Giving Them Enough Rope Ladder To Hang Themselves
The two miners -- known to be sober and truthful -- asked the sheriff if they could shoot at a flying saucer that had been trespassing on their camp. Over at his site -- The Flying Saucers That Time Forgot -- Curt Collins covers this event with the post "Flying Saucer Ambush: Brush Creek, CA, 1953." (Link: http://bit.ly/2hMLIWv ) Curt shares news clippings about the miners and their unusual situation. For me all the details with any UFO/flying saucer story have to fit. When even one key detail is dubious then the whole story is suspect. Of course newspaper reporters can make mistakes. For example the articles don't match up regarding the miners's activity. They are described as either mining gold or titanium. Or maybe they kept changing their story a bit with each interview. The gist of the story is that on two occasions -- both on the 20th of each month at 6:30 PM -- a saucer would appear, landing on a sandbar with its tripod legs. A diminutive ali