Daisy Dunn

This UFO testimony had me hooked

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A UFO, photographed by farmer Paul Trent in 1950, Minnville, Oregon. Image: Bettmann  
issue 12 October 2024

In October 1964, a young man was driving to a dance in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, when his radio began to pick up a strange frequency. At first he thought it was just tuning in to a local channel, but then voices came through discussing some kind of nuclear war – and issuing bomb reports.

Recalling the incident decades later, the driver described the simultaneous appearance of a star overhead followed by the sudden realisation that he could see through the floor of his car.

‘I hadn’t done any dope, I wasn’t doing any beer,’ he adds so casually that you feel inclined to believe him. And yet his body felt like jelly. The episode only lasted what seemed like five or ten minutes, but on arriving at the dance, the man realised that the half-hour journey had actually taken nearly two hours. He never found a logical explanation for what had happened.

Aliens, it would seem,are fascinated by human transport

Between 1980 and 1992, a Cornell graduate from Ohio named John P.

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