Years Before Roswell Grabbed Headlines, White Hall and Jacksonville Were UFO Hot Spots - Beaumont Enterprise

A quick trek through UFO history begins with its prehistory. Tom Emery chronicles central Illinois' place in the 1897 U.S. "airship" wave. Emery records the impact claimed sightings had upon newspapers countrywide and public belief then and now. Suspected hoaxes and publicity stunts were mooted about. Brent Swancer has The Weird Case of Aliens at Steep Rock Lake. It's a highly entertaining fiction from 1950, exposed by a Canadian APRO researcher named Robert T. Badgley in 1974. Brent notes the account is still touted in some UFO circles. Weirder still, a very similar tale was told by William Kiehl, who claimed participation in a 1914 encounter off the shore of Georgian Bay. Kiehl apparently wrote letters to Coral and Jim Lorenzen and also the sheriff of Wanaque, New Jersey, in 1966, as well as to then-House Minority Leader Gerald Ford on March 29th of that year. So why do people hoax, in particular UFOs? The Observer says Jim Keith has the answer in 'Saucers of the Illuminati'. It's all part of a grand conspiracy that could involve "brain implants" in people from Lee Harvey Oswald to "alleged saucer abductees." And Curt Collins examines some Early Accounts of Alien Abductions from 1919 to Betty and Barney Hill in 1961. Curt employs Fort's The Book of the Damned, comics and magazines--sci-fi and "less reputable"--and newspaper stories to illustrate his theme. (WM)

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