The Piedmont UFO Incident and The 37th Parallel Conspiracy
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Marcus Lowth
- June 25, 2018
- October 11, 2021
- 8 min read
- Expert Opinion
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- UFOs, Close Encounters
While returning home from a high school basketball game in early-1973, several members of the Piedmont High School team, along with their coach, would witness an up-close UFO sighting. They wouldn’t be the only ones, as other, corroborating witnesses would come forward also.
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The sighting would prove to be one of several in the Missouri region during this time. And they themselves, ultimately, part of a nationwide wave of sightings in the United States throughout much of 1973. While the majority of the sightings during the 1973 wave occurred in the latter months of the year, the Piedmont incident took place in February and was perhaps a precursor of things to come. Between late-Febr...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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I’m from Piedmont. Actually, I’m from the Wayne, Carter, Reynolds County lines, on the north side of Brushy Creek. I attended school in Piedmont some 13 miles away. Illinois is also much further than 60 miles away; Cape Girardeau is around 70. Anyway, I spent my childhood on the banks of Brushy Creek, and much of my adult life as well. Having heard the stories growing up from teachers, my own mother, my uncle, adult cousins, I figured “Hey it was the 70’s, they were probably all smoking some good stuff,” especially as there was the popular tale of our sheriff destroying huge amounts of marijuana in the incinerator at the grocery store, and the wind carrying it all over town. So I was quite surprised when, around 1993-4, I was at Brushy Creek with my young son and his friend, and witnessed something odd. I’d dozed off for s moment in the sun, the boys happily preoccupied with a pool id made of sand, gravel and water and filled with tadpoles and mud bugs for them to play with. All of a sudden I hear the boys screaming “BATMAN!” It was dark (shaded), cool, and a wind was blowing. I opened my eyes to see a plane hovering at the tree tops directly above us. It was obviously a military plane, and resembled one I’d seen at the VP Fair innSt Louis a few years prior that had thrusters on the bottom and had hovered low over the Mississippi River. I had prior, and have dozens of times since, seen military aircraft flying up the creek, up Black River, and even down the Middle Fork north of Lesterville (not far from Tip Top). So it is my educated guess that what all my teachers, my mother, and so many others saw in the early 1970s was merely experimental aircraft.
I have somewhat of a story! One afternoon while standing on my front porch I saw this tryangler shape object it was beautiful an it was dark! Ok the whole thing is I live in Iron ton Missouri! At the northern end of town. There is a mountain called Pilot Knob Mountain. Which is about seven tenths of a mile from me.I seen the lights an it was total silence! The only way to measure the size of it was to hold a dime between your thumb and pointed finger over the top of the mountain. I guessed it to be about600 feet across. An double decker. Suddenly it took off just like on star wars it was something else to see! A trail of fire behind it! This is true of what I saw!