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sons watched as two other beings, whiteskinned
humanoids in silver suits, ran their
fingers over a black cow, which, though alive,
was immobile as if paralyzed. Suddenly the
cow floated up the ramp into the UFO, which
then, weirdly, seemed to fade into the hill,
along with the three aliens.
See Also: Aurora Martian; Close encounters of the
third kind; Hopkins’s Martians; Michigan giant;
Reptoids; Shaw’s Martians
Further Reading
Bullard, Thomas E., ed., 1982. The Airship File: A
Collection of Texts Concerning Phantom Airships
and Other UFOs, Gathered from Newspapers and
Periodicals Mostly during the Hundred Years Prior
to Kenneth Arnold’s Sighting. Bloomington, IN:
self-published.
Clark, Jerome, 1977. “The Great Airship Hoax.”
Fate 30, 2 (February): 94–97.
Howe, Linda Moulton, 1989. An Alien Harvest: Fur -
ther Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and
Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms. Littleton,
CO: Linda Moulton Howe Publications.
Powers, Susan Marie, 1994. “Thematic Content
Analyses of the Reports of UFO Abductees and
Close Encounter Witnesses: Indications of Repressed
Sexual Abuse.” Journal of UFO Studies 5
(n.s.): 35–54.
Captive extraterrestrials
Along with rumors of dead extraterrestrials
supposedly found in or near crashed spacecraft,
there is a persistent lore of aliens who
are held in captivity.
Ufologist William L. Moore claims to have
heard one such account from anonymous military
and official sources said to be privy to
highly classified UFO secrets. In 1949, the
sources asserted, a male humanoid was discovered
alive in the southwestern desert, the survivor
of the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Authorities housed the being, called
EBE (ee-buh, after extraterrestrial biological
entity), at the atomic installation at Los
Alamos, New Mexico. An air force captain
was assigned the job of watching over the
being. Communication with the alien proved
impossible until a speech device was invented
and implanted into his throat, enabling him
to speak a kind of broken but understandable
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English. EBE said he had been the equivalent
of a mechanic on the crashed craft. EBE died
of unknown causes in 1952.
Moore’s sources alleged that EBE later was
called EBE-1, because two other aliens—
EBE-2 and EBE-3—later fell into U.S. government
hands. The three captives revealed
that nine alien races were visiting Earth. One
in particular, the little gray-skinned beings,
had been especially active. This group had
been monitoring human activities for twentyfive
thousand years and had manipulated our
religious beliefs.
In his book UFO Crash at Aztec (1986),
William S. Steinman reports another alleged
1948 incident, this one involving a physician
from Bishop, California, named Claude E.
Steen, Sr. (Elsewhere in his book Steinman
gives the year as 1949 and spells the last name
“Steene.”) A “member of a special military
unit” contacted Steen and led him and his
nurse to a location where an alien was being
kept alive. It was in a chamber with a controlled
environment. The being appeared to
be some kind of reptile. Its appearance so
upset the nurse that she said it looked like
something “from the pits of hell.”
On July 23, 1952, a Colorado newspaper,
the Pueblo Chieftain, related a peculiar story.
Speaking to the local Chamber of Commerce,
Joseph Rohrer, president of Pikes Peak Broadcasting,
said he knew of three saucer crashes
in Montana. One of the occupants that had
survived, a three-foot-tall humanoid, was still
being kept alive in an incubator in California,
where efforts were being made to communicate
with him. In April 2000, ufologist Kenny
Young conducted inquiries into these curious
claims, eventually learning that Rohrer was a
prankster with a sense of humor. Even though
the paper had treated his story seriously, its
audience understood that he was speaking
tongue in cheek.
See Also: Dead extraterrestrials; Extraterrestrial Biological
Entities
Further Reading
Moore, William L., 1987. Personal communication
to Jerome Clark.