Somewhere in the Skies - The UFO Dog Attack with Zelia Edgar

Starting point is 00:00:00 The 24th of December, 1960, Christmas Eve, around midnight. Went to what did rancher Wade Folsom's eyes appear? Not Santa Claus, but a UFO. Welcome to just another tinfoil hat with your host, Zilia Edgar. Join Zilia as she walks us through some of the most bizarre UFO cases and incidents of high strangeness. You said this place was steps from the water. We just haven't found the steps yet.

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Starting point is 00:00:56 December 24th, 1960. Christmas Eve, around midnight. when to what did rancher Wade Fulsom's wandering eyes appear? Not Santa Claus, but a UFO. Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just another tinfoil hat. Welcome to my show. Today, we will be discussing the fascinating case of the Star of Wonder UFO. I teased this in my holiday special edition episode,

Starting point is 00:01:19 and then I ended up doing the Mint's Pie Martians last week. So here we are finally discussing this honestly very weird sighting. Around midnight on the 24th of December, 1960, the family of rancher Wade Folsom saw a strange light appear over the top of a nearby mountaintop outside of Durango, Colorado. The Colorado Springs Gazette said that it was a party of no less than a dozen people who came forward to report this sighting. Now, it being Christmas Eve, Folsom made some comment as though it was the literally,

Starting point is 00:01:49 quote, star of Methlehem, likely a typo here, had returned. However, this Star of Wonder had some quirks. The witnesses described it as a round object that guessed it to be about 100 feet in diameter, encircled with brilliant yellow lights. Underneath this central object were what appeared to be small windows. These windows were described by Wade Folsom as not really like windows, but simply five or six shapes that revolved, kind of turning one over the other. Now one witness, Ruth Stevenson, described the encounter as though the sky were filled with tiny blinking lights, which seemed to turn around some large central object, growing dimmer as they reached the opposite

Starting point is 00:02:27 side, like she said, quote, some giant breathing thing. On top of this central object was what appeared to be a large clear dome, about the size of the Folsom living room, 20 by 25 feet. The party claimed that the lights first appeared to be white or brilliant yellow, then over the course of about 15 minutes, appeared to change to a bright green, very festive, before vanishing. They said that it became brighter and then faded out like a gas flame. The one thing they couldn't agree on was whether it was hovering in the air or landed. Wade Folsom set out first thing Christmas morning, even before opening gifts, I assume,

Starting point is 00:03:04 with the family dog and two grandsons in tow to go to the top of the mountain where the thing appeared to have been. All he saw worth mentioning were some broken tree limbs. No landing traces and certainly no bright object. Now, unfortunately, this is where the story takes a sad turn. Around 3 o'clock on Christmas Day, the family dog ran into the house

Starting point is 00:03:23 just completely in a panic before suddenly expiring. Now, apparently this wasn't the only canine catastrophe to happen that Christmas day. A neighbor's dog had been seen coming down from the same mountaintop where the object had been spotted, and then it had disappeared. Apparently, later it was found deceased. Ruth Stevenson and three other women decided to go back up the mountain and see what they could find. As they arrived in the area where Wade had previously investigated, they too noted the broken limbs and nothing else.

Starting point is 00:03:51 As they were about to leave, Koch, the other family dog who had accompanied them, began barking and signaling for them to find. So they did, and the dog continued further up the mountain, finally stopping at a spruce tree. It continued to bark up at the branches, as though there was something up there that it could see, but no one else could. Ruth said that, again, the tree was empty, but the snow around it was full of footprints. Now, as someone who lives in a place that usually gets snow, Wisconsin, even though I think literally right now, we're one of the only places in the country not getting snow. I will say that snow prints are tricky.

Starting point is 00:04:26 I mean, you get a little bit of melt, and suddenly a normal boot print turns into a bigfoot track, if that bigfoot was wearing boots, of course. However, due to the weird nature of all the tracks, I will include them here. The first trackway noticed led to the tree and then away from it back to a strand of cedars, and were described as these strange, giant human-shaped tracks. Now, again, this was not the only trackway described. The four women also found hoof prints, some of which were arranged three together like a clover leaf. There were other very small human-like tracks, which showed a pointed toe and pointed heel, as well as what they described as giant frog tracks, a pattern of three attached kind of pointed circles, which were about three feet apart, as well as what they referred to as kangaroo prints,

Starting point is 00:05:11 again, a trio of circular prints with small holes between, with a tail print between these two circular arrangements. Now, again, without photos, it's really impossible to determine the valid anomaly of these tracks, But the forewitness did follow one set of the small prints and saw that it led to a deserted mountain cabin Not inside the cabin rather but around the outside Very honestly that is eerie to me They also noticed that the trees had their bark scraped and the limbs broken off about six feet above the ground And that some of the fallen limbs had come from the very tops of the trees So this is a funky case and has a lot of intrigue around it I must point out a certain pet favorite of mine as well as my I

Starting point is 00:05:54 idol John Keels, the conflation of spiritual experience with the paranormal, in this case a UFO. Drawing a connection between the star of Bethlehem or Methlehem, if you take the type of verbatim, is simply a great example of how one man's UFO is another man's revelation, and the question in my mind remains, is there really that much of a difference? Now, of interest in this case is the fact that one of the primary witnesses, I mean, remember, there were over a dozen of them, But in this case, one of the two named witnesses and the owner of the ranch, Wade Folsom, believed that the object they spotted was simply some sort of magnetic or electrical anomaly. And the death of the dogs, as well as the tracks and broken branches, were totally unrelated.

Starting point is 00:06:34 Going forward on the concept that they weren't, we will continue. The unfortunate death of two dogs in the scenario is definitely of note. Dogs seem to have special beef with the paranormal, and more often than not, seem to be the animal of choice to either go missing or be harmed in the presence of anomalous phenomena. I have to wonder if this is due to their symbolic role as guardians, not just of the home and family, but of the other world or the world of the dead. Once removed, the experience of this other world seemingly is allowed to trespass into the realm of the mundane. One of the most dramatic aspects in this case has got to be the madness of the tracks.

Starting point is 00:07:10 Again, I wish I could see exactly what they looked like, but at least one set of prints was strange enough for under sheriff Marron Darmour to say that they were definitely human at 15 inches long. The odd thing is if you combine these big footprints, as in big footprints, with the fallen branches and stripped bark at six feet up a tree, it sounds kind of like your pretty nifty trace-only bigfoot account. It's just that no one spotted this eight-foot-tall primate-light being, stamping around and pulling down tree limbs,

Starting point is 00:07:40 but rather a UFO hovering over the area. Oddly enough, strange prints of all types, whether we're talking big footprints, three-toed tracks, larger dog prints, hoof prints, have showed up time and time again in the proximity of a UFO sighting. Now, in this case, how weird is it that the small tracks which led to the cabin had pointed heels and pointed toes? Maybe renegade elves? Christmas jokes aside, iconographically speaking, this is in line with fairy lore. As much as hoof prints, which were also in this series of tracks, are in line with demonel. There is room here for a bigfoot, an elf, and a demon walk into a bar joke, but unfortunately, I don't really know what the punchline would be, so if you have one, please comment.

Starting point is 00:08:23 It's too good not to use. The fact, too, that the tracks led from the wilderness, the domain of the unknown, straight through the clearing, folklorically speaking, the stage effectively from meeting strange beings, and then around and abandoned places very interesting to me. The association of anomalous beings with empty places is, of course, well established in spectrology, but also turns up time and time again when we're talking about creatures, both cryptozoologically and euphologically speaking. However, the moment of most interest in this entire affair to me is when the dog, Coke, who apparently did live through this ordeal,

Starting point is 00:08:55 was barking at the top of the empty tree, not only to Coke track something down and lead the four witnesses to the area of the fallen limbs and odd tracks, but then refused to back down, as though insisting that something was in that tree that none of the humans could observe. This is a common trope in ghost stories and cases of hauntings. And it stands out to me that here at the site of a UFO sighting, surrounded by for all intents and purposes Bigfoot tracks, a dog was barking at something that wasn't there. It's just this beautiful cross-section of all of these three main genres of paranormal research. Well, if you enjoyed this episode on the Star of Wonder UFO, please like. And if you knew this field of crop circles, go ahead and subscribe to see what

Starting point is 00:09:35 weirdness the future may have in store. Till then, you can keep up with me on my free blog at patreon.com Another Tinfoil hat. Reminder, that is where you will find the work cited page for this video. And please tune into the podcast somewhere in the skies, not only for the very best and anomalous listening, but every other Friday, you can listen to audio versions of Just Another Tinfoil hat. For today, I am Zilia Edgar, signing on. 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, be sure to subscribe. to just another tinfoil hat on YouTube.

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Somewhere in the Skies - The UFO Dog Attack with Zelia Edgar

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