The following
are E mails from veterans of the Vietnam War, in response to
a posting I made in early 2002. I asked on Google groups, if any military vets saw activity that could be construed as "ufo
in nature". These subsequently became interviews on the Cosmic Connection television and radio series. I wish to acknowledge
the men and women that serve in our armed forces, their heroic efforts to keep America safe from foreign and domestic harm.
The Cosmic Connection
The Ron Hayes Story
From : Ron Hayes
Sent : Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:56
PM To : ufotvshow@hotmail.com Subject : viet nam ufo
2300 hours" I Corps" was the location. Sound
of rushing wind in a distance. It took about 5 min. to reach or area. It rattled the cans tied in the barbwire. It was at
this time that me and another Marine looked up. It was black no lights 200ft. off the ground and disk shape. It was Hugh and
moving no more than 10 MPH. It took about a min. for it to completely cross over. We were in a free fire zone but no one fired
a round. It was also reported a the other end of our perimeter by two other Marines.
Ron Hayes
The Don Delano Story
My name is DeLano.
I was the artillery spotter
on Strongpoint ALFA-ONE during the month of June 1968 when the UFO incident transpired.
We were shelling the sampans
in the mouth of the Ben Hai River when we noticed the hovering lights through our Night Observation Device (Large,
classified "Starlight" scope). We radioed 9th Marines to clear all aircraft from the area. We were informed that there
were no friendly aircraft in the area. Calls to radar at Gio Linh (ALFA-TWO) verified the existence of aircraft in
the area.
ALFA-ONE was three kilometers south of the DMZ and three kilometers west of the South China Sea. The
hill was just over 90 feet high and was the prominent terrain feature in the area.
Anyway, the lights (not aircraft,
per se) were spotted over many sensitive areas. They appeared to be doing reconnaissance as at least once we noticed
what appeared to be high-speed strobe lights of the type used for photo-reconnaissance being used. In another incident
an M42 "duster" opened up at point-blank range from C-1 and was unable to engage the aircraft. The duster is two WWII
pom-pom 40mm guns mounted on a track and armed with proximity fuzes. At 240 rounds per minute, no helicopter could
possibly survive that onslaught.
My personal opinion is that they were Red Chinese recon craft. We had just handed
the NVA their rear ends during the first five months of the year. After action reports from the 1/40 Field artillery indicate
some 6000 enemy kills during this period in this area. This was the AO of the 2nd ARVN Infantry Regiment of the 1st
INF, under the command of LTC VU VAN GIAI.
The aircraft which holed the HMAS HOBART was USAF. Same thing with
the PCF19 incident. We had the pilot on Fox/Mike and we heard him say he was about to engage immediately before the
explosion of the swiftboat.
There was a lot of stupid crap going on with wild claims made by ARVN generals. NO
aircraft or UFO's were ever shot down.
If you want a TV show, here's a good one for you. A US soldier, David Lemcke,
was killed on A-1 a few weeks before these incidents. Because of the furor that erupted over the UFO's, his remains were
never recovered. The remains are STILL THERE, waiting to be recovered.
I can give you more details if you have
specific questions concerning the "UFO's". Feel free to inquire.
The Larry Workman Story
My name is Larry
Date: March 1967
I was a Marine during the Viet Nam war period
attached to 1ST Marine Division Force Logistics Command. My duty station station was a place called Red Beach. It was a huge
supply base for the I-Corp area, just a few klicks from Da Nang. There was a Motor-T battalion and a 155 Howitzer firebase
both north and south of Red Beach. There was a chain link fence perimeter with heavily sand bagged bunkers with concertina
wire in front with beau-cau antipersonnel defenses. The mouth of the A-Sha valley was just outside the south end of the base..It
was heavily guarded 24/7. We would load all kinds of supplies on choppers and trucks during the day and at night go hunting
"Charlie". Hunting "Charlie" was done at night usually by leaving the relative safety of the base, marching to some pre-determined
longitude and latitude on a field map and setting up an ambush. We all took our turn hunting "Charlie".
ON one night during the Tet offensive a
small group of Marines went through the base gate and marched into the jungle approximately 3 clicks to a point where two
of the uncounted trails known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail crossed and set up our ambush waiting through the long hot jungle night
for "Charlie" to come walking down the trail. It was hot enough you could hear yourself sweat.
The night passed uneventful. WE knew there
was enemy activity in the area but "Charlie" probably went in another direction that night. We broke ambush early am and had
marched back down the trail and had just entered a clearing when suddenly up in the sky just above the jungle canopy and slightly
behind us there it was the U.F.O. visible for a short time. Apparently "Charlie" saw it to and opened fire with r.p.g.s. rocket
propelled grenades and small arms fire with no effect on the U.F.O. We did not fire but only watched as it hovered over us
for maybe 5 minutes then seemed to drift sideways and as suddenly as it had appeared it was gone. We started marching again
toward Red Beach. Nobody said anything but the Captain told us to forget about it. We got back to base without incident but
to this day can still see it and so can the rest of us.
