THE GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS It all began on November 11, 1987. Edward Walters, a middle aged housing contractor, says he happened to glance out the window one evening and saw a grayish-blue craft "glowing and gliding along like a cloud" just beyond a pine tree in his front yard. He grabbed a Polaroid camera and stepped outside to investigate. Then, "Bang! Something hit me." A mysterious blue beam suffused his body and he was lifted two feet off the ground. A "computer like" voice tried to reassure him it meant no harm. Walters swore and struggled. Finally, the beam released him and the odd spacecraft disappeared into the night sky leaving in its wake only a tell-tale scent of ammonia and cinnamon. Somehow, Walters managed to take several Polaroid photographs of the object. A few days later he turned them over to a local newspaper. The publication of those now-famous pictures ignited a worldwide debate that continues to this day. Over the next six months, Ed Walters experienced more than twenty more sightings. On occasion the alien spacecraft would emit a "low humming sound." Sometimes it sent telepathic messages to Ed's brain including the cryptic locution, "In sleep you know." As news reports escalated, many other Gulf Breeze witnesses stepped forward with reports of their own. A few claimed to have been abducted at the hands -- or would it be talons? -- of aliens. Dozens more reported seeing mysterious-looking, revolving lights or "saucer-like" things in the sky which they thought were alien space ships. One fateful night, Walters says a "small creature" holding a "glowing silver rod" appeared outside his bedroom window. The creature was "grayish-black" in color with a "box-like thing" covering most of its body. "Really big eyes" stared expressionlessly out at Walters from beneath a helmet. Frances Walters, Ed's wife at the time, verifies the story in a book the two co-authored a year later, The Gulf Breeze Sightings: The Most Astounding Multiple Sightings of UFOs in U.S. History (Morrow Publishing 1990). Thirty- eight Walters photos were included. Many show an apparently large, metallic object somewhat resembling a royal crown, or perhaps an upside-down soup pot with a widely flanged rim and large knob on top. Rows of square openings, sometimes lighted, circle the perimeter. Visible on the underside is a bright, bulging white light which Walters concluded must be a "power cell." -I got this from "Aliens in Gulf Breeze, FL"- Absolutely Florida Websource
