Uvos and conjunctive vidas by Charles Lear. For researchers, UFO trace cases make
up a welcome, science friendly aspect of a phenomenon that often eludes scientific study.
Researcher Ted Phillips specialized in trace cases starting in the mid nineteen sixties on
the advice of Project Bluebook scientific consultant j Ellen Heineck. In the course of
his investigations, Phillips was able to note commonalities, one of those being that
soil samples taken from alleged UFO landing sites were unable to absorb water. While
UFOs have been reported to leave physical traces on the environment, they've also been
reported to leave physical traces on witnesses. A common report of this sort is
what is medically known as actinic conjunctivitis or cleague conjunctivitis. This is a painful
condition where the eyes become red and intensely irritated due to exposure to ultraviolet light.
UFO related cleague conjunctivitis is perhaps most prominently featured in John Keel's nineteen seventy
five book The Mothman Prophecies. In chapter two, Section four, Keel tells
the reader that he knew a witness was telling the truth because our eyes were
reddened, watery, and almost swollen shut. He goes on to say that
people who have close encounters with UFOs are exposed to actinic rays ultraviolet rays which
can cause eyeburn, medically known as Cleague conjunctivitis. Cleague conjunctivitis got its name
from a specific form of vactinic conjunctivitis experienced by early twentieth century film actors who
worked in front of carbon arc lights called Kleigue lights after the inventors John and
Anton Kleigel. Kiel brings up another case which involved a young couple who had
an encounter with a big ball of bluish fire while engaged in amorous activity in
the back seat of a car. According to Keel, both of them were
sunburned from head to foot and the young man's eyes were swollen the next morning.
In the July seventh, nineteen seventy five, Kansas Russell Daily News,
there is an article headlined Russell women blinded by UFO. According to the article,
Missus Frederick Bochsberger and her aunt Katherine Black were in Boxburger's car on their
way to a wedding. Boxburger described seeing a dazzlingly bright object like shining aluminum.
It was shaped like a funnel on its side, as big or bigger
than the car, and moving from west to east. It flew over the
car and was so close that the women and thought it was going to hit
them. Boxburger stopped the car. The object went straight up and was gone.
The car did in stall, as is often reported with the UFO encounters,
but the air conditioning system quit and still wasn't working at the time of
Boxburger's interview. Boxburger said that after the encounter, our eyes hurt and were
blurry all day. In Kentucky, on January sixth, nineteen seventy six,
Mona Stafford, Louise Smith, and Elaine Thomas were on their way back after
having dinner at a restaurant to celebrate Stafford's birthday. Smith was driving on Highway
seventy eight towards Houstonville, according to the October nineteen seventy six aprol Bulletin,
about one mile south of Stamford, they saw a huge disc shaped object which
was metallic gray with a white glowing dome. According to Smith, it was
bigger than two houses. She estimated its size as it stopped and hovered over
the road in front of them. After a couple of seconds of rocking back
and forth, the object moved off to the left. Thinking the object was
gone, Smith kept driving. Then a blue light that the women assumed was
from a police car appeared behind their car. As they realized that the light
was actually coming from the object, which had circled around behind them, control
of the car seemed to have been taken from Smith. As a car accelerated
to eighty five miles per hour, Stafford, who was in the passenger seat,
grabbed the steering wheel and tried to help Smith gain control. At this
point, the women began to feel a burning sensation in their eyes. All
three women experienced tearing and irritation of their eyes afterwards, and Stafford's was so
severe that she was moved to seek medical attention. There are many other bizarre
aspects to this case, which will explore next week. Two well known cases
involving conjunctivitis are the nineteen seventy nine case from Minnesota, where sheriff's deputy Val
Johnson reported a collision with the UFO while in his patrol car in the nineteen
eighty cash Landroum case from Texas, where two women and a young boy witnessed
a UFO and afterwards experienced not only burning eyes but a host of symptoms often
associated with radiation sickness. Keel came up with a theory that could explain this
aspect of the phenomenon in his nineteen seventy book Operation Trojan Horse. Let us
assume that UFOs exist at frequencies beyond visible light, but that they can adjust
their frequency and descend the electromagnetic spectrum, just as you turn the dial of
your radio and move a variable condenser up and down the scale of radio frequencies.
When a UFO's frequency nears that of visible light, it would first appear
as a purplish blob of violet. As it moves farther down the scale,
it would seem to change to blue, and then to syan bluish green.
In our chapter on meteors, we note that they most often appear as bluish
green objects if there is anything too. Keel's theory, UFOs would pass through
ultra violet on their way through the spectrum, and that would be when they
could cause conjunctivitis. Perhaps The best thing to take away from all this is
that it might be wise to avoid staring at purple or blue UFOs.