Pellucidar Notations

Condon Report Demonizes Herb Schirmer UFO Case

CONDON REPORT OFFICIALS COULD NOT BREAK SOLID CONTACT CASE

On December 3, 1967 at 2:30 a.m. near Ashland, Nebraska, Sergeant Herb Schirmer, 22, noticed some red lights along Highway 63. Thinking that it was a stopped truck he approached and directed his high beams on it. Soon he realized it was no truck. Instead it was a disc-shaped object with a shiny, polished aluminum looking surface, and a catwalk that went around it. The red lights, which were blinking, were shining out from windows in the object. The UFO appeared to be a mere 6 to 8 feet above the road and was hovering in the air with a slight tilt. Then the object began to slowly ascend, making a siren kind of noise, and issuing a flame-like display from the underside. Sticking his head out the window Schirmer watched the UFO pass nearly overhead. Then suddenly it shot up and out of sight. Schirmer then got out of the police car and, with a flashlight in hand, inspected the surface of the road where the object had hovered so low to the ground. After this he drove to the police station and wrote in the log book, “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not!” He was puzzled to notice that it was now 3 a.m. as the sighting seemingly lasted no more than ten minutes. As the morning wore on, Schirmer was to suffer a headache, a weird buzzing in his head, and would discover that he had a red welt on his neck. It was about two inches long and half an inch wide and was located on the nerve cord below one of his ears. A few hours later, Chief Bill Wlaskin would visit the alleged encounter site and find a small metallic artifact. Chemical analysis revealed it was composed of iron and silicon. Investigators from the Condon (UFO) project out of the University of Colorado speculated that it was probably ordinary corroded earthly waste. Later, under hypnosis, Schirmer would recall for investigators how humanoid beings, between 4 1/2 to 5 feet tall, escorted him from his car and into the ship, where the leader gave him a tour and explained various things about themselves and their mission on earth. The entities had slightly slanted unblinking catlike eyes, gray-white skin, long and thin heads, flat noses and slitlike mouths. They wore silver-gray uniforms, gloves, and helmets and at the left breast of each suit they had the emblem of a winged serpent. Schirmer had the impression that the small antennas were somehow a part of their communication process with him - that part of their contact with him was mental and part of it was physical.