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Lima Area UFO Research Associates

P.O. Box 5193 Lima, Ohio 45802-5193

http://limaohioufo.blogspot.com/

Sept/Oct 2013

Issue # 20

We again lost another LAURA member, Anna Hall. Our thoughts go to the family for their loss. We will missher!

LIMA Anna M. Hall, 86, died at 5:20 a.m. Oct. 7, 2013, at Shawnee ManorNursing Home.

She was born Dec. 13, 1926, in Dayton to Golden Nathaniel and Margaret LouiseHutchens Head, who preceded her in death. She married Allen Teeters, whopreceded her in death. She then married Gaylord H. Hall, who also preceded her indeath.

Mrs. Hall retired as manager from Southland Corp. (7-11 stores). She was aconstitutionalist, writer and a true patriot. She was a member of the Silver WarClub and LAURA.

Survivors include four children, Mary (Rick) Wilkes, of Lima, Earl (Mary)Teeters, of Beavercreek, Deed (Julie) Hall, of Elida, and Mary Wilkes, of Lima;seven grandchildren, Tracy (Matt) Griffith, Deed Hall III, Ashley Wilkes, Garrett

Hall, Stephen (Brandie) Flee, Devon Hall and Megan Hall; four great-grandchildren, Morgan and Evan Griffith,Olivia Flee and Austin Schrader; and a sister, Gladys Jackie Harper, of Dayton.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Earl Head; and three sisters, Thelma Henn, Edith Burris and Treva

Sams.

LAURABD. MEETING REPORTMONDAY, OCT 7, 2013 @ 2:30 p.m.LIMA ELKS CLUB
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1. The following were in attendance: Mike Altenberger, Helena Valenti, Bob Prater, Mike & Peggy Krick, TomBowman and Amber Horner.

2. Amber brought in a flash drive received from a Joe Citizen, 1 Victoria Ave, Australia. Pres, Bob is going toreview the drive and report the findings to the Board.

3. "UFO Cults" is the title for the Oct Program on the 16th. The sign in front of the Church has been corrected

for the program.

4. Mike Krick talked about a desert crop circle, and reported you can find out about this on Youtube. Mikeindicted the crop circle was 13 miles long. Mike also showed a photo of something he had seen recently in thesky. It appeared at first glance to be some sort of vertical cloud formation.

5. Amber provided the Board with the following financial report.Bank Checking balance........$ 605.00Bank Saving balance.............. 1125.82Expenses...[postage].............. 21.41

6. THE NEXT CLUB MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY OCT 16 @ 7:00 P.M,

Tom Bowman, Secretary

Calvin Parker Jr. recalls incident with UFO, its creatures

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi - Charles Hickson never regretted thenotoriety that came his way after he told authorities he encountered anunidentified flying object and its occupants 40 years ago on the banks of

the Pascagoula River. Until his death in 2011, Hickson told his story toanyone who would listen.

But Calvin Parker Jr., the other man present for one of the most high-profile UFO cases in American history, says his encounter with gray,

crab-clawed creatures from somewhere else on Oct. 11, 1973, turned his life upside down.

"This is something I really didn't want to happen," Parker told The Associated Press as the 40th anniversary ofthe encounter approached.

Parker was unnerved by the initial crush of attention, with reporters and UFO enthusiasts overrunning WalkerShipyard, where he and Hickson worked. Parker tried to dodge the spotlight for decades.

The incident sparked a wave of UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined caseson record. Skeptics ranged from the deputies who first interviewed the men to an author who sought to pokeholes in the story. Parker himself has had conflicting thoughts about whether he was visited by aliens ordemons.


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There's no historical marker on the river bank noting the encounter, and stores don't sell UFO souvenirs. Butlocal people remember - though often with skepticism and jokes.

Parker was 18 when he went fishing with Hickson on a tranquil Thursday night after work. The two said a UFOwith blue lights swooped down, making a zipping noise.

Hickson, then 42, said three creatures with leathery gray skin and crab-like claws - he thought they were robots- took them by the forearms and levitated them aboard the craft. He said something that looked like a largefloating eye appeared to examine him.

Parker says he was conscious but paralyzed. "They gave a thorough, I mean a thorough, examination to me justlike any doctor would," he said.

And then they were back on the shore, where it all began. Hickson reported needing three shots of liquor from abottle in his car to calm his nerves before reporting what happened.

Officers at the Jackson County Sheriff's Department initially suspected both men were drunk, but they stuck totheir story. After then-Capt. Glenn Ryder conducted a formal interview with, deputies left Hickson and Parkerin a room with a hidden tape recorder, hoping to catch them in a lie.

On the tape, Hickson is heard telling Parker, "It scared me to death too, son. You can't get over it in a lifetime.

Jesus Christ have mercy."

"I don't know what happened to them," Ryder said. "I wasn't there with them, but I know you don't fake fear,and they were fearful."

Overnight, Pascagoula became a magnet for news reporters and UFO investigators. In south Mississippi,hundreds of reports overwhelmed authorities in the two weeks after the Hickson-Parker encounter.

In his book "UFOs Explained," UFO skeptic Philip Klass noted Hickson changed some details of his story andKlass also questioned the competence of a polygraph operator whose test Hickson passed. Parker later passed alie-detector test himself.

Hickson went on to appear on talk shows, give lectures and interviews, and self-publish a book in 1983 titled"UFO Contact at Pascagoula." He reported three more encounters in 1974.

"The only thing he wanted to do was let everybody know we were not alone," said Eddie Hickson, his son. "Hedidn't care if you believed him or not. If you wanted to listen, by gum, he'd tell you."

Parker has attended some UFO conventions, and briefly tried to capitalize on his story in 1993 by starting a TVproduction company called UFO Investigations. said intrusions by curiosity seekers have become less frequentbut haven't stopped.

"You don't never have no privacy," he said.

Number of Confirmed Alien Planets Nears 1,000

Just two decades after discovering the first world beyond our solar system, astronomers

are closing in on alien planet No. 1,000.


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Four of the five main databases that catalog the discoveries ofexoplanets now list more than 900 confirmedalien worlds, and two of them peg the tally at 986 as of today (Sept. 26). So the 1,000th exoplanet may beannounced in a matter of days or weeks, depending on which list you prefer.

That's a lot of progress since 1992, when researchers detected two planets orbiting a rotating neutron star, orpulsar, about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Confirmation of the first alien world circling a "normal" star like oursun did not come until 1995.

Recent Ohio reports from the MUFON Database

The LAURA Club News is a publication of the Lima Area UFO Research Associates, in Lima, Ohio. The study group meets on the3rdWednesday of the month at the New Creation Lutheran Church (just west of Tom Ahl auto) in the upstairs church fellowshiphall at 7pm-please join us!

Contacts: President, Bob Prater ~~ [email protected]

Secretary, Tom Bowman ~~ [email protected]

Co-editors, Robert and Marcia Prater ~~ [email protected]
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