By Forest Crawford Reprinted from UFO Journal of Facts UFO Archives, Tucson, AZ The eggs had their typical lack of firmness and the sausage tasted more like greasy rope than pork links. The orders to mobilize saved me from this breakfast experiment. We proceeded down six flights of stairs below the COMPTRAPAC submarine base in San Diego to “shoot-the-tubes.” After placing my few pieces of jewelry in a container I climbed into the cylinder to travel the tunnels to an unknown assignment. I wondered what was so important to upgrade our pay from E-3 to E-6 before we left and besides that, we could not even finish breakfast. As I am told of our departure, a familiar, uneasy feeling comes over me. When you […] Read More
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by W. Ritchie Benedict FATE Magazine Reprinted by permission When I started researching back issues of Canadian newspapers on microfilm I didn’t expect to discover anything out of the ordinary. However, I found much more than I bargained for. I had agreed to undertake the research task for well-known Toronto author John Robert Colombo, who has published a number of popular books on the paranormal (Mysterious Canada, UFOs Over Canada, Dark Visions, and Mysterious Encounters). I began searching through old newspapers and I found them to be rich with unusual material, which made the task both fascinating and addictive. There are literally hundreds of references to everything from ghosts to lake monsters to spontaneous human combustion. One afternoon, I stumbled upon an article that […] Read More