[PART 2-1]

Some researchers even tried to file reports of flying craft alongside ancient historical texts of a similar nature. One such story came from a 17^th century text. This work was by none other than Erasmus Francisci.

I remember reading about Roman Emperor Constantine I as his massive army marched towards Rome in pursuit of battle with his enemy Maxentius. Just as the battle was to begin on 28 October 312 A.D. an unusual object appeared to hover over his army. The object “glowed in the shape of a cross” was seen by all including Constantine. Not one to forsake “a sign from the heavens” Constantine ordered his men to paint crosses on their shields. With such “blessings from above” it was no wonder he defeated Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge. With that victory Constantine became emperor of the Roman Empire and decreed that Christianity would supplant the pagan gods as the official religion of the now fully unified Roman Empire. Whether or not the object seen in 312 was of Martian origin or not it certainly had an effect on our history. For Constantine I the ‘sky god’ had shown the way.

In America during 1865 the Missouri Democrat published a report of an aerial craft which was seen to have broken up as it attempted to land in the Great Falls area of Upper Missouri. Seen by several trappers including one James Lumley the “crash site” was found but due to the oncoming snowstorm it had to be abandoned. The article which described “the bursting of a skyrocket in the air followed by the sound of a great explosion” ended the report on an ominous nature.

Astronomers have long held that it is probable that heavenly bodies are inhabited – even the comets – and it may be that meteors are also. Meteors could be used as a conveyance by the inhabitants of other planets exploring space, and it may be that hereafter some future Columbus, from Mercury or Uranus, may land on this planet by means of a meteoric conveyance, and take possession thereof – as did the Spanish navigators of the New World in 1492, and eventually drive what is known as the ‘human race’ into a condition of the most abject servitude. There must be a race superior to us, and this may at some future time be demonstrated in the manner we have indicated.

Reports came in from many widespread areas around the world during the late 1890s including one very strange report from Stratford-on-Avon, England, where a strange egg-shaped craft had reportedly landed in a field as three ‘gray toned men’ (Martian Bs?) were seen to enter and fly away at high speed. One of the witnesses was a Member of Parliament and was therefore difficult for officials to dismiss. In closed session he presented his detailed report to the British government and it was promptly filed away. Many reports were simply “filed away and forgotten.”

Within weeks another landing report came in from a farmer in France. He was later able to relate that a group of “small gray men exited an oval shaped craft and directed several of his prize cattle onto their ship.” When the startled farmer ran over to the craft armed with a shotgun he was stopped in his tracks by “a wave of heat such as I had never before felt.” He fell to the ground in great pain and when he regained consciousness he was partially paralyzed. This would pass with time. He was able to finally report he had lost twenty of his best stock and he could no longer locate his young farm hand. The farm hand had disappeared never to be seen again. More and more people were coming up missing for unknown and unexplained reasons; many near sightings of strange craft seen in the skies. Interestingly, many reports noted that these strange craft were seen to change colors when they were in flight from gunmetal grays to blue/gray and red/gray. Still governments said and did nothing. What could they do? What could anyone do?

Later that year in New Zealand two small boys had been playing in a field when a ‘cloud’ was seen to descend on them. When the ‘cloud’ lifted both boys were gone. They were never found. Three native hunters in Venezuela were tracking game when an “egg shaped cloud came up to them in a small clearing and took them away.” Five other men in the hunting party reported the event, but they were ignored. In Italy south of Rome several workmen on a road project were seen to be walking “as if they were asleep or drugged” into a dark cloud which had “come down to the Earth’s surface.” When the cloud “took off” eleven men were missing. In Gabon, West Africa, a group of fishermen had bravely sailed out to a “gray steaming cloud on the lake” and simply disappeared.

Nothing was ever found of the eight men and one woman on the boat. Very little was ever done to coordinate any investigations of these and many other similar reports. All were ignored, ridiculed or worse.

One of the more disturbing incidents, and there were many that made the papers, came out of the Dominion of Canada in 1897 when four young children came running back to a small school house in Manitoba to report a “tall gray man had tried to take them away into his airship.” It was one of many airships reported that very eventful year. Upon hearing the story from the terrified children several men from the small community, all of them armed, rushed to the field where the children had been. As they arrived all 14 men witnessed a long cigar-shaped craft silently lift-off. At that point several of the men fired their weapons hitting the craft as they could report later that they had hit metal. The bullets had no noticeable effect as the craft took off straight up without any engine sound and at great speed. This was well before powered aircraft manned by humans had flown. When they closely examined the landing site they were surprised to find the body of a man who had seemingly been “dropped off by the craft.” The truly fascinating aspect of the dead man was that he was fully dressed in the battle gear of an ancient Spanish Conquistador! He had been completely drained of blood! Upon closer examination it was clear that ‘samples’ had been taken from the body. There were several long incisions which had removed skin and muscle as well as deep “round scoop marks” on the back and thighs. “These are just experiments in flight – nothing more!” Perhaps…!

Then there was the well-published report of an American Indian from the Southwest United States who was found dead and completely drained of blood in a field just north of Moscow, Russia in April of 1899. I remember the story well even though most people I spoke with about the story felt it was just fiction. Strange lights had been seen in the area the night before the corpse was found. A photo taken by the local authorities would make it to America where his family who lived on a reservation in Arizona eventually identified the man. The man had last been seen running towards “a great blue light in the desert.” He was said to have been taken by “the great glowing desert eagle.” They had seen this eagle before. The ancients of the area had carved this image into local sacred rocks.

There were even abduction reports developed into local myths around the world that when taken in the light of Martian reality speak of centuries of attacks explained as best they could in simple ways by simple people. Age old drawings of goblins, small with large oversized heads, thin arms and legs dressed in simple uniforms usually closely-fitted to their bodies now seem to be descriptions of Martian Bs. So-called ‘fairies’ which had been accused of abducting children and flying away with them also fit the general stories of aliens coming to Earth for breeding stock. Folklore and fairy tales around the world speak of humans being taken away from Earth by any number of strange beings. These of course were never taken seriously by “learned people” so they were simply dismissed as old wives tales or perhaps nightmares or worse. It is even possible that women being abducted by aliens caused the mania of witchcraft seen mostly in the 15th to 17th century European area. Reports to authorities of such “flights in craft of the air” caused many to be accused of witchcraft and consorting with the devil. “Courts” sent at least 40,000 of these people to their deaths! Most were tortured before many were burned or boiled to death. This was for the most part organized State murder, brought on by fear and ignorance and nothing less. Were the Martians or their hybrids responsible for many of these encounters? Were there ‘others’?

As for possible wreckage being located before the First Martian War one of the most significant reports came to light in 1887 when the crew of a whaling vessel spotted an object which appeared to have somehow “crashed” on Spitzberg Island located in the Arctic Ocean. The wreckage was taken with difficulty to Norway where the Norwegian Board of Inquiry investigated this singular metallic debris. Its official government report in 1888 clearly stated that “It has – this we wish to state emphatically – not been built by any country on Earth.” The Board could not have been more definitive in its findings. Governments nevertheless did nothing. Yet there was a form of understanding in the language of the Swiss. The word krasa in Swedish means “headaches, nausea and unknown body marks” found after a close encounter with an unknown aerial craft!

The story soon faded as much of the world began to focus on a murderous madman acquiring human body parts from the women of the East End of Old London. Looking back to those terrorizing events begun during August of 1888 it comes to mind that possibly, just possibly, these brutal attacks on a desperate class of women who walked the fog filled streets of the East End may very well have been sanctified simply to take our collective minds off of other events much more damaging to those in power. This killer, it is noted by history, was never captured and simply faded into the historical fog of Old London. A well known man of power once proclaimed, “At times governments do in fact find it necessary to kill their own citizens for the greater good.”

No less an observer at the glass than Galileo Galilei, the first to turn a handmade telescope towards Mars, would in 1614 report to church leaders of “ships of the skies from the god Mars.” He would earlier write, “I dare not affirm that I was able to observe the phases of Mars; nevertheless, if I am not mistaken. I believe I have seen it [Mars] is not perfectly round.” He would go so far as to explain to the powers that be that he had “absolute proof of intelligent life on the planet Mars.” However, church authorities removed all of his notes in 1633 and he was ordered to house arrest for the rest of his life. One later well-known political leader would remark, “This information should be immediately [hidden] since it would create mass panic amongst the general population and destroy one’s belief in the church.” Galileo’s notes on Mars have never been located; only a short reference made during his trial speaks of their existence. We may never know what events or sights he recorded that moved him to that astonishing conclusion. At the time it would be heresy to believe and state otherwise as it could very well cost one even as great as Galileo his life.

In 1639, only a few years after Galileo was confronted by the leaders of the European church, news came from the American colonies of strange events out of the night sky. In March of that year on the Muddy River in Boston James Everal and two other men saw “a great bright light came out of the river. It moved swift as an arrow towards Charlton.” The object was viewed above the river for two or three hours as the small boat they were in drifted down river all of the time. When the light departed north they “found themselves back at their starting point.” This possible alien abduction report found its way into Gov. John Winthrop’s journal 1630-1649 A History of New England. One of the men called the light the “guardian of the sky.” When the sighting was first reported in town several other leading citizens of Boston came forward to confirm that they too had seen a bright light over the Muddy River.

In 1663 a large group of people in Bieloziera, Russia, witnessed a “fiery object flying past emitting burning beams of light.” A report recovered from the St. Cyrille monastery recorded, “There was a great sound and the people came out of the church to find out what it was, and they witnessed a large ball of fire that arrived from the cloudless heavens.” The official monastery report signed by witnesses also reported that the unknown object “moved along the lake, passing over the water surface. The ball of fire measured some 140 feet from one edge to the other, and over the same distance, ahead of it, two ardent rays extended and the big fire and two smaller ones disappeared. Less than an hour later, the people again came out to the square and the same fire suddenly reappeared over the same lake.” There was an additional note that indicated several livestock were “unaccounted for after the event.”

During August of 1666 over the village of Robozero, Russia, the villagers reported seeing a fiery ball of light which left a trail before coming to a complete stop over a nearby church. The glowing object hung in the air not 1000 feet above the stunned crowd before silently flying off to the north. That night several villagers turned up missing never to be seen again!

Records from the Royal Society of London from 16 December 1742 indicate a high ranking member of the “ruling class” in London along with other members of a small group were witness to a large, bright unidentified object” moving slowly across St. James Park.” He reported, “…first I thought [it] was a rocket of large size. From one end it emitted a bright glare and fire like that of a burning charcoal.” “That end was a frame like bars of iron, and quite opaque to my sight. At one point, on the longitudinal frame, or cylinder, issued a train in the shape of a tail of light more bright at one point on the rod or cylinder, and growing fainter at the end of the rod or cylinder; so that it was transparent for more than half its length. The head of this strange object seemed about half a degree in diameter, and the tail near three degrees in length.” When he reported to the British government that the object had changed course a written statement was made and signed but was not acted upon. There would be no further investigation even when the apparently same object appeared three more times during the next few weeks.

One very disturbing report by the Admiralty came from an attack on 4 November 1749 on the British Navy ship the HMS Montague. The Montague was on patrol in the North Atlantic off of Wales when it was hit broadside by a massive “blue fireball” seen to approach the ship from several miles away, damaging the ship when the fireball exploded upon impact. The hit was reported to have left a “strong smell of sulfur.” Just before the “attack” and for several hours after unidentified aerial craft were spotted in the immediate area by members of the crew as well as by crewmen manning two other British ships which had come to the rescue. Why only one ship was attacked cannot be known. Perhaps it was only meant to be a small test! Was this unknown enemy not yet ready for full-scale war?

We also heard of huge aerial craft seen over bodies of fresh water seemingly taking on vast quantities of water. (Many reports were taken of unidentified aerial craft flying out of lakes and deep but slow flowing rivers.) One such report out of Lake Titicaca in South America in 1850 also spoke of abduction and possibly death. Local cowboys had been reporting ‘water clouds’ in the area for some time usually no more than one or two at a time. In July of that year 14 such ships were seen to line up over the lake taking on water. When several local fishermen attempted to row out to one of the 400-foot long craft a fog covered the area and the men were never seen again. Only later would a small blanket be found which had been with them. It had been torn in half and soaked with blood! The objects then “flew so high they disappeared.” These types of reports would continue for many years after the war.

In August of 1883 dozens of people in Zacatecas, Mexico, reported seeing more than 40 “cigar-shaped and disk-shaped objects” in the sky as they crossed the disk of the Sun. These objects were large, elongated and metallic and they made no noise!” Naturally those ‘educated’ people in power took no notice of such fanciful things.

A WAVE OF AIRSHIPS

Beginning late in 1896 and continuing well into the first half of 1898 an almost continuous stream of reports came to the public’s attention concerning “mysterious airships over the United States and parts of Northern Europe.” Abductions and attempted abductions by strange beings were also being reported in several places. Said to be as large as or larger than the airships being test flown in America, Europe and parts of Asia, it was not the great size that caused these sightings to be of an unusual nature. Two other aspects made these reports stand out. First, many were sighted at night (most in fact were night sightings showing a preference to not be seen) over fields and water sources. Over the water they seemed to be pumping large quantities of fresh water into storage tanks and over the fields they were seen to lower ropes down to cattle and pull them up into large openings at the base of the craft. Second, when these ships “took-off” they did so at tremendous speed, far and above anything even remotely possible by Earth based balloon type craft and they did so silently. It was clear these were craft of great sophistication and not of the Earth. Even as I relate these events to you I wonder at why I did nothing. Like most people I simply read the reports and quickly forgot them even though there would be upwards of 1000 individual newspaper reports of these momentous events during the next two and a half years in America alone.

One of the first “large airships” sighted in what would eventually amount to literally hundreds of west coast sightings came on the evening of 17 November 1896. It was sighted over Sacramento, in the American State of California by dozens of witnesses including the Secretary of State who sighted the object along with many others from the dome of the state capital. The only reports that made it to the newspapers came as humorous reporting that wondered in print how much these people had been drinking that night. There was however, one line in a local paper meant to ridicule those who had made these reports. It was one which would come to haunt the editors as they wrote “perhaps these aerial craft come from an abandoned civilization on the forth planet from the Sun – Mars!” There were even claims of contacts with “men from Mars.” Six days later the same type of craft (or perhaps the same craft) was seen over Winnemucca, Nevada. Seen at an altitude of less than 1000 feet witnesses reported “a dark shape behind the light.” At least one witness, a mister R. L. Lowery, reported he had heard commands being given to the crew although he could not make out the actual words. “They had a strange musical quality to them.”

It was reported by the Daily Mail out of Stockton, California on 19 November 1896 that Colonel H. G. Shaw, a well respected military officer, had spotted a strange aerial craft that had landed in a field as he was driving by in his horse and buggy. When interviewed he stated the “metallic craft had no features apart from a rudder and both ends pointed.” He further stated that the craft had a diameter of around 25 feet with a length of some 150 feet. As he studied this craft for more details Colonel Shaw was stunned to see three seven foot tall beings, gray in appearance come up to him “emitting a strange warbling noise.” The ‘grays’ appeared to be very interested in not only the buggy, but the colonel himself. Before he knew it the apparent extraterrestrials were attempting to push him into their craft. Fortunately for Colonel Shaw the beings were much weaker than he, lacking the strength to bring him forcefully into their craft. Having failed the creatures entered their ship and flew away. Colonel Shaw’s position was they had been sent from Mars to kidnap any human they could find and that he simply happened to be in the wrong place at certainly the wrong time. When questioned further, Col. Shaw could not explain why he had not attempted to detain one of his attempted abductors. “It is very strange to say, but my mind seemed to have gone blank for a time.” No one believed they came from Mars!

During the late hour of 1 a.m. on 23 November 1896, a large aerial craft “with portholes” was seen and reported by hundreds of people flying over the city of San Francisco. This “winged cigar-shaped craft” was seen to hover over the city before slowly flying south-east of the city. What made this well-sighted event most singular were the several reports of “the launching of blue metallic spear-shaped objects flying out of the aerial craft” seemingly striking the ground to the south of the city. It was reported that several local residents went out on horseback in an attempt to locate one or more of these devices, but none were found. Only later would that city became a special target of the Martians.

At the same time one very noteworthy account came across the wires of an encounter in central Texas by three men who had watched a “strange aerial craft of metallic appearance landing in a cow pasture.” The men reported that “five peculiarly dressed tall men approached them from the craft speaking in an old English manner.” When questioned, the occupants informed the three Texans that they had learned to speak English from a group of men led by one Hugh Willoughby. It will I hope be recalled that Hugh Willoughby had led an ill-fated North Pole expedition in 1853. None of his polar team or any remnant of his equipment were ever seen again! How did they meet their fate? – was it nature or something entirely different? When the three men reported that the strangers told them they were from Mars only to be ridiculed they stopped telling their stories.

With reports of aerial craft increasing in November and December of 1896 the San Francisco Chronicle took time off from its usual political attacks to make fun of these sightings. “Are you there up in the sky four jolly and intrepid human travelers, paying their respects to Mars, singing quartets to Venus, and saluting the planets generally within hailing distance, or are the people of Sacramento affected with the disease known in polite society as ‘Illuminated staggers.’ ”

On 1 November 1896, the editors of the Detroit Free Press published a front page story reporting that an unnamed inventor from New York was preparing his “aerial torpedo boat” and ‘in fact’ was possibly already making test flights out in the western part of the United States. The story was a complete fake and would later be shown to have originated from a governmental office in Washington D.C. A follow-up report was published in the California Sacramento Bee newspaper two weeks later to the effect that a group of friends of the unnamed New York inventor were prepared to fly this newly built craft from New York to California. If true this would have been a truly monumental event as such a flight would have been well over 3000 miles in distance! Clearly someone or some small group of individuals working within the government were attempting to give cover to the actual aerial craft sightings beginning to be reported from many areas in the western United States and beyond. The secret American inventor developing advanced aerial craft fable had begun. It could now be used as a cover story to hide the truth then flying the skies over the United States and Europe as the European newspapers also began to take up the tale of the secret inventor.

These reports in December alone, of which there were hundreds, were published in newspapers across the northern hemisphere as the “Great Airship Wave.” In the United States, which seemed to be an area of particular interest, these ‘air’ craft were soon seen in nearly every state of the American Union. It was not lost on some news reports that these “ships of the sky” were able to fly at great speeds and to enormous distances in short times. Thousands of people reported seeing them including whole towns witnessing a singular event at a time. Many witnesses reported seeing cigar-shaped craft moving slowly along at night, with lighted portholes and figures moving about inside. At times the sounds of motors could be heard as well as many sightings of brilliant beams of light being sent to the ground. Perhaps it was the same ‘airship’ seen over Hastings, Nebraska late on the evening of 2 February 1897 by dozens of witnesses.

Reports soon came in from the Midwestern United States across Texas, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. By that time literally thousands of people had seen this (these?) craft. Only later would investigators match a pattern of these sightings with dozens of strange disappearances reported along the “path of the flight.” A good many livestock were also missing.

Many of these sighting reports in America and elsewhere were covered over by governments around the world reporting unknown inventors experimenting with heavier-than-air craft and the uninformed general public should not be concerned. It was easier for governments to lie to their people than to seek real explanations to these real events. At the time the public took these false governmental responses to heart as it was well known that many individuals were indeed working on the problem of flight. It was very good cover for the truth as many believed before long someone was going to invent a practical flying machine. But there were too many reports to be inventors working on flight, and governments knew this to be true. They took advantage of the fact that most people at the time still wanted to believe governmental reports. They also knew many people believed these were from “other worlds” but said nothing.

Investigations into the many reports confirmed that depending on the area sighted from 85 to 90% of these reports indicated once again the flights had occurred at night. Certainly the cover of darkness was a key to the occupants flying them; they were trying to hide, but we could not have done much to stop them so this seemed strange. Perhaps they did not know of our weakness in the air or did not want to tip their hand. It was also noted most of the flights had occurred in the winter when the weather was much colder than summer months as well as being sighted more often than not in higher latitudes than lower ones. Only later would we understand the significant aspects of those areas.

There were of course the many reports of “metallic flying craft” or “spectacular shields of the air” coming out of Egypt concentrating for some reason over Cairo. I distinctly remember some of these reports even stated several ‘craft’ at a time had flown over the pyramids very slowly at night seemingly inspecting them at close hand. One was said to have actually landed nearby. No one paid any real attention to these reports even after several people added that more than a few local residents had gone missing that very night. These were not the only abductions in the general area.

Misleading reports placed into newspapers by several governments in America, the Far East and Europe, aided by willing publishers, helped contain much of the general public’s excitement that might have been brought about by these often-fantastic sightings. Newspapers even speculated that none other than Thomas Edison or perhaps Nicola Tesla had been secretly working on airships that these ‘sightings’ had been of his new craft. It would take a definitive and sharply worded statement from the inventor that he had nothing to do with the whole thing to end much, but not all of the speculation. These reports also helped curtail serious investigation into these sightings. One must question why they needed to be contained at all? On 26 June 1897, no less a magazine as Scientific American published one such ‘report’ in the hope readers would somehow believe the aerial sightings may very well have been manmade attempts to fly. It was a well-told tale of new inventions and it too was all a lie.

This line of experimentation has resulted in such great progress in the last few years (and especially so in the last six months) that attainment of long, free flight for man, which not long ago seemed an invention for the far distant future, is a thing now near, if not quite at hand.

An even stronger piece of fiction clearly focused against these thousands of sightings came from the San Francisco Examiner of 5 December 1896, in an editorial penned by none other than William Randolph Hearst, a powerful pre-Martian War editor not well known for always publishing the whole story if it interfered with his way of thinking or for that matter the plain truth! His work at times was one of pure propaganda. “Fake journalism” was his bread and butter. In later years this ‘talent’ would serve those in power quite well. For the time being he would spend some time on the problem of “airship fever”!

“Fake journalism” has a good deal to answer for, but we do not recall a more discernible exploit in that line than the persistent attempt to make the public believe that the air in this vicinity is populated with airships. It has been manifest for weeks that the whole airship story is pure myth.

When a massive so-called “mythical” airship flew over old Chicago on the evening of 10 April 1897, with a population well over 1.6 million at the time, a reporter from the Chicago Tribune named Walter McCarn took a photo of the device (the first known photo ever taken of one of these devices, later “lost”) and an etching of the event with the story appeared on page one of the April 12^th issue. The craft, which appeared again at 6 a.m. the next morning, was seen by thousands of residents before disappearing into a strange dark gray cloud which seemed to move only after the flying device presented itself! Seemingly too many had seen this craft for the report to have been ignored, but it was.

On 15 April 1897 the Jefferson Bee, a newspaper out of the American State of Iowa, reported one of these airships had crash-landed hitting a windmill and exploding at the north end of Jefferson County on a farm. At the time Judge James S. Proctor owned the farm whose house and garden had been damaged by debris. Some of the wreckage had what appeared to be a form of ancient hieroglyphics written on the beams. Several people in Jefferson had spotted the airship at around 6 a.m. as it flew over the town square trailing smoke. Before long the residents of Jefferson were gathering around what was reported to be a “gaping smoking hole in the ground.” Being cautious the residents waited until the next day to lower a man into the hole. The man reported that there was indeed some type of damaged vehicle in the bottom and further that he could step partly inside. The next moment the terrified man demanded to be pulled out of the hole.

The last report from Jefferson stated the townspeople were soon “working on filling in the hole”. A local Army Signal Corps officer Major Thomas J. Weems would later be quoted as saying the disfigured ‘pilot’ “was probably from Mars.” It would be years before any of the townspeople would speak about the crash and only then would they report in hushed tones  they had “found the crushed remains of a dead Martian and had given it a ‘Christian’ burial in the Jefferson Cemetery”. None however, were willing to point out the plot. In a later interview Mary Evans, a local resident, remembered, “Many people were frightened. They didn’t know what to expect. That was years before we had any regular airplanes or other kinds of airships. I was only about 15 at the time. We were living in Aurora at the time but my mother and father wouldn’t let me go with them when they went up to the crash site at Judge Proctor’s well. When they returned home they told me how the airship had exploded. The pilot was torn up and killed in the crash. The men of the town who gathered his remains said he was a small gray man and buried him that same day in Aurora Cemetery.”

Army investigators were soon carting away the debris some of which was very unusual. Small pieces were made of 76 percent iron but did not have properties related to iron of that nature on Earth. “It was not magnetic and was shiny and soft instead of being dull and brittle.” One scientist, a physics professor from North Texas College who worked on the pieces remarked, “If it proves to be a rather strange beast, then a great deal more study will have to be done on it. Right now we can only make suppositions. We cannot draw any conclusion.” As for Major Weems he soon found himself posted to a small island off the coast of Alaska Territory. His death months later would be reported as a tragic ‘accident.’ His body was not recovered!

Another disturbing report came to light day’s later out of Kansas and was reported on 23 April 1897 in the Yates Center Farmer’s Advocate. On 19 April farmer and former lawyer Alexander Hamilton (not of revolutionary fame) outside of Leroy, Kansas spotted, along with his son and friend Jerry Clark, “a large airship hovering over his cattle pen.” He was able to spot “six strange-looking beings” one of which appeared to be gray! As the men ran towards the pen the 300-foot long airship lowered a thick red cable and lassoed one of his prize three-year-old heifers. As the cable was pulled up the cow became entangled in the fence surrounding the pen. Taking advantage of the situation Mr. Hamilton attempted to free the cow but the cable was far too strong. He then cut around the fence which had snagged the cow and “stood in amazement to see the ship, cow and all slowly sail off.” Later reports confirmed several other local farms had been attacked in the same manner possibly by the same ship as several farmers reported missing cows in the general area. Later several individuals, including rancher Lank Thomas, would report finding pieces of cows on pastures which had apparently been “dropped to the Earth from a great altitude.”

When Ferdinand von Zeppelin made his first ‘Zeppelin’ flight on 2 July 1900 it was hailed as an example of man’s efforts into the air. Governments pointed to this singular event as an explanation to the air ship ‘problem’! Uninformed “masses” believed every word. It was pure propaganda.

We now realize men of power and position chose to ignore these and countless other reports of strange air craft and their non-human occupants. They also choose to ignore reports of missing people even as many of these reports spoke to “dozens missing at a single event.” Had these reports not been ignored it is not known whether or not we could have fought the Martians any better than we did knowing the very limited technology we had at the time. Perhaps at least with a warning to Earth’s population we could have better prepared ourselves and thus better protected the lives of millions who subsequently lost their lives during the First Martian War which came upon humanity as if from a bolt of lightning having struck from a cloudless sky. We had the evidence and at times the evidence even walked amongst us as ‘others’!

Editor’s Note: Many, but not all of these incidents did involve Martian Sky Craft – The ‘Others’ were placing observational craft around the Earth as well, perhaps longer than Martians – They continue to operate their craft at will.

GIANTS AMONG MEN

“It is suspected that the long and most alarming aspect of interference with the ‘human race’ by Martians has been planned as an historic onslaught aimed at enslaving the Earth or replacing humans with hybrids loyal to the Martian cause.”

Many reports by a wide variety of citizens were being made in many nations on Earth of human-like creatures as well as life forms entirely unknown on Earth. None of these reports were taken seriously by any governments, at least officially, including several reports which spoke of “a blue-gray creature looking like a small octopus with tentacles, deep eyes and a beak for a mouth” (Martian A?). The newspapers made good light of such stories at the time. Ancient history, from as far back as the Sumerians and ancient Egyptians, report many gods from the sky descended and mated with the “fair women of Earth.” Such laughable reports… perhaps?

There have been reports for many years of unusually tall “humans” throughout Earth’s history although it would be difficult to locate many reports of these individuals being directly linked to aerial craft. One such individual was Robert Pershing Wadlow of Alton, Illinois, who at 22 years of age stood 8’-11.1” tall! He was one of seven individuals living in the United States or Europe in the mid to late 19^th century over eight feet tall. A farmer in China named Chang grew to a height of 7 feet 8-1/2 inches, while American Jack Earle stood at 7 feet 7 inches.

One of the more famous very tall “humans” was Angus MacAskin who lived in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, from 1825 to 1863. He was 7’-9” tall. Making a living as a circus giant he became famous not just for his work in the circus, but for the fact that he was seen one night after a show north of old London to have walked into a low lying blue/gray cloud not to be seen again for several years. He finally “came back to Earth” with a story about being on another planet! No one took him seriously. But why had he not aged nor changed his clothes after all those years? In his pocket one of his ‘rescuers’ found an advertisement from his last show printed years earlier!

To Be Continued………