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Cash-Landrum incident

The Cash-Landrum Incident is a reportedhands left a permanent imprint that later
Unidentified Flying Object sighting theserved as the most crucial evidence that all
witnesses insist was responsible for damagethis had really happened. Cash turned on the
to their health. It might be classified as aair conditioning to cool the car, but the air
Close Encounter of the Second Kind, due togrew so hot that their faces seemed to be on
its reported physical effects on thefire.
witnesses.
Finally, the object hovered higher in the
Incidentsky. As it ascended over the treetops, about
23 helicopters surrounded it. Some of them
At about 9:00pm on the evening of Decemberwhere double-rotor Chinooks similar to those
29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum andused by military forces around the world
Colby Landrum (Vickie's grandson) were(several others would later state they too
driving near Dayton, Texas when out ofhad seen Chinook-type helicopters at roughly
seemingly nowhere, a huge diamond-shapedthe same time and place.) Even though the
object hovered nearly level to the treetops.heat and terror of the situation was
The object began moving straight toward theovertaking her, Cash could clearly see the
trio. The object's base was expelling flame,markings on the sides of the helicopters. The
and generated significant heat. Cash laterletters  read  United  States  Air  Force.
told investigators that it was in similar
size to that of a water tower and "lit up theAllegedly, the UFO had also blasted the road,
entire  sky".leading to claims in which the road surface,
surrounding area was removed, resurfaced,
Based on descriptions given in John F.ostensibly  to  remove  radioactive material.
Schuessler's book on the incident, it appears
that the observers were traveling south onAftermath
the Texas roads FM 1485/2100. The initial
location of the reported object, based on theHealth  problems
same descriptions, was just south of Inland
Road,  approximately  at 30.0926 N, 95.1109 WAfter the UFO and helicopters left, Cash took
the Landrums home, then retired for the
Vickie, a born again Christian, revealed thatevening. That night, they all experienced
she initially interpreted the object as asimilar symptoms, though Cash to a greater
sign  of  the  second  coming  of  Jesus.degree: All suffered from nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea, weakness, and felt as though they'd
As the object blocked the road, Cash stoppedsuffered sunburns. Many blisters appeared on
car and observed it. Cash and Landrum got outCash's skin, and doctors concluded that Cash
of the car to examine the object. Cash laterwas the victim of radiation poisoning.
told an investigator that when they saw theEventually, she was hospitalized, and had
object close-up they "... thought the end ofsuffered very ill health since sighting the
the world was coming ...". Landrum quicklyobject.
returned to the car, but Cash stood there for
a few minutes, not knowing what to do next.Due to the Chinook helicopters' presence, the
When she finally returned to the car, Cashwitnesses presumed that at least one branch
realized that the heat was so intense thatof the United States Armed Forces had, at the
her fingers were burned when she touched thevery least, witnessed the object. Cash and
door  handle.Landrum, and Cody were interviewed at length
by  personnel  at  Bergstrom Air Force Base.
While all this happened, the object continued
shooting flames in an apparently randomLegal  action
manner. Cash was about to turn the car around
when she realized that it was impossibleThe victims sued the U.S government for $20
since the road was too narrow and themillion but on August 21, 1986, the U.S.
shoulders were dangerously soft. When sheDistrict Court judge dismissed their case, on
suggested flooring the gas and drivingthe grounds that the United States Armed
directly through the object as anForces did not have such an object in their
alternative, Landrum screamed at her that itpossession. The official investigation was
was  too  risky.conducted by Lt. Col. George Sarran who
concluded that "... There was no evidence
For approximately 15 minutes, the trio sat inpresented that would indicate that Army,
the sizzling car and watched helplessly asNational Guard, or Army Reserve helicopters
the object hovered overhead. Colby was cryingwere involved". The lawsuit was to have
and screaming, despite the efforts of hisdetermined if the object was a secret
grandmother. Cash estimated that the objectmilitary  craft  or  a  alien  craft.
was about 130 feet in front of the car. At
one point, the car grew so hot that whenBetty Cash died on December 29, 1998, exactly
Landrum pushed on the plastic dashboard, her18 years after her close encounter.



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