SUBJECT: Aliens encountered, were "nice"!                    FILE: UFO450


05-18-91 GRAND FORKS, N.D. A UND professor whose story of an encounter
with aliens was featured on a network television special saysn't
only Hollywood filmmakers believe in UFOs.

John Salter, chairman of Indian studies at UND, claims to've come
across a group of aliens in 1988 while driving with his son on a
highway near Richland Center, Wis. Studies show that a majority of
Americans recognize the reality of unidentified flying objects &
attribute it to extraterrestrials.

The US government's more serious about UFO encounters than it acknowledges,
& even the pope's gotten in on the action. "The Vatican, under urging
by the Jesuits, has set up a special office to make contact with
visiting extraterrestrials & offer'em the Mother Church. While that
certainly says we're making progress, my feeling's the extraterrestrials've
a very satisfactory theology in their own right." Salter watched
CBS' special, "Visitors from the Unknown," on a wide screen television
with a group of 20 people in a lounge in Grand Forks. Salter's story
climaxed the hour-long show. The 15-minute segment on Salter contained
footage of an interview with him done in February in Grand Forks,
as well as narration by Salter & son John. Actors were used to recreate
certain scenes.

Salter & his son both claim to've had amnesia right after the alleged
encounter. They later recalled through flashbacks their visit with
a group of aliens. The aliens were short & big-eyed. Their ships
were spinning saucer-types similar to those in popular movies such
as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" & "E.T." Salter claims a
larger alien used a "telekinetic force" to prevent Salter from hitting
the ground after he tripped. The aliens also did medical examinations
of Salter & his son. Salter also claims that the aliens gave him
a nose implant & injections in the throat & upper chest that've
resulted in a long list of beneficial physiological changes. None
of the changes've been verified by doctors. Salter's colleagues at
UND seem to believe his story, or at least're too polite to say otherwise.
"I've encountered virtually no open skepticism. I assume there's
some. It just hasn't been openly manifested. My UFO courses've been
brimful. No sweat with the students." The aliens were nice & he wouldn't
mind seeing'em again.

         
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