From: phk@halcyon.com (Phil Kramer)
[This segment was preceded by discussion of a large number of sightings in Michigan]
PD. Actually, it [the Michigan incident] was a prelude to something that took place just a week ago tonight out in McMinnville, Tennessee. I took a report about 9:27 pm. last Saturday night from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. They’re based in Nashville. And interestingly, they had been directed by the US Air Force to the hotline out here in Seattle. Apparently - and you can rest, uh, more soundly tonight knowing that I apparently am the first line defense against exploding UFO’s, because last Saturday night, there apparently was an *immense* explosion very near McMinnville, Tennessee -- that’s in Warren County, just east of Nashville -- that caused the Warren County Sheriff’s Office to be activated, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency to be activated, people were launching aircraft to look for the fragments or fires or injuries or property damage. It apparently was quite an explosion. I received a seven-page fax from the TEMA -- Tennessee Emergency Management Agency -- and I’ve had a number of phone calls from a number of people about this, and it certainly took place.
LL. Now, you were called because strange lights, explosions in the sky -- but do you personally think it had something to do with a UFO, or couldn’t it have been some other phenomenon? Someone set off a bomb, or a small meteor came down, uh, there’s many causes of explosions.
PD. Uh, that’s true -- a good point, and I skipped over part of the -- the -- the most important part of the story. The explosion occurred several minutes after the Warren County Sheriff’s Office emergency dispatch was *swamped* with UFO calls. People were seeing saucers, they were seeing bat-like or triangular ships. And one of the objects that was seen descending to earth in Warren County, Tennessee, was a bright cylinder that was positioned vertically, that was seen by -- from many vantage points. I received a map showing the lines of sight from, uh, perceivers or witnesses to this event. Lines of sight from people who saw it. The object descended to the ground level, after which there was an *immense* explosion -- a white flash, and blue burning fragments of material were seen thrown high into the sky over McMinnville.
LL. Did you ask a scientist how do you get a blue burning fragment? I mean -- red hot, we know about. You can get blue flames or white flames, but blue flames, could you even guesstimate the temperature, therefore the kind of material used - - you can begin to piece these little facts together?
PD. You’re full of good questions tonight, because that’s the reason I said "blue burning fragments". Because exactly as you state, the temperature is a function -- er -- the, the incandescence, the color of the burning fragment is a result of its temperature. And the fact that it was blue makes it very mysterious. The, uh, I was told by TEMA that the airport manager of the McMinnville, Tennessee airport, after he saw the explosion, jumped in his own airplane, and took off, and searched the area for about six minutes, can’t -- not believing his eyes that there wasn’t some kind of visible damage or destruction or fire or something in process there.
LL. So, nobody found any damaged buildings, nobody found a hole in the ground, ah, um, nothing.
PD. That’s my understanding.
LL. It was just -- and nobody found fragments.
PD. That’s my understanding.
LL. You don’t know if some government agency, or *somebody* came in. Or do you?
PD. Well, I do. And we’ve had -- we have a number of investigators to whom I have handed this information out in that area. As you know, the, the hotline here, the National UFO Reporting Center does not have its own investigators. All we are is a clearing house for information. We take in reports and we try to turn that infromation around on short notice to investigators or interested parties -- ah, in this case, out in that area, that neck of the woods. And we’ve had a number of investigators skulking around Warren County trying to find out what’s going on. The one thing we do know, uh, reasonably certainly at this point, is there have been some federal investigators circulating in that area -- we presume they’re federal -- telling all of the authorities to say nothing about this event -- for what reason, I don’t know, but it comes from a very, very good source.
LL. You never know, I guess, when the next Roswell will happen, and you never know when it’s gonna happen in your own back yard, is that what you’re trying to tell us here?
PD. Well I don’t know. I may have seemed to have implied that, but it’s only inadvertent, because frankly, I really don’t know what happened there, except to say that the events that were described *before* the explosion apparently are very similar to what was reported just three or four days earlier out in the heart of Michigan. In point of fact, I took, six nights running, Laura, I took telephone calls all times of night and day, uh, about bat- like or delta-shaped ships. It started on the first of January that was my, uh, New Year’s greeting.
[The discussion continues regarding sightings elsewhere] .