POLICEMAN’S ALIEN ENCOUNTER IN NEBRASKA
DECEMBER 3 1967 ……… ASHLAND NEBRASKA
Twenty-two-year-old policeman Herbert Schirmer would have a bizarre experience on December 3, 1967. While making his normal patrol rounds in Ashland, Nebraska, he saw what appeared to be red lights atop a large truck. He had checked locations along Highway 6, and just hit the intersection of two highways, 6 and 63, when he saw the red lights. He would get a closer look. As he moved on down Highway 63, he came to a stop, and shined his headlights on the red-lighted object. Soon he realized it was no truck. The red beaming lights were coming through what Schirmer described as “portholes.” He could clearly see a disc-shaped, metallic UFO that was hovering about eight feet off the ground at a slight tilt.The polished, aluminum object had a type of catwalk around its circumference. He could also see what he thought were legs below the object. Then the object began to slowly ascend, making a siren kind of noise, and issuing a flame-like display from the underside. Sticking his head out the window, Sgt. Schirmer watched the UFO pass nearly overhead. Then suddenly it shot up and out of sight.
Schirmer sped back to the police station, making a note of the time as 3:00 AM. This shocked him, because he knew he had been on patrol much longer than the 10 minutes the present time indicated. Schirmer made the following entry into his log book: “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Schirmer began to experience some physical problems right after his sighting. He suffered from headaches, felt ill, and had a red welt on his neck. The Condon Commission, located at the University of Colorado, and at the time, investigating UFO sightings, heard of Schirmer’s sighting, and requested that he come to Boulder, Colorado. On February 13, 1968, Schirmer would undergo regressive hypnosis, administered by psychologist Dr. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming.
Psychologist Dr. Leo Sprinkle: A link to Dr. Sprinkles interview below.
The Condon Committee concluded that: “Evaluation of psychological assessment tests, the lack of any evidence, and interviews with the patrolman, left project staff with no confidence that the trooper’s reported UFO experience was physically real.” Psychologist Dr. Sprinkle, however, felt that Schirmer “believed in the reality of the events he described.”