by johnny nemo » Wed May 31, 2006 6:31 pm
..<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>I wanted to add a few UFO/creatures near glowing lights stories/weird creatures that cause EMF interference and/or "buzzing"/MIB encounters that I've found in my research.<br><br>The first is the story of the Flatwoods monster</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->.<br> <br>On 12 September 1952, three boys in the tiny West Virginia town of Flatwoods saw a<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> reddish sphere move slowly around a hill, hover briefly, and drop behind another hill. From the other side a bright glow shone as if from a landed object.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> On their way to investigate, the boys were joined by Kathleen May, her two young sons, their friend Tommy Hyer, 17-year-old Eugene Lemon, and Lemon's dog. <br><br>The dog ran ahead of the group and was briefly out of sight. Suddenly it was heard barking furiously and, moments later, seen fleeing with its tail tucked between its legs. A foul-smelling mist covered the ground and caused the searchers' eyes to water. The two leading the group, Lemon and Neil Nunley, who got to the top first, looked down and observed a 'big ball of fire' 50 feet to their right. Another of the witnesses reported it was the size of a house.<br> To the group's left, on the hilltop and just under the branch of an oak tree, were two small lights. At Mrs. May's suggestion, Lemon turned his flashlight on them. To everyone's considerable astonishment, the beam highlighted<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> a grotesque-looking creature with a head shaped like the 'ace of spades,' as several of the observers independently described it. Inside the head was a circular 'window,' dark except for the two lights from which pale blue beams extended straight ahead. In their short observation of the creature, the group saw nothing that looked like arms or legs.<br> The creature, which appeared to be over six feet tall, moved toward the witnesses; it seemed to be gliding rather than walking. Seconds later it changed direction, turning toward the glowing ball down the hill</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br> All of this allegedly took place in a matter of seconds, during which Lemon fainted. The others dragged him away as they ran from the scene. <br> A reporter went to the site with one of the youths about half an hour later. He noticed an unusual odour in the grass that irritated his nose and throat. Returning to the site alone the next morning, he found 'skid marks' going down the hill towards an area of matted grass, indicating the recent presence of a large object.<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> This encounter with what the press dubbed the 'Flatwoods monster' took place during a flurry of sightings of unusual flying objects in the area. One man told of seeing a bright orange ball circling over the area where the monster was reported.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The object was visible for 15 minutes before shooting towards the airport at Sutton, where it was also seen. <br><br>In Strange and Unexplained Phenomena, (Clark and Pear, 1997) we find a concise discussion of Mothman,appearing in West Virginia in 1966. He was first reported to have been seen, apparently, by two young married couples who were driving by an abandoned dynamite factory in Point Pleasant late in the evening. What they saw first were two large eyes, (glowing red, I understand) two inches wide and six inches apart, attached to something that was sort of figured like a man, only bigger, and which had huge wings folded against its back!<br><br>The four young people panicked and sped away but saw the creature again on a hillside next to the road! It then spread its "bat like" wings, rose into the air and followed their car. It seemed to be keeping up with them quite easily even though they accelerated to 100 mph in an effort to "lose" the creature. One of the witnesses said that it was keeping up with them without even flapping its wings! <br><br>The same night, however, it seems that someone else had seen Mothman even earlier. A Mr. Newell Partridge, living outside of Salem, West Virginia (90 miles from Point Pleasant), was watching television<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> when the screen suddenly went blank and a "fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and ... the set started a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch, peaking and breaking off... It sounded like a generator winding up</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->."<br><br>Mr. Partridge's dog began to howl and continued to do so even after the noisy television was turned off. Partridge went outside and saw his dog facing the barn about 150 yards away, so he shined a flashlight in that direction and saw "two red circles, or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors." <br><br>The dog took off after the creature but Partridge tried to call him back without success. Mr. Partridge went in after his gun, but was so unnerved by the "eyes" he had seen, he decided that the better part of valor was the discretion of remaining indoors! He spent the night with his gun at his side. <br><br>In the morning, the dog was still missing and it was only two days later that Partridge read the report about the two couples sighting Mothman at the dynamite factory. One of the details in that account was that one of the witnesses said that, as they entered the city limits of Point Pleasant they had seen the body of a large dog by the side of the road and, a few minutes later, as they were leaving, the dog was gone. <br><br>Mr. Partridge immediately connected this dead dog to his missing animal who was, in fact, never seen again! <br><br>Another strange anomaly was that when the Sheriff's deputy who investigated the report by the two couples went out to the dynamite plant,<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> he experienced interference on his police radio. He said it was loud and sounded rather like a record or tape being played at high speed. It was so loud that he had to turn the radio off</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>From that time until November of 1967, numerous other sightings of "Mothman" were reported. One of them described Mothman as something that rose slowly from the ground, that it was a "big gray thing, bigger than a man," and that it had no head! It DID have the two large glowing red circles at the top of its torso. <br><br>According to John Keel, at least a hundred people saw the creature and he gathered the reports to come up with a general description as follows: it stood between five and seven feet tall, was broader than a man, and walked in a clumsy and shuffling manner on humanlike legs. It made a squeaky sound and the eyes were set near the top of the shoulders. Its wings were bat like but did not flap when it flew. When it took off from the ground, it went "straight up, like a helicopter." The skin color was gray or brown, and<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> two witnesses said that they heard a mechanical humming as it flew above them</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>And there seems to have been a sighting in Kent, England in 1963. Four young people saw a "star" shoot across the night sky and disappear behind trees not far from them. They were scared and started to run but then stopped to observe a golden, oval-shaped light floating a few feet above a field about 80 yards from them. This then disappeared into a wooded area. Suddenly, the witnesses saw a dark shape shuffling toward them from across this field. It was black and human sized, headless and had wings like a bat! At this point, they panicked and ran away! <br><br>A similar UFO was seen by others during the next few nights. On November 23, two men who had come to investigate found a "vast expanse of bracken that had been flattened." They also claimed to have seen three huge footprints, two feet long and nine inches wide, impressed deeply into the soil.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>After 1967, the sightings died away, but prior to that. <br><br>A "winged human form" was seen over Brooklyn, New York, on September 18, 1877 and reported in the New York Sun. Interestingly, this is about the time of some of the "Spring-Heel Jack" reports in England. <br><br>On September 12, 1880, there was a report of a "Man with bat's wings and improved frog's legs... at least a thousand feet in the air... flying toward the New Jersey coast... [with] a cruel and determined expression." Now, I don't know how a judgment about the expression could be made, but maybe it just meant that it was "frightening" to the witness and this was their subjective interpretation of that fright.<br><br>V.K. Arsenyev, a Russian writer, reported the following about an incident that occurred on July 11, 1908 in the Sikhote Mountains near Vladivostok:<br><br>The rain stopped, the temperature of the air remainded low and the mist appeared over the water. It was then that I saw the mark on the path that was very similar to a man's footprint. My dog Alpha bristled up, snarled, and then something rushed about nearby trampling among the bushes. However, it didn't go away.<br>Arsenyev then threw a stone "towards the unknown animal... something happened that was quite unexpected." He "heard the beating of wings. Something large and dark emerged from the fog and flew over the river. A moment later it disappeared in the dense mist." <br><br>Arsenyev later told some of the locals about his experience and they shared with him a story about a "man who could fly in the air. Hunters often saw his tracks, tracks that appeared suddenly and vanished suddenly in a way that could only result if the 'man' alighted on the ground, then took off again into the air."<br><br>In 1952 at Camp Okubo, Kyoto, Japan, U.S. Air Force Private Sinclair Taylor, on guard duty, said he heard a loud flapping noise. When he looked up he saw a huge "bird" in the moonlight. When it approached him, he became frightened and put a round of ammunition into his gun. The "bird" had stopped its flight and was hovering close by, staring at Private Taylor. He said:<br><br>The thing, which now had started to descend again, had the body of a man. It was well over seven feet from head to feet, and its wingspread was almost equal to its height. I started to fire and emptied my carbine where the thing hit the ground. But when I looked... to see if my bullets had found home, there was nothing there.<br>When the sergeant of the guard came to investigate the gunshots and heard the story, he told Taylor that he believed him - because a year earlier another guard had seen the same thing!<br><br>In August, 1969, Vietnam, near Da Nang, soldier Earl Morrison with the First Marine Division and two other guards were sitting on top of a bunker talking when they noticed something approaching them in the sky. Morrison said:<br><br>We saw what looked like wings, like a bat's, only it was gigantic compared to what a regular bat would be. After it got close enough so we could see what it was, it looked like a woman. A naked woman. She was black. Her skin was black, her body was black.<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> But it glowed. It glowed in the night - kind of a greenish cast to it</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br>The soldiers watched the creature move about in the sky. At one point she was right above their heads, just six or seven feet up. She moved silently, without flapping her wings. Morrison said that she blocked the moon once, but despite the increased darkness, they could still see her because she glowed brightly. It was only when the creature started to fly away that the men heard a flapping sound.<br><br>Morrison thought that the covering on her skin was more like fur than feathers. He said "The skin on her wings looked like it was molded onto her hands." He also remarked that the movement of her arms suggested that they had no bones in them!<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>And I thought I'd finish up with an MIB sighting during the Mothman sightings in West Virginia</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>One night in January 1967, Mary Hyre, a reporter who had written extensively about the local Mothman sightings, was working late in her office when a man walked in the door. He was about four feet six inches tall. Although the outside temperature was well below freezing, he was wearing nothing but a short-sleeved blue shirt and thin blue trousers. His eyes were dark and deep-set, and he wore thick-lensed glasses. He had long, black hair that was cut squarely. He spoke in a hard-to-understand singsong manner, 'like a recording', and asked for directions to Welsh, West Virginia. Hyre found him terrifying. 'He kept getting closer and closer to me,' she said, 'his funny eyes staring at me almost hypnotically.' Alarmed, she summoned the newspaper's circulation manager to her office and together they spoke to the strange man, who seemed to know more about West Virginia than they did. At one point, the telephone rang and while Hyre was answering it the little man picked up a pen from her desk and looked at it in amazement as if he had never seen one before. When Hyre told him he could have it, he gave a loud peculiar laugh, ran outside and disappeared round a corner. <br><br>Several weeks later, Hyre was crossing the street near her office and saw the same little man. He seemed startled when he realized that she was watching him, turned away quickly and ran for a large black car that suddenly came around the corner. He climbed in and it quickly drove away. <br><br>During Christmas week, a short, dark-skinned man entered Mary Hyre's office. He was dressed in a black suit, with a black tie, and looked vaguely Oriental. He had high cheekbones, narrow eyes, and an unidentified accent. He was not interested in the bridge disaster, but wanted to know about local UFO sightings. Hyre was too busy to talk with him and handed him a file of related press clippings. He was not interested in them and insisted on speaking with her. She finally dismissed him from her office. That same night, an identical-looking man visited the homes of several witnesses in the area who had reported seeing lights in the sky. He made all of them very uneasy and uncomfortable and while he claimed to be a reporter from Cambridge, Ohio, he inadvertently admitted that he did not know where Columbus, Ohio, was even though the two towns are just a few miles apart. <br> <p></p><i></i>
