Kate Valentine UFO Show

Kate Valentine UFO Show

Sept. 13, 2013  13:00 EST 

Behind the Scenes of...

The Braxton County Monster 

Frank Feschino and I are comparing notes for the "Kate Valentine UFO Show" for this Friday Sept. 13. I'll be appearing with Frank.

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I just spoke to him on the phone to run over a few things before we hit the air waves this week with Ms Valentine. During our conversation, Frank spoke, as he always does, candidly and openly to me. He had some interesting things to say about his "Flatwoods Monster" research and... oh well ...me... not to put too fine a point on it!  Har!

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Anyway, Feschino said, "Alfred, since I went public with my research you are one of the few writers actually visiting the Bailey Fisher Farm in Flatwoods, seeing the landing site, the tree and even met "Monster" eyewitness Fred May. You even met first person radio reporter John Barker and former mayor of Flatwoods, Peggy Clise [a very private and sober person] who saw the famous UFO pass near her house that night. I am happy that you took the time to really examine the facts of this case and I remain impressed how superbly you covered accurately—and so movingly—the Flatwoods incident in your articles." 

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Frank continued, "You know, when you are there on the site and see everything—the layout of the property and all—it all makes so much more sense. That is what is what I try to explain to my readers in the book with words and pictures and to my listeners on the radio." I have to add that the interested can see some of it in his new video on YouTube.

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http://youtu.be/U3dA8TxXDb8

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He went on to say, "It wasn't always that easy to get around in Flatwoods and have access to the farm and other locations where everything happened that night. When you stir in trying to talk to the original witnesses, well... ...forget about it! Burned and shy they want nothing to do with you!  When I first started going there years ago, I was an outsider—even though I had family in town! You see, I was from a city in Connecticut and the second I opened up my mouth and started to talk to the locals, they knew I wasn't from 'around these parts.' " 

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"At first, it was tough and the locals treated me like $#!#  ...I thought, wow, I'd always heard country folk were supposed to be down to earth and hospitable... but no one would talk to me, Alfred. It was a real struggle." 

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Frank added, "I would walk into a crowded local restaurant at lunch time, sometimes with my big video camera, and you would have thought I had walked in with an assault rifle! Everyone stopped eating and talking and looked at me—you could hear the proverbial pin drop.  Needless to say, I never traveled alone up there, especially in the less populated areas. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say to me, 'We don't talk about the monster 'round here no more, boy.' A couple of times I was threatened—even mildly assaulted—and on other occasions was ordered to leave the property."  

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Frank explains further, "As time went on, I understood why I was being shunned away by the locals and why no one would talk to me. Flatly, they were tired of the years of the ridicule, of abuse and of being the brunt of jokes from the whole World... and believe me, I heard most of those jokes, myself, Alfred! 

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"See, in the beginning, they thought I was just another half-ass reporter there to write one more stupid Halloween story about the "Monster" read: there to make fun of them."  He adds, "Then a door opened, I eventually talked to Mrs. May, the Davis family, the Mayor of Flatwoods and it snowballed progressively from there. On the strength of these initial interviews some kind of Rubicon was crossed! Abrubtly, I intervewed Colonel Leavitt, A. Lee Stewart, Jr. and all the others... more all the time." 

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Frank adds slyly, "You know why they finally talked Alfred, I had to prove myself to all of them before they'd let me in... and I did prove myself. I brought up all my research and data including the Blue Book files and laid it all out in front of them. Literally, whoever's house I visited...my stuff was laid out all over the room!" 

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"One day I was at Mrs. May's house. You should have seen Mrs. May's face when I first handed her the huge Blue Book case file for September 12, 1952. She was sitting in her easy chair and was shocked by the size of it. Then when I showed her the Air Force's "meteor" conclusion in the 10073 Record card.  That really disappointed her. 

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As she flipped through the book, Mrs. May had no idea of the amount of UFO sightings occurring around the country that night. She kept shaking her head. You see Alfred, she went through a lot of aggravation with the media back in 52, and that "meteor" explanation I showed her really floored the lady. As she sat in that chair in her living room... proverbial pins were dropping again. I remember, it was lunch time and I broke the awkward and uncomfortable silence by talking about lunch and then ordered a pizza from the nearby Pizza Hut. She was really hurt, Alfred.  ...Just another betrayed old lady citizen to the engineers of the cover-up, eh?"    

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"I valued and cultivated my friendly relationship with the Mays; I was constantly mailing stuff to the family and all the others involved, and we all talked on the phone a lot. Yes, I became accepted and you know what?!  Well, all of those folks in Flatwoods really were great and hospitable people... and man, could they cook a meal! I always put on weight going to West Virginia." 

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"Anyway, suddenly, and not so ironically, accepted by the locals I found myself being in the same boat with the locals when my books and research were released ...I was being ridiculed by the skeptics and was joked at and hooted down... just as they had been for 60 years!"  

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"Now I know how they felt, but consider Alfred... I have the evidence to back up it now!  I can tell the reader what actually happened up there!  We are redeemed!  We!  Are! Redeemed!  

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...And it's not over yet! Al, I am still looking into the case as you know... I probably always will. Seriously, on reflection the making of my book over the past 21-years could be a book in itself with everything that has happened along the way!"  

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"Making all this bearable and even achievable is the support of good men like you Alfred, you and Stanton Friedman and the many others who have come forward and believed in this case!  The people of Flatwoods are not the brunt of jokes anymore. I think this generation of people are more open to the 'Flatwoods Monster' case. More people believe the incident was ET related and heavily dismiss the cockamamie owl and meteor story." 

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"Alfred we have a lot of stuff to talk about concerning the expanded book on Kate's show this Friday. Thanks for coming on board with me."               

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Again  Frank's new Expanded 2013 "Braxton County Monster" book will be premiered on Friday, September 13, 2013 on the KATE VALENTINE UFO SHOW.  Listen in or make a toll free call!