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From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:44:22 -0400 Fwd Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:46:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Florida 'Landing' 1967-68? >From: Diane Lovett <rambld@erols.com> >To: UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> >Subject: Florida "landing" 1967-68 >Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:41:52 -0400 >I am looking for any info I can find on an apparent sighting by >multiple witnesses, which including a "landing" that left some >physical traces in the Cantonment, Florida area (near Pensacola, >Gulf Breeze). This would have been around 1967 or 68 time frame, >and I am told that at least one of the area papers printed a >story on it. Diane - The following are the Florida cases I have from that time frame. If this is in reference to the Lakeland FL case, I would be interested in having an opportunity to gather information from your source, since I have been unable to track down any details beyond a reference to the original newspaper report. Hope this helps. 638 John F. Reeves, 65, retired, was walking in the woods when he observed an object 10 m in diameter, 2m thick, saucer-shaped with an outer rim and a stairway. After watching it for 10 min, he saw a robotlike being, about 1. 30m tall, wearing a silver uniform, glass headgear. The being walked to the craft, then returned with a box that emitted a flash when pointed at the witness. The object subsequently took off with a whistling sound. Brooksville (Florida). 641 In the Everglades, 30 km east of Big Cypress, James Flynn, 45, who was hunting, saw a huge, lighted object 1 m above the swamp surface. He watched it for 40 min, observing that it was conical, twice as wide as it was high, and seemed built from metal sections over one square m each. It showed four rows of square windows, 70 cm wide. Estimated diameter: 25 m. A yellow light shone through the windows, and the object made a sound of a transformer and wind. Flynn got within 2 m of it and made a gesture. A beam of light from the underside of the object struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness for 24 hours. He had lost vision in the right eye, saw poorly with the left, went to a doctor in Fort Myers, and spent five days in the hospital. Fort Myers (Florida). 733 Two young men were walking through a wooded area when they saw a bright object that they thought was a balloon covered with fluorescent paint but it became so intensely bright that they could not look directly at it. As they walked closer, it exploded, leaving no trace. (Florida). 748 A civilian man, 40, saw an object resting on the ground as he was going to work, less than 2 km southeast of Hague. It was an elongated craft, 2 m long, 70 cm high. When he tried to touch it, the craft left at great speed toward the west. It had six openings, 10 cm in diameter, and made a "turbine" noise so loud that the witness had to put his hands over his ears. After going away for a few meters, it vanished suddenly. Rain was falling throughout the observation, which lasted four min. Hague (Florida). 833 An entire class at an elementary school observed an object 20 m above ground, 2 km away. It vanished suddenly as the children and their teacher, 33-year-old Robert Apfel, were watching it. Crestview (Florida). 834 More than two hundred children and three teachers saw an oval object, with a light at each end, come to ground level. Several other objects also were seen, moving up and down with a pendulum motion. Crestview (Florida). 858 Barbara Fawcett, 18, and her sister saw a yellow "jagged" object rise above a swamp and land on a hill. Air Force investigators found a very large scorched area at the spot. Jewish Creek (Florida). 2287 Mr. & Mrs. McMullen, Miss Sharon Burgess and two school students saw a mysterious object heading towards the McMullen home from a nearby hill.The disc-shaped UFO, approximately 13 feet in diameter and 8 feet high, hovered 7 feet above a palm tree, 150 feet distant form the house.Two occupants dressed in white tight outfits and with headgerars, were seen through its transparent dome.Prior to the incident and during the twenty minutes the 'saucer' was present Mr. & Mrs. McMullen noted audio and visual interference on their TV--also they complained of a smell, like ammonia, that burned their noses and eyes.Druing the excitement, the McMullen's dog knocked a hole in the screen porch in an effort to get away form the UFO. Lakeland police were called, but the 'visitors' had left by the time the police cruiser arrived. Lakeland, Florida ------ Mark Cashman, creator of The Temporal Doorway at http://www.temporaldoorway.com - Original digital art, writing, and UFO research - Author of SF novels available at... http://www.temporaldoorway.com/library.htm ------
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