Originally posted by TheReligiousHoax
I've always been fascinated with this case. However some of you are jumping to some pretty astounding conclusions. It has been over 30 years since this event happened. Do we presently have technology that levitates water tower sized objects? I have yet to see anyone explain how a device emitting nuclear aerosol wouldn't harm the operator inside of the craft. Betty wasn't that close to the craft, yet suffered significant radiation poisoning. Wouldn't this intense of exposure be even more inside of the craft? What material is capable of shielding from radiation? Lead. Are we dealing with a lead constructed craft the size of a water tower? What Earthly tech could explain this?

Many of you find comfort in explaining this as secret military testing, but this is one of those rare cases where prosaic explanations sound sillier than the ETH, IMO. Even if this was a secret military testing program which they continue to lie about, are we supposed to overlook their obvious deceit when they obfuscate other stories about ET & UFO's? How do we know when they are lying and when they aren't? If you chose to buy the story that the govt is lying about a secret testing program that nearly destroyed three innocent lives, you better not believe a single word any US official has to say about ANY other sighting.

Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
I'm going with
Schuessler on this, and say it was not a man made experimental craft. A lot of things seem to point away from this. The sudden appearance of helicopters swarming on it, tends to make me think the military was surprised about this, unexpected. Also, the location of the incident. When the government builds something, even a prototype, that is heavily in the black area and tests it out, it does not do this in populated areas, especially when they have a number of super secret, and very remote bases in areas like Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern California, ect. This region, while rural, was not remote: there were numerous farming communities and small towns dotting the area. When the government plays with anything cutting edge and mobile like this, they do so on their own grounds, well away from the public's prying eyes. Also, this incident happened about 30 years ago. We'd be seeing, if only moderately, some fruits of this experimentation.

So I will remain in the camp of "non-terrestrial" on this incident, which I believe really did happen. Interestingly, it happened at the same time as the famous Rendelsham Forest incident all the way over in England. Which is also a very weird one.

Star and flag anyway, great thread on one of the best cases ever reported.

Originally posted by spooknevada1
I agree with the fact that the military/government does not go and test stuff like this out in the open where the general public can see it. If this craft was intended to be able to obtain some high altitude possibly in a secure testing area but malfunctioned and came down where it did. Possible that as someone stated earlier in the thread that it was remote controlled via CCTV.

The US an former Soviet Union both freely admit that they had nuclear rocket programs starting as far back as the 1950`s. The fruits of this testing of nuclear rockets would be the alleged TR series of craft from the Aurora project.
The TR-3B Astra supposedly uses nuclear power and has "Multimode" thrusters on each corner of the triangle body.
These thrusters are more or less run from heat off the reactor mixed with hydrogen gas.

The Cash/Landrum craft could have been a testbed for perfecting this technology for the Aurora project to be used in the TR series of craft. It appears that the nuclear powered thruster/rocket program ended in 1972.

"NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems"

Shelved for 8 years? The incident in question could have been on of the ffirst test runs that went wrong

Originally posted by roadgravel
Has anyone ever seen any information that includes Houston IAH (Bush) airport in relation to this. That large airport isn't far to the southwest of the site. A lot of aircraft approach from the NE into it which is across the path this object seems to have traveled.

RT: You wrote a book about the Cash-Landrum incident. What opinion do you currently hold about the case?

Being a futurist, one way I evaluate things is to come up with series of scenarios and then I try to refine each scenario down to its point of diminishing returns and when I did that – the way I did that was gather a group of local MUFON people in Houston together and brainstorm during the investigation various scenarios. We went out and gathered data which we then used to accept or reject the various scenarios. It wasn’t just myself but a number of people with various backgrounds, several of them from the space program who I can’t name who are part of the Invisible College. One of them is a flight director for the Space Shuttle right now. In our scenario work, we asked how could these people have faked this? and we ran that out every possible way and concluded that they did not fake it. Then we asked could this be a government device of some kind?

RT: All those helicopters.

The helicopters weren’t there initially but they came in. It looked like something was carrying it with the helicopter The object was there several minutes before the helicopters arrived. We even had people five miles away talking about the helicopters staged across their property and then flying in that direction after hovering for a few minutes, so it was like they came in waves and that’s exactly what was reported by people at the site, not only Cash and Landrum but other people who were around there.

So we concluded from that that there was a structured flying device. How could we conclude that if we didn’t have any evidence? Well, the evidence was multifold. Eyewitness, first of all, connected and disconnected eyewitnesses. Second, we had the effects on the highway underneath it where the blacktop was actually melted to the point that the yellow line was actually swirled, the no-passing line. Third, we had burns on the trees on both sides of the road which would indicate the heating the people had. Then there were effects, very unusual effects, on the car. And of course the best – or the worst scenario, the best evidence, was the medical effects on the people themselves. They could

tell what they saw, when they saw it, how they reacted, and what were the effects that developed over time. We had medical doctors of numerous backgrounds attesting to what they described, and their eventual cancer and the hair loss and all the things that happened. So we had a variety of evidence testifying to something real flying in there and being there. When we got to that point, we were convinced that this is not just a scenario any more, this is a fact.

Then we went from that fact to – we started getting leads from people like Bill Moore that this may have been a device that flew from Los Alamos to Ellington Field which didn’t pan out at all. Ellington Field was in the process of becoming a public airport. There was no evidence between the two sites that anything had flown across. IN fact, the evidence from the case was that the object came from the eats, not the west. We tracked it across a number of sightings, a number of towns, east of Houston clear over to the Louisiana line. When it left, it went in a southerly direction toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Then we began putting together other scenarios. Could it have been a misidentified special lighting arrangement platform used for a raid on something or could it have been an atomic device that went out of control. Could it have been an alien craft flown by humans who just screwed up. The last one in particular remained a scenario and a lot of people claimed on the Internet that that was the case but none of them any evidence there was zero evidence. With zero evidence you don’t accept it.

So our conclusion after a long time of looking at the technology and how technology unfolds … I follow it very closely even to this day, and the way you follow technology, you don’t just follow what’s written on paper or in magazines you follow even the ads where companies and building equipment or pieces of equipment and see if that could be used in an advanced craft, and in fact that’s how a lot of information on the stealth got out , form advertisers. We could find nothing that would go together. Even flight controllers from NASA and others were working with us and there was no evidence of a machine that the US government had built in 1980 that could do anything like this or fly like this let alone the sheer size of it. It was as big as a water tower in the tower of Dayton, that’s a nine foot tower. If it’s half that big, it’s still big for something without wings to fly..