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      In the 1970s, a new - and, according to most cryptozoologists, utterly
      preposterous - explanation of the origin of such creatures began to 
emerge.
      In 1973, a sudden spate of Sasquatch sightings occurred in 
Westmoreland
      County, Pennsylvania, among other places in the East and Midwest. On
      September 27th, for example, at about 9:30 P.M., two young girls 
awaiting a
      ride spotted a huge, hairy creature standing in the woods. The 
terrified
      girls ran home and described a white, eight foot tall monster with 
glowing
      red eyes that carried a luminous ball or sphere in one hand. Several 
people
      later reported that they had seen, that same night, what appeared to 
be a
      stationary aircraft hovering over the woods in the area, beaming a 
light
      down to the ground. The apparent connection between a rash of 
Sasquatch
      encounters and an outbreak of UFO sightings in the area led some to 
propose
      that Sasquatch was an extraterrestrial.


      The idea seemed to gain support only a month later, near Greensburg,
      Pennsylvania, when a dozen people reported seeing a large, red UFO
      descending into a distant pasture. One young man (who used the 
pseudonym
      Stephen for his subsequent accounts of the episode) grabbed a rifle 
and
      drove off to investigate, along with two ten year old twin brothers. 
As they
      approached the pasture, the headlights of their car dimmed. They 
stopped and
      continued on foot until they crested a hill and saw a bright, dome 
shaped
      craft about a hundred feet in diameter hovering just above the ground. 
They
      heard a low, humming noise and, from somewhere nearby, the sound of
      screaming.


      At one point, the twins called out in fear, having spotted something 
in the
      glow of the huge vehicle's light. Two ape like creatures, standing 
seven to
      eight feet tall, were lumbering toward them across the pasture. They 
had
      grey fur and glowing green eyes. Twice Stephen fired over their heads,
      trying to scare them off; but they kept coming. One of the twins ran 
of in
      terror, while Stephen fired three rounds into the larger of the two
      creatures. It whined and raised its hands, and at that moment, the 
glowing
      bubble like vehicle disappeared. The monsters walked away into the 
dark.


      State police and UFO investigators who reached the scene later that 
night
      found no sign of monsters or a landing, but did encounter an 
unpleasant,
      sulphurous smell permeating the area. A number of investigators had
      difficulty breathing and became dizzy Stephen's reaction was even more
      pronounced; he began to growl and flail his arms, shaking violently, 
at one
      point racing off around the field until he collapsed.


      Such reported sightings of Sasquatch like creatures and UFOs at the 
same
      time are relatively rare, though persistent, particularly in the 
Midwest. It
      is no surprise that they have led to the formulation of some bizarre
      theories. One of these is that UFOs are the products of 
electromagnetic
      energy released by geological stress deep in the earth; this energy 
playing
      on the brain, creates images of UFOs, and by the same process could 
produce
      Sasquatch hallucinations.


      A less benign variant of that scenario has been offered by a magician 
and
      UFO writer named John Keel. He has suggested that the creatures 
reported in
      the vicinity of landed UFOs materialize by drawing energy from the 
witness,
      in a kind of bloodless vampirism, emerging into our world fleetingly 
from
      some other dimension. According to Keel, this phenomenon could explain 
the
      continuing elusiveness of Sasquatch, the chief physical evidence of 
which
      consists of some 1,500 tracks leading nowhere.