Jack Of All Trades

Jack Of All Trades

Date: 1952

Location: Windsor Hills, CA

In 1952, Reverend Albert Baller was leading Greenfield's Robbin Memorial Church when he had an experience he couldn't explain taking the train one beautiful day.

The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena, NICAP, is an unidentified flying object, UFO, research group most active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s.

It was an exceptionally beautiful day at Greenfield, MA., no clouds, and the sky was a cobalt blue, and no wind.

At 3:00 p.m., I boarded the New York train at the Greenfield station, took a seat away from the station, and near a window opening onto a vast expanse of sky to the North and East.

A minute or so afterward, my attention was drawn to the sky by a sharp flash of light about 35° or more above the horizon.

Looking carefully toward this flash, I was quite astonished to see 3 perfectly circular silver objects approaching in V formation.

Baller's experience, I'm guessing here, must have left him curious, because a couple of months later he would write to the Recorder in May of 1952 asking his friends and neighbors to tell him about their own experiences.

He notes, in the past months, there have been several of these events in town, and he wanted to document them, over the next several years, people in and around the valley would oblige.

Baller would go on to serve as a board member of the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena, NICAP, which is a research group that focused on exploring these incidents most actively from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Over time, many of these UFO visitations would be explained away as weather balloons and other understandable phenomena, but mystery remains.

This is one way to this story, but there are others, the truth, as Fox Mulder reminds us, is out there.

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