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UFOs and the Media
Missouri Democrat
October 19, 1865
A STRANGE STORY-REMARKABLE
DISCOVERY
Mr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has
been stopping at the Everett House for several days, makes a
most remarkable statement to us, and one which, if
authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the
scientific world.
"Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September,
he was engaged in trapping in the mountains about
seventy-five or one hundred miles above the Great Falls of
the Upper Missouri, and in the neighborhood of what is known
as Cadotte Pass. Just after sunset one evening, he beheld a
bright luminous body in the heavens, which moved with great
rapidity in an easterly direction. It was plainly visible
for at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated into
particles, resembling, as Mr. Lumley describes it, the
bursting of a sky-rocket in the air. A few minutes later, he
heard a heavy explosion, which jarred the earth very
perceptibly, and this was shortly after followed by a
rushing sound, like a tornado sweeping through the forest. A
strong wind sprang up about the same time, but suddenly
subsided. The air was also filled with a peculiar odor of a
sulphurous character.
These incidents would have made a slight impression on the
mind of Mr. Lumley, but for the fact that on the ensuing day
he discovered, at the distance of about two miles from his
camping place, that, as far as he could see in either
direction a path had been cut through the forest, several
rods wide-giant trees uprooted or broken off near the
ground- the tops of hills shaved off and the earth plowed up
in many places. Great and widespread havoc was everywhere
visible. Following up this track of desolation, he soon
ascertained the cause of it in the shape of an immense stone
driven into the side of a mountain. An examination of this
stone, or so much of it as was visible, showed that it was
divided into compartments that in various places it was
carved with curious hieroglyphics. More than this, Mr.
Lumley also discovered fragments of a substance resembling
glass, and here and there dark stains, as though caused by a
liquid. He is confident that the hieroglyphics are the work
of human hands, and that the stone itself, although but a
fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some
purpose by animated beings.
 
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