UFO's and the End of the World
commentary by Jerry W. Decker
Amid recent world events, many people we know and come in contact with have voiced concern that the end times might be upon us as predicted in the biblical chapter of Revelations.
The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq with the subsequent increase in oil prices brought on armed responses from the majority of world powers directed at Iraq and the actions of Saddam Hussein.
These armed responses have included trade embargos and is likely to lead to a condition of war, not yet decided at the time of this writing.
In a recent meeting with Cheyenne Turner of Mufon/Dallas, she kindly gave KeelyNet copies of newsclippings regarding a very strange UFO related incident involving Gulf Breeze.
The documents include a memorandum from VISIT (Vehicle Internal Systems Investigative Team) at PO BOX 890327, Houston, TX 77289-0327 announcing a meeting on August 23, 1990.
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The VISIT program was to discuss the following :
- Discussion of the MUFON 1990 Conference (held in Gulf Breeze, Florida)
- More interesting Gulf Breeze info (the debunkers exposed)
- The strange case of the AWOL soldiers (with attached newsclippings)
Six soldiers walk away from sensitive intelligence positions in West Germany and show up half way around the world in tiny Gulf Breeze, Florida.
How could this happen? What was their mission? These articles raise more questions than they answer. We will discuss the following questions and more at the next VISIT meeting.
- They were with the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade. Each held top secret clearances, but were allowed to walk away from their posts and were discharged without a court martial. Is this the new policy of the military?
- A sargeant, along with two specialists and three pfc's, comprise a squad. Did they have a charter OTHER then what has been advertised?
- Is the crazy religious story a cover?
- Why did Police Chief Brown receive a phone call from the Pentagon only five minutes after his inquiry about Michael J. Hueckstaedt? Why was he told not to question anyone in the group?
- Why did Heuckstaedt say to the arresting officer
- "you don't know what you are doing. If you take me in you have signed my death warrant."?
- Who did they plan to kill? What was the real reason?
- How does psychic Anna Foster figure into what is happening in Gulf Breeze?
- What will happen to the Gulf Breeze police officer responsible for exposing the activity?
- Will the six return to Gulf Breeze to finish the job now that they have been officially "discharged"?
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The newspaper clippings which follow were attached to the memorandum and mailed out to the VISIT membership.
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The Sentinel - Gulf Breeze
Thursday, July 19, 1990 - Page 9A
SIX ARRESTED FOR DESERTING U.S. ARMY
Six US Army soldiers were taken into custody by military authorities for being AWOL and transported to Fort Benning, Georgia last Saturday.
The six were apprehended after one of the soldiers, Michael J. Hueckstaedt was stopped by Gulf Breeze Police Officer Don Stevens for a broken tail light.
Hueckstaedt had no identification and a computer check found him to be one of six soldiers wanted for being Absent Without Official Leave (AWOL). Four of the soldiers were found at Anna Foster's home on McClure Drive in Gulf Breeze and one (a female) was staying at a campsite at Fort Pickens.
When police went to the Foster home Saturday morning, the soldiers had several duffel bags, suitcases and briefcases, and about $4,000 in cash.
***** The six belong to a group called "The End of the World" and claim they came to this area for the "Rapture" which they believe will take place HERE in October. ****
The soldiers have been sought by authorities since July 9th, when they were found missing from their military intelligence unit in West Germany.
Gulf Breeze Police Chief Jerry Brown said that no arrests were made, and they were turned over to the CIA and FBI before going to Fort Benning.
Michael J.Hueckstaedt, 19, is from Farson, Wyoming
The five other soldiers are :
William N. Setterberg, 20, of Pittsburgh, PA
Kenneth G. Beason, 26, of Middlesboro, Tenn
Vance A. Davis, 25, of Wichita, Kansas
Kris P. Perlock, 20, of Hudson, Wisconsin
and Annette Eccleston, 22 of Connecticut.
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Northwest Florida Daily News
July 20th, 1990
6 AWOL SOLDIERS SAY THEY AIMED TO KILL ANTICHRIST
Gulf Breeze - Six soldiers, reported by an unofficial military newspaper to be on a mission to kill the Antichrist, were charged Thursday with desertion from their intelligence unit in West Germany, Pentagon spokesman said.
A friend also told another newspaper that one of the soldiers arrested in this Florida Panhandle city, a hotbed for UFO sightings, was interested in unidentified flying objects and wanted to attend a UFO convention in nearby Pensacola.
The religious beliefs of the soldiers, described as Christian fundamentalists, are not part of the Army's investigation, said Major Joe Padilla, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.
"It's pretty cut and dried. It's getting drier each day," Padilla said. "We are not allowed to look into religious groups by statute so we don't."
The five men and a woman, all members of the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at Augsburg, West Germany are being held at Fort Benning, Ga. They were arrested Friday and Saturday after police stopped one of them for a traffic violation.
They were charged with desertion RATHER THAN THE LESSER OFFENSE of being absent without leave because they held top-secret security clearances, said Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams.
Padilla said it will be up to the soldier's commanding officer to decide whether to hold a court-martial or take lesser administrative action.
A counter-intelligience investigation is being conducted as a matter of routine because the six, all analysts assigned to intercepting, identifying and exploiting foreign communications, had handled classified material, military spokesmen say.
"There still appears to be no independent evidence of any espionage or security related problem here," Williams said Thursday.
A member of their unit told the newspaper "Stars and Stripes" the six were out to FIND AND DESTROY THE ANTICHRIST, the figure the Bible says will challenge Christ. He spoke on the condition his name would not be disclosed.
Padilla, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, Wednesday retracted an earlier statement that the six were members of a group known as "The End of the World."
But "Stars and Stripes" quoted the soldier from the Augsburg unit as saying that the cult has ADDITIONAL MEMBERS IN THE AREA.
"There are others who are upset because they didn't get invited," to go along on the search for the AntiChrist, the newspaper quoted the soldier as saying.
Beason (one of the group) was interested in science fiction and UFO's and very gullible, Stan Johnson told the Pensacola News Journal for a story published Thursday. Johnson, a Morristown photographer, said in a telephone interview that he picked up Beason and Hueckstaedt July 6th at the McGee-Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tenn.
"He was one of those people who believed anything someone would tell him," Johnson said of Beason. "The idea that he was arrested, or that he was hanging around with cult-like grouped didn't surprise me. He kind of live in a science fiction fantasy world sometimes."
Beason told Johnson he was going to Pensacola for a UFO convention.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) held its 21st annual symposium in Pensacola, attracted there by the numerous sightings reported in Gulf Breeze, July 6-8, but officials of the organization said they couldn't say whether Beason or Hueckstaedt attended.
Gulf Breeze Police Chief Jerry Brown discounted that possibility, saying the soldiers did not arrive in the area until July 9th.
Beason told a similar story to his sister and her husband, Caroly and Charles Reed, when he spent the night, July 7 at their home in Talbott, Tenn., the Knoxville News-Sentinel reported Thursday.
The Reeds said Beason had met a woman named Anna when he was stationed in Pensacola, and she got him involved with a group that believed the government was covering up alien visits to Earth. Part of the group's mission was to reveal that cover-up.
Some of MUFON's members have accused the government of such a cover-up but the organization has not made such a policy statement itself, said Don Ware of Fort Walton Beach, the group's Eastern Regional Director.
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Thursday, July 26, 1990
UFO SOLDIERS WON'T FACE COURT-MARTIAL
Six U.S. soldiers who went AWOL from intelligence posts in West Germany and were arrested at a Florida beach known for UFO reports won't be court-martialed. But many other questions remain.
Were the six - five men and a woman - acting on "psychic input" from biblical figures and preparing for the world's end, as a friend of one suggested?
Did they plan to move to the West and live "like a survivalist group," as a police captain said he was told by two in the group? Or was there another explanation of the events that began unfolding when the six, who held top-secret security clearances, left the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade in Augsberg, West Germany, early this month?
"Don't judge them yet. They have a right to defend themselves," said Anna Foster, at whose Gulf Breeze, Florida, home four of the six were arrested July 14. Foster, a civilian described by authorities as a psychic, is not charged in the case.
The Army offered the six "non-judicial punishment" - no trial by court-martial - after an investigation by the Army Intelligence and Security Command found no evidence of espionage.
At Fort Knox, KY., where the six were being held, Major Ron Mazzia said they could receive reductions in pay or rank, or both, and could be fined. Specific terms will be determined by an officer acting as a sentencing judge.
Having lost their security clearances, the six might be discharged, Mazzia said.
They were reported missing in West Germany on July 9th. On Friday the 13th, Pfc. Michael Hueckstaedt was stopped in Gulf Breeze for driving a van with non-working taillights. A computer check found him to be absent without leave.
Army information and a search of the van revealed the whereabouts of the five other soldiers.
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Saturday, July 28, 1990
6 DISCHARGED IN MYSTERIOUS AWOL STINT
Fort Knox, KY - The Army on Friday discharged six soldiers who left their intelligence unit in Europe and went to a Florida town known for frequent sightings of UFO's.
The soldiers were reported missing July 9th from Augsburg, West Germany, and were arrested a few days later in Gulf Breeze, FL.
An investigation found no evidence the soldiers from the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade had been involved in espionage during the time they were AWOL, said Major Ron Mazzia, a spokesman for Fort Knox, where the soldiers were detained.
Stan Johnson of Bybee, Tenn., a friend of one of the soldiers, Spec. Kenneth G. Beason, 26, said Beason told him they had been "chosen by DIVINE INTERVENTION to help prepare for the end of the world, which was supposed to occur in about EIGHT YEARS FROM NOW."
Johnson added that, "when the second coming of Christ occurred, Jesus Christ was going to ARRIVE IN A SPACESHIP."
Gulf Breeze, where Beasom and others in the group received training, has had many reports of UFO sightings. A symposium of the Mutual UFO Network, concluded there July 8th, police said.
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