Somewhere in the Skies - Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind
Episode Date: March 30, 2025On episode 402, we scour the dark corners of UFO history to bring you a handful of UFO encounters that tragically ended in death. From a pilot who vanished into thin air after leaving a terrifying rad...io transmission behind to a police detective investigating an apparent murder and ending up being abducted by aliens in the process. From violent attacks by UFOs in Brazil to the gruesome discovery of a hunter who may have become the hunted. Were these incidents connected to some sort of malevolent alien presence? Were the deaths completely by accident or happenstance? Or, were they simply tragedies that had nothing to do with an otherworldly explanation? We bring the darkness into the light and search for answers to these fatal mysteries, one case at a time. Co-researched by Marcus Lowth: www.ufoinsight.com Voiceover by Jane Moore Written and produced by Ryan Sprague Please take a moment to rate and review us on Spotify and Apple. Book Ryan on CAMEO at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/UFxzyzHOaQ PayPal: Sprague51@hotmail.com Discord: https://discord.gg/NTkmuwyB4F Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ryansprague.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomewhereSkies Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somewhereskiespod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryansprague51 Order Ryan’s new book: https://a.co/d/4KNQnM4 Order Ryan’s older book: https://amzn.to/3PmydYC Store: http://tee.pub/lic/ULZAy7IY12U Read Ryan’s articles at: https://medium.com/@ryan-sprague51 Opening Theme Song by Septembryo Copyright © 2025 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Just a warning, this week's episode deals with death and graphic descriptions.
Listener discretion is advised.
Most UFO encounters end in fascination and awe-inspiring quests to find answers.
And some encounters even end hopeful, but not all of them.
And sometimes, in the worst of cases, they've actually ended in death.
These are the close encounters of the deadly...
You are now somewhere in the skies with your host, Ryan's brain.
Crash course before we get super dark.
The J. Ellen Heinek Close Encounter's classification system.
A close encounter of the first kind is a visual sighting.
A close encounter of the second kind is where there is some kind of interference,
perhaps electrical, or there's damage to vegetation or the ground where an event took place.
A close encounter of the third kind,
is where an actual pilot or animated creature is seen during a UFO sighting.
A close encounter of the fourth kind is where a person is abducted by a UFO.
A close encounter of the fifth kind is one where communication takes place between humans and
extraterrestrial intelligence, such as telepathy.
And a close encounter of the sixth kind is where a death of a human,
or an animal has resulted during or because of a UFO event.
And it's at this close encounter of the sixth kind that we begin our dark journey.
On the evening of October 21st, 1978, 20-year-old Frederick Valentich set out in a Cessna
182L aircraft from Moribin Airport in Victoria, Australia on a routine training flight.
Valentage, who had only had his pilot's license for a little over a year,
had roughly 150 hours of flying time to his credit.
But he was qualified to fly both day and night.
He left the runway at just short of 6.20 p.m.
A little over 45 minutes into the rather non-eventful flight,
everything changed in an instant.
At 7.06 p.m. at an altitude of around 4,500 feet,
Valentage would radio the control tower in Melbourne, asking if there were any other aircraft in his airspace.
After the control tower replied that it had no traffic,
Valentage would report that he could clearly see an unidentified aircraft approaching him.
He would further describe that it appeared to have four bright landing lights.
Valentage would continue that the aircraft had passed over the top of him at high speed.
so fast that he couldn't focus on the details of its shape.
After several moments, according to the tapes of the transmissions,
Valentage and the flight tower would have the following conversation.
The aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above.
Is there any Air Force aircraft in the vicinity?
No known aircraft in the vicinity.
Seems to be playing some sort of game.
He's flying over me.
Can you describe the aircraft?
As it's flying past it's a long shape.
I cannot identify it. It has such speed.
It's before me right now, Melbourne.
How large would the object be?
Seems like it's stationary.
What it's doing right now is orbiting.
The thing is just orbiting on top of me.
It's also got a green light and a sort of metallic like.
It's shiny on the outside.
That strange aircraft's hozzling on top of me again.
It's hoveling and it's not an aircraft.
Around 30 seconds later, after the strange metallic scraping sounds, the transmission ended.
Shortly after, an extensive search would get underway.
The search would last four days and would involve RAAF and civilian aircraft.
In total, over a thousand square miles were searched.
But no sign of the wreckage or of the lentage was ever found.
Even the radio survival beacon that was on board the plane failed to identify its location.
However, further investigations into the incident would leave people divided as to what had happened.
Did Valentich have the misfortune to run into a UFO up there?
Or did he simply become disoriented due to his inexperience at flying?
According to UFO researcher and author Timothy Good,
those taking part in the search were asked by the military to report any incidents of UFOs or strange lights to them only,
and not to speak publicly of any potential sightings.
What's more, any planes who were airborne at the time were told to keep any communications they might have heard on the frequency wave confidential.
Whether these orders, if indeed they were issued, were done so in the knowledge of UFO activity in the region or not,
or whether it was simply in order given to prevent panic or sensationalizing of the incident remains unknown.
There were several tentative sightings of possible evidence when it came to Valentich's aircraft,
one of an oil slick and one of apparent wreckage in the water,
but neither could be sufficiently traced to his Cessna,
with the wreckage itself also never being confirmed.
The eventual findings of an official investigation report released in 1982 would state that the reason for the disappearance of the aircraft had not been determined.
The report did, however, make the presumption that the result was indeed fatal to Valentage.
Despite the mystery behind it all, perhaps the most convincing evidence that something very much untoward did indeed take place are the words of Steve Robey,
the person on the radio control in Melbourne.
The aircraft was orbiting above him,
and on several occasions he sort of stated that it,
towards the end, it wasn't an aircraft,
and he described it as having a sort of a green light on it,
and also it appeared to be a sort of a silver metallic colour.
He described it as being of a long shape,
as I said before, a silver colour with the various lights on it.
And he actually did say it wasn't an aircraft.
Finally, we lost contact with him in a very strange way.
The communications he was putting out seemed to break.
People describe it as a sort of a metallic sound,
the last transmission that was sent from Delta Sierra Juliet.
He would state that he didn't for one minute believe that Valentage was attempting to carry out a hoaxed incident of any kind.
Roby would elaborate that in the final moments, he could hear that Valentage was definitely concerned for his safety.
He would further describe his communications as rushed and as if Valentage was very startled.
In light of the report, there was an abundance of theories and claims as to a,
what might have happened to Valentage.
Some claimed that it was likely that Valentage had become disoriented,
possibly due to the reflection of the setting sun off the water shining back at him.
Further suggestions asserted that due to this disorientation,
he very well could have ended up flying upside down,
perhaps even mistaking the lights from his own aircraft,
reflecting off the water in the seconds before crashing into the water itself.
There have also been suggestions that the quote, long shape that Valentage reported was actually his perception of the planet's Venus, Mars, and Mercury, as well as the star on Taurus, which was allegedly very bright at the time.
However, while these suggestions are certainly possible, surely such a scenario would have led to a discovery of wreckage in the vicinity.
After all, a search mission was in place almost immediately.
And then there's the alien explanation,
with many believing that Valentich may have actually been abducted by aliens in mid-air.
There were also several residents who would inform UFO researcher, Paul Norman,
a little over a decade after the incident,
that they had in fact witnessed an unusual green light flying just above an aircraft,
and the night in question.
Well, the most interesting one of the lot is this farmer
that he was bailing hay and he said
the bearing in the baler started to scream and make a noise
and he'd been having trouble with it and he thought,
oh no, not this again.
So he stopped, dismounted from the tractor and turned round
and the baler had stopped and the noise was still going.
And he said, I was trying to come to grips with this for a minute.
He said, then I became a lot of the realise.
aware of a shadow and looked up and he said I was under a big source that he called it
and he said going from the length of the bow and the tractor would have been 90 feet in diameter
and it was kind of and as he's flown in aircraft and he gets his props done he knows when an
aircraft's about the stall and he thought this thing's going to drop on me and he ran out the
side of the paddock out from underneath it looking up and he said looking up under it
It kind of came in and went up just dark, you couldn't see anything.
But the most remarkable part was, you know, on Merrigo rounds it shows,
they have the horses, and they have that wide, they've got these little wooden lats.
Have you noticed them?
They're nailed to it so you don't slip over.
They're about an inch and a half by half an inch.
Then there's a gap, and there's another one.
They're all around the edge.
Well, he said, that's what it looked like under me, but there were two rows of them.
With your blink you could see one row which was rotating very fast, but the other one wasn't.
And it was rotating in the opposite direction, but very slow.
You could see it quite plainly.
And he said as it moved slowly along, it kind of came up like that, but there was a piece sticking up out of the top, like a dome.
And around the bottom of the dome appeared to be a black seal of some time.
black seal of some kind, that's what he took it to do, like a weather sort or something.
He said the dome had it like a church door in them with an arched clock, but no windows that
he could see and no handle on the door or anything.
He said on what he took to be the rear of it, there was slight protrusions that he
would call rudders, two big round holes, and he said there was shimmering heat coming out
of one, and the other one, there were little spurts of flame coming out of it, and there
And he made the impression that one engine wasn't working, you know, because one disk was spinning.
And then, as he cleared it, he said the most remarkable thing of all, there was a Cessna airplane stuck to the side of it.
The whole airplane.
The whole airplane, yeah.
He said the airplane, the top of the wings were flat against the side of it, and the tail was kind of hanging down, a bit clear of the edge.
And he said there are no chains or rots or anything like that visible.
And I think he said there was some oil running down the side of the Cessna
and he thought this may have been ingested if there was an air intake underneath or something.
Because heat and flame coming out would suggest air burning wouldn't.
Yeah.
Or something like that.
And anyhow, he scratched the registration number.
on the tractor with a nail and he said next time I come out I'll give you the number and he did
it's written down at the shop in a book and the interesting thing is it was the day following when that
plane went missing between Victoria and Casman you know when that one he rang up and said there were
lights around him and it was the day following it and if failing abduction was an elaborate
enough there were other theories for example some researchers and investigators
assert that Valentage had orchestrated the entire affair in order to disappear and then begin a new
secret life. Some were suspicious of Valentage, seeing as he had allegedly given two different
reasons for being in the air that evening, telling flight officials that he was traveling to
King Island to pick up some friends, while apparently telling others that he was making the journey
to pick up crayfish.
Furthermore, it would later come to light that he had not correctly informed King Island Airport of his intention to land there.
In truth, despite apparent, once again unverifiable sightings of Valentage in the area over the coming years,
it is highly unlikely that Valentage did fake the incident.
It is perhaps also interesting that the incident took place over the Bass Strait,
a stretch of water that has a long history of strange disappearances, bizarre lights, and UFO sightings.
Might Valentich not have been a victim of alien abduction, but something more akin with the unknown fate
that meets those who are lost in such mysterious locations as the Bastrait, perhaps even being compared to something like the Bermuda Triangle?
No matter what happened to Valentage, it is both a mystery, but a mystery.
even more importantly, a tragedy.
If we are to believe that he crashed somewhere out there in the water, this means that a pilot
lost his life.
He was a human being.
And to further emphasize this, I want to personally share a clip from the second ever episode
of the Summer in the Sky's podcast, where we interviewed longtime listener favorite, Micah
Hanks, who was actually separated by Frederick Valentage by one person.
And that was the girlfriend of Valentich at the time of the incident.
Perhaps this conversation with Micah Hanks can add one more piece to the puzzle.
Have a listen.
Yeah, I'd always been fascinated with that case, Ryan.
And at one point, one of my listeners in Australia wrote to me and said,
Hey, Micah, you know, I've got a friend who was Freddy's girlfriend when he went missing.
I think that you, you know, you two should catch up and talk.
Wow.
And, you know, at first it didn't even dawn on me what this person was saying.
because they said, on Freddy's girlfriend?
Who's Freddy?
Where?
And I remember reading that email and going to sleep and then getting up the next morning and going back and rereading the email.
I'm like, oh, Freddie, Freddie, Frederick Valentic.
So he says, yeah, Rhonda is a good friend.
She works here with me.
And, you know, she said that she would be happy to talk to you.
So we arranged for a Skype.
And brandy glass in hand and here in my bunker, it was late at night on my end.
And then, of course, early morning in Australia where she and her husband Joe were.
And they were sitting there drinking coffee and, you know, and see the trees and stuff and the sunshine in the background.
It was really sweet.
We had this great conversation.
And I talked with Rhonda about just all sorts of different things in relation to this case.
She has kept every newspaper clipping.
She has, I mean, scrapbooks full of stuff about this case.
Not only for her emotional attachment to it, but, I mean, it's fascinating because Rhonda, like so many, she had this personal experience.
She may not have seen a UFO, but she knows the story.
And she was, of course, she called it an interrogation, but she was interviewed by the Air Authority there in Australia because they were trying to find out if anybody knew anything about Valentich.
And they had to look at all possibilities.
And they couldn't rule out the possibility that maybe he had planned his disappearance or something like that.
And I have heard those anecdotal reports of people.
There was one in which a person claimed that they were in, I think it was the Bahamas, but they met a guy who claimed he was Frederick Valentich.
there's very little in the way of substance, let alone validity, I think, to those stories,
but they do come up from time to time.
Rhonda, on the other hand, she has no idea what happened to him,
but she certainly took an interest in UFOs thereafter.
And one of the things that's weird, Ryan, is that a few years ago,
the Austrian government did post its files on the Valentin case online,
and a number of us downloaded those and read the file.
I have a copy of them myself.
and they described Valentage as being kind of, you know, depressed, dark, not a Friday night type, they quote Rhonda saying.
And when I talked with her, I said, you know, was he a depressed kind of person?
Do you think that that could have contributed to this?
You know, could it have been a suicide?
And she said, you know, he wasn't really like that.
And I've read those documents that you're talking about.
And I know what they said that I said.
And yeah, I might have said he wasn't exactly a Friday night type, but he wasn't depressed.
He wasn't a loner, anything like that.
I mean, she said, we love to go dancing.
You know, he was very, you know, well-dressed, you know, very, you know, fashionable.
he would come in. He was very friendly
when he would come in and see her at work and he would talk with people
and things like that. She said that
the strangest thing, though, had less to do with Freddie
and it had to do with an incident that occurred about a year after
he vanished. She was in a department store
where she looked at the time, and a gentleman
comes up to her, and he
says, I remember you,
you're Rhonda Rushden. You were Freddy's girlfriend, and
she didn't recognize him. Well, he was with the
authority, and he had been
one of the people who had helped with
the interview
of Rhonda Rush.
and he seems to indicate to her that the recording that was released to Guido, Valentich, his father, that there was, well, and this is what's funny, they described that recording as being an edited recording, the edited recording of the dialogue with air traffic control was released.
And I'd always wonder, okay, what do they mean by edited, right?
Yeah, what didn't they hear?
And this conversation, right?
where Rhonda is talking with his fellow,
he seems to indicate that after the metallic scraping noise,
that after that portion of the audio,
that there may have been further dialogue,
which is not on the transcripts
and presumably not on the tape that was released.
Now, so I asked for clarification,
I said, hold on, now, are you telling me that there's allegedly more to that
recording?
And she said, that was the impression that I was given during this conversation.
But nobody's been able to hear this.
But we do know that what was released,
to the very few who have copies,
was described as an edited tape, okay?
That's weird.
Another strange thing is that the Valentich family
had written a book, apparently, about the case,
which was stolen.
And it was, again, the book that they wrote
was just a manuscript that they had in their home,
but somebody came into the home and stole the manuscript.
Stole that, and they never found out who.
I asked Rhonda, did she have any idea who it might have been?
And she said, well, in likelihood,
that was probably some journalist who wanted to be able to have a
scoop or something like that.
So they didn't allege that there was some government conspiracy.
But I didn't think that that was kind of unusual that the family's own personal account of
life after Freddie disappeared was stolen from them and taken and never recovered.
And the other thing I asked her to as I said, you know, listen, what do you think about, you know,
him flying later?
And she said, you know, here's the thing.
That was our three-month anniversary.
I was supposed to be on the plane with him.
She said, I was supposed to be flying with him that night.
But I didn't get off work in time.
called my mom and dad, begged him to come get me.
They had plans so they couldn't come get me.
We didn't have cell phones back then, so I couldn't call Freddy.
The reason he seems to have left late was because he had been waiting on Rhonda.
And imagine, I mean, had she been with him, she might have vanished too.
The way that the circumstance worked out, Ryan, I mean, it's just so strange because, again, it was heartbreaking for her because he vanishes and they never find Freddy again.
And Rhonda and the family just had to learn to cope with that.
but she had initially been planning to be on that flight with him.
And she said we were going to fly down and then come back and we're going to go out to dinner.
Which is funny because, again, one of the skeptical theories offered by Philip Class
had been that perhaps he had a girlfriend down there on King Island.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I guess Rhonda was going to go meet the girlfriend, huh?
Yeah, right.
Well, that also begs the whole question of, you know, him planning some sort of suicide or disappearance, you know,
unless he was so depressed and angry that she didn't show up,
that he just left without her.
It sort of shows us that, you know, he wasn't planning on making this trip alone.
So, yeah, it does bring up a lot of questions for sure.
Yeah, I did ask her one other thing, too.
I said, you know, Rhonda, did you ever fly with him before that?
She said, oh, yeah.
I said, how many times?
And she said, probably 30.
Wow.
And I said, yeah, I said, can I ask you a question?
I mean, when you were with him in the plane, had he ever done any kind of stunt flying anything like that?
She said, look, I know what you're wondering about.
Were we ever upside down?
Because one of those theories had been that he'd been flying upside down,
I didn't realize he was upside down and crashed into the ocean.
And the light he saw and mistook for a UFO was the light of the cockpit,
of his own aircraft, the light of the cockpit there reflecting off of the ocean below him.
She said he did loop-ty loops and zero-gis and all these other kind of things.
She described a variety of different things that Valentich likes to do when he would fly.
And she said, so yeah, I mean, I'd been in the plane with him before windm,
we had flown upside down.
Trust me, you know when you're upside down.
And she said specifically that in that kind of an aircraft that the radio, the mic would be dangling upside down.
So, you know, the impression I got from her is that, first of all, she was never interviewed by any of these skeptics and that she has just as many questions as the rest of us.
But really, what can we say he describes seeing something strange?
She went missing.
He and his plane were never found.
that's all we could really say about that case
but to try and make all these
again what I think are absurd speculative
theories about the girlfriend or the suicide
attempt or all these strange things that
he might have been secretly planning and they never
once the skeptical thinkers
who have proposed these theories they never once
went and interviewed Rhonda
themselves and what happens to me
of course is somebody hears
portions of the interview that I did with Rhonda
and they said Micah you've gotten too close
to this case you've allowed yourself
to get too close to the case because you became
friends with one of the witnesses. I said, she is a friend now, but when I interviewed her,
I was looking for answers. And I don't think that actually doing what nobody else did and asking
her about certain details of that case, I don't think that that undermines the integrity of the
research. It, if anything, adds to it in ways that people like Philip class, they didn't bother
to. They just made stuff up. Choice hotels get you more of what you value. Here's a little tune to
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like my little songbook direct at sourceville.com. While it's unlikely that the Valenti
case will ever officially be reopened or even investigated in the near future.
Many researchers of UFOs and strange unsolved events remain fascinated with the incident.
Indeed, it is only through further investigation and examination of the case
that we can hope to get to the truth of what happened that October evening in 1978.
In a rare interview with Guido Valentich, Fred's father, he would state the following about his son.
That night, he never turned up. He didn't ring up. Normally, he's always when he go for a trip.
When he return at the airport, he normally would have called us, you know. I'll be home after an hour or so.
But that night, it was quite strange, you know.
We didn't know anything about that. We got home about 11 o'clock and he wasn't home.
My wife then started to worry a bit and
And so you know, I said this is too light to start inquiries
It was 8 o'clock. I there in the morning. I
Nothing still happened and
Couldn't see any sign of him and
Just about to get up and maybe get on the farm
Where all of a sudden couple of
uniform blue slag leg
walked in the front door
and at that time we realized immediately
that something was wrong.
After Frederick reported this UFO incident
I inclined to think that
it could be some intelligent life in the other space
despite all the officials trying to suppress this
or really makes me very confident
because now in Frederick where he radiated and knowing my son wouldn't make yourself so ridiculous in stating things like that.
So I'm inclined to believe that really must be something in the space that the general population may not aware it to be.
And I realized after this is disappearance, which I couldn't have the opportunity before, I made a man.
many calls I get from various parts of the world.
And I really encourage me to believe that he could be still alive.
The story of Zygman Adamski is one of the most perplexing mysteries in modern UFO history.
Adamski was a 56-year-old minor living in Tingley near Wakerfield, West Yorkshire, in England.
Described as a devoted husband and a quiet, hard-working man,
He lived a seemingly ordinary life.
However, this ordinary existence came to a shocking and inexplicable end on June 6, 1980.
On this day, Adamski left his home to run errands, specifically to buy groceries.
He had no reason to anticipate trouble or danger.
However, Adamski never returned home.
His sudden disappearance prompted his wife.
and friends to alert the authorities, but no trace of Adamski was found for over five days.
His family and community were left bewildered, questioning how a man could just go out for groceries
and just disappear in broad daylight and never return home.
But on June 11, 1980, Adamski's body was discovered in a coal yard in Todd Morden, about 20 miles
from his home.
Trevor Parker, the owner of the coal yard,
stumbled upon the corpse atop a 10-foot-high pile of coal.
The location was strange in itself,
as there was no clear way Adamson could have climbed
or been placed there without significant effort or equipment, for that matter.
And there were no signs of disturbance in the coal or the surrounding area,
further complicating the mystery.
and Adamski's body was in an unusual condition.
He was wearing only a suit with his shirt, watch, and wallet missing.
His clothes appeared disheveled but not dirty, which was odd given the environment where he was found.
Even stranger, his hair had been crudely cropped, as though it had been hastily cut by someone unfamiliar with how to do so.
This detail raised questions about who had been.
been in contact with him during the disappearance. But the most perplexing discovery was a series of
unexplained burn marks on his neck, shoulders, and head. These burns appeared to be recent
and had been treated with a green ointment that forensic scientists could not identify. Despite their
best efforts, the substance remained a mystery. Detective Ellen Godfrey of the West Yorkshire Police
led an investigation into Adamski's death.
Godfrey was a respected officer known for his professionalism,
but this case would challenge even his seasoned investigative skills.
The initial autopsy determined that Adamsky had died of a heart attack,
likely caused by the stress of the burns or the condition in which he had been held.
However, the timeline surrounding his death raised more questions than it answered.
Forensic analysis suggested that Adamski had died between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the day his body was discovered.
But his appearance and injuries implied that he had been in someone else's custody during the five days he was missing.
Investigators could not determine where Adansky had been or how he ended up on the coal pile.
No witnesses reported seeing anything unusual in the coal yard.
and there was no evidence of vehicles or individuals transporting the body to the location.
Moreover, the burns on his body did not match any known chemical or environmental exposure,
adding even more intrigue to the case.
But that intrig didn't end there,
because this case took an unexpected turn when Detective Godfrey himself became involved in a UFO incident later that year.
In November 1980, while investigating a separate case in Todd Morden, Godfrey reported seeing a large diamond-shaped UFO hovering over a road.
Well, it was about 20 feet high, about 14 feet wide.
It was a diamond-shaped object hovering about five feet off the ground.
At this point, you didn't see anybody, did you?
No, I didn't see anything other than that.
Did you approach it?
I got within about 20 feet of it.
And then you went back to your car to refurb.
reported, did you? No, I didn't get out of the car. I didn't want to get out of the car.
You didn't? No. But you got on the blur, did you? I got on the radio, both radios, the
VHF in the car and the UHF, the personal radio that we carry. Yeah. And they got no response
at all. They didn't work? No. Was that unusual? Not in that particular area. There are black
spots in the area. The radios have worked there since. And then you left the scene, did you?
The next thing I remember was I was at the other side of where the object had been driving the car.
Away?
Did you report it when he got back?
I certainly did.
I thought you were crackers, presumably.
Yeah, they did.
Godfrey had claimed to have experienced a period of missing time during the encounter,
which he later explored through hypnotic regression.
Well, under hypnosis, when I see the craft itself, as I said before,
I didn't get out of the car consciously.
I find myself getting out of the car, and for some reason I have no idea why,
a strange, very powerful beam of light is shone towards me, which blinds me.
I jump back in the car in panic, and then there is some sort of a blackout.
After the blackout, I wake up in some sort of an examination room.
I see. So this spaceship, or whatever it is, did you see that in your recollected...
Yes, everything in unadnotic regression.
was accurate right up to the bit that when I got out of the car yes okay well
described this creature to me this man well it was a humanoid or of human
appearance is about six feet high but not quite a human being you said well he
had a human appearance he had a beard and he wore some sort of a skull cap and he
wore like a white gown he was very pleasant in appearance he wasn't at all
frightening to look at okay now you've got yourself into this room what goes on there
Who else is there?
There were, I think I said there was eight small three-foot-eye creatures
that transpilated during the hypnotic regression as robots.
Were you in a normal room or were you in a spaceship rather like Doctor Who's Time Capsule?
Were you in something as kind of...
It looked bigger than its capsule.
You know, it doesn't look very big, does it?
But inside it, yes, I would say it's very similar.
And then they, what, they tried to undress you, didn't they at one point?
Take your shoes and socks?
Why? Why was not?
Well, this is one of the funny things about it.
When I got back to the station, I found that my left boot was split, and I had a burn mark on the instep of my left foot.
And the unctatic regression, they actually examined my left foot.
Now that's remarkable to me, with the other evidence of the other police officers seeing the craft as well.
How did your experience end in this place you were with with these people?
The doctor woke me up.
We never actually got to an ending.
to an ending. I was wired up to some heart machines and they completely went off the scale. I was in such stress that both doctors stopped the... not at regressions.
Tell me what do you make of it all? Do you believe now in UFOs or what? Are you convinced that those things actually happen to you or it's just in your mind somewhere as an imagination or a dream or something like that?
Well the UFO certainly exists. You're sure? Yes, it was a nuts and bolts craft. I'm I think I'm quite
capable of seeing something from 20 feet.
If I said to what...
Anything you say able to take down and use an evidence,
you would say that you saw that thing?
Yes, I would swear on the only Bible.
What I saw that day, I've seen nothing of the like,
except in science fiction films.
And what other thoughts have you had about the whole experience?
The abduction part.
Well, I've thought about it.
I thought, well, it perhaps it's something that I've read about
and seen as Doctor Who, and because of my experience,
it somehow got jumbled up.
Or it actually happened.
This experience caused some to speculate
that there might be an actual connection
between Adamski's death and extraterrestrial activity.
Advocate to this theory pointed to the strange burns,
the unidentified ointment,
in the inexplicable circumstances of his disappearance
and reappearance,
as evidence of a potential alien abduction.
While the UFO hypothesis
was dismissed by many as fanciful, it did resonate with others, particularly those in the UFO
research community. Some theorized that Adamski might have been taken by aliens, subjected to experiments,
and returned to Earth in a disoriented and deceased state. The green ointment and the burns
were interpreted as potential signs of alien medical intervention. Skeptics of the UFO theory
have proposed alternative explanations for Adamski's death.
Some believe he may have been abducted or attacked by humans,
possibly as part of a criminal act or a personal vendetta.
However, there was no evidence to suggest Adamski had any enemies
or was involved in any disputes of any kind.
Others have suggested that Adamsky might have suffered from a medical or psychological crisis,
leading him to wander away from home and inadvertently find himself in a dangerous situation.
However, this theory struggles to account for the burns, the missing days, or how his body ended up on the top of that coal pile.
Another possibility is that Adamski's death was the result of some sort of clandestine experiment or a mishandled medical procedure.
The green ointment in particular had been cited as evidence that someone attempted to try,
his burns. However, no known medical facilities or practitioners came forward to claim any involvement
in the case. More than four decades later, the death of Zygman-Adamski remains unsolved.
Despite numerous investigations and theories, no definitive explanation has been found
for the bizarre circumstances surrounding his disappearance and death.
Adamski's death has also left a lasting impact on the small town of Todd Morden, where it is still a subject of local lore.
Detective Alan Godfrey, who eventually retired from the police force, continued to explore his own UFO encounter and its possible connections to the Adamsky case.
It was supposed to be a great day for Manuel Pereira de Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana.
They had planned something secret.
and were quite enthusiastic about what might be found.
So, on August 17, 1966,
they left their hometown of Compos dos goitigases.
They told their families that they would buy some electronic materials
for their jobs as electronic technicians.
Manuel and Miguel then boarded a bus and arrived in Niterrae at 2.30 p.m.
They stopped by a shop and bought coats and body.
of drinking water. Later, the waiter at the shop said that Miguel looked very nervous and kept
looking at his watch. Whatever the two of them were planning, it seemed like they were in a big
rush. From the shop, the two men immediately continued their journey, Tomorrow de Vitam,
or Vitam Hill, in Rio de Janeiro. Three days later, on August 20th, an 18-year-old teenager,
named Jorge was flying a kite on the hill when he witnessed a strange sight.
In one part of the hill, Orrhe saw two bodies lying on the ground, bushes and tall grass surrounding them.
When he approached the bodies, he noticed they both wore similar outfits.
Each also wore a kind of protective coat.
But perhaps the most interesting aspect was that they both wore eyeglasses made mostly of lead.
Orre approached and realized that the two figures were lifeless.
In a hurry, he got off the hill and contacted the police.
Soon after, the site was filled with journalists and police officers.
And this was just the beginning of a puzzling mystery.
Police immediately conducted a search at the location where the bodies were found
and collected all the objects that could be considered evidence.
However, every clue found made this case even more mysterious.
There did not appear to be any signs of violence or physical injury that could have killed them.
This was confirmed by the fact that the tall grass near the bodies was not damaged,
which indicated that the two did not experience any struggle or fighting in this location.
As for the internal body, the officers cannot draw any conclusions because,
both victims' organs had decomposed due to the late autopsy process.
This condition made the toxins test impossible,
and it was now also impossible to know for sure
whether there was a poisonous substance that the two of them could have consumed.
Another thing that adds to the mystery was the objects found on the men.
Both were wearing lead masks covering their eyes.
According to the victim's families, the two masks were indeed made by Manuel and Miguel in their workshop and intended to protect them from radiation.
But no one knew what radiation they could have been protecting themselves from.
Apart from the lead masks, several other objects were found.
Among them was a notebook containing a diagram with a line in Portuguese that, when translated into English,
the following.
1630 B at the specified location.
1830 ingest capsules
after the effect protects metals
await signal mask.
Investigators were unable
to decipher the meaning of this message.
These notes were confusing
because they were written with multiple spelling
and grammatical errors,
and frankly just made no sense.
Also found was
an empty water bottle bought from the shop and a package containing two towels.
From the available evidence, the police were trying to come up with a narrative that might
reveal the cause of the deaths. Due to the unusual situation, many people begin to theorize
about what had happened, but the police had their own theories as well. And to say that all
of these theories varied would be an understatement. Here were just a few.
of those theories. One theory that had been put forward was that the two men had committed suicide
in some sort of cult-like pact. However, this theory was flawed for the mere fact that they had
stopped to buy coats in drinking water. And when doing so, they had signed an invoice requiring
them to return the bottles for a discount. So they clearly planned on returning for their deposit.
They also had purchased several electronics to be used for their work.
Why would they have bothered purchasing these items if they planned a committing suicide?
Another theory suggests that the two men may have been lured to the premises by a third party who wanted to rob them,
and when there, both were killed by this person.
This conclusion was drawn because of the discovery of the notes that had all the errors and grammatical problems.
It could be that the robber dictated this note to create a suicidal impression.
After all, some of the money they brought to the hill was missing.
But again, if their deaths were a result of some sort of robbery,
why were there no signs of struggle or resistance found?
The next most popular theory was that Manuel and Miguel attempted to make contact with aliens and succeeded.
These two men were known to be avid UFO enthusiasts.
They researched and investigated UFO sightings and encounters extensively,
even building a small lab where they could test any evidence left behind from UFOs
or to analyze photos and videos.
In addition, Vintem Hill was said to be the site of frequent UFO visits.
Residents around the hill often witnessed street.
strange objects hovering nearby.
It would even come to light by several UFO researchers
that there were sightings of strange objects in the area
between the days that Manuel and Miguel went up to the hill
and when their bodies were found.
When one UFO investigator heard about these UFO sightings,
he traveled to Niterroi to inspect the scene.
And that was none other than Jacques Valet.
Although his inspection of the area wouldn't be until 1980, he still wanted to attempt an investigation of this highly bizarre cold case.
In the prologue of his book, Confrontations, he reported that grass and other plants refused to grow, even then in the spot where the bodies were found.
And people he had interviewed, reported that while the bodies had decayed somewhat by the time they were found, there was no unpleasant sense.
smell, and they had not been scavenged by local animals who seemed to give them a sort of wide
birth. Perhaps most importantly, Valé reports on the testimony of one Grasinda Barbosa Coutinho
De Sousa. She had reported the following to the police. I was driving along Alameda Sao
Boaventura in Fonseca with three of my children on Wednesday evening, the 17th. My seven-year-old
daughter, Denise, told me to look up in the sky over the Moro Jovintem.
That's when I noticed an oval object, orange in color, with a line of fire around its edges.
It was sending out these rays in all directions as it hovered over the hill.
I stopped the car to observe.
This object rose and fell vertically for three or four minutes.
The ray was blue and well-defined.
It was considered somewhat uncouth to discuss you.
in Brazil at the time.
But after this well-regarded woman was willing to put her name to such testimony,
further reports started coming in.
Apparently, she was not the only person who had seen an oval-shaped,
orange-colored object emitting blue rays in the area.
This was confirmed by a large number of witnesses,
and all of them agreed on the time,
which appeared to coincide closely with the deaths of Miguel and Manuel.
In fact, these hills were a common place to witness unexplained lights and similar bizarre phenomena.
When one witness, who remained anonymous, was questioned as to why they hadn't come forward with this information,
they responded in saying that they assumed that these objects were extraterrestrial,
and they did not want to be any part of that due to their religious beliefs.
When police began asking questions after the Grizzly find,
they found that Miguel and Manuel's lives were highly influenced
by a particularly technological and scientific strain
of what was then called spiritualism,
something we might today call New Age science or even UFO occultism.
Their first tip came from an examination of Miguel and Manuel's workshop lab,
Amid electronics gear and scraps of lead, apparently the same initial material from which the masks had been fashioned.
They found extensive notes on spiritualism, along with a book by Bizarre de Manises on scientific spiritualism.
According to the Flying Saucer Review, the preeminent UFO periodical at the time, which published a series of three articles on the subject,
The book had, quote, passages marked regarding masks, intense luminosity, and spirits, end quote.
As it turns out, the police, quite to their surprise, soon learned that practically everybody involved in the high-level electronics trade in Brazil also had something to do with scientific spiritualism,
a hobby that revolved around revelations from beings in higher planes of reality,
telepathic communication with disembodied ET entities,
seances, hallucinogenic drug use,
and other decidedly unscientific endeavors.
Elsewhere in the world, other scientists were drilling holes in their heads,
so no judgment here.
This and weirder things were related when police questioned Elcio Gomes,
and erstwhile assistant to Miguel and Manuel.
His testimony further revealed that the scientific in scientific spiritualism wasn't mere lip service.
There was plenty of the weirdo tech-savvy classical UFO hunter in Miguel and Manuel.
They may have expected to contact aliens through telepathy and seances,
but they also expected them to come in classic physical UFOs.
And once they got those UFOs to Earth,
They were apparently preparing to deal with them in the only way they saw fit from a possible threat to all of humanity.
Explosives
Gomes would also state that Miguel and Manuel were hopeful of entering into communication with beings on Mars,
that they collaborated in many strange electronic experiments,
and that they and Gomes had engaged in an experiment in Manuel's garden,
when a device that they had built had exploded violently.
Once word got around that Gomes had broken a secrecy regarding these experiments,
the local residents opened up again,
much as they had after Miss DeSuzza's revelations regarding the orange UFO on the night in question.
The explosion in Manuel's garden had apparently been massive, shaking walls and causing a huge ruckus.
Yet it paled to another experiment,
that the trio had engaged in at the Attafona Beach.
The details, again, had fallen by the wayside.
Suffice to say, the three had been spotted on the beach on June 12th,
setting up some kind of apparatus,
after which an intensely luminous object came down over the shore.
According to the Flying Saucer Review,
quote, five minutes later, when it began to rise,
there was a blinding flash and an explosion.
which rocked the city of Campos and buildings far beyond.
When inquiries were made, local fishermen testified that they had seen a flying saucer
fall into the sea. After this, we at Flying Saucer Review began to read in the reports
that the Brazilian Naval and Air Force Intelligence Services were taking an interest
in both the deaths and the explosions. In the very last report we have on this,
case, there was a story that the Navy's monitoring service had intercepted a strange conversation
over the air between three radio hams on the evening of June 12th. The station prefixes were
KJ 22 and K-22, who were talking to KJ-21. Details of the conversation were not disclosed,
but investigations had shown that no such prefixes existed.
in the register of amateur radio transmitting stations in Brazil.
End quote.
It was rapidly becoming obvious to police that Miguel and Manuel were more than a little off.
At the very least, things certainly tended to explode a whole lot when they were around.
The police investigation, however, still failed to produce any kind of explanation as to how or why,
they had died. A certain imprisoned gangster named Hamilton Bizani even came forward and offered a
confession at one point, claiming that he and some others had contacted Miguel and Manuel,
offering to sell them some kind of radioactive material. Hamilton had given them capsules to
supposedly protect them against radiation, and it told them to retrieve the goods from the hilltop,
a common spot for conducting illicit transactions.
And these capsules were in fact poison.
All Hamilton had to do was wait,
then go up to the hill and retrieve the cash that the pair had on them
to purchase the materials.
Police jumped at the opportunity to get this case laid to rest,
but they soon pegged Hamilton's confession for a con,
speculating that he was trying to get transferred to a prison,
in Niterre, which was apparently known as being easy to escape from.
Hamilton's story just didn't hold up, as he was not able to relate key details he should have known,
and he couldn't identify any of his co-conspirators, except in extremely vague terms.
And his story also failed to explain the lead masks, and he couldn't produce the money.
There's a good reason for that last fact.
When Jacques Valet visited Niterre, he took the apparently unprecedented next step of asking Miguel's family about this supposed missing cash.
He was told that while the duo had indeed left Compos, with a backstory about buying a used car, his family had quickly found that he'd actually taken very little money with him.
The car, the electronics purchases, all of it was a smokescreen.
This is further confirmed by Miguel's widow.
who told Valet that as Miguel was leaving, he quietly leveled with her.
He was taking a trip to Niterre in order to perform some kind of experiment on the hill.
With a cousin, he was more candid.
Quote, buying a car isn't the real purpose of this trip, he would tell his cousin.
Quote, when I get back, I'll tell you whether or not I believe in spiritualism.
End quote.
Miguel and Manuel had a rendezvous with something up on that hill.
Maybe it was an ET in a UFO that had stopped their hearts.
Maybe it was some kind of disembodied intellect that had overwhelmed their brains.
Maybe it was a drug overdose that dispatched them in a more straightforward manner.
Maybe they expected to die.
Maybe they thought it was a possibility.
Or maybe it took them completely.
by surprise. But whatever happened, it wasn't just random happenstance. It was something they were prepared
for, something that would either be life-changing or life-ending. What that something was, we may never
truly know. In the mystery of the lead mask geophologists remains unexplained. Upon visiting the site of
Vienna and Cruz's death,
as part of his research, Jacques Valet was bombarded with other strange stories and tales from the region,
some dating back two decades prior.
In 1946, Prestes, Vilho was returning to his village of Araka Rigwama at a little after 7 p.m. from a fishing trip,
when a strange object appeared overhead, shooting out a strange beam of light as it did so.
The light hit Fulho, who barely managed to get to his front door and inform a sister of what had happened.
Within hours, his condition had worsened dramatically.
Valet would write that he had learned from the reports that the man's flesh had literally detached itself from the bone,
as if he'd been boiled in hot water for a long time, so that his skin and underlying tissue had fallen off.
By the time Philo had reached the local hospital, it was too late, and he had tragically died.
No explanation was ever given.
Another gruesome account took place just after 7 p.m. on July 4, 1969, when two children saw a strange, bright object land in a nearby field on a local farm.
One of the main witnesses, Mauricio Neko, Neko, had arrived at the farm with his auntie.
Rosa whose cousin was the owner. There were several other children who were also a part of the family
and had arrived to spend several nights at the farm. One evening during the stay, Marizio, along with his
three cousins, Andres, Marina, and Enrique, had ventured onto a hill to look at the stars overhead.
It was as they were doing so that they noticed a strange light, different from the stars,
appear overhead. The children remained where they were and watched the light as it moved. As they did so,
they could clearly see that it was growing steadily larger, as if it was approaching. Bizarrely, though,
they noted between themselves that no sound could be heard, even as the object continued its approach.
As Maurizio continued to watch, the other children began calling to the other family members to
come and see the unnerving light, grabbing their torches. They begin to flash and signal in its direction.
The object responded and came rapidly closer to them. The rest of the family, the three adults and
the six younger children, now alerted by the children's terrified screams, came out to witness a
bright craft. In all, there were 13 family members who saw the object overhead. They would
describe it as approximately the size of a car and a sphere-like shape.
Furthermore, it glowed particularly bright amber and lit up the entire surrounding area.
Then it began to move back toward the main house over the field of blackberry crops.
Eritio Bermudas, one of the uncles, snatched a torch out of his child's hand
and made off into the direction of the brightly lit craft.
He quickly disappeared into the blackberry.
crops that line the field. The children soon followed, a little less eager than Eritzio.
As they did, they could hear the general distress of the cattle and chickens, as well as the
apparent agitation of the family dog. They suddenly arrived at one of the outbuildings behind the
main house. There, in front of them, was Eritzio, and across from him was the glowing craft,
hovering only ever so slightly above the ground.
They watched for several minutes as Arezio and the strange object remained opposite to each other as if in some sort of bizarre standoff.
Then it rose into the air and suddenly took off at breakneck speeds.
Soon after, the entire family all returned home, and although they would turn into bed, no one in the house slept at all that evening.
The next day the children were to return to the return to the first.
respective homes following the stay. Before doing so, they went to find their uncle Eritio to thank him
and bid him farewell. However, he had remained in bed due to waking up feeling very, very sick.
Then, three days later, things took an even more dramatic turn. Murizio's mother received a call
from his aunt. She needed him to come back to the farm and take Eritzio to the hospital.
In the coming days, Aretzeo became increasingly ill.
Dark blue spots had appeared on his skin,
and he had a constant feeling of nausea.
And several days later, a week after the sighting, to be exact,
Aritio would be dead.
The official explanation for his death was put down to gastroenteritis.
The doctor in charge of the case, however, did note
that he could not explain Aritio's very,
low body temperature. In fact, according to some reports, Arecio was so cold that nurses were not
able to take blood samples due to crystallization having occurred. Perhaps even stranger is the account
from Eritzio's mother, who claimed that on the way to the hospital, Eritzio leaned into her for a moment.
Not only could she feel how disturbingly cold he was, but that cold feeling remained on her side
of the body until he passed away three days later.
But this truly bizarre and tragic case does not end here.
Here we have to note, as highlighted by UFO researcher, Scott Corrales, that far from being
a strange case that no one has heard of, the incident did draw national attention for a
brief period in 1969, with several publications running stories and reports on it.
In fact, one of the leading...
UFO organizations at the time, APRO would send several field investigators to examine the incident.
It was their general opinion that Eritio had been exposed to large amounts of radiation
due to his close proximity to a UFO. They would seek permission from the family to have his body
exhumed in order to perform tests. However, the family would incidentally refuse. But several years
later, when an agreement was struck to exhume the body, the situation turned even more
disturbing. Upon opening the coffin, all present would discover that the body was gone.
There has never been a satisfactory explanation as to what had happened to it, or who might
have taken it. Was it perhaps the military who swooped in and took the body, doing their
own tests to figure out what had happened to this person, or was it taken by extraterrestrials?
The family of Eritzio would hear a very interesting story themselves in the local community.
According to what they were told, several strange men had offered a substantial amount of money
to one of the grave diggers of the churchyard, where Eritzio was buried, in return for allowing
them to dig up and remove the body.
who these men were, however, is not known.
The tragic case of Oritio Bermudas is one that still frustrates UFO investigators and enthusiasts around the world.
The main witness to the incident, Mauritio, has maintained an interest in the events of that July evening,
events that he would describe as life-altering.
Our final tragic case propels us forward to the year 2000.
when another highly mysterious death had possible connections to a UFO encounter.
Most of the research for this case has been carried out by independent researcher,
Lon Strickler, and former homicide detective, the late Butch Wittowski.
It was around 5 a.m. on August 4, 2002, when 39-year-old Todd Sees left his home in Montor Ridge in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
He planned to scout deer, something he had done many times previously, with his family expecting him home around noon.
He would set out on his Ford WD truck, perfect for the rough terrain where he was headed.
However, when noon came and went without his return, his family became immediately concerned.
They would soon notify local police of his disappearance, and a search operation was put into action.
This involved local police and state police, search and rescue personnel, as well as around 200 volunteers.
Furthermore, highly trained sniffer dogs and helicopter units would take part in the search efforts.
The entire area was searched, including the family property itself and the woodlands adjacent to it.
Also searched was a pond that was around 70 feet from the family home,
In fact, because of the small body of water and its close proximity to the house,
this particular area was searched extremely thoroughly.
No sign of Totsis was discovered.
However, his truck was found,
and it was found around two miles from his home at a ridge,
where he had stated he would be that morning.
Around 36 hours into the search,
just by pure chance,
in the brush near the affirmation pond caught the attention of one of the searchers.
They would go to investigate further and make a grim discovery.
Here is former homicide detective Butch Wittowski, explaining his end of the investigation and what happened next.
Todd Seas, a 39-year-old white male, lived at the base of Montour Ridge in Northumberland County,
married, father of two, two boys.
Got dressed one morning early and jumped on his ATV and decided he was going to take a ride up to Montour Ridge to spot early season deer.
Told his wife he would be back by noon.
Noon came and went.
Two o'clock, his wife notified the police department.
Search team was organized immediately.
They found his four-wheeler at the top of the ridge.
They had cadaver dogs and search dogs.
State police, approximately 200 volunteers all together.
They had divers going to the pond on his property, dive the pond, search the bottom of the pond.
A pond is located about 25 yards from the house.
The only thing they did find was one of Todd's Cesar's shoes, about 78 feet in the air in a tree.
Police questioned, of course, people in the area, and it's kind of a rural farming community,
so it's like a couple living places where people really have real homes,
and there's like six farms and a home.
Some farmers at a farm two miles away from their residents said that they saw what they believed to be a tube-shaped object above the tree line and power line and a beam projecting down from it and something being lifted up into the craft.
They couldn't describe what it was.
The search continued throughout the day.
They searched six square miles of Montour Ridge.
All they found was the ATV and Mr. Cease's one boot.
in the tree. They called it a night, started all over the next morning, and later on the afternoon,
in a thicket of bushes 25 yards away from the house at the pond, somebody sees something white.
Now, these people have been marching past this site for almost two days, 30-some hours.
Nobody has seen anything in that area. But at this time, they see
something white. Firemen, of course, start digging into it. It's a very heavy brush. They've got to cut into it with axes and power tools, and they finally find Todd Seas. Todd Seas is in his underwear. He is pale white. He's emaciated. Remember, this takes place in August. Had he been out there for the time of death, which the coroner ruled at 36 hours, he would have been bloated beyond belief. There was no liver mortis, no rigor mortis.
on the body, nothing but a few scratches from the bramble bushes in which he was entangled.
Three feet away from his body was that of a dead rattlesnake, same time of death.
Mr. Seas was not bitten by the rattlesnake.
The body was described by people at the scene as his hands were up like this, and they had a look of horror on his face.
He also had one inch and a half or one centimeter burn mark on his left, tenor.
The body was removed without a coroner on the scene.
Pennsylvania law requires that if your head is laying over there and your body is laying over there,
I, as a police officer, cannot pronounce you dead.
I have to have a coroner.
That is law.
Nobody can pronounce you dead, but a coroner.
The body was removed to Fort Indian Town Gap.
Nobody from the family was allowed to view the body,
and nobody viewed the body before it was interred.
before it was interred. Point Township has about a six-man police department. Their statement,
after all this took place, was that Todd Cese's information on how he died would be forthcoming
in about six to eight weeks, and that's when the people could have the body back to the family.
Toxicology had to take place. They wanted to know what was in the blood, what happened.
Was there any foul play, which they kind of ruled out. Seven and a half weeks later, the toxicology
results come back. Todd Cs died of a cocaine overdose.
I've seen a lot of cocaine overdoses.
Never seen one where the guy threw his shoe up in a tree,
and there were no footprints around his vehicle,
like when he got off his vehicle to wherever he went.
So with all that in mind, we tried a Freedom of Information Act report request from the police department.
We were told it's still an open case.
My question to the sergeant that day was, if it's still an open case,
why did you say that he died of a cocaine overdose?
Isn't that the cause of death?
Yes, he replied.
I said if that's the cause of death, then the case is closed.
No, it's not.
And then he threatened to have me arrested for harassment.
Do I think he died of a cocaine overdose?
Nah, not even close.
Cocaine overdose doesn't leave a burn mark on your temple.
Cocaine overdose does not make you disappear for 36 to 40 hours.
And I find it very hard to believe that 200 searchers with dogs and condaver dogs walk past this body for two days and didn't see it.
So, nah.
So what happened?
to Todd Seas. And what about the possible UFO connection? There were at least two UFO reports
around the same time as the Todd Seas disappearance. And in each report, it would be claimed that there
was a craft over Montour Ridge. Of even more concern, though, was the detail that a light beam had
seemingly snared a human being and was moving it through the air and toward the object overhead.
So, was Todd seized the extremely unfortunate victim of alien abduction that, on this unfortunate occasion, turned deadly?
If not, what was the reason for the apparent secrecy and close nature of the authorities on the circumstances of the death?
It is a fine line to tread for those in the UFO community who wish to examine this case.
On the one hand, there is the very real...
death of a young man with a family. On the other hand, there is a whole host of unanswered questions
and reasons for suspicion, not to mention the claims of UFO sightings in the area on the day
of the Totsie's disappearance. No matter the case, it does remain unexplained. This is just a handful
of mysterious and tragic cases of deadly UFO encounters.
And it's cases like this that truly put into question
whether the intelligences behind UFOs do in fact have less than benevolent
or altruistic intentions.
Were these merely fatal versions of wrong place at the wrong time?
Or could they have been cases where an observer or experiencer was actually targeted?
In either case, sometimes it takes peering into the dark corners to bring truth to light.
And no matter the case, each of these people have family and friends.
They had lives before these events, and they have legacies and those who remembered them long after the events as well.
And while speculation can be alluring, we must never forget that above all else, these were tragedies that may have had such.
something to do with the mysteries that lay somewhere in the skies.
This episode was co-researched by Marcus Loth.
To learn more, visit UFOinsight.com.
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