Believers search sky for saucers
No sightings this time,
but once, 30 years ago...
By JOCK HATFIELD
Of the Emerald
A small group of believers
stood in the shadow of Mt.
Rainier staring intently at the
evening sky. “What’s that there?”
asked one member excitedly,
pointing toward a star-like object
speeding across the sky. “Isn’t it
moving too fast to be a satellite?”
In an attempt to answer the
question the group sent out a
telepathic message: “Are you a
flying saucer?”
It almost seemed plausible that
the object’s answer — a twinkle —
meant yes, for all afternoon
members of the group, the New
Age Foundation, had been re
counting their experiences with
the extraterrestrial. Flying sauc
ers no longer seemed out of the
ordinary.
The UFO convention was pre
sented last weekend, in a pine
surrounded Mt. Rainier retreat, to
commemorate a flying saucer
sighting exactly 30 years before.
On June 24, 1947, nine disc
shaped crafts were reportedly
seen flying, or rather “skipping
like saucers over water” between
the snow-capped peaks of Mt.
Rainier and Mt. Davis.
Though the group held an offi
cial “skywatch” last Friday, hop
ing for the crafts’ return, it was not
the purpose of the convention.
"We re not up here expecting to
have flying saucers appear
again,” explained the or
ganization’s head and founder,
Wayne Aho. “We've come to
gether to celebrate.”
From the first meal at the con
vention, when members sat
around munching on lettuce and
sunflower seed salad, a com
muned and semi-religious atmos
phere prevailed.
"Jesus is alive on Venus,”
foundation member John
Prochaska told reporters. "He
was originally sent from space to
make us ready for removal. He is
waiting to come back again.”
Prochaska, a blustery yet con
fident man of over 50, does
“former life” readings for a living,
and calls himself a counselor in
psychometry. Through the help of
space dwelling “guardian angels”
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It's a bird, it's a plane.. but it wasn't a flying saucer, although these participants in last weekend's
UFO convention were hoping it would be. Thirty years ago nine UFOs were sighted at that very spot, and
members of the New Age Foundation went there to celebrate the sightings.
Record which is said to contain
information on every man's
former lives
“I had one man who was
deathly afraid of grasshoppers, ’
Prochaska relates. “I read his re
cord and told him that on a former
life on a different planet he had
been out on patrol, and came ac
ross gigantic grasshoppers.
Though he was armed, the gras
shoppers overpowered and ate
him."
Prochaska said after he re
vealed the source of this man’s
fear, the man no longer feared
grasshoppers.
Prochaska said he has not only
seen flying saucers, but has met
their pilots — twice. “I’ve seen
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two beings, one in Phoenix,
Arizona in 1973, and a female in
1974. One was from Mars and
the other was from a planet called
Korendor. They look just like us."
A friendly and outgoing man,
Prochaska is well aware of the
impact his ideas have on the out
side world. "You reporters will
massacre me," he said with a
smile.
Lidia Wolff, an 87-year-old
woman who appeared to be
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