Three Compelling Ufo Encounters

PAUL SIMONTON, A CHICKEN FARMER IN EAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN SAW A DISC-SHAPED CRAFT LAND VERTICALLY ON HIS FARM. A HATCH OPENED, AND WHEN HE APPROACHED HE SAW THREE HUMAN-LOOKING MEN INSIDE. THEY ASKED HIM FOR SOME WATER.

The original story is basically this. At 11 A.M. that morning, Simonton was startled by a strange loud noise outside and above his farmhouse. He stepped to the window and was surprised to see a silvery object coming down vertically in his yard. He approached the object (with no fear), whereupon a hatch in the upper portion opened and he saw three dark-skinned men inside.

One of them handed him a silvery jug with two handles, made a motion like drinking, apparently indicating that he wanted water. Simonton took the jug, filled it and handed it back. Looking into the object, he saw a man "cooking" on some kind of flameless cooking appliance.

There were several small, perforated, cookie-like objects beside the griddle and Simonton motioned that he wanted one, whereupon one of the men handed four of them to him.

Then the object took off at a 45^0 angle and was gone in just a few seconds. As it left, pine trees near the takf path bowed over, apparently as a result of air turbulence as the object went over.

Although APRO had good representation in Wisconsin, we were not fast enough to obtain one" of the controversial "cookies," Joe Simonton, who had eaten one, said tasted like cardboard. A UFO research group obtained one, as did Dr. J. Alien Hynek, the Air Force's consulting astrophysicist.

After several days of much exploitation of the incident by news media, the UFO group announced that the affair had had too much publicity, and they did not intend to analyze the "cookie." On May 3 Simonton told United Press International that if "it happened again, I don't think I'd tell anybody about it."

The same wire story quoted the UFO group statement which said that organization planned no further action and had more important things to investigate.

The most recent word on this affair comes from an APRO member in Minnesota who claims that one analysis with which he is familiar yielded the information that the cookie was made of corn and wheat flour as well as other well-known familiar ingredients, but that the exact origin of the certain type of wheat was not known. This is another case somewhat similar (where the occupants are concerned) to others, including the Playa del Rey Kehoe encounter.

The "men" involved were small, about 5 feet tall, had dark hair and skin, wore dark blue knit outfits with turtleneck tops, and knit helmets similar to those worn under headpieces. They had no beards or were clean-shaven.

The whole episode lasted about five minutes and Simonton observed a few details of the inside of the craft It was dull black, instrument panels included, he said, somewhat like wrought iron.

One of the occupants appeared to be cooking, and stacked beside the appliance on which he "cooked" were some of the cookies.

One man took care of getting the water, and the other stayed at the instrument board. The two who were cooking and watching the instruments did not look around. Just after Simonton obtained the cookies, the man hooked a line or belt into a hook in his clothing near the waist, the hatch closed and the object rose to 20 feet above the ground, then took off straight south.

The object itself appeared "like two washbowls turned face to face.

" The sound Simonton heard before coming out of his house was like "knobby tires on a wet pavement."

The craft hovered a short distance (probably only a few inches) off the ground, all during the episode. The hatch was about 30 inches wide and about 6 feet high. All this, Simonton admitted, was guesswork.

JESSIE ROESTENBERG RECALLS HER FLYING SAUCER ENCOUNTER OVER STAFFORDSHIRE, WEST MIDLANDS,ENGLAND, OCTOBER 1954. (THIS INTERVIEW WAS RECORDED IN 1977 BUT THE SIGHTING OCCURRED IN 1954)

ON 14TH NOVEMBER 1976 ABOUT 9.00PM NEAR WINCHESTER, JOYCE BOWLES AND TED PRATT WERE DRIVING DOWN THE A272 WHEN THE CAR STARTED TO JOLT AND SHAKE. THEY SPOTTED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A CIGAR SHAPED CRAFT WITH THREE ENTITIES BEHIND A WINDOW.



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Ufo Disclosure And The Begging The Question Fallacy

The dirty trick practiced for those who try to sell the cover-up conspiracy and demand disclosure is the classic tactic of the interrogator and it is a fallacy of presumption. For example the interrogator asks the prisoner the following question: "Did you use a kitchen knife to kill your wife? "

The question itself implies that it's a fact that the individual is guilty.

An argument is circular if its conclusion is among its premises, if it assumes (either explicitly or not) what it is trying to prove. Such arguments are said to beg the question. A circular argument fails as a proof because it will only be judged to be sound by those who already accept its conclusion.Those who sell the cover-up and disclosure mythology, never assume the possibility that the cover-up conspiracy doesn't exist. On the contrary when they write about the disclosure, this is in fact a fallacious message to their clients. It is like telling them, "of course there is a cover up, I know it, so what remains to know is when they will tell us the truth about the extraterrestrial entities present in our planet.This circular fallacy has at least two objectives. First to make the client that cover up is a fact, and second, charlatans present themselves as insiders, as individuals who know more than the rest. If people believe that these self proclaimed experts know more, then they will eventually buy books. (The same book written again and again, since nothing is new in the UFO subculture. Only new fantasies and fabrications)Of course if they do know more, they can tell you secrets, things that you ignore. However, sooner or later, those who sell fictions as facts will need some other fallacy. The repetition of the disclosure promise is limited in its effects.The whole UFO meme is affected by this Nothing Happens Syndrome. In the end, the concept of cover-up/ disclosure becomes meaningless and unconvincing.The self-proclaimed "experts" know that what was amazing in the 50's is boring trivia in the 21 Century. Paradoxically the presence of the ETs is always an absence and the game of Hyde and Seek is not for informed, intelligent adults. That is why some ufologists become conspiracy theorists and ghost hunters while others look for alternative jobs in the real world.

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