by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear
According to his letter sent to “several people who’ve shown a particular interest in our UFO experiences,” on March 20, 1988, John Salter Jr., 54, and his almost 23-year-old son, John Salter III, set off for from their home in Grand Forks, North Dakota, headed for Mississippi and “ultimately New Orleans.” Along the way, as they were travelling between LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and Dubuque, Iowa, they experienced two episodes where they found themselves unable to remember long stretches of road they had just travelled on. After spending the night in Bettendorf, Iowa, and having breakfast in Peoria, Illinois, on March 21st at 10:14 a.m., they were confronted by a saucer-shaped UFO with a dome on top that came towards them and flew over them. Starting in June, Salter Jr. began to have dreams that developed into conscious recall of an encounter with humanoid creatures, several that were around 4 ½ feet tall and one that was around 6 feet tall, that took them onboard a craft. He says he recalled falling backwards on the way to the craft and being cushioned by what might have been telekinesis. He remembered being examined, injected in the neck and chest, and having an object inserted through his right nostril up into his sinus cavity. He describes his son being examined with a flashlight-like device with a soft head that was moved along his face with special attention being given to his jaw and chin. Salter III began recalling similar events starting in November.
John R. Salter Jr. had been a civil rights activist since the 1950s, and he was headed to New Orleans to present a paper titled “Civil Rights and Self-Defense” at an annual gathering. At the time, he was chair of American Indian Studies (his father was Micmac/Abenaki/Mohawk) at the University of North Dakota. Read more
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