Del Rio Texas 1955.
Col Robert B. Willingham is taking part in a simulated bombing exercise. He spots a blinding light speeding across the sky. He watches the object do a ninety degree turn to the south. He is given permission to investigate and sets out in pursuit. He follows the UFO toward the Rio Grande where suddenly the craft shudders and crash lands on the Mexican side of the river bank.
Returning to base, Willingham enlists the help of a colleague. Together, they fly a small training aircraft back to the impact site. There they meet with Mexican troops standing guard over a silver disc embedded in the ground. Willingham is startled to also observe the bodies of three alien crew members. The Mexican troops order the Americans to leave immediately. Before he goes, the pilot, John Greenwald Jr, quietly picks up a small piece of debris.
On returning to Fort Worth, Willingham examines the fragment. The interior is honeycombed and the metal proves to be stronger than solid steel. His attempts to cut into it with a torch have no effect. The fragment is unlike any metal he has seen before. But before he can probe its secrets any further, Willingham is ordered to hand over the article to a lab in Maryland, Virginia. It is the last that he will ever see or hear of the mysterious metal.
Soon after, Willingham receives a threatening phone call, warning him not to disclose what he saw that day on the Mexican border. It will take twenty years for the pilot to come forward with his story.
There are rumours that the military is trying to reverse engineer these recovered craft. If this is true, the ramifications of tampering with technology thousands of years ahead of our own could be catastrophic. This is a direct violation of natural evolutionary technical advancement and the discoveries need to be managed very carefully.
The Dulnegorsk Incident: Russia June 29th 1986.
Residents of this small mining town observed a red sphere hurtle across the night sky before crashing into a mountain side. A crowd gathered at the point of impact. There, they discover a large crater covered in a black film. On closer examination, the film like substance contains strange metallic beads. They are made of lead, but of a kind never seen before.
Three soviet academic centres and eleven research institutes analysed the objects from the crash. The distance between atoms is established to be different from ordinary iron in this material. Radar cannot be reflected from the material and elements of the material seem to disappear and new ones appear after heating. A piece apparently completely disappeared in front of four witnesses.
The CIA launched its own investigation.
A de-classified 1989 report states that soviet scientists are convinced that the object was an extra-terrestrial vehicle constructed by highly intelligent beings. Samples of the metal are smuggled out of the country in the chaotic years following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Recently NASA’s Langley research centre announced the development of metal alloys that when pierced by a bullet will actually close behind a projectile as it passed through, healing the breach as if it was alive.
Is NASA’s new generation of living metal, the result of the re-engineering of alien technology recovered at sites like Del Rio and Dulnegorsk?
Delphos, Kansas 1971.
Sixteen year old Ron Johnson is working on the family farm when he spots a bizarre object hovering in the night sky about five feet above the ground. It is a metallic mushroom shaped craft some eight feet in diameter, emitting a blinding light from its base. Ron remembers a sound coming from the craft rather like a washing machine. He is rooted to the spot by fear as he watches the object. The sound gradually increased as did the intensity of the glowing light of the craft. The base began to emit atrial of steam. The brightness nearly blinded Ron as the object took off. He could hear the sound receded slowly as the object flew higher into the air. When his vision clears, he runs to fetch his parents. They return back with Ron to the area where they all see the object again briefly. The object then disappears for good. The mother gets a Polaroid camera from the house. There is one shot left and she uses it to photograph the site of the incident. There is a glowing ring burned into the ground and luminescence on the trees nearby. The Johnsons later describe it as a strange kind of crust as if the soil was crystallised. Ron’s mother touches the ring and her fingers immediately go numb. Frightened by the physical effect on her body, the family begin to circle the property for additional clues to what could possibly have happened. There was a tree seven inches in diameter that had been snapped off near the ground. It was upright the day before.
On returning the next day, heavy rain has saturated the ground, but the ring remains bone dry. Investigating officers confirm the family’s description of the ring
The next day local sheriff Ralph Enlow launches an investigation on the property. He went out to the site and noticed a tree branch that had been snapped off eight feet above the ground where the craft was first sighted. Enlow also discovers a mysterious residue inside the ring which was still there. But it had now changed into a pure white crust. The contract to the surrounding soil is remarkable. Enlow bottles up soil samples and locks them in his office safe. When news reaches Dr J Allen Hynek of the incident, he sends Ted Phillips to investigate.
‘When I arrived at the farm, I talked to the witnesses briefly and they took me out to the site of the ring, which was a mud bog. To my amazement, here in the black sloppy water retaining soil was a perfectly outlined ring of totally unmelted snow. I took a lot of photos of it. The unmelted snow is a startling piece of evidence. The ring at the landing site is hydrophobic (water repellent). Something has affected the soil. There are other similar cases to this where the soil and plant life have been changed so nothing grows.
Phillips examines the site with the same meticulous approach as a crime scene investigator. By using these methods, the predominant theory is that you cannot walk into a crime scene and leave without taking something or leaving something behind. It is up to the investigator to find out what that was, in this case Ted Phillips.
‘So the first thing you do is photograph everything before you disturb part of the crime scene. After that, I started laying out lines and getting measurements to get the exact size of the ring. After I had gone thoroughly over the ring, I started looking over the area with the family. I also check the photograph taken by Mrs Johnson. I tried many times to reproduce the polaroid image, even using the same camera and the same film, even using the same lighting conditions with and without flash. It’s just not possible.’
Intrigued by his findings at the site, Phillips returns to Dr Hynek with nearly forty pounds of soil samples and more than a hundred photographs.
Hoping to obtain a valid and unbiased scientific opinion on the case, Dr Hynek enlisted the help of a few scientists who concluded that the soil of the Delphos ring was considerably different from the ground soil.
But the next breakthrough in the case would not come for another twenty years, when Ted Phillips met analytical chemist Phyllis Budinger. Her field of study is known as spectroscopy. It is a group of techniques used to quantify things in liquids and gases. Each molecule will react differently with the light giving off absorption bands and the result is a unique spectrum much like DNA is unique to each human.
If you give a soil sample to Budinger, she can tell you what is in it.
In 1999, Phillips sent samples to her analysis laboratory in Chagrin Falls Ohio for study.
‘I’ll never forget when I first got the samples. I put some in a test tube, put water on top of it and I shook it up. The water turned red.’
Budinger is surprised that the soil is still hydrophobic even thirty years after the event. In 2006, she recreates the experiment in her lab and the results are exactly the same.
Over a ten year period of subsequent visits to the farm, Phillips noticed the ring was always clearly visibleand that new plant life was unable to grow.
Budinger offers a scientific reason why the soil is water repellent.
‘This organic material that was present at the original incident was fulvic acid.’
Fulvic acid is a naturally occurring substance found in the ground during plant decomposition. It can cause soil rejuvenation and can be a good supplement to fertilizer. Although found naturally in soil, Budinger believes the amount of it founf in the Delphos ring is anything but natural.
‘Fulvic acid would not be in such a high concentration as this. It was added, a part of a release of something. There is no natural explanation for these high levels in the soil. I really don’t know where it came from.’
But this was not the only abnormality found in the soil samples. High levels of Oxalic acid which is a known skin and eye irritant, were also present. Oxalic acid could explain the numbing effect on Mrs Johnsons fingers and leg that lasted for the remainder of her life. But fr scientists, this compound coupled with the fulvic acid makes way for some interesting speculation on the glowing effect of the soil. They include Phyllis Budinger.
‘I think that the crafts propulsion system created an ionic field which excited the material and created the luminescent ring on the ground. It is a clue to the propulsion system of the craft.’
What could have transformed normal soil into an entirely new substance?
The answer may lie within the hull of the unidentified craft. Many spacecraft rely on aluminium for the outer shell. But the periodic table also includes a number of radio-active metals, materials comparatively rare here on Earth. Was the hull of the Delphos UFO radio-active or was it a composition we are yet to understand?
Just two years prior to the Delphos incident, the U.S government passes the extra-terrestrial exposure law, making it illegal for any citizen to retrieve or be in the proximity of any personnel, spacecraft or other property that has entered our atmosphere from outer space. This law which is fanciful to say the least was in part, implemented to prevent possible contamination. The law grants government agencies sweeping authority to force any violators into immediate quarantine. This seems like a strange and bold step to take when government allegedly do not acknowledge extra- terrestrial existence.
Mount Clements Michigan, April 6th 2001
A woman driving at night time on a deserted highway notices a bright basketball shaped object shining brightly up ahead. The object is just above ground level and homes in on her position. She can see what looks like a pin wheel configuration with plumes coming out from around it as if it is rotating rapidly. Although rotating orbs are commonplace in UFO folklore, one element of this story puts it into another league entirely.
Suddenly, there was an impact on the passenger side of the top of the car which she could feel and hear quite distinctly. Then the object continued to fly away. Scared and shaken up, she pulls over immediately, gets out of the car and finds a trail of yellowish residue on the red paint. This is an example of trace evidence.
The residue is subjected to a thorough analysis by Phyllis Budinger.
‘I found that the tan material is composed of a metal oxide and I couldn’t specifically identify it. Then there was also a celluloidal, material. That’s a material related to plants, probably natural origin, almost plant like in nature with other indications that it was mechanical. The results indicate that the object had been submerged in a lake or pond for some time before impacting the car.’
Budinger further concludes that whatever the objects origin maybe, it carries no heat and carries extremely low mass.
‘It’s really a wild guess but clearly, I cannot think of any natural phenomena coming from the sky and leaving evidence like that and not also causing a lot of damage to the car. This is truly a mystery.’
This is just one of more than 3000 incidents that have been categorised as trace cases.
Since the 1960’s, trace evidence offers up proof of scientific abnormalities that have yet to be explained.
One of the great researchers in this field that brought the subject to the forefront was none other than Dr J. Allen Hynek.
He was an astronomer and a U.S government UFO consultant.
He believed that so many things were going on that they had to be categorised, going all the way from a light in the sky, to a landing, to close encounters with extra-terrestrial beings.
Trace cases could be the key to solving the UFO riddle.
If a trace sight is reached quickly after an incident is reported, compression tests can be carried out on sites where craft have landed and left marks on the ground. A fairly accurate weight can then be determined from the indentations. The weights from reported egg shaped objects would be on the order of 14 to 15 tons and the classic disc about 8 to 10 tons.
In 1964 an incident occurred in Secora new Mexico that changed the entire approach to the UFO subject.
A police officer investigating a loud noise and a flash off the highway, gets out of his car and walks t the origin of the incident. He comes up over a rise in the terrain. There about 75 yards from him, is an object sitting on the ground with two child sized beings standing next to it in one piece outfits. After a short while they returned to their craft and it took off with a roar. Officer Zamora was left terrified by the incident. A subsequent investigation by the U.S air force found physical trace evidence that supported Zamora’s testimony. This included a quadrangle formation of landing lights, four impressions in the ground of the crafts ladder and finally four foot prints that were left by the small beings that were observed by the policeman.
This case is still classified as unknown in the air force files. They tried everything to put something as a conventional explanation, but could find none.
The Tully saucer nest: Queensland Australia, January 19th 1966.
Farmer George Pedley witnesses a massive metallic disc rise out of a nearby lagoon. Clearing the treetops, it suddenly accelerates, vanishing into the distance. Pedley discovers a total of five depressions on his land. The one in the water is totally smooth as if the craft has been there for some time.
The incident raises some disturbing questions. The Earth is covered by seventy per cent of water. How many unknown craft could be hiding beneath the surface and do these elements pose a threat to the human race?
Suffolk, England December 27th 1980.
Sergeant James Penniston is based at RAF Bentwaters, Woodbridge airbase.
He receives a report of strange lights in nearby Rendlesham forest. Accompanied by airman John Burrows, they investigate what appears to be a crashed aircraft. But instead, in a clearing, they encounter a UFO on the ground. They are shocked to discover a triangular craft with strange markings on its hull with a striking resemblance to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Penniston reaches out and touches the hull. It is smooth and metallic and he feels an electric type current run through run through his hand and into his forearm. Forty minutes after contact, the UFO takes off into the night sky at ‘impossible speed’. The two were to suffer after effects from their experience.
Penniston states. ‘For me, after the incident happened, I started not feeling well. At one point, my gums turned white. A couple of months later while at home on leave, I became very ill and went to the emergency room. The doctor there listened to my chest and asked me what the air force say about heart murmurs. I looked at him and said, I don’t have a heart murmur.’
Did the two men fall ill due to the after effects of contact with the strange object?
In the half century since records began, ten million people worldwide claimed to have been abducted by UFO’s. Some return with more than just emotional scars. Typical biological microscopes have detected numerous metallic foreign objects in some of the victim’s bodies.
Dr Roger Leir is an expert in the removal of these objects. Their purpose is unknown. They could possibly be connected with GPS, mind control or genetic alteration perhaps. Leir is convinced these implants that he has been removing for over fifty years, pose a danger to man. He believes that there are around ten to fifteen per cent of abductees carrying implants.
That would be a least one million individuals worldwide!
September 1st 1974 Saskatchewan, Canada
A routine chore for farmer Edwin Fur turns into one of the most frightening experiences of his life. He observed a strange object in broad daylight on his land. He approached the object to examine it closer. He could see from approximately fifteen feet away that it was metallic looking, flat on the underside and domed on the top. It was hovering a foot or so above the ground. It is spinning at a high rate but is emitting no sound at all. Fur observed that the surface of the object had a well worn appearance with dark grooves in the dome. At the base he could see a white belt that went around the lower section.
Fur decides to retreat back to where his tractor is parked up, hoping to escape from the object. As he goes to climb back onto his vehicle, his shock turns to terror as he realises there is more than one object. He can see four more identical craft equal distance from each other in a semi circle, all rotating. After hovering in position for a few minutes, the objects begin to ascend silently and vertically into the sky in a step formation. Fur could see beneath each object, two vent like extensions out of which cane a six foot long plume of grey material. Shortly after, the objects disappear.
Constable Ronald Maurier of the Royal Canadian mounted police received word of the incident and visits the site in question. The physical evidence that he discovers, puzzles the investigation.
There were five rings, the vegetation swirled and compressed in the same direction, all counter clockwise and the central area in each of the rings was unaffected. The grass was standing up normally. The sizes ranged from eight to eleven feet in diameter. Maurier’s conclusion after a full an extensive investigation was that it really happened and whatever made these rings came out of the air and left in the same way.
More than three decades have passed since the event and multiple field investigations have not produced a single explanation.
Throughout the 1970’s Ted Phillips documents more than four hundred events with similarities to this case.
October 8th 1978: Cato Missouri
A grandmother with her grandson spot a mysterious object about four feet in diameter in a field. It was positioned about 185 feet from the house. She called her husband out and he in turn called his son. The four of them initially thought it was a large piece of metal deposited there in a storm and decided to move it.
The father starts up his tractor when something strange happens.
The object reacts by leaping about ten feet into the air, which alarms the family. The object then begins an ascent away from the property at a steady rate, rotating with no sound at any time. The family can see no evidence of an engine or any wings on the craft. There seems to be no visible means of support. The craft continues to climb before making a definitive right turn (later to be determined against the wind). Then the object makes a very strong left turn, another right and continues to climb. The witnesses report that it then merges with a much larger cylindrical shaped craft. Then the cylinder flies away at high speed.
The farmer and his son walk over to the spot where the original object had been. They discovered a four foot area of dehydrated plants. The site is now a dead brown.
This is a classic trace evidence case and a photograph of the ground taken minutes after the event, proved to Ted Phillips that something strange did take place at the Cato farm.
The site is basically oval. The grass immediately surrounding it is perfectly healthy and no other spot in the field matches the affected area. At the outside edge of the site near two small impact craters are large leaf plants that were not burned but were drawn up tightly as though some kind of heat forced them to close up. The craters were just over an inch deep in very hard soil, so I don’t know if they occurred on landing or on ascent. But no sound was heard at any time, yet a propulsion system had to exist to cross the wind three times’
Warren, Minnesota August 27th 1979.
It was a routine patrol for deputy Val Johnson. It was just like any other night when suddenly at 2.19 in the morning, he sees a light off in the distance on an adjacent road. He figures it might be a light aircraft coming in to make an emergency landing. He turns down to the other road to see if he can help. Almost in an instant, the light goes from over a mile away to right in front of him. He tries to take evasive action but crashes the car. After the crash, dispatch receives a call for help. Johnson claims that something has hit his vehicle.
One of the officers who arrives at the scene and sees the damage first-hand was deputy Herb Morstead. He vividly recalls the night of the encounter.
‘Val Johnson was still in the car and he was dazed and disorientated. He did not know for sure what had happened to him but there was considerable damage to the car that was documented at that time.’
Ted Phillips adds.
‘He was driving a Ford LTD and you don’t damage an LTD on a trivial thing. There was quite an impact.’
The physical damage to the car baffles the investigators. A headlight was smashed with no debris to explain how the damage was done. On the bonnet is an incised dent and the windshield is severely damaged from impact, again with no debris present from a foreign object. Up on the roof, one of the lenses from the warning lights is also broken. Behind this, two radio antennae are bent over. But the effects go beyond the damage to the patrol car.
Later on as the investigation continued, Val Johnson was diagnosed as having welders burn to his eyes, supposedly from the light he had encountered. One of the other curious things was the watch on his wrist and the clock in the car both stopped for fourteen minutes. There is no explanation for this missing time.
Deputy Johnson’s patrol car has been put on display in the Marshall County historical society museum. Ted Phillips decides t travel more than a thousand miles to see the damaged vehicle for himself.
Sherriff Morstead meets up with him and shows him the car. Morstead explains as Phillips examines the windshield that some force pushed the glass inwards and back out again. Phillips surveys the rest of the car for more than three hours.
Val Johnson’s account is upheld by his colleagues who worked with him at the time. They are in no doubt that he was telling the truth.
When an officer comes forward to declare one of these strange encounters, they risk their career, personal life, everything. It would be ridiculous to even contemplate a law enforcement officer would make such a story up.