AudioBlog: Truckers Report Attack by Bird-like Creatures From a UFO

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer
Investigators.”1984 was a serious year in UFOlogy. Researchers were
taking advantage of a more efficient and accessible process for
putting in FOIA requests and finding documents showing that
agencies such as the FBI and CIA did have some involvement with
UFOs despite statements to the contrary. The Hudson Valley wave was
in full swing, and the British UFO Research Association got ahold
of the tape recording made by Col. Charles Halt on one of the
nights when UFOs were seen in Rendlesham Forest. With so much
evidence that there was something to the mystery and official
interest in it coming to light, the reporting on the UFO subject
took a turn away from ridicule, and the press started being serious
about UFOs as well. In the midst of this, there was a case that
many researchers might find worthy of ridicule, and it’s probable
that researchers of the day did as well because it came and went
and remains obscure, but the reporting on it was straight forward
and restrained. Read more