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This file holds two unclassified internal MSMail messages Thomas S. Marsh sent to four colleagues on August 7 and August 9, 1996. Each one forwards an Associated Press wire story. The first reports on the 1995 disappearance of truck driver Devin Williams in Arizona's Rim country and compares it with Travis Walton's 1975 abduction claim, which a state MUFON director disputes. The second describes Crestone and the Baca Grande in Colorado as a New Age community known for UFO sightings and cattle mutilations.
32095C9F.FIN Page lof3 MSMail DATE-TIME 07 August 96 20: 19 FROM Marsh, Thomas S. CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED. SUBJECT I've been there ... [UNCLASSIFIED] TO Alijanil, Leyla Bakke, Kyle D. Carter; Michael E. Hasman,Thomas M. CARBON_COPY NO CC's on THIS MESSAGE TEXT_BODY "Alien Believers Think Missing Man Abducted By Supernatural Force< AEds: story moved previously on Arizona state wire; NOTE CONTENTS of 20th-21st grafs< ABy MARK SHAFFER= , AThe Arizona Republic= PHOENIX (AP) They came from outer space 20 years ago and hauled poor 01' Travis Walton away from the pine woods of the Mogollon Rim for five days. Now, they're back, say some who study unidentified flying objects. This time, they landed only about 10 miles, as the UFO flies, from where phenomenon followers say Walton was beamed up by a blue light and immortalized in the 1993 movie' 'Fire in the Sky." In the latestincident, l~st year, Devin Williams was hauling an I8-wheeler full of lettuce and strawberries from Los Angeles to . Kansas on Interstate 40 in northern Arizona when something strange, and perhaps tragic, happened to him . . Williams veered off the interstate at Winslow and sped 40 miles down Arizona Highway 87 to the Blue Ridge Ranger Station. Then, he barreled another 15 miles down a rough Forest Service dirt road, at times menacingly circling campers or running other motorists off the road, before getting stuck in mud near the edge of the Rim. He got out of the truck, got on his knees and started talking to a tree. Later, he waved a $20 bill wildly in the air and threw rocks at people who tried to approach him. He pointed to a rock and said he· was about to start a fire with it. But it wasn't as much what he did as what he said later that got UFO enthusiasts all excited. One man approached Williams and asked him about his bizarre. conduct. "He said, 'They made me doit,'" said Bruce Cornish, a
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