A nineteen seventy seven UFO Contact DA case by Charles Lear the February March nineteen
seventy seven issue of the UFO News Clipping Service as four articles describing what would
become classic UFO cases. One looks into the report of nine year old jose
Kantu, who said he saw two greenish creatures about three feet tall who rotated
on a base instead of having feet, and two steely crafts in which two
other creatures were sitting. His drawing showing one of the creatures with only one
eye, as caused them to be dubbed the cycloptic aliens of Hera. The
three other articles described two abduction cases that have become well known, one involving
Judy Kendall, covered in two papers from California, and one involving three women,
Elaine Thomas, Louise Smith, and Mona Stafford, covered in a paper
from their home Stake, Kentucky. By this time, abduction claims in creature
reports had come out from under the umbrella of contact D reports the stigma that
came with this association, thanks to cases such as the nineteen seventy three Pascagoula
incident and the nineteen seventy five Travis Walton incident, and news agencies were more
open to reporting on them. That being said, there is an obscure case
reported in the February second, nineteen seventy seven Clarksville, Tennessee Leaf Chronicle that
as aspects of a contact tea case and the story told by the man who
said he had an encounter with other worldly beings is strange to the point of
being ridiculous. Even so, the reporter who covered it wrote about it with
a good deal of objectivity and restraint. The article headlined Greenville farmer contacted by
beings from outer space was written by Ron Taylor. According to him, Donald
Fender, a farmer from Greenville, Tennessee, said that as he was driving
towards Madisonville, Tennessee, on January twenty seventh, he got a feeling fifteen
miles west of Clarksville like someone wanted to talk to me. He turned off
onto a side road and drove until he came upon a craft that he said
looked like a pullet egg and, in Taylor's words, appeared to be a
silky balloon or parachute. Fender said that beings came out of the craft and
spoke to him. According to Taylor, the creatures told Fender they were emissaries
of peace and that they had stopped there because it was the only place where
they could enter Earth's atmosphere. Taylor explains their mode of travel is restricted to
a space vacuum that is aligned where the road runs north and south through Clarksville.
Fender said they told him. According to Taylor, Fender said there were
two of these vacuums, one on one side of the road for the creatures
he spoke with, and another on the other side, or in Taylor's words,
another planet. Fender is said to have explained that there was no way
to cross from one to the other, and that the creatures he spoke with
had created the one they used and were on their first visit in the midst
of a testrun. Fenders quoted as saying, they said they were coming back.
They didn't say when, They just said they are coming back. Taylor
says that, according to Fender, that particular area was the only place where
a vacuum of that type could be created, and that because of this,
Clarksville would become, in Taylor's words, the place from which all space travel
would originate. Taylor reports that Fender described himself as a bee farmer who also
raised tobacco, corn, cattle, and hogs, and a member of good
standing in the Greenville Baptist Church. He points out that Fender was aware that
his story was hard to believe, and quotesham Is saying, if anyone told
me a story like this, I'd tell them it is a crock of Bologney.
According to Taylor, a spokesman for Fort Campbell said there were no UFOs
reported by air traffic controllers there. On the twenty seventh. Fenders described as
not being discouraged by this and planning to take a trip to Washington too.
In Taylor's words, talk with whommever he is supposed to talk to. He
is quoted as saying, I've often thought that if anything happened to me like
happened to those boys in Mississippi who claimed to have been taken aboard an alien
spaceship, I'd be ashamed to tell it. But I want to tell this.
The case hasn't been forgotten altogether, and is described on at least two
web sites, thanks to a mention of it in the January nineteen seventy seven
Mouffon Journal. In the article headlined new close Encounter Cases under Investigation, written
by Leonard Stringfield, Stringfield briefly describes the case and notes that the lone witness,
who preferred to remain anonymous, was reluctant to discuss the incident over the
farm. It is noteworthy that there are twelve pages in that issue devoted to
the abduction case in Kentucky, which Stringfield investigated along with others. Charles Lear
is the author of Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens, available at Amazon dot com