Reports of Unidentified Flying Object – Ed’s Further Encounters
January 26, 1988, 21:30 hrs
Two days later Ed was taking a shower when his wife called to him, “It’s back. ” She then got the camera, ran to the kitchen door and took photo 22, showing their Spitz in the foreground. The dog had been nervously looking back and forth between her and the UFO. Ed, still drip ping wet, came onto the back patio with a towel wrapped around him. With the memories of the 24th still fresh in his mind, he shook his fist at the UFO while his wife took photo 23. The pictures show a Type-2 object.
The main difference is what appears to be a “wave” in the “red veil’ ‘ hanging below the bright bottom circle, such as is often seen in the aurora borealis. Also, there appears to be a tinge of blue at the bottom along with the red and some bright yellow-orange. The “”windows’ ‘ are thin and triangular shaped, unlike the round or squarish ones in previous Type- 1A and 1B images.
February 7, 1988, 20:30 hrs
Ed’s wife was out by the pool feeding the dog when a blue beam was seen coming down from a UFO above the house. It struck the ground between her and the house, and she screamed. After her twelve-year-old daughter looked and saw the beam, she ran to the front office and said, “Daddy, Mommy needs you”. While Ed got his camera and ran to the kitchen, the daughter held the back door open for her mother who was coming around the beam toward the back door. As Ed was about to exit, the beam came down immediately in front of the doorway partially blocking it.
Ed backed up and got a picture of his wife ducking around the approximately eighteen-inch-diameter beam to enter the door. The beam appeared brighter on the outside than the middle, and it seemed to rotate clockwise (looking up). The dry leaves in the spot where the beam first struck indicated that the beam caused a vortex action.
Following this event, the family began to think the creatures were entering the house. Every creak, whether a natural house noise or not, caused concern. After a while, they went to the garage and climbed into the van where they spent most of the night. This last photo was not given to the investigators immediately, because Ed wanted to avoid publicity involving his family. However, on May 21 , 1988, he was persuaded to allow the Pensacola News Journal to publish a cropped version in full color on the front page.
February 26, 1988, 21:30 hrs
Ed was given a Nimslo 4-lens sealed camera provided by Tom Deuley of the San Antonio MUFON group. I asked Ed to please use the camera on the next opportunity so he could convince the skeptics he was not photographing a small model at close range. After eighteen days with no photographs, Ed was feeling much pressure. However, the next night he and his wife went to the secluded Shoreline Park area where they took exposures 25-34, each with four images. This was designated a ‘Type-3 object (Figure 10: 3), and it looked entirely different from the others. It was a horizontal cylinder with a bright light on the rear and three rows of lights down the side. A few days earlier, Ed had reported seeing this light pattern while driving down Florida Route 87 toward Navarre, but he thought it might be an airplane. The object later proved to be only about three feet long at a distance of about forty-seven feet.
After Ed made drawings of what he saw, the investigators decided to make a media event out of the opening of the sealed camera. Walt Andrus was again invited to Pensacola to manage this event. The first frame contained a – signed letter assuring that the film could not be switched, and the second was designed to test the sensitivity of the film . The small images that appeared as the reporters waited were almost identical to Ed’s drawing. (If he had this to do over we would put a diffraction grating on the two inner lenses .)
March 7, 1988, 18:00 hrs
While eating dinner, Ed heard a hum in his head, lasting only five to eight seconds. He told his wife and continued eating. Later that night, while in bed , he heard another hum. He wanted to go out and use the new Polaroid Sun 600 LMS camera he had bought that day, but his wife persuaded him to stay in bed.
March 8, 1988, 17:45 hrs
While his wife was fixing dinner, Ed again heard a hum. This time he took his new camera out back without telling her. It was raining a little. Soon he saw a glow between the pine trees, and he took photo 35 . As he lowered the camera it was gone. This photo again shows the object departing vertically after providing a clear image and be fore the shutter closed. (Perhaps their motive system is keyed to the camera flash. ) If a constant acceleration is assumed and the vehicle left the frame in 1/10th of a second, about 1/3rd of the shutter open time, then the acceleration was about 150 Gs.
March 17, 1988, 20:05 hrs
The investigators were anxious to determine the precise size of the objects, so Dr. Maccabee designed a self referencing stereo (SRS) camera rig. Ed mounted two new Polaroid SUN 600 cameras on a heavy tripod two feet apart. A parallax reference point was fixed on a broom stick four feet in front, so as to be visible by both cameras.
These cameras automatically flash and eject the film each time the lever is activated. On March 17, Ed and his wife were in the Sentinel office discussing with Cook the UFO sightings reported by others. About 16:00, Ed heard a hum. They got excited, but Ed decided not to pursue it.
He went home, and after Cook and Dari finished work on the paper, they went to Shoreline Park. After a while, they · called Ed and talked him into coming over with the SRS camera rig. Ed had promised to call Peter Neumann, WEAR-TV manager, and Buddy Pollak, a close friend, when he went out, so Cook called them on his car phone.
When they arrived, Ed asked Neumann to open and insert two new film packs. Test photos of those present were made. Carlos Hill and a young friend showed up. The cameras were set up in a secluded part of the park to avoid unknown people, and the time passed with a cold wind blowing.
At about 20:00, Ed had not heard a hum for about an hour. Cook and Pollak suggested there might be too many people around. All but Ed and his wife left. Neumann and his wife went home, but the rest did not go far. According to Ed, about forty-five seconds after they departed he heard another short hum. Then, three or four minutes later, the object appeared in the direction opposite where Pollak and the other had gone. Ed swung his cameras around and fired both, although not simultaneously. These were labeled 36L and 36R showing a Type- 1 object well over 100 feet distant. Three or four seconds later the object de parted. Ed’s wife said they had to lean forward in order to see it. Cook, Pollak, and the other two saw the flashes and returned in time to see Ed watching the pictures develop in the illumination of his headlights. At this time, Brenda Pollak, a Gulf Breeze councilwoman, was coming to the park to find her husband. On her way, she saw a UFO twice, once at the apparent time and location it was photographed. Ed immediately sent the photos to Dr. Maccabee for photogrammetric analysis.
March 20, 1988, 20:45 hrs
Three days later, Ed heard a hum while at home. He grabbed the SRS camera rig and went to the back yard.
While waiting, he heard a voice in his head that seemed to say, “Zeehaus, Zeehaus . . . sleep and know” In a few minutes, the UFO appeared to the north. He viewed it clearly through the right lens and took photos 37L and 37R. The left camera did not flash simultaneously with the right, but it was within a fraction of a second. The left photo showed an obstruction between the camera and the bright light that appears to be the bottom of a Type- 1 vehicle. Daylight photos from the same location show the obstruction. Analysis of the photos also shows divergence rather than convergence, indicating the object was moving to the left at several miles per hour. Possibly, the instability in the broomstick caused by activating the cameras one after the other was also a factor preventing accurate distance measurement. Consequently, Ed spent much time practicing the activation of both camera levers simultaneously.
April 21, 1988, 22:30 hrs
Ed and his wife, at this point, had not received a full analysis of the Nimslo camera photographs, so there was still some disagreement as to the size of the Type-3 object. Ed, almost constantly looking through the camera lens on February 26, thought it was a large distant object, while his wife, who constantly viewed it with both eyes, thought it was a smaller object rather close. On April 21 they were out for an evening walk in the neighborhood when the l)’pe-3 object flew nearly overhead, stopped briefly at what appeared to be sixty feet away, and then moved out of sight toward the school yard. They both measured its an gular size to be one inch at arm’s length, indicating it was a small object, not large enough to carry the aliens previously witnessed.
May 1, 1988, 01:10 hrs
At Dr. Maccabee’s request, Ed had stabilized the parallax reference of the SRS camera rig to provide more accurate measurements of the vehicle size. He and his wife took the cameras to Shoreline Park on several nights after their daily duties were over, but found nothing to photograph.
He had been asked to photograph the UFO with the SRS cameras while his wife photographed him and the UFO with the camcorder. (Some critics are hard to satisfy!) The next night Ed went alone, as his wife was acting as chaperone on a school trip. At about 23:30 he set up the improved SRS camera rig along with a set of coded poles, each 60° around an arc ten feet from the tripod center. This would provide a second set of parallax references and more accurate distance calculations. He waited in his van for nearly an hour and a half. At 01 :00 he got a short hum and manned his cameras. At 01 : 10 a bright UFO popped into view toward Pensacola Beach, and Ed flashed both cameras simultaneously (photos 38L and 38R). He looked up and saw the Type-3 object to the right of the bright one, but when he looked back through the right lens he did not see the objects. When he looked up again, the large bright one was about thirty feet above his head. At this point he said he got a “white out” in his head.
Ed thought that the next instant he was lying face down on the beach, disoriented and with a sore head. After picking himself up, he saw his cameras twenty feet away, and as he walked to them noticed that it was 02:30. He was missing about one hour and fifteen minutes. He suddenly had great concern for his daughter, grabbed his cam eras and two of the six poles, and rushed home. After seeing her sound asleep, he sat on the floor in front of her door until 06:00. When he went to the bathroom and turned on the light he saw a dark reddish mark between his eyes, and another on each temple. There was “black smelly stuff’ ‘ under the three longest fingernails of the right hand. He wrapped his hand in a towel and slept until 11 :30. The black stuff was frozen in a jar and later found to have a silicon base, but the black impurity has not been identified as of this writing because the processes available near Gulf Breeze would be destructive-analysis processes. The next day the investigators could easily see the three reddish marks, and there was a bump on the back of Ed’s head.
This last set of Ed ·s photographs is probably the most revealing. The SRS system worked as Dr. Maccabee had hoped. The photos show the Type- 1 object to be about 475 feet out over the water with a bottom light 14 .8 feet in diameter. It was also about 14. 8 feet tall . The Type-3 object was 132 feet away and about 2.5 feet from the “tail” to the right-most portion of light. Since this object was similar to the object photographed with the Nimslo camera, it appears to be about three feet long, which is consistent with analysis of the Nimslo camera data.
Time-regression hypnosis of the May 1 event was done by Dr. Dan Overlade, a highly experienced clinical psychologist. It appears that Ed was captured by a group of aliens like those he saw on January 12. They used their wands like our police use stun guns, and during a struggle, apparently projected telepathic images of his daughter, as if to distract him. After being subdued, he found himself lying in an empty room where the bright, white light seemed to be coming from no particular source, but from the air molecules. When Ed had an aggressive thought as the leader came in, a blue beam came from the ceiling and hit him in the head. Almost immediately he got the smell of ammonia and a stinging in his throat. (Perhaps the energy in the beam disassociated the hydrogen from the oxygen in the moisture of his breath, and the hydro gen re-combined with the nitrogen of the air to form ammonia.) The beam physically picked him up and set him on a bench where his emotional memories were apparently transferred to immature aliens . Further time regression hypnosis indicates Ed was on board a UFO when he was seventeen, twenty-five and thirty-three years old, and each time a similar ‘ ’emotional transfer’ ‘ was accomplished.
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