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At 3.00 am, Bames officially notified the — screens. was silent and not a soul was moving in the US Air Force Air Defense Command. It After ten minutes of fruitless search, the streets. Even the sled dogs which would took the air force half an hour to respond, interceptors headed home. Back came the normally have bade welcome were silent. but finally a pair of radar-equipped F-94 UFOs. At 3.20 am, with the UFOs con- The shanties were choked with snow, | night fighters roared in and found nothing. __stantly on radar, the air force sent in anoth- and not a chimney showed smoke. The As soon as the jets departed, the blips er pair of F-94s. But now the UFOs trapper found the village's kayaks tied up magically reappeared on the radar screens remained visible on the screens, and one of _ on the shore of the lake. and remained there, moving slowly until the jet fighters reported a visual sighting of Inside the shanties the trapper found a daybreak. four lights. At one point, the pilot radioed further surprise: there were meals left. The air force said nothing, but the news that the lights were surrounding his plane. hanging over fires, long grown old and leaked out and the story broke like a thun- What should he do? he asked the ground mouldy, apparently abandoned as they derclap in the moming papers. The tight- controllers. Before the controllers could were being cooked, The men's rifles were lipped air force refused to admit to clam- respond, the lights sped away. still standing by the doors, This-really ouring reporters that it had actually scram- Next morning, the Pentagon was inun- frightened the trapper because he knew that bled jets to intercept the UFOs. dated with querics. Even President Harry these people would never leave their Pre Professor Menzcla, a professor of Truman asked an aide to find out what in cious weapons behind. astronomy at Harvard University, called the world—or out of it—was going on. He reported his discovery to the Royal the incident a case of temperature inver- Finally, on 29th July, Major-General John Canadian Mounted Police who investigated sion. He correctly pointed out that in such A. Samford, Director of Air Force further. They discovered that the town's cases, ghostly blips have been known to Intelligence, held a press conference. He dogs had died of hunger, chained beneath a appear on radar scopes—something that told reporters he was convinced that all the tree and covered by a snowdrift. More dis- most people did not know. sightings over Washington in the past two _turbingly, the town's graveyard had been But Barnes rebutted the explanation. weeks had been caused by temperature emptied. The graves were now yawning "Inversion blips are always recognised by _ inversions. pits. Despite the frozen ground, the graves experts," he declared. "We are familiar (Source: The UFO Phenomenon, Time-Life had been opened and the dead removed. with what weather conditions, flying birds Books) The RCMP continue to leave the case and such things can cause on radar." open to this day. A check with their A week later, on 26th July at 10.30 pm THE VILLAGERS WHO records department indicated that the mat- that evening, the air traffic radar at DISAPPEARED WITHOUT TRACE _ ter remains unsolved, and despite a search National Airport again picked up blips of In the winter of 1930, a profoundly dis- of the whole of Canada and enquiries five or six objects which seemed to be turbing incident took place in Canada. throughout the world, not a trace of the moving south. Once again, Barnes Trapper Arnauld Laurent and his son missing 1,200 men, women and children checked with the Andrews tower in observed a strange light crossing the north- has ever been found. Maryland: the controllers there also had em sky. It appeared to be headed for the unknown targets showing on their scopes. Lake Anjikuni area. The two trappers [From a National Board of Estimate doc- As well as this, pilots of departing and described it as being bullet-shaped and ument by the Office of Research and arriving airliners radioed reports of strange cylinder-shaped. It can be assumed from Analysis (CIG) on "Intelligence Estimate’ sightings near the airport. this that it was an object of irregular con- on Flying Disk Motives", dated 8 July At 11.00 pm, Barnes called the Pentagon _ figuration that was tumbling as it moved. 1947, as quoted from the book, Majestic, which responded with no more alacrity Another trapper named Joe Labelle had by Whitley Strieber.) than before. At 11.25 pm, a pair of F-94s snowshoed into the village of the Lake (Source: NEXUS OnLine!, via OneNet, by arrived over Washington and again the Anjikuni people and been chilled to discov- density4 @aol.com in peg:alt paranet.ufo, UFOs instantly disappeared from the radar er that the normally bustling community 23 October 1994) NEXUS ¢ 69 DECEMBER 1994 - JANUARY 1995