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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.
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32095C9F.FIN Page 2 of3 Coconino County deputy sheriff, adding that Williams didn't explain who "they" were. . Then, the 28-year-old truck driver disappeared, leaving behind his semi and two things'he was said to never part with: a police. . . scanner and his favorite hat. He hasn't been seen for 14 months. Sonie speculate that he lost his way while wandering in the woods and died of exposure. But that's not the type of scenario that has really loosened lips in Rim country. Rather, more unworldly explanations have circled about Williams, just as they have about Walton, a Snowflake resident who wrote about his 1975 experiences with alien creatures in a book later made into the movie. Walton said the aliens took him away for almost a week before dropping him.offnear a telephone booth in Heber. "This is really kind of a curious incident," Walton said about Williams' disappearance. "Of course, we've been having all kinds ofwehd things up here. "Three different people told me they saw a big, orange object hit the ground right before that big forest fire.started·over near Pinedale last month." In other words: a spaceship crash. The Forest Service blamed a .lightning strike for starting the 1,800-acre Cottonwood fire. But Charlie Green of Tucson, who says he speaks with more than a modicum of authority after having 16 "alien encounters" during the past 55 years, sees a lot of similarities between the Williams and Walton cases. "The whole crazy thing seems to tie ih to what happened to : Travis (Walton), but the thing that baffles me is that they always bring their victims back within a reasonable time," said Green, a Tucson insurance salesman and a member of a Texas group called the . Mutual UFO Network. . . Not that Green doesn't see a reason why Williams wouldn't be taken away for a while. There is a reason, and it has to do with the birds and the bees, he said. "He's the right age. This all has to do with pure 01' semen," . Green said.' . "They take, the semen from the males and the ovaries from females, and mix it with alien juite to make a half breed. "But I still don't understand why he wasn't-brought back." Tom Taylor of Tempe, state director ofthe·UFO network, says he understands. That's because he said Williams was never taken by little green men. . , "We had someone research this thoroughly, and that was the conclusion," he said. "Just because he said 'they' doesn't mean 'they aliens.'" Then, what happened to Williams? Taylor said, "Oilly the gods know." "End Adv for Weekend Editi ons Aug. 10-11 <
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.