Somewhere in the Skies - Just Another Tin-Foil Hat | The Trasco UFO Occupant Encounter

Starting point is 00:00:01 This episode is brought to you by Netflix. Most valuable promotions in Netflix are hosting a blockbuster triple headliner Saturday, May 16th. Rhonda Rousey returns to face fellow woman's MMA pioneer Gina Carano in the main event. Plus co-main's Nate Diaz versus Mike Perry. And the best heavyweight in the world, Frances Ngano versus Felipe Lens. Watch Rhonda Rousey versus Gina Carrano, live only on Netflix. Saturday, May 16th at 9 p.m. Eastern Center time, 6 p.m. Pacific time. Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar.

Starting point is 00:00:37 Join Zilia as she walks us through some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness. Today, we are going to be discussing a very interesting encounter with a very interesting UFO occupant with an even more interesting choice of wardrobe, the John Trasco encounter. November 6th of 1957, John Trasco, a paper mill worker, returned to his home in Efforts Town, New Jersey, and went outside to feed his dog. Now, the dog, whose name was king, was, according to all reports, a very large, very nasty, tempered animal,

Starting point is 00:01:11 and at this point in time, was tied up alongside the house and barking furiously. Now, while John Trasco went outside to feed the dog, his wife was inside looking out the kitchen window and saw what she thought was a puddle, reflecting the light of the sunset, in front of this barn about 60 feet away from the house.

Starting point is 00:01:29 However, she came to realize that actually she was looking at this 9-12-foot long luminous egg-shaped object, which was hovering a few feet off the ground. Now, what she didn't see, on account of some plants being in the way, was a strange little man on the ground. John Trasco described this little guy as standing about two and a half to three feet tall, with a putty-colored face and large frog-like eyes. However, while that's weird enough, what was even weirder is that this thing was wearing a green suit with shiny buttons, gloves with shiny objects on the tip of each finger, and perhaps strangest of all, a hat in the style of a tamo shanter.

Starting point is 00:02:07 According to one report, John Trasco described it as looking like a leprechaun. It was at this point that the entity spoke to Mr. Trasco in a voice that he described as sharp and scary, with the language he referred to as broken and as though it came from the other side. Now, whether this was intended to mean England or the afterlife, I'll leave that for you guys to decide. According to Mr. Trasco, the thing said, We are a peaceful people. We don't want no trouble. We just want your dog.

Starting point is 00:02:37 So, Mr. Trasco's response to that was to yell, Get the hell out of here. Which is exactly what the entity did. It marched right back into its object, and much like in the Cusack encounter, no means of entry was visible. It just kind of went into the luminous object, which then took off into the sky

Starting point is 00:02:53 in a manner that Mrs. Trasco, still watching from the kitchen window, described as like a flame. Mr. Trasco also claimed that Mr. Trasco had attempted to grab one of them, implying that there may have been more than one entity, though this detail can't really be confirmed. And he got this green powder on his wrist, which washed off, but then more of it appeared under his fingernails the next day. The next day as well, two stationary lights appeared over the residence. So needless to say, there's a lot from this case that stands out as very, very bizarre. But to me, the first thing is definitely the clothing of the entity described.

Starting point is 00:03:26 Now, many, many researchers have pointed out the commonalities between the fairy faith and alien encounters. And there are a lot of encounters with entities that sit very comfortably on that fence. However, this entity, which was wearing a completely green suit, which is actually pretty common, complete with a Tamo Shanter-style hat, though, is probably one of the most iconic, right up there with the little knit caps of the Simonton encounter. The powdery substance is definitely another really strange aspect of this case, and calls to mind contact of a different sort. This case from John Keels

Starting point is 00:04:00 the complete guide to mysterious beings, in which a woman woke up to a classic bedroom invasion-type scenario. There was a strange monk-like figure standing over her bed. And while we could easily write this off as that old devil hypnagagia, what's a little bit more difficult to explain is what happened next. She reached out to touch the figures outstretched arm, and when she made contact with it, the whole thing dissolved into this powdery ash.

Starting point is 00:04:24 And again, this is a substance that's very commonly observed after spectral manifestations. But up and down the super spectrum, we also see it in conjunction with UFOs, whether, you know, part of the artifacts left behind or contact with entities. In the past, I've brought up the propensity for paranormal phenomena to really seem to affect dogs in particular. And of course, this case is no exception. To quote one of John Keel's widely published newspaper articles, cattle rustling in the 20th century, strange things are happening to animals, there is a growing suspicion among eophologists that pied pipers from outer space are also zeroing in on dogs. And it's very interesting to say, but there is a deeply held belief across pretty much every paranormal discipline and even the folkloric studies that dogs are somehow able to see or sense these manifestations or entities.

Starting point is 00:05:14 From the very natural concept that a dog would be able to sense a large creature like Bigfoot in its vicinity to the supernatural concept that dogs are capable somehow seeing ghosts and spirits, we also see this belief reflected in the fairy faith, where there are countless accounts of dogs going up against the good folk, usually in protection of their master and master's property. And so I think that this kind of heightened effect on dogs then has a lot to do both with their genuine and symbolic traditional roles as guardian. The very strange thing about this encounter, though,

Starting point is 00:05:47 is the fact that this wasn't really an abduction of the dog. this was an attempted abduction of the dog, or at least that's kind of what we're led to believe. It's incredibly weird to me because there is, there's hefty precedent for dogs to go missing around paranormal phenomena, whether UFO sightings, cryptid sightings, even some hauntings. So it's strange to me that the entity this time, instead of simply taking the dog as we're led to assume,

Starting point is 00:06:10 happens when dogs go missing around, in this case, a UFO encounter, actually told Mr. Trasco, hey man, we want your dog. At which point Mr. Trasco apparently could just fend, off by saying, get the hell out of here. However, I will add that especially after the sighting of the two lights over their home, Mrs. Trasco was quoted as saying that he just would have let them take the dog,

Starting point is 00:06:30 as it was so cross, she didn't know who else would want it. Now, as strange as this encounter has already been, as with most cases of highly strange variety, there is even more weirdness. And this really fantastic fact was pointed out by Jacques Valet and John Keel.

Starting point is 00:06:46 On the exact same date that John Trasco of Efforts Town, New Jersey, he would face off against a frog-eyed space leprechaun intent on stealing his dog, a young man, many miles away in Dante, Tennessee, would report seeing four entities, two men and two women, speaking a language he described as sounding like German, nearby this oblong craft, and they were attempting to steal his dog frisky. Now, again, the key word here is attempting. They were unable to catch the creature, and when they realized their failure, walked straight into the side the craft, and again, this was without any visible means of entry, which then took off into the

Starting point is 00:07:25 sky. The young man's name was Everett Clark. So here we have these two encounters, one by John Trasco of Everettstown, New Jersey, the other by Everett Clark of Dante, Tennessee, both involving an encounter in which entities have attempted to steal their dog, and then when they're unable to do so, they go back into the craft through some means unknown. However, the really strange thing is the fact that for all the similarities between these cases, which occurred again on the same date, the entities involved looked completely different. Of course, John Trasco had his short, green-suited Tamoshanter wearing putty-faced, frog-eyed space leprechaun, whereas Everett Clark claimed that the entities looked fairly much like

Starting point is 00:08:07 normal humans speaking German. So what does this mean? Does it mean that the interstellar lepracons and the secret German-speaking spacemen have teamed up and are now dog catchers for the great dog pound in the sky? Or is this again kind of this implication that the actual image is of less importance than whatever is behind it? You know, leaving us again to question just what is the message in all of this noise? For today, I am Zelia Edgar. Signing off. This has been just another tinfoil hat with Zelia Edgar. Be sure to rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. For full video versions of these episodes,

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Somewhere in the Skies - Just Another Tin-Foil Hat | The Trasco UFO Occupant Encounter

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