European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Ufos hysteria in Florida town by los Angeles times 3 a hotbed of flying Saucer sightings Gulf Breeze ffa., Long ago earned 1 3 Dot on the map a perhaps even the map nearby Are five major military bases including one explosives Are tested and the overhead Are often chock Block Ullh blinking tights and fiery flashes reports of ufos a unidentified flying objects a Are common there powdery White beaches and tourists Wilh third degree sunburns a a but now something More ominous seems to be hovering Over Gulf Breeze casting a Long Shadow Over the once Good natured ufos hubbub three weeks ago local police made a routine traffic Stop and came up with six. Young soldiers awol from their top secret army posts in Augsburg West Germany. Friends say that the soldiers had come Here to witness the end of the world. A the soldiers Are gone whisked away by a learn of Cia and Fri agents that swooped Down on Gulf Breeze faster than swamp Gas rises. Speculation to what the gis a we a up to and Why they came to Gulf Breeze has caused a sensation in the town. A Pentagon spokesman said that the six were members of something called the end of the world cult. Mention was made of the rapture when some christians believe the saved will be taken to heaven was a Mission to kill the Antichrist there also were reports that the group was preparing to ascend to heaven via spaceship. Quot this was once known a quiet bedroom Community Quot complains Jerry a Brown the chief of the town 15-officer police Force Quot but a lot of people Are laughing at because of this ufos business and now this _ getting a weirdos nuts people we done to want visits from mysterious strangers from Earth or any other planet Are unwelcome in Gulf Breeze an upscale Community of 6,000 residents proud to be an alternative to Many of the tourist hungry Beach towns along the a redneck Riviera Quot that stretch of Scenic Gulf Shore from the Florida Panhandle to new Orleans. Not Only the town reputation under siege but both Brown and the mayor de Gray Iii believe the ufos hysteria was touched off by a Clever hoax perpetrated by a local Homo builder. Quot Quot it All negative for the Community Quot Brown says. Quot and the Only one who has gamed de Quot quoted Quot de Walters an affable wiry Man of 44, Well known in Gulf Breeze for his custom built Homes his Active role a High school band Booster arid for his playful imagination. Now Walters renown Tias expanded beyond this City two Square Miles Wilh Tho publication m March of Quot the Gulf Breeze co authored by Walters and his wife Frances president of the High school Pat the Book relates fashion what the couple says were several months Worth of close encounters with four foot Gray aliens who sometimes speak Spanish the visits supposedly began m mom Mhor 10b7 duo chief in to no tour attending Lecoun to Mutual i o new of a n it ional. Yaj that tracks Stuge celestial acl Ruty Pel. No Zhoong Pensa ech to hold its annual jus a week before the six Awot. showed up busloads of Muon convention ears toured Gulf Brao a where id 7. Traipsed through the Hack Yards of people reported sightings stopped Olf in 3horcl.no pad 10 eyeball a swirl in the grass that not a t it. Was made by beavers and gazed hip Fidy Soward of or Pensacola Bay. And. Of sour so. There wore Ash its one shews an Ai. I family bail win their Home planet with the you. Gators lamenting Quot my folks went to Gulf Breeze and a i or a. this Lousy . For Many locals however ufos Are no joke. Quot it was Bright Blue and it had several smaller lights around it Quot said Louis f. Martin 66, an air Force Retiree who Wilh his wife Mary was sitting under the tall Pines Park on a recent thursday morning. A i never told anyone but my wife Here because f did t know what people would think i did t want to look like a Quot but now Quot adds Mary Marlin Quot a lot of people Are coming a a indeed Duane Cook editor and publisher of the weekly Gulf Breeze Sentinel estimates that in the Pas a 2v�?~i years he heard of ufos sightings from at Leas 200 people including his parents. Quot i Don t buy the visual hysteria bit Quot he says. Links Between the awol soldiers and Gulf Breeze reputation a ufos spaceport Are intriguing but vague. All were assigned to the 70 t St military intelligence brigade each of the six a five men and one woman had top secret clearance in a unit charged with providing u 3 defense forces Edh secure communication arid cond Uurry Rosqui Quot Oiler electronic phen Cornei a according to the by Walters say he heard that the group Hud come to consist turn. A the soldiers were discovered after one of the men was stopped Lute 011 the right of july 13 because the Van no was driving had a faulty Tail i grit i to had no Driver License but after the name was run through the military crime computer police chef Brown was contacted he says to an officer at to Pensacola naval air who fold urn w i d at in 1 Tiey want to Guy bad foal lad in fact the go or nm.-1 it warded ail of Thorn mat bad after hold a the Pensacola Najil base in e. V worn to e \ boor Ling a arid then to Tod kno. By lie cleared them e. A routine espionage investigation issued them general discharges and turned them Loose. A army maj. Joe Padilla a Pentagon spokesman admits that the desertion of six gis with lop secret Dearance and forged leave papers who travel 7,000 Miles to a tiny town in Florida Quot was nol a Rolinc but. Tie added after All waived their rights to present a defense the. Commander at fort Knox decided to let them go without further punishment. Anna Foster a Gulf Breeze psychic in whose House the five men had been slaying for four Days refuses to talk about the visit and so the locals Are left to wonder. De Walters lends toward the Quot major government cover up Quot theory the same one he says that has been applied to his ufos experiences a the government can t afford not to discredit Metie says. Quot they have to do away with me then the people of Poona am Safe and can Guback to sleep Quot some Gulf Breeze residents say tin am afraid the rest of the world will think the win id a our Cray Quot his has Hurt then Ltd Musil say. Niy a Guli fire a resident for 26 years i gel mad. Fun a 1/ Day 1 try to Hugh it off. Bui Olff an i . R. It it a. 1, Gray ruins the Case of a resident who i in in. A d a it Tampa to present a Par Rumba. It a a i i to present to paper simply . I. . Pm a my Breeze and people would. 1 take tier ,.s, Gray t of 1 he sir n Al 1 e t a 111 on y in 11 a it. -1� leg. 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