UFO News Article:
“UFO Seen by Many at Piedmont”,
21 March 1973 (St. Joseph News-Press, Missouri)

The St. Joseph News-Press reports on an early 1973 Piedmont, Missouri UFO flap:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cVdkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mHQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2156,4371953

Quote from the article:
“There’s no doubt there’s something up there. We just don’t know what it is,” said Gene Beardon, police chief in this southern Missouri town, Tuesday.”

“Piedmont, Missouri” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Piedmont-Missouri.html

Satellite photo of Piedmont, Missouri
(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“Flying saucers: Scientist turns from skeptic to believer”,
20 November 1977
(The Nevada Daily Mail, Nevada, Missouri)

The Nevada Daily Mail presents an interview with Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, head of the physics department at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fUcrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f54FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1268,3853975

NOTE: The newspaper date is 20 November 1977.











The late Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, U.S. Physicist & UFO Researcher
(kplcblogs.typepad.com photo)