Speaker 1: Ted Bletcher's talk on humanoids at the nineteen seventy six
Speaker 1: before a conference by UFO history buff and author Charles Lear,
Speaker 1: read by Sam Milo Dragovic. Ed Bletcher, who passed away
Speaker 1: not too long ago at the age of ninety four,
Speaker 1: was a researcher and investigator who started out in the
Speaker 1: days of flying saucers as a founding member of Civilian
Speaker 1: Saucer Intelligence of New York and was active until the
Speaker 1: mid nineteen eighties. He was an early researcher of humanoid reports,
Speaker 1: starting in nineteen fifty five, just after the nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: four French humanoid wave in the nineteen fifty five Kelly
Speaker 1: Hopkins Civilian Cident, and was the author of numerous publications
Speaker 1: on the subject. Ducked away in the United Kingdom file
Speaker 1: of the download section of the archives the Unexplained website
Speaker 1: as a report he wrote titled Close Encounters of the
Speaker 1: Third Kind that was published in nineteen seventy seven by
Speaker 1: the British UFO Research Association. According to the introduction, the
Speaker 1: paper was prepared for a talk he gave at the
Speaker 1: bufora national UFO conference at the Center Hotel in Birmingham, England,
Speaker 1: in November of nineteen seventy six. The subtitle describes the
Speaker 1: paper as the preliminary presentation of extensive study into UFO
Speaker 1: cases involving the reported sidings of humanoids and other alien beings,
Speaker 1: and this blog will look at some of the highlights.
Speaker 1: A publication starts off with a biography of Bletcher, which
Speaker 1: includes his SAUCER and UFO involvement as a founding member
Speaker 1: of CSI and Y, a staff member of the National
Speaker 1: Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a member of the Mutual
Speaker 1: UFO Network since nineteen seventy two, and some of his publications.
Speaker 1: At the time he was Mouffon's State Section director for
Speaker 1: New York City and co chairman with David Webb of
Speaker 1: Mouffon's Humanoid Study Group. Found that in nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 1: Bletcher begins his reports saying that there had been a
Speaker 1: number of unusual events that involve strange humanoid beings reported
Speaker 1: throughout North America during the fall of nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: He describes them as being the source of a great
Speaker 1: deal of disbelief, confusion, and controversy, and posits they may
Speaker 1: be the result of alien visitation, or, as some researchers
Speaker 1: are suggesting, poorly understood manifestations of the human psyche, about
Speaker 1: which there is much to discover. According to him c
Speaker 1: E three, reports from a classification system developed by J.
Speaker 1: Allen Heinek had not only escalated, but their level of
Speaker 1: strangeness had as well. Bletcher then summarizes specific cases, which
Speaker 1: are all footnoted with references. The first is a mother
Speaker 1: and daughter from Birmingham, Alabama, who in November reportedly saw
Speaker 1: two eight foot tall humanoids wearing tight fitting silver suits,
Speaker 1: silver ankle high shoes, and helmets that reflected their car's
Speaker 1: headlights as they drove towards them. One of the figures
Speaker 1: held one arm over its head. The women were startled
Speaker 1: by the creature's appearance and swerved around them without stopping
Speaker 1: to investigate. Next, a woman driving near Piers, Alberta, Canada,
Speaker 1: at five thirty p m. On October fourteenth, reportedly saw
Speaker 1: what she first thought was a cattle truck parked with
Speaker 1: its lights on. It turned out to be some sort
Speaker 1: of object with two men, each holding a staff and
Speaker 1: wearing a helmet, standing motionless on top. The woman went
Speaker 1: to get two witnesses but when they returned, the object
Speaker 1: and the men were gone. A highly strange case involved
Speaker 1: an elderly couple in wa Watosa near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According
Speaker 1: to Bletcher, they were at home on the evening of
Speaker 1: November tenth. The doorbell rang. The wife answered it and
Speaker 1: was confronted with a man wearing a narrow brimmed hat.
Speaker 1: He had a brown face like smoked meat, with vertical
Speaker 1: gray lines, a narrow chin, a small opening from mouth
Speaker 1: less than a quarter inch wide, and he was holding
Speaker 1: a white five foot long rod. He didn't respond to
Speaker 1: her queries, and she called her husband over. When he
Speaker 1: saw the man, he said, what the hell is this?
Speaker 1: Something left over from trick or treat? He went to
Speaker 1: grab the man when the man hit the ground with
Speaker 1: the rod, which made an audible click, and he then
Speaker 1: glided backwards out of the husband's reach. As he drifted
Speaker 1: across the lawn, he raised his arm and presented a
Speaker 1: bent hand to the witnesses. In spite of having seen
Speaker 1: the man up close, the husband was unable to recall
Speaker 1: the details of his face other than the small mouth.
Speaker 1: The couple saw at least four other similar creatures on
Speaker 1: their lawn and in the street. They were all moving
Speaker 1: like the astronauts on the Moon and long slow jumps.
Speaker 1: They all had rods and hit them on the ground
Speaker 1: and would then float a few inches above the lawn.
Speaker 1: The creatures are described as looking deformed like gnomes, with
Speaker 1: bowed legs and claw like hands. Bletcher notes that there
Speaker 1: were no UFOs reported in the area. The next case
Speaker 1: from Poland Spring's, Maine does involve the UFO. According to Bletcher,
Speaker 1: on October twenty seventh, at two thirty a m two
Speaker 1: youths were driving and found themselves no longer controlling the car.
Speaker 1: The cart proceeded down a back road near a lake,
Speaker 1: and they saw UFO, described as a large cylindrical object
Speaker 1: as it rose up over a field. A number of
Speaker 1: strange events are said to have occurred, which included a
Speaker 1: fog or mist enveloping the car. They were able to
Speaker 1: drive away, but later returned due to an irresistible impulse,
Speaker 1: and this time they saw the original object as well
Speaker 1: as another one. When they got home. There was a
Speaker 1: period of time they couldn't account for, and one of them,
Speaker 1: identified as a young man, began to suffer some odd
Speaker 1: physical effects. The young man underwent hypnotic regression weeks later,
Speaker 1: and recounted being taken from the car and then finding
Speaker 1: himself looking down at his car and companion through a portal.
Speaker 1: According to him, he was confronted by a four and
Speaker 1: a half foot tall creature that communicated telepathically and told
Speaker 1: him not to be afraid. He was led into a room,
Speaker 1: told to undress, and then underwent a physical exam, which
Speaker 1: included blood being taken and him being scanned by a
Speaker 1: machine with dials. He was told to get dressed and
Speaker 1: they'd seen him again, and he then found himself back
Speaker 1: in the car, where his companion seemed unaware that he'd
Speaker 1: been gone. According to Bletcher, the young man and his
Speaker 1: family reported seeing UFOs afterwards on numerous occasions. He says
Speaker 1: they also reported other events of a strange nature that
Speaker 1: were too complex and involved to be included in this summary,
Speaker 1: and that everything had occurred during a spade of reported
Speaker 1: UFO sidings in the area. The last case Bletcher summarizes
Speaker 1: as the Travis Walton incident. He notes that it was
Speaker 1: widely publicized here and abroad, and out of all the
Speaker 1: cases summarized, the most highly controversial, with too many complications
Speaker 1: to include in the summary. After his summaries, Bletcher explains
Speaker 1: that due to the enormous number of UFO reports, for
Speaker 1: instance the ninety thousand case entries in the computerized UFO
Speaker 1: Catalog UFO cat set up by David Saunders, researchers are
Speaker 1: obliged to focus on the phenomenon in microcosm, and that
Speaker 1: this is what he's doing with humanoid reports. Bletcher then
Speaker 1: makes note of the benefits of research into CE three
Speaker 1: reports in terms of the amount of data they provide
Speaker 1: as compared to a light in the Sky report. He
Speaker 1: introduces the term entity and goes on at length about
Speaker 1: the reports of their appearance, behavior, activities, association with vehicles,
Speaker 1: and communication with witnesses. He provides a chart of the
Speaker 1: yearly distribution of reports and a statistical breakdown, and introduces
Speaker 1: the Humanoid Study Group and Humanoid Catalog humecat. Bletcher was
Speaker 1: a pioneer in humanoid study at a time when most researchers,
Speaker 1: in his words, dealt only gingerly with the subject after
Speaker 1: the Travis Walton incident and the Pascagoula incident just over
Speaker 1: three years before. At the time of his talk, Bletcher's
Speaker 1: fringe research was on its way to becoming mainstream. Charles
Speaker 1: Lair is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators in
Speaker 1: its second edition on Amazon dot com.