1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,720 I'm rather excited tonight to tell you the truth because I've been following up something. 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:15,080 The most of you will remember the report which we gave you last week about four teenagers 3 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,720 in Green Castle, Indiana, who said that they were buzzed by flying saucers. 4 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:26,000 Now that story interested me very much and after going over the thing I decided that 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 it would stand a little bit of checking. 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,360 For one thing I didn't exactly believe all of it, so I must confess now that I believe 7 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:41,240 a great deal more of it after checking the authenticity of this story. 8 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,240 And here's how I went about it. 9 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:50,000 First of all though, maybe I'd better just go over briefly this finding which I put on 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,200 the air last week for those of you who didn't hear it. 11 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,960 This report concerned 14-aged boys. 12 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:03,240 Their names were Jerry Burkane and George Bennett, 17 years old. 13 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,960 Bob Coleman, 18, and Jackie Glover also ageed. 14 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:11,800 Now according to this report, the boys were returning to Green Castle, which is a small 15 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:19,440 town in Indiana, from Rattleville when they saw a red light over their car. 16 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:25,040 Now being very curious, they stopped their car and the thing hovered over their car about 17 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,320 200 feet they said. 18 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:33,320 Then they flashed their spotlight on the object to see just what it was and then the very 19 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:34,840 strange thing happened. 20 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:42,640 It descended rapidly towards them and threw something in the car evidently which exploded 21 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,640 sounding very much like a firecracker. 22 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,880 Now that was the story as we gave it last week. 23 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:55,640 We'll admit it sounded very fantastic and that was what we wanted to check it further. 24 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,360 So here's what I did. 25 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:04,440 First of all, I called the Indianapolis News, in which the story appeared, and learned that 26 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:13,320 the story had been sent into them by Mr. Kenneth Bennett of a weekly paper, a county newspaper 27 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,800 in Green Castle called a Putnam County Graphic. 28 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:23,320 Now that's not Putnam County, West Virginia, but in Indiana, in the town of Green Castle, 29 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,040 which is a small weekly newspaper. 30 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:31,920 The next thing I did was to get in touch with Mr. Kenneth Bennett, who I learned was the 31 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:39,920 owner of the paper and the publisher of it, and who also I learned was the father of one 32 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,240 of the boys who had reported this study. 33 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,400 Evidently that is how he got the story. 34 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:51,320 Well, Mr. Bennett reviewed the story to me and it was very much like his original report, 35 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,840 although he did show in a few more details. 36 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,880 The report was, as I said, very similar to that one. 37 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:05,160 In the paper, the boys parked their car when they saw an object hovering over the car and 38 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,920 showed their light on it, whereupon a large object descended out of the sky. 39 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:16,520 They said it was kidney shaped and lighted up with all colors of light. 40 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,120 Well, the thing covered there for a moment closer car. 41 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:26,520 Then there was an explosion inside the car and something like a firecracker obviously 42 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:27,520 went off. 43 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:34,480 After the thing was over, they found fragments of something that had made the explosion, which 44 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,680 were purple and yellow and green, although Mr. Bennett said that he looked at the fragments 45 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,920 and they certainly were not like the paper fragments left over when a firecracker, a 46 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,640 regular July 4th firecracker, explodes. 47 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:56,880 He also said, and added another detail, which was not in the original report, that the objects 48 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,840 which hovered over these boys' car and made a very odd noise. 49 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:08,400 They said that it wasn't loud, it was an airplane motor, but it made what they called a real 50 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,400 soft noise. 51 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,200 I would presume myself a kind of hum. 52 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:19,240 Anyway, the boys were very frightened about it all, and Mr. Bennett said that he had never 53 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:27,280 seen a bunch of more excited boys than the kids were when they came to his house. 54 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,800 Here going through this unusual experience. 55 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:40,440 Evidently, Mr. Bennett had not thought too much about the fragments, but I told Mr. Bennett 56 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:46,520 that I thought they were very important because here is one instance where there is some real 57 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:54,640 physical proof left behind in a flying saucer's sighting, a kind of proof that could be checked 58 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:55,640 by scientists. 59 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:03,240 He said that one of the boys told him that they had taken it to a chemistry professor 60 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,880 at a local college, that he hadn't heard anything more about it. 61 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:12,120 He did add that he would try to get hold of some of the fragments and send them to me 62 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,920 so that I also could have them analyzed, and that he would look into any analysis that 63 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:17,920 had been made. 64 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,920 So I'm looking forward to having that done. 65 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:27,760 Maybe we'll find out that it wasn't a flying saucer after all, I don't know, but yet again 66 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,920 maybe we'll find out something really interesting from this. 67 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:40,320 Now the main reason that I believe this story is that Mr. Bennett sounded very sincere, and 68 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,080 Mr. Bennett evidently is a very responsible man. 69 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,200 He owns the Putnam County Graphics, which is a small newspaper. 70 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:55,720 He's been in the newspaper business for 11 years, and I assume is a most careful reporter. 71 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:05,680 He is also the editor of a house organ, a publication put out by the Architect Ceramic 72 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,840 Corporation, which is a large ceramic company. 73 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:16,560 He edits their paper and it appears to me to be a quite responsible individual. 74 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,040 I asked him, Mr. Bennett, what do you think? 75 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,520 You think the boys could have been making this all up? 76 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,440 And he said, I really don't. 77 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:31,360 They look very frightened, and then I've been feeding and clothing and sending my boy to 78 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,480 school all these years, and I don't think that he would do a thing like that to me. 79 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,000 I asked him what he thought about flying saucers. 80 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,440 He said he didn't know, but he tended to believe that there must be something from all of these 81 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,000 reports that had been coming out. 82 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:54,000 He also said that the sheriff thought that something unusual was going on in that area, 83 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,880 which I understand is on 234. 84 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:05,560 The sheriff has ordered the teenagers not to get back to the spot again because a lot 85 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:12,920 of other local people have seen the same thing around that area, a large kidney-shaped object 86 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:13,920 in the air. 87 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:21,720 This object is inside it only at night, and these objects have been eliminated by very 88 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:22,720 brilliant light. 89 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:29,840 Now, evidently, the boys did not indicate how they felt that an object hovering over 90 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:36,880 the car could discard some sort of bomb and throw it inside the car. 91 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:43,520 They haven't said how they thought they could be done, and that is a quite puzzling thing, 92 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:49,600 perhaps when we get a little further along on this investigation, we will know all the 93 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:50,600 details. 94 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:57,040 I just wanted you to know these additional details, which I was able to obtain from the 95 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,640 father of one of the boys who saw the object. 96 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:06,640 There are a lot of other sightings coming in daily to our office here in Clarksburg. 97 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,480 However, I see that our time is growing very short. 98 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:18,080 To you, Hugh McPherson, to your engineer, Mr. Barker, who doesn't claim any relationship 99 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:23,600 with me, and to all the good people listening who are interested in flying saucer reports, 100 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,600 this is Gray Barker in Clarksburg saying good night to you all.