UFO's and Aliens - A mind thing?

Exactly what several dozen citizens saw or hope to see in the night sky over Russell County Feb. 24 may never be known for certain.

What is known is that one woman claims to have been invited aboard alien ships on several occasions, and several people claim to have been followed or chased by unidentified flying objects.

In a story published that day in the Russel Daily News, Donna Butts, 36, Russel, said that large numbers of alien space- ships would appear in the sky after dark " so people will know they are here, and that they do exist.

In fact, according to Russel Daily News reporter Irene Jepsen, nothing happened. Jepsen and three friends spent much of that night driving around Russel County, watching for the ships. She saw "a lot of activity".

But, she added, "I did not at any time think they were anything but ordinary aircraft.

Several people called her after that night with accounts of UFO sightings, including one man who said he was sitting in a pickup with his wife and children in a field north of the city. Jepsen said he claimed that at about 9:45 p.m. a clucster of lights came out of a gully and headed for the truck. When he truned on his headlights, the apparition vanished.

The next day, Jepsen said, "I did go to the area and there was nothing to see. As far as marks on the ground, there was nothing".

Another woman claimed that she had seen a UFO near the Poineer exit, about 5 miles east of here, Jepsen said.

That UFO was described as a "strobe light" traveling northwest.

None of these people are willing to say publicy who they are and what they saw. Nor has anyone called Russel County Sheriff Robert L Balloun.

Balloun said he was aware of the rumored sightings, but, he said, "We haven't had any reports of anything unusual in the county at all. It's been pretty quiet; we'd like to keep it that way.

"I did have a deputy out that night and he didn't see anything at all. Apparently some people can see it and some people can't.

That so many people claim to have seen UFO does not surprise Philip Klass, a contributing editor to Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine and a member of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

"There is a psychological impact, "Klass said in a telephone interview from his home in Washington. "I have often said that if I could get the Washington Post to publish a story that UFO's has been sighted over Washington, I can guarantee that 20 or 30 people will call in the next day to report that they, too, have seen it.

"Some of them may really have seen something - others, sort of a 'me, too' effect. If the Post, or any newspaper, follows up with another story saying UFO's have been sighted over Washington or Hays or wherever again last night, then more people, again, not kooks, but just curious people, will go out looking."

In 22 years of investigating UFO reports, Klass said, he has yet to find out whose explanation was aliens from another planet.

"Any person who will stand outside at night on a clear night for two or three hours, I can guarantee they will see something they cannot identify or explain. It may be a meteor fireball. It maybe reentering space debris. It may be an advrtising airplane. It may be a (Strategic Air Command) aircraft engaged in refueling maneuvers."

Butts was one of two people quoted in the Dec. 13, 1988, edition of the grocery store tabloid Weekly World news.

"They're coming! Space alien invasion only three years away, says top UFo expert," read the headline.

A recent issue of the newspaper featured the headline, "Space alien baby found on Mt. Everest" on the front page.

In the December story, Butts was quoted as saying she has been in contact with the aliens since 1984 and that the visits were connected with prophecies scattered throughout the Bible.

She refuses to meet with reporters, but in a telephone interview she said that she had been receiving messages from an alien named Peter or Cephas.

"Peter called himself a multidimenional being" she said. She described him as being 6 feet tall, with silver hair and blue eyes, about 60 years old - "nice build, not great, but nice."

On several occasions, she said she had been invited aboard the alien's spaceships.

"They take hold of you, and they have this little black box on the right side of their belt. Then they push a couple of buttons and next thing you know, you're aboard the ship."

Once aboard, she said, the aliens told her about future events, among them an impending collapse of the Bush administration that would result in Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, becoming the next president.

Klass was skeptical.

"See if you can find out what horse is going to run first at Hialeah tomorrow, " he said.

Also quoted in the Weekly World News was Ottawa physician Scott Corder. In a telephone interview, he said Peter was an "Amorcan", one of 70 species of aliens now visiting Earth. They came to Russell, he said, because it is the focal point of a "transmutational channel" that covers much of Kansas.

"It's some kind of an entry point that has to do with electromagnetic fields that allows them to gain entry to our plane of existance," he said.

"They want to focus some attention to that area, because it's significant to them for prophecy."

The prophecies are scattered throughout the Bible, Corder said. Many are connected with the Book of Revelation and deal with the end of the world.

Corder added that Peter/Cephas is the same person as the apostle, Saint Peter.

Monday, the state board of Healingh Arts suspended Corder's license to practice medicine for his public statements about the aliens.

Ted Schultz, a writer on unconventional beliefs, is familiar with similar accounts. His book, "The Fringes of Reason," examines a number of fringe socail phenomena, including flying saucer religions.

"It's interesting that this case combines both things - the classic "50's contactee and the abduction," he said.

During the 1950's, people claimed to have been contacted by alien beings, often with predictions of future events or messages for the rest of the world.

"It's hard to take any particular one at face value", he said. "It seems to me that, as far as the question of whether to actually believe them or not, the fact that hunderds of these predictions that have never come true works against it."

Abduction, the notion that people are kidnapped by aliens, has been around almost since the first science fiction novels.

A ghoulish twist, that the aliens conduct experiments on their prisoners, surfaced in 1968 with John Fuller's book, "Interrupted Journey". Similar accounts have recently been on the best seller lists.

"Now it's a big thing," Schultz said. "It tells you something about human nature and the human mind, a lot more than it tells you about visitors from outer space."

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	Home Ghosts Extraterrestrial life Contact with, influence and intervention of the supernatural. Unexplained disappearances Life in the Universe UFO's an Introduction UFO sightings UFO crashes Crop circles Extraterrestrials Abductions UFO's and Aliens - A mind thing? Exactly what several dozen citizens saw or hope to see in the night sky over Russell County Feb. 24 may never be known for certain. What is known is that one woman claims to have been invited aboard alien ships on several occasions, and several people claim to have been followed or chased by unidentified flying objects. In a story published that day in the Russel Daily News, Donna Butts, 36, Russel, said that large numbers of alien space- ships would appear in the sky after dark " so people will know they are here, and that they do exist. In fact, according to Russel Daily News reporter Irene Jepsen, nothing happened. Jepsen and three friends spent much of that night driving around Russel County, watching for the ships. She saw "a lot of activity". But, she added, "I did not at any time think they were anything but ordinary aircraft. Several people called her after that night with accounts of UFO sightings, including one man who said he was sitting in a pickup with his wife and children in a field north of the city. Jepsen said he claimed that at about 9:45 p.m. a clucster of lights came out of a gully and headed for the truck. When he truned on his headlights, the apparition vanished. The next day, Jepsen said, "I did go to the area and there was nothing to see. As far as marks on the ground, there was nothing". Another woman claimed that she had seen a UFO near the Poineer exit, about 5 miles east of here, Jepsen said. That UFO was described as a "strobe light" traveling northwest. None of these people are willing to say publicy who they are and what they saw. Nor has anyone called Russel County Sheriff Robert L Balloun. Balloun said he was aware of the rumored sightings, but, he said, "We haven't had any reports of anything unusual in the county at all. It's been pretty quiet; we'd like to keep it that way. "I did have a deputy out that night and he didn't see anything at all. Apparently some people can see it and some people can't. That so many people claim to have seen UFO does not surprise Philip Klass, a contributing editor to Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine and a member of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. "There is a psychological impact, "Klass said in a telephone interview from his home in Washington. "I have often said that if I could get the Washington Post to publish a story that UFO's has been sighted over Washington, I can guarantee that 20 or 30 people will call in the next day to report that they, too, have seen it. "Some of them may really have seen something - others, sort of a 'me, too' effect. If the Post, or any newspaper, follows up with another story saying UFO's have been sighted over Washington or Hays or wherever again last night, then more people, again, not kooks, but just curious people, will go out looking." In 22 years of investigating UFO reports, Klass said, he has yet to find out whose explanation was aliens from another planet. "Any person who will stand outside at night on a clear night for two or three hours, I can guarantee they will see something they cannot identify or explain. It may be a meteor fireball. It maybe reentering space debris. It may be an advrtising airplane. It may be a (Strategic Air Command) aircraft engaged in refueling maneuvers." Butts was one of two people quoted in the Dec. 13, 1988, edition of the grocery store tabloid Weekly World news. "They're coming! Space alien invasion only three years away, says top UFo expert," read the headline. A recent issue of the newspaper featured the headline, "Space alien baby found on Mt. Everest" on the front page. In the December story, Butts was quoted as saying she has been in contact with the aliens since 1984 and that the visits were connected with prophecies scattered throughout the Bible. She refuses to meet with reporters, but in a telephone interview she said that she had been receiving messages from an alien named Peter or Cephas. "Peter called himself a multidimenional being" she said. She described him as being 6 feet tall, with silver hair and blue eyes, about 60 years old - "nice build, not great, but nice." On several occasions, she said she had been invited aboard the alien's spaceships. "They take hold of you, and they have this little black box on the right side of their belt. Then they push a couple of buttons and next thing you know, you're aboard the ship." Once aboard, she said, the aliens told her about future events, among them an impending collapse of the Bush administration that would result in Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, becoming the next president. Klass was skeptical. "See if you can find out what horse is going to run first at Hialeah tomorrow, " he said. Also quoted in the Weekly World News was Ottawa physician Scott Corder. In a telephone interview, he said Peter was an "Amorcan", one of 70 species of aliens now visiting Earth. They came to Russell, he said, because it is the focal point of a "transmutational channel" that covers much of Kansas. "It's some kind of an entry point that has to do with electromagnetic fields that allows them to gain entry to our plane of existance," he said. "They want to focus some attention to that area, because it's significant to them for prophecy." The prophecies are scattered throughout the Bible, Corder said. Many are connected with the Book of Revelation and deal with the end of the world. Corder added that Peter/Cephas is the same person as the apostle, Saint Peter. Monday, the state board of Healingh Arts suspended Corder's license to practice medicine for his public statements about the aliens. Ted Schultz, a writer on unconventional beliefs, is familiar with similar accounts. His book, "The Fringes of Reason," examines a number of fringe socail phenomena, including flying saucer religions. "It's interesting that this case combines both things - the classic "50's contactee and the abduction," he said. During the 1950's, people claimed to have been contacted by alien beings, often with predictions of future events or messages for the rest of the world. "It's hard to take any particular one at face value", he said. "It seems to me that, as far as the question of whether to actually believe them or not, the fact that hunderds of these predictions that have never come true works against it." Abduction, the notion that people are kidnapped by aliens, has been around almost since the first science fiction novels. A ghoulish twist, that the aliens conduct experiments on their prisoners, surfaced in 1968 with John Fuller's book, "Interrupted Journey". Similar accounts have recently been on the best seller lists. "Now it's a big thing," Schultz said. "It tells you something about human nature and the human mind, a lot more than it tells you about visitors from outer space." UFO's UFO UFO-China UFO-Brazil UFO-China