Case History
Did the U.S. Air Force Shoot and Kill a Runaway Alien?
A former Air Force Major claims that’s exactly what happened.
On the morning of January 18th, 1978, New Jersey State Police requested entry onto McGuire Air Force Base. Along with the adjacent Fort Dix Base, UFOs had been reported earlier in the evening. But what the police said they were looking for was far stranger than just lights in the sky.
When asked just exactly why the state troopers needed access to the base, they explained that an MP at Fort Dix claimed he had seen a low-flying object that had passed over his car. As he looked back to the road below, he hit the brakes in a panic. Standing in front of his vehicle in the headlights, was a small being with a large head, black eyes, and a very slender body. The MP panicked, getting out of the car and pulling his .45 automatic. He demanded that the being lay on the ground, and when it didn’t comply, he began to shoot.
Wounded, the being fled the scene, supposedly hopping the fence between the bases, ran down a deserted airfield runway at McGuire, and eventually fell to the ground, dying. The guard on duty at this point, one Sgt. Jeff Morse (presumably a pseudonym) allowed the police onto the runway to search for the being. There, they found the body, crouched…
