From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:10:09 -0500
Archived: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:10:09 -0500
Subject: Exeter - The East Coast Roswell - Part I




Source: Seacoast Online - Exter, New Hampshire, USA

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081219-LIFE-812190321

December 19, 2008


Exeter - The East Coast Roswell - Part I

Why have so many people come forward with stories in this small
New Hampshire town? Part one of a story on glowing orbs, UFOs
and other unexplained phenomena in Exeter.

By Dean Merchant
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"It was duskish. I saw a ball of bright white light with golden-
yellowish edges about 20 feet above my head," recalled Andrew
Ulery of his encounter with a glowing orb on Park Street, when
he was a freshman in high school. "It was following me for about
a full minute, until I reached the bridge that crosses the
railroad." (Visitors to Exeter have reported observing a pyramid
of lights above this section of the railroad tracks.)

Ulery, the black-bearded manager of the Loaf and Ladle, who is
seldom separated from a sporty cap, said the "ball of lightning"
was about the size of a basketball and he remembered "being glad
I didn't scuff my feet - that lightning thing."

As Ulery reached the bridge, the object "just took off" and he
recalled a "surreal feeling" and being mesmerized by it.

Other Balls Of Light

A ball of bright light hung suspended in the air just outside
the window of a Phillips Exeter Academy house/dormitory. Two
young mothers - spouses of academy instructors, each with little
children at the time - watched in surprise as the glowing
object, about the size of a soccer ball, traveled down Tan Lane,
over the rooftop of an academy building and disappeared from
sight.

According to one of the women, a former teacher who has
requested anonymity, the event was in the late 1960s around the
time when there was much talk of probes being sent out from
UFOs.

Another Exeter academician, one of the town's "super moms" and a
member of the Exonian family, related an incident dating to when
she resided on Tan Lane. Her children and their friends, who
"were always outside playing and traveled about in a pack
everywhere together," burst through the door "agoggle." They
breathlessly spewed out a description of a UFO they saw descend
onto the academy grounds. "I was non-judgemental as I listened,"
she said, recalling that one of her sons, now 28, was 9 years
old at the time.

Peter Geremia of Rye, UFO researcher and MUFON (Mutual UFO
Network) director emeritus, said while such ball of light
reports are not common, they do occur. He cited two examples,
one of a man driving south on Route 93 from Concord, who was
followed by a ball of light that moved in front of his
windshield for two or three seconds before it disappeared.

The other incident, this in Eliot, Maine, involved a couple who
watched a ball of light descend onto their property boundary and
with precision follow along two legs of their four-acre property
line before disappearing, leaving them with no recall of its
departure.

It is not uncommon, according to Geremia, for people to report
seeing such an apparition and have no recollection as to how it
left. "They just do not know," he said.

Dancing Lights - Mysterious Flashes

The aforementioned retired school teacher also recalled a three-
night period when mysterious lights appeared in the evening sky
above the PEA football stadium. She said each night a number of
Exonians, herself included, sojourned across the fields to
observe the "dancing lights."

Mysterious flashes in Exeter's night skies are part of the area
phenomena. UFO Roundup's Internet site, in 1997, recorded two
reports of a mysterious blindingly bright blue flash that
lighted the sky over the town. Both sightings were in the same
vicinity, one seen in November, the other in December. The cases
were investigated by MUFON NH, according to Geremia.

UFOs

In addition to the glowing orb, Andrew Ulery has also seen two
UFO crafts. One was a large triangular UFO, which came over the
ancient chestnut trees at the head of the PEA pathway and
traveled over his head at the High Street/Portsmouth Avenue
intersection. The craft "came low and slow" and "veered" toward
the former Globe store where it disappeared from sight. People
in other cars saw it too, he said.

Ulery's other sighting was with his dad, on Route 150 near Great
Meadows, not far from where the original 1965 "incident"
occurred. He described this craft as cigar-shaped.

A cigar-shaped UFO was also sighted in Exeter in July 2005, by a
man referred to only as "David" by Exeter News-Letter's Adam
Dolge. According to Dolge's account, "David" was a retired Navy
chief petty officer, a former flight engineer with more than
10,000 hours of flight experience. At about 3 p.m. on July 20,
David went out to mow his lawn and there in the sky was a silver
cigar-shaped object, roughly the size of two aircraft carriers.
David watched as the UFO changed color to an orange-red, before
stretching to twice its original size and disappearing.

A woman from East Kingston told the Exeter News-Letter she saw
the same object on July 25. She said it was pill-shaped with
dark spots and was in the air for about 30 seconds before
mimicking the expansion mode observed by David and disappearing.

According to Kathy Marden, alien abduction researcher and co-
 author of Captured, the generalized Exeter geographical
quadrant is an historically active area for UFO sightings.
Marden's aunt, the late Betty Hill, believed there was a UFO
window in this vicinity.

Marden said her aunt sighted UFOs on nearby Sanborn Hill and
Giles Road in East Kingston. She said there have been many
sightings in Brentwood and toward the Fremont town line. A
couple also sighted a UFO off Court Street in Exeter, not far
from PEA, she said.

During the 1970s, Exeter experienced its second UFO "flap,"
jargon for a period of UFO sightings. It was within this time
frame that the Exeter teacher left downtown Exeter one evening
and headed along the Newmarket Road toward home. Following the
Squamscott River, she had almost reached the narrow railroad
trestle bridge near the town forest when between the trestle and
the river loomed a large UFO, about the distance of two football
fields away. She described it as "very big and very bright with
a round bottom," and said it was "both exciting and scary." She
rushed home and retrieved her husband, but when they returned to
the location the craft was gone.

Politicians And UFOs

During the presidential primary season Congressman Dennis
Kucinich stopped for a nosh at the Blue Moon Market and Green
Earth Caf=E9, related manager Meadow Ulery. Kucinich, who
personally experienced a close encounter, is well aware of
Exeter's fame as a UFO window.

In her newest book, Shirley MacLaine described Kucinich's
encounter (which occurred at her home) with a "gigantic
triangular craft, silent, and observing him." She wrote that
Kucinich found the experience "extremely moving" and that "he
felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his
mind."

The late Tim Russert questioned Kucinich about his UFO sighting.
Kucinich confirmed the account and flipped back, -=A6I'm also
going to move my campaign office to Roswell, N.M., and another
one in Exeter, N.H."

At a town meeting in Exeter's old Town Hall, former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani fielded a question from a young boy,
who asked, "If something's living on another planet and it's bad
and it comes over here, what would you do?" Giuliani responded,
"Of all the things that can happen in this world, we'll be
prepared for that, yes we will. We'll be prepared for anything
that happens."

An Exeter UFO Window?

It's raining. Andrew Ulery, who said he was a friend of the late
Norman Muscarello, the catalyst of "The Incident at Exeter,"
opens his new umbrella ...; new to Ulery since Barack Obama left
it during a snow storm on a visit to the Loaf and Ladle. Ulery
steps out into the misty night. A short walk down street sits
the old Town Hall where Giuliani strode upon the hardwood floor
proclaiming if they come, we will be ready. Beneath him is the
space formerly occupied by the Exeter Police Department, where
four decades ago Officer Reginald "Scratch" Toland lighted a
cigarette for a distraught Muscarello, who was excitedly telling
him they had already arrived.



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