posted
Thirty years ago I read a book entitled UFOS: WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING? authored by John Weldon and Zola Levitt a fundamentalist Christian pair. Their theory was that UFOs are illusions or hallucinations caused by demons and that the demons are preparing us for the coming of the "Antichrist." In chapter 2 of that book, they provide the reader of a compendium of apparent UFO sightings from prehistoric times to the 20th century. They mention an incident in 1956 where a domb-shaped UFO touched down on Interstate 70 in New Mexico near White Sands nuclear testing grounds. They didn't mention Roswell, however. Traffic was backed up for miles until the UFO "took off."
I googled this but found nothing except the usual Roswell 1947 incident.
Anyone know anything perchance?
Barbara R.
Posts: 378 | From: Boonville, Missouri USA | Registered: Dec 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
Okay, I'm an idiot. What's a domb? Did you mean dome?
-------------------- They just don't make crazed, beserk robots like they used to. --Sheen Estevez, Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
If I manage to post something swipe-worthy that you would like to make your sig, you may do so with my blessing. Posts: 2486 | From: East Stroudsburg, PA | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
I've never heard of this particular incident, and given the positions of the "authors" I would be even more inclined to distrust them than ususal.
Of course, another issue is that there is no real way to prove a particular UFO sighting or encounter "happened", given the nature of the entire subject.
1) Interstate 70 doesn't run through New Mexico (it's further north). 2) Interstate 10, which does run near Las Cruces and White Sands, would not have been built in 1956. The earliest dates I can find for sections of I-10 being christened as such are 1959-1961. 3) How much traffic would be travelling in 1956 between the cities of Las Cruces/El Paso and Tucson? To back up traffic "for miles" would require at least 400 cars and would almost certainly invite governmental (police or military) intervention. 4) As you indicate, there isn't much in the way of corroborating eyewitness reports, although such a spectacle as a takeoff of a dome-shaped craft would certainly be visible to at least the first 20-30 cars in traffic.
Unlike many alleged sightings, the nature of this one, with its traffic-snarling side effects, would have to be one of the most public events in history. The mere fact that it isn't as well known as Roswell, Marfa, or Bentwaters/Woodbridge is in itself a pretty good indicator that it's bunk.
Posts: 2 | From: Amarillo, TX | Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Purple Iguana: Okay, I'm an idiot. What's a domb? Did you mean dome?
No, no, a shape that makes no sense for an interstellar craft:
Manuel: Hey, Lupe, look at that interstellar craft!
Lupe: Yeah, man, but it's shaped like. . . like Dolly Parton's bust!
Manuel: Yeah, it is...that's domb.
Brad (Both Manuel and Lupe are legal immigrants, BTW) from Georgia
-------------------- "No hard feelin's and HOPpy New Year!"--Walt Kelly Hear what you're missing: ARTC podcasts! http://artcpodcast.org/ Posts: 7581 | From: Gainesville, Georgia | Registered: Jun 2000
| IP: Logged |
-------------------- They just don't make crazed, beserk robots like they used to. --Sheen Estevez, Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
If I manage to post something swipe-worthy that you would like to make your sig, you may do so with my blessing. Posts: 2486 | From: East Stroudsburg, PA | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
Thanks for the correct word! I get "domb" and "dome" mixed up.
Apparently there were a lot of errors in that account in that book. Interstate 70 runs through Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado, but not New Mexico--it's too far south.
I havent' read that book in more than 15 years. I threw it away more than 10 years ago.
I probably is nothing more than an exaggerated tale.
By the way, no surviving eye-witnesses to this particular sighting have ever really come forward, have they?
Barbara R.
Posts: 378 | From: Boonville, Missouri USA | Registered: Dec 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
I-25 runs N/S through NM and on the southern end is near WSMR... but more likely for this account would be US Hwy 54 from El Paso to Alamogordo or even more likely US Hwy (not interstate) 70 from Las Cruces to Alamogordo. That highway is often closed for missle tests, which typically launch in the S end of the range down near El Paso, and then traversen above Hwy 70 and land in the N end of the range.
Not and overly busy Hwy, but I can tell you that they close it 2 hrs prior to launch (or more) so traffic does back up... and in that time the Army and Af were testing all sorts of wierd shape craft and weather ballon type things... it's plausible for all in this account except that it was an extraterretrial UFO. It can be UFO by the viewer, and still known to other men.
quote:Originally posted by Barbara R.: Thanks for the correct word! I get "domb" and "dome" mixed up.
Um, then what's a "domb"?
-------------------- "I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full-time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow." - George Harrison Posts: 28 | From: Towson, Maryland | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Barbara R.: Apparently there were a lot of errors in that account in that book.
You should have been predisposed to assume that, given that it was
quote:authored by John Weldon and Zola Levitt a fundamentalist Christian pair.
-------------------- "Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for western civilization as it commits suicide." - Jerry Pournelle Posts: 14567 | From: Pennsylvania | Registered: Jan 2002
| IP: Logged |
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[lol]](graemlins/lol.gif)
