By Dr. Raymond A. Keller, author of the international awards-winning Real Resident Aliens (Terra Alta, West Virginia: Headline Books, 2024), available on Amazon.com
Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet
Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus
Lady Columba Venus Revelations
Flying Saucers and the Venus Legacy
Ashland, Nebraska, Police Officer Herbert Schirmer (1945-2017), at age 22, not long after his 3 December 1967 UFO Close Encounter of the Third Kind. Schirmer was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving from 1964-1967, before joining the Ashland Police Department. Source: National Enquirer
At 2:20 a.m. on the cold and snowy night of 3 December 1967, an Ashland (Saunders County), Nebraska, police officer, Herbert (Herb) Schirmer, then 22 years of age, was on his routine patrol on State Highway 6, just south of the city limits, when two unusually bright red and blinking lights caught his attention, seemingly hovering over the intersection of State Highway 6 (Grand Army of the Republic Highway) and Route 63. about a quarter of a mile further to the southwest of his position. Initially, Schirmer thought the lights belonged to a large, parked truck. But as he sped up to close in on the lights, he soon realized that they were entirely something else, something beyond his wildest imagination.
The red blinking lights were emanating from the portholes of a metallic, semi-spherical UFO, the kind that one might think to be a typical flying saucer. Approaching the object even closer with his cruiser, Schirmer noticed that it had some kind of walkway along its circumference and that there was an assembly of landing gear dangling beneath it. The officer vaguely recalls the object hovering at a slight tilt some 6 to 8 feet above the highway, touching down momentarily with its landing gear, and then slowly floating upward, all the while making a whining noise like a siren. Schirmer poked his head out of the car’s driver-side window and took notice that the flying saucer was again hovering briefly, and then passed slowly overhead, issuing an intense flame and then speeding off in a flash into the distance and out of sight.
With the UFO out of the area, Schirmer felt it was safe to get out of his cruiser and inspect the highway surface where the object had been hovering just above it and had briefly touched down. Schirmer took his flashlight with him, but upon shining its beam onto the pavement of the landing zone, saw no signs of the flying saucer having ever been there. The officer looked at his wristwatch and noted that he had been out there on the highway for almost 30 minutes already. He was baffled, however, as he had a gut feeling that he had only been out on the road for no more than ten minutes, at best. The patrolman then took out his pocket logbook and wrote the following: “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of Highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not!”
Schematic drawing of flying saucer encountered by Patrolman Herbert Schirmer on 3 December 1967 on the outskirts of Ashland, Nebraska. Source: NICAP Archives
As the patrolman’s graveyard shift was over, he immediately returned to the Ashland Police Headquarters to file his report. Once back at the police station, he began to suffer from a headache. Schirmer was hearing an incessant and “weird buzzing” in his head; and discovered that he had somehow acquired a “red welt,” approximately two inches long and half an inch wide, on the back of his neck. The welt was located over the “nerve cord” just below his right ear. As it was early Sunday morning and every establishment in Ashland was closed, Police Chief Bill Wlaskin sent Schirmer home and told him to take the next two days off so he could get some needed rest and get checked out by a doctor on Monday morning. He wouldn’t have to come back into the office until his regularly scheduled graveyard shift on Tuesday night.
Later at 7:48 a.m. on that Sunday morning of 3 December, with the break of day, Chief Bill Wlaskin, viewing Schirmer as a very competent officer and taking his UFO report seriously, went out to the scene of the alleged encounter to look it over in the emerging daylight, where he happened upon a small, metallic artifact that he could not identify any practical use for. A subsequent chemical analysis of the artifact carried out at the University of Colorado at Boulder by metallurgists contracted with the United States Air Force-sponsored Scientific Study of UFOs, a.k.a. Dr. Edward U. Condon’s UFO Committee (1966-1968), revealed its composition to be of iron and silicon. The Boulder scientists speculated that the artifact was most likely “ordinary corroded earthly waste.”
Sketch by Wes Crum from NICAP Archives based on Nebraska Patrolman Herbert Schirmer’s description of the flying saucer interior.
A little more than two months later, on 13 February 1968, Schirmer was flown into Boulder to undergo hypnosis sessions supervised by Dr. Leo R. Sprinkle of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wyoming at Laramie, who was brought into the Condon Committee as a psychological consultant on cases of alleged UFO contact and/or abduction. Dr. Sprinkle had also accomplished such hypnosis sessions on UFO experiencers before, on behalf of the then two largest civilian UFO investigations groups in the United States, these being the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C., and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) of Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Sprinkle also wrote the introduction to my first UFO book, Dr. Raymond A. Keller, Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet (Terra Alta, West Virginia: Headline Books, 2015). I was an active member of APRO from 1967 until its closure in 1988, when it was largely superseded by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), with its headquarters then in Seguin, Texas.
In the hypnosis sessions conducted by Dr. Sprinkle on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder on 14 and 15 February 1968, patrolman Schirmer revealed that “I tried to radio in (the UFO report); I had one hand on the mike and the other on my gun; but the beam of light that came from the underside of the object kept me from doing anything.”
Ashland Police Chief Bill Wlaskin came up to Boulder with Schirmer and was with him during the hypnosis sessions. Wlaskin provided NICAP’s Director, Retired Marine Corps Major, and aviator Donald E. Keyhoe, with a written report stating that while under hypnosis, Schirmer explained that when a beam flooded his cruiser with light, a small human form, approximately five feet tall, came from beneath the craft and approached him. The Ashland patrolman also said that this small being communicated with him “in some manner” (ESP?) about events that would take place in the United States in the coming years and relayed information about how their ships “operated against gravity.”
Schirmer, under a deep trance, allegedly informed Dr. Sprinkle that there were other beings onboard and that they had come from Venus and were in Nebraska to siphon off energy from a nearby nuclear power plant. Additionally, Schirmer detailed the short tour he was given of the spaceship. He was informed that although these beings hailed from Venus, their point of origin was in another solar system and that besides Venus, they also have bases on the back side of the Moon, other planets, and their attendant moons in our own solar system, and even on Earth underground and undersea off the coasts of Florida and Argentina.
Earth’s twin sister planet: Photo taken by Japanese Space Agency’s Akatsuki probe in orbit around Venus in 2015.
Vindications
While the scientists associated with the Condon Committee dismissed Schirmer’s claims about aliens coming to Earth from Venus, based on our sister planet allegedly being too hot to support “life as we know it,” we need to keep in mind that many of the contactees from the 1950s and the early 1960s, like George Adamski, Albert Coe, Daniel Fry, Annabel Krebbs, Gloria Lee, Howard and Connie Menger, Dr. Frank E. Stranges and George Van Tassel, have affirmed that intelligent beings from the planet Norca in the Tau Ceti system, were the original humanoid inhabitants of Venus, arriving there in space arks some 25 million years ago as their home world was dying, being turned into a vast desert as their planet moved too close to their sun of Tau Ceti due to extreme perturbations in its orbital path. Venus is also the governing planet in the Galactic Confederation, a star alliance consisting of 51 solar systems and 601 planetary members. Therefore, there are many extraterrestrial races living on Venus along with the Norcans, largely underground. The flying dragon (called a “Garuda” on Venus) symbol on the aliens’ uniforms may be representative of their planetary ethnic identification within the Confederation. This was all explained by George Van Tassel during the proceedings of the First Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention held at Giant Rock Airport, Landers Field in Southern California, 2-4 April 1954, with the details of this historic assembly provided in my third UFO book, Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure (Terra Alta, West Virginia: Headline Books, 2017).
Incidentally, despite the cover-up of life on Venus foisted on the American public by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) following their Mariner 2 fly-by of Venus in 1962 and measurements of extreme electrical heat in the Venusian ionosphere at three spots on the limb of that planet, it should be noted that the Science Service in Washington, D.C., reported new evidence for life on Venus on 25 April 1964, which was virtually ignored by NASA and blacked out by the American media. There was “direct evidence” presented for water vapor on Venus by Dr. John Strong of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who announced that his discovery was made via unmanned balloon flights launched high into Earth’s atmosphere. Dr. Strong emphasized that “It forces us to re-examine every previous calculation concerning the possibility of some kind of life existing on the planet.” Dr. Strong charged that “Too many people have a ‘closed mind’ concerning the existence of some form of life on Venus.” To this astute professor of astronomy, he considered the question of life on Venus still to be “wide open,” thus giving credence to the assertions of Herbert Shirmer and all the other contactees that came before and after him.
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