Lehmberg -- Flatwoods, Sandbagged By MonsterQuest
By Alfred Lehmberg
http://paratopiary.blogspot.com
3-17-10
Folks, regarding the recent History Channel MonsterQuest episode of
March 10th featuring Fred May, Frank Feschino, Stanton Friedman, and
other witnesses from the town of Flatwoods, West Virginia: I was the
bearded fellow, the only one, I think, associated with the Flatwoods
segment exclusively. I wore the UFO Magazine hat, and worked
with the Helium Balloon. I also assisted Feschino vis a
vis the sighting at the hunter's camp in deep forest beside the spring
fed stream. My one spoken line, used apart from where I actually said
it was, "Frank, there's a hot spot up there...," or some
such... all that said:
Folks? You can quote me!
I have no idea what that program was about! Why, apart from Joe Nickell
who was decidedly true to form, I didn't even recognize who was
involved in it!
This is _real_ irony, reader, given I was at Flatwoods for a week
during the shooting —and I do mean shooting— of the MQ
program in question. Moreover, I have an appropriate intimacy with
all the principals shown on the Flatwoods segment, and I have better
than a layman's understanding of just what occurred in and around
Flatwoods that Indian summer night in 1952.
Ladies and Gentleman, let me digress to say that, entirely apart from
what the Reader saw on a "flawed" MonsterQuest, THIS is
what occurred on that one night in Flatwoods:
http://paratopiary.blogspot.com/
I remind the HONEST reader that this referenced map data is supported
by Project Bluebook, named Newspaper reportage, and first person witnesses
in that order of numeracy.
The History Channel, one finds, had the time, opportunity, and all
the requisite data to produce a stunning program about the infamous
Flatwoods affair. What the History channel did instead, reader, was
to contrive to manufacture a senseless "mash-up" of two
entirely unrelated cases from what could be most easily be "faux-discredited"
in either of them. Suggesting this bogus relationship, one not even
remotely tenuous, is the program's kiss of less-than-mediocre death.
Sincerely, none but those entirely honest with themselves dare call
this very poor, contrived, and inauspicious telling of the Flatwoods
story a blithering incompetence, a fatuous cluelessness, or a distorted
propaganda! More irony is revealed given Feschino, Friedman, and I
had to sign sworn statements indicating our contribution to the program
was true as we knew it to be true. The History Channel reportage of
same, paradoxically, was not.
See? Flatwoods was the tail end of the biggest UFO Flap in US History:
The 1952 "Summer Of Saucers" chronicled by Frank Feschino,
Wendy Connors, various other authors, and a previously un-sifted
Project Bluebook. Reader! It was _not_ about "Lizard Monsters"
allegedly lurking the woods for 60 plus years, and to this day. This
is the distortion prosecuted by the History Channel.
And this! The intrepid MonsterQuest documentarians wrongly called
the more honest Stanton Friedman a "doctor" and made the
dissembling (to be kind) Dr. (degree immaterial) Nickell look "reasonable"
in contrived comparison! Glowing eyes? Not before or since. Ground
miasma? Not before or since! Mass hysteria? Not before or since! Noxious
weeds? Not before or since! Roc sized barn owls? Not before or since!
How could they have got things so canted and wrong!
I'm sick at heart and really ticked off... Feschino, who deserves
better than this, was fit to be tied. See, he's telling the culture
changing real story. Nickell and company shill for the guys insulting
the reader's intelligence and obscuring real history. Case in point
"Mass Hysteria" as touted by Dr. Nickell... is a clueless
dodge.
Why? The witnesses at Flatwoods, a gang of playing children and a
couple of young adults, presupposed a meteor, predominantly, on the
Fisher farm in the hills above the school that evening. They'd heard
about them recently in school. Nickell _dissembled_ when he reported
they expected "monsters"... They did not run up a hill armed
with only with a flashlight to look for "monsters," Reader!
That only happens in the movies and Joe Nickell's facile imagination!
They went up the hill to pick up pieces of a meteorite!
No, the Flatwoods story was not remotely told. The historical facts
regarding the "Flatwoods Monster" incident are distorted,
once again, by a soap-selling TV show.
Tune in to the actual story, cited above, to tune _up_, sincerely.
See, it's not a story about a giant lizard in a "hover round"
"attacking" a group of Flatwoods residents with a harmful
gas. The gas, remember, was actually an exhaust emitted from pipes
surrounding the lower torso of the body. The lower torso was part
of the propulsion system of this giant "metallic" structure
propelling it and causing it to hover. Moreover, apart from the gas,
the "Flatwoods Monster" never made any aggressive or threatening
maneuvers towards the witnesses during the encounter!
More crass inaccuracies
The nearly 60-years of "sightings" reported by the MQ show
were not all "monster" sightings, as the over-edited Feschino
and Friedman footage seemed to intimate, but were UFO sightings! This
is what the two researchers reported on. _UFOs_, reader! Not _monsters_!
The "Flatwoods Monster" incident, the Snitowsky "Frametown
Monster" incident and the Frametown Hunter incident are the documented
entity sightings, reader. These, and other "monster" sightings...
never occurred again! It's UFO sightings that are ongoing! This was
the actual report and testimony of Friedman and Feschino!
Other "real" entities documented on record in the Flatwoods
area are as follows:
Dec. 30, 1960. Hickory Flats, WV, Located in Webster County and just
across the southern Braxton County border - Witness Charles Slover,
35 years-old, was driving a delivery truck and sighted a 6-foot tall
hairy biped, man-like creature near the road. This was _unreported_
by the History Channel.
Dec. 7, 2005. Braxton County, 7-8 miles from Flatwoods. A wildlife
trap camera took a photograph of an unknown entity that has been called
the "Braxton Beast." This was _unreported_ by the History
Channel. Meager and unrepeated stuff!
UFO sightings _abound_, reader, on the other hand... not "monster"
sightings! A UFO sighting that occurred in Holly, Braxton County on
Nov. 8, 1957 was documented by Jacques Vallee in his book "Passport
To Magonia."
Holly is located near Flatwoods. In Case #437, Vallee reports that
Hank Mollohan and eight other local witnesses saw an elongated object
that was 12-metres long.
More UFOs! Frametown Area, 1990: A Frametown couple saw several UFOs
over the area of the Middle Ridge area southeast of Frametown. When
one of the witnesses walked outside of the house to get a closer look,
one of the UFOs flew into the back-yard and shot a bright beam of
light down towards the witness. This Frametown incident was documented
and broadcast in 1990 by a national TV show of the time, Current Affair
With Maury Povich.
In 1991, Feschino documented crop circle rings in Frametown, WV.,
which were recorded by Colin Andrews. Throughout the early 1990s,
Feschino also photographed and videotaped UFOs in the same area of
Middle Ridge southeast of James Knob.
OTHER MONSTERQUEST DEGLECTED POINTS
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