Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: FURTHER ENCOUNTERS
At about 22.00 on 21 May 1967, Carroll Watts looked out of his front door and saw the light and outline of the same, or a similar, cigar-shaped craft, less than a mile away. ‘My wife and I watched it for about one and a half hours that night,’ said Watts. ‘It would dart sideways a few minutes and go back each time to the same spot where we first noticed it. The light was bright enough that we could see the outline of the ship, but it wasn’t a glaring light. It was still there when we retired that night. We debated about going down there, but decided against it since our children were already asleep, and it was too late to take them to my parents’ house to stay.’
The following night, Watts spotted the ‘spaceship’ above a field about 200 yards away, so he decided to take some 8mm movie film of it. ‘Two weeks later we saw them across the road from our house in a pasture,’ said Watts, ‘and I went out and took a picture of the ship.’
On 7 June 1967 at 11.00, while repairing a fence on a farm he owned, about a mile northwest of his house in Loco, Watts saw the large ship approaching from the north. He ran to his car, grabbed his Polaroid camera and managed to take seven black-and-white pictures. ‘The ship was about 300 feet in the air when it came over me, made a circle and left,’ said Watts. Of the seven photographs, four developed clearly.
At about 15.00 on 11 June 1967, Watts spotted the ship again, on the farm where he had encountered the ‘Martians’ on 11 April. He was planting cotton at the time. As before, the ship approached from the north and headed south. Later, Watts claims, it returned and landed on a ridge in a pasture. One of the beings got out of the ship for a short time and walked around. ‘During this time I was down in a low place west of this ridge. I was able to get one picture of the man before he ran and got back into the ship and left, going north.’
Watts took seven Polaroid colour photos of the ship, most of which came out satisfactorily. The eighth is less so. ‘Since it was a very bright sunny day,’ explained Watts, ‘the man appears to have hair, but it was a shadow on the back of his head. He was facing toward the sun which accounts for the shadow. I was about 60 yards from him when this picture was taken. He is rather broad- shouldered for his height, and their neck is a little thick compared to ours.’
My enlargement of this photo, supplied by Rosemary Watts, shows what can be construed as the head and top half of the trunk of a being of indeterminate type: unfortunately, it is out of focus or blurred. ‘We would certainly have liked to have had a full view of him and also one that was more clear,’ wrote Mrs Watts to Henry Johnson, the then husband of Madeleine Rodeffer, ‘but it was the last of the film in the [pack] and he didn’t have time to reload the camera to take another one.’
Nonetheless, the photo is interesting. Another photo, one of those showing the large cigar-shaped ship, is excellent