Strange Texas UFO Incident...
Three people suffer radiation burns after a fire-spewing UFO hovers near their car.
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On December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's 7-year-old grandson, Colby, were returning home after dinner on State Road 1485, near Dayton, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston. At around 9 P.M., according to Vickie Landrum, they noticed a round shape bright light in the sky.
For years Betty, Vickie, and Colby have battled with the government, trying to get clear answers about what actually took place that night. They've also fought against mysterious illnesses whose symptoms appeared just hours after the encounter.
The UFO have left it's mark in the middle of the Road as shown in the image below..
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It was later observed by witnesses some days later that some workmen appeared, dug up the Road and resurfaced it and took away the dug up Road material after covering it up on the back of a truck.
When questioned as I recall, This was later denied to have happened .
According to Vickie Landrum,Vickie and Colby were still suffering from nausea and what appeared to be severe cases of sunburn. Betty was in even worse shape. Her temperature was dangerously high and large red welts had appeared on her face and hands.
Over the next four days, Betty's condition grew more serious.
Three weeks later, she underwent treatment for acute radiation poisoning. Betty was in the hospital six weeks. She lost more than fifty percent of her hair and patches of skin on her face.
Betty, Vickie, and Colby continue to battle illnesses that doctors say could be the result of massive radiation .The UFO have left it's mark exposure. Betty has been diagnosed with several types of cancer. She, Vickie, and Colby all have
white blood cell counts that are far below normal.
After the UFO incident, Betty Cash was hospitalized for cancer treatments at least once every year. She died 18 years later at the age of 69.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-Landrum_incident
This could be a sighting of a nuclear powered craft test that went wrong. The burns might also mean they were exposed to a high powered microwave device.
Astro great thread mate and don't know what the object was but anything's got to be better than the explanation given by Philip Klass that the case was a 'hoax'.
See 41:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBHNm9FG8
There's also a recent documentary here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5NQ5NolPJY) about the incident and CardDown has conducted some mighty fine research at the blog below.
BlueBlurryLines (http://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/from-their-own-lips-betty-cash-colby.html)
Cheers.
HI Karl,
Thank you,
I think that I saw it on a Unsolved Mysteries program..and it did seem a bit different from many of the other average sorts of stories..
The Mark on the Road was certainly something unusual...
Thanks for adding your other material.
QuoteAstro great thread mate and don't know what the object was but anything's got to be better than the explanation given by Philip Klass that the case was a 'hoax'.
I have not come across a Nuke Powered one I don't think..but it would explain the severe radiation..
BUT it would seem VERY strange that they would come into such contact with people with such a craft I would think if it was man made..
QuoteThis could be a sighting of a nuclear powered craft test that went wrong. The burns might also mean they were exposed to a high powered microwave device.
Quote from: astr0144 on March 24, 2015, 02:44:44 PM
I have not come across a Nuke Powered one I don't think..but it would explain the severe radiation..
It would also explain some of the sickness experienced by witnesses. The symptoms of radiation sickness are well known.
The burns look like exactly what would be caused by extremely high powered radar (or microwave mind altering device).
QuoteBUT it would seem VERY strange that they would come into such contact with people with such a craft I would think if it was man made..
How can we know that? The craft may have got there by accident whether human or not. When studying UFOs the only way to go if you want the truth is deal with facts. The fact is that we don't know what it is hence the name UFO.
My method is look for possibly human based explanations first.
There were projects to work on nuclear powered craft in the USA and USSR during the cold war.
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QuoteThis wasn't just a hypothetical plan – a Convair B-36 Peacemaker was outfitted with a functioning nuclear reactor and flew multiple test missions in the mid-1950s, several with the reactor running. A huge lead disc separated the reactor from the crew compartment, and the cockpit was lead-lined. The test flights were mainly used to determine the effects of radiation on the plane and the shielding's ability to protect the crew – the B-36 was never actually powered by the reactor. The Soviets ran a similar program using a Tupolev Tu-119.
http://jalopnik.com/5705672/the-xb-70-valkyrie-almost-the-worlds-first-nuclear-aircraft
The controversial nature of nuclear powered flight is the key to understanding my theory here.
QuoteThus, the early design documents for the plane that would eventually become the XB-70 called for a plane using nuclear power. That branch of research ultimately became a dead end, partly because the research and design costs were enormous, partly because someone finally pointed out that putting a nuclear reactor in a military plane ("always built by the lowest bidder," as the military people I've known like to sardonically remark) was a recipe for a really terrible disaster. The Cassini protesters would be having fits.
http://jalopnik.com/5705672/the-xb-70-valkyrie-almost-the-worlds-first-nuclear-aircraft
So officially the programs were cancelled. However I contend that if they could get a potential military advantage (like being able to fly for days without refuelling) then they would not cancel the project
but instead continue under top level secrecy. During the cold war it was seen as a matter of National survival not to let the enemy get ahead - no matter what the risk!So there is every chance that there are nuclear powered secret craft. furthermore I think that a lot of so called "UFO crash sites" were accidents involving these craft which is why they are surrounded by so much disinformation. Not because they are alien craft but because the public have to be kept in the dark about these operations.
Quote from: Pimander on March 22, 2015, 10:31:56 PM
This could be a sighting of a nuclear powered craft test that went wrong. The burns might also mean they were exposed to a high powered microwave device.
Government report on secret flying saucer program made available(http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/876/493/Fig-1-Cutaway%20close%20up.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Declassified docs show Air Force flying saucer
Recently declassified documents from the U.S. Air Force reveal a Cold War-era plan to build a round, vertical take-off and landing aircraft that can only be described as a flying saucer.The truth isn't out there ... it's been stored in a warehouse for 56 years.
The National Declassification Center in College Park, Md., opened one of more than 100 cardboard boxes from the Air Force recently and came across a 114-page document from 1956 sure to interest the tin-foil-hat crowd: a document describing a secret program by the Air Force to build a flying saucer.
"These records have been classified probably since their creation during the '50s," Neil Carmichael, director of the declassification review division at NDC, told Popular Mechanics, which first posted news of the complete document. "It's like somebody went into somebody's office, emptied out a filing cabinet, stuck it in a box, sealed it, and sent it off to the federal records center. It was deemed permanently valuable at some point in its life and that's why we have it today."
Last week, the group posted a few images and a brief blog entry on the program, which was estimated to cost just $3.2 million, the report said. But an NDC representative told FoxNews.com that the group is "in the process of digitizing" the entire document and has not yet released it onto its website.
Carmichael told FoxNews.com this document is just a drop in the agency's bucket.
FOX NEWS (of all places :P )
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/18/govt-declassifies-report-secret-flying-saucer/
(http://www.military.com/pics/PMsaucer1.jpg)
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/?file=PMsaucer
Now that was 1949 to 1956 Imagine what else they were playing with :P
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http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/?file=PMsaucer
A "saucer" picture from 1947 I found in the NICAP archives. This one (below) is The Rhodes Photo, July 7, 1947, Phoenix, Arizona. I suggest any UFO enthusiast newbies get familiar with project 1947.
(http://www.nicap.org/images/rhodes1.jpg)
SOURCE: http://www.nicap.org/waves/1947fullrep.htm
The US Navy definitely flew craft that looked a lot like that in 1947 and they published the fact.
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The V-173 flown by the US Navy in 1947
We can also prove that the Navy have continued to operate similar designs.
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Designed by Northrop Grumman, the X-47B is a strike fighter-sized unmanned aircraft having no tail engineered to take off from and land on moving aircraft carriers at sea. New photographs released show an advanced, virtually UFO-like plane. http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2011/10/us-navy-ufo-like-unmanned-aircraft.html
The fact that the plane is a drone interests me regarding my nuclear flight theory. With no pilot and a nuclear engine you could have one of those things able to fly for weeks at a time if there was no malfunction. That is surely a massive military advantage and one that must have been attempted. This looks like UFO technology to me and it is top secret so we are probably shown conventional versions.