Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

object dragging along with a rope attached. They followed it until, in crossing the railroad, itcaught on a rail. On looking up they saw what they supposed was the airship. It was not nearenough to get an idea of the dimensions. A light could be seen protruding several windows;one bright light in front like the headlight of a locomotive.After some ten minutes, a man was seen descending the rope. He came near enough to beplainly seen; he wore a light blue sailor suit and was small in size. He stopped when hediscovered parties at the anchor, and cut the rope below him and sailed off in a north-eastdirection. The anchor is now on exhibition at the blacksmith shop of Elliot and Miller and isatracting the attention of hundreds of people."This sounds much too familiar to be taken lightly," comments Hanlon, who reminds us of theSioux City incident – when Robert Hibbard was dragged by an anchor hanging from an airship –and of Drake's and Wilkin's account of two incidents that took place about 1211 A.D. or earlier.According to the Irish story:There happened in the borough of Cloera, one Sunday, while the people were at Mass, amarvel. In this town is a church dedicated to St. Kinarus. It befell that an anchor wasdropped from the sky, with a rope attached to it, and one of the flukes caught in the archabove the church door. The people rushed out of the church and saw in the sky a ship withmen on board, floating before the anchor cable, and they saw a man leap overboard andjump down to the anchor, as if to release it. He looked as if he were swimming in water. Thefolk rushed up and tried to seize him: but the Bishop forbade the people to hold the man, forit might kill him, he said. The man was freed, and hurried up to the ship, where the crew cutthe rope and the ship sailed out of sight. But the anchor is in the church, and has been thereever since, as a testimony.In Gervase of Tilbury's Otis Imperialia, a similar account is related as having taken place inGravesend, Kent, England. An anchor from a "cloudship" caught in a mound of stones in thechurchyard. The people heard voices from above, and the rope was moved as if to free the anchor,to no avail. A man was then seen to slide down the rope and cut it. In one account, he then climbedback aboard the ship; in another, he died of suffocation.The Houston Post of April 22, 1897, has a further report:Rockland: Mr. John M. Barclay, living near this place, reports that last night about 11o'clock, after having retired, he heard his dog barking furiously, together with a whiningnoise. He went to the door to ascertain the trouble and saw something, he says, that made hiseyes bulge out and but for the fact that he had been reading of an airship that was supposedto have been in or over Texas, he would have taken to the woods.It was a peculiar shaped body, with an oblong shape, with wings and side attachments ofvarious sizes and shapes. There were brilliant lights, which appeared much brighter thanelectric lights. When he first saw it, iy seemed perfectly stationary about five yards from theground. It circled a few times and gradually descended to the ground in a pasture adjacent tohis house. He took his Winchester and went down to investigate. As soon as the ship, orwhatever it might be, alighted the lights went out. The night was bright enough for a man tobe distinguished several yards, and when within about thirty yards of the ship he was met byan ordinary mortal, who requested him to lay his gun aside as no harm was intended.Whereupon the following conversation ensued. Mr. Barclay enquired: "Who are you andwhat do you want?" "Never mind about my name, call it Smith. I want some lubricating oiland a couple of cold chisels if you can get them, and some bluestone. I suppose the saw millhard by has the two former articles and the telegraph operator has the bluestone. Here is aten-dollar bill: take it and get us these articles and keep the change for your trouble."Mr. Barclay said: "What have you got down there? Let me go and see it." He who wanted to