PART 3

The second part of the Springfield newspaper, dated December 9th,
1990 is as follows:

Titled: Fact or Fantasy? Springfieldian seeks validation of UFO
encounter 43 years ago.

Written by: Mike O'Brien
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Friedman, who lives in Canada, contacted John Carpenter, a
Springfield professional therapist who in his spare time serves as a
director of investigations for the local chapter of Mutual UFO
Network, a nationwide organization of UFO researchers. At Friedman's
request, Carpenter conducted extensive in person interviews of
Anderson, including sessions under hypnosis.
The results excited Friedman. "Powerful stuff!" he exclaimed upon
hearing interview tapes. Friedman arranged airline tickets for
Anderson and Carpent to join him in New Mexico to pinpoint the crash
site.
Anderson says the flight was his first return to New Mexico in more
than a quarter-century. After poining the pilot of a chartered
helicopter to a spot in the desert 75 air miles southwest of
Albuquerque, Anderson gazed at a hillside, strewn with boulders the
size of Volkswagens and dotted with a few gnarled pinion trees, that
he says he saw in the summer of 1947.....

A NEW HOME

The Anderson family arrived in Albuquerque from Indiana on July 4,
1947. they took up temporary residence at the home of one of Gerald's
uncles, Guy Anderson. Gerald's father, Glen, was about to take a job
as a master machinist involved in nuclear weapons design at the
super-secret Sandia base on the outskirts of town.
The next day, another uncle, Ted, struck up a conversation with
Gerald's older brother Glen Jr., who was on leave from the Marine
Corps. Glen Jr. was a rock hound, and his uncle piqued the young
Marine's enthusiasm with talk of gorgeous stones just waiting to be
collected in the desert.
" Ted told my brother, ' I know where there's plenty of moss agate.'
So we all piked into a 1940 Plymouth - Uncle Ted, my cousin Victor
(Ted's 8 year old son), my brother, Glen, my dad and myself. We went
out into this area where the moss agate was supposed to be - followed
two ruts into the desert, bounced along out there for a while, and
ended up on top of a ridge line. We parked the car and started to walk
down an arroyo (gully) and dry creek bed and out onto the plains.


A STRANGE DISCOVERY

"But we came around a corner and right there in front of us stuck
into the side of this hill, was a silver disc. There were some
remarks like"There's a crash up here! Something crashed up here! And
then someone saying 'That's a god dam spaceship!"
"We all went up there to it. There were three creatures, three
bodies, lying on the ground underneath this thing in the shade. Two
weren't moving and the third one obviously was having trouble
breathing, like when you have broken ribs. There was a fourth one
next to it, sitting there on the ground. There wasn't a thing wrong
with it, and it apparently had been giving first aid to the others.
Anderson animatedly acts out the fourth creature's reaction when
the family members approached. "It recoiled in fear, like it thought
we were going to attack it," Anderson recounts, covering his face with
crossed arms. The adults tried to repeatedly to communicate with the frightened creature, Anderson says, but there was no audible response
to greetings spoken in English and Spanish.
A few minutes after the Anderson clan happened upon the bizarre
scene, six other people arrived - five college students and their
teacher. They'd been working on an archaeological dig around cliff
dwellings a few miles away and had decided to hike over after seeing
what they thought was a fiery meteor crashing the night before. The
professor, a Dr. Buskirk, tried several foreign languages in
unsuccessful attempts to coax a verbal response from the creature,
Anderson says.
The sun had climbed to a midday peak by this time and recalls
Anderson, "to a kid from Indiana, it was hot brother, let me tell
you." He chugged a chocolate flavored soft drink an hour earlier and
the sweet soda pop was churning uncomfortably in his stomach. so he
sought shelter in the shadow of the spacecraft.
"It was 115 (degrees) out there that day. But around the craft,
when you got close to it, it was cold. When you touched the metal, it
felt just like it came out of a freezer."

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