Missouri's Roswell
Today I thought it might be fun to discuss UFOs. I don't know if any UFOs actually carry little green men with big eyes, but...well, y'never know. Etsy shop is the one and only AbbeysAlley.
Most people I know are aware of Roswell, New Mexico and the mysteries surrounding Area 51, regardless of whether they believe in aliens or not. My sister hypothesizes that the government is working on biological warfare stuff out there, and her reasons for believing that are pretty good, but I digress. Not everyone knows that my home state of Missouri has had a few Roswell-type events of its own. There was an unusual event in Cape Girardeau, clean back in July of 1941. This was before the U.S. entered WWII, but that likelihood was increasing by July and thus there were a lot of airplanes coming and going around Cape. The public was told that the event in question was a plane crash, but the sole civilian that was called there saw something completely different. Said civilian was a preacher, called to the scene to pray for the souls of the dead, and when the preacher got there he reported that the creatures he saw were NOT human. The surviving being (two others were already dead) had big, black eyes and spindly limbs, but was shorter than the average human. The item the creatures came from was a disc. That's right, your stereotypical disc and not a plane. The disc was broken open and was covered in hieroglyphics or some sort of writing like that. Then the military showed up and swore the preacher to secrecy. When KFVS (our local CBS affiliate) reached out to the Air Force and the FBI, both of them denied knowing anything. Big surprise there. As with the incidents at Roswell, the only ones who know for sure aren't talking and probably never will. But SOMETHING happened up there around Cape, something weird that we non-government peons can't fully explain.
Then in 1973 Piedmont had a rash of UFO sightings. Piedmont is a small town in Wayne County, where the Ozarks start to get pretty thick. My mother's family spent most of Mama's developmental years there and thoroughly enjoyed it, but by 1973 they were back in Malden so no one in my family saw UFOs...at least that they know of. Mama says that if just one resident had reported something, probably no one would've believed it, but there were a LOT of sightings between February and mid-April, and plenty of said sightings were reported by reputable sources. A lot of 'em were folks my grandfather knew, and he swore that they were the type that wouldn't lie. There were reports of lights over Clearwater Lake, lights that were the wrong color to be a boat, and moving the wrong way to be an airplane. Was it a legit UFO that the denizens of Piedmont saw, or a case of mass hysteria? I doubt the latter, but then I would because I soundly believe in both UFOs and in aliens.
Speaking of me, I have a story of my own. In early 2009 I was 21, somewhat less heavyset than I am now, and living in the dorms on SEMO campus (for non-locals, SEMO is located at Cape Girardeau). My nickname that year was "Tree Frog," because there were THREE girls on my floor named Sarah Elizabeth. Once again it was April, and it was storming outside as it often will do in Missouri during April. I had the blinds open so I could look at the lightning while I surfed the internet. I lived nine floors up at the time, but the cars on the road below still threw reflections on my window as they passed. So there I was, researching...oh, it was the Who or Simon and Halbig dolls or some obscure murder, that was what I did during my free time. Music, dolls, true crime, that was my life when I wasn't hitting the books. Anyway I glanced outside to look at the rain and I saw...I saw something very funny-looking that was not lightning, not an airplane, not a car reflection, not anything that I had ever seen before. The best way I can describe it was it looked like a vintage light fixture in someone's kitchen, kinda like this but flattened a bit and with solid sides. The underside of the object had four roundish lights arranged in a cloverleaf sort of shape, and the whole object was moving south (my left) at a steady, rapid pace. I only got a fleeting glimpse of it, and I stood by the window for the next hour trying to catch a car reflection that looked or moved like the thing I'd just seen. None of the reflections matched, and when my roommate got home she found me still standing by the window, shaken and confused, barely able to explain what I'd experienced, and terrified that my friends would think I'd lost it. But I wasn't in the habit of making crap up, and before the next day was over the whole floor had to come hear "Tree Frog's UFO story." I don't know if they believed me or if they were humoring me, but no one laughed or teased...not to my face, anyway. I always told the person I was speaking to "There has to be a rational explanation for it...but I don't know what it is!" At the time I was waffling on the existence of UFOs and of aliens, but after that I was convinced that they're there. Is my story solid proof of flying saucers? Of course not, but for me it sealed the deal.
How about y'all? Have any of y'all seen anything that you couldn't explain? Will ya admit it, LOL???
The truth is out there,
RagingMoon1987
Then in 1973 Piedmont had a rash of UFO sightings. Piedmont is a small town in Wayne County, where the Ozarks start to get pretty thick. My mother's family spent most of Mama's developmental years there and thoroughly enjoyed it, but by 1973 they were back in Malden so no one in my family saw UFOs...at least that they know of. Mama says that if just one resident had reported something, probably no one would've believed it, but there were a LOT of sightings between February and mid-April, and plenty of said sightings were reported by reputable sources. A lot of 'em were folks my grandfather knew, and he swore that they were the type that wouldn't lie. There were reports of lights over Clearwater Lake, lights that were the wrong color to be a boat, and moving the wrong way to be an airplane. Was it a legit UFO that the denizens of Piedmont saw, or a case of mass hysteria? I doubt the latter, but then I would because I soundly believe in both UFOs and in aliens.
Speaking of me, I have a story of my own. In early 2009 I was 21, somewhat less heavyset than I am now, and living in the dorms on SEMO campus (for non-locals, SEMO is located at Cape Girardeau). My nickname that year was "Tree Frog," because there were THREE girls on my floor named Sarah Elizabeth. Once again it was April, and it was storming outside as it often will do in Missouri during April. I had the blinds open so I could look at the lightning while I surfed the internet. I lived nine floors up at the time, but the cars on the road below still threw reflections on my window as they passed. So there I was, researching...oh, it was the Who or Simon and Halbig dolls or some obscure murder, that was what I did during my free time. Music, dolls, true crime, that was my life when I wasn't hitting the books. Anyway I glanced outside to look at the rain and I saw...I saw something very funny-looking that was not lightning, not an airplane, not a car reflection, not anything that I had ever seen before. The best way I can describe it was it looked like a vintage light fixture in someone's kitchen, kinda like this but flattened a bit and with solid sides. The underside of the object had four roundish lights arranged in a cloverleaf sort of shape, and the whole object was moving south (my left) at a steady, rapid pace. I only got a fleeting glimpse of it, and I stood by the window for the next hour trying to catch a car reflection that looked or moved like the thing I'd just seen. None of the reflections matched, and when my roommate got home she found me still standing by the window, shaken and confused, barely able to explain what I'd experienced, and terrified that my friends would think I'd lost it. But I wasn't in the habit of making crap up, and before the next day was over the whole floor had to come hear "Tree Frog's UFO story." I don't know if they believed me or if they were humoring me, but no one laughed or teased...not to my face, anyway. I always told the person I was speaking to "There has to be a rational explanation for it...but I don't know what it is!" At the time I was waffling on the existence of UFOs and of aliens, but after that I was convinced that they're there. Is my story solid proof of flying saucers? Of course not, but for me it sealed the deal.
How about y'all? Have any of y'all seen anything that you couldn't explain? Will ya admit it, LOL???
The truth is out there,
RagingMoon1987
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