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Pahrump Valley Gazette, Thursday, April 17, 1997 19
Military Pilots Sight UFO Downed in Dunes
A-10 Warthog military aircraft on regular military maneu-
vers were sharply thrown into low level surveillance passes as
the keen eyes of the pilots spotted an apparent downed flying
object of unknown origin being hastily dragged across the
blowing sands of the Dumont Sand Dunes, south of Pahrump.
The heavily armored aircraft slammed into low level passes
while the pilots held the wings in nearly vertical position to
better view the unusual craft creeping across the sand seem-
ingly being pushed by strangely garbed hominoid attendants.
The unusual craft appeared to be an assemblage of struc-
tures consisting of shapes similar to parallelograms, trap-
ezoids, rectangles, and other polygons. Attending the craft was
a group of beings either totally black or fully attired in black
lrb. The unusual LIFO attendants appeared to be of two or
more sexes and had extremely misshaped craniums or were
wearing protective head gear of unknown and unrecognizable
design.
The military craft continued low level viewing of the
strange machine and retired from the dunes. There has been no
formal announcement of the sighting and no media coverage.
The craft and attendant beings are no longer in evidence at the
dumont dunes. There are no signs of extraterrestial activity left
on the wind blown shifting sands of the Dumont Dunes.
However, the Gazette and this ever vigilant scribe are able to
bring you the true story of the UFO at the Dunes.
Everything written above is true. It's just all in bow you look
at it. The Warthogs were there, they actually flew below the
tops of the dunes they were so low. There indeed was a UFO,
(we do remember however that UFO means Unidentified
Flying Object), Yes there were strange looking beings that
were all black. Head coverings wore were strange, indeed.
Even this humble scribe was there in his custom buggy that has
often been compared to the Lunar Rover,
What the pilots saw, and caused them to nearly fall out of the
air, was the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk,
flowered hats which trembled in the desert winds.
Dark garbed mechanics in stovepipe trousers trudged through
the sands pushing the awkward and ancient flyer into the wind.
The fabric covered wings tried to pull the craft aloft while the
slowly counter rotating propellers added little to the attempt at
first flight. Even an ever efficient camera man with his cap on
backwards peered through the view-finder of his ancient cam-
era as he swiftly tumed the crank controlling the speed of the
film past the lens.
This is the land of elusion. This is the industry of illusion.
This is Show Biz. Over a hundred people gathered last week in
In The Thermometer's Shadow
by Mike Dougherty
the blustery spring winds at Dumont
Sand Dunes to produce a commercial
for an airline, in which is featured
man's first flight. The Wright Broth-
ers at Kitty Hawk.
It took a bit of doing. Logistics were complicated at best.
The motels of Baker were filled. The Longstreet was unavail-
able. Saddle West was pressed into service to house the cast of
talented actors and actresses, (they do like staying at a casino).
Food service was minimal as the caterer was overwhelmed and
rations were scarce.
Workdays started at 5 AM to set up and catch the light of the
rising sun. Days didn't end until well after sun down. The
aircraft was not intended to actually fly. The wind ruled
otherwise and an entire crew of men was required to hold the
lifting craft to the ground. Costumes were great and never have
the women looked so good as when garbed in the fashions of
yesteryear. The men all in ancient black, looked like a gathering
50 feet long that provides restroom facilities. This behemoth
was in it up to the axels and was a cinch to require heavy
equipment for retrieval. The men of Baker and the Big Red
Truck pulled the monster free with seeming ease.
A fine time, a great job. The dunes were at their most
wind swept beautiful. Clouds raced across the sky and we
might well have been on the Atlantic shore. When the
cameras were rolling the illusion was reality. It was nearly
a century ago as man first struggled to enter the world of
flight and subdue gravity, the ancient oppressor. We were
there and it was then.
The commercial will eventually show. When we give a
watch to the Brothers Wright struggling at Kittyhawk, let's
remember it happened a bit south of Pahrump and they slept
at the Saddle West. To any rational person viewing the
filming, that strange craft on the sands surely had to be a real
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