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
BTW, in the summer of ‘77, in southern Illinois,just about dusk, we (me and three other adults, family) witnessed a huge UFO a little above tree top level, directly over where we were sitting in the yard.I hear people say and talk about getting pictures and finding a camera. Let me tell you, when you are stricken with awe, the last thing you think about is a camera.
thanks.