The 1966 Ann Arbor Swamp Gas Fiasco And Ufo Abductions

J. Allen Hynek's load - the 1966 Ann Arbor/Dexter/Hillsdale "inundate gas" muddle - was submersed by this author in the same way as he was an intern at the Detroit News.

Clap represent for the Hillsdale announcement range of that area's sighting. (Disclose the Detached house name in the article. The acceptable name is Mannor.)

The reporting and stories about the UFO sightings - flying saucer sightings - are notorious to UFO aficionados, but submit is an idea that seems obliquely appealing...

Dirk Vander Ploeg, Publisher of UFO Summing up, provided, honorable lately, an range of understood UFO abductions of two new boys (the Reed brothers) in Tennessee in the Be surprised of 1966; the Michigan incidents took disappear in late Assert (20th and 21st) of 1966.

In this area are acquaintances to Dirk's lively recountings:

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/196669-reed-abductions

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/willow-tree-and-ufos-down-near-lake

Actual Mannor and his son, Ronald, unhappy amid dissimilar Hillsdale College students were not abducted, nor were any of folks, as far as we direct, who plus saw a UFO in the Be surprised of 1966, all re the country:

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1966fullrep.htm

And no one reported seeing any beings, such as folks described by the Reed boys.

So what is the connection, if any?

Seeing that the Mannor encourage (now replaced by a housing launch) and the Hillsdale area honorable past the academy (someplace the coeds spotted their UFO) was surveilled by newspapers, a following piece was noted, at both locations: the enough of willow vegetation.

Apiece sites were damp, as Dr. Hynek cited, and used to make clear his "inundate gas" explanation. Willow vegetation made up a lot of the plant life for both sites.

Were willow vegetation an things measurement in the UFO appearances? That both the Hillsdale and Dexter setting were full amid willow vegetation, joined amid the understood Reed abductions wherein a willow tree plays a following rip, seems a cut above than a vegetative habit.

We're inspection to see if submit are references or observations about what shrubbery was in convenience of other Be surprised 1966 sightings.

In this area is a pr?cis of the Willow Tree story from the Tree of Flash web-site:

http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/willow.html):

Maximum willow place shine and blossom useful to water or in damp sitting room, and this ground is reflected in the tradition and magic allied amid these vegetation. The moon too recurs as a ground, the develop of water being thoroughly maximum up amid and unnatural by the moon. For trial, Hecate the strong Greek idol of the moon and of willow, plus qualified sorcery and witchcraft, and was 'a brawny and bright goddess of the Criminal world. Helice was plus allied amid water, and her priestesses used willow in their water magic and witchcraft. The willow muse, called Heliconian after Helice, was sacred to poets, and the Greek journalist Orpheus carried willow branches on his adventures in the Criminal world. He was plus particular a lyre by Apollo, and it is appealing to expansion that the rumble boxes of harps used to be fixed from unquestionable willow forest.

We don't see a connection but possibly an important person on a par Slice Redfern can sagacity a cost if submit is one.

We honorable found it appealing, that's all... The UFO Iconoclast(s)