Encounter At Buff Ledge

Encounter At Buff Ledge

Date: August 7, 1968

Location: Buff Ledge Camp, VT

A valid account of the alien abduction of 2 teenage counselors comes to us from the state of Vermont.

4 UFOs would appear in daylight over the lake of Buff Ledge Camp, making baffling maneuvers with the lightness of a falling leaf.

The strange encounter began for 16 year old Michael Lapp, maintenance man for the camp, 19 year old Janet Cornell, water ski instructor.

The camp was located north of Burlington on Lake Champlain. The pair were taking a break on a boat dock.

The camp was sparsely inhabited because the swimming team had gone to Burlington for a meet.

In the later part of the afternoon, Michael & Janet were simply enjoying the view of the setting sun, when a bright light appeared.

Was this light an extraordinary view of Venus? Or something else?

Their question would soon be answered as the source of the light began to drop down toward the friends.

As the object drew closer, the shape became more clear, it was a saucer shape.

Michael remarked:

Wow, Venus is falling.

But he knew better. The lone light now dropped 3 smaller lights from it and they immediately soared over the lake. The larger object soon disappeared from sight.

It was obvious the objects were being intelligently controlled.

The disks seemed to perform for the mesmerized teenagers, doing zigzags, loops, and then would suddenly drop like a falling leaf.

Now, the disks moved ever closer to the pair. The disks formed a triangle formation, and then two of them pulled away, leaving just one out front.

Later, Michael would recall hearing something that sounded like a thousand tuning forks, as the 2 remaining disks pulled back. The last disk then passed right over them, shot upward and briefly disappeared.

Soon, it would reappear, tilted to one side, then drop straight into the lake.

After a time, it would emerge from the lake, and then begin moving directly toward both teens. The disk was so close now that two beings could be seen through the transparent cupola of the disk.

The beings appeared child like. According to Michael, their necks were elongated, they had big heads for their body size. They had no hair, but large eyes which wrapped around the side of their heads. He thought that he was in mental contact with the beings.

For some odd reason, as Michael watched the aliens, he slapped his knee. One alien did likewise.

The disk was now directly over their heads, as it shot a beam at the pair.

Michael grabbed Janet's shoulder and pulled back, landing both of them on the deck on their backs. He then was terrified of being taken, and screamed:

We don't want to go.

The next thing Michael recalled was sitting on the dock and gazing at the object, which was now farther away from them.

Janet seemed to just sit in a trance.

It was now totally dark.

Soon, they heard members of the swim team talking as they made their way back into the camp.

The disk moved higher up into the sky. It flashed its lights a number of times, and then disappeared.

Michael wondered, how long have we been here?

Nothing would be said about what happened that late afternoon.

When summer camp ended, the pair went their separate ways.

Michael rarely thought about his experience for the next 5 years, but as time went by, he began to have disturbing dreams.

10 years after Michael's experience, he decided to contact the Center for UFO Studies.

He was referred to investigator Walter Webb. After becoming familiar with the details of the case, Webb suggested regressive hypnosis to relieve Michael's nightmares, and hopefully regain his lost memories.

The sessions brought back the events of the late afternoon experience at Buff Ledge. But now, he recalled being lifted by a beam into the waiting disk, and going into a larger UFO. He also remembered Janet lying on an examination table.

The beings shone a light into her eyes, took skin samples, and fluids from her body.

he aliens all looked alike, Michael recalled, and had those large eyes, a mouth without lips, no ears, and 2 small openings for a nose.

Michael also described the beings as having 3 pointed, web like digits for fingers, and their bodies felt damp and clammy.

Michael recalls the aliens wanted life on our planet to be like theirs, without violence.

Janet, would also be regressed. Her recalled memories would only strengthen the case of alien abduction.

She recalled the coldness of the table. Something had pulled her hair, and pinched her neck.

There was no disharmony in Michael and Janet's statements.

Webb also conducted an investigation outside the boundaries of regressive hypnosis. He was able to find other members of Buff Ledge that had witnessed strange lights over Lake Champlain on the same night as Michael and Janet's abduction.

2 other members of the camp also claimed to have been abducted after seeing strange lights, but earlier in the summer.

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