1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Phenomenal research in Seattle, Washington. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,000 You've been referred, or we've been referred to by Mr. Paul Brady, 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 regarding the disappearance of your brother. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,000 I wonder if you could give us a rundown of just what's going on down there. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Well, what's happened now is they discontinued the search now. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 They decided that he isn't around in the area. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 They went horseback and helicoptered and everything else couldn't spot him. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:33,000 What happened was a boy was coming out about, I guess about six o'clock in the evening. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 They were attending Woods for the force service, 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 and it was about dark about that time, and they were trying to cram as much work as it could to get in for the day. 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 The contract was running out real quick, and they were start driving out, 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 and my brother was riding in the front seat, it was in the crew cap, 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,000 pick up the international crew cap, pick up me, and I was riding in the front seat on the passenger side next to the door. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 They looked out, they were driving up the road and there was a thicket, 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 and after they passed the thicket they looked off to the right and he saw this glow. 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,000 And he yelled flying saucer and everybody turned around and looked, 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 and here it was before the truck could even get stopped. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:18,000 He jumped out of the truck, run up, which we'd spotted flying objects before, 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,000 and he'd made up his mind that if he ever saw one he was going to try to communicate with one, 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 and if he saw one the truck could get stopped, like I was saying, 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 and he jumped out and run up towards it and threw his hands up in the air 22 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 to show that he meant no harm. 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,000 And the guy said that the ship started rocking and started building up a high-pitched wine, 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 and all of a sudden this blue flash came out from underneath it, 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 they said that it was in a beam form. 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Just a little bit wider than his shoulder that covered him, 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 and it silhouetted him, because it was so bad it silhouetted him, where they could see him. 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I'm not sure whether it hit him correctly, but part of it did, they thought part of it did. 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Anyway, he clapped and hit the ground, and they panicked in, and they drove off and left him, 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 and they went up the road to the entrance to the main road, come along in that area, 31 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 they were on a little logging road, and they stopped and started talking about what they should do, 32 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000 and they decided they might go to the steer hunting cabin, 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 get those guys to help them, and they headed for the cabin, 34 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 and it said, you know, they better go and look back when they did that, 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 and they saw a flash over the trees heading in the opposite direction out, 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 and so they decided to better run down and see if they could help Travis, 37 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 and when they got down there, he wasn't there. 38 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Let's see. 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Now, what period did they, did they, anyone ever give a time estimate of 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 between the time that this thing was first seen and the time that... 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 They went back? 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 It went back, they went back, yes. 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Approximately, they said they'd, guessing they'd say approximately about 8 to 10 minutes. 44 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Well then this thing must have been in the area for quite a while, even after they left. 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Yeah. 46 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Did they examine, was anyone examine the ground? 47 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Well, they, we had a guy come in today from, what is it, Ariel Phenomena? 48 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 From Tucson? 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 From Phoenix. 50 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Yes. 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,000 With, in relation with William Spaulding or somebody like... 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Oh yes, yes. 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 He was up there today, I can't remember his name, but a long hair, 54 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,000 a fairly long hair fellow kind of read his tent to it in Houston, Phoenix, 55 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 and he'd given a talk, I guess, to William Spaulding and all of them, 56 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 and he'd give a talk, he'd give his guests a ticket to come down to the lecture, 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 giving them Phoenix on January the 9th or something. 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Oh yes. 59 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000 But anyway, he said that when we asked for the reading, everybody treated it as a hoax 60 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 and stuff, even the law in Portland tried to cover it up, 61 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 and the kids that were there called him hippies and everything else, 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 and one kid just came off his mission, he's the LDS, 63 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 the boy just got off his mission and he's great, 64 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 it could be, none of them smoke or drink or anything like this, 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 or even mess with junk or anything. 66 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Yes. 67 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 But we finally, Thursday afternoon when they started, 68 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 or Thursday morning when they started to search, 69 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 and somebody mentioned that they ought to take a reading of it with a Geiger counter, 70 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 and so I had my compass, I just walked over there, 71 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 and my compass reacted in it all, it moved just a little bit, 72 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 but it didn't move very much. 73 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Yes. 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 And so they called in one that afternoon and got one in, 75 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 but it was under insistence that, you know, 76 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 they kicked it aside when they first mentioned it, 77 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 and then we finally insisted that they get a Geiger counter up there, 78 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 but it read, on Mike, it read up on the 6th on the scale, 79 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 but they had it set it at .01 on the scale, on the Geiger counter, 80 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 and it just read up to 6 on Mike, it read on a Luma style up to 3, 81 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 and on the ground it read anywhere from 1 up to 3 in different spots, 82 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 but they didn't take a real good area, 83 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 they just picked one spot in the area, and that was it. 84 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,000 I see. 85 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 And this guy came in today with his meters and everything else, 86 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 and he got a normal reading of what he called, 87 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 and he read the trees and everything else around it, 88 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 and he said that it was definitely indicated, 89 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 he said he wished he'd been there within 8, 10 hours of the time, 90 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 but they kept it hushed until Friday before anybody knew it, 91 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 before they hit the hotline, you know, on. 92 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Yes. 93 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And he said that they possibly would send somebody up Monday to, 94 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,000 because he said he got enough indication that they should send somebody up to, 95 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 takes more readings and everything else. 96 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 So did he take any soil samples at all? 97 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 No, he didn't, he said that if they were given this length of time, 98 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 they might not be any good, 99 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 but he said that this guy would come up with the equipment to do this kind of stuff, 100 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 if he thought it was feasible to do it. 101 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Okay, has there been any rainfall in the area? 102 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 No, it's just perfectly dry. 103 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 It freezes at night. 104 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 How many people were involved in this now? 105 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 There seems to be a contradiction of that. 106 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 There were seven. 107 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 There were seven, okay. 108 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Now, how would I go about getting the names of these other people? 109 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 I can give you part of them, and I can't remember all of them. 110 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 There was Mike Rogers, which was the crew chief. 111 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 And do you have his phone number? 112 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 No, he doesn't have a phone. 113 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Okay. 114 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 But I can have him call you or anything you want from him. 115 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Okay. 116 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,000 There was Mike Rogers, he's about a 27-year-old, married and got kids and stuff. 117 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Kenny Peterson, who just recently got married and they have a kid, 118 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,000 and this one to give the information over the TV and everything else. 119 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Nice to know. 120 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 This boy just came off his knee. 121 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 John Gallette. 122 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 What's Alan's name? 123 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Alan Dallas. 124 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Alan Dallas. 125 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 There was a guy by the name of Dwayne. 126 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 I don't remember what his last name was. 127 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 And Steve, what's his last name? 128 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 I don't know his last name, but I can't remember his last name either. 129 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Okay. 130 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Did you talk to those people immediately after this happened? 131 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Yes, well, not immediately because when they went up and found Travis wasn't there, 132 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:08,000 they turned around and rushed into Little County, Heber about 8, 10 miles away or a little bit more. 133 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 And they called the law and then the law came out and searched for it. 134 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 But they didn't get, that was at 6 o'clock when they saw that. 135 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,000 And then by the time they got into the letters, they got Mom at 1 o'clock and by 3 o'clock 136 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 then they woke me up and got me out. 137 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Well, now when you talk to these people, what was their concern? 138 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Did they seem as though they were really shaking up or was it, were they calm? 139 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Well, this Mike Rogers was his crew chief that these guys worked for. 140 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 He passed out three different times. 141 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 They literally had to pick him up and get him back on the street again. 142 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 He just literally passed out. 143 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Is that after he got back? 144 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 After he got back every time they went out, he just literally passed out. 145 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 And he was shaking and that kid that just came off his mission, we asked him what he felt about it. 146 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 And he said, well, you know, he said, I've never seen a UFO or heard of talk about it. 147 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 And he said, I was really skeptical about it, which, you know, is part of their teachings, you know. 148 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 This is what it is. 149 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,000 And he said, but now he said, I'm a firm believer and he was badly shaken. 150 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:19,000 And the other kid said that he doesn't believe in flying saucers, but he saw one. 151 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Well, I agree in the stories. 152 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 There's just a minute amount of difference in it. 153 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 There's not enough to even, to warrant that there was anything different. 154 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Yes. 155 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Yes. 156 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Well, of course, there's always a difference when you have different people telling stories. 157 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Okay, now I got Mike Rogers, Kenny Peterson, John Goulet, Alan Dallas, and... 158 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Dwayne, whatever his last name is, I don't know. 159 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 He's a new kid to come up. 160 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 There were three new kids that was there on the job. 161 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 The others were old-hand. 162 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 They knew what an UFO. 163 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Except for this, Dwayne, he only met Mike four days before this sighting happened. 164 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Uh-huh. 165 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 They all knew each other for quite a long time. 166 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 How about the ages on these fellows? 167 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Anywhere from the age of 20 up to 27. 168 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 20, 27, okay. 169 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Then you've just about eliminated the possibility of any type of hawks. 170 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Well, right. 171 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 They put dogs in there, helicopters. 172 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,000 They put horseback riders in a covered area in there that's probably five square miles. 173 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Okay, then Travis, he has always had an interest in this subject. 174 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Yes, yes. 175 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 He's got a high IQ and everything. 176 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 He's really... 177 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 He level-headed. 178 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 He never pulled anything dumb like this or anything like this. 179 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 You know, where it'd be a hoax or anything. 180 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Yes. 181 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 And he's just not the person to fit that. 182 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Okay, since that has happened now, has there been anything strange that has happened in the area or... 183 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:53,000 They had a sighting, not in more than probably about 20 miles away of a woman spotting this guy that was up today, had the information on it too. 184 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 That was the same night? 185 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Yeah. 186 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 I see. 187 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 And there has been nothing else other than that. 188 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 No. 189 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,000 If you've had anything yourself, being as close as you are to them, have you had anything, uh, any mysterious phone calls or... 190 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 No, uh-huh. 191 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 This is what he asked us to. 192 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 He said, usually, you know, you have this... 193 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 In some instances, they run across this, but there's been nobody that's phoned or nothing. 194 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 These boys are just working and they're coming in when they spotted it. 195 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Okay, sir. 196 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:31,000 I'm going to leave our office number with you and if any of these other gentlemen would care to call us, we'd like to arrange something for a telephone interview. 197 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Okay. 198 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,000 And that's the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington. 199 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:43,000 I'd like very much to talk to this Mike Rogers, seeing that he has had, uh, apparently, some sort of physical shock from this. 200 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Yeah. 201 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Yeah, they want...they told us not to mess with the car or bang the hood or anything, or the top of the car, not put no magnets around or anything, 202 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 where they get our...get reading off of that. 203 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Right. 204 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 I'm very surprised they didn't get in on that right away. 205 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Well, the law covered it up. In fact, they run a guy away from it yesterday that was from Flagstaff. 206 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:12,000 And they run him away and told him that they didn't want him even messing around there until after they had the lie detector test given. 207 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And they really treated this as a farce. 208 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Uh-huh. Now, that test, is that going to be tomorrow? 209 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Yeah, it's going to be given in Holbrook tomorrow. 210 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:26,000 We're going to demand a taping of that so that they can take the tapes and get reading off that, too. 211 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Okay. 212 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Now, we would very, very much appreciate getting a copy of those, if possible. We'll be more than happy to pay. 213 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 What, on the tapes? 214 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Yes. 215 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Okay. 216 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Anything that we can get in relation to this case would be most appreciated. 217 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Okay, we'll do it. 218 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,000 And if anything important should come up in relation to this, why, we'd appreciate hearing from you. 219 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:54,000 We're going to go back out and we figured we'd let everything quiet down when we were...we've been going out and staying at night, 220 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 after the sun goes down by ourselves and after everything quiet down. 221 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:05,000 But we figured we'd give it another couple of days and we'll go back out and sit out there and watch and see if anything happens. 222 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 I hope you'll be equipped with a good camera. 223 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Hey, I got a good camera. 224 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Good. 225 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Well, thank you very much for talking to me. 226 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Okay. 227 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Bye.