Skeptic finds fishermen's tale to be fictional lore
By: Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 1/20/06 Section: Sci-Tech
Originally published: 1/20/06 at 1:15 AM EST
Last update: 1/20/06 at 1:13 AM EST
Originally published: 1/20/06 at 1:15 AM EST
Last update: 1/20/06 at 1:13 AM EST
The fishermen began rowing like all hell, except for Charlie Foltz, who "wanted to meet the aliens." This should be lesson enough to ensure that, if you are going on an isolated fishing trip with your friends. You should discuss what to do in the event of being chased down by a UFO before you leave, because that's really one situation where you need a united plan everyone agrees on.
One moment, three quarters of the canoe's crew is paddling like madmen; the next moment, they are sitting on the shore of the lake.
Curiously, the bonfire they had lit only a little while before, and which should have burned for hours and hours, was now nothing but smoldering embers. More curiously, the four men were thoroughly uninterested: they just secured their gear and went to sleep. The next day they drove home as though nothing had happened. They all remembered the strange light, but not being chased down by it, and they were uninterested in the fact that they were apparently missing a couple of hours from their night. On the way out, they asked a park ranger about the lights; he replied that they were searchlights.
They lived normal lives until 12 years later, when Jim Weiner had an accident in which he fell about 15 feet. Since the earth has not yet ever lost in the competition of "falling people vs. the Earth," he received a bad case of epilepsy as a silver medal. After this severe blow to his head, Weiner began having strange, extremely vivid nightmares of being surrounded by monsters doing experiments on his body. He went to his doctors and told them of the research being done by Dr. John Mack at Harvard, who, being a psychologist, believed that every single thing he was being told was true. (I'm not saying that all headshrinkers have this problem, but Mack's field believed that everything a person said was valuable, since people always have a reason for saying things, even if they are lies. Other than his UFO work, it should be noted, Mack was a pretty good guy.)
One moment, three quarters of the canoe's crew is paddling like madmen; the next moment, they are sitting on the shore of the lake.
Curiously, the bonfire they had lit only a little while before, and which should have burned for hours and hours, was now nothing but smoldering embers. More curiously, the four men were thoroughly uninterested: they just secured their gear and went to sleep. The next day they drove home as though nothing had happened. They all remembered the strange light, but not being chased down by it, and they were uninterested in the fact that they were apparently missing a couple of hours from their night. On the way out, they asked a park ranger about the lights; he replied that they were searchlights.
They lived normal lives until 12 years later, when Jim Weiner had an accident in which he fell about 15 feet. Since the earth has not yet ever lost in the competition of "falling people vs. the Earth," he received a bad case of epilepsy as a silver medal. After this severe blow to his head, Weiner began having strange, extremely vivid nightmares of being surrounded by monsters doing experiments on his body. He went to his doctors and told them of the research being done by Dr. John Mack at Harvard, who, being a psychologist, believed that every single thing he was being told was true. (I'm not saying that all headshrinkers have this problem, but Mack's field believed that everything a person said was valuable, since people always have a reason for saying things, even if they are lies. Other than his UFO work, it should be noted, Mack was a pretty good guy.)
Randy Ballard
posted 7/17/07 @ 6:02 AM EST
I have studied this incident for years. I really want to believe them but theres one thing that bothers me about UFO/Alien abductions. Most abduction or alien sightings make note of aliens not wearing any kind of protective gear. (Continued…)