CASE #029: Teeth followed by a period of missing time. They both recalled being This next case is highly credible because of the huge amount of examined by aliens. Salter also recalled being injected with neephysical evidence. On December 30, 1972, nightwatchman dles as he lay on the examination table. Ventura Maceiras of Argentina witnessed a bright light hovering Almost immediately after the encounter, Salter began to notice above his home. Inside the light, he was able to discern a metallic a number of remarkable physiological changes. In fact, the craft with portholes. At this point, Maceiras was struck by a "brilchanges were so apparent that Salter carefully tracked them and liant flash of light" which shot out from underneath the craft. noticed improvements in over 18 areas including "improved skin For weeks following the encounter, Maceiras suffered from a tone, circulation, eyesight, faster blood-clotting after cuts and number of alarming symptoms which seemed to indicate radiation scratches, and faster and thicker growth of toenails and hairs ". poisoning—symptoms including hair loss, headaches, nausea, And that's not all. Salter also reported: "...many facial wrinkles diarrhoea, eye irritation and "swollen red pustules" on his neck. have disappeared and others are fading; my face has narrowed and Doctors were baffled, but, when Maceiras explained that the my neck area has slimmed (as has my entire body to some extent) symptoms were caused by his UFO encounter, they had no choice and none of this has involved 'sagging'. My circulation has but to believe him. His symptoms simply could not be faked. improved. Cuts clot immediately and heal very quickly; my enerThere was a huge amount of supporting physical evidence. The gy level is way up; and I've had no colds or flu or any other illtops of the hundred-foot-tall eucalyptus trees were scorched nesses since March 1988... [and] after all these years, I have a five where the object had hovered. Maceiras' cat disappeared in full o'clock shadow." view when the beam came out of the craft; 48 days later, the cat Although Salter did not rush to a doctor for a diagnosis, his reappeared with severe burns on its back. An abnormally large improvements were easily noticed by all who knew him. His son number of mysteriously dead catfish were found in a small stream also reported several similar physiological improvements. at the exact location of the sighting. Salter has been very active in the There was so much physical evicivil rights movement and is a dence that the case attracted considwidely respected UFO researcher "They said, 'This is really weird erable attention from various offiin his own right. The huge number because if we didn't know any cials. In a period of less than a of physiological improvements, the month, Maceiras was interviewed obvious sincerity of the witness better, we'd say that you never over 60 times by multiple officials and the fact that the encounter had including doctors, police, governmultiple witnesses all combine to had a cyst. But what's going on ment officials, UFO investigators and make this one of the most astonishhere is there's fluid in your others. ing and credible UFO healings on Maceiras took weeks to recover record. Fallopian tubes. And the fluid, from his injuries caused by the UFO. right where the cyst was— Then, less than two months after the CASE #071: Cyst encounter came the final but most Some of the most convincing this fluid is not present incredible symptom of all. As veriforms of evidence come from docwhen it ruptures.'" fied by doctors, engineers, police tors' diagnoses, and this is just one officers and professional UFO invesof the reasons this case is included tigators, Maceiras, although 73 years here. old, began to grow his third set of teeth. In 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia, abductee Alicia Hansen (pseudoUFO investigator Pedro Romaniuk was assigned to the case nym) was diagnosed with a cyst. She was scheduled to have it because of his high credentials as a former commander with an surgically removed. However, before her doctors could perform international airline and a technical investigator for the Argentine the operation, she had a close encounter of the healing kind and Air Force Aviation Accidents Investigation Board. her cyst mysteriously disappeared. Romaniuk performed a follow-up visit to check up on Maceiras' As Alicia explained: "...I was really worried about the cyst... I physical condition. As Romaniuk noted: "Since approximately had already been diagnosed with the cyst by the doctors. I was February 10, Maceiras has observed that new teeth have been having a lot of problems with it, too. They did an MRI where appearing in his upper left gum. At the time of my visit, I was they take a picture and look at the cyst. So they saw the cyst and I able to confirm that two front teeth and two cheek teeth were was going to go back and have surgery on it." coming through and were approximately 2 mm to 3 mm long." Shortly before her surgery, Alicia had partial memories of an This case is significant not only because it has a huge amount encounter. Then when she went to the hospital to have the cyst of supporting physical evidence, but it is also one of the most removed, she received quite a surprise. exhaustively investigated cases in the history of ufology. The "So I went back to the hospital to get another MRI done and case is so well verified that it remains an undisputed classic case make sure everything was okay. And the nurse said, 'Well, this is and has been reported in countless UFO publications. so strange'—not the nurse but the person who reads the picture. They said, 'This is really weird because if we didn't know any better, we'd say that you never had a cyst. But what's going on here CASE #054: Integumentary System This next case was included because of the obvious sincerity of is there's fluid in your Fallopian tubes. And the fluid, right where the witness, the dramatic physiological improvements caused by the cyst was—this fluid is not present when it ruptures. This is a the encounter, and because it was a multiple-witness case. fluid that is usually present after surgery...' So it completely On March 20, 1988, Professor of Indian Studies at the looked as if I'd had surgery done, and I didn't." University of South Dakota, John Salter, Jr (aka John Hunter This type of medical evidence is virtually undeniable. Alicia Gray) and his son were driving near Richland Center, Wisconsin, had been diagnosed with a cyst, and then the cyst had not only late at night when they both experienced a close-up UFO sighting mysteriously disappeared, but there was physical evidence that 74 • NEXUS
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