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A nineteen seventy seven UFO Contact DA
case by Charles Lear the February March nineteen

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seventy seven issue of the UFO News
Clipping Service as four articles describing what would

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become classic UFO cases. One looks
into the report of nine year old jose

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Kantu, who said he saw two
greenish creatures about three feet tall who rotated

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on a base instead of having feet, and two steely crafts in which two

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other creatures were sitting. His drawing
showing one of the creatures with only one

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eye, as caused them to be
dubbed the cycloptic aliens of Hera. The

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three other articles described two abduction cases
that have become well known, one involving

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Judy Kendall, covered in two papers
from California, and one involving three women,

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Elaine Thomas, Louise Smith, and
Mona Stafford, covered in a paper

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from their home Stake, Kentucky.
By this time, abduction claims in creature

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reports had come out from under the
umbrella of contact D reports the stigma that

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came with this association, thanks to
cases such as the nineteen seventy three Pascagoula

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incident and the nineteen seventy five Travis
Walton incident, and news agencies were more

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open to reporting on them. That
being said, there is an obscure case

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reported in the February second, nineteen
seventy seven Clarksville, Tennessee Leaf Chronicle that

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as aspects of a contact tea case
and the story told by the man who

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said he had an encounter with other
worldly beings is strange to the point of

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being ridiculous. Even so, the
reporter who covered it wrote about it with

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a good deal of objectivity and restraint. The article headlined Greenville farmer contacted by

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beings from outer space was written by
Ron Taylor. According to him, Donald

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Fender, a farmer from Greenville,
Tennessee, said that as he was driving

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towards Madisonville, Tennessee, on January
twenty seventh, he got a feeling fifteen

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miles west of Clarksville like someone wanted
to talk to me. He turned off

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onto a side road and drove until
he came upon a craft that he said

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looked like a pullet egg and,
in Taylor's words, appeared to be a

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silky balloon or parachute. Fender said
that beings came out of the craft and

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spoke to him. According to Taylor, the creatures told Fender they were emissaries

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of peace and that they had stopped
there because it was the only place where

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they could enter Earth's atmosphere. Taylor
explains their mode of travel is restricted to

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a space vacuum that is aligned where
the road runs north and south through Clarksville.

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Fender said they told him. According
to Taylor, Fender said there were

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two of these vacuums, one on
one side of the road for the creatures

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he spoke with, and another on
the other side, or in Taylor's words,

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another planet. Fender is said to
have explained that there was no way

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to cross from one to the other, and that the creatures he spoke with

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had created the one they used and
were on their first visit in the midst

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of a testrun. Fenders quoted as
saying, they said they were coming back.

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They didn't say when, They just
said they are coming back. Taylor

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says that, according to Fender,
that particular area was the only place where

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a vacuum of that type could be
created, and that because of this,

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Clarksville would become, in Taylor's words, the place from which all space travel

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would originate. Taylor reports that Fender
described himself as a bee farmer who also

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raised tobacco, corn, cattle,
and hogs, and a member of good

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standing in the Greenville Baptist Church.
He points out that Fender was aware that

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his story was hard to believe,
and quotesham Is saying, if anyone told

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me a story like this, I'd
tell them it is a crock of Bologney.

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According to Taylor, a spokesman for
Fort Campbell said there were no UFOs

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reported by air traffic controllers there.
On the twenty seventh. Fenders described as

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not being discouraged by this and planning
to take a trip to Washington too.

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In Taylor's words, talk with whommever
he is supposed to talk to. He

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is quoted as saying, I've often
thought that if anything happened to me like

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happened to those boys in Mississippi who
claimed to have been taken aboard an alien

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spaceship, I'd be ashamed to tell
it. But I want to tell this.

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The case hasn't been forgotten altogether,
and is described on at least two

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web sites, thanks to a mention
of it in the January nineteen seventy seven

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Mouffon Journal. In the article headlined
new close Encounter Cases under Investigation, written

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by Leonard Stringfield, Stringfield briefly describes
the case and notes that the lone witness,

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who preferred to remain anonymous, was
reluctant to discuss the incident over the

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farm. It is noteworthy that there
are twelve pages in that issue devoted to

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the abduction case in Kentucky, which
Stringfield investigated along with others. Charles Lear

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is the author of Crashed Saucers and
Malevolent Aliens, available at Amazon dot com