Speaker 1: Silver Suited Humanoid Reports a blog by UFO history buff
Speaker 1: and author Charles Lear amidst the many assorted descriptions of
Speaker 1: UFO related entities, silver suited humanoids, sometimes with antennas, show
Speaker 1: up in many reports. They are described repeatedly in the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six Center for UFO Studies publication by David Webb,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three Year of the Humanoids, and there were
Speaker 1: several reports during the nineteen seventy seven flap and what
Speaker 1: has been called the Welsh Triangle that we wrote about recently.
Speaker 1: In this week's blog, we'll look at a couple of
Speaker 1: cases from the southern United States, the second of which
Speaker 1: became quite well known in the January fourth, nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: one issue of the Robesonian out of Lumberton, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: There is an article page seven of the PDF by
Speaker 1: Tim Lewis, headlined shining silverman Stock's Forest Acres area. According
Speaker 1: to Lewis, the previous Tuesday, at around ten pm, a
Speaker 1: couple had just exited Barker ten Mile Road when they
Speaker 1: saw a round flashing light near the turnoff at B
Speaker 1: G and McLoud. As they got closer, they were able
Speaker 1: to determine that the light was located in a vacant
Speaker 1: wooded lot. They turned onto McLoud Street and a shiny
Speaker 1: figure came out of the bushes, waving its arms as
Speaker 1: if it was signaling them to stop. They thought better
Speaker 1: of it, sped up and continued on. Lewis tells the
Speaker 1: reader that he did some research after hearing the story
Speaker 1: and found an article in the Robusonian Files that described
Speaker 1: multiple reports of the same sort of figure. There is
Speaker 1: a reprint of the article headlined area residence report citing
Speaker 1: UFO Sunday. According to the article, dated December thirtieth, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four, County dispatcher Fred Barnes said there were four
Speaker 1: calls from residents who said they saw an object or
Speaker 1: subject wearing a silver and black suit and wearing some
Speaker 1: kind of helmet. They all said that when they saw it,
Speaker 1: it jumped into the bushes at the intersection of Forest
Speaker 1: Road and Barker ten Mile Road. There were also reports
Speaker 1: of a white object with bright lights over Forest Acres.
Speaker 1: Four deputies investigated and didn't find anything. Lewis notes that
Speaker 1: the events reported in both instances occurred in the month
Speaker 1: of December, around the time of a full moon in
Speaker 1: the same area. He then goes on to describe other
Speaker 1: strange reports received by the staff at the paper. According
Speaker 1: to Lewis, there was a series of recent reports from
Speaker 1: residents living along a railroad track going through forest acres,
Speaker 1: involving loud wailing and voices speaking in a foreign language.
Speaker 1: About two weeks prior to Lewis's article, a residence said
Speaker 1: she saw a figure run from her yard into the woods.
Speaker 1: When her husband went outside to investigate, he found a
Speaker 1: set of fence posts had been pulled out of the ground.
Speaker 1: Lewis has this to say about the effort involved. Evidently
Speaker 1: this had to have taken superhuman strength to have pulled
Speaker 1: fence posts out of the ground bare handed. During the
Speaker 1: Year of the Humanoids. On October seventeen, nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 1: twenty six year old recently elected Falkville, Alabama Chief of
Speaker 1: Police Jeff Greenhaw, reported an encounter with a silver suited
Speaker 1: humanoid and had four polaroid photos to back it up.
Speaker 1: A comprehensive examination of the case can be found in
Speaker 1: the blog by Mark Russell Bell headlined detailed report of
Speaker 1: Jeff Greenhaw's Falkville incident. Alien encounter testimonial posted on August fourth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, at Metaphysical articles dot org, along with reproduced
Speaker 1: articles on the case from official UFO magazine. Bell includes
Speaker 1: one from the October nineteenth, nineteen seventy three Birmingham News
Speaker 1: and one from the November sixteenth, nineteen seventy three Decatur Daily.
Speaker 1: His source for those was the nineteen seventy five book
Speaker 1: by Ralph and Judy Blum, Beyond earth Man's Contact with UFOs.
Speaker 1: The originals are available with a subscription at newspapers dot
Speaker 1: com and the Decatur Daily website. According to the Birmingham
Speaker 1: News article headlined Foukville chief says Howdy to Spaceman, Greenhaw
Speaker 1: was at home when he received a call from a
Speaker 1: woman who told him and the reporter's words that a
Speaker 1: spaceship with flashing lights had landed in a field west
Speaker 1: of the city. Because there had been numerous reports of
Speaker 1: UFOs in the area, Greenhaw took along a camera as
Speaker 1: he drove to the site. As he was driving down
Speaker 1: a gravel road, he saw a human shaped creature standing
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. The creature walked towards him
Speaker 1: and Greenhaw took four photos. He said, scared, I was
Speaker 1: scared stiff. The creature was covered in a material like
Speaker 1: tinfoil and had an antenna on top of its head.
Speaker 1: Greenhaw said it moved stiffly, like a robot and didn't
Speaker 1: make any sounds. Greenhaw turned on the blue flasher on
Speaker 1: top of his car, and the creature turned around and
Speaker 1: took off running down the road. Greenhaw said, I jumped
Speaker 1: into my car and took after him, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: even catch up with him in a patrol car. He
Speaker 1: was running faster than any human I ever saw. Greenhaw
Speaker 1: told the paper he received multiple calls the day after
Speaker 1: from people who said they had I'd seen UFOs in
Speaker 1: the area during the time of his encounter. His wife
Speaker 1: is reported to have laughed the incident off, and Greenhaw commented,
Speaker 1: she wouldn't be laughing if she saw what I saw.
Speaker 1: There is a follow up article in the November sixteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three Decatur Daily headlined Foukville police chief resigns
Speaker 1: under pressure. It describes the unfortunate events in Greenhaw's life
Speaker 1: following his encounter. Besides being asked to resign by the mayor,
Speaker 1: his car engine blew up, his wife divorced him, and
Speaker 1: his mobile home burned down. Greenhaw is quoted describing his situation.
Speaker 1: So now I've lost my car, my wife, my home,
Speaker 1: and my job, and I guess I'll just have to
Speaker 1: go wherever I can to find another job. I had
Speaker 1: planned to stay in Foukville in spite of all the
Speaker 1: problems I have been having, but now it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like I can can. The four photos made the rounds
Speaker 1: among UFO enthusiasts and were used on the cover of
Speaker 1: Beyond Earth. Georgia based NICAP investigator Marion Webb looked into
Speaker 1: the case and a report is presented on the front
Speaker 1: page of the October nineteen seventy four UFO Investigator under
Speaker 1: the headline police Chief's Nightmare reel or Contrived. According to
Speaker 1: the article, an official received word of a rumor that
Speaker 1: several firemen from a nearby community may have collaborated on
Speaker 1: a hoax which involved their borrowing silver firefighting uniforms. Webb
Speaker 1: managed to acquire such a suit, added aluminum foil to
Speaker 1: the hood and feet, and had his picture taken wearing it.
Speaker 1: While there were similarities to Greenhaw's photos, Webb found it
Speaker 1: difficult to move in the uniform, which contradicts Greenhaw's claim
Speaker 1: that the creature outran his Web speculated that Greenhaw had
Speaker 1: only gone a short distance before spinning out in the gravel,
Speaker 1: which is a detail that shows up in Bell's blog.
Speaker 1: Greenhaw stayed away from public exposure for most of the
Speaker 1: remainder of his life, but gave an interview in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty to Red Water film Works. In the recording posted
Speaker 1: on YouTube, he describes coming upon the creature and saying
Speaker 1: something to the effect of Howdy stranger and getting no response.
Speaker 1: He says he initially thought someone was pulling the prank,
Speaker 1: but that things just started. That was so strange. He
Speaker 1: said that the creature moved stiffly, with no bending of
Speaker 1: the arms and legs. Describing its running after it turned away,
Speaker 1: he said it was like it had springs on its
Speaker 1: feet or something. Greenhaw added that almost to the day,
Speaker 1: ten years later, someone broke into his house and took
Speaker 1: the four photos, along with his service revolver and shotgun.
Speaker 1: He said he thought it was really weird that the
Speaker 1: only three things he had with him that night should
Speaker 1: turn up missing. Charles Lear is the author of The
Speaker 1: Flying Saucer Investigators in its second edition available on Amazon
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