10-12-08 Interesting article in today's local newspaper

It's been slow on the news front. Which is typical this time of year. But we are just two nights away from the predicted "BIG" sighting on Tuesday October 14th. We shall see. Anyway, there was an interesting article in today's local newspaper. Take a look.

Knox County man is eye in sky for strange sightings

By Garret Mathews (Contact)
Originally published 09:55 p.m., October 11, 2008
Updated 09:55 p.m., October 11, 2008

VINCENNES, Ind. — A strange object appears in the sky and gives off an equally mysterious wave of light that trails off into the darkness.

Who you gonna call?

Jerry Sievers.



The 69-year-old Knox County man is state director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an international agency that investigates unexplained aerial sightings. There are about 3,000 members worldwide — including comedian Dan Aykroyd — and approximately four dozen in Indiana.

Sievers says he's seen "hundreds of questionable flying objects." He says he's talked with "a dozen or so credible persons" who claim to have been abducted.

"A lot of people think I'm a kook," the retired security guard admits, "but I get the impression that more and more individuals believe it's arrogant to have the feeling we're the only life form in the galaxy. There could well be other planets like the Earth orbiting other suns."

Sievers points to UFO programs on the History and Discovery channels as proof that believers have a foothold in society.

And he cites a "very strange occurrence" in March of this year in Kokomo, Ind.

"There was a loud explosion, and the police were dispatched to a debris field. There were all sorts of vehicles from ambulances to school buses, but officially it was labeled a nonevent. Later, the field looked like it had been bulldozed and any evidence removed."

Sievers said MUFON investigators talked to 22 witnesses who claimed they saw UFOs over Kokomo.

"One described a black triangle with lights trailing about the time of the explosion. There was background radiation, but nothing was determined."

Sievers hasn't been able to walk unaided since he was a toddler because of a muscular disease that until recently was believed to be polio.

"They're not specifically certain on what I have, but the bottom line is I can't get up off the couch without crutches. Because I don't get around so well, I don't go out in the field too much any more. I find myself coordinating the efforts of others."

He believes there are alien objects whose inhabitants "have harmful intent" but admits MUFON volunteers differ on the subject.

"Some think they are scoping us out with an eventual plan for the mingling of the races. In that sense, we're like lab animals. A few others see a more spiritual end of it. They believe the UFOs are angels coming to save us."

Sievers blames the government for years of denial.

"When I first got interested, the avowed purpose of saying there were no UFOs was to prevent panic. Those in charge were ordered to tell the public that any peculiar sightings were just swamp gas."

Knox County, Sievers points out, has a history of bizarre goings-on in this regard.

"A lot of it occurred in an area known as Lucky Point, not far from Monroe City. From the 1960s to the 1980s, there were almost daily reports of strange lights in the sky and electrical interference. People were sitting in their cars, and all of a sudden their radios went out. It got so bad at one point that the town marshal had to go out there and direct traffic."

He recalls a 1985 incident.

"I was there with a friend for some night watching. I'm in a lawn chair, and she's walking the road. Over the ridge comes a reddish ball of light with two white lights at a 45-degree angle. In 10 seconds, it was gone.

"Twenty minutes later, a bigger orange ball of light raised up above the road and then moved slowly toward the south. Those were the most definitive things I've ever seen."

Not all his visits to Lucky Point were so fruitful.

"I've spent the entire night in that area and seen absolutely nothing."

He says MUFON workers have talked with people who claim aliens have implanted radio wires in their skulls as tracking devices.

"I believe only about 2 percent of people make up stuff to get attention. I mean, why would you want to open yourself up to ridicule? And sometimes people are just wrong. There was a strange beam of light reported not long ago in northern Indiana, but it turned out to be a police helicopter."

Sievers, who has no formal scientific training, notes that it isn't the job of UFO investigators to determine if the person making a claim is telling the truth.

"We just do the legwork and file the reports."

He smiles.

"I've talked to all the police dispatchers around here. They know to contact me if anything comes up."

Sievers recalls one woman who claimed she had been abducted.

"They brought in a hypnotist to talk her through the experience. When she got to the part about the aliens, she became so traumatized he had to bring her out of it before she caused physical damage to herself."

Other people, he says, have said the aliens have the appearance of an image on a projection screen.

"But I'm sworn to secrecy about these matters."

Would it be vindication if a UFO landed in Times Square?

"I want to hope for that," he says, "but, truthfully, in my lifetime I don't think there will be a solution."

Evansville UFO Sighting 8-17-08

Here is a great report with sketch. I was made aware by one of the witnesess but I took the report from www.ufosnw.com

Date of Sighting: August 17, 2008
Time of Sighting: 9:30 PM CDT
Date Sighting Reported: August 18, 2008
Duration of Sighting: 8 to 10 Minutes
Location of Sighting: Evansville, Indiana (Right Across Ohio River From Kentucky)
Latitude: 38.03 Degrees North
Longitude: 87.4 Degrees West
Number of Witnesses: Two
Number of Witnesses Interviewed: Two
Weather: Clear Skies. Visibility Was 10 Miles. Winds Were From the North-Northeast at 4 MPH.

Description: I can't believe I am reporting this because my boyfriend and I talked about not telling anyone since this would make us seem crazy or people would just not believe us anyway. Here is what happened: This was the scariest night of my life and his. We were driving down Morgan Avenue and there are corn fields on each side of the road. I had seen a car parked on the side of the road and then another not too far up the road. I made a comment to my boyfriend about that and he said maybe car trouble. I had a feeling they were watching something. So I looked over at the fields and immediately noticed 2 kind of bright lights that were not close to each other, but the same height. They looked like they were above the trees and in front of them. The color was different and was kind of a bright yellow. There was something not right or normal about those lights. The light to the left looked like it went down and disappeared, but the other light that was closer to us was still there. We turned on one of the country roads off Morgan Avenue and were trying to drive towards the lights. we could tell we was getting closer and I thought we would just find out it was a radio tower light or something like that. The road had no street lights and we did not see another car driving on that street. Well, we are driving towards the lights and then my boyfriend said: it is moving towards us. I was scared and told him to stop the van to see if it was moving. So we came to a stop sign and I looked at the light and it started moving the opposite direction. It did NOT turn around like an airplane. It just started going the opposite direction away from us rather fast. We kept going down the street and there was heavy trees everywhere. In between breaks in the trees, we could see the light and it was getting smaller. Then we didn't see it. We decided to keep driving that street until we saw a place to turn around and go back home. What happened next is what totally changed my whole life. What we witnessed was so terrifying and unexplainable. All the sudden we found a place to turn around and on his side of the road was this big long fat cigar shaped thing. It was huge. Lights were going down the sides of it and they were going in a row down the side of it and then instantly they would go down the side of it again. I was so scared, we couldn't believe what we were seeing. It was huge and he turned in this driveway and backed up and then it was on my side. There were trees right beside the road. The trees were heavy and thick and there was this "thing" the size of an airplane, kind of shaped like an airplane without any wings. It was kind of like a big fat whitish cigar. IT MADE NO NOISE WHATSOEVER. It was so close to us. It was going down behind the trees looking like it was landing AND ABSOLUTELY NO NOISE. We were so scared. I kept telling my boyfriend to to go go go. He drove fast and finally we made it back to the main highway. I kept looking back and didn't see it anymore. We could not believe what we had seen. The lights were so weird how they flickered down a row down the side of the "craft."

If anyone else has any futher information about this nights activity, please contact me directly at commodoresecrets@yahoo.com

Lucky Point

Have you ever been to Lucky Point Indiana? Have you ever heard of it? Well it is located west of Washington,IN and it is apparently not only a UFO hot spot, but just about every kind of paranormal activity you can think of has been reported there. Here are some articles I found.



From the Vincennes Sun-Commercial, Aug. 17, 1986
Locals Learn Knox County Has UFO 'Hot Spot'
A Knox County site has been a "hot spot" for UFO sightings during the last 12 years, according to the Mutual UFO Network Inc. "Lucky Point," located about 12 miles southeast of Vincennes on the White River flood plain, has been the site of between 50 and 100 sightings during the past two decades.
UFOs, or unidentified flying objects (a phrase coined by a government information officer in the early 1950s) were the focal point of a MUFON symposium held here Saturday afternoon at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The symposium, called "UFO's Are Real" was attended by about 20 enthusiasts, from as far away as Louisville, Ky.
The symposium was held as part of MUFON's observance of the second annual National UFO Information Week, Aug. 10-17.
Jerry L. Sievers, 140 Ramsey Road, is the assistant state director of MUFON. Sievers talked about several of the "Lucky Point" phenomena, which include cattle mutilation, the sighting of a huge, hairy "being," and the sighting by a Knox County Sheriff's Department deputy of a large, triangular UFO containg "slender" beings with large heads.
Lucky Point, so named for the abundance of deer in the area, not the abundance of UFOs, is a White River Peninsula. MUFON has recorded nearly 100 sightings in that area alone in the last 10 to 15 years, and many other sightings have gone unreported because they are so similar to existing reports, or because the residents have grown accustomed to the oddities, Sievers said.
Many of the sightings are of nocturnal lights, moving in the sky. Some are more unusual.
Sievers told of a farmer who sighted several of these lights. One orange ball of light hovered over his cattle pen. The next day, the farmer found one of his calves dead, with a precision, egg-shaped incision in its head. The calf's brain had been surgically removed from its head. According to the report, a veterinarian said he couldn't have done a neater job in his lab.
A second report came from a man who had stopped his car in the Lucky Point area to check on the "quaking poles"--a group of five power poles in the area that vibrate violently from time to time--when his car was approached from behind by a huge, fur-covered being with glowing red eyes.
Kerry Dean Teverbaugh, Monroe City, is a MUFON state section director for Vigo and Clay counties. He said the poles have been studied and researched by dozens of experts, and no explanation for the "quaking poles" has been put forth.
The third, and strangest, Lucky Point example came from a report given to Teverbaugh by a sheriff's department deputy. In November 1984, the county policeman had stopped in the area to stretch his legs, when he saw a "large, black triangle, 100 feet on a side, less than 200 feet away."
He also said he saw small, slender beings with large heads peering from windows of the "ship." The report also said the beings communicated with the deputy telepathically.
Teverbaugh said Indiana MUFON members at first thought the black triangle was a unique sighting, but they later learned there have been many similar sightings across the U.S.
Sievers and Teverbaugh used to teach a class at VIncennes University on unexplained phenomena. They used to tell students that if they spent five nights in the Lucky Point area, they would see something they could not explain. To their knowledge, no one has proved them wrong.
The primary purpose of the symposium, and of MUFON, according to Francis L. Ridge, the state director of MUFON, is to exchange information and to improve communication channels. He said last year's symposium and UFO Information Week, resulted in 30 UFO reports of both old and new sightings. "Hollywood theatrics" and skeptics have made MUFON attempts to study and investigate the UFO phenomenon difficult, but, he said, times are changing.
MUFON urges anyone who has seen a UFO, or knows of someone who has, to contact them. MUFON members are trained in investigation techniques before they become field investigators.
Anyone with questions about MUFON, or information on UFO's, may call Sievers, the local MUFON representative and assistant director, at (812) 882-1862. Ridge, Mount Vernon, may be reached at (812) 838-3120.


The Mysteries of Lucky Point
Submitted by D.V. Pyle, Washington, Ind., July 16, 1997
In southern Indiana there is an area which some researchers of the paranormal claim is a focal point for paranormal activity, and as such the area known as Lucky Point has become a focal point of investigations by members of the Unexplained Phenomena Research Organization.
The swampy wooded area is located in rural Knox County near the town of Monroe City. According to some, strange occurrences have happened there over the years.
The Unexplained Phenomena Research Organization (U.P.R.O.) is a national group dedicated to investigating unexplained supernatural mysteries. The Indiana chapter of the group is headed by Jerry Sievers out of his home in Vincennes, Indiana.
"We have had reports of things from U.F.O.'s, Sasquatch sightings, spook lights and ghosts in this area," Sievers commented.
One prominent mystery involves two utility poles buried in concrete, which some witnesses have claimed to observe shaking. Sievers said the poles seem to make a rattling sound sometimes. Additionally the ground has been reported as shaking at a rate of 50-feet an hour.
"They are two sets of double polls buried in concrete with a road running between them," Sievers said. "People up at Lucky Point watching for U.F.O.s have reported hearing the poles rattle."
REMC, the utility company responsible for maintaining the poles, has denied there is any problem with the poles. However, Sievers claims company representatives know about the polls, but have told him they cannot determine the reason for the rattling poles.
Another problem which Sievers says accompanies the rattling is that such items as camcorders mysteriously stop working in the area of the poles.
Sievers said it can take five visits to Lucky Point before one is able to hear the mysterious rattling noise.
"Witnesses who have heard the noise and reported it to us have said it could not be the electricity. Sometimes the vibrations are so extreme that the insulators holding the wire will jar and rattle," Sievers said.
Sievers said that in the 1980s a researcher said the underground sound was caused by magnetic activity. He added a geologist discounted that theory.
Fellow U.P.R.P. member Sharon Smith said she believes there is something very spooky about the Lucky Point area. Smith says she is sensitive to supernatural activities, and can sense the presence of spirits.
Smith added that even her own son could sense something was there.
"My son and I were both out there one day, we both sensed something else was there; the hair on the back of my neck stood up. He started into the woods, but turned back."
It is Smith's belief that the area is protected by the spirits of the Native Americans who used to live on the land. The Lucky Point area might at one time have been a burial ground.
"I believe everyone has psychic powers which can act as windows and doorways into other places," Smith said.
The area first started to become popular for U.F.O. watchers in the 1970s, and continues to be a popular gathering spot, Sievers said. Lots of people have offered up different explanations for the mysterious activities, some of which Sievers himself has a hard time believing.
"Some psychics have claimed there is an underground hanger for outer space ships in the area, but there is no proof," Smith said.
"That will have to be proven to me, but there has been a lot of speculation about it," Sievers said.
Added in with the mysterious noise and spirits are many sightings of U.F.O.s, which is what Lucky Point is primarily noted for.

Also MUFON of Indiana has a whole section on Lucky Point with various reports of sightings.
http://indianamufon.homestead.com/luckypoint.html

And EERIE Radio has a whole episode dedicated to Lucky Point.
http://eerieradio.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=214856#