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PART 12
More Christians, UFOs and Hints at a Secret
February 10, 2013
Noah Hutchings
Legendary Broadcaster Noah
Hutchings’ UFO Encounter
Dr. Noah Hutchings, president of Southwest Radio Ministries in
Oklahoma City, has been in Christian broadcasting for more than
sixty years.
He has written over a hundred books and booklets
covering Bible commentary and prophetic topics and has led mission
tours to the continents of Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa,
as well as the Middle East. What many may not know is, like Tom Horn
and Gary Stearman, he, too, is a Christian who witnessed firsthand
what some today call UFOs.
We asked him to send us a short report of
what he saw and when, and he happily replied:
In 1939 I lived with my family on a farm in SE Oklahoma, five miles
south of Hugo, the county seat. At the time I was 15 years old. I
daily rode the school bus at a pick up point about one half mile
east of my home. I would usually cut across a short cut to and from
the bus stop through a semi-wooded pasture.
One evening in, what I remember was October, as I was walking
through the pasture toward my home, the sun was just setting. As I
glanced northward past a grove of trees, an intense bright and
glowing object suddenly ascended over the woods into the sky. About
three seconds later as I watched, another object rose up and
followed the same trajectory, followed by a third object a few
seconds later doing the same. Then all three objects, radiating
orange, white, and blue, lined up to form a triangle in the sky.
I sat down until it was dark and watched waiting to see if they
would move. Later I walked the short distance to my home where my
mother had saved supper for me. After eating, I rushed back to see
if the three objects were still up in the sky, but they were gone.
At the time I was 15 years old, but there are some events in life so
dramatic or beyond the ordinary that you never forget them. This was
one of those incidents.
Years later, in 1942, I was called for Army duty in World War II.
After basic training in Field Artillery Fire Direction I was sent
overseas to New Caledonia for assignment. I was checking out a new
radar to detect and identify all aircraft within fifty miles of our
port. Attached to the radar unit were cables leading to sixteen
anti-aircraft guns that could land a 90 mm shell in the lap of a
Japanese fighter pilot at 12,000 feet.
About half way through World
War II, the Japanese converted all their military aircraft into
Kamikaze planes, and the land based 90s were not effective in
anti-Kamikaze attacks. I was thrown a set of firing tables for the
90s and spent the rest of the war supervising field artillery
operations for the First Calvary Armored Division.
In the 18 months I operated a radar system I kept in mind the three
objects I had seen on a late afternoon in 1939. However, I never
picked up another thing in the sky that I could not identify,
including a pelican that had swallowed a piece of gum from one of
the ships that had been thrown overboard with the garbage. But no
UFOs.
I remain convinced that the three objects I saw suddenly rising
swiftly into the sky in 1939 [were] something beyond the
identification and scientific knowledge of that time, or even
today...
I think we have to consider seriously many of the seemingly
reliable reports of UFO activity today, especially that of five
retired Air force officers [ii] who testified of the problems with
UFOs during their service years.
Whether UFOs are something out of another dimension or angelic
visitors from heavenly places is something that someday will be
determined.
Dr. Walter Martin Had Time to Snap a Picture of the UFO
Broadcaster, debater, and lecturer Dr. Walter Martin was a
recognized Christian apologist who passed away in 1989. He pioneered
organizations in the Christian counterculture movement including the
Christian Research Institute in 1960 for Christian apologetics.
Martin’s colleagues included well-known radio Bible teacher Donald
Grey Barnhouse; noted lawyer, professor, and Lutheran theologian
John Warwick Montgomery; and founder of the Koinonia House ministry
based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dr. Chuck Missler.
But, as with Tom
Horn, Gary Stearman, and Noah Hutchings, most people probably do not
know that the cult-buster also had a UFO encounter. In fact, he and
his partner even had time to take a clear picture of it as it hung
suspended above a seminary.
From a portion of his 1970s UFO
presentation, we transcribed the following short excerpt:
I possess, and it has been printed, the only color picture of a UFO,
taken at an altitude of eight hundred feet, on a clear day in New
Jersey, hovering near a seminary.
And this particular one [the UFO
picture], generally, I blow up on a wall about ten by fifteen feet
so people can see it…and we have blown up large pictures of it… is of
a circular ship with opaque windows circling it. Its dimensions, as
far as we were able to determine, figure about fifty to seventy-five
feet across and at least fifty feet thick. It made no noise
whatsoever; it was bluish-grey in color. It hovered and then lazily
took off, straight up over the mountains.
My assistant took the
picture with a 35-millimeter camera on a clear day. And that picture
was used on the front cover of a national publication as the first
“bonafide UFO sighting, verified by unimpeachable sources.”
After
all, seminary professors would hardly be lying about Unidentified
Flying Objects [sounds of audience laughing]. Particularly since my
assistant who took the picture didn’t believe they existed until he
took the picture.
Now, he is a firm believer in the existence of
Unidentified Flying Objects…
The question in my mind is not “what,” but “who.” I know what they
are. Hynek knows what they are [Dr. Josef Allen Hynek was a United
States astronomer, professor, and lead scientific adviser for UFO
studies undertaken by the US Air Force under Project Sign, Project
Grudge, and Project Blue Book].
The United States government knows
what they are. The Soviet government knows what they are.… They are
some form of extremely sophisticated aircraft, not made by any
government occupying territory on our Earth that we know of…
[Dr.
Martin went on to explain his belief about the “who” that is
piloting UFOs. He concluded they are demonic agents of deception].
The Difference between UFO Sightings and Alien Abduction
Because efforts have been made in some circles to renounce all
unexplainable UFO activity as demonic and/or lump this phenomenon
together with so-called alien abduction, we have listed below the
current evolution of UFO encounter “types” as first developed by J.
Allen Hynek and then revised in succeeding years:
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Close Encounters of the First Kind (CEI) involve “visual”
sightings of an Unidentified Flying Object.
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Close Encounters of the Second Kind (CEII) include visual plus
physical traces such as burned spots on the ground, radiation,
strange markings, or wreckage debris appropriate for investigation.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CEIII) involve sightings of
the UFO “occupants” near the UFO.
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (CEIV) include a human
abducted by a UFO or its occupants (this was not included in Hynek’s
original scale).
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Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (CEV), developed by Steven M.
Greer’s Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI)
group, are described as “joint, bilateral contact events produced
through the conscious, voluntary, and proactive human-initiated or
cooperative communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.”[iv]
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Close Encounters of the Sixth Kind (CEVI) are described as “UFO
incidents that cause direct injury or death.”[v]
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Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind (CEVII) involve abduction
for the purpose of mingling human and extraterrestrial “DNA” to
produce a hybrid.
“Close Encounters of the First Kind” is how we would describe the
testimonies of Tom and Nita Horn, Gary Stearman, Noah Hutchings, and
Walter Martin.
They saw something that appeared to be solid,
operated under what appeared to be intelligent control, yet defied
identification and behaved in ways inconsistent with physical laws
of the universe as we understand them.
The UFOs could have been
good, evil, or neither, but they were extraordinary, whatever they
were.
For Tom Horn, the question over “what” and “who” UFOs and aliens are
began a long time ago.
In fact, it dates back to his childhood. He was not yet a teenager
when his father, Clarence, a Korean War veteran and territory
officer in the state of Arizona, came home one day very excited.
He’d been deer hunting not too far from Snowflake, Arizona. This was
an area that Clarence loved to travel to, if for no other reason
than that the man loved to drive (as anybody who knew him would
testify, especially his kids), including along the Salt River Canyon
into Payson and on up into the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.
He’d stop at every little town along the way, including Show Low, an
early settlement town named after a famous poker player.
On this
particular trip, Clarence had parked in the woods and was on foot,
following an animal trail near Snowflake that he was very familiar
with.
He headed toward a waterhole that antelope, elk, and mule deer
(his target) were known to habit, and that’s when he came across
something that had not been there before: several large,
near-perfect, spherical craters, perhaps twenty feet across and
eight feet deep.
The mysterious cavities were so precise that it
looked as if an enormous, white-hot ball had pushed them into the
rock, and the finish on the walls was sealed so perfectly that
rainwater filled the orbs.
The sides of the holes were slick, not
like they would have been if explosives had been used to create them
(or somehow if gigantic drilling equipment had been lowered by a
military transport helicopter into the remote location without
disturbing the natural habitat or leaving behind signs of commercial
or military activity), and each “pool” contained deer that had
fallen in and drowned while attempting to drink the water.
Clarence took pictures of the obscure holes, had them developed, and
showed them to the family.
Tom remembers being especially impressed.
Clarence also reported the finding to the police department where he
worked and led a representative of the Army Corps of Engineers to
the location. The origin of the puzzling craters was never
determined, including by locals who frequented the area and thought
they had appeared overnight.
The Corps of Engineers also could not
determine how the holes were made or what they could have been for.
The Phoenix Gazette ran an article called “Mysterious Mountain
Holes” about the discovery, reprinting photographs of Clarence
kneeling beside the orbs with his 30-06 hunting rifle, and not long
afterward, the Corps dynamited the pools so they would fill with
rocks and protect the wildlife.
About the same time, Tom’s “crazy”
aunt who lived next door to his family and whom nobody paid
attention to was petrified by what she claimed was a dish-shaped
object hovering above their home.
But as they all knew, she was
“nuts,” so that, for a while, seemed to be the end of the story.
One of the holes Clarence Horn found. Bend in old
picture distorts perfect circular pattern at top.
Officer Clarence Horn in the late ’50s–early ’60s
However, years later, something else happened near the site.
On
November 5, 1975, along the northeastern ridge of the same mountain
range, Travis Walton stepped out of his pick-up to look at a
mysterious, glowing object. While a crew of loggers waited nearby,
Travis approached the UFO and was jolted by a blast of inexplicable
energy.
As his companions fled in terror, Travis was taken aboard
the alien spacecraft and subjected to a variety of physical
examinations. His story, Fire in the Sky, became a motion picture.
It reports what’s considered to be the best documented account of a
UFO abduction ever recorded.
Is Travis Walton’s story true? Was
there a connection between the Walton UFO and the mysterious
mountain holes?
Travis wanted to know, and once gave Horn his
business card in Roswell, New Mexico, and asked him to call. Horn
never did, but now, for the first time ever, Tom will be disclosing
in Exo-Vaticana part of what legendary American radio broadcaster,
Paul Harvey, used to call “the rest of the story.”
Throughout the first two decades of his public ministry, and to the
largest extent since, Tom Horn has held this secret. It involves a
mystery concerning his family that he could neither understand nor
talk about.
What Tom could not have known, of course, was what would
follow his father's discovery: a series of disturbing events in his
family that would crystallize something so preternatural and
improbable that it nearly defied incredulity.
In fact, it would have
been easy for him to dismiss it all as too fantastic to be real...
that is, if it had not been for the detectives, federal employees
and attorneys, a vanished nuclear physicist from Los Alamos, Stephen
Spielberg, and even a recording of their voice and a picture of one
of them that would follow.
[EDITORS NOTE: As Tom said on radio with
Steve Quayle recently, he will not allow us to publish "The
Mysterious Case Of XXXX XXXX" online nor will he discuss it on
radio, but the decades old secret will be documented in the upcoming
book Exo-Vaticana].
References
[i] Noah Hutchings (author of over one hundred Christian books and
president of Southwest Radio Ministries in Oklahoma City since April
1951), in discussion over personal email communication with the
author, Thomas R. Horn, between 2011–2012.
[ii] Clay Dillow, “Former Air Force Officers Claim UFOs Visited
Bases, Tampered with Nukes,” Popular Science, September, 28, 2012,
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-09/former-air-force-officers-claim-ufos-tampered-our-nukes.
[iii] Dr. Walter Martin, “A Christian View: UFO Encounters,” audio
recording, Sermon Audio, last accessed January 15, 2013, http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=2190615720.
This audio sermon was also included as a transcript in the following
book: Dr. Walter Martin, Jill Martin Rische, and Kurt van Gorden,
The Kingdom of the Occult (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc., 2008).
[iv] “Close encounter,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, last
modified January 4, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounter.
[v] Ibid.
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