LILBURN — Round red objects about the size of silver
dollars suddenly appeared and seemed to scan three people traveling home
in a Ford SUV one night last month.
They didn’t see a mother ship hovering above them on a rural stretch of
highway called “Booger Bottom” near Greenville, Ga. No little green men
popped in to chat. The 25-second visit was not your stereotypical sighting
of an unidentified flying object. It was certainly no laughing matter for
a 50-year-old Tucker man and his brother and sister-in-law from Warm
Springs.
The 73-year-old female witness, who remains unnamed, went to the police
and the GBI for help, but they didn’t want any part of it. She called the
National UFO Reporting Center and was hooked up with the Mutual UFO
Network of Georgia.
MUFONGA doesn’t turn away people with odd stories. MUFONGA investigators
use a scientific method to eliminate publicity seekers and natural
occurrences from true unexplainable incidents. If they can’t find a
explanation for what occurred, they at least want to record the
phenomenon.
MUFONGA investigators Olivia Newton of Lilburn and Jim Clifford of
Lawrenceville were assigned the case.
Newton noted none of the witnesses gave them any reason to doubt the
account.
“We watch for body language, any discrepancies,” Newton recalled. “They
looked at us right in the eye and were very forthright. They said, ‘Surely
you have heard of this before.’”
In her five years of investigating UFO reports, Newton had heard about a
woman being paralyzed while a hovering object came toward her skylight and
a 2-year-old boy who was being stalked by a possible spirit.
“Most of them turn out to have natural explanations,” Newton said, adding
that Venus is often mistaken for a spaceship.
Newton had never heard a story like this one.
“They all said it was not of this world. They felt it was intelligent.
They felt they had sought them out for the sole purpose of scanning them.
Scan. That was the word they used,” Newton said.
The trio was upset by the experience. The woman insisted they learn what
the red objects were.
“She said, ‘I’ve got to know what this is. Are they coming back after us?
What if they cart us off?’” recalled Newton.
When Newton and Clifford met with the Tucker man at a local Starbucks to
discuss the case, he was visibly shaken, she said. He too refused to have
his name used.
The witnesses called the approximate 50 red objects that appeared inside
the car “lights” but described them as solid to Newton. They said they
only occurred on their bodies until they vanished instantly.
The brother of the Tucker man told investigators he saw a red swirling
object next to the vehicle on the driver’s side before the lights
appeared. He was sitting in the back seat facing his brother, Newton said.
The Tucker man’s testimony on the NURORC’s Web site at
www.UFOcenter.com said, “The floor
board again was red hue as it was in the back seat. I looked out the
window and over the dash board onto the hood and did not see any activity
as was being awesomely and erratically displayed in the front and back
seat.”
According to the investigation so far, a train was not traveling on the
nearby tracks. No airplanes were flying over the Greenville skies that
night, Newton said.
Newton and Clifford walked around the area. No houses were close enough to
the road to reflect light into the car. Newton said they couldn’t find an
area where practical jokers could have hidden and focused red lights
constantly on the people for 25 seconds as the vehicle traveled 35 mph.
To help solve the mystery, Newton plans to seek a geologist’s opinion and
look into the origins of why that area is called Booger Bottom.
Locals told her the first name was once used for the “Boogey man,” and the
area was called that to scare off government officials searching for
moonshiners. Newton wants to make sure the area was not named for an
earlier incident, which might be similar to what the witnesses
experienced.
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