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This FOIA release contains two unclassified MS Mail messages sent on 7 and 9 August 1996 by Thomas S. Marsh to four colleagues, each forwarding an Associated Press wire story. The first, from The Arizona Republic, reports the 1995 disappearance of truck driver Devin Williams near the Mogollon Rim and UFO enthusiasts' comparisons to Travis Walton's 1975 abduction claim. The second describes Crestone, Colorado, a New Age community known for UFO sightings and cattle mutilation reports.
32095C9F.FfN Page 1 of 3 MS Mail 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< '°'Eds: story moved previously on Arizona state wire; NOTE CONTENTS of 20th-21st grafs< '°'By MARK SHAFFER= '°'The Arizona Republic= PHOENIX (AP) They came from outer space 20 years ago and hauled poor ol' 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 latest incident, last year, Devin Williams was hauling an 18-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 do it,"' said Bruce Cornish, a http://classified/email/data_source/msmail/non-record/cd023/aug 1996/32095c9f.html 1/5/2010
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