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ee |\ N ALIEN ARTIFACTS IN AMERICAN HANDS IN THE LATE 1930s? We have researched your group and feel it is the most reliable group in the country. We hope that you will research and search this information. The jars with creatures in formaldehyde and the wrecked craft are somewhere! "Cordell said they were afraid they would start a panic if the public found out about it." "Sincerely, "Lucile Andrew, Ashland, Ohio" Theological Seminary, and was a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio. He was a community leader, and he wrote a book entitled Life's Convictions. He married Vina May Clark and they had three daughters. Two of the daughters claim their father had told them about the "creatures". Lucile's original letter essentially tells the story as her father told it to her when she was a teenager. Unfortunately, Lucile said that she was too young really to pay much attention to what her father told her, but Allene—the mother of Eloise, the co-author of this story—was told the same story as her sis- ter. Both sisters assured us that they remember the stories independently. Reverend Holt described the entities in the glass jars as "creatures", a term com- mon for his day. He never referred to them as "aliens" or "extraterrestrials", and he never said where they came from. Lucile stated that his experience hap- pened in the "late 1930s", probably 1939. The material that was nearby the less-than- four-foot-tall creatures was described as "silver metallic". She also remembers he referred to the material as being a "vehicle" that appeared to have been taken apart and was "in pieces". He said the colour of this material wasn't a colour that he had seen before, but for the lack of a better word he illiam E. Jones of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) writes: "I thought your readers should be aware of the Cordell Hull story that alien artifacts were in our hands in 1939." In early December 1999, CUFOS received a letter from the daughter of the Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt: "Today I want to share some knowledge that has been, by request, kept secret in our family since sometime in World War II. This concerns something my father was shown by his cousin Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under [US President] Franklin Roosevelt. My father, who was young, brilliant and sound of mind, told us this story because he didn't want the infor- mation to be lost. "One day when my father was in DC, Cordell swore him to secrecy and took him to a sub-basement in the US Capitol build- ing and showed him an amazing sight: (1) four large glass jars holding four creatures unknown to my father or Cordell; (2) a wrecked round craft of some kind nearby. "My father wanted my sister and I to make this information known long after he and Cordell were dead, because he felt it was a very important bit of information. Core Hull was one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century, with absolutely no apparent reason to tell this story unless it were true, especially at a time when stories of flying saucers and their alien drivers had not yet become part of our culture. Hull was an elected US Senator (1931-1937), was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and became the Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March 1933, the longest-serving Secretary in US history when he resigned in 1944 because of ill health. He was also offered the Vice Presidency and, in 1945, he won the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize. Reverend Holt and Cordell Hull were both born in Pickett County and were cousins and friends. Holt received his doctorate in theology from Ashland NEXUS ¢ 65 by George A. Filer © August 2002 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com