So here's a newspaper headline that I thought my hometown boy EDMN would enjoy.
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In the mid 80s my cohorts and I thought the best way to stir the pot and enlighten our locals to the reality of UFOs was to fly Stanton Friedman here and rent out a lecture hall for him.
We dids so and printed up posters for the event at the Red Lion Inn lecture Hall and stapled them to all the telephone poles in town just like all the local bands do for their gigs.. I'l be damned if we didn't sell that mother out standing room only and they even had to open up the sliding doors at the back for more room!
So anyway I was Stanton's chauffeur for the week before the gig to different radio and TV stations to promote the event. (In fact I insisted on being his driver.)
I used the opportunity to grill him on everything he knew about UFOs.
He told me how he had discovered the neighbor of Jesse Marcel after one of his other lectures and had turned the lead over to Bill Moore because he was on tour promoting one of his books at the time.
He also told me that the 2 weeks between the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Army Captures Flying Disk newspaper headline had dozens of UFO sightings in the newspapers with most of them being right here in the NW, and that I should go down to the library and search the newspaper microfiche files for that period.
I so and and BINGO Jackpot!!
Found about 4 dozen headlines and articles about Flying Discs and Saucers in the newspapers here.
That was the beginning of my newspaper database of Flying saucer reports from 1947. It has now grown to 1200+ reports for the entire year period.
That is my side project for my new book.
I will post a bunch of them in a thread here on the forum.
In the mid 80s my cohorts and I thought the best way to stir the pot and enlighten our locals to the reality of UFOs was to fly Stanton Friedman here and rent out a lecture hall for him.
We dids so and printed up posters for the event at the Red Lion Inn lecture Hall and stapled them to all the telephone poles in town just like all the local bands do for their gigs.. I'l be damned if we didn't sell that mother out standing room only and they even had to open up the sliding doors at the back for more room!
So anyway I was Stanton's chauffeur for the week before the gig to different radio and TV stations to promote the event. (In fact I insisted on being his driver.)
I used the opportunity to grill him on everything he knew about UFOs.
He told me how he had discovered the neighbor of Jesse Marcel after one of his other lectures and had turned the lead over to Bill Moore because he was on tour promoting one of his books at the time.
He also told me that the 2 weeks between the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Army Captures Flying Disk newspaper headline had dozens of UFO sightings in the newspapers with most of them being right here in the NW, and that I should go down to the library and search the newspaper microfiche files for that period.
I so and and BINGO Jackpot!!
Found about 4 dozen headlines and articles about Flying Discs and Saucers in the newspapers here.
That was the beginning of my newspaper database of Flying saucer reports from 1947. It has now grown to 1200+ reports for the entire year period.
That is my side project for my new book.
I will post a bunch of them in a thread here on the forum.