by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear
In last week’s blog, we began looking at documents that provide a behind the scenes look at the rivalry between the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization and the Mutual UFO Network. APRO was founded in 1952 by Coral and Jim Lorenzen and MUFON was founded in 1969 by members who split off from APRO amidst bad feelings. Things came to a head during the investigation of the 1981 Cash-Landrum incident. As it was reported to have taken place in Huffman, Texas, APRO handed the case over to the director of the Houston-based Vehicle Internal Systems Investigative Team, John Schuessler, who was also the deputy director of MUFON. Coral wrote an article one and a half years after the reported incident that was published in the June 1982 Vol 30, No. 6 APRO Bulletin headlined “Rumors Permeate Cash-Landrum Case” wherein she claimed to know that what witnesses Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum saw was a “U.S. experimental aircraft.” She also insinuated that Schuessler, MUFON director Walt Andrus, and former Project Blue Book consultant and founding director of the Center for UFO Studies J. Allen Hynek were part of a cover-up as they all had ties to various government organizations. Schuessler responded with a five-page letter to Jim Lorenzen defending himself and pleaded that if APRO had real knowledge of what it was the witnesses saw, he should share it as all three witnesses, particularly Betty Cash, seemed to have suffered the effects of radiation poisoning. This week, we’ll begin with Coral’s response. Read more
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BIO: Daniel Alan Jones is an investigative reporter for The Vortex, a show that explores the mysteries of the world and beyond. He has been researching unexplained phenomena for over a decade and has visited strange sites, conducted numerous interviews, and provided media coverage for several events. Daniel manages online groups including the Texas UFO Network and the Texas Cryptozoology Network. He is a native Texan and professional drummer as well as a private music instructor in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Daniel focuses primarily on the fields of ufology and cryptozoology as an ethnographic study in cultural anthropology. He was part of the 2021 Trinity Giant Salamander Expedition, led by world-renowned cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard, in search of an elusive cryptid purported to exist in the Pacific Northwest while also exploring the Patterson-Gimlin film site in Bluff Creek, California. Daniel’s work has appeared on a variety of media platforms including Spectrum News, the Star-Telegram, Bigfoot Times, Fox News, the Roswell Daily Record, and he has been involved with many events including the Texas Bigfoot Conference, Alien Con, the Edinburg UFO Conference, Bigfoot Roadshow, the MUFON Symposium, Texas UFOcon, the Oklahoma Bigfoot Symposium, the Roswell UFO Festival, and others. His current research project “Aurora” chronicles over a century of history about the facts, fiction, and folklore from a Texas legend from 1897!
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