In December of 1980,near Houston, Texas, two woman and a boy were buzzed by a diamond-shaped object so hot it burned the women. The craft was allegedly circled by helicopters before moving away. The witnesses claim they saw (23) helicopters looking for something; others saw a craft moving over the trees. Later, both women suffered mysterious illnesses and death. The surviving boy, Colby, describes the craft spewing flame and heat at their car, and one of the women got out, fascinated. Other witnesses also suffered illness. A doctor opines that the symptoms the women had indicates radiation poisoning, though the hospital refuses to release their complete records (despite the doctor having treated one of the women for years). Colby, now a man, seems to have no current medical effects from the incident -- though he was sick for several weeks after the incident. Could there have been radiation damage to the road as well as the people? Shortly after the incident, the road was torn up and resurfaced. Road core samples prove inconclusive. The crew talks to a military officer, who says the military has no record of 23 helicopters operating in that area -- though a hand-written note shows 100 copters landed at a nearby base that night. However, other military people surreptitiously came to the women's doctor, and claimed that the craft they saw was a test of a "Wasp 2," a nuclear powered personnel transport, that went wrong. The women sued the government and the military, but couldn't make the case stick.
TRANSCRIPT OF BERGSTROM AFB INTERVIEW OF
BETTY CASH, VICKIE & COLBY LANDRUM
August 1981
TRANSCRIPT
of taped interview held at Bergstom Air Force Base Law Library Building 2102, 17 August 1981, between Betty Cash, Vicki Landrum, Colby Landrum and representatives of the United States Air Force in the persons of Captain John Camp, Acting Staff Judge Advocate, Captain Terry Davis, Claims Officer, and Miss Pat Wolf, Assistant Claims Officer.
COMMENT by CUFONSM SYSOP
We are very lucky to have been provided a copy of this tape by Betty Cash herself.
The Cash - Landrum case is undisputedly one of the classic UFO sighting/physical trace cases. It assumes great importance because of the traces left behind by the unknown object in the form of radiation effects on the three witnesses and their car. SOMETHING real caused the terrible effects. it is sure that their suffering is real.
Important also is the witnesses’ reports of many US military helicopters in the immediate vicinity of the unknown object and the official denials of any government knowledge of the incident.
This case has been widely written about, and has been the subject of a number of TV specials. The sighting has been recreated for least three TV programs. This interview was recreated under the supervision of Betty Cash for the program “Unsolved Mysteries.” In that recreation, a map is featured which already has a pin in it when Betty and Vickie arrive at the location of the incident. This was noted by both Betty and Vickie. This tape does not agree with that. True, the beginning of the interview when all were entering the room is not on the tape, but neither is the pin mentioned when Betty and Vickie are asked to locate the site of the incident on a map.
Draw your own conclusions, but note that all three witnesses have suffered terribly, and still do not have any real answers to what it was that they were exposed to.
... Jim Klotz CUFONSM SYSOP Dale Goudie Information Director
4-June-1996
Conventions used in the transcription:
Betty Cash CTD Terry Davis, Capt. USAF CJC John Camp, Capt. USAF PW Pat Wolf CL Colby Landrum VL Vicki Landrum
A comma (,) indicates a short pause,
ellipsis (...) indicates a longer pause.
Comments such as attempts to convey inflection and such are in parentheses ( ).
NOTE: All names and such are spelled phonetically when confirmed spellings not available. All effort was made to give the same sense of emphasis present in the tape. No other claims of accuracy are made or should be inferred; this is merely the best transcription that we could make from the tape available.
This recording was provided to Dale Goudie, Director, UFO Reporting and Information Service by Betty Cash. Transcribed by Jim Klotz, CUFONSM SYSOP
(tape start)
... Captain Davis here, who is our chief claims... He’s our Claims Officer for the base to be allowed to just take our little meeting down here on a tape recorder... do y’all have any objection to that?
< snip > please read link above to continue - LVD
This incident happened about 2 miles from my house.About 4 years after this incident we had another visit of multitudes of helicopters over the area, and again, officialy it didn’t happen.
Hopefully the military aircraft ought to tip us off to what I said all along. These things are ours,perhaps radio controlled. Three distinct types have been built: A diamond shaped craft, a disc shaped craft and a cigar shaped craft. Beats me why the Government doesn’t just come clean. Probably the Brits, Canadians and the US know all about these and where they are made. The secrecy is somewhat Monty Pythonesque.