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DATE OF ARTICLE: March 17, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Daily News
LOCATION: Hays, Kansas
BYLINE: R.E. Ramcharan ========================================================
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SKEPTICS ASIDE, RUSSELL WOMAN, OTTAWA DOCTOR CERTAIN OF ALIEN
VISITS

By R.E. Ramcharan
Hays Daily News

RUSSELL--Exactly what several dozen citizens saw or hoped to
see in the night sky over Russell County Feb. 24 may never be
known for certain.
What is known is that one woman claims to have been invited
aboard alien ships on several occasions, and several people claim
to have been followed or chased by unidentified flying objects.
In a story published that day in the Russell Daily News,
Donna Butts, 36, Russell, said that large numbers of alien
spaceships would appear in the sky after dark "so people will
know they are here, and that they do exist."
In fact, according to Russell Daily News reporter Irene
Jepsen, nothing happened. Jepsen and three friends spent much of
that night driving around Russell County, watching for the ships.
She saw "a lot of activity."
But, she added, "I did not at any time think they were
anything but ordinary aircraft."
Several people called her after that night with accounts of
UFO sightings, including one man who said he was sitting in a
pickup with his wife and children in a field north of the city.
Jepsen said he claimed that at about 9:45 p.m. a cluster of
lights came out of a gully and headed for the truck. When he
turned on his headlights, the apparition vanished.
The next day, Jepsen said, "I did go to the area and there
was nothing to see. As far as marks on the ground, there was
nothing."
Another woman claimed that she had seen a UFO near the
Pioneer exit, about 5 miles east of here, Jepsen said. That UFO
was described as a "strobe light" traveling northwest.
None of these people are willing to say publicly who they
are and what they saw. Nor has anyone called Russell County
Sheriff Robert L. Balloun.
Balloun said he was aware of the rumored sightings, but, he
said, "We haven't had any reports of anything unusual in the
county at all. It's been pretty quiet; we'd like to keep it that
way.
"I did have a deputy out that night and he didn't see
anything at all. Apparently some people can see it and some
people can't."
That so many people claim to have seen UFOs does not
surprise Philip Klass, a contributing editor to Aviation Week and
Space Technology magazine and a member of the Committee for
Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
"There is a psychological impact," Klass said in a telephone
interview from his home in Washington. "I have often said that
if I could get the Washington Post to publish a story that UFOs
had been sighted over Washington, I can guarantee that 20 or 30
people will call in the next day to report that they, too, have
seen it.
"Some of them may really have seen something--others, sort
of a 'me, too' effect. If the Post, or any newspaper, follows up
with another story saying UFOs have been sighted over Washington
or Hays or wherever again last night, then more people, again,
not kooks, but just curious people, will go out looking."
In 22 years of investigating UFO reports, Klass said, he has
yet to find one whose explanation was aliens from another planet.
"Any person who will stand outside at night on a clear night
for two or three hours, I can guarantee they will see something
they cannot identify or explain. It may be a meteor fireball.
It may be reentering space debris. It may be an advertising
airplane. It may be a (Strategic Air Command) aircraft engaged
in refueling maneuvers."
Butts was one of two people quoted in the Dec. 13, 1988,
edition of the grocery store tabloid Weekly World News. "They're
coming! Space alien invasion only three years away, says top UFO
expert," read the headline.
A recent issue of the newspaper featured the headline,
"Space alien baby found on Mt. Everest" on the front page.
In the December story, Butts was quoted as saying she had
been in contact with the aliens since 1984 and that the visits
were connected with prophecies scattered throughout the Bible.
She refuses to meet with reporters, but in a telephone
interview she said that she had been receiving messages from an
alien named Peter or Cephas.
"Peter called himself a multidimensional being," she said.
She described him as being 6 feet tall, with silver hair and blue
eyes, about 60 years old--"nice build, not great, but nice."
On several occasions, she said she had been invited aboard
the alien's spaceships.
"They take hold of you, and they have this little black box
on the right side of their belt. Then they push a couple of
buttons and next thing you know, you're aboard the ship."
Once aboard, she said, the aliens told her about future
events, among them an impending collapse of the Bush administration that would result in Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.,
becoming the next president.
Klass was skeptical.
"See if you can find out what horse is going to run first at
Hialeah tomorrow," he said.
Also quoted in the Weekly World News was Ottawa physician
Scott Corder. In a telephone interview, he said Peter was an
"Amorcan," one of 70 species of aliens now visiting Earth. They
came to Russell, he said, because it is the focal point of a "transmutational channel" that covers much of Kansas.
"It's some kind of an entry point that has to do with electromagnetic fields that allows them to gain entry to our
plane of existence," he said.
"They want to focus some attention to that area, because
it`s significant to them for prophecy."
The prophecies are scattered throughout the Bible, Corder
said. Many are connected with the Book of Revelation and deal
with the end of the world.
Corder added that Peter/Cephas is the same person as the
apostle, Saint Peter.
Monday, the state Board of Healing Arts suspended Corder's
license to practice medicine for his public statements about the
aliens.
Ted Schultz, a writer on unconventional beliefs, is familiar
with similar accounts. His book, "The Fringes of Reason,"
examines a number of fringe social phenomena, including flying
saucer religions.
"It's interesting that this case combines both things--the
classic '50's contactee and the abduction," he said.
During the 1950s, people claimed to have been contacted by
alien beings, often with predictions of future events or messages
for the rest of the world.
"It's hard to take any particular one at face value," he
said. "It seems to me that, as far as the question of whether to
actually believe them or not, the fact that hundreds of these
predictions that have never come true works against it."
Abduction, the notion that people are kidnapped by aliens,
has been around almost since the first science fiction novels. A
ghoulish twist, that the aliens conduct experiments on their
prisoners, surfaced in 1968 with John Fuller's book, "Interrupted
Journey." Similar accounts have recently been on the best seller
lists.
"Now it's a big thing," Schultz said. "It tells you
something about human nature and the human mind, a lot more than
it tells you about visitors from outer space."

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