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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 98 12:25:37 -0600
Subject: Kansas Sighting (sworn affidavit)
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The UFO conference hosted by Jack Sargeant
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"Last Monday night about 10:30 we were awakened by a noise
among the cattle.  I arose, thinking that perhaps my bulldog
was performing his pranks, but upon going to the door saw to
my utter asonishment that an airship was slowly descending
upon my cow lot, about forty rods from the house.
"Calling my tenant, Gid Heslip, and my son Wall, we seized
some axes and ran to the corral.  Meanwhile the ship had been
gently descending until it was not more than thirty feet above
the round, and we came within fifty yards of it.
"It consisted of a great cigar-shaped portion, possibly three
hundred feet long, with a carriage underneath.  The carriage
was made of glass or some other transparent substance
alternating with a narrow strip of some material.  It was
brightly lighted within and everything was plainly visible--it
was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw.  They
were jabbering together but we could not understand a word
they said.
"Every part of the vessel which was not transparent was a dark
reddish color.  We stood mute with wonder and fright.  Then
some noise attracted their attention and they turned a light
directly upon us.  Immediately on catching sight of us they
turned on some unknown power, and a great turbine wheel, about
thirty feet in diameter, which was revolving slowly below the
craft, began to buzz and the vessel rose lightly as a bird.
When about three hundred feet above us it seemed to pause and
hover directly above a two-year-old heifer, which was bawling
and jumping, apparently fast in the fence.  Going to her, we
found a cable about half an inch in thickness made of some red
material fastened in a slip knot around her neck and going up
to the vessel from the heifer tangled in the wire fence.  We
tried to get it off but could not, so we cut the wire loose to
see the ship, heifer and all, rise slowly, disappearing in the
northwest.
"We went home but I was so frightened I could not sleep.
Rising early Tuesday I started out on my horse, hoping to find
some trace of my cow.  This I failed to do, but coming back in
the evening found that Link Thomas, about three or four miles
west of LeRoy, had found the hide, legs and head in his field
that day.  He, thinking that someone had butchered a stolen
beast, had brought the hide to town for identification, but
was greatly mystified in not being able to find any tracks in
the soft ground.  After identifying the hide by my brand, I
went home.  But every time I would drop to sleep I would see
the cursed thing, with its big lights and hideous people.  I
don't know whether they are devils or angels or what; but we
all saw them, and my whole family saw the ship, and I don't
want any more to do with them.
                          AFFIDAVIT
"Hamilton has long been a resident of Kansas and known all
over Woodson, Allen, Coffey and Anderson counties.  He was a
member of the House of Representatives.  He staked his sacred
honor upon the truth of his story.
"As there are now, always have been and always will be
skeptics and unbelievers whenever the truth of anything
bordering on the improbable is presented, and knowing that
some ignorant or suspicious people will doubt the truthfulness
of the above statement, now therefore we the undersigned, do
hereby make the following affidavit:
"That we have known Alexander Hamilton for one to thirty
years, and that for truth and veracity we have never heard his
word questioned, and that we do verily believe his statement
to be true and correct.
Signed:  E. W. Wharton, State Oil Inspector
         M. E. Hunt, Sheriff
         W. Lauber, Deputy Sheriff
         H. H. Winter, Banker
         H. S. Johnson, Pharmacist
         J. H. Stitcher, Attorney
         Alexander Stewart, Justice of the Peace
         F. W. Butler, Druggist
         James. W. Martin, Registrar of Deeds,
    and  H. C. Rollins, Postmaster
Subscribed and sworn before me on this 21st day of April, 1897."
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