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by
Bryan Peterson
Shiny steel orbs, three brilliant rings of light
UFOs observed in Nebraska skies
There has been a recent lull
in reported UFO sightings
in the Lincoln area, although
sightings and even abductions
continue to be reported, according
to local UFO researcher Scott Col
born.
Colborn is involved with several
groups which coordinate UFO re
search and investigate claims of
UFO sightings.
One of Colborn’s projects in
volves the coordination of a 10
person support group for people
who have had UFO experiences,
whether recent or in the past. Those
10 are “just the lip of the iceberg,”
according to Colborn.
“Last year, there were about six
reports of UFO activity in Nebraska,"
Colborn said.
Walter H. Andrus Jr., interna
tional director of the research group
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
located in Scguin, Texas, said most
UFO sightings in Nebraska are
reported in the eastern part of the
state.
Colborn said one woman in the
support group claims to have been
abducted by beings from UFOs 10
to 12 times. The abductors some
times take a “continuing interest”
in certain people, and sometimes
the subsequent abductions are
partially remembered, he said.
Colborn witnessed a UFO in
197-1 while sitting on his parents’
patio in south-central Lincoln.
Colborn and his father were
facing north on an August evening
when they noticed a “bright, round
object like an enlarged,stainless
steel ball.”
The unlit object was flying south
to north at a low aJtilude. It made
no sound and left no exhaust trail,
moving against the breeze with a
stable, forward motion.
Colborn and his father were
joined by his mother and girlfriend.
The four all watched tne object
disappear over a stand of trees.
They compared notes afterward
about what each had seen, and the
accounts all were similar. "I knew I
had seen something,’’ Colborn said.
lie had previously read a few
books about UFOs, but that was
“only a passing interest.” After the
sighting, Colborn was very curious
about the object and sought an
explanation.
“It could very well have been
something besides what I thought
it was,”hcsaid. Colborn later called
the police and found that no one
else had reported seeing the ob
ject.
The National Weather Service
told Colborn that no weather bal
loons had been in the area at the
time of the sighting and that there
had been no unusual atmospheric
phenomena.
A call to the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln astronomy depart
ment rejected the idea that a satel
lite might have been flying low
overhead. When he called Strategic
Air Command at Offut Air Force
Bascin Bellevue,Colborn wastold,
“Project Bluebook was closed in
1969 The Air Force has no further
interest in UFOs.”
Colborn also called the local
control tower and was told that no
planes had been flying in that area
at the time of his sighting. More
over, he was told that planes fly
over Lincoln in the opposite direc
tion, from east to west or the re
verse.
Concluding that he had seen a
UFO, Colborn began to do a lot of
reading about UFO sightings. He
said it became a long-time interest
which led to his assistant (and later
full) directorship of the Fortean
Research Center, P.O. Box 94627
Lincoln, Neb. 68509, an organiza
tion which researches claims of
UFO sightings and other unex
plained phenomena.
Seward resident Bill Bivin said
he saw a UFO one spring evening
about 35 years ago while walking
home alone from a movie.
“I just saw a series of three rings
flying in formation,” he said. “They
were flying across the sky in a
triangular formation, not moving
fast. 1 watched for a while and then
went home and drew a picture.”
Bivin carried that picture in his
wallet for 20 years and then threw
it out one day while cleaning his
wallet.
11is parents were not too excited
when hetold them abouttheevent,
Bivin said. "I told mv friends, but I
don’t think they believed me.”
”1 was not scared. It was kind of
neat, something unusual,” said Bivin.
“I have always thought there was
some sort of intelligent life else
where in the universe.”
Bivin’s life and beliefs went
through no great change, but he
said maybe ne should nave kept
his drawing of the UFO.
“If it happened again, I would
probably watch again and draw
another picture," he said.
Dale Bacon, who hosts the
KZUM talk show “F'xploring
Unexplained Phenomena”
with Colborn, described some pat
terns in local reports of UFO sight
ings.
He said that circles, Satum-shapes
and cigar shapes arc common de
scriptions. There also is the
“Aaamsky” shape, something like
an inverted hubcap with a can on
top, taken from the TV show “The
Invaders,” he said.
“The most common description
is a ball moving at incredible speed,
turning at 90-degree angles - things
that airplanes and helicopters can
not do. They are accompanied by a
lack of sound and the presence of
rays of light,” Bacon said.
Circular impressions in the
ground arc sometimes found. “They
defy explanation,” Bacon said. “Not
that there is none, but it hasn’t
been found.”
Some people see only one craft,
while others report seeing three of
four in formation. Bacon saidsome
people also report seeing several
smaller crafts joining with a larger
one.
Colborn said the historical ap
proach to UFO reporting is chang
ing. “In the ’60s and ’70s,objects
were seen and there were some
rcportsof non-human beings,’’said
Colborn. “It was a big leap to asso
ciate these objects with other beings.
“In the ’80s and ’90s,there has
been more evidence to suggest
contact and abduction, which is
my primary interest as a UFO re
searcher,” Colborn said. "UFO
abductions are taking place here in
Lincoln.”
A common theme in claims of
abduction is a missing time cle
ment in travel, when a journey
takes hours longer than it should,
said Colborn.
Colborn described a typical
abduction report: A person issleep
ing in bed and wakes up with
someone or something else in the 1
room. The being comes to the bed !
and touches the person.
The person then finds himself or
herself back in bed after two to ;
three hours have passed, perhaps I
with dirt or sand on the feet and an <
inordinate fatigue.
“There is sometimes partial re
call. They can remember bang taken I
from the bedroom to another lo
cale. The beings are clinical and do <
not display emotion. They may try
to relieve the pain or allay the fear
of the abductee,” Colborn said.
Bacon also described common
ex pericnces reported by those who
claim to have seen UFOs, drawing
on prior work at the Fortean Re
search Center and continuing ef
forts as co-host of the KZUM show.
“1 hey are often shaken up for a
while, but it later becomes some
thing to look back upon and tell
friends,” Bacon said. “They may
think their life has been drastically
altered, but two or three years later,
there havo been no great changes
in their avcs.”
Bacon said other people are
radically changed and become “UFO
believers.” People often are filled
with a sense of “we’re not the only
ones in the universe,” he said.
Bacon went on to describe re
ported sightings of beings from
UFOs, saying “There have been a
large number of abduction cases
recently, although that is not as
prominent in Lincoln as elsewhere.
It borders on the fringe.”
‘‘There is variation in the de
scriptions,” he said. “Contact is most
commonly reported with ‘greys,’
who are three to four feet tail with
large heads and eyes and single
piece body suits.”
Another common category is the
‘bug” type, which resembles an
nsect on two feet, Bacon said. Less
requently, people claim contact
with beings that look "just like us."
With background in psychology
ind communications, Bacon says
le has a "feel” for judging the
iinccrity or inventiveness of those
who report UFO sightings.
"Do they exist? I don’t know,
)ul I am not so vain as to think our
slanct is the only one to
support life," Bacon said.
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