Newspaper report on UFOs 7

 -From the "Toronto Star" of Jan. 31/88, written by John
 Picton. ******** Headline: "Astronomer confirms UFO 'blitz' on
 Manitoba" ********      They're back.  Unidentified Flying Objects
 are "blitzing" Manitoba for the second time in 20 years, according
 to a U.S. tabloid. And Ed Barker confirms that.      He's a staff
 astronomer at the Manitoba Planetarium and he tells of "strange
 experiences" as recounted by people in dreams and through hypnosis.
 In a recent block of sightings - called "flaps" in extra-terrestrial
 parlance - Barker claims that: *      A priest travelling along a
 lonely road last August saw what he   took to be a parked van with
 bright lights. When he pulled up beside   it, the "van" vanished. *
 A 4-year-old boy says he was visited in his bedroom last summer
 by "ghosts" with large, almond-shaped eyes and big, smooth heads.
 When he suffered a nosebleed, one of them poured liquid from a
 silver   cup into one of his nostrils.        "When he became
 frightened, the alien changed into the form of   his best friend
 (a girl) in a pretty pink dress." *     A boy who wandered away
 from his friends at school was found in   front of the building two
 hours later, surprised that such time had   elapsed and thinking
 he'd been away for only a moment.     Then there's the strange
 story of the mother in Thompson who looked out the window and
 was surprised to see her 5-year-old daughter being transmitted
 upward inside a shaft of light and dust.     The girl's playmate,
 an 8-year-old boy, grabbed her ankle and yanked her back to earth.
 "The parents told me about that", says Barker.     "I interviewed
 the boy, who's now in his 20's. He confirmed the story."
 Barker adds he's in the "process of finding a hypnotist because
 a lot of this you can't just do by memory recall to bring out the
 salient features."     Features of those stories he has been told
 about people who, when they were children , "had strange dreams
 that were much more than dreams, in which they were confronted
 by three or four slimy creatures."     In one incident, "there
 was a possible abduction sequence in the country" in which two
 people shared the same experiences."     Were those experiences
 factual or fanciful? "I am being cautious because its rather a
 spectacular kind of claim."     Eunice Bullerwell has a rather
 spectacular kind of claim. Eunice, 40, and her husband, Mel, run a
 horse ranch at Spearhill, about 210 swampy kilometres (130 miles)
 north of Winnipeg.     And, she says, she got the fright of her
 life last Sept. 4.     "It was in the night time, about 11:30, and
 I was on my way to pick up my three teenage children from a dance.
 "I was going fairly slow and happened to look to my left and that
 was when I noticed it " - a ball, about the size of a compact car,
 with an orange glow at its base "like putting a candle inside
 a pumpkin."     Says Eunice: "It rose slowly above the trees and
 tears of fear came into my eyes, and I drove like no one would
 ever drive."     Her children noticed the effect when she picked
 them up. I'm normally a talkative person, but I was quite quiet."
 Back home, she woke her husband - an achievement since "he sleeps
 like a grizzly in winter" - and he commented: "Well, I don't know
 what it could have been."     Later, Eunice checked the area where
 she'd seen the object but couldn't find any distinctive markings
 since "there was a fire there last spring and there are a lot of
 burned conditions."


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