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- -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 be
- en 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 h
- er 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 an
- kle 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 c
- onfirmed 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 dr
- eams that were much more than dreams, in which they were confronted by three or four slimy creatures." In one incident, "there was a pos
- sible 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, 4
- 0, and her husband, Mel, run a horse ranch at Spearhill, about 210 swampy kilometres (130 miles) north of Winnipeg. And, she says, she g
- ot 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 o
- f 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 grizz
- ly 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 obje
- ct but couldn't find any distinctive markings since "there was a fire there last spring and there are a lot of burned conditions."