Monday, April 18, 1933
Daily Nebraskan
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Interest in tiie subject became
widespread during the 1920s and 1930s
when a journalist named Charles Fort
wrote four books on "damned facts" -those
that science wouldn't record. The
first organization was formed in 1937,
disbanded in the 1950s and reorgainzed in
1965, Bouche said. Originally in New
York, the International Fonian
Organization is now located in Washington.
Bouche is state sectional director for the
Mutual UFO Network in Texas.
The unexplained does not deal simply
with UFOs,and different groups
specialize in different areas, he said.
Cryto-zoology studies the existence of
species of animals not recorded - the
Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, or that
fish Bouche heard about 18 years ago.
Psychic phenomena includes investigating
and testing claims of psychic ability,
haunting, poltergeist activities or telepathy.
Another area ot the unexplained is
animal mutilation. Research began in late
1 973 after a series of cattle mutilations in
the Midwest. Cattle had been mutilated in
such a way that no known predator could
have done it, Bouch said. The cuts on the
animals are often surgical-like, and certain
organs or parts of the hide are removed, he
said.
"In some cases it goes beyond what
seems possible with current technology,"
Bouch said. There was a cow in Wyoming,
he said, that had had its rectum and
vulva removed, and autopsy revealed that
the heart had been removed without
cutting the tissue sack that surrounds it.
Theories about who or what has
mutilated the animals differ greatly, and
none can apply to all the reported cases,
he said. Some say it was done by predators,
others that it was the work of a satanic
cult. One theory says it could be the work
of mining companies looking for traces of
minerals in the animals' blood, to see if
the land is worth mining. Others theorize
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weaponry and chemical warfare, and some
say alien beings are responsible, Bouch
said.
Yet another type of study is called
Fortain phenomena. This is a catch-all
term that covers everything else, Bouch
said. An example is the rather common
occurance of objects such as fish, frogs or
mushroom spores falling out of the sky
from nowhere, he said.
The Nebraska Association has explored
all the areas of the unexplained. They
have checked into a lot of UFO sightings
and reports of phantom cats, he said.
Phantom cats look like black mountain
lions that appear and disappear suddenly,
but leave tracks, he said.
Most UFO sightings are lights in a night
sky, and about 90 percent can be identified
as normal objects that were misidentified,
Bouche said, in the 10 percent that are
unidentifiable, it is important to have
"qualified observers, ' such as law
enforcement officers, he said.
Last December, there was a really
unusual case outside Nebraska City,
Bouche said. A family spotted a large
purplish-pink glowing object that moved
across their pasture to the yard of their
neighbors, who also reported
seeing it, Bouche said. Then three different
law officers saw a Hashing light moving
north in the sky. One reported it sounded
like a helicopter, one that it was a biplane,
and one reported just a flashing light. Then
there was a flash of light seen over five
counties, he said.
It was a quality sighting, he said,
because there were radar operators on duty
who reported nothing tracked on the radar
at the time.
Bouche said the group is trying to
establish themselves with the law enforce
ment officers in Nebraska so they can refer
cases to the association that they do not
want to investigate, or tell the association
about anything reported.
The group is also planning a conference
lor November 1 1 through 13. It will be
the group's second conference. It will
include 10 speakers, Roy Mackall.a
biologist who studies crypto-zoology and
has organized trips to the Congo to
look tor alleged dinosaurs that have
survived unnoticed, and Linda Howell, a
researcher and TV reporter who won a
local Emmy for her documentary on cattle
mutilation, Bouche said.
Bouche said he thinks that as time goes
by and more serious work is done on the
unexplained, a theory will have to be
presented that shows an interrelationship
between all the types of unexplained
phenomena. Part of the problem, he said,
is that a lot of the explanations that
science comes up with now are really
harder to swallow than the wildest
explanation.
"Scientists seem to be locked into a
scientific paradigm of sorts - the way
the whole realm of science is perceived
today," he said. They will not accept
anything that would alter existing
knowledge, he said, because they don't
want to change their way of thinking.
People fear phenomena like this because
they don't understand it, Bouche said.
"Personally, it doesn't bother me,"
he said. "I'm intrigued by it."
"Actually," he said, "thinking about
that, it does get a little spooky."
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