0
UFO’S AND THE U.S. AIR FORCE HAD COMBAT IN THE SKIES/DOGFIGHTS
-ENDED UP IN FLATWOODS-WEST VIRGINIA U.S.A.-
…AIR BATTLES STARTED ABOUT 5 YEARS AFTER ‘ROSWELL’…
Edited/Summarized by ‘Sweeps’ Fox
*’Sweeps’ NOTE:
There is ‘a bunch’ of credible documentation to support many of the assertions in the following book…as to ‘Air Battles’ between UFO’s and U.S. Aircraft. I differ with the author’s conclusions on ‘many fronts’. But, the book is worth reading for the ‘feel of the times’.
*CLICK on the Book Cover…’Shoot Them Down’:
FLATWOODS_BOOK_SHOOT_THEM_DOWN.jpg 99.39K
148 downloads*CLICK on photo of Stanton T. Friedman with the author:
FLATWOODS_Stanton_Friedman__with_Author_PHOTO.JPG 51.41K
135 downloads*CLICK on Depiction of the ‘Flatwoods Monster’:
FLATWOODS_MONSTER_DEPICTION.jpg 97.49K
150 downloads**Read about this ‘Strange’ alien encounter which occurred in Braxton County, WV on September 13, 1952, in Frank Feschino's new book.
The 55th Anniversary…with eye witnesses is this year…check it out on ‘GOOGLE’/’S’
-THE BASIS OF THE STORY-
The January 2003 issue of the MUFON UFO Journal # 417 features a story about the Flatwoods Monster. The article writen by Stanton T. Friedman appears in his column ‘Perceptions’ and is titled "Flatwoods Monster UFO Event.
The following are excerpts from that two page article concerning Friedman's trip to Flatwoods For the 50th anniversary event. "I was truly amazed at how much effort Frank had put into his investigation. He found news clippings from all over the East Coast talking of UFOs and supposed meteors seen that weekend, though more likely burning or plasma surrounded UFOs. There are NO meteor showers during the month of September".
’Frank Feschino Jr. has done most of his work very quietly, and has been almost obsessive about secrecry. I feel particularly privileged to be able to read a copy of his manuscript about the case’.
‘There is far more evidence relating to the Flatwoods Monster case with regard to that other West Virginia monster…’THE MOTHMAN’.
In 1952…just five years after the famed Roswell, New Mexico incident…the American military engaged a convoy of alien aircraft with orders to destroy them in a pitched air battle right off the Atlantic Coast…says Frank Feschino, author of ;The Flatwoods Monster’, a phenomenon that rocked a tiny West Virginia town that year.
An illustrator and writer, Feschino has produced a follow-up book, this one titled ‘Shoot Them Down,…an effort produced after years of painstaking research of the U.S. Air Force's once-classified files on unidentified flying saucers and digesting countless magazine articles on the matter.
His years of exhaustive study have convinced Feschino that American jet fighters did indeed make contact -- at the point of their guns.
‘Shoot Them Down'… draws its name from orders Feschino says President Truman gave military commanders while an American public was growing increasingly jittery over coast-to-coast UFO sightings.
Two years earlier, Truman had remarked at a news conference, ‘I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth’.
‘There are TONS of documents right there…intelligence reports, talking about pilots chasing these things, going after them,’, Feschino said…citing the once-hidden reports on the Air Force's so-called Project Blue Book.
‘That's when it hit the fan, and the government stepped up. That is when they had to simmer the whole country down. The whole country was in an uproar. Everybody was panicking. The job of the government is to keep things under control, and they couldn't let the country panic.’.
UFOs were buzzing the entire country that year, ‘and a good chunk of them were over military installations, and power plants, like Oak Ridge,’, the author says.
Feschino pulls his theory largely from the writings of Air Force Capt. Edward Ruppelt…a decorated World War II veteran who was recalled to duty when hostilities broke out in Korea.
Roswell might stand out as the mother of all UFO stories, but 1952 was the most prolific year by far for aircraft sightings -- by one account, some 30,000 alone in the United States, many of them reported in local newspapers around the country.
The ‘Craft’ ranged from discs to round balls to elongated…cigar-shaped ships, the Port Orange, Fla., resident said.
‘Capt. Ruppelt was dropping clues throughout his book’, Feschino said. ‘And that's the premise of my book. During that time of 1952 we had the highest amount of sightings.’.
In his book, Ruppelt said ‘other assorted historians have pointed out that normally the UFOs are peaceful,’, but he alluded to a chase in which one of two pilots engaging unidentified aircraft perished.
‘They just weren't ready to be observed closely’. he wrote.
‘If the Air Force hadn't slapped down the security lid, these writers might not have reached this conclusion…about peaceful aliens. There have been other and more lurid duels of death. That's what everybody missed.
Feschino flatly says the Air Force took on alien aircraft just off the coast with orders to destroy them in a move to pacify a public growing ever restless over bizarre sightings. In the battle, apparently one craft hobbled back inland, resting on a knoll in a West Virginia community known as Flatwoods. And it was there on Sept. 12 a group of boys, accompanied by some adults, scampered up the hillside and saw a metallic, 12-foot object emitting a
sulfuric odor. Locals dubbed it ‘THE FLATWOODS MONSTER’.
‘I have no idea who they were’, Feschino said.
Based on his interviews with some 200 residents of Flatwoods…however…the author believes the aliens remain interested in rural West Virginia.
‘There are people in West Virginia who have been seeing UFOs for the past 50 years, and there are key locations where they are being seen -- Wheeling, Huntington, and quite a few south of Charleston, around Cabin Creek, even down in the Beckley area’, he said.
Feschino is a headliner for a Sept. 7-8 UFO summit in Charleston, organized by promoter Larry Bailey. Joining him will be Freddie May, a witness to the Flatwoods incident, and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, considered the leading UFO researcher in the world. Friedman has appeared on numerous cable TV shows with his belief that extraterrestrials are frequent flyers to planet Earth.
