO incident, there was a downside to the story as a result of the government's massive cover-up! The truth behind the "Flatwoods Monster" incident was never fully disclosed, and it was eventually written off as some silly West Virginia folklore story. 

Heavy sigh...

Still, there remained one individual who has dedicated nearly half of his life to uncovering the truth about the "Flatwoods Monster" case. Frank Feschino's own ongoing 30-year investigation into this affair, the longest-running UFO investigation since it began in 1952, has continued to uncover information about the United States Government's cover-up behavior. 

Feschino's new 2025 book, titled "The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality," is the definitive book on the "Flatwoods Monster" incident and other numerous UFO events and encounters that occurred during that time... ...Undeclared air war with ET? There is DATA.

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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!

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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!

...

   ...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!

 

 BUY THE BOOK!!

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


Grok In Fullness

Errol

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