© 1976 by Roberta Donovan and Keith Wolverton
Chapter 7
Chasing Lights In The Sky
Apparently whoever was at the controls of those unidentified helicopters the night of December 2 to 3 enjoyed harassing law and Air Force officials, as the following night (December 3), more sightings were reported. Officers were able to trace the crafts' course through a series of reports spanning a two hour and 40 minute period, but were unable to identify them.
December 21, 2002 Campo Grande, Brazil - Brazilian businessman, Felipe Castelo Branco, is an executive in his family's company, Castelo Branco Ltd. - a ranching and holding company with offices in Rio de Janeiro, Campo Grande and Italy. Mr. Branco has taken a deep interest in researching UFOs and close encounters with what seem to be non-human beings since his own first experience with a tall, red-haired, green-eyed female in 1968 when he was 5-years-old. In 1996, he and his brother began traveling to a remote rural area 100 kilometers northwest of Campo Grande in Corguinho, the state of Mato Grosso Do Sul, after they heard about the abduction of farmer Urandir Oliveira. Since then, Mr. Branco has researched phenomenon in the remote valley where he and many others have seen unidentified aerial craft and various types of non-human entities.
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December 9, 2002 - Twenty-two years ago on December 26, 1980, U. S. Air Force Staff Sergeant James Penniston was stationed in the 81st Security Police Squadron at the large joint British and U. S. Air Force base known as RAF (Royal Air Force) Bentwaters and its smaller, secondary base at Woodbridge, about three miles away, where some aircraft were kept. Not long after midnight on December 26, Sgt. Penniston was asked to investigate odd lights seen moving in the Rendlesham forest between Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Joining him was USAF Airman First Class John Burroughs and several other security and military personnel.
December 7, 2002 Chilbolton, England - As I have investigated and reported about crop formations since 1991, I began to wonder if the patterns were connected over arcs of time at the same geographic locations. One example of what seems to be patterns related to each other year after year occurred near the Chilbolton Radio Telescope Observatory between June 1999 and August 2002.
June 16, 1999, Chilbolton Observatory
On June 16, 1999, the strange pattern in the foreground marked by a yellow arrow appeared near the observatory.
"The mutilators haven't made one misstep.
They leave their calling cards, but no one has ever surprised
them at their work. They leave too much evidence for any rational
person to deny they exist, but never enough to be identified. No one even
claims to have taken a picture of them. Afterward, of course, thousands
are taken. They're obviously playing with us like a cat plays with a mouse.
And it's driving folks, including the authorities, right up the wall."
Introduction
Fredrick William Smith was born in Salmon, Idaho on October 21, 1920, and raised in Butte, Montana where his father was a miner until his death when Fred was 8 years old. Then his mother moved the family to Denver.On May 5, 1945, Fred Smith married Grace Elizabeth Deaton. The couple had seven children, four boys and three girls. Fred worked as a goat farmer, part-time plumber and wrote. By the mid-1970s, he was puzzled by unusual cattle deaths in Colorado. Fred talked with law enforcement and ranchers in eastern Colorado and came to the conclusion that whatever was killing the animals, and bloodlessly excising tissue in similar patterns from animal to animal, was not human. In 1976, he published his investigation, not knowing that at the same time Deputy Keith Wolverton in the Cascade County Sheriff's Office in Great Falls, Montana, was collaborating with writer Roberta Donovan to summarize the sheriff's reports about mutilations in that region. Fred Smith died in Delta, Colorado near Cedaredge on July 24, 1997 at age 77. See Mystery Stalks The Prairie.
Who - or what - kills and mutilates animals around the world - and why? Fredrick Smith's 1976 book, self-published in a limited quantity, has long been out of print. But now with his family's permission, Earthfiles.com presents an electronic version of the original work.
