Kelly Gauthier put this online (Facebook). (I find it interesting.)

 ENORMOUS UFO ENCOUNTER IN SOUTH DAKOTA

Posted on April 17, 2021

NOVEMBER 1956 ……….GRACEVILLE SOUTH DAKOTA

“REDFIELD, S.D. — A young truck driver who said he “never held any stock in flying saucer stories” told Wednesday of seeing a huge object in the sky that changed colors and moved with tremendous speed.

Others, including three newspapermen, also reported seeing the object at great distance.

Marlen Hewitt, driver for a dairy here, told this story of wacthing the object as he drove a tank truck from Pelican Rapids, Minn., to Redfield:

“It was about 1:15 when I first spotted it as I drove along. At first I thought it was a star, I’ve never seen a star that bright. There were other stars out at the time, and only a few high clouds in the sky.

“As I went on down the road toward Graceville, it changed colors a couple of times. Near Graceville, it changed colors four times.

“I thought my eyes were playing tricks with me. I stopped, turned off the lights and got out of the truck to stretch my legs. As I rounded the back of the truck, this thing swooped down about a half mile to the east of me and stopped about 1,000 feet up.

“I was very frightened — I was terrified.

“If it had been on the ground, it would have covered about a square block. It looked to be about 12 feet thick. It was a slate gray color, and from the distance looked like it was metal. It was round, and at the base was an opening about 1/10th the size of the object from which a very brilliant light was shining.

“It would tilt around and back and forth, gaining maybe 3,000 or 4,000 feet in the flick of any eye.

“Around the edge of this thing was a lighted outline. I couldn’t tell if there were windows in the lighted part or if there was exhaust coming out all around it.

“It would change colors from a blue-white to orange to red. I wanted to get out of there, so I jumped back into the truck and turned on the lights.

“When my lights went on, the thing turned a bright cherry red and shot up into the high clouds. It moved faster than anything I ever saw.

“As I drove toward Ortonville, it dropped down and went to the southwest at a tremendous rate of speed. Then it stopped and hovered.

“I could still see the light in the cloud when I got to Ortonville, and some editors who were going hunting came out of an eating place and watched it with me.

“After I got to Big Stone City, it came down out of the clouds again, further away but still changing colors.”

Hewitt said the object disappeared about five hours after he had first spotted the bright light in the sky. He had traveled about 150 miles in the meantime.

He said the roads were “very deserted” at the time and that as far as he knew the only others to see the object were those at Ortonville.

Hewitt said the object mde no noise. He added there was a little wind at the time the object was at its lowest level and it seemed to move into and away from the wind with equal speed.

Among the hunters who saw the object at Ortonville were three newspapermen, Lem Kaercher of the Ortonville Independent and Don and Dick Olson of the Marshall Messenger.”

NOTE: The image below is a rendering 

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Marshall McLuhan told us the medium is the message and philosopher Jacques Derrida reminded us that the message is the message.

What both forgot to highlight is the messenger.

My company – IA – provides surveys to TV owners and managements about how their staffers, on-air and to-be, fare when it comes to viewer acceptance. We use social demographics and psychometric data in our analyses of who is liked and disliked visually.

I find myself doing the same when it comes to seeing or reading UFO material, much of it online or via television programming.

Let me note that Facebook has been a revelation…

While I (and others: Diana Pasulka, fraudster Kal Korff, von Däniken, nowadays, et al.) use publicity shots of a kind to present ourselves as relatively vibrant and unugly, many UFO long-timers do not.

The now infirm, many in ill-health (which shows), scruffy (unshaven or bearded), sloppy and unattractive, even homely showcase themselves as if looks don’t matter.

They don’t matter, really, but when one is presenting a message, they do. (The studies, listed at our site offer bona fides.)

Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek always maintained their credibility by offering a façade of dignity and well-kempt propriety, no sleaziness in their presentations.

Online photos of bedraggled persons, offering what they hope are messages with credibility and cachet offset their intent and wish by packaging that message with homely wrapping.

You can suggest that what I’m making a case for – augmented UFO presentations since the phenomenon is intrinsically iffy itself – is without merit: no one cares about how one looks, or shouldn’t care.

But that’s not how the psychology of acceptance works.

RR

Pay attention, fellows: Sh*t happens! Purposefully, deterministically!

 

RR