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Mysterious Skin Infection
"...Ufologist Jerome Clark uncovered an
extraordinary item from an old 1939 newspaper.
'On a day in the late summer, 1939, a military
transport left the Marine Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, for
routine flight to Honolulu,' Clark wrote in FLYING SAUCER REVIEW. 'About three
hours afterwards several urgent distress signals sounded from the plane and then
silence. Later the craft came limping back to execute an emergency landing. When
Air Station personnel entered the plane, they found every man of the crew,
including the copilot who had lived long enough to pilot the craft back to its
base, dead of unknown causes (researcher Charles Berlitz related elsewhere that
they had been mutilated - Branton).
Keel continues quoting from the old article:
"Each of the bodies carried large, gaping wounds, and the outside of the
ship was similarly marked. Air Station men who touched parts of the craft came
down with a mysterious skin infection.
"One of the most puzzling aspects of the
whole affair was that the .45 automatics carried by the pilot and copilot as
service pieces HAD BEEN EMPTIED, AND THE SHELLS LAY ON THE FLOOR. A smell of
rotten eggs pervaded the atmosphere inside the plane... Mysterious skin
infections and rotten egg odors (hydrogen sulfide) are phenomena familiar to all
UFO researchers. It would seem that the transport was attacked -- apparently
without provocation -- by some sort of strange aerial intruder."
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