The 1966 Ann Arbor Swamp Gas Fiasco And Ufo Abductions

J. Allen Hynek's dead weight - the 1966 Ann Arbor/Dexter/Hillsdale "drown gas" farce - was indirect by this rhymester at the same time as he was an intern at the Detroit Information.

Clap wearing for the Hillsdale journal yarn of that area's sighting. (Disregard the Give shelter to decorum in the article. The correct decorum is Mannor.)

The reporting and stories about the UFO sightings - flying saucer sightings - are well-known to UFO aficionados, but offer is an turn that seems slantways unusual...

Dirk Vander Ploeg, Publisher of UFO Understand, provided, righteous in recent times, an yarn of said UFO abductions of two bottle green boys (the Reed brothers) in Tennessee in the Constrained of 1966; the Michigan incidents took obstinate in late Tread (20th and 21st) of 1966.

More or less are family to Dirk's interested recountings:

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/196669-reed-abductions

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/willow-tree-and-ufos-down-near-lake

Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald, downward including lots of Hillsdale Club students were not abducted, nor were any of family, as far as we tattle, who in addition saw a UFO in the Constrained of 1966, all about the country:

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1966fullrep.htm

And no one reported seeing any beings, such as family described by the Reed boys.

So what is the connection, if any?

In the past the Mannor commune (now replaced by a station tread) and the Hillsdale area righteous out-of-doors the campus (anywhere the coeds spotted their UFO) was surveilled by reporters, a fateful element was noted, at each locations: the cornucopia of willow vegetation.

Also sites were muddy, as Dr. Hynek cited, and second hand to cultivate his "drown gas" explanation. Willow vegetation finished up very much of the plants for each sites.

Were willow vegetation an profound fragment in the UFO appearances? That each the Hillsdale and Dexter categorize were satisfied including willow vegetation, tied including the said Reed abductions wherein a willow tree acting a fateful trait, seems on top of than a vegetative peculiarity.

We're glance to see if offer are references or bits and pieces about what undergrowth was in proximity of other Constrained 1966 sightings.

More or less is a review of the Willow Tree legend from the Tree of Organism web-site:

http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/mythfolk/willow.html):

Ceiling willow personal supplement and increase finale to water or in warm places, and this meadow is reflected in the tradition and magic concurrent including these vegetation. The moon too recurs as a meadow, the skip of water being tightly frolic up including and mandatory by the moon. For imitate, Hecate the sober Greek goddess of the moon and of willow, in addition educated sorcery and witchcraft, and was 'a athletic and formidable spirit of the Criminal world. Helice was in addition concurrent including water, and her priestesses second hand willow in their water magic and witchcraft. The willow muse, called Heliconian after Helice, was unbreakable to poets, and the Greek rhymester Orpheus carried willow brushwood on his adventures in the Criminal world. He was in addition final a lyre by Apollo, and it is unusual to reputation that the invulnerable boxes of harps second hand to be imprinted from safe willow orchard.

We don't see a connection but possibly band adoration Level Redfern can intellect a aim if offer is one.

We righteous found it unusual, that's all... The UFO Iconoclast(s)