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Colby Landrum（1980-12-29, Texas : ダイアモンド型巨大 UFO の目撃当事者）の証言

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前置き​

過去記事、

1980年12月29日、テキサス州：ダイアモンド型巨大 UFO の目撃者達が放射線障害に（統合版） （2012.07.14）

の当事者の証言。

要旨​

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キャシュ・ランドラム事件：異星人か政府の極秘技術か

この文章は、‌‌1980年にテキサス州で発生したキャシュ・ランドラム事件‌‌に焦点を当てています。

‌‌ベティ・キャシュ、ヴィッキー・ランドラム、そして7歳の孫コルビー・ランドラム‌‌が、‌‌ダイヤモンド型の未確認飛行物体（UFO）と多数の軍用ヘリコプター‌‌に遭遇し、‌‌原因不明の火傷や放射線障害‌‌に苦しんだ経緯が語られています。

また、‌‌ミネソタ州で起きたヴァル・ジョンソン巡査のUFO遭遇事件‌‌も比較対象として紹介されており、どちらの事件も‌‌UFOによる物理的損傷や政府の隠蔽工作の可能性‌‌が示唆されています。

記事全体を通して、‌‌未解明の超常現象と政府の極秘技術‌‌に関する疑問が提示されています。

目次​

  1. 前置き
  2. 要旨
  3. 全体の俯瞰
    1. 未確認飛行物体（UFO）との遭遇と物理的・健康被害:
    2. 軍事介入と政府の隠蔽の可能性:
    3. 証言の信頼性と調査の限界:
    4. 結論
  4. 時系列
  5. 主要関係者
    1. キャシュ・ランドラム事件の被害者
    2. 事件の目撃者および証言者
    3. 調査員および専門家
    4. 軍関係者
    5. その他の人物
  6. 情報源
  7. 文字起こし（話者識別）

全体の俯瞰​

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詳細ブリーフィングドキュメント：キャシュ・ランドラム事件と関連するUFO遭遇事件

概要

本ブリーフィングは、1980年12月29日にテキサス州ハフマンで発生したキャシュ・ランドラム事件を中心に、複数の情報源から得られた主要なテーマ、重要なアイデア、および事実をレビューするものです。また、1979年にミネソタ州ウォーレンで発生したヴァル・ジョンソン事件や、1988年にオーストラリアで発生したムンドラビラ事件など、類似の現象についても考察します。これらの事件は、未確認飛行物体（UFO）の遭遇、それに伴う物理的な損傷や健康被害、そして政府による隠蔽の可能性という共通のテーマを持っています。

主要なテーマとアイデア

未確認飛行物体（UFO）との遭遇と物理的・健康被害:​

  • キャシュ・ランドラム事件: ベティ・キャシュ、ヴィッキー・ランドラム、そして7歳の孫コルビー・ランドラムは、ダイヤモンド型の発光物体に遭遇し、強い熱と火炎を浴びた。「熱は非常に強烈で、彼女はこれ以上耐えられず、車に戻りました。ベティはその熱の燃えるような作用で焦げ付きました。」(00:06:58) その結果、3人全員が重度の火傷、水疱、脱毛などの症状を負った。特にベティ・キャシュは「高エネルギー放射線被曝と、その被曝による物理的損傷があったことは、私には全く疑いようがありません。」(00:16:26)と診断され、最終的に事件から18年後の1998年に亡くなった。ヴィッキー・ランドラムも2007年に亡くなり、家族は死因が事件によるものだと主張している。

  • ヴァル・ジョンソン事件: 警察官ヴァル・ジョンソンは、1979年に「光」が彼のパトカーに正面衝突し、意識を失った。車両はフロントガラスの破損、不審なへこみ、アンテナの90度屈曲など、「不可解な損傷」(00:36:57)を負った。また、車内の時計と彼の腕時計が「14分遅れていた」(00:31:07)という時間の喪失も報告された。

  • ムンドラビラ事件: 1988年にオーストラリアで発生した事件では、家族が奇妙な光によって車を道路から押し出され、車が持ち上げられたと主張した。車にはタイヤのパンク、屋根のへこみ、そして車両外部に「細かい黒い灰」(00:33:15)が確認された。

  • レンドルシャムの森事件: イギリスでキャシュ・ランドラム事件の48時間前に発生したこの事件では、奇妙な光を目撃した軍関係者が「非常に熱い」(00:21:13)と感じたと報告し、その後、森林から「異常に高い放射線レベル」(00:21:13)が検出された。

軍事介入と政府の隠蔽の可能性:​

  • 多数のヘリコプター: キャシュ・ランドラム事件では、コルビー・ランドラムが「約23機のヘリコプター」(00:07:18)がダイヤモンド型の物体を囲んでいたと証言し、元デイヴィッドン警察官のラマー・ウォーカーも「9からおそらく12機」(00:08:23)の二重回転翼式ヘリコプターが「何かを探しているようだった」(00:08:27)と述べた。これらのヘリコプターは「チヌーク」型であり、軍用機であることが示唆された。
  • 軍の否定と矛盾: 事件を調査したペンタゴンの中佐ジョージ・サランは、「陸軍またはその資産が関与したという証拠を見つけることができなかった」(00:28:32)と主張したが、情報公開法で公開された彼自身の手書きメモには、同じ夜に「フォートフッド近くのロバート・グレイ飛行場に100機のヘリコプターが着陸した」(00:26:21)と記載されており、彼の公式見解と矛盾している。
  • パイロットの証言: コルビーとヴィッキーがフェアで出会ったチヌークのパイロットは、「12月29日夜にその地域で任務に就いていた」(00:24:34)と話したが、彼らが被害者だと分かると「国家安全保障上の理由でそれ以上情報を提供することを禁じられている」(00:27:09)と口を閉ざした。
  • 道路の再舗装: 事件後数日以内に、目撃者がダイヤモンド型物体と遭遇した地点の道路の一部が「黒い、無標識のトラック」(00:19:35)によって掘り起こされ、再舗装されたと報告されている。ハリス郡の記録では1980年以降の修理記録がないにもかかわらず、コアサンプルは「複数回の再舗装」(00:23:24)を示しており、これは「外部による作業が非常に可能である」(00:23:54)ことを示唆している。これは放射線の痕跡を消すための隠蔽工作であった可能性が指摘されている。
  • 医療記録の入手困難: ベティ・キャシュの主治医ブライアン・マクレランド博士は、彼女の入院記録の大部分をパーカーウェイ病院から入手できなかった。「軍事または法的な手段によってブロックされたはずだ」(00:14:11)と推測している。また、キャシュの娘は、母親が入院中に「ハザード材料ゾーン」(00:15:50)のように隔離されていたと証言している。
  • WASP-2の可能性: マクレランド博士は、軍関係者から「WASP-2」と呼ばれる核動力の人員輸送機が実験されており、それが事件の原因であると「ベティとヴィッキーの全事件の描写と完璧に一致した」(00:39:27)と聞いている。元空軍のテストエンジニアはWASPの「一人乗り飛行車両」(00:40:16)について知っていたが、WASP-2の存在は依然として機密である。
  • タスクフォース160: 元空軍のテストエンジニアは、1980年代に結成された「タスクフォース160」という陸軍の航空部隊について言及している。これは「夜間の飛行、深い隠密の挿入と抽出を訓練するために設立された」(00:41:09)部隊であり、「隠密作戦、秘密作戦を行うために設立された」(00:41:39)ため、その活動は「知的なレーダーの下に飛行している可能性」(00:41:39)があるとされる。これは、サラン中佐の調査範囲外でヘリコプターが活動していた可能性を示唆している。

証言の信頼性と調査の限界:​

  • 信頼できる証言: ヴァル・ジョンソンは「信頼できる、信用できる法執行官」(00:00:58)であり、元保安官も彼の言葉を疑ったことはない。「彼の言葉を疑ったことは一度もない」(00:30:59)。キャシュ・ランドラム事件のコルビー・ランドラムも、生き残った唯一の目撃者として証言している。
  • 調査の限界: サラン中佐は、陸軍の関与を「実証できなかった」と述べており、事件を「UFO」と「政府の秘密技術テストの失敗」のどちらかと結論付けることはできない。一部の調査員は「何かが起こったことは確実に特定した」(00:43:24)が、「それが地球上のものか、それとも他のものか、言うことはできない」(00:43:24)と述べている。政府は、UFOやヘリコプターが米国政府によって所有または運営されたという「事実を立証できなかった」(00:42:23)として、賠償請求を却下し、訴訟も棄却された。

結論​

キャシュ・ランドラム事件と関連するUFO遭遇事件は、未確認飛行物体との遭遇が深刻な物理的・健康被害を引き起こす可能性を示している。これらの事件は、単なる目撃情報だけでなく、放射線被曝、身体的損傷、そして車両の不可解な損傷といった具体的な証拠によって裏付けられている。

また、事件を取り巻く状況、特に多数の軍用ヘリコプターの出現、道路の不審な再舗装、医療記録の隠蔽、軍関係者からの機密情報提供、そして政府による公式な否定は、高度に機密化された軍事技術のテスト中に発生した事故、あるいは隠蔽工作の可能性を強く示唆している。

「28年が経った今でも、真実が明らかになるという希望はあります。誰かがそれを知っているはずです。」(00:44:12)というコルビー・ランドラムの言葉は、未だに多くの疑問が残されており、関係者が真実の開示を求めている現状を強く表している。これらの事件は、UFO現象が単なる都市伝説ではなく、国家安全保障と国民の健康に影響を及ぼす可能性のある、重要な未解決問題であることを示唆している。

時系列​

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1979年8月27日 (キャシュ・ランドラム事件の1年前)

午前1時45分、ミネソタ州ウォーレン郊外: ヴァル・ジョンソン警察官がパトロール中、路上に光を発見。光が彼の車に猛スピードで接近し、衝突。ジョンソンは意識を失う。 衝突後: ジョンソンのパトカーはフロントガラスが破損し、車体に不自然なへこみやしわ、アンテナが90度曲がるなどの損傷を受ける。車内の時計とジョンソンの腕時計は14分遅れていた。 ジョンソンの証言: 目撃したのは「光」であり、車ではないと報告。エンジンが停止し、約1,000フィート車が滑走したと推測される。 1980年12月29日

夕方、テキサス州デイトン上空: ジェリー・マクドナルドが、炎を噴き出し、ガイドライトを持つ三角形の未確認飛行物体を目撃。物体はデイトン上空を飛行していた。 午後9時頃、テキサス州ハフマン・ニュー・キャニー・ロード: ベティ・キャシュ、ヴィッキー・ランドラム、そして7歳の孫コルビー・ランドラムが車で帰宅中、空に明るい光を目撃。 未確認飛行物体との遭遇: 光は上空から降りてきて、ダイヤモンド型の物体であることが判明。車内の3人は強烈な熱を感じ、ベティとヴィッキーは火傷を負う。 ベティの行動: ベティは車を降りて物体に近づき、さらにひどい火傷を負う。 ヘリコプターの出現: 約23機の二重反転式ローターを持つ軍用ヘリコプター（チヌークと推測される）が現場に到着し、物体を旋回する。 物体とヘリコプターの消失: 物体とヘリコプターは樹木の向こうへ消える。 警察官夫妻の目撃: その数分後、デイトン警察官ラマー・ウォーカーとその妻が、多数の軍用ヘリコプターがサーチライトを点灯させて何かを探しているのを目撃する。 直後の症状: コルビーは吐き気と顔に水ぶくれを経験。ヴィッキーとベティはさらに重い症状に見舞われる。 事件直後

ジェリー・マクドナルドの体調不良: 事件数日後、ジェリーは頭痛と吐き気に苦しむ。 ベティ・キャシュの入院: ベティはパークウェイ病院に1ヶ月以内に3回入院し、重度の火傷、水ぶくれ、脱毛を経験。病状は進行性の放射線被曝と診断される。病院の記録は後に取得困難となる。 ミッキー・ガイジンガーの面会: ベティの娘ミッキーは、母親が隔離された地下のような部屋で、医療従事者が防護服を着用して治療しているのを目撃。病室のドアには「危険物質」の表示があった。 事件から数日後

道路の掘削: 複数の情報筋によると、ハフマン・ニュー・キャニー・ロードの一部が黒い無印のトラックに乗った作業員によって掘り起こされ、舗装し直されたとされる。ハリス郡の記録には該当する工事の記録がない。 土壌分析: 後年の調査で、問題の道路部分から採取されたコアサンプルは、一般的な建設方法とは異なる二層のアスファルトや複数回の再舗装の痕跡を示し、郡の記録との不一致が判明する。 事件から5ヶ月後

航空ショーでの遭遇: コルビーとヴィッキーが郡の航空ショーを訪れた際、チヌークヘリコプターのパイロットと遭遇。パイロットはヴィッキーに、12月29日の夜にその地域で任務に就いていたことを明かすが、被害者と知ると口を閉ざし、国家機密のため詳細を話せないと述べた。 1980年代前半 (時期不明)

軍による調査: 米軍がキャシュ・ランドラム事件の調査を開始。ペンタゴンからジョージ・サラン中佐が派遣されるが、軍用ヘリコプターの活動に関する記録は見つからないと結論付ける。 訴訟の提起: ベティ・キャシュとヴィッキー・ランドラムは、米空軍に対し損害賠償請求を行うが却下される。その後、ヒューストンの裁判所で政府を訴えるが、1986年に却下される。 1998年 (事件の18周年)

ベティ・キャシュの死去: ベティ・キャシュが12月29日に亡くなる。彼女の主治医であるブライアン・マクレランド博士は、死因は放射線被曝による重度の合併症（後に癌も）であると断言。 2007年9月12日

ヴィッキー・ランドラムの死去: ヴィッキー・ランドラムが亡くなる。彼女も放射線中毒と癌に苦しんでいたとされる。 2008年頃 (調査時)

コルビー・ランドラムの証言: コルビー・ランドラムが事件について初めてカメラの前で語る。 ジョージ・サラン中佐の証言: サラン中佐が事件について初めて公に語り、コルビー・ランドラムと対面する。彼は、事件当日、フォートフッドのロバート・グレイ飛行場に100機のヘリコプターが着陸したことを示す自身のメモ（情報公開法で開示）の存在を否定するが、後に説明できないと述べる。 マクレランド博士の証言: マクレランド博士が、軍関係者と名乗る目撃者から、目撃された物体が核動力の輸送機「WASP-2」と呼ばれる極秘の航空機だったという情報を得たと証言。 タスクフォース160の可能性: 元空軍テストエンジニアのビル・スコットは、事件当時、イラン人質救出作戦の失敗を受けて、極秘の夜間飛行作戦を遂行する「タスクフォース160」（ナイトストーカーズ）が設立されていた可能性を指摘。彼らの作戦は情報レーダーにかからない可能性があった。

主要関係者​

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キャシュ・ランドラム事件の被害者​

  • ベティ・キャシュ (Betty Cash): 事件の主要な被害者の一人。ダイヤモンド型の物体に遭遇した際、車外に出てしまい、最も重度の火傷と放射線被曝を負う。全身に水ぶくれができ、髪が抜け落ちるなどの症状に見舞われ、後に放射線中毒や癌に苦しみ、事件から18年後の1998年12月29日に死去。

  • ヴィッキー・ランドラム (Vicky Landrum): ベティの友人であり、コルビーの祖母。事件の主要な被害者の一人。ベティと同様に火傷や放射線被曝の症状を経験し、後に放射線中毒や癌に苦しむ。2007年9月12日に死去。

  • コルビー・ランドラム (Colby Landrum): 事件当時7歳だったヴィッキーの孫。車のダッシュボードの下に隠れていたため、他の二人よりは軽症だったが、火傷、吐き気、脱毛を経験。事件の唯一の生存する目撃者であり、真相解明を求める。

事件の目撃者および証言者​

  • ラマー・ウォーカー (Lamar Walker): 元デイトン警察官。事件の夜、妻と共に自宅近くで多数の二重反転式ローターを持つ軍用ヘリコプターがサーチライトを点灯させて何かを探しているのを目撃。ダイヤモンド型の物体自体は見ていない。

  • ジェリー・マクドナルド (Jerry McDonald): 事件の数分前、デイトン上空で炎を噴き出す三角形の未確認飛行物体を目撃。その後、頭痛や吐き気に苦しむ。

  • ミッキー・ガイジンガー (Mickey Geisinger): ベティ・キャシュの娘。入院中の母親のひどい状態を目撃し、病院が母親を隔離し、医療従事者が防護服を着用していたと証言。

調査員および専門家​

  • ビル・バーンズ (Bill Burns): 調査員。ペンタゴンの調査を主導した元中佐から証言を収集。

  • パット・アスカート (Pat Uskert): 調査員。被害者の娘から負傷の詳細を聞き出す。道路のコアサンプル採取にも立ち会う。

  • テッド・アックワース博士 (Dr. Ted Ackworth): 調査員。被害者を診察した医師から、放射線被曝の診断に関する情報を得る。

  • ケン・チェリー (Ken Cherry): Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) のテキサス支部長。事件の初期段階の情報を伝える。

  • ブライアン・マクレランド博士 (Dr. Brian McClelland): ベティ・キャシュの主治医。18年間にわたり彼女を治療し、その症状が「高エネルギー放射線被曝」によるものであると診断。病院がベティの医療記録のほとんどを拒否したことに対し、軍または法的手段によるブロックがあったと推測している。

  • フランシスコ・プエンテス (Francisco Puentes): Terracon Industries社のエンジニア。道路のコアサンプル分析を行い、問題のセクションが一般的な建設方法とは異なる二層のアスファルト構造を持つことを指摘する。

  • ビル・スコット (Bill Scott): 元空軍飛行テストエンジニア。WASP-2と呼ばれる核動力機の存在や、タスクフォース160のような極秘作戦部隊が事件に関与した可能性について言及。

  • ジョージ・バイブル教授 (Professor George Bible): 事故調査の専門家。ヴァル・ジョンソンのパトカーの損傷を調査し、アンテナの曲がり方や車の全体的な損傷に不可解な点があると結論付ける。

軍関係者​

  • ジョージ・サラン中佐 (Lieutenant Colonel George Saran): キャシュ・ランドラム事件のペンタゴン調査を主導した元陸軍中佐。軍用ヘリコプターの関与を示す記録は見つからなかったと主張するが、自身の手書きメモには100機のヘリコプターがフォートフッドに着陸したと記されており、その矛盾を説明できない。

  • チヌークヘリコプターのパイロット (Chinook helicopter pilot): 郡の航空ショーでヴィッキーとコルビーに遭遇し、事件の夜にその地域で任務に就いていたことを示唆したが、被害者だと知ると口を閉ざした。彼の発言は、サラン中佐の調査結果と矛盾する。

その他の人物​

  • ヴァル・ジョンソン (Val Johnson): ミネソタ州の警察官。1979年に未確認の光と衝突し、車に不可解な損傷を受け、意識を失った。事件後、転居し、公にはこの事件について話すことを拒否している。

  • デニス・ブレッケ (Dennis Brekke): 元マーシャル郡保安官。ヴァル・ジョンソン事件の夜の調査責任者。ジョンソンの信頼性を擁護している。

  • グレッグ・ウィンスコウスキー副官 (Deputy Greg Winskowski): ヴァル・ジョンソン事件の夜に最初に現場に駆けつけた警察官。ジョンソンのパトカーの奇妙な損傷を最初に目撃した一人。

情報源​

動画(44:22) UFO or Secret Govt_ Advanced Technology [FULL VIDEO]

文字起こし（話者識別）​

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（以下は "UFO or Secret Govt_ Advanced Technology" と題された動画の文字起こしです。複数の事例が取り上げられています。）

[narator] : 407, what's the problem? Something just hit my car. Some say it was an extraterrestrial craft. Others, a secret weapon test gone wrong. But whatever two women and a young boy encountered on a Texas road, it was dangerous. First thing that come to her mind, you know, it was the end of the world. What type of sighting could cause burns and injuries? Everywhere you can imagine, she had blisters. Now, nearly 30 years later, clues emerge. (00:00:40)

[narator] : Theoretically, it could have happened. And another story surfaces, of a police car hitting a UFO, head on. It happened to a reliable, credible law enforcement officer. A family with signs of radiation poisoning. A strange collision. Are we encountering aliens, or our own bizarre creations? This is case number 80103, Alien Fallout. (00:01:10)

[Colby Landrum] : Somebody needs to admit to what they've done. I just want answers for what they've been hiding for 28 years. (00:01:36)

[narator] : December 29th, 1980. The Piney Woods of Huffman, Texas. At approximately 9 in the evening, Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum, and a 7-year-old boy, Colby Landrum, are driving home to Dayton, on Huffman-New Caney Road, 30 miles northeast of Houston. The boy sees a bright light in the sky, heading straight towards them. This light will soon irreparably impact the lives of everyone in the car. The light descends and reveals itself to be a diamond-shaped object. All of the occupants in the car feel strong heat, and the two women are burned. (00:02:23)

[narator] : These photos show the blisters that formed on their exposed skin. Possibly as many as 23 double-rotor military helicopters arrive on the scene and circle the craft. Though the object and helicopters eventually disappear over the tree line, for the three in the car, an ordeal which will haunt them for the rest of their lives has just begun. Minutes later, a Dayton police officer and his wife observe large military helicopters with searchlights flying above the trees, as if looking for something. Other witnesses claim a diamond-shaped craft flew above them, emitting flames as it moved over populated areas. (00:03:14)

[narator] : The incident leads to a full military investigation. But the effects of this incident linger on. Both women suffer mysterious injuries. Years later, according to their families, their deaths are caused by the incident. Now, after decades of loss and lawsuits, no suitable explanation for the helicopters and the fiery craft has been found. (00:03:46)

[Colby Landrum] : Maybe their lives weren't affected like mine was, but somebody actually seen the same thing that I seen that night. (00:03:58)

[Lamar Walker] : This should wake up the American people and demand to know what's going on. (00:04:05)

[narator] : The investigation into alien fallout leads to Huffman, Texas. Bill Burns will collect testimony from a retired lieutenant colonel who led the Pentagon investigation into the incident. (00:04:22)

[BIll Burns] : George Sarand was to investigate what role the Army might have had in flying helicopters on December 29, 1980. (00:04:34)

[narator] : Pat Uskert will get details about the injuries from one victim's daughter. (00:04:38)

[Pat Uskert] : These people not only experienced physical harm after these UFO sightings, but also experienced emotional and psychological damage. (00:04:47)

[narator] : And Dr. Ted Ackworth will meet a physician who says the three were irradiated by the craft. (00:04:54)

[SPEAKER_13] : There aren't too many medical records left over from those days, but what I really want to do is talk to him and get what information he has. (00:05:01)

[narator] : The investigation begins in Dayton, where Bill meets with the Mutual UFO Network's Texas director, Ken Cherry. (00:05:10)

[BIll Burns] : Walk us through it, Ken. What happened? (00:05:16)

[SPEAKER_06] : Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum were out on an evening about nine o'clock, accompanied by Vicky's grandson. They saw something that they described that looked as if the sky had opened up. (00:05:29)

[narator] : For the first time ever, the boy, Colby Landrum, now in his thirties, will reveal what happened that night. In hopes of finding the truth, he has agreed to tell his story on camera. (00:05:44)

[Colby Landrum] : Colby, tell us what happened on this road. Right about here, as we were driving along, we started seeing a bright object come over the top of the trees. And as we got closer, we realized that the temperature was getting a lot hotter. And my grandmother kind of got frantic, and they stopped in the middle of the road. (00:06:10)

[narator] : According to Colby, the craft spews flames and heat down onto the road and the three helpless occupants of the vehicle. (00:06:18)

[Colby Landrum] : What did it look like to you? It was a bright red glowing object. It kind of looked as if you took a piece of metal and heated it up with a torch. It kind of looked like it was on fire, but it was kind of floating. (00:06:31)

[narator] : While Vicky and Colby take refuge in the car, Betty, mesmerized, opens the door and steps out. (00:06:40)

[Colby Landrum] : My grandmother went to the dash. She was screaming. Betty had got out of the car and was looking at it, and the heat was so intense, she couldn't stand it much more, so she got back in the car. Betty was seared by the burning effects of that heat. (00:06:58)

[BIll Burns] : Vicky was burned. Colby was burned and traumatized by the event. (00:07:03)

[narator] : At that moment, helicopters appear overhead. At first, there's just a few, but within moments, they're everywhere. (00:07:18)

[Colby Landrum] : As I was counting the helicopters, I was coming up with a count of about 23. I just remember being real frantic. (00:07:26)

[narator] : Finally, the alleged UFO and its escort of roughly 23 helicopters disappear into the Texas night. Colby, his grandmother, and Betty Cash manage to reach Dayton. Since Colby is the only living witness to experience the effects of the incident, Pat begins his search for corroborating evidence. Someone else who may have seen the helicopters and the diamond-shaped craft. (00:07:55)

[Pat Uskert] : Lamar Walker, former police officer with the Dayton Police Department. He was driving with his wife that night when they saw these formations of helicopters. (00:08:06)

[Lamar Walker] : I was looking out on this side, just glancing out this way, and the first bunch I saw, the first one was right here in front of me. Okay, you saw the first formation right here in front of you? Anything from 9 to probably 12 is what I could see. They all had their ground search landing lights on. They were definitely sure looking for something. (00:08:30)

[narator] : If there is a diamond-shaped craft, as Colby Landrum reports, Walker never sees it. (00:08:40)

[Lamar Walker] : Could you tell me a little bit about the helicopters themselves? They was twin rotors, big blade in the front, big at the rear, kind of like the Army would have or the Air Force or something. So, in your mind, these are military helicopters? Oh yes, very much so. (00:08:58)

[narator] : These double-rotored helicopters are known as Chinooks and are built for heavy lifts and transporting troops. (00:09:06)

[Pat Uskert] : This is a military helicopter. Maybe we can use the Chinook as a lead and see who might be responsible for what happened that night. (00:09:14)

[narator] : Pat meets with Jerry McDonald, another witness, who didn't see the helicopters, but saw something else he'll never forget. (00:09:26)

[SPEAKER_10] : When I looked up, I saw this unidentified craft, like a triangle shape. And in the back of it, it had, how do you say, acetylene torches. You know that bright blue light when you get ready to cut metal? That was coming off the back of it. (00:09:42)

[narator] : McDonald watches the alleged UFO fly right over the town of Dayton, minutes before Betty, Vicky and Colby's encounter. (00:09:51)

[Pat Uskert] : Now, would you be able to draw a picture of what you saw? Sure can. (00:09:58)

[SPEAKER_10] : We've got a triangle shape right here. This was flaming torches here. In front of it was two white lights here and a white light here guiding the craft. And it went that direction, right there. (00:10:15)

[narator] : McDonald reveals to Pat that he got sick soon after the incident. (00:10:20)

[SPEAKER_10] : I got sick a couple of days later, but for the most part of it, I felt like I came unscathed. (00:10:27)

[narator] : Jerry suffers from headaches and nausea, but the effects of his sighting are almost inconsequential compared to those of Colby Landrum and the other occupants of the car. (00:10:38)

[Colby Landrum] : I started getting sick after we got back to the house. And I had vomiting and I had a couple of blisters on my face, kind of like a sunburn. Did your grandmother have any symptoms too? My grandmother was very sick. I think Betty had more of the worst symptoms than any of us. (00:10:56)

[narator] : The symptoms are devastating. Severe burns, painful blisters, hair loss. What could cause such overwhelming injuries? Ted turns to Betty's physician to confirm that this was no ordinary illness. (00:11:11)

[SPEAKER_02] : There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that she had high energy radiation exposure. (00:11:16)

[Colby Landrum] : I didn't get out of the car and wasn't hurt near as bad as Betty or my grandmother. They seemed to have taken the hardest hit. (00:11:28)

[narator] : The investigation is searching for answers to what witnesses encountered outside Huffman, Texas in December of 1980. Hours after witnessing a diamond-shaped object, Colby Landrum, his grandmother Vicki Landrum, and friend Betty Cash succumb to a mysterious illness. Ted arranges a meeting with Betty Cash's physician, Dr. Brian McClelland, who treated her for 18 years. (00:11:58)

[SPEAKER_02] : I'm wondering if you could just start by describing to me the case. Well, when I met Betty, she had a burn mark on the back of her right hand. And so I asked her how that happened. And she told me that I wouldn't believe her if she told me the story. And I said, well, just try me out. (00:12:15)

[narator] : Betty Cash is admitted to Parkway Hospital three times within a month after the incident, with severe burns, blistering, and hair loss. She claims these symptoms are a result of her encounter with the diamond-shaped craft. Dr. McClelland points to a handful of remaining medical records to back his startling diagnosis of Betty's injuries. (00:12:39)

[SPEAKER_02] : Well, I have a copy of the dictated parts of her chart from Parkway Hospital. She was admitted, what looks like, three times from this chart. And each one of them is consistent with progressive radiation exposure. (00:12:55)

[SPEAKER_13] : There are a number of skeptics on this case who just say that she could not have been irradiated because she would be dead. What do you say to that? (00:13:04)

[SPEAKER_02] : Well, all radiation does not kill you. It depends on the intensity of the source and the duration of your exposure. And those two factors made it so that she suffered burns, she suffered some superficial damage, but she didn't have a lethal dose. How much radiation would it take to cause these kinds of effects? You'd have to estimate her getting somewhere between one and two grays of radiation, which is a way of measuring absorption. So it's not a lethal dose, but it's enough to hurt you. (00:13:32)

[narator] : Curiously, Dr. McClelland is unable to obtain the vast majority of Cash's medical records from Parkway Hospital, where Betty was initially treated. (00:13:44)

[SPEAKER_02] : We send them at least 20 or 30 releases over time. But yet you were unable to get information? No. So you've never seen this happen before or since with a request for information? I mean, occasionally they'll send you back, can't find it, it's lost, but they just don't answer. So why would Parkway Hospital not release this information to you? I would speculate that they wouldn't release it because it was blocked. It had to be blocked by military or legal means. (00:14:11)

[narator] : While Ted continues to uncover the medical facts and records of the case, Pat meets with Betty Cash's daughter, Mickey Geisinger. (00:14:23)

[Pat Uskert] : She was a witness to her mom's horrific injuries. Blisters on the face, burns on the arm, her hair falling out in clumps. (00:14:33)

[SPEAKER_01] : I didn't know it was my mother. You didn't recognize her? She couldn't open her eyes because she even had blisters on the inside of her eyes, on the inside of her nose, on the inside of her mouth. Everywhere you can imagine she had blisters. (00:14:50)

[Pat Uskert] : Did you try to talk to your mother? (00:14:52)

[SPEAKER_01] : I tried to. My mother, she was kind of blurting out the words, you know, trying to tell me exactly what happened, but she couldn't. About that time, here comes a police officer escorting me out of the room. Why was he escorting you out of the room? I don't know. (00:15:08)

[narator] : Undaunted, Mickey returns and visits her mother multiple times. On one occasion, she finds her mother has been moved to an unlikely room. (00:15:20)

[SPEAKER_01] : They had her isolated to herself. Well, the nurse directed me to the room, but she said, I'll have to walk you to it. And then she takes me to a room downstairs where there's nothing else down there. There was no other rooms, like a basement. And when I went into the room, every one of them had to have gloves up to here, mask on, gowns on, hats on. So they were handling this almost like a hazardous material zone. (00:15:50)

[SPEAKER_01] : And that's what was on the outside of her hospital door, a sign for hazardous material. When (00:15:56)

[narator] : finally stabilized, Cash moves to Alabama to live with her mother. Her injuries from the encounter have left her unable to care for herself. There, Dr. McClellan treats Betty Cash pro bono until her death in 1998 on the 18th anniversary of the incident. (00:16:19)

[SPEAKER_13] : Doctor, you've seen as much of the evidence in this case as anybody, especially the medical evidence. What's your diagnosis here? (00:16:26)

[SPEAKER_02] : Was Betty radiated? There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that she had high energy radiation exposure and physical damage from that exposure. Anyone can speculate as to the source of the radiation, and I don't know of anything available to common people that would cause that. (00:16:44)

[narator] : The doctor has never met Colby Landrum, but agrees to examine him for this investigation. (00:16:53)

[SPEAKER_13] : He tracked her case throughout 17, 18 years. He's actually something of an expert when it comes to radiation exposure and radiation poisoning. And I think Dr. McClellan is the right kind of person to be able to give us an expert diagnosis. First, let's talk about the incident. (00:17:11)

[Colby Landrum] : Do you remember anything about it? I was sick for a week or two afterwards. I never went to the hospital. I mean, I went and got checked out, but I had some burns. Where did you have those? They was on my back and arms. And then I remember I couldn't get out in the sun very much for a week or two. (00:17:27)

[narator] : Dr. McClellan proceeds to collect a case history on Colby Landrum. (00:17:33)

[SPEAKER_02] : Put your shirt up. Kind of the same as if you'd had some sun exposure or something. That's about the only changes. That's cool. But otherwise, you're uninjured, right? (00:17:48)

[Colby Landrum] : Otherwise, I have no problems as of lately. (00:17:51)

[SPEAKER_02] : Did you lose any hair? I may have lost a slight amount in the back of my hair, from what I remember. But it looks like it's pretty much intact now. Everything came back. How long was it before you actually felt well? I'd say probably two weeks. Never had any liver problems, ulcers in your stomach, trouble with your stomach? Not that I know of. Take a big breath. And now, you can sit up. (00:18:21)

[narator] : Though no physical effects remain, Colby is still pained by the experience. (00:18:27)

[SPEAKER_02] : But at least you're healthy and you can get along. But you really should be doing these check-ups, not more than every two years, probably every year. But anything that shielded you with metal would have been relatively protected. But the windows didn't protect you if you were inside the vehicle. Betty only got it because she was outside. (00:18:45)

[narator] : If radiation was the cause, Betty probably received the highest dose as she stood outside the car. Vicky would have been next in dosage as she peered through the front window. Colby would have received the least by hiding beneath the dash, away from any windows. But the radiation could have affected more than just the witnesses. Is it possible that it was absorbed by the road itself? Bill learns that a crew was seen at the site days after the incident, digging up the road. (00:19:23)

[Colby Landrum] : My grandmother told me this is a section from about here, about 135 feet back. And they stripped the pavement from about this point, 135 foot back towards Inland Road. Well, did people describe trucks coming in and doing this? Well, I had heard from different sources. Somebody had told me it was black, unmarked trucks that come in here and actually stripped it. It should throw a red flag up to somebody. It sure is a red flag, I agree. (00:19:48)

[narator] : If clandestine crews were brought in to repave the road without the county's knowledge, then a core sample of the road should show the resurfacing pattern. If it doesn't match county records, it could confirm the military's attempt to hide the truth. And the lieutenant colonel who originally investigated the case finally comes forward. (00:20:18)

[Lamar Walker] : They had two, maybe three double rotary Chinooks and the rest of them were the type to carry personnel in. (00:20:30)

[narator] : On this county road almost 30 years ago, three witnesses see an alleged diamond-shaped UFO spitting flames and descending toward their car. The three receive burns and one seems to suffer from radiation sickness. But just before the encounter in Texas, one of the most famous events in UFO history takes place. The United Kingdom's Rendlesham Forest Incident. A previous investigation looked into this sighting, which involved multiple Royal Air Force bases and reports of strange lights resembling, quote, an aircraft on fire. Before the event, locals had long complained of strange blisters on their skin. (00:21:13)

[narator] : And that night, men in a military security detail reported feeling, quote, very hot as the lights approached them. In the days following, strange marks with abnormally high radiation levels are found in the forest. Less than 48 hours after the conclusion of these events, Betty Cash and Vicky and Colby Landrum have their encounter on this road in Texas. Bill has learned that a crew allegedly removed part of the road after the sighting, perhaps to remove traces of radiation. If there is any truth to the story, it could point to a cover-up. (00:21:56)

[narator] : Pat returns to the location with Francisco Puentes of Terracon Industries, an engineering firm that specializes in pavement analysis. Two samples will be taken, one from the spot that was alleged to have been replaced, and the other from a portion of road outside the contact site. Now, if the road was repaved, will we be able to tell from this sample? (00:22:21)

[Pat Uskert] : Will we be able to see some type of delamination or color difference between the old and the new? (00:22:27)

[narator] : Francisco tells Pat that the section of road allegedly replaced reveals unusual features. (00:22:33)

[Pat Uskert] : It's different than typical construction. Typical construction, again, is they remill and put directly on top of the asphalt. Here we have two distinct layers of asphalt. Does that say anything to you? It's unusual, it's not typical. (00:22:48)

[narator] : A control sample is taken from 160 feet away. (00:22:55)

[Pat Uskert] : Comparing one to the other, they're fairly similar. Well, the alleged story is that the road was actually torn up and completely reconstructed, that it wasn't just resurfaced. They actually dug down to the foundation of the road and removed it. But do these core samples show any evidence of that kind of total removal of the road? Not completely removed and reconstructed. Anything abnormal? We have a lot more asphalt than typical construction. It looks like it's been resurfaced a few times. (00:23:24)

[narator] : The core samples don't show major differences, but they do add to the mystery. According to Harris County Highway officials, they are unable to find any documentation of repairs, overlays or reconstruction on this road since 1980. But these two extractions show multiple repavings. The investigation believes the road reconstruction may have stretched further than first thought. And with the discrepancies in the county records, that an outside operation is very possible. But Colby has another lead. (00:24:00)

[narator] : He tells Bill that five months after the traumatic events on the road, he and his grandmother crossed paths with someone involved in the incident. During a military exhibition at the county fair, a chance encounter opens the possibility of a military secret. (00:24:17)

[Colby Landrum] : A Chinook helicopter had flown in a date. We went up there to actually see it and I think my grandmother had got to talking to the gentleman, the pilot. And before he realized who she was and what had happened, he started talking that he was on a mission the night of December 29th in that vicinity. According to Colby, the pilot said his unit was based at Ellington Air Force Base. After my grandmother had confronted him about being caught on whatever mission they was on, he kind of clamped up and wouldn't say anything. (00:24:52)

[narator] : Military secrecy continues to surround the case. But due to the press received at the time, or another unknown reason, the Army launches a major investigation into the Cash Landrum incident. The report on the topic is classified. The author of the report is Lieutenant Colonel George Saran. His investigation has called much of Colby's story into question. For the first time, he is speaking out about the case and has come face to face with Colby Landrum. (00:25:25)

[SPEAKER_06] : The only organization that had that many helicopters was the United States Army. Twenty-three helicopters would be a real logistical operation. Being so close to a major international airport, the air traffic control people would definitely have... it would have been cleared through them. (00:25:47)

[BIll Burns] : You asked them if they had any record of a flight of 23, give or take, a couple of helicopters and the answer was... No. They had no record. (00:25:57)

[narator] : But the investigation receives a piece of evidence that distinctly contradicts the Lieutenant Colonel's claims. A declassified handwritten note by George Saran himself, released through a Freedom of Information Act request. The note states that 100 helicopters landed at Robert Gray Airfield, at nearby Fort Hood, that same evening. (00:26:21)

[SPEAKER_06] : I... I have no idea why I might have wrote that down. In those days, it was kind of a closed down place that was just used on the weekends by the Reserves and the National Guard. There would have never been anything like that. I must last words. I... I don't have an answer for that. (00:26:43)

[narator] : But what about the helicopter pilot Colby and Vicky spoke to, who claimed that he was on patrol in the area that night? Lieutenant Colonel Saran's report details the encounter. Quote, Ms. Landrum heard him to say that he was flying the evening of the incident. When pressed for more details, the pilot responded that he was prohibited from adding more information because of national security. (00:27:09)

[Colby Landrum] : I guess my question is, why come out and actually tell us that he was dispatched to that area, and then after he found out that we were actually the victims that had the encounter out there, retract his statement? I just find that very hard to believe. I don't have an answer for that. Something definitely happened here in Huffman, Texas on December 29, 1980. Whether it was above your command, below it, something definitely happened. I'm not trying to be hard towards you, but you're the only one that I've ever had a chance to talk to involving our government. (00:27:46)

[Colby Landrum] : As far as your command and officers ever come up to you and say, okay, that's enough, that's all we can do on this? (00:27:52)

[SPEAKER_06] : Absolutely not. Never was I told that this is hush-hush, off limits, and play this this way or that way, or don't play it at all. (00:28:05)

[narator] : With no concrete answers for the ship or military helicopters in the air that night, Saran is sure of one thing. (00:28:17)

[SPEAKER_06] : Obviously something had happened to them. You don't get those kind of burns and the kind of problems medically without something happening. I could not substantiate that the Army or any of his assets were involved. (00:28:32)

[BIll Burns] : Colonel Saran said definitively that the Army had no reports of helicopters taking off from any of its bases. We're now homing in on the possibilities. Could have been black operation, the Army didn't even know about it. We still have to establish culpability for who was controlling that craft. (00:28:55)

[narator] : With these questions still lingering, the investigation looks at another contact event that left a victim with both psychological and physical damage. What's the problem? I don't know, something just hit my car. What is causing this rash of trauma and who is responsible for it? The investigation into alien fallout has led to Marshall County, Minnesota. One year before the Cache Landrum incident, on August 27th, 1979, outside of Warren, Minnesota, at 1.45 a.m., Officer Val Johnson is on patrol in his police cruiser. A strange light appears hovering above the road in the distance. (00:29:45)

[narator] : Deputy Johnson is traveling at 65 miles per hour when the light begins rushing head-on towards his car. Then, an impact. And Officer Johnson loses consciousness. These are the actual police recordings from that night. Johnson sounds dazed as he reports the accident to dispatch. 407, what's the problem? (00:30:10)

[Lamar Walker] : I don't know. (00:30:13)

[narator] : Johnson's cruiser has a broken windshield, unexplainable creases and dents along the length of the body, and the antenna is bent at a 90 degree angle. Today, Johnson refuses to speak about the incident and has moved to another city. Ted sets out to meet with former sheriff Dennis Brekke, the man in charge of the investigation that night. (00:30:49)

[SPEAKER_04] : He hasn't spoken about Johnson's encounter in two decades. As far as Val Johnson is concerned, you know, he was a good person and I had never doubted his word at any time. (00:30:59)

[narator] : But one angle of Johnson's story is almost impossible to reconcile. And it seems to defy time itself. (00:31:07)

[SPEAKER_04] : His clock in the car was 14 minutes slow. And we went to check his wristwatch that night and that was 14 minutes slow. (00:31:17)

[SPEAKER_13] : And so the clock in the car was running again when you recovered the car. So whatever had happened had stopped it temporarily for 14 minutes. I gather he was a very meticulous officer. He set his clock very carefully, that on his wristwatch and the car. That's how he reported it in. (00:31:34)

[narator] : The loss of time is impossible to prove. But the physical damage to the car is very real. Bill and Pat tracked down Deputy Greg Winskowski, the first responder that night. He's agreed to meet at the site of the UFO incident on Highway 220. (00:31:55)

[SPEAKER_11] : What did you find when you got there? And I think someone took a shot at him. He was slumped over. I got him back. Again I asked him, what kind of car was it? He says, it was no car. He says, it was a light. A light. What kind of light? From a car or what? He says, no, it came out of the air. It came right at me. Deputy Winskowski was one of the first to witness the strange damage to the car. (00:32:17)

[SPEAKER_11] : The antennas were bent, the windshield and the headlight was out. And I could see faint tire impressions that stretched for about 850 feet. And then solid black marks for about another 99 feet where the brakes were locked up. So would an accident investigator say the engine went off at this point? That was the only explanation I could get. (00:32:35)

[narator] : Could the light have possibly disabled the police cruiser's engine... and caused the car to skid off the road almost 1,000 feet from the point of impact? One of the only corresponding UFO cases involving damage to a vehicle... happened outside Mundrabilla, Australia, in the early morning of January 20th, 1988. Similar to Val Johnson's encounter, a family is run off the road by a strange light. But the incident doesn't end there. The family claims the light lifts their car from above and drops them further down the road. (00:33:15)

[narator] : Later, the police would confirm a blown-out tire and four separate indentations in the car's roof... and note the presence of a fine black ash on the exterior of the vehicle. Though it has been almost 30 years since Val Johnson's incident, physical evidence has survived. Officer Johnson's patrol car. And Ted has brought in a crash expert to help him examine the effects of this strange encounter. (00:33:52)

[SPEAKER_13] : I'm about to meet with Professor George Bible, who studies the forensics of airplane crashes... which I think is really relevant here. So George, here it is. 1977 Ford LTD. I think the damage was mostly down at the driver's side. Right, so there's the headlight. Some kind of impact around here. Almost all of the reflector is gone as well. The clear glass front's all gone. Look here, the impact marks on the hood. (00:34:20)

[SPEAKER_13] : Definitely some kind of deformation there. That impact looks a little odd to me. It doesn't seem like that could happen from an impact horizontally. That looks more like a vertical. And then here's the windshield. (00:34:32)

[SPEAKER_09] : Can you make out where the impact marks are? Well, hard to say. The windshield expert thinks the windshield had two impacts from the outside... and one impact from the inside, which is unusual. The Ford guy said they all happened within a few milliseconds... and they could estimate the speed being very rapid. (00:34:48)

[narator] : The description of the accident and the damage to the car don't seem to make sense. Clearly, something impacted the vehicle. But if Johnson was traveling at 65 miles per hour and collided with something head-on... the police cruiser should have had severe damage. One piece of evidence may show the true power of the impact. (00:35:13)

[SPEAKER_09] : And here are the two bent antennae. One is bent almost 90 degrees, and I decided it just couldn't happen from an air blaster... from impact with a hard object. (00:35:23)

[narator] : Professor Bible shows why he believes the antenna couldn't have been bent by a minor impact or wind blast. (00:35:31)

[SPEAKER_09] : This is a high-strength steel wire, similar to what they had in the antenna. And if you try to bend it back 90 degrees, it has tremendous springback. Right, you're only getting about 30 degrees out of it. So if it impacted a solid object and it bent it back 90 degrees, you can't really bend it further than that... with a solid object or a wind blast. Now, you just can't bend it 90 degrees. (00:35:57)

[SPEAKER_09] : Now you could bend it 90 degrees by hand, but you've got to bend it more than 90 degrees and let it spring back. (00:36:03)

[narator] : Is it possible Officer Johnson faked the incident? And bent the antenna by hand? (00:36:08)

[SPEAKER_13] : They said that the antenna, while it did get bent to 90 degrees, roughly, that there was still residue left over from bug strikes. So how would you keep that if it was handled manually? Well, I don't know. That might be a mystery. (00:36:22)

[narator] : If the antenna was forcibly bent by Officer Johnson, all the bug residue should have rubbed off onto his hands. But that's not the case. (00:36:33)

[SPEAKER_09] : Well, George, we've had a good look at the car. Is there an explanation for all this? No, I don't think so. Any one single little piece of damage is pretty ordinary. But if you put it all together, it is kind of hard to explain. (00:36:47)

[SPEAKER_13] : And conversely, something that might have bent those antennae, I don't see how whatever that was, could have caused these impacts on the front. That's correct. I don't have a good answer to that either. (00:36:57)

[narator] : Lost time, an unconscious police officer, and inexplicable damage to a car. Did Val Johnson really suffer these alien effects from a UFO collision? And are Cash and Landrum's radiation burns and sickness caused by an extraterrestrial craft? Or is this the hallmark of a top-secret government plan gone terribly wrong? (00:37:26)

[Colby Landrum] : I was scared. I actually got down on the floorboard, and I was kind of peeking over, and it looked as if it was on fire. (00:37:37)

[narator] : In 1980, Betty Cash, Vicki Landrum, and her seven-year-old grandson, Colby, witness a large diamond-shaped object descending out of the sky. Soon, a swarm of large double-rotor helicopters begins circling the UFO. But Lieutenant Colonel George Saran, the military investigator for the Cash-Landrum incident, says he found no proof any helicopters were ever deployed. But he's willing to concede that there are other possibilities. (00:38:12)

[BIll Burns] : Had another branch of the military, say the Navy, say the Marines, say some kind of a joint command exercise, been testing something, that would have been out of your purview. No Army base was involved, no Army flight logs under the radar so that it would not have been tracked, and to this day, you wouldn't know about it, and it might have never made your investigation. Theoretically, it could have happened. (00:38:38)

[narator] : If the Army wasn't involved, who authorized the helicopters seen by numerous witnesses that evening? Dr. McClelland, who treated Betty Cash for radiation sickness, later hears from eyewitnesses who approach him in confidence. Some are from the military, and they tell him that what Colby, Vicki, and Betty really saw was a top-secret aircraft. (00:39:03)

[SPEAKER_02] : There were a large number of military people exactly describing the series of events in the vehicle, and they could describe exactly what happened. In one of those, they said there was a vehicle called a WASP-2, which was a nuclear-powered personnel carrier that they were apparently experimenting with, and they matched Betty and Vicki's description of the entire event. I mean, it was perfect. (00:39:27)

[narator] : To find out more about the mysterious WASP-2, Bill meets with former Air Force flight test engineer, Bill Scott. (00:39:37)

[BIll Burns] : Dr. Brian McClelland, he said that other Army people came to him and said, I was involved in a project called WASP-2 that was powered by an atomic engine. (00:39:49)

[SPEAKER_07] : The military obviously does have a number of operations involving radiation of some form. Back in the late 60s, I actually suffered some radiation poisoning because of the job I had in the Air Force. It was very classified at the time, and when we did a hot mission, I lost about 10 pounds. I lost some hair. I suffered from some nausea over the next two weeks. Had you ever heard of something called a WASP? Well, the only WASP I ever heard of was an Army test program. (00:40:16)

[SPEAKER_07] : That was a one-man flying vehicle, and it has controls, and one guy flies it around, and that's the only WASP I've ever heard of. (00:40:25)

[narator] : If there was a WASP-2, a second-generation multi-passenger airborne troop transport, it remains classified. And its size, shape, propulsion, even purpose, are total speculation. But what about the very identifiable Chinook helicopters? (00:40:44)

[BIll Burns] : George Soran has said there were no helicopter units operating that night. Could there have been a unit that even Lieutenant Colonel George Soran from the Inspector General's office might not have known of? (00:40:57)

[SPEAKER_07] : In 1980, the disaster that we call Desert One, the rescue attempt to try to get the hostages out of Iran, as you know, that went bad. We had a lot of deaths, lost aircraft, etc. So the outcome of that was to form an aviation unit within the Army that trained to fly at night, do these deep, covert insertions and extractions, and that was Task Force 160. But is it possible that Task Force 160 could have been flying literally under the intelligence radar? Definitely possible, because that's what Task Force 160 was set up to do, was to do covert, clandestine operations. (00:41:39)

[narator] : Today, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is headquartered at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Known as the Night Stalkers, the group officially requires its members to have or be able to obtain secret clearance as the regiment continues to employ new technologies and tactics on clandestine operations. The entire Cash-Landrum incident may be explained by a top-secret military test gone horribly wrong, with the alleged helicopters there to observe, or maybe pick up the pieces. Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum filed a claim for damages against the U.S. Air Force, but it was denied. (00:42:23)

[narator] : After its own investigation, the Air Force concluded the U.S. military wasn't involved. Facts failed to establish that the unidentified flying object, or helicopters, were owned or operated by the U.S. government. In response, Betty and Vicky sued the government in a Houston court for damages, but the lawsuit was dismissed in 1986. (00:42:47)

[SPEAKER_01] : My mother and Vicky was trying to tell them what was wrong with her. I mean, it was obvious. You know, I mean, blistered, bald-headed, you know, she was sick. And they told her there was nothing they could do. (00:43:01)

[narator] : Betty Cash passed away on December 29, 1998. Vicky Landrum died on September 12, 2007. Both women suffered greatly from early forms of radiation sickness, and eventually cancer. Now, Colby Landrum is the only remaining victim to experience the effects of the alleged UFO. (00:43:24)

[SPEAKER_13] : We have determined definitively that something happened, but I just can't say whether it's terrestrial or something else. (00:43:31)

[Pat Uskert] : We've made some great headway in this case. I think we're getting closer to some kind of answer of what really happened that night. (00:43:38)

[BIll Burns] : There was one unit equipped to put 20-plus Chinooks in the air, fly a mission, set down, refuel. This is Task Force 160. (00:43:52)

[narator] : Whether it was a black project or an extraterrestrial craft, witnesses hold firm to what they saw that night in the piney woods of Texas. And they continue to hope that whatever it was, the truth is close to being revealed. (00:44:12)

[Colby Landrum] : It's been 28 years, so I mean, I still have some kind of hope that the truth will come out. Somebody knows about it. (00:44:19)

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