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Abductee, alien artifact beam briefly into Tivoli basement
UFO witness displays strange space object, calls for vigilance
By Ruthanne Johnson
rjohn180@mscd.edu

Illustration by Andrew Howerton • ahowert2@mscd.edu

According to former Navy radar technician and president of the Institute for UFO research, Franklin Carter, a UFO experience will change a person’s entire belief system.

“I began seeing UFOs when I was about four,” Carter said at a recent event in the Tivoli hosted by Metro’s Crypto Science Society. “And once you have an alien experience you become a knower, not a believer, but a knower.”

In 1998, during what was called Project Disclosure, Carter was one of 200 people interviewed by Dr. Steven Greer about their alleged experiences with extraterrestrials and UFOs. Greer contends in his book Hidden Truth - Forbidden Knowledge that these accounts by military and government witnesses gives credence to the possibility of intelligent alien design. Greer sells his book online for $10 and solicits mileage points from customers so that he can continue traveling and speaking. His company needs between $2 million and $4 million to further pursue the project, according to Greer’s website.

Carter is one of Greer’s star witnesses, and his Feb. 17 presentation on the mysteries of UFO and extraterrestrial existence was made that much more mysterious by the catacomb-style environs of Sigi’s Hall.

“It was during regression therapy that I remembered what happened during three missing hours when I was with the Navy,” Carter said. After he and his Navy buddy hitched a ride with a trucker, they were dropped off and then abducted by aliens for three hours, he said.

“The alien ship was about 30 feet in diameter, piloted by two little guys – gray humanoids – dressed in uniforms,” Carter said, adding that he remembered being decontaminated and then given a medical exam by aliens that were insectoid, unlike the smaller ones piloting the spacecraft. “After that we were taken back home,” he said.

His experience with aliens has probably been more extensive than just this incident because of other “missing” times during his life, Carter said.

“Through regression, my wife and I want to explore some missing time we had together a while back,” he said, adding that he also has dreams and flashbacks of being in a UFO.

Although it has not been difficult for him to share his experience with others, Carter explained it is not like that for everyone.

“Most witnesses are afraid of going public . . . but if you see a UFO, report it to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) or the UFO Reporting Center,” he told the audience, explaining that every sighting report helps to corroborate other reports of the same incident.

“And write down everything right away: the day and time, the place and how large the object was. That way it gets rid of hoaxing weather balloons,” Carter said.

While many doubt the existence of alien beings, especially the idea of a technologically advanced alien civilization traveling in spacecrafts and abducting humans, most attending the event listened to Carter’s accounts with confidence and awe.

Alien enthusiast and producer of the recently cancelled public access show MIBTV Ann Romanek listened and nodded her head from time to time as Carter recounted his experience.

“You would not believe the stuff out there,” she remarked after the presentation regarding the amount of evidence supporting the existence of UFOs. “It would absolutely blow you away.”

In addition to recounting his UFO sightings and alien contacts, Carter displayed a small piece of the Bob White Object, an alleged extraterrestrial object named after the man who found it in a Colorado field in the summer of 1985.

“I believe Bob White has the real hard evidence of extraterrestrial visitation,” Carter said.

The Bob White Object looks somewhat like an elongated metal pinecone. According to Carter, the Los Alamos National Labratory concluded the object is not a meteor but of an unknown origin. The material is more than 80 percent aluminum with the strength of steel, and contains at least 33 elements, including trace amounts of strontium, gallium, molybdenum and europium, he said.

“We speculate it could be an ion engine from a spacecraft that was ejected due to its malfunctioning status,” Carter said. “What we know for sure is that it messes up batteries and emits gamma and beta rays and neutrons, and that it was exposed to cosmic radiation at some point.”

Metro student Kevin Harris, the senior court justice for Metro’s Student Government Assembly and a member of the Crypto Science Society, listened as Carter explained the composition of the object as it was being passed around.

“I had kind of a UFO experience, but am a skeptic – an objective skeptic, I guess you could say,” Harris said, adding that in his opinion no hard evidence had been presented by Carter attesting to the object being more than an extraterrestrial object fallen to earth.

“For me it comes back to the principle of Occam’s Razor – that the simplest explanation is probably the right one,” he said.

The president of the Crypto Science Society, Jason Cordova, agreed in part.

“I am not about to jump to conclusions, but I think there may be something to it,” Cordova said.
The Crypto Science Society is looking forward to its next event on Mar. 17, when MUFON’s assistant state director, Chuck Zukowski, will present the findings of a recent archaeological expedition to Roswell, N.M., Cordova said.

For more information about the Crypto Science Society, visit http://studentactivities.mscd.edu/~cryptoscience.