An in-depth (re)view of the Cash/ Landrum case

a reply to: CardDown

Hola mate haven"t got time to go through your whole thread but is this interview with John Schuessler posted (as it goes into some detail about the claims of the resurfaced road)?





Cheers.

a reply to: Dalbeck

F2d5thCavv2 had posted this link

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in one of my threads and i don't know if it has been shared yet, but I didn't see it so I'm going to share it here also because it relates to this case. In Appendix 4 of this publication, the Cash/Landrum incident is discussed, including info from Schuessler and a secondhand report from a helicopter pilot at Fort Hood during the 1980s. Here is part of that account:

Tony was a helicopter pilot at Fort Hood. Between Christmas and the end of 1980, there was a "special alert". The helicopter pilots (not known how many participated, other than Tony) were told where they would be going - that once they reached the general area, they would vectored in. They were told they would see an "unusual aircraft" there - that their mission was to "cover" this craft and to try to force it to land by keeping it at a low altitude. Once the craft landed, they were to "mark" the spot, radio in, and wait for "other people" to move in. The choppers would then be dismissed to return to their base. Tony told Victor that the whole operation happened so suddenly that he was "half-drunk" when he took off from Fort Hood, but that what he saw later sobered him up. They reached the area in question and Tony saw a craft he described as "the biggest damndest diamond he ever saw in his life".

As the choppers flew over the top of the object, trying to "hold it down", it was "throwing off sparks like a 4th of July sparkler". Sometimes the sparks would hit the ground; sometimes they would appear to burn out before hitting the ground. The craft began to move off and the choppers followed it for 7 to 10 miles. As they were following it, it stopped throwing off sparks and started to "glow". The craft then became stationary again. At that moment, the choppers received word that they were to abort the mission and "return to their various bases" (i.e., they had come from more than one base). Later, all the Fort Hood personnel who had been involved in the mission were re-assigned. Tony ended up in Germany.

After their arrival back at Fort Hood, everyone was de-briefed. They were told that what they had encountered was an "experimental aircraft" that had gone astray outside of its flight pattern and had started to "experience problems". It was crucial to insure that no one (civilians) got too close to it. Not all of the choppers were CH-47 "Chinooks"; some were UH-1 "Hueys", which is what Tony was piloting. The Chinooks had "contact teams" in them. If the craft had crashed or set down, these "contact teams" were to go down and secure the area. From what Tony had understood, there had been 4 contact teams.

This story seems different than this link regarding a helicopter pilot provided by CardDown:

You've probably heard this story if you are familiar with the Cash-Landrum case:
April 30, 1981, a CH-47 helicopter landed in Dayton, Texas, as part of The Future Farmers of America livestock show. Vickie Landrum attended, met the pilot and she asked him if they ever encountered UFOs. He told her that he'd been called out by the Montgomery County Sheriff's department to investigate a UFO. when she told him that she was one of the witnesses and was injured in the encounter, he clammed up and tried to rush her out of there.

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so is this "Tony" or a different pilot? Has the pilot "Tony" in the story I posted recanted or does he even exist as this is a secondhand retelling of what he said. I don't know I just thought I would share it as I hadn't seen it shared yet. But I could have missed it.

a reply to: Antimony

Just more mud for the water. Who is Tony? Just stories. They really don't help ufo steadies at all and this incident in particular

originally posted by: mobtek
nice write up

It was indeed excellent too bad the picture not showing up too much

I’m sure the story of “Tony” and “Victor” was fiction, the kind that often surfaces around cases that become famous. Some of the details are off. The reference to the UFO being diamond-shaped is a big red flag, since that mimics the reporting of the story, not what the adult witnesses initially described. Couldn’t describe, actually- the object was so bright, they said they couldn’t make out its shape.