My friend Stanley Ingram, a former judge, city manager, news column writer, is dead. But he and his incredible struggle with the aliens will never be forgotten. In the end, bankrupt, ridiculed, and disillusioned, he died of a heart attack. I have preserved a large quantity of data on his situation (letters, photos, drawings) over the years 1973 to 1976 in rural south-central Tennessee.

It all began when Stanley and his daughter Becky began to watch UFOs from fire towers in the region. At school one day, a jumbled voice began to come in the daughter's head. She was very upset and sought her father's help. Later, when the voice became clear, it urged her to come to the football field. Finally one day she gave into it and at the field suddenly found herself inside a brightly lit UFO.

This was the first of a series of mental summons to the craft where ever it landed. Another local man named David Swanner was also affected in a similar fashion. Stanley himself was never abducted but through these persons, the struggle between him and the aliens ensued. His efforts to understand and cope with it all would end in final defeat.

At first Stanley thought the aliens might be good but the arrival of the MIB convinced him they were not. The two beings that Becky met in the UFO called themselves "Alton and Tombo," and said they were from the planet "Plantos." They wore off-white stick on suits, rolled-edged stocking hats from which a little blonde hair showed, and pointed shoes. They were about 4 1/2 feet tall, had thin necks, small eyes, and noses, and pointed faces.

At home after the event at the field Becky had nausea, headache, thirst, frequent urination, and great sleepiness. She recovered after three months under a physician's care. Later an uncouth New York writer wrote that Becky was having fun having sex with little aliens and was no longer a virgin.

With regard to David Swanner's case, the oriental MIB came in June 1974, when they stopped his car in an alley the second time. They showed him a briefcase supposedly containing $500,000 for the propulsion formula that he had been allowed to copy on the UFO. Stanley had the formula in his safe.

This was the start of several different games the aliens played with Stanley. Amazed and afraid, Swanner sped off in a cloud of dust. The three figures were in a late model black Cadillac three seated auto bearing California license plates. No one was ever able to get the long number.

The beings had big round dark complexioned oriental faces with piercing eyes. All were heavy-set in build, looked about 30 or 40 years old, with thick black hair in the style of "pre-crew cut" years. They wore black suits, white shirts, and black ties. Their voices had a Chinese accent pitched low and gruff, and they spoke in a normal unexcited tempo.

On August 2, 1974 Becky parked and ran into a bowling alley to get away from the limousine behind her. On September 23, Swanner bluffed them out with a handful of rocks he had grabbed at the roadside. They backed up and left.