Buck Nelson's 1000 eye witnesses



Hello Hermes,

Buck Nelson was a lot more real with over 1000 eye witnesses, than George Green is today with his books. Some of the accounts that you reference are bogus; reason being they come from NO eye witnesses. Then President, Dwight D. Eisenhower credited Buck Nelson with saving his life.

Glad to see there is some info on Ole Buck on the net. This info on the USA1.nu site was put up originally in 1999. Only a small part of the whole story.

I met Buck one time at his farm in August of 1964. We spent a few hours going over the information in his booklets, pictures, etc..

During the mid 1980s, we stopped at the Springfield, Missouri Library to check what was in the microfilm records from The News & Leader. The head Librarian, remembered the story by Frank Farmer, located the copy of the Monday paper that had carried the original story. Showed me where the story had been cut-out and replaced. She knew Farmer quite well and told me his account of what had happened. Her memory was a very close match for what General LeMay had told friends about the cover-up.

This had been a front page story, ok'd by the lady who owned the paper. She had provided the expense money for airplane fuel, arranged for a car at Mtn. View, etc. two Sundays in a row. The first Monday story, had made it to the pulpit of many area churches on Wednesday night. Most ministers said Buck Nelson had made a deal with the devil; if you went to see the flying saucer the following Sunday afternoon, you would burn in hell. Scared most of us kids half to death, but we all got hold of the Monday paper. Not one word about the story!

1963, in Science class Mansfield, the teacher was gone, attending his father's funeral in Columbia, SA. The high school Principal, Charles Calame was filing in. Someone wanted to know about how he'd met General LeMay in WW II. What was he like to go fishing with and other questions? He told how their Usual fishing trips always included a trip to Mtn. View to stop by and see Buck Nelson. My reaction was to speak up with: "You mean the crazy old man who sees flying saucers?"

Mr. Calame's reaction startled most in the class: "You don't call Buck Nelson crazy in this class!" We spent the rest of the week of Science classes discussing Buck Nelson, what had actually happened on the Sunday in June 1954. He brought two booklets to school, that Nelson had written. Every word seemed to match what I'd been told by Farmer's Jeweler friend, the pilot who'd flown him to Mtn. View.

In 1960, I'd also had the honor of getting to meet General Curtis LeMay , when he visited another friend. My friend, Andy built a full-size 1911 Curtis-Wright pusher bi-plane for the USAF to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Trans-Continental Flight. Andy had met the General at Mtn. View in 1954. Several of Andy's planes are now in the Smithsonian.

1961, President John F. Kennedy made General Curtis E. LeMay his Chief of Staff for the USAF. This was Old Joe Kennedy's way to keep the General quiet about what he knew.

Buck Nelson still lived at Mtn. View in the early 1970's, holding his annual "Buck Nelson's Flying Saucer Club" meetings. Lewis's Liquor store in Mansfield, had a flyer in their front window in 1971 or 72.

There were two versions printed of Buck's booklets. One was written by Buck, the other was written with bogus dates and changes to discredit his stories.

Do you have any info on Colonel Gordon Gray, who headed the Project Blue Book based at Wright Patterson, Dayton, OH until his listed death in 1956? He wrote a book in 1957 titled "Project Blue Book" with US & British pictures of encounters. USAF personnel in Hawaii have told stories in the 1970's about meeting him. Whatever he was flying would hit radar at Mach 7, which would be approximately 5000 mph, then land in front of an open hangar. The craft was moved inside; the base would be restricted to non-essential personnel for about 24 hours, until after Gray left the next day. Gray was at Buck's on that Sunday in June of 1954. Bucky Nelson was 17 at the time he met the General & Gray.

Have fun putting the pieces together, I quit trying.

Respectfully,

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Hermes,

The link is ok.

I grew up at Mansfield, MO.; I was only 8 in 1954, but I did get to read the Springfield paper on that Monday. The pastor of the local Assembly of God church where we attended, discussed the story on both Wednesday night and Sunday morning.

One of my closest friends was a private pilot who lived at Willow Springs in 1954. He owned over 50 antique airplanes, which later became known as the Wings & Wheels Collection. From 1959 through 1963, I spent much of my time accompanying Andy on flights and business road trips.

Over the 10 years after the 1954 incidents, I got to meet several of the people who were eye witnesses. Frank Farmer's pilot who was a jeweler in Springfield, was a regular visitor flying people down to see the antique planes. Andy was usually busy with other guests flown in by this pilot from Springfield. The pilot and I would go look at the planes and talk about his latest trips with Farmer and whatever else was news worthy.



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