- Guy McCarthy
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Nearly all chairs were full by the end of David Simerley’s Oct. 11 presentation called «The Truth is Out There (In Your Own Backyard)» at the Tuolumne County Library on Greenley Road.
- Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat
David Simerley, a UFO enthusiast and radio host for KAAD-LP 103.5 FM, suggested that a rash of UFO sightings of flying saucers in the 1950s was based on military suppression of technology stolen from a human inventor, not military suppression of alien technology.
- Courtesy photo / David Simerley
David Simerley, a UFO enthusiast and radio host for KAAD-LP 103.5 FM, suggested that a rash of UFO sightings of flying saucers in the 1950s was based on military suppression of technology stolen from a human inventor, not military suppression of alien technology.
- Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat
David Simerley shared stories about a man named Charles Dellschau, who purportedly was a member of the Sonora Aero Club, which he described as a secret group of flight enthusiasts who met in Sonora in the mid-19th century. This image is a Dellschau drawing of an aircraft he called the Dove.
- Courtesy photo / David Simerley
During an Oct. 11 presentation, David Simerley shared Union Democrat headlines advancing a UFOs event 43 years ago at Mother Lode Fairgrounds.
- Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat
Sonora real estate broker Marvin Taylor, who claimed he was abducted by aliens in the East Bay when he was 12 years old, housed a UFO museum in three rooms above his downtown Sonora real estate office in the 1970s and 1980s, and hosted 50 to 100 people to the museum each weekend.
- Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat
Unidentified flying objects and stories about their creators go back as far as the Gold Rush in Tuolumne County, KAAD-LP FM radio host David Simerley told a roomful of people on Oct. 11 at the Tuolumne County Library on Greenley Road in Sonora.
“I think it’s an important part of our personality and identity as a community,” Simerley said at the event dubbed “The Truth is Out There (In Your Own Backyard),” which was hosted and promoted by the Tuolumne County Historical Society and Museum.
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