Strieber related still another incident in this same book, of a mysterious abduction (apparently) to underground regions:

“...The first seemingly related case of disappearance in the U.S. history (that is, ‘related’ to cases given by Strieber earlier in his book, concerning people who were allegedly pursued by unknown objects and experienced NEAR abductions yet managed to escape - and others who were captured and never seen again, except for a few who managed to witness the abductions taking place - Branton)... took place on 23 September 1880 near the town of Gallatin, Tennessee. At approximately three-thirty on that sunny afternoon, Mr. David Lang, a farmer, dematerialized in front of five witnesses, including his wife, his two children, his father-in-law and a local judge.

“The father-in-law and the judge had just pulled up in a carriage. Mr. Lang moved toward them across a field followed by his family. Without warning, he simply ceased to exist. There was no cry, no sign of distress. Mrs. Lang, distraught, rushed up and pounded the ground where he had been walking. All that afternoon, and into the night the field was searched. Subsequently the county surveyor determined that there were no hidden caves or sinkholes in the area of the disappearance.

“The subsequent April, seven months later, the children heard their father crying distantly UNDERNEATH the field. He seemed desperate and tortured, and was begging for help. His voice gradually died away and was not heard again. Where he was last seen, there was a circle of WITHERED yellow grass twenty feet in diameter.

“The family moved away from the farm.

“It can be surmised that Mr. Lang was not removed above ground, but rather was taken into the earth and kept alive there for some months,” Strieber continues, “judging from the cries that were heard the next April. What the poor man suffered during that time, and what finally put him out of his misery, can scarcely be imagined...

“He was apparently left to languish in some subterranean prison, presumably dying when his food and water ran out.”

Tennessee incidentally, HAS been known as an area which is profusely undermined with natural underground caverns; for instance, the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS shows a photograph of a large underground lake called the ‘LOST SEA’, which lies 300 ft. underground in the Craighead Caverns, near Sweetwater, Tennessee. This underground lake is one of the largest officially recognized and was discovered in 1905 and covers an area of 4 ½ acres. The fact that subsurface features such as sinkholes, etc., were not ‘apparent’ beneath the field where Mr. Lang disappeared, does not necessarily mean that such underground chambers (whether natural or artificial) do not exist, since geological and environmental changes might have covered up such natural openings long ago. Also, researcher David A. Lewis described an account of an Indian chief who allegedly led his tribe to a giant flora and fauna filled cavern called the ‘Grand God’s Tepee’ through a small cave north of Sweetwater, Tenn. Leaving the surface to escape the violence of the civil war, many or most of them allegedly returned after it ended.

British UFOlogist Timothy Good, in his book ‘UFO REPORT’ (Avon Books., N.Y., 1989), describes the unfortunate fate of several scientists who assisted in the development of the ‘Star Wars’ defense system. Apparently, they were either eliminated by those they worked for so that they would not reveal what they knew, or someone or something ‘else’ that was displeased with the ultimate product of their efforts was responsible for their tragic deaths. Certainly, all of these scientists dying at once cannot be explained in coincidental terms, whatever the case:

“...Reports of suspicious deaths, darkly and deeply linked to UFO’s, persist, however, and continue to cause speculation. Word comes from Gordon Creighton, editor of the informative FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, who notes a possible deathly tie in with the U.S. ‘Star Wars’ program. He wrote to me in Nov. 1988 as follows:

“’...here in Britain 22 scientists have reportedly either taken their own lives or died in very strange or mysterious circumstances. And it seems that most... were engaged in British work on behalf of, or related to the U.S. ‘Star Wars’ program. The British government, it seems, was trying to hush it up. But press statements here say that the U.S. government had put our government on the spot and demanded a full inquiry. So, quite clearly, it is either the Russians or THEM...’

“As many researchers have surmised, ‘Star Wars’, ostensibly conceived as a defensive system against Russian missile attack, may have had from it’s beginning a ‘defensive’ UFO connection. Whatever the case, a ‘mock test’ in September, 1988, of an earth-shattering warhead - much like ‘Star Wars’ in reverse - was conducted at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. Announced as a proposed super-weapon designed to destroy Russian underground command centers dug in solid rock down to 1,000 (feet), some UFO analysts believe that the real target is not Russian but another adversary deep down in cavernous installations IN NEVADA AND NEW MEXICO.

“According to the Pentagon, the proposed earth-penetrating warhead is ‘urgently needed’. According to rumor-mills, an alien race - the ‘grays’ - in their fortified underground laboratories, are genetically experimenting with the human race. Even more ominous, rumors say that their intransigence today may lead to new perils tomorrow.”

Evidence is beginning to mount that many of the human and animal organs from mutilation victims are being used by an entirely different ‘alien’ group than the reptilians-saurians, although the sauroids are apparently assisting in the construction of physical-biological ‘forms’ which can be ‘possessed’ by an insidious group of SPIRIT or SUPERNATURAL non-physical entities, the ‘infernals’. The LEADING EDGE Magazine for March, 1990, quoted one ‘inside’ source as saying that:

“These beings... have a physical presence generate biological structures that function as containers for them... the aliens manufacture containers for themselves... fabricate their own bodies - using biologicals gained from humans and cattle...”

A publication titled ‘AMERICA’S MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN’ (published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Washington D.C.) made the following statement:

“Even the most conservative estimates suggest that several hundred thousand children are missing within the course of the year.” (in the United States).

Also:

“...In 1983, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services put the number at 1.5 million a year—a figure that has been widely circulated by private organizations. But experts say roughly 95 percent of these are runaways—many of whom return home within days and are counted repeatedly if they run away more than once a year.”

This would apparently put the number of those who are ‘abducted’ in one way or another at around 75,000 per year...
STILL A CONSIDERABLY LARGE NUMBER.

‘Commander X’, from his apparent though guarded vantage-point within the Intelligence Community, claims to be privy to much ‘deep-level’ inside information, as we have seen in earlier writings. One of the reports that crossed his desk involved an experience of a woman who was ‘abducted’ and taken over 1000 miles to the underground facility below Dulce, New Mexico:

“...One woman I have spoken with was abducted from the roof of a New York City apartment building and apparently held underground at the Dulce facility. She was taken to a cabin in the desert which was being used as a camouflaged entrance to the ‘alien’ base. She was eventually escorted to the laboratories to be used as a test subject, but at the last minute managed to escape thanks to the aid of one of the Nordic-type, tall aliens, who befriended her and showed her a secret way out, down an unguarded shaft.

“Back in the desert, she was rescued by members of the Blue Berets, and eventually flown back to Manhattan. During a de-briefing session with the military, she was warned to remain silent about her experiences. Anyone hearing such a bizarre tale would certainly think she had gone insane. It was inferred she could be committed to a mental institution at any time should she refuse to go along with the cover-up conspiracy, which she was told was being conducted ‘for the sake of the country, and the sake of the world!’” (right!!! - Branton)

William Cooper has stated at a MUFON symposium in Las Vegas that over 3,000 children disappear yearly in one section of Manhattan alone. Could there be some connection!?

The accounts of disappearances around underground tunnels and caverns are seemingly endless, as we see in the following account from Harold T. Wilkins’ book ‘FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED’, p. 47:

“June 7, 1954: Three German tourists who entered the vast Lamprecht Cave, near Lofer, in the Salzburg mountain region of Austria have never been found. Their automobile was left locked outside the cave.

“...The above may very well be merely a case of amateur speleologists getting lost in labyrinthine caves, although it is unusual for THREE men to vanish in this fashion. But I must risk the charge of being accused of fancy and moonshine, when I say that both in England and the United States, there are regions of limestone caverns and mountains from which... queer phenomena associated with white lights descending to ground level from great altitudes have been reported!”

And then we have the following cases as revealed by John Keel in his book ‘OUR HAUNTED PLANET’, pp. 202-208:

“There are periodic waves of disappearances which create brief sensations in the newspapers and are quickly forgotten. No one ever manages to find out where these people have gone. In 1912 five men, all unrelated, disappeared unaccountably in a single week in Buffalo, New York. Montreal, Canada, had a wave of missing persons in July, 1883, and again in July, 1892.

“Children vanish more frequently than any other group. We’re not talking about ordinary runaways. In August, 1869, thirteen children vanished in Cork, Ireland. No sign of kidnapping or foul play. The same month there was a wave of disappearing children in Brussels, Belgium. Another group of youngsters melted away in Belfast in August, 1895. And again in August, 1920, eight girls (all under twelve years of age) disappeared forever in Belfast...

“Actually, children have been disappearing in large numbers for centuries all over the world, and most of these cases have remained unsolved. In the Middle Ages it was popularly believed that fairies and leprechauns frequently stole children away. The Indians of North and South America also have many myths and stories about children being kidnapped by little people. The notion that parahumans kidnap children is deeply entrenched in every culture...

“The celebrated Pied Piper of Hameln, Germany, is more than just a charming children’s story. A stranger actually did appear in Hameln in the Middle Ages, and he lured away 150 children never to be seen again. The event is still commemorated with an annual festival in Hameln (one of the old accounts says that the children were taken to a subterranean cavern - Branton).

“In A.D. 1212 a teenage boy in France, Stephen of Cloyes, BEGAN TO HEAR VOICES which inspired him to collect together fifty thousand children for the pathetic Children’s Crusade. They marched off to do battle with the infidels and disappeared EN MASSE. The popular explanation is that they were all seized by slavers.

“...Ufologist Jerome Clark uncovered an extraordinary item from an old 1939 newspaper. ‘On a day in the late summer, 1939, a military transport left the Marine Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, for routine flight to Honolulu,’ Clark wrote in FLYING SAUCER REVIEW. ‘About three hours afterwards several urgent distress signals sounded from the plane and then silence. Later the craft came limping back to execute an emergency landing. When Air Station personnel entered the plane, they found every man of the crew, including the copilot who had lived long enough to pilot the craft back to its base, dead of unknown causes (researcher Charles Berlitz related elsewhere that they had been mutilated - Branton).

Keel continues quoting from the old article:

“Each of the bodies carried large, gaping wounds, and the outside of the ship was similarly marked. Air Station men who touched parts of the craft came down with a mysterious skin infection.

“One of the most puzzling aspects of the whole affair was that the .45 automatics carried by the pilot and copilot as service pieces HAD BEEN EMPTIED, AND THE SHELLS LAY ON THE FLOOR. A smell of rotten eggs pervaded the atmosphere inside the plane... Mysterious skin infections and rotten egg odors (hydrogen sulfide) are phenomena familiar to all UFO researchers. It would seem that the transport was attacked—apparently without provocation—by some sort of strange aerial intruder.”

The following account, taken from the May, 1946 issue of AMAZING STORIES (pp. 171-173) seems to contain information which would explain many of the ‘missing pieces’ of the overall ‘Men In Black’ phenomena. At least some of the ‘MIB’ have been variously described as ‘androidal’ like beings, although as John Keel has stated some seem to portray reptilian aspects, and in a few cases obviously human entities have been described. Christa Tilton allegedly encountered some ‘MIB’ in a black auto near Boynton Canyon, near Sedona, Arizona. She described them as follows:

“The men did not look right. Their faces had no expression on them whatsoever. They looked like they were wearing chalky tan makeup. Their movements were robot-like and unearthly.”

The AMAZING STORIES letter, which was quite lengthy and excerpts of which we quote below, was submitted by a Mr. Edward John of (at the time) 475 Fell St., San Francisco, CA.:

“Sirs... I have enjoyed your stories for many years as I have read AMAZING since the first issue back in 1928 if I remember right.

“...I think I can show you an entrance to this subterranean city that he (Shaver) has written about several issues back. Here is what happened to me and you may judge for yourself. In 1931 my mother and I took up a section of land as a cattle raising homestead from the U.S. Government and naturally it was not a choice piece... a person who turned out to be our nearest neighbor gave us some hints and as the place was only six miles from his we stayed at his ranch until we built our house. Then we moved into our own and all in all we stayed there about two years before we quit; and now I will relate the things that caused us to quit, which at the time I did not know much about, but since Mr. Shaver wrote, now I know and marvel that we managed to stand two years without getting killed by these things from below.

“As a note of interest I have had to use 30,000 rounds of ammunition in the period and perhaps that is why we are still here. At night I would sit up fully dressed all night with a rifle in my hands, ready, and an extra one by my side. In about five hours after dark I would hear things moving outside the house and after a while something would try to open the door quietly and I would wait until I saw the knob turn, then let go a clip right through the door and then pull it open and look around outside and there was nothing to be seen. After a couple of nights like that, that performance would stop and something new would be tried.

“There are too many incidents to be told in one letter, the best one was the two disappearing automobiles, which happened at about ten at night over at the neighbor’s place. It was as follows: the neighbor and we were sitting on the porch after supper when he saw headlights come over the hill to the fence then along the fence for about half a mile, then go out and that was all that night. So next morning we went to the trail along the fence and there were tire tracks of seven inch width tires and they went along the fence into the box canyon and right up against a smooth boulder about 20 feet in diameter and ended there. Now the car could not turn around anywhere in that place because the road is a trail five feet wide and one side is against our neighbor’s fence, which was not damaged and the other was a steep hill that no car could even make in compound low. You know, we have a few mountains here, and as far as backing out I tried that myself in the daytime with help and I could not steer a straight enough path without crossing my other marks so they did not back out or we would have trailed them as my neighbor has lived around there since 1848 and he sure knew his tracking. We never did get an answer to the question of where did the cars go.

“The cars were very large and black and very heavy and now that I compare them they were about twenty years ahead of anything I have ever seen anywhere and I had worked in the auto business for about five years before we took up the land. They were silent, smooth, no wavering of the lights and the trail is extremely rough; in places it has hollows a yard deep, but these cars went through at about 25 mph, and it would even wreck a jeep to do that, so you figure it out and let me know the answer if you can. By wavering of lights, I mean that the beams were steady and not flashing up and down as an ordinary car would do when a rough road is traveled.

“I have been away from there since 1933, but just about three months ago, I drove through with a friend for safety and my place is razed to the ground and everything that was made by human hands has been carried off even the old tin cans, and the place would not be noticed unless you knew where is was. The Coast and Geodetic survey had a marker near my house in the front yard and even that is gone; who would want to take a concrete marker and carry it away?

“...after two weeks, you can hear insects running on the ground, (also) forest fires will not burn there. They burnt 250,000 acres, then burnt all around this area; and that stopped the forest rangers. They never could understand because most of it is on the slope of a mountain and it should have gone, but they saw that the wind came down and blew from the top down and blew North, South, East and West at once and that was the only time that the wind ever blew there.

“Also you can detect an atmosphere of fear within 30 miles of the area and you will not get a statement from anyone who lives around there and the people in the valleys are afraid of the people in the hills. One farmer erected 20 foot barbed wire fences and a heavy gate across the road that leads to my old place. The gate would take a tank to knock down, so maybe there is something there, after all.
“It is located 110 miles north of San Francisco in Mendocino county and is directly on the old Pieta toll road that ran between Hopland and Lakeport in Lake county of which Clear Lake is quite a summer resort. If you care to look it up on a map get a good auto road map and look due south off the road midway between towns and you will note an area with no roads bounded by Sonoma Lake and lower Mendocino counties and there is it. If you wish to go there, be sure that enough people know where you went. Maybe they will be able to find you. There have been several disappearances along that stretch of road, even trucks have vanished. All the U.S. Government’s.

“The U.S. Government has noted the area as rough, unsurveyable and UNEXPLORED...

“Personally I do not care to go near the place, but if there is some way of driving the things out I would help if I can so that someone else could live there safely.

“...Also I forgot to mention there is a cave on the property that has steps leading down and there is no sound when a rock is thrown in. I have never seen it, but I understand that it is there... Also, several people have died of heart failure and some have gone insane, I found out later.

“I think the thing that saved us was the fact that I am not surprised at anything and that I am quick to shoot and I can shoot without sighting and by ear and not having the thought of shooting fixed so that the things would be warned. After that place, I was able to outshoot U.S. Marine sharpshooters. I tried competing in a match and I just never missed any target at any range. If I could see it, I could hit it, 5 out of 5. I have tried practice machine guns at plane models and I hit 3 out of 5 at speeds up to 700 mph scale without using the sights. So the old ranch gave me something worthwhile after all.

“Due to my physical condition, I cannot get into any armed forces, so that talent is wasted, for you see I have a bad leg and cannot walk more than a mile at a time. Since I left the ranch I have been in the radio business and have not owned a gun since ‘34, because as long as I stay away from there I don’t need one...”

The ‘I.N.F.O. JOURNAL’ (box 367., Arlington, VA, 22210), a publication devoted to ‘Fortean’ research, Vol. IV, No. 2 issue, related one of the most frightening and disturbing accounts of subterranean abduction that we have come across yet. The article, titled ‘MOUNTAIN OF DEATH’ and written by David D. Browne, originally appeared in the June 1972 issue of WALKABOUT, published in Sydney, Australia:

“Black Mountain comes almost as a shock when you see it first.

“Traveling by bus just south of Cooktown, North Queensland (Australia), a bend in the road suddenly discloses it and the visual impact can bring an involuntary exclamation, as you see it -- black, bare and sinister, a 1,000 ft. high pile of enormous boulders two miles long, rearing out of the rain-forest.

“This is ‘the Mountain of Death.’ Aborigines will not go near it. An ancient legend warns them of danger. White men fear it too, because of the numbers of men who have gone there and disappeared without a trace, as if the earth—or the mountain - had swallowed them. Birds and animals shun the area.

“The rocks give off a curious metallic ring when struck, and the only sound is the croaking of countless frogs sheltered in the depths where the great granite boulders lie against each other.

“In Brisbane’s Public Library, a yellowing newspaper cutting tells some of the story:

“’Grim tragedy has been associated with the mountain ever since it has been known to white man.

“’Three men with horses completely disappeared at the mountain. They vanished as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up, for absolutely no trace of them has ever been discovered, although police and backtrackers and hundreds of local residents scoured the mountain and surrounding country.’

“Then following the names and occupations of several others who disappeared, and the dates of their disappearance. The cutting continues:

“’This constitutes one of the most amazing stories in the police history of the far north, for not one of the mysteries has been solved and probably never will be.’

“Another newspaper cutting, signed Nancy Francis, reads:

“’The formation of these mountains is unique; their appearance grotesque. They are mountains of huge boulders full of chasms that go down to unsounded depths. Only a few rock wallabies and a few turkeys live near these grim, forbidding hills. The Aborigines regard the Black Mountains with dread.’

“In the files of the Cooktown police, dating back 25 years, there is a report made by a Sergeant of Police who discussed the mountain with a man whom he refers to as Mac. Mac began:

“’Know anything about Black Mountain, or so-called ‘Mountain of Death’? Its aboriginal name is Kalcajagga.’

“’What does it look like at close quarters?’ I asked.

“’Just a mass of tumbled granite blocks; hardly any vegetation. The only living things there are black rock wallabies and enormous pythons 16 feet or more long and able to swallow a wallaby whole. The ridge is honeycombed with caves, nearly all unexplored. They dip down below ground level but nobody knows their extent or what they contain.’

“The latest fatalities, he reported, had occurred only a few years earlier when two young men set out to solve the riddle of earlier disappearances in the caves. They were never heard of again. Two black trackers who tried to trace them disappeared too.

“Then Mac went back to the beginning of the mountain’s grim story.

“The first-known fatality was that of a carrier named Grayner, in 1977. He had been searching on horseback for strayed bullocks when he, with his horse and bullocks, vanished without a trace. Thirteen years later, Constable Ryan, stationed at Cooktown, tracked a ‘wanted’ man to the scrub at the foot of the mountain. Other trackers followed his trail to the entrance of one of the caves, but he was never seen again. Nor was the ‘wanted’ man.

“More recently a gold prospector named Renn was added to the list of mysterious disappearances.

“Well-organized police teams with trackers combed the whole area for weeks without finding him.

“Then there was the case of Harry Owens, a station owner from Oakley Creek. One Sunday morning he rode over towards Black Mountain looking for strayed cattle. When he didn’t return on time his partner, George Hawkins, alerted the police then went out to look for him himself. But by the time the police joined in the search, Hawkins had also disappeared. Two of the native police trackers entered one of the caves. ONLY ONE OF THEM CAME OUT. He was so unnerved by what seemed to have been an experience of terror that he could give no clear account of what happened to them both.

“Mac even knew a white men who had penetrated the caves and lived to tell the tale, and produced a newspaper cutting of his story. It read:

“’Armed with a revolver and a strong electric torch I stepped into the opening. Like other Black Mountain caverns it dipped steeply downwards, narrowing as it went.

“’Suddenly I found myself facing a solid wall of rock, but to the right there was a passageway just large enough for me to enter in a stooping position. I moved along it carefully for several yards. The floor was fairly level, the walls of very smooth granite. The passage twisted this way and that, always sloping deeper into the earth.

“’Presently I began to feel uneasy. A huge bat beat its wings against me as it passed, but I forced myself to push on. Soon my nostrils were filled WITH A SICKLY, MUSTY STENCH. THEN MY TORCH WENT OUT.

“’I was in total darkness. It was inky black. From somewhere that seemed like the bowels of the earth I could hear faint moaning of bats.

“’I began to get panicky and I groped and floundered back the way I thought I had come. My arms and legs bleeding from bumps with unseen rocks. My outstretched hands clawed at space where I expected solid wall and floor. At one stage where I wandered into a side passage I came to what was undoubtedly the brink of a precipice, judging by the echoes.

“’The air was FOUL and I felt increasing DIZZINESS.

“’Terrifying thoughts were racing through my mind about giant rock pythons I have often seen around Black Mountain.

“’As I crawled along, getting weaker and losing all hope of ever getting out alive, I saw a tiny streak of light. It gave me super strength to worm my way towards a small cave mouth half a mile from the one I had entered.

“’Reaching the open air, I gulped in lungfulls of it and fell down exhausted.

“’I found I had been underground for five hours, most of the time on my hands and knees. A king’s ransom would not induce me to enter those caves again...’

“Such are some of the weird stories told of the mountain.

“These and the extraordinary structure of the mountain itself give rise to many questions, scientific and otherwise.

“On the scientific aspect, the following comments come from a member of the staff of the James Cook University of North Queensland, Dept. of Geology, Associate Professor P.J. Stephenson.

“He says, ‘I have visited and climbed the mountain concerned. It is composed of huge granite boulders covered with black lichen. The complete black surface coating may be uncommon but the boulder pile is less so. Near Chillagoe and at several other localities in north Queensland similar phenomena exist.

“’The occurrences are somewhat puzzling because of their relative rarity. However, they must have been produced by rapid erosion of the ‘skeletal’ soil profile. Many soil profiles contain fresh rock ‘kernels’ in them and removal of the soil component would produce a boulder pile. But such removal takes place so slowly the ‘kernels’ also weather completely...’

“There are still some practical questions to ask, however.

“What really did happen to those people who at various times in the last hundred years, have been said to disappear, vanish without a trace?

“...Any party that decides to unravel the mystery of the mountain will need to be very carefully organized and equipped to meet any hazard, likely or unlikely—not forgetting the possibility of meeting a very real python. CR: Simpson.”

In apparent relation to William Cooper’s allegations concerning the connections between the Kennedy assassination, MJ-12, UFO’s and so on we have the following very interesting yet very disturbing ‘connection’ which was related by John Keel in his book ‘OUR HAUNTED PLANET’ (1968., Fawcett Crest., Greenwich, Conn.):

“In his detailed report on the Maury Island UFO (incident) of 1947, Kenneth Arnold also describes meeting a small, dark foreign looking man who was tinkering with the motor on a beat-up boat in TACOMA HARBOR. Ray Palmer, editor of ‘AMAZING STORIES’ in Chicago, had commissioned Arnold to investigate the puzzling Maury Island affair, which began when a ‘donut-shaped object’ had rained ‘slag’ onto a boat near Maury Island. Pieces of that slag had killed a dog aboard the boat and slightly injured a boy, the son of Harold Dahl, who was piloting it. Early the next morning, according to Dahl’s story, a 1947 Buick drove up to his home and a black-suited man of medium height visited him. This man, Dahl said, recited in detail everything that had happened the day before AS IF HE HAD BEEN THERE. Then he warned Dahl not to discuss his sighting to anyone, hinting that if he did there might be unpleasant repercussions which would affect him and his family. Since Dahl and the others had not yet told anyone of their sighting, and since UFOs were still publicly unknown (Arnold’s sighting over Mount Rainier and the attendant publicity did not occur until three days later), Dahl was naturally nonplussed by his strange visitor. This was the first modern MIB report.

“Dahl’s boss, FRED L. CRISMAN (he also owned the boat), became a central figure in the mystery. DAHL HIMSELF VANISHED SOON AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH ARNOLD, and the efforts by later investigators (such as Harold T. Wilkins, a British author) have failed to locate him. Crisman had been A FLIER IN WORLD WAR II, and he was suddenly RECALLED into the service in 1947, FLOWN TO ALASKA, and later stationed in Greenland. In recent years amateur sleuths engaged in investigating the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy have tried to implicate CRISMAN. District Attorney JAMES GARRISON of New Orleans subpoenaed one FRED LEE CRISMAN of TACOMA, WASHINGTON, to testify before the Grand Jury listening to Garrison’s evidence against Clay Shaw (as is portrayed in the best-selling movie ‘JFK’ - Branton), according to wire service stories in November, 1968. Crisman was identified as a radio announcer, but Garrison’s investigations implied that HE WAS EITHER A MEMBER OF THE CIA OR HAD BEEN ‘ENGAGED IN UNDERCOVER ACTIVITY FOR A PART OF THE INDUSTRIAL WARFARE COMPLEX.’ He allegedly operated under a cover as a preacher and was ‘engaged in work to help Gypsies.’ These stories caused a chain reaction in UFO circles, since UFO believers have long accused the CIA of being somehow connected with the flying saucer mystery. Of course, the CIA was in its infancy in 1947 at the time of the Maury Island case and was then largely staffed by NAVAL personnel from World War II intelligence units.

“Clay Shaw was tried early in 1969, accused by Garrison of having conspired to murder President Kennedy. He was found innocent and freed. The exact nature of Crisman’s testimony before the Grand Jury IS NOT KNOWN. He did not testify at the actual trial...

“The Maury Island case fell apart in Arnold’s hands. The slag samples given to him by Dahl and Crisman WERE SWITCHED BY SOMEONE; two investigating Air Force officers, Brown and Davidson, WERE KILLED WHEN THEIR PLANE CRASHED shortly after leaving Tacoma; DAHL VANISHED; Crisman was literally exiled to Greenland for two years; Tacoma newsman Paul Lance, who helped Arnold in his investigation, DIED SUDDENLY A SHORT TIME LATER. Palmer claims that a cigar box filled with original slag samples WAS STOLEN from his Chicago office soon afterwards.

“At one point Ted Morello of the United Press took Arnold aside and told him:

“’You’re involved in something that is beyond our power here to find out anything about... We tried to find out information at McChord Field (the Tacoma Air Force base) and drew a blank, and we have informants there who practically smell the runaways for news... We’ve exhausted every avenue attempting to piece what has happened together so it makes some sense... I’m just going to give you some sound advice. Get out of this town until whatever it is blows over.’

“Arnold got into his private plane and headed for home. He stopped in Pendleton, Oregon, to refuel, and shortly after he took off again, HIS ENGINE STOPPED COLD. Only quick thinking and expert flying saved him from a serious crash...”

The following locations are areas where, according to various sources, actual conflicts have taken place between humans and, in most cases, sauroid-reptilian beings. Most of these conflicts have taken place within or near entrances to underlying artificial tunnels or natural cavern systems.

Each site will be NAMED, followed by the TYPE of conflict (ranging from abductions or mutilations against humans by the saurians-reptilians; to battles or attacks upon the saurians by human forces); Next, the specific SITE of the ‘conflict’; followed by a DESCRIPTION of the human and alien beings involved in the conflict; And finally the SOURCE of the information. Although many such conflicts have allegedly taken place in other countries, the highest concentrations seem to have occurred in the U.S., which will be the major focus of this list. These sites are as follows:

1)   DIXONVILLE, PA - (abduction-murder/Dixonville mine tunnel/miners vs. saurian-reptoids) - source: Patrick O’Connel.

2)   Lincoln Tunnel, New York state - (abduction-disappearance/road tunnel/ humans vs. unknown) - source: John Grant.

3)   Hopland-Lakeport, CA - (abductions/mountain road between towns-underground caverns/U.S. Govt. vs. MIB & possibly Reptilians - MIB vehicles seen to disappear into cliff) - source: Raymond A. Palmer.

4)   Superstition Mts. east of Phoenix, AZ - (abductions-murders/mountains-Boyton Canyon also-underground bases/miners & explorers vs. MIB & sauroid reptilians) - source: ‘Commander X’.

5)   Nellis Range & Military complex, southern NV - (abductions-murders/underground bases: S-4, Groom Lake, Dreamland, Blue Diamond, Indian Springs, Mercury, Test Site, etc.,/loyal U.S. Govt. vs. Reptilians of various types, MIB & ‘controlled’ secret govt.) - source: Michael Lindemann.

6)   Dulce, M.M. - (battles-abductions-mutilations-murders/underground bases surrounding Dulce/scientists, locals & special forces vs. Reptilians of various types & ‘implanted’ CIA-secret govt.) - source: Paul Bennewitz.

7)   Salt Lake City, UT - (abductions-murder/tunnels beneath Crossroads cinemas & caverns below Wasatch Mts./explorers, workers & subsurface humans vs. Reptilians of various types & MIB; also possible growing conflict & dissension between ‘hu-brid slaves’ and sauroid reptilians) - source: S.L. security workers.

8)   Gallatin, TN - (abduction/subterranean chambers/farmers vs. unknown) - source: Whitley Strieber.

9)   Manhattan, N.Y. - (abductions/tunnels-underground bases/missing persons vs. saurian grays, etc.) - source: ‘Commander X’.

10) Boston, Mass. - (abduction/from basement & sub-basements to tunnels-caverns/missing persons vs. unknown) - source: Raymond A. Palmer.

11) Between Helvetia & Newville, W VA. - (abduction/caverns & tunnels/explorers-surface workers & subterran humans vs. unknown) - source: Joan Howard.

12) Fort Wayne, CO - (abduction-captivity/underground base/former Dulce worker & others vs. Reptoid saurians & MIB) - source: Val Valerian.

13) Redwood Falls, Minn. - (battles & subterran woman rescued/small opening outside of town leading to tunnels-caverns/surface U.S. soldier & subsurface humans vs. Reptilian ‘dero’!?) - source: Raymond A. Palmer.

14) Cushman, ARK - (battles/tunnels-cavern systems west & northwest of town/surface & subsurface human alliance vs. saurian-serpents; also human-Sasquatch vs. saurian-serpents) - source: Charles A. Marcoux.

15) Burley, ID - (psychic attack-murder/tunnel about 6 mi. west of town to underlying caverns/human victim-explorer vs. unknown) - source: Raymond A. Palmer.

16) McCallester, OK - (battle-conflict, shots fired/cavern & artificial tunnels beneath mound/armed human explorers vs. unknown) - source: Charles A. Marcoux.

17) Kansas City, MO - (battle-conflict-human escapes/cave hidden in cliff on shore of Missouri River/human explorer vs. Reptoid!?) - source: Charles A. Marcoux.

18) New Kensington, PA - (chase-escape/sewer tunnel near town/local children vs. infant ‘sauroid’ which was chased back into a ‘sewer’ opening from where it emerged) - source: Lucius Farish.

19) Loveland, OH - (attack, shots fired/Little Miami & Ohio rivers/farmers & armed police officers vs. semi-aquatic or subterran ‘lizard’ like sauroid encounter on road & which escaped back to the river) - source: Loren Coleman.

Still another apparent ‘casualty’ of this cosmic warfare between Man-kind and the serpent race(!?) was described in a letter addressed to SEARCH Magazine, which appeared in it’s September, 1960 issue:

“Dear Rap (i.e. Raymond A. Palmer):

“I have been following your pursuits of UFO(s)... through your magazines for some time with consuming interest, especially the Shaver Mystery. There’s an item or two concerning this that I have been intending to write you about for some time. Sometimes during the year about 1946 to 1947 I heard that Dr. William Beebee wrote an article published in the ‘Atlantic Monthly’ in which he made a remark about ‘the coming invasion of the earth by the underground race.’ When I remarked on this to a fellow worker of mine he said ‘Isn’t he the scientist - oceanographer who disappeared?’ I was startled by his sudden question and said that I didn’t know, and asked if he knew anything of the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. He said he understood or heard that on one of Dr. Beebee’s descents to the ocean floor OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA, he was missing from the inside the diving bell when it was brought up! Do you have anything on this? I had been wanting to look for some corroboration of this to see if it could be true or if the present whereabouts of William Beebee is known. Then I am reminded of the disappearance of another prominent person, the world traveler and explorer Richard Halliburton. I am sure I read only a few years ago that he was presumed to be lost at Sea in a storm....”

The number of ‘casualties’ keep pouring in...