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From: Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:40:23 +0200
Fwd Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:43:46 -0400
Subject: Illinois 1923 - Math Teacher Saw 'Spaceship'

Source: The Evansville Courier's electronic edition

http://courier.evansville.net/cgi/view.cgi?/199808/12/+UFO_news.html+19980812

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Evansville, Indiana

Wednesday, August 12, 1998

Close Encounter

Illinois Man Convinced He Saw A Ufo 75 Years Ago

By LEN WELLS, Courier correspondent
(618) 842-2159 or
wfiw@midwest.net


If You Go

Who: Chandler Town Council

What: Town meeting

When: 7 p.m. today

Where: Chandler Public Library


MOUNT ERIE, Ill. -- It’s been 75 years since Norman Massie led a
team of horses into a pasture near his Mount Erie home, looked
up and saw what he is convinced to this day was a spaceship.

"You can call me anything you want, but I know in my heart and
in my mind what I saw that evening, and it was some kind of
spaceship," Massie said.

Massie, 85, was 10 years old when he encountered the object. The
retired high school math teacher and coach says he kept quiet
about the incident until 1990 because his father told him never
to breathe a word about what he saw because "people would talk."

Massie’s UFO sighting happened in June 1923 on the family farm
in northern Wayne County.

"I opened the gate to let the horses into the pasture. I let
them through, and as I was closing the gate I looked back down
the field and there was an object with lights all around it,"
Massie said.

"I kept walking closer to the object until I got about 50 feet
away. I stood there and watched the five men who were on board."

Massie described the men as being about 4* feet tall with blond
hair. "I got close enough that I could hear them talk," Massie
said. "One guy sat in a chair and the others called him the
commander. Four others made trips back and forth in the ship. I
didn’t know what was going on until the end."

Massie claims he heard one of the crew members tell his
commander that "the repairs had been made."

"The machine was metallic and stood on three legs. The top was a
dome with holes in it. The best way I could describe the top was
it looked like melted glass," Massie said.

The encounter lasted only about five minutes, Massie said. "In a
minute, it came to a hovering position. The tripod legs
telescoped up into the belly of the thing, and it went straight
up about 200 feet and whizzed off to the west like a bullet," he
said.

Startled by what he saw, Massie says he ran home and told his
parents, Grover and Laura Massie, and his 8-year-old brother,
Lyveere.

"Mom and Dad tried to convince me that I really hadn’t seen
anything, and was making up the whole thing," he said.

He says his dad announced he wanted no member of his family
mentioning the incident to anyone because they might think
Norman was "crazy in the head, or an idiot."

Massie broke his silence on the matter in 1990 when he told his
son, Jerry, who was a Colonel in the Air Force at the time.

"When I got done telling him the whole story he told me there
was nothing wrong with me, that the Air Force files are full of
pictures of UFOs. He accepted my story as the truth."

Massie says he’s convinced the object had to come from somewhere
other than Earth. "It doesn’t bother me one bit that people
might think I’m a crazy old man. In my own mind and my own
heart, it existed and I saw it with my own two eyes."