1 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:40,439 Uvos and conjunctive vidas by Charles Lear. For researchers, UFO trace cases make 2 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:45,600 up a welcome, science friendly aspect of a phenomenon that often eludes scientific study. 3 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:51,399 Researcher Ted Phillips specialized in trace cases starting in the mid nineteen sixties on 4 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,200 the advice of Project Bluebook scientific consultant j Ellen Heineck. In the course of 5 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,920 his investigations, Phillips was able to note commonalities, one of those being that 6 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:06,400 soil samples taken from alleged UFO landing sites were unable to absorb water. While 7 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,599 UFOs have been reported to leave physical traces on the environment, they've also been 8 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,519 reported to leave physical traces on witnesses. A common report of this sort is 9 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:22,239 what is medically known as actinic conjunctivitis or cleague conjunctivitis. This is a painful 10 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:26,599 condition where the eyes become red and intensely irritated due to exposure to ultraviolet light. 11 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:34,200 UFO related cleague conjunctivitis is perhaps most prominently featured in John Keel's nineteen seventy 12 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,120 five book The Mothman Prophecies. In chapter two, Section four, Keel tells 13 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,719 the reader that he knew a witness was telling the truth because our eyes were 14 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:46,959 reddened, watery, and almost swollen shut. He goes on to say that 15 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:53,200 people who have close encounters with UFOs are exposed to actinic rays ultraviolet rays which 16 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:59,280 can cause eyeburn, medically known as Cleague conjunctivitis. Cleague conjunctivitis got its name 17 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:05,480 from a specific form of vactinic conjunctivitis experienced by early twentieth century film actors who 18 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,400 worked in front of carbon arc lights called Kleigue lights after the inventors John and 19 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:15,199 Anton Kleigel. Kiel brings up another case which involved a young couple who had 20 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:20,360 an encounter with a big ball of bluish fire while engaged in amorous activity in 21 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,120 the back seat of a car. According to Keel, both of them were 22 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,560 sunburned from head to foot and the young man's eyes were swollen the next morning. 23 00:02:29,039 --> 00:02:32,240 In the July seventh, nineteen seventy five, Kansas Russell Daily News, 24 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,599 there is an article headlined Russell women blinded by UFO. According to the article, 25 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:44,000 Missus Frederick Bochsberger and her aunt Katherine Black were in Boxburger's car on their 26 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:50,879 way to a wedding. Boxburger described seeing a dazzlingly bright object like shining aluminum. 27 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,199 It was shaped like a funnel on its side, as big or bigger 28 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,000 than the car, and moving from west to east. It flew over the 29 00:02:58,039 --> 00:03:00,120 car and was so close that the women and thought it was going to hit 30 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:05,520 them. Boxburger stopped the car. The object went straight up and was gone. 31 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:08,520 The car did in stall, as is often reported with the UFO encounters, 32 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:13,439 but the air conditioning system quit and still wasn't working at the time of 33 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,840 Boxburger's interview. Boxburger said that after the encounter, our eyes hurt and were 34 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:23,639 blurry all day. In Kentucky, on January sixth, nineteen seventy six, 35 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,120 Mona Stafford, Louise Smith, and Elaine Thomas were on their way back after 36 00:03:28,199 --> 00:03:32,520 having dinner at a restaurant to celebrate Stafford's birthday. Smith was driving on Highway 37 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:38,919 seventy eight towards Houstonville, according to the October nineteen seventy six aprol Bulletin, 38 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:43,800 about one mile south of Stamford, they saw a huge disc shaped object which 39 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:47,280 was metallic gray with a white glowing dome. According to Smith, it was 40 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:53,280 bigger than two houses. She estimated its size as it stopped and hovered over 41 00:03:53,319 --> 00:03:55,960 the road in front of them. After a couple of seconds of rocking back 42 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,879 and forth, the object moved off to the left. Thinking the object was 43 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,199 gone, Smith kept driving. Then a blue light that the women assumed was 44 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,439 from a police car appeared behind their car. As they realized that the light 45 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,599 was actually coming from the object, which had circled around behind them, control 46 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:16,399 of the car seemed to have been taken from Smith. As a car accelerated 47 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:20,160 to eighty five miles per hour, Stafford, who was in the passenger seat, 48 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,160 grabbed the steering wheel and tried to help Smith gain control. At this 49 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,120 point, the women began to feel a burning sensation in their eyes. All 50 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,319 three women experienced tearing and irritation of their eyes afterwards, and Stafford's was so 51 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,759 severe that she was moved to seek medical attention. There are many other bizarre 52 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,480 aspects to this case, which will explore next week. Two well known cases 53 00:04:43,519 --> 00:04:48,120 involving conjunctivitis are the nineteen seventy nine case from Minnesota, where sheriff's deputy Val 54 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:53,839 Johnson reported a collision with the UFO while in his patrol car in the nineteen 55 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:58,120 eighty cash Landroum case from Texas, where two women and a young boy witnessed 56 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,920 a UFO and afterwards experienced not only burning eyes but a host of symptoms often 57 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:09,240 associated with radiation sickness. Keel came up with a theory that could explain this 58 00:05:09,319 --> 00:05:14,720 aspect of the phenomenon in his nineteen seventy book Operation Trojan Horse. Let us 59 00:05:14,759 --> 00:05:18,879 assume that UFOs exist at frequencies beyond visible light, but that they can adjust 60 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:24,680 their frequency and descend the electromagnetic spectrum, just as you turn the dial of 61 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:29,680 your radio and move a variable condenser up and down the scale of radio frequencies. 62 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,319 When a UFO's frequency nears that of visible light, it would first appear 63 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,040 as a purplish blob of violet. As it moves farther down the scale, 64 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,680 it would seem to change to blue, and then to syan bluish green. 65 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,439 In our chapter on meteors, we note that they most often appear as bluish 66 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:50,600 green objects if there is anything too. Keel's theory, UFOs would pass through 67 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,120 ultra violet on their way through the spectrum, and that would be when they 68 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,800 could cause conjunctivitis. Perhaps The best thing to take away from all this is 69 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 that it might be wise to avoid staring at purple or blue UFOs.