This sort of encounter is quite common around the sixties and
seventies. I know what I've just typed seems silly, but please
have a look at some other 'odd-behaviour' incidents of those
times.

Lonnie Zamora -the cop from Socorro, New Mexico, who saw
a strange egg-shaped craft in a gully. The roar and flames emitted
from the fleeing object could certainly mark the incident as a possible
experimental craft encounter.

1961 finds Joe Simonton of Eagle River, Wisconsin who was handed
unsalted pancakes from 'Italian-looking' guys in a saucer with exhaust
pipes around it! The two men were dressed in black suits, turtleneck
tops and knitted helmets... not the fashion sense of a space traveller!
There are many more, and they do not fit into the 'controling' kind
of situations that many alien craft reports indicate.

I know George Adamski would have to rear his head in all this at some
time. A lot of his tales, I believe, took us away from what may well have
been encounters with our own countries doing tests.



[edit on 22-6-2010 by A boy in a dress]

Well I've read some of the comments to this topic as well as the topic (Obviously). Now my personal opinion, There are 2 ways I can see of looking at this, 1) It was an experimental craft made by the government and never told to the public, Or we have a phenomenon on our hands. Now let's say it was made by the government, It wouldn't of been the first time the government had hidden something from the public like this, However it's highly unlikely that it was made by the government. I believe more so that it WAS actually 'aliens' however let me ask you this first, How do we know THERE the one's that are the aliens? How do we know these 'aliens' weren't here first? And that THEY are 'god'? Just think about that to yourselves for a bit, Now back to the subject at hand.

If it IS 'aliens' it wouldn't surprise me, Put it simply it was at night, so the sun couldn't be what melted the tar and the heat cant be blamed for melting the paint from the phone booth, There was an EMP apparently of some kind since the headlights on the wagon stopped, the engine on the jaguar stopped and the lights in the phone booth off, What confuses me though is that an EMP blast knocks out ALL electronic devices so why didn't the engine in the wagon die? And how come the phone still worked in the phone booth?

These are all VERY good questions and I do not have the answer for this, We can only make assumptions and bicker over the right answer, However, My belief is, is that it WASN'T an EMP blast, but something else. The tar on the road melted from an intense heat AT NIGHT, Granted it can get very hot at night, but not hot enough to melt tar, Nor hot enough to melt paint. I know this personally having run a few tests myself, Therefore it gives me the assumption that whatever this craft was, was giving off enough heat to melt tar and paint.

I will say this, I believe the tar and paint melting as well as the weird electronical failure was caused by this mysterious craft. This sounds like a lot of cases where something electronical fails whenever some kind of UFO is around, I remember one about a guy who saw a UFO that was shaped like a house and seemed to have 2 stories to the 'house', His entire house went black as did every house within 3 square miles and nothing was wrong with the power station, All cars and all electronical devices refused to work including house phones. This makes me wonder even more if we are truly alone on this world or not.

EMP blast knocks out ALL electronic devices so why didn't the engine in the wagon die? And how come the phone still worked in the phone booth?

Truck had a diesel engine, diesel fuel auto ignites under pressure without the aid of a spark plug. The phone system in the 1960s was totally analogue there were no active electronics requiring a battery in a phone in those days. It was, little more than a more sophisticated version of two tin cans and a piece of string. Anything requiring batteries, the car engine, the torch etc was affected.

Originally posted by FireMoon
EMP blast knocks out ALL electronic devices so why didn't the engine in the wagon die? And how come the phone still worked in the phone booth?

Truck had a diesel engine, diesel fuel auto ignites under pressure without the aid of a spark plug. The phone system in the 1960s was totally analogue there were no active electronics requiring a battery in a phone in those days. It was, little more than a more sophisticated version of two tin cans and a piece of string. Anything requiring batteries, the car engine, the torch etc was affected.

Ah yes I see now, Thank you for shedding insight onto this, This was something I didn't know (I don't know much about the electronics back in the 60's)

I don't know MUCH about what your talking about, BUT, from what I've been able to find, Your correct, It is within possibility however, Just be sure to think of every possible reason as I did with the topic you originally posted, Those we're the two things I could think of, And as I said.....The government having something that hightech and advance back in 67 is HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY if not completely impossible to of had...after all, We only recently got stealth bomber's to actually be....stealthy....

Originally posted by Scramjet76

Good OP Stealthy. I found it interesting how the diseal engine did not die but the gasoline one did. Of course we could point out the fundamental differences between gas and diseal engines, but I'm not sure that brings us closer to the truth. For instance, why do some folks report their car shutting off during a CE and yet once the encounter is over their car starts up again? In this case, the Jaguar was (apparently) not able to continue even after the UFO left the scene.

Jag's used to break down all the time

The issue of vehicles dying and then starting has always intrigued me. Dying can be understood but starting of their own accord which requires electrical power to be applied to the starter motor (usually by a turn of a key) not so easy to explain.

However, I have come up with three possibilities.

Firstly there are many CE reports that mention an alteration of the perception of time, usually slowing down or missing time. What if, within a particular radius and either as a by product of a propulsion method or simply a deliberate directed beam, a stasis is achieved whereby any moving parts are frozen. A state of paralysis is often reported by the witness also.

Maybe the vehicle's engine hasn't stopped as such, time has, and the moment time starts again the engine just continues running.

The effect may vary according to distance perhaps as in this case, rather than the distinction between petrol or diesel maybe electrical circuits are affected at a greater distance whereas actual stasis of pure mechanical machinery is only when closer. Of course the Jag failed to re-start on this occasion which ruins this theory but it's a work in progress !

Secondly maybe it is part of the process of wiping memory or getting the participant to forget, by returning devices back to the state they were in before contact.

Thirdly maybe the visitors are benign and just ensure you get a ride home !