1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 You have a report in center? 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Hi there. I live in Waterloo, Iowa. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 My daughter had the most bizarre thing happen to her last night. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000 I was telling a friend about it and she brought to my attention 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 an API news item that was featured in our paper last Friday. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 I thought I'd give you a call. I've been out of town for a couple of weeks 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 and wasn't aware that there have been unusual sightings in Iowa 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 apparently within the last couple of weeks. 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 May I take a moment and tell you what happened to my daughter? 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 It's really very scary. 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 We had a very severe rain and thunder and lightning storm 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 in central to eastern Iowa last night. 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 My daughter was driving from the west coast of Iowa to Waterloo, Iowa 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 which is about in the center of the state and over toward the east border. 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 If you can hold on one moment. I'm sorry I'm at my office. Thank you. 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 At any rate, she was driving through this very 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 severe storm and it was later on at night. 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 It was probably around 9 o'clock. It was dark. She had pulled off the road about 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 four times because it was raining so hard she couldn't see. 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 My daughter is 19 and she is not the least bit 21 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 she's very imaginative but she is not an alarmist. 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I just can't even tell you. 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 If you look on an Iowa map, she was heading west on Highway 20 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 and 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 right, well you can see on an Iowa map where 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Interstate I-35 goes right down through the center of Iowa. 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Okay. Okay. She was west 28 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 heading east I should say on Highway 20 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 approaching I-35. 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 And again, as I said, she had had to pull off the road several times. She turned 31 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 onto I-35 and all of a sudden 32 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 North yourself. Heading toward the north. 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And she's only on I-35 at that point for about two miles 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 and then Highway 20 again veers off and goes to the east. 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Okay. All of a sudden 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 there was no rain whatsoever. The pavement was completely dry. 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 There was no rain. She thought, wow this is great because she had been 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 very nervous. She doesn't, you know, she's not a real experienced driver. 39 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 As she was progressing the two miles on 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 I-35, she saw in her headlights 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 and there were no cars around. There is no overpass 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 there. There wasn't a car ahead of her or beside her or behind her 43 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 and like I say, no overpass. She 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,000 saw something in the headlights that looked like 45 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 a ball. She described it as looking as though it was a 46 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 ball with fire attached to the end of it. 47 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Okay. It came down 48 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 at an angle that I don't know degrees in a circle. 49 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 It did not, it was not coming straight down. 50 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 It was coming at an angle higher to lower 51 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 directly aimed at her car 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 which happens to be a 78, 79 Volkswagen. 53 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Okay. 54 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 I'm just, I'm just in awe to even tell you this. 55 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 The thing, whatever it was, and she said, Mom 56 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 it was visible in the headlights long enough that I 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 saw it and I felt, I knew it was going to hit the car. 58 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Hit the windshield on the driver's or on the passenger's 59 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 side. She said when it hit 60 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 it sounded like a gun went off. She was positive 61 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 it had cracked the windshield. 62 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 It did not crack the windshield but it 63 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 left. It was like it was a balloon 64 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 or something approximately the size of a basketball 65 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 that would have been filled with grease or oil 66 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 or something because she said the moment it impacted 67 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 her whole windshield was covered with grease and oil and it 68 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 immediately started pouring again to the point where she couldn't clear the windshield 69 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 with the wiper she had to hang her head out the window. She struggled 70 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 to the intersection of 20 and 35 by driving on 71 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 the shoulder and pulled, there's a very large truck stop there called 72 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Boondocks. She pulled in there, got out of the car 73 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 and thought, oh my God, what is this? She thought that it must have been 74 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 like a big wad of mud or something and you know how something happens so fast and you 75 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 don't even stop to think about it? She got out of her car and was going into 76 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 the truck stop to call me and tell me that she was having trouble driving because 77 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,000 it was so, it was storming so bad. And a man who had stopped 78 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 to fill up his car with gas said to her, my God, what happened to your car? 79 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 She turned around and looked. The entire front 80 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 hood, top sides in windshield 81 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 were covered with a greenish black 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 oil or grease or something she said to the 83 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 point mom where you couldn't see the color of the car. 84 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,000 The man came over to the car. He happened 85 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 to be a man with his family with him. Came over to the car 86 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 and helped my daughter. He had a bottle of 87 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 degreaser in his car. The point where this 88 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 basketball sized thing hit her windshield 89 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,000 amazingly, that part of the windshield 90 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 was perfectly clear. It wasn't grease, it wasn't 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 anything. It was like whatever hit the windshield 92 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 left an imprint 93 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 and the whole rest of the car was covered with this green 94 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 slimy stuff. The man went up and tried to help her clean it off. 95 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 They used an entire bottle of degreaser that he happened to have in his 96 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 trunk. It's still 97 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 raining, it's still storming. There was no 98 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 odor whatsoever to this junk. She said 99 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 mother, there were no planes in the air, there was no helicopter 100 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 in the air, there was nothing in the air. All of a sudden 101 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 this thing appeared and it was coming down at an angle and hit the windshield. 102 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Now unfortunately 103 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 we didn't keep any, you know, she didn't keep any of the 104 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 cleaning rags. She did get a tiny little bit of it on her shirt. 105 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 You know, she was just a basket case. She called me practically 106 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,000 hysterical, you know, telling me mom you're not going to believe what happened. I'm sitting in this 107 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 truck stop trying to get calm enough and waiting for the rain to stop so I can 108 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 drive. She had to go out and wipe the car off several times and had 109 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 to wipe the whole hood of the car off because it was so greasy that she was 110 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 afraid it was going to come up onto the windshield and she still wouldn't be able to see. 111 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Now by the time she reached our home, which is about a 75 mile 112 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 drive she still had, and it had been raining hard enough 113 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 that about the only place you can even see evidence of a film 114 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 is like on the headlights. There's kind of a milky funny looking film 115 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 and you can tell a little bit on the windshield that it's 116 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 just, you know, it's kind of weird. But there's no color 117 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 left on the car. I mean, you know, no residue at all. But like I said it was 118 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 storming very badly. Have you had any reports of anything 119 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 like that? I've never heard of it. I've been in this for 34 years and I've never heard of anything like that. 120 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 What time did that occur? I'm trying to think of what time 121 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 she called me and I'm going to say she must have called me at about 122 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,000 9.30. It had just happened. I mean she had just, like I said, 123 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 she drove the two miles or whatever was left with her 124 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 head hanging out the window and got to the truck stop. Where was she driving to? 125 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 She was driving from Sioux City where she had been visiting her father 126 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 back home, which is Waterloo. Okay. 127 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 That's where you're at? Yes. Okay. She was in my car 128 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 and looking at a map, the place where she was at 129 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 is roughly 60 miles north of Des Moines. 130 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Did you watch that blouse that had the material 131 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 on it? No. No. There's a very small 132 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,000 amount of it. I mean there really isn't much. There's a little bit down 133 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 toward the hem of the shirt and there's a little bit on each sleeve. Don't let her 134 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 wash the blouse. Okay. Has she washed the car? 135 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Not through a car wash per se, but like I said, it was 136 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 raining so hard that I really feel that most of the 137 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,000 gunk is off because I immediately went out when she got home. 138 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,000 And it was sprinkling in Waterloo at that time, but she had driven through some 139 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 rather decent rains even from that point home. Okay, but there could be some 140 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 on the underside and of course being a Volkswagen that doesn't have a grill, does it? 141 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Or does it? Well, yeah, I think there's something up there. 142 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 It's a fan cooled engine. Okay, there could be something in there too. 143 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 I've been afraid to look. I'm not kidding you. I'm a little wrecked. 144 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Just don't wash it. Don't send it through any wash or wash it yourself. 145 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Okay. I have to leave to 146 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,000 go to Des Moines tomorrow morning to have my corporation is having 147 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,000 a meeting. I'm going to be gone with the car 148 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 in Des Moines. I'm leaving tomorrow morning and I will not be back in Waterloo 149 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 until Thursday afternoon. Time to be leaving in the morning. 150 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,000 I'll have to leave here at 9 to get there in time. Do you have anyone 151 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000 locally that would want to come and use the swabs? 152 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Okay, I'm going to get full of the National Organization right away 153 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 on this and I know that they've got people in your area and maybe 154 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 they can get somebody over there right away. Well, if you'd want to tell them, unfortunately 155 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 I do have this appointment and I should have called you this morning 156 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 but a friend called this recent article to my attention and I 157 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 just now got to the paper to get the back issue and was reading it 158 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,000 and thought, holy cow, they're talking about Des Moines. So obviously there's something strange 159 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,000 going on around here. Now, did she notice whether this spear 160 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 moved away after it hit the car? It virtually 161 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 exploded. It disintegrated. It just covered the car. 162 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 It just exploded. 163 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,000 It just exploded. It just exploded. 164 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 It just exploded. It just exploded. 165 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 It just exploded. It just exploded. 166 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,000 It just exploded. It just exploded. 167 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 It just exploded. It just exploded. 168 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 It just exploded. It just exploded.