Bob then disappeared, but that was more of Bob’s desire to remain left alone than anything else was. Knapp did find him and we all saw interviews that were conducted on Bob’s boat.
The Men in Black, were government agents, but their role had nothing to do with the UFO. They were responsible for transporting hazardous and valuable material. Knapp was allowed to see some of their facilities and training, but only after following them along the highway and provoking a confrontation… well, more of a meeting than a confrontation. They did stop to meet Knapp. Knapp was satisfied they had nothing to do with the UFO.
The thing that fell, a UFO by any definition probably wasn’t of extraterrestrial origin. Knapp told me in a private conversation, though he made it clear in his presentation, that he thought it was some kind of an experimental aircraft that crashed. It might have been one of the unmanned aerial vehicles that have become so popular with the military.
James Clarkson, on Sunday, told us of his investigation into something that crashed in the Elk River area in Washington State. According to the newspapers, and he found only five articles about the event, on November 25, 1979, something did crash. Clarkson found many witnesses to the “arrival of a fiery object… The unknown object impacted and may have exploded.”
Clarkson also found witnesses to a military presence, learned that roads had been blocked by armed soldiers, and that an explanation of “maneuvers in the area” had been offered. This answered no questions about the event.
Clarkson provided eyewitness testimony about an object that seemed to have brightly glowing windows and seemed to be on fire. He didn’t believe any of the explanations offered about the event and is continuing his work.
The second to the last presentation at the conference was that of Stephen Bassett. I’d watched him working on his computer almost the whole time we were there. He sat at his table with his laptop, outside the conference hall with his laptop, and nearly everywhere else with it. He told later me that he had been working on his presentation.
Like his impromptu hosting of the panel discussion on Friday, he seemed to fill the stage. He said that he rejected much of what John Alexander had said. Bassett believes in MJ-12 and exopolitics. In fact, not long before he had taken the stage, we had discussed some of the exopolitic witnesses and what I thought of as their lack of credentials. Although I think he might have been winning our debate when we had to quit, I really hadn’t had the chance to explain much of my reasoning.
Bassett wandered the stage explaining that the cover-up had started in 1947 with Brigadier General Roger Ramey who gave us the weather balloon explanation for the Roswell crash. He told us how to find lots of UFO articles archived and other relevant information published on his website at www.paradigmresarchgroup.org. He predicted that next spring something big was going to happen. The disclosure about UFOs was coming, thanks in part to the new president.
His was the only presentation to receive a standing ovation. I’m not sure if it was the content or a tribute to Bassett. He did make even the mundane interesting.
I closed out the conference, updating my work on the Las Vegas UFO crash. I showed how the Air Force manipulated the records, separating the sighting into two events so that explanations could be offered and provided the testimony of a general from NORAD who saw the thing in the air.
But a conference is more than just speakers on a stage. Here there were a “Meet the Speakers for Dessert and Drinks” and a banquet at which each speaker hosted a table. At the rear of the conference room each of the speakers had a table. All of this means that there was an ample opportunity for the speakers to interact with the attendees.
I heard a wide variety of stories such as that from those of a man who said his friend was killed in a gunfight with aliens at Dulce to the man who insisted that MJ-12 was real and I should listen carefully to what Dr. Wood said (which I had). I saw Don Schmitt surrounded more than once by people asking about Roswell and Jim Marrs always had people waiting to talk with him. Nick Redfern sat at his table most of the conference, as I did at mine, listening to the speakers and talking to those to wished to learn more about our specific points of view.
Before I arrived in Las Vegas I had worried that economic fears would inhibit turn out, but I was told that more people were at this conference than the one last year. People were interested in the subject and besides, it was in Las Vegas (and no, I didn’t spend a dime in the casino, though I threatened to enter one of the poker tournaments).
By Sunday night, most of the attendees had left, some of the speakers caught early flights and the rest were just tired. But I heard no one complain about the venue or the opportunity to share ideas and information. In the long run everyone seemed well satisfied and quite a few mentioned their anticipation of next year’s conference.
UFO Crashes and Meteorites
For those interested, I have been checking out some of the latest UFO crashes and find that few of them actually suggest UFOs. We’ve looked at the Needles, California crash that was investigated by George Knapp in May 2008 which was probably of terrestrial origin. Now it’s time to look at some of the others which are of extraterrestrial origin, though not of alien origin. It seems that we’ve reached the point where everything in the sky is labeled a UFO, if it comes close to the ground and especially if it hits.
A couple of interesting reports come from Colorado. On January 12, 1998, according to an article written by Jim Hughes and published in the Denver Post, a bright light flashed over the front range, lighting up the ground and then disappeared with a deafening explosion. Sounds like we might have a UFO crash.
The director of the University of Colorado’s Fiske Observatory in Boulder, Katy Garmany, said that it could have been a meteor, except meteors typically burn up some 20 to 40 miles high and
And there are those that do hit the ground creating craters that are sprinkled around the United States including the huge Barringer Crater near Winslow, Arizona and a cluster of smaller craters near Odessa, Texas.
And bolides, that is, very bright meteors, are often associated with a sound. A roaring like a freight train, or a series of detonations like sonic booms.
The Denver Post reported that the last big fireball that flashed over Colorado, in 1995, was recorded on video cameras. It seems that this latest one (well, later than the 1995 one) was recorded by that same camera.
There were those who were interviewed, such as a spokesman at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, who said that it was nothing from there that would have caused the sighting. Apropos of nothing at all, how many times have we heard this from an Air Force spokesman, or spokeswoman, only to have it retracted a day or so later? No, I’m not suggesting that this was anything other than a meteor, merely pointing out that the Air Force Public Affairs Officers sometimes shoot from the lip (yes, pun intended).
Commander David Knox of the U.S. Space Command at Cheyenne Mountain, told the Denver Post reporter that he didn’t want to say it was a meteor because he didn’t know but that his agency tracks some 8,000 objects in orbit and that it wasn’t one of those.
In a weird coincidence, and again according to the Denver Post, but this time written by Stephanie Sylvester on January 28, 1998, several people saw a “fiery object trailed by a plume of smoke crash to the ground…” near Breckenridge, Colorado