1967 Package to father and misc letters
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1967 Package to father and misc letters
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=== Page 1 of 8
Red Owens
Gen. Del.
Bernalillo
New Mexico
87004
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871
NOV 23
PM
1977
Recd
11/28/77
Probably a booklet sent to my grandfather Wray, who did not like my Dad. My mother Pat had just been killed in a car accident. Maybe the phone call was when Dad was told.
Mr Wray Bentley
4 Crown Circle
Bronxville, New York
FIRST CLASS
final
=== Page 2 of 8
08/08/2025 15:07
Wray - don't worry about your phone. I'll never call you again!
Ted.
=== Page 3 of 8
Sunday, January 1, 1967
Rowland Swenk, C.S.C..R.
I see by the newspapers that many "psychics" are foretelling the events of 1967. I disagree with most of what I have read...and you know from my amazing accuracy in the past...that I am qualified as a clairvoyant...whether I use a crystal ball, as the Dixon woman does in Washington, or UFO's for my source. (It amuses me that my work this past year has been much more accurate and astounding than the highly-publicized Dixon woman, and I have been performing my miracles in an absolute vacuum of silence.) Following, therefore, are the predictions of P K Man (Owens) for this year of 1967, and beyond.
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President Johnson. I once told Mr. Bunn of CIA that Mr. Johnson was a "bad luck Harry" and would cry. Since then (and the CIA man must have thought me a nut, for he immediately showed me out of the CIA building) but since that day Mr. Johnson has been described by reporters, and photographed, as crying several times. Now, in time ahead he will go beyond crying. He is walking into an area of darkness...of sadness...of tragedy. I predict that he will collapse of a heart-attack by April, for one thing. But there is more than that, all bad, for Mr. Johnson. The ironic part of it is...I could have saved him this, since the UFO's offered their power and their help, and he rejected it. The Si's tell me that Mr. Johnson has thought of committing suicide. And might do so, in 1967. Not with a gun or poison but with an "accident"...car crash, etc. Furthermore, I predict there will be a scandal in the Johnson family...not the "Kennedy Book" affair this time, but something involving either Mrs. Johnson or one of the Johnson daughters.
The United States. 1967 will be one of the blackest years in the history of the U.S. During one part of 1967 hysteria and fear will fill the land, for the U.S. will be in the greatest danger of its history from attack...either from Russia or China, or both. May, in fact, be attacked. A NASA outer-space flight will end in tragedy for the astronauts. Nature and the weather will attack the U.S. violently with more than the usual ferocity from tornados, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. A large city in the Western half of the U.S. will be damaged severely by an earthquake. Either Denver, Frisco, or Los Angeles, I believe. Then an epidemic (not flu or anything like that, but much more serious...not polio) will sweep the U.S. and have to be coped with. And an unusually large number of key military men and high government officials will die or be taken out of action in their realm of influence and activity. There will be more than the usual number of plane crashes and accidents; fires, and auto crashes. (Much more) There has been built and structured a hidden power structure composed of military men and scientists, who are interested in taking over and changing our government. (Not CIA) Their presence will not be known until the U.S. is in the midst of a crisis. These are not good men, and their murderous hateful work goes against everything America stands for, even though they rationalize what they are doing is "good for America." (Am not talking about Communists or any known group of revolutionaries.) During 1967 more will be discovered about UFO's and their intelligences than any other period in the past...because of the will of the Si's for this to happen, and their actions in this regard. The Stock Market will get worse and worse and probably crash, worse than '29. Our economy will go to hell. We will have to give up all our big plans to give money to foreign countries, to create a Great Society, to fight overseas wars...for we shall be too broke
=== Page 4 of 8
5/7/67 P2
Page Two
to go on. At last, financial reality will sink into stupid U.S. brains and it will be realized that we cannot pour money into a bottomless yell any longer. And our fabulous giveaways of the past will remain in the past. Providing the U.S. is not destroyed... we will not repeat our mistake in this area, ever. I see the people of the U.S. bewildered, confused and lost...in a strange way as never has happened...in 1967. There are several rays of sunshine through the black clouds over the U.S. One is...the unparalleled threat which will confront the U.S. in 1967 will draw the white and the black people together in a common bond of survival. Also, a good man, now an unknown, will emerge, as Churchill emerged to help England, this year. He will be a "Lincoln" type...wise, uncorruptible by money or politics or people...good in depth. Such a man we have not seen in our history for ages. When he does come forth, the gangster Syndicate, the Mafia, the corrupt politicians...will all try to pull him down, and will fail. This man will have no connection with the revolutionary group now secretly planning against the U.S. government. And his life will be in danger from them.
Startling discoveries will be made in the field of television...how the programs affect the minds of people...and this will cause sweeping laws and changes to be made in this regard. (Note: It is possible that some of these predictions may extend on and beyond 1967, provided the U.S. is not smashed by the enemy in 1967...since in this form of precognition it is difficult to judge time accurately as we know it. However, it is my belief that these events will occur in 1967.)
The World. China in 1967 will grow infinitely more powerful than ever in history. She will close up Hong Kong. China will begin to take over that portion of the world from India (including India) down through Southeast Asia, and Australia. Russia will begin an overt takeover of Europe...and will clash with China over the Middle East like two dogs fighting over a bone. But China and Russia will unite to smash the U.S., at home and wherever they find U.S. representatives. Russia will try to use portions of West Africa and northern Latin America to set up bases and missiles...directed at the U.S. and Canada. Mexico treacherously makes friendly noises to the U.S. but in fact is in allegiance to Russia...is an ally of Russia.
Russia and China are playing for big stakes...and like two pro wrestlers in the ring, are putting on a good show of fighting, for the benefit of the audience. However they have cleverly contrived a plan with which to destroy their powerful common enemy...us, U.S. And their plan involves using nuclear missiles only secondarily...their primary plan will be bacteriological warfare...poisons. If that fails, missiles. With all its vast power the U.S. cannot defeat the Chinese and Russians, just as Rome could not defeat the barbarians in ages past. The only hope for the U.S. lies in help from UFO intelligences, and I repeat once more that I am the key to leading the U.S. toward this help from the Si's. Perhaps, when my predictions all begin to come true, someone will show this to a representative of the U.S. government who will listen...then if there is time, we can reach the Si's, and obtain their help. For the Si's do not wish what is going to happen, to happen.
Owens
08/07/2025 17:01
=== Page 5 of 8
Monday, January 2, 1967
Mr. and Mrs. Siegel, Landlord
Our room is now filled with thick smoke. You can thank Martha, or at this moment you would not have a building left at 1114 Spruce St.
15 minutes ago Martha told me she smelled smoke. We ran outside, and there at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment was a 5'x5' cardboard box filled with papers, crumpled and afire. Flames were shooting up along the wall, and the wall was burning. I rushed back into the apartment, grabbed two pans which were luckily filled with water (to take a bath because there hasn't been hot water in days) and threw it onto the fire. I yelled and got people out, and they threw more water onto the fire. We got it put out. Very lucky.
The odd part of it is...never has there been a box of anything, let alone burning newspapers, placed at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment. I talked with firemen who arrived (somebody must have called them after we got the fire out) and the firemen told me that two minutes later the whole wall and ceiling and thus the building would have gone up like a match. They also told me they were fairly certain the fire had been purposely set...and they forced a nearby door to an apartment open to see who might be inside.
You owe a great big thank you to Martha, I kid you not. If it hadn't have been for her your building would be a flaming wreck by now...and we are right at the top of the stairs. As a matter of fact, the fire was set exactly so that the stairs below us would be in flames, thus barring our exit. As well as the other people up where we are.
Ted Owens
1114 Spruce St., No. 33
Phila.
Owens
=== Page 6 of 8
January 18, 1967
Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R.
Dear Rowland:
Look for a strong earthquake...over 6 on the Richter scale, to strike the U.S. in the Western coastal region (in a half-moon line, with one point of the "moon" in California and the other point of the "moon" in Colorado) just ahead, in the next few days, or several weeks (not more than 3).
This quake should do some damage.
P K Man (Owens)
Owens
Rick - The quake is being made with the "Emmy-Emma" technique.
=== Page 7 of 8
Lorne, Rick, Pat.
January 23, 1967
Mr. Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research
(1) You will be interested in learning of more accidents and illness happening in my office to those around me. (See my recent letters on this.) I work for two men, one of whom is a partner in the law firm, Mr. Kerr. His wife and three children this past week have been sick in bed with ulcerated sores. Doctor calls it Herkes Syndrome, or something like. The other man I work for, Mr. Zatman, has his boy sick at home, being looked after by his wife, with a badly infected ear. Last week Zatman himself was sick with diarrhea. Remember the lawyer in my office whose brother dropped dead with a heart attack about two weeks ago? Well, his secretary, Dolores Reardigan, went home last week and found a colored man, burglar, ransacking her apartment. The burglar got in through a bathroom window. He took her valuables and escaped. Luckily he didn't harm her. Bernadette, the secretary who got the terrible black eye in an auto wreck, see past letter, quit her job this week. Gail Alloway, receptionist, injured her leg in a ski accident. Miss Sally Minter, office manager, was out of the office sick Friday. Alice, the switchboard operator, was out last week to go to the hospital for an examination to find out what is wrong with her. She is sick.
I don't know what it means...but do know positively it is no happenstance. It has happened in the various offices where I have worked in Wash., D.C. and here. In Washington I worked for a while in a hotel supply office... and one of the men in the office stepped out the office door and was bitten savagely all over his leg by a dog passing by. Things like that.
(2) I had closed my file on the airplane crash demonstration the Si's were putting on for the benefit of the U.S. people (govt.) But the Si's definitely were not ready to close their files. They were not finished by a long shot. I will now pick up where I left off in my letter of January 9, which covered the "storm" of airplane crashes up to Jan. 7.
Jan. 9, 1967, a Navy bomber crashed and burned near Washington, D.C. It was out of Andrews A.F.B. in Maryland.
Jan. 11, a 2,000 mph SR-71 Spy Plane was torn up when it had a landing gear failure during landing at Edwards A.F.B. in Calif. (This was the second Spy Plane (latest model) accident in two weeks.)
Jan. 13, a United Airlines Caravelle made an emergency landing because of landing gear trouble, at International Airport,
Jan. 17, a T-37 jet plane crashed and burned near Midland, Texas, out of Webb A.F.B.
Jan. 17, a C-141 Military Jet Transport carrying 104 people had a door blow off at 33,000 feet. It made an emergency landing at Hawaii (was out of Travis A.F.B., Calif.) One passenger seriously injured. None of the passengers was sucked out of the plane because all had seat belts buckled on. A team of Air Force investigators flew out into the Pacific to find out how it happened.
=== Page 8 of 8
Pege Two
"I warned not long ago that the Si'swere now going to strike among top officials. See recent letter."
Jan. 18, a light plane crashed at Zelienople, Pa.
Jan. 18, Fowler, 55, Chief of Air Reserve Training for the Navy, was killed at Glenview Air Station in Illinois. He was Commander of 18 Naval Air Stations across the country, with 38,000 aviation reservists and personnel under his command. I feel that this is part of the pattern, although he was not an airplane.*
Jan. 18, Stephen Currier, a member of Mrs. Lyndon Johnson's beautification committee and a millionaire, vanished with his wife in their airplane.
Jan. 18, another plane like that of the Curriers, and in approximately the same area, vanished off the Florida keys, carrying four prominent people...the Boardmans, etc.
Jan. 19, a United Air Lines prop-jet liner with 50 persons aboard crashed into a snow plow while landing at Norfolk, Va., injuring seven passengers. The belly of the plane was ripped away and one wing torn off by the impact.
Jan. 19, a Navy H-19 helicopter out of Camp LeJeune, N.C., was lost in the Atlantic ocean.
Jan. 19, an Air Force KC-135 tanker crashed near Spokane, Washington.
Incidentally, the Currier plane wreck, above, must have been important. They sent out the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Boston, and four submarines, plus 30 other planes and a Coast Guard cutter and two private yachts in the search. Planes in the search were from the Coast Guard, Navy, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force, Puerto Rican National Guard, the Canadian Navy and "other organizations."
Friday, Jan. 20, was a big hit for the Si's. An Apollo Moon Rocket simply blew up, while enclosed in its giant gantry, in California. This was kept out of the papers...not a clipping on it I could find in Phila. or New York papers...but was described in TV and a motion picture was shown of it. One minute it was there being worked on...the next minute it just vanished, in a tremendous smoky explosion. And the gantry was destroyed.
Jan. 22, two Marine jet bombers collided and crashed at Santa Ana, Calif.
Jan. 23, a light plane crashed at Uniontown, Pa., killing three skydivers.
I quote my letter again of November 23, 1966: "You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes."
I'll simply ask you, was I not right?
P K Man (Owens)
Owens
Red Owens
Gen. Del.
Bernalillo
New Mexico
87004
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871
NOV 23
PM
1977
Recd
11/28/77
Probably a booklet sent to my grandfather Wray, who did not like my Dad. My mother Pat had just been killed in a car accident. Maybe the phone call was when Dad was told.
Mr Wray Bentley
4 Crown Circle
Bronxville, New York
FIRST CLASS
final
=== Page 2 of 8
08/08/2025 15:07
Wray - don't worry about your phone. I'll never call you again!
Ted.
=== Page 3 of 8
Sunday, January 1, 1967
Rowland Swenk, C.S.C..R.
I see by the newspapers that many "psychics" are foretelling the events of 1967. I disagree with most of what I have read...and you know from my amazing accuracy in the past...that I am qualified as a clairvoyant...whether I use a crystal ball, as the Dixon woman does in Washington, or UFO's for my source. (It amuses me that my work this past year has been much more accurate and astounding than the highly-publicized Dixon woman, and I have been performing my miracles in an absolute vacuum of silence.) Following, therefore, are the predictions of P K Man (Owens) for this year of 1967, and beyond.
----------
President Johnson. I once told Mr. Bunn of CIA that Mr. Johnson was a "bad luck Harry" and would cry. Since then (and the CIA man must have thought me a nut, for he immediately showed me out of the CIA building) but since that day Mr. Johnson has been described by reporters, and photographed, as crying several times. Now, in time ahead he will go beyond crying. He is walking into an area of darkness...of sadness...of tragedy. I predict that he will collapse of a heart-attack by April, for one thing. But there is more than that, all bad, for Mr. Johnson. The ironic part of it is...I could have saved him this, since the UFO's offered their power and their help, and he rejected it. The Si's tell me that Mr. Johnson has thought of committing suicide. And might do so, in 1967. Not with a gun or poison but with an "accident"...car crash, etc. Furthermore, I predict there will be a scandal in the Johnson family...not the "Kennedy Book" affair this time, but something involving either Mrs. Johnson or one of the Johnson daughters.
The United States. 1967 will be one of the blackest years in the history of the U.S. During one part of 1967 hysteria and fear will fill the land, for the U.S. will be in the greatest danger of its history from attack...either from Russia or China, or both. May, in fact, be attacked. A NASA outer-space flight will end in tragedy for the astronauts. Nature and the weather will attack the U.S. violently with more than the usual ferocity from tornados, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. A large city in the Western half of the U.S. will be damaged severely by an earthquake. Either Denver, Frisco, or Los Angeles, I believe. Then an epidemic (not flu or anything like that, but much more serious...not polio) will sweep the U.S. and have to be coped with. And an unusually large number of key military men and high government officials will die or be taken out of action in their realm of influence and activity. There will be more than the usual number of plane crashes and accidents; fires, and auto crashes. (Much more) There has been built and structured a hidden power structure composed of military men and scientists, who are interested in taking over and changing our government. (Not CIA) Their presence will not be known until the U.S. is in the midst of a crisis. These are not good men, and their murderous hateful work goes against everything America stands for, even though they rationalize what they are doing is "good for America." (Am not talking about Communists or any known group of revolutionaries.) During 1967 more will be discovered about UFO's and their intelligences than any other period in the past...because of the will of the Si's for this to happen, and their actions in this regard. The Stock Market will get worse and worse and probably crash, worse than '29. Our economy will go to hell. We will have to give up all our big plans to give money to foreign countries, to create a Great Society, to fight overseas wars...for we shall be too broke
=== Page 4 of 8
5/7/67 P2
Page Two
to go on. At last, financial reality will sink into stupid U.S. brains and it will be realized that we cannot pour money into a bottomless yell any longer. And our fabulous giveaways of the past will remain in the past. Providing the U.S. is not destroyed... we will not repeat our mistake in this area, ever. I see the people of the U.S. bewildered, confused and lost...in a strange way as never has happened...in 1967. There are several rays of sunshine through the black clouds over the U.S. One is...the unparalleled threat which will confront the U.S. in 1967 will draw the white and the black people together in a common bond of survival. Also, a good man, now an unknown, will emerge, as Churchill emerged to help England, this year. He will be a "Lincoln" type...wise, uncorruptible by money or politics or people...good in depth. Such a man we have not seen in our history for ages. When he does come forth, the gangster Syndicate, the Mafia, the corrupt politicians...will all try to pull him down, and will fail. This man will have no connection with the revolutionary group now secretly planning against the U.S. government. And his life will be in danger from them.
Startling discoveries will be made in the field of television...how the programs affect the minds of people...and this will cause sweeping laws and changes to be made in this regard. (Note: It is possible that some of these predictions may extend on and beyond 1967, provided the U.S. is not smashed by the enemy in 1967...since in this form of precognition it is difficult to judge time accurately as we know it. However, it is my belief that these events will occur in 1967.)
The World. China in 1967 will grow infinitely more powerful than ever in history. She will close up Hong Kong. China will begin to take over that portion of the world from India (including India) down through Southeast Asia, and Australia. Russia will begin an overt takeover of Europe...and will clash with China over the Middle East like two dogs fighting over a bone. But China and Russia will unite to smash the U.S., at home and wherever they find U.S. representatives. Russia will try to use portions of West Africa and northern Latin America to set up bases and missiles...directed at the U.S. and Canada. Mexico treacherously makes friendly noises to the U.S. but in fact is in allegiance to Russia...is an ally of Russia.
Russia and China are playing for big stakes...and like two pro wrestlers in the ring, are putting on a good show of fighting, for the benefit of the audience. However they have cleverly contrived a plan with which to destroy their powerful common enemy...us, U.S. And their plan involves using nuclear missiles only secondarily...their primary plan will be bacteriological warfare...poisons. If that fails, missiles. With all its vast power the U.S. cannot defeat the Chinese and Russians, just as Rome could not defeat the barbarians in ages past. The only hope for the U.S. lies in help from UFO intelligences, and I repeat once more that I am the key to leading the U.S. toward this help from the Si's. Perhaps, when my predictions all begin to come true, someone will show this to a representative of the U.S. government who will listen...then if there is time, we can reach the Si's, and obtain their help. For the Si's do not wish what is going to happen, to happen.
Owens
08/07/2025 17:01
=== Page 5 of 8
Monday, January 2, 1967
Mr. and Mrs. Siegel, Landlord
Our room is now filled with thick smoke. You can thank Martha, or at this moment you would not have a building left at 1114 Spruce St.
15 minutes ago Martha told me she smelled smoke. We ran outside, and there at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment was a 5'x5' cardboard box filled with papers, crumpled and afire. Flames were shooting up along the wall, and the wall was burning. I rushed back into the apartment, grabbed two pans which were luckily filled with water (to take a bath because there hasn't been hot water in days) and threw it onto the fire. I yelled and got people out, and they threw more water onto the fire. We got it put out. Very lucky.
The odd part of it is...never has there been a box of anything, let alone burning newspapers, placed at the foot of the stairs leading up to our apartment. I talked with firemen who arrived (somebody must have called them after we got the fire out) and the firemen told me that two minutes later the whole wall and ceiling and thus the building would have gone up like a match. They also told me they were fairly certain the fire had been purposely set...and they forced a nearby door to an apartment open to see who might be inside.
You owe a great big thank you to Martha, I kid you not. If it hadn't have been for her your building would be a flaming wreck by now...and we are right at the top of the stairs. As a matter of fact, the fire was set exactly so that the stairs below us would be in flames, thus barring our exit. As well as the other people up where we are.
Ted Owens
1114 Spruce St., No. 33
Phila.
Owens
=== Page 6 of 8
January 18, 1967
Mr. Rowland Swank, O.S.C.A.R.
Dear Rowland:
Look for a strong earthquake...over 6 on the Richter scale, to strike the U.S. in the Western coastal region (in a half-moon line, with one point of the "moon" in California and the other point of the "moon" in Colorado) just ahead, in the next few days, or several weeks (not more than 3).
This quake should do some damage.
P K Man (Owens)
Owens
Rick - The quake is being made with the "Emmy-Emma" technique.
=== Page 7 of 8
Lorne, Rick, Pat.
January 23, 1967
Mr. Rowland Swank, Organization of Scientific Research
(1) You will be interested in learning of more accidents and illness happening in my office to those around me. (See my recent letters on this.) I work for two men, one of whom is a partner in the law firm, Mr. Kerr. His wife and three children this past week have been sick in bed with ulcerated sores. Doctor calls it Herkes Syndrome, or something like. The other man I work for, Mr. Zatman, has his boy sick at home, being looked after by his wife, with a badly infected ear. Last week Zatman himself was sick with diarrhea. Remember the lawyer in my office whose brother dropped dead with a heart attack about two weeks ago? Well, his secretary, Dolores Reardigan, went home last week and found a colored man, burglar, ransacking her apartment. The burglar got in through a bathroom window. He took her valuables and escaped. Luckily he didn't harm her. Bernadette, the secretary who got the terrible black eye in an auto wreck, see past letter, quit her job this week. Gail Alloway, receptionist, injured her leg in a ski accident. Miss Sally Minter, office manager, was out of the office sick Friday. Alice, the switchboard operator, was out last week to go to the hospital for an examination to find out what is wrong with her. She is sick.
I don't know what it means...but do know positively it is no happenstance. It has happened in the various offices where I have worked in Wash., D.C. and here. In Washington I worked for a while in a hotel supply office... and one of the men in the office stepped out the office door and was bitten savagely all over his leg by a dog passing by. Things like that.
(2) I had closed my file on the airplane crash demonstration the Si's were putting on for the benefit of the U.S. people (govt.) But the Si's definitely were not ready to close their files. They were not finished by a long shot. I will now pick up where I left off in my letter of January 9, which covered the "storm" of airplane crashes up to Jan. 7.
Jan. 9, 1967, a Navy bomber crashed and burned near Washington, D.C. It was out of Andrews A.F.B. in Maryland.
Jan. 11, a 2,000 mph SR-71 Spy Plane was torn up when it had a landing gear failure during landing at Edwards A.F.B. in Calif. (This was the second Spy Plane (latest model) accident in two weeks.)
Jan. 13, a United Airlines Caravelle made an emergency landing because of landing gear trouble, at International Airport,
Jan. 17, a T-37 jet plane crashed and burned near Midland, Texas, out of Webb A.F.B.
Jan. 17, a C-141 Military Jet Transport carrying 104 people had a door blow off at 33,000 feet. It made an emergency landing at Hawaii (was out of Travis A.F.B., Calif.) One passenger seriously injured. None of the passengers was sucked out of the plane because all had seat belts buckled on. A team of Air Force investigators flew out into the Pacific to find out how it happened.
=== Page 8 of 8
Pege Two
"I warned not long ago that the Si'swere now going to strike among top officials. See recent letter."
Jan. 18, a light plane crashed at Zelienople, Pa.
Jan. 18, Fowler, 55, Chief of Air Reserve Training for the Navy, was killed at Glenview Air Station in Illinois. He was Commander of 18 Naval Air Stations across the country, with 38,000 aviation reservists and personnel under his command. I feel that this is part of the pattern, although he was not an airplane.*
Jan. 18, Stephen Currier, a member of Mrs. Lyndon Johnson's beautification committee and a millionaire, vanished with his wife in their airplane.
Jan. 18, another plane like that of the Curriers, and in approximately the same area, vanished off the Florida keys, carrying four prominent people...the Boardmans, etc.
Jan. 19, a United Air Lines prop-jet liner with 50 persons aboard crashed into a snow plow while landing at Norfolk, Va., injuring seven passengers. The belly of the plane was ripped away and one wing torn off by the impact.
Jan. 19, a Navy H-19 helicopter out of Camp LeJeune, N.C., was lost in the Atlantic ocean.
Jan. 19, an Air Force KC-135 tanker crashed near Spokane, Washington.
Incidentally, the Currier plane wreck, above, must have been important. They sent out the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Boston, and four submarines, plus 30 other planes and a Coast Guard cutter and two private yachts in the search. Planes in the search were from the Coast Guard, Navy, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force, Puerto Rican National Guard, the Canadian Navy and "other organizations."
Friday, Jan. 20, was a big hit for the Si's. An Apollo Moon Rocket simply blew up, while enclosed in its giant gantry, in California. This was kept out of the papers...not a clipping on it I could find in Phila. or New York papers...but was described in TV and a motion picture was shown of it. One minute it was there being worked on...the next minute it just vanished, in a tremendous smoky explosion. And the gantry was destroyed.
Jan. 22, two Marine jet bombers collided and crashed at Santa Ana, Calif.
Jan. 23, a light plane crashed at Uniontown, Pa., killing three skydivers.
I quote my letter again of November 23, 1966: "You can expect airplane crashes all over the United States, under all kinds of conditions, consistently, throughout the following weeks and months. It will be a storm...of plane crashes."
I'll simply ask you, was I not right?
P K Man (Owens)
Owens
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