The year was 1941. Something crashed in a field near Cape Girardeau Missouri. They thought it was a plane, but it was a saucer shaped vehicle, or so the legend goes, with three little space aliens on board. The FBI got involved and nobody knows where crash evidence went.
I'm from Southeast Missouri and I graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. I went to school there in the late 70's and early 80's. We always knew Southeast Missouri (The Ozarks) was a hotbed for UFO activity.
southeastarrow.com/news/before...-2455754/
Hmmmm - more fodder for the Rush Limbaugh is an alien conspiracy.
I lived in Roswell in the early '60s and there were the minutemen rocket sites, but no aliens. Guess that came about after I left. At that time it was a nice sleepy little town and again, no aliens.
That was back when aliens drove Corvair saucers.
They were unsafe at any speed.
Ah ha! Now I know what they did with the flying saucer.
My major in college was physics. One of my professors was always interested in UFO's. There was a lot of activity in a little town of Piedmont, near Clearwater Lake in the Ozarks. Doctor Rutledge, spent a lot of time up there investigating. He wrote a book about it.
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Between February and April 1973, residents of Piedmont Missouri and the surrounding area witnessed unexplained activity in the sky. Several hundred calls were made to local police, sheriffs and newspapers. The incidents made local headlines and eventually national news outlets began reporting the sightings. There was no official government investigation of the sightings (Project Blue Book was discontinued in 1969); however, Southeast Missouri State University physics professor Dr. Harley Rutledge investigated with his own team. He issued a public paper in 1973, which he later turned into a book called Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena (1981).
Edited by - MoPac fan on 08/09/2024 16:33:59
The aliens have arrived, cf. the nightly news.
Fwiw, a 1967 "incident" in S.E. Manitoba: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/falcon-lake-incident-book-anniversary-1.4121639
Ontario folks have seen a few , maybe after quaffing copious litres of Al-kee-hawl
Triangles, spheres, boomerangs, and fireballs.
For decades, people have reported seeing UFOs of all shapes and sizes in the skies over Southwestern Ontario. Since 1991, Winnipeg-based Ufology Research has recorded 153 UFO sightings in Windsor and Essex County, including five in 2022. There have been 328 sightings since 1989 in the London region, including six last year.
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Originally posted by chuckv97Ontario folks have seen a few , maybe after quaffing copious litres of Al-kee-hawl
Triangles, spheres, boomerangs, and fireballs.
For decades, people have reported seeing UFOs of all shapes and sizes in the skies over Southwestern Ontario. Since 1991, Winnipeg-based Ufology Research has recorded 153 UFO sightings in Windsor and Essex County, including five in 2022. There have been 328 sightings since 1989 in the London region, including six last year.
When I was in college we used to pack up a cooler of beer and some tents and head to Piedmont to watch for UFO'S.
The swamp strikes again, & the fake news cooperates by covering it up. 
Edited by - monstertone on 08/10/2024 07:30:48
I miss Rush, and Art Bell.
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Originally posted by rinembI miss Rush, and Art Bell.
I still hear the old AM Coast to Coast with Art Bell on Saturday nights before the new show with George Noory comes on.
Edited by - MoPac fan on 08/11/2024 09:33:11
Worked overnights at a chemical plant during the 90's, Art was on all the time in my lab.
I'd have to go out several times a night to collect samples from some far-flung spot in the plant, I'd come back and there would be a whole group of workers sitting there with their mouths open.
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Originally posted by TexasbanjoI lived in Roswell in the early '60s and there were the minutemen rocket sites, but no aliens. Guess that came about after I left. At that time it was a nice sleepy little town and again, no aliens.
Before your time (and mine). The Roswell incident was 1947.
Edited by - Elmo_Smiley on 08/13/2024 05:45:47
Extraterrestrials are from outer space. Aliens are from Mexico.
And it seems we have plenty of either these days.
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Originally posted by Elmo_Smileyquote:
Originally posted by TexasbanjoI lived in Roswell in the early '60s and there were the minutemen rocket sites, but no aliens. Guess that came about after I left. At that time it was a nice sleepy little town and again, no aliens.
Before your time (and mine). The Roswell incident was 1947.
I agree, but when I lived in Roswell, they didn't capitalize on that fact and make it a merchandising money-maker until years after I left.
10 or 15 years back a "museum" made some money from my wife and I. We were meandering in the area .... were quite disappointed in a museum (???) that seemed to be essentially a collection/display of photocopies of newspaper accounts. 
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