Frank wrote:Who knows? There are several witnesses who claim a lot more happened than just a beam coming down to the ground, including some comments from John on this forum:
“I was told by Halt when I ment up with them that somthing landed the third night and by Bustina also.”
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“When I ment up with his party everybody was visibly shaken up and stated they just had a unexplaiable experiance Bustina was with them.”
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Just listened to the Earthfiles interview with Monroe Nevels again.
When Englund reported that ‘the UFO is back’, he and Monroe Nevels had already been doing a low-profile investigation in the forest. This investigation was ordered by Conrad who probably wanted to know if there was anything substantial behind all the stories.
On their way back they experienced static electricity and saw a red sun-like object. This probably made them report that ‘the UFO is back’. Halt then jumped in and started ‘Halt’s night’, recorded on Halt’s tape.
During Halt’s night Monroe tells he witnessed an orange/yellow object sitting in the farmer’s field that took off as soon as he and Halt jumped over the fence to approach it. This was right after they had been chasing the orange/red sun-like light through the forest. Monroe also tells that the object sitting in the field was very, very similar to the artist rendering based on John’s original drawing.

The take-off was incredibly fast. Right after the take-off they saw balls of light flying a few hundred meters above them.
This may be the reason why Halt and Bustinza told John that ‘something had landed’ when John joined the men. According to John, Halt pointed upwards to balls of light flying around right after that. So there’s a good match between Monroe’s story and John’s forum posts.
The landed object that took off at incredible speed seems to be somewhat watered down in Halt’s memo, where he describes it as an object that silently exploded. Maybe this was how Halt perceived it (it all seemed to go awfully fast), or maybe he deliberately watered it down a bit. Note that this take-off/silent explosion is not on the excerpts of Halt’s tape that are in the public domain.