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51 The strange creature also gave off a horrible stench. As soon as May shined the flashlight on the creature, beams of light came out of its eyeballs and it “lit up like a Christmas tree.” Then it floated quickly toward the frightened witnesses. Everybody turned and ran down the hill screaming. Nobody looked back as they fled back into their homes. Kathleen May quickly called the police, and investigators instantly converged on the scene. They found strange markings on the ground and a strange odor still hung in the air. The media picked up the story and the case soon became widely known. To this day, nobody has been able to explain the incident of the Flatwoods Monster. A simple sighting of a UFO is called a close encounter of the first kind. A close encounter of the second kind is when a UFO physi- cally affects the environment, such as causing a car’s engine to stall. However, what happens when UFOs land and aliens exit the craft? have been literally thousands of reported UFO landings across the world. More than 2,000 of these cases involve physical trace evidence of the landing. The Flatwoods Monster case is only one example. Many other equally shocking cases exist. What makes landing cases so interesting is that they make the usual Air Force explanations of misperception or hallucination much harder to accept. These UFOs are no longer even UFOs; they are unidentified /anded objects. For the first time, people were getting a good look at who was piloting these UFOs.” In February of 1953, miners John Van Black and John Allen were work- ing outside their titanium mine near Brush Creek, California, when they saw a “metallic saucer” hovering over the area of the mine. Dur- ing the next four weeks, the saucer returned four times. It was obvious to the men that the object was interested in their titanium mine. When UFOs Land These cases are termed close encounters of the third kind. There THE BRUSH CREEK UFO LANDING