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   SUBJECT: WOMAN SAYS CLOSE ENCOUNTER LEFT   
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   SUBJECT: WOMAN SAYS CLOSE ENCOUNTER LEFT SCARS               FILE: UFO1276   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 15, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Post-Herald   
   LOCATION:  Birmingham, Alabama   
   BYLINE:  Kathy Kemp   
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   WOMAN'S CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH UFO LEFT LASTING SCARS   
      
   By Kathy Kemp   
   Post-Herald Reporter   
      
   Cr:  L. Phillips   
      
        LINCOLN--Betty Cash thought the world was coming to an end.   
        In  the Bible,  she knew,  it was written that a great flame   
   would destroy the Earth.   And all she could see as she stood  on   
   that  lonely stretch of Texas road and stared toward the  heavens   
   was scorching ball of fire.   
        "It  lit up the sky like it was daylight," Mrs.  Cash  says,   
   sitting  in the den of her sunny mobile home on Lake Logan Martin   
   in rural Talladega County.   
        "That's the first thing that came into our minds,  that  the   
   world was ending.   That thing was so bright,  it took us a while   
   to get our sight to where we could see it was actually an object.   
        "I have never been so terrified.   All we could think of was   
   how are we going to get out of here without being burned alive."   
        Eight  years  have passed since Mrs.  Cash--along  with  her   
   friend  Vickie  Landrum  and  Mrs.  Landrum's  grandson,  Colby--   
   confronted what they thought was the apocalypse.   
        The group had gone out the night of Dec. 29, 1980, in search   
   of  a bingo game,  forgetting that the halls would be closed  for   
   the  Christmas holidays.   They were returning to their homes  in   
   Dayton,  Texas, on a deserted stretch of road near New Caney when   
   they  had  what UFO researchers would later refer to as  a  close   
   encounter of the second kind.   
        After their eyes had adjusted to the ball of fire, the women   
   and  the young boy began to make out a diamond shaped object that   
   was spitting flames toward the ground.   As the flames shot  out,   
   they  could  hear a whooshing sound,  and the object--which  Mrs.   
   Cash says was about the size of a country water tower--would rise   
   a bit higher in the sky.   
        Later,  while she lay in a hospital bed with burns and  what   
   appeared  to  be  radiation poisoning,  Mrs.  Cash would  tell  a   
   fantastic tale.   Mrs.  Landrum and Colby,  who were treated  for   
   similar symptoms, would confirm her story.   
        They  said  that  23 helicopters--the  sophisticated  double   
   rotary models that they later identified as CH-47  chinooks--were   
   flying around the fiery object,  as if they were trying to either   
   pull or escort it to another location.   
        They  said that although the temperature at the time was  in   
   the  40's,  their  car got so hot that Mrs.  Cash had to use  her   
   leather  jacket like a potholder as she opened the driver's  door   
   to get back in.   An indentation in the dashboard of Mrs.  Cash's   
   1980 navy blue Cutlass is actually the handprint of Mrs. Landrum,   
   who rested her palm on the dash as she stared out the windshield,   
   they said.   
        Since  then,  both  women  have  developed  numerous  health   
   problems,   and  Mrs.  Landrum's  grandson  has  shown  signs  of   
   emotional distress.   Mrs.  Cash said she was in the hospital for   
   six weeks with blisters, burns, headaches, vomiting and diarrhea,   
   and she has photographs of herself that show great clumps of hair   
   missing from her scalp.   
        Mrs.  Cash, who grew up in Birmingham and had lived in Texas   
   30  years,  returned  to Alabama in early 1981 to live  with  her   
   mother,  who  provided  the  nursing the hospital  told  her  she   
   needed.   Divorced  from her first husband  in  1979,  Mrs.  Cash   
   married again several years ago and moved into the mobile home by   
   the lake.   
        Although  many have dismissed their experience as imaginary,   
   Mrs.  Cash and the Landrums have a strong ally in the Texas based   
   Mutual UFO Network,  a international non profit organization that   
   investigates and documents UFO sightings.   
        "As far as I'm concerned,  it's one of the most  spectacular   
   cases  I've ever seen," says John Schuessler,  a Houston engineer   
   and MUFON deputy directory.   Schuessler, who has been with MUFON   
   since the late 1960s,  investigated the Cash-Landrum case shortly   
   after it happened and has followed it ever since.   
        "It's  a very real situation.   Something happened to  them.   
   They were mistreated by some kind of object.   You can call it  a   
   UFO.  That doesn't mean it was from outer space.   
        "Whatever  it  was,  I'm convinced that their  health  state   
   changed  drastically  right after it happened.   I have  doctor's   
   statements  confirming (Mrs.  Cash's) burns.   And we also had  a   
   number of people in the area who saw what they saw,  only not  so   
   close."   
        Convinced  that  the fiery object was something  the  United   
   States  military  was moving from one location to  another,  Mrs.   
   Cash and the Landrums filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against   
   the government.   A Texas judge refused to hear the case, but the   
   women haven't stopped trying to get their story told in either  a   
   courtroom or--better yet, they believe--a congressional hearing.   
        Encouraged  by MUFON and Schuessler,  Mrs.  Cash has written   
   dozens of letters--mostly to government agencies and politicians,   
   who  thus far have been able to offer little more than  sympathy.   
   The government has denied any knowledge of the incident Mrs. Cash   
   has described.   Schuessler says MUFON investigators weren't able   
   to find any military personnel who would acknowledge that a group   
   of helicopters was in the area that night in 1980.   
        Most  recently,  Mrs.  Cash has been writing  to  U.S.  Sen.   
   Howell Heflin,  D-Ala.   In a letter dated Jan.  31,  Heflin told   
   Mrs.  Cash  that he has contacted the U.S.  Department of Defense   
   and asked for an investigation of Mrs.  Cash's claims and a  full   
   report.   
        "I honestly don't think we'll have to go back to court," she   
   says.   "I  think  the  government's going to break down  and  do   
   something."   
        In the meantime,  she and Mrs.  Landrum,  who still lives in   
   Texas,   continue  to  talk  publicly  about  their   experience.   
   Articles  about  their  ordeal have appeared  in  newspapers  and   
   magazines  around  the  world.   Several  television  shows  have   
   featured  them,  including  "That's Incredible,"  "Good  Morning,   
   America"  and a syndicated special called "UFO Coverup."  In  the   
   latter show,  which aired last year, two other participants whose   
   identities were concealed said they worked for the government and   
   that the Cash-Landrum incident was a top secret maneuver in which   
   the U.S. military was transporting the alien craft.   
        Mrs.  Cash  says she isn't convinced that what she saw  came   
   from another planet.   She believes the diamond shaped object was   
   a  military project--perhaps a nuclear powered torch designed  to   
   light up a modern day battlefield,  as one MUFON investigator has   
   suggested.   
        If the government was responsible, Mrs. Cash says, it should   
   have to pay her medical bills.  Since the incident, she developed   
   breast  cancer that required mastectomy,  and she still has bouts   
   with diarrhea, headaches and stomach cramps, she says.   
        MUFON's  Schuessler believes Mrs.  Cash may never learn what   
   happened that night.   
        "It had to be something very unusual," he says.   "It burned   
   the road below,  and it burned the trees.   My personal theory is   
   that it was some kind of helicopter unit,  like the one in  Iran,   
   when they attempted to rescue the hostages."   
        Mrs.  Cash,  60,  says  she  won't give up until someone  in   
   Washington gives her some answers.   
        "Before  1980,  when I heard somebody talk about  UFOs,  I'd   
   laugh about it," she says.   "I'd think,  'Boy,  these people are   
   ready for the little men in the white coats.'   
        "But honey, this made a believer out of me."   
      
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