Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 00:35:00 BST From: MR JAMES EASTON Subject: 6 AWAL Officers in Gulf Breeze 6 AWAL Officers in Gulf Breeze ______________________________ Regarding the following: >Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 14:57:03 -0400 >From: Wha33 >If anyone knows of other news/mag articles etc. pertaining to this I'd be >very interested. Purely by chance, I came upon the following text file in the UFONET area of the Stairway to Heaven BBS, based in London. I hope you find this of interest. James Easton ____________ [START] This file was download from Stairway to Heaven BBS on: 081-769-1740 - upto HST 16.8k - v21/v22/v22bis/v32/v32bis/v42bis/HST. 081-769-8046 - upto HST 16.8k - v21/v22/v22bis/v32/v32bis/v42bis/HST. ~ Wildcat 3.90M Software ~ TheNet/BBSNet/WildNet EchoMail ~ TomCat Offline Mail ~ 23,000 Files - 2.2GB ~ 24 hrs / 365 Days a Year ~ Huge Catalogue of UFO Information : This file has been Virus Scanned using the Latest McAfee Virus Scanner. : Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences PO BOX 1031 Mesquite, TX 75150 August 26, 1990 newsclippings courtesy of Cheyenne Turner President of Mufon Metroplex/Dallas -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The VISIT program was to discuss the following : 1) Discussion of the MUFON 1990 Conference (held in Gulf Breeze, Florida) 2) More interesting Gulf Breeze info (the debunkers exposed) 3) 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"? -------------------------------------------------------------------- The newspaper clippings which follow were attached to the memorandum and mailed out to the VISIT membership. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- We don't know quite what to make of this, but it needs to be out on the nets so it has been typed in for distribution. Please feel free to pass it around. -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your consideration, interest and support. Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet -------------------------------------------------------------------- If we can be of service, you may contact Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 484-3189 -------------------------------------------------------------------- [END] From: gmiller@midget.towson.edu (Gordan Miller) Subject: GB6 "Blackmail Note" Article Date: 1 Aug 1994 04:26:15 GMT Organization: Towson State University, Towson, MD From the Gulf Breeze SENTINEL, August 16, 1990. Brief article entitle "Did mysterious note influence release of Gulf Breeze Six?" In full: An interesting piece of the puzzle of the six army deserters who showed up in Gulf Breeze, were arrested by the FBI, were taken to Fort Benning and Fort Knox, and then were released with General Discharges, has here-to-for not been shared with the general public. That puzzle piece came in the form of of an unsigned typewritten note presumbably sent to the US Army and all the major TV networks and wire services demanding the release of "The Gulf Breeze Six." The note was accompanied by two photographs [Ed. note: of circular objects in the air that some people might refer to as "UFOs", which I cannot repreoduce.] and threatened the release of "500+ photos and plans you want back... unless they are released.." The note ended "Answer code AUGSBB3CM" Mark Curtis at WEAR Channel 3 first shared this intriguing note with The Sentinel two days before the announcement that the Gulf Breeze Six were discharged from the Army and released. The photos shown here [Ed. note: Well...*there* anyway.] are courtesy of Les Sinclair at WALA TV 10 and appear to be the same ones sent to WEAR. The article concludes with an apparent photocopy of the note in question which reads, in its' entirety: ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, UPI U.S. Army: Free the Gulf Breeze Six. We have the missing plans, the box of 500+ photos and the plans you want back. Here is proof with close-ups cut out. Next we send the closeups and then everything unless they are released. Answer code AUGSBB3CM The note is all in caps, but, hey, I didn't want to "shout." I can't seem to find a copy of the article from a Washington State paper which reported that a FOIA request for all documentation relating to the incident was met with two responses: the first being "They're lost," and the second being "Well, we found them but they're sort of classified." However, since the incident seems to have involved three networks and two wire services, or at least, two specifically named Florida TV newspeople, and more than one Federal agency, it should be fairly simple to determine whether or not this just "some silly-assed little small town newspaper story of the 'Farmer Brown's Cow Wanders Off' variety." If anyone reading this has further information, please post it here, and many thanks to you. Given the rather deafening silence that seems to surround L'Affaire de UFO Blackmail Note, and given the presumed fact that alt.paranet.ufo readers would probably yield the usual proportions of "undercover" spooks, fluffy-heads, and lazy little dilletantes such as myself I'm expecting very little, so therefore any surprise would automatically be a happy one.