![]() ![]() ![]() "Perception is reality," the FBI's James Kallstrom said last year, explaining why the bureau's investigation of Flight 800 spent so much time refuting rumors of a missile attack. Theories are plentiful facts are harder to come by. With so many seemingly impenetrable coverups and interesting "coincidences," it is up to the average citizen to expose the evil-doers. A Japanese television cartoon emits flashes of light that cause children to convulse. Planes explode in midair war veterans contract mysterious ailments. Corporations are too powerful, governments are too secretive. At the end of the millennium, it seems that no one trusts anyone, least of all authority. Still, Ford lived in an area that seems to be fertile ground for his odd ideas - and in a fertile era. Of course, equating John Ford with killers and torturers is unfair all we know for sure is that he liked to talk about doing away with those who he thought did him wrong. "People here are open to strange ideas," says Mona Rowe, who comes from Hawaii, where these things don't happen. Some blame the power lines and the water supply for producing, among others, Howard Stern, Geraldo Rivera and the 1,200 pounds of Walter Hudson. To be weird in Long Island, you have to be seriously weird. Where Colin Ferguson killed six people on a commuter train, where Judge Sol Wachtler stalked his lover, where "Angel of Death" nurse Richard Angelo injected muscle relaxants into four patients. Where John Esposito kept 9-year-old Katie Beers locked in an underground dungeon for two weeks. This is the place where teenage tramp Amy Fisher shot the wife of grease monkey Joey Buttafuoco. Seriously Weirdįord's case is strange, even for Long Island, and that's no small feat. Ford's home is boarded up, and the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON) is defunct.īut for the believers, the story isn't over. One of his alleged conspirators is in jail another friend awaits sentencing. Today, Ford, 49, resides in a state-run psychiatric center, having been found unfit to stand trial - just as he had hoped. According to prosecutors, Ford was a terrorist intent on killing, to help end a UFO coverup. Never mind that the radium would have taken decades to kill anyone. John Ford, the "UFO guy" she and others had always considered a harmless eccentric, was under arrest. She accompanied the team to a Bellport home surrounded by police, where they found hot radioactive sources encased in lead in the back of a pickup truck. She was on call for Brookhaven's radiological assistance program, a sort of radiation SWAT team. ![]() Police charge that he schemed to put the radioactive material in their cars, in their food and even in their toothpaste.Īfter midnight on June 13, 1996, Mona Rowe's phone rang. In a plot as strange as anything on "The X-Files" or "The Outer Limits" - two of Ford's favorite shows - he was arrested for conspiring to murder three local politicians. She had nothing to hide.įord never made it to the lab, though the lab eventually made it to him. She even invited Ford to tour the place, to open any door he wanted and allow his own experts to search for UFO evidence. Just not at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was cordial and articulate, and lab spokeswoman Mona Rowe wished she could give him more interesting answers as a sci-fi fan herself, she believes extraterrestrial life exists. This place could be the next Roswell, or an East Coast Area 51.įord, a retired bailiff, frequently called the Brookhaven lab with questions and accusations. Some residents were convinced that saucer crashes had caused forest fires, that they'd seen airborne battles between spacecraft and military helicopters, that people had been abducted and animals mutilated. Ford and his 400-member group had investigated many weird sightings on the island over the past decade. John Ford, chairman of the Long Island UFO Network, knew something big was happening on Long Island, renowned among conspiracy buffs as the site of the Montauk time warp project and, more recently, the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800. A former military base, Brookhaven was known to be the site of experiments involving DNA and particle accelerators, using equipment like an alternating gradient syncrotron and a high-flux beam reactor. For the believers, the obvious place to look for captured aliens was on government property - specifically the huge, guarded facility on Long Island called Brookhaven National Laboratory. ![]()
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