Author says UFO-Air Force dogfight ended in Flatwoods

[SHOCKLEY]

And now for a few laughs....


Author says UFO-Air Force dogfight ended in Flatwoods

MANNIX PORTERFIELD/THE REGISTER-HERALD


Monday July 23, 2007
BECKLEY -- Sci-fi buffs flocked to a fantasy film in 1984 bearing a title prediction that 2010 would be the year earthlings make contact with aliens.

Actually, contact has come, and it was less than friendly, says one UFO researcher.

Three decades earlier, in fact, back in 1952, just five years after the famed Roswell, New Mexico incident, the American military engaged a convoy of alien aircraft with orders to destroy them in a pitched air battle right off the Atlantic Coast, says Frank Feschino, author of "The Flatwoods Monster,'' a phenomenon that rocked a tiny West Virginia town that year.

An illustrator and writer, Feschino has produced a follow-up book, this one titled "Shoot Them Down,'' an effort produced after years of painstaking research of the U.S. Air Force's once-classified files on unidentified flying saucers and digesting countless magazine articles on the matter.

His years of exhaustive study have convinced Feschino that American jet fighters did indeed make contact -- at the point of their guns.

"Shoot Them Down'' draws its name from orders Feschino says President Truman gave military commanders while an American public was growing increasingly jittery over coast-to-coast UFO sightings.

Two years earlier, Truman had remarked at a news conference, "I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth.''

"There are tons of documents right there, intelligence reports, talking about pilots chasing these things, going after them,'' Feschino said, citing the once-hidden reports on the Air Force's so-called Project Blue Book.

"That's when it hit the fan, and the government stepped up. That is when they had to simmer the whole country down. The whole country was in an uproar. Everybody was panicking. The job of the government is to keep things under control, and they couldn't let the country panic.''

UFOs were buzzing the entire country that year, "and a good chunk of them were over military installations, and power plants, like Oak Ridge,'' the author says.

Feschino pulls his theory largely from the writings of Air Force Capt. Edward Ruppelt, a decorated World War II veteran, recalled to duty when hostilities erupted in Korea.

Roswell might stand out as the mother of all UFO stories, but 1952 was the most prolific year by far for aircraft sightings -- by one account, some 30,000 alone in the United States, many of them reported in local newspapers around the country.

Craft ranged from discs to round balls to elongated, cigar-shaped ships, the Port Orange, Fla., resident said.

"Capt. Ruppelt was dropping clues throughout his book,'' Feschino said. "And that's the premise of my book. During that time of 1952 we had the highest amount of sightings.''

In a book he wrote, Ruppelt said "other assorted historians have pointed out that normally the UFOs are peaceful,'' but he alluded to a chase in which one of two pilots engaging unidentified aircraft perished.

"They just weren't ready to be observed closely,'' he wrote.

"If the Air Force hadn't slapped down the security lid, these writers might not have reached this conclusion (about peaceful aliens). There have been other and more lurid duels of death. That's what everybody missed.''

Feschino flatly says the Air Force took on alien aircraft just off the coast with orders to destroy them in a move to pacify a public growing ever restless over bizarre sightings. In the battle, apparently one craft hobbled back inland, resting on a knoll in a West Virginia community known as Flatwoods. And it was there on Sept. 12 a group of boys, accompanied by some adults, scampered up the hillside and saw a metallic, 12-foot object emitting a sulfuric odor. Locals dubbed it "the Flatwoods Monster.''

"I have no idea who they were,'' Feschino said.

Based on his interviews with some 200 residents of Flatwoods, however, the author believes the aliens remain interested in rural West Virginia.

"There are people in West Virginia who have been seeing UFOs for the past 50 years, and there are key locations where they are being seen -- Wheeling, Huntington, and quite a few south of Charleston, around Cabin Creek, even down in the Beckley area,'' he said.

Feschino is a headliner for a Sept. 7-8 UFO summit in Charleston, organized by promoter Larry Bailey. Joining him will be Freddie May, a witness to the Flatwoods incident, and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, considered the leading UFO researcher in the world. Friedman has appeared on numerous cable TV shows with his belief that extraterrestrials are frequent flyers to planet Earth.

At the two-day gathering, Feschino plans to sell his new book, featuring a special, limited edition cover for West Virginia consumers.

[genlock]

The Roswell of the east.
I have seen some of the people in Flatwoods and it is apparent that the surviving aliens mated with some of them or the natives mated with mutant cattle or sheep.

[Arp2]

....and, on a Simpsons rerun last night, the hillbillies' family chart was shown. The dad of the family -- "Cletus," is it? -- had apparently somehow mated with an alien very early in life, producing a daughter....and future wife and mother of his (other) children!

[Tom Taggart]

"Craft ranged from discs to round balls to elongated, cigar-shaped ships, the Port Orange, Fla., resident said."

Washington: Recently declassified CIA files document a series of failures in the Agency's attempts in the early 50's to use captured German Zeppelins for clandestine surveillance programs...

[lastone]

OK. Since you are on this kick....I'll repeat what was told me by a soon to retire Navy man while I was at China Lake in 1983.

The facts about Roswell are out there, only drop the ailens. It was a test of re-entry systems that went very wrong causing a crash (of a circular vehicle). Temperatures got so high the helments fused to the heads of two of the men and the pressure suits melted. All were 'burned o a crisp' and one survived the crash....for a short while. The cover up wasn't about aliens, it was about the first three men to die in space research and the public could not be told! We may never know the names of those three men and the government will never acknowlege the deaths as long as the alien interest continues.

I have no reason to doubt what this man told me. And if you look close at what the government has released over the years, this story makes more sense than "aliens" or a UFO "shootdown".

[fearpeddler]

"Craft ranged from discs to round balls to elongated, cigar-shaped ships, the Port Orange, Fla., resident said."

kinda sounds like sumthin from the clinton trial.... heheh

[Big Media]

"Craft ranged from discs to round balls to elongated, cigar-shaped ships, the Port Orange, Fla., resident said."

kinda sounds like sumthin from the clinton trial.... heheh

Ya know... I can not see or hear the word "cigar" without immediately associating it with the Clinton Administration.