My area of East Central Indiana in the United States is right under the Wright Patterson AFB (Air Force Base) radar at Dayton, Ohio located 50 miles east. Two major waves of UFOs hit our quiet little towns in a rolling hills landscape. These waves came in 1966-1967 and 1973. Otherwise scattered events occurred. The peaks seem to come in the fall of 1966 and 1973.

I was comparatively young then but I was severely taxed trying to keep up with all that was going on. But I wouldn't have wanted to miss this super adventure and incredible contest with my opponent for anything.

In a way I won because I was able to mount all their inroads on a display in the end. I nailed them to a data board. Except for me they would have gotten away with it all for the local papers carried very little of it. But it did feature me once in the headlines and that propelled me into the fantastic game for then many knew who to call to come and learn what had happened.

Of course there were prices I paid. The price of taking so much time away from my two now deceased precious wives is the one that still fills me with regret sometimes. But someone had to take up the challenge, and I, of English ancestry, and lover of a good mystery, could not resist.

Another price I paid was becoming the town character and thought off in my upper belfry by those who of course knew not a thing about what they were judging. I recall one businessman accosting me and saying, "Well, Worley, when do you think you will get to go for space ride?"

I replied, "Oh, I don't know, but when I do, I hope it is with a blonde space girl."

Let's return now to the fabulous exciting days when these cunning night intruders materialized in our midst. I must omit some things in the interest of space but I will describe the important events and attempt to give you some answers on why I believe they came. On an August afternoon in 1966 Bobby, Tina, and Gale Johnson were playing outside. A large bright star they were looking at suddenly became a large domed disc near the barn. A high pitched whirring sent Tina scurrying to the house.

Suddenly two big doors opened in the disc and a beam shot down toward State Road 44 one block distant. Coming back in the cut off edge of the beam was what appeared to be an auto. The auto was taken in by the UFO. Tina was in the driveway and as she looked up, amazed by it all, she saw two dark and scaly alien beings at the edge of the transparent dome.

The aliens had big red eyes. Bobby didn't see this because he was under some trees and distracted by the way his cat reacted and fell out of the tree. The UFO zipped away. No autos were missing from my area. I am sure that this was an abduction and the auto and person or persons in it were some time later again placed on the highway and except for some missing time, were none the wiser. Nowadays, a victim is obtained in their bedroom, but in those early days, there was sometimes auto levitation.

On an early fall morning in 1966, two paper boys sat on their bikes at the end of John Street. in East Connersville and watched a large curved topped UFO object with pulsating lights on its underside as it sat some distance toward the Whitewater River. There was the smell of sulphur in the air and a high pitched whirring.

On the morning before, one boy had seen the lights south down by a transformer bank not far from the State Police Post. He thought it was new lights installed there. When these boys two heard what sounded like something walking in the dark stubble field, they fled up the street nearly smoking their tires. Passing papers fast the hurried home and told their parents who thought they were imagining things.

That evening, one boy returned and found three cone shaped holes impressed in the ground and a pile of reddish soil-like material. I later came on the scene to investigate and document all this.

The three holes were tapered down about eight feet apart. They were eight inches deep, seven inches at top and one inch at bottom with circular ridges in the sides. The pile which soon appeared a normal soil color was off to one side of the holes. Over the years there have been many landings in the USA leaving a variety of burns, holes, materials, and fluids all common earthly substances.

We just do not know what the purpose of this is. In some instances, alien occupants have been seen. So why did this UFO land there in the city limits two times in the night? Not to look at the State Police Post or the transformers we can be sure. No, it was on another one of those abduction missions.

An abductee is very important in the fulfilling of the widespread ceaseless effort we call alien abduction. One can speculate that the abductee lived on John Street and in all probability noticed some strange things but never had a clue about what happened. In this same time period we had other sightings in this area.

In October 1966 things really broke loose. Repeated hovering near a relay tower in Rush County, the low flight of a disc with a blue glowing dome projecting a beam on the ground caused people to hide and a herd of cattle to stampede. The UFO went over parts of two counties and over the Little Charm Motel. The owner soon put up a sign, "Saucer Pilots Welcome."

One night a group of CB (Citizens Band) radio owners had a wild night chasing a small disc that kept hovering low over corn fields. Once two glowing discs zoomed in front of some C'Bers (citizen band radio users) auto on the bridge north of Laurel. It was about this time that a Mrs. Saxon near Arlington looked up into the eyes of a large alien figure in a ball shaped UFO that had a large ring around it.

In Union County some raccoon hunters spooked a hovering UFO by flashing their big light at it. In 3 seconds it was down to a glowing fire coal going away.

Meanwhile behind the Airway Department in Richmond, a UFO was seen hovering in the darkness just off the blacktop road. It was December -- Early Christmas shopping?

In 1967, a strange UFO hovered up the hill from her home on State Road 121 south of Connersville. I learned that prior to this years ago, with another husband, a UFO had landed in their pasture and just sat there for some time, or so she thought.

Of course the UFO was doing more than that. It was from ex-sheriff Jim Caldwell that I got more interesting information on this abductee. He and his deputies were called to her home near Null town and found a very frightened lady. A giant ape-like creature (the paraphysical Big Foot) had approached her back door. She stepped out and unloaded a pistol into it. It was so close she didn't miss. It just stood there looking at her.

She fled into the house and when she dared to look back outside, it was gone. Up on the road nearby her large dog was found dead. A heavy tree limb had been driven into the dog's mouth all the way down into its intestines. When I did a TV show on the Para-apes in Indiana this is one detail we just did not mention.

On a cold winter night in 1976, my loved ones watched a UFO closely out by the Visteon Plant. I missed it because - you guessed it - I was home making all the sighting reports for the research organizations I belonged to. On a starlit cold winter night in 1968 down by the Boy Scout Sanctuary, three ladies of the Haytown Hill Church of God ran out of bibles. Two beautiful orange glowing Saturn-type UFOs (with a ring around the middle) made a low flight approach to their home. One UFO seemed to come down in the woods across the road from their house, but I found no signs it had landed there.

The other UFO which was as big as a large sized house, moved slowly over their home and they felt like they were caught in a pincers movement. The women were extremely frightened and grabbed bibles.

The woman without a bible was as white as the refrigerator she stood next to and became incoherent. Finally both brilliant UFOs moved away to the southwest.

I do now suspect more happened than the women realized, for the aliens do nothing idly. In those days I had not learned the extent of abduction and the right questions one can employ to discover the truth about what happened.

The year 1973 and especially in the fall, our area was to see another banner year of UFO activity much like the 1966 fall peak. A number of D&M Manufacturing employees on an evening break on the west side of their building, were treated to the sight of a big disc coming from the northeast. It appeared to land or go over the Federal Explosive Test facility on the nearby hill. I was denied entrance to the Federal facility to look for landing indications.

Later, there were sightings over Connersville, Indiana of a disc having a tri-sectioned bottom. This fact was not mentioned in the local paper until the third sighting of it in a 15 day period. One witness swore it had three green doors.