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The Gulf Breeze Breezebot
By: Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 5/25/07 Section: Ed-Op
Originally published: 5/25/07 at 1:49 AM EST
Last update: 5/25/07 at 1:48 AM EST
Originally published: 5/25/07 at 1:49 AM EST
Last update: 5/25/07 at 1:48 AM EST
I'm going to come right out and admit it: I have a weak spot for goofy looking robots. So when I came across a sketch of what I can best describe as a mechanical gnome, I felt it my duty to let you know.
The year was 1987, and out of the 6,000 people that lived in Gulf Breeze, Florida, a single man was about to get his name in the limelight: a building contractor by the name of Ed Walters.
Walters was up late on the night of 11 November when he became curious why a glowing blue light appeared in his front yard. Much to his surprise, it was a huge floating spacecraft shaped like a spinning top with a number of dark rectangles separated by portholes along the diameter. The glow came from a blue ring at the bottom of the craft.
Instead of fleeing, he went back inside his house, grabbed a camera, came back outside and snapped a number of photographs. I personally would have remained passed out in a puddle of my own fear-induced urine.
As Walters tried to get closer, the thing floated over his head and shot a blue beam out of the bottom. Suddenly, a voice said he would not be harmed. Images began flooding his mind as though engaged in some sort of telepathic slide show. His next memory is waking up much later, the UFO nowhere to be seen.
He immediately hauled himself down to the office of the local newspaper and told them the story, offering some fantastic photographs as evidence. The second time he spotted a UFO, he claimed hearing a humming sound like two people having a quiet conversation.
Up until the night of 2 December, Walters had no idea what was inside the flying egg. All he knew was that it would hit him with a blue beam, talk to him and then knock him on his ass.
But at 3 a.m. that night, dog barking woke him up. Going to a pair of French doors, he "…pulled up the bedroom window shade to see this small, shielded being standing just on the other side of the glass, looking in [Walters'] eyes."
It stood four feet tall encased in metal plates with a pair of all black, terrifying eyes behind a clear visor-like helmet. His sketch outlined what he suspected the head really looked like: the light-bulb shape a la the Andreasson abduction. The creature also held a long, thin silver rod in its hand.
The year was 1987, and out of the 6,000 people that lived in Gulf Breeze, Florida, a single man was about to get his name in the limelight: a building contractor by the name of Ed Walters.
Walters was up late on the night of 11 November when he became curious why a glowing blue light appeared in his front yard. Much to his surprise, it was a huge floating spacecraft shaped like a spinning top with a number of dark rectangles separated by portholes along the diameter. The glow came from a blue ring at the bottom of the craft.
Instead of fleeing, he went back inside his house, grabbed a camera, came back outside and snapped a number of photographs. I personally would have remained passed out in a puddle of my own fear-induced urine.
As Walters tried to get closer, the thing floated over his head and shot a blue beam out of the bottom. Suddenly, a voice said he would not be harmed. Images began flooding his mind as though engaged in some sort of telepathic slide show. His next memory is waking up much later, the UFO nowhere to be seen.
He immediately hauled himself down to the office of the local newspaper and told them the story, offering some fantastic photographs as evidence. The second time he spotted a UFO, he claimed hearing a humming sound like two people having a quiet conversation.
Up until the night of 2 December, Walters had no idea what was inside the flying egg. All he knew was that it would hit him with a blue beam, talk to him and then knock him on his ass.
But at 3 a.m. that night, dog barking woke him up. Going to a pair of French doors, he "…pulled up the bedroom window shade to see this small, shielded being standing just on the other side of the glass, looking in [Walters'] eyes."
It stood four feet tall encased in metal plates with a pair of all black, terrifying eyes behind a clear visor-like helmet. His sketch outlined what he suspected the head really looked like: the light-bulb shape a la the Andreasson abduction. The creature also held a long, thin silver rod in its hand.
