Why Do Critics Leave Out The Essential Ufo Reports

The way I see it, critics write about the extraordinary visions and contacts of the early-day Mormon prophet Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and then tend to describe the brilliant object in the clear blue sky that Joseph said he saw and that descended and lit tree branches and then landed in the clearing (near Palmyra, New York, possibly March 26, 1820. Clearly, this was a landed UFO and the two brilliant personages who appeared to young Joseph were of the Lord (as they made clear to Joseph). During September 1830, a friend of Joseph's named Parley P. Pratt (a Mormon missionary) said he was walking along a dirt round in early-day America and saw a brilliant light in the sky and then saw a long red bar or needle that changed shapes so as to form three distinct geometrical shapes. So this was also a UFO.

In May of 1940, another Mormon missionary named Udo Wartena said he saw an object in the sky near Townsend, Montana. The object descended, put out a staircase, Udo went aboard, talked for two hours to two humanoids who said they were 600 to 900 years old, knew 500 languages, had visited Earth before, made surveys,had pure white hair, showed Udo how the craft operated, and then let Udo leave the vehicle. Another Mormon named Kenneth Larson (this writer) saw a bright object in the evening sky that made a 90-degree sharp turn and then flew at high speed to south over Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, circa July 4, 1947.

The basic problem is that literary critics and writers tend to describe Joseph Smith's contacts in sneering or dismissive tones but do not know enough concerning the decades-long sightings of the UFOs from around the world after 1947 (and even back to ancient times). The two are related in some way, and this would prove the Book of Mormon gold plates and the events concerning Mesoamerica, etc. My own research extends back to my first published book with drawings circa January 1960 in Los Angeles, California, and back to Seattle in 1947. So one has to do the homework so as to better understand the big picture. This is where the problem is critics and writers who leave out the phenomenon of the UFOs whereas UFOS may represent the root or first cause and may have helped create, weigh, design, measure, and construct our world and the universe. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). As Job in the Bible asked where were you when God created and measured and designed our world? Clearly, the coming of the UFOs will represent an extraordinary event when understood or made clear to humanity just who they are and why they came and appeared over nations of the world for centuries of time.

Kenneth Larson

AMERICA MEASURES