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Weird, Wicked Weird: Ufologists unite
By Kathryn Skelton, Staff Writer
Jul 02, 2011
Cindy Proulx hedges a little. She might have seen a UFO, once. She is sure, though, that they’re up there.
Proulx says she grew up in a haunted house. She’s open to about anything.
“I just know there’s something else out there besides the tangible," she said. "I’ve seen it."
Chris Gardner has, too. The friends will present UFO talks at the annual Psychic/Paranormal Faire in Fort Knox on July 23 and 24.
“The EBEs have been here for a very long time,” said Proulx, of Brewer.
EBEs?
“Extraterrestrial biological entities,” she said. “I also prefer ETs to aliens — aliens makes them sound like they’re undocumented workers.”
The amateur ufologists are used to two questions from their audience. The first is always, “Have you ever seen one?”
She’s a maybe; he’s a yes.
And, “Will you think I’m crazy if I tell you I have?”
Definitely not, Proulx says.
Gardner, of Bangor, has kept about 30 years' worth of sighting files. He’s at work on a book.
“There’s quite a big history of UFO sightings and activity in Maine,” Gardner said. He points to unexplained Maine cases in the U.S. Air Force’s old Project Blue Book files, which explored alleged activity.
“One was up at Loring Air Force Base back in the ’70s when lights were seen around the nuclear storage facility," he said. "They scrambled planes and helicopters and chased the thing off up into Canada and it would come back. It happened two nights in a row.”
Weird, Wicked Weird is a monthly feature on the strange, unexplained and intriguing in Maine. Send photos, ideas and campfire tales to kskelton@sunjournal.com.
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Ufologists unite
By Kathryn Skelton, Staff Writer
Jul 02, 2011
Cindy Proulx hedges a little. She might have seen a UFO, once. She is sure, though, that they’re up there.
Proulx says she grew up in a haunted house. She’s open to about anything.
“I just know there’s something else out there besides the tangible," she said. "I’ve seen it."
Chris Gardner has, too. The friends will present UFO talks at the annual Psychic/Paranormal Faire in Fort Knox on July 23 and 24.
“The EBEs have been here for a very long time,” said Proulx, of Brewer.
EBEs?
“Extraterrestrial biological entities,” she said. “I also prefer ETs to aliens — aliens makes them sound like they’re undocumented workers.”
The amateur ufologists are used to two questions from their audience. The first is always, “Have you ever seen one?”
She’s a maybe; he’s a yes.
And, “Will you think I’m crazy if I tell you I have?”
Definitely not, Proulx says.
Gardner, of Bangor, has kept about 30 years' worth of sighting files. He’s at work on a book.
“There’s quite a big history of UFO sightings and activity in Maine,” Gardner said. He points to unexplained Maine cases in the U.S. Air Force’s old Project Blue Book files, which explored alleged activity.
“One was up at Loring Air Force Base back in the ’70s when lights were seen around the nuclear storage facility," he said. "They scrambled planes and helicopters and chased the thing off up into Canada and it would come back. It happened two nights in a row.”
Weird, Wicked Weird is a monthly feature on the strange, unexplained and intriguing in Maine. Send photos, ideas and campfire tales to kskelton@sunjournal.com.
TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK