PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2 LOCATION LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
5 November 1957 Kearnay, Nebraska Kearnay Nebraska 0 Probably Bolloon Probably Bolloon
DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 PossiblyBalloon Possibly Balloon
3.
Locol Locol_ Ground Visual GroundVisual Ground-Radar Ground-Radar Was Aircraft
000 Probobly Aireraft Probobly Airereft
GMT GMT_ 05/2000z 05/2000Z AirVisual AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS . SOURCE SOURCE a Was Astronomical
Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
XNo Civilian PossiblyAstronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE axother_iallucination.
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
thirty minutes one see below
TO. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One object resting on ground. Source A full investigation disclosed
conversed with "crew members" for about that the source was
10 minutes.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
ROM(ASAC) HEPORT NO.
1006th AISS
Ent APB, Colo AISS-UFOB-338-57 PASE 6 8 FAGES
Inclcsure 2 to Part Two
SO'RCE's sketch of object
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FRON oNNE
1006th AISS Part Two
Ent AFB, Colo AISS-UFOB-333-57 7 OF 8 PAOEL
SUPPLEENTARX INVESTIO.TIVE EFORTS:
gouRoh wes taken to the voene of the sighting. No rorks where the struts of
the ohfeat had rested vere visiole because the urel h: i been welked over by nawsten.
While the SouRce stated that the body of the objoot wui about three feet frok the
ground, nany dry weels and some sorub trees of four or five feet tlgh were unbroken in
the loontion where the objeot rested. StURcl Was un.ble to mrovide a retann Cor this.
A spot of oil about 24 inohos in iLate er wis found on the grund belov where the
fan of the object wes locuted. The freenish oil covered the dry leeves and it was
possible to obtain a samole from pools made on the leaves. A cuert oil can Was found
about 30 feet from the location of the oil snot. The Veedol l0-30 weight cun Wus
identical to an unonened ctn found in the trunk of the SouRce's car. A beer-type on
ooener found in the SouRcE'S car nade identioal opening marks as on the cun found
at the scene. The oil sumple wes sent to the University of Nebraske for analysis.
Results of this analysis are not yet available.
was Called and reolaced the points in the distributor. The machanic stated to
investigators that he had reolaced a broken rotor in the farmers truck about lo days
before the incident and that a piece of the broken rotor had not been removed at that
tine. The oiece of rotor lodged between the points and caused the failure.
3. The interview was concluded at Anproximetely 1700 hours on 6 November 1957.
Two qualified osvchiatrists interviewed Mr for a period I of two hours. tfhetr
findings indiouted that ir  was definitley
hava They also stated that with his perticular mental condition,
he would undouotedly enjoy the ouclieity he wes receiving from this incident.
hearing of the county health board was hald at 2ooo hours that evaning and NF.
WaS
Nebraskn.,
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APPROVED 1JUNE 1918
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
HOM 1006th AISS NO
Ent AFB, Colorado AISS-JFOB-388-57 Part Three
PAGL 8 or 8 FICES
COMMENTS OF THE PREPARINC OFFICER:
1. SOURCE wns asked to indicate when fifteen seconds had elupsed. He es-
tinsted the time after only five seconds had elapsed. 'Sojkcl estimated lOcd yardsl
to be equivalent to l6oo feet. SouRCE estimate of thn width of the interview
ruom was accurate.
20 Investigators arrived to interview the SouRcE after he hud been subjected
to all-night cuesticning by city offieials and newsmen. city ofricials snd newgmen. The SOTRCE THe SOTRCE thus had anple thus had angle
time to firmly establish in his mind the answers to time to firmly establi in his mind the answers to proctically 8l7 questions which restions which
the investigators could conceivably ask. The ab the investigators coul conceivably ask. re feets notwithstanding, the
SOuRcE'S ready answers to all questions, particularly those wh hich concerned minute
details, detracted rather then lent authenticity to his story. SouRcE claim-d no
training in observation which kould have allowed him to remember such fncts as training in observation which kould have allowed him to remember such fncts as
style of necklaces the women were wearing. SOuRCE admitted difficulty in differ- style of necklaces the women were wearing. SOuRcE admitted difficulty in differ-
entiating blues, grays and browns, and although he stated his vision was 2o-20, entiating blues, grays and browns, and although he statcd his vision was 2o-20,
he wore glasses. he wore glasses.
3. The facts that; no supporting physical evidence (other than the oil spot
which is viewed with suspicion) could be derived; his record his too
detailed account of the incident; and his lead the preparing
officer to conclude that the incident has no basis in fact, and that the SouRCE
suffered a hallucination as evidenced from the investigators' cbservations that
M actually came to believe that he had witnessed the object.
WILLIAM P. BEPNSON
Lt Col, USAF
Operations Officer
WOTE: THIS DOCUMLNF CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, SO U S. C.-
3I AND Z: AS AMUNDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE FEVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORI ZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW
IT MAY NOF BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART. BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERM SSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF
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THIS MESSAGE IN EICHT PARTS. R REFERENCE NUMEROUS PRESS
QUERIES TO HEADGUARTERS USAF AND ATIC DURING LAST THREE
DAYS REGARDING UFO INOIDENTS THRCUGHOUT U.3. GIVEN WIDE DAYS REGARDING UFO INC L U.3. GIVEN WIDE
PUBLICITY, AND PUBLICITY, AND ONCLUSIONS OR
FINDINGS. FINDINGS.
PART I. KEARNEY, NEERASKA "SPACE SHIP" KEARNEY. NEERASKA "SPACE SHIP" INCIDENT, INCIDENT. SOUR SOUR CE. CB,
FARTL
SOURCE.
HAS WID ANDClassification
HAS REFUSED TO TAKE LIE DETECTOR TESTS. LOCAL SHERIFF Auth
STATES HE CAN BREAK LLI 3 10.20
AFR205-10
ADMIT STORY WAS A HOAX. BELIEVE PORTION OR ALL OF THIS
3ganor
RELEASED TO PRESS. T THERFFORE, USAF RELEASE TO O FUBLIG
CONSIDERED AFPRCPRIATE.
PART IL. GULF OF MEXICO, COAST GUARD CUTTER "SABEGC" DATE TIME
08 0900
SICHTING 200 MILES SOUTH OF NEW 200 NEW FACTS HAT IAT MONTH YEAR YEAR
NOV 57 57
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FROM:
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CONTRARY TO PRESS REPORTS. FROM LIMTTED DATA IN OFFICIAH
HEADQUARTERS. FOLLOWING CONSIDERED CON-
CLUSIONS:
a.I IMPRESSION THAT ONLY ONE OBJECT OBSERVED APPEARS
ERRCNEOUS. FOUR SEPARATE TARGETS OA ED. 3 ON RADAR,
ONE VISUALLY.
D. EACH TIME SUCCEEDING TARGET PICKED UP IT WAS IN AL-
MOST DIRECT OPPUSITI TARGET AND
SOME DISTAMCE AWAY.
SPEED APPR
HORIZONTALLY, AGAIN SUGGESTIVE OF AIRCRAFT.
e. AREA OF INCIDENT IS SCENE OF MANY PLIGHTS AND OPERA-
FLIGHT PLANS.
2. UN BASIS UF ABOVE, MANEUVERS AND SPEEDS SUGGESTIVE OF
CONVENTI ONAL AIRCRAFT FOR MUST PART. HUWEVER, THE CONVENTI ONAL AIRCRAFT FOR MLST PART. H HUWEVER, THE SUDDEN SUDDEN
INDICAIIVE OF SPURI GETS). IN ANY
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FHOM:
CUMDR ATIC
FRESS REFORIS.
FART 1LL. LEVELIAND, TEXAS, "BLUE LIOHT" CASE. INFORMED
BY CUMMAID ER, AUOGTH AISS THAT INVESTIGATION PROGEEDING.
SATISFACTORILY. FURTHER DATA DISCLOSE FOLLOMING:
a. CONTRARY TO KEYHOE'S AND WASHINOTCN PRESS REP URTS
ONLY THREE, NOT NINE PERSONS WITNESSED INODENT.
D. CBJEOT CBSERVED FOR ONLY FEW SECONDS, AND IGTHY
PERIOD AS IMPLIED BY PRESS.
c c. MIST, RAIN, TAUMDERSTORMS AND LIGHTNING DISOHARGES MIST, RAIN, TAUMDERSTORMS AND LIGHTNING DISOHARGES Id IA
SCENE OF INCIDENT, FACT NOT QUOTED BY NENSPAPER RELEASES. SCENE OF INCDENT, FACT NOT QUOTED BY NENSPAPER RELEASES.
d. THE FOLLOWING PU d. I THE FOLLOWING POSSIBILITES, REPEAT POSSIBILITIES, BILIMES, REPEAT P
BEING CHECKED, WHICH COUID RESULT RESULI I IN UNUSUAL PHENOMENA IN UNUSUAL PHENOMENA
USSERVED PARTICULARLY UNDER DARKNESS, MIST AND RAIN:(1)
BURNING GAS PROM OIL OPERATIONS IN THE AREA,REFIECTING OFH
LOW CLOUD CEILING EXISTING AT TAT TIME, (2) DOWNED FOWER
LINE GIVING LFF SPARK DISPLAY IN CONTACT WITH VET GRUND,
(3) ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE CR SIMILAR PHENOMENA LIKE ST.
ELMO'S FIRE CAUSED BY RIGET OOMBINATION OF WEATHER AND
NEVERTAELESS, FOSSIBIL IN VIEW SCHARGES
IN VIOINITY. IN VILCINITY.
PART IV. SIGDING AROUND WHITE SAND PROVING GROUND, NEN PART IV. SIGDING AROUND D WHITE SAND PROVING GROUND, NEN
MEXICO AREA. INFURMED THAT MA MEXICO AREA. INFURMED THA OR GENERAL LEIGHPON DAVIS,
COMMAIDER HAS SET UP INVESTIGATIVE COMMAIDER HAS SET UP INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE TO LOOK PEE TO INTO
SIGHTINGS.RERORTED SIGHTINOS. REFORT THAT THAT ER ERT PAGE NR INITIALS
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NICAP WAS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO LEVALLAND TEXAS TO
INVESTIGATE, SIONIFICANT TO POINT OUT THAT ALTHOUGH THS
URGANIZATION CONTINUOUSLY IMPLIES USAF NOT QUALLFIED TO
INVESTIGATE, CR DO NOT RELEASE THEIR PINDINGS, IT HAS NOT
MADE ANY STATEMENTS REGARDING ITS UNN FINDINGS UR CONCLS-
SIONS. DESIRABLE IF NICAP WOULD MAKE ITS FINDINGS KNOWN
FIRST, THEN USAP COULD QUERY HOW ANALISIS FERFORMED AND
CONCE SIONS DERIVED. IN ALL PROBABILITY NICAP WILL LET CONCE SIONS DERIVED. IN ALL PROBABILITY NTCAP WILL LET
USAF MAKE FIRST STATEMENT, THEN WILL MAKE THE USUAL CHARGHS. USAF MAKE FIRST STATEMENT, THEN WILL MAKE THE USUAL CHARGHS.
PART VILI. MAKING CHECK FOR INFORMATIUN REGARDING ATIC'S PART VIFI. MAKING CHECK FOR INFORMATIUN REGARDING ATIC'S
ENTRY INTO UFO ROGRAM AND EARLY HISTURY INTO UFO ROGRAM AND EARLY HISTURY REGARDING DOCU-
MENTS WHICH BROUGHT THIS ABOUT. WHICH BROUGHT THIS ABUT.
DOWNCRANVDAY SYPAN OYALS; DOWNCRANVD AT SVPAR SOYALS; HACS
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FROM:
CUMDR ATIC
WITH THE MSSILE DEVELOPMENT CEITR, WHO MADE A STATEMENT
TO ALAMOGORLO RADIS STATION KEGARDING SUNBURN GIVEN FF
BY MEAT OF FLYING CBJECT THAT MADE A PASS NEAR HIS LOCA~
PART V. REFERENCE DEMANDS OF FOR RETURN OF
HIS SAUCER FILM ALLEDGRDLY WITHHELD BY THE AIR FORCE.
HAS PUBLICLY ACCUSED AF OF TRIS. FULLONING IS QUOTED PR The
LETTER TO AFCIN-X, DATED 9 MARCH 1954. QUUTE 1. AIR LETTER TO AFCIN-X, DATED 9 MARCH 1954. QUUTE 1. AIR
TECHNICAL INTELLICENCE CENTER HAS NO RECORD OF HAVING TECHNICAL INTELLICENCE CENTER HAS NO RECORD OF HAV
RECEIVED SUBJECT FILM FRUM (MARINE) FRIVATE RECEIVED SUBJECT FILM FRUM (MARINE) FRIVATE
2.I ?. LIFE MAGAZINE, IN RECENT TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH LIFE MAGAZINE, IN RECENT TEL CONVERSATION WITH
APIO, INDICATED THAT IT (FILM) HAD BEEN URIGINALLY TURNED
OVER TO A NAVAL BASE. IF THIS IS THE CASE, THE FILM
WOULD HAVE REMAINED WITH NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. UNQUOTE.
IT APPEARS THAT  DESIRES TO COMM
PART VI. REGARDING PUSSIBLE DECLASSIFICATION AND RELEASE
OF BRIFING GIVEN TO MEMBER OF OFFICE OF ASSISTANT I SACRE-
TARY OF DEFENSE, DR. ROBERTSON, REFERINCE IS MADE TO 1 FORM
AFHA 0-86 MESSAGE TO AFCIN-X1, DATED 18 OCTOBER 57,
ATTENTION: MAJOR BYRNE ON SAME SUBJECT. IN BRIEF, THIS ATTENTION: M MAJOR BYRNE ON SAME SUBJECT. IN BRIEF, THIS
CENTER INTERPUSES NU OBJECTION TO RELEASE. HUWEVER, HOWEVER,
DECLSION TO RELDASE LIES WITH AFCIN AND SAFIS.
PART PART VII, ATTENTION IS INVITED PAGE TO FACT THAT MEMBER NR OF NR OF
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ACTION BOCK MULTI BINGLE
INFO PRIORITY x AF
FROM: SPECIAL INSTR TIONS
COMDR ATIC
TO: ACS/A, WASHINGTON, D.C. ATTN: AFCIN-XL MAJ BYRNES
/FROM: AFCIN-4B4 CITE_1C 4105U
REFERENCE PREVIOUS MESSAGE IN EIGHT PARTS, DTD 8 NOVEMBER
1957. THIS IS 1957. THIS IS ADDITIONAL INFU ADDITIONAL HIGHLY LICIZED
Clad
INCDENTS.
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REF. PART I OF PREVIOUS MESG: INVESTIGATION OF ANOTHER REF. PART I CF PREVIOUS MESG: I INVESTIGATION OF ANOTHER X
X
SOURCE IN AREA WHO CLAIMS THAT HIS IGNITION STALLED AT GNITION STALLED AT
as
TIME OF SIGHTING, DISCLUSED THAT HIS DISTRIBUTOR
ROTUR WAS CHANGED IN HIS TRUCK DAY BEFORE. FURTHER; STATE-
MENT FROM MECHANIC INDICATES THAT PIECE C OF OLD ROTOR LATER
FOURD WEDGED IN BETWEEN POINTS.
Tlassification Cancelled
- INCIDENT: HUSPITAL EXAMINATION
uth.
REVEALS NO BURNS ON UNDER EXAMINATION ADMITS THA By
Date 1
WITNESSES WHOM CLAIMS TO HAVE JOTTED DOWN CANNUT BN
FOUND AFTER DILIGENT SEARCH. EVALUATED TIME
BY AF INVESTIGATORS. MONTH YEAR
NOV 57
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31--W0 Capt George T. Gzsgory Caot George T. Grsgory CWJWU CWJW-U --X--nTALSI -Y-TALSI
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FROM COMDR APIC
RFF PART IV, MILITARY PATROLS INCIDENTS: 1 INVESTIGATION
MADE OF 3 OR 4 MEMBHRS WHO OBSERVED UFOS AT SEPARATE
TIKES IN WHITE SANDS FROVING GROUNDS. FOLLOWING DISCLOSED:
a. SCURCES AGES 17 tO 21, QUITE IMPRESSIONABLE.
o. INDICATED THAT NOT PARTICULARLY OBSERVANT OR ANALITICAL.
c. ALL MEMBERS HAD DISCUSSED PHENOMENA AMONG THEMSEIVES,
WHICH PROBABLY ACCUNTS FOR ALMOST IDENTICAL STORIES.
i. 2,. THEY CAVE STORY FIRST TO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. THEY GAVE STORY FIRST TO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS.
3 a ASTRO PLOFS INDICATE VENUS AT ITS MAGNITUDE AT TIME,
IN GENERAL DIRECTION OF SECOND PATROL'S IN GENERAL DIRECTION UF SECONI FION, WITH ON, WITH
SCATTERED CLOUDS. SCATTERED CLOUDS.
PASS ON TO MAJOR TACKER, SAFIS. CAPTAIN GREGORY COULD NOT
CONTACT MAJOR TACKER, MONTS OR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE OFFICE, SATURDAY. INFORMATION GIVEN TO MISTER
HOWELL. ADDITIONAL INFORMATTON NEGATIVE GIVEN TO LIFE
MAGAZINE BY SOURCE. AISS DETACHMENT, NORTON AFB SAYS
PRINT WILL BE CBTAINED SOON. ASSUMPTI GIVEN TO MISTER
HOWELL NON APPEARS VALID.
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USA AISS-UF0B-388-57
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
Cotaie 1141958
Kearney, Nabraska 5 Nov 57
DA*
1006th AISS
Ent AFB, Colorado 6 Nov 57
WILLIAM P. BRUNSON
Lt Col, USAF 13 Nov 57
E- 5 LAA
1ousrepar the
AFR 200-2
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Unidentified Flying Object
SusMn bive suoary whish highlsghes the walent racters at narrative cepor?. dekin marrative oet sn At
unles. r-dor: can be fully stated on AF Farm ti. List iarlunuges. sorludind ogtnr ol GEIeY
Part Three: C Comments
II. ST'MMARY: On 5 November. 1957 SOURCE reported to city officials that
be observed an unusual object on theground approximately three miles Southeast
of Kaarnoy, Nebraska at 2 PM CST SOuRCE spoke with the six crew members,
entared th 30 mimutes observing th interior. exiting
th object, it ro Upon
recommendation or the Buff County Mental Health Board, SOuRCE was committed
to the State Mental Hoapital Eastinga, Nebri Investigators conclud that
this aighting was a hallucination and was ted by the URCE for personal
publicity. publicity.
III. III. INVESTIGATORS: lst/Lt Grogory lexander A0 22l7791 lst/Lt Gregory lexander AO 2217791
M/Sgt William Pangburn AF 19309653
APPROVED:
Milliem Kna Dilli Pn
2 IVCLA VCLE JOHN W. MEADOR JOHN W. MEADOR
Col, USAF
Commander
Classification Cancelled
Auth, Dorialre
By
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Escept rSar and fa. Io aa ua! L
Original to ACS/I, HEDUSAF Copy to Comdr, lOC6th AISS
Copy to Comdr, ArIC
Copy to Comdr, ADC
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ND DESCRIPTION THEREOF. UNKNOWN
3.IF THE SIGHTING WAS MADE WHILE AIRBORNE, GIVE TYPE OF AIRCRAFT,
DENTIFICATION AND HOME SKTATION.
A hve
TIME AND DATE OF SIGHTING; 5NOVEMBER 1957 CST - 1.000cnd
1.ZULU TIME-DATE GROUP OF_SIGI 20002
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INFO RJEDWP/C COMDR ATEC WRIGHT
BT
UFOB
1.SHAPE. 100FEET LONG, 3 FEET WIDE, 12 FEET HIGH sds.mae
2.N/A
3.COLOR. SILVER
4.NUMBER. ONE (1)
6.ANY DISCERNIBLE 6.ANY DISCERNIBLE FEATURES OR DETAILS. E FEATURES OR DETAILS. STANDS ON FOUR LEGS WITH STANDS ON FOUR LEGS WITH
TWO TUBES ON EACH END 12 FEET LONG
T.TAIL, TRAIL, OR EXAUST INCLUDING SIZE OF SAME COMPARED TO
3 -36
SIZE OF OB3:5(S TRAIL OF BLUE HAZE OR SMOKE WHEN TAKING OFF
.SOUND IF HEARD, DESCRIBLE. NOT LIKE JET SOUND
9.OTHER PERTINENT OR UNUSUAL FEATURES. NONE
B. DESCRIPTION OR COURSE OF OBJECT(S):
1.WHAT FIRST CALLED THE ATTENTION OF THE OBSERVER(S) TO THE
OBJECT(S)? FLASH OF LIGHT APPROX ONE HALF MILE FROM HIM
2.ANGLE OF ELEVATION AND AZIMUTH OBJECT(S EN FIRST
OBSERVED. ON THE GROUND
3.ANGLE OF ELEVATION AND AZIMUTH OF OBJECT(S) UPON DISAPPEARANCE.
STRAIGHT 100 FEET UP THEN MOVED OFF TO SOUTHWEST
4.DESCRIPTION OF FLIGHT PATH AND MANEUVERS OF OBJECT(S). WHEN IT
TOOK OFF IT LEFT BLUE SMOKE
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360/10 .
3.CEILING. BRKN.
4.VISIBILITY. 15 PLUS ,
5.AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER. CLEAR
6.THUNDERSTORMS IN AREA AND QUA DRAND IN WHICH LOCATED. NONE .
H. ANY OTHER CONDITI OLOGICAL, .
ASTRONOMI .
R OTHERWASE WHICH MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE SIGHTING.
NONE
I. INTERCEPTION OR IDENTIFICATION ACTION TAKEN. NONE
J. LOCATION I OF ANY AIR TRAFFIC IN THE AREA AT TIME OF SIGHTING.
TWO(2) DC-7,1 DC-6 IN GENERAL VACINITY . .....
K. POSITION, TITLE, AND COMMENTS OF THE PREPARING OFFICER, INCLUDING
HIS PRELIMINARY ANYLYSIS OF THE POSSIBLE CAUSE OF THE SIGHTINGS. HIS
1.EXISTENCE OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE SUCH AS MATERIALS 1.EXISTENCE OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE SUCH AS MATERIALS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
BLUE STAIN ON TREE LEAVES, GREEN b
FLUID ON THE GROUND G1
2.REMARKS. AT D845Z, UNITED PRESS REPRESENTITAVE IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA
REPORTED THAT A PERSONEL FI SHERRIFF OF
HAD ...
YEARS
WARRAC S
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Imitgatin Initgatios .
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bo. 6 Hovember 57
SUBJECT:
Incident, Keurney, Nebraska
TO: AFCIN-4Xi, Mr. Arcier
AFCIN-4X3
Long distance telephone calls to F3I District Office, Omaha,
1. Liminary,study
Nebraska and CSI 5 istrict, Col
resulted in the fo. wing bactegrant
a.
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b. Considered
c. This report riously a ax".
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1010 Federal orrice Budlding
Omaha 2, Nebraaka
November 6, 1957
Colonel Xanneth W. King
Diatret Commander, U3Ay
13th Diatriet Office of
Speoial Imvestigations
Offutt Air Poree Base
Cnaha, Nebraska
This is to confirm telaphonie com-
munioation between you and Asaistant Special Agent in
Chargo, A. L. Me
concerning an allaged landing of a balloon in the
Vicinity of Kearne y, Nebraaka arourd 4:co p.i.,
The following inrormation waa furni shed
to our Reaident Agent, Joseph R. Partington, at Grand
Island, Mabraaka, by Chiaf of Nalson,
Kaarney, Nebraska:
Nelaon stated that on the tarmoen
an employee of
Califomia, a geed and faed cempary, 3 resident of
Bakersfiald, California, and at present rest as the
Port Kearney Hotel, came to the Kearney Polioe Department
and stated that about 4:oo P.. he vas looking over a
Bilo eroy south or Kaarney a0d a Mlash of lighi,
north or where he was and in the vioindty or the Platte
River whish rlows near Kaarney. drove his car
in the direetion of the rlash and as he neared the
vioinity Vlolny bae A y the motor in his car died ard the battary r in ns oar dad ard Ene baerary would would
not turn it over, He aaid he not turn it over. He said he lert his ear lert his ear and wall and walred a da
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plstely halplass physieally although he couid still hear,
see and think. He said those two nen then searohed hUn
and asked hia aboard the balloon. Hs said they let din
anter a door or the balloen and stand just within.
Mr.
two mors men and twe women. The four mon were dresaed in
conventional drgss auita and the vomen in dreseen, Hs
said the two men who met him outaide were the only ones
of the six individuals whe talked to hin in Kngliah. He
said these two spoice perfeet English and told hin, "Tl
your peopla we mean mo hara. We havs baen aighted derora
inthettoit3
saeh other and sben only of 1 the inatmments. He atated
rather than alx shay wOULld trment panel
to panel. M said all 3ix
and said suddenly one or
from the balloon. He said he ot out or the balloon and
it immediately took ofr in a vertieal direation. He said
after it had alsar lvnd Msen about ico faet Msm aoou i0y in the air it blanded
into the sky and ho could see no and ho could sse ne traee of it. 1s
atatad there was a door at either and o was a door at either erd Loon.
He said when He said when inaide its walls were walls wer teiy transparent
and he could see the surrounding country see yside elearly, side elaarly,
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Chiar of Polloe Melaon stated he and
a deputy aherifr went to the soane and there thwy saw
foot traaks whiah they took to be those of the two mon
from the balloon and thry alae aaw oil or xiwit appeared
to be oil whieh hmd apparently dropped fron ths balioon.
Nalaon asated be selleeted laavas from the arma whtah
had thia oll on them
Poliee Depapsment. Nelson stated no
Seeing the ballomn.
Melson said he salled
Callfa
reliabla.
is in Kearney buying
seed and is to remain there aoourt twe months.
mombors oi the
reannleal Intelligonce Canter, xight
Alr Poree Bae, 1 telaphoniaally contaeted thia oxrlee and
requested inrormation reg reding the above. He Naa adviaed
that all iaremmation pertaining to this natter had been
furnianed ta your arrise He atated that he woald get
in toush with your oi later,
In the aver further informa 100
is brought iaediately pass thia
vary tauly
JOSKPH 3. THORNTON JOSK7H 3. THORONTOM
Speoial Agent in Charge Opeoial Agent in Charge
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OFFICE OF
BUFFALO COUNTY ATTORNEY
KENNETH GOTOBED BUFFALO COUNTY COURT HOUSE J. KARR TAYLOR
COUNTY ATTORNEY PHONE 35801 DEPUTY COUNTY ATTORNE
KEARNEY, NEBRASKA
March 6, 1958
Lieutenent Cary Alexander
Unidentified Flying Objects Group
Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Re
Dear Sir:
Pursuant to our telephone conversation of yesterday,
March 5, 1958, this i
which might helpful anyway which you might desire
* to use it. Enclosed ye on cony the type of hand bill
that was circulated around Kearney, Nebraska 5th of March,
* advertising the lectures and also you will nd enclosed a mimeo-
sraphed sheet which was handed out t persons who attended said
lecture. A person who attended this lecture reported to me that
there were only between 25 and 30 persons who attended the lec- .
ture. Whether or not there will be a larger crowd this evening,
Mr. Otto and Mr.
Aho that the authorities, the Ai Force, were doing everything
they could to keer this information fron the oublic, there was
also a comment according to this observer that the Air Force In-
vestigators attempted to have Mr. change story. of
course, I know that is not the fact since I was present when Mr.
was being interrocated, now that you only attempted
to take down everything to say.
My observer reports that Mr. releted at the
lecture that he had another contact with this same soace ship
and the same occupants, on the 5th ebruary. 1958 near Elm
Creek, Nebraska, a few miles west of here. He supposedly took
a ride this time.
* I am also enclosing in this le tter a I am also enclosing in this letter a copy copy of the report
orovided to me by the osychiatrist. orovided to me by the osvchiatrist. As I As I you asked Ime to
furnish you such a reoort.
I doubt that this is of particular interest, however,
it is forwarded to you it is forwerded to you i in the outside chance in the outside chance that it may be of
value.
Sincerel
t
KBG:par Kenneth S. Gotobed

NECK ON RELIANILITY, TELEPHCNED THE CHIEF OF POLICE
TEAERSTIELD, CAL TOtE TOON, AND UAS
NICSS SY TAT INLIVIDUNL TY WAS A SOLID CITIZE
AT -CNCU MIH TE AEA JAGRE THE EALLOCH LODED,
HD UPCH ARLIVING MT THE FIELD, HELSON STARED THAT HE COULD
OS WNESS TS LEGS OF SOIE COJEOT HAD MSTED AND TIAT MERS C
MPSARED TO DE SCLE ARERS UNERE CIL HAD APPPANTELY SPILLED.
ELSON TOCK SAINLES OF THE OIL FOR LBARCATONY TESTING. UPCN 0
STUMNIIS TO KEARNEY, NELSCN TEL ADVISED THE FEI
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NCE DUTY OFFICER, HOS, SAC, WAS ADVISED
AID THAT C REING ATED DY O CENS, AIR DEFENSE

"SPACE CIDENT
5 November 1957
On the morning of 6 November 1957, the Air Force received a UFO
report, which, within a few
(unofficial) reports, a space ship had landed on U.S. soil, was observed
who was driving nearby, and who, upon stopping
to investigate was invited into t the space ship by its crew.
According to a seed salesman, a flash of light from
the ship stopped his car. It came from a nearby river bed, on which rested. the ship stopped his car. It came from a nearby river bed, on which rested.
an object that he thought was a balloon. an object that he thought was a balloon. When he approached it, another When he approached it, another
flash of light came out of the flash of light came out of the space ship which paralyze space ich paralyze momentarily,
making him incapable of walking.
Two men came out and asked him if he was armed and then
searched him. After the search, he was able to move and walk again, and he
asked them what the ship was, and what they were doing. They said they
couldn't tell him. He asked to see it closer and they said
couldn't leave for a few minutes, he might as well look at it. They started
back to the ship and as they got close, a door opened on the leit side. When
he got into the ship he noticed that there were four men and two women. They They
all spoke to him in German. all spoke to him in German.

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Researcher Says Researcher Says
ALAMOGORDO, N. M., July 29-AP)-Dr. Carl
Jung, Swiss psychologist, says in a report that Unidenti-
fied Flying Objects are real and "shown signs of intelli-
gent guidance by quasi-human pilots."
I can only say for certain
these things are not a mere
rumor, something has been
seen," Jung said in the re-
port released yesterday. "A
purely psychological explana-
tion is ruled out."
Jung, who started his research
on UFO's in 1944, released his
report through the UFO filter
center of the aerial phenomena
research organization here. It
was released by L. J. Lorenzen
of Holloman Air Force base.
I have gathered a mass of J
cbservations of unidentified fly-
objects since 1944," Jung said.
* * *
"THE DISCS do not behave
in accordance with physical
laws, but as though without
weight . .. weight .. .
"If the extra-terrestial origin
of this phenomena should be of this phenomena should be
confirmed this would prove the .
existence of an intelligent
inter-planetary relationship. DR. CARL JUNG
What such a fact might mean What such a fact might mean Started Probes in 1944
for humanity cannot be pre-
dicted. perior perior to ours to ours cannot be be
But it would put us without argued."
doubt in the extremely pre. pre.
carious position of primitive HALLUM FURNITURE HALLUM FURNITURE
communities in conflict with
the superior culture of the in Dayton's Fairgrounds
whites.
That the construction of Now Completely Restocked
these machines proves a scien- OPEN TONIGHT 'MI 9:30
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IVER, MIERT 8
LESCENIDING TOUAND TIE EARTN. AS THIS FLASH CF LIGNT DESCENDED,
E MADE OUT THE ODJLCT AS A BALLON, UNICH ACCORDING TO NIN,
ON FOUR TAIPOD TYPE LEGS. LL ALSO STATED THAT AS HIS
CAR APSMCACHED, THE HOTOR INEXPLIOASLY DIED. AS HE STOOD
ATCHING, A DCOR IN SHE DALLOON OPERIED AD TUO IEN DESCEIDED.
S IEI APTROACHED HIU AD GNE OF THEI FLANSED A RNY OF LIGIT
HIS DYES CHICN TEIPORARILY PARALYZED NIH. THEOE IEY TIEN
VI CHT TH LIGNS, SEARCIED NIN, AND UPCN FINDING NO TEAPONS,
DAD HI, IN BNGLISK, IF NE UCULD LIKS TO INSPEOT THE
MHITERIOR CF THE BALLOO, THE STATED TIAT NE ACCOMPANIED THE
-0 (3) WEI AND ERNTERED THE DALLCON. TOUR CTHER INDIVIDUALS
TRE IN THE DALLCON - TUO MEBI AND THO UCIE, UHC BEGAN
.e! 1 INSTRUNENNTS IN TIE DALLOCH TO TS IN TIE DALLOCH TC S 4 HEGH HECH
WICH STATED THAT JE UNIDEISTOO STATED THAT IE UNIDEISTOC ALSC ALSC
STAT
TROM TNE INSIDE IT UAS T AND NE STATED THAT NE
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AGE TIREE BJEDDR 55S
CCULD SEE ALL CVER THE COUNITRYSIDE. AFTER ASOUT 20 IINUTES,N
CHIDT STATED THAT CHE OF THIE TEN ADVISED MIAT TINEY VOULD
STATED
AT HE LEFT, TNE ECOR ON TNE DALLGON CLOSED AND IT ARCSE
ED TO DE SILVER
HONED THE CHIET OF PCLICE OF EHAT CITY, A MR.
TO TARCM NE TOLD HIS STOIN NELSON, AS A ..
RELIABILITY, TELE HCNED THE CHIEF OF POLICE
II DAEDTINLD, CALIFORNIAS HOME TOUL, AND UAS
DVISED EY THAT EMDIVIDUAL THAT TWAS A SOLID CITIZEN
CONSIDERED PELIADLE. IELSON TEN REQVEETED
NT SHOU HIN THE AREA VHERE THE DALLCCNI LW DED,
DUPON ARRIVING AT WE FIELD, NELSON SYMTED THAT HE-COUTD

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R. A. L. ILYER, ASST SAC CMANA FIELD OFFICE, FEI, TELEP CALLY
BVISED THIAT HE HAD RECEIVED THE FOLLOUNIG INFORMATICH FROM-
FEI RESIDENNT AGENNT AT GRAND ISLAND, UEDRASKA: A IR. R. O.
CMIDT, A SALESHAN REP ING A CCIPANY KNIOIN AS VALU-PAC,
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MISCEIDENS TOUAND THE EARTH. AS THIS FLANH CF LIGHT DESCENIDED, S
(ADE CUT THE OBJECT AS A BALLON, UNICH ACCORDING TO HIN,
13 APPHOMIUATELY I.N FEET LONG, 3S FEET WIDE NID IT RESTED
CH FOUR TRITCD TYPE LESS LSC ATED THAT AS HIS
CAR APMMOACNED, THE NK DIED. AS NE STOOD
ED RIM AND CNE CF TIEM TLANSED A RAY OF LIGHT

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AFOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY/ AISOC 215 PD PRELIMINARY REPORT ON KEARNY
MEDRASKA INVESTIGATION ERENCE MESSAGE THIS ORGANIZATION CITE
SOC 209 PD INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT SIGHTING WAS PROBABLY A
ESULT OF HALLUCANATION HAS BEEN QUESTIONED EXTENSIBLEY
AND HAS SINCE B
IN HASTINGS NEBRASKA PD A CHECK OF ALL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE HAS
TAILED TO PROVE THAT THE SIGHTING WAS ACTUAL PD TAILED TO PROVE THAT THE SIGHTING WAS ACTUAL PD THERE WERE NO
STHER WITNESSES TO SIGHTING PD SAMPLE OF OIL MENTIONED IN PRESS X c c
.
ELEASE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE INIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOR ANALYSIS LLEASE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE INIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOR ANALYSIS
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Thore is a rising domend for the Citizens RIGHT TO KNOW cbout cll of the hidden
frcts and rightly so. A Constitutional Democracy cannot ondure without an informed
oloctorate.
THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN DO
l. Write intelligent lotters to your STATE SENATORS & CONGRESSMEN --- also
your UNITED STATES SENATORS & CONGRESSMEN, Ask for free flow of information on
this subjoct. Ask them to ect a. elected Representati in this matter to
L.io certain that this information rcaches the public.
2. Tell them cbout loccl intorest, UFO's, photos, Clubs
an1 notivitics.
3. isk that a civilian board be appointed to collect this information and
:loese to the publi the people evcluate these reports and this infor-
metion. It belongs t cople.
4.isk for an investigation by:
The Armed Scrvices Committec -- Son. Richerd B. Russell, Ga., Chairman,
Sonate Corrnittoe Gov't Operations, Sen. John L. McClellan, Ark., Chm.
House Committce ocration Congressman John E Moss, Chairman,
(Sencto)
Gov't Appropriations, Scn. Clarence Cannon, Mo., Chcirmen. (House)
If the right committee for the job (Interplanctary Studydoes not exist,
ask that immediate steps be taken to accomplish this. MAJOR WAYNE S.AHO ----
Hiashington SeucorTntolligonoa . Boy ai5 Vioahinrton boor
his work on Capitol Hilf, until rosults are obtained. He has becn told by govern-
mcnt officials in the Sonate cnd House that there is NO COMITTEE IN EXISTENCE
that is qualificd for this specific assignment. Interplanetary Rescarch is unique
and new to our time. It is time Ior cction to orrect this weakness.
How else can we enter the Age of Sprcs ?
5. It is time for us to face the issue squarely, The come for
forthright t answcrs. Lct us end the doubletalk and evasion.
6. Request a REPLY
If America is to entcr the SPACE AGE with honor, let us face up to the
responsibilities of the Space Age. Let us -- rather than attempt conquer spaee
begin to UNDERSTAND Space. 11 DRS
Here are two forms to address your letters:
For a Scnator: Honorcble Charles E. Fotter
United State Inlte i States Scnate, Weshington 25, D. C. , Washington 25, D. C.
For For a a Congrossman: Congrossman: Honorable Gorcld R. Ford, Jr.
House S, Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Sir - or Dear Senator truly yours, yours,
Dear Sir - or Docr Mr. Ford ------- Dear Sir - or Dorr Mr. Ford ---- Vory Vory truly truly yours, yours,
This is how YoU can help in bringing This is how YoU can help in bringing about many about many wonder wonde: events. events.
Now let us hear from you.
UFo
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KEARNEY, NEB., NOV. 7--(UP)-- THE MAN WHO WAS
INVITED INTO A TRANSPARENT T"SPACE SHIP" CREEK BOTTOM SOUTH-
WEST OF HERE. WAS TAKEN NIGHT TO
HOSPITAL.
47. WAS BY THE BUFFALO
COLNTY BOARD OF
THE BOARD RULED THE REO EXAMINING
PSYCHIATRISTS.
AUTHORITIES HAD HIS WELL-BEING AFTER
ABOUTAPPARENTRINS AND GROWING
DEMAND NIDENTIFIED PERSONS AND CKPOTS."
PSYCHIATRISTS SAID EARLIER THE MAN WAS NOT PERPETRA 3CA

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SUB FOR 5TH AND 6TH PGHS KEARNEY: POLICE CHIEF THURSTON
NELSON, ETC.
ALTHOUGH CLAIMED
LISTED IN THE BAKERSFIELD DLRE HE SAID HE WORKED
FOR THE BRAWLEY IS LOCATED 100
MILES FROM BAKERSEIELD
KEARNEY POLICE CHIEE THURSTON NELSON TOOK CHARGE OF THE --
INVESTIGATION OF STORY AND WENT OUT TO THE CREEK BEI WHERE
THE BIG "SAUCER" WAS SL OED TO HAVE BEEN ROOSTING.
HES

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was unable to describe exactly any instrumentation except to to say that a
I
Roman numerals and ordinary numbers were noted on the dials!
stated that the interior of the object was lighted from an invisible esource.
of the object was t thre some
feet high unbroken in the location where the
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tion. Space Ship The Ur
:inally Committe Held Over 'Spacemen
r his By the United Press. threatene
and A traveler in Nebraska said boycott ta the By the Associated Press.
City he saw and talked last night round of KEARNEY, Nebr., Nov. 8.
talks. talks. hout nout
with the ordinary·appearing with the ordinary·appearing The act The acti R. O. Schmidt, 58, the. Braw-
sident occupants of an apparent ley, Calif., man who Tuesday
.ision, widespread itive
Anne space ship. space ship. U.N.. U.N. . was was tion, told of having visited a "space
on re- Reinhold O. Schmidt, 48, of complete complete b and ship" manned by four "space
whole whole Eakersfield, Calif., came into 10 years of ican men" and two "space women,"
up of tiations. iplo-
Kearney, Nebr., white faced India ha rave lave last night was committed to
and shaken and asked to see a and shaken and asked to see a it it called the Hastings State Hospital
Gen. minister. tion by see
He told of talking with six compromis AA
stag ponement ponement
top occupants of a transparent
·pro- "space ship' parked for re- "space ship'  parked for re- troversial'r troversial
rests pairs outside town, and stuck Russia al
but to the story through repcated firm.
em. questioning by authorities. 24-5
John Many other sightings of un- The key
at a identified flying objects were nationa res
erday attributed by scientists to for quick
y is tricks of vision in persons who in the fiw
some actually saw the bright planet ment sub
relop- Venus. and other stars. The basis of
sure director of Harvard Univer- proposals.
2 the sity's observatory, Dr. Donald This wa
H. Menzel, said many seem- vote of 57
group ing "flying saucers" were against and
vern- really mirages caused by nat- The resoll
nsuit ural weather phenomena but the General
the some sightings appeared to final approv
gani- defy all such explanations. The Sovie
rved In Kearney, Mr. Schmidt, a ber of the si
stra- grain buyer who once served the United
ntial prison term for embezzle- France and
trold ment, 'said he had been inside clared this
gov- the ship with its four men and rupt" and
two women passengers who not take
two women passengers wno meetings meetings
appeared to be ordinary mor-
tais in ordinary clothes. tais in ordinary clothes. They They Ry R
ice. spoke to each other in Ger- Instead
der insisted
'51- '5i- man and to him in English,
es Mr. Schmidt said. commiss
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INITED PRESS
An ex-convict stuck to his story of a chat with
spacemen Wednesday and a Tennessee schoolboy in-
sisted an inter-planetary flying machine landed out-
side his window. Other reports of strange sky
Reports of more strange, un- objects included:
identified flying objects zoom- James Moore, Pell City,
ing about the skies came from Ala., said his car battery went
many other sections of the dead Wednesday and he looked
country and across the seas.
grain dealer small-sized football b arely
who insisted he talked to
spacemen near Kearney, Neb., missed a 3-year-old girl and
and Everett Clark. 12 years landed with a whistle and a
old, who said spacemen tried thump in a schoolyard at Sun-
to kidnap his do nox- bury-On-Thames, England.
ville, Tenn. Two crewmen of a Coast
Guard cutter which reported
SCHMIDT, 48 years old, ap- tracking a UFO on radar in
peared to be weakening in his the Gulf of Mexico were taken
story after intensive question- to New York for questioning.
ing by two Army intelligence
officers and two investigators
from the Continental Air De-
fense Command at Colorado
Springs. Police also turned up
discrepancies in his story. But
Schmidt rerused to back down
entirely.
Schmidt, a Bakersfield, Cal.,
native, came driving into
Kearney late Tuesday with a
story that he had come upon
a silvery, cigar-shaped "space
ship" outside of town.
window Wednesday.
The "spacemen" were either
nasty or dog-loving, Everett
said. They grabbed at his dog.
Frisky, he said and then tried
to kidnap another dog before
they flew away.
EVERETT'S FATHER said
the boy "is not given to tell-
ing stories." And a newspaper
reporter and photographer said C
they saw "a peculiar imprint
in the grass." 24 feet long and U
five feet thick.

c. rove and walk egain
seercbed him, After the search, be vas able t :
and asked them what the ship wes, and what thc were doing.
They seld they couldn' tell bin. Se asked to gee it closer
and they said that as long as they couldn't I Ive for a fev
minutes, he might as well lock at it. They a Irted back to
the ship and as they ceme neer it a docr opent on the left
side. When he got into the ship he noticed t tthere vere
four men and two yomen. iThey ail spoke to hi in Geryaan.
leter TUT
The space ahiy wea/deserihdd as bueaxim y 100 feet long,
15 feet Bigh, end 30 feet wice ehd rested ja retal supports
talking was heard. It was poagible to aad through the
sides, botten and floor of the c objeet, being perreetly
tranaperent.
t. After 25 cr 30 minutes they bid goodbye and sped
off in a Scutivesterly direction, vithout a sound being
mode.
g. interviewed by both local euthorities and
Government Lurvestigatorej and ves later tahen to the scene
of the sighting by Air Farce investigetora. No marks where
the struts ot the object bad rested vere risible because
the area had been walked over by Devanen. Vhile he stated
that the body of the objeet vas less than three feet frou
the ground, nany ery veeds and serab trees of four or five ;
feet high wereunbroben cr undisturbed in thi loeation where
the object rested. He vas unable to provide a reason for
thie
t's ber. A bear-
type cen opener found in Pe cee mnde ilentieal
opening marks as on the can found at the seen.
1. After being interrieved by Air Force and othet government
investigatcrs, vas examined by local Jyehiatrists
for apprarimately two hours, vho found thet was de-
finitely It
wa8 further disclosed that be had an ertensive
and had He was
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by the vajerity of the nation's newspepers.)

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Flying Saucer 'Rider'
Lands in Prison Cell
Reinhold O. Schmidt, 64.Itold of a 1958 encounter wit
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AVATIVN-
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nic Brawley, Cal., "space ship" story teller, committed of mental health last night ordered R. O. Schmidt, 58-year-old KEARNEY, Neb. Nov. 8-(P)--The Buffalo county
nal on of the Platte river a space Hastings State hospital for observation and Schmidt last Tuesday told a story board
ess trists and two space women. Schmidt w to the

TO INVESTIGATE STORY.
POLICE CHIEF THURSTONNELSON BACKE
CLAIM.
HE SAID FOUND THE FOOTPRINTS OF TWO MEN APPROACHING A SINGLE
SET OF FOOTP ESUMABLY IN A S E OUTSIDE
KEARNEY.
THE THREE FOOTPRINTS THEN
AS IF THEY HAD BEEN YANKED UPWARDS, NELSON SAID
POLICE SAID EENISH GREASE-LIKE FLUID ABOUT THE
AREA WHERE SAID HE VISITED THE TNIK" INHABITANTS.
DROVE INTO KEARNEY DAY, WH. AND ASKING TO
SEE A MINISTER.
HE SAID HE WAS DRIVING NEAR SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA
ON A GRAIN-BUYING EXPEDITION W WHICH
LOCKED LIKE'A NAVY BLIMP
"I GOT OF IT AND MY CAR GOT
CUT AND W IT WAS 100 FEET
FEET HIGH POSTS.
TWO MEN
FIELD, HE
ME TO LOOK AROUND BUT THEY WOULDN'T ANSWER QUESTICNS
ABOUT SHIP," SAID. Y W THE
PEOPLE DOING NO HARM. 1
ALTHOUGH NOT TALLY. WITH COMMON CONCEPTS OF SPACE TRAVEL,
SCHMIDT INSISTED BIG BESF ITTED WITH
FINALLY FINALLY, HE SAID. AID. THE GET OUT, ASSURING
HIM HIS CAR ILD. START. START.
AS HE RETU AS HE RETUR AUTO, AUTO. HE SAID. HE SAID. THING JUST TOOK OFF IN OFF IN
THE AIR LII THE AIR LI IT SEEMED TO CHANGE SEEMED TO CHANGE COLOR AND BLEND BLEND
INTO THE AT INTO THE ATM THINK IT WAS GOING SOUTHEASTM*
THE "SPA
INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, BUT I INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, BUT I THINK THINK IT IT WAS WAS GOING SOUTHEAST."
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FLYING SAUCees OCT59
The
KEARNEY
INCIDENT
By
Reinhold O. Schmidt
There has been so much controversy regard-
ing the strange adventure of Richard O.
Schmidt in contacting a flying saucer which
eventually took him for a ride that we have
asked him for his own story. Here it is ...
TAy y name is Reinhold name is Reinhold O.  home to turn around. Just as I was O. home to turn around. Just as I was
M Schmidt. I am a grain buyer about to turn into the drive, I no-
from California. On October ticed large br flash about a
25, 1957, I was transferred from Ari- quarter of a mi le ahead of me. I fig-
zona to Kearne braska, by my ured as blasting trees-
employer, a fir Brawley, Cali- although I heard no report - and
fornia. At other es of the year I instead of turning around I decided
buy grain for another company of to drive ahead and see what was
Los Angeles, California. In leaving going on.
Arizona, I left a foreman in charge I drove toward the river bank and
of my corn picking and shelling when I was within approximately
operations at Willcox, Arizona. I was 100 feet of it, my car stopped. I
using three Minneapolis-Moline turned the switch off and on several
picker shellers there which I had times, and stepped on the starter,
purchased on contract. but it was completely dead. I won-
The afternoon of November 5, a dered if the rough road had jiggled
dark and misty day, I was inspect- some of the wires loose. When I
ing some fields of milo and corn looked up I saw what appeared to
that I had bought, and some that I a large half-inflated bal-
planned to buy. I was four miles pianned to ouy. 1 was Tour nnies loon. I got out of the car and walk- loon. I got out or cne car and waix-
south, and a mile east of Kearney, ed toward it; coming around a clump ed toward it; coming around a clump
when I turned to the left on a river of willows and tall grass I got a bet- of willows and tall grass I got a bet-
road to inspect a large field of milo. road to inspect a large field of milo. ter look at it, and I realized it wasn't
After looking it over, at about 2:30 a balloon, but a large silvery ship
P.M., I drove to an abandoned farm of some kind of metal that looked
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oil spot.. The Veedol 10-30 can was identical to an unopened can found
in the trunk of in the trunk of car. A beer-type can car. A beer-ty
made identical opening marks as on the can found at the scene. opening marks as on the can found at the scene.
After being interviewed by Air Force and other government investigators, After being interviewed by Air Force and other government investigators,
was examined by qualified psychiatrists for approximately two
ET
hours, who found that hours. who found tha was definitely
It was also disclosed that
The incident was adjudged a Hoax.
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light shot out from the ship and of their desk was a large instrument
hii me across my upper chest. I don't which looked like a TV set. Also at
know whether I was scared stiff or this end of the ship there were four
paralyzed by the ray of light, but columns colored liquid red,
anyway I couldn' walk or move my green, blue and orange. Tnese tubes
arms. Then a door slid open in the were approximatel high
ship and two men came out toward and 6 inches in diameter. The liquid
me. They asked if as armed; I was slowly moving up and down like
said, "No," but they fri ne any- pistons in an automobile. The girls
way. However, they didn ke any- seemed to be watching these tubes
thing from me. By this time I could very closely.
move again. I asked them what they The other three men worked on
were doing there, what kind of ship were uoing chere, what Kind Or Ship the instrument panel. This panel mrscrument panel, Thrs panel
this was, and where they were from. covered one side of the large center covered one side of the large center
They said they couldn't tell me that room and seemed to be filled with
at this time. I asked if I could come clocks, dials, buttons and switches.
closer to see the ship. They said, closer to see the ship. They said, In the center of the panel was an- In the center of th ne panel was an-
"Yes," - for they couldn't leave for other large screen of some sort..It,
a few minutes anyway, and I was too, looked much like our TV screen,
invited to come aboard. Inside, the but it was not operating while I was
leader said I could look around, but there. I saw one of the men clip off
not to touch anything. some short wires. I looked over the
From the outside, this ship ap- panel for identification of the in- panel for identification of the in-
peared to be a solid piece of metal struments. I thought I might be able
without portholes or windows. The to see where they had been manu-
only opening I could see was the factured. There was no lettering of
doorway we entered. Inside, it was any kind either on the inside or the
entirely different; the walls looked outside of the ship, but I did see
more like glass, and I judged them some regular and Roman numerals
to be a foot thick, but you could look on the instrument panel.
right through them! You could look Later, I estimated that this large
up and see the sky, look down and room in the center of the ship must
see the weeds and brush - look out have been about 50 feet long and 30
and see the trees and the entire feet wide and about 14 feet high. At
countryside! each end of the ship were rooms ap-
There were four men and two la- proximately 25 feet long which I
dies inside the ship. The men were was not permitted to enter. But
dressed in street et clothes, approxi- when I looked down at the ship from
mately 5'8" ta weighing about 170 the river bank and up at it when it
pounds; the yo ladies appeared to took off, I could see a large tube
be about the same height, weighing about 12 feet in diameter in each
about 120 - 130 pounds, and I guess- end of the ship. In each of these
ed their ages to be ed their ages to be about forty. Their ut forty. Their tubes was a large 8 to 10 bladed fan.
complexions were rather dark, about What these fans were used for, I What these fans were e used for, I
like a sun tan. The ladies were bru- don't know; I didn't notice any know; I didn't notice any
nettes and wore light colored blouses breeze or dust caused by them on
and dark skirts, and medium heeled and dark skirts, and medium heeled the takeoff.
shoes. Another thing about the ship that Another thing about the ship that

34 THE KEARNEY INCIDENT
scientists. I decided to go to the out in the police car with the siren
minister of my faith and tell him going all the way.
about it and ask him what to do. Everybody saw the imprints and
He wasn't in. Then I drove over the oil in the sand an they all a-
to the police station and asked them greed that there had been a large
if they had seen the sheriff. The object of some kind setting there.
sheriff was out of town on a vaca- The deputy and I stepped off the
tion, they said, but the deputy sher- distance between the imprints in
iff was at the courthouse. They call- the sand and we estimated the ship
ed him and made an appointment to be 100 feet long and 30 feet wide;
for me to meet him there. I went and I estimated it was about 14 feet
to the courthouse and told the de- high.
puty what had happened that after- I again asked if they didn't think
noon. it a good idea to rope off this area
The deputy was the first person to and call someone in authority and
hear of my experience. He said, report the ship. They said it wouldn't
"Let's get out there." We got into be necessary as there were five wit-
his car and started put. On the way nesses here and they were convinced
he said, "This is quite a coincidence. that a large ship had landed here.
Did you hear the siren blow at noon We gathered some of the greenish
today?" oil in a small mustard glass we
"Yes," I said, "I was in my room found on the river bank. The chief
at the hotel at the time and I of police said he would have it test-
thought it was a fire." ed. We drove back to town and they
"No," he said, "someone called and left me off at the Fort Kearney Ho-
reported a strange object or ship in reported a strange object or ship in tel where I was staying. : tel where I was staying.:
the sky moving toward Kearney." the sky moving toward Kearney." I felt I had done my citizen's duty
When we got to the scene of the in reporting the ship and now I was
ship's landing we could see the im- through. I sat down in the lobby
print of the four hydraulic rams on and was watching TV when the local
the dry bed of the Platt River. Also, program was cut off for a. special
toward one end of the spot where news flash-
the ship stood we found some oil on SPACESHIPS LAND AT KEARNEY,
the sand and leaves. It was dark NEBRASKA"
green in color, fine in texture and This was put on the air without
sweet smelling, but where it really my knowledge or permission. In fact,
came from, I do not know: I had not even called the object a
I suggested to the deputy that we spaceship as I did not know what it
rope off this area and get some was.
guards out there. But he wanted to About thirty minutes later the
go back to town and get some of the phone began to ring and everybody -.
other officials and see what they reporters, photographers, citizens,
said. We went back to Kearney and etc. - wanted more information. The
reported to the chief of police about chief of police then called me and
my experience and what we had asked me if I would come over and
seen. Then the chief wanted to go help answer the telephones as he
out there and he asked the city at- too was swamped with calls. I went
torney to go along. We also picked over to the police station and the
up a reporter from the loeal news- chief turned his office over to me
paper. There were five of us then, with two phones. I answered those
on this second trip - and we drove two phones and the chief took calls
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THE KEARNEY INCIDENT 33
fascinated me was the way the oc- get off that ship again.
cupants would glide instead of walk When I stepped off the stairs onto
across the floor they stepped the ground the motor started. It
back from the trument panels! sounded like a large electrical motor
Although it worked like an escalator, to me, and the more momentum it
I couldin't see anything move, and picked up, the quieter it got. It ran
when I tried it, it didn't work for for about twelve seconds and then
me. I wondered they had some- the ship took off straight up into
thing special on their shoes. the air. Approximately twelve feet
All of the occupants of the ship off the ground the entire ship turn-
greeted me and bid me farewell. In ed a pitch black; when it was about
leaving, they said, "We will see you one hundred feet in the air it turn-
again." (Little did I realize that ed to a bluish green. Then it head-
they meant what they said!) Other ed southwest - there was a brilliant
than that, the one man did all the flash - and the ship disapppeared
talking. And by the way, this man before my very eyes! I estimated the
looked and talked just like a man ceiling of the clouds that day to be
that was watching TV with me in only about eight hundred feet, but
the hotel lobby the night before. On the ship disappeared long before it
the ship he said, "Tell your people hit the ceiling - I judged at about
we know that they have seen this one hundred fifty feet from the
ship before and they will see it a- ground. It was reported to me later
gain." by a county official that it had stall-
He also asked me if I knew any- ed a tractor, two cars and a large
thing about the U.S. satellite pro- truck that were beneath its path.
gram. I said I did not. Then he said, While aboard the ship I was told
self. my car - now it started - I turned
They all spoke to me in the Eng- it around and started for Kearney.
lish language with what scemed to Then the impact of the experience
me to be a German accent. Among really hit me, and I was so shaken I
themselves they talked high Ger- had to stop the car and pull myself
man which I could understand as I together.
graduated from a school where they I debated whether to report my
spoke and taught German as well as experience or. not. I was afraid if
English, and I was able to speak, the report of the ship got out, people
read and write German at that time. wouldn't believe it and I might lose
I can still understand it and speak my job. Then I remembered hearing
it fairly well. over radio and TV that the govern-
After being inside the ship about ment wanted skywatchers and that
30 minutes, one man said to the they were to report any unidentified they were to report any unidentified
other, "Wir sind fertig." Translated, objects in the skies. I realized then
this means, "We are finished." So it was really my duty as a citizen
the leader told me, "You the leader told me, "You will have have to report the ship. In fact, my own
to leave now." I was glad to hear to leave now." I was glad to hear idea at the time was that this was
this, for I wondered if I would ever this, for I wondered if I would ever a Russian ship manned by German

38 THE KEARNEY INCIDENT
their oil did not smell! Later, I dis- But the next day it was announced
covered some of the oil had been in the local paper that I had an at-
poured out in the trunk of my car torney of my choice.
and over my laundry. I ask you, .About 11 o'clock at night then
what man would leave a half-full (November 7), I was called to a
can of oil standing in the trunk of meeting of a mental hearing board.
his car? Members of the board were:
Although it was reported to me The chier of police
tiat the two Air Force officials from The county attorney
Colorado Springs, Colorado, arrived The clerk of the district court
in Kearney during the e night, they The deputy sheriff
did not meet or talk to me until A doctor
about i1 a.m. the following morning This meeting was held behind
(November 6). Then they asked me locked doors in an upstairs room
to tell. them of my experience and above the fire department. A local
they recorded it on tape. radio announcer knew the meeting
While in this session, one of the was to be held and was trying to
local officials from Kearney wonder- locate it - he inquired all around
ed out loud how the ship could go town until he finally found out from
straight up. Forgetting himself, one a local cop, too late to attend the
of the Air Force officials said, "Oh, meeting.
we know what makes it go straight When the doctor arrived he asked
up." me just three questions:
In the meantime, local officials 1. "How do you feel about the
went back on the air and TV and people of Kearney, Nebraska?"
denounced my experience as a hoax. . I said I had no hard feelings to- .I said I had no hard feelings to-
Once I was confined to the jail ward anyone.
I was cut off from all phone calls 2. "Do you still maintain that you
and contacts. My employer placed a saw that ship?"
person-to-person call to me for three "I certainly do.
days that was never r completed. 3. "Are you willing to go to the
The next day (November 7) there mental hospital and have some men-
was talk about a mental hearing. I tal tests?"
asked to get to a telephone: I want- "No," and I further answered that
ed to call my brothers and have I did not intend to o go to the hospital,
them bring one of their attorneys. and if they insisted on taking me
The officials wouldn't permit me to they would have to pay the bill.
use the phone. 8 In about fifteen minutes I was on
"We have good attorneys here in the way to the hospital at Hastings,
Kearney," they said. running Nebraska, accompanied by the chief
through the list of attorneys in the of police, the county attorney and
'phone book, I 'Here's a good fellow." the deputy sheriff. On the way up
They called him and when he ar- the fellows kidded me about having
rived I saw he was the assistant city pretty nurses and a nice rest.
attorney. Well, fellows," I said, "You can
The first thing he said was, "We have your have your fun now. I'll have mine fun now I'll have mine
don't believe your story, and we don't believe your story, and we later on."
want you to change it." I was admitted I was admitted to to the hospital the hospital
"Well, I have news for "Well, I have news for you," I that night.
said. "I don't want you for my at- Before the hearing, however, one
torney." of the local officials called my broth-
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THE KEARNEY INCIDENT 35
in the outer office. they were just going to hold me,
This went on for approximately and they did.
sixteen hours with photographers So I went to bed in jail. When I
and newsmen coming in from sur- got up a few hours later I asked
rounding cities and even other them if they wanted me to take the
states. At 9 P.M. the chief of police lie detector test. They said it wasn't
and I appeared on a local radio sta- necessary. Later I was advised that
tion. At 10 P.M. we appeared on a I was right in refusing to take the
local TV station. These programs test when I was in a state of hunger,
were released on national networks. fatigue and strain. But I will still
There was a school bond election take the test if the officials of Kear-
that night in Kearney. Some folks. ney will take it with me.
said the excitement was started to About 10 A.M. that morning (No-
spoil the election. Nevertheless, the vember the county attorney
bond issue carried. brought in two oil cans to me and
So many reporters and other in- he said they had found some evi-
terested folks flocked to the city dence and I might just as well
that there 'was a traffic jam for change my story. He said the empty
blocks around the police station. can was found within a few feet of
Within the police station there was where the ship was supposed to have
standing room only. The last trip I stood. The other partly filled can,
made to the site of the landing that he said, was of the same lot number
night was 3 A.M. Even at that time and was found in the trunk of my
there were about thirty cars out car with the can opener beside it.
there and a crowd of people milling I told him he would have to think
around. up a faster one than that. Either he
The activity continued all night couldn't see, or I couldn't see, or all
long until between and 6 A.M., the officials of Kearney couldn't
when the officials changed their see, or about five or six hundred oth-
story and suggested that I change er people who had walked up and
mine too. I told them they could down the river bed all afternoon
change their story if they wished, and night t couldn't see. For the oil
but I wouldn't change my story un- can was supposed to have been
less it was for the security of the found just at morning - within a
United States. This they couldn't few feet of he ship had been
prove, so I stayed with it. Then standing. I ested they take the
they asked me if I would take a lie- fingerprints off e cans they found,
detector test. but to my knowledge, they did not.
"Not now," I said, "I've been talk- The cans they showed me had cir-
ing for sixteen hours, but I will after cular holes in them. The can opener
I have had a few hours' rest." I nave nad a rew hours rest. I had in the car cut a triangular had in the car cut a triangular
By that time I was hoarse from hole. The two cans of oil in ques-
talking; I had been under the pho- tion were of the Veedol brand. I
tographers' lights for about fifteen still have the two cans of oil in my
or sixteen hours. I told the officials car that I had been carrying with
I was going back to my hotel room I was going back to my hotel room me then - one is of the RPM brand
then and go to bed. But the chief and the other Skelly. A local radio and the other Skelly. A local radio
of police said I couldn't do this for announcer told me later on that the
they were going to hold me. .. Veedol Co. had announced that they Veedol Co. had announced that they
"For what reason?" I asked. sold 5,000 or more cans of oil a day sold 5,000 or more cans of oil a day
They didn't know, they said, but They didn't know, they said. but and they wanted the public to know and they wanted the public to know
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any occasion to doubt my ability or noon, and by evening I had a stream
character. of phone calls farmers offer-
I was released from the hospital ing to sell tl grain to me. If I
that day. could have ma aged the transporta-
On the whole, my stay at the hos- tion of it I coule have bought thou-
pital was quite pleasant. I sands of tons of grain that night.
private room, and I got along swell. I bought grain around Kearney for
with the doctors and nurses. Except three months that and, on
for one psychiatrist. February 5, looking over a
"I'm going to ask you a series of field about twen west of
questions," he said, "and I want you Kearney near Elm Creek.
to answer with the first thing that I was driving alo g a country road
comes to your mind, whether it comes to your mind, whether it ar ans- ns- about fifty miles hour hour when
wers the question or not." suddenly suddenly my car my car stopped with a stopped with a
The first question was, "Who was was braking effect. (I was driving the
smarter, George Washington or smarter, George Washington or same car as before - a 1955 Buick same car as before - a i955 Buick
Abraham Lincoln?" Super.) The same ship hovered down Super. The same ship hovered down
I don't know," I replied "I wasn't "I don't know," I replied "I wasn't beside me inside the fence of a
even born then." meadow! I thought to myself, "Well,
The next question: "If you weren't here it goes again!"
a human being, what would you I got out of the car and was walk-
rather be?" ing toward the fence when another
"I'd rather be a psychiatrist!" car drove by with a man and a wo-
With that he slammed his book man and a little child in it. I waved
shut. at them to stop, hoping to have
I asked if that was all the ques- some witnesses, but they hurried by
tions. even though they looked right at me.
"Yes," he said. "In court our rec- I don't know whether they saw the
ord doesn't stand up anyway." ship or not. By the time I climbed
Back in Kearney, I said to my the fence, the door of the ship slid
boss, "Well, do I still have a job?" open and the same man who talked
"You certainly said. I to me on the first contact asked
made a little investigation here in me if I would do them a favor.
Kearney myself for three days before I told them I would be glad to if
I came to the hospital and all the it was at all possible. Then they in-
people I talked to were behind you." vited me into the ship and asked me
So he suggested we put an ad in if I would care to take a little ride
the local paper stating I was back as it would cause too much commo-
in Kearney buying grain again. The tion for them to remain beside the
ad ran as follows: road.
"ATTENTION The ship rose straight up into the
MILO AND CORN GROWERS air, and when approximately 150 to air, and when approximately 150 to
That crazy grain buyer from Call- That crazy grain buyer from Cali- 200 feet up, the man turned to me
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THE KEARNEY INCIDENT 37
er at Hastings, Nebraska, and an- questions. Then I was excused and
other brother in Grand Island and I went to the recreation room to
told them I was a suicidal risk. (It watch TV. A little while later the
was said they had taken my tie, belt doctor assigned to my case came in
and shoe strings out of my cell. The and asked me why I was sent to the
truth of the matter is I wore boots hospital.
and had no shoe strings and nothing "I don't know," I said. "It wasn't
was removed from my room, not my idea'in the first place."
even my razor. My brothers were Then he said they would have to
told by the officials that they had give me some tests. And I said I
no facilities for holding me and it thought that was the general idea
was suggested they bring an attor- of my being there. So they proceed-
ney and a sheriff and take me to the ed with a series of tests that con-
mental hospital. tinued for almost two weeks.
This my brothers refused to do. During the second week of my
One of their attorneys put it this stay I had a test with the encephalo-
way: gram (a machine that records brain
"Don't do it," he said. "I have been waves). Four days later this test was
following this case all along and it repeated. Then I learned that the
has gotten too big for them, and chart had been so regular t they
now they would like to wash their thought something was wrong with
hands of Smitty. If you get him the the machine.
responsibility will be yours. And if I About the twelfth or thirteenth
know Smitty, he'll get out of this day I appeared before the panel of
okay." the staff again. The superintendent
Then too, I had had dinner with of the hospital asked the staff if
that fast." Although I have not been you treatments?"
a permanent resident of Nebraska "I think you doctors are smarter
for years, I was born and grew up than that," I replied. "You know I
near Kenesaw, Nebrasksa, which is don't need any treatments."
not far from Kearney. My four That same day my employer from
brothers and two sisters are still re- Brawley, California, came to the
sidents of Nebraska. hospital to see me. He had been try-
In addition to being a suicidal ing to reach me by phone for three
risk, it was publicized that I smoked days without success so he flew in .
marijuana. The truth is, I don't to see what was going on. Unfor-
smoke, period. tunately for my business activities,
The officials also contacted my in the hospital, as in the jail, I was
wife to see if she would commit me not permitted to make any phone
to the mental institution. calls.
The first morning of my stay at Major Wayne Aho, Director of
the hospital, at about 10 A.M., I ap- Washington Saucer Intelligence, re-
peared before a panel of approxi- peared before a panel approxi- ported trying to contact me by me by
mately thirty doctors and nurses of phone at the hospital and he was
the staff. I answered some general the staff. I answered some general informed, "We have to protect Rein-
questions for about twenty minutes, hold Schmidt from the public, and
and they also invited me to ask the public from him." the public from him."

49 THE KEARNEY INCIDENT
battery was blown off and lost. fading out under rheostatle control.
This time I said nothing about my A few minutes later the white ob-
experience to anyone in Kearney. ject changed to an orange color -
Instead, that night I tried to call then blue - and then gradually faded
Major Wayne Aho, of Washington from sight.
Saucer Intelligence, in Washington, Needless to say, all four of us on
D. C. Major Aho and I had some the lecture team were excited and
telephone conversations and corres- thrilled with this display and sup-
pondence as a result of my first port of our activities there in Kear-
contact He was out of town. I reach- ney.
ed him a few days later, however, in Looking at the western sky again
Detroit. He was on a mid-west lec- one of the group called, "Here comes
ture tour at the time, and we ar- a jet from the right." A moment or
ranged to meet Davenport, Iowa, two later, however, there was neither
on February 17. I told of my experi- an object nor vapor trail to be seen.
ence at a publie meeting for the first And then another "jet" appeared on
time the next night. I joined Major the left side of the western sky. This
Aho then in his tour of the Middle time, however, we watched, and we
West and East. soon realized the gray object was not
Two lectures were given in Kear- a jet. Looking more closely we could
ney, Nebraska, on ney, Nebraska, Wednesday and see it was cigar-shaped with a blink-
Thursday nights, March 5 and 6 - ing red light in its nose, and instead
and I want to tell you what happen- of a vapor trail it had a bushy tail
ed the evening of the first lecture of scintillating light that moved a-
in Kearney - the space ships put on long with it.
a regular show for fifty minutes in This object moved across the west-
the western sky! ern sky from left to right and disap- ern sky from left to right and disap-
Shortly before 6:30 PM., the eve- Shortly before 6:30 PM., the eve- peared in the distance at 7:19 P.M.
ning of Mareh 5, a local radio com- -just giving us time enough to get
mentator with whom we had visited off for the lecture scheduled for
that afternoon ealled our hotel room. 7:45.
Don't quote me," he said, "but A traveling salesman who came
there is something in the western to the leeture t that night later told
sky above the sun." us he had seen part of the display
We looked out of our west win- coming into the hotel that evening.
dow, and there above the setting sun In the dining room of the hotel he
we could see what appeared to be a reported the "show" had been the
large white star. But that was neith- main topic of conversation.
er the time nor place for such a star! "Well, they're having a lecture on
Then, about six or seven minutes spaceships tonight," the man shar-
later, another object appeared to the ing his table remarked. Wouldn't
left of the star." It was round and you know they would have some kind
dark, but soon an orange glow ap- of a gimmick!"
peared at the bottom, which became "That would be a good trick," the
brighter as we watched. Then this salesman replied, but how in the
object moved and dipped and show- world did they get them so high?"
ed a dome-like structure. Later, the It was reported to us that the
orange color faded and changed to manager of the hotel where we were
red, which became quite brilliant staying called the Lowry Air Force
beiore fading out until the entire Base in Coiorado and was informed,
object became invisible - as a light It was a balloon."

THE KEARNEY INCIDENT 39
and said, "If any of your friends are friendly mission? Would they accep!
watching you now, they will not be us on friendly terms?
able to see you." I promised to try to get the ans-
But I could still see the entire wers, and if they would give me
countryside. I asked them while in their address, I said I would gladly
flight what propelled their ship - forward this information to them.
what kind of gas did they use? The spokesman smiled and said,
"We get our power from the sun "We will contact you again."
and from the earth," I was told. Then I asked, "How did you know
Inside the ship it was like sitting I was on this road, or do you pick up
in your living room. As far as sen- just anybody?"
sation was concerned, there simply "No," he answered, and then he
wasn't any, either in flight or in the said, "Your people have fingerprints
ascent or descent. for identification; we have your
The ship landed on the dry river brain impulses and can you up
bed again among the leaves. Inci- at any time."
dentally, both times the ship landed Then I suggested I might be in
on what is called accretion land. California by the time I got the ans-
That is land that cannot be sold or wers for them.
owned privately, only leased by the "That doesn't make any differ-
owner of the adjoining land. At one ence," he said. "We can pick you up
time this land was part of the river any place, any time."
bottom covered with water. Then the And when I left the ship, they
river channel was deepened and nar- said, "Goodbye, we'll see you again."
rowed by man, and this part of the Although they asked me no ques-
river bed grew up in grass and brush tions the first time we met, they
and trees. I have since wondered if seemed to know all about me, and
they purposely chose this land so this second time they greeted me by
interesting to note that Kearney porting their first visit.
is located on Highway 30, in the mid- "Yes, we knew about it," I was
dle of the United States from east told, "and we were standing by. If
to west. At a point just outside of they hadn't released you from the
Kearney it is 1733 miles to San hospital by a certain time we would
Francisco and 1733 miles to Boston. have put on a mass demonstration
The favor they wanted of me was over Kearney and made ourselves
the answers to three questions: known."
1. What would the United States When we were back at my car and
do if other planets were- to set off I was about to leave they said, "We
atomic bombs and to start Sputniks have stopped your car twice now,
and other satellites flying around and if we stop it a third time your
which would affect the earth and battery will be dead."
interrupt its radio and TV operations Both times my battery boiled dry.
and other devices? I have a tweive-volt battery with a
2. What was the plane carrying three-year guarantee. It is a little
that disintegrated over the Pacific over a year old. The black top coat-
on the way from San Francisco to ing of this battery has holes blown
Honolulu besides passengers? in it from the excess presure when
3. How would your people react if a they stopped the car. The second
fleet of these ships would land on a time one of the filler knobs of the
1

42 THE KEARNEY INCIDENT
"San Francisco, Cal. (AP)-The 1958, I attended a meeting in Tulsa,
Pan American Strato-cruiser Ro- Oklahoma. the meeting a
mance of the Skies was carrying group of us were sitting in the hotel
shipments of chemicals and 'radio- coffee shop when one of the space
active' materials when it crashed in people came in and asked us out-
the Pacific, killing all 44 persons a- side the hotel, and we drove out to-
board, a Civil Aeronautic Board ward the spot where the spacecraft
hearing was tol Wednesday. had landed. We went approximately
"The huge airliner, bound from six miles down the highway, then
San Francisco to Honolulu, mysteri- turned off the pavement onto a
ously plunged into the ocean about country road. Almost immediately a
midway between the two points last beam of light shot out from the ship,
November 8. Only 19 bodies were re- which was sitting nearby, and the
covered. driver of the car then followed the
"The first witness before the sev- beam, went up onto the ramp, and
en-man hearing was David L. we were soon inside the ship.
Thompson, Santa Monica, Cal., head I remained inside the craft with
of the team of investigators the space people for about two hours,
who have spent the last two months during which they told me several
seeking clues from the wreckage. things which I do not yet have per-.
Mr. Thompson said one thing mission to reveal to the public.
certain was that the plane had I spent a part of the month of
burned after it struck water. June buying grain in Nebraska and
"Mr. Thompson said the plane Colorado. While in Denver I was a-
carried a shipment of 'yellow label gain contacted. This time they asked
In addition, he said, there was all my work in order to go with
'White label radioactive material' a- them. I then asked why they had
board the plane. chosen the Arctic Circle. They re-
"Mr. Thompson offered no solu- plied, "Let's just say for an educa-
tion to one of the prime mysteries tionah purpose."
of the tragedy - the riddle of why On August 14, 1958, while in my
the crewmen were unable to send a Hollywood apartment, one of the
distress message in the 23 minutes space men gain. He said they
from the time it last gave a position were ready
to the time it struck water." Circle and i was ready they would
I cannot say that this information take off that evening. I told them I
is the complete answer to their would have to make a few telephone
question. Nevertheless, it gives us calls first, and asked where .they
something to about, and I wished to pick me up. They instruct-
wonder if that wasr the real pur- ed me to drive down to my quarry
pose of their questions anyway. As (I have a rock quarry On Highway
to the other two questions, that is 6, about forty miles north of Mo-
something for each of us to answer have).
for ourseives too. The region around the quarry is
As a friend of mine says, "A good rather desolate and I suggested that
teacher asks the students questions I would put my car in a garage as
to make them think." I did not wish to leave it there. They
During the latter part of April said, "No, take your car and drive

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AENOVEOTJUNETAI
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
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L006th AISS
Fnt AFB, Colorado AISS-UFO-330-57 PAGE N CF 8
I. SOURCE:
Address:
Kearney, Nebraska
Age: 58
Occupation: Grain buyer for Valu-Pak, Incorporated, Brawley, California
Education: Grade School, High School, one (1) year Kearney Normal Col-
lege.
Qualifications: No particular training in technical subject or Qualifications: No particular training in technical subject or obsert ooser
vation.
II. RELLABILITY: SOURCE is cOnSidered A lengthy record of arrests and
fines for bad checks and absconding with crops from l932 until 1938 and a term in
the Nebraska State Penitentiary for embezzlenent in l93o and l939 were noted while
sOURCE lived in this area a. SouRcE had worked for the Corporation two (2)
weeks before the incident occurred, having lived in Wilcox, Arizona just prior to
accopting this job. SouRcE was interviewed for three (3) hours by county psychia-
trists and it was determined that SouRCE was ir and is in need of
III. SOURCE'S DESCRIPTION OF SIGITING:
"I turned off the highway to the north to inspect a field of milo (sorghum).
I tried to turn back after checking the milo but the road was too narrow. I went
further north looking for a spot to tur: rn around; when I came to a Eate in the road,
I stopped the car and was going to tur around. At this time I noticed a flash of
light coming from the river bed in front t or me. I decided to go and see irhat it was.
mioh of this because I had been going over rough roads and thought that perhaps
some wires might have jarred loose. I tried the ignition key and stepped on the
starter but it wouldn't go. I then noticed this object dowm in the river bed and
at first, thought that it might be a balloon that had crashed there. I got out of
the car and started walking toward the objeot. hen I got about to the bank, I saw
it wsn't a baloon but a ship on stilts. At this time a flash of lirht came out
of the ship and seemed to paralyze me and I couldn't walk. I was approxinately
thirty (3o) feet from the object. Two (2) men came out and asked me if I was arned
and then searched me. After the search, I and then searched me. Aftor the search, I got to where I could move and walk again
and I asked tham what the ship was and what they were doing. They said they couldn't
tell me. I asked if I could see it closer and they said that as long as they couldn't
leave for a few minutes, I might as well look at it. We started beck to the shio
and as we Fot close a door oponed on the left side.
noticed that there were four (h) men and two (2) women. They all sp me. The
one (l) stayed with me most of ime, but they to e that they couldn't tell
me anything about the ship. did tell me not to be alarmed as I woulin't be
hared. I was in the shio about trenty-five (25) or thirty (30) minutes. I then
heard one gentleman say in German that they were ready for the take-off. They told
me that I would have to leive; they said goodby and wished me rood luck and stcoped
out and the door closed and the ladder came back up into the shio. stepped back
eisht (o) or ten (lo) feet, but when the machine startod working i thought that therd
would be a terrifie blast, stepped back further, almost to the river But
there was no blast; it just went straight : ato the air and when it got above the
trees about fifty (so) feet, it tool off in a southwesternly direction. then it
got up about sixty (6o) feet above the tress, it changei color, turning to a brumisn
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stand there may be a number of ceived some information from
witnesses for there were hunters and NICAP (National Investigations
construction workers in the vicinity. Committee for Aerial Phenomena)
In fact, a local radio announcer in regarding one of the questions the
Kearney allegedly has a tape record- Visitors asked me. (What was the
ing of two business men in Kearney plane carrying that went down, be-
who testified that they heard a ser- sides passengers?) NICAP sent me
ies of sounds while pheasant hunt- copies of two relevant newspaper
ing the afternoon of my contact, articles which copying for
that they believed came from the your information. The first is a
ship. This same announcer checked story from the Des Moines Register,
with the Lowry Air Force Base and dated November 9, 1957:
learned that they had no aircraft "A large Stratocruiser, enroute be-
aloft the afternoon of November 5 tween San Francisco and Honolulu,
between 1:00 and 6:00 P.M. due to is reported missing after having
the low ceiling and hazardous flying sighted mysterious blinking lights
conditions. in the sky early this morning. The
men - only they talked in Spanish! (Note: Later reports said 44 a-
You will have to draw your own con- board.)
clusions. Was there a suggestion that space-
Another thing I am often asked is, ships (mysterious blinking lights)
"Did you ever read any books s on might have ca the accident, I
flying saucers before your experi- wondered, and was that why my
ence, or were you interested In the spaceship friends wanted me to find
subject?" out what else that ship was carrying
I had heard something about fly- besides passengers?
ing saucers, as everyone ing s saucers, as everyone has over Then another news clipping, an AP Then another news clipping, an AP
the years, from the years, from reports in reports in news- article, published January 16, 1958,
papers, etc. But I had never paid papers, etc. But I had never paid in the Omaha World Herald, gave
any particular attention to the sub- the following information:
ject. As I have often said, "I didn't "Radio-Active Cargo Fell-Mystery
believe, I didn't disbelieve but they of Plane's Crash Unsolved of Plane's Crash Unsolved

stated that if ve can't stop the Rus- icans like coffee, and we have come
sians from attacking the world from prepared to give you some." I thought
beneath the water, without sound perhaps they had a thermos bottle
and without warning, they them- filled with coffee, so I told them I
selves will stop them. I am sure they would enjoy a cup. She put some
mean this. They also said they water and coffee in what I took to
wouldn't permit an atomic war. They be a percolater. I noticed on the can
made it clear that they are impartial that it was M-J-B coffee, which is
and are not "taking sides" with any an American brand.
country but that they will not stand She placed the percolater on a
by and see our planet destroyed by table. I expected her to either plug
atomic bombs. it in some place or put it on a hot
Cur radiation problem was also plate, but she did neither. Soon I
discussed. The space people are now heard the coffee percolating and
using a new device to rid our atmos- could smell it. I asked what made it
ootr atomie and late like that Sbe.renlied
pletely submerge nd appeared to if I might take it home to show my
be floating underneath the suriace people what free energy could do.
of the water. We heard many large They answered that I couldn't have
crashes where ice was cracking up. that percolater but that they would
It seemed that the ice was much bring me one from their planet when
heavier on one side of the North they came back here again. The cof-
Pole than on the other. The ice fee was very good and tasted just
bulged up in huge quantities, then like our coffee.
broke open with loud crashes.. During the four days I was on
We rose to the surface of the water We rose to the surface of the water the the spaceship, from August 14 spaceship, from August 14
and landed on the ice cap. I saw ani- through August 19, I ate only a few
mals which were thawing out that mals which we thawing out that small wafers which were about the
had been frozen in the ice for prob- had been frozen in the ice for prob- size of an Alka Seltzer, only twice as
ably thousands of years. There ably thousands of years. There were were thick. They were very pleasing to thick. very pleasing to
polar bears, walruses, and some pre- the taste. One day I ate three of the taste. day I ate three of
historic animals which I have never them to see how much power was in them to see how much power was in
seen pictured. Eskimos had appar- them. I had no hunger pangs and
ently been slicing off some of the ently been slicing off some of the never felt hungry. During recent lec-
1

could leave at a garage, for the really turn it loose. There was no
ear weighs about two tons and it vibration, and the only way I could
would be a lot of extra weight. Their tell we had gc high was the
reply was, "Weight doesn't mean appearance of ne earth below us.
anything." The earth was almost obscured by
I made my telephone calls and what appeared to rings similar
then drove out the quarry. I saw to those we see around the planet
that the ship was already there. It Saturn. The predominating color was
was a larger ship than I had seen blue-green showing through the sil-
before, being about two hundred feet very rings of haze. This same ship
long, -forty feet wide, and fourteen can be used as a plane in the air, a
feet in height. Other than size and ship on the water, or a submarine
the fact that it contained a few less beneath the water. While in the air
instruments, this ship was almost the ship flew broadside.
identical in appearance and furnish- As we were flying over the Arctie
ings with the ship I saw near Kear- Circle they pointed out many inter-
ney, Nebraska. The personnel was esting things. They showed me a
the same. place where once there were icecaps
There is a large eighteen or twenty a thousand or so feet h. Today it
We left the quarry at 4:15 in the has never yet been revealed to the
afternoon. An hour and twenty min- public. I have written to Washing-
utes later we were ver the Arctic ton asking permission to give out
Circle, having made three stops, one this information but at the date of
in Greenland for ab bout thirty min- writing this report I have heard
utes, and two short stops in Alaska nothing from the Pentagon. Assum- nothing from the Pentagon. Assum-
to check on some minerals. At one to check on some minerals. At one ing there is no reason for further ing there is no reason for further
time during the flight I asked them secrecy, I will give this information
I how fast the ship could go. They now: now:
answered that they would give me We observed We observed two Russian sub-
i a fast ride. At that time we were marines marines which which were mapping the
approximately six or seven miles floor of the ocean in order to build floor of the ocean in order to build
high, and for a few minutes, accord- high, and for a few minutes, accord- missile bases from which they could missile bases from which they could
ing to an instrument which I would fire missiles to any part of the worid, fire missiles to any part of the worid,
call a speedometer, we went 40,000 call a speedometer, we went 40,000 without sound and without warn-
I

48 SUPERMAN-DOES HE REALLY EXIST?
of time. What of the inter-relations The cosmic men seem to be much
of the Federations and the awful interested in us and our first at-
gulfs of space between them? Do tempts to establish space travel, as
they, can they operate and com- their presence around our research
municate over such distances? centers indicate. The fact that they
This seems impossible to our have been visiting this solar system
minds. Our scientists say that no for centuries without making con-
vehicle could ever quite reach or ex- tact indicates highly complex opera-
ceed the speed of light. This observa- tions involving a powerful and exact
tion may be valid to fit the facts as science far beyond cur scope of
we have them established, but it is knowledge.
also made on the concept that light At present the men of Earth are
was a satellite aloft during the per- mystery sateilite as to make most
iod mentioned; 2 it was a satellite, probable an attempt to destroy it;
and not a U.F.O. (it cannot be said two of OUR satellites, launched

THE KEARNEY INCIDENT 45
tures, when I have described these Upon our return from the Aretic
wafers, the ladies have been very in- Circle, I drove my car out of the
terested in them because it would spacecraft, up Highway 6, and back
solve their cooking and dishwashing to Hollywood. left, the space
problems. I do not know what the people told ey would see me a-
space people ate.
While we were sleeping the craft I had to get a new battery for my
hovered in space about six or seven 1958 Buick, for the old one was com-
miles above the earth. I inquired pletely dead the second day after
whether this wasn't dangerous as my return. When it was tested at the
another ship or a meteorite might garage they found nothing but pure
strike us. They assured me that there water in it. I also found, during my

feet long, thirty feet wide, and fourteen feet high, which had landed
in a dry river bed. The motor of his car then died. He got out and
was walking toward the ship when a light shot out and paralyzed
him: The ship opened and two men emerged. After searching him
for concealed weapons, they released him from n paralysis and in-
vited him into the ship, where he spent half an hour chatting with
these strangers and their female companions, mostly in High Ger-
man and English. (He knew that they cam e from outer space but
not until some weeks later, when they paid hir n a second visit, did
he discover that they were natives of the planet Saturn.) [14] After
he left the ship it rose straight up into the sky and disappeared,
while he hurried back to town to report to the sheriff, to broadcast
an account of his experience over the local radio, and to give his
valuable minerals on earth, including veins of quartz that had the
desirable property mine this quartz and thus /
make it available to humanity, he enlisted the sympathy and finan-
cial aid of a number of lonely, wealthy widows. Some of these ladies
eventually came to believe that they had been the victims of fraud
and, in 196i, a California jury agreed with them. The Saturnians
apparently have not yet reappeared to help their friend out of his
difficulties.
-

Vitor
Is Ex-Convict
By UNITED PRESS
Authorities in Kearney, Neb., today held a "heart
to heart" talk with a salesman, later discovered to
be an ex-convict who claimed he chatted with four
men and two women in a transparent "space ship." The report by Reinhold
O. Schmidt, 48, of Bakers- Gulf of Mexico south of New
the field, Cal., last night was Orleans. A Coast Guard com-
legedly landed and spot where the "whatnik" al- sever:
various impressions examined and oil the Atomic Energy persons last night over
stains on the ground. sion's Savannah River plant Commis-
But curiosity turned to skep- tive near Augusta, Ga. The execu-
Sheriff Steve Warrick revealed ticism when Scottsbluff County editor of the Augusta
that Schmidt. a former po- the object appeared Chronicle, Louis Harris, said
tato buyer in Scottsbluff, Neb., constant red light." to be a
served time in the Nebraska was a former convict who Illinois and southern Flying lights over northern
penitentiary for embezzlement. sin last night spurred police Wiscon-
However, Schmidt stuck ischmidt stuck and military authorities into a frenzy enzy of hurried .odnrto a
by his.story. Police said by his._story. Police said tions. tions. of hurried investiga-
they held a "heart to heart" talk Twa persons in northern Two persons in northern
and with Schmidt last night Illinois said the engines of Illinois said the engines of
tioning today. planned further ques- headlights went their cars quit running and their cars_quit running and
an headlights went out when onject out when
Elsewhere. strange "saucer" skv. Planes from Truex Air appeared in the
scrambling to investigate, kept sightings sent Air Force pilots Force Base in Madison, Wis.,
police switchboards busy and investigated and later re- and O'Hare Field in Chicago
out to watch the sky. Brought hundreds of persons brought hundreds of persons ported the object was a star.
Scores of sightings in the said A man in Saginaw. Mich., L
Midwest last night apparently stemmed from stars and the space he sighed a "brilliant ship." but authorities
planet Venus playing tricks on said he apparently saw the
the viewers. Other reports southern sky.. planet Venus glowing in the
were not so easily expiained. The Coast Guard Military authorities apparent-
picking up an un. reported ly gave credence to
.

Is Forme Convict
Continued From Page One jedly seen by 10 military per-
which sonnel who were waiting to
said he saw an object board a plane, according to
made car engines stall near the spotting unit.
the White Sands Proving First to sight the objects,
Grounds. described as flying at an alti-
COL. JOHN McCURDY, Air tude of about 70oo feet at the
Force public relations officer at base of clouds, was command-
ing officer Maj. Louis F. Baker.
White Sands, said the engi- Airmen Joseph Abramavage
neer, James Stokes, 42, will and William Nieland. weather
be given a thorough medical observers, also said they saw
examination and a radiation the objects.
Mr. Abramavage, who made
count test. McCurdy said he the report, said the objects
was "personally satisfied" with were "circular in shape and
Mr. Stokes' report. shiny ·like spun aluminum, aluminum,
Also in the Southwest, a Also in the Southwest, changing course instantane-
civil service worker at ously without loss of without loss of speed
civil service worker at Lack- Lack- like planes in a mock like planes in a mock dog-
land Air Force Base in San fight." fight."
Antonio, Tex., said he saw an
egg-shaped object land in a egg-shaped object land in a Local Basketball
ravine about 200 yards from
him as he drove near the city.
Lon Yarborough said his car TO TU
engine and lights went off, and Coming on TV
the object took off in a few
minutes, enabling him to drive Continued From Page
away.
At about the same time, the being considered tod
Ground Observer Corps at Mid- the Indianapolis P
land, Tex., said it saw a large, School Athletic
red object and picked up con- which meets to d
versation on a sound detector. possibility of tel
The conversation was unintelli- son games in
gible. public schols.
In Long Beach, Cal., three
Air Force weather observers, The two iz
one of them the commanding ple and Ca
officer of the spotting unit, Jan. 17
late yesterday reported sight- Scecina
ing six unidentified. saucer- Mr.
shaped flying objects over scho
Long Beach Air Force Base. to
The objects also were report-
What's Going
On Up There? On Up There?
MIAMI. Nov. 6 (UP)- Nov. 6 (UP)-
Amateur radio operator John Amateur radio operator John
Petroff says Russia's Sputnik
II satellite sounds like thou-
sands of insects and birds
chirping aboard a speeding
train.
Petroff picked up the sat-
ellite on his high arequency
set and recorded the sound
on tape.
He said the noise of the
satellite reminded him of the
clickety-clack of a train--
there was even a high whistle
coupled with the noise of
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color. Then it just disappeared. As to the time, it must have been shortly after
It must have taken off about three O'clock."
IV: PURTHER DU STIONING: SOURCE WES interviewed for tvo (2) hours, resulting in the
following ampliiication to his story.
1. The flash of light drawing his attention initially was sumilar to an electii-
cal short, reddish in color, and did not blind the SOURCE." SOURCE Ws a approximately
one-half(mile rom the soene.
2. SOURCE did not attempt check his automobile for battery failure, such as
horn, iights or radio. ?
3. SOURCE was approxinately thirty (3o) feet from the object when the paralyzing
light hit him. The light, orange in color, concentrated on him, not blinding or dany-
forty-five (45) and fifty (50) years of age.
6. Tho men sooke to SOuRCE in broken English, but converse with each other in
High German. SOuRCE understands because his pare n that countrt
door opened and elosed automatically and without visik comrand.
o. The interior was about forty (40) feet long. Instruments mounted on aluminum
stands lined the sides of the interior. SOurCE was unable to describe exactly any
instrumentation except to say that a variety of circular and linear dials of various
sizes were noticed. Both Roman nwnerals and ordinary nurbers were noted on the dials.
9. SouRce stated that the interior of the objeet was lightel from an invisible
source. No noise other than the crew talking was heard. it wns possible to see
was not see through the ends of the object to the sections housing the
mechanisms presumed provide propulsion. A lounge consisting of a steel metal and
brown uphe two (2) chairs was located at the far and of the room,
10. A two-wav conveyor apo"ratus ran the length of the room (Lo feet). SouRCE
observed the cray stepping on the conveyor and bsing transported at about walking
speed, stepping off the length. souron stated, hov-
ever, that no moving parts were noted, leading him to surmise that some "magnetie"
force was driving the convoyor. The two (2) womon and three (3) men vere vorking on
the wires benind the dials while the reraining man escorted the SounC . The wires
ran from the instruments through a tube into the end section of the object.
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centrated on one case the explainers
felt they could horoughly discredit
and thus infer lat the other ones
were just as unreliable. They had
the perfect setuy nan who claim-
ed he had been inside a space ship
and talked to the occupants. The
man in the street tended to discount
so-called "contact stories." And as
soon as it had been learned that the
man had a prison record, the anti-
saucer elements began to have a
field day. it off they had
the witness put in the booby hatch,
but apparently were able to hold him
there only a few days.
You've probably heard much of
the Kearney Nebr., case. Reinhold the Kearney Nebr., case. Reinhold
Schmidt, grain dealer of California, Schmidt, grain dealer of California,
said he had come said he had come upon a huge ob-
ject resting in a river bed. At first ject resting in a river bed. At first
he thought it was a huge balloon-
but instead of reporting what was in
the papers, let FLYI ING SAUCERS
bring you the next best thing to
hearing a taped interview with
Schmidt. Thanks to a friend who
broadcasts a flying saucer radio pro-
gram, and Gene Larson, news direc-
tor of Station GFW, Kearney,
Nebr., we publish the interview
verbatim, as it went out over the air:
LARSON: This is Gene Larson,
news director of Radic Station
KGFW, in Kearney, Nebraska. At
the present time on this Tuesday
evening, Nov. 5, 1957, we are at our
studio. The time is central standard
time, 7:20. At our side at micro-
phone we have a Mr. Rainhold O.
Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt has stated
that his home address in Bakersville,
California, is 715 Gage St., and that California, is 715 Gage St., and that
he is employed Value-Pak, Inc. Mue-Pak, Inc.
They are in the They are in the nolesale hay, feed olesale hay, feed
and grain concentrates. Their office
is 501 West Main St., at Brawley,
California. Mr. Schmidt, this after-
noon I believe you had something
occur to you, and you talked a little occur to you, and you talked a little
bit about it. We would lke to-ask bit about it. We would like to-ask
you a series of questions. The infor- you a series of questions. The infor-
mation that I have given so far, Mr.
Schmidt, is that correct?
SCHMIDT: Yes.
LARSON: In other words you
work for Value-Pak, Inc., you live
in Bakersville-you are in Kearney,

CHASING THE G SAUCERS 29
Nebraska for what purpose? 1 feet of the object my car stopped.
SCHMIDT: Buying grain. The motor went dead. I tried to step
LARSON: Is this your first trip on the starter, but there was no re-
to Kearney? sponse whatsoever. I got out of the
SCHMIDT: Yes. car. I figured the terminal had just
LARSON: And by buying grain, broken loose on the battery. I got
what do you mean, sir? out of the car and walked toward
SCHMIDT: Buying for the farm- this balloon-or what I thought was
ers or elevators. a balloon—and when I got within 30
LARSON: And you travel around feet of it, a light shot out and, I
the country, sir? wouldn't say it paralyzed me, I
SCHMIDT: Yes. would say hypnotized. me
LARSON: And you drive what (Schmidt's voice shows confusion as
kind of a car, sir? to the exact effect of the ray-G.B.).
SCHMIDT: A '55 Buick Super. LARSON: You couldn't move?
LARSON: Now this afternoon I SCHMIDT: I couldn't move.
believe you were out south of town LARSON: Could you think?
-about how far, sir? SCHMIDT: Yes, I could think and
SCHMIDT:-About four miles. talk, but I couldn't move.
LARsON: About what time was LARSON: Before we go o into fur-
this? ther happenings in regard to this
SCHMIDT: Between 2:00 and 3:00 object, wonder if you could describe
in the afternoon. . it. About how long was it, sir?
LARSON: And you were headed in SCHMIDT: It was about a hun-
which direction? dred feet long, as near as we could
SCHMIDT: I was going south, and step it off, and 30 feet wide, and I
SCHMIDT: About, half a mile, I LARSON: It appeared to be of
would say. aluminum, bright and shiny. And
LARSON: Did you continue to you got out a approached
drive, or did you immediately stop? this object. Did you notice anything
SCHMIDT: No, I drove on up a as to how it would move? Did there
little closer to where the flash was, appear to be pipes, or, propellors, or
to see what caused it, and when I what was it?
got so close I found out-I thought SCHMIDT: On each end of the
it was a balloon that had crashed machine there was a tube running
there- up and down, and in these tubes I
LARsON: Then you drove closer to could see big fans. It seemed like
the object? that did the propelling.
SCHMIDT: Yes. LARSON: How close did you get
to this object?
red? SCHMIDT: I got to it and in it.
SCHMIDT: When I got within 60 LARSON: I understand that, sis,

30 CHASING THE FLYING SAUCERS
but before you got into it, you got minutes, you can come in and look
out of your car, went across the around."
fleld toward the river bed. How close LARsON: So you went up the stepa
to the object did you get before you with them? And entered
noticed anybody? SCHMIDT: Yes.
SCHMIDT: About 30 feet. LARsON: Did you sense anything
LARSON: Then what occurred? by way of smell, that was out of the
SCHMIDT: Then's when that light ordinary?
shot out and- SCHMIDT: Not at all.
LARSON: Paralyzed you, as far LARSON: Were there any other
as you know. Then what occurred? people in this object?
SCHMIDT: Two men came out SCHMIDT: Yes, there were four
and they said not to be alarmed, that men, and two ladies.
they would have to search me-- LARSON: Ladies? What age did
LARSON: They came out of the they appear to be?
side? SCHMIDT: They appeared to be
SCHMIDT: Yes, out of the side of around 40.
the machine. LARSON: Were they tall
LARSON: And were there steps you entered?
down to the ground? SCHMIDT: They just spoke to me,
SCHMIDT: Yes, there was a slid- that's all. ' They just said "Hello."
ing door, and then the steps. LARSON: In what language?
LARsON: I see. They came out, SCHMIDT: In American language.
and they spoke to you in English? LARSON: They said, "Hello," and
SCHMIDT: Yes. you answered them?
LARSON: How were they dressed? SCHMIDT: Yes.
SCHMIDT: They were dressed like LARSON: And what did you see,
any American would be. In busi- once you were inside this object? st
English? LARSON: After these women and
these other men said hello to you,
en English. one of them, more than likely, stay-
LARSON: What did they say to ed by you-?
SCHMIDT: One man, all the time.
you? LARSON: And he was the one who
SCHMIDT: They told me not to talked to you?
be alarmed, that they were not go- SCHMIDT:.Yes.
ing to hurt , and they did want LARSON: And the two women and
to search me, ,and I told them I the other three men went about
their business? Did they appear to
what the "deal" was, what this ob- be interested in you after saying
ject was, and they said, "Well, as hello?
long as we can't leave for a few SCHMIDT: No.
Schmidt doesn't say whether they LARSON: Then did they talk
were black or not-G.B. among themselves?
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CHASING THE FLYING SAUCERS 31
SCHMIDT: Yes. ladder went up and I stepped back
LARSON: And what language about ten feet-they didn't tell me
were they using? to watch out or anything-and when
SCHMIDT: TheY were talking in the machine started going, why, I
a high German, as much as I could stepped back a little farther. And
tell-that machine was about a hun- then I watched them leave.
dred feet long, as I've said, and they LARSON: How did they leave?
were talking in a high German every SCHMIDT: It went straight up in
time I could hear them. the air. Slowly at first, then it gain-
LARSON: Are you qualified to ed speed, until it got about 150 to
know high German, Mr. Schmidt? 200 feet in the air. It seemed like
SCHMIDT: Yes. there was a flash there, and it just
LARSON: And they didn't appear. disappeared.
to be interested in you personally, LARSON: Now, you could see
after you said hello? any object of this size 150 feet in the
SCHMIDT: No. air?
LARSON: And now you were in SCHMIDT: Oh, yes. It just dis-
the object about how long, Mr. appeared. It changed color.
Schmidt? LARSON: Did they have any in-
structions to you after you left?
minutes. SCHMIDT: They told me not'to
LARsON: What did you do while try and start the automobile "un-
you were in there? til after we leave, for it won't start
SCHMIDT: I was just talking to anyway." Then he kinda smiled,
this man, although he didn't explain and that's when I first knew they
anything to me. had done something to the automo- .
LARsON: You asked him ques- LARSON: You asked I him ques- bile.
tions? LARsON: Did you personally feel
SCHMIDT: Yes, I asked him some they were friendly toward you?
more about what they were doing, SCHMIDT: Yes, very friendly.
and he said he couldn't tell me that LARSON: But disinterested in you
but in the near future we might all as a person?
know, he said-to tell my people SCHMIDT: Yes.
that they meant no harm. LARsON: May I ask you this, now,
LARsON: And then did something Mr. Smith? You were with them, or
occur that would indicate to you near them, for about how long a
that perhaps the machinery was re- time?
paired? SCHMIDT: I would say 30 to 35
SCHMIDT: Yes, this one man who minutes. It took about five minutes
was working at one end, he said they to come out there and get me and
would be ready to take off-in Ger- bring me back.
man language. LARSON: And after it vanished,
LARSON: And you recognized it? up there in the sky, you decided to
SCHMIDT: Yes. do what, sir?
LARSON: Still high German? SCHMIDT: I went to my automo-
SCHMIDT: Yes. And then this bile, and started to the Sheriff's of-
man told me, in American, that they fice.
were ready to take off and that I LARSON: Let me ask you this:
would have to leave. I went out of Were you scared?
this machine, the door closed, the SCHMIDT: Not at that time I

LARsON: And you came up here such a thing as outer space--or a
and talked to the Buffalo County machine from outer space-or it
Sheriff, Lloyd Frank, was that might be from a different country.
right? LARSON: You feel it might be
SCHMIDT: His deputy. either one of the two?
LARSON: And then what occur- SCHMIDT: Yes.
red? LARSON: What race would you
SCHMIDT: The sheriff and my- say they were?
self, we went t there, and he was SCHMIDT: German.
convinced tha it something had been LARSON: Well we want to thank
there. Then ve came back and got you very much, Mr. Schmidt, for this
the city manager- opportunity of talking with you. We
LARsON: That's Ray Lundy, yes- appreciate it very much. You are
SCHMIDT: The chief of police- very definitely going to be interro-
LARSON: That's Thurston Nel- gated by the various law enforce-
son? ment bodies. There will be news
SCHMIDT: That's right. media after you. We appreciate
LARSON: And all of you return- this chance to talk to you first hand
ed to the scene then. And was there about this. Do you have anything
any.evidence leit at the scene that else you would like say at this
would indicate that this had occur- time?
red? SCHMIDT: No, I guess that's all
SCHMIDT: Yes. The sheriff, I that I have to say.
think it was, and myself, we picked LARSON: Thank you very much,
Mr. Reinhold O. Schmidt, of Bakers-
SCHMIDT: Yes, it was sandy.
There were footprints there.
LARSON: And you explained to
them what had actually happened,
and they were convinced that some
of this had occurred, if not all, ac-
tunlly?
SCHMIDT: Yes.
LARsON: What are your personal
reelings, Mr. Schmidt, about this?
Have you had a chance yet to calm
.

each end, which was standing on four posts As he got out and approached it, a
staircase-like ramp came out, and two middle-aged men emerged. One flashed some-
thing like a flashlight at him, which s emed to paralyse hin temporarily. The men
searched him for weapons, and one said: "We'll have to be here a little while--you
might as well come insice." om inside, the walls appeared There wer
two more men and two not-so-young women, all dark:-haired and rdinay
clothing, engaged in repairing, some Amonz trenselves moke x.3:
Schmidt cnlled "high Geman." To TOve certain SHAP,
the crew
hall in rou.
oithor. Do FALTO:
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(INS said, apparentl rectly, that four holes in the
his story. It was straightforvard, self-possessed, and quite devoid of suspicious-
ly subjective features - far more convincing-sounding, for example, than Menger.
Schmidt's employer, Donald Woodill of the Val-U-Pak Co., called him quiet, reliable
a non-drinker, and "not the type to fabricate something." However, he had known
him for only about six weeks.
By morning on the 6th, the UP had found out that Schmidt had served time in
the Nebraska penitentiary in l938-39 for embezzlement. And the Hub and the AP re-
ported that an empty can of green motor oil had been found not far from the spot ported that an empty can or green motor
where the "saucer oil" was found, and "another can of the same type of oil was where the "saucer oil" was found, and "another can of the same type of oil was
found in the trunk of Schmidt's found in the trunk of Schmidt's car." car." Schmidt had been held all night at the coun- Schmidt had been held all night at the coun
ty jail and grilled, being permitted little sleep ("Law o: ty jail and illed. being permitted little sleep ("Law of questioned Schmidt questioned Schmidt
throughout the night"--Hub). throughout the night" Hub.
By afternoon, an INS dispatch reported that two Air Force investigators from By afternoon, an INS dispatch reported that two Air Force investigators from
Colorado Springs were also participating in the questioning of Schmidt, who had bee Colorado Springs were also participating in the questioning of Schmidt, who had bee
"interviewed through most of th. night but stuck to his story," and that the court,
at his request, had assigned him a lavyer. It disclosed also two facts that never
appeared in the Hub: that he had refused to take a lie-detector test, and that lio.doteotontast and that
"Scottsbluff County sheriff Steve Warrick said he had known Schmidt for years, and
described him as a 'mixed-up boy.'"

"in immediate need of psychiatric
reported that "authorities said they had received information
The UP story also 'instabi and demands
from his family that Schmidt was suffering from seeming
on him from unidentified persons and 'crackpots.'" This last suggests para-
However, we find from the Hub that it was not Schmidt himself, but
noid delusions. demand on un-
identified persons wious crackoots t Dlac rain upon
refers rquests for aficionados.)
(Umioustedly irsreased
(11/6)
What happened to Schmidt was publicized by nearly every paper in the country,
and the Air Force was obviously happy to give the incident prominence as "one of the
only five worthy to be imvestigated." Regardless of what the true facts are in the
Schmidt case, it is an example that will certainly tend to discourage future wit-
nesses of saucer landings from rting their experiences.
We must assume that the were justified in their verdict; it seems
impossible to take seriously the id y"railroading"
conspiracy, or that they were distinguish nervous strain from insanity.
But the extraordinary speed he commitment, the participation of he Air Force,
and the fact that no conclusive proof of Schmidt's insanity was ever made public,
are bound to arouse a great deal of suspicion in the saucer world. We are glad to
say that Jules St. Germain (csI's legal adviser) intends to look into the legal as-
pects of the case. We hope that his findings and comment can appear in the next News
Letter.

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1l. The exterior of ths objoct was touched by Sol Rcg wko doscribol the sensation
las thnt of touching shiny motal. There were ao Swas or rivots or any kind on the
itorior - evon the door "disapngnre/" und shouad no sean, The objoet restad on four
shiny metal supports about three (3) or four (h) inches in diameter and three (3)
feet long, slantod outbonrd and on pd :ith black 'padsd of abot trelve (la) inches
in diameter.
12, 12, he ject bvgan rising olo.ly tith little accelerution tntil it reachal a slosly:ithlitole
theight of ten (io) foet, then spe height of ten (io) foet, p slichtly, ro slichtly, ro Scfeet),
er'e. er'0. While a loud huming noise wus While a loud huming noise was heard, there vas no Wini blast Polt by sOuRck. heard, there vas no wini blast Polt by souRcl.
The dnds ho :sing the fans_ were aboit twenty-five (25) feot in length, ths irns about Ths dnds ho :sing the fans were aboit twenty-five (25) feot in length, ths rrns abot
tuelve (1?) feet in diameter. Scuros could not detect any cntrance to the ends hous- turelve (i?) feet in diameter. Souros coula not detect any cntrance to the ends hous-
ing the fans, either within the objoet or on the outside." tng the fans, either within the objoet or on the outside."
13. 13. socrce drove kis car sorCe drove kis car to a nearoy farmhouse to in giru wrhethor the oceupants to a nearoy farmhouse to in ire whethor the oceupants
had had also observei the object. also observei the object. They had not. They had not.
2 [ucl:
Area of Sighting
Source's sketch of object
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